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ALTOONA, PA.
THURSDAY, APRIL 21. 1859.
Ofel|hsi* parties are unknown to ui,ourrul*tor advar
tUUgUjto require payment iu advance, or a matairteoft»pi
BMMfMitoQf. It It therefore ntelen for all melt to tend
MadmetiOMunU offering to pay at the end of three or eix
naptha. Where advertisements are accompanied with the
■MMoy. whether one. five or ten dollars, we will (ire the
MUttfewr the full benefit of cash rates.
, jS. «. PETTJBN6IXJL & CO^
adnrtUlngAgenta, 110 Nassau street, JfbW Terk.and
10 Malta/street, 'Boston, are tbs Agents for the AUtma
Tribune, and the most' influential and largest; circulating
ysiMpspeja In the flnited. v States and the Canadas. They
aM#aUtoclMft to hoatraetfor as atoarfoweticofof.
jST Tha Waflt of attention to our pa
pdf for r tbe list couple of weeks, must be
to r tbe that jfe have been
crowded with job work,-(the
as-we wow ’bare the'
gieaterportiou of it off our bands, we will
be .able to give our usual timo to local and
geneifl;dsun hereafter. x
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IIiXAOULOUS JEscapk.—We learn from
the Johnstown Tribune, of Saturday last,
thktalady named Andrews, of that place,
made'a most miraculous escape,from death
by. ; poUomng,on Thursday previous. She
had came to the house of her mother, who 1
haddied shortly previous, and feeling un
welly sought something in the way of med
icine to rdleive her. Finding a bottle, she
placed it to her nose and found it. smelled
of .ether, and this was what she wanted.
Without investigating, she swallowed a
spoonful of the liquid, but instantly dis
covering her mistake she turned the bottle
and found it labelled “ Bug Poison.” A
physician was immediately called in, who
administered powerful emetics and at|ti
dotes Which dislodged the poison in about
fifteen minutes and thus saved her life.
Sbwis how quite well but badly salivated
from the, affects ofihs mldiciue adminis
tered.
Aupixp* General. —We notice a. com
mumcationin Abe last number of the Hol-
Udayaburg Register, recommending Hon.
Aacbnr 'Gregg, of .Centre county, as a,
Mndidate tp be placed in noumna-
Peoples’ Convention, for the
office of Auditor General. Col. Gregg is
one of the mpst popular .men in the oppo
sition party' in the State, honest and
straightforward in all bis actions, and pos
««lng%thc requisite, qualifications to fill
with aatisfaction to tne people, and credit
to' himself, the responsible position for
which he is named. On the score of ser
vice* to hie party he is justly entitled to
the nomination, .and it would be no more
than an act of josticO, as well as a guaran
tee of success, to nominate him by acclam
ation.
The great billiard match, of 2,000
pointa,for 86,000 a aid*, between Phelan,
of Ifew York, and Seereiter, of Detroit,
camp off at Detroit, on Wednesday even
inf of last week. The match was won by
Phelan, ol New York, by 96 points. The
highest run, 157 pointewaamade by See
reiter. The highest-run made by Phelan
was 129 points.
! -ss£EpjlEp on ASianti.—The Hiln
tiayjdpn American of last week, states that
thfe Mfai'boatmen at that place were do a
strike for higher rates on coal shipped
.poiot, A few ;of the shippers
w«t* in favor of compiling with the de
mands of the boatmenj bat others who
had taken contracts at low held t oafc
Senatb.— One-third of the
mfmbers of the Senate, in this State, retire
each year ; two-thirds, or twenty-two, hold
ing over. This year the political com
plexion of those holding over: are eleven
Democrats and eleven Opposition. Six
JDfpopnts and five Opposition retire. '
.Tbb Siokubs Case.-—No verdict yet.
Fifteen day* have already been consumed
in’jQui trial, and half that many more may
7# consumed ere it goes to the jury,
hands it may remain for as many
there be any difference of opinion.
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iGHAKQE. —We notice that Dr. Bonner
hip litired from the Montour American
and is aucceedcd by Geo. B. Ayers, of
Harrisburg, whohas changed the name of
tW pnpcr to that of Montour Hearld,
The Erie City Dispatch has been
enlarged to a seven column paper. The
editor success, smdw hope that
thia increase in expenditures inny be Tally
znfede np tohimby aninoraaaeof patron age.
Pbtxbsoxs’ Cbbap Edition or Watbbit
Noyau.—Wo have this day received Bob Bov,
by Sir Walter Soott, being the. third xjgtomeof
T. B. Pstersonfcßrothera’ new
isseo of ibe Waverley Novels, by Sir falter
Scott. Giving trnthfa] delineations®? people,
character and scanners—ever upholding tha
cause of religion, morality and virtue, jttiey
should be welcome atevoryfireside whom these
precepts are taught. The great- beieler, here
tofore, to the introduction of these works, has
been the high price at which they have been
held, but this objection is being awr wswona
by' the publication of the works of Soott in such
a form and at sueh a low as to bring them
withintfae means of all persons whatever. To
Messrs. T. B. Pktxbsox & Bbotbsbs, of Phila
delphia, more than all other publishers are we
indebted for this nsw feature in American liter
ature. The works of CBAS. CBAS.
Lktxk, Mas. SouiKwe&Zß, and many other
popular .writers, have been Issued from their
press in a cheap form, and their last enterprise
Uin giving -to the public, the works of Sir
Wanna Soott, complete and unabridged, at
the very low price of 25 cents for each-work,* or
the whole series for Five Dollars. The edition
embraces the whole of the author's works, and
will be contained in 26 volumes, one of which
will be issued on each succeeding Saturday,
until complete. A 'full set will be forwardedt
free ofPotiagt, by Mail, to any part of the United
Suites; to any one, by the publishers, on aend
,ing a remittance offive dollars to them, for the
twenty-six volumes. At thisiow price, all per
sons should possess themselves of a sett, and
wo would take this occasion to ad vise-alt of our
readers to make a remittance of Five Dollars at
once, per first mail, to T. B. Peterson & Brothers,
Philadelphia, for the entire sett, who will send
them Complete to any one, free of postage, on re
ceipt of that sum.
x Far the Mtaona Tribune.
The Poor House.
Messes. Editors: — l notice in jour last
number another communication from “ Mr. Tax
Payer” referring to the Poor House account.—
In the former communication of “Mr Tax
Payer,” I was at a loss to know what he meant,
but in bis last, it is plainly to be seen, that it is
a personal attack on me. He says that be re
ferred to my report and found the admitted du
ring the year 1868, were 72, dismissed 52,
eloped 4, and deaths 13. He inf ers from that,
that there were rory few in the house, and that
1 charged for the support of the dismissed,
eloped and the dead. H e says if this statement
is true how many would remain, ic. From these
references it appears does not understand
the monthly report. He has forgotten that there
were 65 paupers in the poor house on the first
day of January, 1858. He appears to be very
anxious to know how I get the 611 paupers.
By referring to the monthly report, it will be
seen that the total number is carried out each
month, and by dividing it at x the end of the year
makes 611, and by dividing by 12, we get the
average number per month. He also states
that 1 have omitted the profits of the Ten Thou
sand Dollar Farm. We feed ourselves, the Poor
of Blair county, and the farm stock from the
products the farm, and if there is anything
left it ijs sold for'the best price that we can get
for it, and' the money is applied foi the use of
the institution. As to the many articles traded
off, whatever exchanges were made are justly
set forth in my report. If Mr. “ Tax Payer” has
any morq to say I request him to give his real
name. . E. McGEAW.
Isdiahs Livixo ox tub Sap or Pike. —Daring
» hard winter in Northern California, the mis
erable Indians are frequently driven to the most
terrible straits for food; and in order to keep
from starving, they sometimes partake of unsa
vory dishes. Late in the winter, or rather ear
ly in the spring, their article of subsistence is
the sap of the white pine, (the sugar pine.) To
obtain this they strip the bark from the body
of the tree, scrape the inner surface with sharp
stones, and in this they gather a sort of mucil
age or sap, (pipe sugar,) which they devour
with great relish. By this means thousands of
splendid trees are annually destroyed iu the
dense forests of Siskiyou and Shaska.. Tlie
bark is usually stripped entirely off to the bight
of twenty or thirty feet.. Upon the naked sur
face of the trunk, .immense quantities of pitch
will‘exude, and whenever the woods are set on
fire—which is not an unfrequent occurrence—
these pitch covered trees make the grandest
bonfire ever witnessed.
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Ihsocekce or Billiaeds,— On Saturday ev
ening last, .Mr. Phelan and bis friends gave an
exhibition of their: skill to. the ladies of'Detroit,
who attended in large numbers. ; Phelan, and
Tiemann were the principal players Before
opening the game it was stated by Mayor Terry,
on behalf of Mr. Phelan, that the players'did
not intend to) try 'what long runs they could
maJw.or anything of that kind, but that the
exhibition was given, more to satisfy the women
of Detroit, that in the game/ofbiUiards itself
there was nothing to affect .the most fastidious,
but on. the contrary, that it wae'yti game fully
scientific as chess, requiring nn.acCurate know
ledge bf.the angles of the table," delicacy of
touch, good judgement as to the place to strike
the balls, and the particular degree of force by
which they should be ipropelled. The exercise
was not only excellent for the mental, but also
for the physical powers. The audience were
much pleased .with the performance.
£itptreA»Cß of llousss —Some carious expo*
riments hare been made at the vetinary school.
(just outside Paris), by order of the-
Mimster of War, to ascertain the endurance of
horses, as in a beseiged town, for example. It
appears a horse will lire on water alone five
and-twenty days; seventeen days without eat
ing or drinking; only five days if fed but un-
ten days if fed and sufficiently wateVed.
A horse kept without water for three days
drank one hundred and four pounds of water in
three minutes. It was found, too, that a horse
taken immediately from “feed” and kept in the
active exercise of the *• sqoadroon school,” com
pletely digested its “ feed” in three ’ hours, in
the some time in the, “conscript’s school” its'
food was-two-thirds'digested; and if kept per
fectly quiet in the stable, Its digestion was
scarcely commenced jp three hours.
J6@” A Mistake.—ln .a church (not quite a
hundred*, miles from here) a person entered a
pew, and, believing he bad a good seat, unfor
innately set down upon the dress of a lady who
happened to be rather highly crinolined. In an
instant be rose to bis feet, and begged the la
dy’® pardon in these words: “ Yere pardon,
mem, bat Pm fe sir’d I’ve broken your umbrella.”
" Ifothißf mrpßg,” said toe l*dy, blurting.' ’
Poor Hodsx, April 20, 1859.
An “ Ugly Class.”
A California paper walks .into ahunwclcomo r
correspondent in the following rottgb-dhod style:
“ Wo have received* Comm*nieation,inlcßd
ed to damage a neighbor, which the writer tries
to briba '"«* to publish, bji promising to sub
scribe'for the papor, os condition of his misera
ble article appearing. We’vj half a mind, you
cowardly Millais, to tollyoUr name, and print
the article, and, get yon a famous drobbing.—-
Well instruct' you that you have deplorably
mistaken the character of the journal by,which
yon would diffuse your aiwissin-like poison,—
Havn’t yon coinage to confront your enemy and
.-tell Mm whatyou. skulking {anonymously weald
print of him t You’re one <|f the “ grumblers,”
are you? Ton’d grumble at the postmaster,
priest. President at God Almighty himself, if
you wore not afraid of being eternally burned
fbr it Ton’d bribe the village paper, .which
should be a messenger of pMice, to stir Up quar
rel and dissension in Id neighborhood. You’d
cause a faithful wife to shed tears of mortifica
tion by multiplying a lie about her husband!—
Oh, you’re a beautiful specimen of the Creator’s
baudi work ! Let’s look at ypu: Six feet high;
dark hair; thick full beard; downcast eye;
cadaverous jaws: visage like a fellow who had
been buried long enough to let hum-mity and
manhood out of him—you lobk just like the man
who would put a widow woman “ in the papers,”
and abscond and leave the editor to a tar-and
feathering. We’ll tell you What to do : Find
a three-story warehouse; cr*wl along the ridge
pole; discover a pig flat rock, on a line dropped
from. the termination; turn your moccasins up
to. the sun, and let yourself go—the discovery
of your brains on the rock- {below, will be con
clusive and gratifying evidence that ;a nuisance
has been abated.”
FAVORITISM IK THE PoBTtjfFICE DEPARTMENT
—Tho sending by mail of ambrotypcs, daguer
reotypes «od photographs is permiued upon the
payment of letter postage. To : enclose one in a
newspaper, paying only newspaper postage, is a
violation of the law, and subjects the offender
to a penalty of $5. The General Post Office,
the other day, received a return package marked
and postpaid “ newspaper/’ to a town
in Illinois, containing the Wavorly Magazine of
Match 26tb,igHrinted in Boston. enclosing an
amprotype, Wn a very pretty note, of a beau
tiful young girl, directed to ft Mr. jE. A. S., of
tbei town aforesaid. The note we a marked by
a style of singular good heart and propriety;
and the recipient, whoever he may be, cannot
fail, if he have the heart chivalry of a man,
to cherish it during all tame, ; JJpon consultation,
the Department did not impose the fine, for the
reason that so much youth, jbeahty and propri
ety as her note .evinces, andSas her ambrotpye
exquisitely confirms, could: never intend a vio
lation of the statute. It was forwarded to the
Illinois post office with simple orders to collect
the difference of postage. In passing through
the circumlocutions of the ; Department, the
ambrotype of “Julia” received the emphatic
lip joining ef all the unmarried clerks.— Wash
ington Star, 11M.
A Sermon of Moderation. —A Scotch parson
once preached a long sermon against dram-drink
ing.a vice prevalent in his perish, and from which,
report said he was not free bims.-lf, “ Whatever
yodo, brethren, do it with moderation, aud abovc
all be moderate in dram-drinking. When you
got up, indeed, ye may take A dram, and anither
before breakfast, and perhaps another after; but
dinna be always dram-drink vug. If ye are out in
the moru, ye may just brace yourself up with
anither dram, and perhaps take anither before
luncheon, and some, I fear, take one after which
is not so very blamablo; but dinna be always
dram dramming away, Naebody can scruple
for one just before dinner, and when the desert
is brought)-in. an’ after it’s ta’en away; and per
haps ane, 6r it may be twa, |n the course of the
afternoon, just to keep you ifra drowsylng and
snozzliug; but dinna ;be always dram-dram
dcamming. Afore tea; and after tea, and be
tween tea and supper, and before and afjer sup
per, is no more than right and good; but let me
caution ye, brethren, not to be always dram
dramming. Just when' ye start fpr bed, and
when ye’re ready to pop in|o’t. and perhaps,
when ye wake in the night,; to take a dram or
twa is no more than a Christian maiy lawfully
do; but, brethren, let me ■ caution you not to
drink more than I’ve mentioned, or maybe we
may palas the bounds of moderation.”
Almost a. Fatal Baptism. —On Sunday, the
19th ult, a young lady. MiSs Salliefcummfngs,
was baptised in the Susquehanna river, at Se
linsgrove. The Times says:—A great many
persons had gathered upon,the bank of the riv
er to witness the ceremony, which, very unfor
tunately, almost proved fatal to the lady and
the gentleman, who performed the ceremony.—
The river being high, in consequence of the
rains, the water at this point was vefy deep and
rapid; and owing to an inexcusable degree of
imprudence or ignorance oh .the part of the per
son administering the ordinance, both were car
ried away by the force of the current. There
was & great excitement for a ihoment and the
preacher called for a boat, when Mri Holmes a
very tall and stout man, rushed into the river
and seized Mr. Bay, | thh minister, by the arm,
thus, ho doubt, sating them from a watery
grave; for had the current been allowed to car
ry them one yard further dqwm they would have
reached a point in the river too deep to touch
bottom, and we would not' have given one fig
for the life of either; for' Miss Cummings, all
this while, was certainly unconscious of what
was transpiring and bow db*p she was in the
Jordan of death.” if
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Embarrassing lNcit>ENT,-k-Tbe tribe of Win
nebago Indians who .passed) through Wheeling
recently, stopped at we Juhiata House, Wash-,
Ington city. One plehsant evening they had a
war dance on the portico the house. Hun
dreds of ladies and collected to see
this Injuns “jiupping Jim Crow.”, One old
wSgfef;hjh^e»Vajßhisi spirit waxed; warm with
|he wcitement of the occasidh. suddenly drop-
End the blauketthatbe hud-held up’around his
annobes, which act served is thesignal for the
Instant dispersion of most of the female portion
of the, moth'y crowd standing gaping below
The old fellow, and his brother red-skins, seem*
ed to enjoy the result 'of his jp.reoticai joke ama
zingly. When the embarrassing Incident of the
entertainment occurred—which; by the by, not
being down in the bills, was quite tinexpected
to those not au fait in Indihn dances—the yah
yobs’! of the colored damsels, as they vamosed
the ranch, rang clear and Ibjbd above the who
whos. and you-youe' of ttosir coppor-colsred
brethren. • ■ ■' |l ' : ; -r :
BA. A short time since, John Van Bnren
and other dignitaries: were havings good time
over their wine and .walnuts-at a famous board
ing-house in this City, when the landlady—a
plump, rosy vftdow—-cam'd* into the room,—
“ Madam, what are yhnr I politics ??’ inquired
one of the party, “lam a straight-out Silveri-
Gray; Whig,” she replied. Look at ber close
ly. gentlemen,” remarked ,’w Princd. -** for I as
sure yon the male Bpecies‘of that 1,1 animal is
entirely extinct.”
An enterprising book selling firm an
nounced the commencement of their business in
New Tork on the 22d, by firing guns in ttye Park.
Great numbers of excited New Yorkers rushed
to the Park to ascertain whpt had broken loose,
and only found, to their utter chagrin, that a
new book selling concern bad opened its doors
that d«y. No Uule indignation is expressed by
the pehtical present this purely eommercial dese
cration efth* tnelee^WT^fanie.
TheßotbscbuH} Bridal Dihser. —The Paris
correspondent of Guttle says
~i great evenVln the-ieew monde of this place
has been the Rothschild marriage. The mag
nificence was beyond all description, audit
would appear that spendorrs, vicing with those
recounted in the Arabian Nights, were
ed upon an entertainment to which ad body, waa
admitted. I mean the dinner given after the
nuptial ceremony, and afr which come sixty or
■ seventy Botbscbilds alone Were present. As no
one but the family were present at this /ouaoa
—-asthe Spaniards entitled their bull fights and
other amusements—-of course the feminine pub
lic curiosity has been immeasurably excited by :
it, and every young male Rothschild has been
cross-examined by the fair ladies of Paris, ever
since, in order that they may arrive at an ap
proximate knowledge of the “festevejscene.” —
It seems- that all the plate o!' all wo houses of
Rothschilds nearly, was forthcoming for this;
banquet—at least the Kondon chief sent bis,
dinner service eve? to his cousin of Paris, and
the entire changes of the more than three store
gupsta were made in silver arid silver-gilt; plates,
dishes, evervthing, were of the precious metals,
as at the royal tables, only at desserts was per
ceived the priceless service of old Sevres, belong
ing to the Paris pater familiat, and whereof each
plate represents somewhere about a king’s ran
som. As to the vivands on the table, they
came from every country and every clime; they
were swallows’ nests from China, sterlets (a fish
of excessive high price in Rusia, of the size of
salmon, and of fat, orange-colored ■flesh) from
Russia, reed birds and canvass black ducks from
America, buzzards from Spain, pheasants from
Bohemia, entrees of Peacocks’ brains, fillets of
buffalo bump, and—one of my lady informants
declares—salmis of Brazilian parrots !
Every salt or fresh water has yielded up its
fish; every moor, marsh and forest its fowl; every
hotbed beuted by fire or'the sun its fruit; aud
every grape that ovec hung anywhere its wine
As to the flowers with which the table and di
ning room weie ornamented, it is affirmed that
there were 1,600 pounds worth. (I mean JEI,-
600 English!) All the windows were covered
with trellis work, over which were framed the
ch icest creeping plants of the tropics, shedding
their luscious perfumes sil around.r If the re
past was worthy of an Emperor of a century
ago, the tribe of Rothschild seems to have been
worthy of it, and to have done it due honor. —
In the first place, it is affirmed that the ladies
present wore upon their persons between twen
ty and thirty millions of francs’ worth of jewels,
and iu the way of doing honor to the banquet,
those who partook ef it sat at the table from 6
to midnight.
In Cincinnati, on Thursday evening last,
a boy named Thomas .Welsh, about ten years of
age, was shot in' the fofehead by a companion,
and instantly killed. It appears that several
boys were at play, when one of them drew a
pistol and playfully pointed it at young Welsh,
who dodged about a little, when the pistol went
off and the ball entered his forehead. The
wounded boy staggered for an instant, fell to
the ground, and expired in a few minutes. The
dead body of the lad was carried home to bis
parents,' and when the police arrived, another,
lad named Cady was pointed out by some of the
other boys as tbe one who fired the pistol, and
he was taken into custody and locked up in tbe
station-house. The boy told a very frank, art
less story about the accident—for an accident it
undoubtedly was—but denied emphatically that
he fired the pistol or had it in bis hands, lie
named the lad, however, who did commit the
fatal act, which young Cady attributed entirely
to carelessness, and not design. Subsequently
James Smith, who actually fired the pistol, gave
himself up to the officers, and frankly confes
sed the act,, exonerating young Cady. As soon
us the wounded boy fell to tbe ground, he knelt
by his side, and said “Don’t cry Tommy, 1
didn’t mean to hurt you;” but seeing the blood
flow freely, became frightened, and started off
on tho run. He crossed the river, and went
immediately to the house of an uncle in New
port, where he fell down exhausted, and fainted.
When he recovered, he related what had taken
place, and was advised oy Lis aunt to return
aud have the unfortunSite affair investigated.—
Ho concluded to do so, and was on his way
back when met by the officers. He was over
whelmed with grief when be learned that his
little playfellow was dead, and protested that
he was only playing with him when the fatal
shot was given. <•
Ths Beecher Family.— The family of Rev.
Dr. Lyman Beecher, residing in different parts
of the country, came together during the early
part of this week, at the house of Rev. Henry W.
Beecher, in Brooklyn, for a family reunion and
visit to their father, who has now reached the
84th year of his age. All the children were
present except Janies, who is now in Hong Kong
Their names, in the order of their ages, are as
follows: Miss Catharine Beecher, of Hartford;
Rev. William Henry Beecher, of North Brook
field, Mass.; Rev. Dr. Edward Beecher, of
Galesburg, 111.: Mrs. Mary F. Perkins, of Hart
ford, Ct.; Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, of An
dover, Mass.; Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, of
Brooklyn; Rev. Charles Beecher, of Georgetown,
Muss.; Mrs. Isabella Hooker, of Hartford, Ct.;
Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmira, N. x. —
The absent eon, Rev. James C. Beecher, is the
youngest of the children. So largo a .family
gathering, occurring at a period after the young
est has reached the prime cf life, the original
circle at the same time remaining so unbroken,
is seldom witnessed in any family. The health
of Dr. Beecher is'still good.— lndependent.
A New “ Hoop” Disease.— A new disease
has made its appearance sjnee. the introduction
of hoops. It exhibits itself only in cold weather,
..and then is only discoverable in cities where the
buildings are warmed with furnaces. Twro ltdies
were standing over a register the other day, talk
ing and laughing, when one endeavored to sit,
was suddenly attacked and- screamed violently.
The other soon also tried to sit, and was-attack
ed 5a the same manner. The explanation is
that standing so long over the register, their
metalio hoops )>cci»m9 heated to such a degree
that when they attempted to be seated, it was
like sitting on a hot gridiron. Of course they
were not a great length of time in getting up
again, and naturally uttered screams—all of
which would be very mysterious to a looker on,
unacquainted ?rith the mysteries of hpojpt.
Distressing Accident.t— On Tuesday night
last, we are informed, the house of Ur. Epoch
Beese, of Cambria county, some six miles on
&is side of Ebensburg, on the' turnpike, was
horned to the' ground, and a young man in it.
We did not learn his name, but were Informed
tbat was a stranger, who was moring,
and bed stopped there for the night. The fire
originated from some ashes, which had been
placed in a barrel outside of thehouse, and
having fire in them caused the accident. The
house: was a fiwna one and everything was lost;
the inmates that did escape haying barely Urn#
to do so. " v '’•
A young nran named George W. Loiter,
m-Cinoinnati. died a day or two since of lock
jaw- Abont a month since', whileWalkihg in
his ynfd; a nail ran through his boot into his
foot, causing muoh pain,; but on the application
of certain lotions becarrie quite easy. He Was
somewhat lamed, but thought himself recovered
until he set his foot down ‘ suddenly one oay
when his whole systea quivered, and his jaw#
closed like a vice, never ggaln to open Every
possible effort bad been made in vain to sate
An Affectioeat. Wivm-A ludicwuE^t^pt
to murder a husband, which recently occurred
in Halifax, England, is thus related.
•‘ A certain woman felt her spouse an incum
brance, aid applied to the druggist of
{for sixpennywoMh ofatsenlmTle
refused, audio/ormed her husband,
tithe Inquiring of him foe what porp<W
i could requirwlt. The buabandtold tto4r«(gtet
that if she applied;i»gaii*ha ujijrt sell
: harmless arißolehi lisp
would see what her objects werh.’ She md apply
again, and the wary apothecary delivered her
some carbonic soda, telling her husband of what
had occurred. When he went home, to found a .
meat, pie prepared for "dinner, he pretended at
first want of appetite, and invited her to help
herself. She refiised, and at last he ate a quan
tity of tha pie. In a little while ho professed
himself unwell then feigned thrist, then alarming
sickness, and finally death.
The treacherous woman manifested great esu-,
cent, during these proceedings; but.theiastant
death appeared to have occurred, she passed a
rope through the chamber floor, and knit it to.
her husband's neck, in order, that when the;
neighbors were called in be might appear to have
hanged himself. She then ran up stairs to,
draw up aud fix the rope. The instant shs had
disappeared, the dead man revived, released him
self of the rope, and passed it around the leg ot.
the table, and the woman hung that useful and
domestic article instead of the othir one,-ttohus
band. The latter also ran up stairs, inquiring
of the faithless woman “what she was after draw
ing the table up in. that way T” The affair has;
ended for the present, in his, as the phraso is,
taking the law in bis own hands. He has given
her, as the Yorkshire folks say, “a right; down
good hiding.’” j
The skeleton of ft giant, eight foot high,
has been exhumed from tbe farm of Mr. Colvin,
near Monougabeta city, Pa. The Pittsburgh
ChronicU says“ From tho position of the;
bones in tbe vault under tbe stone, it is euppos-:
ed the bodies were buried in a sitting,position,;
the skull bones and those of the trunk, being all
in a heap, while those of the legs werescattered
along towards the foot of the vault, At the
foot, also, of many of those graves were found
various articles of ornaments of exquisite work*
msnship, denoting a greater skill than usually
belonged to the Indians, together with crockety
and warlike implements. The graves in the vi-f
cinity number several .hundred and go to show
that tbs field was at one time au extensive bury-)
ing ground.” /
A. desperate battle baa been fought in
Texas between a few Texan. Bangers and a
large body of Gamanches. A dispatch front
New Orleans says:—lnformation received hers
from tbe north of Texas states .that Captain
Ford’s company of Texan Bangers, numbering
forty-seven men, encountered a body of Indiana,
and were soon afterwards surrounded by eighi
hundred of them. The Indians demanded that
the Texans should surrender, which was re
fused, whereupon a desperate battle ensued.-rt
Captain Ford and four of bis men emt their way
through the Indians and escaped. Tho greatest
excitement exists among the people vesiding on
the frontier, and large companies will proceed,
in search of tbe Indians.
Methodists Expelled —Tho Texas paper*
give particulars of tbe proceedings of several
meetings recently held in Fan in county, for the
purpose of taking measures to expel tbe unenL
bers of tho Methodist Church North, who arp
accused of being abolitionists; At oue meeting
a committee of fi&y was appointed to wait on
Bishop Janye with a warning. They performed
their duty on a Sunday, while the Bishop was
engaged in the morning service in the church.
It woS also resolved that the Methodist Church
North could not be tolerated in Texas, and that
it mast be pnt down if necessary. A committee
was appointed to draft other resolutions, to be
acted upon at an adjourned meeting.
Business Left Undoke —At the adjournment
of the last Congress, in the Senate one hundred
and fifty bills of a public nature, and morp i
than one hundred relating to private claimd,
were permitted to fall to the ground for want of
time to pass upon their merits by either affirm*
ing or rejecting them. In the House of Repre
sentatives there were left upon the calendar
more than two hundred and sixty tills, which
had been matured and reported by the several
standing committees, but which failed to receive
definite consideration at the bands of that body.
A Mam Convertes isto a Cakdle. —ln Cin
cinnati, a few weeks since, a man fell headfore
most through a hatchway in a warehouse, a dis
tance of fifteen feet, striking a barrel of lard,
and forcing his cranium through the head of
the barrel into the grease, (burying him to the
depth of two feet, and leaving his legs sticking
up in the air. Before ho could suffocate he was
drawn out, looking''like a mammoth candle with
a double trick. i
The Army Full. —The War Department has
issued orders, discontinuing the recruiting ser
vice throughout the United States. Therankh
of the army are .now net only full for the first
time in twenty years, hut there is a considerable
surplus of recruits from which to fill future Va
cancies.
99* Both branches of the Ohio Legislature
have passed a bill to prevent persons, in whole
or in part of, negro descent, voting at Stale,
county, or city elections.
JBgfMr James JL Falkes, of Warren county,
Miss., was killed otfejtaturday week by the’ac
cidental discharge of a gun in the hands of his
nephew, Warren Bolls. ' /
The Supreme Court of this State has
decided that an orphan is a fatherless child—
it making no difference whether the mother Is
alive or not. v
|a-One of the late candidates for the U. S.
Senatorship in New Jersy, it Is said, remarked
“that the present was the highest priced Legis
lature he over bad dealingswith.”- - ,
SAEcasTio.—The editor of the New Hamp
shire Democrat says that' he is sure that be
knows himself. If he does, says Pruotot*, he
knows about -the miaow man ia
shire. '
ge?“ Several small children were playing
about an open door at Lafayette, Ind., when
one, a child named Baker, thrust his tongue in
the crevice, when another shut the door, and it
was completely severed. r r := ft V-
IS. Killed by Hartshorn.-rAKttle child of
George Boyer, in Brush Valley, Huntingdon
sounty, was killed by a due of Hartshorn which
an elder lad gave it, of course without being
aware of its effects, the other kay, ' "
. tST 1 A Lawrence paper says that a clergyman
m that city, during Services at his bhhtwh on a
r®’?® 1 ?? f?®sl D S< (ell into so sound a sleep that
it w»S found ne<|essary feifcpne df his cdngrtiiS
tion to shake him in order to. wake him at the
closedf the servioec.
of the newspaper estab-
Assess^
bo ? k ® Fjeent year in as follows; Jour
n<rf,p4o,ooo; ißmrid, 40,000; TratutnaL
vertinf, $16,000/ ’ - » Adr
residiug neat Johns-
Sren W thrco fine, healthy
.:&!!?<Advanced in life has
m&M
; latJTOATioxs.—Again the inhabitant.
Mississippi Valley arethreatened with
innndation»--tho *• Father of Waters" ?”*•»
got high, uolunt hteboanda
flooding plabflltioßS, Sweeping nliBSS*
log stock, and "raising Nod" riprittf’ n? fe '
al dangerous %&Min «****■
tihoial embankments in *** u ■fa.nf
Jbkvi;Ukcn place, and *"*W
those opening# is toMfo 1 * 8 *
mholeof thslower lands mtnp^d'taalik'r, *
ted by theseearthworks. W^sv*w.
PAPER!, WALL P.^
\ Owing to tbs increasing dawand for P>nw »—.|,/^
W. P k . MARSHALL&co
;lI*TB mad* large addition* to th*lr axtwalT* '*
pcising styles for
PARLOES, CHURCHES, 1
. HALM,. WWI*.,
chambbbs, omexa, ' ' v-
MNINO BOOMS,
la Gold, Velvet, Boqe^ k Pi*te, egg
WINDOW CURTAINS; TSsi^
FIRE-BOARD PRINTS,
Making tba Boat couplets twin Ibiu ~
WSST O r TBS MO Ujr TA Jx t
K. B.—A Urge trade enablee ne U a*lTu
: VKRY LOW PRICES. •■"'*"■
W. P. MARSHALL *o&
No. 87 Wood Street, Pitute^
WILL WONDERS NEVER^n
—Xo-»ir-«e— not >o lone aa McOOßMlcg
■tore In Altoona, and bring! icflb handsome
dkl,thl» ail. It a the wonder of« very person Eirlit?
nail such beautiful goods at such tow orke*. bat
**f to totad-b'kuow*
THE EADiESSs tSSStSM
plain and fancy DRESS GOODS which he hai mlscS*,*
prcsaly to.suit their wants, embracingeverything iJJ,,*
quire from a fifteen dollar shawl down to a stick ar3x
bone or row of pins.
THE GENTEEMEN-K^^
cellont assortment DfßOOTBapii SHOW. CLOTH# fift
SI MERES, and everything in that lino—alio, aMa*iii
angers and varloua mechanical implement, to«th? P »nt
a superb lot of segan and tobact-o. * * *
THE HOTSE-KEEPER^w.ju
stock of GBOCERIBB ever brought to the town of Abu*
which will he sold - at as reasonable prices at thi/tuS
had elsewhere. Comeand examine and price, and jMBu
save money thereby. 1
EVERYBODY u ,nvUed 1°
T i vY magnificent aiwnmattf
good goods and cheap goods, and we will exhi «| .sJ.
with pleasure, making no charge ifyoa do not b&v
Altoona, Npv. llltoSS.
INTENSE ' EXCITEMENT'-
MfCOHMICK’B NEW GOODS HAVE ARRITKbiiS
ABE NOW BEING OPENED FOE IXSTECTIOS
AND SALE.
"Halloo, neighbor. I'm here on tbs ground again p t ,
haps you recollect when X, last year, asked von to fatty «•
horio a moment and tell mo where the titEAT STOU
was. But it h •UKt-reat now. It reminds ms a Utu« rf
the campaign of 1810, when Gen. liarrisaa w u elected
sldent You hare only to go with the crowd and joi v£|
have no difficulty in finding McCORMICK’S STOKE. P r ,a
the cxcitoment down the vr’.lbj, and tiie quantity of smli
I see carried away, they must he selling off very njJJJi
and very cheap.” v \ '
“ Yon are right, toy friend; I would say to you. iir. r,
ahead and yonr anticipations will be fully realize], n.
has a very large and' well (elected assortment of (lock.
He’ll sell you a dress torf/tg cento and give the trlmului
Into the bargain. I’m told, and afi pther goods In w.w
tion.” , . , ,
“Good bye, neighbor, that's whore I am going U tit
my goods." ' 'f
“ That’s right, and eo shcnM everybody else. Goodin’
DRY GOODS. > ' GROCERIES, HABDWikI
QUEEN a WARE, CEDAR WARE. SXONEWABS,
Hats and Caps, very cheap Bonnets, Hisso*’ Flats, At.; U
dies’Gaiters, Show and Slipper*, with Miss**. Bbyiui
Men's Boots and Shoes, and every other artlcH'kept lit
first class country store, can be had cAntu /«■ «Au
HcCormick’a.
All articles of country produce taken In whist, It
goods. R. U. uocouda.
Altoona, May 13, 1558.-ly
Head quarters for low
PRlCES.—Thankful torpaat J*vor«. the nbecifte
would respectfully beg leave to inibrm the citltesief 11
tooua and vicinity, that he has just received and fMed
his stock of - ' ’■ ’
FALL&WI3&TEB GOODS.
which he will tell at Ter*low g rice* for cub. It ctuM
In part of '
Delaines, Soles, Pod- fk- Chents, plain Muvm,
figured and striped Merinos, Wool Plaids, Units
Plaids, English Merinos' Slack and /*s<f
Silks, Shawls of aery description; Skat
ings, UusHns/Fidhnels. Cassmerts, Set*
tmeUs,Gmgbapis,Clunls, Easier/,.
Gloves, Embroideries embracing
Collars, SeitSi Bands, Insert •
ings. Edgings, in, fines
every article of La
'J\ die i Wear.
Also—An excellent gf fashieaahU tyuu*
ware,GlMa-ware,Earthenware, Ac.
BOOTS and SHOESgfall sizes, qnalitlM aaiMfia.-
Ladtee* and Hisses* Shoe* and Goiters.
The very beet assortment of GROCKBIEB say kefcMl
at this establishment,.
Como one 1 come ail 11 and examine the there ttod.
Altoona, Oct, U, 1868. J. B, HUdUlia.
BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH-^
Bid yon hear,the newt Bom Enrosgl If jm b»
not, we will tell yon what it la.; It i» that HKNKT TCCI
has Jnrt returned from the JCketern rittesvtftha Urpat
ply of -■ : v- ■— ; V
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
consisting of all atylea and qaaliUea of Overcoats, Dha
Costa, .Teats, Bants, Boots and Shoes; and erentmW
in an astablhhment of the kind, all of which aa owe •'
naprecedchtedly low pjdoea'ibt cash. Having purchint
hla stock ateash prices, he la thereby enaWed towllr«T
low. ■;, : t- ■ ■ -
' lie incite* all thcee In want of any thing in hi* U** J*
givshlma call, feeling inrathat he wllTb* aWaU *•»
aatWhcflon. “ v • UESET WCa.
Altoona, Sept. 80,186^-tf
A NOTHBR REDUCTION IN PRICE
-XjL at McCormick’s Stored „
Having adopted the CASH SYSTEM, (or at lent
will not Be given to an j other than those who are
and eon give satisiitctorv reference and assurance of pwsij
monthly payment.) auddeejring to make It the btmna
ail to patronize ouratote, wo' bare made a very
duction in tlio prices of nil descriptions of good*, aaevjj 1
give enr entire time and attention to keeping apaaffl"*'
ment to anit the wants of our on stem era, aocira*-
BRX GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, QCBJ*
WARE. CEDAKW AJRE, STOIfKWARE, BOOTS * SHOT*
Gaiters, Slippers, Hats and Caps, Dried Fruit, etc, *“*
which will lie sold a* cheap as the cheapest. — •. u
, All articles of produce-taken in exchange forr 10 ®**
their highest market price. M
; Thankful for pa4t favors, we hope to share thapsWJJw
of those who are in wantof good*! - [March .
HFETTINGER’S
• GREAT CPAXIUL LITERARY BitP08I»
"O- 1 . “ALTOONA HOUSE," ALTOOMA-JA,
• Where may be had all the popular PnbUcatie#*e»
day, such as Daily and Weakly Papers. _
and Romances, Miscellaneous Hocks, School Bootvw
Books, Plates, Pens, Pencils. Inks, Oanand J.ert*T
Envelopes, Drawing a tut Tissue Paper, Blank Boe***".
fcet everything in UiaStattohary line. Toy*, NoW” -
Games of every variety, Pic lure* and Picture FrMCt*,
bacco and Segare of (ho best quality, 4c., Ac . au
,N. B.—We arc sole WlioiCsule anil Retail Agent
county, for P.OHX’S CELEBRATED SALVE. B. do ,fe
fltrefy core air sores to which it is applied. Try |{ - 1 .
DI S SOLU TI o N.—NOTICE IJ
hereby given .that the partnarsldp w
ting between tho nudersigncd in the Soap
dissolved by mutnal consent on tne first day of*P2 m.
The book* of the firm are ia tho handsof Oeo.”'u
nlngham for settlement. GKO. W. CGNJiIhO* 1
FLEMEXT TItOCT.
I will continue ia the business above nan****
tofore, and ask tlie patronage of the public. _„.ji
April 7th, ’6««. GEO. W. CUI»M>OHA^
The ALTOONA -TRIBUNE OijJ
is directly opposite the People’s Cheep She*.
where the Ladies can boy a fine Goat Morocco.
$lOO a pair. Call and examine oar whale r~T, j.|t
charge for showing Goods.
CAMPHENE, BURNING EJSS
Linsaed Oil, Spirit* of Turpentine, WWW
Alcohol, for sals cheap.at A. JW*
VERYBODY is inviteF^ 0
i| call and teat the a«ita hf the arUclaj
J.uae-18. ’67-ly]
Blanks of;all
Mfttt* ut t'xrtaM »» tiw
mM
’ &
■f^SALiI Eh
Oas AMl> Watsb C<
appointed to opei
not at the. Logan 1
attended to that part
la attendance at t
~juj itenhig this week, belwcei
A o'clock, to receive subscr
Now let there bo
L "*~hh of our citizens, but 1<
able to take stock,
aiailfe tbare, come forward and
n that the work may
early as possible. 1
paid in instalments
: month. There are fow.
j .^^ t se«boold not take one or u
{gggttebtoek will pay has long s
jgnoaetrated. Although the
plogle share ofatock would be si
II pay 16 or 20 per cent, yet i» mi
bwed that euch etock can always
fell value, and by paying for a :
loalalßeMts it will be about the ■&
that sneb money in a savings u
of which can be drawn oi
wiA Interest. We hope to see o
the enterprise as though
tetgijlltd to put it through, and t
Tha works vill be c<
will f*Jf whan completed, and we
eggiiMr dtiwoe have the benefit
aa well as domestically,
degree a distance.
DS, J. W. GiMxaL.—The Hunt
inji the folfowing high complime
tierw whose name bends this art
tT «rariatad hitkself with Dr. D. R.
pin**, to be the successor of Dr. C
-JWU J. M.| OnMMiLh.—Dr. J. W
pfafjsician of the horoug
drfo%sd'Yielaity f°r over twenty-ft
rStnsTsd to Altoona, and associatet
Dr. D. R. Good, thprs to contint
tbatfisld, to which die has been bo I
taehsd for so many years. Wo um
tbs people. among whom ho ha
about doing good to long, nrs very
joes bias; and we doubt not, that
of Dr.'GetnmiU from Alexandria w
)| fell and regretted by bis former
so properly Appreciated his worth a*
ts a citifies, and as a mao.
We would add that we were non
prised’ to bear of the Doctor’s renu
pises where be had labored eo f.
successfully for so many years, wb
st.fhys bead of bis profession, and v
belcrsd for so many acts of usefuln
BBSS.
We wisjfi the Doctor succssa in Ii
sietioti with Dr. D. It. Goad, and h
a wider field of-usefulness will be
bin, for bis own benefit as wall a
fellow-mso.
Shoes row TfocNDs.—A eorrsspc
Co%n&g Qtailtmth, mentions a-cas
which. ready to die of ac
Urtt|; ;yound. Fortunately, he i
•fofii’bf the oast, an eld Pennsylva
same’to our relief and recommem
w^|^| ;; .ajkflM. The smoke was
•hots, solas and all, eat in piecss, ii
apdplaaod andsr tbs swollen pari
hoars the swelling subsided, and t
BSficed discharging matter; the hor
, In the same year I cut my foot
Tbs lady of tbs house ssixed the
was bleeding freely, held it over a ■
tsgjepki. In a few minutes the b’
pea, end the smoke was removed, ai
•SjlWMfi*. pwtset it from aceidci
The, wftoad never mattered, and c
aster pained me. I have seen thin ■
•b fosny similar cases, and alws
urns results. Let the reader bear
1# 9r salve, drawing or hi
be applied. Voa have merely to:
wound wtU, and nature will do the'
Tutß.—-The Pittsburg s Di*j
ia&ng the fast Railroad tima latelj
W*<|6 efimpeting with th
ia reaching Chicago, have to
“tall,” and wa have alreJ
49 *f quickest time ever tj
On the Pennsylvania Centr
JtMtngers through from Phi
ftttshhrg in' twelve houra. The
mentions that J. Q, Bisb
Ft- w. St C. R. 8., r
;tb*t «ity to Chioagn, (a dii
htadrtd aud fifty
miles) in four bod
making in all twehi
*he Cleveland Review states that,
on the Cleveland & PitJ
“I«ium*dolpbia,” Engineer C
between Wellavill
distance of ons hundr
i® three hours, including u
l®ttwc», two miles, between 1
wart made in forty-five s
AcciDKax.—The body
was found as
m V«T&fny station, on the Pa. 11
county, on the 13th inst.
k^^“l^a,ed bad been to Phil
*•»•- He h*d c»
one twin and etop
on w bich he tc(
**ii An inquest
# .;^tj^j3ng l yiire Pershing, and
deceased, being
Itaped or foil from tl
2£?** lying ne.
fee*, breaking his skull
produced insta
•f«S£^ OCUTioN - The en
on Friday and i
- well attended, an
a gel Te B - as we j!
.*®bnner, exhibiting
be attained witho
* Perfect knowli
taught yn
at > Pull ■ Com me
i “*'^ lAT * >t>P prmlai
ta Cri