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Satukday Morning, : : Jcnk 10, 18l.
Democratic State Nominations.
ron acpitok czxsral:
Glneral WILLIAM M'UANDLESS,
Of I'hUiHhlphia.
ron ecnvEYOK c.KanAi. :
Caitain JAMES If. COOPER,
Of Lawrence Omnfy.
The record of Dr. Stanton, civil and mili
tary, may lo briefly Eumtnecl up thus : Snr
geon with iLe rank of Major, promoted to
Lieut. Colonel by his distinguished and af
fectionate relative, the- Secretary of War,
for family reasons. Promoted iu 1871 to
the Radical nomination for Auditor Gener
al of the Sta'e by his confidential friendu,
Quay and Mackey, for personal and private
reasons, vhich arc Mipposed to have some
connection with the auditing of the public
accounts.
Gkk. Thomas F. Meagheh, whose name
in as familiar as household words, was an
unmatched Irish rats r and a gallaut soldier
in defence of tLc Union. After the war he
was appointed Secretary of "Montana, and
met an untimely death by being drowned
in the Missouri at Fort Eenton. lie had
an only child a son. An application was
lately made ly some of the friends of his
distinguished father to Gen. Grant, for the
appointment of young Meagher to a cadet
ship at West Point. The application was
refused, or if the appointment was promised,
as would seem to have been the case, it was
never made. Did Grar.t fear that the ap
pointment of a ton of Thomas F. Meagher,
whohad sworn cu the altar f his country
eternal hostility to England, would give
mortal offence to the members sf the British
Commission who were then negotiating the
lace treaty with this government.
Grant has transferred lha executive de
partment t( tlio government from the White
House to L"ng Branch, lie arrived there
last wfek with sis of his fastest horses and
n;?eral of Lis byst carriages. The I'hiladel
phia Inquirer ifyebterday week said, "On
Wednesday four car loads of articles passed
through this city on it? way to Long Branch,
intended for the Presidential party. These
consisted ff horses, carriage?, etc." During
Grant's absence, which, according to the
Inquirer, will hist until October, the Govern
ment machine, or what is left of it, will be
run by Gen. Babceck and one of the numer
tus Dent family. As the whole thing is
miserably weak and rickety, we suppose
that Balcock and Dent will be able to man
ago it. This Is indeed a model anil a glorious
administration, compared with which the
tame aud common place nlHiirs of the first
Washington, Midi.-on, M.r.roe and Jackson
were "tl.it. stale and unprofitable." Long
livu the R -pu o'.ic of the West !
The Democratic State Convention f Ohio
met at Culumbus cn the 1st inst. 0;i the
second ballot. Col. Geo, W. McCook was
nominated for Governor. Nominations for
other State oflicers were also made. The
resolutions adopted by tho convention were
reported by Geo. Geo. W. Morgan, a dis
tinguished member cf Congress and a lead
ing Democrat of the Stale. Following the
action of the Pennsylvania State Convention,
the Democracy of Ohio acquiesce in and
recognize t he binding force of the recent
amendments to the Constitution, while they
repudiate the Illegal manner of their ratifi
cation. In other words, they throw behiml
th?m all dead issu .s refute to be tied to a
political corps: look to the present, and
wisely plant themselves on the living ques
tions of the lout. .11 accounts represent
the convention to have been the largest and
most enthusiastic political assemblage cf the
kind that ever met in the State. George
II. Pendleton wan President cf the Conven
tion. Col, McCook. the nominee for Gov
ernor, is a member of the "fighting McCook
family" of Ohio, and a prominent lawyer of
Steubenville If he does not make the fur
lly from the back of the Radical animal in
Ohio next October, we greatlj underestimate
bin strength with the people of the Buckeye
State.
It is well known that Horace Greeley is
squarely opposed to tho re-nomination of
Grant. Some of the leading Radical papers
have even gonepo far ns to say that Greeley's
late visit to Texas aud other south-western
States was undertaken for the purpose of
putting himself in training as the next Re
publican candidate for the Presidency. How
this may be we of course cannot tell. It
appears, however, that in Kansas at least,
as will appear from the annexed correspond
ence, there is a movement with that object
in view going cn. It will be observed that
the concluding sentence of Mr. Greeley's let
ter is "a hit a palpable hit," and complete
y ignores the policy of nominating Grant
for a second term :
Leavenworth City, Kb ,
April '20, 1871.
The Hon. Horace Greeley :
Drak Kir Your many friends in Kansas
desire to have your views in relation to your
name beinq; brought before the next Nation
al Republican Convention in 1872 for nomi
nation for President. Without any uisre
tpect to Gen. Gract, we believe that no liv
ing American statesman has the claims of
yourself for President.
Very respectfully, your friend,
William La rim eh.
New Yobk Tuibcxb Office,
- New York, M:iy 4, 1871. S
My Dbau Sia : I have yours of the 29th
nsking pointed questions with regard to our
political futnre. I must respond In great
Laste. I trust sever henceforth to be an
aspirant fur any office or political position
whatever, but I fully purpose, also, never to
decline any duty or responsibility which my
political friends shall 6te fit to devolve upon
me, of which I shall bo able to fulfil the "ob
ligations without neglecting more imperative
duties. I have not yet formed a decided
opinion as t the man who ought to be our
i:ext Republican candidate for President, but
it seems to me advisable that he should be a
:adfasi. constant believer in the good old
Whig doc(rinc4if one Presidential term.
lh-RJi.CE Grebxey, '
rdcCamllcKs and Cooper. '
That the nominations made by the Dem
ocratic State Convention were wise and judi
cious, is fully attested by the favorable en
dorseraent they have met from the Demo
cratic press. General McCandless has a
well earned reputation both as a soldier and
a civilian. He belonged to tho Pennsylva
nia Reserves, which was the most complete
and splendid body cf troops furnished by
any State to swell the ranks of the Uuion
army. Their history has been written on
almost a hundred battle fields, and there it
will remain foiever. As in France it was
esteemid glory enough for a soldier to belong
to the"OM Guard" of Napoleon, so in the late
civil war it wis and still is deemed an honor
to have been a member of the Pennsylvania
Reserves. As Colonel of one of its regi
ments, and afterwards Brigadier General,
he bore a conspicuous partem all the meuv
morable campaigns in which they were en
gaged, sharing in their splendid but dearly
bought career, all of which he saw and part
of which he was. He is one of the few sur
vivors of that t fficient arm of the service
which, at the commencement of the war.
bore tho name3 of fifteen thousand gallant
young men on its muster rolls and at its
close contained not more than the one seventh
of that number. The military record, there,
fore, of Gencial McCandless is unblemished
bright and beyon 1 reproach. As a mem
ber of the State Senate after tho close of the
war, he occupied a prominent and influential
position. The Republican press cf Phila
delphia, where General McCandless resides,
and where ho is best known, concede his
houesty and integrity, as well as his peculiar
qualifications for an able and efficient dis
charge of the duties of the responsible office
for which he has been nominated.
With the life and character of Captaiu
Cooper, the candidate for Surveyor General,
the people are not so familiar, from the fact
that this is the first time he has been a can
didate for a public office. He too belonged
to the "Reserves," and acquired honor and
distinction as the commander of Battery B,
familiarly known in the army of the Poto
mac us "Cooper's Battery." Ho enjoyed
the full confidence of Gen. Maade, who re
commended him for promotiou to the office
of Colonel, as a well -merited reward for his
courage and ability as a ecldier and an offi
cer. Capt. Cooper is a young man, honest
and pure unskilled in the dark and tricky
ways of the professed politician and his
nomination is Lis own host endorsement. As
tho Democratic party has thus been fortu
nate in the selection of its candidates, so will
their election in October bo as gratifying as
we predict it will be decisive.
Clialmiais lYalincc-tto to WorZi.
The action of the State Convention mak
ing Hon. William A. Wallace chairman of
the State Executive Committee, is much to
Le commended. Mr. Wallace is one of the
ablest meiiiu the rfiihs of our party, and
will throw a vim and energy into the cam
paign that will be sure to ruusc the enfhusi
asm and Fpirit of the party," general')',
throughout the State. He was formerly
chairman cf the committee, and led the
Democracy gallantly through many a hard
fought contest. The conferriug cf this honor
upon him again, at this time, is a high com
pliment to his skiil and ability, and one
which his past services peculiarly entitle
him to. The election this fall immediately
precedes the grand presidential contest of
1872, and it was therefore eminently nec
essary tiiat we f-hould this year have our
btst tuaa at tho helm. With Chairman
Wallace to direct onr energies, wa feel that
we fhall march to certain victory. He is
an untiring, indomitable, and dauntless
leader, and will wrest a triumph from the
very clutches of Radicalism. We consider
his election to the chairmanship a master
stroke of policy, and one which will fall
with a benumbing effect upon the heads cf
our enemies. They know it means fight in
earnest, aud alruady we begin to bear cries
of dismay and chagrin from the Radical
leaders.
Now then let ns go into this campaign de
termined to win. We can do it just as easy
as not. only wo must all wokk. Nobody
must t-it down aud hold his hands and wait
on others, but every man must work with
all his might. Tho harder we work, the
greater will be our victory, and in propor
tion as we win now, so will we win in 1872.
We have McCandlkss and Cooper two
ablo and eminently qualified gentlemen to
bear aloft our banner, with Wallace as
lieutenant, and, with such leaders, we can
not be beaten. We beliove that the sun of
the second Tuesday of next October is des
tined to be ths bright sun of the Democracy
in Pennsylvania and to witness the downfall
of the people's enemies in the 'glorious old
Keystone State. And our triumph then
will be to the Radicals the shadow of the
coming event of 1872. which shall overthrow
them and all the hosts that have forgotten
God and the country and set up a political
Baal in tho land.
Let every good man, therefore, be ho Dem
ocrat or Republican, go to work at once,
and help to bring about the good old days of
yore. Surely, no man can say truthfully
that he is not tired aud disgusted with the
way things are going on now. Why, then,
should there be any hesitation in joining
hands for the 6aka of bettering our condition.
There cannot be there will not bo. Belle
fonte Watchman.
They Did Not Steal. A correspondent
of the Cincinnati Commercial, who ha3 been
wandering among the wa.te places of South
Carolina, gives utterings to his mnsinga as
follows :
"How the old families have been broken
up and scattered ! The former home of the
Hamptons is now a desolate hill, and the
family is no longer the power iu the land
that it once was. The Prestons, Middle
tons, Pinckneys aDd Rhctts, have all been
reduced ir.om their high estates. They are
no longer the rulers of South Carolina. But
let us pass everything to their credit that is
due, and say that through the long years
that these families ruled the State, they stole
none of its revenues nor disgraced none of Us
high places by ignorant and corrupt men.
Faulty as the old time Southern Democratic
politicians were, they xctre honest. What
ever thej did, they did not steal.".
Ia digging a ctlbr at Amsterdam. N.
Y.. a fissure in the rocks, six iuches wide
and nearly ten feet long, was discovered.
A pail of water poured into it can be heard
going riown. down till its sound is lost in
tho distance. The Arasterdammers think
there U a 6ubterra&ean cavity beneath them
Tie Sew Oeparture."
Now that the question of forbearing any
further opposition to the new amendment is
virtually decided, it may not be amiss Jto
consider the nature of the "situation" which
he Democratic party "accepts." We4 can
best describe it by a cumparison. Suppose
that, iu'the tiial of a civil suit, there is a
mixed panel of white and' colored jurymen.
John Doe, one cf tha parties to the 4suit,
challenges every colored juryman whose
name uTdrawn from tho box, but, in spite of
his opposition, the jury as actually swum is
finally composed cf nine white and three
colored citizens. Would John Doe act like
a man of sense if he should thereupon petu
lently give up his casa and refuse to produce
his witnesses? The merits of his suit are
not altered by the composition cf the jury.
The presence cf the black jurymen cannot
change either the law or the facts ; and
since his caso must be tried by that jury,
he will, if a wise man, direct his ccuntel to
take even more pains than u-ual, and care
fully avoid insulting or affronting tho black
jurymen. There they are, on the jury
bouches; and whether be like or disiike
them, he cannot get them away until thoy
have rendered their verdict.
Quite similar to this is the situation since
the establishment cf negro suffrage. The
political question remains decidedly the same
as if they were to be decided by the votes of
unadulterated white constituencies. The
really important thing is to have these ques
tions rightly decided, according to their
true merits ; not whether the decision is
mode by a larger or a smaller constituency
of voters. The point for the jury to try is
not whether their own body is properly com
posed, but the question cf fact betweeu the
plaintiff and defendant in the suit before
them. We only muddle and confuse politi
cal controversies if we fail to distinguish be
tween the questions to be decided and the
persons who are to decide them. By accept
ing negro suffrage we increase cur chances
cf a candid hoaringon political issues. The
negroes are of little account if we can control
the judgment cf the white voters. There
a;e ten white voters to one negro voter,
taking the country at large. In tweuty two
of the thirty-seven States there are thous
ands of whites entitled to the elective fran
chise to every negro, and those twenty two
States contain over two thirds of our popula
tion. It is their public opinion which we need
to influence, which we can most easily do
by withdrawing thir attentiou from the de
cided question cf suffrage, and fixing it upon
pendiug questions cf public policy. The
misrule of the last ten years has been the
fruit of misguided white voting. Its chief
support has been white majorities in the
Northern States, in most of which negroes
have not voted at all until within the last
fourteen months, since the fifteenth amend
ment was declaied adopted. It is not negro
voting but perverse white voting that has
so nearly ruined tho country.
Now, ou tho question whether the right
cf suffrage shall be continued to the negroe3
the Republican majorities would be as great
as heretofore. Nuy. they would be alto
gether larger, for most Democrats do not
wish to arrest the experiment. It is too ob
vious that for the Democratic party to make
negro suffrage a political issue would be
courting inevitable, overwhelming defeat,
because a preponderant and cons antly grow
ing majority cf the people are unwiiling to
disturb what has been dene. It is high
time, then, for us to accept the settled com
position cf tho jury, and proceed to argue
our case ou its merits. We therefore must
heartily rejoice ia the declaration of the
Oiu D.nHcracy th t they "recognize as ac
C'lvplished facts the three amendments to the
Constitution recently declared adapted, and
consider the s.?me as no longer political issues
b'fore the counrty ;'' and we feel equal satis
faction in -the further unequivocal, emphatic
declaration 'that the Democratic party jledges
itself to A FULL. FAITHFUL, AND ABSOLUTE
execution and enforcement of the Con
stitution AS IT NOW IS, SO A8 TO SBCUHE
EQUAL P.IGHTS TO ALL PERSONS UNDER IT,
WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF BACK, COLOB, OB
CONDITION."
Tub .World loog ago foresaw that this
policy was inevitable, and the coutinued
existenco and future triumphs of the Demo
cratic party were staked upon its adoption.
For a time we stood almost alone, and in
curred no small suspicion and obloquy from
persons who now take up our views with
tho zeal of new converts. We are too glad
of this co-operation, and have the welfare
and success of the party too much at heart,
to reproach anybody with slowness or incon
sistency. We have tried to be faithful to
the light which was given us, and the strong
endorsements we are receiving from the
whole party atones for tho detraction and
distrust cf which we were the objfet before
tli9 "sober second thought which is gener
ally wise aud always efficient" had matured
the views of the party. We claim no other
merit than fidelity to our sentiment of duty.
The irrepressible tendency cf things opera
ting on popular good sense and rectitude of
feeling, would have brought the party sooner
or later to the same position if Tub World
had followed the party instead of leading it.
The sun shines first upon tho mountain tops,
but they are not therefore the cause of day.
The earth has but to revolve a little farther
on its axis for the light to penetrate every
valley and illuminate the darkest ravines.
We suppose it will cost be conceded that
The Would foresaw tho tendency of events
and correctly estimated their Consequences;
but the only credit it claims is that of an
unshrinking declaration of its sentiments
when it thought them timely and useful, at
some expense of popularity. A'. Y. world.
A IL rbiblb Scene in Paius. A late
Paris letter, giving details of the terrible
raagazme explosion on the Champ" de Mrs,
says the loss cf life was much greater than
at first report. When the catastrophe oc
curred the streets were filled with people
returning from dinner. Every person fell
flat on the ground, conjecturing that a. bat
tery of mitrailleuses had opened a volley
upon them. In a moment a sight which
buffies description was observable. Arms,
legs, hands, heads, some of themjstill quiv
ering with vestiges of life, the majority of
them blackened with powder and with fire,
were to bo found every ten paces. Three
huudred yards distant from the scene of the
explosion the naked trunk of a woman was
found, with head and limbs tern off. All
the wounded soldiers in the ambulance of
Rue de la Universite were killed. A wo
man standing at a window had one arm
pulled out of ita socket. In the same house
au infant was rent to pieces in its cradle.
For some time after the explosion tho neigh
borhood witnessed maddening scenes. Panic-stricken
horses galloped wildly in every
direction; women, some with dead babes la
their arms, ran shrieking hysterically; chil
dren screamed for their parents; people
frantically threw out of the windows every
thing they could lay hands on. Two young
girls were found in an adjoiring street with
the whole frdnt part of their bodies torn
away, as if they had been cut iu two by a
current of air, and numerous other appalling
sights are recorded.
San Fhancisco has a two-headed do''.
The heads bark and howl alternately.
IlorroYTlaff an Elephant for Fun.
The Kansas City Jiulletin of the 26th of
May has a tremendously displayed article
uuder the title "Dreadful Occurrence' from
which we make the following extracts :
The Indian village of Pottawatomie, in
Kansas, was the theatre of an intensely ex
citing occurrence on the night cf May 21.
The menagerie and circu3 or old John Rob
inson had exhibited, to the great delight aud
astonishment of the untatored red man.
The astonishment and curiosity were great
when the gigantic proportions cf the ele
phant Emperor burst upon their view. Ev
erything passed eff quietly.
About midnight the watchman, wishing
to receive some information in regard to
starting iu the morning, stepped over to the
hotel where Mr. Rjbinson was quartered,
and while engaged in conversation with him
an awful, unearthly howl resounded through
the halls, followed by a series of cries, groans
and screeches such as no mortal ever heard
before. Robinson, quickly comprehending
the matter, ordered every man to come out,
as he was certain that some cf tho animals
had brokeu loose. Upon suddenly turning
a corner they beheld a sight they will never
forget. In the foreground was the huge
form of old Emperor, upon whose back was
perched a half dozen warriors, shouting aud
gesticulating wildly to their brethren below,
while at intervals of half a minute a horrid
yell wou'd break out upou the night air, fol
lowed by huge columns off moke and dust.
The company, headed by Mr. Robinsou,
rushing up immediately, scattered tho Indi
ans from off the elephant's back and led him
away. His body was found to be covered
with wounds, from which the blood was
flowing in streams. Over one hundred
ariows were found sticking in his body.
Amid tho confusion it was impossible to
ascertain how he became loosened from his
place of confinement, but upon examining
the chain it was found unlocked, showing
that it was through tho agency cf some mis
chievously inclined person ; and upon in
quiry being made, it was ascertained that
a party of young bravss, noticing how very
gentle and harmless the clephaut was, con
cluded to have a grand menagerie procession
of their own ; and while some were unlock
ing his chains, five or six leaped upon his
back and two more walked on each side ami
steered him along, and thus the grand cav
alcade started for the Indian quarter cf the
town, intending no doubt to create a big
sensation among their brethren, which they
certainly did, though with a result far differ
ent from what they anticipated ; for upon
reaching the first of a long row cf wigwams
he discovered the top of one which had been
covered the day before with the long sweet
grass of the prairie, thrust out his trunk
for a mouthful, when the whole top gave way.
The Indians, becoming alarmed for the
safety oi tne rest of tlieir wigwams, com-
menced goading him with spears and knives,
while at the same time a hundred torches
were flashed upon the scene, producing the
very object they wero endeavoring to prevent,
for it not only confused but blinded the ele
phant, while the paiu and torture of the
knife and arrow wounds rendered him al
most frantic with rage atd terror to such a
degree that he rushed madly forward, deal
ing destruction on all sides ; and it would be
dinicult to tell which party expressed the
most satisfaction in parting from each ether's
society, Indians or elephant.
Mr. Robinson immediately sent for the
chief to endeavor to conciliate him, and to
remunerate those who had lost their dwell
ings by the unfortunate occurrence. Upon
the arrival cf that dignitary, he quickly
made known his withes, when the chief im
mediately replied that the "father of all the
animals, as he termed the elephant, "was
not to blame, but that the blame rested upon
his young men who had unfastened old Em
peror, for which they were very sorry."
Terrible Ctclone. A cyclone occurred
near Mason City, Illinois, last Friday morn
ing. An inky hued cloud or smoke-like
column was observed gathering near the
earth's surface, on an open prairie six miles
from that place, and from this column soou
shot out three narrower and spire like cloud
columns, which continued to ascend rapidly
until they reached and seemed to attach
themselves closely to a passing cloud above.
This frightful apparition moved slowly to
wards Mason City, but finally changed its
course, much to the relief of the people of
that place. A mil from its track an odor
much like that of burning sulphur wa3 in
haled by several persous. A gentleman
who stood about a hundred yards from the
cyclone when it passed, say small flashes of
electricity were constantly visible in tha
storm column, passing from the earth to the
clouds above, and that rapid, popping crack
ling reports were heard, reminding him
mot forcibly cf an infantry regiaieut in bat
tle, firing their muskets fast as possible.
The pathway of the cyclone was nearly
three miles in length, and from twenty to
eighty feet in width, and in that pathway
not a spear of grass, stalk cf corn or wheat,
not a shrub nor a particle cf vegetation was
left alive. For some distauce the earth was
literally plowed up to a depth of six inches.
The celumu of whirling air must have been
intensely hot, as every green thing in its
path was dried to a crisp. Another feature
of the cyclone was that while its rotary mo
tion must have been of inconceivably great
velocity, Us progressive motion was not above
a rate of six miles an hour. The outlines of
its pathway were so well defined that five
feet from the outer line of the total destruction
cf vegetation of every kind, not a vestige of
its effects could be seen. Fortunately, no
houses stood in the tornodo's line of march.
Tna Column Vkndojie. The Column
Yendome recently overthrown and destroyed
by the insurgents in Paris, is thus described:
The column stood in the Place Yendome,
which was erected in 1C88, by Louis XIV.,
on the site of the hotel belonging to the
Duke Vendome, son of Henry IV. The
place is octagonal in form. 420 by 450 feet.
The buildings bordering on the square are
beautiful, and of Corinthian architecture.
In the centre formerly stood an equestrian
statue of Louis XIV., which was demolished
by the people during the first revolution,
the base only being saved. Iu 1806 Napo
leon I. gave orders for the erection of the
triumphal monument, which has just been
hurled to the ground, in honor of the success
of the French arms. The column was of
Tuscan order, and copied after Trajan's pil
lar at Rome. Its height was 135 feet; cir
cumference at the base, 36 feet ; the base
was about 21 feet high and 20 feet square,
and the column could be ascended by a wind
ing staircase of 170 steps. The colnmn was
covered by the bas-reliefs in bronze, com
posed of 276 platas, made out of 1,200 pieces
of cannon taken from the Russiaus and
Austrians, repesenting the victories of the
French armies in the German campaign of
1805. There were over 2.000 figures of 3
feet high, and metal used weighed about
360.000 pounds. The column was sur
mounted by a colossal bronze statue of Na
poleon I., 11 feet high. The one familiar
to the Parisians 'with the cocked hat and
military surtout, was taken down in 1863 ;
the hero appeared in the statue that was
tern down in a Roman togo. The whole
cost was about 308,000. From the summit
the best view of Paris could be obtained.
Political and Sews Jtems.
Ths New Yoik Sun nominates '-the
Great aud Good .Horace Greeley, of Texas,
as the Farmers' Candidate for President.
A stalk of rye raised by by William A.
Ridge, iu Tinicum, Bucks county, mvasures
8 fee t 2 inches. The whole Gdd will aver
age 7 feet. How is that for high ?
Mr. Davis, ofg Limcsioneville, Montour
comity, has secured a patent on a gun,
which will shoot sixty times in sucoessinn.
The inventor has besn ofiered $200,000 for
the rinht.
Nauvoo, formerly famous astthe capital
ofMormondom, s becoming eqnally famous
for its grape wine. Sixty thousand gallons
were sold last year, and more than that
amount is now iu store.
A XVth preacher in Alabama, named
Bugg, cut the throat of his brother-in-law
Harper, in church, for making a fuss about
his seduction cf Harper'a young sister.
Bugg then crawled off.
Mr, Kettle, of Illinois, had a wife, but
a few months ago he courted a girl named
Fish, and married her without the formality
of a divorce from Mrs. Kettle. That might
be called a pretty Kettle of Fish,
The effort to secure anew trial for Mrs.
Laura Fair, at Sin Francisco, has failed,
aud she was on Saturday sentenced to be
hung on Friday, the 28th of July, for hav
ing murdered Cel. Alexander Crittenden.
A man in Illinois commitied tuicide
dy drowning lately in six inches of water,
lie coulciu't have done it alone, but his wife
with the self sacrificing devotion and hel
fuluess so characteristic cf thescx sat on his
head.
Tuesday morning of last week, at Mill
Creek, near Buchanan, in Boutetourt, Va.,
a roan beat his wife to death on account ot
!.er having an improper intimacy with some
negroes in the neighborhood. lie was lodg
ed in jail at Tincastle.
A Rochester woman, indignant at a
man, who was beating bis wife, her sister,
threw a lighted kerosene oil lamp at him.
There was an explosion, a fire, and a very
narrow escape from death to him and de
struction to his house.
One day last week as Solomon Stuck
was repairing the back porch cf his house,
in Granville township, Mifflin county, he
found stuck under the steps, away back, a
tin box full cf gold and silver. Nobody
knows who stuck it there.
A Hartford boy who went out West a
few years ago, having been unusually pros
perous, generously remembers his eld friends
who are ueedy. A poor mechanic cf Hart
ford was recently made happy by the re
ceipt of S3.000 from the friend cf his youth.
A clergyman named Wisner, cf Ypsi
lanti, Mich., was on trial at Detroit, on
Wednesday, on the information of his wife
that he had for a year or two been in the
habit of removing postage stamps which
had once done duty, cleaning tbeia up and
using them anew.
There was a doublo golden
weittiing
in Jouet, Wisconsin, one (lay lubt wetK.
Ths brides were sisters, who were married
on the same day fifty years ago. In the
home of their mother, now a venerable huly
cf ninety years, they celebrated the half
century anniversary.
Noah Austin, cf Lima, Ind., received a
musket ball in his head, under the left ear.
at the battle of Queeustown, Canada, Octo
ber 13. 1812. Tne ball could not be found
until a fortnight since, when it worked out
into his mouth through the roof, causing his
death nearly 9 years after the wound.
The risk cf refusing liberal criers is
shown iu the case of William Bradley, of
Meiideo, Conn., who declined to take 415,
C00 for his horse Leviathan a fortnight since.
A day or two ago he had to pay $5 to get
rid of the animal, who had died cf a spasm
iu the meantime, and needed to be carted off.
The Rev. Mr. Sutton, a Methodist min
ister cf Louisville, Ky., yesterday handed
his coat to a Miss Ellinsworth. at the resi
dence of whose father he had been staying,
when a pistol failing from a pocket exploded
a cartridge the ball cf which eutcied the
young lady's person causing a mortal wound.
Heriry Bechtal, an old man residing in
Areola, Ind., cn last Tuesday dropped a
saucer, and ordered his wifa to pick it up.
She not complying with his wish as prompt
ly as he thought proper, the old man kicked
her to death. The Columbia City j.iil now
holds him until a rope shall do the same
thing.
A young lady of Brainbridge, N. Y.,
made a bargain with Curtis Cooper some
fifteen years ago whereby she was to have
a "ewe lamb and its increase until she was
21 years old," ia exchange for a gold watch
key. She was but six years of age at the
time, and now sues Mr. Cooper for 18.064
lambs, or their value which at $4, per head,
is $64,526.
The Erie Observer says while a Mr.
Weeks was on the Peninsula, a short time
since, he saw lying on the beach a dead
eagle, with a snake, also dead, twisted
around Its neck and legs. The supposition
Is that the eagle must have caught up the
snake, which was of the most poisonous
variety, and Unit in their struggle to kiii
each other the death cf both ensued.
A sudden gust of wind, a day or two
ago, caused a flag, on a building in Albanj-,
to become entangled in some ornamental
iron work around the roof, and in flapping
back again it tore away about twenty-five
pounds of the iron, and flung it through a
window of the house opposite with sufficient
force to penetrate through tho carpet and
floor to the ceiliug of the room below.
D. C. Rjole of Hartford has a wonder
ful black Spanish hen, of which the follow
ing are some of the exploit. A few weeks
ago this hen laid two eggs per day for four
or five days in succession ; then for a few
days but one eggs, till one Sunday she out
did herself by laving three large eggs, the
first being perfect, the second containing
nothing but white, and th& other being all
yolk.
A Boston surgeon has just removed
from a Lawrence man's neck a ragged piece
of the blade of a dirk, which he has carried
there ever since Thanksgiving eve, I860.
It was left there in a fight in which he was
engaged in a saloon at the time, and as it
projected inside the jaw bone has been a
constant annoyance to him. Four separate
attempts have been made to remove it, but
failed ; it has been taken out through tho
orifice of tho ear.
There is an extremely troublesome ghost
in Racine, Wis. A widower there doubtless
being lonesome, has taken a second spouse,
and now the shade of his first visits him and
beclouds, by her presence, his honeymoon.
He had solemnly promised No, 1 never to
lead "a No. 2 to the alter; but having bro
ken his word, and, that, too, in a most inde
cent hurry, he is now suffering the conse
quence, and must submit to bo caudled by
the indignant departed.
At Joncsvilie. Wisconsin, on ;Friday
about 9 o'clock, just as the court open
ed, a swallow flew Into ona of the open
windows of the Court Honse, and immedi
ately commenced to circle around the room
near the ceiling, and kept flying during the
entire day, not stopping once. Some of
those present estimated that the bird travs
eled 200 miles wbilo in the court room.
During the day, on two occasions, one of
its companions flew in and seemed, to ura
it to leave, but it wouldn't budge.
The Ravena, Ohio, Democrat puts on
record the following new style of making
butter: "A few days since, Mrs. Mary M.
Hu"hcs, put about a quart of cream in a
cloth bag. and buried it about two feet deep
iu tho earth, where it remained three days,
when she disinterred it, and found it trans
formed into pure, sweet, yellow butter,
wiih not one drop of buttoimilk to be teen.
Mrs. Hughes thinks that, cream will yield
about one-third more butter by that pro
cess than by the old-fa?hioned way churn
i n fr.
Some days ago says the Marion Herald,
a little boy about five years of age, son of a
Mr. Miller, cf Grayson couutv. was killed
by the bite of a rattelsnake. Tne little fel
low had gone out with seme other members
of the family to lock for eggs, and in his
search he crawled underneath his father's
barn. After going some distance under the
floor he screamed to his companions that
.-.mctV.iniT was killic" him. They obtained
' assistance, and ripped up the planks in the
j floor, when to their horror they found a
j large rattlesnake tightly coiled around his
' ntck. The snake had bitten him in several
! r.inr-pa i.n tho fice and neck, and Le was
quite dead when taken up.
A dreadful earthquake visited the dis
trict cf Ta-tsicn. China, cn tho borders of
Thibet and about seven hundred miles north
west of Canton, on the 4th of April, 1870.
The city cf Batharg was overthrown and
2,298 people wero killed. A few cf the
troops and people escaped, but most of the
inmates were crushed aud killed under the
falling timbers and stone. Flames also sud
denly burst out in four places, which strong
winds blew about until the heavens were
darkened with smoke, and their roariDg wag
mingled with the lamentations of tho dis
tressed people. The earthquake affeced an
area cf over 400 miles. At the last advices
stiiething like order and confidence had
been restored.
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