Punxsutawney Spirit, 1885-12-16

              PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16, 1885. NO. 28. AT TUB At prices to suit the sickest looking pocket-books us well as the Vanderbilts of Jefferson and Indiana comities. A Lion mid Elephant Fight. Boys' Suits and Overcoats! Ladies' and Gents Shoos A Wise Act. SILK HANDKERCHIEFS, tN IMMENSE (QUANTITIES. JEWELRY ! Miracles Performed. Suicide of a Student. Unitarians Konted in Hal tic. TOIIN G. ERNST, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, McCaluont TowNSHir, Pa. Collections made. Deeds aud other legal paiper» cknowleUged. OPI'OSTTE ST. ELMO HOTEL. PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. Jumbo's Mounted Skeleton. r\Ii. S. S. HAMILTON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PUNXSCTAWNEY, PA. Oflico in dwelling. Offers hie services to the people of l'unxsutawney and the surrounding Sountry.  PUNXSCTAWNEY, PA. Offers his professional services to the citizens lot Puuxsutawney und vicinity. T)K. VVM. ALTMAN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, sSMJtjsicians. jSlt. W. F. BEYER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Funysutawnev, Fa. Oflice two doors east of the Post Office. Hats and Caps to Suit the Tastes of All! Logu Knew Too Much. The Deadlj Trichinosis. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. 9tmx*utitnmrt) Spirit ffc §tm $Ute. HOLIDAY®!] SUITABLE AND FOR CHILDREN! j FOR LADIES, | F OR GENT S, ST. ELMO STORE j T?DWARD A. CARMALT, ATTORNEY-AT-LA W, Brookvii-lb, Pa. Office with Judge Jenks. Legal businesscarefwly attended to. A LEX. J. TRUITT, A TTORNE Y-A T-LA PUNXSITAWNEV, PA. Opposite Spirit Building. Practice in the Cnurts of adjacent counties. PUNXSITAWNKV, PA. pfflce on Gilpin street, two doors north of Shields' furniture store. Q M. EE WEB, A TTORNE Y-A T LA W, WIK8LOW ft CALDERWOOD, ATIOBNEYS-ATLAW, PONXSPTAWNET, PA. (Mice one door east of the Western Union Tel•frftpb Office. Practice in the courts of Indiana Mid Jefferson counties. rtONRAD & MUNDORFF, ATTORNEYS-A T LA 71", Oflice in Rodger's building, opposite the Clem- Bicnts House. Legal business entrusted to them will receive prompt and careful attention. TENKS & CLARK, A TTORNE YS A T LA J!, Bkookyillk, Pa. Oflice in MatBon Elock, opposite tiie pui)iic buildings.  Men's Suits and Overcoats! JOHN ST. CLAIR, A TTORNE Y-A T LA W, And Justice of the Peace, Punxsutawney, Pa. Oflice in Mundorff building, nearly opposite SriKiT building. Collections made, depositions taken, and all kinds of legal business attended to. TT C. CAMPBELL, A TTORNE YS A T-LA If, Brookyillk, Pa. Qlllca in Matson's oflice, Matson building, opposite the Court House. |W M. GILLESPIE, ' A TTORNE Y-A T-LA II', CLAYV1IXE PA Coll ctious entrusted to him will b dlligAtiy attended to and promptly paid over. RETNOI.[lrtVIl,LK, Pa. 0 C. BENSCOTER, DISTRICT A TTORNE Y, Aii island, never before reported, lias been thrown up out of the sea about 10 miles otf the Tonga Islands, bearing toward the I'ije Inlands, in the track of California vessels. The island is two miles long and feet high, and is in latitude 20 degrees and 28 minutes south, longitude 175 degrees and 21 minutes west. —A million dollars, it is said, will weigh 1 ~j tons in gold, 25 tons in subsidiary silver coiu, 263., tons to standard silver coin, and 100 tons in nickel. —It is predicted (hat moonshining, though carried on to some extent in the mountainous portions of South Carolina, is so beset with dangers that the business will soon be abandoned altogether. —A New York rural editor rises to make this ought-to-be-sufficient correction: "Instead of being arrested yesterday, as we stated, for knocking his wife down a tight of stairs and hurling a lighted korosine lamp alter her, the Hev. James Wellman died, unmarried, four years ago." —The commission appointed by the Royal Agricultural Society of England to investigate the subject of ensilage has submitted its report, based on eleven sittings, in which thirtyeight witnesses were examined. No testimony unfavorable to thf system was given, and the report i> unanimous in its favor. Wamiinotost, Dec. 7.—Iu declining the Presidency of the Senate, Gen. Jx>- gttn acted against the advice of some of his alleged friends. They knew the additional salary of the office was more important to him than to any other member of the Senate, and they urged that his withdrawal from the floor would relieve him of possible committals and entanglements that might be injurious to his aspirations for the Presidency. These views and others bearing on the subject were all fully discussed before a conclusion was reached. Gen. Logan is an affirmative man, and could not bear the restraints of negative place. lie would be very apt to treat j points of order in a postive way. if i they were raised. With bis combative nature, the offer of an ornamental post to remove him from t ho sphere of active conflict was not tempting, and he looked upon it as a method of shelving his pretensions to the next noniina-! tion. Therefore Gen. Logan did not take j thf bait which had been carefully prepared by certain liepublican managers. Mr. Blaine 1h»h the satisfaction of knowing that Gen. Logan is in carnest about contesting the nomination in ]S8S, and all the other aspirants for the I'icssdency have been now notified that, come what may, he will under no circumstances consent to take the , second place on the ticket. Beecher oil l)<ut li. Fredrick Hausmeyer, an aged cooper, of Tarentum, his wife, John his son, and Lizzie, Emma and Lena, his daughters, are now lying at their home dangerously ill from trichinosis. William and Fredrick Hausmeyer, Jr., members of the same family, "are already dead from the same disease. Two weeks ago the entire family were taken suddenly sick. An acute diarrhu-a was followed by languor and debility, after which came neuralgic pains, stiffening of the joints and uelirium. Dr. McCullough, the family physician, was called in and the coatof the tongue and other symptoms led him to believe the trouble was typhoid fever. Oil the Monday following the attack "William, after the most horrible suffering, died. The neighbors became, frightened and would hoik of them enter the house. Two nursei were sent from the West l'enn Ilospi tal and have cared for the sufferers On Wednesday, of this week, Fred rick Jr., died in seemingly as greai agony as his brother. The physician soon became convinced that the disease was trichinosis and secured a piece of the pork of which the family had eaten heartily previous to their prostration. Under the mi- j croscope the meat proved to l>o alive I with trichinae siiiralis. It had been procured from a farmer back of Tarentum. who had raised it himself, and was eaten raw as the principle part of a salad. Specimens of the meat were shown to the Drs. Dickson and when magnified proved to be full of the spirals and bunches of eggs. Last night all members of the stricken family were in a dangerous condition un< are not expected to recover. Gents' Neckwear New York, Dec. 13.—In his sermon in Plymouth Church, Mr. Beecher spoke of readiness to meet death. "I n the Old Testament." he said, "death was made almost idyllic, and the New Testament is set to the key of immortal hope and immortal joy. Would to God medieval theology liacl followed this and had not sought It) make death dreadful in every way and beyond it to place the engines ot useless torture. Sudden deaths have become so frequent of late as to arresi the attention of all students of human life and call to mind the words of the apostle : "Be ye. therefore, ready.' "Men largely dread death because they don't know what's going to happen, and all they know is thai the Church says there is going to be an awful time. Dying is usually painless, and passing out of life is far easier than being born. Being ready to die is being ready to live right." The two practical lessons that Mr. Beeeher drew from his subject were the need ol life insurance and of men making provision for their wives and children by settling property on them in day s of prosperity. Iltumin Jtlood I'mlding. —The Kmperor of Germany, who makes functions speeches declaring that religion is all in all to him, deems it consistent therewith to tear from their homes in winter women on the eve of childbirth, and paralytic old men, and pack them over the frontier for no other cause than thai they were born Poles. 1 le is thus responsible for 1 he death of dozens. —Hard drinkers will be pleased to know that their practice is considered by some scientitic writers to be, oil the whole, a benetit to the community. In a recent paper on "The Economy of Vice and Crime," Dr. Itrigliain said: "The alcoholic road to sell extermination is one of the most speedy ways of destroying the weak and inferior, and although some who select this road are brilliant specimens of mental power, yet, as a whole, they are weak and unworthy of preservation. Intemperance, though doinsr much harm, also does great good. The certainty and celerity wilh which intemperance destroys the weak and wicked classes of society favorably recommends it over the ordinary methods of to-day in the administering of justice." Philadelphia, Dee. 9.—The watchman at the winter quarters of Forepaugh's menagerie, Frank ford, was startled about 8 :!I0 o'clock this morning bv a terrific roar from the direction of the lion and elephant section of the building, lie rushed to the spot and was horrified to find a large and ferocious Asiatic lion engaged in mortal combat with a gigantic and furious African elephant. Just as I he keeper arrived, ho beheld I he lion crouched ready to spring upon his antagoni»t. The elephant seemed to be a waiting the onslaught. Before the alarmed and excited man could call for assistance or secure a weapon to prevent the encounter the lion sprung on the elephant, clawing and tearing her in a frightful manner. The latter, however, soon found an opportunity touse her immense tusks, which she ran completely through the body of Iter assailant, killing hint almost instantly. The lion's dying roar could he heard for squares and was appalling. Home time elapsed before the dead anitnal could be unfastened and the elephant's tusks withdrawn. When this was accomplished the latter's passion subsided. The elephant, though seriously injured, will probably survive.Ladies' and Gents' Trunks and Satchels. I Offers his services to the people ol Punxsutawney anil vicinity.  f)T{. B. C. ALLISON, THYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Punxsutawney, Pa. -r\R. J. SHEFFER, I PHYSICIAN AND^SURGEON, PCNXSl'TAWNBY, PA. Having permanently located in Covode, Pa., I offer ray professional services to the people of tiiis vicinity. Chronic diseases of women n specialty.  [T)R. CHARLES D. ERNST, I PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. Has permanently located in this place, ana of■fers his professional services to the citizens of i Ibis vicinity. lie may be found at all times at his office ill the Campbell building. German [language spoken. Member ol" Board of 1 ension Examiners. _  lT)R. D. G. HUBBARD, | PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. 1 Office in residence on North Findlay street ALL ABOVE ENUMERATED, THE LARGEST SELECTION OF EACH AND * Home,December 10.—The trial commenced here to-day of a butcher named Tozzi and his wife, son and daughter, who are charged with the murder of one named l'oggi, also a butcher. The motives for the crime were trade jealousy and family disputes. l'oggi was entrapped into Tozzi's cellar where the murder was committed. The body of the victim was cut into pieces and the remains were scattered in a suburban wood. The blood was boiled into block puddings, Which were sold in Tozzi's shop. The son made a confession to-day. lie narrated the story in court with coldblooded cynicism, which provoked a howl of fury, the audience yelling, "Away with him to the scaffold I" In reply the murderer tauntingly said: "Here I am! Tear me to pieces!" The terrible story has created intense excitement throughout the city. New York, December 12.—The alcoholic eccentricities of Mr. J. K. E111- met, the actor, have occupied a great part of the public attention lately. Throughout all his sprees, his wife has clung to him with a wifely devotion. A few months ago he created a sensation 111 Albany by abusing her while drunk, after which he behaved himself for a while. About a week ago he broke loose again at Patterson and disappointed the people at Plainfield. It is supposed that he has conic to his senses again. This afternoon he appeared at the office of the Mercantile Trust Company, in this city, with his wife and some friends, and had his safe opened. JLe took out a large box tilled with papers and securities with the remark, ''1 am about to make my wife a Christmas present." Then lie counted out •$ 1 .">0,000 in !fl0,000 bonds and gave tlieni to Mrs. Emmet, lie said also that lie had deeded to her his .$300,000 house in Albany. It is considered a wise act, since he has placed altogether about $5<X),000 in his wife's hands, and it will not be possible for him to scatter it about among the street urchins sometime "when the wine is in." In fact there is no better place in the county to select from than the Montreal, Dec. 10.—The ecclesiastical authorities here of the lioman Church have taken the first step toward applying to liomc for the canonizing of the iate Archbishop liourget. This consists in making public the alleged miracles he performed during his life. To-day's Presse contains the declarations of two women, taken under oath before Father Iluot, referring to the healings of the dead prelate. A Mrs. Tharsiel declares that she suffered from cancer of the breast, and the doctors could do nothing. Alonaignor Hour get gave her his blessing, and she was cured from that moment. Another woman named Chaput testified that her child was cured of an ulcer on the eye immediately upon being brought into the presence of the Archbishop. The appeal to Koine to canonize the late Bishop Laval has not yet been grantod, and a special court, with three secretaries, is now waiting at Quebec faking testimony. Senator Kdmunds Preparing a Kill to Destroy Mornioiiisni. ST. ELMO STORE Meadville, Pa. Dec. 10.—James S. 'Walker, a student at the Meadville Theological School, arose early this morning, and, after writiftg a note to his mother imploring her forgiveness, sent a belief through his heart from a small revolvor. Mr. Walker's family reside ill Brooklyn, N. Y.. and he entered this school last September to prepare for the ministry. The cause of the suicide is presumed to be domestic trouble. lie was about '22 years old, and a very bright young man of pleasant address and jovial disposition. Up to a late hour to-night no reply has been received from his friends, and many telegrams have been sent to his reputed relatives. in Town ! Prices Guaranteed as Lowest II'NXSUTAWNKY, PA. Oflleo In corner room, Torrenee Block. T)R. W. J. CHANDLER, I SURGEON DENTIST, T)R. 8. J. HUGHES, S URGEON DENTIST, PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. Office over North. Miller & Pantull's Grocery Store, Johnston Building, cor. Mahoning anil Findley streets. T}R. w. j. Mcknight, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Brookvili.v, Pa. Professional calls promptly responded to. A Dastardly Outrage. justices of tfje Belgrade, Dec. 12.—A telegram from the front states that a long and bloody engagement took place to-day between the Servians ami ltulgariaus. I;pon finding themselves outnumbered the Bulgarians made signs thai they wished to surrender. The Servians, who were mostly elderly men, belonging to the Second Reserve, shouted in reply: " You have already deluded our children (meaning the youths of the First Heserve) in that fashion, but you will not deceive us." Thereupon they charged the Bulgarians with the bayonet, scattering them in every direction. The liulgarians left many dead and dying on the field. The Servians claim a brilliant victory. Much enthusiasm is manifested in Belgrade over the victory of the Servians, (g5T I> ON'T FORGETTHA T ! cjsgg Oil City, Pa., Dec. 10.—A report just received here from Kossuth, in the Cogley oil district, states that an unknown man entered the house of a man named Timblin during his absence, overpowered, bound, gagged and assaulted Mrs. Timblin anil took $12 in money, leaving behind a note, "Revenge is sweet. Death to any man who follows."' Mrs. Timbliu's condition was not known until her husband's return home in the evening. Business Failures the Past Week, TOIIN T. BELL, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Punxsittawsev, Pa. Office one door east of Shields' store. Ail business entrusted to hiscare will receive prompt attention, and all monies paid over to the parties immediately upon receipt thereof. Special attention given to collections, acknowledgement Bf deeds and taking depositions. Washington, Dec. 10.—Senator Edmunds is preparing a bill intended Jo destroy Mormonism altogether. It declares the act of the State of Deseret, incorporating the church, unconstitutional and void. The temporal property of the church is (o be placod in charge of trustees to be appointed by the President, who arc to wind up its affairs and sell the property, the proceeds to be applied to public school funds. The property actually used for purposes of worship is exempted from the operation of the act. It is believed that if passed the bill will, by depriving the church of its temporal power, be the death blow of polygamous Mormonism. T B? MORRIS, * JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. Young Township, Pa. !l Collections and other Ijusincss promptly atitended to. St. Elmo Store, —Of the battle oi sliiloh Gen. Grant writes: Sliiloh was the severest battle fought at the West during the war, and but few in the East equalled it for hard, determined fighting. I saw an open field in our possession on tiie second day, over which the Confederates had made repeated charges the day before, so covered with dead that it would have been possible to walk across the clearing in any direction, stepping on dead bodies, without a foot touching the ground. New Youk, Dec. 11.—So numerous have become the visitors at Prof. Ward,s natural Jiistory work-shop at Rochester, where the skeleton and hide of the elephant J umbo are bei ng mounted, that the Professor lias been obliged to close the doors to the public ami to publish a card requesting people to wait uutil the work is perfected, when the doors will be thrown open again to all. The work is going ou in a highly satisfactory manner. Nkw York, Dee. 11.— The business failures occurring throughout th<> country during the last .seven davs, as reported to R. <i. Dunn & C». ami Kdward Russell & Co. by tele<;.a]>li, to-day, number, lor the United Slums' 2JK). and for Canada, 17. or a t.i tl of '217, as compared with a total of 239 last week, and 211 the week prueimis to the last, Business casualties eoutinue very numerous in the .Southern aud Western Slates. The other sections of the country report failures about the average. I'. GRAF, •IRE AND LIFE INSURANCE AGENT PTNY8UTAWNKY, PA. Office in the St. Elmo Hotel. IMIuhm Items. s -X HFr vol. xni. » B m w. » * »■