Mk Mwmit
Henry A. Parsons, Jr.,
Editor
THURSDAY, OCT. 17, 1878.
jtrCBUCAN STATE TICKET.
FOR GOVERNOR,
GEN. HENRY M. HOYT,
OP ITJZEKNE.
VOR MEUTENANT-OOVERNOH,
GEN. CHARLES W. STONE,
OP WARREN.
FOR SUPREME COURT JUDGE,
JAMES P. 8TERRETT,
OP ALLEGHENY.
FOB SECRETARY OP INTERNAL AF
FAIRS, COL. A. K. DUNKEL,
op philadelphia.
Republican County Ticket.
for state senator,
E. M. GRANT, of Clarion county.
FOR ASSEMBLY,
W. W. AMES, St. Mary's Borough.
FOR TREASURER,
A. E. GOFF, of Jay Township.
FOR COMMISSIONERS,
W. H. OSTERHOUT, Rldgway Tp.
S. W. MOYER, Fox Township.
FOR AUDITORS,
J. J. TAYLOR, Fox Township.
THOS. IRWIN, Spring Creek Tp.
Hoyt on Finance.
Professing to be an honest man, the
canaiaaie or an honest organization I
favcr honest money.
The volume of the currency should
bo regulated by legitimate demand
and not by the requirements of bank
rupts anu wild speculators.
The currency should be redeemable
as early as the exigencies of the Gov
erument will permit, In the currency
recognized Dy ail civilized nations.
The contracts of the Government
should be held as sacred as the con
tracts of Individuals, and the, hmi.la
the evidence of its indebtedness, should
De paid according to the understand
lng between the Government and the
1 1 rn .
lenuer. peecn at Jiutler, Sept. 2,
1878.
Republican Conferee Meeting.
The conferees of this Congressional
district met at the Bush House, Belle
fonte, Tuesday afternoon, the 8th Inst.
A. G. Hartswlck, of Clearfield, nom
inated for Congress Robert Valentine,
of Bellefonte. John G. Love. Esn..
then presented the following letter
from Mr. Valentine:
To the Conferee of Centre County
Gentlemen : With sincere thanks
to my Republican fellow-citizens for
their compliment, as undeserved on
my part as it was unexpected, in offer
ing my name to the convention as n
candidate for the Congressional nomi
nation , I beg leave to say that other
duties and avocations prevent my tak
ing any active part in the pending po
litical campaign.
Having been a firm Republican from
the first organization of the party up
to the present time, I have always
been ready to do anything in my pow
er to sustain the policy and promote
the success of that great party. But
believing that in the present condition
of political aifairs in our Congressional
district it would be for the best interest
f our party to make no nomination, I
respectfully request you to withdraw
my name.
Very respectfully yours,
Robert Valentine.
Mr. A. Si Valentine then offered the
fallowing, which was passed :
Rt solved, That we, the Republican
Congressional conferees of this Twent
ieth Congressional district in confer
ence assembled, deem ft inexpedient to
make any nomination for Congress.
Now the Washington Monument
Association la again in a muddle. At
a meeting the other day for the pur
pose of discussing Colonel Casy's plan
for strengthening the foundation of
the tall tower, which will require an
expenditure of more than the $86,000
appropriated for that purpose, the
question that bothers the commission
was whether any of the money appro
priated for the completion of the.raon
ument could be expended in repairing
its foundation. This seems to be a
distinction without a difference, but it
is not at all wonderful that there
should be difficulties interposed, for
that monument has ever been a crook
ed thin to deal with.
David Mullyue, at Cleveland, was
acquitted of murder.
Thecltlzens of Rocklin, Cal., have
just celebrated, with greateclat, the first
anniversary of the expulsion of the
Chinese from that town.
Fornier, the eniment botanist,
finds in Mexico 636 varieties of grasses,
376 of which occur in no other land.
Of the rest 82 are found in this country.
It is stated that the doctor who
examined Montague's lungs a few
hours before he bled to death, and
pronounced them sound, sent in his
kin . . r . . - i, ......... i. .mi t-tgn
.4 county, Alabama, has introduced upon
. his plantation 1,000 English sparrows,
fn the hope that they will prove
sfl'ectual destroyers of the cotton
worm.
In many parts of this State strin
gent rules have been adopted by school
boards against the admission of chil
dren in schools belonging to families
where contageous diseases are prevalent.
From the ;PHtburg National labor Tri
bune, Worklngmen's Organ.
Dill and the Nine Million Steal.
The organs of the railroad candidate
for Governor,'Andy H. Dill, having
denied his guilty participation in the
attempted Nine Million ;steal, it be
comes our duty to place his record be
fore our readers. It will be seen that
"the child of the circuit" in this, as
upon all other legislation entailing a
surrender of rights upon the part of
the Commonwealth at the bidding of
corporations, was faithful to the greedy
powers which placed him in the Legis
lature. It was onlyjafter the guberna
torial maggot had entered his head,
that he awakened to theneecsslty of
an occasional recognition of the wish
es, Interests and rights of the people.
Senate bill 1070, better known as the
"Nine Million Steal," was railroaded
through both Houses within forty
eight hours after its introduction. It
was entitled "An Act to facilitate and
secure the construction of an additional
railway connection between the wa
ters of the Susquehanna and the great
lakes, Canada and the northwestern
States, by extending the aid and cred
it of certain corporations to the Jersey
Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Rall-
way!Company' and In like manner to
aid the construction of the Pittsburg,
Virginia and Charleston Railway, the
Clearfield and Buffalo Railway, and
the Erie and Allegheny Railway."
The preamble sets forth the Importance
to the State of an additional connec
tion of the anthracite and bituminous
coal fields through the building of the
above-mentioned roads, "thereby add
ing greatly to the taxable values for
State, county and municipal purpo
ses," etc. Section one authorized the
Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffulo
Railroad Company to execute a first
mortgage to the amount of six million
dollars, which should cover their en
tire line of road, to secure the payment
of six millions of the bonds of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, then
in the sinking fund of the State, and
which were to be delivered to suid Jer
sey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo
Railroad Company; the proceeds of
said bonds to be applied to the build
ing of the Jersey Shore road. Section
two provided that the $3,500,000 of Al
legheny Valley Railroad bonds, then
in the hands of the Commissioners of
the Sinking Fund, together with all
the guarantees connected therewith,
be "appropriated for aiding in the de
velopment of certain districts of the
commonwealth," as follows: To the
Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston
Railroad, $1,600,000; to the Clearfield
and Buffalo Railway Company, $1,
400,000; to the Erie and Allegheny
Railway Company, ?5JO,000 for which
the State was to receive the bonds, re
specti fully bearing the same interest,
maturing the same time as the bonds
the State then held, in pro rata propor
tion from each company, "all of which
shall be secured by a second mortgage
upon those lines, the said companies
limiting their first mortgage to an
amount not exceding $16,000 per mile,
etc.
On March 17th, the foregoing bill
was read and laid on the table. In a
few minutes thereafter a motion was
made to proceed to a second reading
and consideration of the bill, and the
yeas and nayes were required by Mes
srs. Brown, of Clarion, and Shurlock,
of Beaver. Mr. Dill, with fifty-three
others, voted for the motion. Mr.
Brown raised the point of order that it
required a two-third vote to carry the
motion ; but the chair decided the
point not well taken, and Messrs.
Brown and Boileau appealed from the
decision the chair being sustained by
A. H. Dill, of Union, and fifty-eight
others. A motion to postpone consid
eration was voted down, Dill voting
no. A motion to adjourn was voted
down, Dill voting against It. The bill
was then put upon its passage on sec
ond reading and Mr. Dill voted for it
every time. Next day, March 18th,
the bill was put upon third reading
and passed, Dill, of Union, voting for
it.
The above bill took from the sinking
fund $9,500,000 of bonds amply secured
of which the interest and part of the
principal was annually paid, substitut
ing therefor the mortgage bonds of
projected and experimental roads, thus
jeopardizing the safety of the funds.
On February 7th, 1870, bill No. 195(
"An Act to authorize railroad compan
ies to lease or become lessees, and to
make contracts with other railroad
companies, corporations and parties,"
was introduced and referred to the
Committee on Railroads. This bill
was intended to build up a railway
monopoly and enable railroad compan
ies, through lack of competition , to ex
act enormous freight tariffs, and may
be considered the foundation of the
freiirht discriminations. On the 9th of
February the bill was reported to the
House. On the 10th it passed through
its several readings and was adopted,
Mr. A. H. Dill voting for it at every
stage.
One hundred new Fall Samples,
and the new Fall styles Fashion Plate
fust received from Wanauiaker's at the
West End Store. Suits cheaper than
ever. A new feature introduced this
season is the prepayment by W. & B.
of the express charges upon all suits
costing $-'0 and upwards, where the
money accompanies the order, thus
giving our citizens goods at Philadel
phia prices. Among the rules of this
Price. I Cash Payment.
Full Guarantee. Money Returned.
The Republican majority in Iowa,
in round numbers, 10,000.
A son of Jefferson Davis is sick
wth yellow fever, near Memphis.
A teacher at Somerville, Mass., is
said to punish children by tying
Htrings anund their ankles so tightly
that the skin is burst in places.
From the Harrlnburg Daily Telegraph.
September 27, 1878. "A little Inci
dent occurred yesterday morning, that
will be of more than ordinary interest
to the veteran Union soldiers In Har
rlsburg, especially to those who were
confined in the prison pens of the
South during the war. Among the
guests at the Lochiel for the past week
has been General David Vickers, of
New Jersey, a tall, flno-looklng gen
tleman, who served with credit and
gallantry In a new Jersey regiment, as
General Hoyt did In one from the
Keystone State. During the war Vick
ers am Hoyt were captured by the
Rebels, and confined in one of the
Southern prison pens, Macon, Georgia,
for a long time. In order to prevent
the threatened bombardment of
Charlestown, South Carolina, by our
troops on Morris Island, a large body
of prisoners, about six hundred in
number, Including all the field officers,
were sent on cars to that city. During
the journey Generals Hoyt and Vick
ers, accompanied by two or three oth
ers, sprang from the cars in the dark
ness, when they were in full motion,
and escaped. They wandered through
the swamps all night, and knowing
they were hunted like wild beasts, and
fearing recapture, waded into a dense
thicket of brush and water, and re
mained there all day, hungry unto
starvation, and almost literally con
sumed by mosquitoes. When night
came on they got back into the road
and when within a few miles of our
lines were treed by bloodhounds, and
taken on to Charleston, where they
remained all through the bombard
ment. During their stay there they
became separated, and from that day
until yesterday they had never met,
and hence it was with more than ordi
nary fervor that the two veterans
grasped hands and congratulated each
other at the Lochiel Hotel yesterday.
The two officers sat and related their
experience to each other since their
separation, and it was evident that
their parting for fifteen years had not
obliterated that love for each other
that is felt in common by all their vet
erans of the war."
From the Wllkesbarre Times.
More Dirty Work Brewing.
Within the past few days the Demo
cratic state central committee has
called upon the chairman of the county
committees throughout the state to
forward to head-quarters the name and
address of every Christian minister
in the country. Also to forward the
names and post-office address of five
active representative Christian men in
each election district with the denom
ination to which each adheres. Also
to furnish the names and post-office
address of all anti-Cameron represent
ative Republicans in each county.
The chairman of the Democratic state
committee is urgent that these lists
should be promptly furnished.
We call attention to this movement
because it is evidently the inception of
one of those dirty political tricks for
which the Democratic party has be
come infamous of late years. The
purpose of securing the names and
post-office address of so many minis
ters and active laymen in the various
Christian churches, probably Is to
send to them, just before election, some
lying, slanderous circular, hoping that
it will then be too late to refute it.
Some time ago it was alleged that
some of Mr. Dill's friends were actively
circulating among the Methodist
ministers in central and western
Pennsylvania the story that General
Hoyt was an Atheist, and a very im
moral man. Many letters were receiv
ed by persons in this city from friends
living in other parts of the State,
making inquiries as to the truth or
falsity of these statements. It is there
fore probable that another new batch
of vile slanders and Infamous falsehoods
have been concocted by the concience
less men who are running the Demo
cratic campaign, and that it is pro
posed to send them in circular form to
clergymen and active Christians
throughout the state,
We allude to this dirty huisncss now
for the purpose of warning people
against them, and of placing all con
cerned on their guard against the par
tisan assassins who, not daring to meet
an opponent openly and manfully,
attempted to stab him in the dark,
through the medium of lyiug circulars
or other contrivances of moral and
political cowards.
It is seldom indeed that a man
rises from a drummer to become a
general. Such, however, was the case
of a gallant officer, Major General
William M'Bean, who has just died in
England. His career has often been
quoted as a remarkable example of
promotion in the British army. From
a drummer in the Ninety-third regi
ment he rose, step by step, until after
more than forty-live years of service, he
attained the rank of lieutenant colonel
in command of the regiment in which
he had spent his life. In October last
he was made a major general. He had
served with great distinction in the
Crimean war and the Indian mutiny.
In the Crimea he received the medal
and the clasp, the Midjidie and the
Turkish medal. In India he earned
the Victoria cross, his brevet rank and
the medal with two clasps. Reeently,
after undergoing a hazardous operation
in London, he was told that he could
not survive many days. He asked to
be taken to the hospital at Woolwich,
in order that he might die among the
soldiers.
Call and examine the new Fall
samples at the Wanamaker Agency,
No trouble to show them, whether you
purchase or not. Compare prices before
buying.
Billheads, letterheads, noteheads,
tags, cards and envelopes neatly and
cheaply printed at this office.
Fancy note paper and envelopes
if boxes-at this office.
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Notice of Dissolution.
To all whom it may concern :
Notice is hereby given that the co
partnership heretofore existing be
tween the undersigned in the business
of hotel keeping at Ridgway, under
the firm name of Morgester & Jack
son, Is this day 'dissolved by mutual
consent. The business will be con
tinued by S. Jackson, to whom all ac
counts due the late firm must be paid,
and by whom all liabilities will be
settled.
J. W. MORGESTER,
S. JACKSON.
Ridgway, Pa., Oct. 7, 1878 n34t3.
ADMINISTRATORS' NOTICE.
ESTATE of J O. W. Bailey, late of
KiUKway township, i-lK county, Pa,
deceased LETTERS TESTAMEN
TARY having been granted to the un
dersigned upon the said estate all per
sons indebted to said estate are rc
quested to make payment, and those
having claims to present tueni lor set
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Will be found an assortment of the
celebrated Elias Howe, Jr., Improved
Sewing Machines the best machine
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They will keep on hand Tuckers,
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ESTATE of Michael Oppelt, late of
Benzinger township, Elk county, Pa.,
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TLECTION PROCLAMATION
Vhemeas, In and by the 18th sec
tion of t he Act of General Assembly of
Pennsylvania, passed July 2, 1869, en
ii.i '. a n nnt w-lntini? to the elections
of the Commonwealth." it is enjoined
on the Sheriff of every coiintv to give
notice of such elections to oe neiu, u
to enumerate in sucn nonce wu
officers are to be elected, In pursuance
thereof, I D. C OYSTER, High
Sheriff of the county of Elk, do there
fore make known ana give mm
notice to the electors of said county or
Elk that n general election will be held
in said county on
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH, 1878.
(it being the first Tuesday of the.
month) for the purpose of electing the
following officers, to wit:
One person for Governor or tne vom-
monwealth.
One person for Lieutenant Governor.
One person for Supreme Judge.
One person for Secretary of Internal
Affairs.
One person for member of Congress-
from the 20th district composed of the
counties of Centre, Clearfield, Clinton,
Union, Mifflin and Elk.
One person for State Senate from the
38th district composed of the counties
of Cameron, Clarion, Elk and Forest.
One person for member of Assembly.
One person for Prothonotary, Ac.
One person for County Treasurer.
Three persons for County Commis
sioners.
Three persons for County Auditors.
And the qualified electors of the
county of Elk will hold their elections
in the several districts, as follows:
Benezette township, at the bouse ef
Elizabeth Winslow.
Benzinger township, at the school
house on Michael street, near the Elk
creek bridge.
Fox township, at the Centreville
school house.
Highland township, at the house ef
Levi Ellithorpe.
Horton township, at the school
house, near D. C. Oyster's hotel.
Jay township, at the house of Al
fred PearsalL
Jones township, at the Wilcox Tan
ning and Lumber Company's office.
Millstone township, tit the house of
Henry Derr, at Barr s Dam.
Ridgway township, at the court
house.
Spring Creek township, at the house
of Thos. Irwin.
St. Mary's borough, at the town hall.
I also make known the following :
An act regulating the mode of voting
at elections in the several counties of
this Commonwealth, approved
March 30thr I860..
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
Senate and House of Representatives
of the Common wealth of Pennsylva
nia in General Assembly met, and if
is hereby enacted by the authority of
the same, That the qualified voters of
the several eonnties of the Common
wealth, at all general, township,,
borough and special i-lectlons, are
hereby hereafter authorized and re
quired to vote, by tickets printed or
written, or partly printed and partly
written, severally, classified as fol
lows ; One ticket shall embrace the
names of all judges of courts voted for,
and to be labeled outside "Judlcar.v
one ticket shall embrace the names of
all State officers to be voted for, nml
be labeled "State;" one ticket shall
embrace the names of all county offi
cers voted for, including the office of
Senator and members of Assembly, if
voted for, and members of Congress, if
voted for, and shall be labeled
"County' etc., and each, class shall be
deposited in separate ballot-boxes.
1 also make known and give notice
as in and by the fifteenth section of
aforesaid act, that " Every person ex
cept justices of the peace who shall
hold any office orappointmentof profit
or trust under the Government of the
United States, or of any city or incor
porated district, whether a commis
sioned officer, or otherwise, a subordi
nate officer or agent, who is or shall bo
employed under the legislative, execu
tive or judicial departments of the
State, or of the United States, or of
any city or incorporated district, and
also any member of Congress or of the
State legislature, and ot the select
and common councils of any city, or
commissioner of any incorporated dis
trict, is by law Incapable ot holding or
exercising at the same time the office
or appointment ot the ludge, inspector
or clerk of any election of the Com
monwealth, and no Inspector, judge or
any other officer of such election, shall
be eligible to be voted for.
Also, in the fourth section of the act
of Assembly, entitled " An act relat
ing to elections and for other purposes,"
approved Apiil 10th, 1800, it is enacted
that the fourteenth section shall be so
construed as to prevent any militia or
borough officers from serving as judge,
inspector or clerk, at any general or
special election in this Commonwealth.
I also make known the following:
section of an act approved the 30th
day of January, A. D. 1874, entitled
"A further supplement to the act
regulating elections in this Common
wealth." Sec. 5. At all elections hereafter
held under the laws of this Common
wealth, the polls shall be opened at 7
o'clock a. m., and closed at 7 o'clock p.
M.
Sec. 9. All elections by tbe citizens
shall be by ballot; every ballot shall
be numbered In the order in which it
shall be received, and the number re
corded by the clerks on the list of
voters opposite the name of the elector
from whom received. And any voter
voting two or more tickets, the several
tickets so voted shall be numbered
with the number corresponding with
tbe number to the name of the voter.
Any elector may write his name
upon iiis ticket or cause the same to be
written thereon.
Pursuant to the provisions con
tained in the thirteenth section of the
act last aforesaid, the return judges of
the aforesaid districts living withla
twelve miles of the phothonotary's of
fice or within twenty-four miles, if
their residence be in a town, village or
city upon the line of railroad leading
to the county seat, shall before two
o'clock, past meridian, of the day after
the election, and all other judges shall,
before twelve o'clock meridian of the
second day after election, deliver said
! return together with return sheet, to
tbe prothonotary of the court of com
mon pleas of Elk county, at Ridgway.
.,LvnJundermy band a Ridgway
the 8rd day of October, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight, and of the Indepen
dence of the United States the on
hundred and second.
Rhim- ft OYSTER, Sheriff.
bhentTs Office,
Ridgway, Pa., Oct. 8rd '78.
Job Printing.
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BILL AND LETTER-HEADS,
AT THIS OFFICE,