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TTO JlXJll'H AT LAW,
TIOUESTA, PA,
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VOL.X NO. 14.
JIIW. . n. III'ATII,
DRESSMAKER, Tioncsta, Pa,
MRS. HEATH has recently moved to
this plnco for the purposo' of meeting
a want widen tho Indies of the 6wn and
county havo for a long timo known, that
of having a dressmaker of experience
among them. I am prepnred to irmko all
kinds of dresses in the latest styles, and
jruaratitoo satisfaction. Stamping for braid
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Consisting of
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Mattresses, Pillows, Window,
Shades, Fixtures, Look
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Celebrated Manhattan Spring IScd and
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Oils, Cutlery, all of tho host quality, and
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f OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE R I
(jEIITEN'L EXHIBITION
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(lip onlv ii ii 1 1 icii i ic and comnleto history
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T10NKSTA, PA.,
THE MYSTERY SOLVED,
A November eyening ; G o'clock.
"I thought you would hive run;
your bell befuro tins time, madam ; I
iiess your f.re is e'ctianiost out," said
Jerusah Sears, otherwisa kuowa as
"Aunt Jerushy," bursting into the par
lor nt twilight, or what she chose to
cull "early .cnudla , light ia'." "Ain't
ye cold, Miss Sweeney? Thero'a no-thin'
but ft faw coal left." .'..
The still figure sitting there tn tho
angle of the fire place answered not,
but that face did not daunt Aunt Jer
usha. ,I should have been in before," she"
continued, "but I s'posed yo had com-
fany. 'Twas the minister, wasn't ft?
had my hands in the bread when he
knocked or I should have gone to tho
dosr."
Still no answer.
"I guess she's asleep," commented
Aunt Jcrusha, audibly ; "au' if she is,
I'd better hold my tongue and not
wako her. It docs old folks a deal of
good to sleep !'
Just at that moment the fire blazod
tip brightly, and Aunt Jerusha turned
round from her task of blowing it with
her apron to look at her beloved mis
tress. There was something awful in
the rigid stillness of her position. Her.
head had fallen forward upon her
breast, one hand hung by her side, the
ntlwr grasped the arm of the chair.
Her features were shaded by the posi
tion in which she sat.
The fire was burning now, and as
AuntJerusharo.se she put her hand
upon the rug to lift herself by -its aid.
It splashed into a pool of something
warm, wet, aticky, that was oozing out
upon the hearth. . ,
"I gucis the minister set his umVjrel
la down here," she said, and then she
glanced at her hand. All the palm
was covered by a dark, awful smear,
and from her, extended fingers drip
ped the clammy rif.3s.
"Oh I" shrieked Aunt Jeruslia.
"Law I Oh, gracious ! Miss Sweeney 1
I do believe it's blood 1"
She went up to her mistress oud
clutched her arm. She was alarmed,
but her alarm was vague. ; :
"Misj Sweeney! Oh, my! Dear
ma'nia! Oh, my mistress 1 Can't you
speak to me? It's Aunt Jerusha dear!"
and eh shook the still Hngure in her
increasing terror, and putting her
hand beneath the brow, raised up the
drooping" head. ;
And then she saw oh, what an aw
ful sight! A ghastly wound in the
white neck that half severed tho. head,
a horrible stream still oozing down the
widow's dark dress, a pallid face with
wido open eyes, congealed in that aw
ful stare of horror that preceded her
violent death. Mrs. Swenev sat in the
.. ... . -.
same tranquil position she always us
ed, with a hand tightly clasping the
arm of her chair, and in the other that
lump ri?idlv at her side a tuft of hair
s'.ill grasped. It was a coarse but bril
liant lock, of jotty blackness, louir,
straight, unpliant.
All this Aunt Jerusha took in, in
one quick, horrified glance. And then
her shriek, summoned all the help up
on the premises.
Uucle Solomon Goshare, tho lame,
decrepit old man wh canio once a
week, 'pottering about and doing
chores," as Aunt Jerusha said, was
now sitting before the kitchen fire, eat
ing some bread and meat, and toast
ing his old rheumatic legs t and for
anco Aunt Jerusha was glad of his
presence He came hobbling through
the passages, grumbling aud exclaim
ing ! Uncle Solomon thought women
very troublesome creatures, "full of
notions," and by no means sound of
miud.
"What on airth's the matter?" quoth
he, stumbling into tho parlor. "What
ye screechin' for, Aunt Jerusha? Is
the house afire, or what?"
"Murder is the matter, ye old fool,"
answered Aunt Jerusha. "Run down
to the village, quick, and cull some
body ! Can't you see that MissSweney
is killed."
"Oh, Lord ! Did ye do it, Aunt Je
rusha ? Marcy ! ye don't say she is
dead, do ye ?"
"Yes, I do, aud here ye stand askin'
questions when ye ought to behalf way
to the village ! But law, you would
never set there. I suppose I shall have
to go myself. But don't you go out of
the room.
"Aunt Jerusha, Aunt Jerusha! I
darsent stay here aline nohow. Wall,
if you will go," shrinking from her
wrathful face aud uplifted hand," give
me a light. The fire might go out aud
I never could stand it1n the dark."
"Light it yourself," answered the
grim woman, pushing one of the can
dles ou the mantel toward him. And
in a moment she was out in the stormy
ninht. running along tho miry road
that led to the village, more thau half
a roue away.
Old Salomon retreated to the cor
ner farthest from that still awful pres
ence, which he watched during those
niiuutes which stretched themselves,
JULY 4, 1877.
in his imagination, into years before
Aunt Jerusha returned with the doc
tor aud a traiii of affrighted town peo
ple. No earthly help was available to her
who still sat os in tho quiet, lonely
house in tho afternoon, but now quite
dead. People swarmed into the house,
crowding into the room and jostling
in tho passages, wondering, whisper
ing, ventilating 6trange theories. At
9 o'clock "the coroner arrived, and
found the corpse untouched, still
ting iu that awful rigidity.
Ho was a hasty, choleric man,
he before his arrival jumped at
sit-
and
the
conclusion that Mrs. Sweney.'s scrvaats
must have committed the murder, for
tho sake of plunder. He acted upon
this suspicion at once, and ordered tho
arrest of old Solomon Goshare :ind
.Aunt Jerusha Sears, before even view
ing the body.
They were, however, permitted to
tell their story, and then, as it appear
ed that they alone knew anything
about tho mysterious, murder, they
were retained as witnesses. , There was
no evidence upon which they could bo
committed, hut the coroner did not
feel justified in letting them go free.
The funeral took place in duo timo,
and tho excitement which tho murder
caused in that quiet community sub
sided. One cr two strangers about this
time took up their temporary abode
in tho village, and as they came quite
unheralded, and without wstensiblo
business, curiosity concerning them
6oon banished every other interest.
Mrs. Sweney had lived among them
as a stranger. She'had no friends, few
relatives and ni visitors. It was" not
even known whence she came. Her
name was evidently a foreign one, but
she' was as evidently an American.
Where her life had been spent, or who
was tho husband, and who the associ
ates of her youth, nobody could suc
ceed inrleamiug. Even old Jerusha
did not know, or, if she knew, did not
impart the secret. Three quiet years,
unmarked by any charge, had Mrs
Sweney passed in her cottage
neaTf
Bennington. JNo strangers had ever
visited hor, except on occasions a law
yer from a distant city, who came on
business, and who came as soou as tid
ings of her death reached him, pro
duced the papers necessary to give
warrant to his acts, and then took
possession of the cottage and all itcon-
tained. He removed Mrs. Sweney's
papers, jewels and such valuables os
were most portable, and left tho re
mainder with tho house in charge of
Am it t" Jerusha, who was once moro at
liberty. If Mrs. Sweney had any
friends, thev communicated with tho
lawyer. Bennington people knew noth
ing of them. Mrs. Sweney had lived
among them a mystery, and her death
was the crowning incident of that mys
tery. By direction of the coroucr, Aunt
Jcrusha had faithfully preserved the
lock of hair which had been clinched
in the dead hand. When tho lawyer
came and removed the effects of the
deceased lady he lia i taken this, much
agairst tho will of Aunt Jerusha, who
expected some dire penalty of the law
to befall her for permitting it to be re
moved from. her possession." But no
disastrous ' results followed. Days
lengthened into weeks, and weeks into
months, and when the almost forgot
ten murder was mentioned in Ben
nington, it was as a matter destined to
be forever hidden. Everything had
assumed its usual monotonous course.
The strangers wb i came soon after the
murder had long disappeared. It was
now known that they were detectives,
and had been foiled in their investiga
tions. Suspicion had never fasteuod
upon any one in Bennington, and no
stranger had been seen in tho neigh
borhood previous to-the murder. Yet
no ono deubted that there must have
been one, who disappeared as soon as
the fatal deed wa3 committed ono to
whom that lock of hair, clutched in
the victim's death spasm, belonged.
And so two years went by.
Aunt Jcrusha, taking her solitary
breakfast ono morninsj, was 6tartled
by a, loud, long knocking at the door.
The long unused knocker creaked, un
der tho vigorous blows dealt by tho
new-comer, and through tho empty
passages and closed up rooms the
echoes answered loudly to the unac
customed sound. With many groans
and exclamations Aunt Jerusha hast
ened to the door.
A dark young man stood there, evi
dently impatient, for he bad just lilted
his hand to tho knocker the second
time.
"Mrs. Sweney," he said, "Does she
not live here?"
"Sho usod to," replied Aunt Jcru
sha ; "but she's been dead these two
years. What do you waut?"
"I want to come in at present, and
afterward I shall waut soma breakfagt,
and then a room prepared for me, and
soma talk with you, perhaps. I may
want other things, but I can tell you
better hereafter."
"You can't co;ne iu till I know who
ft o
MUM
$2 PER ANNUM.
you are. And as to slaying hero and
getting breakfast, it's agin my orders
to have any company.
"A fig for your orders," answered
the stranger, rudely pushing past her.
"I'm Macbeth Sweney, and my father
was the husband of the lady who lived
here, as she claimed, but as I doubt.
At any rate, I havo a right here, and
it will not bo well for you to dispute
it."
"Be you Miss Sweneyjs son ?" asked
Aunt Jerusha, as with pale, scared
face sho followed him into the parlor.
"The Signora Sweney is my mother,"
he answered haughtily. "And now be
so good as to open theso blinds and
bring me eomo brcikfast. -But first
bIiow me to ft bedroom." ,
"There's no room ready but the one
tlt used to bo Miss Sweney's," said
Aunt Jerusha, tremblingly, "and no
body's slept there since wo laid her on
the bed there with that great gash in
her throat. We never found out who
murdered the poor lady. Is it that
you have Come about?"
"Will you stop ..your pratitig and
show hie tho room, woman?" exclaim
ed the stranger, advancing threaten
ingly. And Aunt Jerusha was com
pelled to unlock the door of that room
associated in her mind with such
dreadful recollections, aivj usher him
across that threshold only to be cross
ed by her, with awe and trembling, on
her days of cleaning aud inspection.
In half an hour she brought him
breakfast, and he detained her to an
swer numerous questions relative to
tho late inruato of the house. But he
calculated too little on the native
shrewdness of bis witness. Aunt Jo
rtisha was firmly determined that no
information should be given until sho
knew whether this intrusive guest was
a friend or foo to her late mistress. On
this subject the nature of his questions
served very soon to convice her. Mac
beth Sweney was tho son ' of tha man
whom Mrs. Sweney had once called
her husband, and it was very evident
that hii feelings were inimical to hor,
and that his enmity had followed her
beyound the grave.
At the close of their conference,
Aunt Jerusha went bock to her kitch
en, shaking her head. She by no
means liked tho present aspect of
things, but she felt herself powerless.
Mr. Sweney had surely some shadow
of right and. she had none that could
avail against him. All day she heard
him rambling about the houso and
tho sounds, from the late Mrs; Sweney's
room indicated that ho was moving
heavy pieces of furniture, and insti
tuting a general search among tho de
ceased lady's effects. Her clothing.and
all papers which did not seem of im
portance, together with other articles
of small intrinsic value, had been left
there. Aunt Jerusha regretted now
that sho had not attempted to fit up
some other room for her guest.
But ono remedy for hor momentary
weakness suggested- itself. A tele
graph lias had lately been erected in
the village. She resolved to summon
tho lawyer by means of this mode of
communication. Sho had no sooner
furnished" tho stranger with his dinner
than sho set out for the village, where,
after ascertaining wjiat it was necessa
ry for her to do, she coucocted tho fol
lowing message, which speedily was
flashed along the wires:
"There's a feller hero with black
hair liko that you know on. Coma as
soon as you cau."
This dono she returned to her homo
quite satisfied with her errand, and
quietly sat herself down to await tho
result. Sho knew that sho must wait
at least a whole day, but sho resolved
not to relax her vigilauca and permit
this man to escape.
Her precautions, however, were in
vain, lie remained throughout that
dy, and in tho evening callod Aunt
Jerusha for 3ome purpose. ho found
him sitting in tho parlor, answered
his questions, and provided him with
onot'ier nicely trimmod lamp and fuel.
After securing tho doors sho retired,
and, though she slept ill, heard no
alarming sounds until tho following
morning, when sho arose, and having
prepared breakfast for tho stranger,
carried it to his room.
To her surprise it was vacant. Mac
beth Sweney had departed and left no
trace.
That afternoon the lawyer arrived,
accorapauied by an experienced deteo
tive, and before nightfall a pursuit
was organized. If found, the stranger
would at least ho arrested for robbery,
for. though thero had bcon little of
valuo for him to take, it was quite ev
ident that Mrs. Sweney's escritoire and
receptacle for papers had been search
ed, and a few relics, which Aunt Je
rusha knew had beeu cherished by tho
deceased lady were gone. Mr. ,
tho lawyer, who alono knew anything
of bar history, believed thit young
Sweney was her murderer, for he knew
much of tho persecutions she had for
merly endured, and the attempts that
had been mado to invalidate her inar
riui'e. and lejritimizo tho sou of the
Itatos of Advtii.
One Squnro(l inch,) ono Insoi ti.-H
OneSrjunre " ono month - - .
One Square " three months - o i t
One Square " one year - . lo ti i
Two Squares, ono year ... in, Oo
Quarter Col. " - ao (
Half '. so CO
Ono - - - - 100 (
Iegnl notices at established rates.
Mnrrlrtge and death notices, gratis.
All bills for yearlv advertisements col
lected quarterly. Temporary- advertise
ments must bo paid for in advance
Job work, Cash on'Delivery.
woman who had become' the", successor
iu her husband's"-afTctioua and her
own rights. He also new that an im
portant paper no less than the.certif
icato of her marriage had been lost
at tho timo of her murder.
Once more a great crowd had been
gathered at the cottage. Onco more
Aunt Jerusha and Uncle Solomon...
were witnesses. It was for them, who"
alone had seen him, to identify the
prisoner who had just been brought in,
and this they did at once, unmindful
of the terrible frown with which ho
regarded them.
He was committed to tho county
jail for forcible entry and robbery of
the house, and while ho lay there the
lawyers were slowly weaving around
him a web. which was to enmesh him.:
Having tho clue, various circumstan
ces camo to light, all tending to show
that Sweney was the murderer. Ho
was shown to have beeu in the county
at the time and to have arrived at tho
nearest point by rail, which was near
tho residence of Mrs. Sweney, on tho
very day of the murder.
His object had lecu, doubtless, to
intimidate Mrs. Sweney, compel her
to yield up tho documents which
proved her rights and his Jpgitimacv.
-Having failed iu this, ho had deliber
ately committed the murder, taken
from her the certificate, and departed
unseen.
The lock of hajr clutched iu the fin
gers of the dead was also a powerful
witness against him. Strange enough,
it corresponded exactly in color, qual
ity and strength with his own, and
just, above the temple was a bald spot
about tho size of tho lock, which seem
ed to be pulled thence.
It was probably thought that time
enough had elapsed to render his pres
ent visit safe, mo'ro especially as no
suspicion had ever fastened to him;'
and this lime he came with the hope
of securing an important deed which
Mrs. Sweney had once in her posses
sion, and which, in tbe father's neces
sary communication with Mrs. Swe
ney's lawyer, he had learned had ' not
been transferred te him. This was
found amoog the effects of Macbeth
Sweney, and be had doubtless discov
ered it in somo secret drawer that had
escaped tho .lawyer's vigilance.
Ciicumstantial evidence alono con
victed him, but the universal comment
upon tha verdict of tho jury declared
its justice. He expiated luscrirrm up
on the gallows, and Aunt .Jerusha
Scan became the heroine of Benning
ton she'looked upon herself and was
belioved by others, to bo the principal
instrument in bringing to light tho
perpetrator of a mj'sterious crime,and
punishing all who had been engaged
in the persecutions heaped upon a
most unfortunate and uahappy lady.
Talent' will Tell,
One of tho remarkable things about
New York is the marvelous number of
third-rate men we have in business.
We have hundreds of lawyers, yet, if
a first-class caso comes up, you can
count one of ten men who will con
duct the case. You can find a hun
dred men that can engrave a portrait
for a dime novel or a police gazette,
not two in 200 could cut a fine
lino engraving, A thousand men
could build a road-bed, but not one
in a thousand could engineer the track.
On tho street a dozen men rule the
Bull side and tho Bear side. The rest
are mere subordinates. The profes
sions, callings and trades aro crowded
with small men, yet talent is at a pre
mium and capable men Aro in de
mand. A well-known financier has
just accepted the position of cashier
of the Nevada Bank on tho pleasant
little salary ef GO,000 a year. Ha
has brains, probably, nnd executive
force. Cor. Bodon Journal.
Two Smart Girls.
Two daughters of a farmer in St.
Lawrence county, desired to pay a debt
on their homestead, but preferred not
to do it by hard work. They hit up
on an idea that; suited their purpose,
and havo made enough money to re
movo the debt. They had a larQ
quantity of porous stone sawed into
small pieces and thoroughly soaked in
an odorous preparation, which impart
ed to them a durable sceut. Theso
pieces they have peddled throughout
the State, at twenty-five cents each,
representing that they were cut frani
the rock of a wonderful perfumed cavo
in South America. The girls are so
demure and pretty, with such an ap
perance of innocence, that the sales
are very large. .They have just put a
fresh lot of stono iu soak, preparatory
to a Western tour.
A youth refused to take a pill. 11'
crafty mother thereupon sect i'
placed the pill in a preserved i
and gave it to turn, i rtsen
asked : "Tom, havo you
pear?" He replied : "Y
all but the seed."
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