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EBCKSBUHC, PA.,
FrWay Morning, - - June 12, 1871.
Our Missionaries in Mexico.
'Tin: election in Oregon took place last !
Monday week. a.:l, as usual, it was report- certainlv intend not bins; derogatory
rd by telegraph that the Radical State ; t the ciiaiacter or the motives of either
ticl.ct was elected. Complete returns, j our Methodist or Presbyterian fellow-citi-
however, show that such was not the fact, I zc-ns when we say that it is possible to
(i ,f r:,,. ,:t nmn.,.i,. ! conceive of a better training for influence
A Pf.rsevf.rixc. Gedmas Wooer. j A Noki.e Charity. The will of J. Ed
The Smyrna (Pel.) Tin,c rel tcsthe follow- j gar Thomson, if it can be carried out ac-
intr story . tiice is euouguoi romance : curuiu iu iiiicthdm? oi mw wwiun ,
connected with the marriage which we
publish this week to cram a three-hundred
Iseirs anil fofifical Hews.
Mi
Jlleeliiifl of til Vow.i.'tj C'onn:s.
tee.
The proceedings tf the I'cm'.c: :il :e
County Committee, which mctnttho Co-.ut
House on Monday last, will be found in
our local department. It will be seen that
Mr. John JIannan, of Johnstown, was
elected the additional delegate from this
comity to the Democratic State Convention
at Pittsburgh, and that he and his col
league, ex-Shariff Rlair, were instructed to
vote for Roui::tT L. Johnston, T.sq., of
this place as the 1 Vri-.or-.atie candidate for
Judge of the Sup: erne Couit. Our rcad
c re are aware that, there are tiro addition
al Judges of the Court to bo elected next
November. And as under a- provision inthe
new constitution no elector can vote for
more than one candidate, it follows of
course that both the Democratic and Re
publican nominees will he elected.
"Wo have heretofore spoken favorably of
the nomination of Mr. Johnston for rca- j
pons stated by r.s, w hich it is not especially (
necessary now to repeat,. The Supreme i
Court, as at present constituted, consists
f Governor, was re-elected by a majority of
1(V!0 over Tolman, Radical, and Camplell,
Independent, and that A. L. Dow, Demo
cm!, wa elected to Congress. Thus Oie
g'lii in the far west sends greeting to her
two redeemed and Democratic sisters in
the extreme east, New Hampshire and
. Connecticut, and by her vote forecasts tho
downfall r the present national adminis
tration ami the certain election of a Dei'io-
', catie President in l-STfi. The Now Yoik
i WoilJ. of last Saturday, speaks of the re-
with a Spanish-American people than that
page novel, if some sensation writer only
had the text. . Miss Fisher, tho bride
named in the notice (sister of Mr. Oscar
which goes to make a worthy and faithful i Fisher, jeweler), is a modest, cheery little
bolt as foilr.vs :
1 11 a country so sparsely settled and de-
void i f easy intercommunication as Oregon j
it ni.-iv be expected that several days will
c!ap--e before complete returns of a general 1
election can be received. From what is al- j
ready known, however, and estimating thi i
vote in tho far eastern comities, where the
Democrats larpely preponderate, our corres- j
pendent at the Statu capital felt warranted (
in Icleirraphinc: yesterday that the entire ,
British or American disciple of John Knox
or of John V esley. J iierc are a great
many excellent men among the native
Catholic priests of countries like Mexico
and Peru. All intelligent travelers from the
days of John T. Stephens to our own have
borne witness to this fact, to the hospitali
ty, the kindness, the furtherance of their
scientific researches, which they have met
with from the better class of "padres" in
these countries. But we are very sure that
if the Roman College for the Propagation of 1 so doing his heart weut out after the little
the Faith were called upon to select mis- j school girl. He proposed. She, or her
sionaries who should be pent into New I parents for Lei , declined by reason t.f her
German girl,, who for nearly six years lias
leen a resident of our town. Nine rears
ago Mr. Kleematin, ou a visit to his home
in Germany, after gaining a clever compe
tency in the gold mines of California, met
Miss Nathalie in her father's home in the
little city of Ostrowa where both were
reared he a bachelor of thirty, she a
schoolgirl below sweet sixteen. Mr. Klee
matin would daily visit Mr. Fisher, to tell
him of tho wonders of America, and while
England for the purpose of reclaiming the
children of that stiff-necked and rebellions
generation the Puritans, who cheered stout
Lndieott wheu he cut out the cross from
the standard of England, the Roman Col
lege for the Propagation of the Faith
would not go at once to Jalisco or Guate
mala in quest of them. It is one thing to
tend missionaries from one Christian coun
try in which a particular form of Christi-
Dcmneratie State and Congressional ticket ! anity predominates into another Christian
was elected by upwards of 1000 majority
This result, which is confirmed hj the As
sociated Press despatch this morning, had
been anticipated in The World. In view of
tho presw.it condition of our politics it was
iil'.i for anybody to expect anything else.
Tle country ia moving by a common lm-
i mil: towards a Democratic restoration, and
of fire members Judgo Agnew, of Pea- i would hav been Htrauge indeed if Ore-
Chief .T.istiec,) Judge 1 go had Peru laggara. juo n ia-.es oi jvew
I 1 am 'M 11 re iliio v.iniiirLii ii., 111 n niv ii, iuu
Itcpuhlicans have maintained a mastery for
twenty vrars, were during the jiast spring
vcr county, (now
Williams, of Pittsburgh both from tho
extreme western portion of tho State
Judgo Gordon, from Jeficrson county, in
the northwestern pait of the State. Judgo
Mercur, from Bradford county, in the
north, and Judge Fharswood, from Phila
delphia. If tlr? Republican State Conven
tion should nominate, ns its candidate,
Judge Paxson, of Philadelphia, as it seems
to be conceded P. will, 7ii election being a
fixed fact, would give that city tico mem
bers of the Court. A:i effort is being made
to renominate Judgo Ludlow, of the same
city, who was the Democratic candidate
against Gordon last fall, and if this move
ment Fhould prove to be successful, then
Philadelphia would have three judges of
tho Court and tho north oua and the west
three, thus leaving the central or mountain
region of tho State without a voico ou the
bench of that Court. This would not be
fair and w ohUI not bo doing cv en-liatided
justice to tho Democracy of the inUrior
part of tho commonwealth, and it seems to
us that this consideration alone ought to
liavo a controlling influence in tho conven
tion. Mr. Johnston's locality among "tho
frosty sons of thunder" is, therefoie, a re
commendation in hs favor in the contest.
Tie is known and sdmitttd to be an able
and accomplished lawyer and an honest
man one who could never be swayed from
a faithful and conscientious discharge of
his official duties by any personal, much
lens any base or improper consideration.
Y"e, therefore, renew our former recom
mendation in favor of his nomination and
submit liis name to the fair and impartial
consideration of the Pittsburgh conven
tion, knowing that no inoro competent or
worthy candidate could bo nominated.
John P. Jones, a native of Wales, U
fine of tho Republican United States Sena
tors from the Silver State of Nevada.
His journey in life has been quite a ro
mance, and if wo had time or space in our
paper we would give a history of his ca
reer. He is the richest member of tho Sen
ate, and although a Republican, is a hard
wynctf man. IIo delivered a ,'ieoch a few
weeks ago in the Senato on the subject of
vho finnices of the county, which attracted
ry general attention for the reason that
ho announced views in direct hostility to
the present financial policy of his party.
East week he and Fume other Republican
members of Congress had an interview
with the President on this question, and
Grant reduced his views to writing and
gavo them to Senator Jones for pub
lication. We have not room to publish
his letter, and will only say :that it reads
very much a3 if it had been written by
James Buchanan, or some other Demo
cratic President. In his letter to Senator
Jones tho President recommends tho re
peal of tho legal tender act ami a prompt
and speedy return to specie payments.
This letter, or, as it is called, tho tneinor
onihua of the ideas of the President, has
caused a profound sensation in Washing
ton and will split tho Radical party in Con
gress into factions.
The Hai risbuig Patrio!, in referring to
the letter of General Grant to Mr. Jones,
tswept into the general current, and Oregon,
whose recent antecedents have been Demo
cratic, could do no le.-s than stay in It.
The most significant feature of the result
in Oregon is the. complete failure of Ihft so
called Independent movement. Our news
paper friends who from imperative motives
of bclf-respect Iiavo been forced to ahandon
the pnjiport of the Kejxihlioan organization,
but whose eyes have not yet perceived the
trun path, hoped much from it. The result
shows, just as we predicted that, it would
last, week, that tile new party was third in
the contest. It demonstrates that a third
party is not wanted by the pejile. The
Democrats find that w ithin theirown organ
ization evrry patriotic aspiration Of their
hearts can le satisfied, and tho discontented
Ilejiublieaiis are learning verj- fast that tho
salvation of the country must be accom
plished by the same organization, and that
a gathering of hetorogenous elements with
no common purpose in view, and calling it-m-lf
an independent party, can never do it.
There a re convent ions atiout to be held in Ill
inois, Indiana, and Kansas to organize this
third party, but the movement in those
States will have no more favorabltt result
than that in Oregon. V hen ths time lor
voting comes, sensible men who are anxious
to defeat thu party iu power will not throw
their votes away ujion an impossible cause.
Mr. Grorgd A. La Dow, who has been
successful on I h Congressional ticket, is the
first member elect of tho Forty-foivith C'ou
gress. He is a Democrat , ami his election
may be regarded a? jirophetio of the politi
cal complexion of that body.
country in which a totally different form
I of Christianity predominates. The latter '
; is infinitely the more delicate and difficult
I operation of the two. It requires on the
part of those who undertake it not only
j apostolic zeal but diplomatic tact and dis
cretion. It these be Jacking the apostolic
zeal of the missionary will be but too like
ly wo fear to retard than to advance his
work. It is by no means clear to us that
the Methodist missionaries who have
thrown themselves with a perfectly praise
worthy earnestness into the field opened to
Protestant euterpriso and conviction by
the triumph of liberal principles in Mexico
have been wholly fortunate in these essen
tial particulars. We have been obliged to
chronicle already one melancholy case of
a religions riot in a remote town of the
State of Jalisco, resulting in tho brutal
assassination of an American missionary
and of a Mexican Protestant convert who
was living with him. In that case it was
clear enough that an ignorant village
priest had aggravated if he had not excit
ed the anger of the mob against "heretics."
The Mexican Governor intervened, as our
roaders will remember, promptly and reso
lutoly to put down the uproar and to pun
ish the assassins. But though the unfor
tunate missionary in this instance merits
all our sympathy, it is by no means certain
that he may not have contributed by un
wisdom on his part to tho popular fury to
vhlch ho Jell a victim. J he last mails
from Mexico bring us a btrongbut temper
ate protest in the columns of the Monitor,
a Mexican journal of tho capital, against
what is described as the denunciatory and
vituperative language about Mexico and
the Mexcans used by an American mis
sionary preaching in tho metropolis. Tho
age. Jie leu ior America, witu no auate
nu nt in his passion, however.
Two years later the Fishers also came
to America to join Oscar, the young lady's
brother, who had settled in this town.
Mr. Kleemann happened to be in Philadel
phia while the family were there, en
ronto for Smyrna. Again ho met Miss
Nathalie and pressed his snit with more
earnestness, but she, not yet satisfied as
to her age and the advisability f the
change of situation, still decliued. So for
the second time they separated he for
California, she for Smyrna. For nearly
six years they remained thus far apart, un-
will cause a very noble charity to be found- '
ed. We know of no class of people, says
the Lancaster JntrHi'i fi'',-r, who are so ;
much entitled to the kindly consideration j
and the sympathy of the public as the em- ;
ploy ees of raili-oads, engaged, as they are, I
iu a very dangerous and pooi ly-paid call
ing. To their skill ami vigilance we aie
indebted for the safety and comfort we
enjoy in traveling. We confess to having
always entertained a high appreciation of
the obligations we are under to the engine-driver,
for exposing himself to peril,
for encountering the heat of the day and
and the storm and darkness of the night,
condemned to constant watchfulness, sep
arated from his family, never enjojing a
comfortable meal, and compensated for all
this service and danger with less than a
thousand dollars a year. It is a small re
ward for so great exposure and risk.
We are glad that one who bad so full a
knowledge of the merits and sufferings of
all who are employed on railroad trains
: has seen fit to testify his appreciation of
i them, by the dedication of two million dol
j lars to tho support and education of the
' female children of those who are killed
! while in the performance of Hieir duty.
We fear, however, that in the weakness
j of his last moments Mr. Thomson has
J practically nullified tho provisions of his
carefully considered will. His affection
for his niece induced him to add a codicil
in which he declared his desire that in the
til Friday, 2d nit., while Miss Nathalie i settlement of his estate she should be con-
was looking from her brother's store win
dow, she espied her puitor in the pilotage
of Sir. Houlston, one of our spry old w id
owers, who was directing Mr. Kleemann
to her abode. The marriage notice fin
ishes the story.
"After a courtship summed up in three
interviews in nine yeais, 'the twain are
made one,' and left Philadelphia for their j
home in San Francisco on lhursday last.
In the six years that intervened between
the second and 'bird interviews, the coy
maiden refused a second suitor, hoping to
accept the otter she had twice refused be
fore. And she did."
says :
"The conversion of the President to this
sound democratic doctrine will give new
hope to the country. Had he rive years ao
acted on the principles euuiici:tled to day
the legal tender act would have been an
nulled by a decision of the siijircine court de
claring ils unconstitutionality, it j.s ttter
l.lto than never. We welcome the ;t,lvent of
tlii President upon a sound limtnciiU phit
1'oi m and trust t iiat ho ma y st vnd firm w hero
he has planted himself in deli. nice of tho
great bulk of his party follow ing."
At tho election held last March in New
Hampshire for Governor and members of
the Legislature, there was no choice by
the. iieople for the highest ofhnq uruier a
singular provision of tho constitution of
the State, although Weston, tho Demo
cratic candid.i to, had lmsrc vote. than his
r..dical opponent. A third candidate, w ho )
repi escnled the temiveranco party, polled !
ioi"ugh volns to throw the election of Gov- J
ernor under the law into the bandi of the j
Legislature. That bodj' met at Concord ;
on the ?,d of this month and elected James v.
A. Weston, the Democratic candidate, by
a vole el lo'S in his l.ivor to l it for Mc
Cuicl.ins, Republican. Tin political revo
luti u in Now Hampshire id therefore com
plete aud tho aseor.dciicy of the Demo
cracy in thiit St.ite bids fair to be perma
nent, provided always, however, that thev
conduct the affairs of administration in I
the true interests of tho people and not for j
ioeu owu personal ami pecuniary interests.
Hox. W. A. Wali.i.aci: read an address
on Thursday last in Philadelphia, upon
the occasion of tho inauguration of the
University of Pennsylvania, which con
cludes as follows:
As the end and aim of good govnnrment
is the happiness of our sjieeiob, so tho objec
tive point of roal education is the thorough
knowledge and practical training of the fac
ulties and powers of man. The (irwek le
gend, "know thyself," isas truly tho embodi
ment of wisdom now as it was throe thous
and yars Hgo. ftklll in th natural sciences
is not the highest attainment jiossible toonr
powers, nor is tho practical application of
tho woiutorfni discoveries therein tuo nomest
field for the exercise of our faculties. Tho
study of tho world of matter, its mighty
agencies aud its hidden forces, teaches us
their control and enables us to grasp their
secrets, and wield their powers for our per
sonal advantage or for the material do vehe
ment of our laud or nation. Through the
knowledge hnro obtained we iny make the
rich valleys and tho rugged mountains of
the State teem with an industrious and pros
jierons people, and cities, towns and ham
lets to dot her surface in every section. Wo
may thus harness tho elements and comjW
them to aid us in dragging riches from the
earth; maycause valley and mountain, river
and hillside to echo with tho shriek of tho
engine, and evidences of energy, of indus
trial enterprise and of valuable production
to bo everywhere apparent. Beyond and
above pitch study and such results, for it in
rl rides thorn all and infinitely more, stands
the stndy of our powers and capacities of
our true relations to creation and to Al
mighty l'ower. To learn to fathom theso, to
measure, anil to guide Ilium, is to fit man to
rightly wield his scejitre as the central fig
ure ofcreation. A natomy, surgery and medi
cine bring us into intimate relation with our
own being; they grasp our physical nature
and teil ns of tho form or ai t to reconstruct
the casket, that contains tho juwel tha Im
mortal soul, t Ither sciences tell of the world,
but fail to show us how we are connected
with it; these point out the law of our exist
ence mul show us th wondorons mechan
ism of our bodies. They teach us all we
know of th mystwrions connection of nerve
and will, of brain and thought, of body ami
soul; they traverse the shallow land between
a life and death, and with cautious step
s-k for facts upon which thy themselves
advance and from which reason, phllosojihy
and skepticism weave their ingenious the
ories. Ages of toil enable them to toll us
what we are and by their aid reason and
philosophy will yet be enabled to sound tho
depths of our jwiwers'.and to prove us pos
sessed of faculties that lit us for unlimited
progress. With firm hand, praying eye and
careful step they onward move, construct
ing with alient toil the pede.st.il iipon
which rests the superstructure man'skiiow
ledge. of hiinsolf.
A IIkko Exginfkr. There are heroes
filling private stations, braver than ever
poetry sung or romance recorded. Our
workshops and our fields can produce men
who arc more entitled to the spurs than
any knight who ever won them in the
field of battle, or shivered lance in tiie
tourney. Every day brings to our notice
the act of some brave man, who, in the
discharge of his simple duties, displays
more truo heroism than many of those
whom history has recorded as "lighting
like Richard Lionheart and dying like
Philip Sidney." One of these examples
comes from Ecllefonte, and iu these words
is told the story of Ed. Nolan's bravery.
"A little child lay down on tho Snow-
j shoo railroad a day or two ago and went
j to sleep- The train was thundering along
j at a furious rate, when Conductor Ed'
Nolan discovered the little one sleeping
sidered as though she was his daughter.
Under this testament, the lady, if she is
disposed to take all the advantage which
the law gives her, may very well claim, we
think, that she inherits, after the death of
Mrs. Thomson, the w hole property. We
presume, however, that Mr. Thomson
knew her aud was satisfied that she would
not take more from his estate than she
thought he would like her to have. We
do not doubt therefore that tho will will
be carried out according to its manifest intent.
Mexican journalist very courteously but peacefully, with its tiny arms thrown over
rr.oriTs of Sukkp Fakmixo in Nk- i
biiaska. The farmer who settles on the
fertile xrairio of Nebraska, should make
"live-stock" a watchword. A coirespon- t
dent in that State sends us the following j
encouraging "showing," made by Mr. !
Myers, of Gage county, a sheep farmer,
who has bheii about four years in Nebraska.
Gage county is in the southern portion of :
the State ; and a branch of the Riirlington i
Missouri River Railroad runs through it. I
The land is good and the natural grasses
sweet and nutritive : but it is no more
than a fair average of Nebraska, south of
tho Platte. j
Mr. Myers thus "figures" the problem ;
of sheep farming in Nebraska, with a I
thick of 1,000 head : 100 tons of hay, cost- j
ing $15.00 per ton ' for putting up, 00;t
C0 bushels of sheaf oats, $100 ; shepherd-
ing for 8 months, S150 ; wages of one man i
for 4 months, 100 ; do., one month :0 ; !
washing, shearing and packing wool, $!i0
The ricliest man in Mississippi to-day
is a neirro who in ISC ) was a slave.
The Pope was well enough to receive '
the American pilgrims on Thursday. ;
An Indian tribe, in Michigan, is said
to consist of an old horse, a chief, and a '
demijohn of whisky.
Sharllrsville, Perks county, lias a hog
weighing lTo pounds, that has eight dis
tinct feet, two on each leg.
At a fire in Rutland, N't. , on Tuesday,
the body of a woman, covered with stab
wounds, was dragged from the llames.
An explosion of a boiler on Saturday i
morning in the Ashton (New York! Sait
Mills killed two men and wounded two !
others.
Macon. Mis.. is willing to make affi
davit that an African bride within its lim
its is nursing her first-born babe at the age
of sixty.
At East Worcester, N. Y., on Mon
, day morning, several houses and barns
were carried off by the giving way of
dams. No lives were lost.
I A Pennsylvania lady has shown her
! flattering preference for her husband by
, returning to his bosom for the sixth time
j after eloping w ith other gentlemen.
I The Eail of Gran art! lias been nonii
i nated Knight of the Grand Cross of St.
; Gregory the Great by Pope Pius IX. Lord
, Granard is a convert to the Catholic re
! ligion.
! A pious old gentleman in Georgia "has
j never sworn an oath," and has thirteen
j grown-up and unmarried daughters. Mor
; : Even profanity may possibly have
advantages.
A car-load of prairie hay was recently
sent from Chicago to Liverjxxd, via Phil.n- i
: delphia. It is the intention of the English j
importers to test the pof-sibility of using ,
this material for paper-making. ,
John L. Hays, Esq., of Mt. Jackson, j
Lawrence county, during three days last
! week killed 87 potato bugs, which he
i found on fieventeen vines. The largest
; haul made at one time was loo. j
j Governor Hartianft issued death war-
! rants on Tuesday last for the execution of ;
tha tn-f-a r n t-r t'i v.- T Auia 1 ? rmc 1 1 t i r fwl t
.lol.n Moo.lv i ilarrishnrn. jnlv Ub for I reserved the thread of
the murder of Abraham IJeUm, near Mid
d'.etown, last November.
A body was disinterred at Rutland,
i Yt. recently, which was found to be ctri-
fied. The deceased was buried in 172,
I and then weighed alKut 150 pounds. The
j body, it is said, now- weighs upwards of
. one thousand pounds.
For marrying Miss Rogers, who is
i thirteen years old, Thomas Reedy, of
Rowlev. Mass., has been sent to the State
j prison for four years. Technically, it was
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t.o
U,,f .
nu-
rs. Ann Yaniivi
wns moit:itK- I., i .'.'s Of
i With Coal-oil on S.pel lv ;, K:r''i"
mother, and husband wjV,1; I!"
; while tenting the b-ir:i;n'' '" "
, The victim was i,:v (., . t!
and was married t,,,. y
. -We have the. x, fi.
; ranee that no i'rei 'i y ,
of cultivation
tors below hej- l, ,,,.,., j 1 "
sinks there ben.-;,;!, ';
cose veins, c.'.d f,,.; ,' '
oi me iteart may be by.
....v. ... .in ,;i.r
( fastened above the kWa:'l
deformity may be avoid.. .1 '
Pear Lake. Idaho. J..M.
not more than five or vx
covered with fur or sp,,.t
snuil' color. The'f i...-,
.-.... w't.l.i lirl H ....N .i
"-" u:e c,.
to the nose, with vcty f,,";; i
ears like thos of a ho;p
long. It did notion'- f. .... ' : '
slowly, diving and c.inin.. ,. '
In 1770 the bride ,.f a'' !
Pennsylvania, who had p,
from England, sent tl,e f.V'
i .-v line iiiimcsuc cloth
! shillings; needles. ' r
, oihck camia snors ciV .1
i , , . " ( .
: ami a imnrtsome sprin P
also included the sciulii?" of.'
j dyed over "of any color' i,:,'!,
: best."
! . The New Yoik .',-.,;
Western crusaders seem t..l.
green curtain down. "!.;v
they attracted a great dr.-ai'..f
I the general subject of tern-...,'-
I oouoieuiy accomplished K.ra
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case of abduction : and Reedy had al-
very decidedly reminds the missionary of
whom he complains that it is no more de
cent to hold all Mexico responsible for the
murder of the unhappy Mr. Stevens and
his proselyte at Almalulco that it would
have been to hold all Massachusetts re
sponsible for tho burning of the Ursulino
Convent at Cuarlestown in that State, and
tho expulsion of the nuns iu a freezing
winter's night. Another Mexican journal
remonstrates also w ith still another mis
sionary for converting his Protestant jul-
pitinto a political rostrum, from which he !
lectures the Mexican reople on the princi-
pies of government and on the federal sys
tem as practised in the United States. As
wo have said, the language used by both
of these organs of Mexican public opinion
is most moderate and becoming. They
do not allude to the matter in any spirit of
bigotry or with tha apparent purpose of
"making a point" either against Protes
tanism or the missionaries of Protestmt-
lsm. Indeed, in both instances theso
journals happen to represent not tho cleri
cal or church party of Mexico at all but the
liberals, to whoso victory it is due that
there are now any Protestant missionaries I
at all at work in Mexico. All that they in-
siet upon is the obvious indecorum either j
of abusing a country at largo for the faults I
of a particular province or town, or of of- J
fering to infctmc'; an independent poople in !
the theory and practice of their own foims I
of government within a fsw months after !
the first coming of the would-be instructors j
among them. There are many thiiiis no !
doubt in
the rail a short distance ahead. To ptoo
the train in timo to save the child was im
possible, so over tho top of tho cars Hew
the conductor. Iu a moment Le was on
the cow-catcher ; in another twinkling of
an eye thero was a spring, the heavy train
dashed by like the wind, and down tho
bank, with somebody's household pet in
his arms, rolled brave Ned. Nolan. There
were none but the train hands present to
note this heroic action, but neither the
grass, nor the rocks, nor the mountains
could hide it from tho eye that never
sleeps, and upon the pages of Heaven's
book there was no brighter mark that
day. than that which weut to tho credit of
that gallant conductor."
A TnuniBr.rc Tornado. Twexty-Osk
Dwellinos Dkstuoyej). A dispatch da
ted Tampico, 111., June 7th, says: A ter
rible tornado passed over this village last
night, making a complete wreck of it.
Wonderful to say, no lives were lost though
a number of persons were injured, several
seriously. Twenty-one dwellings were to
tally destroyed and every house in the town
more or les3 damaged. The elevator of
Glass, Rrtrn & liryant, containing 12,000
busliels of graiu, and that of Reach con
taining 500 bushels, were totally destroy
ed, and the depot of the Chicago, Eurling
ton and Ouincy Railroad were badly dam
aged. Tho most serious casualitfcs are
those of Mrs. J. G. Gates, leg broken in
two piaces ; Marie ISane, jaw broken and
dangerously injured ; another Miss Gates,
the political administration of severely bruised ; Mrs. Pearsoil badl'v
IT.
n. Wm. A. Win ii-r I ,r ; :
Paul, declined to be a candidate for le elee-
enate, the Altoona ,s
editor, 1). W. Moore,
No in it comj.--man
could Lae
tion to the folate
recommends its lni,
Esq., for that position,
tent or moio deseiviug
I ecr. r aued.
Tnr. time fixed by the Democratic Coun
'.y Committee, at its meeting at the Court
House last Monday, for the election of
delegates to the next County Convention
is Saturday, Sept. 10th tho Convention to
meet on the following Monday. Although
this may seem to be a late day on which
to hold the delegate elections and for the
meeting of tho County Convention, wo fully
and heartily endorse it, and we will keep a
column open in the Fkeema from this
day until tho meeting of tho County Con
vention in order to enable all tho candi
dates for tho different county offices to an
nounce their names. If a n,an or
tend to bo a candidate, he ought not to Le
afraid to say so and to announce it publicly
in the Democratic newspapers of the coun
ty, so that tho members of the party may
know and fully understand for whom they
are voting at t?ie delegate elections. Wo
recommend each and every candidate to
show his hand and let tho peoplo under
stand their political aspirations.
Mexico which must strike a newly landed
American clergyman as deplorable and fit
to bo corrected. So, too, no doubt there
aro many things in tho political adminis
tration of the United States which must
strike a newly landed English clergyman
as deplorable aud fit to be corrected. Tho
condition of South Carolina, given up
to be pilaged by thieves of all colors, or of
Arkansas, fought for in the street of her
capital by the armed bands of two rival
rogues claiming each to bo her lawful lord
and Governor, might well arouse the at
tention of such a visitor. Rut what should
we think of the newly lauded English cler
gyman if he proceeded to deliver a lecture
from the pulpit of Trinity Church on tho
corruptions and scandals of American pub
lic life? Let us try to put ourselves intn
the case of our Mexican neighbors. Of
course, the lives even of tho least judicious
of Americans travelling or sojourniiio in
Mexico must be held sacred and protected.
Tho Mexican Government has shown no
lack of alacrity in doing its duty on this
head, however, and Wo are perhaps unde
servedly fortunate in having a Minister
now at the Mexican capital, Mr. Fosteh,
who may be safely relied upon to watch
faithfully over tho performance by tho
Mexican Government of this and of all its
urcd ; Mrs. Gales, shoulder broken : Gran
ville Conner, badly hurt about the head ;
J. G. Gates, bruised seriously. A num
ber of others were injured, but nono seri
ously. We cannot estimate the amount
of damage yet. Tho people are hunting
up and gathering together what little tho
storm had left them. The tornado struck
us at 11:10, aud was accompanied by rain
and severo thunder and lightning. Tho
storm came from the west, and lasted but
a few minutes. As soon as information of
the calamity reached tho officers of the
Chicago, Burlington 6c Quincy Railroad
thoy volunteered a special train which has
just arrived, bringing Drs. Edwards and
Cook from Mendota to our assistance.
pait, ; fchedding for winter, ?50 ; louses I
at two per cent., A 70 total, 51.0:15. By I
4,500 lbs. of wool, at per lb!, ?l.So0 ; i
400 lambs, at $2.50. $1,000 ; total, ,S0O. I
Mr. Myers considers his allowance for j
expenses very liberal. lie charges hay at
too high a figure ; and the percentage of
loss is not generally so large as stated, as
sheep arc subject to no disease whatever,
on the Nebraska prairie. Ono man also '
could take charge of a dock of a thousand j
during the summer months ; and, in win- I
tor, one boy could feed them, as it is best
to let the sheep run to the hay all tho
time, and the oats are to be fed in the !
sheaf. Mr. Myers further claims that if a j
farmer will do most of his work himself, !
hiring help only whtn it is necessary for '
harvesting hay, shearing, Arc, the sheep )
will pay him $3.00 per head, as against i
$2. 00 when help is hired liberally. Mr.!
Myers estimates Ids sheep to be worth !
$:5..r0 each. On 1,000 sheep the invest- ;
ment would be 3,500 : and as tho net pro- i
fit shown
return on
cent.
above amounts
the investment
to $1,7'V).
is over 50
tho
per
trouble with such an ccc,
how ever, is that the l;t.; ,-
s:iietaik m pka.ii;t we.vi.i-r
the rumsellcr can deal in ; , - v .
year ro.md. n
Jeflersonville. Inoia?, . ,i
tragedy on Saturday c-vi,;1:J..
keeper named Mr I ci :i.i.;t ,"
wife and child, and then l;r. ,f .
mott, remarks tie P;;?s!. '
must have been :'::vn-. 1 10 '.
stead of committlr"' sti:c;il,. 1.-,".
." en ' .
simply plead insanity nl,,..,
the jury. As tl.eie wa den-.v ,!"
in the case this would l.v.e
On the old Mal : . : .' .'.'
Whitelaiid township, ai:.! i
by Mr. Davis Ruth, says tl.o V, ...
Jej''t rf'tm'-iJK stands a !,( ,
which was very fu'.', of l.'...!,,. v
ineut among these iso:, l.;ci. 5;.
ting is in full bloom. w!,";Nt t!
disappeared. . The lra-.es j;i
I?ng and l inches tde. n-.k.'-inches
in diameter ; it ;ca:s tu
substance Jin the crnter. t,;t ri-e
white rose in fuii bloom.
A heavy stotiu of th-.-.i"--. ;
and rain visited Trov. N. V v
! afternoon. During its r
1 span of the new iron !!:! :, .-
find. son to West Troy k;; (
J down or struck by li!:t:.::.g. ;. :
J into the river struck f.-nr r .r ;'. ';. .,
i at the dock under it. Ti.vr
! person; in the b at. r..'. ..f it.-. .
i posed to have esca-.e.l. l:
j loaded with iron o-,. T!.- :
1 bridge wa 240 feet 1. .i. i. i,
! Archbishop Puree;! ,.f i .:
j tliroegh bis official o l'i :. ;. .
i 7V ?t ', thus ghes tho i-.:. ;"
' cent meeting of pi elati i : - ;r
j main object of the vi-i; .-:
I the cities where they t bv c: -!
to have Metropolitan cc
' Sovereign Ponti:!'. It is u:
! Santa l'e. New Mexico. ';. ,
I cousin, Philadelphia, and 11 --. :
; choice of the Rishot.s who :.: ;-
I and Cincinnati. Peoria. I'.;i:i... .
j mended for an Episc", al --ep.
i The town of Wincln ''
serious fears of the great t. s
j monacV pond. Thin zi' t
covering twenty-live imniir- i :
l places often twenty feet dct. !!!:
t of the water for the n::'.'-, ti.
Caught hy a "Fnoo." Near the City
of Detroit a man by the name of McAr
thur was crossing a railroad track when
his foot caught fast in a "frog," and his
eil'orts to extricate it were of no avail. His
boot fitted so closely that he could not
draw his foot out, and at length he could
hardly move his leg for pain. He found
that ho must either be run over by the
next train or make known his situation.
He fchouted himself hoarse, but no on
The United States Senato seems deter
mined to annoy newspaper pnblishers as
much as possible, in its postage regula
tions. The bill repotted in that body re
quiies publishers and not subscribers to
prepay postage. Under this arrangement
thev m-isi pay and then collect frotu sub-bciibc-is.
camo. i!ter Having been a prisoner for
duties to American citizens within its juris- V' , ' 7,"?" - ??!l,"d U, wh,tl0
diction. Rut it can do no harm to? "r i",, ,? kII": V'8 Wck 1Prs
... ..... iiu.uit, .nu uic mcit came to mm to
signal tho train. Tearing the papers off
his bundle, and getting at some letters, ho
rolled them into a heap, and for fear that
the flame would die out too suddenly ho
added his clothes. The bundlo was then
made fast to tho end of his walking-stick,
and he waited until the headlight "of the
locomotive should appear. It finally greet
ed his vision and he struck his match, but
a gust .of wind blew it out I Ayothor
matcn was struck, and in an instant he
representatives, as well religious as politi-
cai, iu jucxico to remember that when you
go about to induce a man in his own house
to change his religion or to improve his
ritiins, it is desirable to refrain from de
filing his household gods, and from usin
nis sonr tureen a3 a vessel of dish
i -1 World.
lionor.-
FobLowixo is the act passed by the last
Legislature fixing the compensation of
County Commissioners:
Section J. That the pay of the. county
commissioners of the different counties in
this State shall he thre dollars per day for
each day actually employed in attending to
tho duties of their said office, and the said
per diem shall lie computed from tho first
day of January, Anno Dominoone thousand
eijiht hundred and seventy-four : Provided
That the provisions of this act shall not apl
ply to commissioners already elected and in
office, nor to counties having over one hun
dred and fifty thousand population.
A most peculiar case, as reported, is that
of the murderer, Charles Eggler, a tier
man, seventeen years old, who killed Ettie
Conking, fourteen years old, in Cayuga
county, New York. The murdered girl
was an orphan, who had been taken from
tho asylum and adopted by an aged couple
living on a farm iu the southern part of the
county. Eggler was employed as farm
hand by the old couple. One Saturday, in
April, 1H73, the old people went to a neigh
boring village, leaving the house in charge
of the girl. In tho absenco of the farmer
and his wife, the murder was committed,
there being about a dozen knife stabs on
her person. According to Eggler's story,
the gill Ettie had teased him, as was her
habit, refusing himjanything to eat, jeering
him with his ignorance of English, and,
finally, in the heat of the quarrel, seized a
knife and flourished it. Slio was large and
strong, and he says he feared for his life.
In the struggle which followed he stabbed
her repeateu.'y and escaped, leaving her to
bo fonnd dead on tho return of the farmer
and his wife. P.eing1 ?ibout to be hung on
June 5, he was, after one refusal of respite
or commutation by the Governor, condi- J
tioually pardoned, notwithstanding. It
seems that the treaty with Germany a to '
criminals is that a subject may be taken ;
homo for punishment for any crime which ;
is just what is to be done with Eggler. '
Rut as the law of Raden, from whence ho )
came, spares from death those whocommit !
capital offenses under the age of eighteen,
Eggler will have to be punished in some
other way. The efforts of bis counsel,
through the German Minister at Washing
ton and Governor Dix, have saved his life
after all. He has been brought to New
York, and will bo imprisoned in Raden
until sentence is pronounced in that country.
leadv three wives living
The farmers of ten counties of Iowa
and Minnesota are lieeing from the grass
hoppers. It is feared 'that the destructive
instcts will extend their ravages this year
throughout a much larger district than
they occupied last summer.
A i evident of Wilkes-Rarrc is building
a house without frame, weather boards, or
plastering. It. is made simply of 3 by 4
inch scantling, planed and grooved for a
separate tongue and these placed on the
edge and iiathnl down securely.
It was reported Saturday, t hat twenty
persons were drowned while sailing and
fishing on Oneida Lake, and seven persons
in Onondaga Lake. One of the most ter
rific thunder storms ever known prevailed
in that vicinity that afternoon and evening.
An ancient rille was found imbedded
in the bank of a creek in Greene county,
recently, ami on examination it was found
to have belonged to the celebrated Indian
hunter, Lewis Wetzel. The relic is in tho
IKJSsessioii of Thomas Bradley, of Waynes
burg. Five members of the volunteer fire de
partment of Williamsport, arretted on sits-
j picion of being incendiaries, have eonfess
! ed to burning nearly all the property,
! amounting to over a million dollars, d'e
! stroyed there siuco the great fire of Au-
gust, 1871.
j The Earl of Yarborough disapieared
mysteriously from tho House of Lords last
week and has not been heard of since.
When ('handler and Carpenter fail to re
spond to the yeas and nays in the Senate
nolmdy thinks of calling it a mysterious
disapjiearance.
Miss Saiana Neff, daughter of 31 r.
; .joei .c:i, oi siatintgin, i.entgn county, a
I young miss of near 12 years of age, weighs
I 180 pounds. She stands 4 feet 10 inches
j in height, and measures 4 feet 4 inches
j around the shoulders, and 3 foet around
! the waist.
i Gen. Fitzhugh Lee writes to tho Rich-
. mond Ki'uirer iu contradiction of some of
! its statements that Gen. Butler's treat- ;
; ment of him. while a prisoner in his hands, :
I "was as humane ami considerate as tho
j circumstances under which he was held
j would admit of."
j The New York JTcrahl, commenting
j on Presedeut Grant's memorandum on the
currency, praises its boldness and wisdom,
and thinks Congress at its next session
will be constrained to accept tho financial
policy of General Grant as the only means
of saving the Republican party.
A steamer fi-om Europo, which recent
ly arrived in Boston, bad among the steer
age passengers a family of Italians, aged
as follows : Father 47, mother 43. with
fifteen children, aged as follows : 23 22
2d, 10. 17, If,. 13, i 3. 11, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, (!.
Twelve v.cre boys and three girls.
Senator Jiro'.ynlow, of Tennessee, has
written a second letter ou the civil riirhts
, bill, in which he reiterates the objeeli.ms
I to it which ho mentioned in his former let
,' tor to the Colored Men's Convention. He
1 fTU. fb cai.tiAn , .--.,-1.3 ; . . c r i
! schools "an oppressive and abominable c,eat a." . , 'A
usurpation. '
They tell of a hen which floated d own
the raging tide at Mill River, for some dis
tance, in the barrel where she was lalior-
titv comes from No.th A!.b :
dams are built near t..gctlipr. v..
to restrain the floods, one a fi w !n
than the other. Should a fre-L-t
it i Lelim-cd tliit mf! ...
i destroyed. The water in t!.e ; :.i
j high, so that the road near L-.
! been raised.
j Last Monday night nn c;' "
j curred at No. 1 shaf., Nar.tio i:r. '
county, burning three inert na : -:'
; to the breaker, which as .'.
j While fighting tho ''aitic.
! tirubeis tell upon William :'
j him instantly. Alex. Ale. ( !.;.
llawley alsli. I homa.-. l.ow?;..
Manus, Henry Reiinciisnv.ii.rn--Erebs,
of the gai.g who vrereaV-i
in lighting the file, were ori'ic"""
and had to bt carried from t! ei: ::
first two were insensible wla-ti i"
the fresh air. and have sli ce
others are doing well.
A letter from Rome, spo'r.--'
Vatican, says that a enrions ('"
record of is that one frcijta-t.bT ''
United States praised for tltrir
3 ...
A WOMAN 8 I'KRIT. WITH A SxAKH. A !
lady residing near Coopertown, Tenn., '
had a vey unpleasant adventure with a !
snake the other day. Sha had just step-!
ped into the edge of a grovo when she !
felt something moving about her right :
foot. Stooping forward to see what it was, i
a largo adder struck her in the breast, his I
fangs fastening in tho bosom of hcrdres
waved his signal back and forth ,,,,1 it 1? K ""PI"u acK, ana she discovered
...i i. . .. ' r " mat sue
V.UIM1 ne inpuiaii oeatn was enrt.n in Un
ment of Catholics, both i.
few exceptions in the v!i' lt'r
history. The priests s-ay tl.at
Catholic Church has lost in i- 1
the past two centuries lias -:
made up by what it has paine". ::
Woild. The first steps liioe l-.p
and before long beatiiion;;- -"
stowed by tho Catholic t i ' u c r. '.
name of Christopher ('r,;n;ll'.i;N. ,
inatioii of his title to ("atlicl e" '
for some time, by count. ;i'i'l ; ;
engaged tho attention of t:.
canou law". The claim i f.'tt: -,'
i ation by w.:tch Cohnut'a
i boundaries of the Christian '
j An escape f.oni fb-ttb .
j as any ever related by tin1 i '', "
i was made by an individm. "
tended strictly to business during tho Hood, I a,nd Mtlwaukee I.oad a "T;:,,,
finally brought up in a friendly harbor, ' chronicled by the .'. I -"
and has since left her barrel with nineteen c,t . U ems that an nnki f
chickens at her heels. I permitted to ride on top -
A lady died recently in TVnoWot ,,n " representation in. ;
j iously 'coyering" nineteen eggs. Sho at-
iiearu tlie whistle for brakes. He was
saved, but the engine bad only thirty feet
more to go to crush him. The fireman
camo forward, got a crowbar and released
him, and ho was taken back to tho caboose.
An amuslnfr incident occurred on n. train
in New York State, recently. A newly !
married couple entered tho car and took a j
seat. The husband wanting to smoke, ;
left his wife and went into the smokintr I
Gr.o. Cole, of f:.nhnroi..i i.:.,ir i car- The bride beiraii to dose, and while i
'do dilficulty in trying to get himself out. I e. sicr't a stranger entered the car, and, j
He was said to have spoken lightly of a 1 a ,l 'as crowded, quietly took a seat bo- j
married lady. 1 le went to see her to make j Rl(le tlie ylS wifo. Shortly she began to j
explanations, whereat ho was seized and j J10"' Rncl doubtless imagining that her bus-
an-eiously tarred and feathered. Ho lies ,a,n" was siH in the scat, gently reclined 1
doubtful of recovery, particularly as to lvs tmv:lnl llo stranger, and soon her head
eyes; and two or ..tM...... i:.' '- -V 1 fomllv nestled on Jiia limpet At Uiia !
r. -, . .'.. Ill, .111. .N HI, 111 mil . - . . ... w..." .
l lie explanation ; .ir i ... iunetur tli loodi-.i.,) mt.,..r.o.i
t-. .'unation is i pf,....,..! .;n
court, sirs - .i...,. .. . j...ua.o uii
, .....r.s jicrnianeutly.
Thf. two radical conventions of Vlle
gheny county on Tuesday endorsed the sal
ary grab from top to bottom.
He stood
in mute astonishment in the aisle until the
lady awoke, and, realizing the situation,
drew back in amazement, suffused with
was standinfr on tho ror.t-ilo'c f;i
Her first impulse was to run, but before
sho could move the snake had beo-mi coil
ing itself around her ankle. " WiTh "Teat
presence of mind, she seized an opnoPtuno
moment to place hor left foot on the rejv
tile s head. There she stood, one foot
upon tho head of tho snake and nearly his
whole length coiled around hei other an
kle. Sho was too far away from any one
to summon help am she was compelled to
undergo Mio loathsome ordeal of unwind
ing the. coils that tho monster had thrown
around her. This she succeeded in doit,",
the snake meantime writhing and twistim
with all its power. Sho then bv a oniok
movement, dashed its head against a tree
and while it lay stunned, pounded its head
to a jelly w,th a stone. For Feveral hours
afterward her hands and arms were much
swollen and of a dark color, but this so,,,,
passed away.
JoX??L Lixi mknt may be
blushes. Stran-er explained, tho husband rli.i ' 7 rc wneie any j.intment
...... . 1 , . , i 1 .
PAiiaiiuu, ami wue triea uaru to ap- i
pear uucoucerued.
In cases of sevem
o.inis m tno stomach ;rg
a" in n-r-a :s
cramps
-lV.; fl'y
' ..i-i". : -i'Iv,
is
vvl
tho
county, Maine, who had long feared hrr tw.l,3-v hi W3-v to ! ,,n
1... 1 - li-illior. 4.. -J. oni thill'
oouy wotuu uc exhumed and dissected bv
the doctors, and she left $00 to pay a man
for watching her grave every night for a
month after she was buried. Tho provi
sions of her be.piest were carried out, and
overy night the watchman is at his post.
Civil service reform has turned up in
an unexpected quarter. Collector Sim
mons has, by a st roke of his pen, combined
tho functions of weighers, gaugcrs and
measurers, so that now one man caii do the
work of three, and discharged twenty-four
custom-houso clerks, to the disgust and
surprise of tho smaller politicians of Eos
ton. The St. Louis HrpvbUcan has a poor
opinion of Rochcfort, w hich it expresses in
this way: "He has never been anything
but an agitator, an agrarian, a Fourierite
socialist, a common stabber at all religion,
a Communist, an iconoclast, a Nero Math
erskiting of liberty, while the brands of
the petroleiises were tiring the historic
grandeur of Paris."
In Sabtha, Kansas, recently, adoTan
into a stable and bit a veryvaliiableho.se.
The owner of the horse, rather than kill
tho bitten animal, doctored it. Tho horse
-;is setzeu witu Hydrophobia, broke out of
man, seriously in-Is-?
accounts wa.-- in
:nl
,:i;
The I--'-'"-
nnl :
;te
tlie t
willinsr to do anvthi"
1 do in compensation.
i to tn. tu i, ;,n of the seve
' on the route; and about inul
: engiueer, having discoveiyd
j road, whistled -down hi.V
ger was the first up from l"p
i ruuning forward over tiie
s -.1 . i ii. -1..1- f.H-tn of a
IHI.H-IVI'U llll-VJ.or. 'ret'
above. There was scnrce.y i'
and as by instinct, he Ti:,n- n.
! within a fH.toftlieovcr-lcm-T!
land striking a slopinj
; down and roiled to tlx trars. f
the wheels caught Ids hoot
! it off close to the sole, ap1
I aiound so that the next .i "
1 i. ..r i,u hit. 'i,,n ' ;
' stopped he climbed ""'11";jlh
lv uniuiured in per"". R. r;J
I feeling'as he may have I
1 the lightning stnke " 11 If
tlie nous :iooin io -
j uninjureil.
the stable n tfl
,i ' ed
I: . U v.
f--iir
any small town
llAlUTI AT. ONTtf
following results: b:
kidneys, sick and tw
d vspe j'! a.
lite ami . t .
1. ivoiiici i'V !..-iT' - o .
and takiocr. st,- one .1
i ,.i'i r
.its M
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oiisni'-
.fat.
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