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3 A PENNSYLVANIA PROPHET. I A WOMAN TRAPPER. She Supports Her Family by Trapplag-Skunks, Minks and Muskrats. Peoples Register PUBLISHED FRIDAYS AT a. 1 ft, Bala It, (Opp.

National Hotel,) chambkjuhvko, r. O. SCHAFFS SONS. him home, cared for him and found him work. Croupa had walked from Riverside and becoming exhausted had laid down to Bleep.

Croupa, although said to have been given to drinking freely aud rather quarrelsome, was considered a harmless fellow. Before Krulis went to Constable Saskecks house it appears that he had gone into Joseph Wises saloon and put the finger, which he subsequently presented to the Constable, upon the bar and told Wise that be had killed Croupa. Wise, however, thought he was joking and told him to leave the saloon. Bohemia, where the murder occurred, is a village of about 500 inhabitants, all of whom arc Bohemians. They are mostly employed in the cigar-making business, or work for the Vanderbilts, Roberts and other wealthy families who have estates near by.

They are a peaceable and orderly people. Mr. Gladstone as a Book Buyer, What Oliver Wendell jdolmes describes as book hunger seems with Mr. Gladstone to increase with years. Catalogues conscientiously perused and duly marked by him are quite a feature in book sellers windows.

One of the most interesting examples, as it is also the latest, is now exposed with the check in the window of Mr. Men kin, in Grays Inn road. Nearly forty books were ordered, subject to the discount of 10 per cent, for cash, upon which the G. O. M.

always insists. The most remarkable thing that strikes one in glancing through these catalogues is the extraordinary variety of Mr. Gladstones reading. His first book, for example, is an odd volume, A Sketch of the Pre-Shakespear-ean Drama, by F. Ireton; then come three works on anthropology, ono of which is Carus Sternes Worden and Vergelien in the original German.

As a set oil to Taylors Origin, of The Fine Arts in Great Britain and Ireland, Mr. Gladstone orders Sternberg's translation of Dr. Mag-nins Bacteria. Bibliography appears also to be a favorite subject with Mr. Gladstone, for he orders Dobsons History of the Bible and the Arcbiv fur Geschichte des dontschen Buchhan-dcls.

It would lie highly interesting to know what Mr. G. wants with Cobbolts Advice to Young Men and Young Women. The drink question anil epitaphs are truly strange companions, but the ex-premier orders two upon each topic, ono being by W. Andrews.

Heredity, Mor-monism and Popery, not to mention two books by Priestly, are duly marked off. But it is Shakespeareana that Mr. Gladstone orders wholesale. Sixteen French and six German translations Irom or criticisms on Shakespeare form a portion of the order; so that our readers need not be at all surprised to learn that Mr. Gladstone will edit a variorum edition of the great dramatist or some sucii stupendous undertaking.

Truly an inexhaustible Old Man! Pall Mall Gazette. THE PHILADELPHIA IR ESS has won the foremost place among Pennsylvania newspapers by the liberality, enterprise, andlairness with which it conducts its business, reports great events, and the completeness with which it records, day by day, the life of the city, and counti Its field is-woi ld-wide, and its staff, its special correspondents, so many and well oiganicd, its source of news so numerous, that it appeals to a wider constituency than any other newspaper ever published ill Pennsylvania. TH iKL.ss, said a manager of the of the Western Union Telegraph Company, now receives telegraphic news tlifiii nil trip, other Philadelphia newspaper This statement, is and conclusive, and 'TI1E PRESS iresents as daily witnesses to lts-inilh, its wclve to twenty-four bright and interest-ng pages. But it is not only by its news enterprise by the zeal, energy, and integrity of its reporters and correspondents that THE PRESS lias won and held the confidence of its many thousands of readers, representing every age and every condition of life, every trade and every proicssion, every faith and eveiy political opinion. It is the excellence and vaiied interest of THE PRESS as a general family journal, appealing to women as well asto men, which have made for it so many friends at home, and extended its reputation thioughout the country.

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In its pages the woikingmen finds as ready audience as its capitalists. To all commercial and industrial progress, to the best thought and best action iu every sphere of human enterprise, it accords a generous and enlightened hospitality. In the columns of THE PHILADELPHIA PRESS justice finds all seasons Summer. TERnnS OF THE PRESS. By mail, portage free in the United States and Canada.

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Iam not a spiritualist, aud have never been to a spiritual seance in my life, but I have had 107 sittings with a hard working, obscure laboring man within two years past. In this mans presence, iu broad daylight, I have frequently seen every natural law of physics set at naught by the levitation of heavy furniture, the ringing of bells (as yon say) by unseen hands, the verbatim reading of sealed writing, the shaking of the whole bouse and rappings on a table, easily heard 100 yards outside the bouse, such as would demolish any table if made with a wooden mallet. The person through whom these things happened I am sure is- as much of a surprise to himself as he is to me. lie supports a large family by the hardest kind of manual toll, and has never been willing to receive from me one cent as compensation for the time that he has given me in sitting. He is entirely free from the ordinary suspicion attaching to the paid medium.

If ho is a medium he does not know it. If the wiseacres ever get together and explore him it will be interesting to see what they will call him. Concord Cor. Boston Transcript. Working on One Picture Thirty Years.

Artist Albert Bierstadt has recently been visiting his old hannts in the Rocky Mountains. Ho first crossed the plains in 1859 with the army of Argonauts from the east, and it was then that he made the first sketches for the paintings of western scenes which gave him fame. For his latest work, The Last of the Buffalo, he speut thirty years time and made several hundred sketches. The picture was in his mind when ho followed the trail to Pikes Peak thirty-one years ago. Exchange.

The True Study of Poetry. From early years I was fond of poetry, nnd I owe au immense debt to the poets, not only because I have found in them the greatest aud best of moral teachers, who revealed to me, or confirmed in me, the purest truths on which it is possible to lie, but also because they have illnmi-unicd many a dark hour and udded fresh sunlight to many a bright ono by noble lc-sous set to natural music iu noble words. They have helped nvs to bang the picture gallery of imagination with lovely and delightful scenes, aud to take refuge from any storm which might beat upon me from without iu that flood of unquenchable sunshine which they had kindled for mo within. Canon F. in Forum.

GETTYSBU RG HARRISBURG RAIL ROAD Arrangement of Passenger Trains. In effect Monday, Dec. 1st, IS! 0. INDIAN 1 Soldiers and a Large number' of Indians Killed. Omaha, Dec.

29. A special to the Bee from Fine Ridge Agency says: Couriers from the Bad Lands who arrived here this adorning announced that a bloody and desperate conflict occurred this morning on Porcupine creek between the United States troops and liostiles-j Big Foots band had been surrounded by the troops, as detailed in the Bees despatches, and when the former was being disarmed by Col. Forsythe a bloody encounter took Captain Wallace, commanding Kj Troop of the Seventh Cavalry, was killed. Lieutenant Garlington, of the same regiment, was shot in thearm Several soldiers were killed and a number of Indians bit the dust. I The greatest excitement prevails here among agency employes and also among the friendlies, many of whom are relatives of the young bucks and are now on the war-path.

Grave fears are entertained for the safety of this post. Dela'Ts of the battle are expected The courier who brought the news! could only give the facts relating to the onset. The above news was substantiated by an official despatch received at headquarters of the Department of the Platte. It caused a great deal of excitement and regret. It had been fondly hoped by all the department officers that the difficulty would be averted without bloodshed, especially as the campaign seemed to be on the eve of closing.

The manner in which the Indians acted, however, as described I in this mornings telegrams, caused some of the Indian fighters to feel that treachery would be practiced when the troops came to the actual wpik of disarming them. These fears have been realized. The Seventh Cavalry is the regiment the contingent of which died around Caster in 1876, and the fate of some of its members now will have an effect on the survivors which will not he at all friendly towards the hostiles. ANOTHER SKIRMISH. Omaha, Dec.

29. A second special to the Bee from Pine Ridge Agency says Another fight has occurred, this time near the agency. This afternoon one of Colonel Forsythes troops, of the Seventh' Cavalry, was fired on by some Indians, who went out from the Rosebud camp, near Pine Ridge, and on their return they fired into the agency. This caused a skirmish, in which two soldiers were wounded. The Indians who were camped near where this skirmish took place moved west to a creek near the agency.

Owing to the absence of the cavalry, there is great trepidation here. Indian scouts who have just come in say that hut few of Big Foots men are left alive. OVER THREE JHUNDRED KILLED. Washington, Dec. 30.

-A despatch received this morning by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in relation to yesterdays Indian fight, from Indian Agent Royer, dated Pine Ridge agency, says while the soldiers were disarming Big Foot and bis band, after their surrender, a fight took place which resulted in the killing of three hundred Indians and several of the soldiers, including Cant. Wallace, with a number wounded. DETAILS OF THE ISLOODY FIGHT. Omaha, Dec. 30.

The correspondent of the Bee, in his account of yesterday's Indian fight, says the Indians must have fired a hundred shots before the soldiers fired one, but that when the soldiers did begin there was terrible slaughter of the red skins. He says that Captain Wallace and Private Cook wero the only soldiers killed, hut thut) of the 25 wounded many will die. Father Crafts, a Catholic Priest, was mortally wounded. Captain Wallace was tomahawked squarely! in the forehead. 4 Circulating Counterfeit Dollars.

Pittsburgh, Dec. 26. A scheme to flood the United States with counterfeit silver dollars has been unearthed here. Nineteen persons are already under arrest, and $1,100 in spurious coin is in the hands of the police. The money was brought from a central depot in New York city to Pittsburgh by a gang Italians employed to pass it.

It was all in silver dollars, and United Stated Detective McSweeney says it is' the best counterfeit of the standard silver dollar that was ever madeT The coin is perfectly formed in every detail, and its ring is identical with the good coin. Its only fault is that it is light in weight. Two of the Italians, named Elio Daiige and Nelson Mdggerina, accompanied by their wives attempted to pass the spurious money over the bar of the Black Bear Hotel, but were detected by the pioprietor and arrested. At first they refused to say where they lived, but the women finally broke down and told the police that they had been living at 523 Lincoln avenue East End. The house was quietly surrounded ind fifteen Italians arrested, under a bed in one of the rooms was found a pile of counterfeit money amounting to $1,100.

The detectives succeeded finally in gaining the information that the money was made in New York. Similar gangs were sent! to other cities. Detective McSweney says the real head of the band has not been uncovered. I He Was Rather Deaf. A young man who had formed an attachment to a young lady, went to her fathers house to ask his consent to their union.

The old gentleman, who was terribly deaf, was standing on the door-step as his daughters lover approached. The door commanded a view of a meadow in which a cow was feeding, and while Mr. C. was looking in that dilection the youthful lover, whose heart was overflowing with emotiou, commenced the task he came to perforin. I am acquainted with your daughter, said lie, in a loud tone.

She is a fine beast, lemarked the old gentleman, looking at the cow. Your daughter, screamed the young man. I have the honor to be well acquainted with her. Shes a noble animal, was the quite response. Confound the old cowr I said the young man, in a whisper.

I wish she was out of sight. I was speaking about your amiable and accomplished She is very kind, iudeed never breaks down the fences never kicks over the pail never strays away like the other brutes I have. You dont understand me, sir! I was speaking of your daughter at boarding school. No, I never put a hoard on her face she never does any mischief at all. Your daughter! shouted the young man, frantic with excitement.

Did you say Ioughtto? No. sir- I was speaking of your daughter, the young lady away from home. Ob, yest i have plenty of loom, but 1 think she is too old to keep much longer. To tell you the truth 1 have made up my mind to shut her up in the stable and feed her on chop stuff for a few weeks. Great Heavens! remarked the young man to himself.

What shall Ido? This deafness will be the death of me. I will try once more, and if this effort fails I will resort to pencil and paper. 1 should like to say a word or tw to you respecting your daughter. I shall let the butcher have her by-and-by if he will give my price, said the old man, with emphasis. As a last resort the young man used his pencil and paper showed his letters of introduction, hand somely endorsed by men whose opinion was good authority on the delicate question on the taps.

After a little crossque3tioning and a little hesitation the old gentleman gave his consent, and when the patties were united he declared it was the best match he had made in all his life. ANTICS OF TWINS. 1 Some Amusing Experiences of ClitUe and Clayton llouth, of Loaisvillc. The life stories of Clayton Heath and his twin sister, Clittie, surpass anything related iu fiction, and have been the cause of many remarkable incidents. But let Miss Clittie tell the story: Our names are Clittie and Clayton Heath.

Wo were born in 1838 in Louisville, Ky. Our father at that time was connected with a largo match factory. Untii the age of 4 it was impossible for any of our family to pick out the boy from the girl, and So often was I taken for the boy that at the ago of 4 my mother was compelled 1 6 put boys clothes on my brother Clatio in order to protect me from getting a sound thrashing from a boy in back street, as my brother Was full of cussed ness. He was also very fond of raw eggs, and on ono occasion when caught taking them he declared that it was I who had clone it. The result was a punishment from my father and the lovely name of Sucking Eggs by my sister, who was two years older.

AitUoiwgU only a child, I would not dress myself until father and mother both promised they would not ullow Clatia to wear the same clothes as myself, and to make matters decided I insisted ou mother cutting his lmir, to which she decidedly objected, as his hair was very long, and, like that of Many southern children, blondo and curled. My brother i breeches and I in dresses did splendidly for a week or so, but as ho was so like mo it only required a wrap on a stormy day to completely hide those little pants. So I was in for a sound scolding every rainy day. When wo had a week of wet weather and mother was obliged to go shopping and sister was at school, we were left at home with the girl a black auntie, who allowed us to do anything we liked. 1 For amusement brother and I once went into the dressing room, took long strings and tied all the movable furniture together, and made wagons for moving.

The only thing remaining was a large hat rack that stood in the hall. Clatie suggested that we move it. I said it was too big. But like all boys he thought himself a man, and so he moved it; at least, he tried to, when over came the rack, mirror, marble blub and fancy top, broken into a thousand pieces. Clatie and I ran upstairs in great fright, hiding behind the machine in mothers sewing room.

YVe huddled up like little chickens. I saw lying on the floor mothers shears, and thinking it could not be laid on me if it was not for our hair I took the shears and cut Claties hair as short as it ever has been done since by a burber, although it lacked style. Our faces seemed never to change. When Clatiewas ill I was. At one time we both lay for weeks with the same fever.

When he wnsTS years of ago my brother fell in love with a pretty girl, and our people objected. But my brother declared it was only a flirting acquaintance. One fine evening I played the part of brother. I put on his best coat, hat and gloves and drove up to jhe abode of my brothers lady love. 1 asked her to drive for half an hour.

I did my best to talk love. did what I thought a ought to do. I talked of a future home and of love by the sea. After I fairly engaged myself I found the dear little dove crying. I asked the reason for the sudden flow of tears from tlioso lovely eyes, nnd she said: Mr.

Heath, I have been waiting for you to propose for so long, and to think it 1ms come at lastl and then she put her bead on my shoulder aud wept. I trembled for my brother, aud tried all manner Of tales to have Clatie mnke a trip to some seashore for my health before the next engagement night, but the night came, and to my surprise ho was ouiy absent a sport time. I crept out of the barn to see my brother as h(S drove in. I overheard him say: That girl is a fool; she must take me for a flat. I crept back to the house, and to tills day my brother has the greatest sympathy for tlioso who are engaged without their knowledge, Boston Globe.

Scranton, December 26. Mrs. Charity Hathaway is the only woman trapper and raw fur dealer in Sullvian county. She is the widow of the late Charles J. Hathaway, aad she lives on Beemer Hill, in Forks township, where she was born in the woods forty odd years ago.

Her only, son, Hiram, is fifteen years old, and she ha3 two daughters younger than-he. Each fall and winter the Widow Hathaway i8 the busiest in the township. Last season 6he cleared nearly $450 from the sale of furs and ginseng root. The animals fro which the greater portion of the furswas obtained were trapped and skinned by Mrs. Hathaway.

The rest were bought and shipped to mar ket With Ihose that she had gathered, and the ginseng root was dug by the children. As soou as the trapping season opens in the fall, Mrs. Hathaway begins to set traps for skunks, minks and muskrats. It costs her nothing for jbkunk traps, because she uses fiat stones for that kind of fur. She lifts one end of the stone upright where she finds it, props it up with some slender sticks that look like a figure 4, places a bit of any kind of mead; on the trigger, and the trap is all ready for the stupid skunk to walk under and get the life crushed out of him! If a stranger asks a native of Berimer Hill, of Elk Creek, of Wildcat Hill, or of Sparrowhawk Brook why so many flat stone9 are tipped up here and there, the native will look surprised for a second then tell him, that the stones are the Widow Hathaways skunk traps.

Mrs. Hathaway says that nowadays she makes more money out of skunk skins than from all the other kinds of fur put together. For catching minks and muskrats she has to have steel traps, and the traps cost money in tjie first place, require oiling and care later on, and are heavy to lug around. Besides, a skunk skin is now worth more in the market than a mink or muskrat hide. And she would sooner skin a skunk, she says, than a muskrat or a mink, because she'ean do it a good deal quicker and the, odor is not at all offensive when you.

know how to handle the animal and get used to the smell. After Mrs. Hathaway has set all her1 traps she starts out the next morning to see if anything has been caflght during the night. She goes oyrir the route in the same order that she did when Bhe set the traps, she' takes bait along and two sharp knives. If she finds a skunk under one of the fiat stones, she pulls it out, resets the trap, ties the skunk to a pole, throws the pole over her shoulder and goes to the next trap.

Whenever she has unusual luck the burden of skunks soon becomes hr avy and in that case she stops at some brook, skins the animals and has nothing but the hides to carry over th rest of the route. To make a complete circuit of her traps sometimes takes the best part of a day, she says. Up to the middle of December Mr9. Hathaway bad this sekson trapped 294 skunks, 27 minks, 43 muskrats and 1 marten. When the first sleighing comes the industrious widow lets Hiram look after the traps, because he can wade through the snow better than she can.

Twice each week she drives all around the country side and buys up fo? skins and other furs that the woodsmen have gathered, paying a fair cash price for them. She is an excellent judge of furs, and no one cao fool her on the quaMty of skins that she examines. Mrs. Hathaway is governed in the prices she pays for fur9 by a printed list of quotations which a Philadelphia dealer sends her once a month. All the she traps herself or buys of other trappers she ships to the Philadelphia dealer every three or four wCieks.

The skins are stretched, tacked up against the barn, and dried thoroughly, and that is all she does to them. Ginseng root is also quoted in the fqr dealers list. During the fall before the ground became frozen, Mrs. Hathaways children dug several basketfuls of ginseng root in the woods on Wildcat Hill. The roots were dried in the oven and around the stove until they were as dry as they could be, and then Mrs.

Hathaway found that she had thirty-two pounds. A few days ago she sent the root to the city with a batch of furs, and got $1.80 a pound for it. Last year, Mrs. Hathaway said the other day, she saved $220 over and above all expenses of keeping herself aj)d little family, and that she expected to do still better this winter. He Wore The Button.

Norristown, Dec. 28. Moses Fifisby, colored, is in jail on a somewhat novel charge. He is accused of wearing the button of the Grand Army of the Republic, to which organization, it is said, he docs not belong. If he is convicted under the act of March 8th, 1889, which makes it a misdemeanor for one to do this, Frisby will be obliged to pay a fine not exceeding $100.

I Frisby and his wife anived in Norristown several months ago, saying that they had come here from Philadelphia. As Frisby claimed he would soou secure back pension money to the amount of $3,600, he woiked his way into the confidence of the solid colored men of the community. He spoke of a prospective purchase Of real estate, and made arrangements to buy property worth four times the amount of the money he Claimed was due him. He also wore 4 Grand Army button, representing himself to he a member of Robert Btyan, colored, Post No. 80, of Eleventh and Bainbridge street, STiiladelpliia.

He succeeded- in borrowing considerable money from his colored brethren until the claim against the (Government should be settled. His Creditors have of late been clamoring for their money, and not being able to collect it, began Ri investigate Frisbys standing as a member of Post 80. Adjutant W. II. S.

Coltug, of Brylin Post, declared him an imposter, and, in accordance with his instruc-Jions, one of the local members of the Post had him arrested. lie Lives in a Hut in the Woods and Wants a Religious War. In the thickest part of a woods at Chapman Station, Lehigh county, lives Edwin B. Woodring, an eccentric old man, well educated, and apparently refined, but extremely rough iu his appearance. His beard is long and shaggy, and he tries to imitate the actions of the Lord, as to appear as nearly like the picture of Christas possible.

He oats only once a day, and that at high noon. In his own language, which is Pennsylvania Dutch, he says I cat only bread and cracked corn, with all the milk 1 can get from my neighbors, who, on account of knowing my great ability as a prophet, will, give me anything I demand of them. When seen yesterday in his hovel, which is about 9x12 feet large, with a shaky, floor and a leaky roof, lie appeared witli his long hair reaching half down his back and a red shirt and stockings, low-cut slippers and a round red hat, with a shepards crook. When asked who he was he replied I am the Prophet Elijah, and the only man ever called by the Holy Spirit to break down the Roman Catholic Church and subdue them. When asked whether this wa3 the only mission lie had to perform while ou this earth, he answered Yes this I will pel form, and I shall cause a great religious war which shall be the bitterest ever fought on this earth, and will he of forty-four months duration.

All the civilized nations will participate and the Roman Catholics will be cleaned out. He claims that his father left him heir to large farm ou which his hut stands, and that he has been ordered to stay there until a great holy of rich ore is discovered, the discovery bping hindered by supposed Roman Catholic neighbors. It is known that Woodring at one time owned a large farm near Dubuque, on which his wife and three children now live, but the court has taken it out of his hands. Recently he visited a prominent clergyman in this city, to whom he bemoaned his fate, and upon being told by the clergyman that he was crazy, he showed fight, and was put out of the house. The monotony of the proceedings in auditing the estate of Charles Kuho of South Whitehall township, wa9 relieved by Woodring, who testified in behalf of the widow.

When Do you follow any occupa tion he said I do; but 1 am not making a public expression of it. I am prophesying about a great religious war that mu9t and will come upon the earth, and will last forty-four months. AGREES WITH THE OTHER PROPHETS. A Massachusetts Man with an Eye for the Skies How He Makes Predictions. North Adams, Dec.

28. II. L. Tuttle, who lives in a somewhat elevated part of thi3 city, has long been known among the people of this section as a weather prophet. He is more than three score and ten years old, and has been a close observer of the weather for fortyyears.

It is common for those making up driving and excursion panics to consult him before fixing a date for their pleasure. He has never even allowed his predictions to be printed in the local papers. lie predicted the famous yellow day ten years ago, the cold winteis of 1866, 1876, 1881, 1888, and the memoiahle blizzard of March of that year. Mr. Tuttle said the other day that the present winter would be cold and dry, with a moderate amount ofjsnow.

He says the thermometer will run the lowest about-Jan. 31, and that 20 below will be reached. According to him snow will remain on the ground continually until the first of April. He bases his predictions on the slate of the weather when the sun crosses the lino in September and March. He said: If the wind is in the north-west when the sun crosses iu September, you may be assured of a warm fall, followed by a very extreme winter.

If, on the other hand, the wind is in the southeast, look out for au open winter. The storms have only one place in which they start, and that is in the southwest, south of the sun. A storm can never start from north of the sun. If you see acloud north of the suu it wiff amount to nothing. If you observe a cloud south of the sun then you may know mischief is in the air.

Then you must take into consideration the color of the cloud. "When it has ayellowish hue it is a snow cloud. If it is dark and black a rain storm is brewing. Again, when the cloud is m'xed, it will be a storm of wind. Of course, I have many other signs, resulting from my years of observation.

Black Milk From A Cow. Robert Hansborough, of the firm of Crowley, Hansborough leather dealers, of Chillicothe, is the possess or of a natural cuiiosity in the shape of a cow which gives black milk. She is on Mr. Hansboroughs model farm, situated a few miles out of town, and can he seen at any lime grazing in his pasture, and at milking time her singular yield will be shown any one desiring to behold it. Of mixed breed, Jersey and Durham, with a strain of Ayrshire, she was calved on the farm and was the second born to her mother, whose milk presented no peculiarity, and whose first calf, a heifer, too, still gives an abundance of natural-tinted milk.

I Mollie, as she is called, is a pretty little cow with nothing unusual in her appearance, and has borne already five young ones, wuich have thriven well on uer black milk. It produces a fair amount of cream, which is a trifle lighter in color, and which, when churned, makes butter resembling coal tar, but as palatable as though of golden yellow. Mr. Hansborough says that at first they were afraid to drink or use her milk in any way, but overcoming their prejudice, now enjoy it as any other. He has received numbers of offeis for her, both from the proprietors of museums and stockmen, hut declined them from hopes that she will yet transmit her peculiarity to some of her progeny.

Chemists in Richmond and Washington have analyzed the milk, both fresh and when made into butter, but declare that they can detect nothing to account for its sable color, but attrioute it to some unique coloring pigment in the corpuscles of her blood. All kinds of Job Printing at this office. Prices right. TERM i 1-00 per year, If paid strictly cash In advance, to au lubaCTlbcrs residing In Franklin county. otherwise 11.3.1 per year will be charged.

eubecrlCera residing outside the County must pay In advance at 11.25 per year. viCT ties settling for a fraction of a year will be ohdjgted at the rate of 8 cents a week. Kp paper discontinued until all arrearages have been pal ill unless at option of the publishers. Single copies of the Rkoistik, p'at up in wrappers, if desired, fi cents apiece. Correspondence upon all Interesting news topics solicited.

Address all correspondence to. and make ehecks, money orders, payable to PEOPLE'S REGISTER, CntnasKsapaa. pa. KILLED AND MUTILATED. Brutal Crime of a Long1 Island Cigar-maker.

Sayville- L. Dec. 27. A most brutal murder was committed last night at Bohemia, a small village about three miles north of here. The victim was Winnie Croupa, a cigar-maker, 21 years of nge, the murderer being Frank Kruli3, 24 years of age, also a cigar-maker.

The details of the crime are most revolting, while the actions of the murderer since the commission of the murder are most extraordinary for one who is said to be perfectly sane. The murder was first made known by Ivrnlis himself soon after its perpetration. About half-past 9 oclock in the evening Krulis walked into the house of Constable Sasheck and horrified that official by laying on the dining table a lmman finger, at the same time saying, Joe, Ive killed Winnie Croupa, and Ive brought you one of his fingers to prove it. The Constable, when he had recovered from the surprise which Krulis action had caused him, said What do you mean by fooling like this? Krulis said: I mean what I say. Ive killed Winnie Croupa.

He told lies about me in the village. He said I had run away from River-head to escape arrest and that a Constable was coming after me, so I concluded to kill him. I met him on the road and cut his throat. He fell down in the snow and never spoke a word. I wanted to make sure that he would never speak again, so I cut bis belly open and placed his bowels over his face.

Then I cut off his finger for you. THE BODY HORRIBLY MUTILATED. Constable Sasheck askefi him where he had left the body, and he volunteered to take him to the scene of the murder. Having called out four of the neighbois Louis Ivotsky, John Hocker, Michael Couba and John Newhowce to accompany him, the Constable started for the spot where the tragedy had taken place the prisoner taking the lead. On Locust avenue, a narrow and secluded road about a quarter of a mile from the centre of the village, the party saw the body of a man lying across the road.

Krulis, as soon as he saw the body of his victim, said There he is. You see, I told you the truth. It was indeed a horrible sight which met the gaze of the party, the dim rays of light from the lanterns which the men carried adding to the ghastliness of the scene. The body lay in a frame of blood-red snow. The clothing was tom fiom it and a hole the size of a sugar-bowl was seen in the abdomen The entrails lay over the breast, neck and face, hiding the fatal gash in the throat.

The right ear and the index finger of the left hand were missing, the latter ieing the token the murderer had given the Constable. A guard was left in charge of the body and the Constable started for the village with the murderer. NARROW ESCAPE FROM LYNCHING. As they neared the maia street of Bohemia they were met by an excited crowd of men and women, who had just heard the news of the murder and wer bent on meting out prompt justice according to Judge Lynch on the self-accused murderer. The men hooted and yelled, and the women shrieked in Bohemian and broken English, Kill him Hang him! Shoot him 1 and hut for the courage of the Constable and the wise words of old Joseph Novotney, a leading man of the place, the mob would undoubtedly have made short work of Krulis.

Constable Sasheck succeeded in getting his prisoner into a wagon and drove up to Justice OBriens house in this village about 1 oclock this morning. The Justice, after hearing the story of the murder, ordered Krulis to be taken to the village lock-up, wheie he was kept until 10 oclock and then arraigned for examination. Constable Sasheck testified to the confession made by Krulis, which the latter repeated. Justice OBrien then committed Krulis to the Suffolk County jail to await the action of the grand jury on a charge of murder. AN EAR IN HIS POCKET.

When searched in court the ear which was missing from Croupas body was found in Krulis pocket. He told Judge OBrien that he had brought it for him. He also handed the Judge the knife, a large, doublc-bladed jack-knife, covered with dried blood stains, with which he said be had killed Croupa. All the time Krulis conducted himself in the most unconcerned and stolid manner, apparently reveliDg in the thought of what he had done. lie was taken to Riverhead jail this afternoon.

Coroner Bennett, of Patchogue, who was notified of the murder, arrived here at noon and proceeded to 0 Bohemia, where he summoned a jury and went to where the body of Crou pa still lay. After viewing it be allowed it to be taken by an undertaker to the residence of the murdered mans father in Bohemia. The funeral will take place Monday. PROBABLY INSPIRED BY JEALOUSY. It Is believed that jealousy of Crou-pas attention to a young woman who works as a domestic for one of the Cutting families at Islip was one of the motives Krulis had for the crime, and it is said that to this girl Croupa had keen telling the story of Krulis having to leave Riverside.

Krulis is a good-looking fellow of small stature but Btout build, and has heretofore borne a good reputation. Last winter he was found almost frozen to death on a road leading into this village by Allred Coromba, a traveling cigar manufacturer, who took DO NOT FORGET US with our large and complete stock of cold weather goods tW All trains daily except Sunday. WM. II. WOODWARD, Superintendent.

4- 1-v rv a 1 y-l Giant Trees In California. Washington, Dec. 2G. Andrew Cauldwell, the special agent of the General Land Office, appointed to make an investigation as to the loca tion, condition, number, of giant Sequoia gigantea trees iu the Stockton and Visalia land districts iu California, has made his report to the Commissioner of the General Lar.d Office. These trees, the special agent says, grow in detached clusters on the top or sides of the Sierra Nevada Mountain range in the districts named, and always at an elevation of from 6,000 to 7,000 feet.

Access to them is, as a rule, very difficult, ou account of the extreme roughness of the mountain passes and canons. The Mariposa grove, in the Stockton lind district, is the largest in that vicinity. It contains about 320 trees of all sizes, and seems to he properly guaided from forest fires by th6 stage company, which has the monopoly of carrying tourists through that part to the Yosemite valley. The Tuolumne and Merced groves contain eighteen and forty trees respectively. These groves are in danger of mountain fires carlessly set by sheep herders.

The Fresno grove at one time contained between 350 and 400 trees. Some years ago the Madera Flume and trading Company, the report says, erected a saw mill, into whose maw the giant sequoias are rapidly disappearing, and now only about 100 remain. They stand on patented land, and are under the control of the Madera company. The largest trees, however, have been spared, because they cannot be profitably handled. In the Visalia district there is one small and one large grove of giant trees.

The latter is virgin forest, and contains over 1,200 giant sequoias and many' more small trees. Some five years ago a cooperative colony located about forty entries in this neighborhood, and is constructing a road to this timber belt. The colony, it is asserted, numbers about COO members, and has recently engrafted the Bellamy idea as its leading attraction. There is danger, the special agent believes, that these people, if unmolested, will soon destroy this most wonderful and perfect body of sequoia gigantea in the world. In a table giving the numocr and s'z i of the trees in the groves visited, only those 45 feet in circumference and more, measured 3 feet from the ground, are classed as giants.

Of these 2,675 were found. Forty-four are over 80 feet in circumference and several are more than a hundred. One is 106 feet in circumference, or a little more than 35 feet in diameter. Secretary Noble has requested the Secretary of War to station a company of cavalry in the Sequoia National Park and another in the Yosemite Park to prevent depredations ou the mammoth tree groves. It is said the so-called Bellamy colonists, who have in part perfected title to lands on which these trees stand, have expressed a purpose to li ld their claims in spite cf opposition-.

Collecting Agencies. Many of the merchants of Cham-bersburg recently became members of a collecting agency, and they are prohibited from selling goods to any one, on credit, who owes, and wont settle, another member of the association. The merchants say that the poor man is not effected by the arrangement but only the dishonest man, who will not and never intends paying his debts. On the other hand many of our poor people say they are more or less hurt by the arrangement, a3 they are at the mercy of the dealers, and no matter bow honest they may be if from force of circumstances they could not pay a bill contracted the dealer could report him, and he would have no redress. A correspondent of this paper expressed it as similar to leading an ox to slaughter.

As a consequence many people are changing their place of dealing and leaving all stores who belong to the association, and dealing with those who are non-members. The collecting agencies, too, can only use the mails in a modified manner. They can not send postal cards with their duns so written as to publish the fact to all who may see neither can they use peculiar envelopes to publish the that it is a dun letter. Several times in the past the postal authorities have called a halt. Some time ago they were prohibited from using the offensive envelopes and postal cards on the ground that the bad debt advertisement was Injurious.

They then resorted to extra large envelopes, bearing simply the name of the agency in very prominent type. These have also been decided to como within the meaning of the act of 1888, and are not to be received by post offices. It looks ns though the bad debt agencies would have to abandon the mails altogether or devise some ingenious scheme whereby they may send sufficiently offensive epistles that are not injurious. TO COXSUMI'TIYEN. The undersigned having been restored to health by simple means, after suffering for several years witli a severe lung affection, and that dread disease Consumption, is anxious to make known to his fel low sufferers the means of cure.

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Advertise your sales in the Peoples Register. An Aluminum Hand. There is bn exhibition in the window of Sevius pharmacy au artificial aluminum baud which was invented by Samuel Lucas, of Poquetannoc, for his son, Willard A. Lucas, who lost his hand iu a picker in Lucas Brothers mill. This hand weighs less than a pound, and the lingers aro so Ingeniously arranged with springs that the hand can be modo to grasp and hold articles more firmly, it is claimed, than any artificial hand ever yet invented.

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