l)c jlcffcvsanmn. THURSDAY AUGUST 21, 1873. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COUItT, ISAAC G. GORDON, of Jefferson County. STATE TREASURER, ROBERT W. HACKEY, of Allegheny. TIJi: TICKET. We place at llic head of oar paper, this week, the ticket nominated at the Repub lican State Convention, which assembled at JIarnLurg, on cdncsday last Ihe ut most harmony prevailed among the mem ber.-, and as the same spirit accompanied al tluir act, it is but fair to presume that the ticket will be elected by a heavier majority that that, even which so glorified our triumph last fa". And there is no reason why it should not. Hie Hon. R. W. Mackcy, for State Treasurer, has conducted the untie?, of that efr.i-e for four years past, in a manner which f halt .ngos the closest scrutiny; and in uo iu stance has ho, for a moment, swerved, from a close subservience of the best interest of loth the people and the State. By hi- op orients, and the opponents of true Republi canism, he has been made to occupy the po.it ion, and to deserve the name, of the K-st a!;useJ man m the State. But nothing couM drive him from managing the financial interests of the Commonwealth and the pco pie, in any other manner than that dictated by the most unyielding sagacit3Tand honesty, lie has been accused of every thing that was I n 1 in a financial officer, but, close investiga tes shown that the exact reverse of this was characteristic cf the man, and that his duties v.ue all performed with singular honest' of pur j '.., and a determination to deserve, as he has achived the reputation, cf the faith- fid public officer. As a reward fur hu rllHont services the people demanded his nomination, and the Convention yielded to that demand. The result in October will show th-3 wisdom of the nomination. For .Judge of the Supreme Court, we have the name of the lion. Isaac Gordon, of .Tdfersou county. Judge Gordon has had experience as a District Judge and his deci Hor.s in tint capacity prove him to be an ac-c-mipliscd Lawyer, and a Jurist whose clear ness of perception and knowledge of Law peculiarly fit h'.ci for the position to which lie has been nominated. It is not claimed fr the Judge that he is a brilliant orator, but, which is infinitely better, and what we ih'ed more, that he is a sound, cogent rea dier, and so well posted in all theinstricacies f his profession, that he will always be found ready for any emergency that may arise. The Judge was a former law-partner of the ilon. George R. Barrett who always spoke i:i the highest terms of his good quali ties b;h as a man, and as a lawyer. There were other good names before the ( V nvention for both positions, but after i:jr.r:re deliberation, Hon. R. W. Mackey an J IIjh. Isaac Gordon, were picked as the rtandard bearers of Republicanism this fall, and it is gratifying to learn that the warmest .i l'.-o-ates the ticket now has, are those who were made to yield that these might be ad vanced. The Democracy will go through the mo" t ion i of inaugurating their side of the cam- P lini on Wednesday next, but as they have no hope of success, there will be neither love ii'T cnthslasm in the work. The delegates wil fur a day or two, enjoy the hospitalities f f the good citizens of Wilkes-Barre, draw a couple of their old fossils from among the rubbi-h in which the defeats of the past hur ried them, and then go home and prepare to be whipped as usual. Succotash, with Cholera Morbus, and other delectable accompaniments are now in order. The Monroe County Agricultural Society, Lave concluded not to hold a fair this fall S -rry, but we don't kuow but that it is as well so. JACcjt Ksncirr s new house, on Bark street is begining to assume shape and form When completed it will prove to be a neat, r-rmvemcnt and comfortable residence for L'nele Jacob and his excellent family. T;ie Evangelical JHcascnger informs us that a Carup Meeting for the Northampton and 3.onroe Circuits will be held near Savlorsbur" Monro County, commencing August 2Gth inst, and wi.l be continued for one week. J. Yeakxe, P. E. The weather for the last ten days has not been prolific of promenaders on our streets. The boarding houses hold their own in num bers but keep them closely housed. Even the Owl-train has greatly curtailed its trine Ittif Lnlrl nn .H-o HM - i . time coming. Wes. Bates, a lad of our town, killed a five foot black snake, in Miller's meadow near Ilo!!inshead's woods, on Friday. Wes. was out hunting wood cock, and in marching through the grass stepped upon the varmint, but stepped off again, in double quick, and shot it. We observe that .our enterprising friend fcigafus, Hill continues to dispense the means of making sweet sounds among our people The Matchless Estey organ, of which he has the agency, appears to suffer no diminution in its well earned popularity, as we see him, day after day,, receiving them from tho manuficturerer, aud selling them to customer--, lie cannot get them fast enough to fcjcp a jitock oa hand. James B. Nicholson, Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, I. O. O. F. will pay an official visit to Mountain Home and Fort Pcnn Lodges, in this county, on Tuesday and Weducsday, the 2d and 3rd cf September nest. Special meetings will be as follows: Mountain Home Lodge, on Tuesday evening. Sept, 2d ; Fort Perm on Wednesday evening. Sent 3d. On Thurs day the Honored Brother will visit the breth reu at Milford, Pike county, Pa, : Jesse Albert has the ground staked out and the bricks hauling, for a new dwelling house, on the corner of Franklin and Monroe streets. The location is a very pleasant one, and we learn Jesse intends erecting a build- worthy of the location, and creditable to his generosity. . 1 The annual free fight of the Democracy, for delegates to the County Nominating Con vention, comes off, in the several townships of the County a w eek from next Saturday, August 30th. As Carbon claims the Repre sentee and our Democracy dare not venture on the nomination of County Officers, we presume the preliminary fight, will be a mere nominal skirmish, and pass off quietly. Tue Hon. R. S. Staples, Wife and daugh ter, who for the past three months has been seeing sights and visiting friends in the West, returned to their home, in this place borough, on Friday last. The trip has evi dently done our cx-represcntative good. His friends hereabouts, of which he has not a few, were all pleased to see him looking so well. We had a steady pour of cast and north cast winds for a week past, with pretty heavy sprinklings of rain to match. The conse qucnt moisture has been a source of disap pointment to the great bulk of our citizens who had designed joining in the Red Men' Pic-Nic. We understand the pic-nic will come off on to-morrow (Friday,) at Smith's Woods. On Saturday last, Mr. John Warner of Coolbaugh tsp., lost a valuable mule, in the following singular manner. Mr. W. drove his team to water, and while drinking, the animal in kicking at the flies, caught his hind leg in the belly band of the harness and was thrown into the stream. Before assist ance could be rendered the mule was drowned. The Rev. J. S. J. McConnell and Lady of Easton paid our town a visit, and contin ued with us for several days. Their coming was an occasion of heartfelt rejoicing to their many warm friends here. On Sunday, morn ing and eveuing, the Rev. Gentlemen preached to large and attentive audiences at ie Methodist Church. The Church has not been so well filled in some time. EnscorAL. Episcopal services will be held at the Court House, on Sunday morn in next Services will commence at half past 10 o'clock A. it Services will be held in the Parlor of the Delaware Water Gap House, at 3 o'clock r. M. These services will continue on each Sabbath morning and afternoon, at the above announced hours, until further notice. The public are cordial ly invited to attend. .o The Bee feaver prevails in this latitude to a great extent just now, and as a conse quence, bunged eyes and stuffed lips are no longer uncommon sights on the streets. There is sweet in the honey bee, but the in sect also carries with it the sour in shape of a good sharp sting, which he knows how to use with professional exactitude and skill. We don't keep Bees, but we do know how to eat honey, which fact our bee keepers will please make a note of. MPw IlExn-i Heller, of Paradise tsp., lost a valuable horse, at Tobyhanna Milks on Wednesday, Aug. 6. He had just delivered a load of Potatoes, at the Company's . store, and was driving off for home, when the horse fell and broke his leg so badly that Mr. Hel ler found it necessary to kill him on the spot. How the thing could have hapicncd is a mystery. The road in front of the store being smooth and nearly a dead leval, and no apparent reason existing for such an accident We are pleased to learn, as well as see, that His Honor, Judge De Young, israpid- l - l l I.', nt t t iy recovering nis ncaiin. inc .Judge has been a sufferer from disease for several months past, and his many friends, both here and elsewhere, will be glad to hear that his improvement is steady, and that his re gained health promises to be permanent The Judge's Democracy, which is, as hereto fore, uncompromising, is the only bad thing that threatens to remain with him. "Slaughter ox the Rail" Has got to be a standing heading in our Daily cotem poraries. Hardly a day passes but what there is a report published of a wholesale slaughter somewhere; Steamboat burning, Collision on the rail road, or cars running off the track, are 33 common as were whortleberries a week or two ago. I he last event was a collision on the Chicago and Alton Railroad, by which eleven persons were killed and over thirty-live badly injured. Now this has gone far enough, it is down right murder. A week or two ago some seventy burned or drowned on a Steam boat, in the interim a a number singly or in pairs killed or mangled on the Road ; and now, eleven killed and over thirty-five mangled, or wounded badly as the Telegraph has it There is but one remedy for this wholesale commission of crime, and that is that some body be hung for it. Burnings, Collissions, and off the tracks, can hardly happen if proper care is exercised, and where such care is not used, the negligence should be made a capital offence, and the guilty ones be put out of the way of doing so again. Hang them if noth ing better will do. Nearly all the landlords and saloon keepers in Lewisburg, Union county have been arrested and bound over to' court for violating the local option law What we saw and heard during llic Week. Our much respected Street Committee indulging in a quiet nap, evidently awaiting for; a flood to perform their much needed sanitary duties down town. Judge W 's taking his departure for . Philadelphia, feel ing, oh ! so sad I over the "gal he left be hind him." The departure of Steve on a tour of inspection through the Coal fields of Luzerne, "looking .the Pink of Rose," after a. two-weeks sojourn in our midst. Cap. W. of the Hair pin Brigade, packing his worldly effects and examining, through a smoked glass, the depauperated condition of his exchequer, preparatory to a plunge into the sea of turmoil and strife. The Red Men thristing, not for a cobbler with a straw in it, but for the scalp of the clerk of the weath er. Loud neck ties, red, all the rage. The noisiest girl in town standing on an up-twon crossing, on Sunday night, frantically calling for Johnny to come on if he intended to Johnny went of course. The amusing ma nocuvers of several prominent gents, who hunt rats in the alley near Huntsman's Livery Stable. A Summerville Athlete amusing a party of young ladies, on an up town porch with feats of ground and lofty tumbling The ex-conductor of the owl train, brushing up his old gun preparatory to the demolition of a Jcrseyite for looking sweet at his girl. The handsome Ed. M. exporting cats, judging from the dulcit strains issuing from a basket in Lis possession on Saturday tableaux, dog, upset basket, cat disappear ing over a fence, Ed, with tear strained cheeks, warbliug, in mournful strains "Where, tell me, where Has my little Kittie gone." Carey White surprising his internal organs with a yard of Bologna. Capt Jack in a new coat of War Paint. Hotel de Troch open for boarders. Several of our young bloods staking out worm fence along the side walk on Main street A neat and well deserved knock down inflicted on a rowdy outsider on Saturday evening. An exhibi tion by three of our female fashionables in which one performed on the 'mouth organ, another sang, and another indulged a High land Fling. Push down but no body hurt on Saturday. To be continued. MISCELLANEOUS. A child was lately born in Madison, Wisconsin, with two front teeth. A California dog revealed a murder by bringing home a human arm. Youog shad to the number of 300,000 have beeu placed iu Michigan waters since last spring. William F. Ilarman, of Muncy, owns an old flint lock pun which is one hun dred and seventy five yerrs old. A number of sea horses were born in the latter part of July at the tanks of the Manchester aquarium in England. Mrs. E Yost died on Tuesday, iu Wilkesbarre, aged 105 years. She was bora in Germany. Young shad to the number of 300,000 have been placed in Michigan waters since last Fpring. William F- Ilarman, of Money, owns an old flint lock gun which is one hundred and seveuty five years old. Y hen jou hear a man Fay this world owes him a living duu't leave any hams laying around loose. Three puppies were born in Liverpool, Perry county, recently, which have only two legs each, the forelegs been missing Senator Sprague is reported to have offered 820.000 for the Kansas horse 'Smuggler," which went in 2 ltU at Atchison. Two negroes, Jones and Williams, cot into ao altercation in Harrisburg on Sun day night, resulting in the death of the latter. Senator Sprague is reported to have offered 520.000 for the Kansas horse "Smuggler," which went in 219i at Atchison. Two young Americans have gainer notoriety by a velocipede feat in France They made a journey of 272 miles in three days, resting a single day half way. Ten thousand pounds of Spanish mack erel, the fish averaging four pounds each, is a "catch reported as made last week off Orient Point, L I. A share in the business was promised a cashier of a bank recently. "Does that include the embezzlements?" he modest Iy asked of the astonished directors. A Chinese society has been discovered in San Francisco for traffic in women for purposes of prostitution. The society 1 rt r r , numners oov members. A Louisiana paper states that the in scription ' for sale," or "for rent," is post ed on more than C.000 houses and stores in New Orleans. Ihe Commissioner of the General Land OfSce is in receipt of information that valuable deposits of gold had been discovered by army officers stationed in Alaska. The crop of chestnuts, butternuts, hickorynuts and walnuts, promises to be immense in this locality thin fall, Bajs the Conneautville Courier. The trees are fairly bending beneath their loads. A Lewistowo gentleman was highly de lighted recently in receiving a letter from his loving nephew that had been written at Falmouth, Va., in 1?G3. It required just ten years for that missive to reach its destination. A few days ago as John St Clair, of Mercersborg, Franklin county, was plow ing corn, he left the plow and while a short distance away observed his horse eating the corn tops. Picking up a small stone, he threw it at the horse, and in stead struck bis little son who was near the horse, on the forehead, from the ef fects of which he died a few days after. The father has since almost lost his rea-son. A California association .. is about, to take measures for introducing the culti vation of the quinine tree, believing that it will grow as well in that State aa in East India or Peru. : A near sighted Jien .in ;the Second Ward recently ate sawdust, supposing it to be corn meal, then went and laid a nest full of bureau knobs, sat on them three weeks and hatched out a complete Eel of parlor furniture. . ; " r John Schwarts, aged 7G,a Baltimorean, recently married, after three days court shin, his third wife, a woman of 26 Foolish ) friends ; ridiculed 'them, which had so much effect upon the husband, that he hanged himself on Saturday. . Two young men at La Salle, 111., re cently fell from the top to the bottom of a coal shaft, a distance of 253 feet, lhey fell into about ten feet of water, aud, though both were badly bruised, neither were seriously injured: A very intelligent citizen living near Tuscumbia, Ala , says that during the prevalence of cholera, at Huntsville, some seventy or eighty miles off, the vegetable on his place decomposed so rapidly that it was impossible 10 use them a thing that in all his experience he had never noticed before. Horse flch is stil a popular article of food in Pans, notwithstanding the state nieut that the use of it actions: the Parisians is declining. During the year Ibi's, nearly two and a half million pounds of equine flesh were sold in Paris, an amount which is more than double that reported in 18G9. A few dajs ago, says the Reading Times, on the farm of William Seidel iu Greenwich township a crow ventured near a stream of water where, he was caught and killed by a snapping turtle. Th cries of the crow were heard by a number of laborers, in a field, who hasteoed to the spot and observed the unusual occur rencc. On Saturday next a centenary will be celebrated at Jiachman s Hotel, in Ilosen sack township, Lehigh county. Near that hotel there is a mile stone bearing the iuscription 1773. It stands on the so called Allcntown road, one of the old est ih the State. The ceutenial anniver sary of this stone and this road is to be celebrated on that day. There will be music, dancing, &c , early and late. Memphis rejoices in a complicated sensation. A youthful citizen eloped with a damsel whose parents had reserve her for another, and when she came back after her clothes, after the marriage, they locked her up over niht and posted her on lor her divorce in the morning. Mean while the new-made and the intended husbaud met on the street, and without any ceremonious preliminaries exchanged shots, but without injury to either, rnd both are now in jail. Frederick county, Md., was visited las T J t .1 i uesuay mcrning oy me most severe storm known there for years Rain fel in torrents, accompanied by thunder and lightning and much damage was done to the corn, fences, roads, culverts, bridges and other property. At Burkettsville j hail the size of an egg fell, destroying vegetation, ana smashing nearly all th village wmJows. Several breaks have been made in the Chesapeake canal, and ten days will be required to repair one o them, at lierlin. From Peoria Review : "In a virsror ous chase after rats, Friday afternoon, a boy on Jefferson 6treet broke down a shel in the cellar and immolated six jars in preserves. Ue gazed on the ruins with out a sih, caught and killed the rat laid it among the debris, and daubing his faithful dog s nose and legs with the fruit cent him upstairs, while the boy hid iu the coal shed. He heard feminine shrieks of dismay, he heard the wrathful objurga tions ot a boy of his size, he beard the nn .. j. .1.1 . . auspecung oog leu into tne back yard and shot, and spreading forth his bands, said Rolcmnly, 'Another victim of circum stantial evidence." A colored man of V ilmington, N. C, by the name of Sandy Johnson, has a tame coon which follows him about the streets like a dog. The Journal says that i ...... V ne is not only civiiized, but an educated coon, as he understands an order, and docs whatever his master tells him. They sit down and eat their meals together, the coon imitating his master, not only in taking up a piece of bread in his paw and bitiug it, but in lifting a cup of water to his mouth and drinking as naturally as anybody. The animal is christened Bill Johnson, and his master, Sandy Johnson .aiia uilu jjiuiuer inn. A colored man of Wilmington, N. C. oy tne name ot fcandy Johnson, has a tame coon which follows him about the streets like a dog. The Journal says mat ne is not only civilized, but an educated coon, as he understands an or der, and does whatever his master tells him. lhey eit down and eat their meals together, the coon imitating his master, not only in taking up a piece of bread in hia ni to n rwl 1. I . I'r.f r .. i : . , i . . . . " f-.u uum uniiiir it, uut in II I Lin r a own ui wuier iu ins mourn ana drinktn" as na turally as aaybody. The animal is ihri tened Bill Johnson, and his master. S.mrl Johnson, calls him "Brother Bill." Willi am Bromley, the murdorpr nf Wil liam Phalan, on Little Toby, some three weeks ogo, is still at larire. Thfl Wiff of Elk county has issued the following : "Five hundred dollars reward will be paid for the arrest and delivery into our hands of one William Bromlev. charged with the crime of murder. Said Bromley weighs about 180 pounds : about 45 vears of age ; rusty dark hair ; coarse chin whis kers, a little grey : hich cheek bones. coarse featured, and about five fep.t ton inches high, with ink marks on one arm Communicate by telesranh. if found or arrested, with D. C. Oyster, sheriff of Elk county, Ridgway, Pa. It is expected that Minnesota will ex port this year 2U,UUU,UUU bushels of nbeat. .... -v The old-line Democrats of Ohio last Wednesday nominated - Hon. Willam Allen, of Ross county, for Governor. There was no opposing candidate. Senator Thurmau, now the leading man of the party, made a speech predicting success The resolutions condemn the Republicans and all their acts, and express devotion to Democratic principles, "winch are suited to all tunes and circumstances. Mr. Wm. B. Roberts, of Montgomery county, President of the Dairymen a As sociation of Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jcrser and DelawareMn the course of some remarks made at a-ineeting of. the Association held in Phihtdeli-bia. last week, said that the milk dealers in Phil adelphia were charging from eight to twelve cents a quart for milk, while the faimers were receiving only four cents a quart, besides furnishing the cans, bear ing the expense and risk of transporta tiou, and, in most instances, the loss of all milk that becomes sour before it can can be delivered to customers. This shows not only how the producers, but also how the consumers are imposed upon by middlemen. , There is a town in Kennebec County Maiue, where one man holds the office o Grand Master of the Graud Lodge of Masons, Noble Grand of an Odd Fellows' lodge. President of a Young Men's Christian Association, Superintendent o three Sunday schools, justice of the peace, and foreman of u jury, besides hold ing official position in three distinct Tern Derance organizations, and attending' to his regular business as an insurance agent That now is the sort of man to play a hurdy-with one hand and a fiddle wit! the other, a bag pipe with his elbow, am a bass drum with one foot, while he whistled an accompaniment and used hi? spare foot to kick a dog, and held a con tributiou box on his knee. And yet they say business is ami in Aiame ana no ships a building. The Reading Eugle, the organ of the Democracy of Berks County, is the most unreasonable paper we ever heard of. Here it is abusing the Hon. Samuel J Randall because in his bulletin No. 1 to the Democracy of Pennsylvania he only talks about Louisiana and such distant matters, and never onre alludes to the salary grab, and official corruption general iy. xmow now can the L.atje be so un reasonable f It ought to know that large majority cf the Democratic mem bers of congress, including Mr. Randal himself, as well as Mr. Gctz, the member from Berks, voted in favor of the I ack pay, and to day have that little S5 000 extra safely deposited "where it will do the mrst good. Mr. Randall would look well calling, upon the Democracy of l eunsyivania to denounce the ta ary bui ness when he has the S5.000 back pay in his pocket! The Eagle is a curious bird. iterant on RejiubUcan. Chicken Snake. 1 ho following item was received a few dajs since from Lake Mahopac corres pondence of an exchange, signed 4iG 11." vouching for its authenticity : "31 r. John Smalley, of Jefferson Val ley, killed a chicken snake which measur ed seven feet and a half in length. He found it in the crack of the fence, half of its body being on either side. On ex animation,, it was developed that the snake had swalled a rabbit before it at tempted to crawl through the crack, and that after its body was half through it caught and swallowed another rabbit, thus havmx a rabbit on each side of the fence. The crack was to pmall that the rabbit could not get through, and the consequence was that that the snake was killed. It was killed in this situation. A Poor Kentucky Widow Finds $5,000 in uoid. Mr. M. S. Lyon, or Miller & Lyon's 4 " t . notion nouse, reports the case of a noor wiuow rcsiamg uear UuIIen, Ky., between i . i - - Morganneid and Morion in Crittenden county, who has found a treasurer. One 1 1. i ... uay ja.u wees she was digging potatoes. which were planted on the site of an old cabin, which had been torn down, when she uncovered a stone which she thniml.t was in a strange place. She examined tne spot and continued the dixsin" until she uncovered the stone, which, on ri moval she fonnd to cover an old not con turning 5,000 in gold coin. Ihe cabin which had once stood on the spot was once inhabited by an old Irish 4 ... uiau ui unscny nanus, wno aiea some years ago, and it is conjectured that he buried the gold and died without reveal ing the fact. As the old man was not known to have any relatives, the widow is pretty certain of undisturbed eniov ment of the treasure trove. Evans e ilk Journal. To the Citizens of Pennsylvania. Your attention is specially invited tn the fact that the National Banks are now prepared to receive subscriptions to the Capital Stock of the Centennial Board of binance Ihe funds realized from the sources are to be emoloved in th tion of the buildings for the Intemation al Exhibition, and the expenses connect ed with the same. It is rnnfi.tomin v. icved that the Keystone State will be ro resented by the name of evcrv eitiiAn alive to patriotic commemoration of th one hundredth birth day of the nation. The shares of stock are offered for 810 each, and subscribers will receiv h.m.l somely steel engraved Certificate of Stock, suitable for framing and preservation us a national memorial. Interest at the rate of six per cent, ner annum will bo Daid on all Lentenial btock from date of Jauuary 1, 1876. Subscribers who are not near a Nation 1 Bank can remit a check or nost.rffin order to the undersigned. Frederick Fraley, Treasurer 004 Walnut St., Philadelphia.' youthful cenius in Detroit fasted several yards of string: to an ombtMli and then stood the article in th way of a public stairway. In the course an hour eleven different of half saw had the umbrella, knew that the owner hist it anrt iron tori th charge -- ..uu.wf ...vu. iu lake '6 fit it anil onrriAfl f ftiA IahaII. m the o 1 1,11 w vuiiivu 1 V I L j itujlU 01 Strin? Onlv in pt en nf tt otiA nrnnJ o j - . ) " " "vuutj what the crowd was lauzhinsr at. The Bethlehem Times says : This pring Amandus Ileinley, who lives but i short distance from town, in l?ptMni, township, set a hen to hatch some epgs out in the meadow. A rooster, on'wltini. Mr. Ileinley set some value, was frequent ly observed to visit the incubating nest scratch the eggs out from under the old hen, and set himself on them. Mr. Ileln'. ley finally determined to ascertain how far this rooster would unsex himself jf given nn opportunity, and to that eW made a nice nest for him, in which he placed thirteen eggs. The rooster toot to the epgs as naturally as a hen, and in due course of time brought forth thirteen little "chicks," all of which may now b8 seen at Mr. Heinlcv's tdace. nm1. rv sole. charge of just as - proud a rooste. mother. a9 ever shielded young uuderher wing. "Mr. Ileinley justly boasts of this singular "bird," and wouldn't part with him for any money. Caroline Schunk and Mrs. Mary Kleia were killed by lightning on the huckle berry mountain, east of town, durin the storm of Tuesday 6ih, inst. AbcuUhir ty women and girls took refuge iu an old chanty during the rain, and when the shock came all were more or less ftunned but only the above nan ed were killed 1 Matilda Klein was burned about the leu and arms ; Carlolta Bloom, feet badly burned ; Mrs. Charles Moulter, fect ant head badly burned ; Mrs. Franks, burned on back, legs and face ; Susannah Ibun.. der, burned on the hip ; llrnrietra I'liiji lips, leg burned ; Mrs Johu Moore, slight ly burned. Several of the woman were en ib!e o find room in the old hut, or the deaths would have been much more numerous. One of the womon stauding on the out side at the time the fiery dart entered the ill fated place, states, that the raiu and hail was fulling in torrents and all crowd ed to the door. When the lightning struck, preceded an instant before Ly a terrible peal of thunder, one dredful chorus of screams rent the air, and at the sight of the dead and tho.-e whose flesh had been stripped from their bodies in many parts, several members of the party fainted, while the remainder, though uc. hurt, were perfectly paralyzed with fear. It was some twenty minutes before any one could be induced to move toward the city for assistance, so great was the dread that had fallen on them by this friglitlul visitatton. The Wyoming valley had been parily inundated by the heavy raiu, there was considerable difficulty iu reach ing the unfortunate people. THE DEMISE OF WILLIAM M. MERE DITH. Y'esterday morning, at -his residence in this city, passed away from earth one of the very foremost of the great minds that have aided materially in making the bar of Philadelphia honorably famous through out this country and even iu Europe. Endowed with rare gifts, possessing great capacity for work, the life just closed at the ripe old age of 74, was an unusually active as well as highly useful one. Coming to the bar in 1817 the de ceased was soon recognized as a lawyer of more than ordinary talents. As siduously cultivating his latent forensic abilities, exerting himself to the utmost to master all the great stores of knowled;'S pertaiuing to his profession, Williao .Morris Meredith soou attracted the atten tion of judges and advocates, and in his early manhood was acknowledged to he a lending lawyer. Throughout his prolong ed career this fme was lasting. Araong the rasny great Philadelphia lawyers .Mr. Meredith remained a bright, particular light as long as he lived. The places of public honor and trn?t filled by the deceased were many, and ia au oi iiin he brought to bear his re markable endowments, never shirukini; a duty, ever striving to the utmost to sms his fellow citizens faithfully and we!! and always succeeding. II c was a mem ber of the State Legislature from 121 to 1S2, president of Select Council of this city from 1831 until 1S4'., Sec retary ot the United States Treasury under President Tavlor. rptirinr froai that high, office immediately alter the death of the Executive, in July, 1S50 The State Constitutional Convention of loot had no more industrious aud useful member than was Mr. Meredith. Troia 18G1 to 18G7 the deceased was Attorney- General of our Commonwealth. When the Geneva counsel of arbitration bad been fixed . linrtn tho nnltinririp? at Wash inzton wisclv m.nnmtpil William Morris Meredith oue of the counsel for the United Sfafpa Tliia multinn WHS declined, and the iast public place filled by the eminent advocate was the presi dency of our State Constitutional Coutea- uon, anu, in his native city, the great counselor performed with 1 facul ties undiminished his final earthly labors for the benefit of his fellow citizens, for whom he toiled so often, so zealously, acceptably, and so disinterestedly as ta make his famous, honored name a tower of strength to every good cause. Mere dates and drv f;i butt j f - poor estimate of the life work of so L'reit a man as William M. Meredith was. In an age said to be coverned bv sord!, Selfish motives snlolv ha la! cf official purity, his name a synonym for right doing, and this great, shining e' ample of a mighty mind, exerting itself ever for the advancement of jut end-'i a mm - - must shed, on this and Hiter comiDg geua- ro 1 1 am a m nlnlnnAK.A 4! - i r the morning 6uu on the malarial mists of .1 I . m . . . . I me nigni. a truly noble life was ternm nnlfid whn William Atn.rla MrP.lilh - - - - ihui j.' j 1 1 w died. Philadelphia Inquirer, Aujt
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