next message to Congress. It remains to be seen how he will do bis spelling. —Next week the Graogers will have their annual outing at Centre Hall. May fair weather and a good time be theirs. —If Mr. GIBBOXY lands in the district attorney’s office in Philadelphia it will be 493" for the premoters of vice in Quaker- dom. —Think of it! Of the eighty-five mil- lion people in the United States, only twenty-nine million are connected with any church. Surely there is room for im- provement here. —Mr. HoMER L. CASTLE has been call- ed a liar for saying that Mr. EMERY bas been involved in business scandals in the past. It is op to HOMER now to prove his statements or take water. —The red leather upholsteringjin the executive department in the new capitol building at Harrisburg was probably con- ceived as being in barmony with [Cousin SAM'S boots when they get a little shy of tallow. —It is a pity tbat EDWIN 8. STUART, the gang's candidate for Governor, did not fall in with that band of political bucca- neers early enough to have his face on the bronze doors of the Capitol. It would bave been a perpetuation of what be really repre- sents, —Both the Democratic and Republican senatorial conferees for this district have been sticking to their respective candidates with a persistency that makes it look as though the district will be without a can- didate for the Senate unless the state com. mittees select one. —*‘As Maine goes, so goes the Union'’ is an old political proverh. Well, at the elections on Monday Maine came so near going Democratic entirely that things look very hopeful for the fall. As it was the Democrate carried every city in the State and came very near capturing the Legisla- ture. —The Caban sitnation has become seri. ous enough to give our President an op- portunity of brandishing his big stik--reform spelling. Several cruisers bave been or- dered to Cuban waters and it is likely that Uncle SAM will take a band in the fray unless those tronble makers down there patch up a trace. ~The Republican Philadelphia Press has no patience with the gang's attempt to make political capital out of the failure of the Real Estate Trust Co. of that city. Because some of its directors happen to be prominent in reform movements does not prove that reform movements are ran like the affairs of that bank were. —It Judge Love made the nomination of Capt. BARCLAY for Congress possible, and the Captain is elected, it means that Love's influence will be thrown to aspirant HARTER for the postoffice. Under the circumstances this influence ooght to he very potential unless LOVE was paid in some other way for his conferees, —The busted Real Estate Trust Co., in Philadelphia, bas about straightened out its tangled affairs and if all goes well it will be reopened in a few days. So much for the good of the depositors of that insti- tution but what of HIPPLE, the suicide president. He is past getting himself straight and stande before the judgment bar a self convicted hypocrite. —State Treasurer BERRY bas announced that in all probability the new state capitol has cost $10,000,000, instead of the four million tbat the commission baving it in chasge declare was the price : Mr. BERRY usually knows what he is talking about and he saye the gang bas $6,000,000]cover- ed vp somewhere that he is goinglon the hunt for. More power to him. —If the trusts and other pampered in. terests have a right to secure federal legis- lation that is helpfal to them so bas or- ganized labor and the farmers. If the two latter peoples would treat Republican can. didates for Congress everywhere fas the Maine labor people treated LITTLEFIELD on Monday they would soon force the Re- publican party to realize that they are not dummies : To be handled on election day and discarded the day after. ~Tt is rumored that Capt. CHARLEY FRYBERGER has already given up the race for the Legislature. Everywhere he goes he finds that public sentiment is in favor of giving JoBN NoLL another term, because be made a good member in the last body and is entitled to a second term. The Captain would act the part of a wise man if be were to step down and out at once; saving himself the expense of a campaign and the humiliation of a defeat. . =—Congressman CHAS. E. LITTLEFIELD, of Maine, bas been the first of the Republi. can candidates to feel the effects of his treachery to organized labor. As a mem- ber of the Repnblican party he promised all manner of legislative help for labor and then as the representative of the Second Maine district in Congress, he fought every measure that the labor interests asked for. The result bas been that his election on Monday was by a majority of only one thousand, whereas, two years ago, he had twenty times that much. ~The President has begun work on his Mr. Young's Acceptance. Mr. Roserr K. Youxa, Republican pominee for Anditor General, has finally accepted. The action is a trifle tardy and there is no explanation of the delay, but our prediction of several weeks ago is ful- filled. That is after the strange episode of the notification meeting, from which Mr. YOUNG ran as if he were being pursued by a pestilence, we said be would accept. Un- der the hypootic inflaence of Mr. VAN- VALKENBURG, he was not allowed to fix his own time. The editor of the North American wanted to use him for awhile as an asset for tradiog operations with the machine and there was some upcertainty as to when the candidate wonld be releas- ed to the exercise of his own pleasure. Bat we koew be would accept sooner or later even if it should become necessary to rau away from: VAN as be bad ron away from the notification committee. Since the cap- itol building bas gone ont of existence he has been out of a job. We are free to admit, however, that we didn’t expect the acceptance of Mr. appeared. For example, he says that “‘If elected I shall be fortified for the painstak- ing and impartial discharge of my official duties by the conscionsness that my selec- tion was the expression of the untrammel- ed will of my fellow citizens.” That is an exhibition of cant which we didn’t ex- pect from him. Heiea good deal of a mental acrobat and political chamelion but hitherto be bas not assumed the role of a pharisee. But in that expression he proves himself a master in that line of ‘‘politi- cating.” He knows as well as he knows that he is alive, that his nomination was the result of a bard bargain between VAN- VALKENBURG and Senator PENROSE and that alter the result each complained that the otber had cheated in the transaction. Bat for that Mr. YOUNG'S name would nev- er have been mentioned for the office. The closing sentence of Mr. Youxa's letter of acceptance is equally surprising and perplexing. ‘‘With a platform com- posed of no platitudes, but pregnant with concrete, definite, frank and unequivocal promises of laws to be enacted vital to the well-being and progress of the State, ‘‘he writes, "and with the good faith and sincer- ity of those party promises bottomed upon positive laws enacted by the last Legisla- tare as proof of the party’s purpose, there can be no sufficient ground for any man calling himself a Republican to fail to give his party proud, hearty and loyal support at thie time.” Yet the conditions were precisely the same when he ran away from the potification meeting and subsequently declared with startliog vehemence that he wouldn't accept the nomination and infer. entially that he wouldn't support the tick- et unless Chairman ANDREWS was remov- ed from the campaign committee. The Philadelphia Bank Fallure. The hopelessness of the machine in this State is revealed in the attempt of some ol the more conscienceless organs to make the failure of the Real Estate Trust company of Philadelpbia a political asset. JoHN H. CONVERSE and BAYARD HENRY, two of the directors in the wrecked institution, took an active part in the reform caw paign last fall and have for years been associated with reform movements. Mr. HENRY was urged this year for the LINCOLN Re- publican romination for Lieutenant Gov- ernor and Mr. CONVERSE has indicated a purpose to continue his activities in the cause of political improvement. There were seven members of the board of directors of the ipstitution besides a president, treasurer, assistant treasurer, auditor, cashier and other employees. All the directors except Mr. CONVERSE aod Senator HENRY were stalwart Republicans and all the officials were of the same polit- ical faith. The only director who appears to have gotten any of the loot was one who acted as solicitor and charged $900,000 for hie services in that capacity and he is a machine Republican. Obviously there is no justifieation for making a political issue out of the matter under such circumstanc- es. At lest no capital can he made against the Fusion party. The State Banking Department is culpa- ble in ite failure to make proper examina. tion of the institution and exposing its rot- tenness and the state administration is censurable for allowing the Banking Com- missioner to neglect his duty so palpably. But the Fusion party and the Fusion can- didates are free from blame. The State bad some funds in the bank but under the the Legislature last winter, the revenne commission, a majority of whom are Re- publicans are responsible for that. As a matter of fact the only politicians who are censarable are Repuhlicans. ——Both the Republican and Democratic senatorial conferences were held in Philips* burg on Tuesday with the same result as before, that after taking a number of bal- lots both adjourned, the Republicans to meet again in the same place on Saturday and the Democrats on next Tuesday. YOUNG to take on the form in which it has | law ecacted during the special session of. i i 1 i Ned Stuart's Hyporisy. That NED STUART bas consented to a campaign of fraud and false pretense is re- vealed in bis opening speech delivered in Lehigh county the other day. Mr. StU. ART is an amiable gentleman, who in an atmosphere of vice and crime, continued personally above suspicion. It is true that he pever discouraged vice or even protest. ed against it. Io fact, during bis admin- istrafton of the office of mayor of Philadel- phia, the odious machine was created and the iniquities of public life in the city be- gun. He might bave stopped them if in- clived and in fact it was within the possi- bilities for him to have completely elimi- pated the ‘‘system’’ from the municipal government. Bot be preferred to be ob- livious of such things and let them rou on and be has continued in tbat course ever since. Nobody ever accuses NED STUART of false pretense, however, and we don’t be- lieve that anybody who knows him ever thought of such an aspersion upon him un- til bis speech of last Baturday was made public. A good many of his friends were amazed, last fall, at bis indifference as to the result of the struggle for civic right- eouspess in the city and State. But not even his bitterest enemy would have ac- cused him of hypocrisy until he pledged himself to the reforms enumerated in the Republican platform. He is for two ceut railread fares, he eaid, trolley freights and various other things which his party io the Legislature bas refused a dozen times and promises now only with the purpose of be- traying the pledge in the event of his elec- tion. He knows that the promise is false. Bat Mr. STUART only reached the cli- max of false pretense when he promised legislation to give greater security to de- posito:s in State banks and other finavcial institutions operating under the authority of the State. Mr. STUART knows, if he koows anything, that his party bas had ab- solute control of the legislation of the State for a dozen years and not only failed but actually refused to enact such legislation as he speaks of. There bad been plenty of reasons and frequent importunities. The failure of the Lancaster Trust company brought the matter to mind and various other bank failures bad suggested the ne- cessity of such legislation and the Demo- crats in the Legislature have urged it. But the majority refused and will continue to do so if the machine ticket wins. Republican Leaders are Uneasy. The Republicans own to considerable un- easiness over the result of the approaching congressional elections. They are anxious to maintain a majority in the next Congress and nearly every member of the cabinet has been ordered to take the stump to aid in that achievement. When ROOSEVELT was a Civil Service commissioner such po- litical activity was condemned as the es- sence of official iniquity. But now that he is President and anxious to have what be calls his policies sustained, he not only permits, but requires, it from those about him. During the campaign in Maine Sec- retaries TAFT and BONAPARTE were on thestump. They are to be reinforced by SHAW and Roor in other States. They admit a vast decrease in the major- ity in tbe House of Representatives. In the present Congress there are 252 Repub- licaus and 138 Democrats, so that the ma- jority 18 114. For the coming Congress they claim a majority of twenty-two but acknowledge that it will be necessary to carry every donbtful district in order to ges that preponderance. In other words, they practically concede the loss of ninety- two districts now represented by Republi. cans and the imminent dabger of losing twenty-five or thirty others. To avert that result every expedient will be invok- ed. Notonly will she civil service laws be violated but every form of corruption and bribery will be resorted to. There is no pretense that public interests will be conserved by the election of a Re. pablican Congress. During the recent ses- sion every vote against the rate bill was cast by a Republican and the force of the measure was impaired by amendments in the interest of the railroads offered and supported by Republicans. The meat in. spection bill had its only opposition on the Republican side of the chamber and all other reform legislation was supported by the unanimous vote of the Democratic membership. The only reason that can be given for the continuance of Republican control of the House, therefore, is that the interests of the trusts and monopolies may be conserved. ~—-—Ju this issue of the WATCHMAN will be found the official notice of the pur- chase of the Ardell Lumber company plant by Newlin H. Irvin, as announced in this paper two weeks ago. Mr. Irvin has had ample experience in the lumber business and, being an affable and obliging young man, will undoubtedly meet with eucoess, He will continue to run the business under the old name of the Ardell Lumber com. pany. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. Encouraging Campaign Reports. The second week of the campaign for the rescue of Pennsylvania from the graft- ers was most auspicious. EMERY, BLACK and CREASY speat last week in the north- ern tier and addressed monster meetings at Atbens, in Bradford county, and Smeth- port, McKean county. The greatest en- thusiasm was aroused by their eloquent and effective speeches. At Smethport they had been preceded by CasTLE, who un- dertock to prejudice the public mind against EMERY. Butso far from achiev- ing that result he only worked up the friends of the reform candidate to greater efforts in his bebalf with the result that every step in the progress of the Fusion candidates was met with something like an ovation. It is small wonder, however, that the people of the State are aroused to an extra- ordinary degree by existing political condi- tione. The exposures of the past year have shown that for many years the QUAY machine has been looting the people most mercilessly. The legislation of a dozen years bas been shaped to protect crime and encourage veopality. The machine managers bave boasted that no law has heeu violated by their predatory operations. But the faots are that every beneficence of the State has heen tainted with graft and tbat the educational and charity appropri- ations have been made to pay tribute to the conspirators. An appalling condition has been revealed, in fact. In the face of such a state of affairs the reform candidates are welcomed because they hold out their promise of relief. There is little hope of restitution for the reason that the robberies have been perpetrated under the sanction of statutes and the courts were so corrupted that they offered no hope of relief. There is a certainty of a correction of the evils in the election of the Fasion ticket, however, and with that understanding the candidates are welcom- ed wherever they appear with the greatest enthusiasm. The speeches of EMERY, BLACK and CREASY are both eloquent and forceful, moreover, and carry conviction to t» minds of their hearers. Onr Absurd President. The euemies of President ROOSEVELT |. could hardly desire a greater opposition to his absurd order on the subject of orthog- raphy than is expressed in the ridicule ‘it has evoked and the popular contempt it bas inspired. But according to late reports from Washington it is destined to encoun- ter even a more humiliating opposition. In other words, it is alleged that some twenty-five years ago Congress adopted a cpneurrent resolution making ‘‘WEBSTER'S unabridged dictionary the standard for government spelling,’’ and that resolution was affirmed by the Supreme court and is still unrepealed. If that be true, and we have no reacon to doubt it, the President’s ridiculous order is not only a violation of all the history and traditions of the Eoglish language, but is a subversion of the laws of the coun- try and consequently null and void. Of course, ROOSEVELT won't mind the sub- version of the law. He knows no law oth- er than his own caprice and pays no atten- tion to his obligations to the constitution. But the courts can be invoked to compel obedience to the resolution of Congress and the universal guffaw of an intelligent and gratified public will do the rest. RoOOSE- VELT will he the bust of every man’s jibes. Probably the office President ROOSEVELT holds should protect him from popular rid- icule and shield him from the contempt of the people. But there are some things so absurd anc some offences so enormous that they cannot be disregarded though associ- ated with the high office of President. The order outraging our language and usurping authority which the wildest fanatic would not have dreamed of claiming, was of this character and we rejoice rather than regret that it has resulted in such a fiasco. Prob- ably the rebuke plainly conveyed in the popular ridicule will bring the President to his sevses. —————————————————— ——Capt. BARCLAY, the Republican nominee for Congress, who, il elected, will probably name the next postmaster of Bellefonte, was here on Saturday to attend the veteran's picnic. He saw many of his lieutenants in this section, of course, but the thing he saw most of was the editor of the Gazette. This worthy, who came to Centre county just in time to keep the Re. publican party from becoming dominant and who has done all (?) the work of the party ever since, would like to he post- master. He doesn’t need the job, to be sure, but he wants it ; just as he has want- ed everything else that has been gettable since he joined the Republicans. Just why" oar friend isn’t satisfied, we don’t know, and won't attempt to explain, but he isn’t, and the way be hung onto Capt. BARCLAY was equivalent to serving notice on the other aspirante thas they will have to move to Sinnamahoning if they expeot a chance to tell what they have done for the party. + Mr 's the charge made —-—The Democratic senatorial conference in this district is certainly iu deep water just now. It met at the Passmore house, Philipsburg, last Tuesday and after bal- loting until the middle of Wednesday af- ternoon without making a nomination the Clearfield county conferees moved a final adjournment. The Centre county con- ferees voted against such action and then the Clearfield delegation withdrew from the conference. After some discussion the Centre county conferees adjourned to meet at the same place next Tuesday afternoon. Vindieating Mr. Emery. From the Pittsburg Post. nes Homer k Castle asd Sills Ss wallow some time ago e nst Lewis Emery, Jr., the Post declar- that they were the came that had been put forth years ago by the Standard Oil company, that they were all false and that in due time they would be properly refat- ed. The work of doing this was on Thureday when Jeremiah 8S. , the Fusion candidate for Lieutenant Governor, exposed to the farmers of McKean county, who are the neighbors and friends of Mr. Emery, the ty of one of the charges made by Mr. Castle. The latter laid much stress upon an alleged affidavit of P. E. Buckley, of Philadelphia. Mr. Black showed that Buckley, by his own confes. i pt, bt of ze, w ery oil company and sold it at night, and after being sent to jail pleaded wi . Emery for mercy on account of his family and that Mr. Emery let him off. Mr. Black further read a sworn confes- sion of this same man Buckley, which showed that at the instance of the agents of the Standard Oil com he bad bribed an employee of the Lew ely oil com- pany to give infomnation as to the business of the latter concern, the avowed object be- ing to drive it out of business by appEvash- ing its customers and inducing to trade with it. The infamous methods a ard uniformly employ and which were recently testified to in the courts. Wherever its agents could they bribed men in the guiples.of their compet- itors to get a list of the lattet’s customers and other important facts concerning their business. Mr. Emery and those associated principal of these attacks and the affidavit of i is only a specimen of much similar evi- dence that can be need. 43 of the: falsity .of Mr. Castle, which was based upon the alleged affidavit of Buck- ley, is but the beginning of the complete vindication of Mr. Emery. The absolute falsity of eve made by Castle and Swallow will be similarly shown, and these two men will be exhibited in their true light as the purveyors of libels originating with the Standard Oil company, every one of which was long ago disproved, and for the publication of many of which the ed- itor of the Standard Oil organ in this State was compelled to pay large damages to Mr. Emery several years ago. r. Black on commenting on the Buck- ley affidavit and Castle’s remarks thereon, very inently said : ‘‘This is the kind of political buncombe the gentleman who Spoke yesterday is telling the honest ble of the State. If Mr. Castle and Rev. Dr. Swallow will remember theninth com- mandment, ‘Thon shalt not bear false wit- ness against thy neighbor,’ they will bave all the righteousness they can take care of.” The “Inexpensive” Capltol. From the Philadelphia Record. A few weeks ago the Capitol Commis- sioners astonished the world by announcing that when all the outstanding bills were pad they would bave about $50,000 left rom the appioptiation of $4,000,000 and that the building was completed. They were deliberately imposing apon the public. The Capitol has cost nearer ten millions than four. The appropriation bas been enormously overrun, and it has been accomplished by a process of subter- fuge and deception and even of violation of specific law. The method is now dis- closed. The law of 1885 authorized the Superin- tendent of Public Grounds and Buildings to buy furnitare Sor the two heeled of the Legislature, every general appro- riation bill since then has contained a jauk & Rupe on dl whatever sum was expen or furniture. By an arrange- ment between the Capitol Commission- ers and the Commissioners of Pab- lic Grounds and Boildings the for- mer have been enabled to keep within their appro because the latter, who had an unlimited on, expanded the word “‘furniture’’ to cover not only the bronze chandeliers and the cut glass es, which are innumerable and the least of which cost $300, but the mahogany win. dow the carved mahogany mantles and the parquetry floors. These are not furniture ; they are a part of the building, and payicg for them as farnitare is not only a of jugglery, bus it is a violation of the following provi- 80 attached to the tions of 1903 and 1905 for the of furniture : ‘‘Provided that expenditures made under this section shall not be so construed as to authorize the Commissioners of Public Grounds and Buildings Yo complete the present Capitol y And that is precisely what the Commis. sioners have done to the extent of several million dollars—to the extent of more money than the building itself cost. Where is the Trade? From the Buffalo Inquirer. Oar Im list statesmen will bave to explain what is the matter with the Philip. piles. Our exports to the islands have len off about $750,000 compared with the years, while the exports of the Phi to the United States bave also declined. Evidently trade does not fol- — Subscribe for the WATCHMAN, low the flag, as our Republiorn statesmen said it would. ; . Spawls from the Keystone. —The aunouncement comes from Lancas- ter that the farmers of that county will real. ize $3,000,000 from their tobacco crops this year, an excess of £1,000,000 over last year, —The wires of the new Sugar Valley Tele- phone company have been connected with Logantou and the people of the entire val- ley can now have communication with that busy place. —The greater part of the $100,000 needed for the new Pine Street Methodist church in Williamsport has been raised. The sub- scriptions now total $83,000, practically $50, 000 of which has been paid. —Although she has just inkerited $50,000 from an uncle who died in London, Mrs. Rabelie Poole, of Phoenixville, has decided to continue waiting on customers behind the counter in her husband’s store. —John M. Wolf, of Hanover, York county, yesterday entered upon the fifty-ninth year of his service as a teacher in the public schools of Adams and York counties. He be- gan at the age of 15 and is now 74. —Saturday evening secret service men in Philadelphia captured James M. McAndrews, alias Frank Hildebrand, reputed the clever: est small coin counterfeiter in the east. A complete counterfeiting outfit was also con- fiscated. —The New York and Peunsylvania Paper company have contracted for the erection of 12 new dwelling houses at Johnsonburg. Hyde, Murphy & Co. of Ridgway, have se- cured the contract and they are to be com- pleted by December 1. ~The eighth set of twins has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Allen C. Deppe, living near Berwick. The babies are boys. Twenty-four children have come to the Deppe home, and eleven boys and eight girls are living. Five children died in infancy. ~Mrs. Margaret Butler, of Coal Castle, Schuylkill county, the oldest resident of that county, died last week, at the advanced age of 104 years. She maintained all her faculties until the end and the statement is made that her sight was so good that she never had occasion to wear glasses, —Jno.Fields of Juniata county, recently cut down a white oak tree on "his farm that measured four feet nine and one-half inches across the stump. It had 236 rings or growths, which would make the tree that number of years old. It was solid clear through except a small place in the centre. ~-Sunbury Daughters of the American Revolution have appropiated enough money to erect a boulder monument to mark the site of Fort Augusta, a colonial stronghold. It will be on a small corner of the property owned by the borough. The boulder will be, roughly, a four-foot cube, bearing a bronze tablet on the side facing the river drive. —Mrs. J. R. Calihan, of Johnstown, be- fore her marriage Edith Wambaugh of South Fork, and formerly a nurse in the West Penn hospital, Pittsburg, has just received legal information to the effect that Clyde Gordon, late of Cincinnati, has bequeathed $8,000 to her for her kind services when he was a patient for three months in the hospi t al. ~—Edward Clark, of Flemington, Clinton county, met with a painful accident last Thuisday forenoon by falling from the roof of a building. The young man was giving the roof of the building a coat of tar paint, when he missed his footing and fell to the ground, a’ distance of about eighteen or twenty feet. A bucketful of the paint follow- ed him and completely covered him. One ankle was broken. —To mark the place where three of Per- ry’'s ships were constructed the Erie county Historical Society will erect a big native boulder on the beach opposite the mouth of Big Cascade creek. The society wants a stone four feet high and desires to obtain it in Erie county. The stone will bave a bronze marker giving the purpose of the monument and the names of the ships—the Lawrence, the Niagara and the Ariel. —Herman G. Stalab and John Anderson, the two private detectives who figured in the Hartje divorce case and testified for Agustus Hartje they broke open the trunk of Thomas Madine, the coachman and one of the core. spoudents in the case and in that way pro cured some of the letters alleged to have been written by Mrs. Haratje, were indict. ed by the grand jury on the chage of en: te-ing a building with intent to commit a felony. —James White, of Lick Run, died in the Lock Haven hospital, last Saturday morn- ing at 4 o'clock, of gastric and enterisis. The remains were prepared for burial by Under- taker J. N. Sloan, at his rooms. The deceas- ed was an unusually tall man, the body in death measuring six feet, six and one-half inches. Mr. Sloan says that in all his experience of fifty years in the undertaking business that this is the longest body he has ever prepared for burial. Deceased was about 50 years of age. —On Thursday evening of last week Frank Owens, son of the late William Ow- ens, of near Clearfield, had occasion to ride to the home of Amos Owens, a neighbor. Hitching his horse some distance from the house, he returned, after transacting the business with Amos, and next that was known of him he was found in an uncon- sious condition near where the horse had been hitched. He never lived to tell how the accident happened. The horse reached home showing no signs of excitement. Wil: liam Owens, father of deceased, was killed several years ago. Mr. Owens lingered in an unconscious condition until Friday evening when he died. —An interesting bit of history is recalled by the burning of a barn on the old Smith farm, at Academia, Juniata county. The barn was the property of Rev. 8. W. Pomeroy, who gained fame during the Civil war by carrying a message from Chambers: burg to Governor Curtin at Harrisburg. The message was from Judge Kimmel, of Cham- bersburg, and told of the plan of the rebels to march on to Gettysburg,and was the means of bringing the union srmy to that place in time to win the battle. It was sewed be- tween the lining and cloth of Pomeroy’s trousers and in this way escaped the vigi- lance of the rebel guards them occupying Chambersburg. Rev. Pomeroy is well known by many people in Centre and adjoing coun* ties.
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