Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 25, Number 31, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1876 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY, MAUCH 15, 1876.

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

THE MIDDLEBURY MURDER. An Interview With the Only Eye Witness of the Awful Affray. REVOLVER VS. SHOTGUN. TBI FLIGHT A9D PURSUIT OF TOM WATTS STRA50S COSDCCT OF A CO8 TABUS. The Terrs Hants Evening GZ9tte gives graphic account ot the Middlebury unorder: A Gaz9tteer boarded the outward bound train on the C. A T. IT. railroad yesterday morning, and, after a tedious ride of twenty-live miles by rail, and one and onr-balf miles by hack, over the roughest road which it were possible to imagine, arrived In the little village of Mlddlebury, the scene of the terrible tragedy which occurred last Friday night. The Watts brother, George and Tboma, were of the next prosperous store In Mlddlebury. They bad been engaged In business about two years, and were looked upon a rising and prosperous business men. They enjoyed a large patronage, and their credit was stronger than that ot any three houses in the village. Both were unmarried; the elder, George, was about thirty-live, and the younger, Thomas, about thirty years of age. Tbey were natives of the regioD, having been iesrtd on a farm near Poland, Clay county.. On Friday last two wonitn of very bad repute, Mollle Doke and a Mrs. Bear, M ho live in the country about three miles south ot the village, came to town and were seen during the day In company with various male bipeds. In the evening just as the doors were closed, tbey w re seen to enter the store of Watts Brcs. About 10 o'clock Mr. Watt C. Elkin, proprietor of the Central Hotel, which Is situated but a short distance from the store, HEARD THI RKPORT OF A PISTOL, and in about five minutes afterward be heard the sound of angry voices in front of his bouse; he recognized one voice as that of Tom Watts. lie stepped out on the verandah where be could bear all that was aald. The parties engaged In the quarrel were George and 'Tom Watts, Freeman Retd and Louis Seigley. The Watts brothers charged Reid with having fired into their store, which charge was strenuously denied by Reid. The war of words grew higher and higher, until finally George Watts struck Reid with a one pound weight which he carried in his hand. Reid staggered bick into the middle of the street and fell. George Wut s pounced upon him and proceeded to pummel him. After receiving considerable drubbing, Reid escaped Irom George and started toward the hotel; be bad taken but few bteps when a shot wa fired by one of the Watts brothers. Mr. Elkin would not say positively which ol the brothers fired this shot, but as he aitrrwardu expressed his. strong conviction that George Watts bad no pistol, the natural conclusion is that the shooting was done by Tom. The fire was returned by Rid, and the two again closed and the bandt j band strug :le was again renewed. When the fighting r?gan Tom Wa"ts had drawn his revolver, aud commanded Seigley to stand back; on pain of having a ballet lodged in hia brain. Seigley fled wh6n the first shct wa fired. Mr. Elkin says that George and Raid had been fighting bat a few moments In their saccnd hand to hand encounter when Reid placed the muzzle of his revolver at U9orgt'a temple and tired. GEORGS FELL TO THE (ROUND and Reid started to run. Mr. Elkin called out to Tom Watts who stood in the middle of the street that George was killed. Tom lued at the ileeinj? Reid, and, lollowing bim up, lelled him to the ground. Mr. Elkin is not very positive as to what occured after George was shct. He remembers bearing the report of a pistol, perhaps two reports, and he remembers seems tie struggle In tbe street be tweeu Tom and Reid. lie called to the former that hia brother was dying and that be needed help. Tom then left Reid and assisted Mr. Elkin to carry the insensible form of George Into tbe hotel, where be died in about five minutes. Tne ball from Reid's pistol had entered the left temple about one and a half inches from tbe eye, causing almost Immediate deatb. Reid, after being released, made all baste to hia home. He passed his mother at the door, sill something to her wbien b9 did not c early -understand, and pasted on up stairs. His strange and excited manner alarmed her and she lolloped hiar: be opened a door of a passage way leading to the garret above and was about t run up the stairway when she caught b:in y the arm and stopped bim, demanding to know the cause of bis singular behavior. - He said Tom Watts had etruck hint on tbe head with knucks, and aUbbed Mm, and was now lollowing him with a pitol, . utesdjjso. to kill him, he begged his mother to shield him and was about to start up the atairay when he fell to tbe floor. Realizing that his life was ebbing fast away, he began an incoherent prayer to the Almighty for forgiveness. In a few minutes he oeassd speaking, and breathed very slowly for perhaps a minute, when he again spoke: 'Mother, I am innocent." , Those were his last words. Tbe next instant the grief-stricken mother realized that her boy, who but a few hours ago bad left her house so fall of life and healtb, was lying dead at her feet. Reid was a youtb, still in bis teens. On examination of the body it was discovered that he had received two stabs, on either aide of the spinal column, just above its base. The first wound penetrated entirely through tbe body. The second wai quite as dangerocs, leaving about one Inch from the point of the knile in the wound. It la probable that la both cases the knife passed through the kidneys. Aside from these wounds, there was a severe contusion on the scalp, from tbe weight thrown by George Watts. Those who aw the body alter deatb, are of the opinion that the skull was fractured by this blow, and that any of the three wounda would have caused death. Tbe absence of any testimony from medical experts renders the precise cause of deatb a matter of conjecture. The news of tbe tragedy spread rapidly over tbe little town, and a crowd was soon collected abent the hoteL At tbe Instance ot Esquire James Graber, Constable George B. Robinson took the surviving Watts In charge and kept him confined In hia own (Robinson's) house, until Saturday morning. A crowd of people gathered around the justice's office in the morning expecting to near a preliminary trial of the case. But juat here AX APPALLING! DILEMMA. No one was willing to file the necessary complaint. Robinson, tbe constable, de dared that Watts was itark mad, and that

it would be an outrage to begin legal proceedings agnlnfet him. Mr. Elkin was willing to make affidavit to the fact that there bad been a devil of a row In front ol bishocss; that there bad been considerabl shooting and a great deal of swearing, and tbat two ol the actors of tbe tragedy were dead. But when it came to taking his solemn cath that tbe richest merchant in town was guilty of murder, as be verily believed, Mr. Elkin positively declined. Aflalrswere in this täte when Mr. Keller, a traveling agent for one of tbe manafacturles connected with the Northern Drison at Michigan

J City, appeared upon the scene and dorlared bis readiness to nie me compiainw This he did and the process was placed In the hands of CoEB'able Robinson. Meantime, Wa'.ts'a brother-in-'aw, Dan Monitor, bad placed a saddle and trldle on a horse, which belonged to George Watts, and mounted upon this steed Tom Watts was rapidly placing miles of d5alance between him and the minions ol tbe law, while the crowd around tbe justice's effice were disputing about the legal documents. Several citizens put their parses together and offered a reward of $75 for the capture of Watts, and a posse cons'sting ot Constables George Robinson and George Fair, John Y. Miller and John Biker, started In pursuit: Constable Robin bo n did not get far. lie manifested JfO DISPOSITION TO CATCH THE FUGITIVK. Indeed, he seemed very indignant at Mr. Keller for filing the complaint, declaring that be could ''lick that drummer on lets ground than it would tike for him to skin a cat on." The gentleman who repeated this remark of Robinson's to the Gazetter remarked with a suggeetive wink, "these here Wattses had a pile of money, you see." All parties seemed to aprte that Mr. R. was guilty of very strange conduct for an officer of tbe law. Two of tbe pursuing party followed Watts to his father's farm, near Lancaster, in Owen oounty. One of. them, Mr. Young, came up with the fugitive Sanday morning, and as he was about to place his hand upon tbe shoulder of his prisoner, Watts turned and presented a pistol, commanding Mr. Young to take himself off, and Mr. Young, being of an accommodating disposition, took himself off. He was armed with a shot gun, which was loaded with buck shot, while Watts had only a small revolver, but Mr. Young thinking BLOOD ENOUGH HAD BEEN SPILLED already, r tired in good order. When last seen Watts was entering the woods near his father's house, it is rumcrod tbat he was in Bowling Green on Saturday night, where he bad an interview with an attorney. Mr. Elkin picked up on the battle ground two one pound weight?, two butcher knives and two revolver". The revolvers were of 22-100 bore, four empty chambers in the other. The knives were new, haviDg been taken out ot tLe stock in the store. One of them was found under the body of George Watts, and was covered with mud and dirt. Tbe other was covered with blood, and about one inch of the point broken cff. This was probably tbe knife tbat did the damage. VVhen he was killed, George Watts had on his person $570 in currency, which George took charge of. Aside from this Tom hart about $800 belonging to the firm when be left town. The- bodies of the murdered men were buried without the usual formality of a coroner's inquest which seems to have been a strange overaigbt. Young Reid was buried at Reeläville, Clay county, his former home. Watts was buried in the Middlebury cemetery. George Watts was to have been married in about two weeks to a young lady who lives in Middlebury. BABCOCK BOUNCED. HOW HE PURLOINED PIERREPONT'S LETTER, DISCOVERIES MADE BY THE SECRET SERVICE OFFICERS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S PRIVATE LETTER OPKNED IN THE EXECUTIVE MANSION. A Washington dispatch to the New York Sun lets a little light in upon tbe mystery of tbe stolen letter. Babcock did it with his little authority and gets bounced: Gen. Babcock has been dis missed from tbe white house la deep dis grace. He was welcomed back from St. Lonls by the president, but since he re turned he is accus3d of an offense which in ita magnitude is not so grievous as that of General Belknap, but which In Its effect is perhaps as damaging to the ad ministration and tbe republican party as Belknap's fall. It if said that the secret service force has been tor some time fer reting out tbe manner in which the confidential letter of Attorney General Pierrepont to district attorneys at ixml. Chicago and Milwaukee was made public. These officials said most pestuveiy they NEVER SHOWED IT TO ANYBODY. Attention was next turned to Washington, and as Emory Storrs was known to have given it out, the question was how did he get it? The attorney general urged that it was not made public through any one in the department of justice, and there things'rested for a few days. It was then noticed for the first time tbat the copy given to the press and the original was different in unimportant particulars, and such mistakes as might have occurred In tbe haste of making a copv. At this juncture the president remembered that he too had been famished with a copy of the letter, and as it was among his official papers to which Babcock alone Lai acf s, the suspicion at once rested opon bine, aud from tba charge Bibcock could noi es?:. He had furnished bis counsel witti the copy, and Storrs at once saw the great he!p it must be to those who through revenue or Lop ot pardon wou'.d be willing to swear to all tbey knew ot Babcock' COMPLICITY IN IHK WHISKY FRAUDS, The letter was ntvor intecded for tbe public, but secretly to warn the district attorneys that no guilty man could escape punishment however much be might reveal agairet Babcock cr any other high officios whose nam as bad been connected wiiu the whisky ring. It rppoitunely fell Into Bibcock's band who hurriedly made the copy, a comparison of which with the original reveals tbe fact that it never could have been written from memory, but that tbe few inaccaracieswere naturally those which would occur In copying any letterunder fear of being discovered In the act. Tbe publication has caused such condemnation of tbe president and his cabinet, baa no scandalized the bar of the United States and made the subject of congressional inves'.igatlon that Babcock Is seat out ot the White House as a scapegoat to bear tbe sins of Grant, and his name is enrolled beside that of Belknap. Tbe Injury he has done the republican party by his exposing the letter is Irreparable.

ELiWYN'S ECCENTRICITIES.

ODDITIES OF MIND THAT HAD EXPRESSION IN A WILL. A FOBTUKJS DISPOSED OF I A CHARACTERISTIC! MANNER A QUEER TESTAMENTARY DOOUMBUrr, BUT OH K THAT STOOD THI TB8T OP THB LAW. The New York Sun says: The Hon John Elwyn, an eccentric and thoroughly original gentleman of the old English school, died on the 6th Inst., in Portsmouth N. H. He W4 born In Bristol, Eng., February 1, 1801. His parents were la France just previous to his birth and his mother having declared that she would not be the mother ot a Frenchman, a small vessel was engaged to convey ber across the straits at a time when a passage through tbe French fleet tbtt guarded tbe coast could hardly be obtained. But tbe- French Admiral threw open the blockaed in consideration of tbe hospitalises be bad received at the bands of Mrs. Elftyn's father, Gov. Lingdon, on the occasion of a visit to Portsmouth. Elwyn griduated at Harvard in tbe aame class with George Bancroit and tbe Hon. Calej Cusblng. He was a strict democrat, and in 1-29 served In tbe General Court of New Harrpihlre. He took an active part in the Jacksonian campaign, and In 1839 was a member of Gov. Pace's council. After that he retired to lead a kind of nomadic life. Just previous to his death be was reading tbe Old Teatlment in tbe original Hebrew for the eleventh time. His will was admitted to probate on tbe 15th in Exeter. Tbe lollowing is a verbatim copy of the document. Mr. Elwyn's eccentricities are manifest throughout this most singular document; A WONDERFUL WILL. We then JOHN ELWYN of Portsmouth in the county of Rockingham and state of New Hampshire being of sound mind and memory but now seventy years old. I mean this instrnment tor my LAST WILL and TESTAMENT: there seems to be a little estate worth the gathering In of: careless It is t.i one through my whole life of money wickedly careless yon may eay If you choose though I never threw it very wilfully away I shall die much poorer than I might: for full very full my head always has beer) from my earliest babyhood ot something or other else and never ot money, and I never could do two things at one time: still and notwithstanding I never once let my thinkings about mon jystop at all, nor slacken ever my book work, nor head work of what kind soever It might be, still there Is a little estate to gather in: my lands in Portsmouth altogether some seven hundred and fifty acres, this that I am doing nc thing with at all is worth well more than fifty thousand dollars is righter nearar seventy-five thousand: then I believe near about already a hundred thousand dollars besides to guess by what it brlDgs in a year: though I am giiog if I live another twelvemonth to spend a few thousands on my grounds, still the whole is like to be getting always more, well then it is worth the looking after. It may well be sat at A HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, is worth more than that to keep, and I want xr y heir to think be gets It NOT from ME but his FOREFATHERS: my ry rother and sister the only ones left besides me ot tbe once nine children of Thomas and Eliza Elwyn, tbe others and all their children all long since dead, tbera is though a two nephews and I believe thirteen great nephews and great cieces yet, well then though none ot us is rich but there ought fto be already I should guess some six hun dred thousand dollars amongst the whole at iny death even If bood, they are not like to be in want nor am I a man ot fortune, I will not lengthen this instrument with complimentary legacies: I leave though SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS Icr every year ot ncr Ufa to ELIZA BECK ot this village the daughter of John Beck; she is only a half dozen of years younger than me, was brought up on my old homestead, is she neither my wile or my mistress, but my heirs must deal kindly with her to be as if she in some way belonged to me: all but this six hundred dollars every year of her li.'e to HER, well then I leave the WHOLE of my estate, for HIS LIFE, to my NEPHEW, my brother Alfred's son, to ALFRED ELWYN, now of Philadelphia, now in Helv Orders; next then at my nephew's DEATH I then mean all mv ESTATE to my nephew Alfred's son in FEE SIMPLE; then if HE should DIE the first and BEFORE mv NEPHEW, then my said NEPHEW'S life estate) to be turned imo a then full FEE SIMPLE In himself. Clear enough to any court what I mean; I would like to go straight on, bot this I can not make it do in the States nor In England; neither is th's little anything of a FOR I UN E and this tbe child's mother is very uncommonly clearly to understand lrom me. I should like my great nephew, but tbey can do as thev choose, to call himself THOMAS ELWYN only, the name of my father and his own father, of my great grandfather and I believe ot my great great grandfather, of my great great great grandfather I know; all in Kent and YEOMEN OF KENT FROM A VERY BARLY VA A They need not go to the General Court all at least that English law wants to know is WHO tbe heir meant IS: With a looking forward however to his calling himself and being commonly callod by the name the testator says: I should like my heir to call himself THOMAS ELWYN and the THOMAS ONLY. I should rather they would not sell any of these lands in Portsmouth: NOT ONLY not our old little homestead that of herself is worth very little hut NONE of three lands, to KEEP the WHOLE if ANY: if my heir will come to let him LIVE on TH.hiM : It is a good way in the end this keeping of your lathers lauds, It roots you deep in your own ialth and where yon tightest belong and helps keep you from the phantoms of the wcrld ; not tbat I mean a Idolatry cr Feudalism. I bate through tbe res .les predate ry spirit of this day and this nation, here IV Ire in Jeremiah bis thirty-fifth chapter: And Jeremiah said nnto the house of tbe Kechabites, thus saith tbe Lord of host, tbe God of Israel: because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab, your father, and done according nnto all that hath commanded you; thereiore, thus salth tbe Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab, the son of Recbao, shall not want a man to ttand before me forever: here la another the harmony of tbe verse to me is almost heavenly, it is of one of tbe best and sweet of tbe Hebrews and puts you in mind of our old Newengland way: And they burled him In the BORDER of his INHERITANCE in Tannuth-serah, which is in mount Ephraim on the north side of the hill of Gaash. All other things to be done I can tell my brother. I make HIM and his SON and Mr. JOSEPH R. CARPENTER all of Philadelphia tba tnree EXECUTORS of this my last WILL and TESTAMENT. JOHN ELWYN. witnessed on the fourth page: this Instrument on tbe firthree pages is signed saaledand acknowledged tobe day:

his LAST WILL and TESTAMENT In our sight by JOHN ELWYN: this second dey of September in the year of our Lord One Tbonssnd Eight Hundred and Seventy Two: JOHN ELWYN. L. a witness James 8. Peirce, 8. D. Woodward, John Wkntworth, of Chicago Illinois.

MRS. GRANT'S GIFT. Why that Faithful Old Officer Meiers was Removed. RUFUS ING ALL'S REWARD. " A GREATER THAN BELKNAP NOW FOR THE PRESIDENT OP THB UNITED STATES. The New York Sun publishes a fac simile of tbe Rutas Ingall's memorandum with tbe following editorial comment; A most extraordinary piece of evidence has fallen into our possession. It goes to show that a cottly present worth $4,800 was privately given to Mrs. Grant, wife of the president of the United States, and tbat the giver was subsequently made acting quartermaster general ot the United Stites by the president. Tbe present consisted of a unique gold watcb,' originally intended for Queen Victoria. It wa purchased of the maker in Paris, and brought to this city, where a very expansive chain was added to it by Messrs. Tiffany & Co., the well known fashionable Jewelers, and then tbe whole thing was GIVEN TO MR?. GRANT by General Rufus Ingalls, who was at tbe time an assifetint quartermaster-general, stationed in this city, and wan afterward appointed acting quart er matter-general of the United States at Washington. At the time the present was made General Meigs waa quaitermaster-General. Alter a good deal of delay and difficulty in getting General Meigs out of tbe way, that faithful and incorruptible public officer waa finally ordered abroad, on a tour of inspection in Europe, and General Ingalls was transferred from this city to Washington, a larger field of operations, with great power over contractors, and larger opportunities than he enjoyed here. The value of the present was altogether too large for it to have been made by a man ol Gen. Ingalls's then limited means, from any such motives as pure and disinterested friendship. An English Judge, Sir William Thorpe, chief justice ot the king's bench, in the time of Edward III , was IMPEACHED, CONVICTED AND HANGED tor receiving five bribes, amounting altogether, in the aggregate, to only one hundred pounds, or five hundred dollars. This present to Mrs. Grant was estimated to be worth more than nine times as much four thousand eight hundred dollars. Gen. Grant must have known of this present. The watch strikes tbe bouts and quarters, and he must have heard it strike many times. This proäöLt to Mrs. Grant, though not technically a present to Gen. Grant, was, in substance, the same thing; and while the acceptance ot it by her might not subject him to an indictment for bribery, yet his connivance at it would constitute a sufficient ground lor Impeachment. It is trae that General Ingalls did not get his reward until several years after he made the present. But, suppose a judge does not decide a case until four years after be receives a bribe in it; does that diminish his crime? Oeneral Ingalls was appointed to this position out ot order, ana at the lime of his transfer lo Washington there were two assistant quartermaster generals above him on tbe army register. The evidence in our 'possession consists of a piece of beautiful white satin, tbe bize of a half sheet of large letter paper, on which the following words, describing the watch and indicating the giver, are printed: MEMORANDUM. This watch was manufactured for presentation to Her Majesty Queen Victoria ot England by Charles Oudln, Paris, France. It represents the coat of arms Of Great Britain. Tbe stem indicates tbe crown of England. Instead of figures on the dial, twelve letter, "Dien mon Droit," are substituted. The letter D, next the stem, represents 12. Each letter is made of onyx and diamonds, set in cry etil. On the reverse is shown tbe Order of the Garter, with tbe Rosp, Thistle and Shamrock in diamonds. Tbe watch is a stem winder, chronometer and repeater, striking tbe hours and quarters. In order to hear it strike, push with the thumb nail a small catch on tbe side of the watch toward the stem. Tbe setting of the bands is done by pressing on the opposite side a small projecting pin, and wnile the pin is depressed, regulate by moving stem. Tbe crystal on each side is cut out of solid Brazilian stone. The chain was prepared by Tiffany & Co., New York city, in leontine ttyle, and consists ol black enamelled armor plates, linked together with rubies and diamonds. The pendant is a locket in form of a shield, with a lone star of pearl on a black enamelled field. On tbe revers9 side is tbe letter G in diamonds. Before an opportunity offered to present the watch to the queen, it was purchased by a friend of Gen. Ingalls, and Bhortly afterward fell Into the lattur's possession. It has never been worn and has no duplicate in tbe world. It Is now presented to tbe first lady ot tbe United States of America, Mrs. President Grant. 117 West Thirteenth street. New York city, April 18, 1871. COMPLIMENTS OF GEN. RUFUS INGALLS. Gen. Rufus Ingalls In parson took the manuscript of the above to a printer in this city, and o'rdered It printed on satin of three colors pink, green and blue so that he might select the color which be liked best to send to Mrs. Grant. It was Gen. Ingalls hirxsslf, who at i ted to our informant the value of the present. The printer executed the order and delivered the three copies to Gen. Ingalls. He also printed a fourth copy on white satin. This copy is now in our possession, and Is ct the service ot tbe House of Representatives of the United States, 11 tbat body thinks fit to appoint a committee of - INVESTIGATION OB IMPEACHMENT. We assumo that Mrs. Grant received tte present from the circumstances -already stated, and because we never beard of a Grant refusing anything. That the motive of the present was corrupt that It was corruptly made and corruptly received hardly requires to be argued to practical persons of common ' sense. While James Buchanan was president he was so particular not to receive presents, tbat when a lady sent him a pair of slippers be net only returned them, but directed the messenger to wait and get a recoipt from the giver, so tbat he might bave in bis possession proof that they were sent back. It will not do to pursue

Gen. Belknap, and In the face of evidence

such as we here present, to let Gen. Grant escape. 1 BELKNAP UNDER BONDS. ARRESTED AND BROUGHT INTO COURT A CITIZEN BECAME HIS SURETY. Washington, March 8. To-day at neon Major Richards, chief of police , made a formal arrest of Belknap, ex-secretary of war, and brought him Into the Police Court. Baiknap was accompanied by his counsel, ex-Senator Carpenter, who said tbat they waived an examination, and were prepared to give ball for BelA a . . Knap s appearance oeiore tne court. Judge Snell fixed tbe amount at -25,000, wben the nartles retired to arrange the hail Belknap showed by his movements during tue invn time oe waa in me court room that he was much depressed In spirit, covering his face with his hands and sighing deeply. Shortly after four o'clock thl afternoon Mr. W. W. Ilinnlv n wnll known c t zen of Washington, appeared at the ponce court and went upon the bail bond of Belknac The case of C. J. Keilly, judge of the Detroit Circuit Court, against Jas. E. Scripps, of tbe Detroit Evening New?, for libel, was decided yesterday by a verdict for the plaintiff. The damages were 4,500. MOLLY MAGUIRE, THE Terror of the Coal Fields. BY DANIEL DOYJLE, A Mine Boss. A thrilling; story of the Anthracite Mining itegions oi rennsyivania, entitled MOLLY MAGUIKE, The Terror of the Coal Fields, win be commenced in No. 17 of the NEW YORK WEEKLY, Ready on Monday, Feb. 28th. The story is from the pen of a practical rainer.who assumes the nom de plume" Daniel Doxle," to shield his life from the rulsulded men ho might misinterpret his motives. Redraws most of his scenes from real life, ana gives some powerrui portrayals ol POVERTY ASP CRIME IN PENNSYLVANIA. lie strikes with an unsparing hand the vice that like a leprosy has spread itself over the rich region of the anthracite belt; points out tne TERItlBLS TYRANNY OF MONOPOLISTS AND MILLIONAIRE?, and the awful struggles that agitate the work lng classes In the black battle of life" under eround. The .Society that has made its name a terror in the land, is arraigned of awful atrocities. Its plottintta, meetlugM, midnight murders, burning ol coal-breakers, and FIERCE AND FIENDISH DEEDS, are presented in a graphic and vivid manner, and keep the reader spell-bound from beginning to end. The writer does not identify honorable Irish societies of any kind with this worse than Communistic combination, woicd au uofcu repeatedly DENOUNCED BY TUE CATHOLIC CHURCH, and he draws his hero from all classes and creeds that play a part In mining pursuits. ORIUIN OF THE MOLLY MAUÜIKES. The Molly Magnlre Society is one of the most modern of tne several secret organiza tions mat nave sprung into existence in ireland during the past ceui.ury.and Is decidedly the worst. Its origin Is owing to tbe- cruel murder of an old woman named Maguire at the hands of an agent, who In company with his minioni!, seized on the poor woman's prop erty for rent, iter sons ana tneir irienas formed a society to which they gave her name. It spread through portions of the Morlhand West of Ireland, and confined its operations to landlords and their agents, whose property and whose lives, sometimes, paid the peuaity of any seeming cruelty on their part toward any of the members of the society of Molly Maguire. Ita Introduction to Pennsylvania is qnlte recent, Dut It has spread throughout the counties of Luzerne and bchuylklli with amazing rapidity, making A BLOODY TRAIL wherever It has been. Its objects and alms sink to the level if the meanest animal instinct of wreaking revenge for wrongs, real or fancied, and many a mine boss has paid the penalty of doing bis duty, with his life. Don't fall to lead the thrilling story of MOLLY MAGUIRE. 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Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, For Diseuss of the Threat aal Lnnruch as Comghi Cold, Vhoopiag CotigB, Brcaclitis, Astkma eel Ceasanptioa.

The few corn positions which have won the confidence or mankind and become household words among not only one but many nations, 1X1 IlMt h,V. .Tf f.Arr1 1 - nary virtues. Perhaps no one ever secured : so wide reputation, or maintained It so long as Ai kr's Chkbbt PEeTORAL. ft has been known to the publio inim ll 1 I I I 1 u 1 sx. n- A -. m.. ,. have won fcr 11 a confidence In Its virtues, never equaled by suy other medicine. It still makes the most effectual enree of Coughs. Colds, Consumption, tbat can be made by medical skill. Indeed tbe Cherry Pkctokal baa really robbed these dangerous diseases of their terrors, to a sreat extent, and given a feeling of Immunity from their fatal effects, that is well founded, if th remedy be taken 1n season, tvery fntllv should have it in their closet for the ready and prompt relief of its members. Sickness, snfferlns, and even life is saved by this timely protection. The prudent should not neglect It and the wise will not. Keep It by you for the protection it affords by 1U timely use in sudden attacks. -PREPARED BX DR. J. C. ATEB, A CO., Lowell, Ha., Practical and Analytical Chemists. Bold by all Drugglsts'and Dealers in Medicine AYER'S HAIR VIGOR. FOR RESTORING GRAY HAIR t TO ITS ATURAJ, VITALITY AND COLOR Advancing , years sickness, care, dlsap polutment, and hereditary predisposition, all turn tao hair gray, and either ot ttiem Incline It to shed prematurely. Ayerni Mair vigor, by long and extensive use, has proven f'mani siods tue iaii- , Vying of the hairlm1.Smedlatelv. often re-trvy;.y-w,'"''i and always surely --xw I'm" , h 1 "7 fci " " " t restores Its color; when faded or gray. It stimulates the nutritive organs to healthy activity and preserves both the hair and its beauty. Thus brashy, weak, or sickly hair becomes g'ossy, pliable and strengthened; lost hair regrows with, lively expression; falling hair Is checked and stabllsbed; thin hair thickens, and faded or gray hair resume their original color. Its operation is sure and harmless, it cures dandruff, heals all humors, and keeps the scalp cool, clean and soft under which conditions diseases of the scalp are Impossible. At a dressing for ladies' hair the Vigor is praised for Its srateful and agreable perfume, and valued for the soft lustre and richness of tone it imparts. PREPARED BY" Dr. J. C ATEB 4b CO., Lowell, Mae . Practical and Analytical Chemists. Bold by all druggists and dealers In medicine. MEDICAL. XVTr t.Tij.YA- CxEm"'- " l i.,e I4..HI1..I1V- i. u.i TTTTTI know on Cuurthrs Mr3T U JLUj r,ii;-,h' i"rf-M..rUriri " 31ycri-Til rVrrktiorj BOOK OFNATURE.;H3?sH5 Tirir r?urr tnd nirr. TYrat rn all Fnvirr ItiMtv, fully rrplainltt tliir wm, ymptotn :.d tiirtntearv; it U th.' ouiy rr:iy cirn; if c urk or the kirxj .vr pubti.brti, conUin, nearly ami ) euinplrt id errry rrarct. -tJ br Mail ururriy n r-o- p' l M ct. AdürrK I r. C. A. Boiunsai .filyNonii'JUirt-, bt. Louik. 31a. hsuKuIudloloJJ. PI flfim fl fsP" An fflmtnaVd WoA CTS iiiniiiiinuie' to the marrml and tnar GUIDE of the aexual fYitrm, ha abuara, eta latnt (LaroTprica la tba aeipnrt of irarodwtion : how La twtraly happy in laa married irlatim. li and trmalt Xung and middle ayrd aboald read and iww it; it coutaine infonvatioo, wnica do oim can adord to ba vttH out on how to puaci it the hraJkh, and complexion, and friveto fadt-d cheek the rrxahneea ot outh; the bat and, only true Marriaire Ouide in the world. Price, fit) ernte by M.iL The author may be cooaulted penwnally or by mailooasroftSeaiiblrvt, mentioned in hia ork.A44lvaS 2bA.O. OU2f . la? Yt a h i ngtue at ,, Chicago, Li. 37 Court Place, LOUISVILLE, KY., A rervlarly tdorated and Wt)y anhAX panicUs and the BH tucceMful, aa hia praccwe aiu prore. Cnres all forms of PRIVATE, CHRONIC and SEXUAL Disl EASAm. Spermatorrhea auid Impotency, as tbe malt of etr-abnae In youth, aexnal eicenw la aiatorer yeaa. or ether mimi, aoe prvduriDg aome e f the fbtkwiag. effecta: Nerrouneee. beminal tmuuwi. (nuthl amie. atooa by dream). Dimness ef Siht, Defettire Mmtorr, Phr. ! Dcar, Pimpln on Face, Arerkiea t Sod.tr of 1 eraa Ira, Coofmioa et Idcaa, Im e f Befue I Power, "., tvidVriic aaarnare Improper or anhappr , ere tbereoirhlT end pm. Jl!!7, SYPHILIS rlvrij curra ..a en, rTt rrT Vü,e,,l'u; Gonorrhea, Lil2dX, Stricture, Orchilia, Hernia, (ur Kuilua Pu- aud uiiii-r private diaeaaee quickly eared. It 1 eelf-ervteot that a ptoy aiUa erbe pen pHal attrortoa to a certain riaaa t eieeaara. aa4 trratinc thooaande annaally, acquire r.ral Pbyaaciaaa kanerinc thia tart ofwa mwaarol ft-vBitoayeari When It I tiKoarenteat te Tt-it lhri(T (fcr treatment, nedk-ine eaa be sent privately aaut afaly by nil er express anywhere. Cnres Gnartvnteod in all Cases undertaken. (.oiuuiiatioes pamonaHy er by letter free and laylt'd. Clirg, reasonable and correspondence strictly eoubdeniial. PRIVATE COUNSELOR Of jno pared, sent te any address, awarely araled, fur thirty P) eeniA. Should be revi by all. Addms as ahora. tMlie hours treat 9 A. at. toej P. m. Sundays 1 te P. M. DR. DUFF, No. 39 Kentucky Ave.. Indianfpolis.lnd Cures all forms of Private and Chronic Diseases A regularly educated and ltvaiy quali fied physician, has bean longer ttabashed and most successful, as his ex ten Us practice will prove Age. with experience van be, relied on. To responsible persons uo letj oe manded till cured. Hpermatorrbea, Bexual Debility and impotency, aa the result of self-abuse in youth, sexual excesses in maturer years, or other cause, producing some of the following effect: Nervousness, Seminal Emissions, Ilmues of Bight. Defective Memory, Physical Decav. Aversion to Society of lemales, 1d fusion of Ideas, Loss tr Sexual Power, etc., rendering marriage Improper er unhappy, are per ma. neatly cured Pamphlet (39 VP) sent at aled for 2 stamps. A1a.rb.IAGX utjide, explaining wno may marry, who may not. why : the impedimenta tt marriage cause, ooiwequence and cure; whs can be done In auch cases äO paar DooK, containing mucn lniormauou tor tu married, ot those contemplating n arriage a true MarrlAgt Guide and Private ( (.iirselnr. Bent to any address, securely sealed, bv mall forSOeenia SAMARITAN NERVINE! la a sure care for KpUepti Pits, Bpaama and Convulsions It hat beea tested by thousand and baa never been known tt fall Ina siegle case. Tri;, package free. 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