Raftsman's journal. (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, March 16, 1870, Image 2

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2lafsmans Journal.
t. J. ROW, EDITOR ADrOPlTOR.
CLEARFIELD, PA., MAR. Ifi, 1870.
JohnC. Brrckenridge forgetA he in a Dem
ocrat. He denounces tin KuKlui Klan in
unmeasured terms. " . ,
l W. Metre, J2,., editor of the Altoona
Sua has severed Ids connection with the
Harrisburg Ihtriot.
The election in Bidgeton,New Jer?cy.on
Tuesday a vret-V, resulted in the triumph of
the Republicans. They elected the whole
city ticket by an increased majority.
Mr. JefTVinon DavU raid a business visit
ti Huntsvi'.Ic, Aia., and in three day took
fie hundred life insurance policies. He is
the best agent yet seut nut. We hope he
has a better policy than when in the Confed
eracy business.
A Democrat from the country applied for
-a dictionary the other day, in Bedford, and
"wouldn't have the plagued thing because
it had no index.'" He is also opposed to the
fifteenth amendment, because it will allow
an "ignorant nigger" t0 kill nis TOte- oor
fellow! .
A Democrat in Central New Tort was so
rejoiced at the recent victory of the party in
hid town that, in theexhuberance ofliis joy,
he set fire to his cowhouse, which", demon
oration of patriotis-m cost him the lives of a
cow and calf, and over fifty dollars worth of
hay and grim, besides tne Dunainsr.
It was a long time ago that a New-IIamp-ehire
judge, in charging a jury, said: "The
counsel for the State and lor the prisoner
have talked ot law, as waa right ; but gen
tlemen, you and I hare something else to
consider it is not law we want, but justice."
A sensible judge.-. There are few like him.
-e mmm -
Lieut. Com. W. F. Stewart, son of Hon.
Andrew Stewart, of Uniontown, and Engi
neer J. W. Phelan, son of Hon. John I'he
lan, late member of the Legislature from
Greene county, are among the lost in the
Oneida disaster. They were young men of
fiue promise, graduates of the Naval Acad
emy. -
The John A. Griswold who is' charged
with having sold cadetship warrants is not
the John A. Griswold who livesat Troy New
j..i. v i n:.
l urh, autx niiutu luc xbCLuuiiuuuc lua'-ir-
their standard bearer a year ago in the State j
couvass, but another sort of man altogether
a Democrat now in Congress from the Thir
teenth district.
The Mechanics' Bank of St. Louis has
given notice that it will . redeem in coin on
presentation its outstanding circulation,
which amounts to about $50,U00. This is
believed to be the first movement of the
kind, and the opinion is expressed by the St.
Louis papers that the example will be follow
ed by other banks in that and o'her cities.
A telegram, received by the Secretary of
the Treasury, announces the actual resump
tion of specie payments in Texas and North
ern Louisiana, currency and coin being taken
for cotton without distinction. A dollar
greenback will now purchase as much cotton
as a gold dollar. What think the Democrat
ic wiseacres who so confide! tly predicted
the ultimate worthlewsness of greenback, of
that?
While Frank Blair has quietly sunk into
the insurance business, forgetting his favor
ite hobby that Grant means "the empire,"
we see painful evidences of vitality in Mr.
Lincoln's Postmaster-General, Montgomery
B'uir, who ha caused himself to be announc
ed as a candidate for Congress in the Fifth
Maryland District. Whatever may be said
of Moutgoanery, lie will be an improvement
on the average, Maryland Congressmen in
the matter of braius.
At a meetine under the auspices of the
Democratic Association of Pennsylv?nia,
held in Philadelphia, cn Saturday evening
a-week, Mr. John Campbell, the principal
speaker, insL-ted that if the Democracy
wished to succeed "they must accept jhc
situation, recognize the importance of the
colored vote, and nominate Hon. Sxlmon P.
Chae for Pidsnt in 1872." Poor Dem
ocracy! Has it com to thi.? That you in
tend to swallow "old greenbacks'' and the
"nigger" at one gulp ?
General Sheridan meets the Indian hsuc
as boldly and frankly as he always met the
foe in the field. He has no word of palia
tion for the "bard hit)" that were given the
wages by his oi dors. He bhirks no respon
sibility, presents a list of atrocities commit
ted b the savages, and sums up the case by
tha artiou; "that the problem to be solv
ed is who shall be killed, the whites or the
Indians?" The latter question really em bod
ies the pith of the aboriginal trouble. Will
the Indian peace agenu auswer in a man
ner tatisfaetpry to the Western settlers ?
It now seems tfiat the Democrats of Whit
temorc's district have made up their winds
to swallow their prejudices with their whis
ky v an 1 run a certain prominent negro a
gaist the cadet seller if he shall offer him
self Main as a candidate. This is a wise
contusion ; in fact, there is so much good
sense in it. that it Li scarcely credibly. Let
the Dcaiocrats, by all means, rote for a ne
gro instead of a rebel ; then, if they get
beaten, they will be supported by the con
sciousno? of having doae their duty. Bet
ter ie a diunef of herbs where love is, than
n stidlcd ox where a man feels like a culprit.
. American Center say.
The celebration proposed in Congress for
Philadelphia, in ls?6, is decidedly a "tig
thing." Mr. Morrel!, of the Cambria dis
trict, introduced the bill, a few days ago, in
the iiousw. It contemplates an exhibition
of American and foreign art, products and
manufactures, to be held in Philadelphia
during the centennial year; directs thfe ap
pointment by the VresiJent of six delegates
and alternate from each State, to prepare
plans aud consult with the authorities of
Philadelphia ; the commission to report to
Congress a'- iu w-xt .session "a complete plan
for the reception and classification -of articles
intended for exhibition: a suitable date for
opening and for closing it ; a schedule of ap
propriate cereiuouics for opening or dedicat
ing the exhibition." and all the necessary fi
nancial and custom house details. No com
pensation is to be paid these commissioners
other than the mileage allowed members of
Congress. When the President is informed
by the Governor of Pennsylvania "that pro
vision has been made for the exclusive con
trol by the United States of the proposed
exhibition, the President shall make pro
clamation of the same, setting forth the year
in which the exhibition will take place and
the city in which it will be held,; and he
shall communicate to the diplomatic repre
sentatives of all nations copies of the same
for publication in their respective countries."
The bill was referred in the House to the
Committee on Manufactures.
Remarkable Testimony. The follow
ing notable passage is from a lecture, deliv
ered by W. D. Moore, Esq., on February
4th, 1670, at Washington, Pa., and will bear
a careful perusal :
"I am a Democrat, and ODnosed to the
Fifteenth Amendment, but I desire to bear
my testimony to the character of the negro
population of the South.. Afterthe passage
of the conscript act they outnumbered the
whites five to one. 1 hey could have arisen
at any time and utterly annihilated the white
population, and they were nof wanting evil
men to make the suggestion. They remain
ed, however, the same in obedience, docility,
faithfulness and order, as before the war
broke out. There is nothing like it in nil
the pages of history, and I never knew or
heard of a race who teemed, in my judg
ment, to live so near to the Divine teaching
as the negroes of the South during the re
bellion. Their conduct was epitomized in a
single remark made to me by a very aged
one among them : 'We'se like the children
of Israel at tbc Bed Sea ; all we has to do is
to stand si ill and see the salvation of the
Lord!" At all times and under all the cir
cumstances I will bear testimony to the un
equalled behavior of the Southern negroes
during the war."
Tub Wj.MPEd Rebellion. The conduct
of the so-called General Riel in executing at
least one prisoner, to be followed up, appa:
rently, by the execution of seven or eL:ht
others, will convert the Winnipeg drama from
a farce into a tragedy. By the narrative of
these events, it appears that the prisoners
were captured without fighting, and, appa
rently, without the manifestation by the
General himself of any marked disposition
to fight, inasmuch as be shared in none of
the danger of the enterprise. For a mere
insurrectionary leader, in a country almost
joo feeble to be capable of an insurrection,
to tatS upon those who oppose his sway and
execute tncni as rebels, is an evidence of
tyranny and cowardice on the part of Riel
which presages his speedy fall and punish
ment. Jeff. Davis executea Southern Union
ists as rebels. But tha Government of the
United States executed nobody for a ret.'d'ion
which cost a million of lives. That Rie,
should take the first lives lost in his emente
by a series of bloody executions stamps him
at onre as a tyrant and a coward.
Women's vs. Men's Rights. TnE New
York legislature is maturing a law to define
the rights of married men. as a sort of counter
check to the everlasting, never-ending, and
terribly it definite talk about woman's rights.
The proito.ed law gives the husband a life
estate in the property of his wife after her
decease, provides that the benedict shall
not be liable for debts of his wife contracted
before nitrriage, nor after marriage unless
incurred with his consent, or necessary to the
surport of their children; and to crown this
assertion of "rights," the new law proposes
that any married man possessed of realestate
may sell such property in all respects as if
he were unmarried. This is to put an end
to the odiouj practice especially odious .to
real cm ate speculators of requiring the
wife, on being interrogated apart from the
husband, to give her written a sent to the
sale of real estate property by her hu-band
before such sale can be valid.
Wiiem Doe SiMiNd RsaiN? We notice,
says the Pittsburg Chro.u'clc, that all of our
eschari ges speak of the first of March as the
first day of spring. This is an error, accord
ing to ihe very best authority. Herschel
says that "for the Northern Hemisphere the
astronomical spring begins at the vernal
equinox, or on the 21st of March, and ends
at the time of the summer solstice, or on the
2lst of June, when the sun reaches its high
est position in the heavens at midday." Ac
cording to Herschel. therefore, the spring
season begins Maich 21st, and ends June
2Ut; the summer season begins June 21st
and ends September 21. n; the fall season
begins September 21st and ends December
21st, and the winter sea; on begins Decem
ber 2 1st and ends March 21st Worche; tcr
defines spring to be the "season in which
general vegetation begins." Webster speaks
of it as the ".season of tin year when plants
wgia to vegetate and rUe."
It is reported that iu the Rocky Moun
tain chain in British Columbia, a gold field
has been discovered as rich as the original
California, with Australia piled on top.
We have had some fuch reports heretofore
from British Columbia and Oregon, and
even from Alaska; but the gold hunters
uiiau jniu mo regions tnereoy Dave in
variably come away impoverished, half
starved and digusted. Scientifically con
sidered, however, tbnrw is nr reason why
gold should not exi.t in the same cbaia of
mountains, of the tame geological ptratri,
north of Colorado, Idaho and Montana,
as in those territories, and if Brtiir-.li Co
luiutria has tho rich mines reported Caljtor
nia will noon supply the digger
Ku-Zlux Outrages.
United States Marshall Slack writes
from Charleston, Kanawa county, West
Virginia, the recently selected capital of
the State, under dale of March 3d, that an
organized band of armed Ku-Klux entered
the town in open day-light on the morning
of the 2d. and advancing to the jail with
keys and other fixtures, deliberately un
locked the outer and cell doors, releasing
the prisoners. .To those who happened to
be present cocked revolvers were presented,
with threats that if an alarm was given
death would be their portion. The organ
ization is said to be widespread, and the
civil authorities are powerless. In view of
the speedy removal of the capital to Charles
ton, the Governor, it is said, will call upon
the Government for military aid to suppress
the lawlessness. -
A later. Kii.Klux outrage oocured at
Graham, North Carolina. A body of men
numbering from seventy-five to one hun
dred, wearing masks and being orhertrise
disguised, appeared about midnight at the
house of a negro named Holt ; entered and
searched the premises. . The real object
of their search was not to be found, but an
other negro named White, equally obnox
ious to them, occupied the conjugal couch
with Mrs. Holt. White without further
ceremony, was dragged from his bed, out
of which a cord was cut, which was fasten
ed around his neck.- In a feigned tone of
voice one of the gang demanded of the ter
ror stricken Mrs. Holt the whereabouts of
her husband. - They were informed that he
had gone some distance into the country on
business. They then informed her that
they proposed to hang him if captured. At
her peril Mrs. Holt was ordered to make
no noise or even to cross her - threshold un
til after daylight, and with similar terrible
injunction to White to make no alarm,
they departed, leading that unfortunate j
wretch with them. He was placed astride
a mule, marched beneath the overhanging
boughs of a Jarpe oak tree in front of the
Court House, a bed cord attached to his
neck, and their victim suffered death by j
strangulation. It is said the mysterious
baud proceeded to the residence of the Clerk
of the Superior Court,and endeavored to
decoy him out, but he, suspecting their in
tentions, remained within, and thus saved
himself. - Other citizens have been shot,-
scourged, and beaten, and threatened with
further violence. In view of these fac's,
Geo. Holdcn issued a proclamation declar
ing Allamance county 'u a state, of insur
rection, and sent some State miliaria thith
er to maintain tho peace.
The Naturalization Laws. We no
tice that some of our Democratic exchanges
are much excercised over tho proposed
change in the naturalization laws. They
represent that the law, it passed, will require
a five year's residence after naturalization
before such person will be entitled to vote.
This is simply false. The bill pending in
the House, which will probably pass, only
requires a residence of three years instead of
five, and tho notice of intention is to bo
given only twenty days instead of two years
before makitig the application. The power
of making citizens, however, is to be con
fined, with few exceptions, exclusively to
the United Slates Courts, but the judgment
awarding citizenship to the applicant is not
to take effect until mx months after it is ren
dered. Should this bill pass, it will no
doubt prevent all illegal voting on fraudu
lent naturalization papers issued on the eve
of an election, and hence the opposition of
the Democracy to the proposed change in
the law.
Vindication of (Juu WFarland. In
the -Senate.last week, Mr. GraLam presented
tho report of the Senate Education Com
mittee of IS69, raised to investigate altered
abuses in the Soldiers' Orphans' Pepartmenf
which entirely exonerates Colonel George F.
M'FarTar.d, the State Superintendent of
Soldiers' Orphans, front any fraud or coiu-
plcity of fraud., and declares that he has been
found to have no financial interest in any
particular school under his charge. Colonel
M'Farland has long had the full confidence
of the best friend of the soldier in the State
and this very direct and comprehensive
report should set at rest all doubts as to his
integrity as the condition of the orphans'
school does to his ability.
Woman's Rights. The names of the
ladies at Cheyenne,. Wyoming Territory,
who have been the first in the history of
the world to sit upon a jury, deserve to be
put upon record. On the grand jury there
are five women, in a total of fifteen persons,
viz : Mrs. Amelia Hatcher, Mrs. Dr. Hil
ton, Miss Eliza Stewart, Mrs. J. Mackcl,
and Mrs. Agues Baker. Twenty-two petit
jurors were drawn at tha same time, of
whom six are women, as follows: Miss
Nettie Hazen, Mrs. Jennie Lancaster, Mrs.
Lizzie A. Spooner, Mrs. Jennie Irvinson
Miss MaryFiynn and I. N. Harioougb.
New Hampshire Election. The result,
of the election in New Hampshire, last week,
was a complete Republican triumph. Gov
ernor Stearn having a m ijority over all op
position. The Senate stands G Republicans
to 1 Democrat; no choice in five districts.
In the House the Republicans have about
50 majority. The figures 6how that there
has been a terrible upheaval of the Demo
cratic elements their loss being nearly sev
en thousand on the vote of last year. - Evi
dently "Labor Reform" don't pay as a
Democratic investment.
In 1S6S, Seymour beat Grant in Kentucky
by a majority of 76,323. Rutin 1S69. the
Democratic majority was only about o7,0iK).
Now that 42,003 negro voters are to be added
to thoseexeruising the franchise in that State
by the operation of the Fifteenth amend
ment, the majority for Democracy will be
very small. There will not, therefore, be a
strongly Democratic State in the Union, ex
cept the State of Tammany ; for the negroes
will give Marylaud to the Republicans by a
rou.-ing majority.
O.ic of the long missing European steam
ers, the Smidt, has reached New Yoik in
safely, after a fifteen days passage. The
City of RoMou, btili longer out, has n"
been beard irem.
A Little of Everything. " .
5apoIm la fntastiog in 9 Z0'.
Kounth U going back to Hungary.
' Kentucky hat 19,000 atand of arm.
Cold muffin raga-muSn in winter.
Uow to get a foot-hold take a boot j so It .
A ticklish position standing upon triSce
Now that Lent U here sinners must re-lent.
A colored girl is studying law in Washington.
An exchange says the times are bil-i-owe-you
us.
Subscribe for the JocRS!.. Only $2 a year, in
advance. " em . .
A Vermont girl has laced ber breast bone into
her lungs and died.
. Colorado offers f 5,000 reward for the first arte
sian well sunk in the Territory.
The place to get job work done promptly, and
at cheap rates the Jocrsal office. '
A, cruiry old bachelor says he thinks it is wo
men, not her wrongs, that ought to be redressed.
Iowa has been compelled to discharge a-lady"
teacher in one of its public schools for drunken
ness. ' . t
A Philadelphia paper say Packer refuse to
settle the bills contrasted for his canvass last
J'":
A Virginia widow, recently eloped with an af
finity, and left her four children to freese to
death. .
The Oecumenical Council follows the lead of
Coogre'i, and pioposes to print Iti speeches un
delivered. There are thirty murderesses in the Michigan
Penitentiary, many of whom are said to be posi
tirely beautiful.
Bichmond, Virginia. hai "Rosebud Concert.'
in which one hundred children sing for the bene
fit of the orphans.
Hon. John Covode has been assigned to bis old
place as chairman of the Committee on Public
Buildings and grounds.
Yate'a fiiends talk of making him Governor of
Alaska,. now that whisky is prohibited there, as
the only means of saving him.
Weeton,;Missuuri, people lately hung an inno
cent man for horse-stealing, and are now rinsing
money to gat him a gravestone.
If you want to tell a man that he is drunk,
without hurting his feelings, say he is suffering
from ihe effect of wet groceries. '
A family at Rye, New Hampshire, has been
taking tho Ncte llmpkire Gaxrtt for the lust
one hundred and thirteen year.
A Texas farmer indiscreetly shouted for holp as
the Indians were earrying him off prisoner, and
they left him, but without his scalp. -
The Bishops of Nashville, 61. Joseph and Santa
Fe, have been authorized to leave Rome, aid not
to return to the (Ecumenical Council.
John James, the present court-crier of Ducks
county, if he lives till tho first of April next,will
have occupied the position fifty years
The Oh io Legislature has been petitioned to
prohibit the use of tobacco except for "mechani
cal purposes." That will,ut off chewing.
A fellow iu Michigan earns his drinks by swal
lowing ten-penny nails. The liquor out there is
strong enough to dissolve them aud prevent in
jury. The first coin ma le in the Philadelphia Mint
was a copper cant, in 17Ati. The first silver dol
lar was made in 1791, and the first go.'d eagle in
1795.
Acoording to the Cleuveland Plaiidtatcr,Gnnl
say he never knew., what C. O. D. meant until
that ton dollar dog came to him -Collect On
Dog." ; -
A burglar has been arrested in Chicago with a
pardon from Governor Parmer in his pocket. The
I'imei suggests that he send it back and have the
date changed.
The area of freedom for women isdally spread
ing. A woman is tLe official reporter of the Jan
uary term of the supreme Court of Maine, and
doing good service.
The Mayor of a Georgia town objected to the
laying of certain matters on the table, and ad
journed the session by knocking two aldermen
and the clerk under it -
Eight clergymen assisted at the recent mar
riage of a Fend da Lack girl. She ought to find
no trouble in staying married, even if her hus
band sh mid move to Cbioago.
The model girl of the period lives in Lafay
ette, Indiana. She wears with pride and a just
pride, too, a dress made op of material woven
by ber own fair bands. She is still unmarried.
.The question of reading the Bible iu the pub-
lie school' it i il. "ill 8 tb principal one at
the approaching snrinj municipal election in
Cincinnati. For it ordinary politics are ignored:
A Baltimore woman sent i.er grocer the follow
ing note : ' Mr. Tuttle: This here thing has got j
too much hemp in it for molasses, and not quite
encugh for clothes line, so I beg you will ex- j
change it for a purer article."
There is a negro in Ilolly Springs, Mi., whose I
only name is Charles Lewis William Augustus
Cox, and be refuses to be set free. lie has been
sold twice since the war. and still ignore Lin
coln's emancipation proclamation.
Rcfering to the threatened annexation or the
British province in America.to the United States,
the Ottawa Times observes "that a country afraid
to hold up it head .before Spain should not men-,
a-e a province that enjoys the protection of the
Biitish flig."
Isaao Meyer, of Baltimore, a well-known col
ored man conne tcd with the National Executive
Committee of colored men of that Stale, has been
appointed a speaial agent ot the Post Office De
partment at large, at 1.200 per annum, and 3
yer diem while traveling.
At iiaraboo, W iseonsin, recently. Charles Sar
han, a Roman Catholic, got married, but not by
Father Schroiver. the priest of the parish. Ilia
Reverence, in open church, denounced the paii
as adulterers. Soon after, Sarnban met the priest
struck him in the face, aud. in his retreating, fol
lowed an! gave him another blow. Sarahan was
arrested and fined three dollors.
San Francisco has set a noblo eximple.by im
prisoning in the county jtl for six monshs a
teacher in the public schools ol that city for the
brutal treatment of a scholar. Discipline io
school is necessary, but that inhuman, ferruling
and mauling of scholar, that onoe were deemed
neootsary to the ednoalion of tho young, i about
at an end. San Francisco, your example is good.
This is the last joke about' little Rhody." A
person traveling from Taunton to Cheyord, the
other dsy.c.ver the Fiihkill road, hearing the con
ductor sing out "U'illimaniio," asked, in surprise:
'Mr. Conductor, have you called out the names of
all the stations we have passod V "Yes, sir,"
was the reply. "Well, then," rejoined the trav
eler, "I must have been asleep ; I didn't hear
you call Rbode Island " ' ,
1 Who are you?-' eaquired the magiitrate in a
New Orleans court of a wild looking fellow
brought before him. Your fatheMir." "What!"
exoiaimed the astonished judge. '! aid your
father " "Why, I've got none. "Are you
sure ?' ' Quite cortain." "Then I reckon I'm
mistaken; but your ear deceive mo." "My
eer? Why. bow cosld that be?" "All my chil
dren have long ear, sir; very long ear ; there
are but three classes of this species, ir ; my chil
dren, the rabit and the donkey. Yoa are not a
rabbit" The outraged judge could endure no
more, but shotted at the top of hi voice to the
officers to take him down. "Ob, sir, I hear you
bray V and the joor lellow wf ent to the asy-
Execution of Bohner and Bodenbnrg.
From the Huntingdon Journal and A
merican. we gather the following account
of the execution of the Peightal family
murderers, at Huntingdon, on Wednesday.
The crowd in attendance was immense :
The intended wife of Bcdenburg, a
young girl named Kerper, from near Altoo-
n, visited him in the evening, and an af
fecting scene was witnessed as the parties
took a final leave of each other. She also
conversed with 'Bohner, and implored him
to tell the truth and save Boden burg.
Bohner merely replied to her, in substance
that they had lived together and they
would have to die together.
This morning, the last on earth for the
doomed men, we visited them about 8
o'clock. In answer to our inquiry, as to
how he felt, Bodenburg said "not good,"
and he said he had passed a restless night,
and had not slept any. He was weeping
bitterly. Bohner was lying on bis couch
reading his Bible, but shortly afterward
arose, and engaged in conversation with
the visitors, answering all questions put to
him. His conversation was as usual, shat
ered and wandering from one subject to
another, without any Feeming realization of
hi situation. At 9 o'clock tho room was
cleared of all visitors, and the prisoners
were left alone with .their spiritual advis-
CIS.
The crowd outside was immense, and
every available position, from which a
glimpse ot the scaffold could be obtained
was ocupicd. including trees, roofs, chim
neys, lie. Inside the walls were about four
hundred people, including the Sheriff and
assistants, the jury, and the representa
tives of the press, a large number of whom
were in attendance.
The irons were removed from the priso
ners, neither of whom manifested much e
motion during their Yemoval. Bodenburg
merely ejaculated, "Bless God, I'm free !"
and at 12J o'clock precisely, the doom
ed men were brought from their cells for the
last time, and conducted to the scaffold."
Bohner, in charge of Deputy Sheriff Fouse,
headed the procession, and was followed by
his fellow culprit in charge of Capt. H. Clay
Weaver, and these in turn followed by the
Revs. Sleckel, Clark, Wilson, and other
attending clergyman, to the scaffold. The
prisoners were assisted in mounting the
ladder, but manifested little trepidation, and
ascended with little difficulty.
' A prayer in German was then offered by
Rev. Sykis, of Martinsburg, Blair county,
after which Bodenburg proceeded to read
in German the paper (a confession) already
published, to which Bohner listened with
the most profound attention, and in an
swer, remarked that they were both guilty
and both ought to die togethcis or words
of that elTect. - Bolenburg responded in
a very earnest and excited manner, "shame
on you, Charley. You ought to be asham
ed of yourself to talk s in 'your last mo
ments. Such conduct docs not seem hu
man." . r .
The concluding prayer was then offered
by Rev. J. C. Clark, and was a most fer
vent and eloquent petition to the throne of
Mercy in bcbalf of the unfortunate and
condemned culprits.
On being asked if they had anything far
ther to say, Bohner merely re asserted as
truth the confession made by him last eve
ning. . .
The attending clergymen then each in
turn took an affectionate leave of the cul
prits, and retired from the scaffold! The
ropes were then adjusted by the Sheriff and
his Deputies, and while in the act of so do
ing Bodenburg ejaculated fervently, his
lat prayer as follows : "Oh, Lord Jesus
Christ I I am now coming to Thee, for
give n:y sins, and take my poor soul up in
to Heaven. Amen, Amen." The re-
J sponsc was taken up and reiterated with
the greatest fervency by the ministers, as
they left the scaffold.
' The fatal caps were drawn over their fa
ces, the Deputies retired, and the prisoners
were left alone with th Sheriff, with whom
they both shook hands and expressed their
thanks for bis kindness, requested him to
remember them to bis wife, Bodenburg
saying that he hoped to meet him in hea
ven. The sentences were yet trembling on
their lips when tiie drop fell, and the
bodies of the murderers were dangling be
tween the heaven anil the earth. The drop
fell at precis ly 20 minutes of 1 o'clock.
The bodies remained suspended 25 min
utes, at the end of which time they were
lowered down and placed id the coffins at
the foot of the gallows. Both died eaily,
without any apparent struggle, there was not
on the part of either the slightest motion
of the lower limbs. Bohner's neck was
broken, whilst Bodenburg died from stran
gulation. The countenances of the men in death
were almost as natural as ever, with the ex
ception of a slight discoloration in the face
of Bodenburg.
Thus died the guilty perpetrators of one
of the "most inhuman murders in the annals
of crime, an awful example of the truth
contained in the declaration that the way
of the transgressor is hard," and that 't he
wages of sin !s death." May it be long ere
we are compelled to witness or to chronicle
another such scene.
AdvartwentfiHl net wlarg4 typ,or out of platn
ttg,ttriJl b charged donblt Htual ratxs. Ae istt.
F)ISSOLUTION. The partnership hcre
tofore exist ing between 'Vni. Riddle and
Henry Gratier, at Janesville. Clearfield Co. Pa.
in the Hotel business, under the name of Riddle
A Grazier, is dissolved by mutual consent. All
debts owing to tve said fiptn are to be received by
the said V. m. Riddle, aLd all demand against
said firm are to be presented to him for payment.
WM KIDDLE,
S-16-70-3t. HENRY Gt-AZIER.
niSSOLUTION. Notice is hereby giy
en to the public that the partnership
heretofore existing -between O. B. Merrell and
Wm Bigler, known as the firm of Merrell A
Bigler, dealers in Hardware, mecofeclnrcrs oi
Tinware, Ac. bas this day been dissolved by the
consent of both parties and that the business will
hereafter be carried on. in all its parts as here
tofore, bv 11. F. Bigler A Co. The business of
Merrell A Bigler will be settled up by O.B. Mer
rell at the office of the old firm.
O B. MERRELL, .
Mareh 12-16. WM. BIGLER. ,
D
UT GOODS the cheapest in the county, at
May !, '67. JkHJSSOP'S.
HEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
H. F. BIGLER & CO.,
DEALERS I
HARD f A RE,
AND MAXCFACTOREBS Or
Tin and Sheet Iron Ware,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
THIMBLE-SKEINS and Pipe-boxes t-r Wag
ons, for sal by - II. F. UIGLER A CO
IKON i IKON!! Best bar i'on. for (ale at the
store of H. F. BIOLEK A CO.
CJTOVES of all sort and sixes, constantly on
O hand at
U. F. E IU LEU CO S
CABLE CHAINS a good article, en band and
forsaleby II F. BIGLER A CO.
HORSE SHOES, and horse-nails, to be had st
a. F. BIGLER A CO S.
CJ ADDLES, Bridle,
harness, eollars Ac, fcr
II. F. BIGLER A CO'S.
k3
sale at
G
17SS. Pistol and sword eanrs to be had at
H F. BIGLER A CO b.
TTARSESf, Trimmings, and Shoe-findings for
ale at
11. F. BIGLER A CO'S.
-IL,
IL, Pntty. Paint Glass and Nails, for sal at
W March '70
11 r, BlliLEH A S.
FAIRBANKS'
STANDARD SCALES, v
OP ALL KIND". ALIO,
Baggage Barrows, Warehouse Trucks, Copying
Presses, Improved Money Drawers, As., '.
rOB SALE BT
II. F. BIGLER ' & CO.,
Dealer in Hardware,
March 16 Cleabpiclo, Pa. IS70.
W2
IDOW'SAPl'RAISEMFNT. Estate
Robert Thompson, Sr., deceased.
In the matter of- the claim of Catharine, widow
ot Robert Thompson. Sr., lata of Lawrence tw'p.
dec d. to have ;t0 worth of the real estate set
apart to her use ; the appraisers baring teported
the same to be of greater value than t'iOO and
that it cannot be divided without spoiling the
whole, all persons in interest are notified that the
report of theapprai er will be approved and an
order of salenf said real estate granted, to meat
the demand aforesaid of said Widow, uulcss suffi
cient cause to the contrary be shown by the first
day of March Term of Court, A. D , 1370
By order of the Court
March J-3t. A . W. LEE. Cleik O C.
T EG ISTER'S NOTICE. Notice ishere
by given that the following accounts
have been examined and pasted by me and remain
filed of record in this ofEce for the inspection of
heirs. legatees.creditors.and all others in anyway,
interested and will be presented to the next Or
phans' Court of Cearfield county, to beheld at
the Court llnupe. in the Borough of Clrsrfitd
commencing on the 3d Monday of March, l70 :
Final account of Joseph II. Hreth and Mary
William, . Administrators of Sauiucl .Williams,
late of Burnside town.hip, deceased.
Final account of Catharine Mitchell, Executrix
of C. C.Mitchell, late-of Burnaido t'p, dee'd.
Final account of John Patlon and Elixa Fergu
son. Executors of James Ferguion. late of the
Borough of Lumber-ciiy. dee'd.
Partial amount of Samuel HegartT, Eaecutor
of Samuel Hegarty Sr., late of Uuelu-h t'p.der'd
Final account o( Samuel Jlagerty, Guardian of
Wilotra C. Le.
Feb. 22. 187U. A. W. LEK, Regls'cr.
ORPHANS' COURT SALE Estate of
Robert Thompson, Sr., deceased.
Coder anthori'y from the Orpheus' Court of
Clearfield county. Pa , the undersigned will ex
pose to sale, hy Public Vendue or outcry, at the
house of A Wise, in New Hill. ort.on
. MONDAY, MARCH 23T7Z, 1870.
all that certain valuable real estate, latetheprop
erty of Robert Thompson. Sr., siraatelo Ferguson
township. Clearfield county. Pa -. described at
follows, vis: Beginning at a stone corner on pub
lie road, tbenee by graveyard South 8y degrees
West 18 1 10 perches to stone corner, thence by
Samuel Richards North 83 degrees West 17 2 lil
perches to stone corner, thence South i degree
East B perches to sloce eorner. thence Sooth 8i
degree West 3ft perches to stone crner. thence
South by John S Williams 1 decree Went 39 4 10
perebes to stone eorner. thence by Martin O. Stirk
North 28 i degrees West 20 perches North 3J drg
Wst 26 perches to place ot beginning, containing
17 acres, V7 1.10 perches, more or lens.
Said real estate is situat. at. or near. New Mill
port, and contains a dwelling bouse and other
valuable improvements.
SIMON THOMPSON.
March 2-4t Adin'r of Rob't Thompson. Sr.
T ICENSE NOTICE. The following nam--J
ed persons have filed in the office of the
clerif of the Co art of Quarter Sessions of Clearfield
eo . their Petitiona for Licenss at the Mareh Ses
sion, A.l.1870.agreeably to the Act ot Assembly ot
Mareh 28th. 186, entitled. "An Aet to regulate
tne state ot iLtoxioattng Liquor," ate:
Shaw A Wallace.
Win. Scbwem, Jr.,
George Knarr,
K. J. William.
Daniel Pauluamas,
John Dougherty,
David Johnston, .
G. D. Goodfellow,
John Ft-utx,
Wm. M Jeffries,
John B. Berger.
Arnold Schnarr.
Peter Garnier.
Wm W Irwin.'
William Ki.ldte,
Jacob Siiue,
Hiram Straw.
Wm. S Sankey.
Wm. Schnarra,
James Dunn.
TBos. F Boalicb,
Joh n MoG uey,
Patrick Brennan,
James Flinn.
John Sheeser,
Tavern
Brady township.
Tavern.
Tavern,
Tavetn,
Tavern,
Tavern.
Tavern. :
Tavern,
Tavern,
Tavern,
Tavern,
Tavern, .'
Tavetn, .
Tavern,
Tavern,
Tavern,
Tavern,
Tavern,
Tavera,
Tavern,
Tavern,
Tavern.
Tavern,
Tavern,
Tavern,
Tavern.
Tavern,
Tavern,
Bradford twp't
Beecaria twp't.
Clearfield Bora
Curwensvill. Bo
Covington twri't
Qoeben twp.
Uulicb twp. -Girardtwp.
J rdaa twp
Kartbau tw
.4
Osceola Roto.
Penn twp.
- Union twp.
Morris twp.
Deeatur t'p.
Deoatar t'p.
Peter Hoffman, .
P. M'Govern.
K. W. Walk, .
BATIKS BOCSES.
Samuel Hullihan. Clearfield Borough.
Edward Flanders, Beecaria township.
Edward Galloney, Curwensvtlle Borough.
Johc C. Hende.son, Osceola Borough.
BRCASTILB LICENSES.
L. M.Coudriet, Covington township.
Mareh 2. A. C. TATE, Clerk.
QHERIFF'SSALK. By virtue of sundiy
writs cf Vend. Exponas, issued out
ot tne Uqurt ot lomnion flea of Clearfield
connty. and to me directed, there will be exposed
to publiosale, at th Court Hoose. in the borough
ol Clearfield, on MONDAY, the 21st DAY OF
MARCH. 1870, at 2 o'clock P. M. the following
uesorioea property to wit :
A certain tract of land situate in (Morris town
ship, Clearfield eounty. Pa., Bounded and descri
bed a follow, to wit. P-eginning at a black alder,
tbenee north JJ degrees east 32 perches, thence
south 86 degrees east 221 tterehes thence S SO dec
east 231 pcicbes, thence south 67 J degree east 32
perches to post, tbenee south 371 degree east 72
percnes. tnenco o. onf aeg. east ti2 perches thenoe
north 30 degrees east 19 perches. tbenee north 22
degrees east 2rt perches, thence north 7) degrees
east 6 perches to a cbestuut, thence north 60 dee".
west 4 perebes to poet, thence south 79 degreo
' " io posc.inenee 4V degree west 91
perches to post, thenoe -north 871 drmxa t
144 perches to stories. thence north 21 degree east
v pnoiici iw wnne oas.menee north 7l degree
east 131 perebes to pine stump, thence south 37
degrees west 8 perch of, tbenee sooth 64) degree
easi z.j i percBes, thence south 43 degrees east Zl
perohes. thenoe south 71 degree eest 43 percbea,
theuce south 871 decree east 12 nereheato (tones.
thence north 521 degrees e.st 92 per.ihe to a white
lune stump, thence 37? degree en at
jertbei to elouci.tbei.ce south 21 degrees wea 111
pcroues w oiaca alder and tl. - .
eoataining IsS acre and .7 Vcrche. c!,B'nr,
.-uT.moer, iro.oo warrant rr,J. ."'?
sold as the property f H,r, Groe ,0
ard town.hip.Cle.rfi.ld eo. Pa". b",'? "
a of George Hock
d Hoek.nb.rry to Ian 4 of J.
at
.x..d.r.,n77r.nTo77AUxD
of Taylor', land, thence b, l.n
corner of Conley". thence b,Y'J
Copley' to corner of lands of V
W hiteside land thence by their land ,0'h b :'
hitetiil..
r . attend, to .
beginning, containing ituo acres more 6r ,?L . rf
ing about 100 acre, eleared. a good .5"
ehard. a two-story dwelling hous. .Vi
bank barn erected thereon, b.in , 1004
'"m"' S.ied, taken in executli. aaVVk!
old as the property of Darid Ask.r W
ALo-four certain tracl of land.situ.t. Mf .
lows : No. 1, Situate in Bradford townsnin fo5"
field county. Pa , beginning at a bl.ck oak onT
bank ot the Susooehaona rir.r. thenc. s!!!
degree West 2j2 perches to a pc., TTh.Tr t
lin. of survey, thence North 22 degrees
perches to pitch pine corner on the iM
..f the Susquehanna rirer.thence duwa said r..l
-- "..ucos aoout 3
seventy fire acres eleared.
Bitoate in Bradford township, Clearfield eouai.
Pa.. beginning at a cucumber.on the Wast flr.-
""a" iraetSo i.
L ... a - '
of the Snquehanna. corner of a larrar i... .
which this is a part.thenee North 4 degree Wast
i perches to a post, thence 5onih-e!ter!v o t,lT
ches to a post, thence North easterly it pcrehsi'
to the river, thence along the river by its sev.r.1
eoursas and distances to the cucumber and piK(
of beginning, eoataining about tweatj acres more
U( .iiWHini u.u. ALSO 3 tract. I
aie in Kinniuf
baus towuthip, Clearfield county p
I the East side by the Clinton conn v
by land of Hugh MoGon,l.w bv
bounded on I
una. rtoriu oj iaoa oi nugn aiouonizsl Wen .
7" . 1 " " " ,-i.u ui uereniuk
Gaines, containing about fifty acre and kavicc
erected thereon a large two story frame hoM a
frame bank barn and a grod bearing orchard and
being all eleared and under good fence Also
Trect No. 4. situate in Karthaus township, Clear
field county. Pa., adjoining the above described
fifty acres and being all cleared. Seised, taken
in execution, and to be sold as ihe Property of
Isaae Gaines.
Also a certain tract of land situate in Boc
township, Clearfield oounty, Pa , bounded as fol
lows, to wit: Beginning at the South-can eorner
of the survey, thence North 204 perches along
line formerly made for Joseph Williams and af
terwards conveyed by Charles Bird to John Milch
ell, to post eorner. thence West by lands of Philip
Benneboff about S pcrehe. and atill Wrst bv laadi
of Manly Lumadne 40 perches.theoce again O ut
S2 perches, thence West 30 perches to eorner cf
land of Andrew Cross, thence along his line ss
onveyed in 1652 South 152 perches to a po,i,
thence by other lands of A. Cross East 2 perches
containing 93 acres, being the largest portion of
a survey in the name of Adam Stewart, and pat
ented 10th April. 1794. nearly all cleared aud
having a small house and barn etrcted thereon.
Seized, taken in execution, and to be told as the
property of Jacob Uaney.
Also a certain tract of land situate in Bug(s
township. Clearfield county. Pa., beginning a. a
while oak corner thence North 147 p.rehei to
while oak. tbenee by John Taylor survey West
236 parches to post and corner of John W E jler.
thence by same South 167 ptrcheato pest, thene.
East 23A perches to white osk and place of bejln
ning, containing 218 acres, more or leu. ber inj
iberoon erected a log house and barn and a larre
bearing orchard and about 70 acres cleared 1sl.
Seized, taken in execution, and to b. sold as ih.
property ol James M. Shaw.
Also a certain tract ot land situate in Cbester
vtlle. Decatur township, Clearfield countv. Pa.
bounded and described asfoiloir, to wit: Proof
ing on Street sixty feet, aud on Alton Mreet
one hundred aud seventy five fact, back to Clo-r
Alley, being a corner lot and known st Lai V.
26. and joiuing lot No 27 in said town plot, siid
baring a two story plank houie erected therein.
Seized, taken io execution, and to be s-jld as ti.
progeny of dard Hill.
Also a certain traol of land situate in Oaceola
Borough, Clearfield eouoty. Pa , bound. d si fol
lows: Fronting irouth on Lingle Street fifty leat,
aud it being a middle lot. enjoining Lots w r.
r-3 and 9. it being lot No 87. on (lot of said Hur-cu-b.
with a good twostory plank bouc and oth
er out building eroded thereon. Seixod. lakes in
execution, and to be sold as tue properly of Mur
phy and Kerin.
Also a cenain tract of Und sitaate in Brslj
towmhtp. Clearfield eouuiy. Vj . bounded on the
North by lands of John Kumbarger West by ilet
erling. South by Patten, ire .and Eait b .-tui.u
an I uthcrs. containing one hundred and sihry
acres and having 2j acres cleared and a log; hou.
arid barn erected thereon Soized. taken in exe
cution, and to be sold as th. proper! ef Jaioes
A. !ixon.
Also a certain trsct of land si'ua'e in Covin,-
toa Ownship, Clearfield county. Pa . I'ouuded ea
the South by Ihe sateibport Turnpike. Wet by
John Keiler, North and East by karlLsius lsn'lt.
containing one nuodred acrei. urire or leas.
abort twenty Ore acr-s cleared and natiu; a
young bearing orchard and a small frame b-ue
erected tnereon beised, tsKen in execution, au-x
to bd sold si the property of Henry Matter
Also . certain tract of land si oate il CmitiJ
ton lowufhip, CleiriolJ oounty. 1" , b"U:idel
the South by the Smelhport t urnpike, West by
John Rider North and East by Ksrhaue !",
containing lUM acres, more or less, aoout Iwentr-
five acres cleared, and a small trsme uou euu
young orchard thereon. Seised, taken io execu
tion, and to be sold as tne property oi ueurj
Rider.
By virtue of sundry writs of fi Ft , th fe'-
lowing property, to wit :
All those certain premises si u. in CletrfieM
county, in the Mate of Pennijlvania. o e mer.oi
situate in Ilulon townrbip.in said conn'j. Be
ginning at a Spanish o. corner of Ucd of Jons.
B. fmitu thence North 70 degr.es East I US perch
es Io post in small run. thence Nor:h t decrees
West 379 perches to post, tnenee Jort u u oxr
V..t lH nan-bee. thence South 20 decrees m
379 perch by land of Jona. B Smith to place ef
beginning, containing zeu acres ana '"""""
being the same premises convejed to said liarid
Tyler by D. Boise A Sons, by Deed dated Jtej w.
Iba7, recorded in ueeu t;uvi n. pn --
A lu one hundred acres of land situate in
township and partly in Jay township. Els eoaa'T-
being in tne orto-weat corner 01 101
bouLded by the first described premises oa the
Kast bv lands ot Hewitt on the South, and beiaf
the same premise conveyed to said David Tjler
by Martin N iehols and wife by Deed dated Msrch
9th I86S, recorded in Ded Book l,r? u
Also another piece in Uuston town p """
beginning at a poet by two small hicxortei tbenoe
by first described piece North 70 degrs Kast
perches to Beech, thence still by Tyier uto
...... F-..I lt naiffhasto snanieh oaK.toci
Jo
nee
South 7 degrwoe West 33 perches to poir- tu-o--by
John Uewitt's land North 70dogreel t V
perches to place of beginning containing 50 acro
and 66 perches, net measure, beiug the sate
arnieim ennveved At wood BundT it wlleb' Vf
dated 14th May, 18ft I, recorded in Deed Boo T-
page 343, to aaid David Tyler. "-'" -
piece of land situate in lleituo lee nsbip,
field count?, and in Jay township, tit "J
one thereof part of lottery Warrant No a. no
ted May 17th. 175, beginning at a poet in ee rua
on the Sooth tide f Benuett s branch of the . ta
nemahontngcresk at South-east eo"-"vor""y
land of David Tyler, thenoo by same Aorta
degree Kast 379 perebes to stone, thence ey uni
formerly of Kidd A Co. North 70 d'S.T"
perchos to s tones. ILenoe South 2ld.ri
perches to hemlock. thene. by other land
Tyler Sooth 7 degree W.t 3 p.rehei to
oak, tbenee South It) degree Es.t Pere" "
birch, thenoe South 70 degrees West 12 P"""
place ot beginning, containing 106 aeres ana
lowance, being the same premiss nvyeu
aaid David Tyler by Satu'l Saper and ' i
Deed dated July 17ih, l857cordel ,h. f
in. Deed Book K. page 423, oe. The other theJ
beginninc at while oak the South-ea.t eoroM
the tract tbenee bona 70 degr.e JZ"
to white oak, theawe Sout
South degree.
to white aah.thence South 70 degrees w.l r"
to post, tbenee) Nertb 20 degrees est 3i5
nce orth IU degree. '
tb-east eorner of tract tbe
20 degree East 320 perches to place ot u.
Ai,ntn,m,o 1 (111 are and allowance. ,
(am premise conveyed by aid hm I jtB
wife te David Tyler by Deed dated N ' .. ,
1K I, recorded at Clearfield in Deed ''-Vx.
467, and having therein erected '" ,Ld
dwelling boas, one targe frame 0 Hn
many o her outbuildings; also a ail .
orcnarn. ine aoov tvu cr-e .mesii".,
eleared and nnder a good sute f can
Seised, taken in execution, an1
moo. ant io " -
ptopertyot David Tyler.
in, a.
certs'
tract ot land situate in Burnside to';;-P- jt.
field eounty, Pa . booeded aat ortk :
A Lao all Defendants tntenre. -7 r,,,r.
lows.
to wit : Beginning ax a, -- ,j.tnce
01 a -r. . 1 a 1 x in narebes to
i? Tl ' . 88 porches to
post.
. uu... ... a ' ..." . . i n.
etch'
stones, thence North 7t West ?!' cprensi
gam. thence South 9j degt.es ta-
la white oak grub, thenceforth. 10 .64
th.. SnuiJi ti decrees tveji. r . . t-
10 9
inenee oostj os wao " r . - Ui ajres "
to the place of beginning, oootatning" m, ,
" J - W...X.1B9-
sad
exee'
hoove crested thereon
.,, 01
6. I
rion, ana 10 o. saia as u r--.
Mitebel. -..-r ghv''
March 2-79. - OjO"
-AJLS A SPIK3-ti:eL-P"-,,S0r. 3.
ntheciu-
Or i Mr.
hundred and sixty-two acres aud allow.ne.-"?
2S percbs,and having thereon erected . J,",,
If i o h nu -A and K m mrM.t-A k