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Year: 1877

woman who had become the. successor
in her husbands affections and her
own rights. He also new that an i'm
portant paper no less than the certif-
icate Of her marriage-had been lost
at the time of her murder.


Once more a great crowd had been
gathered at the cottage. Once moro
Aunt Jerusha and Uncle Solomon.
were witnesses. It was for them, who
alone had seen him, to identify the
prisoner who had just been brought in,
and this they did at once, unmindful
of the terrible frown with which he
regarded them.


He was committed to the county
Jail for forcible entry and robbery of
the house, and while he lay there the
lawyers were slowly weaving around
him q web which was to enmesh him.
Having the clue, various circumstan-
ces came to light, all tending TO show
that SwCney was the murderer. He
was shown to have been in the county
at the time and to have arrived at the
nearest point by rail, which was near
the residence of Mrs. Sweeney, ON tho
very day of the murder.


His object had been, doubtless, TO
intimidate Mrs. Sweeney, compel her
to yield up the documents which
proved her rights and his legitimacy.
Having failed in this, he had deliber-
ately committed the murder, taken
from her the certificate, and departed
unseen.


The lock of hnir clutched in the EN-
gers of the dead was also n powerful
witness against him. Strange enough,
it corresponded exactly in cclor, quail
ity and strength with his own, and
Just above the temple was a bald spot
about the size of the lock, which seem
ed to be pulled thence.


1t was probably thought that time
enough had elapsed to render his pres
ent visit safe, more especially as no
suspicion had ever fastened to him I;
and this time he came with the hope
of securing an important deed which
Mrs. Sweeney had once in her posses
sion, and which, in the fathers nsces-
sary communication with Mrs. Swe-
uey's lawyer, he had learned had not
been transferred to him. This was
found among the effects of Macbeth
Sweeney, and be had doubtless discov-
cred it in some secret drawer that had
escaped the lawyers vigilance.


Cilcumstantial evidence alone con-
victed him, but the universal commont
upon the verdict of the jury declared
its justice. He expiated his crime up
on the gallows, and Aunt .Jerusha
Sears became the heroine of Benning-
ton she looked upon herself and was
believed by others, to be the principal
instrument in bringing to light the
perpetrator of mysterious crime,and
Furnishing all who had been engaged
in the prosecutions heaped upon a
most unfortunate and unhappy lady.
Year: 1877

Two daughters of farmer in St.
Lawrence county, desired to pay debt
on their homestead, but preferred not
to do it by hard work. They hit up
on an idea that. suited their purpose,
and have made enough money to re-
move the debt. They had large
quantity of porous stone sawed into
small pieces and thoroughly soaked in
an odorous preparation, which im2art-
ed to them a durable scent. These
pieces they have peddled throughout
the State, at twenty-five cents each,
representing that they were cut from
the rock of wonderful perfumed cave
in South America. The girls are SO
demure and pretty, with such an 99p-
perance of innocence, that the sales
are very large. They have just put
fresh lot Of stone in soak, preparatory
to q Western tour.
Year: 1877

New YORK, January ia private
dispatch was received from Baltimore, last
night, to the effect that Frederick May had
been wounded in the thigh, IN his duel
with Bennett, and that the injury was SO
severe it was feared fatal result might
ensuG.
Year: 1877

duct themselves in q sober and ele-
CANT style of morality and sOcia-
bllity. The temperance institution
has done good in our vicinity, and
we would suggest the propriety of
more of our older citizens becoming
members of the order; it would be ac,
copied by the many young members
as an act of encouragement, no
doubt. By the by, would it not be
a good idea to have q temp rance
celebration and dinner-say barbe


cue and temperance talk, mixed up
with little social OF all The lodges
in the county and those close around
IN other counties? W. 81. D
Year: 1877

As sign of hopetulness in sn early
return to business prosperity, we note
the fact that almost every paper we pick
up contains some proposition to build a
narrow guage railroad opening up new
section of the country. 1t is not over
production that ails us as much rs mis-
directed production.
Year: 1877

Our West Virginia local exchanges
continue 10 come TO US containing ac-
counts OF the wonderful success OF what
Is known as the MURPHY movement In
their midst. Many marvel at the rapid
strides made by this movement, but we
think it is largely due to the moderation
with which it is conducted. Mr..
MURPHY has proved tLst it is possible
10 combine fiery earsestness amount.
ing 10 enthusiasm in behalf of q cause
with the utmost moderation in dealing
with its opponents. This Is, perhaps, be
cause he regards the cause to which he Is
attached in its true light, as simply an
Instrument to be used 10 eiecting great
result. He IS. if we read his speeches
sright, an enthusiast in the cause of hu-
msnlty, and he recognizes st all times
the manhood, and consequent kinship to
himself of liquor dealers rs well ss
hqupr drinkers. He knows that in the
liquor trade, IS in sll trades, there are
good and bad men, with the good in the
majority; and IN the heat Of his invec-
aVes sssins intempsrsnce he never loses
sight of this fact. From first to last he
makes it apparent that his zeal is not
io' the triumph Of total abstinence, or
The success of any faction, but solely for
The rescue Of men from . degrading
habit; the result being that he carries
With him the sympsshies of all classes,
tne liquor dealers themselves showing
their detestAtion Of drunkenness BY lib
sral contributions of money to aid him
in his work.
Year: 1877

LARGE CROWD BUT A POOR DlSPLAi'
THE INDUSTRIAL PROCESSION DISArPoiNIMES'-


TIE EVENING DISPLAY POOR AND INEFFECTIVE


TIE BALL A wRETCHED AFFAIR.


The day parade of the Carnival Association was
failure as a display but an immense number OF peo-
pie from the adjacent cities and the country crowded
tho streets. The procession in the evening was
scarcely moro successful, the effects being marred
by insufficient illumination and lack Of proper order
The ball which followed was an utter diSappoint-
ment.
Year: 1877

Correspondence New York Herald.l


PoRADIS, August II, 1877.


General Skobeleff came in last
night, attended by a few Cossacks,
having left the main part of his
command six or seven miles behind.
1t was the first time / had met this
celebrated man, and the impression
he left is that he is one of the most
genial as well as the most skillful
generals Of the Russian army. His
bravery will in time become legend
airy. He always wears his white
uniform when he goes into the fight
and rides white steeds, of which he
has already had four shot under him
during the present campaign.
During the reconnaissance which
he made within the last few days
in the vicinity of Lovtcha he had
two horses shot under him within
the space of twenty minutes. He
is, in truth, a man sans peur ct
sans reproche. He is one of the
few generals thoroughly loved by
the army; whom men will follow
whether he leads to victory or to
death. In appearance he is very
handsome. He sits his horse mag
nifcently, and is one of the most
daring riders Of the army. He it
was who swan his horse over the
Danube when the army crossed
over at Simnitza, and during
the late defeat of Krudener's army
he and his Cossacks, who were on
the left wing, even entered the town
of Plevna. His last reconnaissance
was a marvellously brave affair, and
he exposed himself unnecessarily to
danger. Nothing can prevent his
progress. Returning to Boradin
yesterday he found a stream which
he. bad forded with artillery two
days before swollen to the volume
of a mighty stream, seventy yards
wide. Though he was compelled
to leave his artillery behind he i'm
mediately set an example to his
men by taking off his coat, and
plunging in the stream swan with
his horse across to the other bank.
Strange to say, Skobeleff- Young
Skobeleff he is usually styled in or.
der to distinguish him from his
father-has not yet been intrusted
with an important command. This
is due, it is said, in great part to
court jealousieS and intrigues. A
few more generals of the same ma
terial as Skobeleff would, however,
be now of immense service to the
Russian arm, now standing checked
in Bulgaria. We just. learn here
that Prince Gourkab had been COM
PEELED by Suleiman Pasha to retire
to the foot of the Balkans, after
being defeated. But this will be
old news to you, for the officers of
the staff, though very prompt in
Informing us of victories, are mar
vellously silent about reverses. But
| suppose this is as it shonld be.
Year: 1877

tea-cup business about it. You may
bring me the Jug"


Love saw that Simon msant bust
ness, and, without exacting any
promise of protection, the Pennsyl-
yania senator got the Jug, and as
he sought from it such exhilaration
as it gave he no doubt muttered to
himself his favorite expression,
"This is hell of q time"
Year: 1877

The Richmond Whig says that
butchered Virginia has right to look
to her destroyer, the United States
government, for relief from paying the
old state debt incurred before West
Virginia was taken from the territory.
The relief asked is that the general
government perform duty incident to
war by readjusting the terms of separa-
tion so that West Virginia N ay have
its part of the debt. We know not
what the decision will be where state
is divided as the Old Dominion was,
but We do know that the Supreme
Court has decided that where county
is divided the portion which retains the
original name is liable for all indebted
ness previously incurred,
Year: 1877

SENATOR MORTON appears to have
had a relapse, and his friends are again
seriously alarmed. According to the
official reports he Is unable to retain
food on his stomach, and his condition


is giving his friends much uneasiness.
Year: 1877

Uncle Sam and the Pacific Railroads.


Washington, Oct. 1.-THE Central
Pacific railroad is before the Z. S.
Supreme court in an action against the
United States to recover freightage on
government property. The railroad
company contend that under the de-
cision in the Union Pacific railroad
case VS.. the United States, these COM
panies are not required to pay interest
which has been paid by the government
on its bonds before the maturity of the
principal of the bonds, and hence the
Government has no present claim
against them which can be subject to
offset against their claim for freight
charges.


On the part of the Government it is
insisted that it would be in derogation
of the rights and powers of a sovereign
to have that freight which its necessi-
ties or the public require to have
promptly transported and delivered, f,
retained until the freight is paid
Year: 1877

The ScHooL BALL.-Great propara-
tions are being made for the Grand
Fourth of July Ball at the Theater, for
the Benefit of the School Building Fund.
The ladies, we understand are doing their
very best toward getting up supper of
surprising excellence and will no doubt
be successful. The best music in the
county has been engaged for the occasion
and sanguine hopes are entert, ined fmak-
ing the School Ball Grand Success so
cially as well as financially. Everybody
will be there and Il splendid time is Ger
tain.
Year: 1877

LAND CoNTEsTs.-An item in tbe
JOURNAL some time ago referred to A re.
cent law of Congress touching testimony
in land cases. The law referred solely to
cases where the land had been returned
as more valuable for mining than agri-
culture sought to be entered as agricul-
al land. In cases OF this character the test
imony relating to the character of the
land can be taken before thecounty Clerk
of the county in which the land is situated
with the same effect as if taken before the
officers of the Land Office.
Year: 1877

A PARTY among whom was Professor
Allen, Of the State Normal School, in
tended to make the ascent Of Mount Shas-
ta this week. If caught in the storm the
trip will not be very pleasant one.
Year: 1877

New SCENERY.-A beautiful new scene
has been painted expressly for Poor
Pillicoddy," and other new and interest
ing features will be presented at the ORA
matte Entertainment next week.
Year: 1877

THERE never has been time in this
county when an election was 50 close at
hand with nearly all the county offices
to be filed anew, when there was SO lit
tie stir in political circles. Two import
ant offices are out of the canvass, (Coun-
ty Judge and AsscssoD and the Others
are not fat enough to make much of
fght for.
Year: 1877

Ice CREAM.-Mrs. j. ID. Mathews has
made arrangements to get a large lot Of
ice from Reading and will supply all who
wish it with Ice Cream, at the Theater
on Tuesday and Wednesday of next
week and also in the evenings of those
lave
Year: 1877

A serenade was given recently, in
San Francisco, to Gov Hendricks,
who is now on visit to the Pacific
Coast. He said, in response:


My fellow citizens, | accept with
great pleasure and gratitude this ex
preston of your regard. | receive as
an expression personal to myself, but
in the main as an expression on your
part of the confidence and support that
you give to the principles and policies
of government of which, to some ex-
tent, am made representative dur
ing the great contest of our Centennial
year. Cheers. The achievement of
those principles by their being carried
into the affairs of government has
been defeated by policy and course
of procedure which history will con-
denim. Cheers | do not choose
tonight, in addressing you, to speak
upon this question a any length. They
have placed Mr.. Hayes in the Presi-
Dental chair. / do not think that the
judgment of the American people is
that he was elected cheersl !; but
without election he has been placed in
the Presidential chair. He is, for the
purpose of the Office, the President of
the United States, and you and | will
give his Administration, and for the
good of our country, that support
which is due any officer de facto. But
this wrong that you and the great body
of the American people believe has
been perpetrated, must pot pass into
precedent, to be followed in the fu-
ture. 1t is crime rather to be de-
tested Ia voice That is 60 ] and the
work of the future, in part, is to cor
rect this and prevent its becoming
a precedent Hereafter the man who
is elected must be President of the
United States. Cheers.] And four
years from this time it will be the bus
mess of the people of the United
States to express a Judgment upon this
question, not to be misunderstood.
fCheers.l My fellow citizens, l thank
you again for this expression of your
regard. | did not intend when | came
into your State to make a single speech,
and you will aot regard this, l hope,
as any speech, but simply as an ex-
preston of my thanks for the compli-
ment that you extended to me.
Year: 1877

When the summer of youth is slowly
wasting away on the nightfall of age,
and the shadow of the path becomes
deeper, and life wears on to its close,
it is pleasant to look through the vista
of time upon the sorrows and felicltles
of our earlier years. If we have had
a home to shelter and hearts to rejoice
with US, and friends have been gath
cred around our freside, the rough
places of wayfaring will have been
worn and smoothed away in the twi-
light of life, and many dark spots we
have passed through will grow brigh-
ter and more beautiful. Happy indeed
are those whose Intercourse with the
world has not changed the tone Of their
earlier feeling, or broken those musi-
cal chords Of the heart, whose vibra-
tions are so melodious, so tender and
SO touching in the evening of their
lives.
Year: 1877

We cut the following two orticles
from an able London journal. The
World, relating to subjects:closely con-
nected. The Diplomatic service in
England is peculiarly an aristocratic
affair, and decline in the intellect,
manners or morals of the aristocracy is
quickly felt in the morale of the corps
diplomatique.


The trouble with the junior aristoc-
racy is that they have nothing to do
and no money to do it with; so some
of them rush into dissipation and the
courts, and others into stock
speculation beginning on no capital !;
nost of them come to grief,
being well swindled, while few sue
ceed in swindling the public, and few
er still the most select of all find their
way to the penal colonies under SEN
tence for forgery:
Year: 1877

The King of the Cannibal Islands
recently proclaimed that son and heir
had been born to him. The new com
en- proved to be a girl, but bis majesty
said there was no going behind the re-
turns, and that girl must be boy 80
long as she lives.
Year: 1877

Tho General Term Of The Superior Court yesterday
handed down batch OF decisions, OF which the fol-
loving are the most mportant:-


A trial ordered by Judge Sedgwick, In the
Superior Court yesterday In the case oil John Dunphy
against the Erie Railway Company in an action for
cJcctDg the plaintiff from the


In the superior Court yesterday Judge Sanford rem
dcred a decision in The Weston against the
Now York Elevated Railroad 1t was an action brought
10 damages tor injuries sustained by slipping
the ice one OF the platforms OF the Elevated
Railroad and resulted IN verdict .or S9.l42 80 The
appeal from tho judgment from order denying
O motion Tor a new trial. and also from an order mad
SPECIAL Term after judgment denying deiendant's g
motion Tor n trial on tue ground OF newly dis
covered evidence. The judgment was affirmed.
Year: 1877

SAY all you may gentlemen on the
subject and against it if you see fit to,
but the colored population are nothing if
not grateful to the Republican element
Of this country, and take care to show
it upon every opportune occasion that
may present itself. Tuesday morning
a delegation of the Baltimore and Phil
adelphia conference of the African
Methodist Episcopal church, called
upon the President ''for the purpose of
paying their respects. They returned
their thanks for the consideration
manifested by him toward the colored
race and expressed their desire for the
success of his administration. The
President replied appropriately, and
expressed his pleasure at meeting the
delegation
Year: 1877

THE New York Herald is evide ntly
riding a hobby. That journalistic en-
terprise has maps Of the war on the
brain bailey. Now if they were only
correct in their general outline, and in
their detail were in measure but i'm
perfectly correct, they might be very
well to illustrate the ideas that the
Herald force vainly endeavor to make
its readers comprehend, by copious foot
notes and extracts from books upon the
two countries, written about the time OF
the first Napoleon. However, the Herald
is enterprising in its way, or attempts
to be so, we must NOT be severe on her
than usual.
Year: 1877

DAVID DUDLEY FIELD, in his new
role of conspiator, in accord with Sam
uel j. Tilden, does not place that crafty
lawyer in very creditable light before
the public. 1t was owing to the dis
eovery of this conspiracy, in which he
was to assume leading character,
and in which congressman of both par
ties were implicated rs well, that the
postponement of the extra session of
Congress is due.
Year: 1877

BISMARCK has arrived in Berlin.
His vacation was not of long duration.
The Emperor has summoned him to the
ministerial council, for Bismarck is
without doubt the brains of the Ger
man empire, although the Emperor is
undoubtedly its head. The Emperor
William would be lost without him,
and Bismarck Is fully aware of that
fact.
Year: 1877

BILLY BUTTON, as will be seen by
our editorial upon that gentleman, in
reply to his insinuating and lying letter
in relation to the newspapers and news
paper men of Cheyenne, has been but
toned I'D
Year: 1877

A young gentleman from the HERALD
appeared for the first time in City Council
last night as reporter. The courtesies of
the profession, he has adopted are usually
extended by older reporters, to beginner
weregret to say that instead of a helping
hand having been extended to him, he was
met with cold and repelent conduct. He
hopes to live and reward with manly
and brave return: the unsociable, and un-
manly treatment he received from the
reporters of Wilmington, on his entrance
into the field Of journalism.
Year: 1877

s'If all things are fair, all things also are
probable in love, war, and politics and
Mr.. Cameron has been 50 fond of startling
effects in politics and the War Department
that it need excite no surprise to find him
true to himself in love- and therefore false
to the Pennsylvania widow. To be sure it
is little new to be asked to regard Mr.
Cameron as gay butterfly, rowing from
desk to desk in the Treasury Department
and slipping OF Pennsylvania widows as he
goes. And yet this pursuit is much less
mischieyous and cisraputable than those
with which he has been usually accredited
There may also be some establishment ex-
pressed at the value placed upon him by
the plaintiff, and most people may think
that, taking him by and large, morally and
physically,it would have been better for the
Pennsylvania widow, having got rid of
her lover. to call herseftogether and thank
heaven therefor rather than 10 write her
self down aplaintiti in breach-of-prolaise
suit. Women, however, are curious crca-
lures, and widows are generally admitted
to be the most curious variety of the
species. It may be that the Pennsylvania
widow has peculiarities beyond all others
Of her sex and sort. We shall soon see !;
unless indeed Don Cameron, out of tilial
piety, bulldozes the plaintiff with troops
Or sends Judge Bond to dismiss her CON-
plant on a writ Of habeas corpus
Year: 1877

A large pig had for some time sought his
sustenance in peaceful and contemplative
industry among the refuse of a row of va
cant building lots in Brooklyn, but all of a
sudden something startled his mind, and
he started off at di.graceful gallop, head
long. He ran across one lot, into another,
like cats and dogs rather than pigs, until
he reached the line Of Lafayette avenue. A
young lady was promenading down the av:
enue at the same time, and as he showed
no symptoms of turning she tried to get
out of the way, but, suadente diabolo, he
kept on and took her clean off her feet on
his back, where she balanced beautifully
owing to the fact that the porker's nozzle
had become enamored of the steel wires of
her crinoline and csu!d not tear itself
away until an expanse of about fifty feet
had been travelled by the twain. Then in
Jumping little rivulet Of unclarifed wa
ter he most piggishly dropped his fair
burden in the mud.
Year: 1877

The number of clerical quarrels at pres
ent being waged in this country is perfect.
ly astonishing. Nothing can disprove
Christianity, but if anything could it
would be the snarlings and snappings Of
people who wear white neckcloths and
preach from the text, "Let brotherly love
continue"