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STROUJJSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., OCTOBER 8, 1374.
NO. 20.
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ijj'ifi! by Theodore Schocli
-.. uliilir- a ven r in a-lvancc and if not
f '.'"t . ,-,vi f She y-ar, two dollars and fifty
HOt
'.- .r Mi iiitiii!i"d until all arrearages are
" ' t;i.- ni'iion of tln Ivliior.
.!. ...'-j ,.f iu5 .si',nsr f (eight unesl or
'i".-i,-rii"ns 1 .. Haeb additional iu
v - L !!,-.t oi:?.s in pr.-irtion.
i All. KINKS,
i' l.i V-1! sSvK' of the Art,ai)d r tho
DR. J.LANTZ,
& MECHANICAL DENTIST.
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n-''"i ii k !.n:liliiii, ncarlv- opposite tl:c
i Hm-,-. 311:1 ha iUU-ra liims.-if that by eirfh
'"'f , pr;'-tVJ and tlte twt carnvt and
LMti".ii i nuiif- rs p.-rtaiitiiit! to his pro
j fullv s.hl t.i perform all oswrath.s
" 1 'i-ie i:i th- osl careful aud .skilli'ul inftu-
i . nl; 'ii '-rivi'ii t" ."iiviiii tho Natural Teth ;
'i'' i ,-''rti'i) of Artificial Ti.-t-th on Rubh-r.
'''t .' r "'a::iiu.-us Hum, a:id inrfoct tiia in all
"i. r. ','
n--" " - the croat Mlv aiul danger or m-
S'": i .' ,,-c , tlij inexiM-Tifneod. or to tliwo iiv
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if
Sarsrosi Urntist.
iV.l havi'.ij iis-t roturnrd from Duntal
":'V!. ;f'ijV pr.'par."i to make artificial tcoth in
uii'i lif.wike manner, and to Mil le
: ' ' ' , I' r'iin t tlio mi't ittiprovtsl nietluvl.
' .' ..'vi i-d ith-'i't p.;iii. wlieii d'simi, by tlic
' .j. ( ii ji- (lus. wliu-h is entirely barnih'r-s.
noatlv done. All work warantcd.
'" I i?. K.:. .-r's new brick builJinn, Main jtrw;t, j
WILLIAM S. RSES,
G:rT37cr, Conveyancer and
Bsr-I Estate Agent.
F;rr.. Timber Lands acd Tovn Lots
FOR SALE.
r . n-xt ".;r a'lovc S. Hoc' news Depot
-I'Ji -i j.t !-! ' '-V ills ''oniu' Slure.
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Tl. IIVVI HII IATTC2tSO.,
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?;75:2;in, Eirssn and Accoucheur,
.Mic.-cor to Geo. V. Seip.)
0 .;: -7 I . t i : i -tr.'t-t. Str.aJbnrc, Pa., in Dr.
S bail.iinii, rc-Meive urali street, next
!-;;r:1J -,v r.i .-ctir. house. Pro'npt Attention
C 7 t' 0 a. m.
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Air!! 1-74-1".
f;i!iii, s:;:;:;)N and aitoitseir. I
h :!;e o'. 1 :.- ft Dr. A. Reeves Jackson,
r -:.!.-. !,r, -. r id Saruh aiul Franklin street. :
STROUDSBURG, PA. !
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PHYSICIAN AND ACCOUCHEUR,
nui-vri'Y unvr t
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Tiij ;:i-cri':: r v.-o'.iM inform the public that
' !-v.i iio;ir-e i'crr.iaily kept by Jacob
"vh. in the P,.jr.ii2h of tronJ.-bur?, Pa.,
I ; 1 t;'.. rv;.;t!ntil and refnriibed the same,
;':;; iici to entertain all who may patronize
I: U the aha of thy proprietor, to farn
i: i - vr'r.r a-'-o'issiodaiions at moderate rates
s-.i -pare n palm to promote the com---i-o-t.
A liberal hhare of public
! :'.r --vat: s-tiicijed.
-i-r:i 17. '7j-tf. D. L. PISLE.
koiiesdale, pa.
central lr;;;tion ot any Hotel in town.
II. W. KIFLK cfc SON,
.'iu;:i Proprietors.
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j"1 i'i tlit hiiiUin.sr formerly occupied
1. !j ir.,:i. an opposifc tlse Strouds
Sjar.k. Ahin street. Stroud.sburc, Fa.
EDW'AIU) A. WILSON'S (of
. WilliaKsl.y X. y.) Hecipc for CON-
!
-niON and AST1DIA carefully
EOLLINSHEAD'S DRUG STORE.
l M:'rj;tc frts!i aud pure.
" ; -1 W. I10LLINHEAD.
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)VT FtmiHYV ISal ti-Iicn
Ik 5 ju W;l'lt ar0' tiling in the Furniture or
O r - ;1 111 ilu,J hat Me(.'artv& Sons i
jJ flows' Hall, Main street, Strouds
in tne
burg,
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3'KALKIl IX
Ef2ilj-31ade
Uot!mi, (icuts Fur-
tisag Goods, Hats & Caps,
Koots & Siloes, &e."
at stroudsburg, pa.
(Near the Depot.)
t' !'c 8re invite-d to call and examine
V MeCarty & Soiis art the otdv Under-
''tUbtirg who understands their
h 'f'x ,f,,.ot- fctteud a Funeral managed
v- T ether I "ikIci taker iu titTU. and you
V tlToofofthe fact
THE EARLY DAYS.
IIOV.' PEOPLE DRKSSKD, WKST TO ClIURCH,
AND DAXfKD IX TEXXKSSKE SIXTY
YEARS AISO NEW AND SURPRlSIXO
STORIES A ROUT ANDREW JACKSOX.
Judge Joseph C Guild (Old Joe Guild,
a;? lie w familiarly called at home,) i.s a na
tive ofJIoustou county, Tennessee. Lately
he returned there after an uh.scr.ee of more
than half a century, and on the 25th of
August l:e made a public speech from
which the following extracts are taken :
SOCIAL CUSTOMS.
When I left, sixty years a-o, industry
and economy were the handmaids of vir
tue, contentment, and happiness. The wo
men and -iris clothed the family, cooked
the meals, and did the various work, all
contented and happy, voluntarily laboring
to secure a competency for thehoushokl
Families in those days were not enervated
and runied by luxuries what is called
high living and fashion. They were cloth
ed at home by their honest labor, the hoys
in their jeans and copperas cotton, and the
girls in their beautiful stripes of cotton and
linsoy. Dresses were made to fit their per
sons and develop their natural and beauti
ful forms. 0;e cannot tell now which is
the girl and which is the dress. I have
looked about over this large assembl' to
see if I could not tind one of these beauti
ful striped dresses setting olf the rosy
mountain pinks of the present day ; but
t:;e ancient customs have disappeared since
I have been gone. In that day but few
mothers and daughters ever had a calico
dress, to say nothing of the silks, cash
meres, muslins, crapes and poplins of the
presont day. In those days we had cur
sugar camps, and made our own sugar ; cof
lee was bought at our commerical cities
and only used on Sundays. Milk, the
the best and most healthy beverage in the
world, war, Cadly used, and the rose bloom
ed and p'. -ycd upon every girl's cheek.
There was no calomel doctor's bill to pay.
V e had meeting-houses in those days, made
of logs and clapboards. We called it go
ing to meeting. The elegant phrase now
is to attend church, and go in buggies and
carriages. We walked from three to five
miles in going to meeting, playing with the
girls all the way. I have seen not further
than ve miles from this place from fifty
to one hundred ladies walking bare-fuc-ted
to meeting, carrying their s-k.cs and stock
ings iu their hands, and on arriving, sit
ting down along the branch, washing their
beautiful feet, and putting on their stock
ings t.nd slioes, preparatory to going in.
There is a charm iu a pretty foot. In those
days our women did not deform their per
sons with artificial works about the head
in the form of rats, chignons, ttnd water
falls. There was no rouge bespattering
the rosy cheek, destroying its natural beau
ty ; nor were their beautiful forms de
stroyed by the hoop or the bustle ; there
was no one taken in by artificial, false ap
pearances. In those d.iys our beautiful
women had long, natural, black hair,
some auburn, some red, with different
shades of color. They wore it plaied,
forming a beautiful crescent upon thefchead.
and when the stream of eloquence copious
ly flowed over the targe assembly, when all
the fires were lit tip, I have heard the
plaited hair pop like the crack of a wagon
whip. Girls and boys did not wear shoes
in those days until they arrived at the age
of twelve. " The boys helped tend the crop
in the Summer, and went went to the old
Pennyroyal school with the girls in the
Winter. " In old times we had the favorite
reel called OIrs. MeCloud." When the
word was given "Hands all round, set-to
and face your partners," giving to all full
space to display their activity and gymastie
.vkill in the various steps of ancient times, I
have seen several sets at the same time,
both girls and boys, cutting the single and
double pigeon wing, which caused a thrill
of excitement and emotions equal to the
brilliant flights of an eloquent speaker.
RATTLESNAKE STORY.
If it will not fatigue you, ladies, I will
tell you a snake scene of the olden times.
A neighbor, with a wife and one child,
built his cabin on a flat rock among the
cliiTs. The rock furnished him with a sub
stantial floods, impervisous to floods, but
not to snakes. Upon this rock I'ctcr
built his cabin ; hi3 winter fires were
built in the centre of the house; the
chimney-stack of rocks and mud pro
truded "through the roof and caried off the
smoke. The fires being kept during the
winter upon this floor, early in the spring
thawed the shakes. He and his wife and
child occupied their only bed in a corner,
elevated some two feet from the rock. Just
before day he was awakened by the craw
ling of tnakes over the bed, aud their his
sing all over the house. He soon became
satisfied that his cabin was infested with
snakes. It was dangerous to attempt to
walk acres.? the rock floor to the door, as
he could not avoid being enveloped by
snakes, so he whispered to his wife to cover
her head and that of the child with bed
clothes, and hold them down, and remain
so until his return, ns he was going to es
cape through the roof of the house and
bring her relief by morning. He thus es
caped and alarmed the neighbors, who as
sembled at the break of day with guns and
rojics. They jammed the situation, and
found that the floor and bed were covered
with snakes. They got to the roof, made
an opening, let down ropes that had 'Tan
ning nooses," aud after great care aud dif
ficulty they were placed under the arms of
his wife, and she holding to her child, they
were drawn up, and thus paved from de
struction. The rattlesnakes herd together
EUJ lit ilvfUE' Ui.UCi lUV . ;
and this rock happened to be their winter
head-quarters, and being thawed by the
fire that night, they took up their
lino of march. There were upward of a
hundred slain that morning, and found
among the embers of the burned cabin. I
do not know how it is now, but I know
that sixty years ago this was an awful snake
country. Fut I suppose that the snake,
like the bear, the panther, wolf, and In
dian, has retired before the approach of
civilization, and is now but seldom seen.
HOW OLD HICKORY BROKE Ul A RACE.
Many are the interesting scenes of Jack
sou's life which his biographer has not
brought to light. When a boy I saw him
scare and put to flight 20,000 men. The
occasion was this: Grey Hound, a Ken
tucky house, had beaten Double Head, a
Tcnnsessee horse, and they were afterward
matched for 5,000 a side, to be run on
the Clover Bottom Course. My uncle,
Josephus II. Conn, carried me on horse
back behind him to see the race. He set
me on the cedar fence and told me to re
main until he returned. There must have
been l!0,000 persons present. I never wit
nessed such fierce betting between the States.
Money and negroes were put up. A large
pound was filled with horses and negroes bet
on the result of this race. The time had now
arrived f jr the competitors to appear on the
track. I heard some loud talking, and looking
down the track, saw for the time frst Gen.
Jackson riding slowly on a gray horse, with
louir pistols held in each hand. I think
thev were as
lonj?
as mv arm, and had a
mouth that a ground-squirrel could enter.
In his wake followed my uncle, Conn.
Stokley Donelson, Patten Anderson, and
several others as fierce as bull-dogs. As
General Jackson led the van and approach
ed the judges' stand, he was rapidly talk
ing and gesticulating. As he came by
me he said that he had irrefragable poof
that this was to be a jockey race ; that Gray
Hound was seen iu the wheat field the
night before, which disqualified him for the
race, aud that his rider was to receive 6500
to throw h off, and by the eternal he would j
shoot the first man who brought his horse j
upou the track, that the people's money j
should not be stolen from them in this j
manner. He talked incessantly, while the j
spittle rolled from his mouth and the fire
from his eye. I have seen bears and j
wolves put at bav.but he was certainly the j
most ferocious looking animal that I had j
ever seen. Jlis appearance and manner
struck terror into the hearts of 20,000 peo
ple. If they felt as I did, every one ex
pected to be slain. He announced to the
parties if they wanted some lead iu their
hides, just bi ing their horses on the track,
for by the eternal he would kill the first
man that attemnted to do so. There was
. i
no response to this challenge, and after
waiting some time, and they failing to ap
pear, Gen. Jackson said it was a great mis
take in the opinion of some that he acted
hastily and without consideration. Ho
would give the scoundrels a fair trial, and
to that end he would constitute a court to
investigate this matter who would hear the
proof and do justice to all parties. There
upon he appointed a Sheriff to keep order,
and five judges to hear the case. Procla
mation was made that the court was open
and was ready to proceed to business, and
for the parties to appear and defend them
selves. Xot appearing, Gen. Jackson in
troduced the witnesses proving the bribery
of Grey Hound's rider, who was to receive
?5'.)0 to throw off the race, having received
$250 in advance, aud that Grey Hound
had been turned into the field the night
before. He again called on the parties to
jqpear and counteract the proof and vindi
cate their innocence. They failed to ap
pear, Gen. Jackson told the court that the
proof was closed, and for them to render
their judgement in the premises, Avhich in
a few moments was done in accordance
with the facts proved. I was still on the
fence forming on line of the large pound
containing the property bet on the race.
Each man was anxious to get back hi3 pro
perty. Gen. Jackson waved his hand aud
announced the decision, and said, "Xow
gentlemen, go calmly and in order and
each take his own property." When the
word was given the people came with a
rush. It was more terrible than an army
w ith banners. They came bulging against
the fence, and in the struggle to get over
they knocked it down for hundreds of
yards. I was overturned, and was nearly
trampled to death. Each man got his pro
perly, and thus the fraudulent race was
broken up by an exhibition of the most ex
traordinary outrage. He did that day
what it would have required 2,000 armed
men to have effected. All this was effected
by the presence aud action of one man, and
without the drawing of one drop of blood.
GEN. JACKSON TROTECTON A COURT.
I will give you another bccuc of Gen.
Jackson's life. Gen. Jackson was the At
torney General fir all middle Tennessee.
The two Kirkendalls were the great bullies
of that creek. They held that the sitting
of the court taking tsuch jurisdiction in
vaded their dominions, and they went in a
bullying manner and dispersed the court
and ordered it never to meet again. Gen.
Jackson heard of it, and attended the next
term, carrying upon his arm his saddle
bags, containing his long black bull-dogs.
He placed his saddle-bags iu a coi ner of
the house. The justices took the bench,
and the Sheriff proclaimed the court open.
The Kirkendalls appeared and ordered the
court to disperse. In the confusion and
terror of the hour, the Sheriff failed to ar
rest the parties and restore order. At
this junction Gen. Jackson appeared before
the court and denounced the bullies and
their eon lu J. in j told the court if th-y J
would appoint him their officer he
would arrested them aud have order. His
proposition was readily accepted. Jackson
seized one of the Kirkendalls. who was a
terror to the country. They clinched and
sot outside, and beimr on the cdire of the
bluff, the bully threw Jackson, and rolled
over and down the bluff into the creek.
When the bully thought he had conquered
Jackson he left him. But the old game
cock came rushing up the hill, as wet as an
otter, in search of his bull-dogs. He gras
ped them, aud pointed one at each of the
bullies, arrested them and brought them
before the court. They were heavily fined,
and order was restored, and the thanks of
this court were extended to Gen. Jackson.
GEN. ROBERT B. BEATH.
THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR SECRE
TARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS.
As General Robert B. Beath, our can
didate for Secretary of Internal Affairs,
was first nominated for the position of
Surveyor General from Schuylkill County,
and had made this his home for some years
prior to his removal to Harrisburg to as
sume the duties of his office, it is proper,
as we esteem it a pleasant task personally,
that we present to our readers some of the
more prominent points in his history as we
have learned them from those who know
him long and well.
lie is a Philadelphiau by birth. After
receiving such an education as could be
obtained in the grammar schools of that
city, he was apprenticed, whilst quite
young, to learn the trade of machine
blacksmithing in Merrick & Son's foundry.
Whilst learning his trade, and after
wards when working at the anvil among
Use hardy sons of toil, he was noted f.r
his industrious and steady habits, and for
his earnest efforts to acquire a wider range
of knowledge through books, to which he
assiduously devoted his leisure moments.
How well he succeeded his subsequent career
proves
When civil war burst upon the eoirntry
he was among the first to enlist for its
defense ; entering the service as a private
soldier in April, 1SG1, in the three months'
service. On the expiration of this term
of enlistment, though not in good health
at the time, he again entered the service
in Company D, 88th Beiiimet Pennsvl-
vanu olunteers, in wnicu lie was pro-
mot.d to a lieutenancy, and whilst
servmir
with this regiment he was wounded at the
second battle of Bull Hun.
Upon the organization of the colord
troops in 1SLI3, it was determined by the
Government to give them the advantage
of intelligent and tried officers from our
Veteran regiments, and to this end an
Examining Board, with General Casey at
is head, was detailed by the War Depart
ment. Lieut. Beath, after passing a
creditable examination in August of that
year was appointed Captain of Company
"A," Sixth U. S. Colored Troops. In ac
cepting this appointment he evinced his
willingness to serve his country in what
ever position his services could be made
most useful, and cheerfully took upon him
self the additional hazard of such a com
mand, and that such a command was re
garded as attended with more danger and
greater risk will be remembered by idl who
were in the army. In fact an older was
issued by the Confederate authorities that
officers of colored troops, if captured, should
be summarily dealt with. This order did
not, however, deter Captain Beath, whose
heart was in the cause in which his sword
was drawn, for he was always found at his
post. When leading his company in the
charge on the Rebel works at Xew Market
Heights, near Fort Harrison, in Virginia,
ii 18G-1, he was again wounded very se
verely which resulted iu the loss of his
leg -disabling him for life. After leaving
the hospital, where he was confined some
months, being longer unfit for field service,
he was assigned to duty at Camp William
Petm, near Philadelphia, and subsequently
at Wilmington, N C., in positions requir
ing administrative ability, which he had
shown himself to possess in an eminent
degree. At the muster-out of his regiment,
Captain Beath received from the War
Department a commission a3 Lieutenant
Colonel in recognition of his services.
After the war, Colonel Beath returned
to his home at Philadelphia, where, no
longer able to earn a livelihood as one of
the sturdy sons of Vulcan, he was soon
after appointed sub-postmaster at Station
'D," which he afterwards resigned, to take
charge of the books of a large colliery in
Schuylkill County. During the time that
he was thus engaged his fellow soldiers
throughout the State, with an appreciation
of the qualities which were so conspicuous
in him, marking him at once the man and
the soldier, selected him as the Assistant
Adjutant General of the Grand Army of
the Republic, an organization composed of
soldiers of the late war without regard to
party, but bound together for friendly
intercourse, mutual assistance, and for the
purpose of aiding the orphans of fallen
comrades. To this position he was re-elected
three different times, and subsequently was
unanimously elected Commander of the
Department.
Colonel Death's worth was early ap
preciated at his new home, for iu a few
years after his removal to Schuylkill county,
he received the hearty support of this
county for the office of Surveyor General,
to which he was nominated by the Repub
lican State Convention in May, 1871, and
elected in October following by a majority
of over 2o,00U votes over Colonel Cooper,
formerly ths commander of the celtlrad
'Cooper's Battery," who was the Demo
cratic candidate.
In May, 1S72, Gen. Beath assumed the
duties of his office, to the performance of
which he brought to bear those quick
perceptive qulities of mind and that active
energy and strict integrity that had
characterized his previous course, giving
him position and making for him powerful
friends.
That the confidence reposed in him by
the people when they elected him to this
important position was worthily bestowed, j
the high character which the omce sustains
to-day, as attested by the legal professin
and all who are acquainted with the very
satisfactory manner in which the duties
thereof have been discharged, is the sure
guarantee. And not only have the duties
enjoined by law been faithfully performed,
but the experience gained during his term
of office has enabled Gen. Beath to discern
many of the wants of our peculiar land
system and to suggest, and secure such
legislation as will hereafter render the
landed interests more seure from the
adventurers who made a business of taking
out land warrants for the purpose of mak
ing money out of the equitable owners.
Such is the man whom the Republican
part, through their convention of 250
delegates, many of them the ablest and best
men of the State, have unanimously
presented to the people as their candidate
for the office of Secretary of Internal
Affairs, under the new Constitution. That
all who know General Beath, his rare worth.
his high moral character, his private life !
unspotted, his whole official career uiistain- '
.1 . 1 1 .. 1 .l .1 . !
eu, m we leei assurcu. agree w no us, mat
this honor was well merited, while it was
thus gracefully bestowed. Aud we con
gratulate the people of this State that their
interests in the new office, will, next
November, be confided to this faithful,
experienced and tried public servant.
A WHITE CANNIBAL.
Horrible Deed in the Wilds of the Reeky
Mountains A Miner Kills and Eats
Five of Hi3 Commpaaions
The particulars of a horrible murder in
the Rocky Mountains have been received, j
and for diabolical ferocity this deed, exceeds
anything known in the annals of modern
crime. The murderer, Packer, is still at
large, having escaped from his' captors ;
but the authorities of Xebraska have offered
200 reward for Packer's apprehension,
and it is believed he soon will be taken.
He was last seen near Del Xorte.
The names of the murdered ir-Jen are
Israel Swan, Samuel Bell, Cecrge Noon,
James Humphrey and George Frank. They
were all from Salt Lake, Utah, and the
bodies have been identified bv Mr. Burke,
who knew all the actors in the tragedy.
Packer started out with these nun last
spring from Utah for the San Juan mines,
aud Mr. Burke knows that they were all
in company. Several other parlie3 started
out about the same time arid encountered
deep snows aud suffered great hardships.
It is probable Packer's party got lost in
the mountains, and wandered about until
nearly frozen and starved. Two men,
Frenchy and Martformer, saw them, and
they were then enduring many privations.
Frenchy and Martformer made their Way
into the Los Pinos Agency, which they
reached only after great exertions, and in
a footsore and almost famhdied condition.
They reported the condition of Packer's
party, and believed they would make their
way in, but none of them ever came except
Packer, the murderer of his unfortunate
companions.
A short time ago Captain Graham, while
out prospecting with a party on the south
branch of Gunnison's river, came upon the
dead bodies. They were all lying under a
large pine tree, the branches of which swept
the ground, it stood in a secluded -spot,
and the men had evidently taken shelter
there from the cold aud storm. The dead
men were five in number and lay near
together.
Four of the bodise had the flesh cut
from the breasts, thighs and calves of the
legs. The rcmaiui of two of the bodies
were in a state of perfect preservation,
except where the flesh had been cut off.
All the bodies showed bullet holes. One
had the skull crushed in' and another had
the head severed from the body, and it
could not be found. One of the men lay
a little apart from the rest, a bullet hole
in his breast, and his skull crushed with
some blunt instrument like a hatchet. It
is believed this was the last man killed, and
that there was a struggle between the
victim and the murderer. Packer finished
him with an axe or hatchet. Israel Swan
was an old man, whose hair was quite
white, and near his body lay a pocket-book
open, aud by it a note torn in two. The
uote was much weather-beaten and almost
illegible, but enough could be read to show
it was for 8500, and drawn in favor ot
Israel Swan. No Mguature or date could
be made out, both being effaehed bv water,
wind aud weather. Swan's body had been
but little mutilated, only a little of the flesh
being cut from the thighs. Xo arms of
any kind could be found, but two old blan
kets and three tin cups lay near the bodies.
Captain Graham thought the bodies had
lain under the tree about fo'tr months. A
camp, where a single man had apparently
stopped a couple of weeks, was found some
distance off, by the side of a lit tie lake.
It is b. lieved Packer was actuated by
the double motive of self- reservation and
robber' in committing the murder of his
companions. He may have meditated
asking some to kill the others and cat them ;
but, fearing he could not bring them to
hia purport, kept his cael iud killed all
the others. In such a case one would'
naturally fear being made a victim himself.-'
Even if Packer h-.t 1 taken' the responsibility
and shoe down one of his party, that, the'
others might have fin A to cat, it U likely
the others, fearing their tu u would come,
next, would have killed Packer. We read
id' lots lcing drawn in such emergencies t6
determine, frho ."hou'ld die, bat 1 never
believed the : e tales," and here is a ense in'
proof that the old law of self-preservation'
stands first, and there is no romance.'
except in books, for one's dying that others,
may drink his blood cr et his flesh and"
live. ,
Packer, probably, would have preferred
to kill only one or two of Ins companions
but he had to kill all or nunc' a;.'l hu killed
all. When or how the" attack was made
none but God and the murderer knows,
but it is probable he took away their arms"
in the night aud (R'i ' beg.ur, the massacrr,'
with the bloody hatchet. This theory i-i
sustained by Captain Graham, who says!
'the bodies, except one, lay as if sleeping."
The breaking iu of the skulls was likely
done first and the shooting afterwards.'
One man waked and sprag up, only to bo
shot down like a dog and then finished with
a hatchet'
I is dreadful to think of this man
camping near by and going even day for
two weeks to cut a horrid meal fiom the
bodies of his dead comrades. What weiC
his thoughts through the silent watches of
those long, bleak winter nights, with his
d-.ad companions, slaughtered by his own'
hand, lying cold and stiff near him. none"
but the All Seeing One aud h'rmself can1
ever know. The savage cao.ione m.tv not.
knuw of God or reason, but the civilized
cannibal has all the knowledge and rea-"
soiling powers which shotdd riiikc such1
horrors doubly horrible
The murderer is reported fo have told,'
while in custody t Saguache. t; different
Dorics about tlx' fWrgedy." First he said'
the men had gone back to Utah, and then
that he had killed and eaten them to saVo
himself from dving bv stravation. When"
he' came in he h..d a ro'.;d Henry rifle and
some ammuniion.
The full name of the murderer and
cannibal is A. G. Packer, aud the. descrip
tion given of h;m by Sheriff Wall is ;ot
follows: -Tie is five feet eight inches talL
heavy set and has lost two upper froiit
teeth and the fi"st and fourth fingers'" oh'
the left hand: He rs dxmt thirty years of
age.-.
The man caii be easily identified by tlic
loss of his fingers, not one in 10,000 being
so marknd. As before stated he was last
seen near Del Xorte, but one person is sure
he saw him one night at the Criterion Hall,
iu San Juan, Colorado, and he is believed
to have fled into Xew' Mexico and to be
hiding iu the no'intainsl Wherever he
may be, a man so marked cannot escape
when people are once thoroughly informed
of his crime, aud in a few days, when this
terrible" story shall have been read in every
part of the civilized world, there will no
longer be a hiding place for the crimiuaL
THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE.
An Elopement and Bridegroom convicted
of Abdnction.
A young man living in Randolph, N.
J., became enamored with the daughter of
a neighboring farmer, she being under 15
years of age, and his love was reciprocated.
The man was about to start for an adjoin
ing county, saying that he would wait for
her five pears if necessary. The girl could
not bear the thought of separation, and at
length, agreed to elope. The pair walked
seven' miles through the" pines and sand to
his father's house, and early the next niorn
ing were taken to. the railway station, and
thence to Philadelphia, where they were
married by an alderman, the girl declaring
her age to be eighteen.
They returned to the house of the
groom's sister at lladdonfield," where they
were confronted bv the father of the bride
and oncers. The groom was arrested and
committed to jail on a charge of abduction.
Subsequently he was indicted by the grand
Jury, and on Wednesday hist arraigned for
trial. The court room was packed by an
audience whose sympathies were centred
upou the couple.
The girl, like a true heroine, assumed
her share of the blame, admitted her af
fection for her husband and her willingness
to quit her father's house, and asserted
her belief in the honor of her husband.
G. S. Cannon, formerly Attorney-General,
delivered an eloquent defeuse, but
Judge Woodhull charged that the law had
been violaed, and that the jury must not
be influenced by appeals to their sympathy.
The jur' was out all night, returning
five times for instructions, and at length
rendered a verdict of guilty, with a recom
mendation for mercy.
On the rendering of the verdict the
prisoner was seizcxl w ith convulsions, which
continuing, sentence was deferred until the
December term. Much sympathy is enter
tained for the defendant, who is esteemed
an honorable, upright man.
A well dressed chap entered a jewelry
store and asked if he could see tlmse cups
in the window, pointing as he spoke to
silver cups lined with gold in the window.
"These," said the jeweler, handing him
one, "are race cups." Race cups ! what
are race cups ?M "Why," replied the jewe
ler, "they are cups 1 had ordered to be
made for prizes to the best racer." ''Well,
if that's so, suppose you and me race for
one," and, with the cup iu hand, started,
the jeweler af.er him. He prol-ably won
Jhe cup.
1 ' rao-Uraie. May 66&-tf j