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I THE MERCHANT WEST DURHAM AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. Circulates largely in the Townebips of, Darliq.g ton, Clarke a..nd Cartwright. It is & common plat;form., open to the free diacuasion of all que najn which the general public are concerned. TERll8. ·- ' Steam. Job Pri:a.tingO:t!ce KING STREET, BowMANVILLE. Seventy-five .cents per &nnu ll' ir d vance. The 'Merch&llt' a.nd ' Obser ver,' $2°00. RATES OF ADV i!.RTIBINQ-, AN.D GENERAL ADVERTISER. VOLUME YI. BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, MARC'J:i 5, 1R75. NUMBER XXIII. One column 45 per annum. Half do. 25 - ~ u Quarter dv. J5 . 11 · Transient adverth!emente,5 cts per line first w sertion, and 2c. per line, each Bubaeauent on e. POSTERS, I;'AMPHLETS, CIRtJULARS, BILI, HEADS CHEQUES, NOTES, HANDBILLS, LABELS, CARDS, TICKETS, &c., &c., &c. EXECUTED IN FIRST CLASS STYLE POETRY. Found Dead. BY MRS. FRANCIS D. GAGE. GEAND ·TRUNK RAILWAY! Trains wffl ieave B~wman,;ille Sta.Hon · llowmanville: time, as followa: GOING WEB'l!. GOT,o."{G- EAST. S,. · HILL'S I am weary, worn nnd old, On the pa.vement ha"d an<l bare, Local . .7:22, zt.m. ! Express , .. 8:20 a..m ~xpress·. 9 27 a.m. 1Yiixed .. 4.05 .P·ll'.1 Mixed ..... . 2:30 p.m. ! Local ..... 7:55 p .m ExpreJ!s .. .. 9:00 p. in. I Express ...·. 9.00p.m '* This train r:uns every morning- of \\_ eek ' 1\.Iondays excepted. _ L NEW Shivering in the west \\-h1d cold, Night fr(l!lt shivering my hair. 0 rum sell er ! kt me in. J,et me tdt beside youT fire, Give me jnat one sip of gin, I will nothmg more desire- The Jollowing trains now slop at Saxon y for paasengers:Local going west, due at . ... 7:30 a. nl Mtxed going east, due at... ... 3:40 p. m Mixed going west, due at ....... 2:55 p. m 7:45 p. m Local going east, due at... Montreal title. Fall &:Winter Dry Goods ---:o:- See, my garments a.1e so thin. 0 1 urn-seller! let me in. Once you used to open \\ ide, ~"1th a welcoming hand, your <locr, A LARGE LOT OF Greeting 1ne with warmth and pride ; For old tin1e'1:1 sake, I implore, Good rum-selbr ! let me in. LADIZS' and GEN'l'S' FU:RS VE' RY Bowmanv1lle. Nov. 1st, 1873. 1 CHEAP. I had money 011et1, and home, 'Vife and pretty babies three ; They are gone i what ha.s become Of tltetn ? I rea1ly cnunot see. 0 rum·seller ! let me in, Some sa.y !'vo broken her h~a.rt, (Me ! she was 1ny joy of joys 'l'hol I ditl not tlo my par-I, That the poor house holds my boys. 0 ruin-seller ! let me in , J. CHAPLIN, DIALER IN n Fruit ancl bniamental 1'1·ce.'J, Seeds, Bui.b1> 1 Flowers, &c., d.:c. Mr . C. guarantees to fUl'Iliah nothing bu t First-class trees, and tt·ue to na.nrn. ...\.ddrcB s, P . O. Box 155. Bowmanv1llv. Jan. 22nd, 1875. I have given you all my wealtb, Strength, character, all, allWife, children, home and health ! I am tottering- I shall fa.11 ! 0 rum-seller ! let 1ne in. So the old man walked and pled, So he shivered in despair; Iu the morn they found him dead On the pavemeDt, cold a.nd bare. No rum-aeller took Wm in. b]>-ly-ml7-o4. Drs. Reid & Boyle. SURGERY---SILVER S'I' eif" Night c&lla answered at ]Jr., Boyle's o Id Sur gery. or at Dr. Reid's r-esidence. Bo'Vmanville, Jan. Uth, 1875. 16-tf. . Prof. J. Ruse, R A.DUATE of Baxter Uni \·ersity of Musi c Friendship, .N C\V Y oi.·k. Tea.cher of Pia.Do and Organ, cultii.·atiou 0 Voice. Singing. Tho:rough Bass, Hn.rmony Composition, &c. Darlington, July 16th, 1874. 41-ly, LITERATURE. WHY T.110.MAS WAS DISCHARGED. A SEi\ ·SIDE SKETCH G :e. · PJ!ILA. TE, TAILOR : )[ADE l~ BY GEORGE Al!NOLD. Gentlemen's & Boy's Garment s THE 1'EWEST STYLES. Bowmanville1 July, ZT, 1869. R R LOSOOMBE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY, &c 0.FFICE,-Over McClung's Stol-e $a.me fla t s.s J. ]of. Brilliacomb'i! Dental Rooms. Bown:anville, Oct. 27th, 1868. ly MARRIAGE 18St.t:LJ lH' LICENSES ~.o-- ROBERT ARMOUR MARRIAGE LICENSES. l.ll Darlu1gton, (near Bcthesdu. ChurchJ 1 duly authorized to iSBue Marriage Licenser!. Dad111gton, No\-, 19, 1374, mS-tf, ~ 1{R JOHN H EYNON, Lot 7, Gtb Con ' Stock Folly Assorted~ ---:o:---- ' - "\V. F(. 'IJOWMANVILLE, vV I L :S O .N' PIANOS. OR(Jl11VS, . MELODIANS ancl SEWING M:AO HlNES General Agent for GOODS ~AT RIGHT PRICES ! A'f Raymond Sewing Machine A SPECIALITY. Tastructinn given, and Inatru1ne11te and ?.fa chines guaranteed, Bowmanville. June 18, 1874, J. & W. J MoMurtry & Co. SIGN OJ? rrH~ GOLDEN LION, Sept. 25th, 1874. BOW.MANVILLE. AUCTIONEERS Fm· the T.ov.Ynship o/ Darlington H. T. PHILLIPS, HAMPTON. Pron1pt attEntlou given to sales,.. &c, on re:tson able terms. ~ - .1" (Concluded.} The other guests of the house remarked the new position of affu.irs, and passed whis· pers about, to the effect that the girls had at last succeeded in g·tting their fj,h on hooks rnstead of in a net. No suitors could have been more devoted. tbac our friends. It seemed as if each now be·towed upon the choson one all the attentions he bad hitherto given to both; and whether they went boating, sketching, or strolling upon the sands, they 'vere the very picture of a partie carree of lovers. Naturally enough, as the young men become n1ore in earnest, 'v1th the retic~nce common to my aex, they spoke Jess freely and frequently on the subject. Once, bowever, after tho usually pleasant afternoon, 1 Salisbury ventured a few wor<ls. ' I say, we're a couple of lucky <loge ! Who'd have thought, now, aw, that our - i;u1nmer waa goiq_g to turn out so well 1 l'1n _ iire I didn't, How do. you get along, Charley, boy 1' ·Deliciously. Smooth sailing enough. wa,n't it a good idea, though, to pair off! ,I'm just ae happy as a \1ee tn clover. You seem to prosper, too, heh ' Couldn't ask anything different. Nothing but devotion, aud all that I'm delighted. I say, ,;hen are you going to pop 1' 'Oh, I do!!'t know. It is only a m atter of form. Sooner the better, I suppose, and have it over.' ' I was thinking of next week. Whot do you say to a quiet picnic down on the rocks, and a walk afterward l We can separate, you know, and do the thing up sy;tematic· ally.' 'All right, I will, ii you will.' ' That's another bargain. I JJotice there isn't much doubt al::out the result, thout:h. 1 ·Hardly!' The maidens gave vent to their high spuits by chasing each other among Lhe rocks, gatheiltJJ.:' sbella and SC'a weed tor the conslrl1ct1on of those epben1eral httle orna.. 1nents-fau, but fra1L-111 which the sex delights, e.ingu1g, laughing, quoting poetry, attitudinizing upon the peaks and ledges ot the fine old boulders,-tuos::y and weedy and green with the wai-h ot fl thousand storp1s, and staine~d with the n1ultitudinouc;1 d yes of mineral oxidizntion,-and in brief, behaved themsel vee with all the charmrng abandon that eo well beconlt!S yonug gLrls, set free, by the entollraqe of a holiday ra1nble, tron1 the buckram aud clear-starch ol soCJa.l et1q uette. Meanwhile Ned a11d Charley smoked the pens ive cigar of preparation in a sheltered cornt!r, and gozed out seaward, dreaming and seeing nothing. Ere long the breeze and the romp gave the young ladies not only a splendid color and sparking eJeS, but excellent appetites also, The baskets nnd hamperd \\-·ere speedi· ly unpacked, the table-cloth laid on a broad,' flat stone, so used by generations of BrantHouse picnickers, and the pa1ty fell to. Laura's beautiful hair, a little disordered, swept her blooming eheek, and cast a pearly ah·dow upon her neck. Her bright eyra glanced archly out from under her halfraised veil, 11nd there WLLB so1netbing inex· pressibly naive in the freedom with Vi'liicb she ate, taking a bird's wing in her little fingers, and .boldly attacking it with her white teeth. Notwithstanding all the mawkish nonsense that has been put forth by sentimentalists concerning fe1n1n1ne eating, 1I hold that it is one of the nicest thmgs in the world to see a pretty woman enjoying the creature comforts i and Byron hiinself, had he been one o! the picnic party, would have been unable to resist the admiration that filled the ·ouls of Burnham and Salisbury. Hattie Chapman stormed a fortres s of boned turkey with a gusto equal to that of Laura, and made highly successfu 1 r11ids npon ct>rtain outlying salads and jellies. The young meu were not in a very ravenous condition ; they were, as I have said, a little nervous, nnd bent their energies principally to admiriog the lu<lies and cortnetting with pickled oysters. 'Vhen the repast was over, with n1ucb accompanying chat. and laughter, N ed glanced significantly at Charle), and proposed to Laura tba· they should walk up the beach to a place where, he enitl, there were ' so me pretty rocks and things, you know.' She consented, and they marched off. Hatue also arose, and took her pfl.rasol, as if to fol· low, but Char1e-y reniaiued e.eatf'd, tracing 1nysterious diagrams upon the table·cloth With bis iork, UDd lookinE sublirnely nn· conscious. "Dear Boys,- The next tilne you divert all nlght, unless n vert.l1ct was reached, Rn<l er, and cousequently nephews and uiecea of your1=:elves by thr<Jwing dicl:' for two youn~ 1adiefl., \\'e pray ynu not to do so in the presence of n. vnlet who is upon terms o[ iuti macy with the maid of one of them '~7 ith many sincer~ thallks lor the u.musement you have given u~ 1 -oltr.n when you least suspected it,-we bid you a lastrn~ adieu, and ren1ain, w1 th the best wishes. Brant House HATTIE CHAPlfAN. Wednesday LAURA. Tau&sTon. > It ls all the fault of that, aw, that confounded Thurnas !1 said Ned. So Thon1as was d1sclrnrged. r Wm. Bariion, ENNISKILLEN. ~hle.s Pl'Otnptly a.ttended t0 on r~asouable terius. Bo'bert Young; SUJlGEON, Grarlu~tc of V the Untari~ etednary College, By ap· pointment Veterinary Surgeon to the Weet Durham and Darlington Union Agricultural Societies . Agent for the Live St<ick Branch of the .Beaver and Toronto Mutnn.l li'ire In11urance Co Veterinary ~Iedicines consta.ntly on hand. 4 Call~ fron\ the country promptly- attended to. . Office :-One door t'ast of R. 1\-Ianing's }l~~r· n1ture Wareroom. ~sidence over S. Burden's store, cornet' of Ku1g and Scugog Streetsi BoWlnanvillle. mltf l<'1'ERINA~ A close ob.server ruigbt have seen that the gentlemen incl'cnsed their --attentions a little from th it time. The objects of their devotion perceived it, and smiled more and more graciously upon them. The day s?t !or the pic~ic arrived duly, and was radiant. It P.ains me to conte.es that my heroeo were a trifle nervous. Their apparel was tuore gorgeous and 'vonderful Iha~ ever belore, and Tbo~as, who w~' anxious to be off, conrtiag Miss Cbapnian 8 lady's maid, found bis masters dreadfully exacting in the matter.of ha1r-dressing, At length, ho'."ever, t_he toile~ was over, and · Solomon m have been . all lus glory . . would . . vastlyastonrshed at fiudrng hmisell 'arrayed a.a one of tfteae.' The boat lay at the river, receivir,ng large qqantitiei of supplifB for the trip, stowed by Thomas, under the supervisioll of the grim and tarry skipper. When all was ready, the young men gingerly eacorted the fair co1upanions aboard, the lines were cast off, and the boat glid·d gently down the bay, leaving Thomas free to fly to the sn1art presence of Snean Jane, aud to dra1v glow· iug pictures .for her of a neat little porterhouse in the city, wherein t~ey ·hould bold supreme sway, be hapvy with each other, f.l.Ild let roorua up·stairs for single gentlt;· men. The brisk land~b1eeze, the swelling sail, the ftutte1ing of the gay little flag at "the gaff, the musical rippling of water under the counter, and the spirited motion of the boat, combined with the bland air and pleasant sunshine to inspire the party with much vivacity. They bad not been many minutes afloat befo1e the guitar-case wns opened, and the girl's voices-L~ura's so, prano and Hattie's contralto-rang melodiously over the waves, mingled with feeble attempts at bass accompaniment from their gorgeous ~uardians. Before these vocal exercises wearied, the skippei,- hauled rlown his jib, let go his anchor, and brought the craft to, just off the rocks ; and bringing the yawl alongside unceremoniously plumped the girls down into it without giving their cavaliers a chance fur the least display of agile courtliness. Rowing ashore, this saine tarry per. son left them huddled npon ·he bear.b with their hopeil, their hampers, ,their etnotions, and the1r baskE:ts, and returned to the vessel to do a little private fishing on bis own oecount ',i!I wanted. LUMBER. HE Subsci·jber respuctful~y requt'sts all parties iudebtcd to him for Lumber 1 to settle their a.c_oounts \Yithout further delay. And he horHby informs builders, and othe rs in want of lumber, that be is i;:re~red to supply them at ea.ah ra.tes for Cash Henceforth he interlds to do a cash Uursiuess. '!'HOS. SMITH, Lot ] 91 6 Con. J)arlingtou. 1873. m8tf T ALLAN LINE STEAMSHIPS. pon. Tickets, or inkrmation, apply to W. A. NEADS, Agent. l~owma.nville ·.lune LiVe?'f!OOl London, and <Jlasyow 9th, 1871. tf-30 NEW My New Goods have and the asscrt..nent will be found · Fancy Goods,Berlin Wools,&c. Hrs. Bason, Begs to inform tho public, that she hn.s just ro. oeived a. eplen<lid new n:ssortment of .Fancy Goods, Berlin \Vools, etc, which she will sell at as low price a~ they can be bought for else.vbere H~MJ;=>TO N, NEARLY ALL COME ~ro HA.ND AND STAMPING done on SHORTEST NOTICE f)ct. Sth',1874. 2-31nos. W. BUNNEY,8 U IL DER., ETC., Beg& to return thanks to bis friends for t lie aup p;Jtt...he has received the past tv.·o years and hopes, by continued strict personal attention to business, aud working at the m.ost reasonable prices, to enstll'e a continufl.nct of -public patronage, W. B. is prepaz-ecl to build houfles, etc., on the most modern style of Etrcbiteeture, Job· bmg promptly attended to. Plans and specifications got up on application, on the inost rea'..r:-Bowilen's. PRICES MOD<ERAT,E. 'rhe Public are 8<Jlicited to call !Lnd see for themselves. Hampten. Sept. son,ablt, teiws, an<l of evel'y description. Office and Sh()p, Onta1io Strel·t, nearly opposite b-Ir. Bowmanvillo, Decr. 24th, 1874. rn-ly. 8th 1872 H. ELLIOTT JUN ' up """ ' Sha'n't we waJk, too 1' Hattie asked. ' Oh, why, the tact is,' satd he, hceitantlJ·, 'I-I sprained n1y ank le, getting out of that confounded boat; so I don't feel tnuch like exercise jnst no"1.' 'fbe young girl's face expl'essed great concern. ' That is too bad ! Why did yoa not tell us of it uofor· 1 Is it painful I I'w so sorry !' 1 N-no,-it dosn't hurt much. I <lare say it will be all right in a minute. And then -I'd juRt as soon sta~· he1e-with you-as to walk anywhere.' Tt.is, v.ery ten<lerlv, with a little sigh. Hattie sat down tit,'"f\.in, and began to talk to this factitious criPple, in the pleasant, pul'ri.ng way some damsels have, about the joys of the se,.·shore, tho happy summer that was, alas! ?.rawing to a close,-ber own enjoyment of lif'e,-nnd kindred topice, -till Charley saw an excellent opportuuity to interrupt with some aspiration~ oJ his own, wh1ch he au.rred, must be realized be· lore bis lifo could be considered a satislac· tory success. If you have ever been placed in analogous c1rcumstances, you know, of course, just about the sort of thing that was being said by the two gentlemen at nearly the same moment. Ned, loitering along the sauds with Laura on his arm,-and ()barley, l stretched in indolent picturesqueness upon I the rocks, with Hattie ·ittrng beside him. If you do not know fron1 experience, ask any candid lriend who has beeu through the form and cere1nony of an orthodox proposal. When the pedestriaus returned, the two couples looked very hard at each other. All 'll' 'd were am1 1ng au d comp1acen t bu t <l evo1 f t ' · I o any s range or unust~a 1 ex~ress1ons. ndeed, the countenance is flUbJect to severe education, in good 1:1ociety, tba.t one o.In1ost always looks smiling nnd complac~t. Demonstration is not fashionable, and a n1an must preserve the same den1eanor over the loss ot a wife or a.glove-button, ove1· the gift of a heart's whole derntion or a bundle of ci~ars Under all these visitations, the cotnplacent sruile 15 io favor, as the deurest, u1oet serviceable, and convenient fron1 non· con1 ru htalisu1. The sun was approa cbing the lJI ue rauge of misty hills that bounded the marn-land swa1np~, by this time ; so the skipper was signalled, the dinner-paraphc.i·rialin gather-: ed up, and the party were soon en route for boruc once more. \Vhen the young- ladies were s~fely in, Ned and Char1ey n1et in their 1oon1, and each caught the other look· ing 1\t him steadily. Both smiled. 'D1<l I give you time, Charley I' asked N cd ; ' n e came back rather soon/ 'Ob, yea,-plenty of time.' 'Did you, aw, did you pop 1' 'Y-yes. Did you 1' ' We!l-yeR.' '.And you \\'ere'-' Rejected, J,y Jove I' 'So \vaa I !' Tb.e day following this disastrous picnio, the baggage of Edwid Saliabury and Mr. Charle~ Burnham WM sent to the depot at Wikabaeset Station, an<l they presented themeielves at the hotel-office with a req1.1est for thei r bill. As .Terry <>wa; 11e deposited their key upon ii.a hook, he drew fortb a 8\llall tri cornered uillett lrom the rigeon- _ hole beneath, nnd presented it. 'Lclt fur yon this rr1orn1ng, r.{entlernen. 1 It was directed to both, and Charley re~1d it over NP.d's shol11dcr, it ran thue: 1 finally yielded, went into court, and through their own cousiuo. But tl)e nephew of a the fon~man, rendered a verdict of ' Not cousin-blood relationship bolding~are guilty.' secon(l cousins i hence Deckt!t 's childreu Thi· judge made no ntten1pt to couceul hold that relationship toward· each other. bis surprise and disgust at a verdict so con· Decker's wives are half-sisters to the child· trary to the testimony in the case, and u.rter ren of their own si8ters-in ·law to their own giving all of thern a severe repriruc1.nd 1 re- father, and aunts to their own halt-sisters l fused to have the verdict recorded, and sent Now, if the relationship were half-blood them back to their room. The mght was tb.rougho11t, the Canona of Descent--At spent in endeavvring to convince the fore- least in Indiana-would exclude them; but man, but no impression waa ma.de, When as it doubles on both sides, they would morning came, the weary men saw no eaeape probably be included. Hence the two Mrs. frou1 their unple1J.Sant position but in agree- Deckers are (rn law) their aunts, while Clara ing, and again determined upon a verdit of D. and Lucy D. Young are legal grandA Murderer on a Jury. not guilty, and pledged themselvea to ad- n1othei:_s to their niecee, a.nd the two sets of here to it, whatever the judge might say or children are respectively cousins, o.nnte, BY LA'IYRENCE I.1ESLIE. think concerning it. and neice·, and goodness know& "bat beIn the yMr 1725, a mau named William The judge,"' expected, was exceedingly sides. Harper was placed on trial in E ssex Couuty, indign·nt at the fiuding, but he was power'Elder Allsop, of Sandy Station, married Engla.nd, for the n1urder of San1ud Cunma.n. less to change it, and the accused was dis· a widow and her oldest daughter, having His rP.putat1on, previous to tins charge, bad charged. at the oame time a young daughter by a forbeen thnt of 11n 11oncst, industrious man, 'rhe conduct of the foreman was l!loon mer wife now happi,ly deceased, All this temperate in bis habits, krud in disposition, fully know!! to the court, and the sheriff family live in one house. The daughter of and trnthful in character. waa summoned to give any information be thiB olde·t wife is half-sister of hio aeconol The facts developed by the witnesses on could conccrni,n~ him. The character he wife, and to the second wife'a children ; altrial showed that' a neighbor in pll.Ssing a gave the man was so highly favorable that so aunt to the second wife's children, and field discovered the body uf the murdered the judge found his curiosity much excited, consequently her own aunt in-law ! The man, who had evidently come to hi· death and he directed him to bring the man to daughter of the deceaoed wile is hall· sister from "'onnds inflicted by the pton[i;s of a his private office, as he was determined to to all the other cbildren,legal gmnd-daugh· ·pading fork. A fork of that description, know what honest reason coulrl hav· induc- ter to one etep·mother, legal lialf-sister to with blood upon it, was found lying upon ed hiru to struggle so hard for a verdict the other, and con;eq11ently aunt-tn·law to the ground beside the corpse, with the in- which was so palpably against reason and herself. If they keep on as they have beitials 'W. H.' cut on the handle, and wae evidence. gun,tbey will eventually produce a hoy who subsequently indentified as uclonging to On his being introduced, the judge iuvit- will be his own grandfatner. Harper. Tracks were also found about the ed him into his pnvate ruom, and frankly 'Bishop Samuel Smith, of Brigham City, murdered man, unquestionably made by told biru that be felt as though bia conduct has ail:: wiveR; the first two no relation to Harper's baots 1 and 1t was further shown on the jury had been without excuse or pal.. him i the next two bis cousin11, and the last that some time previously there had been liation, but from the good character which two his nieceB,daughtera of his own brother! considerable ill-feeling between the accused be bore among his neighbors, he was uu .. 'lhus is he father and second cousin to two and the deceased. Early iu the morning able to decide that bis judgment had been of his familiee, and father and granduncle of the day of the murder, the accuE1ed was purcbaaed, and he therefore, as a matter of to two more. The children of his first drei-sed in a certain suit of light clothes, but curiosity, desired him to give any reason, if four wive1 are full cousins to his last two when arrestl:'d a few lioursafter he \'i'a.s in possible, tor his singular and apparently un· wives, and half-brother and sister, as well black. He denied baviug ehanged bis gar- reasonable stnbbornnees. The juryman re- as aecond cousins to thosA wife's chiJdren. mouts, but upon · search of bis house, tbe ·ponded that he had good and Aufficient The further , relationship is difficult to nrisetng amt; all bespatterrd with blood, was reasons for the course be bad pursued, and trace,' found hidden away in the interior ot the if bi· honor could but know them, even he str,1w bed. would consider them valid, and acknowLincoln's Assassination. The accused brou~bt the witnesses i11to ledge that he could not, a.a a conscientious cour\, and when asked by the judge whai man, lia ve adopted auy othe? ; but aa he THE DEATH or EnwAnn SPANGLER, ONE testimony he proposed to offer, he replied had heretofore locked them in hie own Or THE OoNSPIRATORs. that he 'had no witnesses but God and his breast, and was uncter no cowpult1ion to disFrom The Port Tobacco ( Jlfd) Independent. own conscience.' close them now, he would insist, before such Edward Spangler died ot the residence of On being questioneJ. he made the follow- n. revclat!on, that bis honor should aolemn· iop explanation , ly pledge hunaelf to keep the secret he was Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, near Bryantown, in Charle· county, Md., on Sunday r.iRht last. He s·id that he owned a field adjorning about to reveal iuviolal>le. that rn which the body wasfuund. On th e Thie the judge agreed to, only atipulatinR Spangler wa· arrested with Herold, Atz"erfat11l ruor.n1ng be went e,)rly to hit work, Lhat If the revelat1oua should involve ma.t- ott, Payne, O'Laughlin 1 Arnold, Dr. Mudd and in passing thronish the fidd he sa.w a/ ters ot publi~ 1uterest, he should be allowed and Mrs. Surratt, aud tried by niilttary comman Ising near the path, as if dead or to mnke any use ot thein he chose, should mission for the conspiracy, which resulted drunk, and he it It himself bouud to 1:1Cl:l he .survive the ot.her. Thia was acceded to, ~ in the murder oi Pr~t:lident Lincoln in April what the man's condition re,Jly was, and to au<l the loreman made substantially the !ol- 1865 Bouth, the leader of the con·piracy waa killed 1n an attempt to capture hitv i offer hiin succor if lie ehonl<l stand in need lowtn!{ contes~nou: of it. H e examined bim, and found hin\ iu He said that the man who hl)d been found Herold, Atzerott, Payne and Mrs. Surratt a. dytn!:{ condition, witb two frightful wounds dead, and tor whose death H~rper ha.d been were hanged in the yard of the old peni· on bis breast, tro1n winch a lutge 11 uaHtitv un triul, waa th<1' tithe man of the district, teutiary building on the 1th of J ul ,v, 1865; of blood wa· dr,charged He c.iretnll_y aurl had tht1t mururng called upon him aud Dr. Mudd, Arnold and O'L,rngh li 11 were raised the wound ~ d mnn nncl earnestJy en- t"X<1.l'tt't1 au uureasulJal.ile amount of tithes, seritenced to the Dry Tortugag for life, and 1 deavorcd to learn from him the natne of hie aud couducted hlWtielI generally in a toost Spangler to 6 y-ea.rs imµdsonn1entand lnbor at the same place. O'Laughlin died at the The dying m an attempted to uujust and arb1Lnary manner. When re· assnilant. speak but the words dieJ in a boirid ruttl<", 1nous1ated w1th he not only replit~d with DryTortugas dunng a yellow fever epidemic, the blood guaht:d fron1 bis moutb, and 11 1, abusive and scurrelous language, but in his and about the clos~ of' Preaident Johnson's fell backwur<l deold rage bud actually attack~d 'him, the jury- administration, Mudd, Spanglcr,and A1nold The shock caue.ed by the sudden death, 1nun, with a fork, and iuflict6d wounds, the were pardoned, tho petition 1or the clemency he said, wns in<lescdbable. He uo sooucr scars o! which be exlubited to hia lordship. of the President being signed by the offieers found bimselt alone with the dea<l, than he As his assailant apperu:ed bent on mischief and men st!t.tioncd at the Dry ·rortugas, a. thought of the altercation whtch had tukcn and he 'vas unarmed, he clo~ed with him,' num her of whom were attended by Dr.Mudd place between th e m, and the fear tbat he und wrested the !ork from his hands. lt and nmsed by the other prisoners mentionmight be accused of the mur.ter took entire was in the strug:gle to recover his weapon ed through the fever. Dr.Mudd on returnpossession of h1 m. In l:ua terror he rnn that the deceased received the wounds w h.ich ing to Maryland, took up bis re·idence on his farm, where he has continued to reside. o.wa.y, thoughtlessly taking with him, the causl!d his death. dead man's fork and leuving behind his The shock to bis feelinga on dicovering Sam Arnold returned to Baltimore, as · did own, upon the handle of which the imtiala what he bad done, he eaid he conldnot, and Spangler. The latter, about two years ago, of bis name were carved. His clothes, he therefore would not attempt to describe. went to live with Dr. Mudd, bet\veen whom found, were besmeared with blood, nud he He was satisfied that no human eye had and Spangler, great friends!.ip existed. changed and secreted them, that they ruight been a witness to the tragic affray, but hie " Spangler waoa native of Pennsylvania, but not be a witneils agatnst hun, 80 great "'·as first impulse was to deliver him&elf to the learn~d his trade of corpenter rn Baltimore, his fear of being ace.used of the crin1 e. t1.uth0ritil!S. \Vhen he considered, however, where he workod for many years under Mr. This story the accused told with every how long be would probably be confined, Jao. GifforJ, a rn ..ter builder. Mr. Gilford, appearance ot candor, and with th e niost awaiting ttiaJ, aud how bia crops and other on taking the position of stage carpenter nt solcn1n appeals to Heaven to witness the iutereata would be likely to suffer during Fo1us' theatre, employed Spangler aa an truth of every worol be had l!ttered. True, his confinement, he conclurled not to do so. ass1Stant. Spangler was rather a atout built he said, he bad previously denied all know'\Then, however, Harper wns arre.eted for wan, and was about 55 yeara old when he ledge of the aff·ir, and partrcularly denied the crime, he fully resolved to surrender died, It wa· alleged that he took charge of the chnnging of his clothing; but it was himself, and consulted an eminent lawyer the hon of Booth on the night of the assnot guilt, but a very natural lcsire to avoid concerning the matter. After conoidering aseination, but tnrned the animal over to an ndmissson wlncb would bo considered the case in all its ..,pects, be waa advised to · Peanut John' to hold,and also that he had incompatible with bis innocence. False- do all in bis power to secure the acquittal arranged with Booth to have a way kept boort, he said, hat! only coli firmed the su·- of the accused, but if he should fail to ac- open in the theatre for him to eeeape. p1cions against. him, and ·very effort he harl complisb it, he was then to declare his own n1ade to conceal his inrJocent connection guilt, in order to save .hlr. Harper.' How TO CARRY AN ox To MARlllT.-Tbis with the alfarr had only deepened tbe genIndirectly, be contributed freely to the from a correspondent at Riviere du Loup, eral conviction ot his guilt: but now he defense, caused his family to be amply pro- Canada: When the Grand Trunk R'y of Canada spoke the truth, Of comae he was not vided !or, and finally succeeded in getting believed. himself on the jury, and becommg its fore- wao completed, in 1860, many of the farm ers bad never heard ot,m11cb lesa seen, a railTbis wns all the prisoner's defense, and man. The rest o! tb.e story has been told, but it got repo<ted around that passentbe Judge subrnilteri tqe case to the jury, Mr. Harper uever knew who wa& the per- gers could travel by it, and even cuttle. A making a very strong charge agUin""t the petrator of the myaterioua murder for which backwoodsruau who w·e indebted to a counaccused. He pathetically enlatgcd on the he came so near me~ting au ignominoue try mercbaut, was pusMd by the latter for payment ~f t~e ·!'1ouvt due, and the only atrocity of , the i;r101e, ~nd laid no little death, uor ausper.ted the.cause of Mr. Fenn'e means of hqmdating the debt was by takiug stress on the positive proof of guilt, not· kiuduess to himself and family, aa he died a fat ox to the QueLec market. For this purwithstandi11g the prisoner's' as.several io~s a few years after the trial. At bi,. death pose he tied the ox to the back of bis cart,and of iunownce. The accu sed, he said, had l<'cnn adopted two of the children and pro- drove to the railway station, a distance of tdne n1iles. On 8Urveying the train and ~e indeed cooked up a plausible story, but in vidcd liberally for the others. icg an iron railing aruund the p]atlorn1 of doing so be b ad admitted that he had preFrtteen years after the confession abovo the hind c.r, he concluded that that was the viously lied, and thus imp~achcd his own recorded, Edward Fenn died, honored and pla~e to tie hi·.ox,whrch be accordingly did, statement. He charged the jury to ray uo respected by the whole community. After t-llk111g a place In a second-class car hhnaelf attention to that statement, but proceed !)is death the judge made public the facts in forward. Pre·e11tly the train began to moYe oft' slowly .. The _apecd increa11,ed ; quicker to deliberate only on tl.Je sworn testiuiony this n1ost singular case, and added another and quicker It went. Tire poor man got very intimating that they niight find a verdic~ chapter to the 'Curiosities of Crime.1 fidgety, tbespeod otill increasing, uutil large clrops of &weat becan1e visible on his brow. without ll;!aving their seats. By this time the cond actor had reached his Upon this, the fo1ernan ot th~ jury, Edcar to collect the tickets, Nearly out of The Mysteries of Mormon warJ Fenn 1 nrOSt! and sugge~ted to the j ndge breatb,the man ran to h101, ~xclaimiug, Relationship, that as this waa a case ot life and dt:ath, "~iy dea1 conductor, my ox will never lJe A Salt able to keep this pace; it ie not posar'>le." they 'vould prefer to retire for consulta.tion, Lake correspoudeut of the Cin· "Your ox! Ke·p up to this paco ! What and they 'vere accord1n~ly lock ed up. cinnatti Commercial sends the following : - do you mean1 I don't und~rstand ,~au. Ha\·e It \\as about two 0 1 clo~k 1n the afternoon · E very now and then one n1ay see in the yoti oxen on hoard 1" · when the jury went out, nnJ as the case \Vfl.S pre .. s so1ut problt:m on relationship. As, "Not on baarJ, of course. I tied him to plain, no difficulty was apprehended i11 ar- for iuatancl!, that one, wb~n a young man the railifJg of the bind car." ~·You tied your ox to tbj railing of the l"lfing at a \.·et'dict, so the cou1t concludt:d rr~arriee o widow and his father marries hind cart \\'J'ho tuld yon to do so 1" to sit until' they retu111cd. her daughter-what relationship do the "No one; but that'is the way we always Hour after hour pa:,sed, and nothing was restilting children bear two each other 'I No do in the country." beard from the jury. At nir.e o'clock the doul>t these problems are merely the proOf course the qenductor conld not stop bl8 train before reaching the next station judge's put1ence was exbausted, nnd he disduct of an ingenious brain ; but natuie is when, needleas to say, on looking for the' patched nn officer Jor infor1nation concerniog always ahead ofnrt in the matter of snr- ox, they found ottaobed to the rope " the cause of the delay. prises, and some caees in Utah, within my peirof horos, with a small ix>rtion of the Tha messenger soon returned ancl private. knowledge, have given rise to conaanguin- neck. ' ly iuformed the judge that eleven of the jury eoua puzzles that will hothe· the "aster i'n Mr. Be"l;h .:ould scarcely call this crnelty "' to anima.11, u it wu not intended. had been for conviction from the first, .but Cuancery if the estates ever· get into court. The humane conductor made a collection the for"n1an stubbornly refused to acquiesce, 'Consider the following:- Brigham among the p ..aengcrs on the ·pot, realizing and insisted, in the face of all the evidence, Young married two sisters of Charlie Deck· a larger amoun~ than the ox would have d D k brought at m·~ket, which he presented to that the accused was not gmlty. er, an ec er ruarried to daughters of the qrs·t-fallen for ,,icr, who imrnedratelv .&Ir. Fean 'vita a 1na11 ot strong n1ind and Brigham by other women. All have child- returned home, Vo\\ ing he would nevir much persuaei ve power, while bis aseoc1ates ren. Now, the offspring of Olara Decker have oxen hken to mt1rket by rail again. He ~·ere endowed wich these qualities to a Iesa ~oang and Lucy Decker Young are cousin· ~~s kept hi· word, and to t~is day he leads degree · tbau usnal. 'rhey also became of C~arlie Decker's children. But the lat- is ox t? market be~im<l his own cart.;. EDITOR. D!IAWER, ID Harp<r'a J,fagamt~ alarmed nt the pro·pect' of being kept out ter nre grandchil\lren of the former'· fotlr- for M~rc~, j ""Y· . ) .} I '