Punxsutawney Spirit, 1886-12-22

              VOL. XIV. ■TBI Wf ' il • \:;W; ; '? ir Haw OM StMlcra arc R»bke<l. PUNX8TXTAWN1CT, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22. 1886. The Tl'hlrll(l( of Fair. NO. 29. AT TttE ST. ELMO 8T0BE, MUFFLERS CLOTHING. NECKTIES. MUFFLERS HATS. "pvANIEL KAMKY, A TTORNEY-AT-LA TT, 936 F. N. W.. Washington, D. C. Practicing Attorney in the severs/ oourts In Wa <hinffton Mid elsewhere. Prosecutes claims t>efore aTl the Qovernment Departments. Also the purchase and sale of real estate. 11-18 T)R. W.F. BEYER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Ptotbctawkbt, PA. Office two doors east of the Poet Office. f")R. 8. 8. HAMILTON, PHYSICIAN AND BURGEON, FnrzgKAvmnr, PA. Office in dwelling. Oflm hi* •errloesto the pJSfle at Ponxsutawney Mid the MUToaading eonttrr. ________ PmUUTAWMIT, PA. OAen his pi»(«wi*nM services to the oitixens oi Ptnisntawney And vicinity.  T\R. WM. ALTMAN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, nn. 8. c. ALLISON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, rVXXSOTAWXBT, PA. Offer* hia services to the people of Pnnx»n-liint; and vicinity.  T)R. D. G. HUBBARD, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Pbmmutawxiy, Pa. Office in residence on North Findlay street T)R. CHARLES D. ERNST, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PumnoTAWNBT, PA. Hu perminently located la thii plAOC.And offfi SSST®1 It ■z amine re.  i~)R. w. J. Mcknight, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, BHOOETOXF, PA. Professional calls promptly responded to. T)R. S. J. HUGHES, SURGEON DENTIST, Pdkhutawnit. Pa. Qffioe two doors East ol First National Bank, Mahoning street. Opposite Bt. Elmo Hotel. SURGEON DENTIST, PCNXSCTiWNKT, PA. Ottcc in corner room, Torrence Block .  JJB. T. B. MORRISON, FURNISHING GOODS DENTIST. rUMXBOTAWNBV, PA. Office in Johnson. Building. 14"8x OVERCOATS AT 4th OF JULY Funxsutawney, Pa. M«ffr§«« OrtaalM far HiNer. Q C. BENSCOTER, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, Qfflca in Matron's office, Mot son building, oppokTe the Court House. C. CAMPBELL, * ATTORNEYS AT-LA W, Bkooevilli, Fa. JOHN ST. CLAIR, ATTORNEY AT-LAW, And Justice of the Peace. Punxsutawney, Pa, OMee in Mnndorff building, nearly opposite IfniT building. Collections ms<le, depositions Usee, and all kinds of legal business attended to. BMXWTILU, Fa. Mataon Block, opposite the public TENKS * CLARK, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, QONRAD ft MCJNDORFF, A TTORNE YS-A T-LA W, QOee In Badger's building, opposite the Olem- Mjfifts Houm . Xegal business eatrusted to them WIHreeelTe prompt and caret al attention. TRDWARD A. CARMALT, ATTORNEY-AT-LA FT, llBOOKTILLl, FA OSee with Judge Jenks. Legal business oaref«Hf attended to. A LEX. J. TRUITT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, FcxxavTAwmr, Fa. Opposite criaiT Building. Practice In the Oofins of adjacent counties. 0 H. BREWER, * A TTORNE Y-A T-LA W, PWUWITOT, Pa. JIm two daors oortk of Silk Mufflers. WINSLOW * CALDERWOOD, ATTORNEYS-AT-LA W, PUNUCTAWXIT, PA. (Mke om door oast of the Weetern Union Tel•fMph Qfltoe. Practice in the courU of Indiana Ml Jeffertoo counties. 9tttu*tttottm*9 Spirit. PUBLI8HKB BtEBY WIDJTBSDAY. IV $tm $tm. Grand Holiday Display Silk Handkerchiefs ♦Jood-bye. Trade Dollar. A abort time ago Mrs. Lyons, a widow, poor but proudly independent, came to Washington to get gome way of earning an honest living. She had no influeuee to gain admission to one of the departments, and applied at the District buildings for work. She was finally directed to the City Hall. There is a good deal of copying done at the office of Recorder of Deeds, now presided over by Mathews, the colored luan from Albany. Being referred to him he at once gave her a position as a copyist at $40 per month, and she is now at work in a room with half a dozen colored women, perhapa some of them the children of her or her hnsband's former slaves, who art engaged in the same work. Washington, December 17.—A recent appointment here ia tbe office of Recorder of Deeds brings to notice one of tbose distressing evidences of mutations of time. Politicians at least will remember that a doien years ago tlie late Hon. Charles O'- Connor, of New York, headed the Independent ticket as a President ial candidate. On tbe same ticket an eminent Virginian named Lyons ran for Vice President. Lyons ia also dead. lie left a widow whose maiden name was Penn. She was a belle of Louisiana at the time of her marriage, and ber band had been sought by the flower of Virginia, her birthplace, and of Louisiana. Mr. Lyons, on his side, was a scion of an honorable family, and the pair were representatives of the beauty and chivalry of the South. A I'lucky Hoy. Charleston, S. C , Deo. 15.—A week •go a dispatch from York oounty, 8. C.,reported that a white boy named John Lee Good had been so beaten and mangled that he soon died and that four colored men had been arrested as the murderer* and committed to jail. It wag stated that the theory was t hat some of the negroes had been detected by the boy in the act of stealing cotton from the father's field, and that to prevent their -arrest they killed him. There was great excitement in the county in consequence and several more •rreets were made. A correspondent who has inquired into the facta says an alarming state of affairs exists in York oounty. There is an organization among the colored people which contemplates murder in the event of the detection of any member accused of crime. Twenty-six negroes are now nnder arrest. The inqnest on the body of the murdered boy before • discreet jury brought ont all the faots. One of the negroes tnrned State's evidence and another admitted that he killed a man who was murdered in the county eighteen months ago. Several of the witnesses at the inqnest swore distinctly that they had a clnb or olan in the oounty for the purpose of stealing ootton, provisions,whisky, eto. The members were to steal whatever they wanted, and if detected were sworn to kill the person whodeteoted tbem. The chib had different names, but was generally known as the "Rising Star Lodge, No. 24, of the Grand United Order of National Laborers and Protective Sooiety of North America." The charter came from Charlotte, N. C., and is dated December, 1884. The charter, however, wonld seem to show that the society had only benevolent and fraternal objeots. Among other things revealed at the inqnest was a plot to waylay Mr. Elias Innian, who was tbonght to have money, but the assassin missed him. One of the witnesses gave a detailed account of the murder of the poor boy John Lee Good, anil also the names of his ac complices in the crime. The talk of a general lynching hus abated, but the indignation and unrest are intense. Still more money is wanted. The money is ostensibly used to put bills through Congress. This is certainly a swindle. No money is needed to put pension bills through in Washington. They go through easily enough on their merits. Any money contributed for any such purpose is simple robbery of those who are ostensibly the beneficiaries, and those who oollect money for snch a purpose are either knaves or fcols. The statement of this circular, "Yo have now recieved an increase of $144 per year since 1883 through the organization perfected in yonr league," is bad enough, but the additional appeal is worse : "We therefore appeal to all other comrades to send to the Treasurer, to maintain this organization, a liberal amonnt. If each will send a few dollars from his inorease, it will place the league in a sound financial condition." A Kiiiiiihh}' l.oronloll ve No donbt of it. But who is it who is living off these maimed soldiers T The circular is signed by John Stewart, President: and A. G. Rapp and James M. McGee, Secretaires. The employment of money and a lobby to work pension business through Congress is a positive damage to the soldier. Ask your Congressman if this is not so. It creates suspicion that the claim is not a legitimate ono. Washington, December 16.—There is do end to the devioes of pension swindler*. As fast as they are driven from one cover they take to another, and their victims are innumerable. In Philadelphia is a concern, calling itself the "United States Maimed Soldiers' League," which has been sending circulars to maimed soldiers asking contributions to pnsh pension legislation. One of these oircnlar letters claims that it was its (the league's) lobby and the league's money that got the last increase bill through. This money, the league circular says, was contributed by about 200 comrades in Pennsylvania and Washington.JEWELRY. Washington, December 17.—The bill passed by the Senate to-day for the retirement and re-coinage of the trade dollar reads as follows : That nntil July 1, 1.-W7, United States trade dollars, if not defaced, mutilated or stamped, shall be received at the oll'ico ot the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer of the United States in exchange for a like amount, dollar for dollar, of standard silver dollars of the United States. Section -—That the trade dollar* received by the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer of tlio United States shall uot be paid out or in any other manner issued, bnt, at the expense of the United States, shall bo transmitted to the coinage mints, and shall be regarded ami treated as silver bnlliou ; and that their bullion value shall be deducted front the amount of bullion required to be purchased and coined by the act of February 'i8, 1878, aud shall be reeoined into staudard silver dollars, according to the provisions of said act; provided, that the amount te be so deducted, as prorided in this section, shall not exceed $500,000 in any month. Section 3—That all laws and parts of laws authorizing the coinage and Issuance of United States trade dollars are hereby repealed. A Br■■ (Ml llniband Lynched. TRUNKS. A Fcncinc Mnteli lor Blood. Considerable damage was done the property of the railroad, but the most wonderful part of the affair was that no one was injured except the engineer and fireman, who abandoned their locomotive, though there were several very narrow escapes. A street car, crowded with people, escaped the runaway by not more than an inch, the rear platform showing that it was scratched by the engine. Near the depot she jumped the track, breaking the heavy rails aa if they were pipe-stems. She ran along on the ties for a distance of five hundred feet, then took the rails of the Cinoinnati, Cleveland, Columbus and Indianapolis road and ran through the country for 10 miles, when she again left the traok and soon exhausted herself. Dayton, O., December 17.—This morning an engine, with a caboose attached, with Engineer W. G. Stomp anil Firemau Frank Curraut in the cab, w»s bucking around a curve on tho Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton road, just north of tho city, when they discovered an extra freight bearing down upon them. The engineer reversed bis lever and put on a full head of steam, bnt it was too late, and he and the tireman, to save their lives, jumped just as the engine on the freight train went crashing into the caboose. The abandoned locomotive at the same time began moving forward and went rushing through ths city at the rate of 60 miles an hoar. She crossed about 25 busy streets, and ran through three feight yards and the Union depot. Clkvkland, 0.,Dec. 15.—Lisle Gelstono, a pretty young woman, employed in a can dy-storo in Pittsburgh, came to Cleveland recently. A few days later her widowed mother received a letter from the daughter saying that she had found a good situation in a milliuery-store in Cleveland. The mother scarcely believed the story and began to make inquiries concerning her daughter. Tuesday she was shown a letter addressed to her daughter from a Cleveland young man, named Bert "Winslow, asking the girl to leave home and meet him in Cleveland. The following day Lisle's brother, a lad of 17 years, but very small of hia age, and not appearing over 14, started for Cleveland to look for his sister. He did not have a cent, bat being a plucky boy managed to get there, kept himself antil Tuesday afternoon, when he found Winslow. The latter bonght him his supper and paid for his night's lodging. While passing through ' the square Carrie Brown's house of ill-repnte was pointed out to the lad by Winslow, who remarked that his sister* waa living there. This morning the little fellow went to the Central police station and asked for aid in rescuing his sister. A patrolman went to Brown's place, but the proprietress denied that Lisle was in the house. Brown was threatened with arrest if she did not give np the girl. This brought the woman to terms and the sister of the plucky lad accompanied the policeman to the station, where she expressed her willingness to retnrn home with her brother. Both left on the midnight train for Pittsburgh. Too Cold to Walk. Txxaiikaxa.Tjcx ,Deo. 10.—.lames Howard, aged 35 years, was taken from the jail here at midnight last nigbt by a masked mob, by whom ho was carried a abort distance below the town and banged to a railroad trestle. Howard was arrested on a warrant sworn ont by his motber-ln law, Mrs. Wiuohew, oharging hiin with mat-treating his wife, who is scarcely 14 years old, Howard and bis wife were married last July. Mrs. Howard tells a. story of atrocious brutality on the part of her husband. She says he frequently tied her feet together, while she was in a state of nudity, and hanging her up by the feet, beat her unmercifully, aud threatened to kill her if she told anyone of his cruelties. On the 1st of November Howard took a common branding-iron, used to brand live stock, and heating it red-hot, branded a large letter "H" on his wife's person in two places while she was tied to a bod. After suffering several weeks from the effects of these burns, Mrs. Howard told her mother what had happened, with the rocult that Howard was arrested. Deputy Sheriff Hargett had anticipated that a mob would attack the jail that night aud h"d employed extra guards, but the mob gained entrance while the guards were eating a midnight meal. ninncd Hrneira»<l B»l>>. With this drawiug of blood the duelists seemed to be satisfied, for they quickly got into their carriages, which were rapidly driven to the nearest drug store. There the wounds were dressed and the duelists rapidly driven out of sight. Circumstances point to the editor of a pharmaceutical journal and a young medical student as the principals It is said the cause of the affair was a dispute as to the hand of a young lady. A park police man was a distant spectator of the  but was too dumbfounded to attempt an interferance. The druggist declines absolutely to refer to the subject. Chicago, December 1C.—A duel with swords was fought, this morning in Humboldt Park. A little before 7 o'clock two closed carriages entered the park through the south entrance. Kacli carriago contained a principal with his second and a surgeon. They were driven to the western end of the park, where they alighted and concealed themselves behind a clump of trees. The arrangements being completed the principals each drew a shining sabre, and the contest began. Soon both were wounded. One recieved a sword thrust through the breast, and his opponent was cut across tbe face, and will probably bear a scar for some time. Chicago, December Hi.—While JosepU Kora, it cutter employed in u Clark xtreet tailor shop, returned to hit* Lome to night, be found the door leading to bis tint locked and barred. Vigorous knocking brought uo response, and whon the door was tinally forced, a terrible Might met the eyes of the unfortunate man. Tbe bodies of bis wife Antonia and his 13-month-old child were dangling from the transom of the bedroom d.'or, suspended by pieces of shawl straps. The dead woman wasacativeoi and 24 years old. She married Kosa leas than two years ago. Their dou;estio relations are said to have been pleasant, bat Mrs. Kosa became nearly crazed wheu her child took sink recently. It is supposed thxt she committed the deed when tempo rarity insane. ST. ELMO STORE PUMXtUTAWKET, PA. oftco oih» door ewt of Molds' sto*o. AU STKiiiUd taking deporitUmi.  TOHN T. BELL, U JUSTICE OF THE l'EACE, T B. MORRIS, * JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Toms Towximr, Pa. and other bulnew promptly »t- WaSidto.  tohn ERNST, " jVBTICFOr TEE PEACE, MoCaummt Tvmamtr, J* a. i Nkw York, December 17.—Alphonso King, of Paris, the water-walker, who attempted to walk across Niagara river last Saturday, to-day attempted to walk on tbe water from the Bartholdi statne to the Brooklyn bridge. Harry Webb, the wellknown sporting man. and two friends were in a skiff accompanying him. King,dressed in an ordinary suit, pat on his shoes,which •re 32 inches long, 8 inches wide and 9 inches high, and started without a balance pole. The water was rough and windy, and King bad great difficulty in keepiu# his balance; his progress was very slow, and every minnte the occupants rfthe boat supposed be wonld topple over. When approaching the turn around the Battery the waves dashed against the walker and he suffered from the cold. Webb was afraid the boat would npset, and was nearly frozen. He beckoued King to walk faster. King tried to increase his pace, bnt the wind and strong current prevented him from doing so.- Finally no headway was made, and King gave it up. Brandy was given to him.his limbs were rubbed and the boat headed for the Battery, where the party landed. King says in this weather he would not make another attempt in New York bay for |500. His feat to-day was the greatest ev<5r accomplished in rongh water. He was on the water one hour and five minutes. He baa walked across the Mississippi and covered one mile and a half down the Ohio river. —A newly discovered Mexican dower is quite a wonder, if reports lie true. It is ■aid to be white in the tnoruing, red at noon and h ue at night; and is further credited with emitting perfume only at the middle of the day. It grows on a tree of the Isthmus of Tehuautepec. —A hungry rat UAtue very near causing a disastrous tire at Eloleua, Ark attempted to eat some matches in F. II. Ovens' grocery store,on Exchange block,that city, and ignited the case of ui«iohe«, and but for a passer-by who discovered smoke issuing from the transoms and gave the alarm promptly, a disastrous fire would have I'lisniid, as a stiff wind was blowing. 1.1 f SHOES. • 1 \ ¥ S m k i