Punxsutawney Spirit, 1886-01-20

              NO. 32. PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20, 1886. VOL. xni. The Marriage King REMOVING A CANCER. To Make Room for IN STOCK M6ST @0 A Cruel Schoolmistress UNDERWEAR AND RUDDER DOODS A Double" (Vims'. AT THK DON'T FORGET THAT And call around at the Tlie Semite us to Silver R. MORRIS, Collections and other business promptly fit - inded to. * JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Yocno Township, Pa. OPPOSITE HT. KLMO HOTEL. OHN G. ERNST, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, McCai.hont Township, Pa. Collections made. Deeds and other legal papers cknowledged. PUNXSUTAWIMEY, PA. SUCCESSFUL OPERATION- ON' A PATIENT AFFLICTED PRECISELY As WAS GENERAL GRANT. $t. (ftmo §Uxt. BUSY MARKING DOWN PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. i?unx0ut*itmet} Spirit. jtttontevs-af-^aw. WINSLOVV & CALDERWOOD, A TTOENE YS-A T LA W, PtTNXSCTAWNEV, PA. Office one door cast of the Western Union Tel- BjtFaph Office. Practice in the courts of Indiana Md Jefferson counties. rj M. REWER, * A TFORSE Y-A T LA IT, Pl'NXSPTAWNEV, PA. Office on Gilpin street, two doors north of Shields' furniture store. SPRING GOODS A LEX. J. TRUITT, A TTOIiNEY-A T-LA If, Pl'NXSUTAWNEY, PA. Opposite Spirit Building. Practice in the Courts of adjacent counties. JQDWARD A. CARMALT, J A TTORNE Y-A T-LA IV, Brookville, Pa. Office with Judge Jenks. Legal businesscaroraly attended to. EVERY OVERCOAT AND HEAVY SOU JENKS & CLARK, A TTORNE YSA T LA If', Brookville, Pa. Office in JIatson Rlock, opposite the public buildings.  QONIIAD & MCJNDORFF, A TTORNE YS-AT-LAW, Office in Rodger's building, opposite the Clem- HiPmtji House. I.egal business entrusted to them will receive prompt and careful attention. TOIIN ST. CLAIR, * ATTORNEY-AT-L AW, And .Justice of the Pence, Pnnxsutawner, Pa. Office in Slumlord' building, nearly opposite hl'lld'r building. Collections made, depositions taken, and all kinds of legal business attended to. The patient, a man of <>0or f>,"> years of age, has for over a year been atllicteil with epithelioma, or «ancerof the tongue. The cancerous growth had started at the root of the tongue, and, in spite .of the efforts of the physicians to arrest its progress by cauterization, had steadily advanced until it had not only eaten deep into the tlesh, but had also affected the jaw bone on the left side, and was the cause of the most constant and intense pain. The patient was placed under the influence of an ami'sthetie, and then an incision was made at the left inferior angle of the lower jaw and extended around and underneath the chin to the right, apparently cutting his throat from ear to ear but in reality not deep enough to touch a vital part. Another cut was made from the centre of the lower lip, through the chin, until it intersected the first. The flesh was then laid back,exposing the "jaw bone. It was then deemed necessary to remove about three inches of the bone on the left side which had been affected by the cancer. This was done with a small saw. and the root of the tongue and the cancerous sore were nxposed to view. The cancer, with the sub-lingual and patroid glands, wascut away, and the wounds cauterized. The llesh was then brought together and the incisions sewed up. The operation occupied 2'.j hours. This morning the patient was doing well. Chicago, Jan. K>.—An operation was performed on Mondav afternoon at the Hahnemann Hospital which was extremely interesting, not only 011 account of the peculiar method restored to, but for the reason that the patient was artlicted with precisely the same disease that caused the death of tien. Grant. II c. CAMPBELL, A TTORNE YSA T-LA IT, Brookville, Pa. Office in Matron's office, Mateon building, oppoffite the Court House. W M. GILLESPIE, ' A TTORNE Y-A T- LA»(", Clayville Pa Ootl 'etions entrusted to him will b' diligently attended to and promptly paid over. Q c. BENSCOTER, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, Reynoldsville, Pa. Before March 1, '86. T)li. VVM. ALTMAN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Pdnxsotawnev, Pa. Olfiirs his professional services to the citizens of I'unxsutawney and vicinity. T)R. S. S. HAMILTON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Pdnxsctawney, Fa. Office in dwelling. Offers his services to the people ot I'unxsutawney and the surrounding country. Office two doors east of the Post Office. T)R. W. F. BEYER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Pt'NYSCTAWNEY, PA. Shoes and Hats On the 20th Captain Williams spent most of the day in finishing the poor fellow. lie beat him, choked him. kicked him, struck him with a handspike and, when Meyer had at last (alien helpless to the deck, the captain put a rope around his armpits, called for a block and tackle, with a hook at the base of the halliards, and, poking this hook into the rope around his body at the armpits, dragged him from the mainmast to the foremast and then hoisted him up until his feet were from two to two and a half feet from the deck. Then he drenched his lower limbs with cold water. After this the captain asked him if he would work, lie replied: "I work, I work." lie was then let down on the deck and he again took his place at the cranks, but was to weak to turn them. When the captain saw this he again struck him several times across the small of the back with a handspiko. Meyer fell to the deck, screaming. The captain again put his foot on his throat and silenced him. Later in the day the captain tied a piece of tarred rope to Meyher's thumbs and with block and tackle hoisted I.im from the hold of the vessel to the deck. As the poor fellow was being hauled his head caught under the deck at the side of the hold. The captain put his foot down and ki.ked him loose. His body swung across to the opposite side of the hold and struck the deck. Meyher was thus hoisted by his two tnumbs out of the hold and some two feet above the deck, where he was kept hanging by his thumbs until he was asked if he would work if let down, lie replied, "I will work." lie was then let down on the oysters in his bare feet. That night the captain took his victiin from the boat and the next morning the hitter's body was found in the l'ocomoke. WiLMivtiTox, Del., January 13.—At Princess Anne yesterday Judge Holland sentenced Captain John A. Williams to eighteen years' imprisonment for murdering Otto Meyher on November 20, 1884. Meyher, a weak and sickly German, worked on tin; oysterdredging schooner Eva, of which Williams was master. About the middle of .November Meyher complained of being ill and told the captain he could not work unless he gave him a pair of boots. ()r, this occasion the captain knocked him down and beat him. A few days after Meyher grew worse and went to the captain for medicine. The then told him if lie didn't work lie would kill him. The same day the captain knocked Mover down several times with his tist and beat him with shovel j and handspike. Meyher <rrew weaker j and the captain continued to beat and j kick him. New York, Jan. 17.—At tlio Brooklyn Tabernacle Dr. Tillmago delivered I the second of a course of sermons 1 which he is giving on "Tho Marriage lting."Thc church was uncomfortably | crowded, ami many were unable to I gain admittance. I n part, Mr. Talmage said:—"Last Sabbath I gave some Christian and prayerful advice to young men in regard to the choice of a wife, and this morning I will devote my sermon to advising young women in regard to their choice of a husband. It is appropriate to seek the advice of Almighty (rod. and more so for young women becaue there is a far smaller number from which to select. It is a matter of arithmetic. There are thousands or more women than men in the states of New York and Massachusetts. Then it is of so much more importance to women, because they have no remedy, it they make a mistake. Man, if he makes a mistake, may dull his senses with tobacco smoke, or may seek his clubhouse for refuge. There is only one thing to correct distress if a women marries badly, and that is a funeral. " In the first place, I charge you U> 1 avoidlifetimealliance with a man who despises Christian religion. It is not j necessary that a man should be religious before, but it a man has a positive hatred for Christian religion, beware of him. Me will sneer at your posture in prayer, will depreciate your hive for Jesus Christ. If you are engaged to such a one it is your duty to break the engagement. "Again I charge you, don't marry a man of evil habits. If he will not now resist then lie certanly will not when he has gained the prize. The alms-houses are full of women who thought they could reform their husbands. No man 2."i years of age, if he is addicted to intoxicants, can be rofarnied by a wife, for in tlio present day his system i.s full of strychnine, mux vomica, logwood and other poisons. lie is past reform. "I would also charge you to avoid alliance with extremely selfish men, of those who think of their business and uothin else. Some men are so muck married to their business that their marriage to you would be absolute bigany. I counsel you to unite yourself with a man who is a fortune in himself. There are men who are fortunes in themselves who are always genial and large-hearted. "Hut I will also charge you, don't look tor a perfect man. If you find a man who is perfect, who is incapable of mistakes, don't unite vouiself with him. What a wife you would make for him ! In other words, there are no perfect men, The only perfect pair slid down the banks to Paradise togather. [Laughter.] When a mail tells lie never sins we know he lies. I had dealings with two perfect men and they both cheated me." £)!{. 8. C. ALLISON, 1'HYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Ptnxsutawney, Pa. Ofl'crs his services to the people of Punxsutawney aud vicinity. '•I found something yesterday at the table that bothered me, It was a new kind of a silverdingus, with two handles to it, for getting a lump of sugar into your tea. I saw right away that it was for that, but when I took the two handles in my hand like a nut cracker and tried to scoop up a lump of sugar with it 1 felt embarrassed. SeveraJ people who were total strangers to me smiled. "After dinner the waiter brought me a little pink glass bowl of lemonade and a clean wipe to dry my mouth with, I recoil, after 1 drank the lemonade. I did not pine for the lemonade much, anyhow, but this was specially poor, it waajust plain water, with a lemon rind and no sugar into it. "One rural rooster from Pittsburg showed contempt for the blame stall by washing his hands in it. 1 may be rough and uncouth in my style, but 1 hope 1 will never lower myself | like that in company.'' lie lla<l l'oisoncd Fonr Wives Kill Nye at a New York Hotel '•I told the waiter at my table yesterday that when he got time I wished he would come up to my room and we would have a game of old sledge, lie is a nice vouug man, and puts himself out a good deal to make me comfortable.EVERYTHING MARKED WAY DOWN J)R. J. SHEFFER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PUNXBl'TAWNEY, PA. Having permanently located in Covode, Pa., I «mer my professional services to the people of this Vicinity. Chronic diseases of women a specialty. T)R. D. G. HUBBARD, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PCNXSCTAWNHT, PA. Ofllce in residence on North Findlay street "J)R. S. J. HUGHES, SURGEON DENTIST, PCNXSUTAWNHY, PA. Office over North, Miller & Paul all's Grocery Store, Johnstou Building, cor. Mahoning and Findley streets. justices of t0e UPeacc. T)R. W. J. CHANDLER, SURGEON DENTIST, PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. i Office in corner room, Torrence Block. T)R. CHARLES D. ERNST, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. Has permanently located in this nlace, and offers his professional services to the citizens of this vicinity, lie may be found at all times at his oAice in the Campbell building. German language spoken. Member of Board of Pension Examiners. j)R. av. j. Mcknight, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Brookvili-f, Pa. Professional calls promptly responded to. ST. ELMO STORE Nanticoke, Jan. lf>.—Last October Superintendant Miller, of the borough shools, issued an order prohibiting the admission of tardy pupils to the school after opening hours and directing the locking uf the doors. This was done in order to break up the practice of children coming late. Yesterday one of the schoolmistresses was over-zealous in obeying the order, and although the weather was six degrees below zero, she refused to open the door for two little boys named Lloyd andllradlev who came nearly a mile to school. They were so completely exhausted by their tramp through the snow that they could not return home and sank upon the school-house step. A lady named Jones in passing heard their cries and rapped repeatedly on the door before the teacher reported. She refused to admit the children and doting the door re-entered the schoolroom. The boys could not walk and Mrs. Jones carried them into a house near by. where it was found that both were severely frost-bitten, and the feet of the younger were froz 'n fast in his gum boots. Many citizens are highly indignant and an investigation will be demanded. Bloomimston, Ink., .1 an. 1J. —The murder of James Dobson by a hired hand named Folly Kpps has developed into an unparalleled crime in the istorv of Indiana. Kpps went to i idson's bedside while he was asleep, cut his head open with an ax, then pulled Mrs. Dodson out of bed, telling her she must submit to his desire*. She resisted as long as possible, but the. brute accomplished his object h it hei i .- hausted with her dead hu>baud. K)i,.s still denies the assault, and say- '•« killed Dodson in his sleep. Thecxc;,n-mcut is immense all through county, and it is likely he will be mobbed if the crowd can get at him. Epps will lrkelv be taken to Bedford tor safe keeping. His feet are so badly frozen thathe cannot walk. This evening he was taken to Bedford anil thence go to Bloomfield, the county seat of (ireen county, by rail. The excitement itintense. it was thought best not to take him near tlio scene of his crime as lynching would be sure. Later information is to the effect that Mrs. Dobson successfully resisted the brute's lustful assault defending herself with a knife. Dobson was buried to-day and the whole country turned out. It is feared that Kpps will be taken from the cars between Bedford and Bloom field and hung. Horrible Scenes at an Execution. London'Ont., January 14.— Letters have deen received from IHikota descruling the recent death there of Geo. McCabe, who was tried here a year ago on a charge of poisoning his wife at the Dew Drop Inn, London, South. The circumstances of the case were very suspicious, poison being found in Mrs. MeCabe's stomach, but the prisoner was acquitted, lie had previously escaped conviction on the charge of murdering another wife at Ingersoll, Ont., and it was alleged that other women in Woodstock, <)nt., had fallen victims to his passion. It is now stated that after his acquital here lie went to Dakota and married again. One morning his wife detected him putting some foreign substance into her tea. Watching her opportunity she exchanged cups. McCabe drank the draught intended for his wife, and while in the agonies of death confessed to the attempt at murder, and also to the poisoning of his fither four wives. John Sherman Ite-electeil Senator. —The 500 Hungarians who were imported to take the place of strikers in the coke-works of Westmoreland county are themselves on a strike now. It does not take long for cheap foreign labor to learn the ways ot the country after they learn the business in which they are employed. But after they once get started on a strike there is 110 telling how far they may go or what they may do. They arc hard to control' and easily driven to violence—a dangerous element in any industrial community.—Gotn. Gazette, St. Elmo Store, OHN T. BELL, JUSTICB OF THE PEACE, PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. Office one door enst of Shields' store. All Business entrusted to his care will receiveprompt attention, and all monies paid over to the parties Immediately upon receipt thereof. Special attention given to collections, acknowledgement It deeds and taking depositions. Coi.umbus, Jan. 13.—The Senate and House met in joint session at noon to-day and elected John Sherman to the United States Senate. It required 74 votes to elect. Sherman received 84 votes, and Allen <; Thurniau t>2 Senator Sherman will arrive at p.m. to-morrow, and will be met by a legislative committee and escorted to tlie Capitol, where he will be presented to the members. In the evening a general reception will be given in the Senate chamber. —Under the instructions of a gypsy, Farmer Schwab, of Saville, l'a., bitried $25 at the root of a tree on his farm, and found $50 there the next morning. Then he tried to produce a similar harvest with a deposit ol !)<700, but the next morning the $700 was gone. Singularly enough the gypsy wasalso gone. Schwab is poorer in pocket, but richer in experience. | St. Louis, January '"»•—At the hanging of Wilson to-day, after the trap had been sprilug, the body for a moinent. remained motionless, and there was enacted a scene of horror which chilled the blood of all who witnessed it. The doctors, one on either side, were each holding a wrist, when the violent contortions of the hanging figure shook thein aside, and before they could regain their hold upon the man, whose actions showed that he was in full possession of consciousness of all that was going on, made frantic struggles to release himself. It seemed as if the man must die by slow degrees from strangulation, but one of the doctors succeeded in disengaging the hand and in a short time the body liuug a. I lifeless eorp-c — Col. Thomas B Davis, of J'iedmont. \V\ Va., recently declined to attend a matrimonial matinee in lS.dtimore because he "liad no di •es; suit"; but, despite his reprehensible poverty in this regard, he inclosed his ehr !c for$.>,0')J, which doubtless suae I tiio bride. —The Sheriff of For.-ythe county, Ga., who levied on a circus anil whose iliability to manage the animals caused much amusement of the employees, has gotten out of the predicament by disposing of the menagerie at auction sale. An elephant brought $1,300, other animals in proportion down to parrots, which went ofl'atijil each, jloukey.-i commanded $2 apiece. Washington, Jan. 13.—A canvass of the Senate shows that a considerable majority of the members are in fa vor of eon ti n ui n g the prese ntcoiuage of silver. This majority is made up from both sides. There are about eight Democrats who are in favor of suspending the coinage, and about 17 Republicans who will vote lor silver. It will thus be seen that a majority ot tho Republicans are with the president on this question, and a majority of the Democrats against him. IRANK P. GRAF, RE AND LIFE INSURANCE AGENT PunYsutawnkv, Pa, Office in the St. Elmo Jlutol. Brutal Captain Williams ®P fltlttXStttattoliCJ) 8pltit % i : ■- \ •? * ■>