The Cambria freeman. (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, November 10, 1870, Image 2

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    CM mbrhi FrecmaiL
Tnci:srAT Morning, : Nov. 10, 1870.
Contesting Seats In Congress.
The practice, since the close of the war.
of defeated Radical candidates for Con
grcfts contesilng the scats of their puccees-
ful Democratic opponents, has become an
intolerable nuisance. Falsely and impu
der.tly assuming that the liadical party,
Bolitary and alone, fought the rebellion
and conquered it, it became almost on
article of Radical faith, that the people
had no right to elect a Democrat to Con
gress, and that if they dared to do fcu,
their action should be treated with con
tempt. Acting n 'hi doctrine, and pre
suming on their numerical ."trench in the
House, the Kadical majority four years
ago unseated D. W. Voorhee, from In
diana, Gen. Morgan, from Ohio, and
James Urooks, from the city of Now
York. No fair man doubted the legality
of their election ; jet it was decided in a
Kadioal caucus tint they must be uHicial
ly decapitated, and the outrage was con
eummated. These three gentlemen were
triumphantly returned by their indignant
constituents to the next Congres-s, and
were all re.clectcd by overwhelming ma
jj.ilics at the recent elections. One
would puppope that this lesson would have
produced a salutary effect upon the friends
of the lladiial candidates for Congresn
who were defeated at the late election in
this State. But as soon as tho election
was over and it was ascertained that Arm
strong v the Lycoming (Visit ict had been
defeated by Sherwood by 27, Morrell in
the Ctmbiiii district by Speer by 11, end
Cessna in the liedtoid district by Meyers,
by 15, it was proclaimed by the liadical
pre??, not of the districts themselves, but
outside of than, that the defeated candi
dates would contest the election. And
why 1 Simply because they were beaten
bv small majorities. la that & true test of
Grant and Cox
Grant's administration signalized its
commencement by a startling and inexcu
sable blunder, and as a general rule it has
been blundering ever since. Of all the
fatal mistakes, however, which Grant has
committed, his virtual dismissal of Gen.
Cox from the Department of the Interior
has created the greatest revulsion in pub
lic sentiment against him. Nearly all
the leading and influential liepublican
papers throughout tho county have ex
pressed their indignation of it in unmeas
ured terms. . The head and front of Sec
retary Cox's offence was, that he would
not allow certain Radical politicians from
Pennsylvania and Ohio to go into his De
part ment and demand from the clerks
therein employed a certain per cent, on
their ealariep, to be added to tho liadical
electioneering fund at the October election
in tho States named. His conduct iu this
respect excited the ire of those two vir
tuous and irreproachable patriots, Simon
Cameron and Zachaiiah Chandler, and
they set themselves at work to drive him
from the Cabinet. Grant listened to the
1h if the?c two corrupt and unscru
tt
pulous senators and yielded. General
Cox, although not form-illy dismissed,
M.r.t r.rant was readv to strike the
Ik v
blow, and tendered his resignation.
As a sample of the light in which
flriint'R conduct in this matter Is received
bv the Republican press, we publish be
two nr tides, the first from the New
York Evening Post and the second from
the Chicago Republican, both of which are
well known and able Radical papers and
have heretofore been warm supporters of
Grant and his administration :
From the X. T. Evening Post.
The letters of Secretary C x. which wo
present elsewhere iu fu'.l will be read u-iih
painful hderest by all true friends of Gentr
al Grant. They contain in fact, the an
noxinccment f the President's unconditional
surrender to the "men inside of polities."
The new IVesident promised nothing so
often as that he wou'.d not appointor remove
for merely political reasons. Merit wan to
be tho tent: if a man was faithful he iniylit
even be a Democrat, and keep his place ; if
he was m.Gt, lie might be ever so zealous a
Renublican. and vet he 'should not set a
t
tha hi.tiPKtv of an election, and may not place
J I - il - ... .4 .7' t ..7.0,7. .j. r?,is--n1
Grant gave, in regard to the conduct f his
administration; it teas almost the.only pledge
It meant a reform of the civil service ; it was
it candidate bo as fairly elected by ma
jority of fee votes 8 by a majority of
fee hnndrtd! Moet unquestionably so,
in the absence of plain, open and palpable
fraud. Where that can le clearly proven
there ought to be a contest. Has it been
alleged by the Republican papera in Ilair
and Huntingdon that illegal votes were
polled for Mr. Speer in either of those
counties? No such allegation haa ever
been made, but on the contrary many and
very ditFerent reasons have been given by
Mr. Morrell's friends in these two coun
ties for his failure in receiving the liepub
lican vote. We do not know what course
Mr. Morrell will take, but as he is known
to be a gentleman, it is fair to presume
accepted by the couutry as a promise that
the abuses in the civil department of the
government, which had grown to bo a mon
strous and fertile source of conuption, and a
serious cause of weakness to the Executive,
fchcnld be reformed.
Unfortunately, the President joined in one
condemnation all men who had been engaged
in politics ; he rejected the advice of the
statesmen as in neb as of the merest political
hacks of the party which elected him ; and,
so far as he could, selected for office his own
intimates. So far as these were good men.
he did wisely ; but the meie fact of friend
ship or relational p to the 1'resident was
perhaps as poor a test of fitness for public
place as any. Having isolaV d himself how
tcer. in the beginning from the statesmen of
the Republican party, men tcho needed to be
so'iaht und had no favors to aaw, he was the
that he will pay a decent respect to the j more ready to fall into the hands of the hark
i Tuiftfiriins nmnnn whom if irtis lietarc limn
.. , j
Ttie Sprln? Elections.
Although the Legislature is not in ses-
sioD, we deem the present an opportune
time to refer briefly to the subject indica
ted at the head of this article. When the
Registry law was enacted, during the ses
sion of 18C9, a section was incorporated
in it abolishing the Spring elections and
directing borough and township officers to
be elected at the general election in Octo
ber. What moved the Legislature to
make this sudden vhange was a mystery
then and still remains so. Certain it is
that not a tingle petition from any part
of the State, asking for such haBty legis
lation, was ever presented to that- body.
If it was a mere experiment, it has most
signally failed to meet the expectations of
its advocates. After its first trial, at the
October election in 18G9, a universal de
mand for its prompt repeal went up from
one end of the State to the other. No pe
titions, or at least very few, were pre
sented to the Legislature asking that the
old order of things might be restored, for
the plain reason that the people, knowing
that their representatives, having once ex
perienced the workings of the law, would
themselves feel the necessity of wiping it
from the statute book. It is true that a
feeble effort to do so was made in the
House and failed. The law was acted
on the second time at the recent election
and failed to convince the people of the
State that it is wise and judicious, and
ought therefore to stand. The two elec
tions are for widely different purposes and
otiht to be hell at different times. To
hold them both on the same day is like
attempting to mix water and oil together.
In every aspect of the case, the arrange
ment is inconvenient and troublesome,
and must in the future, as in the past, fail
in meeting with public approbation. We
trust that this grievance will be thorough
ly ventilated by the public press through
out the State, that the attention of the
people will be specially directed to it, and
and that at the approaching session a per
fect avalanche of petitions from all parts
of the State will be precipitated upon the
Legislature, asking for the immediate re
peal of the obnoxious section. Let this
be done and then let the servants of the
people refuse to comply with their demands
'f thy dare.
The Double Child.
Details of tlc Wonderful Freak of Xa
turc in Ohio.
Delaware iO.) Cor. Cincinnati Commercial.
Our community is much excited over
freak of nature in the production of a double
baby. The Siamese Twins are completely
overshadowed by this infant wonder. There
is living in Peru township. Morrow county,
a family named Finley. Up to last Wednes
day morning it consisted of Mr. Joseph Fin
ley, his wife Mary and two children, little
girls aged three and five years. On that
morning Mrs. Finley was confined and gave
birth to twins joined together in a manner
unknown to the books. When the gossips
brought the news of the event to our city,
and gave descriptions of the child, or rather
children, it was laughed at by the profes
sional, and pronounced a good hoax. ' A
gentleman living in the vicinity of the Finley
home called on one of our physicians and
assured him that there wm no exaggeration
in the description. a3 he had seen the won
der. Convinced that there was something
fn the case, a party of gentlemen, consisting
of Drs. J. A. Little and T. B. Williams. W.
O. Seamens. Professor of Natural uistory
Political and TVcivs Items.
Tce Yaruua steamship, between New j
York and Galveston, foundered at sea on tho
There is a servant girt in x,vansviue. o0ln o! uctooer vu w..
o . - .. i - i a w.l.r.f iitiiicn&! vii-ilir.rA
Ind., who works r,r the pure .ove o. COast oi
old. ana owns reai even jor tnoe stormy ; ,
porta a census ! uer beam ends, and the earn rapiuiy. ah
k r,actmTprs were urowacu iu tu-u oin-
She is sixteen years
estate worth $50,000.
So rei
i 1
-A Udy in Jasper county. Indiana, aged I roorD8, while the life-boat that contained the
c .5- ,t;w fmm her bus- .ntain nr.il crew was carried under ly the
band, aged i-eventy-eight, because he
"spends half his time running about with
the girls." .
At the dedication of the Methodist
church in Girard, Erie county, the other day.
$15,190 were fcubtcribe-d to pay off the debt
of the church. Dan Rice put his name
down for SI. 000.
Hon. Jefferson Davis. President of the
late Southern Confederacy, spent several
week before last, with bis mece. the
An vs
widow of the late Senator Brodhead, at
South Bethlehem.
A boy has been locked up in the Troy
jail for Mealing an umbrella valued at 80
cents. Tiiis item is important, inasmuch as
it establishes the fact that it is a crime to
steal an umbrella.
A wealthy old miser recently starved
himself to death at Chicago. He had lived
and Chemistry in the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- for years on rotten fruit, decayed vegetables
ver.sitv- and ri. K. o inivm, on me lom
sinkirg vefsel. five only escaping in auUher
boat to tell the tale.
The chair in which Napoleon sat while
arranging (or rather asKcntiug to) tho terms
of his capitulation with King William at
Sedan is likely to become a historical relic.
He had no sooner risen from it than a Berlin
police Cicer. on duty at the Prussian head
quarters, laid hands upon it, at the same
time giving the hervact who had charge of
the room a twenty franc piece. It may yet
sell' for its weight in gold, as it is probably
the most interesting Sedan chair in existence.
A singular case of insanity baa ecurred
at Lawrence, Mass. Mr. C. T. Chaimber
lain. a highly respectable man. experienced
an uresis table desire to kill his children,
and every morning he was accustomed to
count them to make sure he had not dis
patched one or more of them touring the
nieht. But Mr. Chamberlain was tane
SAVE Mojj?
HEAP VAn
til LI Ynn ii...
LADIES' D8ES3 (tftJi
Roady-Mado GLfffr
Hats, Caps, Beets,
CLOTHS.CASSlMfc!
S.1TIXETTS.
Ami n. Frcli r
k"Plotnl
3
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inst., visited tho tamity. ii"re reacning
the Finley farm th6 party called on Dr. A.
E. Westbrook, of Ashley, who had been
called to attend the mother, and learned
from him that the half had not been told.
Dr. Westbrook accompanied the party. An
hour's drive brought them to the place.
going to the gate leading to the
written notice was discovered announcing
that visitors would not be admitted. This
did not deter the party. They immediately
entered the yard, and on reaching tho front
dor of the dwelling, they were met by Mr.
Finley (the father) and a gentleman who
appeared to be acting as his aid-de-camp.
who informed the party that they could ba j Mnrcer. Pa . was fatallv noieoned last week, j
admitted to see the show on the payment of i swallowing pills. The box, containing 1
rmtrid meat and Ftale bread. His death tnouah to know that he ought to be resiain-
finally resulted from strangulation and gan- j ed of his liberty, and accordingly, at his own j
grene f the intestines. request, ne nas ueen connucua to ice or-
X. news has been received from the cester Asylum.
Sarah an Camp, of Metamora. Ind.,
has brought suit against M. H. Aldrich. of
Cincinnati, for 5,000 for the lots of htr
husband. She ai!eg-s that she purchased
of Aldrich forty gallons of oil. represented
by him to be non cxjdoMve, but after emp
tying a portion of it, and while coming out
f the cellar with her husband carrying a
overdue steamship Idaho, although her
agents do not believe that she is lost. It
now appears that she had en board fifty
ce. On j cabin passengers and 210 ex Papal Zouaves j
yard, a ; 0D their way home to Canada. ;
The apple crop throughout the country
is iepresented to be enormous, and in New
England and New ork it is especially ko
The ei-timated vield in Genesee county, in lighted candle, an explosion occurnd. killing
the latter State. is 130.000 barrels. Prices j her husband. She saj this was caused by
range there, from 1.30 to $1 oO per banel. the explosive gas of the oil coLuiiig iu con-
-Three little children of John Bower, of, tact with the lighted candle.
voice cf the people. Mr. Speer does not
in the least fear the result of a contest,
fehould that usual liadical dodge be re
sorted to.
It is asserted, as if by authority, that
John Cessna will contest the seat of li
F. Meyers. Any man who knowa Cess
na, hi9 love of office, his political trick
cry, his inordinate vanity, and more es
pccially his dc mngogueif rn, will not beat
ttll surprised at this announcement. It i
in perfect harmony with his political ca
reer. Ilia refusal to do eo would have
excited our special wonder. He declared
ven m advance of his nomination, that if
he should be defeated he would contest
the election. We make this statement
f.om a conversation we had a Fhort time
after the election, with a well known gen
tleman, formerly a citizen of Uedford, who
stated to us, that either in May or June
l ist, Cessna told him that if he teas de
feated, he u a.i determined to contrst the seat
of h.'s ojponcnt. The high character for
integrity of the gentleman who made this
6tateraent to ua is not to be questioned.
It shows what manner of man John Cess
na i9 How utteily base and devoid of
all sense of honor must the man bo who,
after having received six or seven hundred
negro votes, and was defeated, will yet
get down on his knoes and basely attempt
to crawl into a eat which the freemen of
his difctrict declared by their votes he
should not occupy. Yet of such con
temptible stuff is Cessna made. That he
will signally fail in bis impudent attempt
to nullify and set aside the verdict of the
honest voters of his district, who, well
knowing him, spurned him with contempt,
does not admit of a reasonable doubt.
Ai.THOceiH election were held in efgh
tem Status on last Tuesday, the I'ittsburg
papers of this (Wednesday) morning do
not furnish any satisfactory details of the
result in a single State. All that we
know is that Hoffman, the Democratic
candidate for Governor in New York,
carried the city of New York by about
forty thousand niajoiity and is elected, as
well as the balance of the State ticket.
Horace fircely was defeated for Congress
in the eixth city district by S. S. Cox, the
present "Democratic meinW. In our next
insue we will give the result in the differ
ent State in which elections were held.
whispered, wWi no litde amusement, that
General Grant nould, after all, make a
first rate oliliciaii.'y
If he meant to "go into politics," aa ihe
phrase is, he had at his hand a very shrewd
master of the ignoble art in Mr. BoutweH,
who, unless he is greatly belied, knows more
about "making up a slate." and about the
mysteries of dispensing office with a view to
party effect, than any other man in the Re
publican party.
Whoever was the President's tutor, he
has been, it seems, a wiliinjj. though not, iu
our jiidguneut, an apt scholar. He has
learned the rules, and he has hastened to
apply them. A" even Buchanaii's interfe
rence in Kansas teas more gross and ttn-
blushing than President GraiWs attempt to
coerce the Missouri Ilejniblicans to do his
will and not their men. Xo President except
Andrew Johnson has ever so openly tried, by
wholesale removals from 'Jice and by the
appointment of his favorites, to iinpcse his
-jhtliry iip-jn the jKirfy.
The letters of Gen. Cox, now published,
show that in the practice of the fnialler de
vices of politicians tho President has'heen no
lesa ready. The Secretary of the Interior,
who came iato the Cabinet as the es-pecial
friend and representative of civil servico re
form, is foiced to leave the Cabinet because
the President insists, contrary to General
Cox's desires, upon letting political commit
tees levy tributa upon the poor clerks in the
Interior Department.
This is the end of all the promises so re
peatedly and openly made by Gen. Grant
before and immediately after his inaugura
tion. So far from reforming the civil ser
vice, he is the first President who gives leave,
openly to political committe-es to go into the
departments and levy blackmail upon the
clerks, lie is the first President who has
uoblusbingly sacrificed a member of his
Cabinet to the demands of secret and irre
sponsible party committees. The system of
political blackmail to which he has given
official recognition was hitherto, even under
Andrew Johnson, carried on secretly. Can
aey one longer doubt the immediate and ur
gent need of a reform of the civil service?
From the Chicago Republican.
"It shows ns a President who virtually
acknowledges hiniFelf to bo in the hands of
the worst aud most unscrupulous meu in the
Republican party, and who readly sacrifices
a faithful friend and an able minister rather
than make an issue with them. General
Grant U all the moro inexcusable iu this
matter because of ihe great flourish with
which, on his accession to the Presidency,
he announced his thorough independence cf
politicians, and his determination to keep
entirely al Kif from them iu his administra
tion eT the govern meet. Johnson's folly
made the 4th of March, 1869, a welcome
day to the American people. Giant's bluu
deiiug imbecility, if persisted in much long
er, will convert the 4th of March, 1873. into
a fit occasion for national thanksgiving."
KrMOB revives the report that Secretary
Bautwtll will leave the Treasury Depart
ment soon after tbe meeting of Congress.
John Cfssna is riding Fulton county
looking for fraudulent votes. A gentle
man informed him that ho knew of two
illegxl votes in his township, when Cess
na took out his note book and asked for
their names. lie was informed that they
were negjocs whom a prominent liepubli
can had hauled to the polls to vote the
Radical ticket. John left suddenly.
23 cents each. Ihe Professor promptly
forked over, aud tho party stepped in. In
a few minutes the v.utso made her appear-!
ance with the wonder. A double child was j
exhibited. Two perfectly formed heads, one j
on either end of the spinal column. !
To give a clear idea cf it, just suppose i
that you sever the bodies of two men at the ;
lower part of the abdomen, and then put i
the two upper parts together, aud you have I
the trunk of this child. At the instance of !
l)rs. Williams and Little tho clothing was j
taken frvm it ar,d a critical examination i
was maJe. so far as could be without doing j
injury. Fio:n ihe oocuput of one child to ;
the occuput of the other theie L- a continu- j
ous apine in a direct line. Upon one side i
The AeyisTiCE. Wehave theimpoitant
news today that an armistice has been con
cluded between Fiance and Prussia for the
purpose of enabling the people of the former
country to take deliberate action towards
strengthening tho claim of the existing
French government to be recognized as legit
imate and established. The armistice is to
last twenty-five days, during each of which,
as we understand, the people of Paris will
be at liberty to receive one day 's supply of
provisions from without, and both of the
belligerents will bo permitted to confirm,
though not to extend, their military organi
zations in general, and to retain the military
positions now held by them.
It is probable that tho content of TrusMa
to this step has been brought ab. i.t partly
by the direct influence of the neutral powers,
and partly by the hope that during the period
of the armistice the front of the French
resistance may be seriously weakened by
political intrigues for the overthrew of the
existing government. Even this hope, how-,
ever, it is tolerably clear, would not have
prevailed with Count von Bismarck had not
the pressure of the increasing difficulties
with which Prussia finds herself surrounded,
in her self imposed task e f "reconstructing"
the French nation, begun seriously to make
itself felt.
The republican government al Tours
enters with the armistice upon a now and
most trying ordal. While all good men
everywhere mtut aider.tly tlcsire that the
swerd ence laid down in this really fratrici
dal war may not again be taken up. no man
who rightly estimatesthe existing perils of
European society, or honestly believes in the
efficacy of free government, and of free gov
ernment alone, to dissipate those perils, can
well avoid the conviction that any armistice
which should lead to the collapse of the re
publican experiment so bravely beguu in
France would entail upon the Old World
eventual catastrophic even worse than those
which for the past few months have ajijialled
mankind. A7. Y. l'rld, 4th.
From Monday's World.
The armistice has been finally rejected
and the war will proceed and probably be
carried far into the winter. It is not yet
fully known exactly why no agreement
could take place, but it seems that the terms
demanded by the Germans were far too
severe. Owing to tho circumstance that
the negotiations pending were known to the
commanders of the armies in the field no
movements of importance took place anj--where.
Garibaldi is reported captured, and
Neu Breisach and Beifort are vigorously
beseiged. It seems after all as the opinion
expressed by Napoleon at the beginnijg of
this war that it would be a long one will be
verified. From all parts of France the news
reaches us of the most determined measures
and preparations for a grand rally and rebis
tance to the very last.
The Springfield (Mass.) BejmUican, a
Radical paper, is subject to fits of spasmod
ic candor, during which it is liable to blurt
out unpalatable truths in the bluntest sort
of way. As witness the following comments
on the result of the West Virginia elections:
The illiberal, proscriptive course pursued
by the republicans of the State ever since
the war closed, puts them in the position of
both deserving and inviting defeat; and in
the present position of parties tho gain of
three Democrats in Congress is more a mat
ter orcongiatnlation than would bo the in
crease of the Republican majority by that
number. The good that is iu the dominant
party can only be brought out by tho disci
pline of adversity, and there arc other States
than West Virginia where an occasional de
feat would have tho happiest effect upon it.
General Lee's attending physician, Dr.
Barton, states that "we consider his protrac
ted grief at the condition of his country, and
the continued suppression ofhis strong feel
ings, the chief remote causes, and tho ex
cessive fatigue and mental application tbe
immediate cacse of congestion cf the veins
cf the braiu."
aud directly in the centre of the trunk were j iagto'n-Lee Uni
perfectly developed hips, thighs, legs ar.d ; sailor n
feet. They are iu nice proportion to the j .VM 5n a vmAi
body of either child. On the opposite side t " ,r ,i
twenty one pills, had been laid aside in the
closet for some months, and at house clean- j
ing time accidentally got into the bancs of j
r,t rhil,!rr I
- i (jerry
Despatches from Tours announce that J.t
a young giil of that city is creating the most
iuter.se excitement by imitating the exam
ple of Joan of Arc. Hundreds of enthusins
tic persons have joined her standard. Her
appeals fjr recruits are said to be singularly
uatiiotic and eloquent.
The trustees of Washington College, at
Lexington, Va., have unanimounly elected
General G. W. C. Lee. second son of Gen.
Hubert E. Lee, as President of the institu
tion, to succeed his father. They have a!.-o
changed the name of the college to "Wash-
nivcrsity."
named Joseph libbln, who
linat. on T.ake Huron at th.
body of either child. On the opposite side , ime f , ,atp earthqaake state8 th;it the
preseuting the appearance of the c mso'Ma
lion of two lei's. There are eight toes on
The Caubbia IItstikv Solved. The
wieck of the steamship Cambria of the An
chor Line, which struck on one of the Instra
hull group, on the passage to the Iondon-
port, has been found at last, and the
I mystery attending tic calamity which befell
j her solved.
The vessels which have been cruising
1 . . i - . r . i . : . l : . . i i
around tns vicinity oi ue spot, muicaiw oy
McGartlan.-t, the only survivor of the disas
ter, have been rewarded by finding the mis
sing steamer at the ocean bottom oa Wed
nesday. The vessel discovered the wreck of
the Cambria five mih s eff Instrahull L!ar:ds,
where she foundered, ling upon her side,
with four fathoms of wter rolling over her.
The intelligence of finding the Cambria cir
culated with marvellous rapidity, and mist
intense excitement prevails in L ndc t,dtrry.
It is probable that submarine divers will be
disnatched immediately to the wreck to as
certain the fate of the passengers, whether all
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SUGARS, TEAS, CoFFZ
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waters seemed to boil, that small lumps of , . , . ' , v ,
cis .tuuv. i v , r escaped in boats only to bo lost, or whether
muu were thrown into the air, and that j . , ,
tnis nmo. two oi wnicn nave iiie appearauee . , . . . .
rF urxu tiwa hoMicr mitr.li larrrr than tlie ' .
and
some remained
! wreck.
uion and went down iu the
was
measuring leight feet from tip to tip. and
wou'd have been killed but for the timely j
. ....i... ,i w, ; ' : fierce creature to death m self-defense,
others. Each has a well formed head, good
features good chest, good arms and bauds,
lungs, heart, liver aud stomach. Between
the perfectly formed limbs aud pr perly
situated are the anus and sexual organs in
common
the bladder, and perhaps the kidneys, are iu
common. All the other organs are separate.
There was but one umbilical cord and one
placenta. Tbs length of the body is twenty
inches, and the umbilicus is central in the
abdomen and equi-distant from each head.
It nurses well at both ends ; and when first
exhibited to the party one child was asleep
and the other was crying. While the phy
sicians were making their examinations,
both cried, but a few minutes after the one
which was crying first went to sleep, while
the other remained awake. When cither
head would cry the perlect leg which was
nearest to that head kicked and drew up,
while the leg nearest the other head remain
ed quiet. When either cried the toes oa the
imperfect foot would move, but the limb re
mained stationary. Both heads nurse well,
aud the child, or rather children, are iu ex
cellent health. The physicians could see no j ,,,Da
reason why it. or they, should not live. Ihe
mother is doiug well. There was no phy
sician present at the birth, and the labor
pains lasted only fifteen minutes.
Mr. Finley is alive to the importance and
value of this addition to his family. He is
now charging gate money, and he informed
the writer thai he hal already entered into
an article of agreement with a gentleman
for the sale of the body if it should die.
A bov about fifteen vears f age. sn ol
a man named McDermottat Auburn. Alass..
recently attacked bv a gray eale.
Also, a large tto.io
Best Brands of C:;
STOKE ON HIGIIbTHEL
four Dovr$ L'ttt ' Crr
i:be:ikbut, pa.
It is stated that Louis Napoleon has
miilion francs invested in mortgages on
erty in New York. We hope this U true,
and that the ex-Emperor will come here to
enjoy the fortune he has so j idiciouly saved
for a raiuy day. As he spends his money
freely. New York is just the place for him.
A fortunate beggar, 01 years of age, who i
has been known for many years about the
streets of St. Louis, has fallen heir to the
Caruthers estate, at Poitland. Orrgon.
which is estimated to le worth $500,000.
The original owner rf this property tired to
be known aiuong trappers as Wrestling
Joe."
A Crauberry Isle. Me., correspondent
of the Ellsworth American says the people
jo that vicinity are quite excited over the
recent discovery of a gold mine in the moun-
snd specimens have been sent to
Boston to be tested. It has been reported
that an iron mine and a granite mine had
also been found.
The Washington Star gives an elaborate
description of Grant btab'cs, which com
prise twelve fast animals, aud a large supply
of carriages, wagons, p-astons. and other
luxuries on wheels. Some of the harness is
heavily mounted with gold, and other sets
richly laden with silver. Poor Grant how
Extraordinary Dkkr Hist. The G:.lt
(Ontario) Reporter says : "A ycung man
nami George Ma-?, of Luther towLship,
recently went ic pursuit of a deer, which
took refuge in a pond. Being without fire
arms, the hunter boldly jumped on the back
j of the auimal, which started from the pond
'as en j and took across the fields. Mays clinging to
I prop- i.0IDJ The deer jumped the fence, and
the young man's head comi.ia in contact
with one of the stakes was badly cut. Fall
ing from his scat he grasp.'d the deer by the
hind legs and was agin mounted, and forced
the deer to the giound, after nceiving a
severe cut in one of his legs from the ani-
mal's horns. Mays received ass'tarce from j
some neighbor, who Lrou:ht an rs and put
an end to the strut
ed 145 pouco's.
:le. The
carets wc:gh-
2Uu- rlmtt.$nitt;.t$.
Price fixed is S 10.000. Negotiations are in I the war distressed him.
progress for its exhibition if it lives. Ho is j A few days ago a young man named
convinced that there is money in it. dead or j Ward sustained accidental injuries which
alive, but thinks there is most-in the latter resulted in death. His funeral was attended
condition. He says that he is conscious of by his mother. Mrs. Ellen Ward, of No. 79
the fact that he "is an unlarned man, but has
sense enough not to be fooled out of it."
Itia certainly one of the most extraoidi
uary freaks, if not the most so, which has
ever occurred, and will certainly attract
great attention from the medical profession
at least. Drs. Williams and Little are well
known to the brothers, Drs. Davics, and
many other physicians of your city.
I close by abking "Where ii the Ccrdiff
Giant now V
DtF.DOF Broken IIkart. A man, named
Frank Wilson, aged 40, a well-to do mer
chant of Belleforte, Ceutre county, this
State, has been for a long time pay ing his
addresses to a young lady by the name of
Miss Marr, aged 20, who resides at Lewis
burg, on the line of the Lewisburg and
Bellefonte railroad. Thoy were finally en
gaged to be married, and a day appointed
for the nuptials. The Jay before they were
to be married. Miss Marr telegrapheel to her
affianced that he need not have his home,
as the engagement was broken. On the
receipt of the message, be started for Lewis
burs, and when he arrived at the home of
the cruel-hearted cirl. he tearfullv nleaded for
a retraction of her words. She, however, i f'tind in such abundance that ages of active
North Fifth street. Williamsburg, who ex
hibited the most intense grief throughout.
Immediately after his burial his mother sank
lifeless in the room from which his corpse
had been removed.
A love-stricken youth r.f Muscat ine,
Iowa, recentiy asked the object of his affec
tions to elope with him. The young lady
consented to do so on condition that he
should pay her debts, which amounted to a
considerable sum. He gave her the money,
but the failed to come to time at the hour
appointed for starting, and the poor fellow
is now very miserable indeed.
A fatal coincident is reported from be
fore Tool. Among the persons killed there
during the bombardment was a young girl,
who was literally torn in two pieces by a
shell. She had been born sixteen years ago
in front of Sebastapol, and the fright occa
sioned by the bursting of a shell had brought
about her premature birth and the death of
her mother. On the 24 th of September last,
she was killed herself by a shell.
The gentlemeu who appointed them
selves a special committee to examine the
tin mines of Missouri have made a very
favorable report. They say that the ore is
OUTORCR, ISIO.
fc PfCOAT
BEST SIX CORD
IS NOW THE
Thrc-ad put up for American market which if
SIX-CORD IX A tI. Xl'MBKRil.
From Xo. 8 to Xo. 8 to Xo. 100 inclusive.
'REMOVAL am, ESLAKGEv
COOKING ST0YE&
HEATING STOVtf
TIN, COPPER &SHEEW
Having re--n!!y taken :r. a
ly ntted up ani c".iamod:i t .l
street, two doors easMf tlf f.;u; ,
opposite the Mountain ii-w-. tin s
better preo.'tre! luiir .-!' ; rr.i:
aitic lf s in the TIN. '"I'l'KKsn.i
WARE lin ali of wii? a w::I Htr:
buyers at the very !. p
The suli-eribcr !so j r. : ti : i
aiid varied asortiaeat oi
Cookicgj Farlcr and Eeiiii.:
of tilt ic si a; ; r K is,-;
j-vr-SL porTING :trv; R'. 'VIN.l i-1
a!:d wai runit-il -rf- I in in.iiiLlv.--1
terial. KF.PA1HI.VW rn -rvy iTX
Alt work ioiie l y use wi:i :
on fair tern:, ani u!i TOVEs:.i.
by me can Le -left n b 1 utv-n "
cannot ho nuders1!'! ;n pr.Lt-. A
urwl iuereas' ' t (fctr'.r.i.re 1-n-s1""
tea. am! no etlort wi.i it
tin: satiilat tiou a:i.
V AI t:r.L 7.
KlKTSturr, vt. I k lv '.-it
LADIES' FANCY F.
JOHN?
FOR HAND 8l MACHINE.
was firm, and retuseu to nare any commu
nication with him. Mr. Wilson must have
been devotedly attached to her, as the
breaking off of the engagement resulted in
his death in three weeks afterwards, lie
did not leave Lewusburg alive.
A NovtL Way of Saving Lite. A
German wotian in the employment of a far
mer on the liivanna river, during tho late
flood, '.who lived very close to tbe bank of
the river, had her house washed away with
herself and two children. The house lodged
fjr a few moments against a large birch
tree ; she found it would bo soon washed off
again, and finding it going to pieces, deter
mined to climb the tree with her children.
They being too small to climb, she tlelib
erately unwound her hair, which was very
long, and, dividing it into strands, tied each
ono of her children aroundher arm, and
cliraded up as far as she could get. Finding
the water rising rapidly she tore portions of
her dresd into strips and lashcd herself to
the body of the tree, and remained in that
position for fourteen hours. The water rose
ever her waist, but she was fiually rescued.
If she had not tied her children in the way
she did. they both would have been drown
ed. Richmond Journal.
Taking the census will ccet the govern
ment $1,750,000.
industry cannot exhaust it. ''The yield of
pure tin." says the committee, 'Ms from
three and seven tenths per cent, to ten and
ono half per cent., and cm the usual assays
an average of five and fifty-three hundreds
per cent."
It is related that a recent letter to Bis
marck, marked "private," was opened by
his confidential clerk, who had scarcely
opened it and read a few lines when he was
seized with violent pains in the head and
fell back in a swoon. Another clerk picked
it up and felt the same ymptcm3. After a
little while they recovered, and carried the
document to a chemist, who soon ascertained
that the letter had been poisoned with vera
trim, a subtlo and dangerous substance, the
odor of which mounts into the brain, and is
very liable to produce death or insanity.
A fire broke out in the old "Free ami
Kasy," above the Eckert House, Parker's
Landiog, at half-past four o'clock on Friday
morning last. The Eckert House, Weaver
& Son's restaurant, Morrison's store. Stull'g
store, Fuller House, Goldrick & llerbst'a
offices, and all the buildings between Morri
son's store, opposite the ferry landing to
the residence of Mrs. E. II. Tarker, were
destroyed. No oil rigs were burued, and no
oil of any account was destroyed. Two
thirdu of tho town, including all the portion
cn both sices of front btrect, waa destroyed.
Ihe loss ia very heavy.
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