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Show Daubury 5I:m trice';'' 1o Ileuch a AVoiuaii's Pocket. A . The most difficult thine; to reach is a woman's pocket. This is especially the case if the dress is huug is in a up in a closet, and the man hurry. We think we are safe in saying that he always is iu a hurry The owner of on such an occasion in the is sitting room sethe dress in a book. Having renely t'Dgrorsed told him that the article which he is ia quest of is in her dress p icket in the closet, she has discharged her whole duty in the matter, and can afford to feel serene. He goes at the task with a dim consciousness that he has been there before, but says nothcloset door ing. On opeuing the confronted with aud finding himselt a number of dresses, all turned inside out, and presenting a most formidable front, lie hastens back to a.k "which dress?" and being toid the brown orte, and also asked if hc had so many dresses that there Heed be any great effort to find the right one, he n turns to the closet with alacrity, and soon has his hands on the b.own dress. It is inside out like the rest a fact he uoos iut noiice, hower-runtil he has made several ineffectual attempts to get his hand into it. Then he turns it around very carefully and parses over the pocket several times without being aware of it. A nervous moving of his hands aud an appearance of perspiration ou his forehead are perceptible, lie now dives one hand in at the back, aud feeling around finds a place' and proceeds to explore it, when he discovers that he is following up the insiue of a lining. The nervousupss increases, also the perspiration. He twitches the dres on the hook, and suddenly the pock-- ' et, white, plump aud exasperating, comes to view. Tht-- he sighs the relief he feels, aud is mentally grateful he dil not allow himself to use any! offensive expressions. It is all right is now. There the pocket in plain view not only the inside but the outside and all he has to do is to put his hand right around in the inr side aDd take out the article That is all. He can't help but smile to think how near he was to iiettinc mad. Then he puts his hand arouud to the other side. He does not feel the opening. He pushes a little further now he has got it he shoves the hand down, and is very much surprised to Fee it appear opposite his knees. lie has made u mistake. He tries again; again he feels the opening and glides down it only to apThis makes pear again as before. lain open his eyes and straighten his face. He feels of the outside of the pocket, pinches it curiously, lifts it up, shakes it, and after peering closely about the roots of it, ae exclaims, 'liy gracious 1" and commences again. He does it calmly this time, because hurrying only makes matters worse. He holds up breadth after breadth, goes over them carefully, gets his hand first into a lining, theu into the air again (where it always surprises him when it appears), aud linally into a pocket, and is about to cry out with triumph, wheA he discovers that it is iu the pocket of another dress. He is mad now; the closet air almost stifles him; he is so nervous he can hardly contaiu himself, and the pocket looks at him so exaspen-ticgl- y that he cannot help but "plug" it with his clinched fist, and immediately docs it. Being somewhat relieved by this performance, he has a chance to look about him, and see that he has put his foot through a band-bo- x and Into the crown of his wife's bonnet; has broken the brim to his Panama hat, which was hans;ing iu the same closet, and torn about a yard of bugle trimming from a new cloak. As all this trouble is due directly to his wife's infatuation in hanging up her dresses inside out, be immediately starts after her, and impetuously urging her to the closet, excitedly and almost "profanely intimates his doubts of there being a pocket in the dress, anyway. The cause tif the unhappy disaster quietly inserts her hand inside the robe, and directly brings it forth 'with' the in its cksp. He article joughtfor know why, but this makes Mm madder than anything else. , Daubury Xews, , f , n . , e of age, feeble and and a shoemaker hy trade was in his shop making preparations for resuming work on the morning following the ordained day of rest. Kerr was an honest, industrious and hardworkiug old fellow despite of his years. In the winter time he worked at shoeuiaking, and in the proper season cultivated the farm on which he lived. His shop a small, unpretentious wooden affair was situated some eight or ten rods from the dwelling house, where his family, consisting of eight or nine childreu, resided. Kerr preferred to sleep alone, and for this purposo had a bed placed iu an upper room of the shop, to which he retired with a regularity in keeping with the custom of farmers generally. To assist him in his farm labors he had employed iu the summer time Samuel Beighley, a distant relative; but as the season for help was now over, Kerr called Beighley to him one day and informed him that as he had uo more wor'i it would be fit and proper for him to seek other employment, and thereupon the assistant was payed off iu full, and soon after he took his departure and put up at the house of David tout, which was situated a mile or so from the residence of the Kerrs. The first intimation the family had of the crime was between nine and ten o'clock that Sunday night, after the arrival home of John Kerr, a son of the murdered man. John was returning home from a neighboring farmer's house, and while passing the shop observed a bright light in the window. It struck him "at the time as being strange, inasmuch as usually his father was abed and fast asleep at that hour. He went to the Vioor and knocked, but no ne re sponded, and tere was naught to indicate the presence of a human being within. The young man now became thoroughly alarmed, and with hurried footsteps wended his way home, aroused the family, and procuring a lauteru, retraced his steps in the direction of tho shop. The door was still fastened on the inside, but, on investigation, he discovered that during his absence the window nearest the ground had been hoisted, and scratches on the woodwork would indicate that a person somewhat clumsy in his movements had made lis exit in this way from the house. Handing the lantern to a younger brother, he crept through the open window, and proceeding up the stairs leading to the second story, was appalled to behold the mangled and lifeless body of his father, near the bed, and Mcar by a great pile of corn. The poor old man's skull was crushed wiih a ragged black oak bludgeon, aud his throat was cut with his own shoe kuife. This room did not present the appearance of a scule having taken place, lor it was neat and tidy. gray-heade- d, . un-husk- The then was that the murderer lay concealed, watching the entrance to the house of his victim. Then, creeping in after him, stealthily fallowed up stairs, knocked him down with his club, and cut his throat with a knife as deliberately as a butcher would slaughter a hog. Under the bed was found a coat dyed crimson with the blood of the murdered man, and sticking out of the pre-umptio- n stove was a comforter, also deeply stained with blood. The coai and comforter were without tho least effort identified as those bloDgiug to Samuel Beiqhly, and search was im mediately made for this person. His abiding place, as before stated, was at the house of Mr. Stout, and thither members of the the ' family and neighbors, aroused by the screams' and lamentations of the ofMr. fspring of the victim, repaired. found in was bed, apparently Beighly in a profouud sleep, and appeared de cidedly provoked at the-- intrusion. Notwithstanding an examination of his clothes and of the promises was decided upon, and it was not long before his j boots retealed grits and grief-stricke- n SOMETHING and EXECUTION ghastly evidence of his late handi- son of the verification of the wicked work, and near by the bed was found man's prophecy. Mr. Kerr's coat, which, like the old Beighley was hung in the presence Remarkable Fulfilment of a large number of spectators, inblood. of witn was bespattered boots, Prophecy, Kerr thereupon charged cluding the murdered man's family. Young Bvighely with the murder o his His confession was read ou the scafGreeburo, Pa., father, and the latter, seeing the evi- fold. He claimed that he was intoxJanuary 20th, 1875. dence was so conclusive, at ohco ad- icated wheu he performed the horOn Sunday night, Nov. 30th, mitted the truth of the charge. A rope rible deed. 1873, Joseph Kerr, tixty-fivyears was put around his neck aud Judge 31 UUD13I Lynch launched his sentence 'forthwith, but the guilty man prayed fervently and begged so piteously for his life that it was spared. He then admitted hi? guilt. Samuel Beighely is a very young man, just having passed his twenty-firs- t birthday. He is stoutly built, with powerful shoulders and thick limbs for one so young in years. His face is not by any means a repulsive one, and yet it is not one that u gill with a taste of her own would fall in love with. Beighley s life from the time he was the height of his lather's knee has been a vagabond one. He was represented as a hard character, lazy, indolent and of thieving propensities Singular, yet it is true, that though there have been at least a quarter of a hundred murders committed iu Westmoreland county since the year 1S30, yet not one of the perpetrators has suffered the extreme penalty. In this connection it may nt prove re- miss to mention a prophecy, singular in its fulfilment, made on the scaf fold on the occasion of the last execution in the county. This was Jos eph Kvans, who was tried, convicted and executed for the murder of John John C Fremont. YOU OUGHT to KNOW AND gPEED IUUT j RUNNING, Coupled with immense power and duraSowbility The only straight-needling Mutfliine whic'i combines thex great essential. UbcrvHt ioi Htidprao-licthe fact, I hat have demon-tinnegood sewing cun be done ou all Then tht) enquiry tube?; "I saw of the Which Machine runs the lighten? A Washington lotter says: General Fremont in the lwbby house yesterday. He is now old aud bent. Ilia face is deeply chisled by the burrowing hand of time. His eyes are slightly bleared; cheek bones stood out as prominent as those of a Sioux chief. Iron gray whiskers, short and stubby, closely trimmed down from the base of the jaw bone, His dark grww upon his thin neck. hair is yet a dark iron gray, and is worn quite long. It is combed well forward, and hangs down in front of his ears. A well worn bearer, set well back oh his head; a bright scarlet comforter; a gray tweed light overcoat, and a dark suit of underclothing made up the general articles of his attire. He looks like a whimsical, fussy man, aud little like the hero of the Rocky Mountains, whose pictures during the presidential campaign of 185G always represented him with long curls, in the garb of a western frontiersman, charging apace upon a fiery chnrgt r, breathing the smoke and fire of a bloody war. It is said that Fremont is trying to g?t some allowance from the govern mcnt for his pait services iu the war." e e TIIK WKED. WLich Machine sews ihc fastest? TIIK WEED. , Cissler by striking him over the head with a shovel. 1 his occurred on the last day of December, 'in the year A d man was riding in lsJ'J. hvaus was tried at tho iebru Woodward a avenue car the other ary term, 1S30, of the Court of Oyer when a lady opposite bowed to and Terminer, andthe j&ry after being day, him. He returned the bow, raised out one hour, returned a verdict of his smiled hat, sweetly, and was just murder in the first decree. It ap who she was, when rhe pears Evans, Cissler and two other wondering came and over whispered in his ear, men, named Linsibiger and Ball, ! were all fellow laborers or. the canal "Oh I'll fix you for this, old man!" and occupied the same shanty. A Then he knew it was his wife. Detroit Press. quarrel arose, and on the, trial thei witnesses, Ball and Linsibiger, swore that Evans struck .Cissler with a shovel, from the effect of which blow he died. An extraordinary part of the trial was the charge of the judge. TIIK BKST MADE AND IN-- ; STRUMKNT MANUFACTURED. ' f He explained the law, and comment ed upon the testimony in such a manAgent for Northern Utah, ' ner that it was impossible for the - OGDEN. jury to do otherwise than render a JOHN FOWLER, yerdict of guilty unless they had disTerms Easy, Rates Reasonable, obeyed the virtual instructions of the Court. Ihe Governor designated Orders by letter promptly attended to. Tuesday, the 10th of April, as the day upon which Evans should be 'Instrur tiom giveo by tha quarter. f executed. Upou the margin of another world and with all the horrors of death V2 before him, he nsseverattd that the testimony of Ball and Lisinbiger was false, and that the killing of Cissler He admitted that he was accidental. H had lived a wicked life, and advised all present to refrain from gambling, profanity and iutemperance, aud asHi cribed his premature aud ignominious death to his addiction to these vices. He then, in the most solemn manner stated that, as he was to be hung for a crime which he had never cummit-tcd- , no other persons would be executed in Westmoreland county for a period of forty years; andfuthermore, CD that several witnesses names them 0 H IS1 had that sworu falsely against him could not die a natural death, as the w Almighty knew of their sin, and he H would not let them die naturally. Siugular as it may appear, there has not been an execution in the caunty since that of Evans, over forty.four years ago, and, what is still the more singular, of the witnesses he menCD tioned, one was drowned, one was kicked by a horse, and from the injuries received, died; one was hung in Ohio, for horse stealing, by a mob; one was struck by lightning and killed, and the last one was killed on the old postage road, standing on or near a water tank, when a train of cars rolled him over and left the lifeless remains of the witness a round mass of human flesh. Those arrested ATTEATIOA'. and tried for murder have, either beeu sentenced to various periods in WALK ! the penitentiary or hare escaped the WHO WOULD WHKN horrors of the gibbet by swallowing Z. CM. I. will furnish a Light poison on the neai approach of the , Spring .Wagon . fatal day. 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