Punxsutawney Spirit, 1888-04-25

              BQ8COS CONKLIKG DBAD. NO. 40. PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA..WEDNESPAY. APRIL 25, 1888. J. TRUITT, ATTO&NEY-AT-LA W, PimnuTAfinrr. Pa- Ihi 8, recond story of John Zeitler'« brick block. Praobosm toe Courtsof adjaoent counties. J TAYLOB BELL, we are THE LEADING CLOTHIERS ofPunx- sutawney and Jefferson county. beyond comparison and competition with any- thing shown elsewhere. Daudy Suits lie WiutToo Yoilll; .*» Ti c4. MEN'S SUITS the Am* P— Frm Life. OMtflke M—t SEVEN SLAUGHTERED. A rtrurr'a A wfnl Tr*(Mlj It'M I*. And tl» NORTH & MORRIS UALS RECOGNIZE NO £i We never say for out selves what others say for us—that M. BREWER, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, PTHisoMwmrr, Pa. Ofltu on Gilpin street, two <loor> north of shislda' furniture store. Indiana, Pa, Office Wo. 148, Todd building. Main Street. All legal business will receive prompt ud saretnl intention. l£-32-ly ATTOBNEY-AT-LA W, JJJDWARD A. CARMALT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Raooiviixi, Pa Offloe with Judge Jenks. Legal '*lly attended to. JINKS * CLARK, A TTORNE YS-A T-LA W, Baooimu, Fa. OAs* in Mateon Block, opposite the public It is WE POINT WITH PRIDE To our gigantic assortment of Men's Clothing. JOHN ST. CLAIR, ATTORNEY AT-LAW, And Jostle* of the Peso*, Pnoxantawney, Pa. OSae la Mnndorff bonding, nearly opposite Mut building. Collections made, deposition* Mkan, and all Slnda of legal bnsineas attended to. Q 0. CAMPBELL, ATTORNEYS-AT-LA W, BBoacnua, PA. Mm la Matson'a office, Ifatsoa building, op- POMs the Court Houee. Biooivilu, Pa. MP'OMoe with Hon. A. C. White. 18-89 JOHN W. BELL ATTORNEY AT-LAW, ' Early In lUe Mr. Oonklingmarried Gov. Horatio Seymour*! youngest water, one ol tbe most accomplished women in Central New York. Their ouly child, a daughter, married, lome years ago, Superintendent Oakland, of tbe Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Bailroad. One of tbe other chief inoidents of Mr. Conkling's political career was his difference with Mr. Blaine. It arose in 1866, when lu debate Mr. Blaine read a letter from Qen. Fry making brave aocnsations against Mr. Oonkling. Tbe latter waa thoroughly exonerated by an Investigation abd Mr. Blaine was rebuked. Tbe breach between the two waa never healed. Mr. Conkling returned to Mew York in 1881 aud began the praetioe of law a poor man and burdened with debt inourred from indorsing paper for a friend who had failed. He was soon overwhelmed with legal bnsineas and for fonr years his inoome from his practice ha* averaged over $100,- 000 a year. Boom after Mr Arthur became President aooolneaa arose between him end Senator Conkling, bat it m not nntil Arthur refilled to remove Boberteon and offered Conkling an Aaaooiate Justiceship of the 8 a pre me Court, whose Chief Justiceship be refuted when Gen. Grant tendered it to bim eight yean before, that the final break came between tbem. President Arthur sent Mr. Conkling'* name to the Senate for Justice of the Snpreme Court without previously obtaining his conser, t. Mr. Hoar at once assailed him and the nomination was referred to the Judiciary Committee. That committee met on Fridays and the day of its next meeting had already been selected as the time for Blaine's eu!>gy on Garfield. This left the nomination pending for a week ami Conkling refused, while under fire, to say whether or not he wonld accept. He was confirmed and then declined. Every friend of Conkling s knew he would do so. Q C. BEN8COTER, * DISTRICT ATTORNEY, A Petrified Body. Pa. RAMKY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 1807 Fst. N.-W., Washington, D. C. Practicing attorney In the seTeral courts In Wadrisurton aud elxewbere. Prosecutes claim* before sJl the Government Department*. Alao the purchase and sale of real estate. 14-18 AWORDTOWORKINGMEN Before buying your spring suits, just note a few prices. TYR. W.F. BEYER, PHYSICIAN AND SUBOBON, PuXTiCTAirVlY, PA. Office two doors east of the Poet Office. r\R. WM. ALTMAN, PHYSICIAN AND SUBOBON, PuwxicTAWKir, PA. Offero his professional wrvicm to the oitizena it Panisutawncv and vicinity. f)R. 8. 8. HAMILTON, PHYSICIAN AND SVBOEON, PCKMOTAWMT, PA e in dwelling. Offers hi* services to the of Punxsutawney and the surrounding \$:i 50 < i 50 A good suit in Back at V beautiful blue suit, - 5 00 Plaids and Checks, - - 00 Wool Cheviots, ft 50 In gray or mixed, - 7 50 The best suits you ever aaw— S 8 00 will not t'ade, - if 8 50 la Cutaways and Prince Alberts we have no rivals. Black, blue and brown, - Very good, Still bettet, Nobby, Stylish, Very line, A stunner, A rattler, f-)R. 8. C. ALLISON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, . PtmxaCTAWNlT, PA. Offer* his aervicea to the people of Punxra- Uwn«y and vicinity. $ 8 50 9 00 10 00 12 00 13 00 14 00 15 00 16 00 i 17 00 ]■ 18 00 S 20 00 The Tr«>a*ur< -II ii uters' 1'alL CLAYVH.LK, PA. and residence one square back of J. uVSillespies store. 15-T-ly. T)R. BYRON WIN SLOW, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Boys' and Children s Clothing. Ill this Hue wo show morn styles aiul lower pr'cos than any houso in town. Short Pants Suits $1.50, $'2.00, $3 00. $4.00, $5.00, and up to ,$7.50. Long Pants Suits $2.50. $3.00, $4.00, $4.50, $5.00, $(5.00, $6.50, $7.00, $7.50, $8.00 and $10 00. Willi n llullel in his llritln. T)R. CHARLES G. ERNST, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PUNXSCTAWNIY, PA. 8m permanently located in this place, and offen wb professional «ervlcoB to tne ottieenB'Of 1Mb vtctnttv He may be found at all times at his office, up stair*in the ftoflflnl>er£er bwlttiiig. Germar lanfc»»ag<» spoken. Member of Board •f Pension Examiners. NORTH & BIB,Ik OnePriceClolhiers |)R. 6. F. HOOP, PrasariMng and Consulting Phyiician & Surgaon PCNXBCTAwmy, PA. Ofltoe 1b the new Zeitler Block. 15-40 Take pleasure in saOing to their triends and patrons, whether business or professional, that they cau save at least twenty-five per ccnt, and a perfect fit guaranteed. Every seam is sewed with pure dye silk. This is quite au item on a suit, and we are prepared to make our word good. P)R. 8. J. HUGHES, 8VBOEON DENTIST, PUmWTiWKBf, PA. Ofloe nouth end of rtndley (treat. fYR. W. J. CHANDLER, BURGEON DENTIST, PmnoTAWMiT, PA. Ofloe in corner room. Torrance Block. Furnishing Goods-Greatest Variety Pboviuenck, K. I., April 'Z'i—The sohoonoi'Willi,mine, Cupt. Habhige, fron Apalachteola, which arrived here bail on board Capt. C. J. Ward, M ite Bared!, Steward Annette, silt seamen am) two cabin boys of tbo schooner Yaebt Maria, which some time ago set out from New York ou a mysterious voyage, the purpose of w hich wussubHenueuily learned to be the searching lor a buried treasure near Utilize, Central Ameiicu. The treasure supposabiy amounted to f I,! and was believed to have heeu buried there Bflj-two years ago. The yacht left New York on October 19 and reached IJjliz j ou January lit, aud the expeditiou worked hard until the middle of March. They made no headway because the key whew the treasure was suppoHod to bo buried tilled iu with saud and water as fast as it was scooped out. The crew dually at tempted to bring the yacht home, as she was leased aud was costing them money. She was leaky aud sank off the Uuoan coast, the crew barely escaping with thuir lives. The men wore riscuod by u ship bound for Buenos Ayrvs, which tnrueU them over to the Williauiine. They are all penniless. Ofloiin Johnson Building, over Johnson & Fink's store.  PUMXBUTAWKBT, PA. m B. MOBB1BON, D. D. S. DENTAL ROOMS, 1*\B. H, P. PHiLLIPPl, DENTIST. BSTMOLDSTILLK, *A. aaoe in the Gordon Brick Block, ReynoldavUta, Pa. Artiflelnl teeth without plate*. OwiNGSVlLLK, Kv., April 22—.V Closings. who was shot by Kichard Hunt at the latter's home, two weeks ago, died Thursday from the effects of the wonml. The hall struck Owings between the eyes, penetrating to a depth of fully live inohes. The wouuded man did not feel the shot at the time, aud after receiving it walked »o his home a distauce of several miles. Owings had an impression that the ball bad lodged just, under the skin and sent for a doctor to cut it But the doctor probed the wonnd four inches into the man's head, and in doing so tiuk out at least a Kpoonful of brains. 8'ill Owings had felt neither p«iu uor inoonveuience froiu his wound and uoutiuued his dail.v occupation, eating and sleeping as a per fectly healthy uian for nearly two weeks. On theday of his death he whs seiied with a drowsiness, and, lying down, died »» gently aud as peacefully a* oue going off into a sleep, and without Jisiiirbliig those around hiui. Hunt claims self defeuse and has surrendered to the authorities. NORTH & MORRIS. Unlaundried White Shirts, Pleated White and Cheviots, Neckwear, Silk Kerehiefs, Collars, Cufls, Hosiery, Shirt Waists for boys and children from twenty-five cents. Hate! Hats! Hats! Cheaper than ever before offered. Mining Caps from 15 cents up. Satchels, Valises, Umbrellas, Underwear, Balbrigan in light and dark colors. AH styles and prices. All ministers alowed a discount of 10 per cent. T B. MORRIS, * JUSTICE or THE PEACE, Ton* Towwhw, n, OeUMttoat andfoUMr beMaeee prampttf a* TOHN T. BELL, JUSTICE Of THE PEACE, PSKXaVTAWMBT, PA. m| door eaat of Shield.' Mora. AH SSSgg The Popular Clothiers, The part of Mr. Conkling in the movement to nominate General Qrant for President in IsSO is well known. He was one of its originators. He deolared privately that the nomination of Oai field was "a public calamity." Through the influence of Oeaeral Arthur, however, both Mr. Coukliug and Oeueral Grant rendered material aid to the Republican party at a critical period of the cumpaigu. The rupture between Gai held and Ooukling followed soon after ihe inauguration of ibe former. When Garlield nominated Iiobensou to be Collector of the Fort of New York .Senator Conkling said : If the President of the United States had orept up behind nic iu the dark aud plunged a knife in iny back .be could not have committed a more brutal or cowardly act." The resignation of Conkling aud Piatt from the Benate and tile unsuccessful can vats for a re-election an matters of familiar history. Mr. Coukling wan a candidate for the Republican nomination fur President in 1876. When the test for strength came before the National Convention, Mr. Coukling stood fourth in the list of candidates. Blaine led, Benjamin H. Bristow followed and Oliver P. Morton was third. The selection of Hayes was not approved by Mr. Conkling and be never entered the White House while Hayes was President. His opposition to Hayes was intensified by the removal of General Arthur from the Collector's office and A. B. Cornell from the Navnl otBce at New York. Mr. Conkling was oue of the first friemls ieneral Grant made in CongtesB. Graut's netbods conformed exactly to Conkling's idea cf lighting. Nor was the admiration ivliich Co .kling formed for the great Captain iu lt-52 ever beclouded by the vicisbi judi's of battle or the heatof political warfare. To Conkling Grant was always the same, in peace or war. It was but natural therefore, that, with Grant as President, Mr. Conkling »hoo!d become the foremost Republican. He was the reputed power behind the throne. He was regarded at-  Grant's most confidential adviser. Anything iu the gift of the Administration was looked upon as at his disposal. It was during this period, the first yearof Grant's Administration, that there was formed the friendship, political and social, between Senator Conkling and General Arthur, which was continued without interruption until the latter was elevated to the Presidency and the former resigned from the Senate. It was through the inagnili cetice of his political organization, then formed, that, Goveruer Dix was elected Goveruer of New York iu 1b72. Nkw York, April 18 —Ex Senator RoeeoeCo iklingdiedit 1:50o'elock this noising. His wife and relatives and the physicans were at liis bedside. Death came without a straggle. sug terms. In 1858 he was elected Mayor of Utica and via soon after elected to the Congress of 1859 62. Mr. Cockling'* first important speech waa made in the House on January 31,1861. It waa npon this occasion that he declaired that the people of the North regarded slavery aa a "inaatiable monster," an "irou-heelad, marble-hearted op pressor demanding three victims—the slave, the master and the land." Thronghont the years of the war and those immediately following, Mr. Conkling was prominent. He was for the Lincoln Administration, for pressing forward military operations with nnoeasing vigor, for hard money, for emancipation, for freedom and equal rights for immediate and thorough reconstruction for impeaching President Johnson and for the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. He was not re-elected to CongrtBs in 186*2, but was returned in 1864 aud remained one of the leaden of the House until 1867, when he was elected United States Senator to succeed Mr. Harris Of Mr. Conkling in the House Mr. Blain in hi»"Twenty Years of Congress" says he was at this time "tbe ablest and most brilliant man in the New York delegation. His command of language was remarkable. Iu exuberance of diction he has never been surpassed iu either branch of Congress, ex cept, perhaps by Rufus Choat." This was written by Mr. Blain years after tbe two stutvsuien buil ecaseil even to bo on speak- Roseoe Colliding obtained his earlier education at borne. Several terms he passed in the Albany Academy. This was all the "schooling" he ever received. At 15 he brgan tc study law in the ofllce of Joshua A. Spencer, at Utica. Scarcely had Mr. Conkling been called to the bar whru Governor Hamilton Fish appoiuted him, April 321850, District Attorney of Oneida coonty to fill a vacancy. At the election following be was nominee of the Whigs for the office but was defeated. He applied himself diligently to the practice of his profession, made money and won a reputation as a campaign speaker in the contest* of 1853 and 1856, when he supported Scott and Fremont for the Presidency. His Fremont speeobci were extensively copied. Rosooe Conk ling was born at Albany, N. Y , October 30,1829. His father AI f red Conkling, was an eminent lawyer, U. S Circuit Judge, lueuiher of the Seventeenth Congress and Miniater to Mexico. Augusta, Ga., April 20.—A moat singular dtsoovery nas been made in the Augnsta Oemetery, In accordance with instructions received from members of the family, tbe remaius of 8. O Gillette were exhumed by Oemetery Superintendent Byrau and interred in a different section. When the grave-digger had uncovered tbe coffin and went to reinovo it from the grave it was found that two men oould not budge it. Usually after u body has lain in the ground for several years it beoomes very light, but it took six men to lift this one from tbe grave. This singular fact induced Superindent Byrau to investigate into the cause, aud it was fouud that tbe body was completely petrified, ami was as Lard and solid aud heavy asarook. It was iu a wooden coffin and tbe top had decayed so tbat the clay had fallen in ou the face. The weight of the glasn had somewhat disfigured the nose, but with the exception and the suuken appearance of the eyes the fact) presented its familiar appearance. When buried, however, the fuco was clean shaven, and when looked at to-day it was covered with a beard several inches long. The face was dark and presented the appearance of iron, looking not unlike a metal cast. Superintendent Byrau and thoie present, after making the examination, proceeded to bury the remains in the new lot, but, the slory leaked out this eve ning and Undertaker Piatt and others will make an effort to get tbe consent of the family to exhume the body for the purpose of making a critical and scientific examination. The remaius were buried less than four years ago, and the short time in which petrification has occurred makes it a remarkable and unusual ease. Haller was uharmed, but Freed had » revolver. After a whispered consultation, Haller went to the rear door of the houae, where he waa to make suttlcent noise to alarm the men in the house, while Freed atationed himself in the shadow at one side of the front door, revolver in baud, prepared to shoot down anyone who came about. The two at once saddled their horaea and set oat for Hallera home. As they approached the houae Haller became mute and more impressed that something was I wrong with his family, and the two horasa | were to a gallop. It was 10 o'clock . when the two men approached nailer's bouse, and the fact that there was a light in a room not used by the family at that hour induced the men to alight and approach tbe house on foot. Haller peeped through a window, and was almost paralyzed with horror at seeing the body of his wife in a pool of blood upon tbe d >or, while near her were the dead bodies of fcia three ohildren. There were four strange men in tbe room searching for money. Haller, although speechless with horror, quietly withdrew and told Freed of the terrible sight. He bad made up his mind to stay all night, but from the moment he alignted from bis horse he had an almost uacontrolable desire to oontinue his journey. He ate his supper, bat the feeling of uneasiness became stronger until, confiding his pecaliar state of mind to a peddler in the hoaea, George Freed, the latter urged blm to go am home at once, and volunteered to toooapany #him. WitKKLXNo, April 18.—A wife and three children murdered and tbree of the murdererskilled and a fourth fatally wounded, is the terrible story told by a special telegram from Charleston, the State capital, tonight. The scene of the tragedy is H*rn ereek, a snail tributary of the Elk river in Oalhoun cpunty, about forty miles from Obarltston. Jacob llaller, a livestock dealer and farmer, left his home in Calhoun county on Wednesday last, to sell about 40 head of stock in Ulenville, Gilmour county. He made the sale and started back homo on horseback, arriving at the house of a friend abont ten miles from his home, just at night fall on Holiday evening. Haller then rattled tbe back door, and, as had been expected, the murderers took .the alarm and started out tbe front way. Freed wus ready with tbe pistol, and the first man who appeared fell dead ou the doorstep. The second shared a similar fate, but the third was only badly wounded The fourth made a lush for the outside, and also fell a victim to Freed'a pistol, making three killed aud oue badly wouuded. This iB the story told by John Hill, who arrived in Charleston to-day. Tomorrow additional particulars are expected, but owing to the isolated locality it may be a day or two belore the exact fueisof th« tragedy are ascertained. Dmo then ileetred to h «« taa utarriaga wl Mi la by the Court, with tit •bom result. wa* a. kin* ' the plaintiff. The tutlut of Nuw Yokk, April —"J foi plkH.t.ll Willi CIIHIH." Til... 18 the Judges deciaimi iu the iiw of Dona vb. t>oun. MIkb Annie Smith, 35 years nlil unit rather hancaome, reaidod ou Long ls!«ud. S8* whm warned to Hiraall Dean, aged M. trli dependent on his father. The youth repndialed the oontractaud iltcliawl to support hit bride, when the wile ttued. It was conceded lli«t the uittiriHjjrt had taken place, bat >ouv>tV coi'ntM)! iM)t up that Ue wan inexperienced and in ignorauceof th« n*i)ioi» i aibilitiee he waa aaaumlag. The veidiet —A few day* ago a IJustou lady was in formed by heraervaut girl that. • U« of timers lind been left at the door for Iter. Being c7ceupied at the tini«, t!ie Wily told the aervant »o open the box, sprinkle th flowers with water and put thein on ioe, that abe would atteud to thetu w heu she went down to tea The box ivally contained a new spring hat wlilo'i hail Um u ordered, but waa forgotten at tli" nine the aervant teported ilio arrival. Unly the flowers were to be seen when t-h» itox was opened. The Mtrvivit fallowed Iter orders explicitly, and the flower* were a> thoroughly drenched tla I ruin a "perfect love of a liat" itbeo«niMa liinp and worthless nun of disoaJor'. J. a'id straw. AWNEY, PA. VOL. XV. IN PROGRESSIVE IDEAS PUBLISHED EVIBY WKDHMDAY. ♦ Ml)t Spirit