The Cambria freeman. (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, October 09, 1874, Image 2

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THE CIHBill. FBEEHM.
EBZNSBURC, PA.,
Frith j Morning, - - - Oct 2, 1S74.
Democratic Nomln'Jfcii.
ffPREMR JriwB :
Bos. TTAKREN J.ITOOD WARD, Berks.
LIEUTF-fAJT COVFRXOTl :
IIo. JOHN LATTA, Westmoreland.
ACPITOB fiESEKAL :
Ho. JUSTUS F. TEMPLE, Greene.
J ECU ETA HT IKTEHKAT. AFFAIK3 :
On. WM. McCANDLESS, Philadelphia.
JOnN HANNAX, Johnstawn.
JOHN 15UCK, Carrolltewa.
rROTHOOTAHY !
BERNARD McCOLOAN, Wilraore
district attorkrt:
Tf. HORACE ROSE, Jhastow
COMMISSIONERS :
TVM. D. MCLELLANI Jehn'tcwn.
HARTIN F. CAMPBKLL, Munster Twp.
(roon norsR di recto k :
CHARLES FLICK, Allegheny Twp.
AUDITOR :
MICHAEL 8 W KENT, Cambria Bor.
con oxer :
JOnN BRADY, J.bnstewa.
ft" RTETOK :
HENRY 6CANLAN, Carrel'tawn.
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UsiEr the head of "DouMe Rack Ac
tino," tlie current number of the .Ti'hnstovf d
Voice and Eeho declares lli.it "an appa
rently well founded rumor is abroad to the
effect that the manager? of the Republican
party in this county have decided upon
sacrificing every other man on their ticket
for the purpose of securing1, by a sort of
free trade system, the election of P. II.
Kinkead, to the office of Prothonotary.
The effect ef this rather short-sighted ma
noeuvre will be to drive Messrs. Lapsley,
Gates, et al in a spirit of self-preservation,
to tho ame business, and then will ensue a
mutual cutting ef throats highly exb itera
ting to the Pemocrtic ticket generally and
to y,r. MoColgan in j articul.nr. 'If Kin
kead can trade me I can trade Kinkead,'
is the way one of the candidates in the op
position ticket has already indicated the
course ho intends pursuing, and by the
time the other nine enter the game upon
the same basis, the managers aforesaid
will find themselves playing a 'lone hand'
with the atieng cards all against them."
The annual State election in this and
several other States formerly took plaeeon j
the second Tuesday of October. The new
constitution, however, has changed the
time in 1'ennsylTania until the first Tues
day of November, (being this year the
third day of that month,) on which day
tbe- State and County elections will be
held. This change was deemed necessary
by the convention in order to conform to
the day set apart in all the States for hold
ing the Presidential election. All that our
constitutional convention therefore did
was to fix the day of the State and County
elections on the same day as the Presi
dential election. We regard it, for many
reasons, a wise provision in the new con
stitution. Other States, and especially in
the Wet, will boid their elections for State
fficers en next Tuesday. This will be
the case in Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, and Ne
braska. In Ohio and Indiana no Govei-
To the Lemocrac)fvfJennsyleania, ', less vigilance in the canvass w hich is now
j begun. Its purposes are of the highest
The State Democratic Convention met concern to every man in the State. We
at Pittsburgh on the 26th of August last. ! seek to obtain good government, honesty,
It nominated its candidates, and adopted j economy, prosperity, tqiecie payments, that
the platform, and adjourned. All the pro- I the people may be lightly butdcnd by tax
ccedings were marked by a devotion to the . atiou ; integrity and purity in public olli-
piiuciples of the party, as well as that bar- ; cers; a true representation of the needs and
tnony wliicn ever prevails when high pur
poses control individual action. The man
agement of the State canvass was as usual
entrusted to the State Central Committee,
w hich was duly appointed. This body or
ganized at Harrisburg on the 22d day of
September, instant.
Among the tirst duties of this committee
was to direct its chairman to address the
Democratic citizens of Pennsylvania, and,
indeed, all patriotic men of the Common
wealth who are satisfied that tbe prosperi
ty, integrity, and welfare of the people de
mand a return to those sound, tried, and
established principles of iroveimueut by
which the great achievements iu our past
( history were secured.
j It needs neither argument nor authority
I to demonstrate that the Radical party,
: wliiflt llftwr nt uAiihil tliA tktfilitir.il! t.ae.-
nor is to be elected, William Allen and j iu Pennsylvania and in the Federal Govem
Thomas A. Hendricks being the present ment, has utterly faiied to give content
Democratic Governors respectively, nor meat, prosperity, or peace to the people.
will there be an election for members of j
the Legislation in either of the two States I
welfare of the people in tlie State Legisla
ture and in Congress ; fidelity and honesty
in tlie departments ot the btate govern
' meiit ; fair elections and honest returns ;
; destruction ot "rings" in cities and State,
j and the return of this great and glorious
I Commonwealth to its rank among sister
States as tlie Democratic keystone of the
: Federal arch, which should rest on the un-
detiled and restored Constitution of the
United States of America.
No. 1014 WALNUT Street, in tbe city of
Philadelphia, we have now made the Dem
ocratic headquarters of the Committee, and
the Chairman earnestly requests the chair
men of the county committees in the State
to open communication with him promptly.
It is deemed essential that the organization i formally accepted the challenge of the
AeiM ami rolttical Items.
France sent to England last year 500,
000,000 eggs.
It is rumored that tbe Dowager Queen
of Ravaria is about to embrace Catholicism.
Four persons were burned to death
last Sunday night during a tire in Paisley,
Scotland.
The only church in this country where
sermons are preached iu Irish, it is said, is
at Elmira, Illinois.
A Philadelphia officer the other day
got up a jury of twelve cross-eytd men,
and even the Jndge laughed.
The water of an artesian well in Terre l
Haute has been found excellent for fleas
on dogs and chelera in chickens.
In the middle of a dense forest near
Fort Madison, Iowa, it a largo number of
apple trees planted in 1795 by Indians.
Twelve suits at law have grown out of
the Reecher-Tiltou controversy and there
are flattering prospects of twelve more.
Tho National Rifle Association have
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ENGLISH BRUSSELS
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named. Rut there will be an election for
Congressmen. In the last Congress, the
four States enumerated were represented
by tfiirly-thrt Radicals and ten Democrats.
We feel quite sure that the Grant party
will not hold its own in the election f
Congressmen next Tuesday. It is worthy
of special uote, and is an encouraging sign
of the times, that not a single man who
pocketed the back-pay has had the courage
t face his constituents in cither of the
four States named. Iu Nebraska, a "Oov
ernor, othr Stnte officers, and a Legisla
ture will bo elected. On tho same day
West Virginia will vote for members f
the Legislature, and the Democrats of
Arkansas will vote on the new constitution
recently adopted and for the candidates
for State officers nominated under it. We
are not aware of any other State elections
next week, but we have no doubt of sweep
ing Democritio triumphs in the States
u mod. Yet we confess that tho result of
an election is like a lottery, and we must,
tberefoie, patiently aud hopefully wait
for the result.
We have a few worda to say this week
to the candidates composing tlie Demo
cratic county ticket. Wc entertain no fear
whatever of the tiiunij bant success of the
entire ticket, because when the Democra
cy are unitod they can carry the county by
a clear majerity of 700, aud as our inform
ation from nearly every district in the
county justifies us in saying that the ticket
meets with enthusiastic approval, its elec
tion cannot admit ef any reasonable doubt,
r.ut iu Older to make the victory compete
and overwhelming, it is necessary that tho
candidates themselves, to use a homely
phrase, should "roll up their sleoves and go
to work." It is a wise maxim in politics,
as well as in war, never to underestimate
the strength and resources of the enemy.
To achieve a decisive victory the united
Democratic column must be pushed to tho
front and a vigorous and determined charge
made along tho whole Republican line.
To be foiewarned is to be forearmed, and
we now caution the Democratic candidates
that their opponents assert their intention
of making the campaign a warm and live
ly one, and some of them even go bo far
as to claim that their candidates can and
will be elected. If a nomination by a
county convention is worth contending
for, surely the candidate who receives it
ought to fight for final success at the polls.
The Democratic press of the county will
do its full duty, but it must bo aided aud
Mrengthencd by the active efforts of the
candidates. We as a "Democrat have a
party interest in the result. They not only
have that, but also a personal interest.
"We have no reason to doubt that every
caudidate on the ticket fully understands
his duty and will actively perform it.
The time between tin's and the election is
brief, aud therefore the more urgent the
necessity for prompt and energetic action.
Our advice is honestly given and we trust
it will be acted ou in the 6aine spirit.
aa a in m tam
The radical managers, with Senator
Morton, of Indiana, at their beau, seem
determined once more to reconstruct the
State of Arkansas. When will these in
famout outrages cease? After the late
disgraceful quarrel in that State for the
possession of the office of Governor, be
tween Baxter and Brooks, in which con
test Baxter, through the interposition of
Giant, was successful, and took charge of
the State Hoiwe.it was believed by tbe
friends of law aud order in the State that
peace and harmony would prevail, and
that any futuie difficulty between the con
tending tactions would be avoided. A
new constitution was receutly voted on by
the people of the State, and in a total vote
of 80,00O, and with all the advantages of
long possession of power, Clayton, Dorsey,
and the balance of the corrupt c.irpet-ba-crevr,
who for years have been robbing
and plundering the people of tho State,
could only poll 3,000, or, in other words,
one-tenth of the vote on that test question.
And now, when Clayton and his cerrnpt
crew have been defeated at tbe ballot-box
in a peaceable and quiet manner, without
a riot or any disturbance whatever, It is
deliberately proposed to undo the action
of the people by an appeal for inteiference
on partt of the national administration.
This is to be done en tbe base and unfound
ed allegation that the Constitutional con
vention was an il'.egal and unauthorized
body, and that its action was therefore t
oid and of no binding efbrc'C although
tke people ratified its calling by a maj ri
ty of over 70,000. Accordingly, Brooks,
the deposed Governor, and his friends pro,
pone not to vote on the adoption of the
constitution on uext Tuesday, and then
appeal to Gen. Grant to interfere aud dis
solve tbe present State government. U is
a bold, infamous and nefarious scheme,
and we trust and believe that President
Grant will not give his aid and support to
any sncli villany. Peace and order leign
in Arkansas to day, and in the name of
decency, justice and the happiness of its
people, let there be no attempt made to 1
introduce anarchy and confusion.
To Laroking Men. Thoso who have
studied event during the last ten years
can now see the folly of placing dependence
on the promises of radical politicians. The
progress of tho Radical party and the
power it gained as an organization were ac
quired by the pledges if proclaimed pledg
es which have been as froely broken as
they were given We have only to refer to
the platform of the Republican paity on
questions concerning the laboring clashes,
ami the sad condition the latter now find
themselves in. See the distress that now
overhangs the working classes everywhere.
In no instance has the ruling party kept
faith with thoso who handle the" plow,
who drive the spike, work in the mines,
operate the furnaces and mills, or wield
the lever which forms the machine. Its
policy has been in all cases inimical to
labor ; to bniid up the rich at the expense
of the poor; to make labor subservient to
capital, consequently to oppress and de
grade it. While it promised to protect it,
it used all power to crush. Labor is not
only scarce now, but what Wttlo there is
but illy remunerated. And all this the re
suit of radical misrule ! Are they not an
swerable for the present depressed condi
tion of trade, for the wide ruin, the want
and wretchedness that stares us in the face
on every hand ? They can't escape the re
sponsibility. They have heretofore boasted
that they shaped the policy of the country,
the fru-.ts of which are seen in the stand
ing mill, the silent Workshop, enforced idle
ness among the working classes, and its
resultant poverty in direst form. The pres
ent distress must be removed from the
shoulders of the toiling millions. Tlie Dem
ocratic paity alone proposes to accomplish
this, and we here say that the only escape
from this condition of things, from irre
trievable bankruptcy of the nation, is in a
change of rulers. Unless the people protest
against the evils of Radicalism at the polls
next November, coming, and do it, too, in
that unmistakable manner which will
change the complexion of the next Con
gress, all that has made this country grand
and glorious in the silit of him who looks
to his strong right arm for preferment will
have passed away! Eloct our Democratic
nominees, then tho public plunderers will
be driven out, honest men will take their
places, confidence will be restored and the
initial movement made towards setting the
wheels pC industry once again in motion.
Vt'alsontuien Jiecard.
In every county in the State the best
citizens, the oldest inhabitants, aed the
youug men are dissatisfied with the olili
cal, industrial, financial, and governmental
policy be which the Radical party afflicts
the country.
Industry is not profitable; the manufac
tories are languishing ; the coal and iron in
terests are depressed ; the farmers are not
reaping adequate reward for their toil, and
labor is calling for employment.
The Radical party is directly responsible
for all thia. It has majorities iu Congress
and iu the State Legislature, and the Exe
cutives of the State atd th Union were j
placed in those positions by assumed nia- j
jorities at the elections. j
This distress aud uncertainty in all kinds :
of business is the result of the policy of .
the Radical party which insists on fctibsti- '
tuting for Constitutional money gold and !
silver a national bank paper curreucy or I
promise to pay, always below par, redeem- '
able only in other paper promises to pay, j
The people are poorer to-day than at any '
late period in our history. Factories are '
j idlo and farms aie for sale, without buyers, I
i in every county iu Pennsylvania. There!
are more mechanics and laboring men out !
of work in Pennsylvania than ever before, i
In the Southern States, the so-called "re- !
constructed Stales," which the Radical
party sought to legislate into rotten bor- !
oughs for the express purpose of sending '
Radical members into a Radical Congress, '
civil war, a war of races, destitution, de- j
spair, poverty, corruption, frauds exist,
and carpet-baggers and negroes rulo and
ruin.
Abusing the powers obtained by frauds '
at elections, and force iu many States, and
corruption everywhere, the Radical party ,
now attempts to degrade the white race by j
enacting into a law what is known as the
"odious civil rights bill," by which the '
white man aud his wife are degraded to the ;
level of the negro, since no legislation can i
ever elevate tho negro to that of the white;
aud the cluldien of w hite parents hi e to be '
forced into association with the oilopriug
of the negro in the public schools. Made !
desperate by the criticisms of a free press, i
aud its exposure of the usurpations, cor
ruptions, and rings of the Radical party, ;
it enacted at the Iat session of Congress '
the Poland gag law, by which it expected i
to destroy the liberty of tho press ; but an
outraged and indignant people will veto
this last Radical iniquity. j
And more than this ; wo are amazed at
the present state of ail'airs in our bisier
State, Louisiana, produced as it is by the
stupid, reckless, partisan hatred of Graut
and his adviseis. The Radical committee
of the United btates Senate appointed to ;
"investigate" the claim set up by Kellogg i
and his followers to be the Stale govern- 1
incut in Louisiana, reported that the claim
was unfoundtd iu fact and in law ; that
a usurpation of State authority wholly inde- j
fensible charactei Lzed the Kellogg so-call- j
ed government ; that it was an outrage ou '
the rights of the people, and was sustained !
entirely by Federal troops ; that Keilogg
was never elected Governor, and the Leg
islature pretending to have been elected
was placed in power by the unconstitution
al actions of a Federal judge, who disgrac
ed his ollice by his unjustifiable proceed
ings ; Wiat the Democratic Governor and
Legislature were duly elected, and were
deprived of the right to exercise their au
thority by Federal troops. Notwithstand
ing this report, when tne citizens of .Lou
isiana asked to be heard by Graut before
he decided to sustaiu this usurping gang
of carpet-baggets and negroes, tho.-e while
citizens were told that ti.ey wouid not be
allowed to present their petition or be
hoard in their defence.
This flagrant Federal outrage demands
the solemn and calm condemnation of eveiy
true Aiuenciiu
of the townships and counties should begin
at once, and report made to the headquar
ters of the State Committee weekly.
Address John Mili.eu,
Chairman State Democratic Committee,
1014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia.
Septemmf.r 29, 1874.
6kcretahie3 of the committee '.
Henry C Olrastead, Philadelphia.
W. 11. Reel, Pittsburg.
J. II. Graham. Jr., Carlisle.
11. M. Nead, Chaiubersburg.
Tiif. recoul of HonIohn Latta, the dem
ocratic candidate for LieutenantJovernor,
in matters affecting miners, stands in hon
orable contrast to that of Hon. A. G. Ol-n-sttd,
the republican nominee. To the
stuidy advocacy of Mr. Latta the bitumi
nous coal miners of the State owe the act of
187:5, by the provisions of which opeiatois
must pay for all the merchantable coal
mined. This act makes seventy-six pounds
a legal bushel, and two thousand pounds a
legal ton. Before the passage of the act
operators were accustomed only to pay mi
ners for "lump" coal; the "nut" coal, con
stituting one-fifth of the coal mined, wis
unpaid for. The miners also turned out
eijjhty pounds of coal for a bushel, while
'.he operator sold it at seventy-six lbs. to the
bushel. This change met with determined
opposition in the legislature, but was forced
through me House by Mr. Uatta's persistent
advocacy. It will hardly be iossible for
the hard working miners of Pennsylvania
to vote against Mr. Latta, the champion of
their interests in the legislature, and in fa
vor of Mr. Olmsted, the advocate ot an infa
mous law, discriminating against them as
a class, and depriving them of one of the
privileges which the statute confers on all
citizens three months notice from a laud
lord to b-9 tenant before eviction for any
cause. Harriiburg Patriot.
Olmsted and the Sinking Fcnd.
By the Constitution of the State, Sec. 4 of
Article 9, as it stood prior to its receut
:' amendment, says the Harrisburg, Patriot,
I the establishment of a sinking fund was
j authorized and directed for the paymeut
j of the State debt, and it was especially
j provided in the same clause of the consti
tution that "unless m case of war, inva
sion or insurrection no part of the sinking
fund shall be used or applied otherwise
than in extinguishment of the public debt
until the amount of suck dnbt is reduced
below the sum of Ave millions of dollars."
Iu 1S5S a democratic legislature passed an
act to carry into effect this provision of
the constitution and the sinking fund has
been since then an accomplished fact.
But no sooner did the radical party obtain
possession of the treasury than tkf-y began
to diveil from the sinking fund and to ap
propriate to the current expenses of the
State government largo sums of .the peo
ple's taxes which legitimately and legally
belonged to it. Under the management
of State affairs the ordinary expanses of
the government wei e increased so largely
that they were obliged iu oider to make
ends meet, te use the funds r-acredly set
apart for the extinguishment of tho State
debt. This high-handed plicy caused
considerable comment in political circles,
and after some time the radical politicians
began to take alarm at the excitement in
the public mind over the misappropriation
of the moneys in the sinking fund. De
siring to propitiate an indignant public
sentiment, a resolution was adopted in
the Senate of U-00, by a strict party vote,
tho radical senators voting fir it and the
democratic senators voting against it, re
questing Attorney General I'x-njaroin Har
ris Brewster to give an opinion on the con
stitutionality of a certain proposed act of
assembly authoiizing the moneys arising
from certain taxes to be diverted from the
sinking fund for the paymeut of the cur
rent and ordinaiy expense of the Common
wealth. This resolution led to a prolong
ed debate in the Senate see Leg. Rec, fr
lbf.U, p. 2fl7 during which Arthur G. Olm
sted took occasion to say that he had "no
doubt of the power of the legislature to di
vert the funds from thesiuking fund which
have been put there by au act of the legis
lature subsequent to the adoption of tho
constitutional amendments of 1307." Ip
spile of the plain and unequivocal inhibi
tion of the constitution, Mr. Olmsted
thought it perfectly competent for the leg
islature to put its hand into the sinking
fund and appropriate to tho ordinary ex
penses of the Commonwealth the moneys
specially reserved for the extinguishment
of the State debt. Is it any wonder that
he is a favorite f the ring and to day bends
the ticket of the pluuderers of the sinking
fund?
A correspondent f tli('hicago Time
thus treats of the grasshopper question,
j which ia Retting to be a very serious one
I in the Western Stale. II says ; The
j question is often asked, How about tlntt
'grasshopper raid in the west? Is there
any likelihood that it will spread over the
country? I answer yes, undoubtedly yes.
These grasshoppers are no more and no
less than locusts, grain and vegetable-eating
locust a, or as the natuialists call thi-m.
"Amercian locusts." 1 hey were bred and
brought to savage maturity in South Amer
ica, mierated northward to Mpvim tlions
m ui k, me pcneci picture j to utan, thence to Colorado, thence to
of the present condition of public ail'airs. ! Kansas, and now in Nebraska, Missouri.
or the prool let eveiy cauditl mail turn to , Iowa and Minnesota. There arc no known
the daily public aud yet free press of the remedies for their destruction, and as thev
country, and bo convinced. People of ' multiply by the millions every year in a.rl
Pennsylvania, for these wrougs, evils, aud . kinds of soil and climate, what is to hin
grievaiiccs there is a remedy. j del their further spread ? They are one
Let us have a change. '1 he people, dis- . of the plagues to which all countries are
heartened and iu despair, are prepared for i more or loss subject to teach people niol-
a cnange. ini cnai'go must be ui both ; eration, magnanimity and lss selri
This is the vigorous language which
n.?,?,,a? Administration journal as the
I hiladelphia Telegraph addressee to tho
gentlemen who figure on the check-book
and iu the correspondence of Governor
Kellogg : " The Republican party should
cast them ofL It is jut such men as
these who form a millstone around the
neck of the party, and will infallibly drat
it down into tlie depths of destruction if
they are permitted to remain. No orga;.?.
zation, whatever its strength, could long
sustain such a load. Tho scoundrels and
scalawags who have plunged the South in
such turmoil and ruin, with all who sym
pathize with and assist their .villainous
party, will gain immensely in power by
the act, and all who have its best interests
at heart will do their utmost to compass its
pei forma nee."
principles and men
I he system by which the Radicals have
obtained power must be overthrown, the 1
elections must be honestly conducted, and '
honest returns of the will of the people, I
which tlie bahot-box contains, must bo '
made. Every man of virtue, courage, and I
honesty in this State must be an overseer
at the polls, and demaud justice from those !
who perpetrate frauds, .
Every township in the State must be '
thoroughly organized, aud every voter n- j
ab'.ed to vote. j
Tlie Democrats should feel it a duty to
support tho local Democratic press, that
all tlie intelligence which is needed they
can readily obiain. It is the duty of the
Democracy to do this, so that the uniu- ,
formed, aud thoso who dwaire to know the
principles of the Deuaocrattcjpaity, may be !
instructed, and those of the people whodc- I
sire light and kno vlodge in order to show ;
the causes and iimh.ns of present disasters '
aud coming penis may have the evidence
at hand. 1 he young men are earnestly
this purpose. under the most elegant auspices. The
Each county in the State should promut-i rmp, an(! circ""s of war were
ly organize a county committee of Kl '. .Vn,?5",;,t,:m
active Democrats, who will devote tima '. . "'""""'eir werenpm,
ltisl.ness.
a kind of clog chain to check the wheels
of human progress in order to convince
mankind that there is a God in Israel, who,
after all, runs the world's machinery des
pite man's best endeavors to the contrary,
and the only way to checkmate their en
tire usurpation and destruction of all cer
eals is to diversify tho crops each season,
plant a little of all kinds and not too much
of any one kind, so that when the corn
may be taken tie wheat may be saved, and
vice venn. There is too much anxiety
among the farmers of tho west to farm on
a huge scale, to get rich suddenly, too
much acreage, and too little fertilizing.
They forget that "a little farm well tilled
makes a bain well filled," and the sooner
.they remember it the better for their gran
aries aud tho worse for the grasshopper.
The marriage of Miss Maria Ewing
Sherman, daughter of the General of the
Army, to Lieut. Thos. W. Fitch, U. S. N.,
at S- Aloysius' church. Washington, on
Thursday of last week, was consummated
Persons' Pcroativk Pii.t,s will greatly
relievo, if not entirely cure, dyspepsia when
everything else fails. They have been
tried in some desperate cases, and have
given more relief than any other mediciue.
and labor to redeem the Commonwealth
and bi'.ngit back once again to tho sup
port of the principles of constitutional gov- j
eminent. j
Every man who professes to believe that j
honesty is the right iiolicy, in public as in '
private affairs, should unite, freed from
party ties, to put n end to the frauds, '
corruptions, rings, and schemes for the
plundei of the people, which m same man
doubts are tho outcome of the Drofjiiicv
me ivauicai party.
The people of Pennsylvania lately rati
auopieo tne present Constitution. '
No sooner was this, declared to be the
organic law of the Commonwealth than
the Radical Legislature created a commis- I
sion, the Kadical majority iu which may !
change all ita reformatory provisions, and1
reinstate those by which th- t
tion enabled a corrupt Legislature t inflict
being allowed with but two executions tho
piivilcge of placing very delicately gloved
hands upon arms ornamented with the blue
and goldjof actual service, w hile as a special
reporter has it "the church fairlv glowed
wilh uniforms." The cewmonywas per
formed by the Most Rev. Arehbisbon Pur.
, cell, with several assistants, under the sol
emn rites of the Catholic Church. Our
i lady readers will be glad to know that the
costumes of the bride and heijrttendants
; were such as properly pertain to their high
social rauk, aud that the reporters at the
I Capital have not failed to describe them for
the benefit of any imitative maiden who
desires to be launched upon the sea of mat
rimony with similar adornment.
Mant valuable horses dio from the ef
fects of colic. The best thing to do in a
case of this kind is to pour a bottle of John-
vast injury tm the people for mwui ,; . , Anoayne Liniment into a long-necked
vate, or partisan objects. BWCI, Pu junk bottle, add half pint of molasses and
Demociats of Pennsylvania we invoke watr; pour the whole down the
all your patriotism, aeal, energy, ud JLZ ..V?"" t.b,oat Ia ten minutes the horse
tsj uu oebe- wUl begiu to eat.
Irishmen for a return match in Ireland in
1875.
It is reported that Mr. Disraeli will on
his approaching visit to Ireland recommend
that a general amnesty be granted to polit
ical prisoners.
A baby was bom in Columbia, Lan
caster county, recently, which has but one
arm and one leg, the only foot being shaped
like a trowel.
Benj. Rush Bradford will not object to
preside over the Senate as Lieutenant Gov
erner on behalf of the Prohibition party of
this commonwealth.
A young man named Leets, residing
at Harmony, Butler county, was on Tues
day caught in the machinery of a flour
mill and literally torn to pieces.
Theodoie Tiilon and Frank D. Moulton
were indicted for libel by the Kings coun
ty (N. Y.) Grand Jury on Saturday ou
complaint cf Henry Ward Eeecher.
Philip Blum, at Prague, has poison-d
his wife, a daughter aged sixteen, a son
fourteen and another. He is a brother of
the Blum whom Windischgratz shot..
Three young ladies walked from Wil
liamsport to Ii'ck Haven last week, a
stretch of twenty-eight miles. It took two
days, however, to accomplish the feat.
Pennsylvania has 1 .. blast furnaces.
1 fi0 roll ing mills, 1C rail mills, IS steel works
and :il bloouiarios. All 1 he other States put
together do not contain near so many.
The Grand Hotel at Saratoga, New
Yoik, was destroyed by fire on Thursday
morning last. Loss :i(i.",,(j00, insurance
if 200,000. Supposed to have been set on
fire.
The London Daily Telegraph learns
from a Catholic dignity tint tlie Duke ano
Ducheps of Northumberland are about to
become converted to the Roman Catholic
faith.
Among the list of wedding ptesents
Miss Minnie S!itim.u received was a gold
watch, with face cover inland with dia
monds aud perils, from President Graut
and wife.
The highest inhabited spot in the
world is said to be the Buddhist cloister,
at Harle, in Thibet, wheic twenty. one
priests live, at an altitude of lfi7000 feet
above the sea.
'I he longest name probably every in
flicted upon a clulil in Massachusetts was
"Aldfbaront.iphoscofornia" twenty thiee
letteisj! The girl afterwards became the
wife of a Boston merchant.
Governor Dix,fNew York, is entitled
to the belt as the champion office-holder.
He has either held or been an applicant
for office in State aud Federal affairs for
sixty-two of the seventy-six years of his
life.
Sixteen Roman Catholic priests "are
now in confinement at Coblentz. on the
Rhine, foi offences against the Prussian
r cch'siastical laws, several of thorn being
under sentence of ten months' imprison"
me nt.
The Rochester Union propounds a
conundrum. It says that Mr. Poland tried
to stop a printing press by putting bis
linger in a cogwheel. The press, very sin
gularly, went right on, and where is Mr.
Poland now ?
There died in Allegheny, Pa., last week
an old man named John William Leskar,
who once beaded a revolutionaiy move
ment in Saxony, which, had it been suc
cessful, would have placed him on the
throne. He died a b:irler.
A tain-cloud burst on the Humboldt
Divisiou of the Central Pacific Railroad,
on Thuisday night. The track was washed
out, an emigrant train, drawn by two 1
cmnotives, went into a chasm. Both engi
neers were iustantly killed.
At a negro mceting.beld in Washington
a few evenings since, "Prof." Jehn M.
Langston, negro, delivered an address, in
which he claimed to have tcritten the Civil
Right! Bill! This is a blow at Mr. Sumner's
fame which his admirers will hardly relish.
There are four State tickets in New
York. The Democrats, headed by Samuel
J. Tilden ; the Grant Republican Third
Termites, headed by John A. Dix ; the
Temperance men, headed by William J.
Groo, and the Prohibitionists, beaded bv
.Myron II. Clark. J
A number of Texan steers, which ar
rived in New York on Sunday evening,
while passing through the lower part of
the ciry, became iufuriatcd at the noise
and eight of them broke from the drovers,
rushing iu various directions. Before the
steers were shot some fifty people were in
jured, some seriously.
An earthquake at Antigua, Guate
mala, September 3, destroyed thirty-two
lives. It came without warning, and ap
peared to move the ground in waves. Many
houses were destroyed, and the shock was
slightly felt at the capital city. As Anti
gua is in the neighborhood of a volcanic
mountain the earthquake is attributed to
volcanic action.
A child four years old, of Joseph Fai
gle, of Mitineague. Mass. ejected a fioT
rive inches long, Wednesday morning. 2
Froggy endured the operation for a while,
but soon expired. The child has been
sickly for t wo years past, and the doctors
have been unable to afford relief, for rea
sons which are now obvious. It is sup
posed that the frog was swallowed by the
i iumi nunc urinKing nrooi; water.
. The Harrisburg f'itriot says : With-
in llio liO ...... ...... l. i . i '
- s in siump oi the
mulberry tree to hich John Harris was
tied by the Indians on the river front has
been carefully filled up wilh mortal and
cement, and the top, which is about three
feet in diameter, covered with thin flag
stones. The trunk, as it now stands, is
weather proor. Thus protected, the fa
mous oid relic may 6taud secure for half a
century longer.
A Giliiertown (Iowa) man, while dig
ging a well, recently came to a broad, Hat
stone, twenty-two feet below the surface,
under which was found a sarcophagus
coutaining the skull, vertebrae and charred
ribs of a man, an iron circlet or crown, a
bronze dagger and battle-axe, several fin
ger rings, a peculiar instrument of music
and a panel of wood, much worm-eaten,
on which was partially engraved and par
tially stained a nude figure bound to a tree.
A curious and useful innovation in
letter paper, the production of the Owen
Paper Company at llousatonic, Massachu
setts, has been introduced. I
j the ordinary ruling the lines are formed by
indentation of the paper, w hich serves to
guide the pen of the writer as well as di-
, rect the eye, and give to the sheet a band
some as well as unique appearance. The
blind can use it as freely as those who
I Lave the use of tbeir eye.
Sfnir Jind TTall Rnw!j fnrnot
I III CC-rJ) 'A iili l'i a . l-tert Styles anrt chlMr-,.,
EXTRA SUPER CARPET. I TTn RTlH "Rrvj
1 KIM M ED A N I) 1TXTKI S E .
Ribbons and Plowe?
VENETIAN and GIRTHING CARPET, j
Ingrain Carpet, all wool,
COTTAGE CARPET FROM 21 CENTS UP.
ri'att!nssp.nd Door Rugs.
Floor Oil rioltis 4-4. 5-4, fi-4, find R-4 wW-, Stair
Oil Ooths ami Table Oil Cloths; Wln.Jow
Shades nt prices to suit everybody.
prixts vrr 3 cisxxe.
6PKINO AND SUMMER
MILLINERY GOODS!!
fVfrho ntt-nion of the I.arlies is invited to
our Retail Millinery I'epjirtm.-Pl. Ilavinjr en
p:iiif(l a first-elii;3 Milliner from the ami
einjr eonsiaRtly in rereift of Ihe latest mxl
li;irv!s!inet st le, we ore repnrrt to siot Mil
tastes aiivl meet uil pecuniary circumstuiiees.
NEW DRESS GOODS
OF r.YK.Sr WALITIKS.
Con fit rv uwrolifinfa will Cnil if tn tVi-lr !.
I TKI! KS t to r,n.i ex.iiv,in our r-wli. We
' enn nil rneir ontcr in liry toii. .Noti- ti t:it
Milliners-at tlie.-inn itrii-es.tl'fyrw'ii'l I'av
to pj-.y in the e.i-t. mel ti.as sa e fre:ybl un.l
tiuvi ling expenses.
A most contpleto varlpty,
SDHDHBRELLiSa
w i.
FARA-Oil
Vs,
WHOLESALE ROOMS. SCCCfiD AND Th!RD FLC3R3.
Qois, Foster & ftuinn's,
Xos. 1 ;:i anil 11.1 Clinton St.. Johnstown.
Jenkins says that Prince Arthur sr;it
Miss Minnie Sherman '"a superb locket of
Ktruscan gold." inscribed, by letter, "to
the young hidy who, of Ml other in Amer
ica, he julmiied most."' And this young
man is the son of the Queen whose "Eng
lish" we "in America"" are accused of de
filing. No wor.der that the imitative
Jenkins soon after refers to Lieutenant
Fitch as "a man of fine pcr'nnel."
Kev. "Mr. Prettyman. the postmner
at Marietta, ieorgia, whose recent defal
cation has been discovered, visited Phila
delphia some months ago, and denounced
the Southern people in the harshest and
most severe terms, representing them as
cruel to the negro, and claiming; that his
mission was to reform the sinful whites
and rescue the blocks from oppression.
Should the criminal law be executed, a
brief lesidenoe in the penitent inry will in
terfeie with the fulfilment of 31 r. Pretty
man's mission.
Hismark sent four roliccrnen and two
foreign oflice functionaries on SundMy hist
to Count Von Arnim, at Xassenheid. to get
a nnmbcr of letters be hud writttn to the
Count whil amb;iFsador to Prance. Von
Arr.im would not deliver the letters nor tell
where they were. Then the functional ies
searched his bouse, and the police took
charge of his pei-son and hurtled him o.T to
jail. The ?etters were rtbmit the count's
privnfe affairs and were to be used in a suit
instituted against him. Ob, yes, Prussia is
a well governed country 1
Further examination has discovered
the fact that nearly every po)lpg list iu the
city of Philadelphia contains illegal names
of persons either non-residents or having
no existence. Unless these lists can be
purged before the third of November,
there will be no mears of preventing re
peaters and roundcis from voting on these
spurious names. It is already ascertained
that there are eleven thousand names on
ihe assessors lists that should not be there.
Under the new constitution the courts
have power to wipe out this fraud. Will
they d. it ?
This is a strange story, not to be ucd
in Sunday school. An Albany man. out
of work and nearly starving, turned for
comfort in his wxtrcmity to his sainted
mother's Bible, for the first time since her
deatli in 1807. To his surprise anil de
light he found a ten-dollar bill between
the leaves and immediately fell on bis
knees f..r the first time since 1S40. With
a light heart and glitterivg eyes he prayer
fully started for the baker's shop to obtain
a loaf of bread. There he found that the
bill was counterfeit, when be sworo bit
terly for the first time in three hours.
Oscar Kinsr, a lad nine years of age,
living in Pnrlineton N. J., a few days ago
took his father's loaded gun from the
house, and going into the field, where a
boy named Christ her V.'ilicts. eight
years old. was husking corn, playfully pro
tended to shoot at him. The gun was
discharged, and young Wiilets was in
stantly killed. The stepfather cf King
was so enraged at what his son had done
that he kicked him until his life was en
dangered, and be was taken across tho
river to save his life. The coroner who
investigated the matter reported the shoot
ing purely accidental.
The Heading (Pa.') Time prints this
personal paragraph: "At the foot of the
( hesnut Hills, in North Coventry, Chtster
county, reside two eccentric bachelors,
Messrs. John and Fnlerick Hamilton,
who are now between sisty and seventy
years of age. They live happily together",
have no woman abont to give them a cir
tain lecture when thy are out o nights,
nor to tenderly caie for them in their hours
of sickness. They keep separate tables, do
their o n washing and cooking, make their
own beds, and do all neeessary work that
is to be done about a well regulated house
hold. Besides being good housekeepers,
these old gentlemen are of an inventive turn
of mind. They iccently invented a threshing-machine,
v hich is worked with a crank.
Five hundred sheaves of wheat and fifty
bushels of oats were theshed out by it in
one day."
One day two men in Xenia, Ohio, were
engaged in a discussion as to Ueecher's
guilt or innocence. From this our debaters
branched off upon the subject of human
nature in general, its foibles, weaknescs,
and instability under crucial tests; and,
growing earnest, one otrcred to bet that
there were not a dozen men in that city who
would stand a certain test which be speci
fied. The wager was accepted, twelve
representative male citizens designated,
and to each a dainty note, written in a
feminine baud, couched in seductive vet
polished terms, was sent as corning from a
lady. The missive stated that the writer
bad seen the gentleman addressed, been
impressed by his bearing aud piearance,
and was most anxious, etc., according to
the usual style. Tho writer would be hap
py to meet Mr. Vanity at such and such a
point at such a time. The notes were duly
sent, and the conspirators anxiously await
ed the result of the affair. Much to the
chagrin of the gentleman who accepted the
wager and the triumph of tbe other, every
one of tbe men to whom tbe notes were sent,
married and single, old and young, appear
ed at tbe proper point mX lite time specilicd.
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low prices. A fun c,,.( k f "
K I T G I. O v K
All v b.ra et..,. i
lAnii n:iin! Cij
TOR O . MiF.N W ;
NEW AVI1ITK (iOOli
.V.ii.-isanh mi(i JrcomcI ?!KSjn
Swf-s himI .r .;it. -Us,.
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l.awnv, I!Ri'sre r-fi,,Bv, T,r,
i'EIU AI.KS, for Siimwt-r Suit-. r'
The CYlebraled "RIVEKSIDr
in v.-ii it e ati) r.:..uK s
AI.WATS IJ ST- -.j
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HT virtue of nn r,r 1 r .f I h ( p- n :' '
Camhr'a t VnTT-tc. th,-rt-.. , T. .
, lie aie, at LSI!' S;;..n. on tho i J. ii. 1
Mil AMl, OCT. -'if?,,
at 2 o'clock, r. m.. tt. .
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A riDT OR PA KIEL OF
; ."itua'e in AVacMr'zf n H.nr.'Vj t,
. I'nn'a. ilioiniiiir inn!4 Mi - C:i'
ami Mr.nq!:ir!arii:viv..!i--! .1. -r: i V
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I or if s?, a!'n' fivo aiT' ;;-. .. ,t ;
Mi-.tiH' a ST F.M SAW Mil :-'! '-
, A. XI IKirSKS. The !.::. ! : ::n . ;
j nn-lerhiil wiiu c o! A ! ur f r. in .
; fin 1 the eon! is of a u;-' ri.r t ; :
j turlnir purpi It i !...:.
n'I airtlD'tlf-'. t h.lf tin- ..ul oi:; I c
Mmir;ii iv-Jy lntlc fji i n'. A f'-:.r.
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F. v. fj m:-
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Fsrcnterscl I'Tiro 5:y
O-.-iofciT 2. lvt. bi.
Valuable Real Esli
ir.I. he '.fi- .! nt l"--,V:.- S:.o. j t '!i-
" T !.-r.'-c o; ,ii.:,n Skcily. in lila.-kiick T
tiip, Caiiihria tVun'y, 1
At lO l l.fttH, r. V.,
On Taes..ay, 20;Ii da? of OtloVi sf
au, th at rrrj.i;i
TRACT OH FhlCE OF Lk
ttnate in Vmiiiria Tow nt;ii. I ' -i '-a 4
the prej-.Tty ot I he l.iio I:v:i l w- ! '
"Osiiiloviii:'; .
adjoining laniis of .!.hn Sk-ly. I'.iit U
sua oili'TF. nmi.t.ii : u'
22.1 aci:i:s on,: t4i :.
S:i!t lanr! i of exce!Vn "li ili'y". ' '. :
cleared is well fcuccii an.l iu a fr'ou i . :
vatit.n.
-The aVive tract will . j-!.J ;
tojr'-ther. a m y Fnit pcTfl:::. r.
TfiMS op Sai.k. t l!i?-K'ur; li .f !
Tn:.ii y to ho i:ti'l at time ot f:;k'. a:i t ;
In t hrvc r nual ntinnn! i.a i:h-i: . . !.
be secured tv ju lginent fx.n if an! v -'
II. KINK i: A T.
i K I. I K 7 '
Fsocutors of 1iav;i ;
Alo. at the .m' tim an! w
4 Kj SHIM 'KS I ty CI IKX. tor h . a r
credit will ( iriven. lt. i- .-'. -
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VALUA1JLK 1'AIiM FU-:
, I oiler for sale twv I'An'.i
Of fS AfM. nrr.hf!i-V'. ;.!- !. "
I fltnatc in Canihria ..ti.-li. . 1: V
inile s;eit n-cn.-T ot !-."!. nrc . .
which i it'T ! 'i.":f I s I Si"i:v - - -.
Ili IiWri-MVi lit M SK. f-(f.
itsf .-ix r""Mi. a If' iii:. t i f-,f. j
Si-sie s-iv f II i' i'
thi- lanl iw II ti:ilMTi"l Willi Hi-ir -,;
I.'nn. S'ltir. taj-;-. !;!! s--t.H ' h. vy. i
jvj lai r- hmriij A p! trc s at: ' s
ami I'f.ir r-'i .-li the jir'-rn --c. a 2- f
wsTT fcr t h ?'i'TiB, HTi-i rje"1 ;n- :
every nh! cx ) on. Th latnl ! in '
KTi'l iif ';? n H .fl.' I have 1 1- r
tie .as hi. Sall Farm will I
sell or in oiiti"-t ioi -Mi .: h 1 1 1 ,- k nil
the iiiirf-haser may ttesire. T; ri:. : s r a1
ltsnit:ili!e. Cii on mv '-n tlielar:u. r
W. 1 1 a tm v. l-".!enjl'Ur.
tc t. 3. 1974.-in. M AKTIX S M
UrilOLSTKKIN.
ted permanently i'i thi
I'arriairo Sti y of I. M.Chi::)
1"sirei to itilorm the pei,;,;e of N
ml iiart a'MHer-nt that tie i
kin l of I l'M ll.S KlilMi.Mi-!
rijres. hniriics an1 iihr v 1: -cola.-.
oi;.i:r?. I'liwnans Ix il iinir.
doirir all work in that lin.-. ti !
turf, vehicles, etc.. in-ole n? ir
particular, an-i -rle.-t siMl:ii ii'
every ms'ance. t lisnt'-a c
tende! jir(.in)r ly. I- I
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FOR PA I.E. A v?ry elecant ai
miIlous n-siih ncc in Fix n-!urir t -T -.i-'-SfM
on rcasonalile tenn?. t;, U-u- m.
contains 12 nt'uns. 8 lci-i liailsan ! ' -i- ""'
hue, heroics a ir'J c llarilivcle ' ii t" '
nicntu. T he Lot is lJ6vJvi lc -t an I '- 1
with all kin 1? ot fruit and shriiSi- Ty. I-1
bie. Ice Ihni-e. anl three linil-iii i - u . -1
Olfice.-i. Thi jir"jH-rty ih ir r ) i ! '
ly, or with very lilt leitni'roveinkit won't
lirst cla. hotel or snmm-r -1 1 '' ,u
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A DMIXISI RATION NOTI J
- Kstate of Jamfs FAHKitN
"XMIc" li hcretiy jriven that tt-r-tra'ion
on the es'atc of James Farr 11
township of Wahir,i!!on. county ot C:
rcaacl. hare been yrantct to the ti'i l: '
th proper aohiriiy. rT"! in ' ''
oiaic are rcqiietci to make .an: ''
and thoe bavir.K claim" asitni
present them ltnv ant le t t n-atcl f -r -MA
If? FMIKKN. A'ltiiiie
Y. ini Allll t. A!titm--
Vrahic?ton Twp., Sept. 11. 1 74. -Ct.
ttv noiuircii r.o.M'"
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ex-ell. opt-.nnniiv f.r Jafr an.l pre:
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