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EBENSBURC, PA.,
Friday Morning- November 7, 1873.;
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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-
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lance Will DO prewmeu 101 toiinuciiiiioti,
a full meeting of the Committee is camebt
"Jy desired.
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Wade, the murderer, who was hanged at
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tViIlianispoit. yesterday, liled off his iron
rnllar on Wcrfneiwiav iii.rl.f. d -ns about !
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attempting to escape when hU plans were j
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the file and knife found in his pobseMoii ;
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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 .
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. .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
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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
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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
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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-
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lv rTDosed. and was adopted by the people
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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
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prosperity, aud although we do not pre-
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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.
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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.
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, 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
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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
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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'
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KclTIi-EAST fOiEll OF SIXTH AM) liAliKKT ST!
WK MAln IT Till-:
riX'Tixt; to
NOT
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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
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And Goods for Men's Wear,
E CANNOT AFFORD TO CAUUY
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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,
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