McKean Miner,The (Newspaper) - January 20, 1870, Smethport, Pennsylvania is PUBLISHED BY 39-irVXtD, t Ji Of PICK WEST SIDE OF 8QUARE- a in ADVANCE Rates Of Advertising and Job Auditor's n 00 300 or S OC for Official advertising for of 10 SO 50 Professional 00 per one time U Obituary per line 10 MOD one 10000 HI it six per 1 71 over aix per I tout and school per 25 eighth 40 26or or 00 35 of nch of Business Director B. Minar Jon of Had taat with of tod printed til notice and in tho Orden Wallace W. W Brown Counsellor at will give prompt attention to all entrusted to before the will in the 4" and at Co lector lot J will give bil attention to all matters pertaining to hit profession In the Ford Church Pa. W. A. A and Counselor at A. will attend to Special attention and nil business relating to real Byron D. and at attention to the i of claims examination and trial of of taxen all matum ro- to real Atao agent of the Keating S. D. PHYSICIAN A S U U G E 0 N Pa. Wilt attend lo cAlla In hie Office at A Drog F. A. Dealer In Watche fl Watches and shortest notice In the moat Mason Jt New Cabinet i 1 tlm opp of inform ni removed mn tha old the 11- ui MM. is to i keeps constantly on 1VI. L. to T. Dealer In such as PS era and kind JfA Breast and generally watches Jewelry repair short notice Remember tbe H tk roit In Frank King's O Bennett lilt Court Proprietor TV subscriber iho and public Ora that he baa the old Aa lor be kept with to hia and for Thp Bennett Hooac been and no palna will be to tbe TUa Proprietor warranta to his and char POOT this method of informing tbe 1 people of and ba hsa Boot Shew in ho will on haad complete of Call Three Ply the tar with the Wafer the and at tbe lowest price to ibe con- There Is. foundation of Tarred a layer of another layer of 4th. another layer of another layer of mj As An offer to the jogt purchaser In each feet of the PATENT HOOF ana la more Count MICA HCX 18. the middle of in the year was startled from very sound just as the town clock w is striking by a very loud rapping at my office I rose ant L dressed myself as hastily as I and on answering the found a young ex- who handed me a note from tbe captain of the with a request that X would attend to it at I opened the and read as Logan has been must have been done after 12 o'clock as his body is down at 30 A. M. etc. I quickly put my revolver in my after leaving word with my who slept in an adjoining With reference to my I. at once hastened down to Mr. Logan's Mr. L. was tbe sole owner and a large jewelry store on Bank and was looked upon as one of tte wealthiest inhabitants of way I was busy what might have been the the city ing as reason f this and ed before I got that the only incentive could have been bis money as I knew that he always kept a con- amount about for he kept in with his a kind of very fashionable loan I was luot very in reaching Mr. L's place of and owing to the time and state of the which forbade any one not compelled to go I found no one around at Tup store was not a light and I was ning to think that I was the victim of some well-laid when I heard the familiar sound of Captain voice very He called me over to and said that waiting in that tUo would and hence bad not anything at all I assured that there could be no of the assassin returning that at and the best thing wfc could was to search through the store and try and find some if The snow had been falling for the last so that the ground was very well and the atmosphere was most in- viting in the hence I was er anxious to get out of the My first question on getting inside was as the murder was The Captain told me that about twelve or in passing he thought he noticed the door feeing on Bank street opened a very and on trying he found it was a little but he was not at all surprised at this as Mr. L. was in the habit of sitting up until looking over tbe business affairs of the or quietly enjoying a as no the gains of the day's So he It a little slam for the purpose of warning him that the door was not locked and went on to attend to some business which ly an bn returning he again the and found it still Then fearing that Mr. bad bly fallen he determined to go in and awake and enjoy asmoke be surprised to find nrt light at all in either the store or of- BO be bad tow his and as soon as lie the door ot the office be saw Mr. body ing across tbe with a -in his which severed carotid thereby causing He did not make any further but and kept watch about the store himself This was all I could leani from tbe so I lit up tbe and be- gan my I first examined the and found a wound -on the back which nave been given by aome blunt and which must have stunned him at It seemed as if It bad Wed very and as the blood seemed more clotted than that on bis I con- cluded it was given I could find nothing about the room which bore narks of baring as Close by the aide of the murdered man lay a which I pU and which bore able marks of having been tbe one used for severing bis carotid artery Here was the first been some one who knew something of habits and manners of Mr. L. That was a very indifferent for Mr. L. had lived in that one store for thirty yean and was known by every woman and the Still I narked It well I noticed then that his shirt bosom showed some signs of for two of the buttons were completely torn off and there imprint 61 three place sad four in another I ly found from tion of the that both of these marks were made by the same hot at different I felt as the bloody signs seemed This discovery puzzled but I said nothing to the captain about determined to find out all myself I then examined to see what erty had been and was con- that the work was done by someone who knew something of Mr. I noticed here again on the safe tbe bloody prints of four and the same marks were on some papers which were lying on the floor near It was impossible of course to fiad out exactly what had been stolen until the clerk So I again began to examine the dead The marks on the back of the head were undoubtedly the result of a vere or possibly given by a strong and must have been given while Mr. L- was cause the scalp was cut from the top more slightly than from nearer the So the blow given by some standing when Mr. L. was asleep in his and it must have stunned Him during the time that the er was examining the contents of the There was not much tion lu it was one tbe in tbe chain which I mined must be I As I was meditating for a few the and to examine the safe to find out what had been He seemed terrified beyond ance when brought into the and almost fainted at the sight of the gentleman with bis throat gashed through His right hand was tied and on questioning be said that he had cnt his gtt at about 10 or II o'clock that while feeding a meat and remarked jocularly that the sage would be We both expressed our regret at tbe and the captain Mr. tbe in ing over the I continued my Jand began to look at the gash in the it was an awkward looking apparently in a great or under some undue excitement The tip of the right ear was and the shirt collar cnt nearly through Which led me at once to believe that was made in a and by some other instrument than the knife above the blade of the jknife was hardly keen enough to make the an it more tie mark of a The wound in tbe throat extended from behind the ear on tbe to and is familiarly known as Adam's severing otid and also the and leaving the Ijps of tbe wound enough apart to allow the in- to bo wen Nothing conld to X We must wait re- sult of the When all tho American words of innumerable will be telling all plainly as I was about to leave the and what the Captain and Butler were something 414 not look exactly port of in the mouth of the in I pnt my finger and dis- felt finger knife lying by his and i assistance in ing from throat the some one's My thought I; can this clerk have been the Can he On now and look over these conscience pricking Cto It over my own account f did not lose control of them at this although I felt I determined thai night to sleep with and try and find out any thing else that I and at five a full had been I suggested the ty of Butler and myself going to take a little while the Captain might watch if he chose or leave some of his The Captain preferred Watching and as my own office was some distance I accepted ler's invitation to sleep with When I entered the the first thing struck my tight thrown on his I asked him how it got and he told me that be had trimmed off some jagged pieces that were left on the stump of bis tle I asken him then to make me a present ofthe and I keep it SB a memento ofthe rious and also of course ol his savory He gave the and then hunted for me the which had the mark of three fingers on it Of course I could not thinking I that I waa in with a and I was at a loss bow to act. I had sufficient dence to warrant me in arresting It was a perfect not one link then I had known him for some four or five and er known bun guilty of ble act. What could what must I dof I was glad when it. became late enough to go to my own and on thither I called by Mr. L's and mildly hinted to the Captain that Butler of course the best witness the jury On arriving at my office I was somewhat surprised at finding a note from my stating that he bad Been called was and held in very high repute in the possibly Would not return for several This was Sunday and the io DC new on the Iwas too much any bat my taking the finger out of the showed me the marks of a second joint of which had injured Tie to remedy which the finger waa lanced down to and then it til Nothing of course waa said at the house to the we both hastened and after a which we carried on as quietly .as succeeded in ing unmistakable evidence of his guilt He was immediately ried to the and placed .in tbe room with the His Whole frame trembled on he confessed the Xt waa as I thought Passing by Mr. asleep in his and he immediately determined to rob J He first struck him of the headland him sufil to lie allowed time to complete the and as ho was about to Mr. L. recovered and grappled with A struggle when be picked up a razor on tbe and grasping his jaws so aa to stifle any cnt his but in catching his by some means his finger got in Mr. L's aud T as the door was and frightened he escaped .as soon as His trial came on and after a delay of only three utes he was convicted of murder in .be first and I don't know whether sages were so savory or bat I wive since enjoyed many savory es with as we talked over Low the mistake of a hand might have longed ing I was in Everything fed to my be really Butler as the and I was loath to admit tbe but circum- stances stared me in the face so could not Of course I was but at my own request my examination was strictly no one being ent but the coroner and the I gave in my testimony in dance with the facts above but requested the jury not to return a verdict for a day or as I was unwilling to Relieve that Butler was They agreed to do as I although there was no doubt in the any but that tbe was the guilty I carried with me the knife that was apparently in the and after getting in my room I com- pared the spots on both very and thought I detected a slight difference in This pleased me very and so anxious waa I to find out any difference did that I procured w sleigh and started immediately for my who us his note told come two miles in the My brother was an excellent and X could rely well upon bis I found him after but littie trouble et breakfast with an old friend of my had sent for tbe third joint ofthe the baud of his who had been seriously bitten a fhe previous night I did not much of this at for I bad known the from my and no one around held a better or more enviable I then told my the whole and showed him the two knives is Mr. L's knife and Butler's He quickly detected the and explained to me. very satisfactorily that they were not the I was GO much this that I was about to return im- mediately and relieve my friend of any and all when be asked me if I had the finger with rue I did have with me in a small viol and it to him he started back as if but quickly recovering himself you have given self great uneasiness for Did yon not that it was Butler's right don't joa that the convex of that second joint is toward tbe left when you place it in front of yott 1 That Is i little finger of the left land arid course not fat I buna ts Last evening officer of the arrested a person on of having stolen 99.60. On be- ng taken to tbe station this person gave the name of Alexander the age of sixteen This Davis's sex was and it was that the prisoner was a. She tried before the police court for petit larceny and but retained in prison for wearing male This is the same girl who was ar- rested in a few days since for disguising Herself ia this She was allowed by police of that city to on to leave She then came and dered about the city until arrested as stated Her career boa been a She was in. and her right name Florence At the age of eleven years she ran away from home to her for- Thinking that she could get along better if she wore boy's ing jhe donned male and states that sex was after for a young for seven when she was arrested in When she left her home she went to and obtained employment as driver street She was huge of her features and short easily passed a of about For aix she worked in this and then went io There she was hired steamboat as ond cook and four be- tween that city and New She generally and no one the boat mistrusted that was a girL Leaving the came to Cleveland and went to a former Ti of the to trace her through her wanderings would take Suffice say that she has been em- ployed at masculine labor much of the em- ployed at She is in her costume boy of and that as her and shingled She wears a block no ehirt col- a slouch her in her and chews enormous quids of and The what to do with toe she is retained in. CAPT. WAIT A. The Watt of the story fe hi name Tbd Barrator of die and ol aa absurd and was but a very old only a few years of said old place where I really felt tow hum it was on a pair of Nobody in ray part ofthe any business with me I tell A mile a minute my usual and that out any my extra Pollard and I were out one the winter of guess We ted twenty miles our were friz eighteen inches long behind found I'd got tew let out a link tew keep X let it out taw the tone of some eighteen or twenty rod in three though was a. desprit good looked like a on the ice away behind me. had my head down to keep the sharp wind from my and so belted without a single word of the big dam across the right ahead of me. I got two or three rod of the thing sfore I scan all I wus straight for a forge that stood clns up to and partly under the right hand eend of it tried tew but I might just as well sot out to put ott tew a streak of My left iteel strap aver I went head and down through the shop plum between a monstrous big chunk of red hot iron and a trip make ft long of curt ib fiot so particularly 1W habit of sleeping well Is one if broken for length not Often a treated by deranges the that sleep w never rate of ten dips tew the And didnt scorch a hair nor raise a single black and blue spot on tne cum down so clus that it tuck off about six inches of my tail I care much Tor It on old and there ims but a plug of in the paid for the winder I spilt and thought that was the eend But it Three days mean stingy enough to send me another for jest six They had found a flaw in the chunk where the plug of and piece of coat tail got stomped and they wanted some damages After the of the sides with the Levant and Stewart was sitting itf his in witb one of the British and a midshipman Of trie watch came in to say the officer of the deck wished to know if crew could hare their As the usual grog time had elapsed before the engagement took Captain Stewart The men have had their grog hatent mixed ready for serving fore the battle castle men and other older sailors of crew said they didn't want any cap- sized the in the The English commander with if it were possible that there who would grog like the same time the two isb got into the result of the each defeat to the and ing that if such an evolution had been or flie the to said there is no me in getting about it would all the same whatever yon might have If put on board and you can try needless to say that the rous offer was not is coarse Young lady I I knew when J first laid ray you to Fred my any nan courage who can trust self long at a time on snch legs aa that it ji more often balder IV It Will ip jy to known as hypochondria It Vrtl will broken tbc or too muscular or tea and and break up the habit 1. 2. far pleasant 3. Good and not too warm i; 4. too 5. A clean 6. A clear 7. Avoidance of For who are who pass we commend adoption of sach habits as shall secure atad what there is of it fadly i OE THE A tic said to do know you have a soul I Sid you er see itr was the ever hear it said you vrac you ever it F Did yon ever feel itf and said four most accurate your five sed stand arrayed against one shall The see a the skeptic ever taste a ibe my It w bte that yon have ev of pain than my for con- underlies A pleasing little children of MrV io to the did their ciders sene upon tba atf half an hour after it The died the same am of Gat always a after counting of but accidents arf ting so to In love with blowing of ber of States il sufficient 9 H V gnedE by wafiEr rery of Association of it was thai the State 00ft yielding tin quarts of milk a fa Of ity are in butter that Only WJO quarts aday are av you're io hit UttU yott know whit a pig a pig's little Subscribe for the
