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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-05-15

OUR New FIRE ENGINE.-Our new
steam fire engine, the first we ever had.
arrived in New Castle the other daN.
and of course the entire population of
the village turned out to witness the
trial of the new machine. Mr.. Bob.
Parker secured the post ofhonor as hol-
der of the service-pipe; and he was
mighty proud of it. The engine was
down at the wharfgetting ready to pump
water from the river, and Parker stood
almost four hundred yards off, at the
end of a line of hose, waiting for the
stream to come, so that he could squirt
it over the court house steeple. There
was great deal of delay while the men
were fixing the engine, and Parker in
cautiously held the muZzle of the pipe
toward his waiStcoat while he discussed
the question of third term for Grant
with Rev. DR.. Hopkins. At the most
interesting moment of the debate the
engine suddenly began to work, and the
next instant two-inch stream struck
Parker in the stomach with terrific force
and rolled him over in the gutter. He
felt as if the gulf stream had been shot
through him from front to back. Then
the pipe gave couple of eccentric
jerks, smashed DR.. Hopkins hat into a
black silk chaos and cmptied ahogshead
of water into his open mouth. 1t con-
cluded the exercises by getting into such
position that it could play million
gallons a minute up the left trowser>
leg of the PROSTATE Mr.. Parker. Park
er seemed to lose all interest in the ca
pacity of that engine. He went home
for his Sunday clothes. and has since in
timated to his confidential friends thai
if Grant should spend the whole of hi:
third term squirting a stream fifty thou
sand feet high with that diabolical fire
eXtinguisher he, Parker, would not G,
around the corner to witness the spec.
tacle.-Har Adeler
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-05-15
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oos En>jnesS and Location of the lead
M. Esrinc~S Houses in st. JOhnsbury.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-05-15

ByDTS HNNl IN'IURER AND DEALER IN
N'l'I.N and liUBBERS also LEATHER.
k,Jr..5 FINDINGS. ETC.
''''' ST. Johnsbury. Vt.
NM. W. GROUT
"NE ~ AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
barton Vermont.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-05-15
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e' lowest rates at Passenger Depot.
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-05-15

The Boston and Lowell railroad COM
pany evidently mean business with
people who walk on their track anoth-
er offender was fined So and costs at
Boston, yesterday.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-05-15

and revenge. cause they couldn't get
me-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-05-15

Y 4r An persons indebted To the subscrib
etths Htieby notified that intend to 90 ont
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p5 lh fore part Of f%iy ' neXt a On "a ann ico COM
d-ut, 'A 'his OF my clients in order TO pay my
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-02-27

THREE HUNDRED MEN AFLoAT on A
CAKE OF ICE.-Intelligence reached Bay
City, Mich, on Monday at noon that ut 8
O'Clock that morning large c1ke of ice,
several miles in extent, broke of from
shore in Saginaw Bay, at point east Of
the lighthouse at the mouth of the river,
and extending down the east shore. Upon
this floating field of ice were not less than
three hundr.d d fishermen, and several teams
and sleighs- The men were well SUPP lied
with shanties, food, fuel and provisions
When last seen they had drifted several
miles northeast, and strong southwest
WIND, shifting TO westward, was drifting
the ice toward the east shore of the bay.
A later dispatch from Bay City gives the
folio wing additional particulars \ report
from Leb"ang this evening, Gays fifty
men have made a landing. Reports from
other points say about two hundred mon
have escaped. Two men, named II. J.
Smith and John Fournier, are known to
have been drowned. The ice is solid, and
ranges from twelve to twenty inches in
thickness, and is not easily broken up.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-02-27

THE MARYLAND TwINs.-The Balfi-
more Sun gives the following in reference
to female twins, bonn at Tobaccosticlz
Dorchester county, Md, on the 18th inst.
ami who were Joined at the breast in 4
manner regarded as more wonderful than
the Siamese twins ''lhe Dorchestertwips
were OF colored parentage, the mother
being Mary Travers, who is now in excel
lent health, One Of the twins was alive at
birth, but died in few seconds thereafter
The other, when born, WAS dead. The
one first ushered into this world bore the
impress upon its face of a genuine negro,
while the complexion of the other was like
that of white person and the hair less
kInky upon its head than that adjoining its
sister. DR.. La Count Smith, of Tobacco
stick, became possessed of the bodies of
the twins shortly after their birth. and with
them arrived in this city yesterday after
noon for the purpose of having the bodies
properly preserved, which will be done by
placing them IN an aquarium shaped vessel
hlled with alcohol. Last night the Dor
chester monstrositieS were exhibited at the
office of Dr. J. II. Tall, in presence of sever
Al medIcal gentlemen. The band of union
connecting the bodies of the twins extends
from the center of the breast bone TO the
navel, thus placing the bodies face to face.
lie bodies are well formed, aud weigh ten
pounds aud a-half and measure eighteen
inches III length. The physicians who were
present gave is their opinions that each of
the twins possessed separate stomachs.
hearts, EverS, etc, and that a wall separa-
ted the stomachS along thaC portion where
the bond of union exists. The only case
on record where similar bond OF union
ever existed Is in the London Museum, and,
IKE the Dorchester novelty, the twins were
females"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-02-27

LOUIS I. WIGFALL, who was moro
than ordinary ard conspicuous character
In the political troubles which agitatcd this
country Immediately preceding the break
ing out Of the late rebellion, died at Gal
weston, Texas, on Wednesday, 18th inst.
BE is represented as having been native
OF South Carolina, but removed to Texas
when he was quite n young man, and there
commenced the practice of the law. He
was elected from that State to :he United
States Senate in 1859 and in that BODY oc
oupted distinguished position as an able
mad sometimes an eloquent dcbater. He
was a remarkably eccentric man in all his
ways and habits of life, and on moro than
one occasion electrified that then distiu-
gulshod body by his wit as we'll as his elo-
quencs. He was present at the lombard
msnt Of Fort Sumter and was a Senator
from Texas in the first Confederate Con-
Rres5 at Richmond. In all his impulses
and III all his convictions he was sternIy
and violently welded to the cause Of the
houth, and that section Of the Union in
ali the bitter contests growing out of the
slavery question between it ana the North
had no more active, enthusiastic, and. as
We are bound to believe, no more sincere
advocate than the accomplished, eloquent,
but erratic Louie T. Wigfal, of Texas.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-02-27
TIL CAMBRIA FREEMAN.
EBENs BURG, Pa,
Friday Morning, february 81, 1874.

W. y. MOORE, Esq, cf Pittsburg, Chair
man of the Democratic Executive Commit
tee of that city, has prosecuted the editors
of the Pittsburg Post for having published.
as he alleges, \ false and libclous article
concerning him. The difficulty between
Mr.. Moore and the Post sceras to have had
its origin in the recent election in Pitts
oarg for mayor and other city officers. AS
we do not profess to know ANYTHING about
the substantial merits Of the case, we will
not Of course attempt to express any opiH-
Ion about it. We regret, however, that so
very serious a'difficulty should have occur
rel between such prominent menbe OF
the Democratic party as Mr.. Moore and
the editors of the Post We guess, how
ever, that Mr.. Moore, like so many other
gentlemen who have heretofore undertaken
the same experiment against newspaper
editors, will be sorry before he gets through
that he ever commenced the prosecution
referred TO.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-02-27

ABOUT year ago, or perhaps somewhat
longer, a criminal prosecution for libel was
tried in the Court of Quarter Sessions OF
, Huntingdon county, in which A. L. Guss,
the principal of the Cassville Seminary fo1
the education # soldiers orphan children,
WAS the prosecutor, and member of the
Huntington Bar, named Wharton, was The
defendant. The ground of Prof Guss'
complaint was that Wharton had charged
him IN Newspaper published in that place
with having taken immoral and obscene
liberties with some of the female pupils in
that institution. The case was tried before
Judge Dean and excited a very great de-
gree Of interest. The jury acquitted Whar-
ton and divided the costs between the pros
ecutor and tue defendant. Since then other
and additional charges, more or less def
rite, Of the same disgraceful character,
have been preferred against Mr. Guss, in
The form Of letters addressed TO J. p.
Wickeraham, State Superintendent of Com
mon Schools and also Superintendent of
the Soldiers Orphan Schools Soon after
the session of the present Legislature COM
meneed, Mr.. Wickersham addressed n
communication to that body, in which he
referred to these 7candaious harg9s qgai st
Mr. Guss and asked for the appointment
OF joint committee of the Legislature 70
Investigate them thoroughly and make q
report. The committee was appointed.
and we published last week and our sub
Scribcrs read portion ef the testimony
taken before that committee at Hunting
q n. IF that eTidence is true, or even par
italy SO, it is utterly impossible for the
human mind 20 conceive how 3 man occu-
pying the confidential and even sacred po- |
sitiOn which Professor Guss did towards |
those who were committed to his charge. !
could SO utterly and shamelessly degrade |
himself and botray the trust which was
'onfided TO him 10y the State. 1t is sad
and disgraceful story and is almost calcu-
ated to cause one TO lose all faith in human (
Kind. Mr. Guss, who is the editor Of the
huntingdon Globe, requests a suspension
# public opinion in regard to the sufficien-
y Of the proof of his guilt until his side
t the story shall have been heard. We
heertully accede to his charitable request,
nd trust that hs will be able to completely
emove the damaging Impression which
he testimony thus far has produced against
lin.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-02-27

The Aibury (Canada) Border Post. re-
cords the death Of the wife of mr F. w.
ietyens, who had recently given birth to
twins. The extraordinary complication at
tending the birth caused great exhaustion,
from which deceased never rallied. The
infants, who are full grown, and in every
respect perfect, are Joined torether from
about an inch below the armpit to the hin
bone, and about four inches in width: with
this exception, the infants (both feu,ales)
are well proportioned, and in every respect
each in itself perfect. The case is one
which will doubtless possess many features
OF interest to the medical profession, no
record being known of any case so extraor-
dlnary-the union of the infants being more
complete and of much greater extent than
that existing between the celebrated Siam
ese twins.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-02-27
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IL looking over the published proceed
ings Of the House Of Representatives at
Harrisburg on Saturday last, we observe
that Mr.. Baird, the Democratic member
from Cameron, Elk and Jefferson counties
reported bill from the appropriate com
Intttee, "to roliers tho sureties of 4. B..
he"s, late Pr0thon9tary cf Cambria eot.1s-
~ As no man of the uame Of KeZy
has ever filled the Office OF Prothonotary Of
Cambria county, and as there is evidently
mistake about Mr.. Bairci's bill, the ques-
tion arises, of what county was this a. B.
Kelly the Prothonotary? We admit that
It Is comparatively a small matter, but at
the same time we desire to protect the
Prothonotaries Of this county for the last
quarter of century from the imputation
that they require any legislative interfe-
renee to relieve the sureties on their official
o"EGs from any legal responsibility. Our
member, Mr.. Henry viii therefore please
request Mr. Baird to make the necessary
explanation. so that the official journal cf
the House, so far as Cambria county is af-
fected by hr. Baird's report, may CORES
pond with what evory man here knows to
bo the truth.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-02-27

A REMARKABLE TRIAL.-TheTe is not,
probably, 4 single trial to be found on tho
criminal records of this country so marked
by dramatic SenSatiOnalism as that of
James NJ Lowell for tho murder of his
wife, the evidence in which was all COM
rleted in the Supreme Court at Auburn,
Maine, on Monday last. The case origin
ated in the discovery last October of a
headleSs skeleton i'll .he woods, about
three miles from Lewiston, in that State.
Examination showed the skeleton to be
that of woman who had met her death
by violence and certain circumstances
connected with the disappearance OF Mrs.
Lizzie Lowell, wife Of the accused, in
June. 1870, encouraged the suspicion that
Lowell himself was the murderer, and
these the remains of his wife. He was ar
rested at Lawrence and taken on 20 Lewis
ton, where, after preliminary eXamina-
ton he was charged with the crime, and
immediate committed to Auburn iail
where he remained till Friday last. when
his trial began. Difficulties between Low
ell and his wife on various occasions were
testified to some articles of jewelry known
to have belonged to her were found in his
possession {; a dress found with the remains
was identified as hers pair of panta-
looms worn by the accused, and found to
be spotted with blood, were Produced and
his remark at the time of her disappear
aIce. Illdl StlS ilsa1l uii d"HN Win GER
tain person, and he was glad he was lid of
her. was sworn to.
But the most extraordinary piece of evi-
dence ever presented to court of Justice,
and one which sent a thrill of superstitious
terror through the throng OF men and wo-
men present, was tho skeleton of the un-
fortunate victim, which had been for more
than three years moldering in the dim for
est. What murt have been the feelings
Of the wretched man-whetheF innocent
or guilty-when these dumb, and yet elo-
quent relics of one he had once vowed to
cherish, and whose loving smile and sym
pathetic voice must yet linger among his
remem orances of a joysome past, were Irc-
duced, is left fOI the Imagination to pic
ture g.; for in spite of the dreadful ooncaten-
alton of circumstances, which little by
little seemed to lift the veil of mystery
from the darksome death scene in the
'hawowy woods in spite of the evidence
If RIGHTEOUSNESS, which might have
brought blush to the cheek of the most
hardened libeTtine, he sat careless and
Indifferent in manner, and apparently the /
east interested spectator in that crowded /
oom, giving no sign of remorse. regret,
n other human feeling. That this in
Inference is simulated, there can be no
ioubt; but that it is Indicative of guilt, or
innocence, can only be determined now
~ the inscrutabls wisdom of the iury on
which the prosecution and defense alike /
ely.
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a NAsHISGToS writor of the New YorL
sun thus refers 10 the case of Hionje-
Mitchell
Senator Kelley Of OREGON bafue, ;,+s--o
gated in relation to the peiliioD he i1r,.sert.,I
Yesterday asking for an inquiry on the nart
c' The Senate into the past irreguIaritias Of
senator HlppIe- VI tch-il. saws the Detifio,,
was gotten up hy Ex-Governor Gibbs ana
was signed 10y some 2J0 we'll known citizens
OF oregon. The proportion of the sicuers
was equally divided so far as mere nClitirs
go, ard included two Republican state
Senators and several members of the lower
branch of the State Legislature He said
ne dlu not think the Committee on Priyi-
tsSss ana Elections would take up the nett
70" on mere request OF the memoriAlists az
IHe qheSuQn involved WAS not one of tho
E-l"IltF OF ms election, bUt merely related
10 MS private character The Eenate yvouId
wait for action on the part of t,le 5oGy ,Iit
I"d eiectet lliNple-Nitchen The Oregon
= LL@Elsla ature alone had the bower to dap,sDJ
'u+ attention OF the Senate TO this project
ne oregon Legislature will not meet mill
TSH. september, and until then Senator
hrilcN thinks nothing definite will I,a 4 -,
He says. however. that rb-r,. is no dC,'i.
- " uSt iLe action of the Legislature will 10
when 1t meets. One Of its earliest acts iii
he 10 demand an inYesti gallon and II tba
facts are found - be true il will ask tn bay-a
Mitchell expelled.
Hipple-MitchclI is busy, cooking a de-
feHSc. He viii try To show that the srst
wife was older than he and beguiled him.
Ete Will also try 70 prove that at the time of
his Oregon marriage he had received infor-
nation of the death Of his first wife Give
him time and he viii make himself out clear
ly -h- injured one, and there Is no knowing
but what he may bring in a claim against the
GoveFHnent for damage
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-02-27

Walter Craig, of Cross Creek, Wash
Ington county, now said to be in his nine
ty-tfth year, is unquestionably the oldest
legislator now living in our State He
was III the House the sessions OF 1919 and
Io~t, cOntempOraneOusly with DIR. Stur-
geon, OF Fayette. He was, however, some
ten years the Doctors senior when in the
House. The southwestern counties take
me me palm in this respect Tariff Andy
stewart, as he was Familiarity called, was
IN the State Legislature two years before
them, and his death only occurred about a
year since. William G. Hawkins. then of
Vreene, entered the Senate in 1927 and
was speaker in 1629-30-3l. He stiU lives
IN AIiegheny. Waiter Craig writes quite
as good 4 hand and as sensible letter as
most OF our present legislators can do
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-02-27

DURING the last eight years, whenever a
contest arose in Congress between a Radi-
cal and n Democrat with regard to their
respective legal right TO a seat in that body,
it has been the almost inva liable rule of
the Radical majority to admit the candi-
date of it's party, whether he was the sit
ting member or contestant, even though
he was unable to make out what is called
a Pr'R'a .TacIe case. A notable instance of
the kind occurred last week, in which a
Radical named Wiltshire contested the seat
Of T. n. Guuter, Democrat, from the
Third District of Arkansas. Although
there does not seem to be any reasonable
doubt about the election of Cunter bv a
large majority, yet the Radical majority of
tho House, under the bold and unscrupu-
lOus leadership Of that unmatched dema-
gogue, benjamin +. Butler admitted VIII
shire. Such palpable and tlagrant disre-
gard of the voice of the people in a district
is gross outrage, and cannot be defended
except on the principle that tho minority
in the House has no rights which the Radi
cal majority is bound to respect.
The Philadelphia Telegraph, one Of the
regular organs of the Ring of that city, in
referring to this last arbitrary exercise of
power by the Radical majority in Congress,
indulges in the following just and fair
minded remarks:
In the HOuse or Eepresentatiyes. vrs+er-
gay. MT. wiltshire was sworn in as a TneIu-
berIrom the Third District Of Arkansas. II
- d'tncu!t 10 percei Ve upon what principle of
" or Justice this step was taken. Beyond
al questions his opponent, Thomas NJ Gun
Ter, the Democratic candidate, had = large
majority at the polls. But il happened that
ms name appeared yariouSly printed on tn.
oSllofS, quite number bearing the name
as !. n, Gunter, 5. n. Guutpr. and Thomas
NJ. GHnter. On this fiimsy prptext his Ger
tihcate was refused and with his opDoncrt
was compelled to appeal to the House. On
, AV Ir"'tE .fecie ease So presented the House
mas admitted the Republican candidate and
IuroWn the ontS Of the contest on Guntar.
W LShlfe has, OF course, no right whatever
70 'he seat, and Will eventually be ousted hy
JuEter bur II Is = monstrouS Outrage that
W NSEiFe, who has case at all and who
would never have dared to enter upon a con-
test, should be allowed to appear for \ mo
inent rs the acknowledged representative Of
the distrIct. In itSslf the matter is A small
on~, but 1t il only one of nanv ahuses of
power that Is doing Infinite discredit to the
Republican party
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-02-27

DETAILS or : TEEEIELE CRTAGE.-The
st. Louis Democrafs Kansas City special
says McNult, who, with Winner. murder, d
and burned = painter named Sanicr at
" lchita, Kansas, last Dccember, has con-
fesscd the crime. He SAWS Winner per-
suaded him long ago in Kansas City to en-
ter upon a course of crime and planned
the affair. hcNult was to have his life in
sured for 50, GOO then kill and burn some
victim and palm of the body for his. so
that the money could be collected. For
this purpose McNut married woman with
whom he was then living, and she was To
collect the Insurance. At first they intend
ed to commit the crime in Kansas CITY. but
finally concluded to go to Wichita, think
ing escape easier there. Being painters
they started business, and soon built up n
fine trade.
They were delayed, however, from car
rying out the plan for want Of a victim. but
Winner at last came to Kansas City, ell
gagged Sanier to work for them and sent
hlm down. They met him at the depot on
his arrival at Wichita, took him to the shop,
nobody knowing anything about it, made
ihm drunk and then gave him ether until
unconscious. They then put his face over
'he ire, burned it until he could not be re-
cognized, and laid him OF. bed saturated
with coal oil. McNult then cut Il gash in
lnner's arm with Il pair of scissors, and
opening vein in Sanier's arm took out a
quart OF blood and sprinkled ii over Win
iIeF 10 make II appear he had bled a good
deal. McNult then left his vest and emptv
Pocket-oook back of the house. where it
would appear robbers had dropped il. and
lhen TOOK train via Atchison for Missouri
Winner then set fire to the building. which
was burned up, and reported that he had
been ropoed and McNuit killed and burned.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-02-27

From private letter recently received
from Missouri, we learn the following re-
markable incident: Some four years since
young man was arrested in Palmyra for
deliberately numbering Young lady to
whom he was paying suit, because she re-
Jected him. Bail was refused aud he was
imprisoned in the county Jail. From some
cause or other his trial had been continued
from time to time until about three weeks
since, when it came Off Strange to say.
"hen the jury announced their verdict
guilty, the young man dropped dead upon
the spot.