IE CHlBfiU FBEEH.il. ! Kf5EW83UR PA. Tur LesriKlRtuie now in session is ver rap tbe last ouo that will assemble under tbo present. State Constitution. As tl.e Constitutional Convention, in obedience to an overwhelming popular demand, will '-JGT 3J 01 Bill& - January 10, 1873. ; tear up ly the roots the Upas tree of spe- t cial legislation, and in other respects limit The January session of the Supremo ( the powers of the General Assembly, it is Court of this State commenced Iat Monday j not a too violent presnm ption that the mew ut,Fh!ladrl;hia. The Court fixed the firs'. j lers of the present body, in view of the . aiotuiay in February for the argument of ; coming change, will do their utmost, at '!. Philadelphia eases which test the oon- j making hay while the buh thines. That st:ta:ie:nnty of the LnealOptioa Law. i important and inlhicntial branch of thel j LegishViiire known as ''the lobby," and not I "VVk acknowledge the receipt of n cop"y i uafreqv-eiitly called the "third house," will of the Ptllic Ledgtr Almanac for 1873 from : be on hand plying its corrupt vocation. j .reo. Vt. Cliilds, Esq., the publUlier. It lie who was styled "king of the lobby" ; presents a very neat and attractive appear- j has recently "shnined oif this mortal coil" j unce and is filled with useful political, sta- j rich in worldly goods, but those who were j tistical, and other information. One hun- taught bybimthe "ways that are dark and j died thousand copies of this almanac were the tricks that arc vain" will be there to primed hy Mr. Child, in order ihat every supply the ilacc thus made vacant and to subscriber of the Ledger might receive a ! vindicate their high and honorable calling. I i-,ry- It would be idle to attempt to predict w - " i -v... .1... t i... , . t j-vgjsiainre win uo, much Jess ; what it will leave undone. In the judg- j TTifTlt fif tll tn -r rti.-i-o 11 T I i ! Anderson, of Allegheny county, was elect- firt wnll1,T . ,,., ... . ! ed Shaker, and Russell Errett, of the same ! "t5 , . 1 1 ' 7 " , VlV- i 1,tv rwv w:mm vvtsJ .n.. i Rtlon 1,1,1 ertry to keep the wheels of: j j -w..n. ' I 111 a., 1 1 1 1 1 , ui A 1. 1 1 cfc- delphia, was re-elected Speaker of the The legislature met at Ilarrisburg on Tuesday last. In the Penate, George II. the Mate government in motion and then j biK.mi .... Tl. . T i ' Iloube and General Sseliruigc Clerk. The ! . TT . , , , ' , , -n- to Ilarrisburg for the sole purpose of inak Uovcruor's message was delivered ou Wed- ; . . . , . . . ,t. ,,, ... ... . , .. . , u--iioy snow a tricic worm two oi that, ntbuay. ewill either publish it in full . . . , ... . M.t week. T, if too long for our par.r, ' !"d. " h" f V"1, U;at;h Kif a correct synopsis of ft. I U': h",,a to do' 80 the dif' i I lrent nnci as well inside as utside of : me iwu liouses, couia concoct scl.eiaes ot (.5 last Wednesday wrek, John T. lloflr nian retired from the office of Governor of w York, which he has filled with great credit and acknowledged ability for four years, and was succeeded by General John A. Dix. John T. Hoffman is one of the rnPt proniiocnt ami accomplished leaders of thw Young Democracy of thn country, and his public life is without stain or blem ish. When better and wise counsels pre vail in the administration of the govern ment, and when men of brains and honesty ure estimated at their proper value, lie will ..... ... wciijiy s oeuervecuy nign jxisition amoiift I dotjueut dei2uuc:ations i,C CJiarlcs H 1 1 j plunder and villainy vast enough to keep j them in session until the dog days. It is anticipated that another and final effort will be made to rob and despoil the sinking fund of its treasure, now nmonrit j ing to nine and a J.alf million of dollar, by appropriating it to purpoi.es expressly j forbidden by the Constitution. If this pal j pable fraud on the taxpayers of tbo com j monwralth is attempted, there are few men ( in the State who will not regret that the I Senate chamber cannot be made once more to ring, oa it did three years ago, with the Ilurk. e public incii of the future whofe task ! tipff o(ra;,st t. i i t- mew against the ioul and glaring wrong-. win i to rejeuo the government rrom the , If a man eat in the executive chamber who hands of political charlatans and men of I was hls wn mabterwllo knew i;3 dut mediocrity and restore it to the original j allU h:ld the moral courage to perform it design of its founders. tLe MOD, oulj v KllrR fmm ,u,.j!m . ! jobbery and fraud. IJut such a man is not John F. HartranfT, unles all his antece dents as Auditor General wofully belie liim. He was nominated by ring influence and will be subservient to its grasping and seltibh demands. There is just a bare possibility, however, that this Legislature TlonKRT V.. Em.iott, one of the colored roembors of Congress from South Carolina, was the principal competitor of "irsi" John J. I'atterson at thejrecent election of United States Senator by the negro legis lature of that State. Ullitt being a negro himself, and his mam reliance for votes . lnay j,ut itgelf on its good behavior and having been based on the color of his skin, I t;uls agreeably disappoint public cxpecttt may fairly be presumed to understand bet- ; t!on. It can prove to the people of the ter than any other man the cause of his ' state, if it only will, that the days of legis .lefmt. Job., J. Patterson is the fit and J Utiv9 viltne. unIike the days (f chival naral Senatorial spawn of the ignorant ; liave not frevcr passeJ awB" inth;s and conupt set of negroes who now com - I 0'lti gtate of w;uiam per,n poso a majority of the Legislature which has reduced that State to a condition of absolute bankruptcy, and has added insult tu injury by sending such a notorious plun derer and corruptioni.st as Patterson to represent her in part in the Senate of the United States. Elliott avers that Patter- Geuekai. Walktr, in the forthcoming census report, which isadocumentof gieat importance, says that of tho 2,500,01)0 -eople contained within our borders in the year 1S70, over 5.50(,(KH) reported them selves of foreign birth, while l,7o4,845 liave both parents foreign, and that 10, r21,233 have a foreign father, and 10,101, (,fi a foreign mother. The nationality of this element of our population and their locutions in the Union, are also marked out in a very interesting and instructive manner by General "Walker. He sets down the number of Irkh at 1, 55, 827, and masses them in tho greatest force in Massachussetts, Connecticut and in New York city and vicinity. The largest stretch of country which thev have neonled in. considerable numbers extends from Syra cuse to PufiaJo. Here their do'.sity is from six to fifteen to tbo sqnr.ru mile. There is also an exttus:e district in Northern Illinois, aw.', auother in North eastern Ohio, who; e tl.ey number from three to six to the hqtiare mile. Of Germans there ans 1,(590,410 in the United States iron', all parts of Fatherland. I hey are numerous in the neighborhood of New York city, number six to the mile in this State, between the Delaware and Suscpie hanna rivers ; are ouite dense in Philadel phia, ai.d also in and near Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio. Their densest settlement west of Cincinnati is in Ihe counties lyiDg aloBg Lake Michigan, in Wisconsin, includ ing .Milwaukee aud the town of Sheboy gan and Manitowoc, and extending west ward to V.'atertown. There are two other sections in the West where the German element is noticeably strong-. One extends along the west bank of the Mississippi from Dubuque to Keokuk, where it, cross es to the eastern side and runs south a lit tle further than Quir.cy, Illinois. The other section lies around St. Lojis, in Illi nois as well as Missouri. Our population from England and Wales is mostly distri buted around New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Providence and Cleveland, and more sparsely scattered in the vicinity of Rochester, Cincinnati, Chicago and Mil waukee, and in the coal regions of Penn sylvania. The total of the English-born population of the country is 550,904, and of the Welsh 74,5:5. The immigration from over the Canadian border is nearly equal to that from England and Wales, and amounts to 4!);5,4:U. The French in tiiis country number only 116,000. The Spaniards number but I$,701, and nearly one-third of them live in New Orleans. Of Italians there are 17,14t, of whom 5, (XX) in habit California. Mexico gives us 41.308, over 30,000 claiming resilience in Texas and California, and the rest of the Terri tories. The Chinese number CJ,C74, the map showing them to bo scattered about the mining districts of California ai d Ne vada, and in the cities and towns of those States. The Ane. can didate before the Iegiblature and was defeat- ; ed. I can bear defeat, but the humiliation I thr thing has brought npon our colored rare J that'H what hurt me. Our rare is uow on ' trial before the world as to Its fitness to gov. ; em. Wnat will le said after such a whole- 1 sale buying up as this? The colored men, ! na you know, are in large majority in the legislature, "d then for them to tteliberate ly sell out by wholesale is a blow that we can't K"t over for years. It is a blow at our Integrity, our honesty and cur manhood. The report has gone to ti.ej world that the colored legislators making laws for South Carolina have been bribed by wholenalo, and the report is unforiunfttMy true. What will the world think of it?" It is a well known statistical fact that there is more intoxicating liquor consumed j in Scotland, in proportion to its population, ; man in either i.ngland, Irelard, or Wales. This is not the general idea entertained of the habits of the Scotch ueonlo. but Sllfll son .pent thousand dollars in bribing , is lllo undoubted fact. The fallowing cu- Ids (Elliott's) colored brethren to vote for ! rkai3 Etatement was recently made at a him, and that without this corrupt use of j meeting of ti10 Ttmn Council of the city of money be (Patterson) would not have re- Edinburg, by a man who had fully informed oeived a single vote in cither branch of tho i Limself on the subject, of the number of Legislature. He then adds the following : perBons ,een by the lice to enter a .,lard "Now understand me. I am not saving I .iw. : T. . this out of nerval feiintv I was a Van- ! 'e shoP ln ne day- ems almost in- creuioie, ana yet the authority seems to be reliable, that scores of women should hour ly resort to a place for the purpose of diiuking "haid ale," which, from what is j said of it, is about equal to Jersey whisky that kills at forty rods. When it is re membered that Edir.burg contains a popu lation of about 200,000, and that tho run on only ons "hard ale" establishment is givcm, a pretty correct idea can be formed of what is daily transpiring in that city, which is the scat of Scotch learning and refinement. Some little i.la mar lx f.irn-H i.f t, m. It has been the custom of radical stump i vcre injury w hit h would be indicted on tiadn speakers and radical newspaper editors, j 1:1 Great tiritain in ihe cv.Mit of a general iiuw . vtiti hi. jii intui ui l:iijc:i,tiii-t uy lllo lOl lowing account iveu by LSailio Lewis, at a moetiticcf the Edinburg Town Cnnncil.of the I number of prreomi .r t, r.oi;. . oiicot the "hard ale Bhops in that city dm ing one day. A "hard ale" shoj is explaincl to le a shop whore cuKtomer may get drunk for twopence-half penny. One penny-worth of "hard al," followed by three bali'-pcnnv worth of spirit, will, it is stated, reduce even a seasoned toper to a state of hopeless stupefaction. From 8 to 9 A. M. there en tered the establishment in question, on a Saturday in July, 100 men and 38 women; from 9 . 10, lvo men and G5 women ; from 10 to 11, .M man and 40 women ; from 11 to noon, 110 men and 48 women; from 12 to 1, 85 men aud 55 women ; from 1 to 2, loo men and 00 women; from 2 to 3, 115 'men ami (50 women ; from 3 to 4, 112 men and GO -omen; from 4 to 5, 177 men and 43 women; fro. H to G, 105 men and 50 women ; from ( whtlo arrogating to tL.ir party all the mor als aud decency of the country, to ; l the Democracy as the "whiskey party" and as being hostile to all measures looking to temperance reform. While such a man as Chandler, of Michigan, is one of the high priests ministering at the radical altar, the purest and best jnen of the Democratic party Lave been wantonly denounced and held up to public reproach, as daily wor shippers at the shrine of Jiacckus. Even curing the late, campaign for torernor in this btate, such an exemplary citi.''n as Charles R. Buckalew, who, when com pared to his opponent, waa as Hyperion to a batyr, was mcaniy ana laisely cnarccd r ' ,. , ' , . to ITlcn iiu1 " women ; from 7 to 8, 85 by a portion of the radical press as being a meu ana J'1 women; from 8 to 9, 120 men and man of intemperate habits. Tho submis- 55 women ; 1, o 10, UK) iun ami 55 women ; . . . j ... , ., T , from 10 to 11, 8x men and 83 women in all sum by tl.e last Legislature of the Local : 1M1 imM1 ail)'17G0 v omen. If the proprietor Option law to a vote of the r;cople of the of this 'hai.l ale" sho made only aprolit of different counties in the State, for their ' 0,lft-ualf Py on each in'ivdual, he would, ;u , I as Uailio Lewi observed, ha. a total protit sanction or lejection, will aflord an oppor- of 4 1Sk per daTf or no'ic!,a tn:n C1.482 a tundy of testing tho sincerity of parties on ' year. It is remarkable to observe !y these this question of reform, assuming for the I ures, Low t-adiy the "women"' u.-ak 4i- i t w , I throughout the day there is but little vai- present that the Local Option remedy, atio.. m their numbers from hour to hour in wherever it is adopted, should eventually I comparison with that to be seen in the case prove to be the preat panacea asrainst the ! ,1 : J "f l t&ncy of woman Covictto oi Stoke?. Htm He Rk ceivki) His Sentence. J'ew Yrk, .Ian. 5. Edward S. Stokes was found guilty of murder in the first degree late last night. The jury came into Court at twelve min utes past eleven o'clock, having leen ab sent about three hours, and in reply to the uual interrogatories, rnnounced that they found the prisoner guilty of murder in the first degree. There was a marked sensa tion in Court at the announcement of the verdict. The prisoner turned ashy pale, and his sister wept aloud. The district at torney moved that the sentence of the law be pronounced, but, at the suggestion of Mr. Tremaine, the judge deferred passing sentence until Monday. The jury, it trans pired, on retiring, stood ten for murder in the lirst degree, and two for manslaughter in the third degree. In several of the pulpits this morning the event was incidentally alluded to as a warning to young men against the perils of evil com pan ion ship, and asanotherproof that crime is certain to bring on its own punishment. Atone place of public wor ship in Hrooklyn it was a leading theme, rather than a text. Stokes' bad temper after the verdict, as seen in his reproachful remarks to his counsel and his abuse of some of the wit nesses for the prosecution, has deprived him of whatever couimisseration might have been felt for him. Ilia counsel, it is understood, will not re sort to any technicalities to-morrow with a view to tho suspension of sentence, but no effort will be spared to persuade the Gov ernor to commute the enalty of death to imprisonment for life. But ",t bis is catching at a straw. Governor Dix is a lirm be liever in executing the laws and as in this case the defendant has 110 cause to com plain that he has not had a fair trial, nay, two fair trials, the result can easily be an ticipated. STOKES TO BS Hl'HO. On Monday Stokes was sentenced to be hanged on Friday, "February 2th. Im mediately after his sentence he was taken to the Tombs, where an immense throng was congregated. He walked firmly, but his eyes betrayed his feelings. He was placed in cell No. 4, which lias been occu pied by a number of murderers before. W wua divKWri of his wearing aunarel and clothed in prison garments, lie will be deprived of those luxuries which he al ways had previous to sentence. ot the peeps forth in every transaction of hfe, while uiun, is niiui eveu a cups, luau, vils of intemperance claimed for it by its advocates. The first county to vote for or against it was Clearfield, in which the! The Pittsbcrgfi Gazette is the oldest spring election, although it wasin thc.mid- j Republican newspaper published in the die of winter, took place on Friday, tho i western part of the State. It is conducted :'-7th of December. Wc have not seen the j witu vcry niaiked ability and is recognized vote published, but learn that the law was as 0110 f te most reliable organs of its accepted by a majority of about ts50. ! iarty. - The prospectus of the Gazette for Clearfield is a strong Democratic ounty j 1S73 is published elsewhere in nurinn,,,. aurt m our judgment is the most thorough- It deserves a liberal patronace from the i;eiuooratic county in the ; political party of which it is so able an ad- . VOCatC. 'l'he HTvirj li,irjtfx ic ..nw..,.. .1.. ' ..7 v .0 UlllVU lilt? have Imt little faith in the I cheapest and ono of tho largest and best KU'lU'lii r.f a n 1:1. ! - ... 1. .... , uunsi'.tpera m u;e L.1111CU DUUes. iy organized Mate. While we remedial influences of any measure like the Local Option law, and while we will not array the J-Yeeuum against it, liovr Fwift, had the result in Clearfield been dif fered, would the insfmcu f radicalism have prompted it to denounce the sterling JVmocracy of that county as aiders and abettors of tho cm so of intemperance This verdict of her people proves at least that she is willing to try a doublfvl expeii. jnent in ordar that the great evil wiih which the whole State, nation and world is ailiiet- L may, bo far as she is concerned, le ar-ji-sted and if possible eutiiely destroyed". -e- Is another part of our paper will be found the prospectus of the Pittsburgh Post for 1873. It is needless for us to repeat what we have to often said in praise of this long cstablishod and ably conducted Democrat ic journal. The pa&t career of the Post is a sufficient index of what it will 1 in tl. : future, and we cheei fully recommend it to j veryJ)eruoe.rat who dsiivfc to RuUcribe j lor an aUe aud ieUvble city paper. I A Remarkable Cask. The Lancaster Inquirer says: In one of the rural dis tricts of this county lives a woman aged about sixty-live jeais, who for the past live years has been an invalid, and whose pres ent condition is most remarkable.- During her previous life she has liorne by no means an enviable reputation, and strango stories are rife in the community concern ing her former life. The most current of these is one to the ellect, that years ago she, with the assistance of her brother and mother, in order to conceal the birth of a child, roasted it alive in an oven. This and many others are circulated, and gain credence from her present condition. More than a jear ago, after having been a helpless invalid for about four years, she arose one day in her bed and in a firm voice said: 'In this condition I must re main for a thousand years, though there come famine and starvation, yet will I never live or die.' With a spasmodic twi.cli and convulsive movement, her limbs weit. doubled up in the most intricate man ner, anil shs sunk back upon the bed where she has since remained, speechless and un able to move. Whether her silence is to be attributed to a vi.sit.nion of Providence, or to stubborness, is not known. Her ap pearance is described by visitors to be most fearful to behold. Her limbs are twisted about her in a wonderful manner, aud her facial expression is almost demon iacal. She refuses to take food in the pres ence of others, b:t as soon as they leave tho room devours with the greatest avidi ty whatever is set before her. What ren ders her case still more remarkable, are the facts that her brother, jc.irs ago, com mitted suicide, and that her mother lin gered a helpless invalid for nearly thirty years." January 31st, inst., is the last day for filing claims for additional bouuty under the act of July, 1806. giving $100 to any soldier who enlisted in the army after the 19th day of April, 1862, for a period of not less than three years, and received his honorable discharge, or $30 for two years' enlistment after April 14, 1801. Soldiers entitled to the bounty and who have not attended to the filing of their claims should make a not of the facr. A Pekii-oi s Pekch ox the Capitol. j i uc ieerijL nwi in icuwicu ii Dccessary to remove some of the eurplus snow from the ix ofs of many buildingsthroughout Wash ington, to prevent the immense pressure upon them. On Saturday afternoon last, the 23th tilt., a number ef hands were en gaged (.hoveling oil" superfluous heaps of "drifted flakes" from the Hat portion of the roof of the Capitol building. Harry Smith, a lad of about fifteen years, whose parents reside on Jsorth street, near Sec- : oiul. applied for a "job" and was tuld to j go to work, but to be careful how he went ; about it. lie was at work on the north i wingof the building, over the Senate Cham- her, aud had commenced at the bottom of I a gutter, where he had a secure loot hold, itJtead of beginning at the top, to shovel avay the snow. While busy at work, and not noticing the gradual giving away or sliding down tf the snow, the entire mass above him came down like an avalanche, and ehoved him down over the slate roof, some twenty-five feet further, to the gutter on tho veige of the wall, where, fortunately, he was h-dd by his clothing, his legs hanging out over the roof. The distance from this point to the icy pavement below was at least sixty-five feet, and the men immediately above him, as well as persons who moved uo ami down Fourth and State streets, and witnessed j the perilous situation of the lad, shut their j oyesand turned their heads, momentarily : expecting the boy to drop upon the pave- nient a mangled mass of flesh and bones. ! The men upon the roof, Messrs. Felger, Hillier and others, with commendable pre sence of mind, shouted to Harry to remain perfectly quiet, that they could rescue him ! in a very short time. A rope was procured I fix 'in a box somewhere ia the upper por- ; tion of the dome, ami speedily let down to ! where the boy at, or wassuspended. But j he had bfcome so cold and chilled, that he j w uld not trust his weight to be pulled up I by simply holding on with his hands. I He was then eremptorily ordered to . fasten the rope arounel his body, and to do j this speedily ; but before the young man j could accomplish this, a half an hour had i elapsed, and he made five attempts to fas ten the rope alout his waist lefore he was .hauled up to the top of the building, chilled through and through and almost insensi ble. He was carried into the furnace rooms in tho basement of the Capitol and. ty means of stimulants, rubbing and a regu lar toasting, was placed upon his feet "all right." The lad said that at one time he thought it was "all up" with him, and ex pected t fall upon the pavement and be dashed into pieces. News antl Political Items. Focn Men to bk IIaokdox Cincuir stahtiai. Eviiiexe. Four men, all of them whites, are now laying in the county jail of Hiunet cownty, Texas, under sen tence of death to b executed at the same plate on January 15. Their names are IJenjaniiii Shelby, Arthur Shelby, Uall Woods and William Smith. They were all i-enteuced for the murder of Ilenjamin McKeever. Their case, taken in all its details, is one of the most interesting in the annals of criminal trials. The evidence against them, though conclusive, was en tirely circumstantial. McKeever was shot from his horse at night near the residence of the Shelbys, his throat then cut, and his body carried on horseback three miles and thrown into a cave. A largo rock was placed on th blood y'spot where his throat was cut, but this precaution, instead of concealing the crime, led to the arrest of the criminals. The keen eyes of a fron tiersman saw that the rock had been re cently placed there ; so it was removed, and indications of blood found. A closer search icsulted in the further finding of a paper-wadding that had been fired from a shot-gun. On examining a gun of Leu jamin Shelby, paper-wadding was likewise foui d in it, and yet another wadding that had been evidently fired from a shot-gun like the first, was found under Shelby's doorsteps. In his house was found a copy of the Chimney Corner, aud, by compar ison, it was ascertained that the three pieces of gun-wadding had been 'obtained from that paper. Placed together, the fol lowii g enigma could be easily read : With piece f paper or a slate. Sit round he fin; lioth large and small; A ".etter make, almost an eight. And now you see what covers all. There were several other circumstances pointing strongly to the iaccuocd men as the murderers ; therefore the jury that tried thein did not hesitate to find them guilty of murder in the first degree. The verdict is generally approved by the citi zens if Burnet county, and the latest ad vices from there indicate that there will probably be no interference by the Supe rior Courts or the Governor to prevent the decreed quadruple execution. 2eu York World. AThirtt-Ose-Hocrs' Dascs As Old Man Wi?s a Waokh Jimmy Kennovau finished his thirty-onc-hours' dance at 2 o' clock last night. Jimmy kept in locomo tion throughout the wnole time announced, only taking a brief recess at 1 o'clock yes terday afternoon, for the purpose of bath ing his feet and having a brief respite. At this time he showed few symptoms of over exertion. His feet were slightly swollen, but be otherwiseisecmed as fresh as when he commenced. His extremities were bathed by his trainer with brandy, which proved a most excellent specific for the purpose for which it was used. Before the expiration of the ten minutes allotted Jim my began to feel sleepy, and was glad to begin his exercise again as soon as possible. At frequent intervals he drank wine with raw eggs as an invigorant. His appetite was also keen during the trial, and he ate heartily. When the last twenty minutes before the elapse of the thirty-one hours had come, Jimmy, who it Beemed had hus banded his strength for the close, "let him self out." He seemed as fresh and more vigorous than when he first began, and he danced the last three dances with an ener gy and heartiness which would have put to blush a youth of sixteen. Jimmy, in fact, did not stop when three o'clock struck, but kept on going for nearly ten tniuutes longer. When the feat was finished he de parted with his trainer for his lodging, where he was placed in a hot bath, rubbed down and put to bed. The spectators dur ing the evening enjoyed themselves in sing ing and dancing, aud passed the time very agreeably. J inimy slept calmly aud peace fully until seven o'clock this morning, when he arose and dressed himself. He made his appearance on the street this forenoon, apparently as fresh as ever. For a person sixty years old, the feat which he has per formed is truly remarkable. Vallejo, Cat., Chronicle. The Pittsburgh Gazette says: We don't know how, sufficiently, to thank our atten tive correspondent, Mr. Frank McKlvey, at Enon Valley, for his New Year's gift of an apple so much larger than we ever have seen before, that we suspect it has been growing ever since one of its kind was misused in the Garden of Eden. It weigh ed, when pulled, 32 ounces, ami measured five and three-fourth inches in tliameter, or about seven inches in circumference. We defer tasting it until we gather enough of friends with whom to make a feast. Wo doubt not its intrinsic qualities are in full proportion to its huge size. This wonder ful apple grew on the farm- of Mr. John Duff, near DarHngtou, Beaver, county. Who can beat it ? A Cfleen-year-oid bootblack ef Pater boii, N. J., lately died of delirium tremens. There are four thousand acres of land in Kentucky once located by Baron Stubeu. . Prof. Wise is buildirg another mam moth balloon with w hich he hop.es to cross the ocean in the Spring. 13 T ltarllllin v;i rril.lr? if o (Tiniie. and dollar diamond pin while riding in the j cars in ew 101k city on tbe 1st inrt. A baby w as Ihijii in Ciuciunati some time ago whose mother was sixty-nine years old and its father seventy-four. Joseph Heidi'iitarg, a glazier, living in Henry street, New York, was snow -balled to death by boys on New Year's Day. A barn and twenty horses and hleihs belonging to a dancing party, at Lottsville, Washington county, burned up Christmas night-. The editor of the Examiner at Elk Falls, Kansas, hung himself lately, and left a note for his foreman telling him to go and chop wood if he would be happy. At Milton, Mass., recently, a couple were married at the death led of the bride's mother at Jier request. 1 lie brute caught cold at the funeral and died within a week of pneumonia. Henry AVilliams. emnloved bv the Thomaston Colliery, at Pottsville, while cutting ice on Sunday, slipped and "fell 60() feet elown the slope." He was instantly killed, his body being terribly mangled. After a life of peculiar vicissitudes, commenced as a circus rider and culminat ing as a princess, the Princess Salin-Salm closes her romantic career as a nun in a convent at bleak Innsbruck in the Tyrol. The Watsontowu Iiecord says its edi tor had a conversation with a liquor dealer of WilHamsport who declared that $1X 000 had already reached Ilarrisburg to ef fect the rejteal of the local option law this winter. John Ilagan, Esq., Democratic member-elect from Greene county, died on the 24th ult., of pneumonia, aged about 58 years. This leaves a vacancy in tho House of Representatives to be filled by special election. Lecky, the historian, and Tyndall, scientist, are both Irishmen, but they have done well in the woild, and are called Englishmen. If they had turned rogues they would never have been anything but Irishmen. If it be true all the anthracite coal mines in the State are about to become tho property of certain railroad companies, the people will realize the power of corpora tions, in auother shape, before the close of the present year. A pumpkin pie, ten feet in diameter and four feet deep, was the chief feature of a California dinner, recently. The en joyment of the gnesta was marred some what by a child falling into the pie and eirowning before their eyes. At Springfield, O., on Tuesday night a woman named Nancy Haithiugtoti, aged forty, was murdered by her husbund and her son terribly mutilated, his skull being crushed with an axe. It is supposed that the husband was intoxicated. The ice gorges in the Ohio and Missis sippi have proven immensely destructive to property. An immense number of steam boats, barges, etc., were destroyed, involv ing losses that will amount to many hun dreds of thousands of dollars. A frightful calamity occurred Christ mas nij-ht at Williamsport, in this State. Tho tloor of a Baptist church gave way, and fourteer. persons were crushed to death, being buried under the fulling timbeis, Several others were more or less injured. Samuel Wilson, of Sharon, and a clerk in the Post-Office at that place, has been arres'.td and taken to Pitt-burgh, on the charge of opening and robbing letters pass ing through the ottiee. He is a nephew of tho Postmaster there, ami has heretofore maintained a good character. A man died in Indianapolis recently from the effects of the excessive use of ice water, having swallowed three gallons in one day, besides a quantity of half-frozen milk. He acquired the morbid craving for it through the sudden breaking off of the habit of chewing tobacco. A company of New York and Penn sylvania capitalists have purchased ten acres of land at McKinney's station, ten miles from Pittsburgh, fyr the purpose of establishing works for the manufacture of steel by the Bessemer process. The com pany has a capital of :?,000,00. For lack of any livelier topic, the Ver mont papers are trying to find out who are entitled to the reputation of being the heaviest couple in the State, the most promising pair thus far heard from being Henry Tinkham and wife, of West lian elolph, who turn tho scales at 270 aud 230 pounds, respectively. The operators of tho Schuylkill coal region made a compromise proposition for 1873, namely, the basis of 1872, sliding elown if coal declines as low as $2.25 per ton as a minimum. This has been pre sented through the President of the Work ingmen's Benevolent Association, and un til it is accepted there will be very few col- neiies worKea. A touching tribute of affectum wasthat displayed by twenty-five little giils in Alle gheny City who on Christmas morning re paired to the grave of a loved plavmate, who died in April last, and placed on the snowy mound that covered her remains beautiful wreathsand bouquets. Such evi dences of youthful affection arc so rare that iney ueaene more than the mere passing mention they will receive. The Ilarrisburg Patriot savs that a slight confusion seems to exist' among a few of its exchanges in regard to the time of the inauguration of Governor elect Har tranft. It may be proper to state that the inauguration will take place on the third Tuesday, 21st day, of January. The two Houses will meet in joint convention at 12 o' clock, Wednesday, January 22d, to elect a Senator of the United States. A sailor named liiley suicided in New orkon Friday afternoon by jumping head foremost from the main yard to the deck of the bark, on which he had recently ship ped, while she was on her way out in the Last river, bound for Liverpool. The spectacle was witnessetl by the crowds on the ferry boats. Riley, who is said to be from Logansport, Indiana, was picked up and his body taken to the Morgue. shoemaker, named Lewis Keener wao resided in Bethlehem, Pa., has been missing since Christmas night. He was of intemperate habits, and on Christmas day had been drinking very freely. On Satuixlay' afternoon a man crossing the Mouocacy bridge saw what he supposed to be a bundle of clothing, but on inspection it proved to bejthe boelyjjf a man. Assist ance was procured, andit was dug out of the ice, and round to be that of Keener It is supposed that he bad fallen off the bridge, and, being helpless, was covered by the snow which began on Christmas night. The Newbem Journal of Commerce says : Our foreman is a boy of sixteen years of age. and his assistant is a brother not yet fourteen. The former has been ia a printing office (the Journal of Commerce) for three years, and the latter for four months. These two set np, unaided, ali the .yp (fifteen full columns bourgeois) for the leading matter, all the advertise ments, correct the proofs, make up the forms, and do all the work upon the paper, except the press work. They say they will do better for 1873 than ever before, and we are authorized by tbem to challenge the young typo, of any office in Korth Caroli na, to a friendly contest for the year. Twelve Indians were hung in a row , in Texas, recently, for driving off t.urriip titious beef. After having their faces washed, eleven "panned out" white men, 1 but they hung just as well. : Atlanta, Ca., January 2. The up and j down passenger trains on the Macon and ; Western Railroad came in collision alout ; thirty-seven miles from this city this morn- ! ing. Eight negiot s were killed, and ten : or twelve negroes and three whites wound- , ed. Three cars aud one engice were wrecked. Cailotta Patti and troupe wcie ' onboard. Their wardrolte ami piano weie ' destroyed. The members of the troupe were unhurt. Patti was active in giving relief to the wounded. The negroes were emigrating to Mississippi. j We saw a piece of wedding-cake the i other day, says the' Bangor (Me.) Whig ; ef a recent elate, which had a somewhat , reniaikable history. It was made on the i eccasion of the marriage of a lady of this city twenty-two years ago, and sealed up to await the return of her brother, who was then expected home in a few weeks. The lady died fifteen years ago, but the cake was kept intact until Monday last, when, as her brother is still in California, and will probably never again come east, it was removed from the case where it had remained so long and sent to him. About nii e o'clock on Monday morn ing last, while Peter Sarrena, a laborer employed by the contractors who are re moving the eild railroad bridge at Daven port, Iowa, was assisting at some work on the top chord of the bridge, he missed his footing and fell a distance of over fifty feet; striking the railroad cross-ties in his de scent, he was turned head downward, fell on the ice, his head striking with fearful , force. He was picked up immediately by j nis comraaes. but elietl before reach m c ; snore, jie was a Janc, and had lately ar rived in this country. At twenty minutes of twelvo o'clock on Satuiday nifcht.'.be cit izens in al? nartsof Columbus, O., were disturbed bv a low. ! luiiiuiiuj; HOJ.-50 is i.i instant iinineier. ac companied by three detonations that shook the houses, rattled furniture and caused a general alarm. Many torsons left their ! beds in search of supposed burglars, a nil i others came up the streets to learn the particulars of what thev supposed was some boiler explosion. A diligent canvass I oi me city tails to give any reason for the shock, and many there believe that the noise and vibration' were caubed by an earth quake. The ship R. C. Winthmp, from Ant werp, at New York, re-ports Nov. 27, about one hundred miles west of Madeira Is lands, had a meteoric shower, commencing at dark and lasting two and a half hours. The first hour, as near as could be judged, there were from 9 to 120, the second hour from 4 to 600, and in the last half hour were gradually disappearing. Alout four fifths of the meteors appeared like small balls of fire moving through the air leisure ly, but others moved with great velocity, leaving in their track a trail of fire resem bling that in the wako of an army rocket. y 'AXTen-ArelUlV,.;:, -'' Ot :Jil,'.. . ""'1 !,,, arid luci..itii . i..,., . " ' ' !-kw ...... ... , , r uu?;iif ... nr-. ;.. - . t .-rjvur. x.UrJJ. ; ioi-k: ..-t.n;fhi.i,tf,. ,rlsJ"--:.. A Ni:W WAV., ruV,.:;5 York City. ' ': l.'t:.. M WANTI')" for family )r net a ::k-, ., ' ixgtom Mcwrr.r. Mai hinp , ,, ' .... ,. ' ,; for oir .sVM-in.t - to 1.1 j cicun-d t"ri:..,M( t t Shi , "ol!C01(J.... If f3 f.zAtJ n I I fill u Ej m i i 1 T-tx U.i J.U11 T..' Pout.le Klevated Oven. Var-i -n-i '" my loor Frmw Guard d-m',. .-.:' - Oratf. In'rect fJraft. Kl'Ili Ce 13U Watter Street, N.'y.'T "v Se f Cfe e d e rF7i tewartJQu Improved, I nricaleH , ( ,it, t Burns any size Ci.;t'. F I l.I.FB.'A K1I K . ACu., Cf. WatfrM..; Fsily mnrlf wit h r.nrv.i, nK em t lit. in' i . if, Uilford M'lVt'fi.. W fi.it' A bcktkr in the vicinity'of Branting ham Lake, X. Y., recently shot at a large buck, when the animal dropjied as if dead. After cutting a pole to hang the deer on. and making oihcr preparations for dress ing the caicass. ho approached the deer, and with his ft hand took hold f the ant lers. The buck jumped to his feet and charged upon the hunter, who clung to the horns and struck at i. is antagonist with a small hatchet. 1 he hatchet struck one of the antlers, and glancing, fell from his hand ; whereupon t!ie l uck started off on a run with the hunter clinging to his ant lers. After tramping about for some time he was tossed upon a log, the deer stand ing clof e by and watching, but not offer ing to make another attack. After eyeing each other for a short time, the hunte" again grasped the deer's an tiers and shook his head, but could not provoke him to at tack. He then went in search of his ride, and found it so broken as to be unservice. able. Having no arms to f'ght with, he abandonedtho contest and reached his shanty somewhat bruised and tired out. I'dTHE WORKING tI.A?S. n, .;, J. J0 a week UHrautie.i. i;.. ;, ': I!oyinent at home, day or evenii e . ' rejiiire! full instructions u-i 1 Mgrenf fonda to stai t wit b st-tit frt-" -Ail-tress, with 6 it-nt return slf: r ' & CO., IB Courtlandt-si., .New 7 , r. FREE TO BOOSCACS? Am i:ic-itntly IounI (hi.vvv,., for tlitt t.est and hNi nest F.iin lj ii lidtieO, will lie m-nt tre? of etno..- t , Rgcnt. It contniiuiifmlvS'.iO I. .,-", -lustrations, and agKi.ttnrii im.-i ' ii-demoiliucwi-ii. AtJiirersrf, t-tuHi.- i te., tinl.wf whi hw you wt,r . r'.v. doinjr. National. l'fiiLt:i!i ,, ". ' ' . ' 1 F THE SABBATHS OF 01 f Ky KiMierv;tvi.Y., ts an entirely work on m r 5,,ri. I written in tho a-itimr s i-. ..i ( ".. prrsotus i no suojeet in & ,ri ,. , . C in not fait to uw-Rkf-ri ;, i -.1. productive of wrnl y.-i-(. A;, j-i . wh 'in lit.rrjl Ou:r?mN-: n :r. diCSS J-. !. t-TOlJDAKT i e. . ! ', ' hoarseness utij t.roti:!n;il ii WELLS' CARBOLU' AVortlilfKH Isuitx! i tint the on!y ecieiitiUc .n .1 Acitl for l.ui-E i!isv:is i 1 I'lm-ii wjrh other well l.m ; ihesf T.ii'i.M s, ;,n i -.;! j ;u 1 lUTHinst iiswiy any other. In tilt t-.-tses of jnitnti. mPintTaiie these TABi.KTS.-n their cleansiinf and Ueuii;. tonihinff. lie (viiruetl. .Vcrrr . ; curcil in its ineifijem st :-.!. chrnnie the cure is e.teeeo:r Welle' f'Hrhn!i. THi.l.-fs ;i . JOHN Q. KEUiiHiii. 1- t , . Sole Ai'ir.t I Price " cents a hoi. ' T A I n r r v. ;, - 1. t! I'l .if among- nil ehiseti. !! j O f'le-tiirel. thtwo who a'f - life. y'.iith uf I . :ii,." 3 reai with the rre:itest t.- I ? mx mm Si Jf ,s meetitiir with t. an;l there's VdNKV:; . St-nd fiTOT i-iii -v - a SfMil free. ; Tt ,"!- - - t Pie ' tni ;;i.yt the . - pk i l,reU en 1: has . resic was dayt ty-tl nam tint! pcn bsdl .last on V. . lece falle f 15r - roai Aflac hole ch&i: hi e V,i Tssrii i::g t :burc Vj! hear rnraonjjof a phenomena in TV'heatland. which, if true, is rntiinlT vpnr -re?-?m T-lrnl .In Tf . r 1 1 . . . t ' J ............... . oiiir kudL A .llllli' married woman in that place, who a"s Dickens would say, was in "an interesting condition," jvisitgd Larnum's show while it was in this city in June. She was at tracted to the cage in which the sea lions were kept, and. for some reason, became fascinated with those monsters, which kept her chained to the spot. She made several attempts to with draw, but for along time could not succeed, some irresistible influ ence having retained her at the place. At the time this was not thought remarkable, as the rarity of the animal, their peculiar shape, habits, and everything else, con tributing to make the thing,atural. Hut judge the surprise when the lady recently gave birth to a deformed child which bears the features of a sea lion. Sharon I'imm. Cnmibs of f om! The Ladies' Friend. Ask yu BARTLETT'S BLACM " - last! Tor the huinerv ha no .rml c fF.ll.S. K. A. RAR1 r.KTT 4 ' ' Fr-.nf-st., Phi. a., t44i l lifcui: i .- Iiyt;ad-st., !. ih;hi. jerso ! i.r- tame :..: v n i CCUS .11. j ir.nl Supporter ar.ti V r-V. I or Kupuire. Keumlc ft'ui'i-fBt T ? H 5 ? ; n-enit. A ETS Wn tl - We jrii.im ntc f rafilnr. uient for all. either sex. at (o a day, or 2j)d0 or more a year. New works hy ,-. ;. B.Sttnce, ami othein. Superh premiums jtiven away. Money made rapidly and easilr at work form. Write and see. Puticiilar free. Worth ma tos, Pcstin Sl Co., Hartford, Conn. 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It will impart youthful ieor m Hit eeviu Wftihuess if tin 1 in dunger of Chronic fiiin ili.iu " : -f Jntl iminatioii ol" the iiovvei-. 7iti-e if, ii wcakiiexx ,,f the t "r. Onjaiisi Vou must pVoeurc you are liiible to sutteiinif uiwi A rc iHKt drjeettsi, d rows v. iUHl. f! -:' prcsseii in spirits, with hi .nl a coated tomriie and hud tastii'i.' r.W-- ; Kor a certain remedy for ali "' l' -weaknessos and tionhles : t.r v. '' purifyintr the vitiated l loo.l jin.! i"'" -or to all the forers : for hmiiiui-' i''- inir the weakened i-niKtiniii :in. . n iv iii-.j niUM hum "i- ilriv tcwn '-V.i OWIK 'rill , ferH V, t ir:t terii mi yet,,-. eie mil? his McF. -Urrt y 4j iudy S5 TO 20 r.ep day! Ae wanted! All 7i classes of workiujr people of ei ther sex, younir or old, make more money at work for us in their spam moments or all the lime than at anything else. Particular fr Address O.ST1XSON 4 Co., Poril.nd, Maine. QLITCH'3 Imperial Russian v--" Mntart VK,.iI...i- . . , . TMOhKEEPIXU XTa.le F.a. Kvervelerk ,i.R7J-Jmt',,;C'nt CHn lf"rn one"' Rook mailed, u0,. H. Goeiai.N-G UKvm;bullo S y REWARD. For any case of niind, Hleedinic Itchinr or Is Bino's Vn.x UM eut fails to cure. It to cure tho T1.. s Prepareii expressly dru7stshe Pr'u l0thln' els8' Soli which is Tironnunerd bv the U autboritiesof I.oinlon hi.J "ai i orfu! tonic and alterativ e iiti.-n n cal world." This is no new ami iirtf""" ery. but has been loinr use.l by tl"-";J. siciuus of other couuti ici v nil i- ' dial results. . ; i"C tcwAen anil iV;p,t,V theil'i,-'"-' ., hy eathanicsnn.l plivsii-s. 1''-"-v porury relief. Inditresti n. tfatwlf"1,. pepsiit, with piles and kiudri-J lit--to follow their u-e. ,. Ki-ep the blood pure nail hrn.ni s JOHN Q. KKI.iAM..;. I" I'l Sole Airei.I I"V . , r(" rriee'Onc Dollar per li,.tt!ij- tivCC rti-V of UAVI.MI IHKeil inn 1 .... u i ' 1 tion on the Kstteof l'-7, late of GaUitiin township. ,"u"',l) i eease.l, the subscriber hereb) x1 How, Men aii Where to AlYertisa ! Se tlio A bVPlriT... . . I n... i.iuiLns llALnr.. Hy mat cts. Oro. P. i:,r!l A Co., 41 ParU Itotv, X. V. 1 sons indebted tosaid estatrbi.it P'i. be made without delay, aim - . , p apninst the same will prc-r.i tirobaicd for settlement. ,.njS:sri thomas Oakland. AJJ1 J Altooiiu. lK'C. VI. l37li.-tt. A - . n i COLLINS, JOHNSTON l. TT--ILT. receive money f '!.pl"i 'u and collect notr. r - 1 h' h e- - t :" 1 1 . . .. 1. n.-. , l..icir... ,,uir done bv lUn'VuKir ". -.rr" ' i. c. k."- T! L Oat 0ft! shi; do cf rsr riot rail Fri Tei low Th cle' gui arr Df' out tia tor an de wh it 110 tai IV Lh lut su hit ton the 1DPI 3 3
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