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The Local Option Late.
Ei2EttSBJ?C, PA.,
Prllay Mrnia& - Djoswbcr 27, 1872.
ndiourned
-1ye-iterd week Cor the h-liday.!and Wl11
meet again oa Jl j.day. the 3th of January.
Tits Georgia, "eni to tbt
Gen. John B. iJontori will be elected Uni
ted rotates Senator to succeed Joshua Hill,
whose terni of office will expire on the 4tb
of March. General Goidon was a rebel
ufttoer, but hia political disabilities have
been removed fey n tact of Congress pasted
at the last setion.
Th members of the Plaladelphia Bar
gave ft magnificent banquet to Hon. James
Thompson, late Chief Justice of the Su
preme Court, a week ago last night, at the
Continental Hotel in that city. No judge
ever occupied a tent on the bench of the
highest judicial tribunal of thia Stale who
more richlj deserved the honor. And vet
Judge Thompson, who had been so clear
in his high office, waa sacrificed on the "al
tar of radicalism to make room for a mere
politician.
The Easy lioad to Absolutism.
The next question which the people of
th different counties In this Btate will be
called opon to settle through the ballot
box, is th Local Option law passed at the
j last session of the Legislature. Although
! the rcI designates the third Friday cf
March next as the day for holding the t lec- to chanPe ,1',r form (,f government.
. - , ... . , i Fcven years of war were needed to give ns
tion, it will be Mn-frow the second pro- fVl. rV,i .
As a nation we are in an improving way.
We are making progress. Not by fierce
political convulsions, but gradually and
surely. Accordingly we have great canse
for gratitude. Other countries and peo
ples have been obliged to pars through the
throes of revolution and the agony cf strife
The European Storms.
Jfetvs and I'olittcnl Ilents.
The extraordinary storms which have i A lawsuit is in progress in Georgia be
prevailed upon the cmsts of Europe with- j tween the Robinson and Barnum circuses,
in the past seven weeks are unpiecedent- j Four tons of fish re waided three draws
ed. The high tide and storms of the 13th of the seine in the Arkansas river, the
of November were of terrible import, es- j other day. - - '
pecially on the German coast. The do- s 3Jr. George C. Steiger. of ilercera-
vastation was great aim the tide reached , burg, is feeding a. hog which weigh 834 telegTaphy." A strip of thin
pouuus, giosb. pasted through a registering
its maximum hight on the coast at Schles
wig at 9 P. M., and 011 the chores of the
Baltic Sea it exceeded the hich tide of
Embossed Teleobapht. Two young
men of Memphis, sons of Dr. J. W. ling,
era, the well known convert from the Epis
copalian ministry to Catholicism, have in
vented a method by which words can be
transmitted with eight or ten times the
rapidity possible under the present sys
tem. I heir method is called "embossed
copper Is
machine,
Child's CoaalSS
of ttieyenrlorntreuts vCTl
ilroMll.s.OooiKnr., r .
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Two doting fathers swapped babies at such as used to be employed when the . GrT.
ro of the first section that when the aside; Fiance neverchanges from a repub- i 1;J4 by 25 inches, and that of loGtt by 28 . and 15 for n boy.
the baptismal font in Dubuque, Io. A girl
Apthr all the positive assertions on the
subject, it is now definitely settled that the
mantle of Horace Greeley as editor of the
Tribune will not fall on the shoulders of
Vice-President Colfax. Precitely what was
the cause of the disagreement between him
Bpring election in any county, by special
legislative enactment, do not oecur oa the
third Friday in March, then the election
on the Local Option law shall be held on
the day fixed for the municipal elections in
Bnch eaunty. In this county, therefore,
the election will be held on the third Fri
day of February. As we stated in our
paper a few weeks ago, the constitutional
power of a Legislature to enact such a law
has very recently been differently construed
by the Supreme Court of New Jersey and
Massachusetts. "We believe a case involv
ing the same question has been pending
before the Supreme Court of this State,
but has not yet been argued and disposed
of. That the constitutionality of the law
of which we are now speaking will event
ually have to be decided by that tribunal
there can be no doubt. - In order that our
readers may fully understand the provi
sions of the law, we publish it below:
IK ACT to permit the voters or this enramon
weultb to voir overy three yearaoo the ques
tion of granting lict nses to sU latoxlf allr.g
liquors. Suction 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
and Ilouae of Iteprehuntati ves of the Com
monwealth of lVnuylvania in general As
sembly met. and it is ho re by enacted by the
authority of
-1 rr 1 . . .1... 1 . f . 4
nA T r .1 ' auiiioriry or me Fame. j. 111. uu w iwn
ana air. urton, the holder of a majority of Friday in March, 01m thousand eight hun
the shares of the 7Vt7.. f l- 1. ! dred and se veiitv-three. in every city and
tainly known. Whitelaw Rcid, who
the editor after Mr. Greeley's nomination,
has purchased Mr. Oj ton's stock at an ad
vance and will in future conduct the paper.
Although he is a much more competent
man tor the position than Colfax, he can
never fill the place made vacant by the
death of Horace Greeley. He was the Tti-
bunfi, and when he died the Tribune died
with him.
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We understand that John G. Enq.,
of Elk oounty, who is one of the delegates
to the Constitutional Convention from this
Senatorial district, intends to resign his
seat with the understanding that Ex-Gov.
William Eigler will be his successor. The
ability and experience of Governor Bigler
will render him an efficient and useful
member of the convention. Cannot some
Democratic member of that body from the
north-western portion of the State, whose
retirement from the convention would not
be aericus'y fe'.r. consent to resign in or
der that it might avail itself of the great
legal learning and practical ability of
Judge Thompson. His piesenee In the
c-nvention would be acceptable to men of
oil parties, and there is no man in the
State who would fill the position with great
er honor.
The irrepressible Harry "White is a
member of the State Senate and also of the
Constitutional Convention. The Senate
will convene at Harrisburg on the first
Tuesday in January, and the convention
will reas-emble at Philadelphia on the
same day. As White, unlike the Iribh
xnan's bird, does not possess the power of
ubiquity, and cannot therefore be in two
placet at the tame time, it is said that he
will resign his seat in the convention, and
that either Gov. Geary or Francis Jordan,
Secretary of the Commonwealth, will be
elected as his successor. Although it is
eminently proper, for reasons too numer
ous to mention, that White tl.ould retire
from the convention, it is not at all to be
desired that Geary should wear his mantle.
That would be what is vulgarly called
'jumping out of the frying-pan into the
fire." On the other hand, the substitution
of Secretary Jorday in place of White
would be an immense improvement on the
latter and a consummation devoutly to be
wished.
During the last session of Congress,
Gen. Morgan, a Democratic member from
Ohio, submitted an amendment to the
constitution making naturalized citizens
eligible to the office of President and Vice
President of the United Slates. It w.
defeated by Radical volea. Some days
ago, Gen. Morgan offered the same joint
resolution, as follows :
Article. Naturalized ritizons who havs
attained the ap of thirty-five vars.and have
reetdwd fourteen years in the United Rtai-
are herby declared HgiVle to the offices of
President ami Vice President.
A two-thirda vote being required, the
amendment was again defeated by the fol
lowing vote: Yeas 62; nays 71. All those
wha voted in ihe affirmative, with a few
honorable exception, are Democrats, while
the negative vote shows a solid array of
Radicals. Of course all the negro members
voted against it, which shows that while
they entertain a very
the eminent fitness of one of their own race
for the highest honor in the gift of the
people, they look with supreme contempt
on the capacity of the ignorant Dutch and
Irish for the same position. This vote
against Gen. Morgan's amendment showa
that the old proscriptive spirit of Know
nothingism still animates ajd injpircs tho
Radical party that its leaders are willing
to pander to negro vanity in order to se
cure negro votes, and that while Frederick
Douglass, John M. Langston, Ex-Sonator
Revels, Congressman Elliott, and every
Other negro, has had conferred on him the
constitutional light to be elected to the
county in this commonwealth, and at the an
nual municipal election every third year
thereafter, in every such city and county, it
shall be the duty of the inspectors and judg
es of electiouH iu tho cities and counties to
receive tickets, either writ.eu or printed,
from the legal voters of said citiss aud coun
ties labelled on the outside, "license," ami
on the inside, "for license," or "a.-.inet li-
1 cene, and to deposit said ticicets in a box
I provided for that purpose by said inspectors
' and judges, as is required by law in the
case of other tickets received at said election,
and that the tickets so received shall L
counted, and a return of the same made to
' the clerk of th com rt of jttjrtr mmiom of
the peace of the proper county, duly certi
fied nti is required by law ; which certificate
shall be laid lefore the judges of the said
court at the first meeting of said court after
said elsction shall be held, and shall be filed
with the other records of said court ; and it
shall be the duty of the mayors of cities, and
sheriffs of counties, or of any other officer,
whohe duty it may be to perform such ser
vice, to give due public notice of such special
election above provided for, three weeks pre
vious to the time of holding the same, and
alo three weeks before such election every
third year thereafter : Proridtd, That this
act shall not be construed to repeal or affect
any special law prohibiting the sale of in
toxicating liquors, or prohibiting the grant
ing of licenses: Provided, That wheu tho
municipal and township elections in any
county, or city do not occur on the third Fri
day in March, the election provided for in
this section shall beh'-ldon the day fixed for
the municipal elections in said county: And
provided further, That all licenses granted
after the first day of January, one thousand
eigh hundred and seventy-three, shall cease,
determine and become void on the flrjtt day
of April, one thousand wight hundred and
seventy-three, if the district for which they
shall 1ms granted determines against the
granting o!" license; and the treasurer of tb
proper county shall then refund to the hold
er of such license the moneys so paid there
for, for which the said treasurers shall be
entitled to credit ii: their accounts with the
common wealth.
Section 2. That in receiving and crnnt
ing, and in making returns of the vots cast,
the inspectors aud judges and clerks of said
election shall be governed by the laws of this
commonwealth regulating general elections;
a'.d all the penalties of said elec tion laws
are hernby extended to, and shall apply to
the voters, inspectors, judge and clerks,
voting at and in attendance upon the elec
tions held under the provisions of this act.
Section ;t. Whmever, by the returns of
elections in any city or county aforesaid, it
1 shall appear that there is a majority against
license, it shall not be lawfnl for any rourt
or lxard of license commissioners to insne
any license for the bale of spirituous, vinous,
malt or other intoxicating liquors, or any ad
mixture thereof, in said city or county, at
any time thereafter, until at an election as
above provided a majority shall vote in favor
of license: Provided, Thp.t nothing contain
ed in tke. provisions of thisact shall prevent
the issuing of licenses to drtiggists for the
sale of liquors for medicinal and manufactur
ing purposes : Provided, The citizens of the
borough of Lebanon shall vote upmi the
question on The third Friday of March, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-three,
on th same day and time, when the town
ships of the county of Lebanon hold their
spring elections.
AfPROVED The twenty-seventh day of
March, Anno Domini one thousand eight
hundred and sevonty-two.
JfHX "W. Giiit.
Two of the negro members of the South
Carolina Legislature who made affidavits
charging John J. Patterson with having
I bribed them to vote for him for United
States Senator, have made supplemental
affidavits in which they confess that when
they swore to that charge against "Honest
John," as he is ironically styled awaj down
iu Dixie, they committed wilful porjury.
This negro dodgo to shield Patterson is en
tirely too transparent. In view of the pro
verbial venality of nepro legislators in the
Southern States, and especially in South
Carolina, as well as the notorinnalv . ..-r-r.i-
ex<ed opinion of ! i. - e ti. t t- . .,'
1 uiiaialici vt won j x Akicibuii, mo cnai'ge
made on the day of the election by Elliot,
a negro member of C'angrces, and who was
Patterson'a most formidable competitor,
that he (Patterson) had openly and corrupt
ly bought his way into the Senate, seems
to admit of no kind of doubt. The only
I question possessing any interest now is.
what additional bribe passed from Patter
son to these two black swindlers to induce
them to repudiate their original affidavits,
and thereby, if possible, screen Patterson
from punishment ? Patterson evidently
understands the frailties of negro legisla
tors as well as he did those of his own color
V.A., . "--"., oow rouse
iwiuijit, iiju n4iiie rouainv 01 Domical i . . - , .
... . ..... v I...,!, iiuutiu uoui arj
Schurz, Richard O'Gorman, and other nat
uralized citizens of prominence and ac
knowledged ability. Although tl.e child is
yet unborn who will livo to
eicctea to tne oltiee of P
there was the least particle .f
lie to an empire without bloodshed : io all
other countries the shock of political con
vulsions accompanies the transfoi mation.
But iu this regard how signally blest we
are ! We are passing by such easy stages
to an absolute centralized government,
that the charges is hardly noticed. Let us
be very thankful for it.
We began, in the usual way, with a mil
itary leader. And with a leader whose
strongest characteristics were his reticent
behavior and the habit of pursuing his
purpose in dogged, persistent Nlence. No
thing in history is more striking than the
ease and certainty with which President
Grant has so far made and is continuing
his approaches to the form of government
he desires. His first step was the very na
tural one of appropriating to himself, per
sonally, tho Presidential office, and divid
ing the patronage among his family rela
tives and dependents, and the military
hangers on at bis court. Following this
was the announcement that he should be
independent of politicians, under cover of
whirh he made his choice of those politi
cians whom he could make most service
able, and united them with his military
adherents in a ring more powerful than
the Persignys, De Mornys, and St. Arnauds
of Louis Verhuel. Then to test the tem
per of the people he broaehed. of his own
motion and Independent of his Cabinet or
Congress, his annexation policy, from
which he cautiously seemed to recede for a
time when lie discovered that he was a lit
tle too fast. He made another tentative
movement toward absolutism when, under
the cover of moving the crops, he took the
money market of the country in his own
hands and controlled it through the Treas
ury. His allies bungled at that, and he
cautiously withdrew. In his management
for a re-election he was equally shrewd
and careful. There was nothing to shock
the ordinary citizen in any of the methods
or means by which lie swayed the conven
tion of his party. They were as smooth
and beautiful as an assessor's notice, but
they meant business.
Aud now having been re-elected by a
smaller vote than before, he interpiets the
result as indicating, first, that thousands
of citizens have so far lost their interest, in
political a flairs as not to vote for Presi
dent, consequently that they are indiffer
ent whether they shall livo under the gov
ernment of all or the government cf one ;
and secondly, that those viho voted for
him aud who alone hav any voice in the
Government or any rights under it, are en
tirely willing that he should go his own
way to the end. Accordingly we find hira
in his first message to Congress after the
election proposing a system of internal im
provements grander than the wildest con
ceptions of any European monarch, and
costing, if carried out, hundreds of millions
of dollars ; subsidies of twenty-five mil
lions to private corporations ; the confisca
tion of the telegraph lines of the country
so that all postal and telegraph communi
cation shall be controlled by his Govern
ment, and every letter and telegram be
subject to the oversight of his office-holders
; and through his Secretary of the
Treasury the adoption of a financial policy
whicli will give him absolute jower over
the money market in order to irove the
crops. He sends troops into Arkansas and
directs the Legislature of that State, aud
his retainers in the Senate rebuke the Ar
kansas Senator for iuquirir.g the reason for
it. He sits in judgment upon the qualifi
cations of members of the Alabama Legis
lature, and his law oflicer decides w ho shall
be United States Senator. He steps in with
Federal officeholders and United States
troops, and, in order that his brother-in-
law may be elected United States Senator,
sustains a man as Governor of Louisiana
whose only official existence was as a State
Senator whose term of ofiice had expired.
Under Grant there are no State Govern
ments, and State authority is extinct.
He is doing his work well. With all his
family in office ; the army under his hand,
and no one allowed to call him to account
or ask a reason for his disposition of it :
State Legislatures made or unmade by him;
'the legality of State Governments and the
qualification of United States Senators sub
ject to his decision ; millions at his disposal
for subsidies and Government works ; and
the whole correspondence of the country,
by mail and telegraph, open before him,
what is to prevent hi?, making the Govern
ment in name as well as in fact absolute
and personal?
By all means double his salary. None of
his predecessors everaccomplished so much
as he. The man who can carry the coun
try through so quiet and so sure a trans
formation as that we are experiencing
earns whatever he chooses to exact. 2i.
T. Sun.
inches.
Here the water rose about 11 feet above
the mean level of the sea. The shores of
the Baltic ar so low that an inundation
i cannot fail to occur under such storms as
i that of the past month. In the srcall
twn cf Apeniaca alone DO houses have be-
A man in Wnyne county. Ind.. has
been married five timt, and is nyw living
with hia thiid wife.
-Threertlrousaiid English babies are an
nually smotherwd to death by their mothers
sleeping upon them.
rome nvo pigs were recently lounu in
coire uninhabitable and nearly 280 fami- j a hollow tree in Kentucky without any ap-
lies have not a root over tlicir heads.
The news from Eckernforde is still worse :
entire streets have been literally annihila
ted, while many of;the buildings left stand
ing are undermined in their foundations
to such an extent that they will have to bo
pulled down. The exact numberof dwell
ings totally destroyed in Eckernforde can
not yet be ascertained, but it will not fall
short of 100. Hundreds of inhabitants
have lost everything.
The news from the district of Oldenburg
is most saddening; but here, too, the dam
age doue cannot be fully estimated as yet.
On one property 350 cf ws and 200 hogs were
arownea ; many villages nave been lnun
see a negro
resident, yot if
New York Ar-cca. This is the title of
. a most excellent Democratic paper justjes-
tablished in the city of New York, by C. T.
rykes. I lie number before us which is
illustrated, is very neat in execution and
sincerity in I -. ;i ,
th oft-rerated TJ.-.d;,i . .. ' I '""'"""S ,ls selections, it is edited
feet equality of political rT tl ,! tl ! 7 "S" Umy d P"'
educated and intelligent foreigner Llyt i auxiliarJ ia tl,e cause of Democracy,
to be placed on an equal iWint, I Thoso of our rcader8 wish tosubscribe
ihe Presidency is concerned, with the more ! '" " PPrtunity reminingitby
highly favored "man and brother," i,oj, casing at our office. Price $2,00 per year.
i.o.v, and will continue to be as long aa be I Direct No. 17 North William street, New
a vo.e, tue special cr,cct or rvadical i York city. We hope it will meet with
C"'n ? respect. ..... . . Ubt,, n-.. -
G rant's Surrender. It will be re
membered that when the President ap
pointed Mr. Fairman to succeed Bingham
as postmaster here his action was greatly
commended as a declaration in favor of
civil service reform in defiance of the poli
ticians. Besides the fact that Fairman
was not really the fittest man of the three
who were named for the place, and that
his appointment was determined upon at
the dictation of a certain Pennsylvania
politician and his ring, we felt quite sure
that Grant was insincere in professing a
purpose to reform the civil service, and
that time would speedily prove him to be
in this matter, as he is in all others, a hy
pocrite and an imposter. And now. even
sooner than we expected, comes the con
firmation of our fear. We learn from a
Washington correspondent that the an
nounced intention or the President to eet
as.de the civil service rules in selecting a
postmaster at Chicago, to succeed Colonel
Eastman, who has just resigned, and ap
point a person recommended by Senator
Logan and Representative Farrell, two
avowed opponents of civil service reform
has led to much unfavorable comment
among the friends and supporters of the
Administration. Colonel Eastman had re
commended Mr. Squires, his chief deputy,
as his successor, upon the ground that he
was in every way qualified for the position;
but Senator Logan was desirous, for oer
soual political reasons of Lis own, that a
Mr. McArthur, one of ;;is toadies and tools
in the mere manipulation of party politics
out West, should have the place, and Grant
is reported to have yielded to Logan, and
promised that his man shall be appointed.
It is with earnest sorrow that we record
these facts. It was generally supposed
that Grant, being re-elected, and thereby
released from dependence upon tho raeie
demagogues of bis party, would honestly
do what he thought right aud best for the
welfare of the country. But alibis virtu
ous resolutions has at the very outset col
lapsed, and he may now be regarded as
having surrendered unconditionally to Li
can and other like pimps and peddlers of
Presidential patronage. Sun, day Mercury.
parent opening whereby tl.ey could have
' made an entrance. "That Wats the toads i
blasted out of solid rock "all hollow."
1 teorge r rancis iiaiii and esley
Nichols were arrested ia New York, Mon
day evening, on the charge of publishing an '
obscene papur. Fifteen hundred copies J
! or the paper were seised on the way to tho
pott-ofiice.
i ' Five hundred miners, employed in
j the mines at aud around Springfield, Illi
nois, struck on Thursday for an advance
in wages of 2-5 per cent. Tho mine own
eissay they aie determined not to grant
the demand.
Mr. Guidon W. Snicer. one of the
dated, and in one of them from 40 to 50 i early settlers of Spring township, Crawford
houses have been destroyed. Iu several county, died ou the oth instant, aired 79 i
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places numan lives nave wen lost; in tne : years, lie never rode on a railroad car in
village of Dahme 11 persons are missing, his life, aDd wu never further away from
and the death of reveii has been ascertain- j home than Erie.
ed. In the island of Femarn the family It is now 6aid that the poor servant
of a pilot, consisting of husband, wife and girls r.ho perished so horribly in the Fifth
two children, who had taken refuge on f'A venue Hotel, the other day, had been
the roof of the house and were clinging to locked in the upper story so that they
the chimney, were washed away and ! could be the better controlled bv the hotel
drowned in sight of their neighbors and of
a boat s crew which had already succeed
ed in saving the lives cf 21 persons- On
this island the sea broke through all the
dikes, aud out of 43 villages the fields and
property of only 11 escaped the devastat
ing flood. The entire coast of western
Pomerania and the island of Rugon, with
proprietor, and that they might not get
into disorderly company. Is this the usu
al way of treating hotel servants?
A New York Coroner's jury can do
about as good whitewashing as one would
wish to see. -In the Fifth Avenue Hotel
fire investigation the jury failed to find that
any one particularly was to blame ; and yet
messages were printed on paper, the 'cop
per simply taking the place of the paper,
and having the messages stamped upon it
in the Morse characters by an operator.
Haifa dozen ojeratoi-B may be eugaged at
the same time preparing the messages,
while one transmits them through a simi
lar machine, except that it is arranged for
the copper fctrip to pass under a steel point
that is set so as to touch the embossed dots
and dafhes. The touch of tlte iMint eom-
j pletes the circuit and suffers the 1 assage
i of the electrical current, which is inter
j rupted by the spaces between the dots
j and da'hes, and thus the message is transmitted.
The experiment appears to have been
exhaustively tried, and its merits are in
dorsed by various officials in the Western
Union offices. In Louisville, words were
transmitted to Memphis at the rate of
seventy-five a minute, which is supposed
to be the limit of human hearing; but
tin) will probably develop means there
by the words at the place of delivery may
bo communicated directly to paper by ma
chinery, and still greater speed in trans
mission and delivery be thus secured.
The profent average is from thirty to forty
five words per minute.
If this invention of the Rogers brothers
prove a eucces, we shall not need Mr.
Creswell's postal telegraph. The Rogers
machine will reduce the employes and the
cost of wires; and this reduction, if its ad
advantages be shared with the public, will
make telegraphy as cheap, probably, as it
is likely to be made.
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its projecting peninsulas and the smaller everyone who knows anything about it
knows that the building was simply r. death
trap, and that if proper effort bad been
made the poor girls' lives would have been
saved.
Dr. William Fields has invented a
mode wheicby telegraphing can e done
without the ue of posts, glass and wires
which are subject to be destroyed or blown
down by storms, and will be entirely indo
perdent cf any railroads, ar.dwill not need
any repairs perhaps for many years. The
Doctor is now iu correspondence with the
Postmaster General and the f.Vimmittm
the ! appointed by Congress on Telegraphs.
- I Wilmington Kevublicon.
Terrible storms have recently occur
d in England and France. A dispatch
islands lying around it, have also motst se
verely suffered.
The long and narrow island of Hlddeu
ree, near Rugen, through which the sea
osce before forced its way, has been di
vided into two parts by a channel 17 feet
deep. Two villages were completely in
undated, and had to be abandoned by their
inhabitant!. Vitte wu.s also entirely cover
edbythe sea, ai-d its inhabitants had to be
rencued from the garrets by boats. Pro
visions, winter Etores of all kinds and fuel
have been washed away or spoiled, and
the wells are useless on account of the
saltwater, with which they are filled
Want of shelter from the cold is bitterly
felt and the unfortunate people have not
the primary necessaries of life. I he chief i from Liverpool states that four bundled
trade of the island has been fatally des
troyed, as all the fishing-nets have disap
peared, and the boats were either knocked
in r ;eces or carried off by the sea.
The penisula of Dars and the Island of
Zingst, the forelands of a part of western
Pomerania. were also devastated by this un
exampled inundation. The natural dikes
have been broken through in five places,
and the artificial dikes and embankments,
constructed not long ago at a heavy cost,
have been entirely demolished. fititburg
Dispatch.
DAKCijfo tor Okphaks. Mr. James
LTennovan, a gentleman well known on
the Pacific coast as a celebrated 100-hour
walker and athlete, has engaged to per
form the remarkable feat of dancing thirty-one
consecutive houis atFarragut Hall,
Yallejo, California, for the benefit of the
orphans. This novel proposition grew out
of a promise made by him two years ago
this Christmas. At that time he walked
from the Bank Exchange, San Francisco,
to San Jose and returned, walking in all a
distance of 108 miles. He was met by a
band of musio near San Francisco on his
return, and the collection from the crowd
amounted to $1,400, which was equally di
vided between the Catholic aud Protestant
orphans.
This year he proposes to dance a round
about jig on the stage of Farragut Hall
for thirty-one consecutive hours, begin
ning precisely at seven o'clock on Christ
mas Eve, and closing his performance at
twelve o'clock on the following night, and
only taking fifteen minutes rest during the
time. Cf course he will take his regular
nienls and refreshments during the time,
but he will eat and drink walking. At
seven o'clock when he beginR his perform
ance, a grand ball will open, which will
continue during the evening and afternoon
until the feat is accompyshed. Tickets
for the ball, good for all time, will be $1
per couple, or fifty cents for single admit
tance. The proceeds will be equally di
vided between the Protestant and Catholic
orphans. Mr. Kennovan is fifty-nine years
of age.
Not Gkserai.lt Kkowk. Martin Van
Tiurrk im ly 'ximia -who lieltl the Office
of president, vice-president, minister to
England, governor of his own State, and
member of both houses of Congress.
Thos. H. Benton is the only man who
lias held a seat in the Lmted States Senate
for thirty consecutive years.
The only instance of father and son in
the Senate at the same time is that of Hon.
Henry Dodge. Senator from Wisconsin, and
Augustus C. Dodge, Senator from Iowa.
Gen. James Shields is the only man who
ever represented two States in the United
States Senate. At one time he was Sena
tor from Illinois and subsequently Senator
from Minnesota.
John Quincy Adams held positions under
the government during every administra
tion from that of Washington to that of
Polk during which he died. He had been
minister to England, member of both bou
ses of Congress, Secretary of State and
president of the United States. He died
while a member of the house of representatives.
and thirty-nine persons perished by ship
wreck in ten days on the coast of England,
while inland great destruction of property
has taken place from wind and water. In
France, most of the rivers oci leaped their
tanks, inundated the country and carried
away property of all kinds. The loss of
h'e has also leen considerable.
The severity of the season is shown in
the fact that between Huntingdon and
Peru, Indiana, sixty locomotives were fro
zen up for near ly forty-five hours. Hogs,
cattle and sheep were frozen to death, and
many persons traveling through the coun
try wero frost-bitten, notwithstanding their
buffalo robes. On Sunday morning the
thermometer stood at 25 degrees below
zero at Wabash, which was about as cold
as people generally can stand who have to
move about in the open air.
A rather remarkable case of the in
termarriage of two families exists in Amity
township, Berks county. Two brothers,
William and Samuel Sheirer. each had ten
children, and four of the children of one
brother are married to four of the children
of the other brother. Two sons of William
Sheirer are married to two daughters of
Samuel Sheirer. William Sheirer, one of
the brothers, is dead all the other mem
bers of the family are living. The young
folks seem to be rather 6hy about marry
ing anybody but Sheirer.
For the third time in P. T. Barnum's
checkered experience, he has met with an
immense loss fiom that terribly distruct
ive element, fire. On Tuesday morning
last hi" mammoth circus and menagerie in
New York was burned to the ground, and
every animal in his costly collection but
three, it is stated, perished in the flame s.
The loss is estimated at $R00,000, on which
thereislesstl.au $100,000 insurance. Grace
church, adjoining, and several other build
ings were also destroyed. The entire loss
is put down at $1,000,000.
A cm?trri. experiment to use petro
leum as fuel for smelting metals is reported
to have taken place recently in San Fran
cisco. The experiment was'tried in a briok
furnace eight or ten feet long and six feet
bigh. The Alt California says : "From
this tank a pipe about an inch and a half in
diameter led into the side of the furnace.
A small jet of oil, not larger than a small
goose-quill, was permitted to flow out of
this tube. A light is placed beneath this
jet and it immediately ignites. Another
pipe, about an ir,ch in diameter, leads from
a steam boiler stationed sorrt fifteen feet
away. This pipe leads a small jet of steam
upon the burning oil, and the moment the
steam strikes the oil the oxygen in the
water is set on fiie and ignites with a tre
mer.dous roar, generating in a very few
morrents a most intense white heat. From
this small source the entire chamber of
the furnace, which is .nie two feet by five
feet, is filled with a P.ame so brilliant and
dazzling thatone cannot gaze on it for more
than a moment at a time. This flame pos
sesses all the heat of oty-hydrogen flame,
and beneath its fierce power the hardest
metals melt in a few moments."
j DOORS, SASHES, EL!S
I Kf nti for lllrxslrnlert (!
I BKAm-F-Y ctrmir.it, 5t & is i"
IA OttEATliVg-
stock of UILLlAKD TAM.ESst i"
above cost. First -class axln NcWV
pltte. s.TOO. Second-hand 1 at.,,,
new. Won. f25, tSJO. Ac. A ar..t v,-t'
all buyers. Send rr a C-u.mI."li-
KA VASAGU i i e-r
Cor. Canal Centre St. , '
EOSEcfCASHMREBlf
Is unsurpassed s a Preriinrprr,' , "i
theHairand Whiskers. J-,, ,n f
S-reas.v. vet it sr.ltei.sn;,,' n;,
better and more termn ' '
Pomade. Used as a lU,r,1,n. "' 5
the nist beautiful ami hi-irm."'' '
ed perfectly harmless. It, ,t '''
is quite tiurivHled. hei,,,, ,it,,'.;j'V"
world-rn.owned Hoses ,,f (vL 57
."'""-'r-t. A,!.!rs '.7 -MILLfcR,
mo N ad St., HhMs.Je Ph t 'ht
McLean county, III., Bank lias just
purchased $1,000 in g-!d. which had been
stored away by an old settler before the
rebellion. Had it been sold when gold
was high, and placed at interest, it would
now amount to more than $20,000.
Cnfy Si a Year. 8
Tks Best Fsrailr Taper. 5"
The Best AgriraHnral Tspir.
Ths Best Toliticsl Ppr.
Iks Bsst Story Ppr.
Tfcs Best Fsshiea Repertt.
Tks Be:t Cattle larkct Et
Tks Best Crarral 5l,rkrt !
Ths Best Ptptr lrj W
TniwrrKi.TAEW iorkmi
pa-e, a oolumns. 81 a year, er ,
cents a nornUr fend Tnraar.
Address Til E SL'X Npw yni
Top Goes the Weasel !". The fol
lowing story was told to us, says aa ex
change, as being a positive fact, the narra
tor professing to be one of the workmen
who witnessed the performance of the said
weasel : A party of men were prying at ne
in a field, and found under a large rock a
nest containing four young weassls, which
they captured and put to one side. Upon
the return of the old weasel quite a scene
ensued. She became very much excited,
and very angry, and at once set off", but
soon returned, and going straight to the
little pail containing the drinking water for
the men, she spit something in it, and was
about to go a second time, when she dis
covered her nest and her young, all alive
and unharmed. She immediately returned
to the pail and continued jumping and push
ing at it until it was overturned, thus say
ing the lives of the men she evidently
meant to punish for the destruction of her
offspirng.
Excuhstow to Europe. We learn that
an excursion is in course of preparation at
Columbia, Pennsylvania, for a trip to Eu
rope, with a special purpose of visiting the
great International Exhibition at Vienna.
They start about the first cf June next, and
will make an extended tour through Great
Britain as well as on the Continent. A
contract has already been entered into for
carrying a limited number ocean passage,
railroad faro, hotel bills and all other ex
penses incident to the trip, all paid. A fine
opportunity herd presents itself for making
a cheap and pleasant tour to the Old World.
Persons desiring further information on the
subject should address A. M. Rambo, edi
tor of the Courant, Columbia, Pa.
The CaIl value of farms in PrnnoT-l.,
j nia aa fixed by the late census, wae over
' one thousand million of dollars.
A Rem ahkablk Dream. The Lancas
ter Inquirer is responsible for the follow
ing : A married ladv, residing in an ad-
j joining townshhip, who has been atfiicted
j f r two years with cancer, and had been
, treated by eminent physicians without ob
j taining relief, dreamed that a stranger
i came to the bouse, and gave her some
j medicine, with directions, which he said
j would ofiectually cure her. Next day on
i going to the door and looking out, she saw
j the identical man of her dream approach
I ing the house. He offered her a bottle of
medicine to cure her cancer. She took it
and followed hia directions, and is now near
ly well.
Remarkabi.k Case. A very unusual
and wonderful phenomenon was found
within the body of William Wiliauer. n.fpt
i about 19years, of Cedarville, Chestercoun-
ty, who died on Dec. 9. The deceased
had been afilicted for soveral years with
curvative of the spine and enlarged spleen
and liver. Ascites, or abdominal dropsy, set
in about eight months ago. Dr. J. Davis,
who has been his attending physician for
several months past, performed a post-mortem
examination in the presence of several
persons, and, strange to relate, after hav
ing drawn about eight gallons of dark-colored
serous fluid from the abdomen, found
that the liver, spleen, kidneys, stomach,
and bowels were completely absorbed, with
out leaving any portion of them remaining,
nothing being found in the abdomen buta
portion of the ementum and the serous
fluid. Pottstoicn Ledger.
PUBLIC SALE
REAL aai PEESoIIl PROPEBTT
Id rbrnvbiir; and Tleltalty.
BY virtue nf a decree of the District Court of
the I nlted Staffs for the Western District
of Pennsylvania, the undersigned will sell at
public outcry, on the premises, commencing
AT IO O'CLOCK. A. ST., OX
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, ,1873,
the following described Keal and Personal Pro
perty, to wit :
A Largo Kew PLAKIKC P3ILL
Sf Yiy AO feet, two stories and basement, with a
toiler Shed SO bv M fft attached, containing a
!i-w4n HORSE POWER EXiiSE. !.-re lionblt
fl ie BOIPEK. HA 1. 1. ESTER MACHIN E. CIU
Tr.AU SAWS. LATHES, and the neee-ssry
Pulleys, Shartit-s. Keitinsr. ic-f rontinir on the
F.O-nsbiira- anl 'r.sn Kaiiroiid - w.t h about
ONBACHE OF GIMICXI). on which the above
described property stands. Tne Mill and Ma
chinery are nearlT all new and constructed in
the most complete nnd modern style for man
ufacturing Handles, ISrueb. Blocks, Stair JJal
lesters. to. Also.
-A. Iull Lot o " Cm round
OS by 364 feet, fronting-on Hia-h ftreet. hnrlnr
thereon erected a two storv Kit A MK DWELL
ING HorSE. STABLE, and Ol'TDEILDINliS.
with a lartre number of choice fruit trees, etc
Also.
5 Acres and lOO rerches of Land
situate in Cumbria township. sU.ut one-fourth
mile from Ebensbur, well fenced and in good
condition. Very utbirbie for meadow or pas
ture. Also,
d Ijots oT Ground
situate at the forks of the Huntingdon. Indiana
and Pitt sbu nr Turnpikes, pirtly in the borough
of Ebensbur. known by the Not. 1. . 5. 6.7 and
10 on Myers" plan ; fenced and well inproved.
Very desirable ns buildina lots. There is a one
22.". story FRAME IV ELLIN'U HOL'SE
STABLE, Ac, on Lot S. 10.
A1, at tame time and place, the foXlnxrlng
Valuable Personal Property!
win ue onerea ror sale, to wit: 1 Alcott El
centric Lath, 1 Saw Mandril. 3Cnsrlron Jill
leys, 1 Mortising- Machine. Circular Saws. Cool
Stoves. Gratj liur. Tie Yarn. Ac. Also, l.V) OK)
reetof Cherry, Ash, Maple and Poplar Lumber
4,0X Cherry llallrsters. 8.0OJ Handles. Sti? irross
of planed ash Scrub. Horse nnd Shoe Brush
Blocks, Ac. Ac. In and about the Mill
CAII which Keal Estate and Personal Pro
perty will be sold clear of nil mortirnres. liens
Court"11 eucutubrunce9- J order of the said
Terms made known on rlsv of ssle.
GEOKOE HLNTLET.
Atmgnfr of George J. Rodaert.
Ebonsburr, Dec. 20. 18T2.-3t.
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The unparalleled snccest of t'T.-t
ln Machine, opens a rood
be wing Machine A fnnts and rex-f
take toe igencj for this Coui i "7 r
lars, samples of work and teri.:( K.-,n
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Of oca Own f AKrrACTi Rr.. will fc. . ,
the MlXMOTB FCRSIITK Esiablurn"6-"'
C. 6. II A AIMER Jr SOXi
The newest and most approved itj'.es it ,i
and Medium Furniture, ia laryer tar.rt-rv
any other touw, at, vary ro.ioat:t k 8t i:
Persons furnlshlr.a; bnusc-s wouid 'io - ,'
writ for our art circular, or wti-a ' 'dnri
nrffh we sespectf !ly solicit a im. , '
wareroosas. Don't forget the p-sc. JiLr.
, tttU Sara.Hi It.., ntb&,Wt
We chsjlena-e the world in n.-tces riai;7
quality of materisl snd workuianahlr pOKlt
s-ood. CUT THIS OIT. isl -.aaff,
GREAT OFFERS TO AGI',
are mado by Ta Satcrdav Eteiikg?'.
TacLAOT'e FbiebD. A beautifnK hrnx: "
CHILD-PROPHET ' PAMVEL,- ''cr-'
worth 15 00. Io riven with the I'aprr .fc6
tion price at) or with the Mssruaine !Vr''''C
Do not fail to examine into this o.Ter: ::Xarr.
A GKEAT COMBINATION:: te0rt
Address for particulars, sample. etf .T '
4 Plrpii, 31 Walnut St., rUlhrf a. r-L fcraV
STRAY HOG.
CME, premises of the subscriber. In
Uhieklick township, Cambria oouutv, about
the latter nart of Novemlwr ...... 'n-m-i n
-i.fV l,.rr"w)- "bont one year and a half old, I vTT- CTAPTT
with both oars arid the tail cot off. The owner ! xNE W STOCK,
is hereby notified that if all the requirements
(Jr
depo
An Institution for Jhe th Trough rrafi n,a,!;
atioa of young- and n i idle aged mc-'was
department of Com me o il life.
The oldest, larrest at 6 anost comp;",f
eal Business Collere In A nerlcr.. an
one havlnr connected w it i it an Ar.r-:l"e 1
S9ieprtment.conduot?d on aeritf-Jing j
Patronised bv the sons of WerrhaotjlU,
rs. Farmers. Mechanics, and Bu:o f '.
from all parts of the United State. "l -
to4BU ta vaiter mi nvy Altc
For larr descriptive Circulars ft'"
particulars, addreaa uesn
lU-.-2m J. 0. SKrTH.A. M .rrlJf
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..i 5iii.il ran-snrc no compiled with In due time,
the ho wlil be sold as the law directs
Blaekllck Twp., Dec. 20. 5&$JT ILLIN-
Isitate Notice.
rPnE undersirneL Executor of the last will
-- testament of M. M. Auamr, Inteot Ores
son, Cambria co., decVJ.Juerehy notifies lll'ner.
sons indebted to said estate that payment must
be made without delay.and those havlnr claims
against tiiesam arn requested to present I hem
duly autheutia-ed ror settlement
. . J- E- SCANLAN; Executor.
Ebensbury, Dec 20. ls7S.-6t.
Estate Notice
n A VINO taken out Lettera of Administra
tion on the Estate of Patrick: Cari
late of .l!itzin township, Ot.nbrf. ciuift" dSl
ceased, the subscriber hrh. ii
sons indebted toeaid estate that payment must
be made without delay, and those ha vlnr claim.
Ik , r BHm.. W,U Present them properly
Probated for it mn K J
a,. T,K'MAS aRLAXD, Administrator
Altoona. Deo. 13. 1873--6t. "iiraior.
A Christmas Evb Horror. Fright
ful Railroad Accident. Cleveland, Dec.
24. A fearful accident occurred to-day on
the Cross-cut railroad at Prospect station.
One coach and a baggage car fell off the
bridge, twenty-seven feet high. Cause, a
broken flange on tender. Twenty-two
were killed and eighteen wounded.
Corrt, Dec. 24. The cars fell bottom
upward, the weight of the trucks crushing
t hem in. There was no way of escape for
the imprisoned passengers. Tho cars im
mediately took fire, but there was no water
to extinguish the flames. Only two axes
could be procured to chop the cars to pie
ces. In this situation some twenty-five
persona were roasted alive, filling the air
T YL7- nourwith t,,p": rty'UP Sbrieks. notified that unless he af.peVrs,
It is be lieved wvaral of those rescued will ! ty. P;ali cha,Rsd takes hej T.shVZm
a, Stra.v llll.
I ) vJ,E. ,be Premises of the subscriber In
.w1,.Qton tonship, one and iUlfinU
north of Uily;. Station, on or abot thf i"th
uiu, a year and a half old BLACK BULL No
other color or marks on him. The ownerls rl2
queeteU to come forward, prove propV pTv
b.8dndVfk
W.4h,,ton Twp., Deo.1;t..MrER3-
Stray Xleifei-.
CAME o the residence of tho subscriber, at
.iei f Cambria oonntv. some t me
durinjt lat summer, a DAItK BROWN HEIF
tll ,no year old past, with whirr bellvsnd a
small sht in the rhrht cr Th. ..IZ.l- l'A.'lB...
dia of thir injuria
Fall Trade, lSTn
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EXCLUSIVELY WHOLESALES
O. 13. Urvn-ott & O.
12-20. K. 60 riFTH Atcdbs, Pittabsnr"
A G EX2 S WA -V TED F0l Je y
BOSTON AND ITS DESTRl'frC
A full. deUiled and Brraphica-cunt cf rt'lSeo
rln, progress, suffer! njr, losses and 'Rf "tj'fcncl.
the Kreat conflHKration. A rrr
aKents. as every parson wants to krK" w'-Ci ,
tmrticularsof this arent di-ss'er. er :t nj jiu
for 50 cent . WILLIAM VI-I krt,i
tlm.l Philadelphia, I'a., i u i Cnweni(
S250 A rOXTTT, SS
WE WAST lO,00O. A ',J
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Hire 1; "
MALI OR FEMALE.
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comuinatiox Nri:ii.r. CA-t . , ,,
MONN AIE. This is ao article cf ft- ;..t
osty with every laly. nnd '"J ' z
For circular and Terms nii-y ..,,,.iarf "'in
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- hailness shop ok
Iliirh street, (opposite I ni' ,,
Westward, Ebcnbura-. in-- .' . . , w
pairtHl and'all other work in ni?
in rhw bet manner, on the shorted ...t lru
iheT
In rhw lxt manner, on in- ,-j
at the most reasonable rates. l
OAL! COAL! ! -The
now prenarctl to f n rn ish. " ' JTTT t1 ? '
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ha.Omir at any poml in Et -m-w r , -r'k-J
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