THE CiBIUMli: Ebensburg, Pa., i TrUUi f - " - - - July 1 i Democratic County Ticket. ASSEMBLV: HENRY SCAN LAX, Carrolltewn. JSITFRIFT"1 HERMAN BAl'MEIt, ConcroaiiRh Boro". trkasirek: A. D. CRISTK, Minister Township. com mission En: EDWARD GLASS, Kbfnsburg. FOOR UOVSK MRFl'TOK: AKSELM WKAKLAND, CirttTwp, cokoser: R. II. SIXGKR, Johnstown. ArDlTOi:: H.R. FR KID II OF 1 Conemaugh Borough.' JVRT fdMMISSIONF.R: HENRY TOl'l'ER, Adams Twp. The Vacant Chief Justiceship. Xo more delicate ami at the same time responsible duty can devolve upon a President than the appointment of a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The oil ice itself is the hiirhcst and most dignified in the gift of the Chief Executive of the government, and is the most important and responsible position, in some respects at lenst, that can be conferred on any citizen. Pop ular opinion roar sweep away an in cumbent of the Presidential ofhee, but the seat of the Chief Justice is perma nently fixed, and is not dependant for the duration of its tenure on the ca price or vary.'"? fortunes of a political partv. Chief Justice Marshall dis charged the high functions of his ex alted"" station during the administra tions of sU Presidents, while loger Smiutl Talk from a Republican Xeuspaper. One of the most A Lie that Served a Fttrpote. We ought to know the truth by this time as to the disguise adopted by better day dawning in political moral- 1 Jetf Davis on the memoriable morning ity is the outspoken honesty of many ! that witnessed his closing search for of the great Republican journals of the ! the last ditch. And perhaps w e have country in regard to official corrup- it in a communication from James II. tion. It is true, and as lamentable as , Parker, of Klburuville, Pa., to the true, that some of the smaller fry of ; Portland (Me.) Argun. Mr. Parker Radical journals conceive it to be their should certainly tell the truth, for he duty to defend or gloss over rascality I reminds us that he is a Yankee, and when perpetrated by a Republican of- ! was -'born .between Sacarappa and ficial, but that is not the case with the ; Gorham corner," and we know that a ui. Female Thug. letter class of newspapers of that par- : ty. The Chicago Tribune, a Repub- , lican journal, thus comments upon the case of the "Christian Soldier," Gen eral Howard : "Gen. Howard has been President of the University, and during the last five years has been extremely liberal towards it, making donations of large sums ot his HORRIBLE TREATMENT OF A CHILD BY ITS "MOTHER. An affair was reported by the police yes terday, which, as plated, is an exhibition of the most fiendish cruelty on the part of a parent toward a child, almost unparal leled in the annals of crime, in this or any other State. In consequence of informa tion received from various persons residing in the neighborhood, Mary Noel, a colored won an, living on Sixteenth street, between Christy avenue and Orange, was arrested on Sunday night by Detective Hennessey. About eight o'clock Sunday morning the colored j-eople who inhabit that quarter were awakened by piteous cries proceeding 1 from n second storv room in the rear of the : . ., , c 4- i . , . i n it ; j e l . , I t.o ma mi i in i luxe wnirn iiiiii Mr Parker says inrtuer mat ne is iuu row cu nnj -- OlA It" III III PI I Lvl t man born lietwcen two such places as thev are couldn't tell a lie if he were - A fc I I i thp nocssor ot a naruware laciorv. i 15. Tanev, his successor, who was ftp- : own money. Though nominally President, nointed bv General Jackson in 1S3G and died in IStU. occupied the scat of ,-oi.l John C. riumcrdiol ! Chief Justice during all but a small last week at his home in West-New- he has been absent from the city, and on that account has declined any salary, lie centlv some one has obtained access to the records and found that, on motion of Sen- ton, Westmoreland county, aged about 85 years. Many years ago, Mr. PI ti mer served both as a Representative and Senator in the State legislature, and was well known as an upright and useful public servant, lie was a firm and intrenid Democrat of the Jackson school, a few of whom yet survive as j licitude as to who will be the succcs livingand shining examples of person- ! sor of the late Chief Justice Chase ? al purity and integrity, to shame a cor- j runt and degenerate age. . . . , . ... li-ui iur dull H'unu iiiin portion of the time tilled by ten sue- , atol. ponicrov, one of the Trustees, large costive incumbents of the Presidential ! sur.is of "back pav' have been voted the chair. For the reason, therefore, that so few of our former Presidents were called upon to exercise the power of appoint ing a Chief Justice, it is not at all sin gular that the country feels a deep so- IIexrt A. Wise, imitating the ex ample of the guerilla Mosby, has gone over to the radical camp. During the palmy days of the old Whig party, Wise was a political power in the "Old Dominion," and in lSoG, when he ran for Governor of Virginia, he utterly vanquished the demon of Know-Noth- lngism for which he deserves well of his country. During the rebellion, however, and since its close, he has tadven frequent evidences of political lunacy. On no other theory can his hegira be accounted for. The cause has produced its natural effect. The Altoona Jladiral, whose editor has been pajing close attention to the contest that is now progressing be tween Samuel Henry, of this place, and R. W. Mackey, for the State Trea auryship nomination on the Republi can ticket, expresses the opinion that Mackey has a sure thing of it. it says that 72 of the whole numlter of delegates (133) have been chosen. Of those elected, 14 are instructed for Henry, and it is possible that six more not instructed w ill support him. ' The balance," according to the Radical, "with the exception of four or five who will support aspirants in their own dis tricts, will support Mr. Mackey, in the event of 7t's candidacy." The words in italics may be regarded as surplus age. We cannot see that it makes the slightest difference which one of the two gentlemen named receives the nom ination. If Mackey is successful, and should bo elected, the affairs of the Treasury will be conducted in the in terest of the Treasury Ring, just as they have been during all the time that he has had charge of the public mon ey, and if Henry is nominated and elected, he too will organize his Treas ury Ring intent on using the public funds for its own personal gain, and will in all things tread squarely in the footsteps of Mackey and his rapacious followers. A mere change of name in the head of the Department will not suspend or change the plundering scheme by which it has heretofore been managed. In the course of human events, it might happen that neither Mackey nor Henry will tie called upon to administer the affairs of the Treas ury; but that, under the management of a competent and unselfish Demo crat, the "unexpended balance" of the people's money will be so applied as to do the most good, and that would be by applying it regularly in extin guishing the public debt. If CJ rant was competent to make a wise and judicious selection, the people would repose a generous confidence in his judgment. Rut having alread3' pacled the Court by the appointment of Strong and Rradley as two of its Associate Justices, for the express pur pose of overruling the decision on the legal tender question, he is not likely to step outside of the narrow circle of his thick and thin supporters in search of a man who can worthily fill the place which was once adorned by a Marshall, a Taney, and a Chase. Anticipating (Jrant's action on so grave and important a question, it is safe to sa3 that the appointment will be given to some person purely a.s a political reward, or on grounds of per sonal favoritism. The latter reason is the one that has governed him in con spicuous appointments heretofore, and, it is fair to infer, will do so in the pre sent instance. As it seems to be well understood at Washington that he will not appoint any of the present members of the Court to fill the vacancy, it has been suggested that a safe mode of securing a competent Chief Justice would lc for Grant to refer the selection to the eight Associate Judges themselves. This plan has much to recommend it, and would pretty surely result in a choice that would be satisfactory to the coun try. Rut it is an arrangement, to which a man of Grant's mental calibre will never consent. The very suggestion itself grows out of a want of confidence in Grant's capacity to make a wise se lection, and for that reason he would not surrender the prerogative of his office. If the declaration of Senator Car penter is to be relied on, the place will be first otfered to Roscoe Conkling, a radical Senator from New York, w ho, in accordance with an understanding Imtween himself and Grant, will decline it, and the coveted honor is then to be conferred on Timothy O. Howe, of Wisconsin, who is Carpejiter's radical colleague in the Senate. Of -course Howe will only be too eager to accept. He possesses a contracted mind, is a thorough-bred partisan, and has se cured the warm friendship of Grant as the willing defender of every usurp ation of power which lie lias attempt ed. Even the disgraceful and corrupt San Domingo job found in Howe a submissive supporter, when honest, high-minded Senators repudiated it with shame and disgust. No man fa miliar with Howe's antecedents and his career in the Senate believes for a moment that he possesses any qualifi cations for the office That, however, is a trifling consideration with Grant, and the mantle of Chief Justice Chase mnr ."re- ftill on i , - w o ?t 1 1 vT fthoillderA of Timothy O. Howe, who is not fit, were the former still living, to unloose the latchets of his shoes. It is a thought well calculated to produce a General. The recent exhibit made by . Fred Douglass denies vehemently that any , money was paid him that he had not ; earned. On comparing the list of dona tions made by Gen. Howard with the j money voted to him for service never ren- ; dcred, they correspond so nearly that it indicates that what he gave with one hand he got back in the other, and that, while enjoying the reputation and glory of a lib- j eral benefactor to the University, he was! receiving quietly from the institution a j sum equal to his gifts. II is list of dona- i tions foots up 10,O00, and his receipts i fl7,r83. so he is at this time $(T7 ahead, j It is a curious thing, also, that while Sen- ator Pomeroy was, as Trustee, voting away j the money of the institution to Genera' j Howard, the latter, as a I hristian ot es tablished reputation, was certifying to the people of Kansas that Pomeroy was one of the purest and most exemplary Chris tian statesmen in the land, and that Kan sas and the vhole country would suffer greatly should his piety and his example to the rising generation be withdrawn from the Senate. About the same time. Rev. Dr. Newman was certifying to the Metho dist clergymen of Iowa, a like character for Urother Italian, nnd begging- them to see that the recipient of Durant's check for $10,000 was re-elected to the Senate. We do not desire to question Gen. How ard's honesty, or his piety, or his Christian rectitude, but we thmk it is his misfor tune that these things are forever pushed before the public, and insisted upon as a complete answer to unsettled accounts and full answer to apparent deficit. It is his misfortune that the squad of men at Wash ington who made a trade of their religious professions have been unmasked and ex posed as hypocrites. These men, with or without his consent, have always included General Howard in their list of unusually righteous and notoriously Christian coad jutors. They have worn the cloak of re ligion to hide their enormities, ami now Gen. Howard has, from association, to bear the suspicion which attaches to that whole brood of traffickers in Christian pro fession. It may be set down as generally true, that any man who frequently makes public parade of his Christianity is a rascal." of "Yankee prejudices but he thinks it wicked to lie about Jeft Davis, or, fur that matter, about the devil : "I was with the party that captured Jeff Davis ; saw the whole transaction from the beginning. I now say and hope you will publish it that Jell Davis did not have on, ' at the t ime he was taken, any garment such as is worn by wcinen. lie did have over his t-Louhlers a waterproof article of cloth- n.r something like a 'havelock.' It was not in the least concealed. He wore a hat, and did not carry a pail of water on his head, nor carry pail, bucket or kettle in any way. To the best of my recollection, he carried nothing whatever in his hands. His wife did not tell any person that her husband might hurt somebody if he got exasperated. She behaved like a ladfw and he as & gentleman, though manifestly he was chagrined at being taken into cus tody. Our soldiers behaved like gentle men, as they were, and officers like honor able, brave men ; and the foolish stories that went the newspaper rounds of the day, telling how woolfishly he deported himself, were all false. I know what I am writing about. I saw Jefferson Davis many times while he was staying in Portland, several years ago ; and I think I was the first one who recognized him at the time of his ar rest. When it was known that he was certainly taken, some newspaper corres pondent I knew his name at the time fabricated the story about the disguise in an old woman's dress. I heard the whole matter talked over as a good joke ; and thn oflicers. who knew better, never took the trouble to deny it. Perhaps thy tho't the confederate president deserved all the contempt they could put upon him. I JS'ews atul rolitical Items. La Crosse girl named Bonfoy claims i to be engaged to Fred Grant. A lady residing in Virginia City, 2s ev., has uineteen brothers aud sisters, one woman having given birth to them all. The wife of Joseph Deebs, living near Roachton. Ohio, gave birth to three girls a few days ago. Vood county against the world. , , A willow tree, seventy-five years old and eleven feet round at the base, is a cu riosity shown rerdants at Georges, layette county. Isaac A. Gould, a widower, aged forty-five, was arrested in Yarmouth, Me., on Monday, for repeated incest upoiiadaugh i ter, thirteen years of age. j Those inevitable tortoises have turned up aain, this time in Hereford, Berks each mai'Keti wun iu ininaia u. A new and ?Wcflk( etn Us. r. .. .... 1 r , . , of cay treated ui.i. ...7dK aked u!j.l, m.'ic God, have mercy ! vIi, God, please sena , some one to cut me down ! Oh, God give j me some water; I am dying !" Two or three colored men hurriedly gathered around the back yard in the rear of the room, and after a hurried consultation went up the stairs and broke into the dark ened room. Windows were thrown up, and the light revealed a pitiful object a child, her arms pinioned closely over her head by a rope which was suspended to a hook to the ceiling, aud so suspended that, the child's toes barely touching the iloor, , she was thrown forward with her whole I weight on her pinioned hands. Beneath i the child was a raw-hide which had evi ! dentlv been applied to the lacerated back I and sides, which showed also the more j noiintv. - .. .i , oar G., one datea uie oiner if.). I Two daughters of Mr. Gallagher, of Cortland, 111., ploughed and put in eighty acres of small grain this year. One did : the ploughing, while the other sowed the grain and harrowed it. i The -Sm says A. T. Stewart, before ; leaving for Europe last week, made his will. ! A schedule of his real estate with its valu ation foots up the extraordinary sum of ' one hundred million dollars. I A few days ago, Ella Eatchclder, a ' voung and handsome girl, suicided at ; Portland, Me., in consequence of a quarrel ; with her lover, Walter Howe. Howe shot ; himself on Sunday, and died in a few min : utes. A Tlarri-burg woman tned to urown wasting traces of slow starvation in ins nerseu in nan ifuuiy u.....j bony,attenuated outlines. Neighbors gath- ; but a colored Adonis saved her. The rev ered around ; new clothes were placed : son why she wanted to die was because upon the child's back, food was givtn her, j her lover broke off an engagementbecau.se and the was given over to the care of the ; she wore No. 7 shoes. police. At 4 o'clock the mother returned j The stm-m on Friday evening was ter hnnii h.ivino- been doir.fr some cookincT in ! l ible in Chester county. Large had stones ICS pounds of ,i. . nine t uejKiMt IS ... i lil c ,1 . liquul is perfectly '; aiv st!?i i ue nrt(rnl rrl,-:C the Massachusetts g,n-t, ''l--ar-r from the pen of lTr t'l''P Massachusetts d.s n..t out of her mouth, V'1," to take, a seat verv far bacW -:' State honor. "We accn,n i dangerous man in America, :l est scruples and the m,. a-,.? ty ; and he. foisiK.th. is in t?"-" becoming Govern-. tf ou, , .J'"--Eay State I" ' L-4.. A curious inanh-o . cvr t i oiiaiiMjury, i.. lecev.t.-,-an old man 70 year .f a .... n u.i-i iie. ir.iia v.jr been divorced fur ni:t! r um iiiicoi i'e ha.! v. wnere ne va i i!i -iT--;r, . i - .. . fiuiuirK o ins oi,; i,,,.,tf. t first wife had re:n:iiii-i v - was rekindled. !hrl ;l.f V:r-: I rejoined after hn'f a ,.. ,.-v I Professor WiV ,S v 4.rfi' varus oi ci...h. J'n, ' unoieaoiicc: siicelm ". r.f a i , itv. The cr.'-.vu i f th- doubled for a distance .,f nf;Vv.. I top with 1.1ft yards r.f t!:f fa rt" and yet a thiid ihl. ki t for which 2V yard-, w ;r. U r.-"- strengi nenm; ol the crown ,,f .i Ti.,. T.-i ui.tV e :- ! a private family in the western portion of ! the city. AVhen informed of what had j been done with the child she expressed the ' greatest indifference, and said she was glad somebody had taken it. She didn't want ic any longer. A few minutes after she was taken into custody. It is stated that for nearly a week this fiend in the garb of a woman has daily fell bv the bushel. The wind was terrilic. ; Many houses were struck with lightning. ; Hogs and cattle were knocked down aud ', hundreds of fowls killed. That is a singular hen down in Ten- ...... f i r. ..... . . . ' nessee, which at me age oi meivc m ioUi- : necessai-y to Keep her I teen, quit all her old habits and turned , tne grave after the c i into a rerrular rooster. 1 Ins case, and that is rendered necessary l.v o sr. re ot the gas wh -:i ; . ... pounds to the square ir h. A recent widow in p.-i, -.J guished hervelf by d'?m..'is.y for the dealh of her liuv.irl , the shroud from the c..rj,s av pour mm down its thrent. ?C the funeral procession l.v si:. coffin and refusing to hav,-. ' The united strength r.f thru.- fr.-.m i- of Susan li. Anthonv, are the only ones of i fastened up the child, whose name is also : the kind we have ever heard of. MaryXoehiu the manner already described, A Buffalo girl committed suicide be- j and in this jositioii left her from early j cause her new bonnet did not come home 1 morning till late in the evening when this ; in time for a picnic. Another lass residing j so-called mother would return from work. ' at Brllevue, Iowa, shot herself to death re- j Frequently, while the child remained in j cently because her parents insisted upon that position, her mother, it is said, inflict- j her marrying a man she did not love. I think so too, only I would never perpetrate I ed from twenty to fifty stripes upon the On Tuesday while several boys were a falsehood that by any means would be- ! bare back with a rawhide thong, which J hunting berries in the woods near the Ly- j come history. And. further, I would never I was used with a skill worthy of a Legree j coming county joor house, they discovered I the lifeless body of a young man hanging to the limb of a tree. From a deep cut iu j his abdomen it is supposed he was mur- j dered. j Miss Beulah "Watts, of Vaterbury j Center, Vermont, aged fourteen, has cut and pieced within the past two years a j quilt which contains four thousand seven ! hundred and fifty-two pieces, made nine ' tidies, and attended school 13 mouths in i slander a woman who has shown as much or Tom Loker. If the child cried or made tievotion as Mrs. Davis has to her husband, no matter how wicked he is or may have been. I defy any jierson to find a single officer or soldier who was present at the capture of Jeff Davis, who will say, upon j honor, that he was disguised in woman's ! clothes, and that his wife acted in any way i unlady-like or undignified on that occa I sion. I go for trying him for his crimes, ' and, if he is found guilty, punishing him. But I would not lie about him when the truth will ccrtaiuly make it bad enough." What Vublic Men Owe to the Ire. The following article on the subject of newspapers and their influence in a certain direction, copied from the St. Louis J nnovrat, contains an abun dance of unadulterated truth : Col. Forney complains, in a well-written article in the Philadelphia Pr, that pub lic men are, as a class, ungrateful to the newspapers and the journalists to whom they, 'in many instances, owe their position. Xobodj is uioie competent tospeak on this subject than Colonel Forney himself. He has made more statesmen out of small ma- Pknnsylvaxia IlAiT.noAns. As il lustrative of the vast railroad traffic for which our State has become justly famous, the following facts and figures will prove interesting : There are 117 railroads ojerating in this State. The total capital paid in is l:50, 8i4,:545 82. The funded debt is :J25,413,- 597 . The length of the main line of I roads in Pennsylvania is 4,17'J miles. There are 1,818 miles of dauble track, and 1,784 I miles of siding. The total cost of roads j and equipments was $524, 39, 134 fJ- There are ;i, r20 engines, l,ro8 first class passenger coaches, 3o0 second class cars, and 734 baggage and mail ears. The freight cars numlier 58,63U, and the coal, ore, stone, and tank ears )4.r,38. The bridges number 2,G23, of which 481 are j iron, 1,774 wood, and 303 stone. Depots or stations, 1,8;0 ; tunnels, 51 : engine j houses and shop, 483. Length in miles laid with steel rails, 1,434. Value of real i estate exclusive of roadway, 22,'25783. 1 he gross tonnage for the year 1872, was terial than any man in America, lie has taken a more active part in the personcl of , 75, 087, 720, of which 17,327,120 was through American pontics m the last twenty yesrs ; freight. Passengers carried, 35.170204. feclinsr of national humiliation. EiRorEAN advices inform us that one of the results of the great advance in the price of coal, there is visible in the fact that various large manufac turers in France, Germany , and Rus sia are casting about for new sources of supply. They think it feasible to import Pennsylvania coal, and an an alysis of the di'lerent kinds mined in this State is being made, with a view of ascertaining whether they are suit able for use in the foreign factories needing them. Already Pennsylvania has leen able to undersell Fnglish coal in the West and East India mar- Seveual Democratic newspapers have approved of the suggestion that Hon. Wm. McClelland, late member of Congress from the Lawrence dis trict, would be a fit person to be select ed by the approaching Democratic State Convention as Chairman of the Democratic State Committee. Before anything of this kind is seriously at tempted, it would not le amiss to as certain the present tatu& of Mr. Mc Clelland on the extra pay swindle, lie is represented as having taken the plunder, although he voted against the bill. So far as we know, Hon. ash ington Townsend, who represents the Chester district, is the only member of Congress from this State who re fused to soil his fingers with the booty and returned it to the Treasury. If Mr. McClelland voted ajaiust the bill, as we think he did, and afterwards pocketed the money, he had better promptly decline being an aspirant for! the position referred to. The appoint ment, of a man to the L hairmanshm of ' the Democratic State Couunltlre who in anj way identified himself with the salary grab, would be a most fiital blunder, now could he, in an address to the people, appeal to them, r.s he would be bound to do, rebuke Con- tn-neulnniil r-rrrn rit i on mid vnnn.itv ' ' j 1 WlVi'wi . - I . - - - J ' - ' It wouM simply be the old spectacle of Satan rebuking sin. The present Chairman of the Com mittee, Samuel J. Randall, not only voted for the bill and took the money, but, like Carpenter of Wisconsin, ii willing to defy public opinion by an open defence of it. In getting rid of him, care must be taken that his suc cessor is not tarred with the same stick. If it is not true that Mr. McClelland took the extra pay, (and he knows all about it and can explain,) he would make an unobjectionable Chairman; but if the fact is otherwise, then the Iah fbaf. is aoiil q 1 in f li'm C A1.-4. Cut f ' LuaLcoii-. Uh1 Illd, T on the evenin r of the nectiou the better for himselt, as well I 4th ink It was the most terrible conflict mm for the Democratic party. i ever witnessed. than almost any other man. Most of his work has been that of a politician rather than that of a journalist, but in either ca pacity he has always lieen able to serve his friends well, and he has always served them faithfully. His reward has been very small. If he had let politics alone and devoted himself exclusively to journalism, he might have made a greater name than 'Ireeley's and a greater fortune than Bennett's. I5nt he was always very fond of helping some friend to an office, aud always had A taste for political intrigue w ith a purpose of this kind. His experience has, no doubt, been that of a hundred others w ho have operated in the same way on a smaller scale. Make a governer out of an alderman to-day, and to-morrow he'll tell you that he owes his elevation to his own superi r merits. For- out of James Huchanan but before the old public functionary had taken his seat he repudiated his patentee and manufacturer in the most ungrateful manner. Congress men are made by country newspapers yet when they go to Washington it wouldn't be safe to tell them so. U at field, as an M. C, was invented by a seven by nine sheet, the editor of which had probably never seen a five dollar bill in his life, and Garfield would certainly be indignant now if asked to give five dollars of his back pay to that man. Trumbull was first heard of, we believe, through a lit tle paper at Alton ; and he was last heard of draw inghis 5,000 grab. ISen. Butler says he was not made by the newspapers ; but then it must ever remain one of the myste ries of nature where Ben. Butler came from and what object was in view in producing mm. n tne grievance ot wliicli l ol. ror ney complains is a sore one, it is the fault of those who are aggrieved. There is too much puffery of small men n the newspapers now-a-davs too much disposition to exalt gentle dullness and any noise, she was taken down and thrown violently on the floor. Then the woman would place her fxt on the child's neck, and beat her until, as one of the neighbors expressed it, "her belly was a poultice." sometimes the operation was varied by placing the child on the floor on its face, and its back was scarified. A foot firmly planted on the child's neck held her in this position, and a pillow in which its face w as buried, smothered its cries. Another op eration was to souse the child's head and body into a tub full of water and hold it there several minutes, "like you would a kitten," said a neighbor. This was gen erally followed by a whipping,which seem ed to be the exjiedient in helping the child into the next world. During the whole week no food had been given it, until Sun day, except what was passed through an aperture in the window on the end of a clothes-prop by pome of the neighbors. At times she would not dare to take even this, asserting that she was afraid her mother would find it out and whip her for it. "When she did receive it, it had to be conveyed to her mouth, as sho could not free her hands to take it herself. The ap pearance of the child, when taken to the Third District Station, was "pitiable in the extreme. She is a bright intelligent-looking girl of eight years, though from the cruelty that has lteen practiced upon her she does not appear to be more than five. Her body is in the most emaciated state, while the back is one mass of bruises and festering sores. The stomach is abnor mally large, from the effects of the vio lence and heavy blows and kicks which she has daily received. There is scarcely any 41esh about her, the bones almost pro truding from the skin, which appears to hang on- the body like some unnatural covering. The woman is a hard looking creature, apparently capable of any act of cruelty, and whose countenance betokens more of e than of the civilized human being, though her calm, collected manner, to know how 'v.z wiinin. married. The der-e-e.! was the proverb mnt !v fa!-e. X-.. of a man was ever mourned s widow. Some idea of tV -, -(y Trcla: depopulated, says tl. I Usblln c ent of the boston :;t f , tniv from some of the li-i cs in the : Ireland, which is n av si a- The part relating t.i Q-.rti-i ' publiMied last week, tpm lr,t it, I was struck by the iiisigTnfir-v es between the various :cr-:::ir.-j In 1821, that coimtv v a - 134.000; in 1831. 14.-,.' mi : -..4 in 1851. 111.000 ; in l-i".l. "! u 1871. 70.000. The (Queen's r -a fair average county, an.l I n.r cause I happen to have the me. One does not often it.ii :" ana terrible retribution a-v..;'. j. took, last week, a nitmlerT in Connecticut. Michael lli.'.v. laborer. 011 Saturday night. iVi John O'Xeil. A search for ii : instituted, his dead b.wiv wv 111 tlie 8-jtli year j room in tho farmhouse. He L ; Miles run by passenger trains, 25,312, ! 000 ; by freight trains, 58,391,020 ; by coal j trains, 11,070.813. The tonnage carried j embraced the follow ing art icles : Anthra ; cite coal, 20,577,404 tons ; bituminous coal, ' V2, 070. 4. r ; petroleum and other oils, 2,- the sava I .OS.O.iS; p:g iron, l,'34,ill ; railroad iron 785,280; castings etc., 011,011 ; iron and ! ami tl. t.mp .,f ur rmuv,. -so tion iiulinuto 1 other ores. 3,000,558; lime, stone, slate. ! tbnf sh 5 rnabl r.r ii, mow r. Hn.i etc., S85,705 ; agricultural products, 5, C58,- cruelty of long-continued torture than 200; merchandise and manufactures, 5,- would characterize the pioceedings of the 335,209 ; live stock, 2,282,480 ; lumber, 3,- ; more untutored. She has been frequently 213,811, and other articles, 4,900,857 tons. heard to say that she knew God intended I he total expenses of maintaining and j the child to live, but that she intended it operating road, repairing machinery, etc., to die ; and if she could not kill it bv any ior me year, were -, -;.. "."on. 1 ne re ceipts were passengers, $32,715,905 72 ; freight, .?88,977,894 98 ; mail and express, $5,013,378; use of cars, ?1, 040, 440 49 ; 818, 84S 92. The number of persons killed on the va rious roads were: Passengers, 33 ; em ployees, 254 ; others, 285 total 572. The persons iujurcd were : Passengers. 160 ; employees, 015 ; others, 213 ; total, 988. The capital stock paid in, up to 1872, aggregated $439,804,345 82. The funded aud Heating debt is $342,070,170 75. other means f-he would cut its head off. She is described as being over six feet in height, and of heavy, though not fleshy build. Her neighbors HMert tlmt pbe was not in the habit of drinking. She has one other child, a boy of three or four years, and lavished upon him all the tenderness of her fierce nature. St. Leuis Democrat, July 15. Rescued bt a Brave Gikl. How the young daughter of Mr. James Elpick, an oysterman, rescued a little boy from drown ing at Greenwich, Conn., ia thus told by the Stanford Adcorate : "The locality is a favorite one for summer boarders from the city. Among the residents of this class at present is Mr. S. H. Lewis who with iamuy, occupies a comfortable countrv j kets, and it looks verv much as if we might, to a certain extent, be able to j amiable imbecility into intellectual creat eompete with European coal in por- ncss and real ability. Every ehucklehead tions of I-. n rope itself. Great Hail Storm. There was a ter rible hail storm in New Jersey on Friday. It inflicted immense damage upon the crops corn. oats, vecelahles of all kinds. lwi no- crushed and apples pears etc., swept from ! bouse near the oysterman's more modest the orchards. Fruit trees in many cases j "welling. Mr. Lewis little son, a bright are entirely destroyed. Hailstones fell of j and active lad about eight years of age, six or seven inches in circumference, and 1 '"to a boat at the dock on Saturday stones the size of a hen's egg could be gath-f lasT' when the tide was at its height, and uey,ii pauuimg auoiu. ine cniid was in full view of the oysterman's daughter, a blooming young miss of eighteen, who was at the moment in her bedroom, saus eowu . I : l : 1 ... 0 . ered anywhere by the bushel. These dan gerous missiles Hew about with murderous force, breaking in not only windows but shutters snapping on stout limbs of trees that time. David "Wilson, a soldier of the war of 1812. and brother, of William Wilson. Cashier of the Fayette county National Bank, in Uniontown, died at his residence in MifMintown, Juniata county, on 1 uesday morning, the 15th inst., of his age. The passengers of the wrecked At lantic have brought suits against the company to recover damages for baggage lost, and personal injuries suffered by the W reck. The company does not contest the suit, but has given security for the liabili ty, subject to the evidence of value, yet to be given. A servant girl by the name of Sophia was left to watch a sick lad- at Ilarrisburg the other night, so as to give her medicine at proper intervals. The servant, to econ omize labor, gave the patient all the medi cine at once, and then vent to sleep. So did the patient, ami never wakened. Too much morphia, as well as S mhia. Last Wednesday a cow belonging to Mr. J. W. Evans, of Franklin township, gave birth to a calf with eight legs. The calf, as far back as the shoulders was per fectly natural ; from the shoulders back it had two back bones. This singular ani mal died soon after its birth, and the cow which gave birth to it had to be killed. Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Win chester, Eng., fell from his horse last Sat urday, and was killed, lie was riding with Earl Granville from Leatherhead to Lord Gower's country seat, where Glad stone awaited him. The horse was going at full speed at the time the Bishop fell ; his neck was broken, and death was in stantaneous. Brooklyn had, very recently, a remark ably sensible bank president. Having de falcated to a considerable amount, instead of striking an attitude, and resorting to the various devices of the day to make a hero 1 ofhim.-elf, he paid his butcher and grocery j bills, provided for his family, and then i went and drowned himself. That was a j sensible man. The little town of Mt. Vernon, Ind., is sadly afflicted, indeed. It seems to have been singled out by the cholera as its par ticular victim. Nearly all the citizens who could leave the place have done so. No business is transacted. One family of ten persons has been entirely exterminated by the terrible disease, and three other fami nes nave eaca lost iour mempers. Shower of Stonf.. On Juesclay week two boys named TraceUr relates that on F i"' "- K-iii ui iidiu, ageu ; ia.se, IK'tweeii Aiii H Ci c- -ten and eight years respectively, tvere j New York, Captain Winched drowned at Canal Dover, Ohio. Thev had ! ! pone into the canal near the brewery to j hail-stones, the vessel nt the : j bathe. Lewis could swim, but Sherman abont thirtv-three miles frs. ! 9';nl? nW ant tne latter, getting beyond ; Me., on her trip from r...-t-"i . 10a ucj.iu ucgan 10 Km, wiien iewis went to rescue him and they both went down to gether. A special detective from the nn-encir in New York city is now in Paris in pursuit heart disease, superinduced i .;: Nemesis arrested, indict, .'. , tried, convicted, sentence. i. 4 . hlra almost simultaneously, j; are impressive, here wa-.i.v the tragedy which upon m.-iEr-; be more impressive th.in f,- strangulations. The commission r.f - ir; ;: crimes has just carni- to i.'r .'. 1 Iowa. About six y.-.r a- .r-.fs cused of commit;;;.;.' r.t;.; . .. under cirenm.-fance.- t j.-if ... nvVi nothing about her. :... :A in : having several cliil.l.ui. am.-i;:. daughters, one t.cr.:y-f. iv j ; The charge is that th: ni:n f-rc. to submit to the iiid-.ileiice "f : passions and that tI.eiTS LU.fi. three children, one .f tiiemS :n!i The supposition is that the this were murdered a they e:i:i:v world. The d:c .-very f ".--. crimes is cauMii;z gitsii exci' "te" An extraoriimaiy and din"; of a railroad train w i- c..-.'.i:ni,, day night last, fur m ;' -"; Iow a, on the Chicago. lWkl-!..:.-' ciSc Railroad.. At u;;s j- i-t 1 sharp curve iu the 10 t i. bers placed heay tiuihc.- acr.. to throw the ea-t l"T,r.l r;i--.' oif. The engineer. th!.:i IJ;t:i-."j obstruction in time t :wt-r-?" and apply the air brake. Vat " oberving the niovt-mei.t iiieu: ambush and shot him U-ail. struck the logs, aiid weiit a ditch, and was to'Io-vetl by baggage cais, the o;'..ei- renu track. Several pa- nre:s wet but none seriously hurt. who w ere masked, t- ok aK'Ut the express safe, and cut 'T,: sacks, but took no Utters; m -o-ande ofl"across the praintf :s direction, the whole being d'- ten minutes. Among tie thirty Chinese student-, r i: field, Massachusetts. on deck," it says, '-who was r light at the time, supi""! ' the crew were pelting l''m them fell abaft the paJdl-.'-l"'1 morning he swept them np " I of tlie Bender family. From the efforts j but one" handful overboard It is sr.id that Postmaster (Jcneral Creswell is of the opinion tliat the al olition of the franking rivile)Z0 will so increase the revenues of the Postoffiee as to make it sc lf-su.taijLiin-T. Since the first of July, the sales of stamps have exceeded those for any other equ.il period in the history of the De partment. Tho new system of issuino oflieial stamps for public matter is 11 in congress -rets more, nr-iise from ihp nress of his party now than could truthfully have been bestowed upon Daniel Webster in his palmiest days. TVe have no excuse to make for any man who voted for the salary swin dle, but we call attention to "the fol lowing brief but pointed editorial which we clip from the Xew York Tribune : and niakin? kindlin? wood of fenws ami and crinoline, aud eiicraired at her toilet .-uc K-ai-ccu occasionally at tne roy in the boat until, when the latter was several rods from the dock, the boy ftll overboard and disappeared beneath the water, which at that point was teu to fifteen feet deep. "Without hesitation Miss Elpick rushed down stairs, and not even taking time to outhouses. People locked themselves in upon the approach of the tornado, or a se rious loss of life could not but have ensued. There are reports of horses and cattle hav ing been killed and mutilated by the heav ily falling masses of ice. After the hurri cane the fields lay white as after a snow storm. In Morristown all the windows fa cing west'were destroyed aud considerable j damage was done to the churches. Green , houses were destroyed and market wagons : demolished. It was the most terrific storm 1 ever experienced in the tate. that are going on actively it is evident that ( the world is to be thoroughly searched in 1 the determination to hunt out this pesti j lent brood and bring them to justice. The I opinion seems to prevail that they are some- where in France, and if so they cannot long escape detection. Ex-President Johnson has proved too tough for the cholera. After a tierce strug gle with the disease he rallied and was better. The cholera, not relishin-r this Zealous Administration organsare wast- 1 i , v . i , j 1 , . , . . o'g columns 01 fiince in vaiu attempts to able to lie abused by dishonest clerks show that the Hepubhcan party is not alone and others who may steal them, but responsible for the salary swindle, since the Postoflice detectives have leen in- lhe Democrats helped to pass the bill. The strutted to detain all unofficial matter I fcheme was originated by the bestembod which lwnr nfTb-bd st.-imrw Tf ", k i ,my"t of Administration principles and ' ' " "-', - I lw.lmir Af- 11 V M. . 1 :...l.l 1 ... , x. uuuci, alio, eni i icu im u Will 1 by the Republican party, and all attempts j to shift the disgraceful burden will be fu tile. The Democrats undoubtedly helped the thing along, but if they hadn't it would have gone through just the same. The Administration ordered it, and of course it was done. It was a simple act of loyalty. lieved the loss in this direction not be large. - j Two gamblers named McClusky and i Anderson literally shot and slashed each other to pieces and to death, in a duel with pistols and bowie knives, at Medicine Senator Wallace has gono back to ins lexan railroad. The Provincetown, Mass., Advocate says that a supposed mermaid was seen upon the beach in Brewster, by a Mrs. Young and several children. The head of this object, or mermaid, resembled exactly that of a child, while the rest of the body was of fish form. When tirst seen, the lady became frightened, but the children, less timid, approached it, and wit-hing to determine whether it was dead or alive, threw some sand into its eyes, whereupon it uttered cries like that of a child, and commenced rolling over and over down to the water, and darted off into the sea, keeping its head above the surface, and resembling in every manner that of a child swimming. How this creature came here is yet a mystery, but it is thought it was left by the tide, or rolled uoon the shore in ' the uight of its owe accond. tell what happened, huiioed into"" i;ti i impulse, and not knowing its man. re- boat, the Maggie, named after herself. I ,iewe(1 the attack. But Mr. Joh nson was Not waiting to adjust the oars in the row i c,lnal Uy tte emergency. Having made up locks, she paddled, Indian fashion, to the ; LlS ,nH"JLto live' lt is unnecessary for us to spot where the boy had disanoeare-1 I say that he didn't die. He vetoed the de- Looking hastily about, and seeing that the child did not reapj-ear, Miss Elpick sprang boldly from her boat, and down deep cm the sands that never saw the sun, she founa the object of her search, and seizing him bore him again to the surface and to life. Rather than attempt the dillicult task of placing the rescued boy in the boat, tbe young heroine swam for the dock. I lie whole transpired so quickly that the boy had not become unconscious, and when other help arrived the brave girl had al ready half accomplished the rescue and showed a decided ability to complete it. hen she reached the shore, the reaction trom so much excitement and exertion w as too much for her. She fainted awav, and lor some moraeuts could not be restored to consciousuess." ronmfr f.f oil -,i Kii ir,1 as VUf V 1 V . ' 1 1,11 V 1 1 , -. ...... some. In the opinion of 3n e' ogist, the stones were taken of wind from some fi-esli wa will be remembered that tbe a very singular apj-earanoe oa ing. The wind at the time. expression, blew from all 11- stones saved were all about f present the worn api-earame V tbo bottom of a fresh-wtr :ii !..,,, t I. .if :in OiilK v v 111 yiciu auoui. i... --- The follow ing is copied eratum. etpunrttfJ-irt. .'-'' a Punxsutawny paper: T.- . t , . 1 x." Y l'TFP'1 l.ri'miaiii-' . -, ,,-i:' Qtliv, h.T-,l IA Vlio Mi . stroyer, and is well again. A". 3". Tribune, Rev. Mr. Ancient, the heroic clergy man of Prospect, Noo Scotia, who distin guished himself at the wreck of the At- I On theisth. of !ar M -l' 1 ianuc, nas ueen made the recipient of ; the Susoucnaima UtX n ffifil) from citizens of Boston as a token of 1 river alnnit xf time .1 '-'J" . their esteem for his manliness. ( ne-half ' tlle nrst of April. N!I" ? .ljv of this sum he has retained for himself 1 heard nothing at b.m tn. ..... - ; and the other half he distributed among) bVCn ,Tx! i.ome h. ! A? -Ho acquit ; ed themselves creditably on the occasion I ot tne wreck. I A. Campbell CTosi --is3rr.r(,i : ti .. .-nil 111 JIAI- f ' 1111-,' uuc 11111 ... . ii.. , -tfi; dy jane lined w ith h-'ii- - i wi re new n' ., rfi timore on Minrtay, on a charge of conspi- shirts barred blue bro - lY. i-acy with illiam Udderzook and W. Goss altout tiftwo years t to defraud insurance companies, and in were bla k and, -rn" , 1 r default of f20.000 bail was committed ' f'7 WT W:kJ' .N.t fc: to jail. It is understoTHl that. tl. Sa i lies, he wei.i ; oaseu on miormation ot parties from Ches ter, t a wnither thev fift pounds, tht Sherman, desires iii'l- to k"" went for the wbat ha Worn of him. Glad to learn that the Shah's name is .,3 iuicn--asseram Chah Kadjar." Udderzook purpose 01 laeutitymg the remains of the confer favor en the man, who it is alleged, was murdered by ; uoticeing the dore reii t f Lddcrztxik. J 0 I pc P CO 1ft! oi (I 2i hi. U i.n me &i mm at 1 rim 'ed to eki If "S"' sti m ti a fei-sc n. ivei t? im, t-Tl Hi Kb 1 4 K -T ipl invi aich -If td ui -it. ;f p -51 lis ah;, tin. Ht f etj co: 1 lb. i( 1 the '? c 'is
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