Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 32, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1886 — Page 2

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THE INDIANA STATE BEN TIN EL. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1886, 4

PRELLER'S MURDERER.

Testimony of the Djfeadant, Who Says ILs Right Name is Hagh H. Brooks. lie Diclosa to th Jury all the Circumstances Attending the Death of I'reller, and Claims That It Was Accidental. St. Locis, May 2G. Mr. Fauntleroy for the lefense after the routine business of the court had been concluded arose and commenced hia opening address to the jury. He stated that be wished to impress them with the fact that no one knew how Preller came to his death.eicept the defendant anche proposed to disclose to the j ury all the circumstances attending it. Atter stating the manner in which Preller and the defendant became ac quainted and the closeness of their friendship, thereafter, he stated that the defense intended to prove that Mr. Preller was suffering from a stricture and that the defendant foolishly undertook to remove it. The defendant was unwilling to perform trie operation alone, but Preller did not wish the nature of his ailment to be known and insisted that Maxwell should perform it. 1o lessen the pain, he administered chloroform but in too large a quantity and death resulted. He cut the clothes from his friend's body and attempted to resuscitate him, but failed. He said the defense would prove that Preller knew that Maxwell had no money and had promised to pay his expenses to Auckland. Kobbery, therefore could not have been a motive for causing his friend's death, which was at any rate accidental, t The remainder of Mr. Fauntleroy's speech was devoted to a description of his client's actions after the death of Treller, and assigning reasons therefor, all of which was contained in Maxwell's confession made a few days ago. Maxwell was then placed on the stand. He showed little evidence of feeling, although there was some degree of nervousness "both in his face and hands. There wa a rustle through the court room and Jdge Van Wagoner, in a brief speech. deuanJe1 absolute quiet in th audience. T-" witness then, in reply to questions by Mr. Fauntleroy, stated in substance as fol-ows: "My full name is Hugh M. Crooks; I am twenty-five years old; was born in Hyde Chester, England I commenced to study law with Mr. irown at Stockport, near Hyde, in 1S78, nd remained there four years; I am a lawyerJ profession ; I also studied medicine an surgery at the collegiate at a school in M nchester, but am not a licensed physician. I first met C. Arthur Preller at the Vort:western Hotel, at Liverpool, but lid not .et acquainted with him until I met liim o he steamer Cephaloaia; also met Mr. Vrren on the steamer. Mr. Preller and I wee both Englishmen coming to a strange coratry and our acquaintance ripened into a , arm friendship. We talked much about fiT plans and proposes for the future, and ur acquaintance and friendship continued after our arrival in this country. We reached Hoston February 3. and after three or four day3 Preller started on a business trip. I had conversations and correspondence with Preller about going to New Zealand; we agreed to meet in St. Louis and go there together; told him about my financial condition, telling hm in a letter that I had $100 all told. I treated Preller several times medically in Boston and by letter, and he acknowledged having received decided benefit from the treatment; he knew that I had never practiced medicine regularly; I never used any deception with him in this regard." The witness then described various events about Preller leaving Boston for Canada, about his own and Treller's arrival in St. Louis, and stopping at the Southern Hotel ; that he had $50 to i) when he arrived here; how he tried to pawn some of his thin gs before Preller ca'me; his visits to Fernow's drug store and his conversations with Fernow; bis purchasing various articles, among them chloroform, which he used himself in treating a bad tooth that troubled him ; that Preller arrived on the Friday prior to Easter Sunday; how they went together to try to sell his magic lantern and slides, and various other occurrences which took place between Friday and Sunday, all of which are familiar to nearly everybody. Court then took a recess. After recess the examination of the leftndanttontined: "We, Mr. Preller and I," he said, "made two trips between the Southem Hotel and the Union Depot, where we attempted to discover the cause of the detention of my trunk which contained the magic lantern, and were told by the baggage man there that it was probably detained in Fort Huron, Canada, by the customs oilicers. We visited Aloe, the optician, in the endeavor to ascertain if he would purchase tbe lantern and slides, when they should arrive. From the timet-at Mr. Preller arrived in .St. Louis down to Easter Sunday, we saw a great deal of each other. We were, as a former witness has stated, almost inseparable. I visited his room several times, but when we were not looking round the city or playing pool, we spent most of our time in my room. We clayed pool a great deal and whoever lost the game paid for it. We played about even, so the expense was about equally divided. We drank some, but not much. He paid for most of the irinks. Mr. Preller was accustomed to call at my room early in the morning and we would go down to breakfast together, return to my room, converse and smoke for a while and then go down to the Dtunda. Ou Easter Sunday, before I went to the drug More, he and I had a conversation about the ferformance of the operation heretofore aluded to, and also at times before that. Mr. Preller described to me his symptoms, and I concluded that he was suffering from a stricture, and that the best method of treating him was by passing a catheter. I took my authorities oa medicine and read to Mr. Preller the directions as to the proper methods of administering chloroform, and refreshed my own mind as to the precautions to be used. There were marginal notes on tbe bottom of the pages as to the treating ot the simplest method of using the drug, but I made these some twelve months before I left England. After this conversation with Mr. Preller I went to the drug store and purchase four ounces of chloroform and a quantity of absorption cotton. This same day Preller and I went to another drug store, one under the Southern Hotel, and made some purchases, which he said we must have atd could probably not get on oar journey to Auckland before we should arrive at San Francisco. It Lad ben understood between us all the time that I was to sell my magic lantern and some other things in order to raise money for tbe trip to an Francisco, -and that he was to piy for my passage to Auckland, with the understanding that I should refund to him the cost of that pa ?ri;e. While in the drug store I ordered and drank a mixture of bromide of potassium ard valerianate of ammonia to quiet my nerves. I drank this in the prese-ice of Mr. Preller. and he paid for it, a he Hd for the r ther things purchased there. Wa then refn med to the hotel, and on our wy np to any room stopped at the cigar staid and j nrchased a box of cigars, for waich my companion also paid. We then went upMairs and, after smoking for a while and discussing the proposed operation, Mr. i'relleT went to his own room, returning Lortly after, having removed hia waistcoat nd replaced his coat with dressing-gown. Immediately thereafter we began to make pieparatigas for ths operations Mj, rreUer,

removed his trousers and drawers and lay down upon the bed. I placed a four -ounce bottle of chloroform on the washstand and poured out a fluid gramme of the liquid on a piece of lint, which I folded three times. I then walked to the bed and held the lint about six inches from my patient'a face, so that the vapor from the chloroform might become mixed with the air and produce not a tM violent effect. It all evaporated in a few minutes, and I turned around to get more, and found that the bottle which I

had placed on the washstand had fallen into the basin and a large portion of the contents bad flowed out, and not enough was left to produce an aestheia. I then went to Fernow's drug store to get more, telling Mr. Fernow that 1 had spilled what I had first bought from him. I wanted four ounces, but the druggist only had two, and I took that" "Were you excited in your manner?" asked Mr. Fauntleroy, of the defense. "Not at all." "Did you feel any excitement?" "No, none whatever; but I was certainly in a hurry to get away, and told Mr. Fernow so. I think I remarked to him, too, that it was unnecessary to place a label on the bottle, for I Intended to place its contents in the empty bottle in my room. I then returned to my room where I had left Mr. Preller in an undressed condition lying upon my bed. I placed about a grain of the fluid on the lint a second time, and again held it about six inches from his face. I continued this sometime until I thought unconsciousness or rather insensibility to pain had been reached. I then took up the catheter, and proceeded to insert it. Mr.-Preller made a peculiar Doise wincing as if he felt pain. I came to the conclusion that I had not administered a euflicient amount of chloroform." The witness here described the formation of the genital organs, their sensitiveness, and explained that in performing any operation upon them it was necessary that the patient should be rendered wholly unconscious of the resulting pain. "It was evident to me that Mr. Freller was still conscious of pain, and I poured out a gramme or a gramme and a half more of the chloroform upon the lint, which I again placed before his face. Almost before I knew it Mr. Preller's breathing became very labored, and I at once suspended the administration of chloroform, for I knew that his condition ws ciious. 1 seized a pair of my Burped sscizzors and at once cut his shirt and undershirt from his body, and tried all lucans of resuscitation with which I was familiar. I slapped him with wet towels on the chest and neck, dashed cold water on his chest, and attempted to restore respiration by moving his arms up and down." The witness proceeded with a voice impressively husky. "I continued those efforts to revive my friend for over ha'f an hour, but it was useless, entirely use'ess. Shortly after my friend ceased to breathe and his heart stopped beating. There was no breath on a mirror when I held it to his lips. Even after I was satisfied that he was dead, I continued my efforts with him. I did not leave or call assistance. All my efforts were to restore him, because when chloroform takes hold of a man and he sinks, in a fewsoconds the man is dead. The time, I thought, had better be occupied in efforts to restore him. I was convinced he was dead, but I continued to dash cold water in his chest. I finally decided he was dead and past all hope. Then I hardly knew what to do. My first impulse was to notify the authorities. Imagine my feelings. I did not know what to do. I was in a strange land, a stranger. I did not know a man could make a statement in his own behalf, I thought the same rule obtained here as in England, and that I would not be allowed to make my statement and I would get away. I had that large trunk, the only one I had up to that time. I emptied it out. It would be impossible, gentlemen, to describe to you my feelings, my horror, when I knew mv friend was dead." The prisoner paused and brushed away the tears from his eyes, and proceeded: "I drew the empty truck up to the side of the bed, and, after drawing my drawers, the first that came to my hand, I put them on the body for common decency sake. I put Mr. Preller in it. There was some difficulty inputting the body into the trunk, but I succeeded, and after covering it up went down to the bar. I was in a dreadful state of mind, and tried to drown my thought bv drinking. I wandered about the streets of the city until about U o'clock. I visited some shooting galleries and came back to the hotel. I went up to the dining room. I can't very well give an account of what took plt.ee in the dining room. I then went up to the room my room and stayed there all iiight. 1 can't be sure of anything that happened afte-the sad occurrence of Mr. Preller's deHth. I stayed in my room. To say that I flept would be untrue. I waited for the morn irr- I then thought tbe only thing to be dorn w to get awav. I took Mr. Preller's ii..i ai.u looked through them. I found a quantity of money in bills. I can't fay how much. There was probably $-00 or $mjO. I took it and went to the ticket office and bought a ticker for San Francisco. On the same morning I made several othe purchases, a itute and a diamond ring at a pawnbrokers, a pair of field glasses and spectacles at Aloes, the optician; two trunks and a valice. Tbe trunks I ordered carried to my room, and I placed in one of them the clothing and loose things lying around the room, which had been removed from the trunk in which I had placed my friend's dead body." "What do you know about the piece of paper reading "so perish all traitors to the great cause?" "I wrote it. My idea was that the authorities would find it and that it would puzzle them until an autopsy should be held." "Was it your idea to delay them while you were getting away?'' "Yes." "Did you do anything else with the same object in view?" "Yec, I shaved ofl the moustache." ' Can you tell how that cut came upon his breast?" "Yes. I did it with a scalpel, but can assign no reason for it." "You did this all on Monday morning?" 'Yes, on Monday morning." "Wbat else did you do?" "In the course of the morning I went to the union depot with the canvass covered trunk which I checked to San Francisco. 1 remember going to the dining room Sunday morning, bat I don't remember ordering the wine. 1 don't remember asking about killing a man nor exhibiting a revolver. What I did on Sunday evening and Monday morning, are so confused that I wouldn.t like to say when anything occurred." "Had you, when you administered the chloroform any intention of killing Mr. Preller?" 'I had not, sir." The witness spoke loudly and emphatically. "Had you any intention of Injuring him?" "I tad not, sir." "Of doing him any bodily harm?" "I bad not, sir." Tom Corwin' Repartee. K'leavelamJ Leader. In 1M2, when Mi. Corwin was the Whig candidate for Covernor, he was speaking to a larce out-of-door audience at Akron, and in his speech he told his hearers that he wished for their votes, but said he wished it to be understood that it was not for the sake of the salary he would receive. (The Governor's alary under the old Constitution was only $xoo.) A democrat near the speaker's stand said, "That's a He. Mr. Corwin instantly turned a little and looking squarely into th fellow's face, with a smile clearly expressing a combination of mirth and contempt, said : "No, it is not, and I will tell you why. I am a lawyer, and when at home I can make more money by pleading assault and battery cases for (pointing his Cnger at him) just such chaps as you than I could by being Governor." As ooon as the roars of laughter subsided Mr. Corwin went on with his address as though be had not been interrupted. The love of fun was a trait of hU character which even his gallantry wool! not prevent

him from enjoying whenever a good opportunity occurred: Judge Wright, of Cincinnati, and Mr. Corwin were traveling together during the campaign referred to, and stopped to stay over night at the home of a prominent citizen in the central part of the State. At supper the host's daughter waited up the table, and knowing tbe distinguished character of their guests, was inclined to put on some style; and before pouring tea inquired, first of Judfe Wright: "Do you take condiments in your tea?" The old: Judge was too polite to say anything but "yes," and let her Üi his tea as she pleased. When she came to Mr. Corwin she repeated the same question. The chance for a joke was so good that he could not resist the temptation to improve it. and he replied: "Pepper and salt if you please, but no mustard." I think it safe to conclude that that girl never again proposed "condiments" for tea.

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TOLICE INSPECTOR BYRNES. THE MAN WHOSE EVIDENCE SENT EX-ALDERMEN JAEHNE TO 8IKO SING. Interest in the proceedings at the Jaehne nal culminated in the testimony of Police spector Byrnes, the man who set the trap ;o which the Alderman fell. Jaehne'sconsion to Byrnes that he had received $20,000 his vote in favor of a railroad on Broady, was the material part of the evidence t n by the officer which led the jury toconf the prisoner. Without Byrnes' evidence re would have been an opposite result to trial. he Inspector's testimony evidences that 3 a good deal of a diplomatist. In a cs of interviews with his now miserable im he elicited from him on one occasion confession that a man named Moloney, bandied the "boodle." hau I him just before the fratie was granted that it was goin e put through, and that Jaehne then told onev he wanted to use some money, and edbim if be couldn't help him out. uiie said Maloney tc ld him to look in his ehiie's) box'for it after the meeting was r, and he would find what he wanted. bne did so, and found an envelope with o.fiOO in it. Having procured this much in interview between himself and Jaehne, i thout witnesses, Byrnes contrived an int view at which he had two detectivesjin the irlor of his house back of where he and .j ehne were sitting, where they could hear -. bat was said. At the trial the Inspector produced a diagram of the room and explained how he had placed a chair for Jaehne near the folding doors opening into the back parlor. He then testified as follows: "Jaehne came around about 8 o'clock, and after I saw him in the chair intended for him with nis back to the folding doors, told him that I heard he was going away lie asked me who told me that, and then went on to say that it was very funny, for he did have a conversation about leaving town with Harney, a liquor dealer in Jaehne's district. I told Lim that I had forgotton some of the amounts he said the members of the Board had received, and he repeated the statement that each of the twenty-two men got $20,000. Then he went over the whole story again. Finally he pulled out his watch and said he had an engagement at 8 :.'!0 o'clock to meet some men who would make Martine stop the prosecution. I arrested him the next day at about 11 o'clock." This "will you walk into my parlor" testimony was corroborated, and Jaehne's conviction followed, of course. The ingenuity of Byrnes, only equalled by the simplicity of Jaehne, is an illustration of "the wavs that are dark" adopted by the Chief of the New York detec tives in his official zeal for the public good. Inspector Byrnes bad before proved himself to be a capable officer. The means by which he procuied testimony resulting in the conviction of Jaehne is perhaps the hest example of his work so far. There is evidently a future for Mr. Byrnes, who is now in early middle life, with the glory and honor of his recent achievement to encourage his diplomatic ingenuity in the future. A VIPER'S VENOM. Ingalls Makes a Vicious Attack on Co rum Udoner Black In the Senate. Washington Special to Courier-Journal. About once in six weeks Ingalls, of Kansas, has an attack of venom vertigo. He is generally taken with these attacks in the open session of the Senate. He had an attack of the most malignant form to-day. Senators Hale, Frye and Morrill had just enough time to change their seats to a more secure distance when the compound essence of hate and malignity began to boil and hiss from the reptile frame of the Kansas infidel. It was not krjonrn in the Senate when the Senator began to writhe who he intended to strike with his poisonous fangs, and there was a feeling of terror throughout the chamber. No one, however, was kept long in douot. After swaying his Lead back and forth a few times the sixfoot serpent fastened his venomous fangs in the body cf a brave, gallant and crippled Union soldier, General John C. Blacfc. vonmissioner of Pensions. He charged that General Black was "an impostor" because he drew a pension of $100 a month, while he, as Ingalls contended, is engaged in impeding and preventing the granting of pensions to others iust as deserving. -He said that General Black, a conspicuous beneficary of the pension system, was using all his power and influence to persuade the President to veto small pensions to deserving men. After he had relieved himself of the load of gall and bitterness which brought on the attack be sank into his seat overcome by his own imbecility. The people know that the Commissioner of Pensions was "shot full of holes" in defense of his country, that he is an honest and capable public servant and a high-minded and honorable roan. But what disturbs the little narrow mind of the Kansas cowboy is not General Black's pension, but General Black's politics. This is the venom of the viier. An Effort of the Imagination Boston Evening Record. The imagination of a three-year-old boy is often a stupendous thing. One can't help wondering how much a child of that age believes of his own big stories. Thia one for example: "I went out in de front yard dis morning," said Benny, "and I saw a 'nawful big horse tip in a tree, and I took a gun aid I snooted it, and I tooked it in tbe house and my mamma picked de fedJers oilit aud cooked it for breksit!"

ALL AROUND THE HOUSE. Precaution against Moth. Seasonable Vegetables. Strawberries What to do with them.

That excellent authority, "The Next Neighbor" says: Always in the spring, after beating, cleaning and agrandairin?, take the woollen clothes in while the sua is ou them, and put away, with as little folding aa possible in large chests, lined with thick paper, and plenty of gum camphor in rather large pieces among the layers. I hope to see the large wooden chest for storage form part of our outfits as they were of our grandmothers'. Boxes are much better to keep clothes in than leather trunks are, and a set male of cedar, or lined with veneers of that wood, built very large to receive clothes without much folding would be better than cedir closets, especially if there is a dry attic to store them. One chest for blankets, one for men's clothing, and one for women's, shoild be part of the family plenishing, and descend as heirlooms after th sensible custom of our ancestors. Furs keep best in tbe new barrel is made from pajtr pulp, which can be sealed up to whclly exclude moths. If you must store them without any such convenience, beat them thorougblv on the inside, brush the fur well, put into a clean large paper bag which you can get from the groceis, with lumps of champhor in the pockets and folds, and paste the top of the bag closely. Keep eaci article, so sealed in a separate bag, in a box or trunk, lined with camphor or tarred papfr. and paste strips over the keyhole and cloHire of the trunk. This work should always be done as soon as you are through wearing furs and woolens. Moths seldom attack things in constant use, but seize their chaice if articles are left in closet or trunk for I fortnight unguarded. Don't leave your witter dresses and the boys' clothes hanging in inused closets or the attic, half the s amine?. Besides moths, the ants, wasp3 and flies will gnaw holes in them, dust gathers, and light fades them. The waste of clothes cones nearly as much from neglect as from ue, i frPINACH AND ASTARAG t'S. Spinach should never be cooked in water, sayi Miss Dods. After picking the leaves fro ii the stalk, wash thoroughly in cold waier. From the cold water place the leaves in i perfectly dry stew-pan, closely covered, and, keep on the fire until the spiuach becomes tender. When done draw off the water that will be found in the pan, and tht a chop the spinach finely, or rub through a siive. To every quarter pound of spinach use an ounce of butter, a little pepper and salt and a half table-spoonful of cream, lietun the spinach to the sauce-pan, add these ingiedients, and cook ten minutes. Break the eggs in boiling water, into which some lemn juice acd a pinch of salt na3 been drojped, and crook three minutes. When done, place on the top of the spinach and serv;. Aiparagus cooked this way will be found far more agreeable than when boiled whole; Wash and scrape the asparagus and cut it in inch pieces until you come to the hard part, w hich is to be set aside for flavoring your sour. Boil until tender in salted boiling water and serve with a white sauce or with a little butter and pepper. Careful housekeeters preserve the water in which the asparagus has been cooked for boiling the tougi ends, and use this and the pulp, which has h?en passed through a sieve, for the ext day's vegetable soup, as it imparts a delicious flavor to it. The asparagus must be cooked in a well-tinned or granite saucepan. STRAW BEB KI ES. Striwberry jelly. Crush the fruit and strain through a course linen bag, and to each pint of juice allow one pound of sugar; boil ten minutes, skimming as necessary; pour hot iLto jelly glasses and stand the glasses iu the sun as for perserves for two days. Strawberry syrup. For five quarts of fruit allow twelve pounds of sugar and one pint of water, sprinkle the fruit with some of the sugar an! let it stand over night; then crush the berries, strain, . washing out the pulp with tbe pint of water; addthe remaining sugar and bring to the boiling points, again strain; bottle and cork at once; keep in a cool place. Preserved strawberries. Three quarters of a pound ol fruit and a pint of water to seven pounds of sugar. Put the sugar and water into a porcelain kettle and boil them seven to ten mina'es according to thickness, then add the fruit previously washed and diained and boil four minutes; skim out the fruit; turn the syrup into tin pans and set in the sun, adding the berries as soon as it is cool ; let stand in the sun protecting from insects the sunny part of two days; pnt into glass and screw down ; it is not necesssry, however, to have them air-tight. Strawberry jam. To six pourd of fruit allow four pound of sugar; remove the calyxes; crush and put into preserving kettle and cook one-half hour over a moderate fire, stirring constantly; remove from the range and add the sugar; mix the sugar with the fruit, and again boil 20 minutes, stirring as before. To tell when sufficiently cooked, take out a teaspoonful on a plate, and if no juice gathers about it, and it looks dry and sparkling, it has cooked enough. Every housekeeper should be provided with a miniature apple butter stirrer for jam3, ets. Canned strawberries. Fill glass can3 with fre&h, whole strawberries sprinkled with sugar in proportion of one half pound of sugar to a quart of fruit: put on the tops and screw down at once as tightly as possible; till a wash boiler with co'd water previously putting an old dish at the bottom a perforated tin made to fit the boiler, is a great improvement on old plates, etc , and stand in the jars. The water should be within two inches of the toDs; when the water boils, note the time and boil twenty minutes; draw to the back of the stove ; take out the cans and stand on a piere of flannel: screw down again as the cans cool, causing contraction of the glass; turn down and down again until air tight. Strawberry short cake Sift two heaping teappoonfuls of baking powder with one quart of flour; add one-half teacupful of butter and Jard mixed ; one fourth teacupful of sugar; a little salt and milk enough to make a soft dough; roll out quite thin and bake in two pans, which should be large enough to allow of the cakes being cut in half, so as to make four layers when done; crush the fruit if large and spread every layer, which should be buttered plentifully tA'ith berries and powdered sugar. Eat with cream and sugar ilivored with vanilla. Also, one quart of flour; a piece ot butter the size of an egg; one teaspoonful of soda and creara-of-tartar; sweet milk to mix. Sift the cream of-tartar with the flour; rub the butter thoroushly through the flour and dissolve the soda in the milk; mix soft and bake in a flat tin; when done, split open, butter and spreadly thickly with crushed berries, cream and sugar or berries and sugar only ; spread fruit over the top or cream and A DRUG STORE TALE. The Snake Story the Druggist Heard While He Wan Wiping Off a Dusty Centipede Jar. Boston Globe. The apothecary's Junior assistant had sprinkled the floor with sawdust about an hour before, ready for the morning sweeping, and it had been hustled about by the feet of the army of morning stamp customers until its damp virtues had dried outof it. He scattered a fresh supply on the floor and began his sweeping of the middle and slighting of the corners with his wonted energy. "Mornln', doctor," 6aid a tall, solemn individual, as he stepped up to the show case end dosed his handkerchief with an ounce or two of Ylang Ylang. "Good morning, sir," said the druggist, eying the bottle and stopping in. his wiphiS

a jar of preserved centipedes which the junior assistant bad been caught in tbe act of selling for leeches "good morning, sir: some

jrruuiuc IU13 UlUlUlUg. 11 Wlil läSl lUrOUgU two washings." "No." said the man, "in that case I think l won t need none for a ' VekJ twH what s that you ve got in the boicle there, stakes?" "No," said the druggist, shortly "centipedes, scolopendra gigantea." "Ah! nice lookin' customers. They remind me of a guess I'll tell vou the storv it's a little in your line." ine druggist pulled out the senna drawer and settled himself wearily oa it to listen. "It was down iu the Middle States," said the solemn man. "and the weather was schorchin' hot. There was two of us in the field workin at the hayin' (I was farmiu' at that time), and we was dressed for our work, too, let me tell you. We only wore shirts, overalls, slippers and straw hats. "'Bout noon Jim and me we started alone tbe path at tbe side of the field to the clump of bushes where we'd left our grub." "Two cents' worth er coarse 'n finesnufif. more coaree 'n fine, 'n put some scent in it." piped a small shrill voice from somewhere under the front of the counter. The druggist weighed it out. Then he took up the scale pan, and blew the loose snuff out of it. After the tall, solemn, man had recovered from the consequence fit ot sneezing, he went on with the story. "Well, as I said, the path run along the side of the field. We'd taken our pitchforks 'cause we intended to work on the other side ot the bushes after dinner. I don't know wbat made me think of it, but just as we come to the pile of stones, old broken rails and rubbish in the fence corner. I says to myself what a place for snakes never saw a t'rantler, did you, doctor?" "Yes, I have one in a bottle," said the druggist. "Well, then you know they ain't very pretty birds. Just as I got abreast that there piie of rubbish somethin' shot up ray leg like lightnin'. I believe I jumped tea foot into the field and let a screech you could have heard for miles. Then I stood stock still and the sweat just poured off me. "Jim come runnin' back and I hollored to him to look out for the pile that it was full of snakes, and, says I, 'Jim, there's one of the devils gone up the leg of my overalls.' " Here the junior assistant suddenly finished his sweeping and took to polishing the showcase near the story teller, who, after shopping to chew a sugared cardamom seed, went on again. "Well, sir (said he), I was so scared I dassent move, nor Jim neither, and there we stood, pale as ghosts; me all over cald shivers, hair on end, and walkin' to ser what the thing would do, and Jim waitin' to see what I would do. "Suddenly Jim looked on the ground and gave a yell that would have done credit to a catamount. '"There it is," he screeched ; "there it is by that stone!" "Sure enough it was, and a nastier, deadlier looking thing I never saw. "You said you had a t'rant'ler in a bottle, didn't you? well, a t'rant'ler's an augel aside of that thing. "It was nearer me than Jim, so he took his pitchfork, aimed carefully, and, lune;in' like it was his last chance on earth, stuck one of the tines into it. "After waiting long enough to be sure by hittin' the fork and movin' it a little once in a while that he had the thins good and fast, we grew bold enough to examine it closer. "It was a dirty gray color generally, but there was round darkish spots all over it, and some places seemed to be ef a moist brownish appearance, altogether 'bout the size of a teacup, only flatter. "Well, sir, it was the nastiest, deadliest" "What was it?" asked the druggist, breathlessly. "Did you put it in alcohol?" "Put it in alcehol!" said the man, scornfully, "no, sir: we chucked it into the rubbish pile. You see, I'd worn it till it curled up and fell ofl' just as I got to the fencs corner. "My mind bein' on snakes at the time, I lost my head the moment I felt the thing move, and naturally thought it was somethin' runnin' up my leg. I hain't worn an other since. "Worn another!" gasped the druggist, "another snake?" "No," said the tall, solemn man, "another porous plaster." The druggist slipped off the drawer and hit his head on the shelf. When he recovered the tall man had gone, and was buttonholing the minister across the street. Then the druggist made the junior assistant sweep the floor all over again. MISS FOLSOM DENIES IT. SI f Says She Doen Not Intend to Wed the President. Buffalo, May 2". The Commercial Advertiser in an article to-day says letters received in this city from Buffalo women now in Paris, and whb have personally seen the young woman whose name has been mentioned as that of the intended wife of President Cleveland, report that the mortified girl positively declares that she is not going to marry Mr. Cleveland. A reporter saw to-day a letter from a Buffalo lady in Tar is, who called on Miss Folsom and who came away with the belief that the mother, and not the daughter, would be the bride. Miss Folsom made an evasive answer when asked if the dresses she was having made were for the trosseau. The letter savs a reporter of a New York naner called on her brother at the hotel, and that Benjamin Folsom, who used to be attached to the Buffalo Courier, was fully a matc h for the intruder. A gentleman who was at Folsomdale to-day says the flolks there are certain of the arrival of the travelers in New York this week, and preparations are being made for their entertainment in the Folsorudale home. Dr. Winslow Tierce, of this city, who was quoted as having said in Washington, after an interview with the President, that the latter had admitted his intention to marry, and had fixed June 10 as the date of the ceremony, returned from Washington last night. He denied that he had any conversation with the President on the subject of the rumored marriage, and was indignant that he had been falsely quoted in connection with the subject. Some ladies, he said, were in the ante-room when he came from the interview with the President, and there was a little chaffing at the wedding stories flying about, but nothing was said that could be construed into a statement that the President had admitted that be was going to be married at all. lie l'aid 11,000 for a Wife. Hartford Special. 1 Last fall Chauncey B. Winship, a hardfisted old farmer of Wethersfield, lost his wife. He is seventy-six years of age, but within a week after Iiis wife's death he began to look for a second wife. He had real estate valued at $i,000 and $10,(X0 in bank, and hoped to buy a woman of some srt. He first wrote sd advertisement for a wife, but it appeared as one for a housekeeper. Twenty-five women answered at once. He ranged them in a room and made a circuit with a roll of bills, $2.00(, in his hand, and, stopping in front of each, said: "I'll give you this to marry me; to marry me right now." All refused, mot', of them never having seen him before. He kept up a hot hunt for a wife for about a month, proposing to over forty women from sixteen to sixty-seven years of age. His offer was $2,000 to each, ar?ci he raised it to meet the appearance of each applicant, going as high as $10,000. At length he married Mrs. rheumdance, giving her $0,000 cash and transferring property valued at $5,000 without consideration. The children then filed a petition for a conservator. Most of the women were in court to day and a crowd of hard-fisted Wethersfield farmers. It was shown that since the petition was filed'Winship had threatened to Mart for New York by boat and jump overboard on the way; that he had bought laudanum and got the bottle to his lips; that

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be baJ threatened to kill his sons, who liye on the i Uce, and had assaulted Charles, tin mm iii tobraiuhim with a spade. The t 'i tr-j for Winship confined his ellbrts to -J i. ii'c that Winship knew nougli t begin pi:. mir z his farm this spring. Cot einer Knott Telia at Story. (Cincinnati Enquirer.! "No," remarked Governor J. Proctor Knott, of Kentucky. "I will not talk ik1itics, but I will tell you an incident of four j ...: e . i m. j uuuauiuems ui mine wuu caueu on me once when I was in Congress." "If there is any one thins we'd rather hear than an opinion on politics it's to hear you tell a story." "Well, I had run down to New York for a few days, and waile there I met my friends from the old Commonwealth. They were all Majors and Colonels, and had never been out ot the State befo e. They insisted that I go around with them to call on A. T. Stewart. I explained to them that my presence could do them no good; that I didn't care for Stewart, and 1 was pretty certain that he didn't care anything for me. The truth of the matter was I didn't waut to give the old gentleman a chance to humiliate me in any way, as I had he.ird a grod deal of his jrrudness. IJut my friends said they would go, anyhow. That night I went to one of the tbc-aters, and bad a nice seat in the parquet. Glancing to the right I saw my constituents in a box, nodding and smiling to me. I returned the salutation, and an aciuaiatauce near me remarked that my friends must be very intimate with A. T. Stewart. "Why so?"' I inquired in astonishment. " 'Because they are in bis private box, which he engages by the year, and to which only his intimate friencs are invited.' "When the curtain went down after the first act I strolled around to inquire into the matter. They had called upon Mr. Stewart at his counting room. The merchant looked up grimly, and Colonel Boone stepped forward as spokesman and unbosomed an avalanche f native eloquence. 'Mr. Stewart.' said he, we are a pany of native Kentuckians seeing the sights. We have been to Washington, sir, and called upon the President, upon General Sherman, the members of the Cabinet, and the most distinguished statesmen of the National Capital, aud now, sir, we felt that our trip would not be complete should we go home without seeing the Napoleon of merchants, who has made for himself a name that is celebrated the world over, and who has more talent in his line than the statesmen and generals we have called on in theirs. Now, Mr. Stewart, we will not detain you a moment; we have paid our respects and we will go.' "Mr. Stewart would not allow it though. He threw down his pen and conducted them through his establishment personally. After t bey bad made tbe rounds they fouud an elegar.t foliation awaiting the:n. including c hampaLe and old Kentucky bourbo i- As they were departing the great lueThcut shook ef.ch of them by the hand and save theiu cards admitting them to b;3 private box during their stay in tbe city." 'That's how they came to ! in Stewart's box at the theatre. ' How Christopher Columbia Cam. Limira Gazette Kln.ira Teacher "Who discovered America?" Jolmnie "Christopher Columbus." "That is right. Now, how did he come to do it?" "He come by water." Dr. Tierce's "Pleasant Purgative Pelles". cleanse and purify the blood and relieve the digestive organs. No other preparation meets the wants of tbe debilitated system as does Ayer's Sarsaparllla. EPITHELIOMA! OR SKIN CANCER. For seven years I suffered with a cancer on my faoe. All the simple remedies were applied to alleviate the pain, but the place continued to grow, finally extending into my nose, from which, came a yellowish discharge very offensive in character. It was also inflamed, and annoyed me a great deal. About eight months aeo I was in Atlanta, at the house of a friend, who so strongly recommended the use of Swift's Specific that 1 determined to make an effort to procure it. In this I was successful, and began its use. The influence of the medicine at first was to somewhat aggravate the sore: but soon the inflammation was allayed and 1 began to improve after the lirst few bottles. My general health has greatly improved. 1 am sirongeind able to do any kind of work. The cancer on mv face began to decrease and the ulcer to heal, untifthereisnotavistigeof it left only a litt'.e scar marks the place where it had beeu. 1 am ready to answer all questions relative to this cure. ir.s. Joic ik A. Mc DoNAi.r. Atlanta, Ca., August 11. 1SS5. I have had a cancer on my face for ome years, extending from one c heek bone across the uoe to the other. It has given me a groat deal of pain, at times burning and itching to such an extent that it was almost unbearable. I commenced wMn Swift s Spec ific m Mav, 1S85. and have used eight bottles. It has given the greatest relief by removine the inflammation and restoring my general health W. BAK.SE9. IlleKnoxv, Iowa, Sept. 8, iss5. For many rears I was a sufferer with cancer of hte ur.se, aud baring been cured by the use of . .8 S.. I feel constrained by a Reuse of duty to Killeriue humanity to make this statement ot my case. With the fourteenth bottle theraneer began to heal rapidly and soon disappeared, and for several months there has been no appearance of a eore of any kind on my nose or face, neither is my nose at all tender to the touch. 1 have taken about two dozen bottles S. S. 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