liollefonte Democratic Watchman.
BY P. GRAY MEEK
JOE W. FUREY, Atkins Eonvoip,
Ink Slings
.iFhe' day of jubiles has come
Black men are ahead. t
--The "Shoo Fly" hate are becom
i n g popular among our ladles.
—Doe kill tilicep In Somerset. county.—Ty
11,11, Blade.
You'd better keep outside of it, then
—We have the. joyful news that
Congress will adjourn on the 15th o
July•
—The woman that was, "moved to
tears," it has now been ascertained,
was pealing Oni r one at the time.
—GRANT wants to get away from
Washington. Aud the. people of
Washington want him to get away.
—The vote oil the infallibility of the
Pope will take place about the end of
July. It will undoubteilly‘he carried.
—The rain descends from the clouds
this seftPOli as fast and free hs lies flow
from the poiht of n Radical editor's
pen..
—Altoona is about to have a great
blessing descend upon her in the shape
of the Its ocratic Editorial State Con
tention.
—The Feu an midis, for the present,
a failure. ii this respect it is unlike
lisiNT . 9 administration, for it is a fail
tire forever.
-Ninety thousand majority in New
Voris is crushing to Radical , . They
don't understand it. We du. ,It meant
—nigger enough.
—Scrambled hair is the latest thing
oil among the ladle.. We like scram
bled eggs first rate, but scrambled hair
—wethmk it would wake us sick.
—The Presbyterian Sy nod pronoun•
Cc+ Secret societies "ensnaring In na
ture, I ,ernicions in tendency and peri
lulls to the hherticq of the church and
State."
The Huntingdon Globe nays it in
sorry to learn that the Bellefonte Na
bona/ bas suspended publication. The
.Vaitunars stock holders are not nom,
however.
—We thought the Empress ens
coining over to this country this suni
iner, but it now turns out that she Is
going to Denmark. What will the
- , .it It • T had an attack of
me.ri,ll4 Fitesday night of
I i-t seek, \Vile', it comes to cholora
tuurbus, the I'resident is no better than
any body else, it seems.
--That =at have been a very prac
tical young woman aho, on hearing it
remarked that silk dresses Were very
much worn, KIWI that she knew it, for
here had two or three holes is it.
—Fifty persons locked up in the
I'itishurg watch Douse, on Tile.day
es clung last, were all engaged in sing
ing "Shoo Fly." It was evident that
nothing "bodilered" them very much.
—A common hoe that costs the
farmer $2,25 now, under the operation
of a radical tariff, could be bought, were
there no tariff, for $1,25. That's the
way a tariff "protects home industry."
—lt is a little queer, isn't it, that
uhtle all the darkey women of the
vountry are trying to eonA, the
out of their hair, all the Radical wh,
women are trying to comb the k
into theirs?
—We don't, understand why girl.
should be willing to pay frorli hivh
}flees for corsets to squeere them to
death, when plenty of oleo out, he tool,sl
who would be willing to e4iiteeze them
to death for nothing.
--Small pox is ravaging Paris, and
the Corps Legislatif spent a whole day
ill devising means to cheek it. It
'night be well for Rollie of our Ameri
can legislatite bodied to imitate the
example thus Het by the French Legis
lature in time of danger.
The Fenian ',alma, Gen. O'NEILL,
mi , uluz in I n w tr with our
Kili4h, was put in
lid View lig", a great many
patriots, for not wanting to go to war
mull our natural friends, the South,
wpre put in jail also. So it's in jail,
"dher way.
SEELY, of the Jersey Shore
/hrald, Bays "We would respectful
y4rt.iiiiiid garrulous gossips of the fix
fact shat a man in 'New York accu
ululated an immense fortune by mind
"'l4 his own business." What'S up
""Iv, Colonel? That hint's almost as
hard as eilci0)(•
- HASTINGS, the editor of the New
York Commercial Advertiser, has.
threatened to' kick TILTON, the editor
of the Independent, the rat time be
meets him. ,As a consequence, the In•
dependent man now goes round the
otter way and wears a oast•irbn basitt
In the beat of hie breeebee.
V °LAI
the Gr;eat Railroad Land-Robbing
Sob'eme Passer.
At last, the bill cbarteringi and grant,
ing a fifteen million franchise to the
new hunihug—of-a -ra+froad Deer ice
bogs and the fungi gods /las passed
Congress. min s ns or the people's
blooddiought treasure a being squan
dered on all imaginable schemes; but
in uone yet before Congress has Its
much been absolutely thrown away
upon thieves, without even the Outflow
of pinasibility, as has been given to
this set of precious rascals, who dub
themselves the Northern Pacific It. It.
Co. Were the aim of the rorporiattA
io•cut and pacl ) ice berg+ trurn :h lash
to the Texas inutket, there might be
those who could be induced to believe
it of some value ; but to tell sane men
that n railroad can be built and run in
that Northern latitude, while the Un
ion Pacific, no much futther South, to
a failure on account of climate half the
year, is to V4HUIIIO that ihe experience
of all men is nonsense, and that all
men are fools. Hail the proismition
to grant eighty eight Millions of acres
of land been far the benefit of a coin
pony to tutergate the air by the aid of
Minnesota grasshoppers, inatenil of a
railroad over frozen vales and everlast
ing ice tipped mountain crags, there
might have been lound those in the
lunatic, asylums who would have ap
',lauded the passage of the charter by
Congrests But there is neither Rene,
nor it decent vatting of the effort at nr
decent robbery 01 the people's motley
and lands in this vile sTilleine of plun
der. The 1111110118 moon lionit scheme,
which some forte tens ago, occupied
the attention and affected the pockets
of fools in Europe, was a practical
movement by the s,de of this visionary
Northern railroad bumbuggerv.
Six years ago, when this scheme of
robbery an first conceited, the couliwa
ny asked of Congress forty seven mil
lion acres of land as a subsidy toward
building the rand. When that bill
was being considered, its foe! ds assert
ed that it would be sufficient to secure
the building and equipment of the en
tire route, and that it passed the work
would be commenced at once. It wits
passed, and the title , tif forty seven mil
lions of acres of land, owned by the
toiling taxed nuotses of thq several
States was pits, ,, il by tile Government,
to thii propol , ed railroad compass.
For six years they hate held that land,
utlering It to its late owners,--the peo
ple, such prices unsuited the wants
and «mvemence of the cum pan).
Now they come to Congress and ask
for' forty one million acres more, and
with a prodigality unparalleled in the
annals of profligacy or corruption,
Congress votes them 91e forty one mti
huu acres more. Making in all,
EI , :1111 EIGHT MILLIOVS OF ACRES.
Fit r times as much as the six Net))
Siales--une halt larger than
the ,ollected area or the great States
New York, Pennsylvania, Virgin
ia arid North Carolina, and sixty thou
sand square wiles nture than the coins
bineil territory of Ohio, Indiana Illi
nois, Michigan and Wisconsin..
Were it poamible that the income
miming from the sale of these lands
once the people'a—now ticorporation . .--
wouhl be so invested na at some future
time to indirectly • benefit the unitises,
from whom they here been stolemtbere
might he a ahadow of excuse for thia
unmuttiated, wholesale Swindle. But
when:it is remembered : first, that there
is no need at all of such a road as the
proposed Cjorthern pacific; second,
that the Union Pacific is snowed up
three montha in the year, and at four
hundred miles farther North would be
snowed up six out of twelve months,
and third,even if the road was needed—
could be built and mule pay, that the
entire profits wonld go i far) the pockets
of the stock holden., and the pen p!c
from whom the lands hay; been stolen,
receive not ncent of income, the shame
less villainy can have no profit what
ever.
For this monstrous swindle, W. 11.
A Itstmaixo, representative from this
the 18th district, worked and voted.
Will hie constituents who have been
robbed, remember this?
—Lately, Mrs. C‘ny ST INTON lee•
tured to an audience of New York la.
dies, o'fi the Mel'Arti,y4u RtcnAans
bv
scandal. Men were scrupulously de
nied admission. It was well for them.
Distibtlese they were spared a thous.
and deep blushes!
"STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION."
'''BELLEFO,NTE, PA., FRIDAY, 'JUNE 3, 1870.
The Bill to Enforoe the Fifteenth
1., Amendment.
A 110:tSTROCS ASSIULT ON TIIE ELECTIVE
I=
The Votes of Negroes who have npl
Voteti,may be Counted.
This ie the season of Hell's delight ;
for *ell may the Cohabitants of `the
world of Despair hold ft carnival of de,
light And have a year of devilish
lee. Congress is in session, and is car
rying forward the work of their master
Satan.
But of all tlio infamou4 and damnable
nets which have tri . arkril this era in
the history of our limo., lo•it vomit ry,
not one can he found in which there is
slicha diabolical proposition of heefte
and reward to scalnwaggery, ns is em
bodied in Section 21 of the MI now
before Congress to enforce obedience to
the abominable Fifteenth (or Nigger)
Amendment.
The Fifteenth Amendment WitB an
outrage upon our Race and its Liber
ties, and the manlier of its adoption
(God help us l) a fraud of such glaring
magnitude as to admit of no controvcr.
sum in a single instance; hut the Bill
now fastening it upon the States
("Loyal" North, and Patriotic South)
and providing for a bayonet acceptance
of it at the polls throughout the land—
ANI) THE (OUNTINfI SUCII
vi /TES AS ARE NuT POLLEN)
AT ALL challenge the foam,
islimeut of even the vilest politicinns
and tools N fQsovir.
Read ! read I read I—rend, ymi -people,
of Pennsylvania, the language—the
words—and mentenerw—the aims—the
end of Black Republican legudation !
It i 9 said Section 21 of this Bill was
drawn for a special purpose. We
should judge mo ; and that special put ,
pose Is the enfranchieetnent of negroes
without the trouble or annoyance of
joing to the polls, ne poor white peo
ple are required to do, Their votes
may be counted (and now will be I)
t. hale they are a: home and /late never
voted! Il is enough, if they are but
residents of a voting district; their
votes are to be counted the same as it
their ballots Ilad beers piit in the white
num.'s ballot box! If they but occupy
a shanty in some quarter of squallor
and are even too ignorant to know
hat "II if Ole" means, etill they vote a
silent, find as sure, if not a surer ote,
than the white Mall who may have to
walk miles and wait long at the isdls
to get his vote in.
Verily, this is the tear of the Alri
jubilee! It is also the year of
scalawag and vagabond jubilee. It is
the season of the Devil's delight, i n ,
indeed.
But read, 0! ye sleeping, trusting,
robbed and outraged, everywhere :
Section 21 of the 11111,11.9 telegraphed
by the Congressional reporters to the
press orthe whole country, "authorizes
"a candidate" la scalawag, of course!
"to yn lojiffe a Untied States Court,
"and Ore EFFECT to the roles if per
"sons" N iggere j "loamy to vote at
"any elef•hon, but denied the right" [no
mutter from chat cruise so it can he
attribute! to! In, reason of e, rotor',"
"or previous condsit.n q . se, °shah . .
"For Instance, tf in any Southern
- Slate a rap' dtdule" !that is. /1, 01(`Filtt•
• wag I 'for !! Sher iff receives one thous mot
"while voles, or less, and, there we .fif
"Ire' hundjed, or tam e, colored voters
"7 fad!, to Dote fir Aim, but excludFol by
"the Slate election ,?ffleers he' [the seal
awagl "may go into court and hare
"the fifteen hundred votes COUNTED
"FOR HIM" lover his decent:Demo
cratic opponent.l
!fere, then, in the beginning of the
end of madness rim madder! What a
beilifiCent provision this for the pro
motion of a scalawaggery in all sec
tions! what a premium for more vil.
mina to come forward upon the staxe
of political action. 'What n a lilessed
state of affairs, when the tote of the
iltlA
lazy African ' I` otii is to le counted
whether he krio 8 bow to vote or slot I
What a jjedigli t il prospect for men of
character and standing to become can
didates for office in districts Where,
after an election, a scalawag may fop
into a United States noon and have
counted for hint n vast imnizilinry pop
elation of liiii4er. , supposed to re.iiiie .
anniewhere in ii. di.trict. Thi4 is
.'getting votes' niarle easy. This is
"cart i xiog the ticket, with iti frightfli I
rengflince.
Ar,['
The monstrosity of ,Ineobin legisla
tion is exemplified in this instance.
Surely
- revolution only—and a revolu
tion which will strike down with its
iron band of blood every vestige of Re
publican debauchery trfinTistory—Can
rid the country and our posterity of
an age of evils which are hanging over
the future. ,
It is now alinost time to wipe out
this whole thing called voting.
Hancock and Grant
The papers have been pnblishing of
late a correspondence between (kn.
If Asil MK and IN, which goes to
show the littleness ul men who % , 01111.1
laln have the people b e h e t e there
above the common weaknesses of hu•
inanity. It seems, there has for some
tiine 'been a coldness between rresi
dent GRANT Rad Gen. II t tut is, caused
by some interference 01 the former
with an order of the latter while in
command of one of the departments.
['hiring this disagreement, II tNt tic K
visited Washington, and instead of
calling on litttvT, merely left his card,
which seems to be, in army estimation,
dieconrieons. A lter this, INT and
If %.“ ock . met in the street, when the
President said, "Ilow are lot, II V , :
of K? " lien. II %scot krs said merely
to have bowed and passel) on, Without
speaking. Again, at a wedding party,
the two Tel, and TI Wets K is accused
of having turned his hack upon the
President, Now comes the sequel
When Gen.Tuou t 9 died, ILAN, ocx's
rank entitled 'him to the socre,siop.
Not getting it, however, he wrote a
respectful letter to lien SIIERIII , IIII , OIIt
It. The latter replied in MU, after con
sultation with the President, and the
following is an extract from his letter:
"1 urn requested by the President to
in form you that there is nothing in your
personal relations to General Grant, or
in your qfficial relations to his admanis.
tration, that could Austify you) promo
lion now, or lend you to expect it here
aPei
Curt enough, in all conscience But
it shows the mental smallness of our
fleet Magistrate. It evidences how
little magnanimity he possesses. It
presents him to the people mit selfish,
vindictive one who 'lgnores
great service~ in tinier to gratify per
sonal spite II tit or k is use 01 the
be-t soldiers of the comitr), but, I,v
-cause Ile was conservatite in his t lets s
and insisted upon his own inanhoi , "ll—
he would not "crook the preg
unit hinges of the knee that thrift
lawning —"the President,
through (,en Sums tv, conveys to
him a studied and direct insult, telling
him that there is nothing to • "Justify
his promotion now or lead him to en
pect it hereafter."
Such is the conduct of the President
of the State.‘ toward one of the
het and bra%evt officers in the service,,.
A really great loan would have for
gotten ur laid mode whateNer of per
sonal grievance be 'night have had, in
~rtder to show how highly he apprecia•
ted the brilliant talents of one of his
greatest Lieutenants But Wit so with
lilt %NT. Ills low, gro.eling, sordid
nature would not permlt him to be
tongnanimow , , and hence lon !WOW to
ll %MOCK. and the promotion of Senn..
r tat to the peution that of right be
long.+ to the former.
But "time at lust makes all !hinge
even. Should t;it t‘T live out his term
of office, he will not again be elected.
Three year. mare, Wel his opportunity
to insult the be+i men in the country
will he o'er. A Democratic adminni%
tration in the future will do justice to
each men tt-i If intik:a, and reduce to
their proper level the malice who
11011 stand in the places of giants.
--G nt • administration having
been so prompt to interfere in behalf
of the British Government against the
Fenians, we are now anxious
n to see
what it,wii do in regard to the tearing
down of the American flag from the
United States Consul's office, at St_
Job it's, by a patty of drunken Cana
dians, Having avenged the JOHNNY
BULL Government upon its Fenian ene
mies, let us see if it a ill have the cour
age to avenge this Viontem phi ble
SY Pi id, insult to the stars and striper.
No haebine out non, ULYt , SLM. YOU
hake acted nicely toward the Hug
h-di—have you the manliness to make
them net nicely toward you?
Death of thl T Noma
eat Son of Hoa
Thirty-right Years of Hopeless Insanity,
and Final Death in, an -
Vu Sunday labs. Theodore, eldest
son of Henry, Clay. Wed in the
Lexington, Lunatic Asylum, after a
long confinement. The record of his
blasted life is briefly thus:
At thirty years of age irliecsiore Clay
was it prdfuisin; ,lawyer. 'rte was the
image and the hope of the statesman
whose fame was on every tongue. It is
true that there were whispers of wild
living, and or itidilfurent morals, thit
selk . what tinged the fair repute and
erFrilarkened the filmic prospects of
flue action of it noble house. Still it
ens hoped flint these were lint the re
suit of youth. and mould be cast aside
when circumstances called upon the
mature man to ai,ert himself and
mattu Ills talent felt in the communi
It was at this ttirning•poiril in his
life that Theodore Clay began to pus ,
foie, with an unwearied perseverance
that caused his friends great uneasi-
Wess, a young lady of Lexington whom
lie hind long loved hopelesily. The
object of this attachment, who ia at
the present moment one of the bright
est ornamente of Kentucky society, re
pulsed, firmly but kindly, every atten
tion offered by the infatuated young
tuna, after his meaning had become
nianife.t. It was of no use, he would
not be refused, and fillo%ved his fair
late in the streets by da) and wander
ed in the neighborhood of her home by
night in all armoring manner. until at
last it became evident that lie "was
all there," to use the soil phrase by
which a kindly peasantry express in
sanity. Subsequent violent demonstra
tions tended to confirm the impression,
it being even related that lie went to
the house of Mr—and demanded
his daughter at the pistol's point, until
at last the wretched truth could no
longer be ignored and confinement in
the totylnin became a stern necessity.
This was accordingly done, (in 1833,
we believe,) Ins father provided for his
support at that time, and leaving $lO,
000 in his will, the income from which
was secured to Theodore for life. That
life, after thirty-eight. years imprison•
went in what ill the earlier days of 1118
confinement lie was wont to call "a
good boarding house, but having some
of the biggest fools lie ever saw as
boarders, has just closed. For near
ly thirty years lie was one of the moot
noted of the 11111111.teS, but his graceful
manners and flow of conversation ren•
dered Imo an object of interest to all
venters.• Ile labored under the hallo
vitiation that he was George NVasliiiiT
ton, and rum fond of aseutning the tra
ditiotial attitudes of the father of his
country. At the occasional balls given
to the inmates (averaging sonic five
hundred in number) lie was always ex
quisitely dressed, in the style of his
day, and was (helve excellence. Dm
ring all these long years, despite his
general gentieneits and cheerfulness of
manner, be was restless an - a
discontent
ed, and required close watching, it rev
er, in filet, having been considered pro
dent to leave hint go out unto the
grounds without attendants. About
the year•lBfify his condition began to
grow worse, and he soon after became
demented, continuing in hopeless idiocy
mint% few days- since, when Death,
greater healer than Tinie, placed him
again upon rtri equality with the peers
of his manhood, who had gone before
him to the God who hail created him
and did with hint according to his in
scrutable will. And so ends as it.tti a
story as the truth of history every cow
Mantled to be written.
Two on of Henry Clay yet enrvii . ,e
him, T. H. Clay, ex minister to If on
dont«, now residing on his place
"Mansfield," near Lexington, and
John M. Clay, the rapier of "Ken
tucky," and one of the greatest turf
men luring. •
Pile It On
Speaking of the 1,111410 w befcire Con
gresp,./Arenforce the Fintenth Amend
ment, the Columina, //void gets oil'
the following sett-ible conclusion
We cannot sat that we are opposed
to t h e pa s ,, e , 11113 law, nktr,to the
passage a -z•tetiter's Bill, which we
publish el-e, here.
sOur counity has been controlled do
ring the hat ten yearn by the “curte
tlemt'' met of spotindrels that ever went
unlinttg, andlt rettiliree an extra dose
to awaken the nl aeeee to a sense 01
their situation. The American peo
ple yelped for themigger and they have
got him several lengthe ahead of the
white peoplep witlitte Land and Na
`al lorcea td keep hint there. They
are getting tines from :3500, to •55,000,
and imprisonment trout one month to
ten years for any whits person who at
tempts to catch up with Mtn.
Spread it on thipk; there is no use
in having a law unless we have a bell
of a law. Sa?rdvrieb the niggere at
our hotel !tildes, our landlords, haye
v e lped for it t tomil!yleh t i he aigger fn
on r olturel. re. our preach'eli have piay
e.I for itl newly.* the nigger opt'
p,ell6ols, the parent,' 'or 'Or
hare %•oted for it. Clive ne nigger for
breakfast, nigger lor , dinner, nigger for
P pper, ui ßgdt rolketedVlolllor i led
nigger on the half @hell and Grant us
nii.ger soldiers to protect the ballot box.
Spswl► frri-411•414141Ne
—The su obit rViktithioritielp
an engine house.
Sunbury has at last got • Young Ken's
Christian association.
—Vnn Ambnrgh's splendid MIMI/refill will
exhibit at Tyrone on the 13th Instant.
—French, Perot's melt house, In Philadel
phia. was burned on the 100. Law, ti 6,000-
—Twenty-fire eents Worth or whisky killed
George Pipe. of lletleton. It piped. him home.
—ln digging the foundation of the new Pitts
burg Opera house, a number of skeletons were
found.
NO. '22
-killorrloburg bon three darksy millierY
companion. "And till negro troops (might
nobly."
—A vicious dog recently bit an fixed lady In
Lancaster county so severely that she died
nest day
. t t chap in Reading filled his natter 4e t lapi
dated purse by selling Mg false tickets of ad
missiol to the execution et Deal.
—Mr H. A fichweppenheiser, ofCentro town
ship, Northumberland county, has • turkey 20
months old that weighs 33K pound,. Good for
Schweppenheiser.
—Jacob Seifert, of Lower Boucot', Lehigh
county, left home on Monday last on horse
back, and wee found afterwards Noel:dr to
sapling by the halter strap.
—Recently James Bennett, who had been
employed about the Pennsylvania railroad at
('olu mllle for thirtreve yeah wan run over by
the ears and crushed to deatn.
C Royer, the conductor who was killed
by the late accident on the Pactßo railroad,
was o citizen of Esoton, thle Nat•, and hi■
body was forwarded to that place for burial.
—Two little boys at Harrisburg, aged six and
nine years, left home one morning for echool,
but went Itshier latatead of going to school.
The result was their bodies were fished out of
of the canal next day, I
7) In •
—The Williamsport Gwen and Behatin ears
thnli a M.. irewgr fit, the Final, newt them
Hort le hid nfethoutand thpalor• trout.,
that will weigh two pounds each, all in ono
pool. Thir le tree biggest fish story out.
—Tho lightning has been pitching Into
things generally of l•te. Only • short time
ago, the barn of John W. Smith. at Exchange.
Montour county, was struck and burned to
the ground, and • young man named Van
Toon was killed in Scranton
Vice President Colfax presided at the fourth
anniversary of the Americas Sunday &hoot
Union at Philadelphia, the other eight. Speec
lies were made by Rev. Dr. McCosh of Prince
ton College, Rev. Mr. Broola of Tennessee,
and Rev. Mr. Chany, of Chicago,
A itio Tao" —Arrangements have been made,
for a trot between Butcher Boy and Hoehn on
Thpraday, June 9, In the harrisburg Drlrtog
l'ark The race will be for flee hundred dol
lar., a aide, articles of agreement to that effect
baring been signed by the restoweldire owners
of the horsey. The contest will no doubt be
close, as both animals are fast. They trotted
against each other about a year ago, Butcher
Boy winning three out of eve heata.—/Cs
—Samuel Glee's house In Dry Valley was
honored by the particular nothw of a streak of
lightning, on the loth ultimo. Mr. and Mrs.
Gime were Just closing the shutters at the time,
and were knocked out of time In no time.
When they came back to consciousness, they
found the carpet bad got up • bleat a confla
gration, and that the electric fluid had played
the deuce with the cook stare. By prompt af
twit they succeeded in eatinguiehlag the
fire.
—The ►ltoona Sue tells bow a husband liv
ing near that, place last week arrived home
sooner than he expented. if. thought he
would ,apprise his wife. lie got into the
house and taped at his wife' bedroom door.
She would not letblin In till she was dressed
lie thought he heard a noise, buret open the
door, and saw a pair of pantaloons going out
the window. AVMs gentle advice she went to
her mothers for permanent board. The house
hold goods of the late home ars to be sold at
auction
—The Sunbury Guard tells the following
rather amusing story A certain carpenter
who la ratite rof a worldly tu,n of mind was
shingling a house a few days ago, when his
foot slipped from its stay, and he was slowly
but surely descending• hem the roof. Tim
wickedness of his put life came np In hi*
mind so lividly, that km cried • out ••sow I lay
me down to sleep," but in lite midst ofhis peti
tion the thought of having his hatchet In his
liana oecurred, and rack as wick he sunk the
hatchet into the pot, which stopped his down
ward course, crying vociferously, "stick there.
d--n you," and soon gained the top of the
roof.
HUDDIN DILATES IC elle gum YMELLI.—There
seldom, if seer, be. oveurred• similar ease of
no many sudden deaths In the same family as
the following' 1:;r. Charles Cummings diet!
suddenly to lowa, 110111 s years ago, we are not
nortals, but think whilst engaged In reading
a newspaper. James Cummings died sudden
ly a year or two ago In Philadelphia whilst at
the table eating. Mts. Chesney. •sister, weal
found dead in her bed at Nerthumberiand, w
week ego. lend Dr...,4phArps 8. ComMings
rte. instantly killed by a train of cars, as he
NIR4 walking morose the. rowt;s few years ago
at I.ewistownt This Ise remoirkaNereeord of
sudden deaths In the same isnally.—Silis•-
grove Ttmea,
its. tactsts Fear ST Ltoernme.—Between
six and seven o'clock last Saturday evening
during the provolonee of fliir thunder storm .
which peered Oria title rotors, the dwelling
/Intim of E P. Iloloomb, Fog, at Lehigh Tan
nery' was struck by lightning. The bolt plumed
through the roof into the garret In two dis
tinct places sad about tonifeire apart, where to
all appearances the electric timid 'oonoentrat
ed, and followed thy' chimney down the sec
ond story, tearing off almost the entire end of
Ihe house, entering e large parlorimd destroy
ing the gilt fremee o( two hula French plate
mlrorn, melting a portion of the quicksilver
and completely destroying the gilt window
corniest. together with the curtain ll:taros,
,hut mooring the from,its or several (olly oil
paintings. It then passed out to the eave'a
trough, following it about half way around the
house, and trown'the Mater icondector Into the
earth. where* hole to lasts ass barrel ottani'
the foroo,end *Mount of fhe olectrio current.
Strauss to sad none of, the inmates of the
house waft. materially lOnisdi A man named
proiroio 'toddies about shro• haadrad yards
(rm Mr. Holcomb's house wail quite severe
ly sanno4 and has not . yet ,entirely recovered.
Quite'• numbir of *aide and one dog were
entirely , pFosaratetl. :The Ottawa, was not very
severe, hut wan aosompanl9d Mr:att unusual
antoont of electricity. —.Sfaudt 9,en,t Times. • 1