The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1872-04-11
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ticlcs Of her trade with unwcaried
toll and consumatc taste. Her ha b.
its were secluded, modest. and rctir.
iog and hence she might have ho-
ped to escape notoricty, but for the
pcrilous gift OF that extraordinar V
beauty, which to often, and to the
poor and iricndless, proves a curse.
She was so,u sought after by those
gay fire flies of fashion, he business
of whose life Is everywhere seduction
and ruin. But the beautiful stranger
rejected them all alike with unuttcr-
able scorn and loaihing.
Among the disappointed admirers
was one of a character from which the
fair mllliner had every thing to fear.
Hiram Shore bclnngc TO "a family at
once opulcnt, influential anl dlsap-
pointed. lie was himself liccn tious.
brave, and rovengciul, aul due lis,
of established aui terrible fame. 1t
was generally known that he had
made advances to win thj favor Of he
lovely Emma AMI la | shared the fate
Of all her other wocrs-a disdainf II
repulse.
At nine O'Clock on christmas night.
1888, the people of Little-,t ,t,ck were
startled by loud scream, as of some
one in mortal terror while followin,
that, with hardly an interval, came
successive reports Of fire-a"mS-one,
two, three dozen dcniening cxplo-
sious. They flew to the shop of The
millincr, whence the sounls cmana.
ted, and pushed back tho 'unia'ieno |
door A dreadful scene was prcsc Mt
cd. There she stood in the coutrc Of
the room, with revolver in each
hand, every barrel discharged, her
features pale, her eyes flushing wild
ly, and her lips parted with an awful
smile And there at her feet, well
tering in his warm blool, his bosom
literally riddlcl with shot, lay the
all dreaded duelist, Hiram Shore,
rasping iu the last agony. lie artic.
ulatci but single scnteuce-"tcl my
mother that | am dead anil gone to
h-llN' aud instantly expired.
In G)l's name, who did this ~
exclaimed the appalled, specto,ors.
II did - said the beautiful milli.
ner, in her sweet silent accents. IL
did it to save my honor -
Such is brief abstract Of the cs-
sential circumstances, developed in
the examination of witnesses. The
testimony closed and the plcadiugs
began.
First Of all, Fowler, Pike, and Ash
ley, Gall famous lawyers at that time
in the south-wesD spoke in success.
ion for the prosecution. They about
equally partitioncd their eloquencc
betwixt the prisoner and her advo-
cate, covering the latter with such
sarcastic wit, raillery, anl ridiculc
as made it doubt whether he or
his client was the party then on trial,
AS TO Denton, however, he seemed
to pay not the Slightest attention to
his opponents. but remained notion
less, with his forehead bowed on his
hands, like one buried in deep thou't
or in slumber.
When his time came, however, he
suldenly spraog TO his feet, crossed
the bar, and took a position almost
touching the foreman of the jury. he
then commenced in a whisper, but in
II whisper so wild, peculiar, and in,
descrbably distinct as to fill the hall
from floor to galleries,
Atthe outset be dosl, in pure 10.
gic, analyzing aud combining the pro-
ven facts, till the whole mass of con.
fused evidence looked transparent a
globe Of crystal, through which tho
innocence Of his client shone lumiu
Gus as sunbeam, while the jurors
nodded 10 each other signs Of thor.
oueh conviction. 7 he thrilling whs
per and concentrated argument, aud
language simple as a chiId's, had sat.
isticd tho demands of the intellect,
aud this, too, in ouly twenty minutes.
II was like the work Of q mathcmati
cal dcmonst ration.
lIe then changed his posture so as
to sweep the bar with his glance, a1j
like o raging lion, rushed upon bis
adversarics, tearing aud rcOdins thei,
sophistry into fragm ents. His sal
low faco glowing like a red hot iron
the forked blue vein swelled anC
wreathed, on his brow, his eyes re-
sembled live Goals, aud his voice wa
the clangor of trumpet. lover be-
| fore or since. list.nel to such appall-