! t I THE. CjHBjlljBttp. EBENSBURC, PA., Friday Morning- November 7, 1873.; .. j ,u - The Democratic State Cental Ccunn tee will meet at Is'o. im oamuv ..n, . PhiladlDhia on Wedneday, the 1 Jth mst ., riuiaaeipnia, on J.' At 4 d. m. As several subjects of impor- H,p" , . , , . , i lance Will DO prewmeu 101 toiinuciiiiioti, a full meeting of the Committee is camebt "Jy desired. r , v x i .' Wade, the murderer, who was hanged at . , .-, , , tViIlianispoit. yesterday, liled off his iron rnllar on Wcrfneiwiav iii.rl.f. d -ns about ! O J ' T attempting to escape when hU plans were j 4i i j i -r c i. 1 the file and knife found in his pobseMoii ; . i , (i ..i ' i a mystery. Ho also attempled to swal- i low $59 in greenback, bat a severe choking j compelled him to diegorge uie money. ' The New Yorkers, after having tried Stokes, are now arranging to try the jury that tried him. One of the men that served on the jury has aheady been indict ed and there are various i n mo. a as to the influences employed to control his views. His associations were .evidently of the Worst, aud his remarkable liberality with mouey is looked upon as a suspicious cir cumstance. The laws of New York, as regards murder, are of the worst, and it is not particularly strange that jurors should be defective. Ok Wednesday morning a most di?as trous fire occurred in Ilarrisburg, destroy ing the State printing building, in which over one hundred men and women found employment. ( The building was owned by Benjamin Siugerly, State printer, whose loss is estimated at over $C00,0O0. About $15,000 worth of the debates of the Con stitutional Convention were destroyed; also 1,500 copies of the journal of the Con vention, 20,000 school reports," 6,000 sol diers' orphans reports, and several thou- ( sand school books of the Osgood series, which were printed by Mr. fcingerly. It is said there was no insurance on the pro perty, but we can scarcely credit the re port. . . n . 1 e a , . . .The result of the elections held last Tuesday in several States shows that the Democratic party, which the Radical pa pers have time and again pronounced dead and buried beyond all hope of resurrection, lias achieved a long roll of decided and glorious, victories. In New York" the Democratic State ticket was elected by a majority ranging from 15,000 to 25,000, fe. ;S. Cox was returned to Congress by 6,000 majority. The political complexion of the Legislature is not definitely ascer tained. Massachusetts,- which gave Grant a majority of 74,000, now elects Wash burne Governor by only about 13,000 ma jority. The Radicals will have a majority in the New Jersey Legislature. Maryland has gone overwhelmingly Democratic. Iu Virginia, Gen. Kemper, Democrat, is elect ed Gove rnor by about 30.000, with a Demo cratic Legislature. In "Wisconsin, which gave Grant 18,009 majority, Taylor, Demo crat, is elected Governor by 5, 000. The Radical State ticket was successful in Min nesota. - The Fanners' party seems to have been victorious in Illinois in electing its candidates for county offices in most of the counties. The same party made great in roads over the Radicals in the election of candidates to the Legislature, but the re turns from the State are meagre. Elec tions were held in some other States, bu we have no returns indicating the result. Taking it all together, the Demvicracy last Tuesday done a noble day's work. The late election in this county having Kent Thomas Griffith "rhere the woodbine twineth," we had alight to suppose that Ids friends would permit his political re mains to rest undisturbed. The Herald of last week, however, resurrected hi in and once more brought him to the front. In referring to our statement, that Griffith had gone to St. Nicholas on Wx : Sunday befre the election and purchased two kegs of lager beer and then and there used their contents for electioneering purp'ofes, that paper makes the distinct charge that what was imputed to Griffith was really done by his opponent, A. D. Criste, on the Sunday prtxiout to the one spoken of. .The Herald says : "The writer tfem to be aorant of the fact that ichat he charge Mr. Oriffith'With luiving done, was done by A. D. Criste the Sunday prior to the one in quettion." Tho mau who wrote this ientence knew at the time that he was utter ing a wilful, deliberate falsehood. ' Wcdiave tha authority of Mr. Criste for saying that dmi'ug tho campaign he made but one visit to St.' Nicholas,' and that ras in September, m a Saturday that Samuel Henry, John T. Harris, Republican candidate for Sher i.T, and Thomas Davis,' Chairman of tho Republican County Committee, were there on the same day and that on tho teend Sunday previous to the election, ou which day the Herald locates him (Criste) at St. Nicholas buying two kegs of lager beer, lie went to church at Summitville iu the morn.ng ; and was at h home in Minister during the balance of the day. -Having .made this statement, our readers can form .their own opinion of the veracity of the man who presides over the editoiial depart- ment of the Herald. . - ' mm, his.-, in i ue same amcio, inai o CM'Ose me elertioiiprniio- (Iavicpb nr n. , , a canuiuate constitut.es a slander against him, ;weuui.ut tho change, but no man outride' . of a lunatic asylum will so construe it. e never littered a tithe of what we ought to have said in reference to his modus op. . t-randl during the campaign. If tho whole .-truth had beeu stated, it would have been Jn:,de to appear beyond all doubt or cavil , . 11 , J , that dining the seven weeks he was a can- dilate for office, Hcdid more to drag down nuil t!i li.Mich the political morals of the . county ihRU any other man who ever so-.iTr-lLo 6uftvages. of its people. . . c grossly siantiercu aua misrepresented j The Convention having thus squarely re Mr. Grifiitu throughout the campaign." j pniated the Philadelphia registry law ft i' deny it and appeal to the record. If j RUcI all its iniquities, Wm. B. Mann, who 27e yew Constitution. The Constitutional Convention bronght its protracted Jabor6 to a- final "termination l:ist Monday. That its work will satisfy the : vai ions conflicting . interests f the : State was not to be expected, and a well- organized and vigorous- opposition to its 1 & i 1 :..r..ttl , , iciuctaiit b .- . ' 41 . to acquiesce in a change of their oiganic t evii3 law and are content to suffer pieeiu ens ; rather than liy to others they know not of. I Hence the Constitution of 1838, which was nwiiiestionably a vast improvement on that ,,r iron which itjsuperceded.was strenuous- oi i iwu, "" , lv rTDosed. and was adopted by the people v oppou, - " . a meagre majority, Constitutions require to be changed with the progressof the age and the advancing strides of the people in all that eliects their material i i prosperity, aud although we do not pre- i"v " , . - tend to recollect specifically every detail of the work of the Convention, which can only be asceitained from the full text of the instrument when it is published, we believe it has succeeded in framing a su preme law for the State which onght and will meet with the approbation of a large majority of the people. .. The Constitution is to be submitted to a popular vote at a special election to be held on Tuesday, the 16th of December, in or der that, if it is adopted, it. may . go iuto effect before the meeting of the Legisla ture on the first Tuesday in January.' It is important that this should be done for the purpose of preventing another session of vicious aud corrupt special legislation. After a full discussion, the Convention decided that the Constitution should be submitted as a whole and without a sepa rate vote on any of its parts.' It was sup posed by some that a separate vote would be taken on the clause increasing the num ber of Senators from thirty-three to fifty aud that of the House from one hundred to two hundred, aud also on what is known as the "Kail Road Article" vhich latter was the subject of more discussion thau any other of the amendments but the Convention determined otherwise. e are hot quite convinced that such a course was wise and expedient, but it is now a fixed fact and it would be useless to dis cuss it. , In all the conutics outside of Philadel phia, the election will be held by the pres ent election officers, aud it is made the duty of the County Commissioners to fur nish each election district with the neces sary number of tickets, both fw&ndagaimt the new Constitution. Iu order absolutely to exclude the Phil adelphia Ring from any chance of practis ing its usual wholesale and iniquitous frauds on the ballot-box in that city, the Convention wisely deprived the present election boards of all power to act at the proposed special election. In that city fice commissioners of election have been appointed by the Convention? who are to revise and correct the registry lists aud furnish corrected lists to the election offi cers of each election precinct. They are also to distribute the tickets and to ap point a Judge and two Inspectors for each election division. The general returns of the city are to be opened, computed and certified before them, and their approval must be endorsed on the return, which is to be sent to the President of the Conven tion at llarrisburg. The Commissioners are John P. Yerree, JEdwiu II. Filler and Edward Browning, Republicans, and John O. James and Henry S. ITagei t, Demo crats. - These genticmeu are all prominent citizens of Philadelphia and are well known as high-minded, honorable men, who would scorn to' perpetuate the frauds on the balloUbox that have made tho name of Wm. B.' Mann and those of his guilty co-operators' infamous throughout tho State. The Commissioners have a most responsible duty to perform, but their high character warrants the belief that they will prove themselves equal to the occa sion. If they do the people of Philadel phia will onca more enjoy the luxury of a air and honest election and the ballot boxes will not be made to utter a palpa ble and shameless lie. TnE action of the Constitutional Con vention in refusing to permit .the present election officers iu Philadelphia to conduct the special election on the 16th day of De cember, for the adoption or rejectien of the new Constitution, vindicates all that has been aid by the Democratic party against the frauds that have been perpe trated by the corrupt ring of that city j under cover of the infamous registry law. ; It is also a pointed rebuke to a Radical j Legislature which has persistently refused, at the impudent' dictation of Wm. B. Mann, to change or modify the law in the interests of a fair and honest election. Whether Harry White, who has always j beeu its apologist in the Senate and opposed to its amendment, vjted in the Conven : tion in favor of or against the proposition j of iguoring the prcseut election officers in i this particular instance, we do not know. doming from a body of high-minded, intel ligent men, unswayed by party feeling and solicitous only for an honest and uncor- runted re&nonsa fmm tUa l.nlW KnTm in I that ring-ridden city, it is an emphatic aild manly condemnation of White and j his aVl;es iu the Legislature, who have j bt5ttI1 more COBecrued for BHprei nd fraudulent elections in PhiUdelphia j thau that the honcst yote of j should be protected and fairly proclaimed. I ; : -...t i n.j- i . " i "a uuiei, aim iue xtauicai memoers oi j the Lciatave who sustained and defend- j el t, can now realize the fact that an .'election law purposely designed against ; the purity of the ballot-box must and will disappear before the wrath of au indignant j Isolde. s- 0 , ' 1 TT'i """Tr t f' T , caied, under a verdict of manslaughter in ! the third degree, with four-years imprison- I uie:-t in the Penitentiary. jHdKe Davis. 'in I ! passing sentence, expressed his tcgret that ! he had not wtverta give him a nire severe punishment. : - . - f J2T BS. mM.TOJX..TW -WfiQWB3fflMB3aB.5 j. v Hard Tim en Aheatl, - From every part of the country we have reports of tho stoppage of mills and work shops, and the discharge cf workmen. Hundreds of thousands of able, industii .k iconic skilled in their avocations, are Urns deprived of employment. Instead .f adding to the wealth of the community and providing for their own comfort and for the education of their childrcu, they : are suddenly, converted into useless mem- bers of society, and compelled to subsist upon their former savings or upon the ; charity of others. It is evident that a . winter of misery and suffering for a vast ' number of excellent people, who only de- mand the opportunity of bcit;g useful, is ' now to be expected. j What is the cause of this, great misfor-, r tune ? Who has brought such an immense ; calamity upon the coutitry? Why is it that all this wretchedness must be endured? . These are questions that every thoughtful J man will seek to answer for himself. It j cannot be expected that nil will agree in . the solution of such a problem ; -but there are certain facts which are essential to the case, and which no one who attempts to study ii should leave out of view. ; The Republican party has exercised un qualified control over the national govern ment and over most of the State govern ments for more than twelve vears. No party ever had such authority before or encountered so lime or so ineueciuai oppo sition. The people have given their entire confidence to this party ; and whatever its statesmen and its legislators have, desired has been done. Its dictates respecting the finances of the country and respecting all our business interests have been submitted to with more than cheerfulness. -The pub lie have been forward and zealous to obey, and have borne under its direction an amount of taxation snch as scarcely any people ever endured before. Its power has been well nigh absolute ; its responsibility, is commensurate with its power. It is therefore in the legislation of the Repub lican party and in its administration of the Government that, we must look for the ori gin of the misfortunes in which we are now involved and of the crushing evils which they produce. Of course, writers and theorists will point to other causes. They will tell us that there has been excessive speculation, gam bling in jrublia enterprises ; aud too many railroads have been built ; that too many foreign luxuries have Leon consumed ; that the sentiment of honesty has been relaxed; and that corruption and extravagance, have done the mischief. And to a great extent they wi'd say truly. But where has this excessive speculation taken its rise? Where has the corruption found its chief incite ments, : exemplars, and practitioners? What set of public men have caused so many unnecessary railroads to be built and given them subsidies aud land grants ? To ask' these questions is to answer them. Our financial machine has run off the track with all these passengers on board the train, aud the destruction is tremendous. But the power that controlled and directed the train was the power of the Republican party, and . all the passengers that have turned out to have been engaged iu plun dering us while we thought everything was going smoothly, were passengers that it put on board and obstinately refused to have turned away. - Only a year ago a considerable number of citizens, auxious about the. future, at tempted to compel a change iu the admin istration of the Government.- Their ideas were radically different from those of Gen. Grautand his adherents; and they declared their purpose to enforce a thorough reform in every department of public affairs. They warned the country that things were not right and that si-rious trouble was ahead. Their advice was neglected; their warning was scoffed at ; the;r candidates and their measures were repudiated. The majority of the country concluded that it was lest to keep Gen. Grant and his men in power; but now that the calamity that was foretold has come, perhaps some of those who would not then. believe that it was impending will understand that they wore not so wise as they thought them selves ; and, at any rate, all will admit that tho crisis which is upon us was not pro duced by either tho critics or tho oppo nents of the Republican party, but by the leaders and chosen representatives and de liberate policy of that party itself. y. i". Su ft. ' Hoiinir.r.E Dced Committed by Sol diers or Negroes in Louisiana. A let ter from ex-Judge Mcirill, dated Coifax, Grant parish, October 25), says : In haste, and with feelings of horror, I write to in form the public of he action of the Metro politan police sent here by Lieutenant Governor Antoine,' daring the absence of Governor Kellogg. , On Saturday night tho house of a most respectable widow lady on Red Itiver was fired into near this place. The doors were broken open, and tho un fortunate lady and her daughter, a girl of seventeen summers, were cruelly assault ed. . Neither of the ladies could be found until late on Snnday afternoon. An infant,' eighteen months old,.and' a grandchild of ex-Governor Wells, was found out in. the woods, some half a milo from , the house, and near the spot where the foul deed was perpetrated. The infaut was a niece of the lady, and a child of Mum ford Wells, oldest son of ex-Govoi nor Wells. - .The ne groes up here all say that it was the sol diers, but we all believe if they were not the perpetrators, they instigated tho ne groes to the horrible deed of infamy. It is said here that when Col. De Klyne was informed of the outrage ,he, smiled aud said his troops were up here for a higher purpose than to arrest men for mere petty offences." Antoine is believed to have sent these creatures up here, to give the. ne groes a chance for revenge, and one of them told the writer that he had a right now, under the protection of the 'United States, to shoot any white man he wanted to shoot, and violate any woman he met. I said to him that these were State troops, and he replied that the Colonel had said at a negro ball the night before that he wanted all the colored people to come and see him, and that now. they could do as they please, as they were under, protection of the soldiers. An Aged Female One Hundred and Fourteen Tears Old. At No. 901 Coates street, iu a dwelling of modest pretensions, there resides a- lady, who suffered "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" through nearly 114 years, and yet iu both body and mind seems fitted to w oat her the storm as many years longer. She is as bright and as active as ever, speaks ration ally and distinctly, and with Hie exception of a lackrof memory fails to show the evi dence of so long a life.; The name of this female is Hester Ai tos. and during the coming winter she will cel ebrate her 'pud hundred and fourteenth birthday. . : . Her husband has been dead many 5-cars, but vith numerouB grandchildren and great-grandchildren she passes a happy ex istence. At present she is visiting a niece m Koxborongb, a manner in which she spends , most of her time, going about among her relatives with knitting- and sewing wa.t.ng with patience the moment when she will be forever at rest If it were not that the old lady is poor in mem ory she might call up many reminiscences of by-gone days and relate with truefei vor tales of the dark revolutionary titres when this nation was struggling with a foreign despot. PkiUtdelpJUa Telcgwrfi. 0 Jl Mother Hums her Uabe. HOEKIBI.E AFFAIR KF.AK UMOSTOWTS, TX. A; i.sFAXT THROWN INTO THK KIRK " CONFESSION AND VERDICT. Fayette county already rejoices m a by 11., means enviable reputation for deeds of lawlessness and wickedness, and now it aain conies to the front with another hor rible and revolting affair. On Friday morning, 2 ith ult., Coroner Prader held an inquest at Dunbar Station, on the C011 iiellsvlile Railroad, about eight miles from Umontown, on the charred remains of an infant child, the offspring of a. woman named Sarah Adams, who was suspected of having been guilty of tho crime of in fanticide. Di. Clark produced what was left f the'inf'ant, being a mass of blacken ed flesli and bones. . The head and limbs t,r, lmliv had been entirely consumed lA": fire." " Being placed "under oath, the 1 doctor tesuneu mas ou me aueniuuu ui Thursday, the 22d inst., he was liding e..i. A .'.uns' Ikmjsp hrii Mrs. .!.mn Millerhailed him and said she thought' vn rl w.1liiT. KOllieLlllUL v i v i ......jh- He went into the house aud saw a fierce firo burning in the grate. , A bad smell as though from burning fat and greaso per vaded the room, and the blaze indicated something more than coaL . Going: to the grate, he-removed some of tho coals that were 011 top until he reached a burning mass, wuicn ne iuuk. oui, iinu uu rumi nation it proved to be the body of an in fant. When cool he took it to his office. Mrs. Jane liller and .Mrs. Nancy Gilpin both corroborated the testimony of Dr. Clark. Mrs. "Adams had skipped during the progress of the investigation, and when arrested by officer Springer, of Union town,, was some six miles away. On being brought before the jury she made the fol lowing confession "I gave birth to a child Tuesday morning last think between 8 and 10 o'clock, at Dunbar Station, in the eounty of Fayette. I was alone ,at the time of the birth. The child was dead born or I would not have destroyed it. I put it in a box the same day and kept' it in the box in the house until Thursday af ternoon, when I put the child iu the fire, and then I left the house." The Coroner then asked why she wished to destroy the body, to which she replied : "I wat.ted to prevent the disgrace of my children."" Tl verdict of the jury is as follows: 'The jury do say that said infant was born on ihe 21sl day of October, 1ST0, and its body thrown into the fire by its mother, Mrs. Sarah Adams, on the afternoon of Thurs- day, the 2iid of October, 1S73, at Dunbar Station, Pa." Mrs Adams is now couliued ia the Fayette county jail. . IIauntkd. Railroads. IlaHnted houses are played out these days. Ghostg visiting this lively sphere gather about the liveliest and noisiest spots they can find. They bother railroad men and delay trains. A short time ago we gave au account, of a ghost that troubled the. railroad people near ScrantoT, Pennsylvania ; now comes a visitation in the vicinity of Troy, New York, an account of which is given as fol lows : A fortnight ago, Thomas Campbell, who was temporarily acting as engineer of the train that left "Troy at 4:41 P. M., when passing Stoney Lane, near the Aque duct, saw a man standing between tho tracks waving his' hat aud gesticulating vehemently. Campbell whistled -"down brakes," and keeping his eye on the man, and being fearful of running over him, whistled again. While t lie speed of the train was being slackened the man seemed to vanish from sight. Campbell and his lirem.tii both express a willingness to swear to this statement. They affirm that the man did not walk away ; ho vanished into the air. After the train arrived at Schen ectady they related the circumstance to the other men employed on the train. There are several hypotheses by which this circumstance if it stood alone could be explained. But we can offer no expla nation for what, follows. On Monday of last week William Mower, the regular en gineer of the train, saw oil the F.imc ppot two human arms. When the train reached the place the arms disappeared. Tuesday evening tho roof of the cab of the locomo tive was struck by a stone, 4 which the en gineer says could have come from onTy one direction the sky. Wednesday even ing, John Lawrence, engineer of the grav el train, at precisely Die same spot, saw the arms. The bauds attached thereto were not clenched as before, but were open and held two balls of glowing fire. Thursday evening at the very same time and place, Lawreuce discovered the body of a man lying across the track. In vain he essayed to stop the train. His efforts' were futile. The locomotive and all the cars passed over the prostrate form. As speedily as possible the train was stopped, and all proceeded to the place where the form had been seen, expecting to see a bloody and mutilated corjxso. They f.mnd nothing ; hot even a spot of blood." Then the conclusion forced itself upon tho mind of the engineer that. ho had run over a ghost. lie is an ardent Spiritualist, and he is positive in tho belief that something about the occurrence was supernatural. . Every jono will have his own theory about, these things. To some the steam and smoke of the engine may be an expla nation, to others a fancy more or less in fluenced by the distilation of a grain called rye. . Theke is a young woman named Mary Fancher, residing at the corner of Gates Avenue and Downing street, Brooklyn, who has, it is asserted by her physician, Dr. S. F.. Speir, taken no food for eight years. She is twenty-five jears of age, bright aud intelligent. As a girl fiho was a close applicant to her studies, and was wont to abandon her meals to ponder over her books until the strain npon her intel lectual mid physical strength overcame her. She, also sustained injuries by being thrqw-r. from a horse. Subsequently she fell off a ' Fulton avenue car, and was dragged along the street for a distance of forty feet by her crinoline catching in the car. She was then airlicted by absolute nervous prostration and has since been confined to her bed. Her legs are twisted and her hands are drawn up behind her head.-- She sleeps but little, and is said to be endowed with clairvoyant faculties. She works embroidery in colors with great facility, and has made slippers and smok ing caps with initials worked in them. The doctor is positive that there in no de ception in the case, and has used . every effort possible to detect any sigu of impo sition, but to no purpose.' - The case has baftied the skill of hundreds of physicians who has examined it. r Nrxox was executed; .He shot a stran ger in the frenzy of ungovernable fury. Gaflney suffered death on the gallows. He killed a man under the passion of loss es at gambling and .while temporarily in aue through ; drink. ' They, w ere poor devils. And if they had escaped the gal lows by. luck aud gone to Sing Sing would have beeu put to hard labor and treated to shower baths, blows and the solitary cell, tjtokes deliberately and daintily picked off his euemy while the latter was in a trap, and genteely.fired off his deadly Derringer witn th a eloven hand, lie escapes hanging d will live like- a iruinsnl lord oc ana wm uve Mia. n. nuwison like the voune murderer-Wal worth at Sinsr nig. . -Jiut nis menus are highly respect- y. V. Herald. tlllV iiic IliClll V OL III oney.- " yens anl rout tea I Items. Antwerp City, a mushroom village in ti e oil regions, has entirely disappeared, all tho. inhabitants having removed, with There is a hen in llhamsport which j has iust distinguished herself by bringing , forth a tamuy oi umij-i An incendiary fire, the third that lias eels are floating wiiu me current in uo. the cnnnl and river. Of tho likes of such an epidemic' old fishermen have no knowl- Cdflumboldt county, Iowa, has produced thirton-pairs of twins within as many weeks,, and many prudent swains have broke off their engagements 111 conse- - . . t - l quencc. J. Nicholas Hoyle, 01 mieaia, ;ew York, arrived at St. John's, New Bruns tvifir. on ihe 1st. with his wife. The next day he shot her dead in the street, and nfforiinnls shot and killed h niisell. Jeal- onn kv was the suoposed canse : In Warcham, Mas., on Sunday last, a large wagon conveying seventeen persons j from that town to the Catholic church at j Tremont village, waaupset. John O'llara, 1 Michael Prindableanu 1 nomas liet.iy were seriously injured, and several others were badly bruised. Reports from Belmont, Nevada, say there is intense excitemeut at that place over the discovery of a mine ledge. It is ten feet wide and it ulready has. been traced two hundred and seventy-five feet. The ore yields from one thousand to three thousand dollars per ton. .Henry Walters, of Mount Joy town ship, Lancaster county, humr himself on the 27th in the woods near his home. He was in the habit of wearing a belt around his waist, which habit his wife disliked ; so she hid the belt from him. He then threatened to kill himself and he did it. One of the jailors at the Tombs is said to have expressed groat indignation at the Stokes verdict. "Why, before now," exclaimed the wratliy otticial, "1 have seen SS a man taken from this place and sen to five years imprisonment for money enough to keep his funiily starving." Mr. John Murphy diove Joe Liliott,tho renowned trotter owned by Mr. Robert Bonner, over Prospect Park laFt week, a quarter in thirty-nine seconds, making the i half mile in 1:(;0. lie then drove a full j mile at his ease in 2:18. On 'he same day he jogged I;c:.fcontasat an exercising I gait at 2:11);. trriflit h I hornas, a mining engineer, met a horrible death in Luzerne : county on Thursday. .-While in a mine his lamp went out, and while groping around a lot of loaded cars approached him. He stood on one side of the track, but there bting not sufficient room between the wall and the track he was ciflshed by the cars. George Kirk, a young peddler, made an indecent assault ujoii the person -of young German girl, Siit-an . Welden by name, at Tainaqua, on theC-'lh ir.sf., while she was lying at the point of death from fever. The girl died, and on the inquest her attending physicians testified th.it her death had been h.isttncd by the ioicncc of Kirk. The miscreant escaped. A white oik tree was cut down nshoif time ao in Lebanon county which yielded :.)!) feet of plank, vaiiud at seventy-live dollars, and tvii cords of wood of ihe value of twenty dollars. Tho were five and a half feet hi diameter. About thii t -live years ago the five v.-as trimmed by Mr. l-leilrnan and about tnree' cords of wood cut from the limbs. At a recent election in Jowa nearly every County Treasurer was defeaied for re-election, aud m;;r.j- of Ihcm ecm to be terribly alarmed at the general ovei haul ing of books that uir.st f ollow. A - local journal savs: 'i he .Tr.c'.fn County Tiea urer takes fifne by the forelock, ai.u an nounces that .20.ttH) of ilrtj funds in his keeping was stolen the other night ly burglars." The' burglars are iiv :de of the Radical money depositories, not out. The fiict is mentioned by tiie'Prtts burgrh 1'oel that in CiihVorni,,, where a dead set was made agaiii.it greenbacks from the word go ; where the currency is composed of gold aud silver coin, ami of paper redeemable on demand, wc hear of no panic no stoppage of business of any kind not even the most trilling ripple upon the business surface of the State. It would Eccm as if California money was something of the right sort, after all is said, and done." Mr. . Dill, toe Democratic candidate for State Senate, has been elected by a majority of 23 votes over Wagonsclier. in the district composed of Union. Snyder, Northumberland and Perry couuties. (July one year ago these counties gave Grant a majority cxceetling 3,7f0 votes. Mr. Wag onsclier was once a Democratic member of the lower House, and war. one of a fa mous triumvirate who permitted them selves to be overcome by Camcion's bland ishments. Verily he has his reward. A Washington dispatch has the fol lowing : It has transpired that the house of Jay Cooke 5c Co., which borrowed from the First National Bank of this city $800, 000, through the influence of Henry D. Cooke, President of the bank, lias since their failure withdrawn $200,01)0 in Cen tral : Pacific- bonds, and deposited them with the Secretary of tho Treasury as se curity for $200,000 advanced them by the Secretary' a few days' before their fa'ilurc. Creditors of Jay Cooko & Co. are to inves tigate the above proceeding. The Sprague firm iu Rhode Island, wealthy cot ton-spinners, claim to be worth $13,400,000. They control the little State in both business and politics; but they 6end to New York to borrow 1.000,000 more ! This is the class built up by an in flated paper currency two men having been enabled, beneath'the shad OW of fTVfn backs, to accumulate enough to make two hundred and sixty-eight men worth 50, 000 each ! Talk as you may about it, such a condition of affairs is uuhealthv. and the legislation which produces it is anti-Republican and should bo utterly destroyed. Three small colored children were burned to death on Saturday near tho uginia end of the Washington Aqueduct bridge. The father of the children was at work at tho coal wharves in Georgetown and their mother, having made a fire in the stove, started with her husband's din ner, locking the children in the house, the oldest being about 4 years and the young est an infant in tho cradle. The mother had scarcely reached the coal wharves when she saw the house in Humes, and be fore any assistance could.be rendered it was entirely destroyed, with the three chil dren. . e,T rew,,lolk fluil argues that tho r"f tlie President can he limited to tf .o.OpO a year. The ground taken hy the "",'.t",- M'i.'ii union act nicicaf- ing tlie Pi-csidcnt's Hilary to ,0,00!) con- I tains a section providing "for the cu:in,of- I Uiou of the President, of -the L .itcd MaU:s twenty-five thousand dullare." u,, 1 limit founds the arjjnnient that as two! occurred in two weeks, took place in the village of Scotia. New York, on the 2d, destToying $1-1,000 worth of property. ti,i .lnn'.ata 12evihli'nii says : "Dead .-iiib m the same bill the Pres- ident a,wuld he allowed, to draw only tho j -smaller tie. . The Cincinnati KrJuirer ' regrets that Attention ic i..." .', r ' j the to this matter, as Grant vV 1 t,ow : be wored to ivxi, . - . as he finds them allowed hini-iu tho j appropriation act. , .ualt he win -ad TtMiS the j! iaiye one and make Iiis annual pay ?7.",C00. 1 instead of taking tlm I 'rm nSSSv 722 ?T7h , " I ! R?23 3 rmn J .1 ii iiiyy li BUT ri t iiiiviiJ fs-xo 3 'OK vi -- Ml BUT 9 t a t ens ana i GOOD TIMES ARE Jitit lie ennnot sell Winter Clothvg iti Sum;:).' 1'eopie etui near Summer i'iolliiiMj in VVo havo aotual, hmH h I. And now Thiers it on the Zlzxlui to he Sfa-.I Iiniiu'd' -- KclTIi-EAST fOiEll OF SIXTH AM) liAliKKT ST! WK MAln IT Till-: riX'Tixt; to NOT ,-. to '?'.' V1 "o know th; t hsr.'ot thr 'ULThnr.L ti .c ocr.ntrr Lave Ken lar.. ducted, n: general tiling, on onnd jriiici'K : brciijrht alx"jiit tlas state season to sell onr Oo.-xtr,. ilook.. M. Goods nre ti: u-hStics, l urnitr.re. tc. can lj role f-ir special seasons, and so, wit! A'lopt a War Measure, and pat inio THIS IS GOOD IfflWS Tfl THE MfTJJnNS 0? tTn They will Gain the Profit from pauonizea us in fjooi -times, ami we are wiJlino; to give ir i say without exaizgeration that this is the best e-j rttmitv otlered in America, hep-inn in And continuing rapidly without interruption until furirer r::: We will sell for READY BiOJ rl"5 15: I-X)LI .O W!? Fon C3EXTLEMEX, Foil O KNTX.F.M HX, Foi; (iKXTLKMKX, For CKMTLIOtEX, Fon (JENTLIIEX, Fok (JENTJLE.MEX, Fo KliK N T I. EM i: N , Fois (iKXTLKMKX, Fok hAH(iK IMlYS, For LA IKiK liOVS For EAKtJE ISOYS Fok LAlUiK HOYS, Foa SMALL P.OYS, Fon SMALL T?(YS, For CM I LI i: EX, Von CUlLliLEX, . Fok C11ILDKEX, Making Altogether bv Far the'Iiarcest Stock to l-o Clothing Jlouse in the World. We nre vonU r.l to ! carry stock until next season. Imperative neco-itv i must make the best of it. - xiie fctore will be open at C o'clock in the mornir.- nr. 7 o clock m the evening, ami on Saiiulav ni-ht until 1 cle sol'l giiarantoetl as rcpn-senUl. Parties coming together from country tor.-r wirhi'i i" pnrchnsing ?t Oak Hall, will root ivo th -iv;.l I a ra.lroatt ticket to return ho fi-f a r4 ' 'r i V k d -j a a i u IA 1 n-iLW kiiiii.il s i oi PHILADELPHIA. Ajel Jt-zL ivjr. jsl-z? n . I "wis iiavk om:k i :v-- u. UiOIilii And Goods for Men's Wear, E CANNOT AFFORD TO CAUUY 5 5 i & 3 r Tintr IV inter 1 (. til' GJ5Z2li' --OF-- ;tt 1 Ei- fi H t f B N ' : j j.. Si. . K A lis P.KST GOODS TX T SKLTi AT A I'ltOT .STAND Toll PIIUIT 1 f a r fr !'.'l!l:irv 1!1 t iSC Ul'TKV pi--h: of aoans, which must aa .t ' 1 1 f !St A THAT SHALL CLEAR OUR COUNTED Mil 34 Our Xucessitv, but t'. JTfi Uli'e and lir.ACK Dkvsk Coats. 1710 loriii.F.-UKKA.sTi:i S tkkft Coats "jn Oassimerf. Ucsiness Coats. Hk.vvkr and Kf.ksey vf!:coats, Fairs of I'.i.ack Tam s. 714 i'AlKS OF (!ASIMERK 1'AVTf, 2500 Kl.ACK AND IU.I F. t'lHTK Yl S7S, 75 ' Cassimkkk Vksts, 1114 CurSTr.UFin.o Coats, 700 Reavkk and Chinchii.t.a on-nro.vi 2S13 Fancv Cassimkke Cams. 2(;S3 Fantv Cassimekk Vests. 3313 liU'E A.vn Tricot am Cassimfkk Jackets. 4'.00 Pasts to Match, 2317 Harvard Scits. 13K Prince Ai.kkrt Si-its. 1131 I AKirsA i.di Suits, i- 1". : : 01 I I n i - u
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