11—ellgiopte Democratic Alatclitaa,
13y P. <WAY MEEK,
JOE W. FUREY, ABBOOIATII EDITOR
Ink %IMO.
—Pie-nice are getting to bo all the
rage nOW.
—Pittsburg is enjoying the email•
n a just now. Eleven deaths from it
'fast week.
—Mrs, • Jay Cooss and Mrs.
GLArrer Jowls holb died last week of
'heart disease.
—lt in thought that the Pope is
likely to leave Rome any day for the
island of Comics,
—Radicalism in Centre county is as
flat as a pancake. The life has all
been s mashed oneof it.
—The difference between Gen. Mc
GODLESS and Dr. STANTON . IB that the
one dol the slaughtering and the other
the curing.
—We believe that Dr..llgoa N of the
Ilepubliean, contemplates accepting
the Radical nomination for Assembly
—if he gets it.
—Local politics are quite warm at
present, and candidates anxious. Go
in, toys—the longest pole will knock
the persimmoos.
—A reporter on the Philadelphia
Ageolained grove, was drowned on
the D3th instant. What else could a
Stone do but 8111 k ? .*
- A lady 'Alta recently discovered
weeping tears of grief over an ice-house
at Mt. Vernon. She thought it, was
the tomb of Washington.
—The Standard says the Tyrone
Blade wants to go "up in a balloon.'
Well, why don't it go 7 There's gas
enough in that paper to send it up
a kale'.
—The French President has refused
to accept the resignation of the Minis
ter of Foreign affairs. It is evident
that the President is in Fat , fia of the
minister holding on to that portfolio.
—CuAgin DYKE, engineer on ItontaT
FCI.TON ' S first steamboat to Albany,
and the first engineer on a steamboat
down the Ohio and Mississippi river,'
to New Orleans, died on the 25th inst.,
aged S 5 'ears.
—Geri r4ZABANTON hoe not yet re
and It 19 reported that he dares
rin remove him. If thin he
it r $l,ll have a taste of the same
k I,,e , lieine he Was BO anxious to
ruliiiiimiter to A NDY 3 01INSON
—The Ku-Klux investigation pm
inittee is about bicloge its labors(?) 011
account of the appropriation being all
expended! Poor fellows—how nice it
would have been to have kept up the
larce a little longer at the people's ex
pense,
—lf all accounts are correct, the
rialtimore murderess, Mrs. Wu RTON,
is one or the most miscellaneous killers
extant. She don't seem to have any
consideration for people, whatever.
We guess a little hanging would do
her good.
—A lawyer in Titusville naoied
JosErn K. Tcatlea has been sentenced
by Judge McCANDLras to pay a fine of
$2,000 and to' fourteen years in the
Western penitentiary for forging pen•
aion papers. Our Bellefonte sprigs can
take notice,
—Radical papers show their I ticon
eistcncy by sneering at lien. Mcemen•
LE 9, who stood In the front of the
battle for three years, as a traitor, and
praising DT. STANTON, who was al wa)a
in t. e rear, with the sick and wounded,
as a brave man.
—Low, the American 'Minister to
China, has appointed an Englishman
acting United Staten Conan, for the
port of Cbefoo I Notwit 118tatiding thin
has been done by how, We may, u nder
the cirenuistallo4:B, appropriately m•
quire, how is that for high?
—TI4 great light between Secretary
BOLT ELL and Revenue COlllllll . BBllOlCr
PI,CAst \ TON to all about beer stamps.
The Secretary sa)a t hat the Commis
sinner boat the Government $5,000,000
revenue, and the Commissioner stt3 s
lie it was the S,:i.retar. So it
goes.
--The telegNaph recently stated that
the Hey. T. V. Moose, of Nashville,
was no more, but directly afterward
contradicted itself and said that he was
still Blot:1Ra, li;was very ill. We
shall probably w more about it be.
before lung. The telegraph should be
careful. •
—W e read of a terrible earthquake
on one of the Phillipino (elands by
which over t • o hundred people were
swallowed up, and the island depopu
lated by the flight of the inhabitants.
Preserve us from living in such a
country as that. We'd sooner at
tempt to enjoy life among a school of
Alligators.
VOL. 16
_ .
Claiming ail the Brains of the Coun
try, Has the Radios( Party,„Shown
any In Its Choioe of High Dip•
nitayiee ?
That very moral and self4righteone
organization, the radical Party of the
United States, have alwayk claimed
that they possessed all the braine and
all the ability in the• country. They
have laughed to 'worn the idea of any
intelligence among the Democracy,
and have pharisaically exclaimed,
'We thank God that we are better
than other in n.' have arroga•
ted to themselves all the virtues in the
calender, and hooted at their oppo
nents am men incapable of entertaining
a netistble thought or of expressing
wise opinion.
From such a party as this, the great
est
things might have been expected.
It should have given the country the
most profound laws, the most eminent
rulers. And jet, when we come to
examine what it has done in this re
spect, we arc astonished at the meagre
ness of the exhibit. We find that it
has dz. absolutely nothing. In all
its acts of legislation, we find nothing
upon the statute-book that will emnd
the:test of time or the lira, of investi
gation, The whole work has been to
accomplish something for the party of
the present—nothing for the• country
or the people oldie future. In every•
thing it has done, it has manifested
the must narrow and contracted spirit,
never fur once soaring into the broad
realms of statesmanship, or rising
equal to the magnitude of the great
questions that have, in years past,
agitated the body politic.
But, little as this party has done in
the matter of giving us wise 'laws, it
has done still less in the matter of wise
rulers. With the exception of the two
A 1i1M31.1.4, the inert it has pit into the
presidential chair have been mere
nobodies. Since then it has elected
TttLOR, LINCOLN, GRANT.
The first and second of theme presidents
went into office on the strength of their
military achteiments. It was not
I even pretended that they were men of
ability. Neither ol them had hail any
civil experience, nor were either of
them versed nr the first principles of
government. They were plain, 'inlet
tered men—fit for lighters and noth.
ing else. ABRAHAM Liscot.tx was a
second rate Western lawyer, who had
made sonic noise by talking about an
irrepressible conflict between the white
and black races, and famous for tell
ing droll stories and smutty jokes.
Grassi . , the 111 , 4 of the remarkable four,
rode into office on the military furore
of the people, because they foolishly
imagined tint they were owing him
an everlasting dell of gratitude, which
only the preeidentiai chair could in
part repny./ Ls qualiticationn for the
high position have proved to be even
lees than those of his three insignifi
cant predecessors, and to-day the peo
ple who were so anxious to make him
President and the platy that pushed
him lurst,ti I, w.,liLl chin, their hands
with Jon it to , y sun I but be iNd of
hum. Ile his ,h--4race.! the office and
the counts, and setiolene.l our cheeks
with %it ) rhatile tor lon MICA: and
venality.
Such are the Presidents which this
party that has claimed all the ability
/11 , 1 intellp / onee of the country, has put
into °Mee How insignificant they
seem %%lien compared with such men
as .11 itt t M ‘T•1,40:, bioxitop:,
\ t\ lit aLv, PoLK, PILReg
oud II N . - greaf lights of the
timernitient, and nil eleeted and stip•
ported lo the Dootocrat to. Party I It
Halt 111 . 1.1 C 4,111" country
it -,311 mil ell:tractor
• 111 , it. , great Pre,4nletits
Ili it I lir ).( 1),,e to look back ti,,
wondt rm! to thenNel% es it they
will
ever bee the' like again. (if the our
Radical Pr ~dents al-oe named, wo
died shor y after they had want ed
office, one was shot dead in a the
and the last•lntntel is now stooling
and drinking himself to de.lth, attend
ing horse incenand inaktag for iiitnself
an itnmen-e fortane nut hf The pre4erite
given hint roe prat:llring tile'aloyi ilia
gaming nepotism. The Di untcfapc
rani', as We send Jast .a.tuk,-10 the
party of the people. It Outdo the conn
tr3, great and glorious, amt kept' it no
until the jsople'afolly, in ISO, ,trane
ferred the Government unto tho Wanda
of their enewiei. DettiocratiC
s
! 4
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"STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION•"
BELLgrONTE, CPA., FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1871.
Presidents were all great and good
men, while those of the opposition who
were not dishonest were ignorant and
incapable. These are facts, and histo
ry eller while will corroborate them.
The Radicals may continue to prate of
their intelligence and ability, but the
evidence is that these qualifications
have all been on the Democratic side
of the house. IlisaisoN and TAYLOR
were honest, but fearfully ignorant.
Liticouir was not smart and waseia
trickvter beside, and ORANT k a mere
purchasable commodity, always ip the
market and ready to knock himself
down to the highest bidder.
Something Loose
There's something wrong The
earth is tumbling about at a terrible
rate, and earl Ii pink en, tornadoes, aim)
der and lightning, hailstorms, aunoons
and cayingsdn, have become wonder
fully frequent. What does it all mean
and where in it going to end ? Can it
be that the lent days are at hand? We
are told that in those days there are
to be ware and rumors of warn, thun
dere and li;litnings and great earth
quakes, with other fearful signs.
Well, we have all these things now,
hut whether on a scale sufficiently
large tc justrfy apprehensions of so sc
noun a matter an the euililen closing
np 01 thine mundane,' in not pi-d so
clear. Taken in connection, however,
with the wonderful story of the discov
ery of a ineans to burn up the Pacific
ocean, and, per consequence, all other
oceans and waters, the ignition of
which would, of course, set the uni
verse aflame, we confess that, to a
timid timid, there may be some cause
for alarm. Science tells us now that
our earth is a boiling, bubbling, molten
mass of seething fire at the centre, and
that the limn ground on which we
atand, in but a crilst around this hot.-
rible furnace, which at no point exceed
' fifty miles in thickness. If thin be so,
and this molten Macs at the centre be
disturbed by various minden, as often as
our acientists nay it in, then it in no
wonder that we so frequently bare
such carryings ou on thin upper aide ut
the cruet. According to these fellowe,
we are living on a very treacherous
soil that may at any time crack open
Or blow up, and scud all of ADAM'S
race into perdition or kingdom conic.
Well, well—we don't know anything
about it, and don't propose to bother
our heads with tins:J.o4y log si.ecula
lions. We'll endeavor to take things
as they come, believing that en old
earth has stood a good ilea! of knock
ing about for five or .ix thousand yearn,
obeli be able to worry it out for per
Raps a thousand more. Under all
circumstances, mankind are in the
hands of Providence, amid if anybody is
wine enough to demonstrate how th e
thing could' be bettered, let him pro
ceed to unfold his plan.
i —The Age understands that a
large number of men in Baltimore
hate been promised work on the
streets and under the water department
of Philadelphia by the Radical mana
gers. This i 4 in anticipation of the
coining fall election, when these men
will be used to swell the Radical vote.
The Aye remarks that these men will
be watched and arrested the moment
they arrive in the city, as the "Demo
crats do not intend lobe cheated either
by native or imported scoundrels."
'rifle is right, and we trust that a
succeseful effort will be made to pre
vent the employment of a lot of aliens
upon the public works of Philadelphia.
She leas enough poor Inert within her
own limits to do all the work she has
to give them, and it would be Criminal
injustice to crowd them out in order to
make town for expected Radical voters
from another city. Let the Democra
cy of the city, aided by the Mayor, .lo
all in therrpower-terprereat thus great
trend from being perpetrated upon the
poor working men of Philadelphia.
—And now Lion. D. W. VOORIIIIEH
signifies his intention to retire from
public life at the close of 14 present
congressiunaLlartn. 'jade-may be very
pl re ii io DANIEL, but we judge the
news will not beguile so acceptable to
the people. • Mr. Voonuarte ie one of
the ablest and most eloquent Dettio-
Crate in the country, and we can but
illy spare him from, the public coun
cils.
The Lew Supreme
Sonic trouble seems likely to grow
out of the lynching of MARTIN MRARii,
who whipped and burned his son to
death at Watseka, Illinois, the account
of which is printed on one of our inside
pages. ME%Rt was arrested and put
lit/prison for trial, from which he was
forffibly taken by a mob headed by
some of the Most respectable citizens,
against the protests of the Sheriff, and
taken out of town and hung. Gov.
Pitmiza now orders the Sheriff to ar
rest We lynchers, and states that he
will assist itiriwith all the power of
the State, if necessary. The Sheriff
says that it will be extremely hard to
arrest these inen as the popular aym
pathy is with them, but that he is
willing to do has duty. Such is the
way the matter stands at present.
In our opinion, UM'. PALMER is
right in asserting the supremacy of the
law, and there is one of two things
that the lynchers will have to do—
either give themeelves up and stand a
trial, or leave the State, and perhaps
the country, as the Governor could de
mand their delivery to him from the
authorities of any other State into
which they might retire. MsaTts
Mrta.t was a fiend in human shape,
and, so far as he was concerned, met
with a righteous retribution. At the
RAMC Lillie, the 1,11 , 8 Of this country
gearatitee to every roan charged with
crime tine right of trial by jury, and
the people 11,t,%e no right to take the
law into their own hands- We ma,
even applaud the act whieb revenged
the outraged popular feeling upon the
tuurderer of an innocent boy, and 'that
boy his own soli, but we cannot justify
it Should the law, or those appointed
to execute the law, once concede the
point that the people in certain ag
gravated cases have a right to do as
they did in the present case, then the
law would speedily become a ,lead let
ter, without spirit or meaning, and
anarchy and drilsorder reign s upreme.
' Hence, the only guarantee of the peace
and order of the State and the happi
nest, and prosperity of the people, is a
strict regard for law by the citizens
and a prompt and faithful vindication
of its violated majesty by the authori
The lynchers of MARTINI Me-tae
would to well to give themselves up
and stand their trial. In tiew of all
the circumstances of the case, the
fiendishness of the niurdelter, and the
shocked and outraged state of public
heeling, we doubt very much if a jury
can be found who will he disposed to
punish them very heavily lor the sum
mary proceeding which they took to
rid the world of a monster.
4 —We learn with regret - that
Dt at ta, of the Chambershurg Valley
Spirit, has lost his only daughter by
typhoid fever. Miss I)LNCAN •ccom
lamed her lather to this point when
he came here to attend the Democrat
ic editorial convention, and was after
ward one ”f the happy party that made
the excursion to Watkins Glen. She
wa,i a y ou ng lady of much amiability
and intelligence arid was hell ill high
esteem ly the ladies and gentlemen of
thiAlace who made her acquaintance.
We sympathize with our coternporary
in lull sad bereavement, but human
sympathy, though sweet, cannot repair
the desolation which death makes in
heart and home.
—lt Must be a little discouraging
to President GRANT, when he looks
over the political field and Fees the
hosts of hornier friends that are desert
ing ilk standanl. Even the II tRI . ERS
are pitching into him a little, and Sen
ator Tti-fOx declared in Omaha the
other day that it the 'perambulating
Provident' wee again nontinated,.he
would take the etunip for the Demo
cratic candidate. And so it goes.
Like rata deserting a oinking ship,
GRANT ' S friends are skedaddling at a
wonderful rate, leaving the rotten pres
idential craft to sink to the bottom or
the political ocean.
----The poem furnished by JOIIN
HAY, at the reunion of the''Army of
the James,' ie as much superior to the
one furnished 'by BRET HART at the re
union of the 'Army of the Potoinan' as
the moon is to a cat's eye. If either
of these men will take advice, they
will diecontinne their playeetout poetus
in dialect and produce' something
worthy of their powers.
Fel
I 11 /40
Shall There be a Lady President In
, 1872?
No one, we preadme, not even Mr.
Greeley, will claim that negroes have
more intelligence than women, In all
history there have been distinguished
women,great paintera,sculidors,writers,
and even rillere, and some of them,
especially Elizabeth of gngland and
Catharine of Russia, actually surpass
ed all their male contemporaries in
this great function of government.
On the central y,sitice the world began,
not one solitary negro did anything,
never even invented nn alphabet, or
took one solitary Niel, toward what we
call civilization, nor till the world elide,
short of a new creation and a different
brain, will there ever be one solitary
negro with capacity above the white
lad of lwelve to fifteen. Still, it in
chtioliby new 'amendments' to the
consto ition that this negro is ehitizen,
with the same rights and the same
status as the white man, while the
',arty that has done this 'big tbing•
in the way of 'progress' demise that the
immeasurably and inexpressibly supe
nor white WORIMUI is a citizen, amid
must expect to be ruled by a being
whom God has created so vastly mien
or that no words in the language can
fitly express it? Meanwhile, however,
women seem determined to reject this
monstrous rule over them, and, unlike
the negro, who on all this continent
never said one word or did one deed
for his 'emancipation,' they ask no
favors ; and, lighting their own battle,
show themselves quite competent to
enter the het and contest the question
with the ablest of their imtle opponents,
including even the redoubtable Greeley
himself. But why Ghoul l not they
hold a National Coe vention, and so
lectiog Victoria Woodhull, or Mrs.
Stanton, or one of the best exponents
of the cause for the Preeidency, enter
on a solemn and complete cite vase, de
Glaring that it such inferior beluga as
negroes have been made citizens, the
same 'amendments' hate made citizens
of those whom God has created with
all the capacity for citizenship so im
measurably superior? No doubt they
could poll a larger tote then ally
other party, for even those women who
onlitiardy would care nothing for sue
frage must feel themselves so outraged
that they would vote the ticket, and
we should like to see any Jude._ or
court in the land that would dare to
question its legality whole assentin to
negro citizensbip.—N. V. buy Book,
f hie by one the (needs of the I'resi
dent desert him. When he first en
tered the White House the Itailicaln
were enthusiastic in their praise of the
silent soldier who was to reconstruct
the Union, and bring disorder out of
the chaos of civil war by the inear rat
tle of his saber in its sheath. Now
his professed admirers are limited to
the circle of hie own relations of the
Federal office-holders, the two being in
most cases Identical. Among the most
persistent of hie trumpeters have been
the:Meeers. Ilarpers, who in their Rev
eral periodicals have lavished much
praise upon him. They too, however,
have at last been forced to change
their lone, and in the last number of
there magazine publish the following
hitte't assault upon hum in the form of
an extract from a letter of Thomas
Jeflereon, in which the writer said:
The public will never be made to be•
lieve that an appointment of a relative
is made on the ground of merit alone,
uninfluenced by family views; nor call
they ever see with approbation offices,
the disposal of which they entrust to
their Presidents for public purposes,
divided out as family properly. Mr
Adams degraded himself infinitely by
bin conduct on this subject, as General
Washington bad duet himself the
greatest honor. With two slick exam
plea to proceed by I should be doubly
excusable to err. It is true that this
places the relations of the l'resideet ui
a worse situation than it lie were a
stranger; but the public good, which
cannot be effected if its confidence be
lost, requires this sacrifice.
An attack so bitter anti unexpected
ae this must greatly annoy the Presi
dent. While criticism of hie official
acts is always in order, it is not pleas
ant to see him thus suddenly stabbed
by those who have been hie foremost
friends. 'Clue Meeers. Harper, of
couroe, share in the eliaine which all
good citizens feel at the gross nepotism
of the President, but their assault upon
the mail whom they have heretofore
eo uniformly defended is cruel ui its
suddenness and sarcastic bitterness.—
N. Y. World
—Horace Greeley tells us that
souls of the purest and best women of
New England have gone South to
teach the coloredchildren. Very true;
and yet in some cases the South has
not treated theme women as the purest
and best of women should' be treated.
Near ',random Miss., for instance, one
or two of them were actually ostracised
not long ago for no other offense than
that of bathing in the river
number of Cblored gentlemen.—Lottis.
edit Courier.
—Rochefort ie to be tried upon an
indictment, which' berore a (loon Mar.
tial, can hardly result otherwise than
unfavorably to him.
NO. 29
Et Tu, Brute
Spawls from the Keydotis.
—Eris city has a debt of about $OO,OOO.
—Mitlisnoy city Is to hare a $40,000 Catholic
113=111
—Welvan have made their Applarabes In
rumberlend and Perry trountiet.
yeer Penniyivanle farmers righted
namoo,ooo buehele of mai, th• largest quanity
of any 1-.tato In the Union.
—Joseph IC. Turner, • lawyer of Titusville,
on Friday last woo convicted of forging
affidavits for tho procurement of pension
IZIMIZIM
—A daughter of John Shlmp, of West Calloo
township, Lancaster county, was burned to
death a short time sine. while trying to kindle
a fire with kerosene.
Camp tnueting, under the charge of the
Met hudist Protestant Church, will be held on
the land of John Barton, near Fawn Grove,
York county, Pa., commencing on the inth of t
Augural.
—Eighty dollars worth of frogs were sap.
turgid at Greenville by Pittsburg parties
r•rently, the Gine occupied being three days.
They used a dark lantern ane thus eucesded
in catching them
—A non of Samuel Zsager, near Centerville,
Lnacester county, aged •leven ye•re, died
very suddenly lately, from the effects of In
dulging In too much cnld water whit• under
excemelvo pereplratton.
—Nine, fat gentlemen oyottstown, Mont
gomery cuunly, bare bean challenged by nine
fatter 011(11 of Dangle...rills to play a game of
base hall at the hotter place. The Lknigisavllle
nine weigh I,obe pounds.
—Mr J 11. IL Fryer, of Pottstown, has an
apple that was grown In Ma, end Is now two
1111 d it half year, Id. and lo in, good stele of
toimmrVllLlllll Ile kept it In hi% cedar. f lila
to certainly aonu•thing, of a champion apple.
—Martin Stauffer, of P.M) township. Lansaw
ler eounly • aged DJ years, this harvest, 1q two
hours, reaped els •hock a of whist. lie lW
worlu•d In eighty nnueensi vs harvests 1101,
In good bealth, 1,11,i looks 1 , 11 If he would lest
Amity years longer
—A large number of ettisens of Camtirria
and Somerset counties rust at Day Melville •
few day■ ago for the purpose of taking step/
to build a railroad (ruin Johnstown to some
terminus in Somerset county, oonnsetlng with
the Connelleville railroad.
—Tho Erie car•erheel works, yr birth Marred
nitwit four years ago ,asys the FATIO Ahlipilathasap
e , itntnetteed operations by manufacturing four
heelna day They now produce eighty, and
still the orders cumulus to roll In.
luring don't pay; of court., not•
—The Johnstown Trams' says • Tim
notellinery eitnneoted with the Cambria Iron
on.pony meal works was socoassfully
tested on Wednesday, and abseil rails
mode oith ent ire satisfaction to all coneernad A
lVa learn that In the course of about two
week*, the work./ will be finished la every
detail, and work go on uninterruptedly.
—A hoonakoepar should ne•sr buyeatlish In
Jun.. or July, because the% nail spawns In June.
and for some weak, p..otect% Its young, lead
ing them out N 1 N hen leads her 01011 YVON.
lotto •anon. lending grounda, anti drl•ldg off
prsaisti , ry fish, such as as perch, sunfish, pike
anti • tiler annul waters •arleuss. All this
still. Ilia lutrent eatluill Is lank nod thin, and
not 11l for human food.
—At the meeting of the htock h•ld•ra of the
l'ento , )lvan ,fret company, held le Pluto/dal.
ph 111011 h nasty last, It was 1111.11E1110lInly agreed
toso,opt the supple Tent the charter primed
at the s ecru( see.ion u( the Legielators, and
to authorise the ineretpte of Ilia capital stock
to the amount of one stallion of do'lare• It le
Intended to enlarge the works at lia:dwle, and
snake a u• , sillier impruYetsiente.
— 'j littleAlM Of ttm Merin!, of Miller's
Eddy, k 11710 roily county, Pa , was killed a fey
days ago in a very peculiar any lie was play #
log with a largo augur, carrying It In fronts(
him with the point nardnvt hi• brew. Going
111• Ar n to It klek•A him, striking lie hen,
die ~f tha mownr and girl, log the stem •ritlrely
ihrough the Loki)/ of the child, and entildnig
away pert.. of !ging, The child lived lAA
a few hour,
—At Pluladelphia on Thursday of last week .
while the Pennsylvania railroad earn were
pasting Thlrty.fifth street, a young man
rivaled from the sidewalk, and deliberately
placld his head an the track IminediadelY 10
front of the I s. lira. Before the tral■
could 10 stopped every ear had passed over
tlte oily. The head lora, •111,ektriKty mangled
In the blind of too lleea.od WIRY clutched •
piece of paper Inscribed an follow. • •'Jame*
Davie, lawn 1047. Loft without frierola, death
lute, and tired of living."
—A Venerable Switch Tender At Bridgeport,
on the oppogire nide of the riser, le a nwitelll
tender name I Fred•rick Arnett, who has bean
in the acr•lee of the Cumberland Valley In
..1\ pnl Ily ever enure It hel,lllo
roar
,r ear,. ago Hiner, that time he tits
thc res of ri. the little. armor iata4
with his position la the mica laithrti I an I ote
exceptionable manor r. In rain and sunshine
he hart error harm at his punt, and, stittloligh
about eighty year. of age, he July tures the
sw nob. Mr Armill wee born in France and
fought antler the leadership of Napoleon in
the memorable *are 'oetatien 1812 and 18.5. If
the appearatiou und unlit° inovenumie are any
Indication, be may live to perform the duties
of Bench Icudet for crony years. But wouldn't
the Cumberland Nielq . ley railroad company
allow lin appreciation of Ida faithful r•urvicre
by promoting him to 11 position 111 , 1ra lucre'
the and los. ,•v pic,c,l and rosponsfhlo err
t3llllY MI wit., /111, Mr . ,01/ ()In rend faith
fully fir thuty hair yearn, through slimmers
heat and rriator's cold, Orchid he ki n dly re.
,crate Ind in lo declining pars —um ntiDurg
Innertor. n 4 en!
—From the i.ancaster Infrltiqmirer
Saturday rioting client Pin n'olock Mrs.
Catharine Kirby, aged 101 yeni Inontler and
15 days, died at the renblenoe of bar soil-10.
law, Michael Sullivan. Mrtt, Kirby was of Irish
birth, having been born in queettstewu, Ire.
land, on the Is/ of Januaty,"ll7o litto came
to Xinertes, with her daughter, Mtn. buliivan,
twenty•tx o viars ago, and removed with her
and herhusband to this ,city eleven years
ago, end hell resided here since that time.
Mr.. Kirby spoke only the ancient Irish
language, having au menden to the English.
She was never sick a week to her life; never
used spectaeles, and her head nes covered
with a luxuriant growth of Jet hiack hair,
among which scarcely, a dozen gray ones
cotdd be teund, Although tier inteUeot L bee
came weakened some two or three y l earSage
she remained In ex &silent health until a few
days ;motions to her death, when shb was
overta'kep b' a lethargy and slept the greater
part of *tithe, Until finally 'she .tept'tbs
Sleep that knows no waking, Atte well no
doubttthe oldest person In tunettatee, being
the only Centenarian eeperted' tberslkarg
marshals last year.