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EBENSBUnC. PA.,
Friday Morning, - - August 9, lS72.j
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Beaocratic Rspublican National Ticket.
roR rRKiiK.vr:
HORACE GKEELEY,
Of New York.
rou vie feisidkt:
E. GEATZ BROWN,
Of Hiteourl.
Democratic State 'Ticket,
roR goverhob:
CSAS. It. BUCKALEW, of Columbia County,
rea iopmmi Jcooa:
JAMES THOMPSON, or Erie County.
FOB AUDITOR sbskhal:
WILLIAM HARTLEY, of Bedford County.
fOR CONQXiCSKMErV AT LARGS :
RICH AUD VAUX, of Philadelphia.
JAMES II. HOPKINS, or PittsburRb.
HENDKICK li. WKIGUT, or Luzerne County.
Delegate to OmstltulUmai ConrerttUm:
1. OaoRQi W. Woodward. Philadelphia.
2. Jerkmiah S. Black, York.
3. Willi ah Biolkk, Clearfield.
4. William J. B a em, Somerset.
6. William II. Smith, Allctrheny.
6. F. C. Gowks, Philadelphia.
7. John H. Ca.vpbei.i, Philadelphia.
8. S. II. Ketnoldh, Lancaster,
ft, Jamks K I.I.I s, Schuylkill.
10. 8. C. T. Dodd, Vennifo.
11. G. M. Daii.ah, Philadelphia.
12. K. A. Lambekto.n, Dauphin.
13. A. A. Pcrman, Greene.
14. Wixxxam M. Corbett, Clarion,
PRESIDENTIAL KLECTOH9.
senatorial.
Edgar Cowaj. of Westmoreland County.
GjtOROl W. Skinek, of Franklin County.
RFPRE8BNTATITE.
Bvl-Den Marvin, of Erie.
John S. Mii.lkr, ofjlluntlngrdon.
b. ukoss r kt, or Jfbiiadeiphia.
nut.
Dist.
13. D. Lowenberg'.
14. J. M'Knijfht.
15. Henry Welsh.
Id. Henry J. Stahley.
17. R. W. Christy.
18. William P. Logan.
ID. ltasselas Broivu.
'M. F. M. Kobinson.
21. J. R. Wilson.
1. Thomas J. Barker.
Z. Stephen Anderson.
. John Moffat,
4. Oeorg-e K. Burrel.
. (Not agreed upon,)
. Isaiah B. llnupt.
7. Samuel A. Dyer.
8. Jeette B. Hawltty.
9. H. B. Swarr.
10. B. Riley.
11. John Kunkle.
12. F. W. Gunster.
52. P. H. Stevenson.
IS. John G. Bard.
21. Geo, W. Miller.
Te)nocratlc County Ticket.
Amembly JOHN H ANN AN, Johnstown.
Hw.arui Itcc.JA. M. SING EK. Jucknon Twp.
CommUBumer A NTHON Y ANNA, Chest Twp.
P. H. Director-. OUS HL CH. Johnstown.
Audit! PETER DOCOHElt V Y , SummitvlUe.
Tlie ATorth Carol itui Election.
It was flashed over the telegraph wires
last Friday that the Democrats and Liberal
Republicans had carried the North Carolina
election by about five thousand majority.
Up until Monday the papers of both par
ty conceded the election of Merrimon, the
Democratic candidate for Governor, by not
less than 2,500. That reported majority
has daily "grown small by degrees and
beautifully less," and our latest intelligence
is that both parties claim the State, so far
as Governor is concerned. If we receive
any news to the contrary before this (Thurs
day) evening, we will announce it in a
the result of the election for Gover
nor be what it may, however, ttco other
facts are not questioned first, that the
Democrats have elected five of the eight
members of Congress, and, secondly, that
the Legislature will contain a Democratic
majority on joint ballot of about 20, which
will secure the election of a Democratic
United States Senator, in place of the pre
sent Radical incumbent, John Poole. It
is a great and glorious victory for Greeley
and Brown, even admitting, as we are far
from doing, the election of Caldwell, the
Radical candidate for Governor, and sounds
the political death-knell of Grantism in
November.
in t
llannan and Henry.
Although this article bears at its head
the names of the Democratic and Radical
candidates for Assembly in this county, we
do not propose this week to enter into a
general discussion of their merits, but brief
ly to notice a communication signed "Citi
een," which appeared in last Saturday's
issue of the Johnstown Daily Mountain
Voice. That communication is simply a
repetition, ad nauseam, of the stale, flat
and unprofitable cry against that mythical
organization known almost exclusively to
certain Johnstown agitators as the "cor
rupt Ebensburg Ring." It is also a lame
and impotent attempt to revive that most
preposterous of all humbugs, the removal
of the county seat from Ebensburg to
Johnstown. That insane project having,
by the proper authority, been consigned to
merited oblivion, we did not suppose that
any man even in Johnstown would now
have the temerity to attempt its resurrec
tion, or even do it any kind of reverence.
The pith and marrow of the communica
tion, however, is "in the following sentence:
"This combination (meaning the conjurcd
np "Ebensburg Ring") has managed by
persistent and malicious intrigue to tie up
our Court," &c. We were and still are iui
gressed with the belief that it was the Su
premo Court of the State, and not the ter
rible "Ebensburg Ring," that "settled the
hash" for the District Court of Cambria
county. If that Court was organized in vi
tiation of tho constitution and the law, as
the Supreme Court says it was, did not the
best and,dearest interests, both of liberty and
property, of every citizen within its juris
diction, imperatively demand that the Court
should be abolished, not by an imaginary
"Ring" at Ebensburg or elsewhere, but by
the highest judicial tribunal in the State ?
What fair and right-minded man will deny
this? There is not now, and never has
been, any feeling of hostility on the part
of the citizens of Ebensburg against the
people of Johnstown. We rejoice in her
great manufactures and feel proud of them.
We honor and respect Daniel J. Mor
rell as an energetic and public-spirited
pitizen, always intent upon advancing the
material interests of his own locality, and
whenever we say aught against his private
character or public acts on behalf of Johns
town, or against the other gentlemen asso
ciated with him in his laudable efforts in
that direction, "may our right arm forget
its cunning and may our tongue cleave to
the roof of our mouth."
The base and persistent attempt of cer
tain politicians and office-holders in Johns
town to create a feeling of enmity and bit
terness between the northern and southern
jortions of the county, is the work of dem
agogues, and it ought not to meet with the
least favor or encouragement from either
section. If a bill can be drawn, either in
Johnstown or any other locality, by which
the defunct District Court, or anything
like it, can be legally and constitutionally
established, the people of northern Cam
bria will with all their hearts say to their
brethren of the south, "Let us have peace!"
General JV. T. Banks.
We said, last week, that in our next issue
we would publish the letter of Gen. N. P.
Banks, of Massachusetts, repudiating Gen.
Grant and declaring his purpose to sup
port Horace Greeley. We give his let
ter below. Gen. Banks as a politician and
a soldier is well known to the country, lie
was at one time Governor of Massachusetts,
afterwards Speaker of Congress, then a
General in the late war, and is now one of
the ablest and most influential members of
Congress from the 'Old Bay State." It
,-
Jtte other Republican membersof Congress 1
trom the same State will publish a letter m
opposition to Grant and in favorof Gree
ley inside of ten days. General Banks'
letter is t-oth sensible and high-toned, and
no voter should fail to peruse it :
Boston, July 31, 1872.
Jfy Dear Sir : I have the honor to ac
knowledge by this note, in addition to our
conversation to-day, the receipt of your in
vitation to address the citizens of Lynn, on
Thursday evening, in support of the re
election of Grant, and the policy of his
Administration.
No invitation could have greater weight
with me from any part of the country, nor
from any portion of my fellow-citizens,
and it gives me great pleasure to assure
you that nothing could be added to your
suggestions, as the representatives of the
citizens of Lynn, to induce me to accede
to the request.
Their kindness to me many years since
is a continual life-remembrance, and noth
ing would give me greater satisfaction than
to renew my associations with them : but
I regret to say tliat I am not in accord
with them in regard to the Presidential
canvass.
Against my wishes and my personal in
terests, I am compelled to believe aud say
that the perpetuation of the present policy
of the Government is not for the advantage
of the country, and that it will not tend to
establish its former good and prosperity,
nor to promote the interests of any class of
citizens. No jersonal feeling of anv form
or character enters into this judgment. It
is in view of general principles and public
interests alone that I am led to this conclu
sion. The uniting of the masses of the people
of all parties, sections and races, in support
of the grand results of the war is indispen
sable to the permanent establishment of a
general recognition of these results. It
can be secured by no other means. We
shaU all be forced to this conclusion sooner
or later.
This united action upon this basis has
been the hope of my life. I fervently de
sired it during the war, and in the recon
struction of the States subsequent to the
war. I believe it is now tendered in good
faith in the nomination of Greeley, and for
one I cannot reject it. It was what I de
sired. Its consummation, although sudden and
startling, docs not alarm me. My duty to
myself and my country requires me to give
him my support. I cannot advocate before
your friends a different course which neith
er my judgment nor my heart approves.
It grieves me most deeply to separate
myself in thought or act from any one of
those with whom I have been so long asso
ciated, and to whom I am so greatly in
debted, but I believe the result wiU justify
my action, give to the country that peace
and prosperity which is the object of all
our labors, and secure to every citizen civil
ami political equality, and that freedom
which was won by the sacrifice of so many
valued lives.
Accept tho assurances of my lasting
friendship and esteem, and believe me
Yours, &c. N. P. Banks.
James S. Lewis, Esq., Lynn.
That there is a total political revolution
going on in the northern parts of this State,
as well as throughout the whole cou ntry,
is an established fact. Bradford county,
in this State, was the home of David Wil
mot, and Towanda, in that county, was his
life-long residence. The wl.ola country is
familiar with the political history of David
Wilmot, and also of the complete and per
fect change of political views that was
brought about in that portion of Pennsyl
vania by the defection from his old party
ties and associations of such a leading and
prominent Democrat as David Wilmot.
The revolution is now all the other way and
is going backwards among the leading Re
publicans of Bradford county, as will be
seen from the following proceedings of a
Republican meeting, held in Towanda on
Thursday, the lstinst., from which it will
be apparent that some of the most distin
guished Radicals of that county, and here
tofore warm friends of Gen. Grant, have
taken a leading and active part in favor of
Greeley and Brown :
Towanda, Pa., August l; A large and
enthusiastic meeting of Liberal Republicans
was held here to-day, and largely attended
by representatives from aU parts of the
country. The meeting was presided over
by Colonel G. F. Mason, formerly State
Senator and a prominent Liberal, with E.
D. Overton, General West brook, D. H.
Park, and other prominent Republicans as
Vice-Presidents. It was addressed by Hon.
George Iandon, late Republican State
Senator, and Allen Craig, of Mauch Chunk,
and others. Good feeling and enthusiasm
prevailed, and an organization for the cam
paign was perfected.
m
General Moorhead and Allegheny
County. A correspondent of the Phila
delphia Pott recently had an interview with
the well-known Republican leader, Gen.
James K. Moorhead, of Pittsburgh, who
gave him the following information :
1. That he is Hot and will not be a can
didate for Congress, as was reported.
2. That he is warmly for Greeley and
Brown and the whole Liberal ticket.
3. That Hon. Thomas Marshall, Liberal
Republican, will probably be a candidate
for Congress in the Allegheny-Butler dis
trict, and win.
4. That Al'egheny county cannot give
over 3000 majority for Grant. Probably
less liian that ligure.
.. That the most influentia1 Republicans
throughout the county of Al egheny are
for Greeley and Frown.
Ilartranft a Jobber.
This fact is exhibited on every page of
his official record. He was selected on ac
count of his jobbing history in connection
with the Cameron clique in the State. The
old chief knew his man. He had tested
him in various ways. In all he proved
worthy of the confidence reposed in him
bv the Senator from Pennsylvania. In the
Evans case the job was well put up, ana
executed with pluck and determination.
Ilartranft placed the claims iu Evans'
hands. Ilartranft made the contract with
reference to the compensation in such a
manner a to favor the jobbers and rob the
State. 1 Iartranf t shut his eyes to the well
known fact that Evans was not acting in a
proper manner with regard to payment of
the proceeds of his collections. Ilartranft
failed to comply with the law, and inform
the Legislature that these claims had not
been properly reported to his office. I Iart
ranf t accepted a loan of seven thousand dol
lars from Evans, and then allowed the job to
proceed until Evans was a ueiauiier w uie
State to an enormous amount. In all this
stujvendous job, the Auditor-General of the
State, the Grant-Cameron office-holders
candidate for Governor of the State, John
F. Ilartranft, was directly implicated and
interested, and that fact is upon record for
the people to contemplate.
Tr.hr, v iTarti-anft also stands indicted
for using State funds for private stock-job-
rvr-rt-H l.v thi following sworn testimony
uini? oueraiions. .-a- r
Charles T. Yerkes, a we "J.Jk"J
this .tv. Raid noon the stand : r or some
years past I have Deen acquainted
John F. Ilartranft, Auditor-General of
Pennsylvania ; I have, at various times,
purchased and sold stocks of different kinds
and carried the same, with money belong
ing to the Commonw ealth of Pennsylvania,
which the same J. F. Ilartranft had caused
to be deposited with this deponent by the
State Treasurer." The same witness fur
ther declared under oath : "That this de
ponent did pay to J. F. Ilartranft, Auditor
General, ou the 10th of December, 1ST0,
the sum of $2,700, which sum was derived
from profits on purchases of loans of the
Commonwealth and sale of the same to the
Fund, which sale was made on the 29th of
April, 1870 ; that said deponent has also
paid to said J. F. Ilartranft various amounts
of money for profits arising from stock
speculations with money desposited with
this deponent by the State Treasurerat the
instance of the said Ilartranft." These
oath-supported facts show that John F.
Ilart ranft did not hesitate to use State funds
for private stock-jobbing operations. He
caused large sums to be drawn from the
State Treasury, and put into the possession
of Yerkes, and with these stocks were
bought and traded upon for the benefit of
the Auditor-General. Such a use of the
funds of the State w as illegal. That fact
was known to Ilartranft w lieu he entered
upon the stock speculation. But he is a
desperate jobber, and trampled upon both
law and his oath of ofi.ee for the puriose
of making money. In this movement he
did no discredit to his training in the Cam
eron school. A jobbing Auditor-General
will make a jobbing Governor. Do the
people of Pennsylvania want such a chief
Executive officer?
Another job in which John F. Ilartranft
was engaged, was that in relation to com
promising claims against corjKrations for
unpaid taxes. In 1871 suits had been in
stituted by the Attorney-General of the
State against a large number of corpora
tions for taxes. The gross sum claimed
amounted to nearly three quarters of a mil
lion of dollars. In May of that year, Mr.
Strang, from Tioga county, an agent of
Cameron, a id a brother jobber with Hart
ranft, Mackey, Quay and Errett, introduced
in the House of Representatives a resolu
tion authorizing the Auditor-General, State
Treasurer, and Attorney-General, or a ma
jority of them, to compromise all claims
against corporations for taxes then in liti
gation before the Courts. By the wording
of the resolution it will be seen that in re
ality Hartrauft and Mackey were to do all
the business, they constituting a majority
of the Board. Why was the Attorney
General excluded from the affair ? Because
he had disavowed all connection with the
job, and insisted that every cent of the
taxes claimed could be collected by law,
and the sequal showed he was right. But
Auditor-General Ilartranft urged the pas
sage of the bilk and used all possible means
to influence members of the Senate aud
House to vote for its passage. The reason
of this action on his part is plain. The
bill was the fore-runner of a job. The pro
posed compromise of these tax claims
would have resulted iu a loss to the St.ato
of at least $300,000, a full proportion of
which would have gone into the pockets of
the men who engineered the business.
In all these jobs John F. Ilartranft was
noticeably conspicuous. The loan from
Evans ; the neglect to inform the Legisla
ture of the condition of his accounts ; the
stock-jobbing operations with Yerkes, and
the tax claims affair with Cameron, Mac
key and others, are stains upon his official
record which cannot be removed. An Auditor-General
who will thus disregard his
oath of office, thus trample on the Interests
of the State committed to his charge, cer
tainly has no claim to be elected Governor.
The Age.
" J ' . iJ
Dear Yerkes. A city contemporary
says of the testimony of Charles T. Yerkes,
Jr. :
The last named is a convicted felon, and
his solemn oath that he has at various times
purchased and sold stock, and carried the
same "with money of the Commonwealth
of Pennsyluanla," which Ilartranft had
caused to be deposited with him by the
State Treasurer, ought not to be received.
Nevertheless, he is the "DcarYerkB" of
the letters, which Ilartranft cannot deny,
and since the conviction he has furnished
the following certificate of character to Mr.
Yerkes, whom we certainly regard as quite
as good a man as General Ilartranft, any
day :
To ni 'Excellency John W. Geary, Gover
nor of l'ennxyleania
Dear Sir : We would respectfully re
quest your excellency to grant a pardon to
Charles T. Yerkes, Jr., who has been con
victed of larceny in the Court of Quarter
Sessions of Philadelphia. It is our firm
conviction, and we.speak advisedly, when we
say that we believe him to be entirely free
from any intention to commit a felony, and
think to incarcerate him would be an act
of great injustice. He is largely indebted
to the city of Philadelphia, aud has made
a proposition of settlement with the said
city, which proposition has been accepted
by the committee appointed by Councils to
settle the same, and consisting of gentle
men who have the entire regard and confi
dence of the people. This agreement re
quires Mr. Yerkes' personal attention.
Wre, therefore, from the belief in his inno
cence, and that to pardon him for the of
fense charged would be for the public good,
earnestly desire that you now show your
executive clemency in this case.
Yours, most truly,
John F. IIartranft,
R. W. Mackey.
Philadelphia, February 10, 1872.
Judge Settle helped to settle Grant ou
the Presidential ticket, and now the Con
servatives have settled him, and this settle
ment settles the fate of the Administration
in November,
Mcrder Will Out. 4 Chicago Sensa
tion. The Murder of the Joyce Children in
1(55. The Chicago Times of the 4th inst.
makes a startling disclosure in a three col
umn sensational article. The writer states
he was night reiorter in the 'winter of '71
and found one Nelse Johnson lying on the
sidewalk on Quincy street suffering froni
wounds received in a row. The . reporter
picked him up and took him into a poor
woman's house, where he recovered assisted
by the reporter, who claims Johnson gave
him a full accotint of the murder ot the
Joyce children, at West Roxbury, Massa
chusetts, in 18Co, as. tho latter had received
it during a drunken spree in this city from
a barber, who stated he was the murderer
of the children and detailed the deed.
Johnson says the barber told him that he
had followed the children on June 12, 1865,
to West Roxbury woods, and there at
tempted to outrage the girl. She resisted
and he struck her down with a large white
handled knife. Just then he saw the boy
returning from the other side of the pas
ture, and started to kill him. The boy ran,
the barber chased and caught him and
plunged the knife into him many times. He
returned to the girl and fjound her at the
top of a ledge of rocks overlooking the
liiirhwav unable to make a noise. She had
vainlv endeavored to wave her apron for
assistance, but being weak; from loss of
blood had fallen upon her face insensible.
The murderer then outraged the girl and
stapped her repeatedly and fled. This
barber said he was an associate of Thomas
Ainsley, the painter arrested at the time on
suspicion of being tne niuraerer.
Johnson's description of the murderer is
as follows : He is live feet nine or ten in
ches liigh and a lame, powerful man, with
an immense neck; he is twenty or thirty
years old and now either m Boston or
Springfield, Mas. His name Johnson
could not give. The murderer buried the
the knife near a bee ch tree on the spot, and
the reporter says that Johnson gave liim
the informant ion on condition that he would
not repeat it until the latter was dead.
Johnson died a few days ago in the hospital
here and the Timet now publishes the secret
for the information of the Boston police
and asserts its belief in its truth.
A Meteoric Stone found Thirteen
Feet Under the Ground.' Some two
years ago Mr. John J. Murdoch, of the firm
of Murdoch & Dickson, while passing
through a field on his farm near Laclede
station, observed a cu:ious looking hole
twelve inches in diameter and of very re
cent origin. He thrust a fence rail in it to
the depth of eight feet, with a view to fu
ture investigation, which was, however,
prevented by other matters. What chiefly
attracted his attention was the fact that
the direction of the hole was exactly per
pendicular, cleanly cut and eliptical in shape
and that its apparent depth w as considera
bly gi eater than the length of the rail. Our
friend Murdoch was evidently determined
that whatever had gone in there should
not pull the hole in after it. Outside of
his professional pursuits, Mr. F. J. Bow
man has an inquiring turn of mind which
ltd hiin to speculate as to w hat made the
hole. He "interviewed" it yesterday, with
the following result : At a depth of thir
teen feet four inches there was found a
st.nc twelve pounds in weight, about eight
inches in diameter, oblately spheroidal in
shajK?, and of undoubted meteoric antece
dents. It was exhibited in our editorial
rooms, and has the invariable characteristic
of meteoric stones a fused black crust,
like varnish, with which the surface is
coated. As to its chemical composition,
the predominating element is iron, iu a na
tive or metallic state, with a fair proportion
of nickel. We doubt whether an opher
a;roliteof such perfect thape is in existence,
as these visitors from the .upper regions
hardly ever fail to Fplit into fragments be
fore leaching the earth. St. Louis Times,
August 2.
"Thk Bloody Chasm." General Kil
patrick has the honor of having given at
once the most stinging rebuke and effec
tive answer to Secretary Boutwell's recent
oratorical bosh about the "bloody chasm."
If the three hundred thousand soldiers of
the North and three hundred thousand of
the South the flower of the nation who
gave up their lives in the civil war, are not
enough to "fill up the chasm," w hat more,
General Kilpatrick asks, would Mr. Bout-
well have? The graves of our Northern
hill-sides and the blackened wastes of the
South show how ample has been the sacri
fice on both sides, and at how great a cost
has been removed tho ancient cause of dif
ference between sections of the same coun
try, lie who would call for more of the
same sort, who would ask that the result
of the blotnly struggle be negatived and
the old hostility renewed, is surely not
worthy of confidence either as a patriot or
a man of common sense. 3Ir. Boutwell's
metaphor was, indeed, a most infelicitous
one, and the exposure of its hateful appli
cation comes with greatest force from one
who fought gallantly through the war, and
now generously accepts its results without
a tinge of the rancor that inspires the cec
retary of the Treasury. But if the chasm
is not filled, it is likely to be by the dump
ing into its abysses of Air. lioutwell and
the Administration of which he is a part.
bunday Mercury.
Grant's Sayings. It may interest the
Grant men, who are so fond of quoting
Ureeley, to read what u rant has said. We
inve specimens below :
"I only voted at one Presidentltial elec
tion, then I voted for Buchanan. Grant
in 18C.G.
"There is such universal acquiescence in
the authority of the general government
throughout the portion of the Southern
States visited by me, that the mere presence
of a military force, without regard to num
bers, is sufficient to maintain order."
GranVs Beport to Congress in 18G6.
"I am a Democrat, and when I am con
vinced that this war is waged to prosecute
the designs of the abolitionists, I pledge my
honor as a soldier that I will carry my sword
on the other side, and cast my lot with that
people." Grant in 18G3.
"The liberties of the country cannot be
maintained without a one-term amendment
to the Constitution." Grant in 1868.
Horrible Murder in Illinois. A
horrible murder was committed near Yates
City on Monday morning. The victim was
the wife of John Matthewson, a farmer,
married but a few months. The murderer
went to the house about 8 A. M., while
Matthewson and a hired man were working
in a distant field, and ordered breakfast.
While Mrs. Matthewson was preparing it
he undertook to ravish her. She resisted,
and her clothing and person showed un
mistakable signs that there was a terrible
struggle for life. Wrhen her husband re
turned at night he found her body in the
cellar, with her throat cut and her skull
crushed. Great excitement prevails here,
and mounted horsemen are scouring; the
country in search of the murderer. A re
ward of $1,000 has been offered for his ap
prehension. A man who was near the
house that day seeking employment is sus
pected. Montgomery, Alabama, Aug. 3. Two
nights ago fifteen colored men formed a Lib- I
eral Republican Club here, since which i
time three of the number have been seri- '
ously maltreated by colored Radicals. One
, named Gabo Henry was to-day s tabled in j
' five places and dangerously wounded.
Xetvs ami I'olitical Items.
Church property in New York city 18
vaiued at $8J,8OO,0O0.
The Danvdle Independent, a Republi
can journal, cannot support Ilartranft-
An Indiana postmaster,wliose salary is
only eighty dollars, had to give five per
cent, to the Urant club.
The charred bodies of five ictims of :
the great forest fires in Michigan last fall j
have just been discovered in Huron county.
It is a notable fact that there are living j
two widows of revolutionary soldiers under '
forty years of age, while the oldest surviv
ing widow is 113 years old.
The Mechanicsburg Journal (Radical)
announces its intention to continue its op
position to Ilartranft until "convinced of
its error by more tangible proof."
A child in Franklin county, Ga., has
sixteen toes and thirteen fingers. He is,
however, open to proposals for an exchange
of some of his superfluous digits for a pair
of eyes.
The Louisville Courier-Journal poet
ically remarks: "In Montgomery, Ala., the
other day, four negroes got on a spree; one
took out his little jackknife, and now there
ain't but three."
The machine shop of the Harrisburg
company's new car-works, just rebuilt, was
burnt Monday night. Loss $50,000. Four
meu were badly hurt by the falling build
ing. Insurance $45,000.
An honest State administration is what
is wanted. There is but one way to secure
it. That way is to overthrow the Cam
eron faction, through its representatives an!
tools, Ilartranft and Allen.
Iowa news: "A woman in Camanche,
who worked in the harvest field all Satur
day, was delivered of kicking and squalling
triplots Saturday night, and was sitting up
to her regular meals Sunday."
A Kentucky farmer has a radish thirty-
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hucc irct xu cuiiucreiiuv anu eigiit leet j
long, wiucn lie is gomg to encourage in
growing until it gets large enough to par
tition olf, when he will move in.
A few days since a little child in Lea
venworth, Ks., came to its death by fall
ing and striking its chin upon the doorstep,
the teeth penetrating the tongue. It was
soon after seized with spasms and died.
There will be enough wild grapes in
Texas this year to make more wine than
was ever manufactured in France in one
year. What a pity that by far the greater
portion of these crops will not be utilized.
A Craven county (Ga.) sow had four
pigs ; one was like a horse, one like an
opossum, the third like a dog, and the fourth
a pig. The owner of the sow believed this
to be witchcraft, and had all of them burn
ed to death.
The Columbus (Ga.) Sun tells ns of a
well-dressed negro who jumped from a
train moving eighteen miles an hour to get
his new hat, which had blown off. He over
took the train at the next station, a mile
and a half further on.
The keeper of the Daxbury (Mass.)
lighthouse sweep np from the deck every
morning two or thrt e quarts of gnats, flies,
and mosquitos, attracted by the light of
the lantern during the night and kilkd by
the heat of the flame.
Wilkinson, who killed his wife vrith a
cleaver in Baltimore, on the 1st of May,
has been struck with paralysis on the left
side, which is slowly affecting the right.
And jeople giving to moralizing look at it
as a judgment of Heaven.
The Iowa elevator owned by Hugh
Maher, and containing about 180,000 bush
els of grain, mostly corn, was burned in
Chicago Monday morning. The grain was
worth about $70,000 aud the building $25,
000. Insurance unknown.
A set of paper car wheels on one of the
Pullman cars running to Jersey City have
run over 160,000 miles of track, and wore
out entirely one set of steel tires, which have
been replace d. The ordinary wheels, it is
said, will only run sixty thousand miles.
In the new oil field of Turkey run,
near St. Petersburg, in the oil region, a
new well was struck on Tuesday morning
last which accidentally took fire, burning
three men fatally and so seriously burning
two others that their recovery is doubtful.
A very line specimen of the horned
frog was recently sent through the post by
a lady living at San Diego. Southern Cali
fornia, to a relation in London. Ihe Irog.
after a month's journey, arrived safely, and
is now exhibited at the Zoological Society's
Gardens.
Why didn't Ilartranft, when on the
witness stand in the Evans swindle, tell all
he knew ? The mere fac t that seven thou
sacd dollars of the money went into Har
tranft's pocket and was only repaid irith
out interest after public exposure was made
is not sufficient. The people desire the
whole facts.
1 laters of tobacco will be sorry to hear
that Dr. John Murray, a distinguished Eng
lish physician, has announced his belief
that snuff will, in many cases, arrest the
progress of pulmonary consumption. Con
trary to a general rule in political economy,
an increase in the production of the article
will, in this instance, lessen the consump
tion. . .
The Marquis of Bute has alreadv of
fered for exhibition at Philadelphia, in
1876, a complete assortment of metals and
minerals and ores from Wales, from the
county of Durham and the entire basin of
bouth ater, including Monmouthshire.
Also a collection of the manufactures of
the South Basin, including Monmouthshire,
and an exact model of the great "Bute
Docks" at Cardiff.
A woman named Smith, living in Wil-
brauam, JUass., drowned her child, only a
year oiu, men Herself, about a mile from
Collins Depot, on Monday. Her husband
was killed on tho Boston aud Albany Rail
road, some time ago, and this loss, with
some attacks upon her character, her child
declared to be illegitimate, produced a de
pression of spirits which probably led her
to the deed.
A terrible tornado and hailstorm about
a mile wide visited Harrisburg on Monday
night between ten and eleven o'clock.
The roofs of the State Capital Hotel and
Brant's Hall and many private buildings
were carried off. The gable end of the
German Reformed Church and many other
buildings were similarly injured. Hundreds
of trees were blown down and thousands of
panes of glass broken throughout the city.
Telegraphic communication in almost every
direction, was cut off, but was restored
Tuesday morning.
A singular accident occurred recently
upon White Mountain Notch road, N. 1L,
a litttle above the Crawford House. A
stage-coach on its way from Ammonoosuc
station to the Crawford House was struck
by lightning during a heavy shower, the
horses being thrown down, but not killed
and two passengers sitting on the top of
the vehicle were somewhat injured. Their
clothes were burned, their gold watches
and watch-chains melted in their pockets,
and one of the men was burnt upon the
breast, the electric fluid also completely en
circling his body.
A woman who went by the name of
Rose Mattingly lately drowned herself and
her son, three years old, in Kansas river,
?f.aT..ToPeka She was a native of Niles,
Michigan, and her real name was Rose
Fisher. She had never been married, but
had hved with various men at different times
as a wiia, nad probably become disgusted
with her mode of life and resolved to end it.
nen iouna sue was floating in the river
with the boy tied with his back to her
breast with a handkerchief. Her left arm
was under the left arm of the boy, with her
hand resting on his right breast.
Scriuner's for august. Two vry sea
sonable articles in Scribnf.k's for August
are the entertaining paper by Mr. Shanks
on "Yachts and Yachting" w ith pictures of
celebrated yachts,, ocean races, etc., and a
pleasant and practical illustrated essuy ou
"The Canoe: How to Build and how to man-
i age. i here are aiso uuec Mcnm
j by well-known writers on three vital ques
tionsProf. Comfort's "Should the Study of
the Modern precede that of the Ancient
! Languages? Amrtsa Walkers "Labors and
Capital in Manufactures," and Charles iMnl
I ly Warner's "What is yonr Culture to Me?"
Among the illustrated artic les an interesting
account of "The Graphic Art," by liens-n
J. Lossing, and "The Island of Corfu," by
Charles K. Tuckerinan, late United States
Minister to Greece. Hans Christian Ander
son tells the suggestive story of "The Gar
dener and the Manor," and Miss Annan re
lates in a very fresh and striking way that
of "Hebe's Jumbles." There is poetry by
Louise Chandler Moultcn, Mary J. Serrano
and Charles S. Gage. Dr. Holland writes
about the recent strikes, and discusses. "The
Wine Question in Societv," and "Novel
Reading." In "The Old Cabinet" we find
"A Hard Time for some of Us," "rhoto-
! graphs and Looking-glasses," "A Glimpse
j of One's self," "Wrecked on a Resemblance,"
and "Lost Oppt rtunities." 1 he liepart
nient of "Name and Science" is very enter
taining as well as instructive. "Home and
Society," among other papers, has a very
sensible one on "Domestic Ethics." In
"Culture and Progress" the "Jubilee" is
mentioned, there is something about "Two
Modes of Prison Discipline," and a long re-
I view of Lamon s Lincoln; the uuihIkt clos-
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i ing w mi a quaiui pago oi xicmiiga uy
the
Misses Led yard.
Inward Injuries. Those outward man
ifestations of frail and departing health are
easily detected ; in truth, outward signs are
often marks of an inward disease ; the pale;
face, the lustreless eye, the sunken and hol
low cheek, with now and aain the cirrum
scriled spot, which, whilst it may not, like
that on C;e.nar's face, denote anger, it does
denote something lacking harmony in the
inward workings of the human constitution.
How quickly does your ear catch the irregu
lar strokes of tlie pendulum of the clo' k
which indicates something wrong in its
internal workings, but how vastly more
certain, and of infinitely more, importance,
is the muffled U-at of the heart, or the gurg
ling sound of the lungs, in warning us of the
laulty iertorinance of those organ in tho
human organism. When to this is added tlj
cough, the pains in the chest; the dinicnlt
breathing, the livid color of the liis, the
hectic fever and the night sweats, what more
can be w anting to apprise us of approaching
danger. Take Un. Kkyskh's Lvsc.Cvbe.
Itemove the jwccimt matter before the
wheels of life are loaded uutil tliey revolve
no longer in unison with that l-autiful har
mony of health which the God of Nature
meant for all.
Sold at Si. 50 per little, 4 for 5H, at V17
Liwny sirec-r, I'msourg. l)r. Keyser s j
priaie oince lor lung examinations in the
rear. Office hours from lu a. m. to 1 i. m.,
and from 3 to 6 p. m., except Sundays au.l
Tuesdays.
A Rake Opportunity for Aents.
We have received from the publishers of
Wood's lions -hold Magazine, two lienutiful
ly tinted Crayon pictures representing the
head of a little iK.yand girl, and " )ur Hope"
and "Our Joy" are just the names for the
(War, bright, happy little faces. I I'rang
Co. originally published them at 54, but they
are now- ottered with Woixl's Magazitre for
onie year at only 1.50. They are to 1m- in
troduced by agents, w ho are allowed a hand
some, commission on this price, which makes
a msst desisable business for canvassers.
While the Magazine :Wme is richly worth
the money, the pictures are chnrraing, and
must l seen to le appreciated. For full
particular address S. S. Wwu it Co., New
burgh, N. Y.
How They Dwell Toctetheti in Unitt.
Cameron told a correspondent of the
New York Herald that the reason" tlSe edi
tor of the Pre support Buekalew for
Governor is that Forney dislikes Ilartranft
for connecting him with the Evans swindle
and because Forney was under iersonal ob
ligations to Buekalew w hen U. S. Senator
and when Forney was an alleged defaulter
as Secretary of the Senate. Forney comes
back ;by publishing Cameron's speech in
the Senate when the mattter was being
considered, in which that Senator declares
Forney to have been unjustly accused. So
they jog along, la-fouling aud condemning
one another. The Radicals have a hard
time of it now, each editor, politician and
office holder trying to prove all the others
the greater rascals.
At DeKalb, 111., on last Tuesday morn
ing, the inanimate body of Timothy Bow
ler was discovered near his house, chopped
and mutilated in a manner too horrible to 1h?
told. No less than twelve or fifteen blows
were made on his head and neck. To all
appearances the blows were made with an
axe. The head was nearly severed from
the body, and from the neck nearly to tho
pit of the stomach the instrument of death
had made fearful work. His wife is sus
pected of the crime, though she says some
unknown man did it. Bowler was a drunk
ard, aud slept that night out of doors near
his house.
The editor of the New Castle Journal
went to jail a week ou r charge of liliel pre
ferred against him by one IlarlK-son. Tho
charge was withdrawn, and the editor was
released, aud the freedom of the press was
vindicated.
Officers and soldiers who served in
the army, physicians, surgeons, and eminent
men and women everywhere, join in recom
mending Johnson's Anodyne Liniment to Ui
the lst internal and external family medi
cine ever invented. That's our experience.
Allthe year round. Sheridan's Cavalry
Condition Fotcders should be given to horses
that are "kept up." To horses and cattle
that graze in summer they should only bo
given in winter and spring.
Four years ago General Grant declared
that "if he was anything at all he was a
Democrat." As he isn't a Democrat it fol
lows that he is what his best friends claim
him to be just "nothing at all !"
LAST CHANCE!--Adorn Your Homes!
MAOMFH DM C1IKUMON.
4 N ELEGANT CHROMO, Farm Yard Seen,
UX. size i4i 17-has been selling for f 4.50. Only
need be seen to be aiHiret-iated. svti hr
oi receipt of fl.50. '"The liarefoot Boy." alae
;eipi,oi hju. me itereroot Boy." alae
This legrant Chroiuo represent Vounsr
lea full of life, fun ami mischief. 1 00 by
An elegant Chrotuo of Horace Ci rre-
America
mail. Ai
the first one published natural ns life
size 12x15. By mail, 1.00; or the three for W (A)
worth three times the amount. Lanre com
mission to Aleuts. Here is a chance for all out
of employment to make mmifr. Send for nar
ticulaito ITU BEN & CO.,
S-3.-I01. Publishers' Atcents, Pittsburgh, Pa.
LKTTINGr.
SEALED PUOPOSALS will be received at the
office of theCommissionersof Cambriacoun
ty, in Lbensbunr. until the 2n day of Skptkm
PK!K,18"3' for furnihinjr the materials anrt
nlwd a TEKUACE WALL in f.on Tof thS
new Jail. Plan and Snpitl,iuna
at the Commissioners' office. Tii"imjoJiT
EuTTTJh8 ,h riht l w " Propo
sals, If they see proper to do so. Bidders will
please write tho word "Proposal" on the Jut.
Mde of the envelope containing the bid.
Ebensburg, Aug. 3, l3T2.-4t.
A UDITOR'S NOTICE. Havinir been
-"-appointed Auditor by the Orphans' cWrt
gust nexC.Y 2 o'ciopk7 Vm -h U ?'
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GREAT REDUCTION IN PBi?
TO CASH CUSTOM;
AT TIIL' i.iu;m I ru'
IIOISE-FIMISIIIM m
'Uie undersigned rebpcctfully
citizens of Ebensburg and the j u
ally that he has ma.ie a great it
prices to CASH BUYERS. My,
consist, in part.cf Cooking., Varlvre,.
ing Stores, of the most p..j ular k:n ,
ware of eyery description, f i: .
ufacture ; ifarJtrare of all k', ',t
Lcks. Sc, ev s, I'.n't Hirge, '1Y.V
.Shutfer Hinges, Bolts, lr n arts .
dow Glass. Putfy, Table Kt:m-N jk
Carving Knives and F.-rk. .' .:
Apple Parcrs, Pen and IV.ckt K r.
21 tat variety. Feasors. Shears. 5; 7.
Strops Axes, ILilcliets. II.tr, a, . o. J,
Machii.es, Augers. Ct.isstJs, i'.vt.j
passes, Squares, Files. Ra.-p-. Z.;,. '..1
Wrenclies. Kip. Panel and CW:-t-V :
Chains c.ill k inds. Shovels, Spaiie.
and Snaths, Rakes, F.rks. SJti":.
Shoe Lasts. Pegs. Wax Bristle
WrirrgcTs. Grind Stone. Patebt V
Gates arfl Measures, Lumber Sri. .
Nails, Horse Shoes. Cast Steel. i:-;Y
j litis, X-TolTt rs, l ist. Is, lar'r: ;;...
ier. Caps. Lead. Ac . Odd St ve."
Grates and Fire Bricks. Well ar..' f
Pumps w? TsVin? ; Harness a :
Ware of all Kind ; Tl'voJc crttd in,' r
in grrat varietr ; Caibun Oil sm (,'.'
Fish Oil, Lsrd Oil. Lrftsctd ()!, I., .
Oil, Rosin. Tar. Glassware. PaiEt.-,'
e. Tnrperrthre. Alcohol. &c.
FAMILY GROCERY
uch as Tea, Coffee. Sugars. M ?
Hps, Spices, Dried Peaches. Diied
Fish. Ib rniiiT, Crackers, R'ce n:
Jarlev; S.-ips. Codies; TOBACO .
OIGA'KS; Painf. Whitewash. Scrtil.. !?
(. Dustirg. Varnish. Stve. C ?
To- th Brushes, all kinds and s'i-: '
Curds arid Manilla R-pes, anil r.. : v
articles at the lowest rates ft r C. Vi.
Ct- flvuce Spouting made, pair c a:.-"
up nt low rate.- f.-r cash. A iil tr! '.
made to cooutrv dealers lnvi;,r " ':: '
wholesale. G P.O. 11 1'.N TI..-I
Ebensburg. Feb. 28. 1867.-tf
1S72. SUMMElt. hi.
I ans now prepared to fj-
SUPERIOR INDUCEMENT:
TO CASH PCKCHASKRa ' F
Til. COPPER & m-W K
K1THKK AT
WHOLESALE Oil VY.T.ML.
My stock consists in part of every Ti:-!
Tin, Slicef-Iron,
COPTER AND BRASS AV.ALI
KN A M KI.I.KP AND H.dN
SAUCE-PAWS. E0ILLT.S li
COAL SHOVELS. MINK I.AHFS.
CANS. IIOL'SKFCRNlSHLNr, HAi.:
WARE OF KVKltV KIND.
Kpri' A Mti. Dust
HEATING and COOKING STf-VF.
E.XC ELS1 OI2 COOKISG xlfffi
NODLE, TRIUMPH am. PA IlLt il (.'-
ING STOVES.
And any Cooking Stove c!esirj I '';
when ordered at manMbicturer'i l- "
Odd Stove Plates ai.d Grate?. 1c, f '
pairs, on hand for the Stoves I ::
will be ordered when wanted. Pa:'.
attention given to
Spouting, Valleys and Ccnc'.::
ad of which will be made out of Its
rials and put up by competent wci"-4
Lamp Burners, Wick and CMc-
WHOLESALE OR IJKTAIL.
I would call particular atfenti..r. t . iLe''
House Burner, with Glass 0r.p. f" r i'r
moie light than any other in use. A'.'
Paragon Burner, for Ci uJe Oil.
FUGAR KETTLESAND CAL'LCHO
of all sizes constantly on hand.
Special attention given to
Jobbing in Tin, Copper and Shcii
at lowest possible rates.
Wholesale Mf.kchants' Lis"
now ready, and will be sent on api'-'
by mail or id person
Hoping to see all my old customed ,:'
many new ones this Spring, I return r'
most sincere thanks for the very iil
tronage I have already received, T'",
endeavor to pleasa all who may call.
er they buy or not.
FRANCIS W. H."
-Tn-ri'C An . h..r..lr
not-
X it.., i..; .to to iri.
uneand rend my PATENT KOTAKV
the County of Canihriaan.l Sta'e of J "";!
vania is owned by VM. H. WOKK. ef lu' ,.x
county, and the public are cautioned
purchasing the oauie from nv ',th,r p-r -
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AuffUStJ, lsT.-3t.-tSf.
JOUX S. RUEV.