Daily British Whig (1850), 17 Feb 1914, p. 6

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fully solved. Jenny Hickey in 1903, and her death marked ing of a connecting link with conspirators. Hickey --- 'the maiden : dead woman, and to her hter, she related before she died story of the slaying of John A. p on 'Maple Island, in the St. wrence river, which follows: the summer of 1865, when the ' ti 4 is of 'the peo- young i % stranger and tly A southerner, arrived at ver village of Fisher's Landing, ich is only a féw nmiflés from Clay- N.Y. He bought a rowboat, e tools and provisipns, and with ie luggage he rowed away up the fver. Nobody on the mainland saw m again, but soon afterwards the Map! pyton, had an ifthabitant, and that had built for himself a rude log n. 'They sold him butter, vege- 8 and milk, and digong them he Was known ag "the hermit" because hie did not tell them his name. 'Among the farmers who sold him things was Peter Rusho, whose land Jay on Grindstone Island, one of the gest of the Thousand. Island group, and Jenny Hickey, who was dpirymaid at the Rusho farm, used ; take the eggs and other supplies 'over to the stranger on Maple Island. friendship sprang up between them, and the recluse and Jenny nt many an afternoon rowing and ishing along the river. . © Jenny was curious about thé hand- 'some stranger and his reasons for 'leading fo lonely a life, and she begged him to allow her to see his eabin 5 When she visited the place she plied him with questions, and, in te of his evident intention to say | thing of his past, Jenny drew from n the information that he had fought in the war under Stonewall aekson and Lee. He showed her a book containing' Confederite war pongs and pointed out one, a lament on the 'Death of Jacksen," of which he said he was the author. It was subscribed - "John A. Payne"--and Jenny had his secret. "The hermit became alarmed and charged her never to mention it, as it;might cost him his lite if his idea- tity becanfe kndwhi. Sinee Jenny knew so much; however, the man her pictures of his friends. One of them was John Wilkes Booth. "He was my dearest oe her Jenny asked him 4F sho might Keep a Betmit Tafuied, and then ap, ; 1 rgot girl stil deld_them in her hands and finally © ae th m away with her. A few days later Jenny was called flomeé to Kingston by the death of ] Jone after a long voyage J rai.) same time, they were mar- ried immediately and she never went * stone Island. She tréasured the lit- tle photographs of Booth and his trend Payne, and her husband grew : cause Jenny was obstinate and would not tell him whose it'was or how dhe got it. [One day Me threw both pic- 'rélaxed 'and told her more, showing 'the pictures of himself and Booth, but father, and her sajlor lover re- back to Peter Rusho's, on Grind- ous 'of the latter's picture be- tures into the fire, but Jenny reached {struck by Hghtning, z= OUR PARCELS POST IN CANADA. As it was expected and low it has happened, being a humerous picture by Cartoonist James Mrise, show- ing how the temporary restriction to the six-powwd limit has kept both ¢ he postman a into the flames and snatched them out, but not before the picture of her hermit had heen partially burned away. Along the river there was a groat exeitement that September. A party of Southern men traveling up and down the river inquiring for a man answéring the description of the Maple Island stranger. One day they were directed to his hut. 'That night 4 fearful thunderstorm raged, and trees about all the islands were At midnight .a blaze was noticed on Maple Island, and the mainland folks supposed the hermit's: cabin had been struck and was purning. 3 : In the morning a party of fisher men rowed across to see if the lonel man needed help or shelter. They found the hut in ashes, and dragged away near.the water's edge lay the dead body of the stranger, with a dagger sticking in his heart. Upon his breast 'were cut three crosses, shaped like the leiter X, placed in the form of a triapgle. This was the secret symbol of the Knights of the Golden Circle during the Civil war and the Ku-Klux during reconstruct- tion days. But to those who found the body these crosses had no significance. They supposed He had been murder- ed for the eanvas bag of gold pieces which they knew he had in his pos: gedsion, for he paid them for hjs provisions from death it could not be found. The corgher"s verdict was that he was murdered and robbed by persons un- known and the body was properly buried on the island. Of 'the seven Payne brothers who {were among the Lincoln conspirators {only one, John A. Payne, has never been accounted for. The theory now is that Payne succeeded in getiing the reward of gold which had been deposited in Toronto, Canada, by the Knights of th Gelden Circle, then known as the Knights of the Blue Gauntlet, to be paid over if the pre- sident was removed, and then hid himself from his defrauded brethren and k'lied by them, Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days Druggists refund mopey in PAZO OINTMENT [fails to cure Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles, First application gives relief. 50c. has bought from W. A. Smith the property on Mill street, Picton, now occupied by the company for the manufacture of creamery butter. At the inaugural 'meting 'of the Picton Collegiate board CG. Edward Boulter was elegted chairman and €. !B. Allison vice-chairman, Someone finds out that tea or coffée drinking is the and ills--that : Steady nerves and a clear brain are often impossible to the regular tea or coffee drinker unsuspect od eause of various aches it and after his | on the island, where he was found | a The St. Lawrence Dairy company | nd the disor haopy. | THE VILLAGE OF ATHENS | Principal Gordon to Address Wo- man's Institute Athens, Feb. fof the adjoining school section, Hard Island, have orggnized a social club for the winter Months, meeting was held on the evening of the 10th inst and proved very en- joyable, about thirty-five being pres- ent. A 'valentine tea WAS held ™n St. | Paul's Presbyterian SHUPEH TREE even- ing and was very successful. - Miss Irene Earl ig giving a valentine party this evening. About tweniy-five have | been invited, : On Wednesday evening a party of {high school students, ehaperoned by jone of the high school teachers, took {& snow shoe tramp. On the return, refreshments were sefved at the high chool hy the three ladies of the staff, A very large party was given on | Thursday evening at the home of Wim. Lorne «Stacy, .2 number from joutside points being 'included in the invitations. Bee-keepers' "agsocia- ition ig being held this afternoon. !On the evening of* Web. 25th, Prin- {cipal Gordon, of Queen's, Kingston, { is to deliver a lecture under the aus- [ pices of the Women's Institute: The ! new piano purchased. by the "Wo- !men's Institute; © 'arrived yesterday {and is installed In their néw room in {the town hall. John Biglow and family have leased the Foley house {on Wellington street. A Course in agriculture is being held in the high | school under the management of the {ioeal agricultural representative, W. Smith, B.S/A. | cent contest conducted-by J. P. Lamb & Son at the local drug store. Ice lin large quantities and of good qual- ity is being brought in from Lake | Eloida. A. H. Philpott, Brockville, | is expected here next week to fill his {orders for plano tuning. The pat- | rons of J. Henderson's creamery held { their annual meeting on the 7th inst. |" The township assessor, George Robinson, is at work. 14.--+The neighbors Their first | | | Miss Gladys Sexton and Miss Ger- {trude Cross were winners in the re- | Mrs. J. H. Me- | Parties The Davis Dfydock company has several contracts on hand and 'this flourishing industry is now working full strength, with a possibility of baving to increase the number of employees. The work is now pro- gressing rapidly upon the new tug last week the inking would have been ail finished on the hull. "The Pavis company received a contract last week from Ruben Mil- ler, of Pittsburg," Pa,, for a new steam launch forty-seven feet long by nine foot 'beam, to be used by Prof. J. A. Brashear, of Pittsburg. Both of these gentlemen summer in i Muskoka, near Beaumaris, and the | Davis vomipuny has already built for Dr. Brashear two steam yachts and five for Mr. Miller. Last fall Dr. Brashear's yacht was taken down to Gravenhurst to be placed in storige there with other boats for the win- | ter, but late in the fall a five broke out which destroyed the entire lot, land Dr. Brashear's yacht was | byrned. The boat-is to be ane of very fine design, the hull to be finished of |eypress, and the cabin of mahogany. Toe power will be suppliéd by a fore 'and aft compound ' engine, and a | Davis safety waterproof boiler. The boat is to be delivered to Muskoka by July 1st. Prof. Brashear expects | to visit Kingston the latter end of | March, after he has delivered a lec- jture on astronomy at Ottawa. | The Davis company has also a {contract from the Brompton Paper company, of Quebec, to construet the | keel, stem, stern post, deadwood and { frames of oak for a boat forty feet long, ten foot beam and four and orie-half feet in depth. This makes the fourth steam tug the Davis com- pany has supplied to the Brompton company within the past six. years This hull is te be delivered by April 1st also LIVE STOCK MARKET The Prices Paid at the Union Stock Yards. Union Stock Yards, Toronto, Feb. 16.-- Receipts, were larger. 11 cars, 1710 cattle, 700 hogs, 33 sheep and lambs and 20. calves Cattle--Trade was active for good te choice cattle, but slow for ail of comnion. and medipm grades. The loads only of choice quality reported at $8.50. Choice butcher's steers, $5 $8.50; good butcher's steers medium butch- er's steers $7 to §7.50; common butcher's steers, $6.75 to $7; choice butcher's heifers, $8 to $8 com- mon butcher's heifers, $7.25 io $7.75; choice cows, to $7.50; | 800d cows, $6.25 to $6.75; canners, 1 $5.75 to $4.75. Feeders and stockers--NReceipts were light, not enough to supply the (demand. Choice steers, $6.75 $7 3 'medium steers, $6.25 $6.50; stockers, $5.60 to $6.25. Milkers and: springers-- Receipts were not equal to the demand, and | prighs ranged at $65 to $95 each, bulk sold at $70 to $85. Calyes -- Only 20 on sale which was fot enough to make a market, prices were very firm. Choice veals $10.50 to $11.50; common to good $6 to £9.50 Sheep and lambs---Reeeipts mod: erate and prices firm. Sheep, $56.60; to $7.25; enlls and rams, $4 to $6.25; lambs, choice ewes and weothers, $9.25 (o $9.75. Hogs--There was an easier feel- ing on the hog market, owing ta the fact that a shipment of 500 hogs from the northwest had arrived, and that another shipment of 2,000 wera on the road. Selected, fed watered, $9.60 and $9.15 1. o. cars, and $9.75 weighed off cars. o to b. Men, call--émquire prices=will aston: ish. Boots never sold at ' pricas. Dutton's removal sale. At present thera are twenty-three | survivors of those who served at { Kingston, in June and July, 1866, with the Napanee Cavalry, No. 2 troop, 4th Hussars. These all re- | ceived the $100, Fenian raid grant | and very much gpprove of the pro- { posal to pay all the surviving' veter- {ans the annual pension of $100 each. J Removal sale! Buy your suitease now. Special, $1.25. Dutton's. On January 26th, at San | cisco, Cal, John E. Mallory, | fifty-six vears passed away. He was ja 'son of Mrs. P. A. Mallory, | Adolphustown, Ont., brother of R. { B. Roblin and J. P Mallory, Stock- jton, Mrs. Dell Clark, Rochester, | N.Y., Mrs. C. F. Roblin, Vancbuver, | B.C., Mrs. Nettie Leavitt, Pioton and | M. F. Mallory, Adolphustown. | Men! Removal sale. Buy your hoots Fran- aged for James Prendergast, of Cornwall. | Only for the very cold weather of | and such low | | 5 ; -- WATERIONY. YOUNG LADY CW IN KINGSTON, Angry at the Unfaithful ¥oung Has: band, Who Married Again in Mon- treal, and Was Given Five Days in Jail For Bigamy. A despatch from Y., says: -- "I am leaving at once for Montre- al, where I shall most certainly ap- ply for a divorce,' said Mrs. Ida Hay Hall, of this eity, who reeently had her husband arrested on a charge of bigamy, and, in Meuntreal, where he committed the offence, sent to jail. The sentence he recetved was five days, and Mrs. Hall is angry. "Judge Leet told me I would not need an attorney," she said. i had no idea he would not get what he certainly deserved until 1 heard the judge say something about len- ieney. 1 at once rushed out for=a lawyer. When I returned with one my husband had been given five days I told the judge what 1 thought of it. "Then [| wanted to swear out an- other wi ant on the same charge, but he would not let me, saying Hall had been sentenced and could not be re-arrested. And so I am going back to Montreal to get a di- vorce, I have my own marriage certificate and a copy of the one is- |sued when he married the other wo- man, and I think I will not have much trouble." Mrs. Hall said she was married to Hall on May 23, 1906, at Kingston, Ont. She was 16 years eld at the time, and Hall was 19. The girl's mother 'accompanied the young couple across the line and gave her consent to the ceremony. For four years Mr. and Mrs. Hall lived in Watertown, then he left for Mohtireal, she said. There, after a short courtship, on July 16 of last year, in the Fairmount avenue Methodist church, he married Mits Beatrice Mulchy, of Montreal * It was not until a short timé& ago that Mrs. Hall No. 1 learned of this second marriage. She at . once went to Montreal and had Hall rested, Watertown, N ar- Dr. E. S. Bissell, Mallorytown, who contemplated going west, has decided to remain at Mallorytown White Rose flour pure and whole ome. Try Glandmother's' OI Favorite Recipe of Sage Tea and Sulphur. i Almost everyone knows that Sage Tea and Sulphur, properly' com- pounded, brings back the natusil color and lustre to the hair, wheu ded; streaked or gray; also ends dandruff, itching scalp and stopa falling hair. Years ago the only way to get this mixture was to make it at home, which is musdy and tronble- some, s Nowadays we simply ask at any drug store for "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy." You will Bet a large bottle for about 50 cents. 'Everybody uses this old, famols recipe, because no one can possibly tell that you darkened your hair, as it does it so naturally and evenly. You dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, -taking one small strand: at a time; by morning the gray hair dls. appears, and after another applica- tion or two, your hair becomes beau- tifully dark, thick and glossy and you look years younger. Agent, Geo, W. Mahood. FOR SALE Earl Sty mear Division, brick VEDREOT +vs ers Earl St, near Division, 9 Division St., near Earl, veneer $2,000.00 Division St. near Barl, briek veheer $2,150.00 | Dominion cleaners $10.60 vacuum | Tuec, Stationawy Vacuum cleaners. Estimates cheerfully given, H. S. CRUMLEY ermine ai | The hatoe 'of Mr. and' Mrs, James Welch near Newboro was the scene 1 0f a very plaasant event on Thurs- day, January 29th, when their gld- est daughter Bertha Mae was united in marriage to R. J. Crisp, New- boro. During sheets, popular music, two prize package, three sheets, worth 40¢., for 10c. Dutton's. Rev. H. I. Allen, Ottawa, is ill with Bright's disease. "Fresh plasters," 25c. Gibson's. sale, 230.3 DUSTBANE to | a | SAY DU Don't Ask for Sweeping Compound puts the ee's [ease] in Sweeping IT KNOCKS THE DRUDGERY OUT OF SWEEP iit DAY Cleans Carpets-Brightens Floors Order a tin to-day at your grocers or from your hardware man STBANE BEWARE OF | KACHOO ! | S-- KACHOO i That Cold Means a Cough: That | Cougli' May Develop Dread | Pneumonia Soon. {Stop It Al With Pure Essence Men- i tho-Laxene, the Only Reliable Remedy. - Mentho-Laxene is the only rem- |edy which will quickly check a cold Jto a bad cold and v SUBSTITUTES ET KACHOOEE ! | THAT SNEEZE MEANS A COLD ! tle of Mentho-Laxene right away. Use as directed--and you'll make a fine discovery-- (or get your money back). You'll discover that there reaily is a remedy that puts an end instantly relieves the severest coughing. Coughing, Hoarseness, Stopped-up Head, Wats "Leaking Nostrils," all now and save money. Dutton's. lin thé beginning--you know you've 'ering Eyes, Old bachelors were made to show [tried many remedies--but the cold married men what they might have j@lways "runs its course. Send to the drug store for a bot- Owr work is to tell the facts about tea and eoffee--then 5 effects for private sale. {Laughlin is offering her household | The sale of | the effects of the late John Dockrill | took place on Friday at his late resi- | dence, on the farm about three miles | away. There passed away at an | early hour this morning, Mrs. | Barnes, aged 85, who resided with | her daughter, about two miles from | here. Funeral services are to be conducted at the housé Sunday after- | \ tnoon. i 1} | During removal sale--special prices | quoted 6n "Newcombe," - Canada's leading piano. Dutton's. | On Febraary 6th, at ' Winnipeg, | Charles Willard Huffman died. He lad resided in Winnipeg for about thirty-six years. Deceased was a son of the Mite C. \V. Huffrhan, Ernest- town, and brother of Mrs. Edward Kayler, Morven, and Myvs. Sheldon Joyce, Napanee, and also brother of John 8., and Dr. Robert Huffman, ond Mrs -Samuél Bell, Walhalla, Dakota. s Removal sale! Boys' underwear, 25¢.; boys' boots from $1; braces, lle. Dution's. "Phe many friends in Westport, of Mrs Richard Smith, will regret to hear of her death which occurred in' Toronto a few days ago. She was bora in Westport aud was a sister of Nr. J. E. Noftix. : Men, two pairs cotton sox, 150; ex- ira strong 0c. braces, 3c; Je. ties, 23¢. Dutton's removal sale. W. €. Froats, Corloton Plaer, has pacsed in soction A, Go lachalor of | pedagogy at Toronto university. are banished quickly when Meptho- Laxene is used.\ Sold by #&1 'well- stocked * druggists. nN. : "I ONLY 5DAYS LONGER | For our BI GSACRIFICE SALE, which will positively close Saturday Take advantage of the SACRIFICE PRICES while they last: H FEW OF OUR EXCEPTIONAL V. i : It's Up to You to decide from your own condition and feelings whether ta stick to tea and coffee, with sueh handicaps as biliousness, headache, nervousness, indigestion heart trouble and sleeplessness--or make ) Quit both tea and coffee absolutely for 10 iri Then take count of yourself. If you find, as thousands of others have. that the old troubles are disa pearing, vou'll know v : "There's a Reason" . : f or " Ee § See Our Furnishings Sacrifice Prices Boots and Shoes at fice Prices Sacri- next. 'S A ° CHILDREN'S COATS 19 Children's Overcoats ages 3. to 8 years, -anging £3.50 to $6.50 while they last. yours ; $1.98 MEN'S PANTS See oir: speeigl at $1.98 See our special at $1.68 $7.38 | blue serge suit with | 150 pr. Men's Working Reg. $10 and $12 at $5.48 bloomer pants at $3.58 Pauts, reg. $1.50. 93c Remember our Boot and Shog Dept. all at Sacrifice Prices. Visit our store this week--it means a big savingtoyou = Poa ; 21st, 6 p.m. 256 PRINCESS ST, Ta Hs BOYS SUIS days, and use the pure food- With Bloomer Pants f/ Reg. $15, at ......$747 Reg. #10 and $12. .$5.98 BOYS' OVERCOATS Reg, $8.00; at ....$3.68 Reg. 36.00 at ... $278 Regi $5.00 at -- Reg. $3.00, at ... $3.88 Reg. $6.00, at $2.98 Reg. £5.00, at. .$2.68 >; Ask to see our spec. boys iF see our Heavy Over. alls at 73¢ --sold br Grocers everywhere indsor, Ont. : ed, " 34 . , Ask to Made by Canadian Postum Coreal Co., Ltd, W r _-- > ---- rb on LR A ee

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