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Satckdat Mornino, : Jar. 23, 1871.
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A Full Court at JolinetotYn.
Following this we give the bill introduced,
by our member, Mr. Kose, aud which has
already passed the House, correcting legal
difficulties iu the "Dietrict Court Bill," and
conferring unlimited civil jurisdiction upon
that court.
We believe the people of Cambria count jr.
without distinction of party or locality, will
cheerfully acquiesce in this new concession
to the growth and business interests of Johns
town. If cases under 200 may legally be
tried there, surely any greater amount may
bi ; and when a legal court exists, why may
it not try titles to land as well as titles to
money. Even the north of Cambria county
bhouIJ be at'ufied with Mr. Hope's bill.
There ia the same practical common tense
existing iu Johnstown aa elsewhere, and that
practical common tense men there will view
th'u bill with favor we cannot doubt. It is
more than aaked for by those who tiret pro
posed the District Court project. It euables
every man in Southern Cambria, who pro
secutes or defends ia the sets'ions or who
has any civil suits for money or for the title
to his laud, to have a trial by jury at hi
own doer.
That there are msa iu Jubnttown who
will not be satitfivd with this bill is to be
expected. One man who sues vibioua of a
judgeship floating before him is not satis-
tieJ. A brace of other who expect to be
associates are not satisfied. Another, who
.tlA. first unconstitutional bill, is
HUJIOKs). uever could be saluikJ
EASES of thk lid not emanate from his
Another ktill would not
DISEASES CAl bill was in poetry, aud
OF '.. or "book-let." Spec-
T, , , long the public square
It thoroughly e r
morauJ Itud Tai. while others will oppose
tern to a healtbwas prepared and clTcred
tiou the ji0 waj geueraiy supported
FIN'LTuldlw and north of the county
vnerea if Capt. WoodrutT had beeu elected,
and proposed the same bill, (aud be could
not have proposed a better one for Johns
town.) the lame men would have favoied it.
We trust nevertheless that this bill will be
parsed into a law and fairly tested. If this
should be done wo predict general satisfac
tion. Siuce writing the foregoing we have Been
the Johastowo Tribune, which calls the bill
V. cure difficulties and give Johnstown a full
curt.a "swindle." For this it givesfour
Lcavy reason :
1st. "It takes the power for ever more
from our people, and places it iu the hands
of the Ebeotburg Ring." The for ever moie
is good ; as if auy act of Assembly may not
be repealed at auy time !
2d. It "removes all the offices to Ltcns
burg." What nonsense! The Johnstown
prothouotary end Jyhustown sheriff both
tscelleut men and competent officers sit
at that place precisely as they did eversinco
the organization of the District Court.
3d. "It was introduced without conferriug
with our citizens in regard to it." Ah!
there's the rub. The editor of the Tribune
was not consulted ! May not the represent
ative of Cambria county introduce a bid for
the good of the whole county, and far Johns
town in particular, without cousulting every
politician or every "ring" in Johnstown or
Ebensburg? Why Johnstown and Ebens
burg both together do not make one third of
the county, and Jlr. Rose represents the
whole county! The farmers in the town
ships hare just the samo rights as the law
yers aud merchants in the towns.
4th. "It is a cover for what is to come
after, which will be a bill for the payment
of the new jail !" What the new jail has to
do with this it requires the optics of the
1'ribune to see ! Cambria county will pay
for her public buildings without a "bill."
If the Tribune means repudiation, he will
hud no decent man in Johnstown, or any
where else, to coincide with him. Aud yet
it U hard to see what e'.a he can mean.
We observe another bill which has passed
first reading in a town meeting prepared
by D. McLaughlin, Esq., beiug the fame as
one voted dowu by the Judtcary Committee
od a former occasion because of its unconstN
tutionality. If it ever could pass, it would
uot take Gen. Potts' long to bowl it down, as
he did the same erudite gentleman.
"Let us have peace," and let the common
sense of the people put an end to this eter
nal quackery and agitation abjut the District
Court at Johnstowu.
Here is the bill referred to and wo ask for
it a careful perusal by all our readers :
Skc. 1. Be it enacted by the Senato and
Bouse of Itepreseutatives of the Common
wealth of I'enosvlvauia in General Ass.eir.bly
met, aud it is hereby euueted by the authority
of the same, aud it is hereby declared to be the
true intent aud meaning of the act to which
this is a supplement. That it shall be lawful
lor the Judges of the Court of Coiumon I'lcas
of the couuty of Cambria, and the Court of
Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the county of
Cambria, as the said Courts are or shall be es
tablished aud organized under aud iu pursu
ance of the Constitution cud laws of the Coin
mo c weal lb, loit iu the borough of Johnstown,
iu taid county, acl there hold four term. or
ceiaions oi the said Courts in each year, to wit:
the weeks commencing oa tho Cat Monday of
April, July, October and Jauuary, end to ad
journ the said aession of said Courts as aud
when the business shall require, and there have
and exercise all aud siagular, the powers aud
juriidiciiou of the Court of Quarter Seaious
of tto Pence ol thecour.ty oi Caiubria,notr aud
Luhtrto lawfully belonging to and exercised
by the said Judge thereof, aud there try all
issues, and tracsact ail LudliiCiS pertaining to
the jurisdiction of aaid Court, arising iu or ba
ltpgvn to that pars of sid couuty euibi aced
vitbin the boroughs of Juinntown.Coucmaugb,
iJillrilte, Caiuhria, Prospect. Franklin, Coop
rada!i. Wood rale and East Coneoaangb. aud
ifce t.;ui.ii,a of Voder, Jiichlaud. Taylor, Ad
ams ai.i Couemaugh ; aud there hare and ex
ercise felt and siu"tt!&r. the poorer and juiia-
Ckiioa of. acd Li-Lerto bolougiug to tho Court
of Common Pitas of said couuty iu all ci
rvc the defendant or defeudaciidkhaii Le res
ident within any of the aula b-oogha or iawu
c&ips, la all respect as peciied auJ providaci
in the mcodU aud subsequent sections of tho
Act to which thid u a supplement, except that
the eali juiiSicAToa still i had sxd exerrfted
without auy limit with togard to tho amount
in controversy .
Sic. 2. That the said Courts when held in
Johnstown for said district or part of Cambria
county, shall be distinguished tor all general
putposes, as, "The District Court of Cambria
County," hut that the proceedings of the said
Courts pertaiuing to their several, separate and
distinct jurisdiction shall be distinguished in
their mrua or proc-pas records, iu indictments
aud on their respective eeals. as "Tho Court
of Common Pleas or Cambria County Bitting
in Johnstown" and "The Court of Quarter
Sessions of Catubria County sitting iu Johns
town." Sec. 3. Thutitehall be the duty of the
Prothouotary aud Clerk of the Court of Quar
ter Sessions of fwid county as well as the
Judges of the said Courts, and of tho Sheriff
aud District Attorney of said county to attend
and be present at the session of the said Court
in Johnstown as aforesaid, aud do aud perform
therein and pertaining and relating thereto all
the duties which by law they are severally and
respectfully authorized and ernpowcted or re
quired to do or perform, in or pertaining to the
said Courts of Couimou Pieus aud Quarter
Session of fdd county.
Sec. 5. That all the provisions of the Act
to which tlii is a supplement, coutained iu the
several set-lion thereof, necessary to carry out
aud ett'ect the true intent aud uietuiug of the
said Act, and this supplement thereto, us hertio
declared and expressed, are hereby preserved
and re;a:iied ; aud every part thereof or any
other act of assembly, inconsistent herewith is
hereby repealed.
Another Scattjlnsr Letter from
Judge IliacU.
Our readers will recollect that we several
months ago published an able and remark
able letter from Judge Black, of this State,
iu reply to an article written by lleury Wil
son, (at that time aud still a radical mem
ber of tha United States Senate from Massa
chusetts,) in reference to the connection of
Edwin M. Stanton, as Attorney General,
with ihe administration of President Buchan
an. The statements made by Senator Wil
son, if true, wero of the most startlicg and
damaging character, against Stanton, so far
as his personal and confidential relations to
Mr. Buchanan aud the members cf his cabi
net were concerned. Although Wilson saw
proper in his letter to claim that Buchanan
and most of the members ofhiscabiuet were
playing into the hands of the secessionists of
the South, and were therefore traitors, while
Stanton was the only loyal mau iu the cabi
net, and that even then he was acting as a
spy on Mr. Buchanan and betraying the
confi Jeuce reposed in him as a cabinet t cer.
Wilsou answered Judge Black's reply to his
(Wilson's) oiigiual article, and now JuJe
Black Las published a long reply to Senator
Wilsou. In great ability, as well a in that
remarkable style so peculiar to Judge Black,
this second production is said to far surpass
his first article. We have not read it at
leDgth ; tut will publish the one-h;iif of it in
our next issue, acd tLe remainder on the
week following, as the ablest political docu
ment that wo can present to our readers for
their instruction as well as for the vindica
tion of the foremost member of the Demo
cratic party in the United Stales, familiarly
known among his old friends aud admirers
in Cambria couuty and tlsewheic as"JHtiT
Black;."
Fob several years past there has been pub
lished iu Harrioburg, by authority and pay
of the Legislature of the State, a email daily
sheet styled the Legislative Record. It pre
tended to publish an accurate statement of
tho daily ptcceedingB of the two Uounes.
The whole thicg was a fraud frcm the be
ginning, like all other speculative and cor
rupt projects generally are. George Bergner,
the editor of the Ilarrisburg Telegraph, eu
j'jyed for several years, a perfect monopoly
of publishing the "Record." In doing so he
made an iuiuiti.se fortune out of the money
of the tax-puyers. Last session the fraud
was so glaring that the Legislature very
properly refused to make any contract for
its publication, and the "Record'' ceased to
have a 'Mocal habitation aud a name." The
old swindle, however, has been resurrected
duriug the present session, under the special
au.-piccs of our Senator, Harry White, aod
tho contract for the publication of the
cord" has been awarded to Seig & Co. It
makes uo manner of difference to whom the
contract was allotted, as tho whole thing is
useless aud a fraud on the people. It is
simply paying au immense amount of money
out of the treasury, without one dollar of
substantial benefit to the people, mtrely to
gratify the personal aud political vanity of
certain members of the Legislature, who
delight to read their names in oriut.
The Chairman of the Executive Commit
teo of the Republican State Central Commit
tee has called tho Convention to nominate
candidates for Auditor and Surveyor Gen
eral, to be voted lor next October, to meet
at Ilarrisburg, on the 10th of March.
The Democratic State Convention will be
held some time between tho 10th of March
and the second Tuesday in May. The prob
abilities are, says the Lancaster Intelligencer,
that its meeting will be deferred until after
the adjournment of tho Legislature, as it is
likely a bill will bypassed calling a Consti
tutional Convention, somo of the delegates
to which will be elected at large. The elec.
tion of next fall will bo invested with consid
erable importance, iu consequence of the fact
tnat it will have considerable iuOueuco upon
tho Prc-sideulal election one year after.
Br the potent influence cf executive pa
tronage Grant forced his San Domingo job
through Coogrtss. llis principal backer
was Morton from Indiaua, aided and abet
ted by John Scott from this State and others
of like political proclivities. The three com
missioners, whose names wo published last
v.etk, sailed from New Yoik in the United
States eteam frigate Tennessee, with about
six newspaper correspondents and a large
number of supernumeraries ia other capaci
titis. This San Domingo project ia the nioBt
shameful swindle of this administration, and
although it wil! cost the people not less
than half a million of dollars all to gratify
Gee. Grant iu his pursuit of a wild and
visiouary scheme, originating with a cornpt
set of 'peculators iu Kew York and Wash
Faeis ban at la.t been surrendered to tu
PraeaUKs. Ttru. were agreed upca be
tween -Julta Favre and Kicj William ou
TL'jrsday, but dttaila are not jet known.
The EleScagetl I'cnlaui.
We are not now, nor have we ever been,
the advocate or defender, of what is known
as Fenianism. While we would delight at
the liberation of Ireland from the hated
thraldom and oppression of her ancient and
inveterate enemy, Eiiglaad, we Lave never
yet been convinced that such a glorious re
sult could ever ba accomplished through the
action of the Fenian organization, either iu
Ireland or in the United States. But while
this has beeu our view of the practical and
ultimate results of Fenian organizations in
the "Green Isle" aud in our own country,
the well meant aud patriotic efforts of the
Fenians of Ireland lu favor of liberty have
always commanded our warmest and most
heartfelt sympathy and admiration, and
bence we chronicle with extreme pleasure
the fact that a number of the Fenian leaders,
who have been confined in British prisons
for their devotion to tho cause of their coun
try. have recently arrived in New Yoik,
having been pardoned by tho Queen's gov.
ernmeut ou the so'e condition that they
would leave their country, never Id return.
The names of theso Irish patriots are John
McCiure, Henry S. Muilahy, Jeremiah O
Donovan, Charles W. O'Couuell and John
Decry. They have met with a warm aod
enthusiastic reception, as thy deserved to
do, and the following feeling address has
been presented to tht-m.on their arrival ou
our shores, by the "United Irishmen" of the
District of New York :
In the name of the United Irishmen of tha
DUtrict of New York, we tender you the wel
come which ia your due, uot alone as brothers
in the same holy cause iu which wc are enlist
ed, but aa representatives of the gre it princi
ple of liberty, which has found in you some of
the worthiest and most consistent exponents.
For that principle the Irish uatioualis's of the
past, in whose footsteps you have faithfully
trodden, dared to the worst at tha han is ol the
oppressors of our unlive bud. Upon the altar
of their native country, they sacrificed every
thing that meu hold dear ; gavo up home,
trieiidn. wealth, prefcraient aud all the induce
incuts by which men are injpelied to strive for
the esteem aud approval of their fellow-mortals.
In tha opiuion of tho worldly and venal
they failed ; but all true Irishmen, regarding
their actions and achieveiuenes with the eves
of patriots, know that they did not touch, sti tig
cle and die in vain. Generation after genera
tion they made their mark in the ape ia which
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they lived ; and tue recorus oi ineir uves aim
their sacrifices remain bright as beacon lights
upon the ftoriny sea of revolution, to point out
to those who come after them the ouly path by
which the freedom of their country may be
won. You, too, martyrs to the cause of Ire
laud, have done jour share of impressing ou
your age the great truth that right is iinlis
truetib'e, arid, in the f-nd, must triumph. Fol
lowing the t sample of the patriots who have
gone bftfore.by your own self-nt gallon, by your
unflinching courage aud the integrity with
which at every personal risk, you have upheld
that national cause you hive shaken the pow
er of the enemj of Ireland, more thoroughly
than a hundred deleW ia th.? fi'.l i of battle,
and have proved to ihe world that, however,
England nuv endeavor to crush out the aspi
rtuions of the Irih people for independent na
tional existence, she c.innul extinguish the
holy fl.iuie of liberty, or prevent the transmis
sion from one generation to another of that sa
cied legacy which binds our v hole race, wher
ever scattered, to unite their effort and their
power, and never to desist uutil our country
shall be redeemed and recjgiiizeJ as Ouo
amongst the free nations of tho world. To
aid in the accomplishment of that great aim,
to unite all national Irish men in an honest, un
selfish and practical endeavor to bring about
the realization of that idea, the"Uuited Irish
men" in America have banded them-elvci to
gether, determined to persevere to the end.
In your long-wished for, and almost unhoped
for dcliveiy from the thraldem of the foes of
Irish freedom, and your arrival ia this Repub
lic, we hail the happiest omen for the future
that yet gladdened our expectations. After a
content so heroic, in which you have never
yielded an iota of principle, but rather have
exioried from the enemy concessions aud ad
missions of right which have added largely to
the nigral power ot the Irish cause, we regard
your advent among ui as the era of a new and
energetic departure upon the path by which
our people must advance to the attainment of
the liberty they have so long sought, and we
hail you as the heralds of that true union of all
Irishmen the perfection ef which will develop
our national strength into a power which will
make us all in '.ruth "United Irishmen," and
give to Ireland the great element which has
unhappily been wauting iu all previous efforts
for the establishment of her independeuce. In
the name of the United Irishmen we again con
gratulate you on jour safe arrival on these
hospitable shores, aud on the prospect that our
coijoint efforts, aud those of patriotic Irish
men every tvhere, shall again le directed to ibe
ad vanceuiciit of tho cause of Irish ficcJoiu,
which in the past lias su:Tcr?d reverses, but has
never gone backward, and never shall be aban
doned while a trace of foreign domination is
found in Ireland, or a remnant of our own race
remains to conspire, to labor, and to fight, as
you have done, against the h ited rule of Eng
land. As Imposition. One cf the most flagrant
impositions is the school book nuisance.
Just as people think tho public schools are
supplied with a particular class of books
that may continue for years, presto, all is
changed ; aud a new set of books is ordered !
Now, this nuisaucu is almost insufferable,
and in the present high price of school books,
thw expense falls heavily on poor people
laboring men, washerwomen, etc. We have
heard much complaint on tho suhject. Can't
the matter be remedied ? It is said the
present school books in our common schools
are of a superior order tho Bame has been
said for tha last twenty years and yet at
almost every session a new class of books
have to be procured. It is about time this
thing should stop. We fear that the follow
ing article from the Ilarrisburg Patriot con
tains more truth than fiction, and that tnauy
other districta are iu the same situation as
that city :
The School Book Ncisasce. This nui
sance has been borne by the poor in patience
and silence tor many years, but it is at last
receiving tho attcution which it deserves.
Wholesale book concerns have long been carry
ing ou a species of petty bribery, under which
school directors, superintendent and teachers
have accumulated scaail libraries for employ
ing the influence of their position in securing
frcqueut changes of books. There is scarcely
a head of a family who has not keenly felt the
effects of this abuse. A "Father" ;ave vent
to his grievances in the "Patriot" of Thursday.
In this moruinf's issue a poor washerwoman
makes her plaint. Let the agitation go until
the proper steps be taken to abate the nuisance.
-Tha following named gentlemen were
nominated aud confirmed as Major Generals
of Pennsylvania : John F. llartranft, oi
Montgomery county ; Thomas J. Jordan,
of Dauphin ; Harry White, of Indiana ; 11.
S. liidecooper, of Craw ford ; James L. Sel
fridge, of Northampton ; Thorn os L. Kane,
of Elk ; Joshua K. Siegfried, of Schuylkill ;
T. F. Gallagher, of Westmoreland ; and Jos.
A. Beaver, of Centra.
A lady of Lyndonville. Vt.. gaTe birth
to threo girls last week, all HviDg. Two
years jo she had twins.
The Altoona Tragedy.
Attempted Jlnrder-A Savage Howtoniwl
JJoruetlc Infelicity the Caaw
-The Same OIU Htory.
On Friday morning the tranquility of our
city was disturbed by the report that an as
sault with intent to kill had beeu made on
Andrew Feay. an employee of the New Car
Shops of the P.R. R. Co., in the First Waul,
by a man named Uamilton Starr, employed
in the machine bhop. Shortly after the em
ployees of the shops had assembled for the
iuruose of commencing their daily tvoca
! tious, Hamilton Starr entered the Car Shop
and icquireu lor Ana re w reay. x tie laner
was working under a car in close proximity,
and was pointed out to him. Advancing
towards Feay, Starr deliberately took aim
at him and fired, whereupon the assailed,
seeing the danger to which he was exposed,
turned and tied, rapidly follow! by his
assailant, who was all the while firing, the
employees cf the 6hop joining iu the chase,
and eadeavoting to get possesion of the re
volver, now ia tLo bauds of a man whose
heart seemed to be on fire, and whose de-
! tnoniacal expression caused not a few who
wiiuessed tha tragedy tocraza witn tear ana
exeitemeut. In an adjoining shop, a ball
from the revolver had the effect cf bringing
Feay to .the grouud, whereupon his assailant
ruhed upon him in this helpless condition,
aud fired several shots before the spectators
of the awful scene could succeed in extrica
ting Feay from his perilous situation.
Feay was immediately conveyed to his
residence, ou Elevor.th avensi, and Dr. Fry
was summoned. Upon examination of tho
wounds it was discovered that five of the
shots fired had taken effect. Two entering
tho back of the neck aud passing out at the
mouth, two tutoring the shocldcr. and the
other entering the arm. The Doctor was of
the opinion that the wounds would not prove
fatal, aud we sic.ee learn that under the care
of his skihful physician, Feay has so far re
covered as to be able to walk in his room.
After committing 'he deed, Starr surren
dered himself to Mr. Levi Gees2y. and was
takeu before Aldernian McCormick, for a
heriug. Ho was etibsequently piactd in
the lockup uutil a commitment was made
out. when he was given iu charge of two
police offlcrs who had him heavily ironed aod
cojiveyed to prison, at Uoliidaysturg, to
await the resuit of Feay's wounds.
And now, as our readers are doubtless
anxious to know the cause asined for this
rash act, we will endeavor to lay the cir
cumstances before them to the best of our
knowledge. It is the same old story of do
mestic infelicity, and we will tell it as it is
curreut. Hamilton Starr and his wife re
side on Ninth aveuue. East Altoona. Not
being iu very comfortable circumstances, aud
having a lot of sewing to do. his wifa repair
ed to the residence of a friend some time
since for the purpose of using her ewiug
machine to assist Ltr in her work. At the
house of this friend the ugly serpent lound
aud wound her in his coils. It appears that
a uumber cf parties of both sexos were iu
tho habit tT congregating at this house and
engaging in scenes of debauchery which
could not fail to have an overpowering in-
j flueoco upon any weak minded fcmalo. It
i was here, as report g-e, that she met Feay,
who at once commenced to tie visa bios f.-r
her destruction, and the can.ia assigned, for
the writing of this article tells how well he
succeeded in his purpose. Her hive aud af
fection, which should have been i:?arer than
all the world, for her husband, was entirely
lost sight of, while aha was iadulgiug in the
crime of crimes. At last the report ef the
wifo's conduct reached the ears of the hus
band, who remonstrated with hor and forbid
a rt-nl it ion of licr fi-iidurt. The pnilfv
j vvife prayed aud begged for forgiveness, and
j promised to live a virtuous life in the future
I aud so conduct herself that ho would never
j more have any cause for complaint,
j For the time being everything seemed
i lovely. The dometic circlo was again re
j stored to peace aud quietude. The halcyon
days of their hrst love returned once more,
but, oh! how brief the duration! It was
not long uutil another rupture took place.
A short time previous to the shooting affray,
it ia alleged by Starr, Mrs. Starr was con
fronted on the street by Feay and interroga
ted as to the causo assianed for refusing to
meet him at the bouse tf her friend, remark
ing at the same time that if sho did not
meet him by a certaiu time ho wouiJ kill
her. Mrs. S. rxturr.el home, and when her
husband entered the house he found her cry
ing, aud inquired as to the cause of horgiiof.
She told him all. He .did he would settle
the matter. Borrowing a revolver, he "set
tled the matter" iu the manner described
above. Wo draw the veil. Alloona 2Vi
bune. Ova. Common Schools. Tho annual re
port of Hen. J. P. Wickend.am, State Su
perintendent of Common Schools, gives the
number of school districts in Pennsylvania
as 2.002, an increase of 31 during the school
year; uuruUr ofachools, 14,212, au increase
during tho year of -2Tb' ; number of graded
schools, 2.T92, au increase of,447 ; number
of school directors, 13,100, au increase of
290 ; number of county and city superin
tendents. T9, an increase cf S; number of
teachers, 17.G12. an increase of 4T0 ; num
ber of pupils. 823.8G1, a gain of 13,138;
average number of pupils, 555,941, increase
of 7,80G. The average salaries of male
teacheis, per month, is 840. Go ; of female
teachers ,$32.49 , average length of school
term, G 0G months ; average attendance of
pupils upou the whole number registered,
0.G8 ; average cost of tuition per month, for
each pupil, 98 cents. The cost of tuition of
all children attendieg'school in the common
wealth is set down at $3,745,415.81, an
increase over tho previous year of $244,711.
55 ; cost of building, purchasing and renting
school houses $'2,765.G24,34, an increase of
$309,790,63; cost cf contingencies for tho
year. $105,226.05, an $288,000,35. Total
cost of tuition, building &c, and contingen
cies, $7,076,270.20. Total cost of the school
system in the State, including expenditures
of all kinds, $7,771,761,20, an increase cf
$735,612.28, The estimated value of all
tho school property in the State is $15,837,
183.
A Singular Combat. A fight between
a rat and a couple of snakes (a copperhead
aud a rattlesnake, four and a half feet in
length,) occurred at McKeeaport, Ohio, last
week. The snakes, not having been fed for
several days, were- first presented with a
mouse, wheu both reptiles attacked it, kill
ing it in thirteen minutes. A large rat was
then put into the cage, when a terrible bat
tle ensued, both snakes strikiug as rapidly
as they could, the rat also displayed consid
erable pluck, keeping up his end of the fight
bravely. The fight continued from two iu
the afternoon uutil nine at night, when the
copperhead threw up the sponge and was
taken out dead. To prevent the rattlesnake
sharing a like fate the rat was theu removed
from the cage. The rat showed considerable
generalship in the encounter, and every
liaio it was bitten it would retreat to the
corner of the cago and bito out tha pieces
from it3 body,
I ! I
Galton's doctrine of Hereditary Genius,
illustrated Grant's son at the foot or his
cla3 in the military academy. Chicago
Tints.
rinmcRATic Editorial Convention. A
large number of Democratic editors met at
Bolton's hotel, Harrisburg, Wednesday af
ternoon, lltb inst., pursuant to a call issued.
Jacob Ziogler. Esq.. president of the associ
ation called the meeting to order. In the
absence of P. Gray Meek. Secretary, John
W. Brown was elected Secretary pro tern.
On motion, Messrs. Chalfant, Whitman,
Lure, M'Gicley aud Cornmau were added to
the committee to draft rules and regulations.
After an interchange of sentiment the as
sociation adjourned until eight o'clock.
EVENING SESSION.
The association met parsuaut to adjourn
ment. The committee appointed to draft rules
and regulations, made report as follows :
Article I. This organization shall be known
as the Democratic Editors Association ol
Pennsylvania.
Article II. Unity of actiou in the promotion
of Democratic principles, the furtherance of
the interests of the Democratic party aud the
cultivation of fraternal feeling among the
members of the association.
Article III. The efficerg shall consist of a
jresideut, secretary, corresponding secretary,
treasurer and executive committee of three,
wb- shall serve one year, or until their succes
sors sha'l be elected ; their duties shall be
those usually pertaining to their respective
positions.
Article IV. There shall be one regular
mee-tiii'' of the association each vear, on Ihe
second Tuesday of June, the pi ace to bo desig-
n.itcd by the association from time to time ;
! special meetincs to be called by the president
by and with the consent of the executive com
inittee.
Article V. June members shall constitute ii
quorum
On motion. J. I. Steele, II. J- Stable and
Ber jamin Whitman be the executive com
mittee uutil the becond Tuesday of Jane
ucxt.
On motion, it w'as resolved that BcllefoDte
be the place of the next meeting.
Iiesolved. That the seerotarv be authorized
! to procure a book in which each member is to
sign his name.
Resolved. That the Mcietary be authorized
to hare a printed circular embracing the con
stitution as adopted, and send to each editor,
with a request to reply, if approving to that
effect, and indicate his desire or not to become
a member of the association , and to say fur
ther that tho next meeting will be hld at
Bellefonte. and au excursion had, to to theu
aud there decided upou. Adjourned.
Twenty YakdsSwij'i Ukdeb the Ice.
We are called upon to record iu the present
instance one of the most remarkable preser
vations recorded in tha annals of niodtrc
history, aud while the reader may pause in
credulous over the remarkable narration, we
declare the leading particulars a, a veritable
state of facts. The skaters were merry at
the bridge on Monday night, aa were they
iu almost every locality unvisited by calam
ity, and bkiilful skaters glided over the glassy
surface, cutting names, iiittials and hiero
glyhics with their perilous engraving tools.
The more nimble and skillful played ball
aud cavorted around the clumsy amateurs,
who. with half cracked-skull j aud wet eeata
to their breeches, blew their fingers and
gazed at the experts standing on one leg and
looking at their left coat tails over thc-ir right
cbvulders, iu spite of all the !astf gtaviia
tion. All at once an exclamation of hcrror
transfixes every gazer to his feet. Amid the
cracking and breaking of the ice one was
observed struggling for a hold on the slippery
edges cf the ice, which broke off in large
pieces. Ilia benumbed fingers loosened their
grasp, and the unfortunate skater was car
ried by the murderous current out of sight
under tho cold and solid ice. Pciug an ex
pert fcwimmer, and possessed of great pres
ence of mind, he &truck out vigorously and
eiwam after the manner cf a diver. The
fishes caznd at him with their gren eyes
and nibbled his clothe? as he swam through
the frigid current, and he, too, imagined
that glim death was gazing at him ; but he
struggled manfully on, nor heeded the nied
dlesoma catfish which swam along beside
him, as though they would question him
concerning; his severance with the affairs of
the land. He is almost exhausted, and he
let down and his feet strikes the bottom.
Ho has reached a Eho.il. Pressing bis head
vigorously against the ice, with his feet
braced below, a cracking is heard, and be
gazes along the surface of the ice. To come
through lightly was but a moment's work,
and bidding his friendB the fishes good
bye, be is conveyed to a fire to dry and
warm, having swam over twenty yards un
der the ice. Leacemvorth Republican.
A Model Wifb. Sheriff Prichard tells
us that the wife of George Hyer, sentenced
to the peuitentiary for five yeais for hcrse
stealing, followed her husband to the walls
of the prioon. They attempts te get away
from Lewiston without letting her kuow
abi.ut it, but the poor woman was evermore
on the watch at the depot, and so she was
ou Laud wheu tho efficers and prisoners
started away last wttk, aud, fallowing en
the cars, 'hung about the neck of her hus
band to the eud of the journey. Mrs. Ilyer
had two children. These sho had deliberate
ly given away to her people, determined to
remain in Joliet, near her husband, so that
she could see him as often as possible, and
bo ready, ct tha end of five years, to welcome
him again to freedom. Sho hoped she would
ba perniittud to sue hioi often, but this foud
hope was rudaly torn from her by tha steru
prisou rules. She can see him but onco in
two months, and than but for two or three
minutes in the presence of a guard. Sho
can write to him as often as she pleases, but
be cau write iu reply only once a month.
After learning theso facts tho Sheriff tried to
get her to return to her family near PeoriaJ;
but her resolution was firmly taken. She
had given up home and children to be Dear
her husband, and There she determined to
stay at whatever sacrifice. They left her
alone and friendless, a stranger in a strange
city, weepiug as if her heart would break
but uuwavering in her devotion to her hus
band. No eutrt-aty of husband, ur friend,
or ftranger could move h?r heart to leave
hira in his long imprisonment. tullon Co.
(I!l3.) Democrat.
A terrible case of child beating occurred
in tho pretty borough of Columbia, while
an inuoceut little child of six years was
rnadu the subject of the most cruel aud dev
ilish punishment, hsr little btomach denied
the food necessary to properly sustain the
various function of the body. The parties
accused of this inhumau conduct Mr. and
Mrs. John Herah rrad a hearing before
Justice Clark on Friday of last week who
held them in $3,000 bail for further hearts
on Saturday. It is rumored that the. cir!
has since died.
Thos. J. Boyer, wLo was tried at the
last term of the Perry county court on a
charge of settmg fire to bis father's Lome in
Juniata township, and causing the death of
k:s father, uMhtr. sister, and brother, was
acquitted. The jury was out three-ami-a?
htt f LUrrBdT rftUrDed Victor -4ot
gu.lty." Q he Judge in his charge evident
tiftl?tD-V, .""ffiSent la coif-
.JV as suosequ.nt y tried on
Kctrs and Political Iteiuu.
In Sunbury last week a one-legged
soldier walked across Market idrtctoua rope
btretchtd from second story windows.
Winona, Miun.. baa a baby with three
heads. It is a female, and cries with three
months. Tho body and limba are perfectly
formeel.
Miss LaDe, a beautiful and accomplished
school teacher at Hopkinton. New llnnip
ahire, has been scut to the Peniteutiary for
forgery.
Thomas Cox, of Pe M-.ines, undertook
to show am e mparih-ns how a man once
shot himeif. Tho illustration was a suc
cess. Thomas' fuueral sermon was very im
pressive. A little California gtil. under fight
years i f age, learned to set type in lei's than
a fortnight. The third week she set over
ten thousand ema in clear, handsome style,
thas earning five dollars.
George Turter and Francis Br.wn were
tried last week for the murder of Rowland
Kightlinger. at llydetovvo last month, and
both were acquitted. The trial commenced
on Wednesday and lasted threw day?.
The Ways and Means Committee ef
Congress have agreed to report a bill repeal
ing the Income Tax. With its abolition a
great reduction can be made in the army of
officeholders. Oil with their costly aad use
less beads.
The New York Herald says : "Let us
have a hundred guns iu honor of Frank
P!air to the United States Senate from the
flourishing State cf Missouri ; and let the
Democracy in the other S.atea mpexd ac
cordingly. Last week the boiler in the saw mill of
Bernard Johnson, of Tailorville, exploded, j
sawyer, and Mr, Harris, an assistant, were SHXjJia jLhl V$$
iriataritlv killed, and a voun: man named I !.J
NicboUou was dangerously injured.
At Liberty, Bedford county, V . en
was shot dead by Wm. J. Johnaon. jou of,UKIS.U CL CAN'D FR'JiTt
Hon. James Foote Johuson. Five shots were i
fired by tho parties, one of which eutered SU0JR3, TEAS, CCjy
Roberts' heart. Johnson is In jail. ' U
An astonishing but commendable case j SYRUPS, MOLASSES, ZWf
of conscience is reported. Ooe Wm. Cahill, j ' ""JM
who begged a ride on the New Jersey rail- Also, a large ncek ef t(
road from Newark to Jersey City, :x years
ago. astonishing the railroad meu by calling ggat Brands C'f Ci?a'S vd Tr:
at their cflico the other day and paying the ! 6
rare. j 8T01.E ON HlQHbTREET
Mrs. Donnelly, of Philadelphia, has left 1WU'
th.s vale of tears per kerosene exoress. owing I W e 0r Cra,l-. r
IU l U C7 la. I ttiUV nc i ii: v ut'v ui u --v.
They found a piece of the can which contaia- j
ed the thud in an adjoining couuty. aod oa j
it in large letters, was -nou-txpiOslve." 41tET RridCTl' S 's p-J
That is the kind to buy. OT TU CASH M YERS .
Mrs. liiomas i)-.rey .ucot-e, wno nas
of her husband, and had been suffering from
heart disease for some) time, foil dead at her
residence on I riday, ou hearing .f the prepa j ihe r.ndcr.-ijned respect! u;!y ;.';,.
r.tlio."is made for the reception of the Fenians, ci'.izcus of benl i:r' aijj t
She was a very superior woman, aad leaves j al y that he Las m.-.-iL- a -r
ot;e uaugtittr. j prces to lash i;u,!.
Fillmore J.Shannon was convicted in i coiit, in part.cf Cwking, Parlvrxl
Uarrisburg on having committed a murder- j ir.g Stoves, . f the m tt pi.j-u-ar tii
derous a.i-auit on Edwin T. Tuuis on the j ware of every description, of :i,v;.:
17th of December last. Mr. Tunis was as- j uttcture ; Jlardicarevf a!! r.
6aulttd in the yard in the rear e f his own j Lxrks, Saews, liutt Ilii:2rt, Ti 'f I
cflice, robbed of Jo0 or J.o and left for dead, i Siutter Hinges, Bolt., lr n and
Fortunately he slowly recovered and fullv
identified his assailant.
That negro cadet is a source of C'.&Maut
trouble to the Iladicals. The House Military
Comtiiittco have appointed another sub-commit
tee to .investigate Lis case. Why not
discharge all tha whites and ive the negro
full pokesion of Vst Poi.it ? That would
give him chance to pursue his studies with
out interruption or annoyance.
It is saiil the Pope, daring the inunda
tion ,at Ih. me, gave evidence of his Usual
kindness and chanty. He distributed 1 arize
sums among the suiferers, not forgetting the
Jews in the Ghetto, or Jewish quarter of
the city, who suffered greatly by the Eood.
On his fete-day recently.be received various
sums ranging from 20.000 to 200.C00 francs, j Pumps and Tubius:: Harnfts !::
A frightful calamity befell the Italian j Ware of all kind ; J'cWc aui Y.
ship Aucona. Irotu Macao to Callao wita a ; in ere at va'ietv : Carbon U.I a:..'.
cargo ci coones. v neu near the rieptuue
Islands the ship was discovered to be on fire.
The captain and crew were saved by a Sau
Salvador ship and 12o of the coolies were
picked 'tip by the Jean Poie. The rest of
the 455 in number wete burned to death.
A young woman in Jeffersonviile, Ind.,
while out waking with a young niau, who
had beeu loving her net wisely but too eu
Dierouaiy, met a tniuiser, wheu she turned
to the yoimg n.tn. pullad a revolver, and
gave him . the choice to be
there or perforated, aJJin that if the niin
ister refused to marry them &!i would sbfv,t
him. Tho nuptual I not was tied. No
cards.
Mrs. Anna M. Rbinsr-n. wifeol Daniel
Robinson, of Chester township, D.duwaio
county. committed suicide, whiie laboriu un-
der temporary iuannity, on Friday tr.oruinc. I
by shooting herself through the heart with 1 GEO. C. ZAIIM
a pistol. She rose in tha motiiing, in appa- i
rent good health, prepared for a visit to j
Philadelphia, and during tho momentary I
abseuce of her husband committed the raoh J
act. She bad beeu married only about two i
months. !
A very general mistake is beinj mtde
bv member of fl(inir ami nvon n .o .r.o !
p,. ...... .uuun C J-'. I
editors, who ought to kuow better, in caliug
the country coveted by Mr. Grant Domin
ica." The correct term is San Don i ego
and tho name of the nation the Dominican
republic. The blatid of Dominica ijor.e of
the Leeward group. 22 miles north iif Mar
tmque, and fully 600 miles east of San Do
niingo.' aud belongs to the English. There
is another Dominica ia the South Pacific,
beloogicg to the Marquesas group.
QHERIFF-S SALES.-l$y virtue of
sundry writs of Vend. Erpon.. issued out
or tue Lourt of Common Fleas of Cambria coun
ty, and to me directed, there wt;l be exposed to
iul:c Sale, at the Court Hctaso in EU-nsburv.
on XLESDAr, the 7tli d:y of FKUKUAKY
next, at 1 o'clock, p. m., the following Heal Es
tate, to wit:
All 1hf rio-lit titln n 4no,.nc r.. ... I
Miller, of, in and to tho uidtvided half of a"picoo I JUDe 10. 1560.
Cambria county, adjoitinir lands of tho flt-irs i
or t . Pass, Jus. T. Kirlpatrick: and VI. f Kirk- '
patrick on theeast, cnthc north by C. A. Head- '
, --' eomainiiir " wore or less,
aoout A Acres cicaivi nud improved nnir iu
the occupancy of vtrtin Miltur. Taken in ex
ecution aud to be ll C lUu ult of F. PTk-r-ney.
fc,sq,.
AImo. a. the rht, title aud interest of Cath
arine .Met.-hide. or. in and to a piece or parcel of
luna Ritmte in Suumievhill township, Cambria
county, jdjtvmiuir lands of t A. Scott, Stone-P-'tcK
f Wm. Wright, and othei-s, rontain
uiiT atlAtrrt, more or loss, about 40 Acres
oienred-uot now occuptcd. Taken in eiecu
tion att to be sold at the suit of XI. If. Burk.
. r. ii. JiOXACKEIi, Shcrif.
Sbertfn Offl, Kbcnsbunr. Jau. 11, 1STI. 1-19
" ACTION ! Ilavin" purchased the
- fouowiiu: described articles at a Sheriff's
alo of the iersoual propevtv f 4iiniu l V.
lit'orgre, of CAiest Sirinjrs, and l4t theuie In
the pnsscsskn of l.ibbie Ueoryre duriur iny
pjeasurc, 1 heb caution all persous against
tntcrt'ermar imnv war with said property, viz:
6 Itedsteads jid Iteddina, 1 Bureau. 1 Clothes
Press. 1 Sin:. 3 Stands. 2 Srovea. 2 Rockini
Chairs, 11 Clain, 24 yards Carpet. I Rrenkfast
Table, and H ow
Chest Sprdsrs, Jan. 14, 1ST!
U-19.-St.
OTICI. AH persons are hereby no
tiflednit to purchase or otherwise nego
tiate f or s artain Not given br mo to H. S.
Myers & Co for IM, due in April or May
next, as thaiu was f iveu without consider
ation, and will not be paid. M. aLElt.
.January V. laTt.-St.
MONpv
lio
all mi m m
LADIES' DRES3 GOClj
Ready-Made GLOTHD
v.
Hats, Caps, Bests, S-.
CLOTHS, OASBIffijHf
ATJXCTTt, JSu,
1 1
4l
ite! Extr Family
OEaH, FEED,
Jb'RESil VEGETAULK
Xbensburj-, P,
iU'h'BS
the . :tv
reat ft--,.
l..w Glass, rutty. Tulle Kl:j4:.:;
Car vim Knives aud IVrk;, "l;i;r
' Apple Parers, Pen and F-tk-t K-
grtat variety, Scusor.
Streps. Axes, Hatchets. II.ui;ns,
Machines, Augers. C;i'.s--e..s
rashes, Square, Files, Kasr. An-
Wrenches. Kip. Panel a:.J IVs-C-
Chains ef all kinds. Shove'.-,
and Snaths, Rakes, Forki,
Shce Lasts, Peg. Wax Ur:-:s
Wiingere, Grind Sun.s. -
Gatea and Measure. Lun.if"
Nails, Hon-e Shoes. Cut Steel. E:
Guns, Revolver, PIeiJs. C.r;.;
der. Caps. Lead, Ac, 0y;y
Grates asd Fire Pricks. Wei;-:
Fish Oil. Lard'Oil. LineeJ li!,L -
Uil, Uobin, iar, uiassware, i
, , ti r-
es, Turptntine, Aicohoi. ;c.
FAMILY GROCER
euch"B.s Tea. Coffee. Sizars, .V-.s
ut.s. Slices, Dried Peaches. I'."'-'
Fish, HoimiiV, Crack r5, i-
Barley: S.aJs, Candles; 10io-v
CIGAltS ; P-iut. W h:tewas,
Shoe, Dusting. Yaruis.'i, St .ve. l
SAVE
HI.
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CHOICE FAMILY GROCEB
married rizht 1 Tooth Brut-hes, all sin-'s .-
I Cons and M-niha t.jpes,
I article? at the l.-est rtfi f.rO--
CO- Iieit:e SpvtdUj r-i-k. I " ':
! tip at Sow rates Lr ci'S.'j. A
! mailt. t: ronr.trv tlei'.c-rs I !'"'
! wLn!,h. UE0.HL.
i I.:Vnvbur-. F.-b. 23. IS?'"
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ZAHM a SON-
DEALERS IS
Dill GOODS, bBllii
HARDWARE. QUEENS.
Kats,Caps,Eoots.:
AND ALL 0TBER AST-C-
L'vually lievt la a Coiial
WOOL AND CCLT.NTEY W
TAMX IS EiCiiA'--5
STORE ON 3IAI
Next Door to the Post Of 3 j
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E SEVERE Tiu 'ivr
MONUMENTS, TOMBSTC
- to
The subscriber still c"'-5- ,if
of the best material ana .(
, mnriner,
Loretto Marble f.
all kind ut A-C-iRlEssS'1'
S'JVJKKS as well as iJr,:'-i.
i-nP .n.t all other n1?
but the best America n 'i:r
used, and perfect &t
si fit mica a " ,;.fi
be obtained in the cities or I
and see specimei.s nJ I
as to the merits cf. ivllS
t aTI-h 12. lS6S.lv
w Ward.
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