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aReflie - 90 Rah1.,

wAsnrsoTos. d. G., June iL-rhis mora
ing Judge james, in the csss Of J. Q. biee-
low against Bette 4 hsson 70 regtf.in pey'
nept of the "Bettie snd the Baby" ised.
and for decree making DIgslcw as ALLOW.
sree fer bis services - counsel, dgned the
order discbsrKipe the re!tssining onosf end
mi,. 10 Re- The bill on condition. that The pey.
ment Of f400 be made 70 BlesloW fos hts
.xuers.s In defending Sesessnt nasoe 10
hin trial for shooting at Guiteau.
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No Tears.

me for fifty dollars, TO aid in defending the
act Of your noble son.
JOSEPH 7. TOBIAS.
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The Jury

tr,r..s ,.sLIrtd, and in e few minutes -
"Vo with the following verdict:
Cans g. ma the said Nicholas L, Dnkas
in 70 his death from wounds reca;vsJ
~, Ieyolver fired in the hands Of Ja,,ss
g,.,,.' 'fe corner OF Main and PiitsbH-Sb
Al VhlonIOKn, on the 18th day Of
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THE LAST RESORT.
a Doomed Criminal Trying to Evade
Justice by Making an Attempt 10
Implicate His Wife.

CLEVELAND, O., Lune 1.-THE statement
of Mcmillan. condemned to he hanged
next week at Canton, that his wife and
another woman killed the Cleveland de-
tectiye, named Murphy, about year ago,
for money, and secreted the body, is
doubtless pure fabrication, invented in
a desperate hope TO help his case. No
such detective, either public or private,
ever was in Cleveland, no such person was
ever missed and the story bears other in.
ternal evidence OF fality.
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BRANDING DUKES A LIAR.
Miss Lizzie NutI's Story Of How the
Fiend Won Her Affections and then
Deceived Her.

Deceived Her.
There's not a word of truth" she said
lin Mr. Dukes letters. What induced him
TO write them | can not imagine, unless,
indeed, his object was to manufacture an
excuse for breaking our engagement. He
thought, suppose, that father would say
nothing about the letters. When father
showed them TO me | was almost stunned.
| told him they were untrue, and asked
hIm to request Mr.. Dukes 10 call at the
house and confront Inc with his statements.
Mr. Dukes pretended that his personal
safety would not warrant him in coming,
but in reality he knew.
He Has Told FalsehOOds
shout me and was ashamed to look me in
tie lace. Oh, that | should ever have
loved such a man. But he is not a man.
| can't understand now how he won my
affection. Everybody has been deceived
Gy him. and most of all. He was a con-
stant visitor here and was cordially re.
ceived by the whole family. did not sus-
pect that he wanted the engagement
broken. Why didn't he tell me? Such a
course would have been manly and would
have commanded my respect. Instead of
doing this, however, he
Took My Ring
for the purpose he said, OF getting another
that would better please him, but his in.
tention was to get the ring out of my
hands. Was that the act OF gentleman
Then he wrote those vile letters to father.
All the world knows the rest. / would
rather have dled than that this misery and
disgrace should have fallen on my mother
and her family, but, indeed, sir, am innO-
cent of each and every charge brought
against ME. 0h, that God would only let
me die, for ! shall never have any peace
this side of the grave
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flash of n Revolver.

ui'rooa 40 are You shooting att" exclaimed ~ .
HIS and Dukes fell down in front of
IT, Tf'ndoW witness couldn't see VIZ si5 ia
,aooIng on account of the smoke 'u
Vac Hurt was talking to a f-;0r5
'7sn u the tragedy occurred N'eno
door IN fa ifaSner was standing on the cellar
Saots br, iiont @ OF the pOsteffice. He heard
IMPORTANCE. A''e Ho 'eSti@ony OF the
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M TEARS, NO FLOWERS,

NO TEARS, NO FLOWERS,
roistsa or Bsautify the Bier that
Bears Away the Remains
Of Dukes.
he General Voice of the People
thst the Blunder of Fay
cite County lustiCs
!. Acre Responsible for the Great
Tragedy that Young Jim
Mutt Committed.
Virtue and Purity viii Be Upheld,
While Libertines' Lives
are Endangered.
7ts Proof that Dukes Met a lust
Fate in the Vile Letters
He Wrote.
Tba Voice Of All Good People
From All Parts of the
Country
r.sIurd in Sympathy and Con-
ISOLATION for the Young De-
fender of Family Honor.
The Verdict of the CorOnsr's Jury
AID the General Feeling
At UniOntOWn.
Unsuccessful Attempt by Dukes
z lends 10 ImpliCats Mrs,
Hut! as accessory.
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s.,a al ~ s,arteu of and as be was right oppo-
.e 'Ie witness, there was sno,6a- OPbpS tPbCt
az o.Su, Deceased went around the corro. go
Es;,SSI-aaI SIaI Was the last witness saw of min,
Vi,ro,IE BGkes nor Mutt spoke worj. .
br,,@,, b,',eSS sad he could describe the shoo,s,
with him. -s man who was
S,sra;. iEt7, sworn, stated that he wac
n 80 IN the pOstoffice about four fasS
Con 'ae right Of the door. He saw Dntes
'VMe running and the DuAeS
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The Corpse

was hurriedly borne to the hearse. There
were neither tears nor flowers for the dead.
The following is the order Of the process.
sion: Spring wsgon bearing corpse; buyay
containing Mrs. Strubles, Dukes mother,
Helen, another balfsister OF the deceased
in buggy, and in the rear Mr.. Asbury
Shuble ana his son, George, on horseback.
The remains were taken TO Struble's resi-
denCe in German township. The interment
will take piece Saturday morning in the
Churchhill cemetery
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THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.

Unanimous I'm Their Approval OF
Young Jim Nuts Act Of Justice.
YOUNGSTOWN, O., June 1.-THE unsni-
nous expression here is: Served Dukes
right, and Mutt should be acquitted"
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NuttStanding There
Mutt Fire Three shots.

l..... .-.r sse the first or sst0ad shOts.
- 7'-e ,-nd on Main street. witness
Geo.. Pittsburgh street 2wjta-SS heart
s'"-th shot. /. was fired lust a little
...rr'' 4 The VuS'UtGga. DuEe> was at
'',.-.s ..st against the side OF the post.
g.. .gur. and staggered SIS he went in.
E.e aside no motions. There were live
S''.- ..et-twO N Main street two on
.-.,. .rEa street and one ia the pos;ut.ire.
~ ir.l was standing on tie corner
-----. D. ..N.nLertnr u,
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cattle Ces0sssA.

CIrrrIAsp, June IA ZosS epecin .
ibe Le.der says: John LeyeilSs peRB
burned last night. snd with 70 seven seeeH.
several cows and calves and sundfy cosoy
farm machinery.
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THE PROOF.
Some ofthe Letters that Branded the
Victim of Wednesdays Tragedy the
villain that He Was.

A few sickly sentimentalists and persons
who have no regard for the purity OF
home or justice, have denounced young
Mutt. We reproduce these letters in order
to show the public that justice alone was
meted out in the late tragedy and the right
man punished:
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rssCurd in Sympathy and Con-
ISOLATION for the Young De-
fender of Family Honor.
The Verdict of the COrOnsr's Jury
AID the General Feeling
at UniOntOWR.
In successful Attempt by Dukes
2 lends 10 lmpIiCats Mrs,
Hut! as Accessory.

.,.,rt>amouster oisO frIShttuI mieu
o.. ia he hat, a. needs but To be seen.
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srAR.RorrE ROBBERS yREE.

The great Star-ROute trial is ended.
For six months a jury listened TO the
evidence which was convincing enough
to mete u some punishment to the
plunderers who dived into the govern
ment tills. But they turned a deaf ear,
and after calm, cool deliberatiOn they
returned Il verdict Ofnot guilty aud the
longest, most windy, and unjust term
nation of a case that was ever tried On
the grounds of plain stealing has just
startled the entire country. But, by that
ignorant practice ofjury trial, they have
been set free to pile into the govern
ment funds at their first opportunity.
The government has expended much
of the peoples money TO bring about
justice, but justice has failed to show
itself, likewise the peoples money.
both are under the black cover Of
scOundrelism, and the plunderers who
have caused all this farce, can now open
their cottages at Newport, and so to
Florida next winter.
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out mistakes, we think that the coun-
try on the whole has reason to be well
satisfied with.his action. III he perse-
veres In the reduction Of the collection
districts as he is nov expected to do,
that action will again commend the adj
ministration to the public Judgment as
one characterized by sense and discre-
tion. OF course it will not do to Grip
pie the service by OVERRIDING economy,
but it has been calculated that a reduc-
ton Of from one-third to one.quarter OF
the total number of districts can be
made without in the least impairing
Re efficiency ofthe service. OF course,
in the regions affected by the moon
shineres no reduction would be sdvisa-
bIe, but fortunately these regions are
now few and small.
The policy Of Reconsideration isa wise
one, and should be promptly under
taken. And with it might profita6ly
be considered the ACCESSIBILITY Ofreduc-
ing the expenses of the customs collec-
ton service,
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INTERNAL REVENUE DISTRICTS.

A topic which is exciting consider
able interest at Washington and
throughout the country, just at present,
is the proposed consolidation OF Intern
al Revenue Distritcs. The facts, sum-
med up by a cOlempOrary, are briefly
ms follows: Congress, ut the last ses-
sion, reduced the tax Ou tobacco COO
siderbly, and removed 1t entirely from
quite anumber of smaller articles such
as perfumery, patent medicines and
matches, from which a comparatively
small sum of revenue had been annual
ly collected. This action, of course,
vastly simplifes the work Of revenue
collection. Tobacco and whiskey, the
two great sources of internal revenue,
are still taxed and the tax must still be
collected, but the removal from the
tax list of so many smaller articles nee
eSSarily renders considerably lighter
the labor of collection. 1t is obvious,
too, that in many districts, particular
~ in the Northern States,
where tobacco is not raised, nor
whisky, to any large extent, distilled,
the occupation Of the internal revenue
collector must be almost entirely gone.
Vet the number of districts-and of
course the number of collectors, clerks
and other Ofiicials-remains as it was
before this l~essening of the work. In
this case it would seem absolutely clear
that the consolidation Of districts must
take place and render unnecessary q
good share of the expense connected
with these offices. Precisely this ac-
ton is what is now being discussed at
Washington, and there is much reason
to expect that the President and the
Secretary of the Treasury will soon
agree on q plan Of consolidation which
will result in the saving to the govern
ment Of several hundred thousand dol
lars annually in salaries alone.
AS might have been expected, the
machine politicians object strongly to
this action, inasmuch as it will reduce
the patronage" This Is an insane OBJ
lection to urge against such 3 wise and
sensible step; but it is about as far as
the reasoning powers Of a regular ma
chine politician bred in the business are
able to carry him. When he opposes
reforms from such unworthy motives,
he becomes an object Of pity, to use no
harsher term. The honest course is
best, machine men to the contrary not
withstanding, and it is precisely this
course which the ARTHUR sdministra-
ton must take, If it would commend
itself to the intelligent public. We
have credited President ARTHUR with
the desire to govern the country wisely,
economically and purely, and while we
have been compelled at times to point
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A EIG a

AlLl>A Stone, estate IS being rapid
ly settled, and already the large be-
quests are being paid in cash. 1t was
also discovered by the heirs and exc
cutOrs that there were several persons
who might have rights under the law,
but who were unnamed in the will.
The heirs unanimously decided to scale
their own requests so rs II make up
enough to give those unnamed heirs
equal shares. Indeed, it seems to have
been a happy family all around, and
their action, an example for other
heirs. However, it is easy enough to be
exact and just when an estate of Sc, 900,
COO i TO De divided.
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NOBLE ACT.

There i but one voice in the Union
own tragedy, and that is that justice
has at last found its way to the proper
sphere in which IL should revolve. As
a matter Of course there are a few siekly
sentimentalists who shudder at the
brave act of young MUTT. There are a
few old fossils, who would let the de-
stroyer of virtue visit their households
and would not have courage enough to
face the enemy. There a few liber-
tines, who gloat over the. ruination Of
women, who are in sympathy with
DUKES. But you can put these
miserable wretches all together and
they would faint at the sight o fjustiee.
On the other side we see men who love
virtue, men who love honor, men who
love their wives, their daughters; their
mothers, and We hear but one voice
from this class that young MUTT did a
noble deed in avenging a fathers MUIR
der, a sisters SANDER, and a mothers
broken heart. The Divine law says,
"a life for a life" The Fayette coun-
ty court paid no attention to divine
or civilized laws, when they
acquitted DUKES. Read the letters OF
DUKES, the girls story, and the fathers
reply, which we reproduce this morn
ing. The letter where the dirty scamp
advised Capt. MUTT TO seek the aid Of
an abCTtiOnist TO mend a supposed
wrong. That was enough to justify
Capt. MUTT in Kidding the earth of such
a contemplate specimen of humanity
as DUKES.
Young NUTr i now behind the
prison bars, but not . mark oE dishDnor
Will ever cover his brow. He
j. imprisoned a = murderer,
hut he is only a destroy II
of one of the yilest, bolle,t and mos
hrazen Of libertiHeS that ever set h
Get on Cops pure soil. We trust thu
Tor the sake of the good lesson thlt
young NUTT's noble act will teach, he
will never suffer II second of punish
meut by law. 1t would be a foul spot
on the records of Pennsylvania, if the
respectable people ever allow Judge,
jury, court or any other means to pun
ish a boy who would protect family
honor, when twelve bribed heathens
would Sneer at it. The voice of all
honest people: Give young MUTT his
liberty.
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WONDERFUL.

Nothing in the history Of the New
World is more wonderful than the
growth of our industries. In thirty
two years ''the number of manufacture
ing establishments has more than
doubled, and the capital invested in
them is now over five times what it
was in 1850" At that date the wages
of operatives Including men, women
and children averaged S24S year,
while the wages paid now average S3i5
a year. II industrial development con-
tinues at the rate of the last ten years,
by the beginning Of the twentieth cen.
fury Americas manufacturing interests
will have reached colossal dimensions,
undreamed of by the great political
economists of the past who aided ia es-
fishing our industries on the solid rock
of protection.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

SENATOR ANTHONY is 30 much better as to
be able to be out every day.
GENERAL GRANT has been reported as in
Monaco by the Paris papers.
THos. MAST, who has been in Paris for
some time, is now in London.
PRESIDENT GREyY, of France, wears plain,
nl-ftting light wooden clothes.
MRs. MARY HALLocK FoorE uses the
"thee" and thou" of the Quaker.
GOV. BUTLER hints that he will not at
tend the commencement exercises at Har-
yard.
EDWIN BoorH sailed for home on Satur-
day, and is expected at Newport next
week.
CARDINAL McCLoskEY's right hand is pal
sled, but otherwise his health IS not seri-
ously imprired.
WILLIAM HENRY HUELBERT expects to
start a daily newspaper of his own in New
York next year.
OsclE WILDE now not only wears short
hair, but has it curled. He wears a nut
brown suit of clothes and a green silk tie.
DE-. McCosH is said by the New York
Ereiiaq Post to have secured the full en-
dowment of $4,000 for the School Of Phi
losophy at Princeton.
JOHN BRowS's old wagon, in which he
carried runaway negroes from Missouri,
and which carried arms for his men at Har-
per's Ferry, now belongs to II. S. Fairail,
OF Iowa City, Iowa.
Me-. GARFIELD's portrait ordered by the
New Jersey Legislature from Angelo Wood
ward, Of New York, has been received at
Trenton, and it will be placed in the AS
s,mbly chamber next week.
AT a party given by the Baroness Bur-
dett-Coutts. Lady Carvagh, who was the
most admired of the ladies, wore at her
right side (her dress being white satin) a
baske. filed with different colored roses.
ANNIE LOUISE CARY has refused an offer
OF one thousand dollars to sing at the first
Brooklyn Philharmonic concert, although
in fine voice. She has sung at these con-
certs every season but n for twenty
years.
As soon as Governor Pattison can get
away from Harrisburg he and Mrs. Patti
son, in company with DR.. Hugh Pitcairn
and wife, will drive from Harrisburg to
Wilkesbarre. The Governor will take a rid
ing horse, a gun aui fishing tackle along.
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BUSIER THAN EVER.

Cable dispatches from London n
nounce that the Mormon missionaries
are buster than ever in England, and
that thirty Of them are working among
the poorest and most ignorant classes.
In a recent interview in,Denver, BRIG
HAM NOUNG, Jr., announced that 2o,-
coo Mormon immigrants were expected
in Utah this year, and he was then on
his way to the Southern portion of the
territory to select lands upon which a
large colony of them are to De located.
This does not look vely much like the
extinction of Mormonism. On this
cont.atnt it was never so aggressive or
prosperous.
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His RoyaI ExreIleuCy

The Morgantown Post, Rep. speaking of
the advent Of his Great Exceliency, Gov
eruor Jackson into the Athens of West Vjr-
ginis, says:
But few of our citizens have had the
pleasure OF seeing him, and there will be
no little curiosity among them to gaze
upon a real live Governor-the Chief Mag
istrate Of our young and growing State.
Ii will be an extra pleasure for the plain
people of old Monongalia to welcome
Gov. Jackson who, like 'Old Hickory"
Jackson of half century ago, is said to be
so genial and sociable that tie humblest
man may approach him-as we'll as those
of wealth or high statiOn-with that ease
and complacency which win for men a
warm place in the hearts of their country
men. There is said to be a great deal OF
home-spun simplicity and old-fashioned
.cOrdiality in the make up Of our Governor.
He is said to be emphatically a man of the
people, and il gives US pleasure, on behalf
of our citizens, to extend him a right royal
welcome.
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II was Thomas Jefferson who said: Were
it left to me to decide whether we should
have agovernment without newspapers or
newspapers without a government, lshould
rot hesitate amoment to prefer the latter.
Yet, how often is it that men high up in
tn councils OF the nation effect 10 desIise
ueWsDEpsYS,
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THE wool market, observes Editor Irwin,
of the GAINESVILLE Signal is at present very
much depressed. The reports he SAYS,
show u large stock of manufactured goods
on hand, and a large quantity Of fine for
eign woods in bond, which must be dis.
posed Of before the first of July, the day
the new tariff, plsssdby the late Republican
Congress, with the vote OF John sherman,
United States Senator from OaiO and Pres
ident Of the late Republican Convention,
goes into effect.
Dealers here are Offering from twenty
eight to thirty cents, and latter price only
for fine grade woods.
The change in the tariff necessarily I'M
settles prices, and it will take some time
after the new tariff goes into operation to
get prices settled definitely.
Under the circumstances, we can neither
advise the wool growers to sell nor to hold
on"
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The GAINESVILLE Enterprise is o seven
teen years of age and is as healthy and
hearty as any of the old metropolitan pa.
perS. 1t is a permanent and valuable insti-
tuition and the pride of the people in the
neighborhood in which it is published.
Long life and happiness to its editor, Mr..
Geo. McClelland.
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EprroR DRENNEN OF the ohio IdIey NecS
says: We took a short trip along the line
of the proposed w. & Il. E. road last week,
between Bowerston and Zoar, and found
the grading very considerably advanced
and the opinion generally prevailing that
the road would be completed between these
points within ninety days.
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ADVICE to sweet girl graduates: Before
reading your essay at commencement go
through it carefully and cross out seventy
five per cent of the adjectives. You can
then pitch in and distinguish yourself.
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A PosroN au!hor has sued his publisher
because his book did not sell. This seems
funny at q glance, and yet the actual TACT
Is that books, like everything else, wont
sell unless they are properly introduced
arn well advertised.
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Mr.. C. D. THOMSON, Of this city, is being
vigorously doomed by mis- friends for
the presidency Of the ~Amalgamated Asso-
citation. A better selection could not be
made. If Jarrett must 20 let us have
Thomson.
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Is Covington, Ga, there lives a bachelor
Under 40 who has not called on any young
lady Tor fifteen years. Ice cream saloons
must be ruinously numerous in Coving-
ton.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 10. Isss.

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
The date printed on TIE wrapper q
eachpapsr denotes the time Whea the sIo-
scTiptioH empires.
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The REGIsrER, always ahead, gives a large
portion of its space this morning to the
voice of the press and people upon the
great trsgedy.
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The press of the country, with the eS-
ception OF two or three fossilizsd sheets,
upholds Nuts action.
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The REeIsrER's superior account of the
Uniontown tragedy was the town talk yes.
terday.
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ASorHxs infamous and bribed jury gets
in its work by clearing the Government
thieves.
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STAR ROUTE robbers again free
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You've Nrrr is receiving offers Of ina
cial aid from all parts Of the country.
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ABOLISH the jury system.