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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1891-8-21, Page 22 TIIE SIGNAL : GODERICH, ONT., FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1891 A COURT IN CALIFORNIA. A MODERN EDIT ION OF OLD DAYS. TI. ease was • tis. 4., feted. and .sr. berme .wase dese•..d died Irma Wit- ness Termites. sold ae.elttse said Want resented from • Mesas .fell. The following, which occurred during the present nenth, and which is from The New York World'. asewaal oor-respumdmt, recalls the days and rough and ready ways of the old Forty -Fiume, :toxo tuwmvrd., I i1.,Aug. 4. - The two of Malooltu Mclaougald,with killinttgg Michael lenehen, upausda without Hxm&Itty in the prutcip.l ganibtuig houaa in Truckee Iasi Mondry. Juha Kur.lette,the co4d-time faro.dealer Sail friend of the dead ntaa, was to laud early to eee that the murderer got hu desersa There u a large .r:h between the mein room, where the faro tables and the poker tables are heated, and the sateen with its bar ami piles of barrels and loxes. The priwwer lounged &game the wall and the witnesses' roti spectators distributed them selves over the barrels. .A stud home poker table a commo d*tel three. As the resat filled up a crowd gathered in the archway, greatly to the dwtro . of the bartender, whose view of the roc peedings was thus in- terfered with. Theside ioetp cketa of e. erybudy bulged pprrtentoutly. Trucker has given up as exceedingly unhandy the hip pocket system of cart it.g a revolver. 1t was 10 o'clock when His Honor Justice Leggin took the dealer's place at the faro table, which served .s a judicial desk. Op- posite him sat the two attorneys and a re porter, elide the line whose life was staked on the turn of the legal cards iu the .fudge's hands, w, to speak, maintained am air 01 indifference, still lounge% against the confer ..t the arch. District Attorney Nihon stood ready t.. make his play, hut counsel for t he defaming, Mr. .Ict:Malan, first lighter) hu cigar and tendered the still lei rnm a snatch to His Minor. The Court tilted back in his chair, and hating got the cigar well lighted turned 10 the District -Attorney and told him to protocol. .lust at this point old John Kurdette rose in his piece at the lack of the roan and notified His Honor that he wits Lenahan • friend and things would have to be done right. Phis speech brought out six-shooters all over the court-r«mi, fuel threats of a lynch ing were muttered in the direction of the Iwr. Justice leggin simply shifted hu cigar 10 a more e:emitted :angle, placed his land ou the little shelf et the back of the table, where .drinks are placed .onne- timew, .n.l drew forth an elegaie. black .Ito. r of 38 .•alihr•. "(leder must be preserved in this court, - remarked the Justice. " Everybody will get bis right., but if there is any disturb- ance in this nom 1 shall we hesitate to enforce order at the point of the pistol if Old Iturdette expresses) himself satis1ie4 that the Judge intended to put up a square game, and the pistols were returned to the side pockets and the trial proceeded. Once only, when a witness for the prosecution re- flected too severely upon the dead stat, did old Kurdette rouse himself and enter :in emphatic protest. The Judge got the drop en him with the brig revolver, however, ani suggested t hat he sit down. Rurtictte knew his man and there was no further disturb- ance. The story of the killing as brought out by the went mos was in substance that Lena. han hal a quarrel with MMelkougahl on the night of the 5th of July. - He drew a pistol, hut it was taken away. Then McItougald went up to Lenahan's saloon, told hint he intended t.' be friends, set up the drinks anal they shout hands. During the latter eeremeny, Melbugald, who is an immensely . powerful young fellow, nearly jerked the arm off Lenahan, who was smaller, older and sickly. Soon after, however, Lenahan came into Mellougald's saloon witn another pistol in hu hands. This llel)uugald snatched from him, and at the same time knocked him dorm. He either hit him when he was down or did not, according to whether the man who tells it was Lenahan ■ friend or Mclhugabl'a. Itut when they picked Lenahan up Mclhtugald led hint to the rear of the saloon and helped wash the blood) off him. Sontelssly said Lenahan had another pistol and there was another mw. Of course there is the sanw diversity of evidence as to whether MIcDougald clubbed him with the pistol or not while he was wealtittg off the Wesel. At all events they took Mike Lenahan house, and a doctor sewed up his cuts and treated him for a fractured skull for twenty•four hours. Then another doctor took the case and treated hint for delirium tremens until he died. The first doctor testified that Lenahan diel from an injury to his kinin ; the secure l that he died !none delirium tremens. They did not examine the brain at the autopsy, though they found a small puncture that went through the outer skull. It was noon by this time. Court adjourn- ed to the har, and Ht. Honor left the re- cords with the barkeeper for safety. The constable went nut to look for witnesses, leaving the prisoner alone. Nobody minden that. Your Californian who las killed his moan is too honorable to take advantage of mach liberty. The old pioneer epoch of the Pacific creast is not ended yet. Melloug.M passed the time (wing h fingernails, stroking his little rnustac and carefully arranging his hang so as make it hang quite tow on his forehea. When ,•.tart opened again the ethyl!: •' Have you any witnesses, Fran Freak is the Ih.triet-Attorney. he didn't think he'd put on witnesses. The defense then eallel M neighlsring alone keeper came in in his shirt sleet. that Lenahan tame to ht a.ke.l him for a pistol. 1'olt'. double action 38 acid there were slway tent pla•r behind his The pistol that was shown to Foga gun,'. said the w If 1 were • nark it exhibi aa. But the of that. H such s • and laid i The er, A the fi Arid tune s he to u.t ice He said any more r. Fo arty, it \Ir. 'Nally y •. He ',tow labor and capital of the inhabitant* being m est• night and exerted on the land. Yet our stupid land 11.' Hanle him a 1 system allowed a set of men to go in in al- calth4r, of which he ranee, get hold of the lead upon which s a brier in • emcee alone labor amt capital cm themaelvea, tar. and then say to labor and capital Von seas taken from Ie•nahan •hall not reduce wealth without paying us rty. .. 1 think that's my for tt. e do not propose to help yoe i ewes. we shell simply levy as much toll on you as ow, emir, 1'd tag it and we can get oat of you, in the shape of land t 1," suggentel \lo �I.I11aak rent and prelims mono We did not Judge knew a trick worth own make the Lail : it would have been there if e put the weep,n in • paper hag. we hal net got it : hit now we have got it lime'. worth of peanuts e.Nte in, we Sas..oelpsl you to go nn working and t on the shelf under the table. railer the valise of our iota by the improve stents von put as, yourw." And that ate of things gets worse and wore, thks bigger the town grows. Men expend pusele and brain in improving the tome. The more they improve the more they eon taxed. while the holders el vacant beds Mt by sed do ectiieg, .ed shield* se they Nick d die Odes harvest they will vh.e the took who sweat ie Mere sed have eudeieetly raised she mime d Ibeir for thea Tifillielletof wash (7�.1mwbG...Lti' tired the perierataees, and are to be nes catslaieLiud au hen seen the right remedy. rowdy it gt psi es t .atl.w ea houses, betldiyr er il�rwswte e11 tttq �6 let tical as to whether Mel)wg.ld streak l.eaa .-- while he was os the his sesoory hided him He braid fiat crowding mould ubetaeeted kis view sole could not tIL lie cross -.1 - . nation he reemebs.ed that las week to liclbapld sad &eked him d he would go out on the p�1I....s and shout to dew* with !®arae. ]icDo.tjald said he would mut, that he was act maims to kill esesebody or be killed himself. He was asked why hs saggs'ed that to Mel/ougald, enol th.e d. retnewlered somas MAIM Hui hues was angry about the tight, and Aulersxm asked him if Lenahan would go out on the plats with McDoe'hf. Fuparty p'mapily answered that !casaba, would. Pretty soon the ooestabls note hack with Dr. l'urions,the delirium tremor r physician. He is • largo. stout egotleetas, with me hand a spinosa He ws very much fleet- ness, at having been brought there. "!s it not true," asked Mr. Mel:lashan, when everybody had his cigar ligb:ed, and his feet as hteh as possible ; '•is it not true that yen, on the &etheriralton of the Ih.triet- Ataorneyy,directrd the gravedtgger to have the laxly of 11r. le-uahen exhumed by 4 o'clock Sunday morning "%!'hat .lues this mean t" sputtered Ike Curless. •''.Vhat sit are you trying to get at '. Reed the question." I/r. Curless sputtered some more, but finally dumped half a dozen telegrams in Has Homy. lap. The dtsgin • up of Nr. Lenham s remains was frustrated by old John Kurdette, who drove oft the grave-digrers with his gunnel the remark that he would make a lead Hine of the tint roan that disturbed a shovelful of the sod above his deed friend's budy. The District -Attorney objected to having the letters read. He said they hal absolute- ly nothing to do with the case. Then Mr Mcl:lashan gut eloquent. He denounced the attempt to hold • .ecret autopsy at 4 o'clock on the morning of the holy Sabbath day. He snorted that the resao u for it was the fact tint the prosecu• tion knew it had not established the fact that Lettahan had ,b..l fr a wound at all. lir. furless had sworn that death resulted fr lelirium tremens. "Ikoesn't this physician know the edif- ferene between delirium tremens anti a brokenheal:" he thundered "Are they not both con ihil in Truckee" He cut his cigar clear out into the middle of the barroom, so earnest watt he, but the Court rubel the telegrams out. "1 det't think you will adhere to that ruling, Judge,- said the attorney,aud he be- gan hu argument over again, Iota the Judge was steadfast. The next witness was John Leach, who also told how Lenham tame to get • gun from Fogarty. "Let us have that gun, .fudge,'- raid Mr. Met dashan, teaching out his hand. l'ertainly," nspontle.i His Honor, courteously, •' as scam as 1 get this chew of tobacco cut off, " wad breathless silence fol. lowed, broken only by the click of ice and .;las MM lir. Fay mixed cocktails. The Court sawed with a rusty jack-knife at an obdurate plug. The lawyer inpatient to get on lent hint another knife, and soon the wheels of justt.e revolved again. Lesch was another oue of those that could not tell what happened while the blood was being w:uhedi from Lenham'. face in �Ic Dougall s saloon. He was the last witness, and then the lawyers began to talk. The bartender, who hal &btmst worn himself out racing from the arch back to the bar to wait on customers and then beck again too listen to the trial, gave up when the argu- ments began. He hired a substitute, &rel after that he listened to the thuneters of the attorneys in peaceaml comfort. At the case of the arguments Justice Liggett held the defendant for involuntary manslaughter moi fixed his bail at $5.000. (Truckee is a town of 1,100 Inhabitants, about one hundred and twenty pules from Sacramento. Its trate is largely lum`rer, and it has a semi-weekly newspaper. Ed.. World. ( 1'. 1KletttltL� k Co., I hal the muscles of my hand an con- tracted that I could 1101 use it for two years. MiNARD'S LINIMENT cures Inc. and 1 now have the use of iny hand as well as ever. Dalhousie. Mits. Rt. NEL ski• 1'. 1'. Ktuntiekt 1 hal a valuable colt eo lad with mange that 1 feared 1 would lose him. MIN ARDS LINIMENT cured) hint tike I hilhousie. 1 'n hosiery • ea ffmw ot:n-. 11 amends ►1M The following 1 Port Arthur He The Innate= take a hint 1'oluniba 1 This is w It has steads tent It 7t oaf aeos/Me : .cosi 11 ow S tter is clipped front The rale I men of Port Arthur should from the action of the British :egi.lature at their last session. hat that Legislature has dote: exempted improvements on home - from provincial taxation to the ex .1/4500 and under. has I -he nge.t the tax on wild land from cents specific to 2 per rent. on the else. It has given municipalities power to ex empt improvements on real estate partly or wholly from taxation, and to raise their entire revenue from land values, to the extent of not more than 25 mills on the dollar. This 1 islation sea2 brought on by the fact that lent speculation was rampant in the Province, and was placing heavy bar dens on industry and commerce. Take for instance a piece of land that becomes the site of a town. Wealth is to be created there, and that wealth is created b • the next witness was Fttgarty's barkeep- ntlernm. Hs win the nam who, took ret pistol away from l,rnahan Mr. erarwt told how after the lint re'one,Iia- McDreigald and Lengthen nearly ygoou Onto another light .tier who should pay Inc the drinks with which they pledged their newly esssente.l friwhip h had rep a dollar er the her, and each inm.ted that the nther eh,sld drink with him. Though premed eja.,And.eson enuki not tell which one dol tuft pay tit the Mika And w�sse UOU4 } rotary of ti.. deal mw in McDw- .alow. He knew that when Inedlat 1d down his haul hit ami se the 1 keg Wire the Ise, bat =se ems- keg 00 baa merely MM. bad ow whim& the aoeerdiag W km valve, mad to tea all to Its valee, whether vemet sr The. • would be tamed as fir M.Idfsg hand idle as for peLU sg it a the ittlime w. Ts: aemmoditis---yeti make them dearer. 'Pm laud—you make k camper. Part driller waste moa red messy to engage productive Weary. ribs waste Minor The wayto must* fres is to say, "Here u land to be Itad cheaply t go ce and im- prove it all yN east we .ball 1•a you ad a coot matt for thong .o. This is me d those cwamau to sews. where we do not Sas mea for slaking i eproremenia" How long at the deluge, children, did it rain • Forty days. How long upon the mount did Muses fast ! Forty days How loam del the embelniing of a hotly Wet • Forty days. How long in the wilderuese was Elijah sent ! Forty clays. How long gave Jonah Nineveh to repent ! Forty days. How loug dents in the tiorert fast ! Forty days. • How keg did the wandering of the chil- dren last • Forty years. How long was it said Israel should hie in sin Forty years. How long did Saul, as King of Israel. reign • Forty years. How lung did David for his people grieve • Forty years. How long did Absalom to Ihivid cleave! Forty years. How long dial Othnell keep his Lord's command • Forty veers. How long in bondage wow Judea. held? Forty years. How old wa• the lame man whom Peter healed ! Forty years. How lung did Ear's desolation lest • Forty years. How long did Israel keep her idols fast • Forty years. How long were the spies in searchtu Canaan's laud • Forty days. How old was Usleb when he joined t band ! Forty years. Ask tam Friends AWN Your distressing cotieli can be cured. We know it hesause Keinp's Balsam within the past few years has cured so n any tought anti colds in this community. Its remarkable sale has heen won entirely by its genuine merit. Ask some friend ho has us.el is what he thinks of Keinp's Balsam. lucre is no medicine so pure. notlle 20 effective. Large bottles 50e. and $1.00 at all drug gists'. I-eow ell SHOW TH E WRIST. iis Floe Lines Add Saadi, re the Men et a yeu know, Amy. I have quite come to the couclusion that a woman's toilet is never quite successful unless tt shows two er three inches a slender wrist, whether gloved or women in the park last week who looked better dressed than the rest, and after puzzling over the matter for some little time I settled in my own mind that it waa bemuse the prettily shaped wrists were not wrapped up 111 furs or hidden in muffs. I said as much te Charlie, anti he went fur- ther than I " Yes,- he said, " and ankles, too. Just thulk what a horse would look like if his legs were rolled up anti swathed and hidden up ! What a thomughly clumsy animal he would seem to be I dropped the subject, dear, hut continued a tti nay thoughts.. For instance, how mach nicer a man looks in riding breeches that are tight to the legs than he does in the ordinary trousers. Anti the forme' niusr be wanner, too. We all ap- near te conceal with car.- the fine lines a the wrist and male, in fashioning which nature fleCIVIS to have taken particular pains. -" Madge in Loudon Truth. Mr* le ere Richt. Right actions sprint/ front right principles. Incases of ilierrhow,dysentery,cramps,colic, Summer compteint, cholera "imams, etc., the right remedy is Fowler's F:xtract of 'Wild Strawberry, -en unfailing cure—msile en the principle that nature's remedies are lost. Never travel without it. Peruse resiewbssie. A reverend gentleman, having got into difficulties with his tion, found it necessary to hand cinfi:graessignation. On the eve of his darture he preached • fare- well sermon, and sought to improve the oc- casion by firing a perting shot. "You un- grateful and godless people... he began. ee. verely, "it. is clear that 4.od does not love you, as I have beried none of you since I hare been here ; and it is otetain you don't love one another, for I haven't married any of you- It is equally plain that you do not love me, for you have not paid me mfitiallot quarter's salary. However I shall forth be indepestdent of you &IL I bar obtained a position as chaplain of a gaol.' And then he coolly gave out the text "I go to prepare • place for you. Patent medicines differ --(hie has reaeon- ablenese, &nether haa not. (Me has reput- ation another has not. One has corifi. deuce, born of Pummel Another has only Don't take it for 'trotted that all patent medicines are alike. They are not. Let the years of uninterrupted meows and the tens of thousands of cured and happy men sod women, place Dr. heroes 1:olden Medical Discovery and Dr. Pierces Favorite Prescription on the side of the comparison to which they belong. old there isn't a state or territory. no nor hardlv a emetry in the world, whether its people realise it or not, hut have men and women in them *harm happier because of their discovery Think of thee in health. Think of' it in sickness. Anti then think whether you can afford le make the triel if the nuthere aired to take the risk to give your money hack, es they do, if they do not benefit or treks Meson Per keel it. That ki Moo road to ether embalm is where all thee is truly vetuabb and iler • ism kw heart any Mita Man ever desired to pitmen that dues mot find its mama Wyllie- ▪ enesey there. TIM phew im with niorel amd physical poises= =veribing in the heart Met mimes men the brute, saw mythieg is the salad Met elan aid to its meduleent err dn. N oble its aspirations. He will Awl wage. elevating there— but everythiag wading down. 11 lie wishes to lone ai that he now values --the sorb isstrectious of • mother, the sweet allectims a • stator, the admoni- tion' of • father, aod all the cherished Ms of a childhood and youth - --he io the high rued to that result. but do not, as yen value his dearest iisterestroio nte. let hen go unwanted Point Iiitu to the thousands of hesitate wrecks which seem almost to block up the way he treads. Show him the beggars!. tottertug form just einergute front the plat* be seeks. Tell hint that but • few short resee1111102 that pitiable being, • young non, as noble, vigoruus mei pnentaing as Ile now ia, was enteral*, as be now enters, the broad way to ruin, as confident as he now hi that no such fate would be his. Tell him that neither intellect, education or wealth tau shield hint hum the gulf the:, yawns to reeve.. Point him earth's int htiest ewe who have fallen in the loan of the insatiable waster, Rum. 'rell him there is but °Deposed:de way in which he can re• tain the respect &pa confidence of present friends, or gain the Wail% este tit of others, anti that Is to taste uot, handle uot, the unclean thieg No other course offers Minn Malling. Often young housekeepers are discouraged when they see the orderly househttltis and well cooked Ille& S of Nome experienced friend, suit despair of &limning a like degree of excellence in the household art. Rut do not be discouraged. 1 his result um not reached in • day. It haa often been pre- ceded by just such truds and mietakes you are xperiencing riow. You see only the result. The long veers of patient kilter, of triumph anti defeat, of esteem's anti fed. ure, are hiddea in the paid. But of this be assured, the genii of the household reveal their mysteries only to these who exercise thought anti bear patiently with their fail- ures, in the meautimd using every Mealtil tO increase their knowledge. lk. not under- stand me to say that te be a good house- keeper means to make everything else sub- eervient to t 0:1-• idea. Far froo it. two next to so:ethane," are oft •repeat ed mailed". Truly. both should lw mein- tained so far as it consistent with other tiut les ; hut to siteritoe one's pleasure, gond nature and health tor this ohject seems foolish in the extrenw. l'hileiren need sotnethuig more than clean dresses, soul a husband eomething nowt. than a spotless kitchen floor and nitols ready with ntechen- ical regularity. The wife and mother who gives all her attention to these will have no time to be coinpattion, friend and tomnselor. She will !peke her life MA wife and mether miseraltie failure, and her hotne, though it will he one of scrupulous neatness, will not he one ef which the children will carry lov- ing memories through all their lives. If the ladies would abandon cootrieties MCI more generally keep their tdood pure ilhenaturally fair complexions would be the rule instead of the excepoon, as at present. Pure blood is the beet beautifier. A veer or two ago the editor of The American Journal of relocation, St. Louis, urged that a liberal distribution of that paper among the teachers, melee)! officers and tax -payers would reimburse each teacher circulating it lour -fold, its cost in one year. The teachers caught the idea, anti wisely and zealously aided until 150,000 copies were put alto circulation. At the close theaext year the report of the superinten. dent of public 'net ruction for M issouri showed an average increase of teachers- wages of 19.72. Of course, it was not claimed that all this WAS clue to this journal, but that it was an active and prompt, anti the principal factor in securing this increase in the corn. penastion of our teachers, ne intelligent person will deny. - Louisville Courant. "Like magic sad Bore Throat are, in meet MOM im- mediately relieved by the use of this wonderful remedy. It strengthens the vocal organs. allays irritation, and pre- vents the inroads of Consnmption; in every stage a that dread disease, Ayer's Cherry Pec- toral relieves cough- ing and induces refreshing rest. e "I have used Artr's Cherry Pertetral in my family for thirty years end hare nlways found it the beet remedy for croup, to hich romplaint my children have been subject."—Capte U. Carley, "FroM an experionee of moo thirty years in the mile of proprietary medl- clues, I feel justified in recommending Ayer's Cherry Peetoral One of the bent recommendations of the Pectoral la the enduring gnallity of ha popularity, it bring MOTO, salable now than it was twisty -five years ago, when lea greet I "My little sister. four years of age. was an from bronchitis that we had I throe given up hope of her recovery. Our family physician, • skilful MOM and Speek to hint Speak to the young man I entering that mince ' Tell him no posenible trod ma nom* to him there, nothing that be eag bay, me way easimeabialla b• way stalke there will ever bessit hien. Thor k is noli lime the Wed is stored with esefel kuortilleige, the heart noised, er • giro mobile gratalled. The mob= =4,1 of large experience. pronounced it use. 1 lees to give her any more medicine ; trying that he had dons all it was pa& "Mk to do, and we mast prepare he the worst. Aa a last restore, we deterndeell to try Ayer's Cherry Poetises!, and 1 ear truly say. with Me meat happy resell& Atter biking a few dome she seemed te breathe ofektr, sad, within a week. wee oat of danger We motioned ghl.mt.hie. Peetoral until natielled she wee well. This has given me unbanedidlia in Me preparation. and 1 reetiesmeed comfidently to sty entitorners."—c. 0. Lepper, Druggist, Pcirt Warm, hod. Pow Voids and Coughs, take Ayor's Chary Pam, MEM MEI RS. R. B. SMITH OVELTIES AND LATEST STYLES, AND ICXTENISI A Cordial Invitation To the ladies of Goderich and vicinity to examine her stook. Prices right. ems "Ilklem• not IOW - is thst tile sun dens net Noce its eouspiextoe dettitur le theent fete It • o0111 let ladles who desire to be tree item tan. treeklaksec.. should use Bell's Tan and Freckle Lotion, D'Avignon's Witch Haaal Cream, For sunburn. Irritants,. manes. reseghness of °omelet ton. etc. dent P•1111111110. - We r soma Yetloves, Hesessinine. 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