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I.'ST week we published an article from
it s St. Lo'uio Republican in reference to tbe
Democratic party and its policy in tbe next
Presidential election. In our present rum
lr we lay before our readers an article from
Tew York World on tho oame (ubject.
cisru'rd E. Cbnrch, Chief Justice of tbe
State of New York, an able man and a vet
sran politician, in a recent conversation In
w hich tbe policy of a union of all tbe elo
;r.?tit8 of opposition to the re-election of
trrant was frlj discussed, expressed his
belief that with vigorous unanimity Grant
"carr be made to come out of tbe next con
gest the worst beaten man that ever ran for
'.:.e Presidency."
The Grand Dcke Alixis, third living
: n of the Emperor Alexander II. arrived ai
?scwYorkin a Russian vessel of war on
sst Sunday. He intends making an ex
'ended tour of the country and will go as
far west as California. He will first visit
Washington, where it will be peculiarly ap
propriate that this representative of a mon
arch whose law is the bayonet, should be
welcomed to "the freest government on the
face of tbe earth," by a President who rules
by a suspension of the writ of Jiaheas corpus
ami a declaration of martial law. That
ginnt crime against liberty and law, the par
tition of Poland and the remorseless banish
ment of her purest patriots and most gifted
men to the inhospitable wilds and dreary
mines of Siberia, by a despotic government
of which this Grand Duke is a scion, will all
be forgotten In the bright and dazzling glare
of royalty, and his presence amongst us,
like that of Prince Albert soma years ago,
will offorJ a splendid opportunity to our
phoddy aristocracy, of both sexes, to act tho
part of fawning flatterers to this descendant
of the house of Romanoff and generally to
make first-class fools of themselves.
t Tim forco of public opinion has at length
compelled Grant's counsellor and friend,
Thoopia Murphy, collector of the port of
New York, to tender his resignation. He
was beyond all controversy tho most noto
riously corrnpt Republican official in the
wVlo country, as was repeatedly demon
tratad in tbe columns cf the New York
Tribune. In his letter accepting Murphy's
r j-sij-nation. Grant informs him that his "un
tjualifioj confidence" in him remains un
fthtken. Who doubts it, since it is to just
rich men as Murphy that Grant attaches
himselt as with hooks of steel ? furphy
was a shoddy swindler during the war and
h been a corrupt "ring" operator ever
si ".re. He waj intimately connected with
Tweed in some of his swindling j jibs and
was a man after his own heart, the only dif
ference between the two being that he did
not succeed in stealing quite as much as
Tweed, simply becauee his opportunities
ware not so great. While Tweed has been
unsparingly denounced by tbe radical press
for his villainies, hia confederate, Tom Mur
phy, bus been held up to tbe public as a
paragon of virtue, a terribly abused effic
and a marvellously proper man.
From one of the local rttults of the lato
Icv York election an instructive lrsson can
La learned of the supreme hypocrisy f radi
cal love for the negro. In tbe tecond'legia
lativa district In the coumy ef Monroe,
Fredarick Douglass was tbe republican can
didate for Assembly, and Lord tbe demo
cratic candidate. The official vote of the
district for Secretary of State and Assembly
wan as follows :
State. I .4 snemhlj.
TVP.Uri. (Iem.)....K.04.1 I Lord. (Dem.) 5,4.Trt
Geribr.sr, (Kep.)...4.8J8 I Doujflass, (Kep.)..4.2.rj0
Ie-m. maj 145 Pern, maj 1,184
It will thus be seen, that 643 radicals who
voie l fr Scribner, their candidate for the
highest State ffloe, refused to vole for Dou
glass, and what is stiil worse, about two
hundred of them actually voted for Lord,
tho democratic candidate. Here was the
ablest and most prominent colored man in
tho country a candidate for an cCice which
be was abundantly competent to fill, and
jet his republican white friends spurn him
ai d refuse to vote for him. This is a nota
ble instance of radical practice against radi
cal profession and shows th:it however low
that party can stoop in order to secure negro
v.des, it is non est inventus when a colored
man ar d brother ? running on its ticket for
an i Dice,
It id stated on reliable aathority that
tho men who have been arrested and thrown
into prison by Grant's soldiers in that por
tlon c f South Carolina embraced within the
territory covered by his proclamation de
coring martial law, will be defended by
Reverdy Johnson of Baltimore and Henry
.'Unberry of Cincinnati, formerly Attorney
Gnerlof tbe United States. Tbe trials
will take place before tbe United States
Gjurt at Columbia, presided over by Judge
Bond, a well-known radical politician of
Maryland, who was appointed to that posi
tion by Grant about a year ago, and whose
couraa at Raleigh, North Carolina, last sum
mor, when a large number of similar cases
were tried before him, affords a truo criterion
of what naay be expected from him when he
comes to administer the law in the other
Carolina. Messrs. Johnson and Stansberry
will base the defence of their clients upon
tb unconstitutionality of the act of Congress
of tho last session, known as the Ku-Klax
law, under which Grant claims the right to
suspend the writ of habeas corpus at his
sovereign will and pleasure. It is about
tico that wo sheuld have an authorative
decision by tbe highest judicial tribunal in
the hnd on tho important question of wheth
er we have constitution at all or not, and
if we Live, whether the people havo any
rihti under it which ft radical Congress is
Uviicd to respect.
At
Local Option.
It id now claimed by several leading radi
cal papers in this State that "local option,"
as it is called, was a leading question before
tbe people in tbe lato political campaign,
and that an affirmative verdict having bean
rendered, it will be the duty of the approach
ing Legislature to give form and effect to
the decision by its enactment into a law.
Thi- is an afterthought. "Local option"
was no more an Nsue in the late State elec
tion than was the question cf "compulsory
education," or that other question, "compul
sory vaccination." If the question of "local
option' was made a distinct issue in any one
county of the State we would like to know
its locality. If tbe next radical Legislature
Bees proper to pass a "local optiou" bill, it
may do so, but we deny its right to say that
in so acting it is merely registering a decree
of the people. Tbe temperance agitation
has heretofore been and still is a rich and
fertile field for the display of tbe low arts of
political demagogueism, and tbe "local op
tion" experiment ia the newest and most
attractive form in which it has been pre
sented. " We have never been able to bring
ourself to the conclusion, however, that this
particular attempt at reform possesses any
substantial merit, or that it will ever real
izi the beneficial results claimed for it by
its advocates. In this borough, for instance,
there are three licersod hotels in the west
ward and one in the east ward. If the pro
posed "local option" law would submit the
question of licensing hotels to a popular vote
in each of the wards of a borough, tho strong
probabilities are that the three hotels in the
west ward would be permitted to continue
the sale of ardent spirits, while the one in
the east ward would be ostracised and com
pelled to stop tbe business. The result
would be that tbe three hotels in the west
ward would then sell just as much liquor
as had previously beeu sold by four. A
man's appetite for whisky is not controlled
by a street separating one ward from another,
and if persons in tbe east ward w ho desire a
driuk, or several of them, will only have to
cross a street into the west ward to be ac
commodated, the morals of the east ward are
as much debauched as if tbe liquor had been
sold within its own limits. The same result
would be produced in two adjoining town
ships, the court being authorized to grant
licenses in one and prohibited from doing so
in tho other. This half way legislation will
prove abortive, and although for a time it
may amuse and tickle the "local option''
enthusiasts, it will soon prove to be a disas
trous failure and its repeal be demanded.
Its only possible effect, iu cur judgment,
would be to limit the number of places where
liquor conld be procured, but not to decrease
the quantity consumed.
The present license law cf Pennsylvania
is as comprehensive in its purposes of repres
sion and as stringent in its provisions as it
could well be made. Its penalties are se
vere, and few hotel or saloon keepers will
lightly incur the ruk cf their affliction. If
the law is not properly enforced, as is con
stantly asserted, who are to blame? Cer
tainly not the courts, for they will always
discharge their duty when a proper case is
brought before them. Like all other crimi
nal statute, the license law will not execute
itself, and if those who clamor the loudest in
favor of just such expedients as the "local
option" law will not enforce it and avail
themselves of tbe remedy it affords them,
their own proposed substitute for the same
reason will prcve in the end to be equally
as inoperative.
To attempt absolutely to prohibit the use
of intoxicating liquors is vls'onary and ab
rurd. for the history of tho world proves
that as long as they continue to bo manu
factured tbey will be used in defiance of tbe
most rigorous legal enactments. It is to be
wished that it were otherwise, and that men
would cease "to put an enemy in their
moutha to steal away their brains," tut such
is the frailty of human nature, acd it stands
confessed that although you may pilo statute
upon statute as high as Pelion upon Ossa,
you cannot legislate mankind into temper
ance. An AppALisa Disaster. Caving in of
a Coal Mine and Great Damage to J'roperly.
Scranton was thrown into a state of cons
sttrnation at an early hour on tbe morning
of tho 10th inst. That portion of the city
known as Hyde Park, under which lies the
anthracite coal, caved in between 2 and 3
o'clock. The citizens of all that portion
south of Maine street were startled from their
slumbers by a rumbling, crashing noise, and a
trembling of tho earth as of an earthquake.
So violent were the shocks and so loud the
noise, that tbey fled terror stricken from their
dwellings.
In a very short space of time the streets
wero crowded with terrified men, women
and children. Great Cssures were made in
the t IreeU. Bricks from the buildings flew
in all directions, and tho destruction of that
portion of the city seemed inevitable.
The causo of the commotion was tha cav
ing in if tho Disord voio. of the Oxford
shaft, w hich has been mined over ten years.
A similar accident occurred four years ago,
but was not as disastrous as the rectnt one.
O Id Fellows' Hall was damaged to such
an extent that it trust be torn down. Tha
dwelling of David J. Richards was torn from
c -liar to attic, au 1 tho family were compelled
to rush to another nort
safety. Twenty acres of ground caved in.
The Hermans House, a three-story brick, is
badly damaged. Every room in the house
was more or less seriously injured. Every
well and cistern has been pierced, and are
now dry. The inhabitants wore compelled
to go over half a mile for water. The post
office and the residence of Mr. Hermans set
tled down some eighteen inches, and Scran
ton avenue is one sceno'of destruction.
Large cracks, some of which are over a foot
wide, with an unfathomable depth, were
made.
In all of tho buildings, and particu'arly
thrse of Messrs. Philips, Richards and How
ell, the hotel and Odd Fellows' Ha'I, is tho
destructive effects of this disaster most clear
ly visible, as hardly any part of them re
msin uninjured. Tho walls and ceiling are
broken, floors sunken, windows broken
wainscoting torn loose, while cisterns, wells
and cellars have literally lost their bottoms,
causing a destruction of property amounting
to $80,000. b
better from Ireland "o. 3.
Correspondence of Cambria Freeman.
LuiKiiicK City. Ihkland,
November 6, 1ST 1. J
Fbiesd Mac I believe my last letter left
me musing on
6T. MAUY?S STEEPLE,
gat'ng en tho grand and gorgeous scenes
around mo. Af:er feasting my eyes on the
quaint old Castle of Carrigogunnel, which
looms up in tho distance, among the wooded
bills of the beautiful Tervoe, upon the rock
impeded Curraeur. tho fortified Castle of
Kirg John, and a host cf other sights and
scenes, I descended by the same dilapidated
stone stairway with more difficulty than I
had experienced in ascending it. In this
steeple is a very fine chime cf be'.ls, which
are rang only on some groat occastCm. The
piesent chime ef bolls was put there when
the Catholics lost possession of tho Cathedral.
There is a curious tradition and interesting
legend connected with tbe original bells. The
legend as told to me is too long for present
recital, but the tradition its that tbe Cath
olics, seeing that their grand old church was
about to pass into other hands, gathered at
night and took down tho bells, and fur tho
better safety thereof buried them in the bed
of the river Shannon. The samo tradition
says that these belli are heard or.ee every
seven years chiming some plaintive, melan
choly air. as if mourning over their watery
do"m. I have met several persons who be
lieve in this tradition, but none who claim
to have ever heard tho chiming cf the bells.
Accompanied by an intelligent friend, I
strolled about the city until we csme to the
head of George street, which is graced by a
splendid
STATUE OF o'cOSSfll,.
The gret and illustrious Irish tribune
stands,' life size and with bock in hand, on a
high pedestal, forcibly reminding one of the
mighty genius, tho towering intellect, the
master mind of the immortal Dan. whoso
every thought was fur bis down-trodden
country. One is lost in admiration as he
stands facing that mute statue and is ca'rit-d
back in fancy to the stormy days of '29, when
with herculean effcrts he labored to wring
Catholic Emancipation from a bigoted and
tyrannical London Parliament. Th's city
often echoed his stentorian strains of burning
eloquence, as ho exposed iu vivid colors the
galling trorny, the slavish statutes, tho
perfidy, plunder and persecution praetised
by tha false hearted British usurpers upon
the enslaved Iri&h nation. In this too were
held soma of the most lively meetings of the
Young Inlanders, when thesajre philosopher.
Smith O'Brien, the daring and fearless Mitch
ell, tbe dashing, silver toned Meagher, and
tho other fiery.spirits who thought to art ue
to action tho Irish people and iuduce them
to make an effort to throw ifl the yoko of
English misrule.
Just as I was on my way to visit some of
the many magnificent churches f r which
this city is famed, the friend who was with
mo introduced me to Mr. Michael Hogan,
THE BARD OF IH'JMOXD,
and before I was many minutes talk;r.cr t'i
him I was struck by the force of the adage,
Poela nascilur non Jit. for he is liuly na
ture's poet. His large, prominent eyed are
a sufficient index to tho gnius nithin, for
when ho speaks of pretic subjects those orbs
seem to dance with delight. Ho received
almost no education and yet he can mount
the ParnasMan heights and travel ever the
richest fields of the sweetest poesy and song,
and gather in his flight such a gr'and of
beautiful similes, lofty imagery and high
flown metaphors as would adorn the brow of
the goddess of poetry. He presented me
with a volume of his poems and his photo
graph, which I certainly shall pre?eive as
pleasing souvenirs of my visit to Limerick.
In reading his "Battle Poems" one would
imagine that he heard the cleaving, clashing
and ciang'ng of the ponderous battle-axes
as they dealt death and destruction to the
perjured invaders. With regret did I take
leave of this talented author, fully impressed
that Limerick has a poet of whom it may
well feel proud.
The public buildings cf Limerick are in
keeping with its enterprise. Going along
George and Patrick streets I have seen as ex
tensive and beautiful st ;res as Stewart's or
Lord & Taylor's, of New Yoik. Any stran
ger visiting this placo must admire the many
bsautifcl ciiuncnxs
in which the city abounds. I have visited
since I came hero ten Catholic churches
alone and yet have net seen them all. The
rich and beautiful architecture and the cost
ly and highly artistic designs of the most of
them are sufficient evidence that the people
of this city cannot be wanting in anything
that pertains to their spiritual welfare. The
outskirts of Limerick abound in sp'endid
walks and promenades. The other evening
I could imagine I was walking down Fifth
Avenue or Broadway, Now York, thero was
such living stream of female beauty, ac
companied by well-dressed, manly-lonkiug
gents, promenading up and down tbe Grand
Parade.
A walk up William street led me to old
GARBTOWES,
or Owen's Garden. The place which is now
pointed out as Garryowen is a large neglect
ed space of green sward outside the city
limits. Here I was told was born the beau
tiful but unfortunate Eily O'Connor, tho he
roine of Gerald Griffin's highly interesting
nevol, "The Collegians." The gentle Eily"
or, as her proper name was, Ellen O'Han
lon, was woed ar.d won by an accomplished,
respectable villain named llardress Cregan,
or more properly, Scanlan. Cregan, as he
is called in the novel, was too polished and
refined a ruffian to love, e.s his wife, tho
confiding, simple Eily, and so employed a
brute called Danny Mann, or 9ullivan, to
murder her. The deed was done, and Scan
lan was arrested, tried, convicted and sen
tenced to be hanged. The day of execution
came and Scanlan's relatives thought to con
vey him in a carriage to the gallows. He
eot in, but the horses, though whipped and
beater, almost to death, would not stir. At
length the proud murderer had to get out
and walk to the gallows amdist the scoffa
and jeers of an excited public. The horses
then jumped and pranced away as if proud
of the part they played. These are unex
aggerated farts, told mo by people who wit
nessed it about fifty years ago. About Eily
I will have more to say on my trip down
the Shannon.
The weather here just now is a little cool,
but pleasant enough. If I only accepted
one-half of the invites I havo receivcd.I think,
Mac. it would be some 'weeks before you
would get a scroll again from me. They
will make holidays here for any one coming
irom America, ii i can only get away I
will take a run down the Shannon and send
you a sketch f what I see and hear that is
worth sketching.
Remember me to all my JohDstown and
mountain friends.
Yours, vory truly, EaioKAcn.
The first draft of Grant's Thanksgiving
proclamation is said to have had a decided
ly klu-klux twang. It commanded tho
people to peaceably assemble at church on
the 30th, and threatened a general suspens
sion of the writ of habeas corpus and a de
claration of martial law if the order was not
universally observed. ThA clirv. :,..w
. . . n u ui.aia&o l
was fortunately discovered by the Secretary
cf State before publication. f
TSic Element of Opposition to
general Grant.
At least three-fiftbs cf tho voting citizens
of the United States deprecate and would
gladly prevent tbe re-election of President
Grant. These oppouents of his administra
tion consist of the whole Democratic party
and fully ore fifth of tLo Republican party.
Tbe only difficulty ii to combine these into
one solid phalanx. The defeat of Grant and
the deliverance of tbe country from another
four years of his imbecile abd disgraceful
administration, depend upon the possibility
of peifecting a cordial union among hia op
ponents. To accomplish this somo things must be
done, and other things must be forborne.
Among the things to bo forborne and depre
cated are these two : First, appeals to mere
parly spirit and party prejudice. If Demo
crats should raise their party flag too high,
and flaunt it too defiantly in the faces of
Grant's Republican enemies, they would set
a bad and suicidal example Honest Repub
licans can entr into such a union as we pro
pose only by breaking their present party
tics ; and Democrats are bound, in honor and
magnanimity, to concede as much as they
ask. We cannot, in conscience and consis
tency, ask others to make greater sacrifices
for the common good than we are willing to
make ourselves. Of course, it would bo an
insult to either side to expect it tomako any
sacrifice of principle ; but if, on a compari
son cf views, the anti Grant men are found
to agree on essentials, it is tbe plainest dic
tate of patriotism and public dutj- to waive
minor points of difference and not allow
party punctilio to stand in the way of suc
cess. Secondly, another thing to be forborne is
any cbstinacy of preference for favorite can
didates for President. For our part, we do
not much care from which branch of the
combined opposition to Grant the candidate
is taken, provided he be one who can five
the needed tone to our public service. Let
it be understood that, in this respect, both
wings of the reform parly stand on the ssme
footing in every respect, and that there will
be on each side equal willingness and zal
to support a Presidential candidate selected
from the other. It is f. r tho interest cf all
to nominate the strongest man, irrespective
of geographical position or former party con
nections. We hope the friends of no real
reformer will be discouraged from pressing
his candidacy when the proper time comes.
To lead such a movement is an object of
honorable ambition to any statesman. The
more aspirants the better, provided the sup
porters of each will cheerfully submit to the
decision of a national convention after a fair
comparison of. claims. A multitude cf com
petitors will bo attended with two advanta
ges : it will stimulate and diffuse effort pre
vious to the nomination; and it will develop
the popular strength of leading candidates,
thereby aiding t be new President to compose
a strong and popular administration. Let
all candidates, whether inside or outside the
Democratic party, have a fair show in the
preliminary canvass. Our chief business,
meanwhile, is to settle the principles ar.d is
sues on which the combination against Grant
shall be made.
Withe ut undertaking to give a complete
catalogue, we will indicate a few rf the ele
ments of opposition to general Graut:
I. The crusade against eorrpuiion in fjjic.e.
This is one of the most hopetut issues for a
combined movement of honest Democrats
and honest Republicans. It has been well
started in the successful! campaign against
the Tammany Ring ; a campaign in which
Democrats and Republicans have served to
gether with co perating zeal. The over
throw of Tammany is a preliminary engage
ment, which introduces tho fcer.eral battle
against official corruption. It hns demon
strated the possibility of sinking party differ
ences in a j ir,t ffjrt to expose and dethrone
fraud and punish its perpetrators. A move
ment of this kind, which is prompted by an
awakened publ:c conscience, cannot stop
with a mere local triumph. It will spread
throughout the ccuntry like a devouring
coi.fldgration, consuming the nepotism of
Grant and the corruption of his subordinates
as effectually as it has the abuses cf Tam
many Ring. This is oue plank of the plat
form on which all tho opponents of General
Grant can stand together.
II. Amnesty io the South. Liberal, hon
est Republicans can unite with Democrats
on this ground as cordially as in opposition
to official corruption. The rascality which
ha9 been brought to light in the Southern
State governments is absolutely astounding';
and it has chiefly resulted from tho vindic
tive, ost-acizing policy which has excluded
the property holders and iutelligeot classes
of the South from their due irifliier.ee in local
politics. A victorious crusade against cor
ruption necessari'y includes the only radical
cure for the hideous maladministration which
prevails jn the Southern States.
III. The revenue reform or free trade move
ment. This is cue cf the most important
bares of tbe new political combination. For
the last three years, revenue reform has been
making great progress among thinking Re
publicans, especially in the West. The
most widely circulated Republican journals
in Chicago and Cincinnati are ardent advo
cates of free trade ; and free trade, with am
nesty for its eily, carried Missouri against
Grant and elected Gratz Brown last year.
The revenue reform Republicans and the
Democrats can cordially act together on thi3
great issue.
IV. These and some other bases for the
concurrent and harmonious political action
of all good mea are set forth in The Would
prospectus for 1S7-, in another column.
Though addressed to our Democratic readers,
and though setting forth distinctively Demo
cratic principles which neither we uor they
Can surrender, abandon, or compromise iu
the estimation of a hair, we are assured that
it none the less commands the support of
those who must be our allies u our deteats
on issues of the dead past are to be replaced
by victories on issues of the living present
and the near future.
Such a new movement as we propose af
fords the best promise of enlisting the Ger
man Vvte in ciiposifion to General Grant. The
majority of our German citizens, both in the
East and the West, favor purity of adminis
tration and universal amnesty. Among the
most zoalous and determined foes of Tam
many were the German voters of this city ;
and the great amnesty triumph in Missouri
last year was chiefly owing to their co oper
ation under the lead of Senator Schurz. This
eloquent and gifted statesman justly despises
Geueral Grant ; and in such a combined op
position as is proposed he would be a host.
His vigorous sense and pursuasive tongue
would aid the reform movement to captivate
and carry the whole body of German voters
in the United States, in opposition to such
nepotist, venal gift-taker, and corruptor of
tho public morals as President Grant.
Wo will not, at present, enumerate far
ther. It must be obvious, from tho points
we have presented, that nothing is needed but
a liberal, conciliatory spirit to bring all tbe
opponents of General Grant together on a
satisfactory platform, and make tha next
Presidential election the opening of a new
and brighter era in our politics. iVew York
World.
Tr natives on the west coast cf Africa
are dying st a fearful rate from emall-pox..
Ktus of lite Weci.
Queen Victoria is now acenred of intcx
icaticn and much indignation is thereby cre
ated amon-i her friends and supporters.
A Catholic mission has been established
in this country, with fpeciil reference to
missionary labors among tho colored people.
Some one with spare time on his bauos
has been investigating a bushel of wheat,
and reports that it eot tains 60G.OOO grains.
Rumors with 'reference to tho Pope s
leaving Rome are still current in Europe.
But they havo no well oscertaincd founda
tion. Not'the least cf the calamitie s connected
with Chicago is the announcement that there'
are now in press no less than seven different
histories of the fire.
Nicholas Htrohl. of Lower Towamensir.g
township. Carbon county, is past CO years
old. has married threa times, and is tha fath
er of twenty-nine children.
A pig. with one eye in the centre cf its
forehead aud a trunk similar in shape to an
elephant's, growing out directly over its eye,
is the boast of a California town.
Ono hundred and thirty-two thousand
acres of land in two districts of Kansas were
acquired from tho Government last month
for tbe purpose cf actual settlement.
Of the twelve hundred living persons
in Pioohe. Nevada, six hundred have been
in the State prison, and of the eleven dead
bodies in the cemetery two died of natural
causes.
Cincinnati H to have a first class Mng
dalen home. It is to lie in the bands of lead
ing Roman Catholic ladies of the city.
Archbishop Purcell is reuch ictercsted iu the
enterprise.
Mr. Aaron Erdman, of Millerstown. is
the owner of a Dvon cow weighing 1,400
pounds. She is an exceeding good milker,
her yield of butter being thirteen pounds
each wee k.
The msunfictnro of wool hats is an ex
tensive bra-nch of industry in Reading.
There are some seventy manufactories, em
ploying GOO hands, and producing over 1000
finished hats per day.
The people of Wyoming are cow satisN
fied with the experiment of female suffrage
in that Territory, and a bill is now before
the Lrgislaturo of the Territory to sgain re
fctrict the ballet to macS.
The cholera has at last reached our
shores. A ve.-sel arrived ut New Yo-k las;
week with thirty four cases on board. Every
precaution is tsken by the authorities to pre
vent the spreading of the disease.
They believe in witches out in Titus
vilie. A lot of men employed in a machine
shop there, quit work the other day, because
they were informed by a witch that the boil
ei would explode at a certain hour.
The Titusville Courier says: Col. Tom
Scott runs thirty-niue railroads. If this d. ri't
prove thai be cau run the Presidential'cffice,
and thus run Grant off the track, then "may
we never cease to lovo" free railroad pistes.
In Lincoln county, Nevada, there is a
mountain of Salt, pure, solid, and tracsi a
rent. In early days. whri. the Mormons had
to rely solely on their own. resources, they
used flakes fr m this mountain for window
panes, insteed cf glass.
At B!ackstci:e, R. I., Wednesday after
noon of last week, Mrs. Frances Watfield,
took her young child to a bbed and chopped
its head to pieces with an ax. The mother,
who was probably insane, made two attempts
to drown herself last week.
The schooner Twilight struck a rock on
the loth inst.. five miles below Port An
burque, Michigan, sprang a lesk and broke
her steering gar. The crew of eight persons
in all took to a small boat, which caps:zd,
and only two reached shore alive.
A Berkshire papa observed to his daugh
ter's beau: "Jirn. if you want Lu you can
have her: but I don't want you hanging
around unless you mean business. If you
intend to marry her, hurry up. for 1 can't be
kept awake at nights much longer.
The majority for J .-el Parker. Democrat,
elected Governor of New Jersey, is C.007.
This is pretty well for a little State which
gave 2, SCO Radical maj rity last year and
has since adde-d 7,000 negroes to her voting
population. We say, buily for the Jersey
ites !
The President has appointed .Times N.
Kerns, of Philadelphia. United States Mar
shal for the eastern district f Pennsylvania,
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
General Gregory. Kerns is a Philadelphia
rouj;h. and was sheriff of that city several
y ears ago.
Oao cord of wood cut and split fine and
corded up beneath a shelter whi'e it is yet
green will furnish more heat after it has be
come seasoned than two cords of the same
kind cf wood which has been continually
exposed to the alternate influences of storms
and sunshine.
The Grand Jury of Los Angeles crnnty.
California, have found a number r f indict
ments against persons charged with partici
pation in the butchery of Chinese in the late
riot in the town of Los Argelea. Most of
tho accused, not already iu j til, have fled
from the county.
A report comes from Liverpool of a ter
rible disaster in tbe Mersey on Monday
morning last. Two ships ran into each other
with such violence that both sunk almost in
stantly. As far as is at present known all
hands are lost. The names ef the vessels
have not yet been ascertained.
Miss Nilsson was the guest of a select
party at dinner on Saturday night, on which
occasion she wes presented with a full-rigged
clipper ship about four feet long, called the
Cuba, every portion of which, from kilson
to main tiuck, is composed of flowers. It
sits in a floral composition and coat about
$200.
At Birmingham, rear Pittsburgh, they
were burning the bedding upon which a man
had died of small-pox, when tbe old mother
of the deceased rushed into the flames, and
snatched a roll of bills worth .$500 from tha
mattress. She had forgotten that the money
was concealed in tho bedding when she sent
it away.
A Chicago girl wrote to her lover in
Springfield, Mass., just after the fire, saying :
'Our wedding-day was set for next week,
and if you will stand up with a woman
dressed in a cotton skirt and her father's
overcoat, come on." The bravo youth tele-,
graphed In reply: "Get ready; I will be
with you "
The Philadelphia Age thinks that as the
Frcedman'a Bureau is a lemcn pretty well
squeezed. General Howard is justified in re
commending its entire abolition. It should
have been abolished long ago, and thus pro
vented the Southern negroes, naturally in
clined to laziness, from becoming worse than
drones upon a community.
John Ewing, a mulatto, was found at
Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday last, with his
head horribly battered and a soldering iron
thrust down his throat. His trunks were
broken open and rifled, and his house was in
general disorder. Ewing was a widower,
living alono, and keeping a small tin shop
in the front part of tbe building.
On Friday morning, a fire broke out in
the barber shop adjoining tho Perry House
at Kit Carson. Colorado, and the entire block,
including tbo Perry House, several dry goods
and grocery stores, tbe Postoffico. two bil
liard halls, and a number of saloons and
dwellings, were destroyed. The loss is esti
tcated at $100,000, with no Insurance.
Andrew Frink. a nrgro porter at. a hotel ;
in Cony, early on Wednesday moirdog crepf '
through the ventilator of a wl.iie r.'Kf i;?ri's !
roomrcntcred the apartment and attempted j
io commit an outrage. Shs uttered several i
piercing screams, arid tbo c'eik r,f the hotel :
oniutZ to tna r00rn f ,un'' l'ie black brute
under tho bc-d and the girl's night dress :
spotted with blood, which had dripped Jrom ,
her face and was the rcs'.iU of her struggle ;
with the mounter.
A contemporary records that a nice
young girl at Greon By, WisconHu, was ,
being" courted by a ideo youn man. He '
wasfT-fiously inclined, and ma le her pres
ents of hair oil. which was purchafH at the
store of the father c f the adored. A f or giv-
ing her scm: twenty bottles of tho ioai;- us
fluid he discovered he was working iu a cir
cle as fHt as he presenctd them she return
ed them to tha i-toro, thus dutifully nuking ,
trade fr her father. i
The Grand Rapids (Mich.) Demncrnt
savs the fi-ht of 1S72 wid bo against cor- :
rnption. against brihe-t.-iking President, j
shoddy collectors ar.d e-arpct hns robbers, j
The radicals have done a gi thing in ai I j
in" tho overthrow of Tammanv, but in put-
tin" tbe knife to ti e throat of that corrupt
ring they have- put it to their own throat.
The tide that is now rising will sweep t.iat
party out of existence, as lamrmry has
been swept with the besrm of destruction.
The way iu which Ku-Kius outrages
are manufactured was recently illustrated in
Jackson county, Georgia. The n iH of Ho
liday Bros., two men who had be;?n f -recst
in the cry r.f Ku-KIux. was bu-ncd t the
ground. The act. of course, whs ascribed to
the Klan. Several 2'nt'irr.fii -f the r-eigh-boihocd.
r.ot believing thst any tuch organ
ization esi-tcd in Jackson coin ty. inrrstit at
ed the niT.'Jr. n-jd f v..: that one of '.he Ho
lidays was himself the incemrary. The
scoundrel, who was an intimate friend cf
Gov. Bullock, ha3 bpfn put under heavy
bonds.
A Fsai-.fi.-l TRAGF.r.T. A terril.'e trago
dy is reported as Ii3vir.g bren mae'ed in
Lj't;n. Mass., on Friday r.iaht lat. A fire
was discovered in a srnaii hous in tf.e rear
of No. C3 Howard street, rcrvt i by a bar
ber named John G. Ciin'.on. Men riuhr-d
into tho honso and jut out the fire with
buckets cf water. On examination a tcni
bi5 sight met their eyes. What was sup
pored to V e a bundle . f clothing was the
hody of Mrs. C'inti n. The hair wa bnrr.ed
close to tbe bead, the skull bare ar.d horribly
crisped, and tho fbsh dropping fr. im the
arms and breast. Ihfro were wo
rn the brcatt and hea l, which con! 1 n.t have
been caused bv the Cre. It is supj
that Clinton killed her arl th
seno over her and set it on fir
k
beard a dispute ia the early part of the even
ing. A son, pged 10 years, sai l that be
came homo and saw t,e fire and reeollf-ctir.g
that his little brother, eged 3 3-cars. wa? in
bed. ran up stairs to save him, and met his
father coming down stairs. C ir.tcn acknowl
edges this, and s-ivs be was in bed when he
heart! his sn ; that be came do wis at ot-co
and f is nd the body as described. 'Tim neigh
bors think there is no eh -lib t but that he
comndited the tragedy, as was of a very
bad temper.
A Coyvicr's Lkvexoe. Wilson wa not
the first convict in the Connecticut State
Prison to take a bloody reveng- for the cruel
ty of his keepers. Abo'.u ten y?vs ao a
young Irhhman of New Haven, r.naied Ger
i!d Toole, w.as sentenced to imprisonment
for lifo for incendiarism. He had never
made a shoo in his life, ar.d was put towuk
in the shr-e shop. Ni t being ab'e to peif itn
his allotted task to the satisfaction cf the
overseer, he was flogged day after day with
leather thongs. 0:se evening, as the over
seer, I),io!ittle and his assistant we-c strip
ping their victim, the warden entered tl.e
room. Toole begged him to interfere, tut
the warden told DoliU'e to g on with ti:e
flogging. As the iasii descended tbo vi.-rim
turned upon his tormentors wi ll a frnia'l
shon knifu he had concealed in b;s wai.-t-band.
and irfl-cted a mortal wmnd cn t tie
warden. To.de was hung, and three years
after the owner of the hoie Toole had 1 ten
charged with burning confessed on h;s
bed that he had himself committed t'.jo ci iuie.
TiiF.Tuscrawrts (O.) Chronic e iel's of the
following singular accident: David Mcfi'.d.l
of l!oe township, Carroll county, bad put a
load in his rifle, and not being able to shoot
it out, be concluded t-r draw tbo ball, but
Could not dr it. so b tnnk the roin iri-f mt
removed the powder from the breech: still
being unable to remove the bu'iet. lie decided
to lay the barrel in the blacksmith's fire and
tne.t :t cut. 1 he barrel was therefore pbced
in the fire, and shortly afterwards Mr. Mof
fat's little girl, rdne years old, w bo was stand
ing by, said, "Papa, it hurts." "What
hurts?" said he; she then put her hand on
her left hip to indicate the plce. and upon
examination it was found that the ball Iia-J
beeu forced from the pun by tbe heated air.
and ha ! struck the girl on tha left hip, pars
ed around the body and lodged in the ricbt
leg. When we last beard from bcr she was
still living, but it was fsared the wotind
would prove fatal.
T 1ST OF CAUSES sot down for trial
J fit a Court of C miraoiiPo;, to be liel.l nt
Khonilnirr, for Cumbria oountv, coimnfivmjr
on Mmuiuu, the 1th ii.f irct :nh(r, A. 1. 1-71:
FIRST WEFK.
re. Nutter.
is. 1'rinule.
v. Linton.
r. X u iter tt Noel.
if. Winjrard rf. ai.
t'f. Rums rt. ai.
rs. Nawrlo.
rx. C. ui-l y.
r. KvnTi..
i. Crifl tli.
rs. Dunn.
rs. Jones.
sscont) wnr.K.
rs. Vauarht.
F.istman
Wilson
T.rl.in i Son . . .
Murphy
Win. Slick, sr.
I.ittleli.l.l
l-irtlotiel'l
Miller
Miller
t'nrrish
Fi-oitiiorr .
Evims
Hipp
Crosmitn
Emergency Br. Co..
Commonwealth ...
CominonwoHltli
White's F.xej-titor .
1 i linger. Assignee,
T-atvler
ll'irk, for use
M Council
Klvnn
Aaron.
.r. riiiliips.
. I'ntierson.
.r. l'nt terson.
..iv. Tiper.
..rs. HfUther.
-. ..rs. Eil wards.
is. Allison.
rs. Williams ef at.
. . . .VS. SW(ljU.
.. ..rs. e'oopor.
rs. Vlniiket.
r.. Davis.
W ike's Executor.
Collins
Kunkel
Yost's Adm'rs
T'latt
Finney & Harrouo
M'Kenzie
Zeeh's Heirs
Llovd
M'Mullin
Iejnn
Short hill
Nutters
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...rs.
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. .vs.
. . vs.
Williams.
Con very.
Hi PI'S - Lloyd.
lo le.
Zrt h tt. at.
Sotnerville.
vs. t'lass.
vs. Class.
vs. Mah:ie.
vs. M-Cuire.
A , J. K. HITF l'rothonotarv.
Frothonotary s Oflice, Et.en-tl.urK-, Xov. . 1S71.
A DMINlSTKATOirs NOTICK.
- - 'TS'a'fi nr inmns II. Fouteu, dee'd. 1
Letters or Adnimisti-.ttion d ,.jm"s nun on tlic 1
estate of Thomas II. l'orter, latent WnMunirton !
township, leceas.-d, ha inyr lie-e-n lrranted to 1
the iiruh-rsined by the Heiriste-r of Camhrij i
county, all persons indebted to said ost-it are
notilled that payment must be made without j
. . . . . . titling nn- 1 v' i iit-M t u
,v lui-m i.ioperiy aut iicntionte.l lor
M l I it.:
Sportinir Oe.ods. 1'itle Itarrets, Locks. Mount.
Inrs (inn Materials. Ac. Send for (i Price List. !
Address .1 . 1 1 . .it 1 H N s ni.N, f.i-t f II Vsf crn un
n'trt-k. I7 Smithrleld Street. Pittsburjrh. I'a
tWS. It. TArmy Carbines, Ititlea and Uevol
ver bought or trade! for.
Nov. 4.-et. Administrator tie lnis non. j JL ir t----s SHOl OF CAM'';) A '
"e'- II. K 1 k I-: II ). I, II.M I 1 1 1 S - I i - ,-7.
GREAT WESTERN GUN WORKS. ! SSS
KiflM, Doable U Kilo linrrel. Auialf o
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Fstato .Tons
Te-tfcrs of Almin:ti a;
John Kkxnsdv, late of Wa-'
det-i-as"'!, h.-ivinur l.e.-Ti yra1-. 1
hy tlic Kvister of Cami'i'ia
iii.Ifnr...l 1.-1 SjM 1 S1jO ::ro I'-'
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' thofo holdiiiir claims aj.iir.-t 1
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authont icntcd for s'-tTloT.'. -ut
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Letters of Adiir.isf n:tt"on ' !
; Chriittian Smay, late S: t tt". '
I dee'd. having been cntnt'-! t' '
I bv the Ilfirlprof Citit'ria e.-i'":
i iiilrbted to smd etate ar r--- "' ''
; payment must be tnadj ;'
i those ha vine etaims jscaii.-t t"-'"
j quested to present tlittn J r rrr
' ted for settlement.
AXNPMAT, A.-V
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Suaimerhill Twp., Nov. ii. ! "
! at th most reasonable rates
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