AR LR TL IE TRS
Demoeratic Wkdyuan
erms, $2.00 a Year, in Advance,
January 3, 1880.
P. GRAY MEEK, Fan
T.DITOR.
On Thursday the wool men had
their say before the Committee of
Ways and Means. How much wool
was it necessary for these geatlemen to
pull over the eyes of the committee
to incapacitate it from seeing that our
manufactures need nothing so much as
free raw materials ?
The grain trade at Buffalo last.
year reached the enormous figures of
118,273,430 bushels, exceeding the
phenomenally large trade of 1880 by
6,000,000 bashels. The agricultural
productions of the United States are
simply enormous, surpassing anything
that the rest of the world can show,
and yet there are some people who be
lieve that our farmers need tariff duties
on. foreign agricultural products to pro-
tect them froma competition that is
really laughable to think of.
er oem memes
The public have been curi ous
ly looking for something to result from
the meeting of the Pan-American Con-
gress, but theyare becoming pretty well
assured by this time that nothing of
importance or benefit is going to grow
out of it. It is of little avail for repre:
sentatives of different nations to meet
and discuss questions of commercial
intercourse when tariff barriers stand
Itis a
in the way of that intercourse.
farce to ask the South Americans to
trade with us when their articles of
trade must be subjected to a tax before
they can reach us.
rE TT ——— ————
Proclaiming Against Xing Alcohol.
The elections in relation to the liquor
traffic recently held in some of the
New England States have shown a dis-
position on the part of a majority of the
people to oppose extreme measures for
the suppression of that traffic. There
was a popular declaration against pro-
hibition in Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Rhode Island and New Hampshire,
and from the indication of such an ex-
pression at the ballot box there was
reason to believe that public senti-
ment in that section was settling down
to an adoption of such remedies as are
afforded by restrictive license laws.
But it seems that Governor GooDELL,of
New Hampshire, is not satisfied with
the ordinary check upon the liquor evil
that is furnished by such laws, but re-
sorts to the extraordinary measure of
issuing a proclamation in which he
warns “all persons engaged in this il-
legal and deadly traffic to desist the re-
from immediately,” and calls upon the
legal authorities and upon all good
citizens of either party “to unite in one
supreme effort to close up and suppress
every liquor saloon of every description
within our borders.”
If the Governor is sustained by the
law in the object of his proclamation,
he is not only justifiable in adopting
such an extreme measure, but his move-
ment also may be attended with effec-
tive results. But the election in New
Hampshire on the liquor question did
not seem to warrant such dictatorial
proceedings on the part of the Execu-
tive.
A Serious Charge Against the Tris
Leader: :
Americans naturally have a friendly
feeling for Mr. PARNELL, the Irish lead:
er, because they sympathize with the
Irish cause. When the London Times
mad» its infamous attack upon him
with the object of ruining his reputa-
tion by connecting him with the Phee-
nix Park murders, our people rejoiced
in the signal failure of that dastardly
design. But since then rumors have
been put in circulation charging Mr.
ParyELL with conduct in his relations
with a Mrs. O'Suea which, if not as
cerions as the charge of the Times, is
nevertheless calculated to injure his
good name and alienate the feelings of
those who have been his friends and
admirers,as well as impair his influence
as the leader of the Irish movement.
The husband of Mrs. O'SuEs has ap-
plied for a divorce on the ground of
criminal intimacy between his wife and
the Irish leader. When, however, it
is known that this same O'Sura turned
A New Visitor at the White House.
Everybody will be pleased to hear
that the inmates of the White House
spent a very pleasant Christmas. More
than the usual preparations were made
to make it an occasion worthy of the
character and importance of the home
of the chief officer of the uation, and
from all accounts it was the merriest
Christmas the executive mansion has
seen in many a year. Much of this
was due to the presence of Baby Me
Kee in whose interest and that of his
baby sister a large sized Christmas
tree was set up and stockings were
Burau to! Gecept Mr! Grapstoxy's | The Weather Fifty Three Years Ago.
WHEELING, W. Va, December 28.—
“Fifty-three years ago,” says a local
paper, “therz was a spell of December
weather just like this warm wave, and
it was followed by a blizzard remarka-
ble for its suddenness and violence. The
statement that the pay of the English
operatives bas become “greatly hizher
under free trade,” notwithstanding his
disingennous attempt to attribute it to
the wrong cause.
Quay Aiding The Democracy. usually warm, and yet in the afternoon
and evening of the same day many per-
sons und animal: were frozen to death
ail over the country. First, there was a
= ant Pw warm rain, with thunder and lightning,
aw York Sr, ghtning,
ro: Ney Yyora on ; and then a dark cloud, starting in the
John Tone: o prominent Pome | northwest, rose rapidly to the zenith.
crat foo » Sen gousty ) : Hrds in the | The thunder was terrific, and ras fol-
city Wa tis a vy, spending the holi- | lowed by a sudden cold wave.
guen Sis bi at an uptown hotel | “People were caught without any
as o . a CONNVOTS! co had | . 7 4 .
oe nig y ia iH Tan we had | warning. The warm weather had
‘ Titins aifers a rs | ; : +
about political matters in the Keystone | cansed them to lay aside their wrap-
A Warren County Man's View of the
Political Situation in the State.
abundantly filled. It is said that the
babies gave his Excellency a lively
time, trotting him around as if he
was not the head ot a nation of sixty
millions of people.
Santa Claus visits the home of our
Presidents. In this instance he did
not come to ask for an office, but rath-
er to confer than to solicit a favor.
Doubtless he was more welcome than
if he had been an office-seeker. The
President has the balance of the year
in which to be torinented by the latter
class of visitors, and as they have the
epublican appetite for the spoils he!
can expect of them no merey.
P——
A Doctrine That Is Respected.
The effect of the Montroe doctrine is |
plainly visible in the Braziliau sttuation.
If it were not for the interdict which
the United States, through that doc-
trine, has placed upon European inter-
ference in American affairs, the revo-
would not have
lutionisis of Brazil
such plain sailing in changing their
form of government.’ Butas it is,theydc.
liberately and unobscructedly go about
expelling their imperial ruler aud set-
ting up a republic, and there is no ob-
jection from any European source. I
the United States
enough to enforce the policy that ior
bids foreign interference in American
affairs, there could be no doubt that
were not strong
Brazilian waters would by this time be
thronged with the fleets of the Ku-
ropean monarchies sent to aid Dox Pu-
DRO in recovering his throne.
It was scen in Louts NAPOLEON'S
attempt to establish a monarchy in
Mexico when the power of the United
States was crippled by the rebellion,
what the monarchical governments of
Europe would do in meddling with
American affairs if our government
were not strong enough to make the
Monroe inhibition respected. It may
belquestionable whetner a republican
form of government is best for the DBra-
zilians. but it is a certainty that there
will be no European interference to
compel them to re-establish the empire.
rere everrasamresssen——
——The wealth of JonN RocsEriL-
LER, the great coal oil monopolist, is
set down at $120,000,000. His brother
WiLLiAM, the Fracrers, the PayNes
and others of the ganz of petroleum
plutocrats, are individually almost as
rich as he. These vast accumula-
tions of personal wealth represent the
extent to which the people have been
robbed of the benefits of natural re-
sources which should have been more
equally divided,
an
Gladstone and Blaine’s Economic Dis-
cussion.
A discussion on “Free Trade or Pro-
tection,” between Hon. WiLLiam E.
Grapstoxs, of England, and Hon.
James G. Braivg, of the United States,
appears in the last numberof the North
American Review, in which the Amer
ican shows his inferiority to the English
statesman. We wiil not say that this
is because Mr. BLAINE is intellectually
inferior to Mr. GrapszoNE, but rather
for the reason that he has the weaker
side of the question.
In illustration of the benefit which
a free trade policy has conferred upon
England Mr. GrapsroNE callsattention
to the fact that since she abandoned
the policy of protection the wages of
her working people “have become both
generally and absolutely higher, and
greatly higher under free trade.”
In reply to this Mr. BLaine does not
deny the fact, but attempts to quibble
by claiming that the increase of Kng-
lish wages is to be attributed to an
American cause. Higher wages in the
United States, he says, tempted Eng-
lish workmen to migrate to this coun-
try, which compelled English em-
ployers to raise the rate of wages as
traitor to the Irish cause and lent him-
gelf to the malicious purpose of the
Times by appeariag as a witness against
Mr. PagNELL, it may be believed that |
his divorce proceedings are another
way in which be is being used to in-
jure the man who as the chief repre-
sentative of Irish national aspirations
is especially feared and hated by the
English Tories.
en —
—The granting of 12,000 building
permits within her limits during the |
past year, furnishes a sufficient refuta-
tion of the charge made by envious
rivals that Philadelphia is a one-horse
city.
an inducement for their laborers to re-
main at home.
Mr. Bring entirely overlooks the
! circumstance that such a cause has
| not raised the wages in tariffed Ger-
many from which a much larger num-
ber of workmen are coming to the Uni-
' ¢>d States than from free trade England.
How does it come that the pay of the
German workman is not raised in or-
| der to keep him at home ?
Tt has all along been claimed by the
American tariffites that the English
| working people received pauper wages,
and it is quite a concession for Mr.
|
It is not often that ,
state he me [0 3g resting fuels | : ©
i fois Jing nS poses, and many had their
Al NR. tis ature han oes and bodies frozen before
Le fe Sy er | they could reach a shelter. ‘Within fif-
j aliy hiding the ats °r there, | teen minutes from the time the first cold
land if he isspared and retains his present | pigst made itself felt the water was
characteristics and methods for another frozen hard, and persons in wet gar-
year. I think he will make our fight. | ments found themaalves as Alosely ny
He is determined to force the candidacy | prisoned as the wearers of conts of mail.
of Delamater for governor upon the Re- | The loss of life and property following
| publicans, and if he does it will be what | the blizzard was enormous. A blizzard
the Folger campaign was in this state in | frequently follows this kind of weather
Sl. Delamater is a shrewd, erafty ' and the present December and that of
young politician, whom the Standard | 1836 have a startline resemblance to
il people would like tosee elected, but | euch other » g ?
{ he is highly distasteful to the people in
| the oil country of Western and North- | : a
western Pennsylvania, because of his | The Countiry’s Mortgage Burden.
underhanded opposition to the Billings- |
ley bill, a perfectly fair measure of re- |
lief which the independent oil producers
of the state tried to put through against
the Standard, but which was lost, He
will be opposed by Chris Magee and his
An amendment to the census law has
! been proposed in congress providing
| for the collection of statistics showing
the amount of mortgage indebtness on
' the farms and the homes of the country.
| big following from Allegheny county The amendment ought to pass, but the
and several other sestions of the state, | Indianapolis Senzinel thinks that it will
{ because they will not wear Quay’s col- | be defeated, for the reason, as it says,
lar. Congressman Dalzell, thouch a | that ‘the Republican party does not
loyal Republican, will not support Del- | want the country to know how rapidly
amater. Congressman Culbertzon, of | the mortgages have been multiplying
rie, lias thrown off the collar. James | upon American farms and homes under
McDevitt, of Lancaster, is with Macee the influence of a 47 per eent monopoly
always, and MceMane, and a big gang of | tariff.” The superintendent of the
Philadelphia Republicans refuse to re- | census opposes this investigation, for the
| cognize the Beaver county statesman as | allezed reason that it is an inquiry into
dictator. { the private business relations of the peo-
“Every one of them will be against ple. So are many of the census questions]
Delamater in the convention and in the | It is not the isolated fact that isdesiratle,
field, for Quay is pledged to nominate but the condition of the people in bulk,
{ him, and it would be a worse defeat to so that there may be a study of causes
{ not nominate him now than to have him and the cure. But to get this the in-
| beaten. The opposition will stand for quiry must include everybody. At any
t Adjutant General Hastings, a bie, gond- rate mortgages are a matter of record.
natured fellow, with con-iderable per- | :
sonal popularity, but not a very strong
man politically. The fight between |
those people is 50 bitter owing to Quay’s
high-handed dictatorship shown in a
hundred instances, that they will knife
toiled to Death.
Koxomo, Ind., December 29.—A
| peculiarly horrible death occurred here
t Pridav nic E ented or
the senator's candidate, no matter | I ae i
who he may be. I don’t know who character, has been running a bath house
the Democratic candidate will be, but | 5 pis city for several years and claiming
with a strong man we can do next vear | wonderful efficacy in his baths in the
what we did in '82 unless Quay bends, cure of all kinds ‘of maladies. Among
and he is not one of the bending kind. | pis patients was John Starke, an old well-
The next election in Pennsylvania is | do farmer, living near town and who
going to surprise people as much as ue afMicted with paralysis, He has been
Ohio and Towa did in the last.” for some months taking oncor two baths
en a week at Tykle’s rooms, and Friday
evening Tykle put him into a bath tub
—— at 8o’clock and left him to himself whi
CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—Seventy-five of a | he Sn hin a big
lot of 109 cattle, said to be lampy-jawed, | panions Tykla finally went to had and
that arrived at the stock yards on Fri- | £5100 his patient whom he had left in a
day were shot yesterday at Hesse's hot bath with the gas burning under
packing-house, and thirty-eight will be the bath. He found Clark yesterday
killed t0-MOrTow. The infected carcasses | morning dead in the water with the skin
will be distroyed by the city Health | a1] cooked off his body as well as por-
Officers. When the cattle arrived at | tions of flesh. He was literally belted
the yards they were driven the entire | to death, being powerless to help himself
length of one division and placed in | out of his awful situation. Tykle is in
covered pens. Many of them were jail waiting the results cf the coroner's
marked with the official “tag” of the | inquest. >
State Live Stock Commission, indicating |
them to be afllicted with lumpy jaw. !
The odor
Lumpy-jawed Cattle For Market.
coming from the pens was ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
{
|
sickening in the extreme. !
Officer Mitchell,of the Humane Society
|
|
Dear or JAMEs L. AsToN.—Some
weeks ago we briefly noted the death of
James L. Aston, £n old resident of Cen-
| tre county. A correspondent gives us
the following further particulars of the
deceased :
Mr. James L. Aston was of English parent-
age. His great-grandfather and grandfather
! came to America from England in the spring
rn { of 1755. After Genera! Braddock’s defeat they
The Relationship of Jeff Davis and Pres- went back to England to pay a visit to their
ident Harrison, | mother country. His great grandfather
| bought three entailed properties in America
for his sons. George located on the Admiral
Warren tract, where West Philadelphia now
stands; another tract was at Sewickley near
Pittsburg. Owen settled at Chambersburg,and
William married Miss Annie Washington who
lived aud is buried at Mount Vernon. His
grandfather Owen married Miss Annie Phipps,
of the Brandywine Mills, and remained on
that property until after Jay’s treaty, when all
entailed gd went back to England to satisfy
English claims. James Lord Aston’s father,
whose name was Owen, settled at an early day
in Huntingdon county and married Captain
Morrell’s daughter and brought up a large
family of boys and girls. James L. was born
in Halfmoon township, at Spencer’s Mill, now
called Way's Mill, in 1801. At the age of three
years his parents moved back to Huntingdon
county, aud settled on Shaver’s creek, where
he married Miss Hannah Diviney on the 5th
of February, 1824,and moved to Centre county
in the spring of 1843, where he remained until
the time of his death. He leaves to mourn his
departure five children,all of whom are daugh-
ters and all married, with families. He was 83
years, 3 months and 28 days old. Nancy is
married to Wm. Straub and lives in Bellefonte;
Maggie to Amos Tyson, they living in the
vicinity of Benore ; Mattie’s husband is Fred-
erick Jones, their residence being Kylertown,
Clearfield county ; Lizzie to B. F. Brown, and
Mary to James Searson,both of Boalsburg. The
deceased died at the residence of his son-in-
law, James Searson. He was kind and very
good to his family and was well liked by all
who knew him. Among his good traits he
was a great reader and loved to tell and talk
about his ancestors and the revolutionary war,
amounts to a panic exists among the | and was well informed on almost any subject.
farmers of Davidson and adjoining W. TI. 8
counties in Middle Tennessee. = A splen-
didly organized band of horse thieves
has been operating there for months
without let or hindrance. It is estimat-
ed that within the last two weeks 200
horses have been stolen and run into
Kentucky fastnesses, where it is next to
impossible to follow them or the thieves.
Not one of these animals has been re-
covered. It is supposed the thieves
have a regular underground route into
Cincinnati, where the stolen horses are
{ sold. General W: H. Jackson, of the]
| famous Belle Meade farm, Colonel John
! Overton, and the Cockerills, are prepar-
{ing a Farmers’ Association which, with
an abundanze of money to back it,
will employ adequate and competent
forces to annihilate the robbers.
was notified, and ordered the cattle shot
at once. This was not done, however, |
and at midnight the cattle were driven
to a slaughter-hiouse to be turned over
to the butcher. The proceeding is re-
garded by the live stock dealers asa very
peculiar one, and by some an outrageous
disregard of the quarantine regulations.
An investigation will be demanded.
Since the death of the former it is said
that these two men were blood relations.
During the election times this was denied
but the St. Paul Press admits the fact as,
follows : “A Minaeapolis gentleman who
is very well known, and whose informa-
tion is always found to be correct, makes
a statement which, if sutained by a
genealogical investigation, is an ex-
ceedingly interesting one. He claims
that Jeff Davis’ great-grandmother was
a sister of President Harrison’s great-
grandfather. The interesting genealogy
is said to'be this: The original Ben Har-
rison’s son, William H., President of the
United States, had a son Benjamin,
whose sonis now President. The same
original Ben Harrison who affixed his
signature to the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, had a sister who married a man
named Smith, and they had a son John
Smith, who was a prominent citizen and
politician of Virginia. It is claimed
that this latter Smith’s daughter was
Jeff Davis’ mother, thus making the
dead rebel’s great-grandmother a sister
of President Harrsion’s great-grand-
father.”
Yes, remarks a bitter exchange, and if
the latter had resided in the South he
would have been as great a rebel as
Davis himself.
Tennessee.
Cuicago, Dec. 80.—A dispatch from
Chattanooga, Tennessee, says: What
———The vesidence of James C.
Willams, father of the editor of the
Philipsburg Ledger, came near being
destroyed by fire at that place on Christ-
mas. Just as the family were about
to sit down todinner, smoke was seen es-
caping from the attic windows by pass-
ers by, and giving the alarm Mr. Wil-
liams hastened to the attic which he
d'scovered to be in flames. Both fire
companies were immediately upon the
spot and before much damage was done
the blaze was extinguished. The fire
originated from a defect in the flue.
rr ———— morning of December 20, 1836, was un-’
The Sirike at Punxsutawney.
Pinkerton’s Men Called in to Take a
Hand.
Prrrspura, December 30.— A special
from Punxsutawneyv says 106 of Pin-
kerton’s men we:e brought here to-night
by the Buifalo, Rozhester and Pittsburg
coal company, but for what purpose is
not definitely known as there has been
no threats of violence, but it is evident
that the company anticipates trouble.
It is now over two weeks sinee the
strike was inaugurated at Watson and
Adrian involving about 1,600 men and
boys, Shortly after the strike notices
were served on the miners occupying
the company’s houses, all to vacate
within ten days. The time will be up
to-morrow and the gene al supposition
is that th: Pinkerton men were brought
here to assist in the work of evicting in
case of trouble.
It is also stated that there are 600
Hungarians and talians on the way
here and that the company proposes
putting them to work and protecting
them. Up to this time there has been
no attempt on the part of the company
to effect a compromise. The committee
appointed by the minars to adjust their
differences has been completely ignored
and the proposition by the committee to
submit the matter to arbitration was re-
jected by thecompany’s officials. While
the miners at Watson and Adrian have
been idle and the fires in the coke ovens
have been extinct for two weeks, the
company’s mines at Elinor and Beach
Tree have been run to their utmost
capacity, thus enabling the corporation
to fill part of its orders for coal and coke.
ing under a guard of about thirty Pin-
kerton men. They would, however,
have been safe without the guard, as no
threats of any kind were indulged in.
The miners have learned by experience
that peaceful methods are more likely to
win and unless the Hungarian element
should prove ungovernable there is not
likely to be any trouble. A strony pres-
sure has been brought to bearon the
Elinor miners to get them to strike, and
to-day they came out to a man, held a
meeting and resolved to go to work again
in the morning. The actions of the
Hungarians to day caused considerable
comment. They bought up all the false
faces in town. One merchant disposed
of « hundred to them. It is believed by
some that these masks are to be used
for no good purpose, while others are of
the opinion that the Huns are going to
indulge in a grand New Year's mask
ball.
A Michigan Horror.
Hancock, Mich., Dec.20.-- A calami-
ty not surpassed in the annals of the
country occurred at 5 o’clock this mern-
ing at Hurontown A family named
Gross, consisting of the parents and
eight children, with a visitor, were con-
sumed in a burning building.
Theodore Gross returned from a dance
near by at 2 o'clock. At2.30ason Theo-
dore, Jr., returned from the Huron
Stamp Mills, where he is employed.
He went into the house and to bed.
Shortly after he was awakened by his
brother Nicholas, who heard screams
coming from an adjoining room occupied
by their three sisters and three little
brothers. They ran to the partition
door and found the room a mass of
flames. Smoke and fire were ascending
the stairway, and the brothers escaped
by jumping through a window. They
reached the ground, seriously cut by
glass and in g semi-nude condition.
One attempted to enter the house on
the ground floor, where the father,
mother and children slept, but was
driven back by the flames thatenveloped
the building. It was impossible for the
spectators, who quickly gathered, to
saved the inmates. They were com-
pelled to stand by and hear their agoniz-
ing cries. :
In the course of three hours a search-
ing party went over the ruins and dis-
covered the charred remains of eleven
bodies, distinguishable only by the
size of the bones. They were gathered
in a sleigh box and deposited in the pub-
lic hall.
Cut to Pieces on the Railroad.
LewistowN, Pa, December 27.—
Robert Shaw, of Huntingdon, met with
a sad accident at this place last evening.
Mr. Shaw, who was over 60 years of age
and very deaf, came to Mifilin county
with his wife on Tuesday evening to
spend a few days with relativesat Logan.
Yesterday afternoon he came to town on
the Milroy accommaodation, intending
to take fast line for his home. There is
a diffrence of one hour between the two
trains, and instead of going directly to
the junction, the old gentleman got off
at the borough station. Shortly after 5
o’clock he started for the Junction and
walking on the track, was within five
hundred yards of the station when the
shifting engine came spinning down up-
on him. The whistle was blown and
every effort made to warn him of his
peril, but in vain. THe was struck and
instantly killed. The body was cut in
twain and the legs severed. The re-
mains were gathered up and taken to
the dead house, where an-inquest was
held at 7 o’clock p. m., a verdict in ac-
cordance with the above facts being
rendered. After the inquest the bedy
was brought to town and placed in
charge of Undertaker W. H. Felix, and
by him prepared for shipment to Hunt-
ingdon. The deceased was for many
years sub-division foreman of the Penn-
sylvania railroad at Spruce Creek, re-
taining that position until impaired
health forced him to ratire.
A Horrible Accident.
From the Sunbury Daily.
Friday evening Elmer Mowery, a
resident of Sunbury and a freight brake-
man on the Susquehanna Division, met
with an awful accident at the Rockville
yard. Thetrain had broken and in re-
coupling it one of his feet became fast in
a frog. The car coming back pushed
his foot tighter, the brake rigging bore
him down, resulting in the tearing off
the leg from the body at the thigh. The
frog had to be taken apart to remove the
leg, which required one hour. The
young man was yet alive and was taken
to Harrisburg for treatment.
TERR.
— Within the last 29 years the courts
in Kansas have granted 7,191 divorces.
At Elinor the miners have been work-.
His Family Had Perished.
While Abroad He Had Not Heard of
the Johastown Flood.
Shortly before the flood which almost
wiped Johnstown out of existence Emile
Etomne left Cambria City for his native
town of Creonville, in Alsace-Lorruine,
to receive a fortune inherited from a re-
lative. Etoine had been working as a
puddler at the Cambria iron works. He
left a family consisting of a wife and
five children behind hin.
Everything did not progress as
smoothly as he expected when he reach-
ed his birthplace. But at last he receiv-
ed the money and came back with a
draft worth $20,000 in his pocket. When
he reached Johnstown he did not re-
cognize the place. .
Ktoine said : “When I got off at the
railroad statipn I turned back to one of
the depot men and inquired of him how
far 1 bad yet to go to Johnstown, as 1
had got off at the wrong station, and
how soon the next train left for that
town. The man looked at me for a
moment as though I was not quite right
in my mind, and asked me whether or
not I could read the sign on the station
house.
«J looked up and there it was plain
enough. While I looked at the sign in
a dazed sort of way another man stepped
up and said: ‘I guess you'r: a stranger
here or have been in Johnstown before
the flood ; it’s quite changed now. I
wouldn't have known it myself if I had
been away for six months.
“As the man spoke I felt as if some
one had punctured my heart with a
sharp knife and TI fainted dead away.
The part of Cambria City where stood
the house in which I left my family was
completely swept away. No one knew
what had become of my family, and the
people could hardly understand my sor-
row and grief, having suffered so much
themselves. I was told that nearly all
the people of Cambria City who inhabi-
ted that section where my house stood,
perished. I am not going to remain in
this country. Everything reminds me
of the terrible loss T have suffered.
A Triple Murder.
The I[iendish Crimes of a Michigan
Farmer on Friday.
Drrroir, Mich., December 29.—A
¢)idblooded triple murder was committ-
ed two miles north of Mount Vernon
Friday night by William Major, who
killed his wife, his daughter, and
his granddaughter. Major, who is
about 50 years old and a well-to-do
farmer, was in Romeo yssterday and
came home cheeriul. His daughter,
Mrs. Joseph Depew, of Brandon, and
her little daughter were visiting the
house, and after conversation with them
the family retired.
The people were but fairly asleep
when Major arose and began the work
of slaughter. He took a revolver and
shot his wife as she lay fast asleep, put-
ting two ballets into her body and mor-
tally wounding her. The noise of the
shooting awakened the others, but the
murderer did not hesitate. Springing
into the appartment occupied by his
daughter and her child, he coolly fired a
bullet at Mrs. Depew, and when failing
to kill her he procured an ax and
knocked out her brains.
Then he pulled his little granddaugh-
ter from beneath the bed clothing, and
with one blow of the ax split her head
open, killing her instantly. Major then
rushed into the room where his little
son slept and groped about the bed for
him. The little lad crawled under the
bed for safety. As he heard his father
searching the room he said: “Are you
going to kill me too papa?’ “No, my
son ’ replied the murderer, “do not be
afraid, I won’t hurt you. When I am
gone you get $150 which I will leave
you and divide it with your sister.”
Then he hastened from the house, and
up to the present nothing has been heard
of him. 1tis believed, however, that
he went to the neighboring forest and
killed himself, and that his body will
soon be found by the people who are
searching for him. The boy gave the
alarm as soon as he could, and the
neighbors found Mrs Major still alive.
She cannot survive, however. The oth-
er two were instantly killed,
Better Roads.
The Lancaster New Era has the fol-
lowing: “The Agricultural Society's
last meeting was an unusually large
and interesting one. The main subject
under discussion was the making of bet-
ter roads Mr. S. R. Downing, of
Chester county, read a very lengthy
paper, in which the building of macad-
am roads was strongly advocated. He
insisted it was the only road that would
give satisfaction the whole year through
and declared it could be built far more
cheaply than was commonly believed.
He regarded it as good policy for town-
ships to borrow the money required to
build them, because of the saving of
horse flesh, vehicles, harness, time, and
because larger loads can be drawn on
them. The persons of attendance were
largely road supervisors and men inter-
ested in having good roads. All admit-
ted that the roads as we haye them are
poor and much in need of improve-
ment; all admitted the difficulty of do-
ing this; all denounced the existing
methods, their cost and their ineflicien-
cy, and nearly all deprecated the cost
of making macadam roads. They
wanted good roads but were un-
willing to pay for them. Good things.
cost money, however, and unless tue
State can be persuaded to lend its aid
we fear good roads will not come for
some time yet.
Thoroughly Rotten.
Nothing has occurred in this country
for years that so clearly evinces the inner
rottenness of the Republican press as its
failure to rebuke the rascally scheme
developed in Montana to turn the Legis-
lature of that State over to the minority
by throwing out members who were
elected as Democrats. There is no hope
for a party that has not virtue enough to
resent such an attempt to defeat a fair
election. The game played for is the
election of two United States Senators;
but it involves a dishonor in the winning
that will be more costly in the end than
a hundred Republican defeats.— Record.