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r.iu. Moinliiff. - Nov. 1S73.
i'lifc Extent ive Committee of the Con
Ftitutionul Convention, of w hich H.rn. V.'tn.
11. Armstrong, of Wil.'iamsport, i.s cli air
man, is In j-csrion in Philadelphia. Ar
rangements f.u di-tiit-uting pamphlets and
documents arc- being jefech d, ami nu
merous appointments have been iur.de f r
pnbli'; meetings at various points through
out the State. The iiowspn;-er press al
most to a nnit, so f.ir as lica.nl from, has
pronounced in favor of the work of the con
tention, ami the committee confidently bo
1 eve that all indications point to its niti
r.eation by an overwhelming majority at
the special on the ldli of next month. We
earnestly hope that the most sanguine ex
pectations of the committee may be fully
realized in thLi particuhw.
We have received from the Secretary of
the Commonwealth a copy of the new
Constitution, with a request to publish it
tmce a week for four weeks next preceding
the third Tuesday of December, the day
lixed for the special election for and against
that instrument. will publish it in
our next week's issue, and it will occupy
a very large portion of our papr for four
Micceshive weeks. Notwithstanding this
large demand on our space we will endeav
or to keep our readers advised of the im
portant events transpiring in the outside
world. The question of the adoption or
rejection of the proposed Constitution is
one ef vast importance to every man in the
State, and we trut that every voter will
Ktndy it carefully, so that he may be pre
pared to vote intelligently. That it ought
to be adopted by the people, for various
reasous which wo will attempt to state
hereafter, we have no kind of doubt.
Thomas P. Fe.nlo.n, V.sq., formerly of
this place, and well known iu Cambria
county, was elected to the Kansas Legisla
ture, on the 4th instant, by the Demo
cratic party, in one of the legislative dis
tricts of Leavenworth. Sir. Fenlon has
heretofore filled the same position with
distinguished ability and credit. In that
State, the Radicals have a majoiity in the
Senate by reason of a large number of the
present members h jlding over, but at the
recent election tho Farmers' party and the
Democrats elected enough members to the
1 'wer House to give them a majority on
joint ballot. This result disposes of tho
Kansas Ring, headed by those Christian
statesmen, Samuel C. Pomeioy, Alexander
Caldwell and Syduey Clark, and insures,
at least we hope so, the election of an hon
est man to the United States Senate as
Caldwell's successor, who resigned his
seat last winter in order to escape the igno
miny and disgrace of expulsion.
Thk Philadelphia Leh;a- says' St ateTreas
urer Ii. YV. Mmkev ami City Trasnirr Pe
ter A. II. Witl.-ii.-r ;uiiioiiikc-1 on S.ittmlay
tlie appointment of the following persons as
Mercantile Appraisers tttuier the act of As
sembly approved April 8, lf7." : Messrs.
S.minel .Josephs, Democrat; John MeCnl
lougli. Hepuhliean ; John L. Hill, P.enuWi
can ; ;ilert Morris, J:firiner, and FJobert
C. Tittermary, Kepulilieau.
If State Tieasmer R. VT. Mackey and
City Treasury Peter A. Widener had set
themselves at work deliberately and ma
liciously to insult and outrage public sen
timent in Philadelphia, they could not so
certainly have accomplished their purpose
as by the appointment of Sam Josephs ond
his friend, iiob Tittermary, to the otliccs
above refeired to." These two worthies
have beer, in the Legislature together and
have both achieved an equal amount of
infamy. Both hae been willing tools of
the Treasury Ring, and both richly merited
a titting reward at the hands of its chief,
Robert W. Mackey. Tint why Philadel
phia should thus be humiliated is not quite
bo plain.
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liranlimj Irish Catholic."
While Ihe appointment of District Judges ,
was pending, a letter was w ritten Gov. Mar- !
irunfl, advising him not to appoint Jmle j
.Flattery because the latter was "a l.rawlnTg ;
Irish Catholic." Certain parlies, the wri- ;
ters themselves, wish to lay the blame on 1
Hon. A. A. Barker. Mr. Parker did not;
writi if, nor did be go to Hariisbnr in ref
erence to this matter. Coventor llartranff
told a prominent gentleman of this place, :
that he did not. Moreover, the Governor !
told the same irentleman (who is noted for 1
heiitK onn of the most highly honorable at;d j
veracious in the State) the names of the au
thors. We have those names. The gentle
men belong to Jithnstown. Tiiev are -well
known in their pai 'y as bigots and tricksters.
"Who they are the public know. What w ill
our lri.-h citizens say to siu h language ap
plied to one of th' most piiet, respectable
and liberal, of tl-ir nnmU-r, and what f;tt,
ndii tin e should they deal out to such
small politiiU:.
The foregoing article, taken from a re
cent number of the Johnstown Voice, aims
a blow that w as not intended by its author
when he wrote :t. Admitting that every
thing contained in it is true, what is the'
inevitable conclusion to which it leads?
Simply that John F. llattranft refused to
appoint William Flattery an Asssociate
Judge of the District Court because it was
xirged against him by "bigots and tiick
uters" that Flattery was 'a brawling Irish
Catholic." No ')ther objection, according
to the Voice, was urred upon llaitianft
against that gentleman. The pith of the
matter therefore is, not that certain per
sons objected to Flattery, for the reason
stated, but that llattranft was controlled
and governed by it in his official act ion,
thereby endon nig the '"bigots and trick
htera" who addressed the private letter to
him in oppisitiou to Flattery's appoint
ment for the reason assigned by them, and
refused to appoint him because he was "a
brawling Iiish Coiholic." We were not
aware that the daifc spirit of Kuow-Noth- ;
ingisni held sovereign sway in tho Execu
tive chamber at Ilariisburg until we read
the article in Iho Voice. A that paper
j rofesses to know a great deal more than
was ever dreamed of in our political phil- '
.sophyv we are bound t accept its state
inent as true, llaitninft might well cx- t
Claim, -Stve ir.e fitm my fiicr.de I"'
It is stated on semi-official authority J
that Matthew S. O.iay, Secretary of the ;
("omaioiiwealih, will attempt to arrest the ,
action of the five Commissioners appointed j
by ti e Constitutional Convention to pie- ;
pare the registry lists and appoint the clec- '
tion oilievrs to conduct t lie special election
in Philadelphia-, on the ICth of December.
on the fidopfiou of the new Constitution, j
In what manner Quay expects to accum-
lish his purpose has not been divulged, j
He is cue of the chiefs of the Cameron j
faction and for that reason alone has no j
love for a Constitution which lays the axe
at the very roots of corrupt special legisla
tion. His pretext, if he takes any official
action in the matter, will no doubt be that
the Convention exceeded its powers in sup
planting the present election officers in
Philadelphia. I
The Convetnion contained many gentle- j
men, of both political parties and of great j
legsd ubility, who advocated and voted for j
this Philadelphia, election clause, for the
reasou that they were in favor of an honest !
expression of the popular will in that city !
and weie determined upon having it. J
Quay will not interfere without liar- !
tranft's consent, and we predict that, if i
the scheme is attempted, it will raise a J
perfect storm of indignation against them J
thiottohout the lencrth and breadth of the
a j
Slate. The people are resolved that all j
the avenues to corrupt legislation shall be :
closed, and as the new Constitution will j
secure that lonjr desired reform, the men 1
who attempt to prevent it, by whatever j
pretext, will be swept out of the way by j
popular wrath as chaff is swept before the
whirlwind.
John W. Forney, iu his Press, refers to
this lumoreel movement of Quay, as fo!-j
lows :
1 1 is asserted in various quarters that a!
strenuous effort will be m:vl, through the j
Courts or otherwise, to prevent the commis-
sioticrs appointed by the Constitutional Con- j
vention 1 tout conducting the special election
on the new Constitution, iu Philadelphia, j
A despatch from llarrisburg to tk:j Llulletiii
la.st evening stated that the Secretary of the !
Commonwealth pnrjtoses giving instructions '
to th effect that the election upon the adop- j
tiosi of the Constitution must be held under
the oliicers appointed according to existing I
laws of the Coiniuon wealth, not only in the i
other counties, but also in Philadelphia. ',
The Secretary, it is said, will mention to the
nmhoiities in Philadelphia the fact that an j
ordinance passed the Convention providing i
a tlitlcrent nu t hod, ami will suggest that
the matter be promptly brought before tho
courts for decision. The Convention em
bodies most directly the sovereignty of the
people, nd the ordinances of that body, iu
the opinion of exi t lleut lawyers, have bind
ing for.-e, even though in conflict with the
statutesof the Legislature. A Const itutiou
al Convention is a duly organized instru
mentality for effecting a peaceful revolution, j
and, it the matter came to the final test, it i
is doubtful if even the courts holding an- j
lliority under the old Constitution and laws j
could, set aside a formally adopted and pro- j
claimed ordinance of such a body. Jlow ev- j
er this may be, the popular sentiment of the I
State is overwhelmingly iu favor of permit-
ting the Convention to hedge about the !
lection upon the adoption of the new Con- 1
stitutiott with such precautions as are, in i
the opinion of that distinguished and pa- j
triotie assembly, uecrssary to secure a per
fectly fair decision, wholly free from parti- j
sau interleieiice or corrupt manipulation, j
We hope that the despatch iu the IJiiiUtin j
does not mean that Coventor Jlartranft in-
lends lo defy the Coll vent ion, and to defeat
the Constitution the people have so much at p
hear.. I
When tho New York banking house of
Jay Cooke fc Co. failed, it dragged down!
with it the Fiit National Dank of Wash- j
ingtou, of which Henry D. Cooke, a broth- I
er of Jay Cooke, was 1 'resident, and in j
which ex-President Johnson had a deposit
of T,000. This sum lepreseuted the ;
honest earnings of a man who never took S
any presents when in office, and whose sal- t
aiy had neier been doubled.
It is a high tribute to the official integ
rity o!" Andrew Johnson that no living man
has ever a.sral'.d it. He left office with
clean hands and what he had iu Cooke's
bank was his own, honestly and fairly
earned, and placed there in good faith.
Last week the Receiver of the Bank de
clared a dividend of o' per cent., and Mr.
Johnson received on his daposit $2:2,000.
It is stated that hereafter an additional
dividend of 20 per cent, will bo declared.
This last will be final, and will pay Mr.
Johnson' and the rest of the creditors just
oue half of their honest claims. The other
half has been stvkn by Henry D. Cooke ;
and those associated with him. j
This sw indler, Henry D. Cooke, was '
Coventor of the District of Columbia, or, j
as it is called, the Territory of Washing, j
ton, and was appointed to that office by i
his special friend, U. S. Grant. Sometime
last summer, Ceoke resigned, and received i
from Grant the usual certificate of trood
character, which was published all over j
the country. His pluudered creditors can
now console themselves with a knowledge '
t
of the fact that the man whoswiudlcd and j
robbed them enjoyed the unlimited conn- i
deuce of and was fully endorsed by so pure j
and great a man as Ulysses S. Grant. j
The I'cr.nmjlraiiia Hail road.
FINANCIAL CONPITION OF THl- COMPANY
THK ECr.TI ItVIDKM.
JVctrs and Iotitical Items.
In our columns yesterday afternoon we
ubhshed the announcement that the board
of diiectors of the Pennsylvania railroad
company had declared a scrip dividend ef
live per cent., payable- in ca.-h on the 0th
of March, 1873, or sooner at the option of
the company. This declaration was based
upon the report of the finance committee
of the expenses and leccipts of the compa
ny for tho six months ending October 31 :
From the statement of the controller it
appears that the grots earnings of the
1'entisyl Villi lei railroad and branches (esti
mating tiie month ef October) were 1'3,
202,801.82 ; expenses for the same period,
$S,071,33i.G0; leaving net earnings of $5,
131,30O.2. To which must be addeel bal
ance of income from interest on sundry
bonds and stocks of other companies, after
payment of interest on the lioating debt
of the company, C 194. 78. Total pro
fits, G, 040,603. It also appears from the
statement of the controller that the gross
earnings of tho United railroads and canal
of New Jersey for the time "were i?5,G2o,
2G7.77 ; expenses for same peried, 3,1)40,
ISG.7G; leaving net earnings of $1,084.281. -01.
To this is to be added rents, interest
and dividends received by the treasurer
from property of United railroads and ca
nal company, .7G,Go2.28, giving a total of
?l,7G0,yi3.yi. The amount paid as inter
est and dividend under the lease of the
United railroads and canal for six months
of 50,3:io.8y. These figures leave net
profits of Pennsylvania railroad and United
New Jersey railroads and canal, $3.!lii0,
2(57.01. The treasurer's statement shows
that tho amount required to pay the inter
est oil the mortgage bonds of this compa
ny i.s $880,511.70 ; premium on gold to pay
interest on bonds, $71,01)2.75 ; State tax on
coupons and capital . tock, $215,751.18 ;
semi-annual amount due on purchase of
State works, $230,000 ; rent of llariisburg
and Lancaster railroad, $5,123,61) ; inter
est on bonds and mortgages on real estate,
$23,351.75 ; dividend of live per cent, on
capital stock of tho Pennsylvania railroad
company, $3,303,419.37 ; making a total of
4,840,250.04, and leaving a balance to
credit of income account, after paj tnent of
a November dividend of five per cent., of
$1,141,017.07, which is over Ijj per cent,
upon the whole capital of the company.
On December Glh the dividend, which
bears interest at the rate of six per cent,
per annum, will be paid to ladies, and after
that they must wait their turn with other
stockholders. The time for the payment
of the instalments on new stock, which ex
pires on the 28lh of this month, will beex
tended to Mist of December, and the scrip
dividends will be received at par in pay
ment for the same. 1'hila. Telejraph.
Address of the State Centennial
Committee. To the Member of the Coun
ty Centennial Committees and the Public:
Although it has been deemed best to relax
the ell'orts of the Committeo for a time,
owing to the financial troubles, it is hoped
that the impression may not bo created
that the programme as hereteforo set
forth is not to be followed up to a success
ful result. The State, exclusive of the
city of Philadelphia, will be looked to for
not less than 500, COO, and so soon as
business prospects brighten, the efforts
heretofore employed to that end will be
resumed with all the increa ed energy that
the circumstances may demand. Mean
while, it is expected that County Com
mittees will adopt all preliminary steps to
follow up the wotk.
The honor and dignity of the nation, in
the judgment of this Committee, are se
riously involved in this noble enterprise.
Through the acts of Congress, and the
proclamation of the President, the inten
tion on the part of the United States to
have a grand Exhibition in Fairmount
Park in 1870, of an International charac
ter, has not only been presented to our
own citizens, but to those of all other civ
ilized nations, and through the State De
paitment at Washington foreign govern
ments have been invited to participate. It
is apparent, therefore, that nothing short
of carrying out this intention in a manner
befitting a great nation will save the peo
ple of the United States and their gov
ernment fiom freat humiliation, and the
character of our country from reproach.
Pennsylvania, honored by being select
ed for the location of this great undertak
ing, will never sutler herself to be re
proached for not consummating what she
lias begun as to the memorial building for
the uses of the Exhibition. With such a
stake before us, tho Ccmmittco are confi
dent no thoughtful citj.en, whether in
public or private life, will fail to do his
part in this noble woik.
William Ptc.Lr.it,
Chairman State Centennial Executive Com
mittee. Charles 11. Nohton, Secretary.
There is a cow at Wintersct, Iowa.
which operates the pump and drinks at
the spout. j
A Minnesota guzzler drank seven
glasses of beer iu two minutes and a half,
on a wager.
When a boy, Wade, the murderer,
was arrested in Perks county for passing
counterfeit money.
A white deer, a great novelty, was
shot in Centre county recently. It weighed
100 pounds dressed.
One hundred and forty bushels of i
corn is what a young man of Centre coun
ty husked in one day.
" A colt at Springfield has but one fore
le"-, and one lung, but has a lot of extra
ribs and double joints.
A stock company has been formed at
Grffin, Ga., for the manufacture of coffee
from persimmon seeds.
A Chester county man has raised a
cabbage bead fifty inches in circumference
and weighing twenty-live pounds.
Five fossilized shells, each nine inches
long and shaped like a ram's horm, have
been dug up at Menomenee, Wis.
A man tf sixty and a woman of fifty
two eloped from Pittsfieid, III., the other
day she leaving a family of children be
hind. Tho Right Rev. John Early. T. D.,
Bishop of the M. E. Church South, died
Nov. 5th, at Lynchburg, Va., aged 88
ye;irs.
Penzine is getting to be a common
fuel' for stoves in Titusville, a large num
ber of the citizens having
using it.
An Oil City man has a tame rat w men
J A correspondent of the N. Y. Tribur-e
4 recently interviewed Governor llattranft
1 and Senator Cameron on the proposed new
Constitution and reports that Hart ran ft is
j by no means overwhelmed with an admir
1 ation of it, and that Cameron does not
like several provisions of it: among which
i is the large increase in the number of
members of the Legislature, which will
give him considerable more trouble in fur-
thering his corrupt rchemes. Of course
the ring from one end of the State to the
oilier i.s opposed to reform and will en
deavor to squelch it.
It is said that th receipts of the
Pennsylvania railroad from passenger and j
i freight traffic have not suffered: hum the
financial troubles, but on the contrary that
the receipts in October show a handsome
i increase over the corresponding month of
last year. It is also said that the compa-
ny made $25,0OO by reason of the travel I
; that was occasioned by the Masonic de-
' monslration at Philadelphia in September.
, During the past few weeks the receipts
; from the moving freight have been largely
increased, and at no time has the business
. of the company been iu a more healthy
i condition.
j The jury in the case of Wm. E. Ud
tlerzook, recently on trial in West Chester,
; Pa., for the alleged murder of W. S. Goss
! in July last, which crime was committed
, for the purpose pf obtaining $25,000 insur
ance on the life of the deceased, returned
' a verdict on Sunday afternoon last of mnr-
der in the first degree. This is a verdict
fully warranted by the evidence, which was
I f the most complete character. Not a link
commenced j was wanting in the chain which connected
the accused w ith the deed for which he has
been called to answer. The counsel for
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uncaged about the house, and on the who'o
is a very intelligent and social rat.
Seven persons were instantly killed
takes its food from a person's hand, runs i the prisoner has made a motion for a new
trial, and four days have been allowed in
which to file reasons.
James Murphy, who farms Reuben
and several others wounded by a boiler ex- . Cook's place, in Fulton township, Lancas-
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plosion in .M'ff l oi k on i uesu;iy anei noon
last. All the killed were either wholly or
partially' decapitated.
It is believed that four of the Stokes
jurors will be indicted, and, if half what
is said about them i.s proven, they can not
escape conviction. It is now conceded
that Stokes evaded the gallows by bribing
jurors.
It is asserted that the Phihtdelphians
want everybody to drink tea on the Kith
of December, the centennial anniversary
of the throwing overboad of the tea in
Hoston harbor. This is a tea-total move
ment in a new shape.
1 en innls m Mnnayunk, Philadelphia,
f en sana
Death of Mr.s. Kohemt E. Lee. A
piivate dispatch from Lexington, Va., an
nounces the death, on the 5th inst., of .Airs.
Lee, widow of Oenetal Kobert E. Lee.
Mrs. Lee had been an invalid for the last
eight or ten years, and her health since the
death of her husband, three years ago, has
been gradually becoming more enfeebled.
Only a short time ago a beloved daughter
died, ami this frc sh bereavement, it may
be readily believed, bore heavily upon her
declining strength. Mrs. Lee was the only
daughter of G. V. P. Custis, Eq.f of Ar
lington, who was tho youngest child of
John Paike Custis, a son of Mrs. AVash
i.igton by her tiist husband, and an aid-de-camp
to General AVashinton at the
seige of Yorktown. His two youngest
children, one of them the father" of Mrs.
Lee. were adopted by General Washington!
G. AV. P. Custis was brought up at jfount
Vernon, and remained a member of AVash
iugton's family until the death of Mrs.
Washington, iu 102, when he went to le
side at Arlington, an estate of 1,000 acres
in the neighborhood of AVa.-h ingtou, which
he had inheiited from his father, lie
erected the mansion known as Arlington
house, lie was married in early life to
MUs Mary Lee Fitzhugh, of Virginia, and
h ft an only daughter, who became the wife
of General Kobert E. Lee. The late Mrs.
Lee was a lady of exemplary religious and
domestic virtues and unassuming and gen
tle iu character. She was between sixty
and seventy years of age s:t the time of her
death.
pHit.Avr? rm.v is said to have Do,)
idle men within it limits just now.
Nf.lsox E. Wadk IIlS EXF-CtTIOX AT
AVii.i.iAMSpoitT. AVade, who was execu
ted at AA'illiamspoi t, Thursday, furnishes
a story replete with the deepest interest.
The culprit, a powerfully built, unscru
pulous, heartless man, who has lived un
der fifty different aliases, w.is brought to
the scadbld foi tli3 murder of at: aged cou
ple, from beneath whose roof lie took
about seventy thousand dollars, part of a
hoard accumulated by the old people after
years of labor and economy, but whose
distrust of mankind induced them to per
sonally guard their wealth. He entered
their lor; cabin, dispatched with a huge
club the faithful dogs, brained the wo
man, and hacked the old Vaan almost to
pieces. Securing the coin, for the old
people evidently believed in the infallibili
ty of the "hard f tufl," he hastened to
bury it, refusing to reveal its hiding place
to the officers of justice. At the bar he
sneered at the evidence, laughed at the 1
solemnity of the lude and betrayed the
worst symptoms of human depravity when
condemned to death, remarking that he
was troubled only at the uncercainity of
whether his victims were in heaven or the
darker regions. After being partially
strangled lie fell to the ground and had a
second time to be placed upon the trap.
On the scaffold he raved like a lunatic,
cried to God for mercy when he first fell.
ana nnany cuca like a hair conscious i
biute. AtiP lork Herald.
have suspended operations entirely, throw
ing seventeen hundred and fifty hands out
of employment. So it gres all over the
country, the '-blessings" of Grant's ad
ministration are not confined to any lo
cality. Daniel Seager, of Lehigh county, has
sold fruit from an apple tree amounting
to $41.12. Iti addition he made a barrel
of cider from apples taken from the tree,
a bushel "suits," and has thirteen bushels
left, for which he can obtain two dollars
per bushel.
A Kentucky farmer has a saddle mare
which was taken from him by some sol
diers during the war, and was gone nuo
years and nine months, to the very day,
when she astonished the whole neighbor
hood by returning home by herseif anel of
her own accoio.
A party of nine fishermen, whose
names had not then been ascertained,
were drowned from a sailboat oft" Simcoe
Island, in the St. Lawrence river on the
evening of tho 4th inst. Thiee of the
party were Seth Green's men, engaged in
collecting lish spawn.
A girl named 1'oaraon, of Pittston.
Luzerne county, died from the effects of
hydrophobia on the Lid inst. Five weeks
ago she was bitten on the nose by a small
dog while at play, and after a few days she
began showing signs of the disease and
finally died after sulfering terribly.
N. G. Aughetibaugh, of Goldsboro,
Pa., raised live bushels of red beets, fiom
which he selected twelve, which weighed
fifty-seven pounds. He then selected a
second lot of twelve, which also weighed
fifty-seven pounds, making one hundred
and fourteen pounds, to the twenty-four.
Although the law prescribes different
rates of postage for printed or written
matter, the Postmaster General decides
that "to affix printed matter to a postal
card, whether with or without writing on
the same, is to make the card liable to
letter postage." This is one of those
things that no fellow can find out.
II. llucher Swoop.c, United States dis
trict, attorney, has again swooped down on
J. K. Turner, of Titusville, who was par
doned out of the penitentiary a few weeks
ago. The released convict having crit
icised the district attorney severely, that
official has resurrected an old indictment
for forgery, on which Turner will next be
tried.
Lew Williams, colored, and a white
man went out gunning together from Oil
City on Friday morning. In the after
noon AVilliams was found among tho leaves
dead, an ugly wound in his head. Iloth
barrels of his gun, which lay near his
corpse, were empty. It is a disputed point
whether he shot himself or was murdeted
by the white man.
The Erie Iipatch says : Mr. Charles
llurnham, of Edinboro, i.s looking forsonio
man who has raised more coin and pota
toes to the acre this year than he has.
From a little less than three-fourths of an
acre he has dug 113 bushels of potatoes
and husked 87 bushels of corn. Aside
from this lot, ho has a field of corn that
averaged over 125 bushels of souud corn to
the acre.
A special to the Cincinnati Commer
cial from Portland. Ind., says that AVm.
J. llughey, proprietor of a saddler shop,
was stubbed in the neck and a fiendish
outrage committed upon his jterson on
Thursday night by some one unknown,
llughey had received a letter telling him
he would never marry a certain woman to
whom he is now engaged, and that his life
veu Id be taken if no other means would
prevent.
All hope is abandoned as to the fate of
the fourteen persons left on board the
burning steamer Bavarian on the St. Law
rence. The names of some of them are
as follows: Captain Carmichael, Chief
Engineer Finnecane, the steward, Mr.
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j v-ouoi,, ii.ir, j-i Mlluiill fill Ol lui i. it
is aoout six inches long, small at tne butt,
from which it rapidly increases in size to
the point, where it measures over fourteen
inches iu circumference, and contains fifty
rows of grains. It is a remarkably well
filled ear of coin, considering its shape,
the cob spreading into nine or ten points,
the corn crowing almost entirely aronnd
some of them. Mr. Murphy's crop i.s all
good, but this ear. which appears to have
made an attempt to trrow corn on both the
out and inside of the cob, is a little ahead I
Nothing is moro ber.utiful than the j "7,--!B?TyX,-S :2X
devoted attention of a crown-up son toan I " " - -
GOOD TIMES ARE COMB-
Hut
We cannot sell Winter ClotFtnj in Summer Tim tnuj tr.y
I'eople can wear Summer Clothiny in Winttr Timt.
aged father. There was a peculiarly touch
ing exhibition of filial atfrction at Ncw
burypoi t. Mass., lately. The aged father
of a worthy citizen of that place was on a
visit to the son, and had brought a small
dog with him. The wise son was of trill
ion that the father's way ward affection for
that "purp" bhould be cheeked, and ac
cordingly he entered a complaint against
him for keeping an unlicensed dog. The
old man was arrested and fined 20. and
not being able to pay it, was ent to jail.
Ae commend this little tale to M: Lunt
for the next volume of his "Old New
England Traits,"
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Tnriiur.LE Tragedy. About a j-ear ago
; .Jotm urcen ana t li.nles lviuzcy, proprie
tors of the Lincoln Hotel at Peseaderoo,
' Cal., exchanged property. Green traded
his ranehe at Pescadero-.i with Kinzcy for
land in Iowa and other States. L'pon
Green going East he found that Kinzey
did not own the land represented. He
cam? back and mmnicnc?;! a suit against
Kinzey for damages, alleging that Gteen's
wife had a homestead filed on the land at
Peseaderoo, and that she did not sign the
deed. On comimr back he went on to her
I hind and took peaceable por. ession of it
j eight oi ten d:tys ag , and is living o.j it.
I-ast r rittay evening Kinzey n.icu a num
ber of men, and, together with Mrs. Kin
zey, attempted to oust Gieen's fatrily and
take posse.-sion of the h use or burn it.
Green forbid them coming on to the prop
erty and ordered them to leave. The at
tacking party, cons-i.sting of AVm. Daw,
Alexander McLean ami Michael McLean,
forced open the gate leading to the yard
and made a ruti for the door. Harvey
Green, a brother, who was outside, they
shot dead near the door. Green's family
inside then opened fine upm tht attacking
j party and drove them away. Dow was
J slightly wounded ; also a McLean. John
! Green had one of his fingers shot oiT. Kin-
I zey and his j'.mr were arrested and taken
to Ked-.T. od City, at wl
1 great excitement a:.d th
l lie t oi oner s jury loumi tiiem guilty
murder in the ur.-t uc-tn-te
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Mil::;:.
MADE UP tiii: r.F.ST GOODS IN Tin
riX'TIN'd TO SELL AT A PROFIT.
NOT STAND FOR PROFITS
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i o Know urn me i;;irry in mo money marKet
harvests throughout the country have Ken largo. ;,u
luctel, as a general thing, on ounl principles; it i
brought about this state of allairs, which roust sooti
season to sell our Goods.
Rooks, Machines, Furniture, etc., can
Goods are made for special seasons, and
tit 6 fet ft ft
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PATtmcuK ANiSircirK. Jilonopgaliela
City was the scene of intense excitement
on Friday evening, closed by the stabbing
of Johu Clemens by his son James, a young j
man of twenty-seven years. It appears j
that there had been trouble between them
for some time,- on account of property !
owned by the father, and about a month j
ago Mr. Clemens sr., was married to a
sec-ond wife. This step complicated mat
ters, and a couple of weeks since young
Clemens and his steptnot her had a quarrel, ;
which culminated in the former sueing tho
latter for assault and battery. At tho
tiial on Friday a verdict of not "guilty was i
rendered, which appears to have exasper- !
atcd the young man greatly, and procurimr '
a ouicuer uuiie ne snarpeneu it upon a
steel, aud starting to his father's Ln.use,
met mm on the sntewalK. and w ithout any
warning stabbed him in tiie abdomen, in
dicting a wound which the physicians have
pronounced mortal. I5ef.re the bystand
ers had recovered from their surprise the
the parricide stabbed himself in left
breast, the butcher knife passing directly
through the heart and causing almost in
stant death. Deceased is said to have
been of a very quarrelsome disposition, and
he and his father have had frequent diffi
culties, he having on one occasion made
a" ille:Vectual attempt to shoot the former.
The injured man is about sixty-eight years
. . ' . m "as been prominent as a oli
10.1.10 iu tuat section lor
Post.
it -h place there was fjJ
hreats of lynchir.r. ' Cjfel 11 A
ind them guilty of j ' r
Aaopt a War Measure, and put into imr.:
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THAT SHALL CLEAR OUR CC
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THIS IS GOOD BEWS TO THE MSLLIOHS OF CITY Al
They n ill Gain the Profit from Our Necessity, l-ut t;i.y - '
patronized us in good times, and we are willing to give '.: ; 1
say without exaggeration that this is the best opportunity f -'r "
otic red in America, beginning
And continuing rapidly without interruption until further r:v-
We vill sell for READY MOSi
ForTowirsc; :
many years.
The steamship Bavarian, of the royal
mail line, bound from Hamilton for Mon
treal, with six cabin passengers, took f.re
about eight o'clock on Wednesday night
last, fourteen miles from shore, opposite
Oshawa. The tire broke out in the centre
of the boat, near the engine, and the Haines
spread with great rapidity. Three boats
were immediately lowered and one of
them went adiift and was lost. The pas
sengers and erew got into the other boats,
one of which contained nine persons, in
cluding the pilot, ladies, maid, and seven
of the crew. " The other boat contained
thnteen persons. Both boats reached the
shore safely. There are fourteen persons
to lie accounted for, who were not able to
get into boats.
A Sample of Hard Times. The Law
renccville (Mass.) American tells of a sad
case of destitut ion which hns contA within
Spence, Mrs. Tibald and daughter, aud i its observation in that citj-. A very poor
" uuuesi appearing ana
Miss Ireland, of Kingstown, the three
lady passengers, aud Mr. Well, of Chat
ham. The names of the other persons
missing are unknown.
A local paper says that in Dover, N.
II., recently, a one hundred dollar bill ac
tually paid debts amouuting to $1,000, and
within eight hours returned "to the man
wlo first paid it out in the moruinsr. It
happened that A owed Ii $100.
it. 13 owed C $100, and so he
bill over to him. Thus it went, and the
ninth gentleman to whom it was paid hap
pening to owe A $100, paid it to him. so
that it paid all these debts and came back
to the original owner.
Late returns from the interior and
" estern counties of Xew York cive stiil
greater breadth and
cratic victory in that
The elections of last week insure tho '
defeat of Republican Senators in Kansas j
Minnesota and Wiscousiu. That is a snb
stantial train to the country. IJetter men
will do-tbtless be chosen than w tuld have 1
been selected from the ranks of the Kad- '
1CiUS- I Administration 'Kin.
pre possessing
young man named Itobert SteeL on his
own request, was sentenced yesterday to
four months in the House of Correction, in
order that he might woik for the shelter it
would afford him during the winter. He
had been discharged from one of the mills
early in the summer, during a reduction of
labor, and having been deserted l.v
He paid I father, and having no mother, he had dm-.
paid the j ing the intervening month been deiendent
rwu ,1JC maiuy oi strangers. ithout a
bed on which to rest, he had been com
pelled to seek shelter at night in barns and
other empty buildings, until the increasing
co.dness of the weather no longer rendered
it possible to resort to them. As a last ai
ten.ative he cave himself int- ir. ..
force to the Demo- I of the city marshal.requestingthat he mi "lit
; State. The M'orld i be sent to orison, whero 1
fays ute majority on the Mate ticket win j me sneuer it would afford him against the
reach fifteen thousand, and that "there is j winter. He was brought iuto couit and
a possibility ot botn Houses being yet a sentenced -as we have slated abcve. In
tie, although the probabilities arc that the j committing him the jade lamented the
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:re I.csiness Coats. ." ' '
f r.L. K Pants, l',:1: I
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n Iti.rE t'utTii Vests, 1 ' i v'.-
SSIMKRK VFSTS. l'-'U ' ''. I
71fi Ri.t F. and Black Dress Coats.
1710 Dorm.F.-15i:F.ASTKi Street Coats.
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3s7i Pairs
M4 J'AIRS OF
OlIU 15 LACK AND
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1114 C 11 ESTER El ELI I COATS,
1700 Beaver am 'hinc iiilla Ovkkcoats.
2313 Fancy Cassimere Pants,
Cr,S3 Fancy Cassimere Vests.
3313 Blce ani Tkicot ami Cassimeke
Jackets,
4f90 Pants to Match,
2317 Hakyakii Suits,
1316 Prince Albert Spits,
1131 Garibaldi Suits,
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the Tarrrpct Stork to ho found
House in the World. Wo .no r-nnti-nt to lose t.io;'l'.v '
carry stock until next season. Imperative necessity is la: I
must make the best of it.
The Store will lie ojon at C o'clock iu the morning an 1 ; nr,i:i
t o'clock in the evening, and on Satnn1iv ni.TT.t nntiriO oVl"---
cle soki cuaranteetl as represented. "
1 : t a .i ' a . . ... .';('t
i aiiies comiiig togfiiier ironi country towns within i . "
purchasing at Oak Hall, will receive, besides the great b:uY:i
a railroad ticket to return home.
iWANAIAKER&BBOi
republicans will have a smau majority in j circumstances necessitating such a course
the Assembly, but a majority which de- , and paid that if at any time anv eharittble '
1 fmi upon sucu a bienuer inrcau mat. it j.jiii eiicica tiie young man (who is only
will defeat the schemes and plans of tho ( seventeen) employment! he would give an
Administration 'Rintr.' ?' Order for hi
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