Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-06-19

the prosecution will be able to fasten such
evidences of guilt upon the prisoner as to
secure his conviction.
Murder and Suicide i'm N. York.
NEW YORK, June 10.-On Sunday night
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred King, residing at No.
80 East Nineteenth street, retired to their
sleeping apartment, and as they did not
make their appearance to-day at the usual
hour, a servant proceeded TO their room
and discovered the husband and wife ly-
ing dead in a bed which was covered with
blood. A pistol was found in the bed,
three chambers of which had been dis
charged. 1t is supposed that King first
shot his wife, having previously given
her chlorOtOrm, and then killed himself.
nens. General Custer, in his expedition
into the Indian country has been pecuH-
arly unfortunate-not that the savages
have fought and defeated him-but that
50 many of his men are deserting. tap
pears that 800, with their horses and entire
outfits, have deserted, and though this
wholesale disappearance has all taken
place within a month, the entire force be-
ing only from 1900 TO 1000 strong. 1t
requires only Il simple calculation To show
Just how long General Clusters army can
withstand this new enemy. Desertion
has always been epidemic in the armies
on the Plains, and no adequate remedy
has yet been proposed for it.
No, nor will be as long as Andrew
Johnson pardons rebels by wholesale, and
ropperhead judges OF the Supreme Court
of this State decide that all dcserter has
to 90 is to keep clear of arrest during a
war, after which he can return and be as
/ good a citizen as the best soldier that ever
/ shouldercd Il musket.
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