Pittston Gazette

              ESTABLISHED IS50. I V()U.» XL.VI. .NO. 3 » Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., 1DA., FRIDAY. AUGUST 23. 1895. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. i fl.OO PER ANNUM 1 IN ADVANCE Tjome, master,- says x, nave yon no more heart than to make merry at the mischances of three poor wretches snch as we?" into neaven, uui uawson was quicic enough to say something. She being gone, mo iKDu calls for another bowl of spiced wine, and wo, mightily pleased at the prospect- of another half hour of comfort, stretch our legs out afresh before the fire. Then Dun Sanchez, lighting another cigar and setting his chair toward us, says as he takes his knew up betwixt his long, thin fingers: learn ner part in a coupie oi aaysorso. "If she learn it in a twelvemonth, 'twill be time enough." is like to be in if our hopes miscarry." On which, still holding to my scruples, I says to Moll: BERWICK'S POSTMASTER OUT MANOIEI) ON THE RAILS. "That will we," cries he, "and God bless your worship for taking pity on us, for I doubt not you have heard of our troubles." Joseph Tompkins's Terrible Fate 011 Sat- "A twelvemonth," said Jack, going to his tankard again for understanding. "Well, all's as one, bo that we can get something in advanoe of our payment to keep us through such a prodigious study." urday Niglit. "Aye," says he, "when yonoan show that yon deserve better treatment." " 'Tis easy to say you would give the world, Moll, but I know full woll you would give nothing for all the comfort possible that was not your own." (J. H. Dorr Suspended as the Result Joseph Tompkins, a resident of the West Side, met a horrible death on the Lehigh Valley Road Saturday evening He had been around town daring the evening and had been drinking quite freely. About 10:30 he entered tbe Eagle Hotel with some companions and ordered something to drink, which the bartender refused to give him, telling him that he had had enough. Shortly afterward he left the hotel, saying that he was going to the paper mill, where a nephew, Eugene Bines, was at work. It la thought that in crossing the track he must have fell aDd that he lay there when passenger train No. 3, due at 11:18 came along and struck him. His body was horribly mangled, the head and parts ot the shoaldera having been almoet severed from thd rest of the body. Two young man from Oregon, walking along the tracks a few minutes after the train had passed up, disc Dvered the remains of the unfoitnnate man alongside the track, and called for help. Mr. Hinee, his nephew, recognised him at once, when an ambnlaao© wasxanmuffcwd and he was taken to his home on Ex-.ter street. Alderman English, in the absence of the ooroner, empannelled a jury composed of Ed. Small, foreman, Edward Evans, James Coulter, Michael Burns, George Andrews, »nd Thos. Walsh, who after ievlewlng the remains adjourned to meet this evening in his office at seven o'clock. Mr. Tompkins was 44 years of age, and was employed as a breaker engineer at Exeter shaft. He is survived by a wife and f ur children, two boys and two girls. His parents are both living and reside in Hughestown. of an Investigation. " Done," says Jack. "I'll show you that as quickly as yon please." With that he whips off his cap, and flinging it on the ground cries: "Off with your jacket, man, and let us prove by suoh means as heaven has given all which Is the honester of us two." And so he squares himself up to fight, but the innkeeper, though as big a man as he, being of a spongy constitution, showed no relish for this mode of argument, turned his back on us with a shake of the head, saying he was very well satisfied of his own honesty, and if we doubted it we could seek what satisfaction the law would give us, adding slyly, as he turned at the door, that he could recommend us a magistrate of his acquaintance, naming him who had set us in the stocks at Tottenham Cross. The other bowed his head and set a chair at the end.of the table for Moll, which she took with a pretty courtesy, but saying never a word, for glee did seem to choke us alL And being seated she cast her eyes on the bread hungrily, as if she would fain begin at once, but she had the good manners to restrain herself. Then his worship (as we called him), having shown us the chairs on either side, seated himself last of all, at the head of the table, facing our Moll, whom whenever he might without discourtesy he regarded with most scrutinizing glances from first to last. Then, the door flinging open, two drawers brought in those same fat pullets we had seen browning before the fire and also the pasty, with abundance of other good cheer, at which Moll, with a little cry of delight, whispers to me: "Nay,' says she, crossing her hands on her breast and casting up her eyes with the look of a saint; "what are all the fruits of the earth to her who cannot take them with an easy conscience? Honesty is dearer to me than the bread of life." "Now let us come to the heart of this business and understand ono another clearly." v. "I will charge myself with your expenses," says Don Sanchez, and then, turning to me, he asks if I have any objection to urge. INSPECTOR SAYS HE IS A DEFAULTER R. 8. Bowman, a Former Postmaster, In CHAPTER III. "I take it, senor, that you speak in metaphor," says I, "and that this comedy' is naught but a stratagem for getting hold of a fortune that doesn't belong to us." Charge of the Office Temporarily—Don- Well Known In Plttston, Having Form- imir-Wttrr *ELr« We polled our pipes from our mqnths, Dawson and I, and stretched our ears, very eager to Vuow what this businesr was the don had to propound, and he, after drawing two or three mouthfuls of smoke, which he expelled through his nostrils in a most surprising unnatural manner, says in excellent good English, but speaking mighty slow and giving every letter its worth: Then, as Jack and I are looking at each other ruefully in the face at this dash to our knavish project, she bursts into a merry peal of laughter, like a set of Christmas bells chiming, whereupon, we turning about to find the cause of her merriment, she pulls another demure face, and, slowly lifting her skirt, shows us a white napkin tied about her waist, stuffed with a dozen delicacies she had filched from Don Sanchez's table in coming down from her room. erly Lived Here. A big sensation was created in Berwick last Friday, when it became known that Charles Dorr, postmaster of that town, was charged with being a defaulter to the government. CHAPTER I uuum uu more, an 10 oeu iud ptmcee, which, after u night in the cage and a day in the stocks, did seem like a very paradise. But how we were to pay for this entertainment not one of us knew, nor did we greatly care, being made quite reckless by our necessities. It was the next morning, when we met together at breakfast, that our faces betrayed some compunctions, but these did not prevent us eating prodigiously. "For," whispers Red Herring, ".'if *■' - to be hanged, it may as well be c1- Don Sanchez calmly assented, as if this had been the most innocent design in the world. There being no plays to be acted at the Red Bull, because of the plague, and the players all cast adrift for want of employment, certain of us, to wit, Jack Dawson and his daughter Moll, Red Herring and myself, clubbed our moneys together to buy a store of dresses, painted cloths, and the like, with a cart and horse to carry them, and thus provided sot forth to travel the oountry and turn an honest penny, in those parts where the terror of pestilence had not yet turned men's stomachs against the pleasures of life And here, at our setting out, let me show what kind of oompany we were. First, then, for our master, jacjr uawson, wno on no oocamon was to be given a second place. He was a hale, jolly fellow, who would eat a pound of beef for his breakfast (when he could get it) and make nothing of half a gallon of ale therewith—a very masterful man, but kindly withal, and pleasant to look at when not contraried, with never a line of care in his face, though turned of 50. He played our humorous but he had a sweet voice for singing of ditties and could fetch a tear as readily as a laugh, and he was also exceeding nimble at a dance, which was the strangest thing in the world, considering his great girth. Wife he had none, but Moll Dawson was his daughter, who was a most sprightly, merry little wench, but no miracle for beauty, being neither child nor woman at this time; surprisingly thru, as if her frame had grown out of proportion with her flesh, so that her body looked all arms and legs, and her head all mouth and eyes, with a great tousled mass of chestnut hair, which (off the stage) was as often as not half tumbled over her shoulder. But a quicker little baggage at mimicry (she would play any part, from an urchin of 10 to a crone of fourscore), or a livelier at dancing of Branties or the single Coranto never was, I do think, and as merry as a lark. "Hang me," cries Dawson, "if I thought it was anything but a whimsey of your honor's." Some time ago Dorr's bondsmen became susph ions, and notified the postal authorities in Washington, with the result thtt this *aek an inspector arrived In Berwick to investigate the management of tbe office. He alleges that the postmaster Is a dofhulter In the sum of $1133 64. "What do you go to do tomorrow?" "I should like to know if we may carry out this stratagem honestly," says L "The Lord only knows," answers Jack, and Don Sanchez, lifting his eyebrows as if he considers this no answer at all, continues: "We cannot go hence without our stage things, and if we could I see not how we are tu act our play, now that our villain is gone, with a plague to him! I doubt but we must sell all that we have for the few shillings they will fetch to got us out of this hobble." The very hint of this put us again in a quake, and now, the snow beginning to fall pretty heavily, we went into the shed to cast about as to what on earth we should do next There we sat, glum and si lei*, watching idly the big flakes of snow fluttering down from the leaden sky, for not one of us could imagine a way out of this hobble [to bb continued ] " 'Tis like a dream. Do speak to me, Kit, or I must think 'twill all fade away presently and leave us in the snow." "Aye," cries Jack. "I'll not for cutting of.throats or breaking of bones, for any money." AN IMPORTANT DECISION. He immediately suspended Dorr from his position, and installed B S Bowman, a former occupant of the office as aottog postmaster nntil a new one la appointed by tbe President. "I can tell you no more than this," says the don. "The fortune we may take is now in the hands of a man who has no more right to it than we have." Conveying a Very Pointed Lesson to a lamb." Then I, finding my tongue, begged his worship woutd pardon us if our manners were more uncouth than the society to which he was accustomed. Lawyers. L'owever, Jack Dawson,-getting on the right side of the landlord, who seemed a very honest, decent man for an Innkeeper, agreed with him that we should give a performance that night in a cart shed very proper to our purpose, paying him half of our taking in payment of our entertainment. This did Jack, thinking from our late ill luck we should get at the most a dozen people in the sixpenny benches and a score standing at twopence a head. But it turned out, as the cunning landlord had foreseen, ♦hat our hanger was packed close to the very door, in consequence of great numbers coming to the town in the afternoon to see a bull baited, so that when Jack Dawson closed the doors and came behind the scene to dress for his part he told us he had as good as £5 in his pocket. With that to cheer us we played our tragedy of "The Broken Heart" very merrily, and after that, changing our dress in a twinkling. Jack Dawson, disguised as a wild man, and Moll, as a wood nymph, came on to the stage to dance a pastoral, while I, in the fashion of a satyr, stood on one side plying the fiddle to their footing. Then, all being done, Jack thanks the company for their indulgence and bids 'em good night. One of the grievous evils that has almost insensibly crept into the methods of the bar in our Stite, says the Philadelphia Timet, Is the violent and insulting abuse of witnesses in the trial of oases and the 11- o sntious abuse of both witnesses and litigants in arguments before the jary. True, this critioiem does not apply to the bar generally, but the few cases in which the methods of the shyster are adopted by lawyers make them more ooDspicuons and attract publio attention while ordinary trials do not. This abuse has been steadily growing in some of the oourts of our State, where self-respecting lawyers have at times considered the  halting It by formal condemnation from the prominent members of the profession "Holy Mother I" cries Jaok at length, springing up in a passion, "we oannot sit here and starve of cold and hunger. Cuddle up to my arm, Moll, and do you bring your fiddle, Kit, and let us try our luck a-begging in alehouses." "Nay," says Dawson. "Yourworship will like us none the worse, I warrant, for seeing what we are and aping none." "If that's so," says Jack, "I'm with you, senor. For I'd as lief bnstlea thief out of his gains as say my prayers any day, and liefer." It was not uitll Friday when Bowfan took charge of the offioe, that the trouble became generally known, and then it created no end of talk. "With our landlord's permission," remarks Don Sanchez dryly. Finding himself thus beworshiped on both hands, our good friend says: "Permission I" cries Dawson in a passion. "I ask uo man's permission to do what I please with my own. " "Still," says I, "the money must of right belong to some one " Dorr la well known In Plttoton. He came here from Tunkhannook when the Pittston Times was started, and for some time was foreman of that paper. Later he went to Berwick, and secured a position on the It dependent, of which K. S. bowman was then editor and proprietor, as well as postmaster. Dorr soon became prominent in the town and succeeded Mr. Bowman both as proprietor of the Ind-pendent and as postmaster. "You may call me senor. I am a Spaniard—Don Sanchez del Castello de Castelana " And then to turn the subject he adds, "I have seen you play twice.'' . And so we trudged out into the driving snow, that blinded us as we walked, bow our heads as we might, and tried one alehouse after the other, but all to no purpose, the parlors being empty because of the early hour and the snow keeping folks within doors. Only, about midday, some carters, who had pulled up at an inn, took pity on us and gave us a mug of penny ale and half a loaf, and that was all the food we had the whole miserable day. "Suppose he claims these things in payment of the mouey you owe him. What then?" asks the don. "We will say that the money belongs to a child of the same age as MolL " "Then it comes to this, senor,"saysl bluntly. "We are to rob that child of £60,000." "Aye, senor, and I should have known you again if by nothing but this piece of generosity," replies Dawson, with his cheek fall of pasty, "for I remember both times you set down a coin and would take no change " "We never thought of that, Kit," says Dawson, turning to me in alarm. "But 'tis well enough he has, for I observed he was careless enougli whether we found our thief or not That's it, sure enougli. We have naught to hoiDe. All's lost!" "When you speak of robbing," says the don, drawing himself up with much dignity, "yon forget that I am to play a part in this stratagem—I, Don Sanchez del Castello de Castelana." Advancement In I)enU*try. Don Sanchez hunched his shoulders cavalierly, as it' sueli trifles were naught to him, bat ind-'od t!.iour :iout his manner was most high and noble. "Fie, Kit, han't you any manners?" cries Jack. "What's all this talk of a child? Hasn't the senor told us we are but to bustle a cheat?" The latest invention in ttie dentistry line is the Clssp Plate. The mode of this clasp is for the puttng in of teeth without the old method of rubber plates, and It does away with considerate inconveniences that are connected with the old system. The principal feature of this plate is that when It la placed In position it will naturally set to the gums and the teeth will not either get out of place but fit more even. That la always one of the difficulties of old system, when the gums shrink a little new plate Is al ways compelled to be made in order to overcome the inconveniences connected with it. With that he drops his elbows on his knees and stares into the fire with a most desponding countenance, being in that stage of liquor when a man must either laugli or weep. OEORUE METZiiEH CAPTURED. Then at dusk, wet footed and fagged out in mind and body, we trudged baok to the Bell, thinking to get back into the loft and bury ourselves in the sweet hay for warmth and comfort. But coming hither, we found our nag turned out of the stable and the door locked, so that we were thrown quite Into despair by the loss of this last poor hope, and Moll, turning her face away from us, burst out a-crying—she who all day had set us a brave example by her cheerful, merry spirit. It will gratify the great maj Drlty of the lawyers who sincerely desire to maintain the dignity of their profession, to learn that the Supreme Court by a decision filed by Justice Green, May 30, 1805, in the case of Holden vs. Pennsylvania R#ilrrad Company, unanimously decided that tie abuse and Insult of witnesses by counsel, or the abuse of witnesses or litigants In arguments to the jury, furnish legal ground for an exception on the record to be re viewed by the Supreme Court. In this case the Supreme Court not only sustained the exoeptlon as based on good legal grounds, but reverted the judgment of the court below distinctly on the grounds therein ttated. The opinion In full is given In Advance Bepor s, Issued last week as supplement to the Legal Intelligencer. "But I would know what is to become of this child if we take her fortune, though it be withheld from her by another," says I, being obstinate and persistent in my liquor. Murder Arretted In Maach Chunk. Bowman's Accomplice In the Arabian And uow, being fairly settled down to our repast, we sani uo inolfe of any moment than I eon recall to mind till George Metzger, the accomplice of young Bowman, now In j*il under sentence ol death for the murder of the Arabian peddler Mike John, in South Wilkesbarre, has been captured and Is now In jail, aaya the Wllkesoarre News-Dealer. "Come, Jack," says I. "You are not used to yield like this. Let us make the best of a bad lot and faco the worst like men. Though we trudge hence with nothing but the rags on our backs, we shall bo no worse off tomorrow than we we had done (which was not until naught remained iit" the pullets and the pasty but a few bones and \ho bare dish), and we were drawn round the fire at Don Sanchez's invitation. Then the drawers, having cleared the tables, brought up a huge bowl of hot spiced wine, a dish of tobacco and pipes. Then don then offered us to sn ™.;e some cigarros, but we, not understanding them, took instead our homely pipes, and each with a bottle of hot wiue to bis hand and roasting before the fire, scarce saying a word, the don being silent beo»~ 3 his humor was of the reflective, grave kind (with all his courtesies he never smiled, as if such demonstration* were unbecoming to his dignity), and we from repletion and a feeling at wondrous contentment aua repose. And another thing served to keep us still, which was that our Moll, sitting beside her father, almost at once fell asleep, her head lying against his shoulder as he sat with his arm about her waist As at the table, Don Sanchez had seated himself where he oould best observe her, and now he scarcely onoe took his eyes off her, which were half closed, as if in speculation. At length, taking the cigarro from his lips, he says softly to Jack Dawson so as not to arouse Moll: "I shall prove to your conviotian," says the don, "that the child will be no worse off if we take this money than if we leave it in the hands of this rascally steward. But I see,'' adds he oontemp- And now, before all the company are yet out of the place, and while Jack Dawson is wiping the sweat from his face, comes the landlord and asks pretty bluntly to be paid his share of our earnings.were this morning." He was arrested last evening In Hauch Chunk bj Chlef-of-Pollce Liuth, and the authorities here were at once notified. "Why, that's true enough!" cries he, plucking up his courage. "Let the thieving rascal take our poor nag and our things for his payment, and much good may it do him. We will wipe this out of our memory the moment we leave hiscursed inn behind us.'' It seemed to me that this would not greatly advance us, and maybe Don Sanchez thought the same, for ho presently asks; Chief of-Pollce Lauth has had a description of young lieizger ever since the arrest of Bowman and his confession, but it was only a day or so ago that hs was notified by one of his policemen that a man answering Metzger's description was in town The young man was then shadowed oarefully for a few days, his past was traced, and last night Chief Lauth was convinced that the fellow was Metzger. Of Bed Herring I need only here say that he was the most tearing villain imaginable on the stage and off it the most civil spoken, honest seeing young gentleman. Nor need I trouble to give a very lengthy description of myself. What my character was will appear hereafter, and, as for my looks, the less I Bay about them the better. Being something of a scholar and a poet, I had nearly died of starvation, when Jack Dawson gave me a footing on the stage, where I would play the part of a hero in one act, a lackey in the second and a Merry Andrew in the third, scraping a tune on my fiddle to fill up the intermedios. CHAPTER H. Dr. A. D. Quick, the Luzerne avenue dentlat, la the sole agent for the Clasp Plate, and will place one of these plates free of charge, on any new or old set of t "eth on trial. If it will not prove satisfactory the plate to be returned. If it proves successful alter a fair test it can be purchased at a low figure. "Well," says Jack in a huff, "I see no reason for any such haste, but if you will give me time to put on my breeches you shall be paid all the same." And therewith he takes down his trunks from the nail where they hung. And first giv- Iwas taking a turn or two outside the shed—for the sight of Jack Dawson hugging poor Moll to his breast and trying to soothe her bodily misery with gentle words was more than I ocmld bear— when a drawer, ooming across from the inn, told me that a gentleman in the oherry room would have us come to him. I gave him a civil answer and carried this message to my friends. Moll, who had stanched' her tears and was smiling piteously, though her sobs, like those of a child, still shook her thin frame, and her father both looked at me in blank doubt as fearing some trap for further discomfiture. In this case Ex Attorney General H. W. Palmar, of Wilkeabarre, was counsel for the defense, and after John T. Lenahan had addressed the jary on behalf of the plaintiff, and before the charge was de livered by Judge Lynch, Mr. Palmer recited ta the Court the excessive abuse of witnesses by Mr. Lenahan and made formal demands for the withdrawal of a juror and the continuance of the case. This was refused by the Judge and excepted to by Mr. Palmer. Ac extravagant verdict was given by the jury and the case wm appealed to the Supreme Court, where a unanimous reversal was given. The case had been onoe tried before another Judge In the same and an excessive verdict In damages given, but the trial Judge promptly set the verdict aside. On the two points of reckless verdict by jurors and the lioentlous abuse of witnesses and parties by oonnsel, the Supreme Court in this case gives its unanimous judgment in terms so dear that none can misinterpret it "And what then?" "Why, senor," replies Dawson, "we will face each new buffet as it comes and make a good fight of it till we're beat. A man may but die once.'' He also does Porcelain Inlaid work, inlaid filling, crown and bridge work, and all kinds of work done in connection with the dentistry line. His prices are always reasonable and all work guaranteed. 21a3t The young man was very indignant at first over his arrest and demanded to kno w the cause. When told he was greatly af fected and became quiet at onoe. "You think only of yourselves," says the don very quietly. "And pray, wiving your senor's presence, who else should we think of?" According to Bowman's story it was Metzger who did the shooting. "The child above," answers the don a little more sternly than he had yet spoken. "Is a young creature like that to bear the buffets you are so bold to meet? Can you offer her no shelter from the wind and rain but such as chance offers—make no provision for the time when she is left alone to protoot her against the evils that lie in the path of friendless maids?" Bowman Bald In his confession that on the day of the murder came to his house and they went to Plymouth together. In the afternoon they came back and were sitting on a pile of ttea along the railroad when the two Arabians approached. Meizger called them over. AN INCENDIARY FIRE. We had designed to return to London as soon as the plague abated, unless we were favored with extraordinary good fortune, and so when we heard that the sickness was certainly past and the citizens recovering of their panic we, being by this time heartily siok of our venture, which at the best gave us but beggarly recompense, set about to retrace our steps with cheerful expectations of better times. But, coming to Oxford, we there learned that a prodigious fire had burned all London down, from the Tower to Ludgate, so that were we there we should find no house to play iu. This laid us flat in our hopes and set us again to our vagabond enterprise, and so for six months more we scoured the country in a most miserable plight, the roads being exceedingly foul and folks more humored of nights to drowse in their chimneys than to sit in a draft barn and witness our performances, and then about the middle of February we in a kind of desperation got back again to London, only to find that we must go forth again, the town still lying in ruins and no one disposed to any kind of amusement except in high places, where such actors as we were held in contempt. "Nay," says Jack stoutly. "Fatecan serve us no worse within doors than without, so let us in and face this gentleman, whoever be is." She thCyw» ug a white napkin ttuffed with a dozen delicacies. Two Barns, a Cow and Three Hogs Burned tuously, "that for all your tootherly love 'tis no such matter to you whether poor little Molly comes to her ruin, as every maid must who goes to the stage or is set beyond the reach of temptation and the goading of want" . in Oregon. Atone o'clockSatuiday morning two large barns on an alley In the rear of River s reet, Oregon, were destroyed by fire. One belonged to John M Nulty, and the other to his son, Patrick McNulty. The house belonging to the latter had a very narrow escape. The fitemen were on hand promptly In response to an alarm sent in fron. bo* 63, but they could do nothing, the water supply being inadequate. A cow and three hogs were burned to death and considerable other property in the burned building destroyed. It Is not known how the fire originated, but it is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. There waa no lnaurance on the buildings. So in we go, and, ail sodden and bedrabbled as we were, went to follow the drawer up stairs, when the landlady cried out she would not have us go into her cherry room in that pickle, to soil her best furniture and disgrace her honae, and bade the fellow carry us into the kitchen to take off our cloaks and change our boots for slip shoes, adding that if we had any respect for ourselves we should trim our hair and wash the grime off our faces. "Your daughter." 1 • Jack nods for au answer, and looking "Aye, and be hanged to yon, git!" cries Dawson. He said the Arabian was showing them pins when ltetzger palled the revolver and fired. Then they both ran away, and Bowman said he aaked Metzger, "What did yon do that fori" and Metzger said, "I don't know." He said tbat Metzger said to him (Bowman), " Let na aklp oat," bnt he (Bowman) refused. He said he did not see Metzger again until the following Friday, when Metzger came to him and said, "I am going away; good bye." Metzger never said or intimated that they shonld rob or kill any Arabian. He, Itetxger, was in the habit of carrying a re volver. down on her face with pride and tender Lie so be nut back with the ste: u of "God forgive me," says Jack humbly. And then we could say nothing for thinking what might befall Moll if we should be parted, but sat there under the keen eye of Don Sanchez looking helplessly into the fire. And there was no sound untn Jack's pipe, slipping from his hand, fell and broke in pieces upon the hearth. TJien, rousing himself and turning to Don Sanchez, he says: "Tell me, Mr. Poet," continues Don Sanchez, "do yon consider that steward who defrauds that child of a fortune is more unfeeling than yon, who for a sickly qualm of consoienoe would let slip this chance of making Molly an honest woman?" Little Moll tired not in giving us kind words of comfort. Ing them a doubtful shake, as seeming lighter than he expected, and hearing no chink of money, he thrusts his hand into one pocket, and then into the other, and cries in dismay: "Heaven's mercy upon us! robbed 1 Every penny af our money is gone!" So we enter the kitchen nothing loath, where a couple of pullets browning on the spit, kettles babbling on the fire and a pasty drawing fronf#he oven filled the air with delicious odors that nearly drove us mad for envy. And to think that these good things were to tempt the appetite of some one who never hungered, while we, famishing for want, had not even a crust to appease our cravings 1 But it was some oomfort to plunge our blue, numbed fingers into a tub of hot water and feel the life blood creeping back into our hearts. The paint we had put on our cheeks the night before was streaked all over our faces by the snow, so that we did look the veriest scarecrows Imaginable, but after washing our heads well and stroking our hair into order with a comb Mistress Cook lent us we looked not so bad, and thus changed, and with dry shoes to our feet, we at Jength went up stairs, all full at wondering expectation, and were led into the cherry room, which seemed to us a very palace, being lit with half a dozen candles—and they of wax—and filled with a warm glow by the blazing logs on the hearth reflected in the cherry hangings. And there in the midst was a table laid for supper with a wondrous white cloth, glasses to drink from and Bilver forks all set out most finely. Speaking of the verdict and the tendency to the recklets disregard of the rights of property by prejudiced jurors the Court say#: "Aye, answer that, Kit," adds Jack, striking his mug on the table, "I'll answer you tomorrow morning, senor," says L "And whether I fall in with the soheme or not la all as one, sinoe my help is not needed, tor if It be to Moll's good I'll bid you farewell, and you shall see me never again." "The Lord help her, senor, if wo find no good friend to lend us a few shillings for our present wants." ''The second verdiot was manifestly against the law and the evidence and should have been promptly set aside by the learned Court below. When juries are so palpably regardless of their duty, and of the sanctity of their oaths, that they permit their verdicts to be rendered In obedience to their prejudices or their sympathies, as Is too often the case, the trial courts should deal with them in a firm and deoislve manner and should reject their erroneous verdicts without the least hesitation or delay. Otherwise the administration of jaatlce is brought into public oontempt end dishonor." DROWNED AT PLYMOUTH. "Can you think of nothing better than such an idle story as that?" says the landlord. '' There hath been none behind this sheet but yourselves all the night." "Good friends are few," says the don, "and they who lend need some better security for repayment than chance. For my own part I would as soon fling straws to u drowning man as attempt to save you and that child from ruin by setting yon on your feet today only to fall again tomorrow." Robert Davis Meets Death in the Snsqne- "Spoken like a man," says Don Sanch«fc, "and a wise one to boot An enterprise of this nature is not to be undertaken without reflection, like the smoking of a pipe. If you put your foot forward, it must be with the understanding that you cannot go back. I must have that assurance, for I must be hundreds of pounds out of pooket ere I can get any return for it" METZQEB IN WILKKSB ABRB. hanna River. Mefzgsr was bronght to Wilkeebarre from Manch Chunk at noon Tuesday, by Constable Bauer, of Wilkeebarre, and Constable Lauth, of Manch Chunk. He waa given a hearing before Alderman J. J. Thomas, and after entering a plea of not guilty, was remanded to the jail for trial. Metzger is a physical and mental wreck. Even his relatives scarcely recognized him, and when he passed hta accomplice Bowman in the jail, the latter did not know him. Bowman Is considerably elated over the arreet of Metzger, hoping thertby to be released from the doom which hangs over him. Bobert Davis, a well known resident of Plymouth, waa drowned in the river at that place Sunday afternoon. Ha waa in bathing, and being unable to awlm much, sank wben he waa carried by the ourrent into deep water. He waa fifty yeara old and leavea a wife and three children. We oould make no reply to this, but stood gaping at each other in a maze for some seconds. Then Jack Dawson, recovering his wits, turns him round and looking about cries, "Why, Where's Red Herring?" "If that be so, senor," says I, "you had some larger view in mind than that of giving temporary relief to our misery when you gave us a supper and Moll a bed for the night." So we, with our hearts in our boots, as one may say, set out again to seek our fortunes on the Cambridge road, and here, with no better luck than elsewhere, for at Tottenham Cross we had the mischance to set fire to the bam wherein we were playing, by a candle falling in some loose straw, whereby we did injury to the extent of a shilling or two, for which the farmer would have us pay a pound, and Jack Dawson stoutly refusing to satisfy his demand he sends for the constable, wbo locks us all up in the cage that night, to take us before the magistrate in the morning. And we found to our cost that this magistrate had as little justice as mercy in his composition, for though he lent a patient ear to the farmer's case, he would not listen to Jack Dawson's argument,which was good enough, being to the effect that we had not as much as a pound among us, and that he would rather bo hanged than pay it if be had, and when Rod Herring (seeing the kind of Puritanical fellow he was) urged that, since the damage was not done by any design of ours, it must be regarded as a visitation of Providenoe, he says: "Very good. If it be the will of Providence that one should be scourged, I take it as the divine purpose that I should finish the business to soourgo the other," And therewith he orders the constable to take what money we have from our pockets and clap us in the stocks till sundown for payment of the difference. So in the stocks we three poor men were stuck for six mortal hours, which was a wicked, cruel thing indeed, with the wind blowing a sort of rainy snow about our ears, and there I do think we must have perished of cold and vexation but that our little Moll brought us a sheet for » oover, and tired not in giving us kind words of comfort. his pipe a little curl that had strayed over her eyes. She was not amiss for looks, with her long eyelashes lying like a fringe upon her cheeks, her lips open, showing her good white teeth, and the glow of the firelight upon her face, but her attitude and the innocent, happy expression of her features made up a picture which seemed to me mighty pretty. He lift* it to hit lipa and kistes iL "If you mean him as was killed in your play," says the landlord, "I'll answer for it he's not far off, for, to my knowledge, he was in the house drinking with a man while you were a-danoing of your antics like a fooL And I only hope you may be as honest a man as he, for be paid for his liquor like a gentleman." The same opinion, after sustaining the right to demand the withdrawal of a jnror on the ground of the licentious abuse of witnesses and parties by counsel and to exoept to the same on the record says: The unfortunate man formerly resided in Pittston. He was a brother of Mrs. Thomas G. Morgan, of the West Side. Don Sanchez assented with a grave inclination of his head, and, going to the door, opened it sharply, listened awhile, and then, closing it softly, returned and stood before us with folded arms. Then, in a low voice, not to be heard beyond the room, he questioned us very particularly as to our relations with other men, the length of time we had been wandering about the country, and especially about the tractability of MolL And, being satisfied with our replies—above all, with Jack's saying that Moll would jump out of window at his bidding, without a thought to the consequences—he says: "Have no fear of me *r of Moll turning tail at ft soarecrow. We are no po- ets. " "Reflect upon it Argue it out with your friend here, whose scruples do not dislike me, and let me know your determination when the last word is said. Business carries me to London tomorrow, but you shall meet me at night and we will .close the business—aye or nay—ere supper." DEADLY BOYS' PLAY. "The matter being before us in tbl-i case In a legitimate manner, we are bound to say we consider the aselgnmert well taken. The comments of oounsel complained of were of the most off -naive and reprehensible character, not sustained by any evidence in the oause and jaCtly deserving the severe censure of the Court We can die oover nothing to palliate them in the leaot degree, and inasmuch as there was no other efficacious remedy available to oorrect the mischief done, it was the plain duty of the Court to withdraw a juror and continue the oause Many Judges are in the habit of doing this upon proper occasion, and thar. practice deserves to be widely extecd ed, so that counsel who indulge in the habit of making such comments may be properly admonished that they cannot do so except at severe oost to their clients and themselves. The assignments of error are all sustained. Judgment reversed." Lidford Love, Aged Ten Years, Accidentally Killed by a Companion. At Mehoopany, Monday mo.n'.ug, Fred Doty, aged thirteen, was ~playlng Wild !7eet with several boy companions. He had a revolver, and told Lidford Love, aged ten years, to open hh mout 1 while he plaoed the muzzle of the revolver In it. The boy did as he was directed, and when the revolver was In his month it exploded, killing him instantly. None of the boys knew the revolver was loaded. That settled the question, for we knew the constable had left ijever a penny in his pocket when he clapped us in the stocks. "Where is her mother?" asks Don Sanchez presently, and Dawson, without taking his eyes from Moll's face, lifts his pipe upward, while his big thick lips fell a-trembling. Maybe be was thinking of his poor wife as he looked at the child's face. AN EARLY MORNING WEDDING. Thomas D. Shea and Miss Teresa Maloney "Well," says Jack, "he hasour money, as you may prove by searching us, and if you have faith in him 'tis all as one, and you may rest easy for your reckoning being paid against his return."With that he opens the d3Cr and gives us our conge, the most noble in the world; but, not offering to give us a bed, we are forced to go out of doors and grope our way through the snow to the cart shed, and seek a shelter there from the wind, which was all the keeper and more bitter for our leaving a good fire. And I believe the shrewd Spaniard had put us to this pinch as a foretaute of the misery we must endure ii we rejected nia aes.gu, ana so to snape our inclinations to hla. A prettv wedding waa eolemnlzad at St John's Church at 5:45 lueeday morning, when 4ies Teresa C., eldest daughtei of Mayor Maloney, was married to Thomas D. Shea, E?q , Df Nanticoke, a jwpular member of the Lnzerne bar The oeremony which united tbeee two well known yonng people in the holy bonds of wedlock was eolemnlz d by Very Rev. Futaer Finnen, asei*t:d by Fathers Qrtve and Kelly, with a nuptial mass. The bride looked charming in a beautiful welding drees of dark crepon. She was attended by her sister, Mies KatOryn Q Maloney. The groom's beet man was Chae. A shea, his br* ther, and the ushers were M. N. Donnelly and M. J. Maloney, the latter a brother of the bride. The ceremony was private, only the im mediate relatives of the contracting oonple betbg in attendance. After the ceremony the bridal p*r»y were driven to the heme of the bride's parents on North Main street, where an elaborate wedding break fast was served under the direction of Uateress Hochr'chter, of Wilkeebarre The spacions parlois of the mansion were beautifully adorned with flowers and potted plant i by Florest Harris, of the Weet Side. United in Marriage. "Has she no other relatives?" asks the don in Hie same quiet tone, and Jack shakes his bead, still looking down, and answers slowly: "His worship will be down ere long," says the drawer, and with that he makes a pretense of building up the fire, being warned thereto very like by the landlady, with an eye to the safety of her silver. The landlord went off, vowing he would take the law of us if he were not paid by the morning, and we, as soon as we had on onr clothes, away to hunt for Ned, thinking that maybe lie had made (M with the money to avoid paying half to the landlord, and hoping always that, though he might play the rogue with him, he Mould deal honestly by us. But we could find no trace of him, though we visited every alehouse in the town, and so back we go, crestfallen, to the Bell, to beg the innkeeper to give us a night's lodging and a crust of bread on the speculation that Ned would come back and settle our accounts, but he would not listen to our prayers, and so, hungry and thirsty, and miserable beyond expression, we were fain to m;ike up with a loft over the stables, where, thanks to a good store of sweet hav, we soon forgot our troubles in sleep, but not before we had concerted to get away in the morning betimes to escape another day in the stocks. "Only me." "There's a comedy we might play to some advantage if you were minded to take the jwrts I give you and act them as | direct." Then after another pause the don asks: "What will become of her?" Farmers Take Notice. "Can you tell me his worship's name, friend?" I whisper, my mind turning at once to his worship of Tottenham Cross. And that thought also must have been in Jack Dawson's mind, for without seeming surprised by the question, which seemed a strange one to me, he answers reverently, bnt with a shake in his hoarse voice, "Almighty God knows." "With all my heart," cried Dawson. "I'll play any part yon choose, as to the directing, you're welcome to that, for I've had my fill of it. If you can make terms with our landlord, thote things in the yard shall be yours, and for our payment I'm willing *o trust to your honor's generosity. " We have for sale at the Wyoming Valley Lumber Company yards, West Pittston, Canada H*rd Wood Ashes of the beet quality. Parties wishing to nee a few tons for the spring crop will do wi-11 to call on 0. F. Watrous, Jr., at the Lumber Co.'e office, who will sell you any quantity required trona a bushel to 20 tous. Special arrangements can be made for car load lota. B. F. Mathers, Gea. Manager, "Not I, were jwu to pay me,'' says he; " 'tis that outlandish and uncommon. But for sure he is some great foreign grandee." Happily the landlord, coming opt with a lantern, and finding us by the chattering of our teeth, was moved by the consideration shown us by Don Sanchez to relax his severity, and so, unlocking the stable door, he bade us get up into the loft, which we did, blessing him as if he had been the best Christian in the world. And then, having buried ourselves in hay, Jack Dawson and I fell to arguing the matter in question, I sticking to my scruples (partly from vanity), and he stoutly holding t'other side, and I, being wanned by my own eloquenoe, and he not less heated by liquor (having taken the best part of the last bowl to his share), we ran it pretty high, so that at one point Jaok was for lignting a canuic uiu'u; n—. C• his pocket and fitting it ont like men This unanimous decision of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has evidently been made thus emphatic by the growing tendency to lioentioui abuse of (he pjwers of counsel In the trial of cases, and in the reckless abuse of the prerogatives of jarois in trials where personal prC j idiee often insensibly plays its part. In all the rec ords of our judicial tribunal of last resort these evils have never before been grappled with herolo purpose, and the . ff -ct of this unanimous jadgment will to; only be to recall the bar to a j ast appreciation of Its dignity and hinder reckless verdi sts by jurors, but it will, as stated by tbe learned Justice, prevent the administration of justice fiom being "brought into publio oontempt and dishonor." This awed ns all for the moment, and then Don Sanchez, seeing that these reflections threw a gloom npon us, turned to me, sitting next him, and asked if I would give him some aocount of my history. whereupon I briefly told him how three years ago Jack Dawson bad lifted me out of the mire, how since then we had lived in brotherhood. "And, "says I in conclusion, "we will continue with the favor of Providence to live so, sharing good and ill fortune alike to the eud, so much we do love one unother." Eo could tell us no more, so we stood there all together wondering, till presently the door opens, and a tall, lean gentleman enters, with a high front, very finely dressed in silk stockiugs, a long waisted ooat and embroidered waistcoat, and rich lace at his cuffs and throat. He wore no peruke, but his own hair, out quite close to his head, with a pointed beard and a pair of long mustachioH twisting up almost to his ears, but his appearance was the more striking by reason of his beard and mustachios being quite black, while the hair on his head was white as silver. He had dark brows also, that oyerhunp very rich black eyes. His nose was lonn and hooked, and his skin, which was of a very dark complexion, was closely lined with wrinkles about the eyes, while a deep furrow lay betwixt his brows. He oarried his head very high, and was majestio and graGioiul in all his movements, not one of which, as it seemed to me, was made but of forethought and purpose. I should say his age was a)tout BO, though his step and carriage were of a younger man. To my eyes he appeared a very handsome and a pleasing, amiable gentleman. But, Ixjrd, what can you conclude of a man at a single glance, when every line in his face, of which he had a score and more, has each its history of varying passions, known onlv to himself and secret phases of his life I "As regards payment," says the don, "I can speak precisely. We shall gain £50,000 by our performance. " "Fifty thousand pounds," says Jack, as if in doubt whether he had heard aright. Dm Sanchez bent, his head without stirring a line in his face. Kingston, Pa. The annual reunion o£ the Sutvivors' Association, Second Penna. Heavy Artillery, will occur at Scranton on August 27. Mtmbe ■ and their wives will be given a free excursion to Honesdale on the 28ch. Two hoars will be sp?nt a*; Far view. Baslnees meeting will be held at 2 o'clock p. m. Tneeday, August 27. Campfire will be held In the evening, at which Col. B F. Winger will give a brief history of the old regiment, and S. W. Clark will do the same for the Provisional Bid Pa. Heavy Artillery. Dawson took up his tankard slowly and looked in it to make sure that he was none the worse for drink. Then, after emptying it to steady his wits, he says again : To this Jack Dawson nods assent. "And your other fellow—what of him?" asked Don Sanchez. Accordingly, before the break of day, we were afoot, and after noiselessly packing our effects in the cart in the misty gray light, Jack Dawson goes into the stable to harness our nag, while I as silently tako down the heavy bar that fastened the yard gate. But while I was yet fumbling at the bolts, and all of a shake for fear of being caught in the act, Jack Dawson comes to me, with Moll holding of his hand, as she would when our troubles were great, and says in a tone of despair: "Fifty thousand pounds, if iiol more, and that there be no jealousies among us it shall be divided fairly among us— as much for your friend as for you, for the child as for me." "Fifty thousand pounds." At 5 o'clock the constable unlocked us from our vile confinement, and I do believe we should have fallen upon him and done him a mischief for his paina there and then but that we were all frozen as stiff as stones with sitting in the cold so long, and indeed it was some time ere wo move our limbs at all However, with much ado, we hobbled on at the tail of our cart, all three very bitter, but especially Red Herring, who cursed horridly and as I had never heard him curse off the stage, saying he would rather have staid in London to carry bricks for the gentry than join us again in tliis damnable adventure, etc. And that which incensed him the more was the merriment of our Moll, who, seated on the side of the cart, could do nothing better than make sport of our discontent. But there was no malice in her laughter, which, if it sprang not from sheer love of mischief, arose maybe from overflowing joy at our release. I replied that Jted Herring was but a fair weather friend, who had joined fortunes with us to get out of London and escape the plague, and how baviug robbed u« we were like never to see his face again. But little by little we cooled down, and toward morning, each giving way something, we canto to the conclusion that we would have Don Sanohea shoD\ us the steward that we might know the truth of his story (which I misdoubted, seeing that it was but a roguish kind of game at best that he would have us take part in), and that if we found all things as he represented them then we would accept his offer. And also we re solved to be down betimes and let him know our determination before he set out for London, to the end that we might not be left fasting all the day. But herein we miscalculated the potency of liquor and a oomfortable bed of hay, for 'twas 9 o'clock before either of us winked an eye, and when we got down wo iearnea tnai i*Dn naucnez naa oecn gone a full hour, and so no prospect of breaking our fast till nightfall. The bride Is a graduate of Mt. St. Vincent's Academy atd a popular young lady who has hosts of friends in this community. The groom is a graduate of Fordham and Columbia colleges, and la highly respected by his associates in his chosen profession. Justice Strong May Recover "Pray God this part lie no more than I can compass," says Jack devoutly. "You may learn it in a few hours— at least your first act. " The latest Information received from Justice Strong, retired, of the Supreme Court of the United States, at Lake Mahonk, N Y., Is that a decided change fur the better has taken {lace In his condition and that the physicians gave hie family as suraccee that the venerable jurist may reoover despite his ag*, 87 years. "And well for him if we do not," cries Dawson, rousing up, "for, by the Lord, if I clap eyes on him, though he be a Dick Turpin, he shan't escape the ijiost horrid beating ever man outlived." P. F. Bithermel, the well known artist, who has been slowly dying for some time past from a cancer in the mouth, breathed his last at his home near Pottstown last week. Mr. Bo'hermel's most celebrated picture Is the " Battle of Gettysburg." The woTk is a mammo.h one and was painted for tie State of Pennsylvania and new hangs in the State libiary at Hanisburg. He was a native of Luzerne county. Artist Botliermel De:»«l. "And mine?" says I, entering for the first time into the dialogue. The don hunched his shoulders, lifting his eyebrows and sending two streams of snurko from his nose. The groom's gift to the bride was a handsome diamond pendant. The bride's prts ent to the bridesmaid was a beautiful ring of topaz and pearl, and the groom's present was a set c f scarf pins. "Give over, Kit. We are all undone again. F(.t our harness is stole, and there's never another I can take in its place." The don nodded his satisfaction at this, and then Moll, awakening with the sudden outburst of h«r father's voice, gives first a gape, then a shiver, and looking about her with an air of wonder smiles as her eye falls on the don, whereon, still as solemn as any judge, he pulls the bell, and, the piaid oomiug to the room with a rushlight, he bids her take tlie poor weary child to bed, and the best there is in the honse, which I think did delight Dawson not less than his child to hear. "J scwee know what. nart. to m've von yet," says he. "To uD honest, you are While wo were at this stumble, out comes our landlord to make sport of us, "Have you found your money yet, friends?" says he, with a sneer. "Nay, but you must write him a part,"says Dawson stoutly, "if it be but to bring in a letter. That I am determined on. Kit stood by us in ill fortune, and he shall share better, or I'll have none of it, nor Moll either. I'll answer for her." not wanted at all in the play. " We cff-Dr one hundred dollars reward for any caw of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catirrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co , Props , Toledo, O. How's This? The presents were many and costly, and included a cheek for several thousand dollars from tie father of the bride. , We, the undersigned, have know F. J. Oheney for the lesi 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry ont any obligations made by their firm The newly wedded couple left by way of the D. L. & W. railroad, on a wedding trip to Boffalo, and will spend about three weeks un the lakes in that vicinity. They have the best wishes of a host of friends who wish them many years of happy and prosperous wedded life. "No," says Jack savagely, "and our money is not all that we have lost, for some villain has filched our nag's harD ness, and I warrant yon know who he is." Distressing kidney and bladder disease relieved In six hours by the "New Great South American Kidney Cure." 1 his new remedy is a grC-at surprise and delightful physicians on account of its exceeding promptness in relieving pain in the bladder, kidneys, back and every part of the urinary passages in male or female. It relieves retention of water and pain in Dwt, quiok relief ard cure. This is your rt*m«dy, Sold by J. H. Houok's, druggists, Plttatoo. Belief In Six Boars. He saluted us with a most noble bow, and dismissed the drawer with a word in an undertone. Then turning again to us he said, "I had the pleasure of seeing you act last night, and dance," he adds, with a slight inolination of his head to Moll. "Naturally I wish to be better acquainted with you. Will it please yon to dine with me?" "There must be uo discontent among us," says the don, meaning thereby, as I think, that he had included mo in his stratagem for fear I might mar it from envy. "The girl's part is that which gives me most concern, and had I not faith in my own judgment"— Presently comes Moll, all fresh and pink, from the house, and falls to exclaiming upon the joy of sleeping betwixt clean sheets in u feather bed and could speak of uothing else, saying she would give all the world to sleep so well every day of her life. Coming at dusk to Edmonton and finding a fine new inn there, called the Bell, Jack Dawson leads the cart into the yard, we .following without a word of demur, and after putting up our trap, Into the warm parlor we go and call for ■upper as boldly as you please. Then, jrheo we had et»uoi and drunk till we Then Moll gives her father a kiss, and me another according to her wont, and drops a civil courtesy to Don Sanchez.West St Tranx, Whoksals Druggists, To- "Why, to be sure," returns the other, "the same friend may have taken it who has gone astray with your other l»elongings; but, be that as it may, I'll answer for it when your money is found your harness will be forthcoming and not be* ledo, O Waldlng, Ktnren & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O HallV Catarrh enre is taken internally, acting directly npon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price, 75 cts. per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free. A dose of Dr. Fowler's Ext. of Wild Strawbeiry brings immfdi»te relief in all casts of cramping pains of the stomach or bowels It Is nature's specific for summer complaint in all its forms. "Give me thy hand, child," says he, and, having it, he lifts it to his lips and kisses it as if she had boon the finest lady la the land. __ _ I could not hif| been mora duinfonndfd had an angel asked me to s^tty "Set your mind at ease on that score," fried Jack. "J warrant our Moll shall "Eh," whispers her father in my ear, "you see how luxuries so tempt the nrmr child uiH slut Uiiui ai a bad aha