THE USBBU FBEEHM. Thb Legislature adjourned finally On last Friday. Before its close the customary silly practice was indulged in of making Tuer ucniinr OA i valuable and costly preecnta to the speak- SUtN&BUHU, P., I ers and chief clerks of both Houses and a Friday Morning, - - May 22, 1874. few other oB'ceis. This mutual admira- tioa programmes is of radical origin, and The St. Louis Republican proposes the following " Inflation Currency " ticket r.t the next Presidential electiou : For Presi dent, Oliver P. Morton, of Indiana ; for Vice President, John A. Logan, of Illi nois. Platform "In order to get out cf debt, go in deeper." would be much more " honored in the breach than in the observance." Precisely v. hat the late Legislature left undone which it ought to have done, and what it did that it ought not to have done, we will be unable to say until we are furnished with a copy of the general laws which it enacted, a document which is usually pub lished a few weeks after its adjournment. The Pittsburg Dizpatch, x Republican or gan, expressed tko belief in its issue of last Saturday, that the defunct Legislature was about as corrupt as any of its prede cessors. We are not now prepared to en dorse this statement. That it was to all intents and purposes bitterly partisan, will The Republican State Convention met not and cannot be denied by any man of at llarrisburg ht&t week and fixed on J either political party who watched its pro Wednesday, August 10th, as the time ad ceedings. Conclusive evidence of this Hairisburg as the place for holding the ! fatt is furnished from the character of its next Republican State Convention, to ' legislative apportionment bill. Former place in nomination the candidates to be bills of that "kind, since the supremacy of voted for at the eusuing State election in ' radicalhstt. have been notoriously unjust November next. This convention will bo i nd outraceons. but the nresent one mr. If Mrs. Nellie Sartoris nee Grant, who was wedded yesterday, should ever, in her haste, overlook the "art'MGcial part of her newly acquired patronymic, he would probably come nearer tel!iug the truth about her husband in two syllables than is now told in three. held just one week before the Democratic State Convention. The Democratio majority in the Con necticut Legislature last week elected Wil liam W. Eaton to the United States Sen ate. It is a long time since that State has been represented in the Senate by a Demo crat. Mr. Eaton has bceu a life-long member of his parly, is an able defender of its principles, and his political oppo nents concede his ability and pure and uncorruptible character. i m n ITox. Georoe II. Cutlek, Republican, the member of the State Senate from Erie comity, was elected Speaker of the Senate before the final adjournment of that body. Mr. Cutler is a geutlemanof acknowledged ability and experience in legislation, and above and beyond all this, he is believed, from his course in the Senate, to be a gen. tlemaa of unimpeachable honesty, which is a rare virtue in politicians of the pres ent day. passes infinitely all others that have pre ceded it in its downright unfairness to the Democracy of the State, and it can be truly said of it, that "nothing but itself could be its own parallel." The result of the election next November may prove that it will return to plague its inventors, for in the language of Burns, "The best laid schemes of mice and men : Gang aft aglee." It appears that the act fixing the com pensation of members of the Legislature, as it passed finally by a vote In the Senate of 22 yeas to 10 nays, and in the House by a vote of 57 yeas to 33 nays, fixed the salary for this session at $1,500, and fr future regular sessions at $1,000 for the first one hundred days and ten dollars a day for each succeeding day after that time. Under this law, what average politioian's ambition, in a pecuniary point of view, would not be attracted to this salary in this county or elsewhere in the State ? It is simply an outrage on tho tax-payers of the commonwealth, and the men iu the Legislature who did the dirty woik will be and ought to be held to a stiict account by their betrayed constituents. 'a -ea The disgraceful struggle Which has been in progress for several weeks past in Ar kansas between two eminent (?) Republi cans, Baxter and Brooks, both of whom claimed to be tho legally elected Governor of that State, was settled last Friday, so far at least as the President could interfere, by a proclamation from Gen. Grant recog nizing the validity of Baxter's electiou in November, 1872. Tnis decision will be en forced by the military power of the admin istration it" Brooks should attempt at any tiu:e to disavow or resist it. We presume, however, that he will, like Falstaff, consid er discretion the better part of valor, andal low Baxter, if he has not already done so, to repossess his office, from which he had been ejected by a snap judgment of the Supremo Court of tho State. The entire quarrel from its inception te its close was most humiliating and dishonorable to both the contending aspirants and to their re spective adherents. When men talk of running Grant for the third terra, they are simply foolish. No man can be elected President three times in this country. The foregoing paragraph is copied from the Tyrone Herald of last Saturday. The editor is sadly mistaken, inasmuch as nei ther the Constitution nor any law that we are aware of prohibits a President from being elected a third time, nor for any num ber of terms even beyond that. It is true that no President has ever been elected to a third term, Washington, the first Piesi deut, having declined that honor, even admitting that he could have achieved it, which is a question of some doubt. His successors have all imitated his example, aud while only lix of them have been re elected the second time, the others were forced to retire with a single term of four years. Whether Gen. Grant desires a third nomination, and whether, if he does, his party would gratify him, is a question which we cannot be expected to answer. If he should, however, again become a candidate, it needs no political prophet to foretell his certain defeat. The Legislature passed aud the Gover nor has approved a bill which provides for the appointment of ten commissioners to make, or superintend we should judge, a geological survey of the State. The Gov ernor has already made the appointments and tho Senate has continued them. Hon. Daniel J. Morre'.l, of Johnstown, is among the number. We do not iutend to pre judge this project until we see the law it self and read its provisions. It was said by a member of the House when the bill was before that body ou its tinl pas.-agf, that it would require a million of dollars to carry it out. This would seem to be au extravagant estimate, but it may in the end prove to be correct. We do not of courso iaipugn tho motives of the coininie sioneis, all of whom are highly respecta ble geutleineu. but at the same time the whole thing looks to us like a huge swin- die ou the State Treasury by outside par ties w no nave no present connect!. itl. lime will tell. The persistence of the will is Illustratrd in the case of Catherine Foley. Twenty years ago, when she was a young woman in the mining district ef Merthyr Tydvil, Wales, she married George Foley. Three months afterward he left her one morning without bidding her good bye ; and with out regard to his moral woi tldesness she resolved to find him again. Toiling early and late for years, she accumulated money enough to search the principal towns and cities in Europe, and after a weary tramp of thousands of miles for she went afoot she learned in London that her husband had gone to America. After a few years more of unremitting toil and avaricious saving she was enabled to follow him across the sea. She searched Boston, New York, New Orleans aud St. Louis all iu vain. Continuing her tireless tramp through the We-t, she came upon Foley a few days ago in Chicago. He had been successful in bigness, had manied again and had a family. He recognized Catherine at the first glance, and was not glad to see her. Hastily turning some of his real estate into cash he left for parts unknown. Mrs. Fo ley w ill pursue him, but in the meantime she has oommenced a suit to recover a dower interest in her husband's property. As soon as this point is Fettled she will start for George once raoie. y. Y. Sun. Wouderful Canine Affeotion. An incident of extraordinary canine affection has just came to light in connection with the teriible reservoir calamity in 31assa chusttts. Col. Joel Hayden, one of the sons of the late Lieutenant-Governor Hayden, hs a dog of the St. Bernard kind. He has for a long time been a village favorite and a pet of the children. He was named Briai.t. The father of Mrs. Col. Hayden, over sixty years of age, who was a great frit nd of the dog Bi iaut, was lost in the disaster. Si uday afternoon the dog start e 1 out and fol'owtd the searchers for bodies in tho meadow laud. He was seen ou Mi 1 r's Flat p iwir.g in the sand, and when ho was visited it was found that he had dug quite deep in the dirt, disclosed the lower portious of a man's limbs. The next half hour revealed the form of Col. Hayden, w hich the dog Brian t had dug up. Dili' gent search had been made for these re main, but it is hardly possible that any human being could have found the imbed ded corpse. the commissioner. Compulsory education will be practi cally tested in New York. Gov. Dix ha.v. , iug signed the law passed by the late Leg ) iskiture. By the provisions of this law paieuts or guardians are compelled to give ; children from eight to fifteen years of age, i either in school or at home, at least four j teen weeks regular instruction every year, ; in reading, writing, arithmetic, Euglish grammar and geography. The employ , intutof children, withiu the ages named, is prohibited during the time when district schools are open. School officers are given authority to enforce these provisions. The . weakness in this system is iu allowing a discretion to tho parents of teaching the 7" , uiscretion, accordinj Hon. Samcei. Henry returned home, after his arduous duties in the Legislature, on Sunday last a fact which prompts na to say that we have consistently opposed his electiou by so called Democrats in this county for the last three years, but at the same time have entertained and still enter tain a high regard for Mr. Henry a a good to our .view' eminently proper, but fatal to .U1,ululjr cuenuon. ilie inquisitorial duty insposed upon school o;t..,. ;u citizen and akiud-heaited gentleman. Our opposition to him has not at any time been persona', but purely political a right we shall always fearlessly exercise, not only in regard to Mi. llemy, but to all others "in like cases offending." If Saiauel Heu ry cau successfully explain to his JDtmo erotic supporters iu Cambria county tho reasons why he voted for a legislative ap portionment bill which i infamous in all ii detail, and w hich will hang the Demo cratic party of this State, unless prevented by a political revolution whih ie far from improbable, as hih as Hainan was eleva ted on the gibbet, we would like to seo him make that effort in a public meeting iu the ('mrt Hoiim, and then let him see "ho -n plain r tula will put him tfjri." never be performed. Such dnti.. tirely obnoxious to the public sentiment iu this free country. The terms of the followine Senator I pire with the present session : Francis D. , Collins, of Luzerne county, Democrat . Vim. McSherry, of Adams county, Derao crat ; Wm. A. Wallace of Clearfield coun ty, Democrat; Butler B. Strang, of Tioga ; county, Republican ; James M. Weakley, of Cumberland county, Republican ; La fayette Fish, of Susquehanna county, Re publican ; E. W. Davis, of Philadelphia j county, Republican ; James h. Graham, ; of Allegheny county, Republican ; Harry i " ",lr a iuuiana county, Republican ; ' Miles S. Humphreys, of Allegheny county, , Kepublican ; A. K. McCJure, of Philadel phia couuty, Liberal Republican. ji. TERRIBLE CJLZ.A.3IITY. BCTRSTIJfQ OF A WATER RESERVOIR MA8 8ACHC8BTTS EVERYTHING CARRIED BE FORE THB FLOOD FOUR TOWH8 ALMOST BWKFT OUT OF EXISTKKCE NIAXLT TWO DCSDHED LIVES LOST ABOUT TWO MIL LION DOLLARS' WORTH OF PROPERTY DESTROYED PEOPLE KENDEKED J5SAKS Br FRIGBT. Northampton, Mass., May 16. Not far from eierht o'clock this mornimr the oeace- ful residents of Williamsburg were startled by the appearance of a horse dashing luad ly through the streets, ifliile his rider shouted to the people to escape for their lives, for the reservoir had giveu way and the waters were coming down upon them. Scarcely comprehending the dreadful tid ings, but with the instinct of self-preservation strong withiD them, the people began to rash from their homes, while the foam flecked animalthat had so gallantly brought the messenger sunk to the greund, utterly exhausted. Another horse was quickly se cured, and the messenger was borne to other villages, but the alarm was so sud den that all did not hear it, aud scores were CAUGHT BY THE SWIFT ROLLING WATERS, and aged grand dames, innocent children and strong men were alike overwhelmed by the flood or crushed beneath the fall ing walls of their houses. Up among the hills of Goshen there was a large reservoir of about one hundred and four acres in ex tent, where the various mill operators of Williamsburg, Skinnerville, Haydeuville aud Leeds were wont to store their sum mer supply of water. People living in the vicinity of the dam say that it has been leaking more or less for several weeks, and it is believed that having thus gradu ally undermined the dam, the water ac quired strong headway, and suddenly the dam gave way and the immense body of water pouied out iu its strength, carrying everything before it. The torrent rushed upon THE DOOMED VILLAGES with a loud roar, apparently a larpe ad vancing billow ef underbrush and debris issuing rapidly through the deep gorges to the heighth of forty feet, and agaiu spreading out a wide expanse of seething angry waves as it reached the more open country. Reaching the beautiful village of Williamsburg some two and a half miles distant, it struck a small button fac tory, sweeping it out of existence. Next a saw aud grist mill was attacked and melted, not a vestige remaining. Houses, barns and shops followed like grass before a scythe, and men, women and children were caught and borne away, struggling and shrieking iu vain. Ou the waves swept to Skinnersville, two miles distant, a silk factory being hurled down, a huge iron boiler being carried nearly half a mile and landed high and dry. In llaydonsville, about one mile further on, the bank build ing, a three-story brick structure, was swept away, scarcely one brick being left upon another, the money in the vault shar ing tne same Tate. THE NEXT VICTIM. The small village of Leeds, between one and two miles distant, was the next place to suffer, and the scenes at Williamsburg aud Haydenville were here repeated. A short distance below Leeds were two bridges, one of iron and one of stone, both nearly fifty feet' above the bed of the stream. They were both swept away, the former being carried bodily and a consid erable distance down the stream. Here the greatest destruction appears to have stopped, although all along the river, until it emptied into the Connecticut, a short distance below Northampton, the banks are covered with all manner of debris tim ber, trees, pianos, tables, chairs and other furniture. It is estimated that nearly one hundred buildings were destroyed, and the total loss is from one million to a million and a half of dollars, although, of course, it is impossible to accurately estimate the dam age. THE SADDEST FEATURE of the whole affair is the great loss of life. At first it was thought that not more than forty or fifty lives were lost, but a more careful canvass of the villages visited gives the total number of missiug persons at nearly 120, as follows : At Williamsburg 49, at Leeds 39, and at Haydeuville 34. There have bceu between fifty and sixty dead bodies already recovered. NARROW ESCAPES. There were many narrow escapes. A butcher named Michael Ilornigau was caught, horse, wagon and all, and carried along until he managed to iret into the top of a tree, aud thus escaped.- Thou. Fin uessy was carried some two miles, floating on some timbers, until he finally eecaped. Ira Dunning was in like manner carried over half a mile. Chas. Brady, after rid ing in imminent peril for a mile, escaped to a tree. Dr. JoLnsou warned his wife iu season to permit her to escape in safety, but in trying to save his three children he was caught by tho flood, and they all four perished in sight of the agouized wife and mother. The bodies recovered were terri bly mangled, and many of them were STRIPPED OF EVERY PARTICLE OF CLOTH ING, but most of them were identified by friends, and the scene of the disaster lias been visited by hundreds of people this af ternoon. THE SCENE OF THE DISASTER. BOSTON, May 16. The villages which are affected by the disaster are Williams burg, Haydenville, Leeds and Florence, and are situated 011 Mill rivr, which is a tributary to the Connecticut river, runuing into the latter at Northampton. In the village of Williamsburg Mill river divides into two branches, cue of which has its rise in Geshen and the other at about tho edge of Conway. THE RESERVOIRS. Two large reservoirs are situated on the uoslien braucb and one on the Conway branch, containing a total depth of not less than six feet. The reservoir dams were regarded as substantially construct ed, being built by skillful engineers, iu the most approved modem method, and large sums of money were expended last year in putting them in what was supposed to be perfect order. The oldest dam is at least twenty-five years of age, and is on tho Goshen braucb. It was most carefully re built within the last two years. Above this was a new dare built last year. The dam on the Conway branch is six or seven years old. THE MILLS OW THE STREAM, reckoning from Williamsburg down to Northampton, were as follows : Wm. Thayer' tool factory, 25 men ; two butteri factories, total 80 hands, men and girls -corset woolen mill of Henry Jones, em ploys about 50 hands ; large brass works of Hayden. Gere & Co., employ about 800 hands, and is perhaps the largest and best appointed factory of the kind in the Uuited k te" lt WM formerly the property of the late Lieutenant Governor Hayden. Cotton mill of thn TTiv.n f.,..r..: Comninv 1 onn 1 un . rj, .(jiuuicn, employing aoout 80 bauds ; the Diamoud Tobacco Works, employing 15 or 20 hands ; the two exten sive silk mills of the Nouotuck Silk Co., employing 300 hands ; the large brick mill k f nrth:Pt,OQ Brush mploying about 00 or 75 .hands ; cotton factory of the Greenville Manufacturing Co., 5,000 spindles, employing 75 or 80 hands North ampton, formerly Bay State, Cutlery Co employing probably 200 hands ; the Cle mesh & Hawkes Manufacturing Co., agri cultural implements, employing 50 hands ; International Screw & Nail Co., employ ing 75 hands, and the large basket factory of tho Williams Manufacturing Co., em ploying about 100 hands ; also the Skinner Silk Mill, employing 50 or 60 hands. Besides these '.here are some half dozen grist aud saw mills, some of them of con siderable capacity, which are within the range of the devastation. THE MANUFACTURING CAPITAL INVESTED along Mill River, and afiected by this dis aster, laying it at the lowest estimate, must be rive million dollars, and the imme diate population sufleriug is about, five thousand. The population is almost whol- lv a manufacturing one. which has crown I per cent. ofTtbe real stuff. up around the dams. C. 6. Jones and Oliver Hill, arrested the heaviest loss I on suspicion of murdering Mr. Elliott, were by this disaster will fall upon th estate of j taken from the Shreveport jail on Saturday JTews anil Political Items. A deg was seen walking the streets of New Bedierd the other day with a lighted cigar iu bis mouth. At Wilkesbarre, John Kilpatrick, a miner, while drunk last Friday night, shot his son dead. The murderer was arrested. As an excuse for rejecting a widower, a fair young damsel informed a friend that 'she did not waut a 'warmed-over' man." It is stated that Weston is to undertake another pedestraiu feat iu June, having realized $12,000 by his walk iu the rink last week. Great discoveries of qniaksilver are re ported iu Lake and Sonoma counties, Cal ifornia. It is found in rock containing 20 the late ex-uoveruor iiayaen, wno aiea 1 a few months since. One of the mills was recently sold by tne executors or tne es tate. MEMORIAL SSRVfCER. Sunday had been set apart, by Hayden ville for memorial services in memory of the late Lieutenant Governor, when all the members of the family were expected to be present. THE VICTIM8. Springfield, May 16. At Leeds, Dun ning, au old man, was drowned, with sev eral others in the Warner Buttou Factory; also, Ralph J. Shaw, whose body has not been found; a French family of six chil dren ; Mrs. Fitzgerald and children ; Ed ward Harmons, wife and four children ; General Davis, Patrick O'Neil, Mrs. Hick ey, whose daughter was swept away, but recovered, and will survive ; Evaline Sher wood, body found ; Mrs. Bouuy and two children. Twelve houses at Leeds were swept away. Part of the silk mill is gone. The following is a list of the drowned at Haydenville : Mr. Caplinger, shoemaker; Jacob Hill, Mrs. Jerome Hillman, three children of Samuel Miller, two children of E. II. Thayer, a boy named Brodeur, Mr. Hitchcock, Captain Joseph Hayden's son. At Haydenville aud Leeds the dwellings not destroyed are turned iuto charnel bouses and hospitals. At Haydenville the stores of C Traves Eames aud C. Rice are swept away. At Williamsburg Superin tendaut Birmingham, Dr. Johnson, wife and children, and E. Hubbul were drown ed. Twenty-seven bodies were discovered at two o'clock, three of which are at North ampton Turner Hall and fourteen at Flor ence. MEN BECOMING INSANE. New Havbn, May 17. A mau was pick ed up from a tree, upon which he had rid den six miles ou the torrent, cheering aud waving his coat. The poor fellow's inind was gone. No less thau eight cases of in sanity followed among those who have lost relatives and friends by this terrible calam ity, and three were committed to the asy lum in Northampton. SAVING THE DEAD. The gracious work of saving the dead from their burial began at noon yesterday. At SkinneiBville the first bodies were pick ed up. dug from mud or takea . with diffi culty from overloaded ruins. All through the valley the work went on till night, aud then men with lanterns, seeking their dead, stood guard. At Haydenville forty botties were gathered by night; at L,eeds foity-tive. There had beeu iu the after noon GANGS OF PLUNDERERS promptly turned to workers by uo stinted threats. The people were ready to braiu theui with the first stone. There were fewer dead at Florence and Northamton, one hundred aud forty in all, and many more are certainly buried iu the mud and rubbish that fill the valley with black heaps from Williamsburg to North ampton. HOUSES BLOTTED OUT OF EXISTENCE. At Williamsburg a factory aud twenty seven houses were blotted out. At Hay denville a factory, a gas house, a cotton mill, a bank and one hundred buildings ; at Leeds a buttou factory aud twenty-live buildings; at Skinnerville every house is gone, except Mr. Skiuuer's own. Such houses as are set down as "gone" are ut terly vanished and distributed iu shreds not a piece over six feet long over miles of country. The "Licking-water river," as they call it, has beeu a sea, and is now a trickling stream, lost in miles of mud. The lake, hemmed in by defective masonry up among the Gosheu hills, has done its work terribly. THE LATEST FIGURES OF LOSS OF LIEE. Springfield, May 17. The latest fig ures of loss of life makes a total of oue hundred and fifty-four, as follows, between the three places : Willianisbui sr. sixtv : Leeds, forty-nine; Haydenville, tbirty five. The figures only represent persons whose loss is positively kuown, though the bodies of all are not yet recovered. Bod ies are constantly being found, and in some cases those of persons who were not supposed to bo lost, so that it seems per fectly safe to say that the total loss of life will exceed oue hundred and fifty, if indeed it does nut more nearly approach two hun dred. CAUSE OF THE DI8ASTER. It appears that serious doubts as to the safety of the reservoir have beeu entertain ed ever since it was built, nine years ago, though less the last year or two than iu its early history. The gate-keeper has sever al times expressed fears to his employers, calling special attention once to a ioiiit where a breach occurred, but the examin ers always repoited everything safe. The direct cause of the disaster, aside from general weakness of the dam, must remain a subject of speculation. P01 haps as satis factory a theory as any is the one ad vanced by a man familiar with the case, that frosts had started the earth so that the water had found numerous little courses through it, which finally carried off the first mass of earth ou Saturday morning, and at once precipitated the ca tastrophe. STILL LATER. Springfield. May 19. Thousands of people have gone from this city and sur rounding country to Northampton and the scene of tho Mill river devastation to-day. Search for the dead bodies has been going on all day, and will be continued under the best possible management for several days, and, perhaps, even weeks. The meadows are so deeply covered with debris, result ing from destruction, that it is feared many dead bodies are yet undiscovered. A num ber have beeu recovered to-day, and it is now thought yesterday's estimate of two hundred lives lost may fall eveu below the actual truth. The extent of the disaster increases rather than diminishes, and it is as yet impossible to give a full and reliable esti mate of the loss of property and life. At Haydenville to-day sixty families have ap plied for relief. The temporary funds fur nished from Northampton yesterday, are now exhausted, and a mass meeting has been called at Northampton to devise means for continuous and systematic re lief for the sufferers. The whole commu nity is moving in the work of relief, and eveiything that can will bo done to allevi ate the loss and suffering. by a body of citizens and hanfrcd Mrs. SebaSpicer, of Tipton, Mo., aged seventy-eight, recently employed a masou to repair her chimney, and herself carried all the mortar and brick up a ladder. A dispatch from Sau Diego, California, states that John Averind, wife, and four children had been found murdered at a house twelve miles from that city. No clue to tho murderer?. The Scranton Republican says a fossil ized hwrse bas been discovered in a stone quarry in that city, sixty feet below the surface. It is thought this horse discover ed America before Columbus. Weston brought his proposed five hun dred mile walk to a close on Saturday night on the four hundred and thirtieth mile, at 11:59:14. The last mile was walked in ten minutes and fifty-three seconds. When you drop into a prayer-meeting among the Chijpewa Indiaus you will have the pleasure of hearing them sing: "Kew etahuhyee uhyod keche munhe unhgom uhwug metah swok ubbe noje jug." President Grant is now said to favor the repeal of the legal tender act. This is the basisof all true currency reform. Take this mischievous proposition from theMat ute book and it is in every man's power to bring his business to a specie basis. The Roman Catholic Bishops of Glas gow, Scotland, and Hexham and Newcas tle, England, have applied to the Prussian Government for leave to visit the Archbish op of Cologne in prison, but have been re fused. The Roman Catholic priest who has gone among the lepers of Moloki, iu the Sandwich Islands, and comforted aud bap tized many of those unhappy outcasts, deserves to bear away the palm for true Christian charity. The dwelling-house and barns belong ing to Wallace Stevens, iuBloomfield, Vt., were burned on Friday. Two adopted children of Mr. Stevens, aged three and five years, who were asleep iu the room where the fire 01 iginated, perished. A daughter of Mr. George Bridge, of Lewisburg, Union county.rc-cently coughed up a large brass pin which she swallowed about thiee years ago. During that time she suffered from a pain in the brt-asr, but experienced no other inconvenience from the pin. There is an elm eighty-four years old and about six feet in diameter at Franklin, Vt., and the man near whose house it stands says that when he was a boy he pulled it up, which made his father so mad that he walloped him with it and then set it out again. The pedestrain Weston, after walking 115 miles on Monday, 55 on Tuesday, 02 on Wednesday, 68 on Thursday, and 67 on Friday, failed to accomplish the task of 500 miles on Saturday Uy 70 miles. Thus is another failure added to the long list al leady achieved by Edward Payson. Mr. . A. Simcox reoeutly ran a raft to Marietta, ou the Susquehanna river, which measured three hundred aud thirty three foet in length, and twenty-seven and a half feet in width. This excellent pilot, one of the best, is sixty-eight years old and stands six feet and five inches in his stock iugs. The Reading Eagle announces that the general depression of business through out the country will cause the Wool Hat Manufacturer's Union of the State to dis continue all operations by the close of the present week. Nearly a thousand people will be thrown oul of employment in that vicinity. The wife of John Bargland, of Scott couuty, Minn., aged fifteen, and married but six weeks, died suddenly iu Glencoe, it is supposed from the eflects of poison taken to produce abortion. She would have be come a mothei in thiee months. The hus band b as been an esi ed as accessory tot he al leged poisoning. The town of North Bridgewater, Mass., is greatly rejoiced at its change of name, and hereafter is to be called Brock ton. The first child born in the town under the new name was to receive a pres ent of $100, and one came into the world the veiy next day after the matter was settled to claim tho money. Capt. Waite, who recently died at Stamford, Conit., was a famous man among mariners in the days of sailing vessels. He was taken to sea when a baby, aud wheu nineteen had command of a ship, lie crossed the Atlantic iu sailing vessels more than 160 times, though he was only sixty nine years old when he died. flag of California silk, which be longed to the Senate of the United States has turned up missing. It was loaned by the Senate to the American commissioners to the Vienna exhibition, to be returned at the close of the exhibition. Senator Sar gect has offered a resolution to ascertain wnat lias become of the flag and to'secure its restoiatiou. Some days ago, at Vineland, N. J., Delaware Bay, about twenty miles awav, was plainly mirrored in the sky, and sail ing vessels and steamships were distinctly seen and traced as they glided along. Eveu the pulsatious of the waves were visible, tho exhibition continuing for about three quarters of an hour, until the suu disap peared below the horizon. On Saturday the Catholic pilgrims to e bunue of our Lady of Lourdes, the nctuary at Paray le Moneal and to Rome, the sa left New York. Before leaving mass was said at Sr lnf,i..i,' A 11 Vllu SHERIFF'S SALFV sundry writs of r j --oy FrTx.n.. amt r.-7virv a-..-, 4 reeted. there win '?'ii court llonso in Een.!;u J. S4 T r .Innv next, .t V?:,n ""ki.T IDfr Real Efltate, lt . l".r . 11 111 1 u mil uiwnvh n o ' A correspondent of the New York Tribune writing from Washington in re gard to the Arctic explorer, Capt. Hall, bays it is understood that iu some of the unpublished papers left by him there are facts bearing ou the horrible death of Sir John Franklin, and that the close of his life, as unquestionably established by Cap tain Hall, was so ghastly and fearful that he eould not bring himself to disclose the details during the lifetime of Lady Frank lin. A rurnber of stories, illustrating the manner , lu which Indian agents enrich themselves, are told in Washington, one by Mr. Beck, of Kentucky, showing how a drove of .500 cattle was made to pass muster for i00, by having the herds that f reached an agency couuted, driven around , -,, 1 (I 1 . . t. . . a 1 1 -rw.ov, 1 1 uiii. rtim men Biuutjui iuo kcouu auu t Crook, of. In firvi u a. r.i i. : 1 .: 1. r... Y - . 1 .. . ,.. "v luuu liuic lttiwi c iuo acm, nuu cuuiuru 4 loininvr lands i.f -t a:r'r coun. u km uiiif rs. about 75 acre two trains banW r,.. . . ! ' "v . 1? nr. -.c. now in 1 lie cxx uparii y of V i ir lit litu .n.l -.. "I- p '"i-Ttsi or j aia, -r uS;, "er,ri l towB(.hip,'mtriae.untT Z ,a tin a. :., Thomas MUn fT? ;CT1 In execution and to t tola a"".11 TM dree. Also, all the right, tit: themoveragaiii,justasthesupernumerai;es ! ' ' ' " J K ? l,a""1 H 111 a theatre are made to reappear repeated- loacresof whihar,aroj t mor"rV ly in personating an army. ed a one-and-a half storr p'-in' rJr-ir -1 A singular natural curiosity is found at S'ti' ?"w lc l!'.e 'W of j..'t c j r 1 1 i-. Taken In execution auj m u . Vc' Sadawga Pond in bitinghara, V t., con- John Braiiev ai sisting of 150 acres of land floating on th surface of the water, covered with crauber ries, and even sustaining trees fifteen feet high. When the water is raised or lower ed at the dam of the pond, the island rises aud falls with it, and fish are caught by boring a hole in the crust aud fishing down ns through the ice in winter. A similar island once existed in a small lake near Bangor, Me., and there are many such in Southern Florida. Apropos of the Catholic pilgrimage to Rome is the proposition, being very strong ly urged, that the Pope should elevate an American to the position of Cardinal. The argument for this is strong. It is, that American Catholics have been devoted and liberal to the Holy See, and that, there fore, they should be recognized in the dis tribution of the supreme honors of the Church. The difficulty seems to be in the rivalry of candidates, at least forty names having been mentioned in conuection with the proposed dignity. A French medical journal reports the cure of most refractory corns by the morn ing and evening applications, with a brush, of a drop of a solution of the perechloride of iron. It states that after a fortnight's oontiuued application, without pain, a pa tient who had suffered matyrdom for near ly forty years from a most painful corn en the inner side of each little toe was entirely relieved ; pressure was no linger painful, and the cure seemed to be radical. Other and similar cases are repoited as equally successful under this treatment. A young girl, named Kate Curry, liv ing near Galesburg, 111., was recently no ticed by an engineer on the Chicago," Bur lington & Quiucv Railroad, endeavoring to extricate a pet lamb that had got its foot fast in a cattlo guard. In her anxietv to save her pet she did not hear the whistle of the engine. Just before the engine reached them the lamb was extricated and bounded away, but she was struck by the pilot of the engine and thrown some fifteen feet from the track. She was found with a deep gash in her head and in an insensi ble condition. Medical as.-istance being called, she soon lecovered, and is now do ing well. The Arkansas belligerents aro raridly scattering to their homes, and there is hope that the peiiod of violence inaugurated by Brook' attempt to seize the governship has reached it term. Brooks' command bad left Little Rock under agreement, and there seems to be a disiosition 011 all sides to put an end to the state of lawlessness which threatened to inaugurate a civil war. Some arrests of suspicious and dangerous characters have been made as a precaution ary measure, but all danger of a conflict may now be looked on as at an end. The recognition of Baxter by the President has restored the empire of the law, and Arkan sas is once more at peace. Also, all th r1s;ht. title an.i .... Miller, of. in an.l lo a piece ",r ate In Su.uehanna ti.wL..i.J , "' "' i a.l)..inini; lands of John Min on t?' anit ot hera- e.mtn ininir ai . ' '"i: l tM-CT. re ; t 1 . I' Si.' nee 115 fe-t to ie TV--' ? north-writ side of w V f'KinninK:-knownon Y, 2- nnvm- thr-..n,I.; 20aiTi-eof which are de.-ov. i vVrj" d a log house and W bare" n 1-,' f Of Wm. M lller. TakVn , - at the gait of Johnston V x-. -A""-. !I 'riirht. titk- ana :s T. V illtani. of. in and to a ! , situate in 'atnhria towrnli.;, ",." 'r adjoining lands of WiH.atnV't.''.' Oriffith Lloyd, and other', -.V-V . L: more or le? s. about 40 acres of . having thureon erect e i a !csr r- u'. iS"v now in the oreupancTof TL.. TIW-' ' in execution and to" be sId at St Williams. u' .-Hi.:- Also, all the rlifht. title r,1 mer.of. in and to a K.t ot irr .ui"'.. r- ooih of Kbeushurir I atr.- . uesirriDoii as loiiuwg: R r. .rt Vi .;.. ,. r .l .... "'" "iiimc ii 1 ; 100 ieet to an aury ; tr.enr a iict ; thence thence alone the place of h' O.n . T ... X eupancy of Thomas Jatn Tatc and to be sold at the u!i of ThumiTv nee of F. A. Shoemaker. Also, nil thenirLt. t:i; 1... . Vowinkle. of. in and to .-...J." M ment. or tract of land, citux: in w Cambria count v, a.1.:uiDg lan !..f j John Spade. Fiaart. xthimUn .:. 4O0 acres, more or less. s.iar. snf w -V-,,' having thereon erected a . no r.o'rt irame barn, and saw mill. Tats:, ,iM!T to be sold at tb -uit of Joi n Crf-Kwj -Catharine Vowirkel. Aluo. all the right, title and ln-r. Bowers, of. in and to a pier or tirv ' nte in Susquehanna t. wu.i, pi ra '-' Fa., adjoining lauds cf W.s',.r r.,lB l,' rt.rner, ana ot hers. ciiirai!::r. 4 ith a-half story plank house, :u r. Joseph liowers. siDi a ot.e aa ; -s.u.- , house and shoemaker sh p. 1: w .n: Of Adam Bower?. Taken m -$-. n'.w 8dd at the suit of Abraham Kjr;:t'ii A r (. all the risrtit. atid iii-r.s Barnicl. of, in and t" a lot of enW; the villase of St. Amttti'tine. ('.'"' Cambria count v. Pa., a ijoiii.L- li' c'i ere. James Mckenzie, and otters. r,r erected a two story house. kn--wa u initon Hotel." now in theo'cupit-vciH leu. Taken in exe-ut.c unl :.. of Einstine i Kro. IltliMAN KAVXKE Sheriff's Office, tbtt.sNur Sif . if n 4 T! mit roo' yon T- to r -cr fc-re tr t. enl i tb i Kb Wti U ' oe irr; rer. I ,'T111I wrd. wto. ra; J e"n1 : d trn. 5 u jilfOil It'. I nit; I -uf b. f5r: L0 Another Tragedy On Monday after noon lal af.ital shooting afTiay tccurred at the marbleized mantel establishment of L. II. Smith & Co., li7 Liberty street, Pittsburgh, resulting in tho death of a marble polisher and slater named Tracy, from a pistol wound received at the hands of John Callahan, employed at the estab lishment as a marble polisher. It appears that Tracy came up to the second Rtory of the marble works, where Callahan was employed, nd, as is alleged, with a stone iu bis hand, approached Callahan, between whom and the deceased a feud had existed for over a year. Tracy was somewhat un der the influence of liquor and greatly ex cited, and began to talk in a threatening manner, when Callahan told him "if he wanted to fight he had better jjo outside, as they did not want any trouble there." Tracy, who seems to have Wen bent on precipitating a conflict, then approached Callahan, when both parties clinched, tumbled ou the floor together and lolled over several times. In the scufile Tracy, who was the heavier mau, seems to have got the best of the fight, as Callahau was bitten ou the arm. and his hli. rtr,i shirt considerably torn in the tussel. Cal lahan while dowu cried out that Tracy was biting him, and a moment after he released himself from Tracy's giasp. As soon as ' he got on his feet Callahan pulled out a ' small Smith & Wesson revolver and fired j two shots at his antagonist in rapid sue-I cession, one of the balls penetratioc the ' left b.east of Tracy. Callahau immedi- ! ately lied, and the wounded man walked down a side stairs to Cecil alley, and ! thence along the alley to GrafTs commis- j sion house, entered the store, and after re- j marking to Mr. J. A. Graff, pm shot," I fell down on the tloor and died in lens thau 1 ten minutes from the time the shot was ! ired Subsequently Callahan appeared at j the Mayor's office and gave himself up, i and was taken to the Central Station ! uouse. An inquest was subsequently held on the remains of the murdered man, and after hearing all the testimony in the case t he eoroner's jury came to the conclusion that underall the circumstances the shoot ing was justifiable. SHERIFF'S SAI.Lrh vt sundry wilts of Fsrl F:;ii h'irri fVirxj. issued out of ;;Jt r Pleas of Cambria county ana ;o x- r will be exposed 10 Fubiic i.&::st, in . Den sou nr. on Shi urlir, X. it Ihj. int.. at 1 o cioct, p m . V.t :'.;... K;ate, to wit : All the right, tit le and inter's: t-f of. in and to a piece or !: . f (tro:.-: ! Washington township. !!.: r. x:r. on Pa. Ji. It. and adoinng ,a :;.'; s ton, Christopher L-ip aud .::. 1 ar.i: erected a two story frame t ..c-.1 ..-: paney of John Burn?. Tak : .L eie..:. , be sold at the tuit of L. S!ra;. Also, ail the rijilit. titic air: V. r...' C. Mann. of. in ami toa p:e f it;."".; Mate In Clearfi: i township. ( V.:t joining lands of Peter M 'Goue... J : Philip Cooper, aud other, epuli s it more or less, a)ouL 5 arrtrsof w:;.-i.i hnviusr thereon erected a nr s: 17:1 and board stable, now in ti t :;i;-" Suttleraoyer. Taken iu eit-ca", : s:. at the suit of Liovd &. (.V. (-LC .-v-i. 'uil et. al. Also, all the right, till-s.r.1 !r.:nv Roto. of. in and to a piece r (:.. x in Adams township. Can,! r.,i c i" " land of .Martin Custer. Pavid kr.it. mer. and others, containing a--e - haFins thereon erected r. or;e 5:.ry; and a k b.irn. now in the oa;E"; Kose. Taken In executiou anile mi suit of Henrv Borer. lihKMAN B A I'M El Sheriffs Office, Kbonsburj. JS 11 3 SCHOOL TEACHERS VA. In each county for the Snriup aa-! 5 rv Ier . omit. Sond i.'t cir'Ulsrf: ticulars. ZKKJLKKAM.i l KL'i.f n if; U. I . Al.I.r.X off-r5 h; $an'.a CHOICE MIXED GLAD!! at wholal4 for 3 for p-r 1 !? ; exir'.-9 on recemt ul inc- i . 11 TIIK l.iT K' K'OK The ubjet is all important. "t It replenishes the roTorr.iii- ri: 1'--' poverlshes the pcopie: ui -.k- 1: the poor rich: uiake ( of :"" tho wisdom of le:jdat4n : ism and"w onien fe. 1 sn i. The otl-h tovictorv. Men or '-nicn wni:'"!' "' town. Addresi HP.N KY H " L-1 -" T I V IT 1 V , VV VV tTIlU"'11 " " " .... - - - FLom:xtu "l rv . . r ' . ... 4 Vi. t' iioni ( rsUl IM.H1 PJ ata-nst the Str.-r. tVhe.r t JJand Greyer &. Baker Companies. -r-- " Ik nnaUti 1 ' Surrmr'Crtrt " ' In favor of the PL( K ENCE. - T 2 liu.hen the Mvw.-'ii ".' "r' h Tin: xnv t i orevE Is the OSL J" in irhi'f " " . " U a ntt fnrtrar!. t f" tV1"- ' ; x Simt-'r't - 1 h' -.y"''". 2 Sold for Cash Om.y. 'V' 2 CI.fBSaui rKALEh r p"i"74- , Seven persons were buried in the ruins of a house which fell in Cincinnati ou Tuesday night last, one of whom, a little girl, died in fifteen minutes after being taken from the debris. The others will probably recover. morning Major Riley telegraphed to the 1 ope for his blessing on Mi r,iirr;,o ..j shortly befoie the ship sailed the Papal blessinjr was received by cable. The Visitation Convent, near Wash ington, which received last year Bertha Gerolt, the daughter of the laterRussian Minister to the United States, as one of its professed sisters, has within its walls a daughter of the Emperor Iturbide and a daughter of Gen. Scott. A few weeks since the daughter of Admiral Sands took the white veil in this same convent Sixteen or eighteen years ago two em bryo statesmen were candidates for the .7. Vl umy surveyor at St. Louis a ti ue greatness. To-day the successful can- t hrrha htwfUi8 while the 2r t1hrou8h tlj? mos remarkable chap ter of absurd accidents the world ever saw enentoftheitedStates -CourZ'. In an affray on Cherry Creek. Pento se county, Miss., on last Thursday W ive"thT.a: I? dKCad : La' k Mil- ken, and jlm McC was ,. bruiged Vad m faCt "'afJ to each sss-otJs ass-i Lauc.e i iEi.DOFCoRK.The Nebraska Ma.e Board of Agriculture last - e r offered a premium or fifty dollars fo'r the best yield of corn in that State in S13, which was awarded to Mr. M. M. Nelson of Cass county, upon the following showing : The crop was raised on thirty-five acres ground, first prairie broken in 1S71, and the cost of cultivation was as follows : Plowing, Sl.25 per acre $43 75 I tantiug, per acre, 45c 15 75 Cultivating, per acre, $1.80 63 00 Harvesting, 51.25 per acre 43 75 Jtrt, UMr. a tbu iTh ei' ( lech Jf aft? ui E':! t e PKti Hd ' larch, 1 f wa, itT 1 k It Jm1 at Lisr a L pnrct rtr SI -S-IE Yp UU p J J J DOl mii Mf. I irweek. I woe f e of i-Thc C tk r-i n for ' ither jt t'.ut tha i-A vo rm B'i ru'.ders ted bv it p!s;e Th e Kl&Cc srtion o nd to :rg a The f 1 Jchnat ocral gi 1i of tt i to tl -Mr. . sir, on 1 fc'ween 1 . and it h a t& -Tbe I Y.itzio itig a Its yea a:hr c In th -The ( f iicn ;io tb 'i Parr,.! . Ji si?, Ure nhlp, -1'ostej ' dc sal. i h cow .ehold X-i a ce in : My -If yo-j "S w.t tipou f ;:i i Urn "rlctlj tanQ-B 1 anor Sta ?an fr jun. " rnnu rioii A. yoni ! W,,b f, I freig' ?u- Tl at awh,,s ho!d a -:- Ul. "f toem . .il " feastiassa w mis Thi Srxcina Machine V" the user. U jnitd t..r ,f'!:v.','.,.' ..0 ..w 4 . ... 71 If thsrf fit n St' fill l'MI. t ... - ... ., .." ...I,, t.. I A .M Li it- wins iiiu 11 . iii'i'iu - ,-:J ' Total cost, S4.75 per acre $1GG 25 These thirty-five acres yielded three thousand two hundred and two and a half bushels per acre. The variety was the mahogany." and its weight averaged sixty-threo pounds to the bushel. The above statement was supported by aflidavit, as required by the board. There are several kinds of worms which trouble horses ; the pin-worms (poiuted at both ends) are the most common and mott dangerous. .Sherikan" Caralry Condition 1 owders will In a few days eject the worms, and the horse will begin to thrive. . n CRAIN THRESH WOOD SAWING h Parties wUowi.h to l"" proved to he superior to '' .. en.l fi.r circular ,!' "n.,i'rjti fr will be forwarded up-,n 1 " BUY J. & P. COATS' BU THREAD fsrjrarP; Factories and machine shops should not be allowed to run a day without Join ton's Anodyne Liniment. In case of a sudden accident, an immediate use of it may save weeks of suffering, and peihaps a limb or even life. DMlNISTKATOIi. Etaw of V"iV. mia':r2i Harlnar been .n '"cf Si. 7.. tate of Pai'lf1'''; Viewed tof. s township, aii r.t?ii.?;l:,u i beiot.y notilied th.it 1 ' ri ... leitlent' iit. I' " ,s-i.-t. -f I I J'wanit istiing -non. Tlire c f oae.l ! die,i t ! 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