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rONUITTEG N KETISO.
The members ff the Democratic' County Com
mittee of Cambria county, arc requested to
nect at tho Court House in Ebensburg-, on
jk'nmUiv th first day of May next, at ono o'clock,
r. M. A full attendance is requested.
It. L. JOHNSTON, Chairman.
P. P. The names of the gerttleinen composing
the committee will be found in our locul de
jartmont. O.-J Tuurslay at 2 o'clock lotb Houses of
Congress ar'jourcffd until the first Monday of
December bext. The iufamoua Ku Klnx
Mil and the Dt nki.'ncy till were both pigned
by the President before tho adj lurnment.
The bill restoring the Spring Elections for
towni-hip, ward arid borough officers ha
finally I assed both branches of th Legisla
ture and has doubtless ere this been signed
by the Governor, We understand that here,
aftrr the election for these officers will take
.lac on the third Tuesday in March, and
that the election ofllcers chosen 'last October
are to hold over until their succesors are
elected at the first election under the new
lur. As soon as we can see a copy of the
law we will publish it.
Ir will be recollected that duriog the ses
sion of Congress previou to the last, Mr.
Dawes of Massachusetts succeeded in get
ting an auieiidment adopted by the House,
appropriating $20,000 te the Sisters of
Mercy in Charleston to enable them to re
build their Orphan's Asylum, which had been
destroyed during the bombardment of that
city. When the question of concurring in
Ihe amendment came up before the Senate.
It was defeated by the saintly Harlau, Nye,
and others of that stripe. Last week Mr.
Dawes again offered the sanio amendment
to the Deficiency bill, and sustained It in an
eloquent speech. The House agreed to it
by a unanimous rote, and tin Senate has
since adopted it. Justice, though some
times slow, is sure to be reached at last.
This appropriation w not asked for as a
matter of right, but was based on the peti
tion to C ingress of more than five hundred
ofEeera and privates of the Union arm' pro
fessing various religious creed, many of
whom had been kindly nursed arjd cared for
by these same Sisters of Charity when they
were prot rated by sickling or rufTaring
from their wounds. With a commendable
fueling of gratitude, they t-imply siked Con
gress to donate the money, in order that
these self-scriBc'iDg women might be again
ecabled to engage in the holy work of char
ity and benevolence to the homeless and
friendless orphans of Charleston, without
regard to color or creed. Who will say
that the bounty was not bestowed for a gen
erous aud noble purpose 7
After the Amnesty bill had pasted the
lower branch of Congress by such an over
whelming majirity, it was confidently be
lieved that it would not eneountbr any seri-
us opposition in the Senate. This illusion
was rudely dispelled by the action of a cau
rns of the Radical members of the Senate,
M'hich was held lat Monday to consider
what course should be taken n the subject.
Senators Robertson and Sawyer, of South
Carolina. l lckingham, Shu-z, Logan,
Lwis, Sherman, and 'Wilnon, 'advocated
immediate and favorable action on the
Huse bill, while Moiton, Edmunds, Chan
tiler, and Scott opposed it an inexpedient,
tin wise and uncalled for. That apostle of
Radical hate. Chandler, stated in the caucus
that Grant was opposed to it, and the Am
ne.tj bill was laid on the table by a vote
of 20 to 10. several Senators refusing to
vjUj. This effort at pta-re and good will
is theiefire defeated for the present. We
were net at all surprisbd at John Scott's
opposition to the measure. His course in
the Senate, whenever a question has come
before it affecting the people of the Southern
f?tatfs, shows him to be a bitter and malig
nant partisan, and without any of the ini'.k
f human kindne.se in his veins. The ex
planation i simple. lie was once a radical
Democrat, but uow is the most radical of
71a iicaN, and is only following in the
footsteps of a Christiau who becomes a Turk
and labors hard to prove the sincerity of his
belief in the new doctrine La has embraced,
by surpassing its most intolerant bigots in
the farveiicy of his z?al and the constancy of
his devotion.
Tii-a following statement taken from the
People's Pictorial lax-Paper is interesting
as showing what a farmer pays in taxes un.
der the present iniquitous tariff. It makes
a startling show in favor of the manufactu
ring as against the agricultural interests of
the country :
Pertt.
Tho farmer nes in the morning and puts
on bis tunnel snirt taxed fiS
Ilia trousers taxed fi()
His s Ik vest taxed., 60
Uiscoat Cloth taxed 60
PuitoDi, taxed . . . . 4')
Silk lining taxed til)
Tadding taxed 150
Drawe on bis boots taxed 35
Sit down to breakfast irom a plate taxed.. 45
Knives and forks taxed 35
Ttea.'U a newspnper Paper taxed 20
With ink taxed 35
And type taxed 20
Vols on his s'oaohed hat taxed 70
Hitches hie horpe, shod with nails taxed. . f7
Te a plough taxed 45
With irace chains taxed 100
And harnrsa taxed 35
He gees te Tillage store end burs bis vife
handkerchief taxed 35
Shawl (1 suppose wooleD) taxed 2o0
Silk for a dre.s taxed CO
Hat taxed 40
Btockirga I suppose worsted) taxed. ... 75
Boots taxed 35
Silk cravat taxed 60
Silk umbrella taxed. 60
Keedles tared 25
Thread taxed ' 7. J
Fins taxed 35
OIove3 tsxed 50
Fiteei pens taxed 70
Rice tsxed r2
tioap taxed.. 70
Caoulra t4ied 40
P;arch tax fed. Jfc 50
Paiot taxed 20
Gets a ballot and tows for protection under
the eld tog, tsxed-. - 103
Morton and Grant.
Two weeks ago to night a most notable
political farce was played in the city of
Washington. The Incus in quo was the bal
cony of the National Hotel, and the leading
performers were Oliver P. Morton, a Radi
cal U. S. Senator from Indiana, U. S Grant,
of San Domingo fame, Schuyler Colfax, Jno.
V. Forney, and Joha C. P. Shanks, a Rad
ical member of Congress, who is said to have
been the original owner of "Shank's mare."
The ostensible object in view was a serenade
to Morton under the auspices of the Indi
ana clerks employed in the diff.-rent depart
ments at the seat of government. The real
purpose, however, anil which was well un
derstood by the actors, was to enable Mor
ton, in the speech he was to deliver, to re
nominate Grant for the Presidency. After
a brass band had played an enlivening air
the redoubtable John C. P. Shanks, in a
spread eagle address, introduced Morton to
the crowd, all of whom found ample room
to stand on the avenue immediately in front
of the hotel. Although Morton is a man of
more thau ordinary ability, his career in the
Senate has shown him to be as unscrupu
lous and thorough-paced a demagogue as
ever sat in that body. In that respect
Chandler from Michigan, of "blood letting"
infamy, is a fool when compared to him, and
even Jim Nye, of Nevada, a first cousin of
the immortal Bill Nye, who "went fjr that
heathen Chinee,' pales his ineffectual fires
before the admitted pre-eminence of Morton.
He is Grant's leader in the Senate, and does
all tho dirty work assigned to him with
promptitude and boldness. In hi speech
on the occasion referred to, after showering
on Grant and his administration a vast deal
of praise, as fulsome as it was false, he firm
ally nominated him as theTiadical candidate
for President in 1872, Grant at the time sit
ting by the side of his Senatorial henchman.
It was iudeed a humiliating spectacle, but at
the same time perfectly in harmony "with
the ways that are dark and the tricks that
are vain" of the presret incumbent of the
White House. What former President, by
a pre arranged plan, has ever stooped so low
! to conquer ? Not one. They would have
scorned to do it. Their own sense of pro
priety, as well as a decent respect for the
dignity of their high cf5ee, would have n
stinctively prevented them from thus dishon
oring and trailing it in the dirt. Morton
in bis speech, not content with pronouncing
a high sounding eulogium on Grant, interi
spersed with iiis UEual unblushing falsehoods
against the Democratic party, had the bra
zan impudence to lay down a platform for
the Democratic candidate to stand upon
during the next Presidential campaign, lie
asserted that if that party elected its candi-
j date it would repudiate the public debt,
refuse to p9y their pensions to the widows
and soldiers of the late civil war. and last,
though cot least, would take the right of
suffrage away from the negroes. Where
did this arrogant demagogue pet his author-
i ity for making these sweeping and unfound
ed accusations ? Ho well knew they wore
barely false when bis slanderous tongue gave
them utterance. Morton expects t:i Focco9d
Mr. Fish as Secretary of State, as booh as the
President gives the S ecretary to understand
that hia renignation would be acceptable,
aud therfore Morton, in order to make his
calling and election sure, feels bound to con
ciliate Grant by Ijing abuse upon tho
Democratic party. It is thus that he hopes
that "thrift may follow fawning." When
a Democratic President, on the 4th of March,
1S73, relieves Grant from any farther oc
cupancy of the White House, none of the
dreadful things predicted by this false
prophet from Indiana v7il! come to pass, or
even attempted to be brought about.
At the very commencement of reconstruct
ing the Southern States this same man,
'Morton.) who was then Governor of Indi
ana, was as bitter and outspoken an oppo
nent of negro suffrage as anv Mississippi or
South Carolina planter. He opposed and
denounced it both in his message to the
Legislature of his own State as well as on
the stump. Any vulgar slanders, therefore,
which this scurvy politician may see fit now
or hereafter, to utter against the future
action of the Democratic party will fall per
fectly harmless they will be rox el preterea
nihil.
South Carolina,
If there is a State in this free and glori.
cus republic more hopelessly cursed than
another with a set of ignorant, reckleFs and
corrupt legislators, it is South Carolina.
The negroes in the State outnumber the white
population, and the consequence is that more
than firo thirds of the members of the Legis
lature, which has but recently adj urnod,
belonged to the former class. Not being the
owners of any real estate, and therefore not
required to contribute anything to the sup
port of the State government, a wide and
inviting field for legislative robbery and op
pression was spread out before them. Igno
rance and stupidity enact the moet Infamous
tax laws and the intelligent white owner of
the soil is compelled to bear the heavy bur
den. No other State reels and staggers un
der the crushing weight of such enormous
tax levies as South Carolina. It is as shame,
less at it is unparalleled. Under negro rule
in that State taxation virtually amounts to a
confiscation of the lands of the white popu
lation, who are practically unrepresented in
the Legislative. During the last, as well as
the previous session of that body, millions
of State bonds were authorized to be issued
by Scott, the carpet-bag Governor from
Ohio, for the purpose of forciag the State
into a syBtem of wild and speculative public
improvements. A large amount of these
bonds have been negotiated, and are now
held by capitalists in New 1'ork. Alarmed
at the inevitable bankruptcy that is sure to
follow, the members of the Chamber of Com
merce in Charleston have held a meeting and
olemnly warned the holders of these bonds
that, come what may, the bona Jide tax pay
ers cf tb.9 State are resolred never to pny (
them. In a few weeks a State convention
will be held at Columbia for the purpose of
taking definite action in refereuce to this in
sufferable grievance. Even the negroes in
the rural districts are becoming rebellious
against the notorious corruptions of their
black brethren in the Legislature, and are
holding meetings in various parts of the
State, pledging themselves hereafter to vote
far honest and competent vhite men to make
the laws rather thau cast their ballots for
ignorant and corrupt men of their own color.
This is a hopeful pign. and may yet rescue
the State frtm the slrrgh of bankruptcy
and utter ruin with which it is row threaten
ed. The following statement shows the con
trast between the expenses of the State gov
ernment before the war and the reconstruct
ed government under negro rule in 188 :
Expenses of Lcgisla- $58,
tl.re . $51 .000 ?270.000
Executive etrensos. 5.000 40.000
Civilexpen.ee 97(00 218.0 10
Tjtxv, . 431.000 1.5i5,00
TaxanieValue 490,(500,000 184.000,000
The Chicago Tribune, a Republican paper,
gives the fallowing interesting illustrations
of the viilauies which are perpetrated under
the negro carpet-bag government of tLat
plundered State :
The Speaker of the House (Moses) receives
bis JG per deim for ever session, and this ses
sion includes four months. Before adjourn
ment $1,01 0 were voted him as a present, ex
tra, all from the Stute Treasury. He is also
Adjutant (Seneral, and as such receives a sala
ry of 2,500, with ? 1.000 more as a contin
gent fund, and $21.0-10 more for expenses ( ?)
of tho militia- Me was rIso allowed f 91 .00
to buj furniture for the hall, and 500,000 to
buy arms, &c. These are the figures which
the records shsw. The Spenkt's tatr.er i the
Chief Justice, with a salary ot $4 000 and a
contingent fund in his hands of $5,800. The
Speaker's father in-law has SI, -00 (or one of
fice and $1,000 tor another. The Speaker's
une'e is Circuit Judge, with a salary of iS.SuO ;
and then foilows a small army of the Speaker
kin ho hare wbat to them seems a liberal
share of the pickings.
That Offfe-C oi.orkd Caput Aoain in
Tuou bi.e. A West Point correspondent has
this to say : That interesting young ele
phant known to the world at large as Cadet
Smith, has been again friskily disporting in
the field of his wanton will, and proving
how sheltering is the wis which covers a
darkey pet. Several months ago this darkey
was tried by court martial for excoriating his
neighbor's shins, and when remonstrate 1
with, replying in terms the reverse of polite.
Last simmer be was also involved in trouble
for using his tin dip er as an instrument
with which rather to lay open the military
skull than to quaff the spaikling spring.
The head breaking business dropped quietly
into oblivion. But for turning ki eyes to
right at the command "left dress," he was
c ?rt martialed in January. The findings
were sent to Washington, and havn remain
ed there ever since.
And now. wLiie Smith is, as it were, rut
on bail he repeats his formor exploit kicking
the shins the of the man next to him in the
ranks, and making reflections, as unpleasant
as untrue, upon his maternal aucestor. It
is doubtful if he will bo court martialed f r
this new offence; for another trial.Jwhile the
sentence of ttie Lrst is as yet unknown,
rould not fail to be the broadest kind of a
farce.
Tub N. Y. Evening Post. Republican,
still keeps np i's fare on Grant's Force Bill.
It declares that
Republican government "has not failed ir.
the Southern States. It has bad no fair
trial. S far as it has been tried at all, the
result has been the most astonishing success
iu history, in allaying passion and ceroeat
ing peice. The partial amnesty and imper
fect autonomy hitherto given to these Btates,
since the war, have dona wonders in pre
venting the universal disorder which so
many expected from the social revolution
wrought there so recently. These facts en
courage the belief that if the Constitution
were at once applied to the Siuthern States,
in all its extent, putting their wh )le people
precisely on an equality before the laws
with all their fellow citizens, order and
peace would speedily be re-established
throughout the land. But. in any case, this
is all we can lawfully do for those States;
and the attempt to force these blessings,
upon them by military violence is not only
useless itself, but is a declaration that in the
opinion of Congress popular government is a
failure.
The Vcte for Goyeknor in Connecti
cut. The only correction we have to make
of our figures of Thursday, is this: We
gave Jewell one more ic Sinifcbury than he
received. This makes 42 for English over
Jewell.
We do not count the 23 votes for Jewell,
not declared and not returned by the presi
ding officer of Cheshire. Even should they
be counted for Jewell, then English would
lead Jewell 19 votes. There are uot proba
Ifi . i t . 1
Ol I'J scattering votes in inn oiaie. uoovu
the votes given for "J. K. English," "J.
English," &c, and "M. Jewell" all of
which will be counted by the Legislature
for the persons for whom they were in
tended. The Radicals say they intend to count
the Enfield votes again ! The box may
have been stuffed twenty times since the
election sealed and re-sealed. It is the
count in open meeting, before ihe adjourn
ment, then openly declared, that is lawful
and safe. Recounts, weeks afterward, if
accepted . would make a farce of the election.
Hartford, Conn., Times, bth.
An Important Decision. The Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania has decided (Judge
Sharswood delivering the opinion) that a
purchaser at Sheriff's sale is not bound to
look beyond the judgment docket to ascer
tain whether the entries thereon are made
by authority, and that where there is a de
fective entry of a jadgment, or an unauthor
ized entry of a fraction, the prothonotary is
liable for damages to the party injured.
Hence, where the prothonotary, without the
authority of the court, entered on docket
against a jadgment, "satisfied, Ji fa," it
was held that the entry was perfectly regular
and conclusive as to third persons to whom
the Judgment itself regularly docketed was
conclusive notice, and that it wa6 not neces
sary to search further and ascertain whether
there was any record of an order of the court
directing such satisfaction.
Toe following comeB to us with the head
ing of "A Story with a Moral." We have
read it twice over, but for the life of us can
not see where the moral comes in: A youth
ful hen fcund an egg, and yielding to the
vernal instinct, sat upon it until the process
of incubation was complete. Her mother,
who had laid tho egg and had taken great
pains in shaping and coloring it. came along,
and seeing only the broken shell, burst into
tears aud said : "Alas, my daughter, who
has destroyed my favorite egg ?" The feath
ered offspring quickly responded : 'I cannot
tell a lie ; T did it with my little hatch it."
An Artistic Mystery.
Congress lias a momentous question to
settle when it shail have disposed of the Ku
K'.ux Klan, the Senators unfriendly to San
Domingo, and ether troublesome matters.
We alluda to the difficulty of determining
the status of the great naval historica', historical-patriotic,
tragical, comical, tragical
comical, or otherwise, oil painting, which
was to have beeu finished on the 2J ultimo,
by Mr. Wm. 11. Powell, for the use and be
hoof of the United States. Vinnie Ream',
statue we know where that is, and Vinnie
knows where the money is ; but this time
honoredjpiece of canvas is wrapped, rolled
up, as it were, in the dominD of doubt. Six
years ago, while war was yet waging, and
the pulse of patriotism was at its highest
heat. Congress voted to commission this
painter, Powell, to build a picture for $25,
000, which should commemorate, in proper
colors and dimensions, the daring deed of
the American navy ; something which
thonld record in oil the bravery of cur tars
on the water. The money, which some may
think exorbitant, though Powell probably
doesn't, waa paid J2.0C0 down. $4,000
annually for Lur years, and $7,000 on the
completion of the picture. No provision
seems to have been made fcr the cveut of
Powell' dying of eld age beforo his task
should bo fulfilled.
Having got hi3 contract duly signed, Pow
ell went to work, r.nd the price of paints
and 'oils immediately rose, in consequence
of tho "corner" in the mnrkel consequent
upon his orders. Years rolled on, the navy
was all sold out at 00 per cent, diecount,
the good old admiral died, secretaries of the
navy camo and went, the war-scarred heroes
of Fort Monroe aud New Orleani forgot
their earlier b.utles in the new warfare be
tween the KtsfJ and line, and still Powell
plastered at his canvas, never omitting to
call at the sub-treasury for his yearly sti
pend. In other words, be would draw a
ship and then draw his allowance. The
latest authentic advices received from Mr.
Powell's enterprise were dated the 21st of
February, 1870, when John A. Dix. Wil
liam II. Aspinwall, and ether distinguished
New Yorkers, who l ad been detailed to re
connoitcr. reported the "drawing all done,"
(that is of ships, not of pay,) and tho "col
ors well laid on" requiring "only the re
touching of light and shade to finish it."
They therefjre recommended the immediate
payment of another $4,000. in order that
Powell might retouch tne light and shade
with a light heart and a constant conscious
ness of national appreciation.
It must have been an uocomcaonly bad
year for light and shade in the city of New
York, where the work has been ging on.
for the Committee on the Library, to whom
a resolution of ir.quiry concerning this pic
ture was recently referred, report nothing
as to the whereabouts of this picture or the
artist, notwithstanding the five years allow
ed him to complete his work expired fix
weeks ago.
The questions are. where is Powell, and
where is his picture? Have his ships all
turned into Fying Dutchmen and vanished
from the face of the deep that is, from
Powell's canvas? Has Powell, on "re
touching" his water view with the "light
and shade" aforesaid, made it so natural
that he has tumbled in'.o it and been drown
ed 1 Has the rivalry between the line and
staff of the navy for the honor of 1-eing com
memorated by Powell wax-d so fierce that
the canvas has been rent in fragments in
tho struggle for possession, thus d;iverir!g
the timbers and blasting the ryes of every
bold mariner in the fleet? lias Powell,
having collected his $18,000 of the Govern
ment, carried Tn his regular j b business
besides, and finding somebedy's $10,000 a
stronger inducement than the $7,000 re
maining due from the Government ? If so.
how- much, ret, has the Government made
be the transaction? If not, and if Powell
has refused to d'-liver his canvas without an
additional appropriation, (which ssprns most
likely.) what proportion of the whole area
of canvas will the Government be entitled
to cut off and appropriate to its own uses,
in indemnification for its $18,000 paid, and
interest thereon ? This, though a marine
affair, is not an international one. and can
not probably come before the Joint High
Commission for arbitration. Some investi
gation should be made at rnce, and letters
of marque ultimately ismed, whereby the
Government may reprise, condemn, and take
possession of those fugacious
" painted ships
Upon h painted ocan."
Chicago Tribune.
Exposcrf.. Povertt andDkath". A Sad
Story. During the first half of lant week a
straugs man and wjman were seen in the
vicinity of Upton, this county, the man had
but one arm and was selling writing iuk. At
night they would lodge in a barn unless they
ware refused admittance. One farmar re
fused them the use of his barn, and they
spent several nights at a lime kiln about
three quarters of a mile from Upton. On
last Thursday uight, some person passing the
kiln late in the evening h?ard the voice of
some one in great ajrouy. The next morning
the man reported that the woman was dead.
Some of the neighbors visited tho spot and
found his statement to be true. An inquest
was held by Jacob Gok, Esq., and a ver
dict renderod that she came to hsr death
from intemperance and exposure. The re
mains of the woman were buried the same
afternoon in the graveyard of St. Stephen's
chnrch. She was about thirty-eight years
old. The man give his name as Ilenlon.and
said that ho was native of Schuylkill county.
Franklin I2fjository .
Advance Payment for Newspapers.
No subscriber woith retaining will object to
the payin-advance system. Those who
wanted to hear Jenny Lind feing had to pay
in? advance. You can't take your seat in a
ricketty mail coach or fly-from-the track
railroad car without paying in advance for
the risk of being killed. If you would hear
a concert, or literary lecture, or see Tom
Thumb, or the Siamese Twins, you must
plank down yonr twenty-five, fifty, or one
hundred cents before you can pass over the
threshold. Nay, if any one had so little re
gard for his character as to want to read
Barnum's Autobiography he must pay for
it. And yet men hesitate and cavil about
paying in advance for a paper furnished at
a price on the very brink and utmost verge
of prime cost.
The very close result of the late election for
Governor in Connecticut has suggested to the
Cincinnati Enquirer an investigation of close
elections in this country. It recollects the
following instances of sharp contests: Iu 1839
Marcue Morton, Democrat, was chosen Gov
ernor in Massachusetts by ono majority. In
1840, Edward Kent, a Whig, was elected
Governor in Maine by sixty-eight votes over
John Fairfield, Democrat. In 1814, Henry
Clay, for President, carried Tennessee by
113 votes, over James K. Polk. In 1848.
Secretary Ford beat John Weiler. Democrat,
for Governor of Ohio by about 250 votes.
In 1850 Horatio Seymour lost the Governor's
office in New York by some 250, and in 1854
he was beaten again by just about the same
figure.
Political nml Kews Items.
A. T. Stewart salted down a million
and one-half last year.
Twenty-four large circne are an
nounced for the season of 1871, in th?
United States.
The bill providing for a geoloaica. sur
vey of the State was killed in the House on
Thursday week.
Jennie Foster ,a servant girl in Alle
gheny City. Pa., hai gone to England to get
a fortune of S105.000 in gold.
One or two applications of buttermilk
will destroy lice cn cattle, and it is a safe
remedy to drive off the vermin.
The cost of artillery, gunpowder, etc.,
consumed in defending Paris riming tho late
siege is estimated at $12 000.000.
Defiance. Ohio, has a family containing
five doctors, a father and bis four sons, each
of the five being over six feet high.
A simple and very tffectua! remedy for
sore backs in horses, is a plaster made of
the yolk of an egg and a spoonful of turpen
tine. The Democrats now Lave more mem
bers in C ingress than at auy tinio since the
35th Cngrcs the first during President
Buchanan's term.
The "Egyptian Monks" is the name of
a new secret society in Illinois. The lodge
room furniture consists of one chair and
fifty-three spitlons.
The oigan in the Royal Albert Hall,
London, will be the largest and most pow
erful in the wovld. having 9.000 pipes and
120 stops, inflated by two steam engines.
A man named William Hoar, was kill
ed on Saturday, the 8th inst., in North
Union township, Fayette county, by another
named George Cassidy, during a fist fight.
The. President has sent in the names of
eleven jfryrrs icf comprse tie Legislative
Giuncil of tho District of C-.lumbia. Three
of tbeso are black, Fred. Douglass being one
of them.
Wonders wil! never cense. A fancy
soap mine has been discovered nar Iowa
City. It is in the form of a mineral, per
forms all the duties cf soap, and has an aro
matic odor.
A great trench of promise caFe Jeni.ie
M'Bri le, of Bellefonte. vs I. I. Wagnet has
been dooided at Franklin, Vt-riswgo county,
in favor of Miss M'Bride, the jury awarding
her $3.S0O.
Mr. II. J. L-mbaert. one of the able
.md experienced Vice Presidents of the
Pennsylvania Central Railroad, has ben
chosen President of the Philadelphia Statn
rhip C -mpany. '
An eccentric citi7.n f St. Lu's d:d
recently and left in his will $1,000 to the
man who. ten years before, had run sway
with bis wife. One of the last thingu he
said was that be never forgot a favor.
Gmnecticut boasts thirty-three widows
of original Revolutionary Fldicrs. Sup
posing the youngfs.t of thrm to have mar
ried at the age of 10, at the beginning of
the war, she mut now be 1 1 1 years o'd.
A "Bpoonfish," so named from its spoon
like snout, was recently caught in the Ohi ?
river, near Wellsbnrg. West Va. It weigh
ed 23 pounds. It wsg f awarded to Ben.
Butler bv a few of his Wellsbwrg ndmirrrs
In Reading, a gypsy w.rrian. 1 e. aging
to a party encamped rear ti nt place, wns
caught in th act of stealing a baby or.t of a
cradle in a hens which she had entered
while the mother wa momenta-ily up sfairs.
A pupil in the High School ut Pittsfiald.
Mass., who lost both of bis arms by a rad
road accident when a very rrnal! boy,' man
ages his book.usos his slate, and writes !rg;
b'y with Iiia mouth. Us can also' write with
his toe.
There was an incendiary fire in New
burg on the 10th inst.. which destroyed six
stables a:d partially destroyed four dwel'it-g
holies. Loss 14.000. partly insured. On
tha Saturday r.ight previous several stables
in Orrsfown were fired.
"SoliDcd beer" is the latest thing. Jt
is lager concentrated the way they do milk,
so that the amount yon can hold on the
point of a knife, will make you drunk e'ean
through. A man can carry enough in his
vest pocket to ruin a temperance society.
Strawberries are sailing in Charleston.
South Carolina, at thirty five and forty cents
a quart, and fresh shad at twenty-Gv and
thirty rents apiece. Green pens retail at
the low figure of ten cents per quart. 0;her
vegetables are plenty, and almost equally
cheap.
Tho Pfid tory of the two little children
of Bonaparte Brunell. of Wick ford, Rhode
Island, who were buried alive by the falling
in C'f the wall of a cave, has a sad sequel.
Mrs. Brunell, who was ill. died from the
shock, and Mr. Brunell, the father, haa be
come insame.
A thorough organization of the consoli
dated lines under the coutrol of the Penn
sylvania Railroad has been made. Mr. Thou.
A. Scott being elected President, Wm. Shaw
Vice Fresideut ami J. M. McCullough Gen
eral Manager. A circular will be issued in
a few dajs giving notice of the change to
the employes of the road.
The ways of justice in Brooklyn at
present appear to be past finding out. Two
men were the other day found guilty, before
Justice Lynch, of beating their wives. One
was a poor man, and he was sent to the
peaitentiary for six months; the other was
an accomplished scoundrel, and in view of
that fact, he was fined $3 for his crime.
David Wiliiams, of Peach Bottom. Lan
caster county, after heating an augur one
day last week, plunged it into a keg con
taining powder, supposing it water, when
an explosion took place, which blew up a
blacksmith shop and terribly burned (per
haps fatally) Mr. Williams. Edward Lloyd
and John Owens, who were in tho building
at the time, also suffered considerably.
John P. Nolan, aged tweuty-two. and
a printer by profession, having been absent
from his home, in Bellefonte, near two years,
and nothing having been heard from him
by his mother during that time, has caused
her great uneasiness. Last heard from him
he was in Corry. Any information concern
ing him addressed to T. B. Nolan, Washing
ton D. C, will be thankfully received.
There is a singular lawtuit in Goodhue
county, Minn. It seems that two religious
societies quarreled as to which should bury
the dead body of a man who had belonged
to neither, and the defeated one. soon after
the funeral, camo with an order from the
man's widow for the removal of his remains
to their cemetery. The order was disregard
ed, and the matter has gone into the courts.
A poor soldier in New Hampshire, who,
after three applications, succeeded in get
ting $100 bounty, sent at onco $10 to an
uncle who had loaned him that amount when
bo was in desperate need. A few days ao
the uncle died, and by his will left the almost
penniless soldier all his estate, valued at
$200,000. giving as his reason for so doing
that he had many times lent money to his
relatives, and be alone had repaid him.
John Lovejoy, cf Goffstown. N. II.. a
Radical, evidently not overjoyed at the drub
bing his party received at the late election,
spiked the cannon used by the Democrats
in firing a salute in that town. Tuesday
night last, and has been held in $200 bonds
to answer further for committing the unlaw
ful act. The gun is the one raptured at the
battle of Bennington bv Genera! S'n.i.
named "Molly Stark," in honor of the wita
of the General.
It is reported that the Lutheran inhabit
ants rf tho rrovir.ee of Livonia have petition
ed the Russian government 10 permit negoti
ations for the annexation of their province to
Prussia, and that the czar ordered the signers
to leave his dominions on pain of confiscation
of their effects.
. Mrs. Judith Rust died in I-pwich,
Mass., a few days Ago. and of her the New.
buryport Herald bays : "She w:t3 married
on (liriitmas Eve, 1779. aud although he
was on good terms .with her family, yet h
never slept in her fither'o house afterward.
There were ninety persons at her wedding,
and ho Mirvived them a'!. She idept upon
the same bedstead from the night of her nosr
liage to the day of her deah. She rarried
1 the first umbrella ever rarried in Rowley."
i D. G. Tuttle, of Warren, III, died on
Thursday last of voluntary starvation, !mv
i ing for twenty-five days previously swlIIow
I ed nothing except a f;w ounces of wine and
water. The deceased was a strong believer
I in Spiritualism, and claimed that the spirits
j l ad told him that he mnt fast for f.'rty
i days, after which he would go into a trance,
and the spirit would depart; but after six
! days it would come bsck, and he would riso
! up and eat, and then we would all be breth
i ren.
! On Sunday, at the Cttholic church r.f
j St. Mary, Wi diatusbtsrg, N. Y., there was a
j narrow escaj e frt m a terrible fate, A pro
c-ssion of yonr.g giils.each carrying a lighd
i taper, entered the church while the prie?t
! was baplh i.Tg a number converts. Sud-
denly the flam of a candle held by one of
the little girls set fire to her veil, and the
j fire spread from veil to veil until some doz-?n
of the children tre en fire. Haj pi'y,
i through the presence f mind T those pres-
cnl. the fumes were extinguished before the
' girls were seriously t urned.
Sergeent B;te. the soldier who inarc!i
i ed with the Stars and Stripes through the
; Southern States a few years ago, to disprove
; the radical assertion that it was unsafe fir
j any ore to do so. has written a letter in
' which b snvs that when he reached Greens
1 brro'. N. C.. m his travels, he was ap-
preached by Governor IIoMen. cn behalf of
! the Union League, with an offer of SlO 000
I if he would abandon the march fippsrent
j ly in difgust" and go home. Batts, though
j a poor rn.in. dec'ircl with, indignation, and
: thus spoiled the radical little game.
1871.
1S71
An Attractive Stock cf
DM GOOD
ASD-
XLIXERY GQGBS
At Bargain Prices!
SILKS! SILKS!! SILKS!!!
Ulftk Silk Bt all prie.
Gro ( Rhine Blnck Pilks.
I'liiin Japanese Siilis.
Stri ,t Japanp" SHV.
i'laid .lapanPHe fit,
eirauite Japanese S'iks,
VERY LOW is iaict:s!
ALPACAS-A fnll line very cheap.
Iilr.ck Bombazine.
Merinos Rn.l Poplins, nil colors.
Isew i'l-iutts lJercales aud Chintzen.
JL'XT uI'EXZD.
A COMPLETE STOCK OF
HOUSEKEEPING D.1Y GOODS.
TIIlS LATKST SOYELTIES IX
rviILLINERYG O O D S,
at miY i. o ir riticrs.
SPRING SHAWLS,
$2.00 and Upward-Great Bargains.
Also. niak Thibet Shawls,
Uroche Shuwls,
Black, White aud Scarlet Shetland Shawls.
A COMFLETE STOCK OF
'id Vm riTiniilnTirvA TlVn-i oJ
s ana w
Embroidered Edjfin and Inserting,
J.uce Kdtf-.rijjs an.i lnsei-tinir.
I.ace and Linen roiutvd Collar".
Underwear, Hosiery, ti loves, Notion, &c,
AT ATTRACTIVE PRICES!
n!cnthaVeratent Self -Fitting American Boaomi.
nuiTi: ax it sTitirjc i jc.'s,
At Very Low Prliei, at
Gris EL Fustcr's,
113 and 115 Clinton Street, Johnstown.
in ited to call aud examine our stock.
H TIECES OF
CARPETS ! CARPETS ! !
New Spring Stock and Styles.
Brusseh Carpets,
Three Vly Caipets.
Ingrain Carpets,
Rag, Cottage Hemp Carpels.
JMaitings and Ruqs.
. FLOOR OIL CLOTHS,
4-4, 5-4, 6-4 and 8-4 wide.
AT
GEIS & FOSTER'S,
Nos. 113 A li; C.M.-ito.i Sr.,
'ntissToiry, pa.
Ckis & Foster's !
1871. SPBIHgTI?
I ar& now prepared to r. '
SUPERIOR INIJUCEMEYI-
to cash rracm,.;,, (1P U-
mritT nTTTtTtrn inrit
MM - H IS fir m m lrirJ
MTim: A i Ml
WHOLESALE OR RETAIL.
My stock consists in part of evtry T,..4
in, MiCf't-lrun
COrPER AND r.UAssAYAEv
AMKI I.KI AND ri Ms-
il.N'D.
Sprat's AnttD,,
HEATING and COOKING cTfr
EXCELSIOR CCOKISG sty.,-.'
NOBLE, TRIUMPH AsnPUlIr
ING STOVF, '
And any Cooking Stove desirt-l I
when ordered ot manuf.tctmer's
Odd Stove Plates ai.ri Grat.-S t.
pairs, c-n band for the .Stoves I -v. '
i will be ordered when wanted. pV-:
j attention given to
Spouting, Valleys and Cor.-'-:--
J all of which will be m;ide oi;t t j..?. 1
j rials and put up by co:npcH'T;t
i
Lamp Burners, Wick and CMc:;
j viioi.r.SAi.i-: o:: ::kta:i.
j I would call particular n;cr ?i r. f ' -.- .
j House P.urr.er, with Glass G f - ,7
more liiinr w.an s:,y ou.;-r in y.se. .
Paragou Burner, f r Ciu :e
SUGAR KETTLESaND CAULLRC
of all sizes constantly on ! a.-.i.
Special attention giver.
Jobbing in Tin, Copper and Si.ee: !;
at lowest possible r:;-.
Wholesale Mr.ixn wiV
now ready, ard will be m-m ..-j ; .,
by iv, a II or in pers 'Ti
Hoping tn ( r.l! riyiM cv! :
many r.ew one thin Spiin, I r- r
most ehrcere thanks f'-r the v. ry ' -
; troi.RQje i i.ave atro.sdy rcrt-5
endeavor to pleas -nil who i:;ay c",
er they buy or Let
riiANCis v,.
Johnstown. March 7. ltT.
rjiiiOMAS cat; la:;
WDOLKSAI.E IF.j .. :s
GROCERIES PES
WOOD AND WILLOW WA?;:,
STATIONERY A.XJJ NOTi-v-
m sin m mn
K.U G, fHil'B.
FEED AND PROVISION
23-23 Flt'Veiilh Aicniif,
Between 13ih and 14th Sis,, I '::
All such roods ji S; :ff?. ;
on i Willow W'j.re. Sin e '': ' . -
I er wi1. ! !-c sfdd Horn m iru; '
price lists, ai.-d U otlur .: :-v. r.
rhiladeb-hia, n.iltinv-re. Ci: : .: .; ' -iuuuh
curicnt pi:es. To ties:,". 1
peculiar advant.'jre of savi: - il.e:.
:;i:d d ravage, ss they are n't ru, .:
freiuli!? j'rom the jTii.eif;:! tirV :
ape eh.-irjrea are male. i)e:dt-r. TT -. "
sured that mv pornis .-ire o! li e !';;
niv prices as n'o-iemte a-1 eitv r:-.i -a
fair, upright bullies, r.r 1 t.r ;ros-':
satisfactorily filling all or.irr. I !-."
the patrnr. ipe of retail dealers
Cambria cii.i:ty and ele here. r':
spectfullv solicited jtti I h ':w '
in aii cases. - 1 il ' M -1 S- C A KLA -
Altoo:ia. Js!y '23. Ks:;.-i;
nKORGE w
V E A C.
Wliolrsale mid ItetuM
KEATING AND COOK S(f
of every Dr.?;:::;''
III. COFFEE HI Mi i
OF MS ows M.vsryACTri.E
And GENERAL JOBBER in SFOL"
ard all Other wcik in i -;fi
Virginia Street, near Cardie Sr
ALTCOXi, r..
The only dealer in t'.ic cit 1 -J j
&e!l tl.e renowned "JAKI-Ei -'
COOK S roVE. tl.e n.;-t
complete and s;iiil
Siov e ever iT1')1"
to ihe 1 iibiic
Stock Immense. - Tr.ic-
SATISFACTION GUAR AN 'Jj
Newspaper
Advert1
-Book of 125 clone! vrrir.TeJr,;,;.
Tertisiiifr .Medium, jrivin he t? -
injr Daily and Wet kiy 1 "''."8l . -c :
Newspapers, together with a-' .;;
lartre circulations. iuI'1ji "
iri.-niiiiir. I.ltf no--' '
Advertiser, and every person ;';.'
beeoraine- such, will una i ' ar'
alue. .Mail.-d free to mi;;?' t (.
5 cen t. O H P. K O W If
ishei-s, Xo. 40 Park ltow. .Nt .;
Tho PitisliurKU iTa.i Jr: A j..r'
lUUf
5
Usher
. f G.
Hay 9, 170. say
ort'O 1?n kv: "1 le in " ' ...
Co
Co.'. which isun this 111 fit -T1, ;
book, is the lanrest amt '' ' ; . V
cv in the lnited States, nti". .
recommond it to theattentx"11 ,,.,ii.
bo
cy
recorn m
Sire to advertise their m'"--;-, A v.
and -HtmliviII.v "'lv, 1 t i
o as to secure the H rarest
er the ltart expenditure ot .
MY
N
tot 1 nr. np ihsum-
- "I
Partnership heretofore - ; ,v
tUe undersigned at St. - -j .
county, was di-solved t'T i"'.t?
March 17th. KS71. and sine '' t,
ues hii been and wiil cont-ii'ij-
ness'of the late iirm is dcsireu. v --',.
or tos ftoii.i.v
SAUCE-PANS, BOILERS fcr
COAL SHOVELS. Mji; nVT.
C A N S . H ) F S h I - U V. N I s I i i c, ". . J
WARE OF EVERY Kl ' "
!i.-k Xwp. April