News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-25
THE MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
STRANGE. CURIOUS AND STARTLING
THINGS OCCURRING ABOUT US,
Born Highwayman-Boycet the old
mana Royal HanRmau - Toughning
Timber-In Colts Eye, &C., &c.

Born Highwayman-Boycet the OLE
mana Royal Hangmau - Toughnini
Timber-In Colts Eye, &C., &c.
A SULLIVAN county sportsman wen
shooting on Sunday, which was wrong
and being on the lookout for small
game, it was quite natural that h
should run plump upon fat doe. Now
this is the close season for deer, and {
heavy fine usually follows the killing O.
puck or doe; but our sportsman could
not resist the temptation and bowled
the doe over with big charge of buck.
shot. Having killed her, he dared not
take her home in the day time for feaI
OF discovery, so he dragged the body
into dense thicket and hung it above
the reach of proving animals, expect
ing to get it on Monday morning before
daylight. But q neighbor had seen
both the shooting and the hiding, and
thought 1t no more than just to punish
the sportsman for breaking the Game
Law. He suited the punishment to the
crime by taking the venison home, sell
ing some to his neighbors and enjoying
the venison steaks himself. The deer
slayer knows what became of his deer,
but he dares not say word for fear of
the fine that would follow if it were
publicly known that he had killed a
deer in Sullivan county in February.
WILLIAM SEIBUscH is born highway
man. He came from Germany when II
years old, and became a clerk in gro
Gerry store in San Essacisco. AS soon as
he had earned er ito buy no Sc
and some Bis705lAss 49, s6T1teo NaEaaa and
began robbing stages. He was caught
after several successful ventures in his
line and sent to the penitentiary. The
Governor of Nevada. believing he had
been led astray by dime-novel literature
and had now seen the error of his ways,
pardoned him. Seibusch went back to
California and again began robbing
stages. 1t is told of him that on one
occasion he held up nineteen persons
while he robbed the treasure box. Ano-
Their time, while he was 70 bbing a stage,
a large wagon came along. He stopped
this, too, and robbed both. He was
captured in Calaveras county and sent
to State prison for Eve years. He served
his time, and, on being released recently,
was at once re-arrested on charge of
robbing the mails. He has just been
tried and again convicted.
THE memoirs of Cora Pearl, chief of
the demi-monde of Paris, have excited
attention. She claims to be daughter
of Prof F. Nichols Crouch, author of
" Kathleen Mavourneen. Mr.. Crouch
was seen in Baltimore where he lives,
and he says he does not know whether
the woman Cora Pearl is his daughter
Miss Lydia Pearson, an English actress,
to whom he was married in 1880, at St.
Paul's Church, Convent Garden, Eng
land, by the Rev. DR.. Vickery. There
were four daughters-Mrs. Mawdsey,
now living in Baltimore Nine. Tulbec-
que of Leeds ENGLAND another one said
to be at present in Russia, and Emma
Crouch, second oldest of the quartet,
who left her home when a young girl
All the young ladies were educated in
Paris. On returning to England from
France, the mother of Prof. Crouch took
Emma in charge. Suddehly the young
lady left her people under circumstances
that were never spoken of afterwards in
the Crouch family.
AS A result of the statement that a
well known baronet had assisted Hang
man Berry in hanging the three Meth
erby burglars in London, Sir Claude de
Crespigny, in an interview, admitted
that he was the one alluded to. He
said that, as he would probably be
Sheriff of Essex, he desired to gain ex-
perience in order that he might be pre-
pared in case he should be obliged to
act himself in the absence of the hang
man. He slept in the prison that night,
81 z-s@se--~culpzits- himself
and generally assisted Berry. The lat
ter considers Sir Claude plucky indi-
vidual, who does his task well. Sir
Claude, who had assisted at previous
execution at Chelmsford, felt no uualms.
He appears to take a lively interest in
his chosen calling,
By THE new process of toughcning
timber, it is claimed that the effect pro-
duced upon wildwood is such that q
cold chisel is required in order to split
it. This result is accomplished bv a
special method of steaming the timber
and submitting it to end pressure,
''upsetting it." By this
means the cells and tibres are compressed
into one compact mass; and it is the
opinion of those who have experimental
with the process that wood can be
to the extent of some seven
ty-five per cent, and that some of the
timber now considered unfit for use in
such work as carriage building, for in
stance, can be made valuable by this
means as a substitute for ash, hickory,
etc.
THE Legislatures of Maine and Massa-
to protect their lobster fisher
les, have enacted statutes making it an
otfense to catch, to sell, or have in Dos
session a lobster under 10g inches long.
This law has not been received with any
marked degree of pleasure by the New
J ngland fishermen, but Deputy Fish
Commissioner Shattuck of Boston and
Commissioner Stillwell of Portland have
been after the lobstermen who were sus-
oected of catching and shipping short
obsters to NY. city and Boston on the
sly. The result was satisfactory, par
when on Wednesday the Com
nissioners seized over 5000 short lob
'ters IN Boston, and-received over 5000
n fines from the fish dealers.
Mr.. AND Mrs. William G. Rumsey, of
st. Louis, did not live very happily to-
5ether.- He was jealous and she quick
and they disagreed contin-
Tally. Often she would try to bring
lbout better state of affairs, and one
lay made an unusually strong effort to
effect reconciliation. At last he
parted from her with words of affec-
ion, telling her to be at home at
O'Clock that afternoon, when he would
end her something nice. She was very
happy, and stayed at home anxiously
waiting for the xe~eseut. 1t came
promptly on time'and proved to be a
.opy of the petition for divorce filed
hat morning by her husband
JAMES r. MILLER, of Camden county,
No., was bitten by dog that he
bought was mad He at once set out
or Boonville where he had heard there
vas maidstone. A Mr.. Bacon had one,
md it was applied to the wound, to
which it readily adhered for time.
When it fell off it was washed in warm
'ater and then applied again. This
vas done three times, and then the
tone would cling no more. Mr.. Miller
lad a wound on his hand made the
anne day on which the dog bit him.
The stone would not adhere to this at
IL.
In small town not hundred miles
rom Greensborough, Va, there is GER
ain cigar maker who has beautiful and
Vinsome daughter. A young man of
he Mace maid her attentioro ond No.,