The Lancaster Gazette, 1870-06-30

''tut- ' - linn r ir r '-nr'l homo especially those . located a litue ont of the town.- . Every acre or two of groufid for miles around lias baub, upon it an elegant mansion, the, superior of which ypu don t find upon the fash)-. tonaoie avenues or Lniongo or St Louis. -! .',; : i -n - , Waves of little hills with an , oc occasional - casional occasional dashing bluff all studded with grand, bid wansions.or cosy, comfortable 'cottages,' that' look down on the city and'rivef below; ' fill ia the country for nt least five mile ;around., ;i Gnrdena three weeks in advance of ours--Graper-ies and. heavy Lideii fruit trees long to all ot'tbese places, and give them' a settled;' independent, home look.:! Then as ire come baclt to tnc citivftatn eypry street and by byway, - way, byway, the hurry aud rattle of wheels, and murmur and tramp of ' men comes up to y0 with the com: fqrting, bearthftri sound ot b-aui- he?.' "Business erervwbere: ' Opera nousesnotclsand Bank- mg establishments with, thoir five stories and marble fronts eqiial, if they tlo not surpass, those Of our - " 0 1 l . ., Twenty tb riving "additions' I am sure, have been added to tbe main City, the chief of which belonged to Col McGee, a" gentleman whose reputation tor' hospitality 1 and wealth is so broad ipread as to al almost - most almost characterize the city.and when wealth and hospitality, life and ac activity, - tivity, activity, characterize a city, pleas- ur6 and prosperity are ' Inevitable. v'-' Em M. C. ; .,! i.i For the Lancaster Gaiette.'1 A Legend of tbe Ilockkocklng. - ' ' 'nt 'E. -X.1" ' ' Many years before the world had heard of a Columbus, or .dreamed of another land across thewaterV there was.near the central part of what we now 'call Ohio; b little lake. ' '" It seemed a stray bit of wa water - ter water borne froTnsome of the rivers Of the onntrT,:ior'posfiibly 'from the distant Atlantic, and dropped amid the hills to moke still lovelier the grand old forests. Its gently unduTatipg shores, had not that barren, sandy appearance which characterizes so many of our larger lakes; but' were covered - with a green turf Interspensed with trees that stood so ; near the1 lake, as W be imaged in-, lomz, shadows on its glassy , surface.3. Its crystal waters were kept ever; fresh and pure by a stream which emptied its sparkling waters into the south side of the lake, and another. seemingly a con continuation - tinuation continuation of the first which wound its' way onward and joined, others on their way to the sea. . But the most interesting object was an island near the center of the lake, and raised a few feet above it It was a lovely combin combination - ation combination of rocks' and tangled shrub shrubbery, - bery, shrubbery, while great forest trees hight hight-ened - ened hight-ened its . picturesque effect The highest part was nearly level, and served numerous purposes to the wild natives of the surrounding country. Here, upon some level spot they played their games aud practiced their arts or war. Among the dark ravines and shady nooks, the children played as innocently as do those of the civilized white man. Here the youth slept and dreamed of the time when he should return from the war-path the bravest of the brave. ' t Years rolled by without produc ing nny change in the scene save a slight and gradual widening of the stream.. But there came a spring when the rains were unusually heavy. The lake had risen several feet and the. once quiet stream, now .a swollen torrent, uau over overflowed - flowed overflowed its banks, and inundated the surrounding country, btill it rained, day and night almost con continually; - tinually; continually; and the rude inhabitants who had received tue tradition oi . - . ... .... . the destruction of the world by water but not the promise doubtless Jelt that a second flood was at hand. Two weeks passed thus with now aud then an inter mission, when one night 60 dark that scarcely "anything was per perceptible, - ceptible, perceptible, a rumbling, roaring noise was heard as of some river break ing- its banks and rushing with fearful rapidity, sweeping before it whatever stood it its way. The noise increased and mid night found it unabated. The in habitants of the adjacent hills, i though beyond the reach of dan ger, btneken with terror, and not knowing what to expect, thought only of the traditional class of matter. Gradually the noise diminished and had subsided into a dull roar roaring - ing roaring sound when morning dawned. The lake like a spirit of the night had taken its flight The pressure of its waters had burst its walls and the river, no longer a thread threadlike - like threadlike streamlet but a vast pid torrent, hid swept away the inhab itants of the lowlands into the dim land of SDilltS, The clouds broke away, tho sun came out brighter, it seem ed, as if to atone for its longab sence. " The lake bed became our beautiful valley, and tho lake itself the unobtrusive Hockhocking. Years passed by. The once lake bed was here a plain ana me forest "The little mount naonot been neglected. ; It '.was covered wit h awmtweeetation, wane true grew on every side but one. That the west side, was almost Ppen-,it-.,i,maa of rock, which the ln- ;np nt after venerations called 'The. Standing , Stone.'!,, ; About this time, t the ssvw . tvorw broke upon the weary vision, of Columbas, "aa4 " the neoessary changa of Its peoplt) has seat the

a . ... . . . ""' '' ' i ' i . ,J " Tbe Criminal Witness. Pf''nT"r --'fr ivy i- tCln thft-Sjaring-iCl S4tj t it, call call-ed - ed call-ed to Jackson, Alabama, to attend court, having been engaged to de de-toud - toud de-toud a fou'iig JaiiU whoJbal ticen accused of robbing tbe. maiL j I arrived early in the morning and Immediately bad a lonir conference with my client: The stolen mail UefftrsIramjjililtioflykatJ been rifled. These letters were given me for examination, and. I rCsurircd thetn;toAthe )Toectitig attorney. Havlng'gotitafoirgh roy pruratcpneliminnries .about ,iu)on, And n'aite cajei wouh) lnitf juorhe off before the next day, I wen) in,, to court in the afternoon to -seo what wit 'tgblng . y, ' u . The first that came up was: k" lyase; of theftand he prisoner, Iras a jvuujj gui not mure iuau eevua eevua-tcpn - tcpn eevua-tcpn jears of ago, 'and named Eliz Elizabeth - abeth Elizabeth Madwdrth. She was very pretty and bore that mild, inno innocent - cent innocent look which yon seldom find in a culprit.;. She, had beetf, weep weeping - ing weeping profusely, hut as she found so many eyes upon her, she became too much frightened to weep more. The complaint against, her set forth that she hnd stolen- a hun hundred - dred hundred dollars from a Mrs. ' Nasby, aud as the case went on, ( "found that JlrsV Nasby, a wealthy widow living In the town, was the girl's mistress. The poor girl declared hcr'innoccnce in the wildest terms, but - the, circumstance was .hard! against her. . ; At this Juncture, when the mistress -' was npon the witness stand, a young man caught ine1 by the arm. He was a fine looking young man and big tears stood in hid eyes; , '.'They tell mo you are a good lawyer," he whispered. , "I am a lawyer,", 1 answered., "Then do save her. ; You can do it, for she is innocent." 1 ,"Is she your sister? ' "No sir he added, "but but " hore he hesitated. ', ., 'She has no couusel?',,, .1 askeil, "None that is worth anything nobody that will do anything for her. ' Oh, save her, and I'll give you all I've got. ' I can't give you much, but lean raise something. , I reflected,' I cast my eyes to ward the prisoner; and as she was atthat moment looking at me, she caught my eye, and the volume of humble entreaty read in tier glance, resolved me in a moment. ? r : I arose and went' to the girl and asked her if she wanted mo to de fend her. She said yes. I then informed the court that ! wasready to enter into the case, and the mur mur of satisfaction that ran quick ly through the room, told me where the sympathies of the people were. I asked for a moment s cessation, that I might sneak with my client I went and sat down by her side and asked her' to state the case candidly. ' ' She told me she had lived with Mrs. Nasby for two years ana had never ' hart any trouble before. About two weeks aro she said her mistress had lost a hnndred dollars. ' "She missed it from her drawer," the girl said to me; "rind asked me about it. , I said that I knew noth nothing - ing nothing about it That evening I know that Nancy Luther told Mrs. ms by that she saw me take the roon cy from the drawer, that she watched mo through the key-hole. They went to my trunk and found twenty-live dollars of the missing money there. But sir, I never took it, and somebody must have put it there. 1 then asked her u she suspect- ad anv one s "1 don't know " she said, "who could havo dono it but Nancy. She never liked me, because she thought me better treated than she. She is the cook. I was the chambermaid." She pointed Nancy Luther out to me. She was a stout, bold-faced girl, somewhere about five aud aud-tweuty - tweuty aud-tweuty years of age; with a low forehead, small grey eyes, a pug nose and thick lips. 1 caught her glance at once as it rested upon the prisoner, and the moment 1 de detected - tected detected the look of hatred I read here, I was convinced that she was .he rogue. "Nancy Luther did you say thai irl's name wmr" I axked for a he light had broken in on me. "Yes sir. I left the court room and went to the prosecuting attorney and asked him for the letters I had handed him the one that bad been stolen from the mail bag. He gave them to me, and having selected the one, I returned the rest and told him he would see the one I kept before niirht I then returned to the court room and the case went On Mrs. Nasby resumed her testi mony. . Mie said sue entrusted tue room to tho prisoner care, and that no one hnd access to it save herself. Then described about the missing money, and closed by tell inn how she found the twenty-five dollars of it in the prisoner's trunk-. ; y She could swear it was the iden tical money she lost & two tens and a five dollar note. "Mrs. Nasby," I said, when you first missed the money, had you any reason to believe that the pris oner had taRen ill "No sir." sheanswored. "Had you ever before doteotod n bur dishonesty r "No. sir." Mrs. Nasbr left the stand, and Nanev Luther took her place. She line up with a bold look, and up n me she cast a defiant glance, a f to say, "trap me if you can." ih cava her evidence as follows:

- ' j , .T ' ',""7,', , ' .i '"' '" -'r.7'.T" money was takcri she stw the pris opfer going tip stairs, and IVom tbe Blrimbner in which she went tip, ; ' Diieiyi-vwu luul nil wa no i right, She followed her up, - ,Elia ,Elia-abetb - abetb ,Elia-abetb went, to Mr. Nasby's room and shut the door after ber I I stooped don: tnd looked through 'the key'Iiole and aaw her take out th mono '.mi . ,,t i,. r,.t.t Uiupthelaraix and I .rw shwas coming out and 1 harried awayJ' " I called Mrs. Nasby to the stand, and said;'-'"'" fit "You say that no one save your your-sclfand - sclfand your-sclfand he prisoner have access to v-Alir lrm ' w.i.l.l V.nn- Luther ' have 'entered the toom, haif she have wished toT"1 V1-' ; "Certainly, sir. I mean that no ofreclse had any right there'".',, - f I saw-that Mrs. Nasby, though naturally a hard woman, was some somewhat - what somewhat moved by Elizabeth's misery. "roma the cook have known by any-means 'In your knowledge tvhera the' mohev wasr w'-.-f. HYes.rsic: for she had often come to my room while I was there, and JTiavcf often given her money to buy provisions of. market men who happened to Come along with their wagons.? r I; ' V ' . t ; r v "One more question. Have vou known of tho prisoner having used any money since, this was stolen!" riso sir.'.1 I now called Nancy Luther back. and she1 beean to ramble a little. though lier look was as bold and defiant as ever," v '; " ; J- "Mrs. Luther," said I "why did you not inform your mistress of what you had seen without wait waiting - ing waiting for her to ask about the stolen money?" . . . ' ,' "Because I could not at once make up my mind' to expose the poor girl," she answered promptly! "You say you looked through the key hole and saw her. take the money?" . "Yes." :;. .. . ' . -'"Whcre: did she place ''the lamp when she did so r, K)n the bureau." : . Jr. r "In your testimony you said she stooped down when 'she picked up the lamp" ':-'."'''' '- " The girl hesitated, "and finally sam sne aid not mean anyimng, only that she picked upthe lamp! "Very well," said I, "how. long have you been with - airs. jMasDyr l "Not quite a ycarJ " -v .w - , "How much; does she pay you a nuvai ,",, .- 1 - ... i "A dollar and three-quarters." . "Have you 'taken any of your pay since you nave Dcen there." "Yes, sir." " 1 " "How much?" ,,, , . . "I don't know." "Why don't you know." "How should I? I have taken it at different times, just as I wanted it and kept no account' " "Now, if you had wished to harm the prisoner could you have raised twenty-fivo dollars to put in; her trunk." ! "No, sir." She said this in an indignant and snappish" manner." . "Then you huve not laid up any monoy since you have lived there?" "'No sir, only what Mrs. Nasby may owe me." "Then you did not have any twentv-five dollars when you came there?" "No sir;, and what's more, the money found in the girls trunk trunk-was - was trunk-was the money Mrs.' Nasby loRt You might have known that if you'd remembered what you asked her. ',,(! 1 1 This was said very sarcastically, and intended for a crusher upon the idea that she should have put the money in the prisoner's trunk, However, I was not overcome cn tirclv. "Will yon tell me uyou belong in this blate. "I do sir." "In what town?' She hesitated, and for a moment the bold look forsook her. But she finally answered "I belong in bummers, Montgo mery county." I next turned to Mrs. Nasny and asked: "Do rou over take a receipt from your girls when you pity inenu "Always." Can vou send and get one of them for me?" "She has told the truth, sir, about the payment" said Mrs. Nasby "O, I don't doubt it" I replied "particular proof is the thing for the court room, bo, it you please. I d like to have a receipt.;' She said she would be willing to co if tho court said so. And the court said so and so she went Her dwelling was not far off, and she soon returned and handed me four receipts, which I took and examin ed. They were signed in a strange, staggering hand by the witness. "Now, Nancy Luther," I said turning to the witness and speaking in a quick startling tone, at the same time looking her sternly in tbe eye, "please tell the court and jury and me, where you got ' the seventy-nve aoaars you. sent in your letter to your sister In Sum mers f The witness started as if a vol cano had bursted at her feet; then turned pale as death, , and every limb shook violently. I waited un un-till - till un-till the people could see her mo motions, - tions, motions, and then I repeated the ques question. - tion. question. - - , 1 ' "I I never sent anv." she crasned. -You did 1" I thundred, for I wa getting excited now. "I I didn.V'Bhe finally mutter ed, erraspine the railing by her

- '3Iay it please yoiir honor and the gentlemen 'of the Jary," I neid, soon a I bad look the prisoner out of countenance, "I came here to defend a man trho was arrested for robbing the mail, and in tbe course of mj -? preliminary examination I Had access to- the letters which had been torn Tpen and robbed f money., w nen . i entered ; npon .this ease and 1 heard the name of the. witness pronounced, I went ont audot the hitter I now hold, for I remembered having seen One bearing the , signature of Nancy Luther. The letter was taken from the maii bag, and it contaiml seventy-five dollars, and looking' at the postmark you will observe that it was mailed the day after the hundred dollars were taken; from Mrs.Naaby'8 drawer,, Iiwill. read it to 3ou if you please." 'i -t.' ' 'Theourt nodded assent, nrtd I read the following, which' was with without - out without date, i save that made by the postmark on tho outside. I - give it verbatim - ' "Sistok DoRctsr I sendyu hear, seventy -five dollars which I want you to kepc fer me til i cum hum 1 cant kepe it cos i am afeered itle git stoled dont speck wun word tu a livin sole bout this don want no nobody - body nobody to know ive got coy muny, yu wont now wll yu, i am fust rate hear unly that gude fer notbin liz madworth Is hear yet yu no, I rit yu bout her give my Juv to awl en en-qulrin - qulrin en-qulrin frens this is frum yersistor til death , , . Naxct Lcthkb. r"Xow your honor,'.',, I eaid, as I handed .him the letter, and also the receipts, "you will see that the letter is directed to Dorcq? Luther, :' Summers, Montgomery county. And you will observe that but one hand wrote the letters and signed the receipts, and the nry will also observe.' And now 1 will only add, it is plain to be seen how the hundred dollars were die- posed of. Seventy-five dollars were sent off for safe keeping, while the remainingtwentyfive were placed in the prisoner's trunk for the pnrpose or covering the real criminal. , Of the tone of part of the letter you must judge. : : 1 now leave : my . cli client's - ent's client's case in your hands." i ;: l he case was given the jury im mediately after, their examination ot the letter., They had heard, from the witness' own mouth that she had no money of her own, and with out leaving their seats they re turned the verdict of "Not Guilty.' I will not describe the scene that followed; but if Nancy Luther had not been immediately arrested for thett, she would have been obliged to seek protection of the officers, or the excited people would have maincd her at least if they had not done more. The next morning I received a note, hand somely written, in which I was told, that, the within was but a slight token of gratitude due me for myeBort in behalf of ths poor. defenceless maiden. ' It was signed by f'Scveral Citizens," and con tained one hundred dollars. Short ly afterward the youth who first begged me to take up tho case call- uponmewithall the money he could raise, but I showed him I had already been paid, and refused his hard earnings. Before I left town I was a gucst at his wedding nry fair client the happy bride. t .. Letter from the West. Kansas Citv, Mo.Tune 12th, 1870. At Jnmes Dennison'u, Grand Avemic.f Dear Gazette: The great North Western Pacific Railroad, with all its conveniences and the beauty of the country through which it passes, have been made so familiar to your readers by able pen-artists, that to send you an additional sketch, by an inexperienced writer too, would seem superfluous and presuming. But of the solid mer it and real worth of this city that, sits, not upon seven but seven times seven hills and looks proud ly down upon the broad acres of both Kansas and Missouri, I am sure you have not heard euough. You who lounge about at borne with grave sorrowful face, waiting like "Micawber," for something to "turn up," and in the misery of idleness can say, in the morning, "would God it were evening," and in the evening, "would God it were morning," may be glad to know that hero is a city the "hub" of the great North West where every man has something to do; where every man and child wear happy, cheerful look that bespeaks contentment, and that comes gen orally to those whose industry and determination puts them upon the sure road to prosperity. The very face of the city, with its thousands of bright new houses, and fresh, yellow pine roofs with its dashing carriages, its elegantly dressed women and Bin OOth look ing men, says, I have seen no "win ter of discontent" but am just now, in the very summer or spring-time of my first great prosperity. The day alter our arrival under ! L ....Ii..VlA stAA aanrsSA asnAaus, sk r Is this hospitable roof, we were ask ed to drive out and look at the city. We had hardly consented ' till the carriage, with two fine bones, was at the door, and in a moment we were off. For four hours we drove in and about the city, surprised at every turn at the magnificence of the bulldings,and gladdened contin ually with themQsica&d parfome of flowers that came up. iicom ery

ed In New Orleani, . . . -"i ii,-. e j ,i yrtfHtiil.'jit v What should a clergyman, preach about? About fifteen mluutcs. " lfa rhda 'Uowa' bW'nWn truuipet ean his-opinions be sound f. .! r.i . -,.r What roof covers the most noisy ten ant The roof of the mouth. . . A man ever ready' to scrape an ac quaintance The barber.. ; ( Ccnmter-lrritiint pwtfc iwbo eiara- tuethe-wbolf stock and buy jiotltlng. At the next election.. In Nevada the question of female auffrjigt U to be ub- , mltted to the people. ""'i ' . To Cure Deifaosw TeU -a man you ve coaac tn "pay iiinr money. It beats acoustic on ail nonow. -The prlneipal oceupatloD of tbe "Kir! ot the period'! is said to be to sit At the w indow and. watch, lor the, "coming man." ' - : ' ' ' ' Eed Cloud aud bis party attended the Jerome Park races at New York, but ther weut to sleep and did not seem to be Interested. ' ' . ... 'TheGrecuBay (Wis.) Gazette ssys: "The Oneida iudlans have organized a brass band, and purchased twenty-five ' hwtrunieutV'j ,r TJie 'present faslilolt of wearfng the uair maKes young ladles teem ail. head until you talk to them. ' ' Two young women turned ioot with spades and hoes and paid their road tax in the town o-eloit, Wisthe other day., -i u ; i hi -8-t't' .". .1 - The man wfio put together seven joints of stove pipe without swearing, turns out to be a graduate of the deaf and dumb asylum. .-... ,-c:n V,::'; ArBan lnCounrUBludilS both a liq liquor - uor liquor saloon keeper and an. undertakers undertakers-One - One undertakers-One business helps the other, '" 'th-.'Abern'etiiy hsed to' tell bis 'pupils that -all human dUeases sprang from two causes tlvffinj and fretting. .. Secretary Boat weU has now 314 less employes la the. Treasury Ieparrmejit than when he took possession of the ef-tice,.;..-;, .;; , ,r: i , - Tlio Kew York Mall says: "Ayonng shoddyite makes a great display in ho hotels - tels hotels and public-' places by lighting bis cigars and cigarettes with greenbacks." 1' A Wisconsin gentleman sat down on a beehive the other day. He regrets that the seat of his tro wsers had not beea half half-soled.' - soled.' half-soled.' i- 1 , ,. ,t .. :.-vv :'. ' - Real estate In Portland and In aU parts of Oregon Is rapidly (-hanging hands nt advancing prices; The pros prospects - pects prospects for a-rapid growth -of the fctate are better than ever before In its hUto- Josh Billings say i : "The more babies in a family tb caaier and better they arc ra'ued one chicken alluz makes an old hen more clacking and Bcratt-tung than a dozen duz." A subscriber tn Texas complains be because - cause because the kerosene which we recom recommended - mended recommended to kill hugs on encumber vines also killed the vines. Well, who said anything about the vines? In some Maryland counties, where schools for white children are closed for want of funds, tlw negroes support, voluntarily by llieirown contributions, free schools for the colored children. There wiU be a great rush to a new medicinal pring w liieh has been discov discovered - ered discovered in Eastern Jlaisachuaotts. The water is claimed to taste worse than any bcietol'ore known. . Dan Rice Is about to begin Ids thirty thirty-seventh - seventh thirty-seventh farewell tour. Daniel Is the fare fare-wellest - wellest fare-wellest man In the btisuies, and runs a' newspaper atGirurd, in addition to his other clownish and educated mule du duties. - ties. duties. ' ' ' An old farmer says the best way for a young city t hap who wants to be become - come become an agriculturist is to hire out to some farmer for a couple of years, and then marry a girl who knows how to. raise chickens ana m&ue pacuinjuus. The Terre Haute Gazette Is In' a bad way for local Items. It says pathetically and appcalingly : "Won't somebody's daughter run away wiJi some one, and some one's old man get mad and shoot some one, and some one light out and have some one arrested, or some one do something to some one so someDouy can make a note oik. suyr .- T1W nnn for Jim risk. McFarlsnd applied to him fora railroad pass. Jim said tnaitney were smmmiij cs to assassins that day, but w henever he eot control of a road making through connections for hell, MoFarland should go through on the lightning express, free. in ni remarks nnon Dickens' sudden death snd the desirability of going out of the world In, a twinkling, Henry Ward Boecher said, ?He should never pray that God would deliver him from sudden death. He did not want to be like and old hnmesa tied up with tow strlngs.and alwys hreaaing, up for repairs, and always good for nothing. Miss Shirk, one of the young women who, during the VaOland Igham cam campaign - paign campaign rode fn a cart labelled: White ti,hnda or none,- ha- changed her