Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-03-24
Tie First Trial of Salem Witches.

LNc EIlSt 1EItI VI SaLtIH w ItCHcSs
The Magistrates took seats in front
of the pulpit, faced the assembly, and
| announced that they we're ready. The
prisoners were brought in, and put
upon a platform, in sight of all present.
The officers in charge of them said they
had made diigent search for images OF
puppets belonging to the accused but
found none. Prayer was offered, and
Sarah Good was examined.
This women was an object of general
dislike. Her husband, a weak, de-
pendent person, become alienated
from her. She WAS forlorn, friendless
broken down by her sad condition
and bad repute. The minutes of her
examination are in the handwriting of
Ezekiel Cheever, the village school
master, as follows:
"Sarah Good, what evil spirit have
you familiarity with!''
"None"
Have you made no contract with
the Devil p
"No."
"Why 10 you hurt these children %
81 do not hurt them; scorn it.
"Who do you employ then to do it p
81 employ nobody"
"What creature do you employ
them
mo creature, but am falsely accus-
ed"
"Why do you go away muttering
from Mr.. Parris's house? :"
81 did not mutter, but [ thanked
him for what he gave my child"
tsHoup Won rpo6p M c1oty,oL ~,
the Devil?''
Ono"
Hathorne, the Magistrate, desired the
children. all of them, to look ui.on her,
and see If this were the person that
hurt them; and so they all did look
upon her, and said this was one Of the
persons that did torment them. Pres
emily they were all tormented
" Sarah Good, do you not see what
you have done? Why do you not tell US
the truth Why do you thus torment
these poor children %
g [ do not torment them"
Who do you employ them"
employ nobody; / scorn it..
chow came they thus tormented?"
What do [ know? You bring others
here and now you charge me with it.
"Why, who was it?"
do not know, but it was some you
brought into the Westinghouse"
But you brought il two more"
"Who was it then that tormented the
children %
cit was Osburn."
"What is it you say when you go
muttering away from peoples houses!"
elf [ must tell, will tell
"Do tell U.S..
Then if I must tell, [ will tell; it is
the commandments, [ may say my
commandments, hope
What commandment is it?''
IF [ must tell, / will tell it is a
psalm"
"What psalm?" (After q long time
she muttered over some of a psalm.)
"Who do you server"
The God who made heaven and
earth Though she was not willing to
were in very wicked, spiteful manner,
rejecting and retorting against the au-
thority, with base and abusive words,
with many lies she was taken in. It is
alleged that her husband had said that
he was afraid she was witch, or would
be one very quickly. The worshipful
Mr.. Hathorne asked him why he said SO
Of her-whether he had ever seen any
thing by her. He answered: No, not
in this nature" but it was her bad car
rage to him, land indeed" saith he, 81
may say with tears, that she is an en-
envy to all good, 1.-THE GALAXY for
March.
The Strength of Wood and the Eff
cheney of the AK.
In recent volume of the annals of
the Forest Academy, at Mariabrun.
near Vienna, Prof W. F. Exner gives
novel and highly instructive analysis
of the elasticity and strength of wood,
it's resistance to splitting, and the theo-
ry of the use of the wedge, the ak, &c.
The Importance of these matters he
shows to be very great because great
industries depend upon the facility
with which it can be split, and upon the
applicability of certain kinds of wood.
Having deducted few simples formule
to express tie strength of woods and
the power Of the wedge he develops a
formula for the force of which an ak is
handled, and shows what curve should
be given to the face or cheek of the ak,
in order to secure, under certain condl-
tons, the least waste of power. By
means of these formule he is able to
demonstrate that the splitting efficien-
cies of the best axes made in Vienna,
Prague and America, are to each other
as Is, 3, 9, 2. and 4, 9, respectively,
and, applying his formulse to the Ella
borate experiments of Nordlingen. he is
able to deduce the absolute cease with
which various woods can be split.
But One Wife for Clergyman.
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