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EOESDtr?C, PA.,
Friday Morning,
Dec. 1, 1874.
Of the one hnmlrcil and two members
tf the present Congress wlio voted for the
f alary grab, only twenty-four were renom
inated by their constituents, and nearly
lialf of that mimlcr were defeated at the
polls. I.CR3 than one in six ot the back
pay plunderers have been returned to the
licit Congress. What au imnres&ivo and
cjpresMve rebuke !
o i m
Hn.-v. Jon M. HtAD, ex-Chief Justice
of the yuprrme Conit of this State, died in
Philadelphia, after a short illness, on San
day last, aged seveuty-eitfbt years. lie
was Attorney General of tbe State in 1846
under Governor Phunk. He was a re
spectable though net regarded as an able
lawyer. He was the father of Uen. J. 11.
Kead, United Piatos Minister to Greece,
who sailed for Europe last week.
William F. Hatembtkr, Mayor of
New York, fell dead from his ehair in his
office on Monday last from aa attack of
apoplexy. He was 70 years of age and
Lad been elected Mayer of the eity three
times, vixc in 1945, lb4S, aad 18T2. Ow
ing to several causes he had beoome very
unpopular iu his offtoe duritig the last six
months. At the November election the
Democrats elected William 11. Wickham
as kis successor, who will take charge of
the offlee on the first Monday iu January.
Until that lime the duties of Mayor will
be discharged by Alderman Vanee.
as rt e mm
Woman errrRAO mat with overwhelm
ing defeat in Michigan at the November
election. Mis. Cady Stanton and other
ttrong-niinded women canvassed the
Slate with great earnestness, and ap
jMialad to the voters iu almost every county
to sustain them at the ballot box. Tkeir
eloquence was of no avail, but fell still
bom on the stony hearts of the MlckU
gauders. Iu that State female suffrage is
as dead as the projoot of a third term for
Grant. The complete returns of tho vote
on tLe woman suffrage amendment to the
constitution show the following roe u it :!
Tor suffrage, 30,000 ; against suffrage,
12?,000. The women who want to wear
the bieeches, vote aud hold efllee, and
make tLings livo'y aud interesting during
n political campaign, are therefore iu a
minority in Michigan of 90,000.
i-c a a
It Is confidently assorted st Harrisburg
by thojo who profess to be weli informed
ou the subject, tiiat a bill repealing the lo
cal option law will pass both branches of
tlis Legislature at the cubing sbsiour and
that the Governor wl!l approve It. That
the law has proved ti be a failure in the
counties wfcislr adopted it, is conceded,
aud is not even denied by its original advo
cates. Its total inefficiency to arrest the
evils of intemperance is exclusively de
monstrated by the formidable array of
criminal prosecutions for itsinfractiou dis
poaod of at every court in counties ia wbioh
it prevails. This is notably the case in
Blair county audothera that weoould name.
By comruou consout it Is regarded as a
dead lutter on the statute book, and the
sooner it is wiped out aud a few judloious
but stringent amendments incorporated
into the preteut license law of the State,
the better it will be.
Tux Albany Journr$ assertion that
the general expression in faverof ex-Governor
Seymour's election to the United
States Senate means precisely what the
election of Senator F.atou iu Connecticut,
and of Governor Allen in Ohio meant, aud
what tho eleotion of Jeremiah S. BIrck of
Pennsylvania would mean "the Bourbon
impulse of the Democracy" has drawn
out the following from the Cincinnati En
quirer: "We can tell the Journal what
it meaus much better and truer than it
has put it. It moans that the Democracy
prpo.o to have brains in the United States
Senate. We don't admire the fnanaial
views of either Katon, Seymour, or Black,
but they are nil men of emiueut abilityaud
strict integrity, and each of them would
be an ornament to the Senate. It is about
time we had additional brains there. If
braias'are Bouibouiism, then we Want to
bo considered as being for the aiourbone."
c -
Tiik Grand Jury of Plaqunuiine parish,
J.a., has indictsrf the following persoas:
Harry Mahonev, color.', ez-Mamber of the
Hons ef Rcpresoutati tn, for unberzliitg
S:l,.lm as Treasurer of the Hoard of Educa
tion; HI a anl liutler, colored, ex-State Sena
tor, far receiving a bribe of Sl,r(K; Wm. M.
l're.eotl, Parish Jutle simie 1G8, for bri
bery ami porroptiou in ellice, and suborna
tion of perjury; Nicholas ICivan, colored,
for ehoi.tm;; with intent to kill, blackmail
ing aud obtaining money under false pre
tenses bv Intimidation aud threats; and
Krank White, uolerml, jailor and depaty
Kher'.tT, frr toentvitiz at the uacapu of pris
oner, im-Nidtsg a rinfaultig Ktate tas col
lector. Tlix Grand Jury consisted ef four
whit and twelve cole red men.
VicKsni-Bfi, Snr. 23. The Grand Jury
of tills county, cornp.e. ef W n negroes aad
seven white mm. ks returned ei-ht Indict
ment agalmtt T. W. Catoca (colored),
H'ate Supm iuteiieVnt of Kdacatiou, for for
gery and rmVezlcrueut while Circuit Clerk
lirn: sit Indictment against A. W. Ilorser,
(.lerk ot the Circuit Court, for farirerv and
eiulmUiiuut, aud ore liirlielsaents afaiust
Chm-ry Court, for forrerr aad elteri
rscerJe
The above excorpts will shew onr read
ers how and by whom the parish of
PlaqueiBiue, in Louisiana, and the county
of Warren, in which Vicksburg, in Missis
sippi, is situated, have been governed. It
will be ebservod that the Grand Juries ia
both instances entaiuod a majority of
rolofsi men. Iu neither case, therefore,
vva it a false accusation preferred by
white citizens. It is fair to presume that
the t!icial:
two negrru
in the other counties of these
and carpct-tuig niddeu States
are of the saint Mrl as those above men
tioned. Iu n part of the civilized woild
can a parallel case be found. They arc the
Jifiti iiaU: r. .tit of the iiwttse l vtuii .tuic-
C d.vokfss will meet next Monday, and i
A3 it will be what is called tlie "short ses
;. j
(Jon," cannot pit longer than
the 4th of!
March. lu view of the recent political
revolution throughout the country
metres I
man oruinary interest is roanuesicii w see
avhat line of policy the Republican (cadets
will adopt.
It is quite evident that there is no love
between Grant and Congress. II makes
no secret of attributing the defeat of kis
administration at the October and Novem-
uer elections to me legislative commission
as well as omissiens of that body, while
the Radical leaders assert on the other
hand that Grant himself is solely respon
sible for the disaster. The country has
passed its solemn jadgment upon them and
has rendered a verdict of guilty against
both. - '
The financial question will no doubt bo
again elaborately discaeeed, bat as the
views of the Presideut and those of Con
gress on that subject are ia direct conflict,
it is not likely anything definite will be
arrived at. The Civil Rights bill, wbioh
passed the Senate al the last session and
now awaits the action of the House, will
be under the charge of Benjamin F. But
ler, the great defeated, whe avows his
iatentiou of forcing it to a final rote and
compelling the Republicans of the House
te shew their bands. Butler evidently
means mischief, for be is well aware that
within the last six weeks Grant repeatedly
and openly declared that let the bill eons
before Lira in whatever shape it nay, be
will crush it with a prompt ttto. Aa this
will be Butler's last appearance ou the
Congressional boards, at least for some
time, and as be ia intcut on revenging
himself on Lis enemies, some rich and rare
developments may bo expected from him.
CLenp transportation of the agricultural
products of the West to the Kast will
afford a prolific theme for debate. The
vexed question of internal improvements
in several of the States by the general
government will no doubt occupy a good
deal of its time. Thomas A. Bcott will bo
on band with Lis modest request that the
govorument aid lilua with the trifling sain
of ssctnty millions of dollars with which
tocoraplote the Southern Pacific Rail Road,
of whioh he is the President.
Tho Louisiana difficulties will also have
to be disposed of in some definite way, as
the President will refer the whole ouestiou
to Congress. Although tho session wiM bo
short, much work can be done if thero is a
disposition shown to do it. The fear is
that it will degenerate, like other Con
gresses for years past have done, into Job
bery and plunder, and that as it will be the
last Republican Congress that will assem
ble for many year to come, the majority
will make the most out of their present
opportunity.
en a Hi
Col. A. K. McClvue and ethers, asso
ciated with bim, have purchased a eon
trolling interest in the Philadelphia Prist
for tho sum of $250,000. John W. Forney,
who is now iu Europe and will reinaiu
there for a year yet as the agent of the
Centennial Exhibition, retains a large la
t.rAuf in th. ...r,.,. K r-..T f r-i. ittr
w.uhh mmm V M V w NiVl WS Willi D Will I J
: 'T. ..Icori.er: "I admire
be its editor and will assume the duties of
that position on the first of January. Tho
I'ren under tho new management will be
independent and will oppose the present
natioaal administration and wage a vigor
ous war against the State rings, headed
by Cameron aud Mackey, and the Phila
delphia ring, of whioh William B. Mann is
the etiief. Reth as a speaker and a writer
Col. MeClnre is a man of great force and
admitted ability, and as the friend ef re
form in State and city government has
mado bis name familiar to the people.
Philadelphia of itself presents a broad
field for the exercise of his peculiar talent.
We predict for the Press under Col.
McClure'a editoiship complete success,
provided be does not again wauder after
falho politieal gods and fail in carrying out
liis avowed intention of making the I'rtss,
"like the people, independent."
1'. 8. Since the above was put in type
we see it announced that the sale of the
Vrsts to Col. MoClnre is off, a brisk cable
correspondence between Forney and a num
ber of Republican politicians of Philadel
phia, the latter proffering liberal financial
support if the paper continued as a regular
party organ, having prevented the trans
fer. 1 he question involved was purely
political, and the funds raised to purchase
the Press will now be devoted to the pur
chase of the Illustrated Age, and making
it aa independent daily, the first number
of which will appear January 1st.
mm c e a
Thk Departmental reports, accompany
ing the President's Message, are already
fully prepaied, and as we have not rpace
to publish any of them in full, wo antici
pate sueh as we find, in substance. The
following is a synopsis of tho Postmaster
General's report : Be states that the ex
penditures of the Post-oflioe Department,
for the last fiscal year, were $82,126,414,
and the reeoipte 1 84,orJ,5fl8, showing a
deficiency of seven and a half millions.
For the next fiaoal year he estimates ex
penditures t3,4,034y and revenues f 29,-148,l.-j,
a dofloit of $7,815,878. He says
the foreign mail serviee it oondneted bet
ter than ever before ; that the money-or
der business has increased thirty peroeut.
J and that
the new postal law for newspa-
Pr" u,on "0M luto " New Tear's
day, although 11 reduces rates, will mate
rially increase the rvenues by preventing
evasions of postage on this class of mail
matter. He is strongly opposed to having
the Department go outside of its legitimate
functions, aud, by inference, may be re
garded as opposing the proposed postal
telegraph. . Ho ia also very anxious to re
duce the annual deficit of the Department,
which has to be made up from general tax
ation aud promises various reforms wh ich
( he hopes will have this result. The mag.
. nitudo of our post-office system is shown
by tho fact that at the beginning of the
present fiscal year thoro were 81,394 post
ofiices in the United States, and that it
cts oyer teu million a year foi the tiaiv.s
poi t.tlioii of Ihc mailo.
Political StaiU of Governr ami
ieyiniaiureB.
J Th following statement, copied from
the Chicago Tribune, presents the names
and political status of the Governors as
well as the political complexieu of the Leg
islatures of the several States of the Union.
Republicans, in roman; Democrats, in ttaL
ie;. Independents, in small, caps. The
asterisk () denotes Governors and Legis
tureschosen at the recent election. The
Legislatures of California, Illinois and Or
egon are classed as independent, because
the Independents bold in each of them a
controlling balance of power:
State.
Alabama,
Arkansas,
Ualiforula,
Conncetlcat,
le:aware,
Florida,
Georgia,
Illinois,
Indiana,
Iowa,
Kansas,
Kentucky,
Louisiana,
Maine,
Maryland,
Massachesetts,
Michigan,
Minnesota,
Mississippi,
Missouri,
Nebraska. .
Governor. Legislature.
?forjre 8. Huston, Dero.
Aug. Jt. Garland, Detn.
Nfwtok Hootbv Ind.
Chan. II. Inyerxoll, Dera.
John P. Vochrane, " Dem.
Mar. L. Stearns, Deru.
James 5f. Smith, Dem.
John L. Heveridge, Ind.
Tho. A. Hendricks, Dm.
Cyras C. Carpenter, Rep.
Thoe. A. Osborn, Rep.
Preston 11. Ijtstie, Dem.
Wm. Pitt Kellogg, "Dem.
Kelson Dingley, jr., Rep.
James H. Grxxrme, Dear.
William Gaston, Rep.
John J. Bagley, Rep.
Cash man K. Da vie, Rap.
Adalbert Ames, Rep.
t'An. H. Hardin, Iem.
Silas Garber, Rep.
Z Jt. Bradley. Ren.
Nevada,
H. Uawipsbire. James A. Weston. Dem.
Kew Jersey, 'Joseph D. Bed!, Dem.
New York, ijarmiel J. Tilde n, Dem.
If orth Carolina, Can is H. Brogden, Dem.
Ohio, William Allen, Dens.
Oregon, Lafayette F. Grover, . Ind.
Pennsylvania, John F. Hartranft, Dem.
Rhode Island, Henry Howard, Rep.
South Carolina, !. H. Chamberlain, Rep.
Tennessee, mJas. D. Porter, Jr. Dem.
Texae, Jti'-hard Coke. I)m.
Vermout, Asahet l'eck. Rep.
Virginia, Jas.L. Kemper, Dem.
West Virginia, John J, Jacob, Dem.
Wisconstn, Wm. R. Tatlos, Itep.
, nKCAPITULATIOW..
Oevernors. Ieelslaturee.
Rerrcfbllcan.
...15
...20
Repuklican.
.13
Democrat
Icdepeiuleut
Democrat
Independent.
21
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Such is the power, beanty, and volume
of tone of the gieat Bcrdrtt Organs that,
compared with them, all others sound like
mere toy organs. A child of six years can
manage them with ease. They are easier
learned upon than others, And outlast lury
two of any other make. An UiGHY-Yca.il
Guarantee given.
Read the following :
Rsv. J. K. Andrews : "All are dUahtod
with it."
ker. M. Oolver : "Aercr met Kith an Or.
gan like it."
G. H. Johnson : "Excels all others in tone
and Aurahility. "
Rev. A. F. Stauffer: " Imtneasuvmbiy supe
rior to alt others."
Harrison Pcttit: "The sasisst Oryan to
play and learn upon."
A. McM array: " Unsurpassed for stecetness
and power."
Rev. J. D. Herr: "It aires sntire satisfac
tion." Capt. Joe. Hendrlksen : "No other Organ
can compare with it."
Rev. '!. W. C. nervev : "Has airen the
most perfect satisfaction." I
J. H. A brains : "A'one in our neighborhood I
vill compare with it.
Miss S. L. Sample
'It has the highest
quality of tone.
Rev. J. II. Egar: " Unequalled for lightness
of touch."
O. F. Muller, ChrosiCUs reporter: "Its
tones are truly seraphxn.
Rev. Alex. Clark, editor Mktiiodist Re-
its peculiarly rich and
winsome tone.
N. Y. Christian I-EAriER: "Had no idea
that a lid Organ could bs brought to such per
fection." Buy your Organ at II. KI.IiliER f
JiRO.'S, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Caution. Don't buy from traveling
agents ; tbey are suro to charge you TWO
r-Kitas.
Hemtmber, no Jirst-class Organ is sold by
traveling agents.
liy buying your Burdett Organ direct
from 17. KLEMiR f liliO., 192
Wood Stroet, liitburffh, you save
from $50 to $ 100. Warranted eight years.
A Remarkable Advbivturb. About
five weeks ago a eon of Dr. W. H. El
dridge, of this district, says the Boston
Globs ot November 21, suddenly disap
peared, and was not heard from until last
Saturday. ' The boy says that on the even
ing of October 19, as he waa leaving the
apothecary store on Bunker Hill street,
where be was employed, he was approaelr
ed by a man who informed him that a
fire was raging in the vieinity of Chelsea
bridge, aud asked bim to go down and aee
it. Arriving at tho bridge no fire was to
be seen, and when just ou the point of re
turning, he was seized around the nock by
the man, who choked bim until he became
unconscious, robbed bim, and then threw
bim over the railiug into the waters of the
Mystio. The chill which the plunge into
the water gave to his system restored him
so that he was able to attempt to save
himself. The tide was running out, and
he, being a skillful swimmer, kept fro as
drowning, and floated down the stream
until opposite Sast Boston, where a friend
ly spar which was floating in the water
came near to him, and gaining this, he
floated out to sea. He subsequently be
came uneouscious, and when be rallied
again he was out of eight of land, still
clinging to the log. After remaining in
the water nineteen hours, be was rescued
by a brig bound for Greenland and, as be
did not care to visit that country, be was
placed on board an English steamer, the
name of which be states was the Norman,
and carried to Liverpool. He improved
the first opportunity to return home in the
steamer Smyrna, whieh arrived at this
port last Saturday. :
President Grant's brother has been
appointed Military Trader for the posts on
the Upper Missouri. Orville L. Grant thus
secures one if the richest placers in the
whole Indian coantry. If anybody thinks
it is not a rich placer he should read the
letter from onr correspondent at St. Paul,
which we print to-day. Besides the privi
lege to supply provisions for the troops sta
tioned at these posts, the trader usually
has control of the transportation of Ihe goods
sent thither for the large Indian tribes of
the Northwest. To au Indian trader 500
per cent, is ouly a small profit, and he
sometimes makos 1,000 per cent. This can
be easily accomplished by stealing about
ono-half of the goods forwarded by the Gov
ernment to the agencies and selling them
to the Indians at advanced prices. Our
correspondent tells bow Giant's predeces
sor once stopped a steamboat in the mid
dle of ihe river, and transferred hair the
cargo to another boat, which followed up
and arrived at the lost later. The stolen
cargo was then unshipped and the goods,
which actually belonged to the Indians,
were sold to them at such prices as the In
dian ring men ohose to ask. And if any
body thinks that a member of the Grant
family will fail to emulate and tvn ...r.
j pass all his predecessors in this line of bus-
i ii.oss, he w i!i be giat'y di.-ai pointed. V
'. Wvrlth '
Amoitv the Jietrbarians.
TBI STOKT Or A WUITI GIRL, RESCCRD
FROM THE IKDIAMS.
Staked PtAiss, Texas, Nov. ID. Tonr
correspondent, to-day, had a talk with the
little girls who have just been rescued from
tke horrors of their Iudian captivity.
Their appearance, despite their life among
the barbaiians, is still gentle and engaging,
such as is worn by more fortunate children
of oivilizatiwii. The naivete with which
the elder of the two sisters told their
touching story would have penetrated any
heart. She made bar statement as follows:
JULIA!! A ARMINDA GEKMAS'S 8TORT.
My name is Juliana Arminda German.
I am aged seven years. My sister here,
Nancy Adeline, is aged five and a half
years. My father's name is John German,
my mother's Catherine and my two older
sisters Catherine And Elizabeth, aged fif
teen years, and Sophie Lewie, aged twelve
years. My older sisters are yet with the
Indiaus. I could hear her voice some
times, but oould not aee ber ever. They
killed pa about three weeks ago on Smoky
Hill river, Kansas. He was going from
Georgia to Fanning county, where we came
from, to settle in Colorado. . When my
fa ber beard the Indians coming he turned
black ia the faoe, and oould net get his
gun np to shoot. They caaae and took an
axe, after taking hold of pa's horse, and
struck bint in the bead, cutting it open.
They then killed my oldest brother, Ste
phen, and my oldest sister, Rebeoca Jane.
They cut into the beads of all, except my
biggest sister, and scalped them. Then
thesr dragged me ont from uuder the
feather-bed in the wagon, where I was
with my sister. She commenced and set
up crying. I crawled ia again and went
to sleep. I could not cry. There wasn't
enough tears ia my eyes. Tbey took all
tke feathers out of the beds and made pil
lows out of one of them. They liked soft
pillows, but they won't have soft beds.
They don't treat me well. Tbey had
plums to eat the first day for dinuer. aud
after they got through eating they gave us
what was loft. Tbey thou bridled np the
horses and pnt sister in front of one yonng
buck and me in front of another, on horse
back. We were jolted so that our necks
got stiff. After a while they took us
out one day and left us on the prairie alone.
I don't know what they did it for. . After
a while Bister and I got up aud found a
wagon trail, and we followed it six miles
to where there had been some camping
party, and we found some corn and crack
ers, with a little grain of meat. We trot
an old broken cup aud bucket and went
down to the creek and got some water.
This was in one ef the old camps ef the
United States troops. Then some Indians
came that day and took us away again and
put us dowu in a camp where there were
Indian squaws where your soldiers came
and found us on the day of the firing. The
Indians didn't have any ether fight while
we wore with them. We heard the firing,
but did not bear the yelling. We are get
ting over our fright.
A Mother Mcrdxrs Her Babe. The
town of Freemansburg.Northampton coun
ty,, was greatly excited en Thursday of
last week over the reported stealing of the
infant child of Allen Gloso freo Us cradle
daring the previous night. Tbo smremit
ting search of many of the citizens and au
thorities resulted in finding the body of trie
missing babe in the Lehigh river, previews
developments having revealed the faet.tbat
it had been thrown into the water by its
own mother. Previous to the discovery of
the body, Mrs. Mattie Glose, mother of the
infant, appeared before a justice of the
peace and complained that some one had
entered the bouse during the night, while
she was asleep, and taken her babe from
the cradle and carried it away, she sup
posed, as a practical joke, that she had
searched her own house aud ber neighbors'
houses thoroughly, aud failed to find the
child or any traeo of it. She farther stated
that neither tho front window nor the roar
door of tho house was locked, and feared
that this carelessness on her part may have
been part of the cause of the loss of her
child. As Mrs. Glose is subject to tits of
mewtal derangement, it was a current be
lief that she had killed ber babe during
one of her attacks of insanity.
The husband, who was telegraphed for
at Mauch Chunk, where he was at his busi
ness or canal boating, arrived home at 6
o'clock. He questioned kw wif closely,
and after much prevarication and confu
sion of answers, she stated, after he had
quieted her fears about her being hung for
murder, that the child could be found ia
the Lehigh River near Benjamin F. Hit
ter's canal bridge. Mr. Glose, iu company
with Justice Edmouds, repaired to the
plaee and in five minutes found the dead
body of the child. Assistant Coroner
Robinson was sent for, an inquest bold,
and Mis. Glose waa arrested. Esquire
Edmonds gave her a bearing and com
mitted her to answer the charge of wilful
murder. She was taken to Easton on
Friday about noon, by Constable Moser,
and lodged in jail to await trial or such
action as may be taken iu her case. The
unfortunate woman is only about seventeen
years of ago, light complexion, slight And
well formed, and neat and prepossessing
in dress and appearance. She is ia deep
distress and weeping bitterly, and caa
give no coherent account of or reason for
the rash aet. She seemed anooasoious of
motive for the act, or of any but broken
recolleetious of the act itself. The gen
eral belief of those who know ber ia that
she was laboriug under insanity. The
babe was nine months old, and was her
first aud only child.
A Philadelphian is said to have invent
ed a machine with which, by the use of
only two gallons of water, he can generate
sufficient motive power te run a train from
Philadelphia to San Francisco and back.
The water is used over aad over again, and
no fuel, chemicals, electricity or magnetic
currents are used. A trial of the machine
was made recently iu the presence ef three
witnesses sworn to secresy, who were as
tonished at the simplicity and power of the
invention. It is kept closely concealed,
under lock and key, and is shown only to
experts sworn not to divulge the seerct.
Although it is proposed by this invention
to supersede steam, the new machine will
produce a pressure of 7,000 pounds to the
square inch, the pressure of steam ranging
from 30 to 200 pounds. A nuraberof capi
talists are said to have expressed a willing
ness te pay large sums of money for the
patent right for certain local it ios, and there
is uo doubt that the inventor, if be can
perform with this machine one half he
claims, has made his own fortune, besides
conferring an inestimable blessing upon
humanity.
The report of the commissioners to
propare instrnctions to postmasters con
cerning the prepayment of newspaper and
periodical postage after January 1st sus
tains the rooommondations of Third Assist
ant Postmaster General Barker as to the
plan for carrying out the law in the most
convenient and simple manner. Instead
of placing stamps on seperate periodicals
or papers,- or on packages containing them,
according to weight, the forms, as already
printed, show the current account with
publishers, and after the piinted matter is
weighed, the requisite amount of stamps is
posted in the form of a receipt given to the
publisher or hie agent at the time of mail
ing, the ciol;t and receipt having a corres
ponding number.
Netcs and Political Items
At Falrview, Butler County,- water
sells at lifty cents A barrel, and oil at foity
cents.
Last week an apple tree on the farm
of John Young, in Morristownship, Greene
county, was in full bloom.
Tho enrolling clerk of the house and
the doorkeeper of the senate, in the demo
cratic legislature of Arkausas, are colored
men.
LcJzerne oounty claims the shortest
will on record. This is the document :
"Emily R. Miner is my heir. Sarah K.
Miner."
John Hover, 101 years old, and the
oldest man ia Tioga county, walked from
his home near Flemingville to Hover Hill,
a distance ef five aud one-half miles, a few
weeks since.
Hon.: W. P. Schell, Democratic can
didate for State Senator in the Thirty
sixth District, will contest the seat claim
ed by Mr. Youtzy.
On Friday night of last week a yoang
German girl, named Fidel Schwaub, ef
Rochester, Beaver county, committed sui
cide by drowning. She was woith from
$6,000 to $8,000 in cash.
The Cleveland leader says of Col. Mc
Clure of Philadelphia that "no member of
the Legislature ever holds a better band at
poker. If his opponent gets the aces,
Aleck inevitibly holds a flush." ,
A Lowell mill girl the other day said
to a director who wished her consent to a
reduction of wages : "Before I'd do it,
I'd see you' and your whole graspin' set in
To-phi-et, pumpin' thunder at three cents
a clap."
The proper person to personate the
Goddess of Liberty at the Ccntenn'.al Ex
position has been found in Crawford coun
ty, in the person of Mrs. Cook, who will be
just one hundred years old on the 4th day
of July, 1876.
Gen. Sheridan officially states that
there are no miners in the Black Hills, all
reports to the contrary notwithstanding.
The new gold diggings are two hundred
miles son th west of the Black Hills on the
Uuion Pacific Railroad.
According to the Albany (Or.) Demo
crat, a little boy who rodo raca-horees in
California for a year or two past has turn
ed out to be a girl in disguise. She has
now put on her proper attire, and don't
ride clothos-pin fashion any more.
A terrible riotoccurred Saturday night,
and lasted nearly all day Sunday, at Arm
strong's coal works, on the Connellsville
Railroad, in Westmoreland and Allegheny
counties. Three miners, Italians, were
killed,' and five dangerously wounded.
A Conneaut, Ohio, merchant, paid out
an average of $1,000 a day during last week
for potatoes, and has shipped thus far dur
ing the present season more than 20,000
bushels, mostly to Pittsburgh, Louisville,
Indianapolis, Columbus and Allegheny
City.
A storm of great violence prevailed
Sunday on the east coast of Sootland and
England. The bark Veteran was driven
ashore off Frazeburgh and became a total
wreck. Eleven of her crew were drowned.
Many other casualties are reported, with
heavy loss or hie.
The pa-st year has been a remarkably
economical one ir. Grant's administration.
Postmaster Jewell reports only $8,000,000
deflcieney in his department. This is
about as much as it used to cost to run the
entire Postof&co Department under Demo
cratic Administrations.
Dr. West, of lr, Dol., who was
aeqnitted of the murder of a negrotwo
years ago, but convicted of arson and sen
tenced to the penitentiary, will be pardon
ed on condition that he will leave the State
and not come bark again te make it his
permament residence.
The family of tho late Captain Fry, of
the Virgiuius, who was shot by the Span
iards, are said to be at Now Orleans com
pletely destitute and in danger of starving.
In "the meantime onr energetic govern
ment proposes to "arbitrate" oitr claims
for indemnity with Spain.
The wife of the murdered mjsro Poulin,
now under sentence of death at Bathurst,.
N. B-, gave birth to a male child on Thurs
day in jail. Gallignn before bis execution
confessed to the paternity of the child.
Mrs. Poulin has been sentenced to be hang--ed
on the 5th of January.
The people of Mill Village, Mercer
connty, offer a bonus of $1,000 to any oue
who will build a flouring mill, tannery,
woolen faotory, or paper mill in that vil
lage. Tl.oy also offer $10,000 to help start
any sort of a manufacturing business that
will give employment to 50 men.
-What is said to be the largest trip
hammer in the United States has recently
been completed at Nassua, N. H., at an
expense of $70,000. The weight of iron in
this mammoth machine is about two hun
dred tons. The ram weltrhs twelve tons ;
its striking force is about one hundred tons.
John Baptiste Hortiz is the oldest
white inhabitant of St; Louis, having.beon
born in that city, of Spanish parents 84
years ago. This gentleman imported the
first bcarso in St. Louis, the first gamo
cock, saw the first steamboat land at the
wharf, and has raised nineteen orphan
children.
Another shookin'g case of maternal in
humanity comes from New York, where a
drunken mother, Isabella Gaynish, a few
days ago set her little girl, four years old,
on the red hot stove. When tho father
came heme she was only able to say, "Oh,
papa, mamma burned mo." She has since
died and the mother has been committed.
8o many reports of the finding of Char
lie Ross have been published and after
ward found to be false, that but little cre
dence Is now placed on such reports. The
latest one, the boy in the family of W. E.
Peyton, at Barboursville, West Virginia,
supposed to have been the abducted child,
was found, upon investigation, to have es
caped from a neighboring poor house.
Three tramps recently attacked an old
man, a boy about eighteen years of age,
and a young lady, at a farm house near
Donegal, Luzerne oounty, and a desperate
encounter ensued, in whieh flat-irons,
pokers, etc, were freely used. The thieves
were compelled to flee, however, before
getting any booty, the lady alarming the
neighbors by blowing a tin horn and shriek
ing murder.
Major Thos. Taylor, of Louisiana, died
on Saturday, in Staunton Va., at the aee
of 95 years, from whooping cough. He
was a major in the war of 1312, and was
the son of Colonel Tom Taylor, who was a
favorite staff" ofiieer of Gen. Sumter in the
revolutionary war. Major Tavlor was born
aud raised in South Carolina, but for the
last twenty-five years had lived near
Shreveport, La.
They have excommunicated Ann Eliza,
as will be seen from this notice published
in the Deseret News : "Te whom it may
oo ti earn : This is to certify that Ann Eliza
Webb Young wascut off from the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by the
High Council, October 10, 1874." Rut as
the lady hasn't taken any Brigham in hers
for a long time she will not weep oyer the
formal severanco.
The scow Pearl, of Fairport, loaded
with lumber, came ashore at Genera, Ohio,
on Monday morning. ' On board ware found
j the body of s man, supposed td bo J. Gra
i ham, of Fairnort, and the bodv of a bov.
,. aged about fourteen, both evidently frozen
, to death, the bodies being completely cov
ered with ice. The body of the 1 y was
, foui.d lashed to the ujjsihg. The scow is
a total wreck, and haj tho appeAraneo of
.Laving beeu iuu into.
"-Gporgc Washington, the genuine, had
not strictly abstemious habits. Some old
bills have been found in Alexandria, Va.,
from which it appears that General Wash
ington was accustomed to make such pur- j
chases as these : "Seven packs of cards," i
"four barrels of porter, "ten gallons of
rum." These documents, we suppose,
have an historic rather than a present in
terest and valne.
The Board of Managers of the West
ern House of Refuge at Rochester, N. Y.,
adopted on Saturday, by a vote of 11 to 2,
a resolution granting freedom of religious
profession and worship to Catholic boys
confined therein the Board to appoint a
Catholic chaplain for them. The report
of the special committee upon which this
action is based, contains a legal opinion
from Hon. Henry R. Selden, in which be
affirms such freedom as aconstitutiona! right.
Sam Evans and John Jones, of the
Delaware, near Minersville, eat, Satur
day, on a wager, the following : Evans
eat 212 oysters, 17 hard boiled eggs, aud
drank 0 bottles of porter, while Jones eat
200 oysters aud drank nothing, aa he had
not the capacity to accommodate any more
stuff, and consequently lost the wager,
which was to pay the funeral expenses, if
snch a thing should have occurred, and
which, under the circumstances, was quite
likely.
Recently a carpenter named Elias
Williams began the ereetion of a frame
honse in au unfrequented district about
sixteen miles north of Wellstown, Hamil
ton county, N. Y. Ho hiied George Smith
to assist him. One day when drunk, the
two men began a quarrel. Williams, in
the course of the struggle, threw Smith
over a wooden saw-horso aud tawed o(T
the head of his antagonist, severing it en
tirely from the body. Williams soon af
terwards cut his own throat.
A family named McNamee have been
extensively engaged in robbing gravos in
Flint, Michigan, and selling the bodies to
the medical faculty of the University in
Ann Arbor. Quite a number of citizens
of Flint have visited Ann Arbor in search
of the bodies of deceased friends and rela
tives, ' and three have boon recovered and
restorod to their resting place. The Uni
versity authorities are not blamed, as they
had no knowledge of the source w heuce
their subjects derived. They have otter
ed a reward for the apprehension of the
body-snatchers.
An unpleasant rumor is afloat says the
Bradford lieportsr, in regard to a murder
said to have been committed in Athens,
some time since. It will bo remembered
that a bam was burned near that village
early last Spring, and the remains of a hu
mam being found iu the ruius. -No clue
to the mystery was ever discovered, bnt iu
a quarrel among the members of Charles
Ty'8 family last week, a daughter oharged
her father with having something to. do
with the affair. We have not heaid the
particulars and sincerely trust that there
may be no truth In the report.
Judge Paxson's good fortune serves
him well. On Saturday last lie met Hon.
Warren J. Woodward, of Reading, his
brother judge-elect of the Supreme Court
for the term of twenty-one years from the
first Monday in January next, in the city of
Reading, to cast lots for "priority of com
mission," in aecorduuce'wilh the provision
of the seventeenth section of article five of
the coestitution. The prize won by
Judge Paxson, who will tlm's be Chief Jus
tice of Pennsylvania for the last seven years
of his term, unless his place should become
vacant by death or resignation.
The servants of a family living La Prov
idence, R. I., were alarmed the other morn
ing by an unusual rustling sound proceed
ing from a box ef rubbish in the cellar.
The box was carried into the yard and
turned upon its siae, wnen a pair or sharp
black eyes and a brown, hairy, pointed u!
tiprnd forth from within. Thn futnilv at
r - " J - -
t . f I . ... . .
was caueu upon, out reiusea to atiacx ir.e
stranger, tnougn sue caa previously en
countered large rats without auy hesitancy.
A gentleman finally advanced with a clnb,
and after a vigorous assault dragged out a
fine large woodchuck. What the creature's
purpose was iu coming to the city, or bow
it got into the house, is, of course, still a
mystery.
A war of words is still going on
through the English press over Gladstone's
manifesto against the Papal claim of in
fallibility. One point is worthy of notiee.
While numerous eminent Catholics have
responded-,, not a single writer among them
allows the right of Pio Nono or bis c'
oessors to interfere with their civil allegi
ance. They hold that the supremacy tbey
admit applies only to tho determination of
Bpniiuki itMoa, Now, so long as this
testimony is upon reiwi, England can
surely Lave nothing to fear in the shape of
disaffection among the Calhohcs superin
duced by religious causes and it follows
that Mr. Gladstone's professed alarm is
groundless.
A writer in the Philadelphia Press,
referring to the charges of terrorism and
murder against the Molly Maguires, in
the Schuylkill oounty eoal region, afSrrus
that much that is charged to this organi
sation is really done by individuals, in no
wise connected with that organisation.
Thus a mere threat is, at times, sufficient
to cause a stoppage of work at certain
mines, to the ruin of owners and the de
triment of men. The fact that the name
of the organization, or a threat embodied
in its peculiar form, should have so much
power, proves that there is a terrorism in
the name of the Molly Maguires, all of
which is based upon the deeds they Lave '
beeu credited with for several years past.
Biahop Gibbons, of Richmond, Va., in
a letter to tho Herald, gives his views upon
the Gladstoue-Manuiug controversy. He
affirms that the declaiation of the Pope's
infallibility by the Ecumenical Council
does not in the slightest degree alter the
relations existing between the temporal
and spiritual powers, but is merely a form
al affirmation of a doctrine whioh has beeu
admitted during the whole existence of
the Church. The definition of infallibili
ty, according to Bishop Gibbons, strictly
confines the papal prerogative to faith anil
morals, and he declares that Catholics
have suffered too much in the sacred caue
of liberty to raise their hands against it.
He thinks it strange that while Gladstone
trembles at the imaginary authority of the
Pope over the States, he should be indif
ferent to the actual tyranny of Bismarck
over religion.
At Cloverdale, Putnam county, Ind.,
on Sunday, a man named Thomas Mai tin
became offeuded at something said by his
wiftt and gave her three minutes to retract,
at the end of which time be stood in the
door of the house and shot her with a pis
tol, the ball taking effect In her head, kill
ing her instantly. She had her babe in
hor arms when she was shot, aud fell
back dead clasping it. It is not believed
that Martin made any charge of infidel
ity against his wife. He had beeu try
ing to get rid of her, and had offered her
$500 if she would consent to be divorced
from him, as he wanted to marry another
woman. After the shooting Martin pre
tended to be crazy, and went about telling
that he had killed a man named Harris,
whom he not touched at all. A man
i v .nuiimu n rts m uie nouse ani m
I terfored to save the woman, when Martin
i shot him iu the shoulder, and it is thoucht
I It A 1 i '
I 'lilt
Wk ahc.nld not hesitate to recommend to
any friond of ours, Parson's Pn ran
tiv Pi t
U.ev are acicntificallr mdnir.,,1 i
- j j ...viv., llllll tWW
:uia;Med to all the iuriiObe; of a good iur-
gative medicine.
J oii Miracle.
MIHAUTLUl-S WATERS OK U.VRl,
TllK.
The Carroll (Iowal r,.T , ...
lowiniT Version f . .
as Ihr f..i
euro by the use of ra,tnin
IxXirdes : Manv of a wat- -f
ticed Albert Beechler, a ciippfed w'
; of Louis Beechler, of this pin'.
I be was three years old !, atta.. ;,,
.some mysterious disease whith ,
ciau. and the motL min.ni ;.. l,.v''i-
i .. . ' me i.i-..f
sion
were consulted, was able to d L
re. After months of in,.-.. t'0m
t or cu
entirely tho use of his limbs w;' u ,ott
shrank up and hung useless t.H"1
to his body. For eighteen mon, '. ;m
ntiinlv tt ti k r K;. 1: i . "e 1'
not oniy uuauio to walk a
. . , i . i ,
to lift or move his feet a
'P. tut .-
tart..V
consulting medical men f ,-,,' tr
locality, and every time reoi.i."VT
answer that the
ease was bevon,! .l "
skill, the fond
nd parents reliictastf, 27
their beloved br.y
apin. Mr. P. M.
eluded that
never walk
"u" uau ucnru or ine marveloni - '
tl formed bv'the kil.r. r v ' '
- - "i Mill
move hi
am .
is limbs, aud th. .
through
them, which hd I,-.;. "a
mspended, began to be renewed '
made no attempt to walk, i:0r i., ,
posed that be was able to ! ' j!
Monday morning the little f.1!-
sitting in his chair, suddenly said to r
mother : "Ma, I lieheve I cau'w.'k ' '
enoouraged him to try, and l.e actiu. ,,!
up and walked without diEoultv K .
4 1 1. V - 1 . . .. - - D.U(
iiicii u iinn LTin Kinn to walk snvwh
-- aiiywnrmi
of course, he j,
not very siu:h! 7 j ,
it our ofSc. ye,:e,d,i
Ihe iooinw;-.hppiliet5
um cuose, iBoujn, oi course, he
rainer weak, and
little fellow was at
and wallieri crai thn
The facts within our knowlig t!U-V
this case more remarkable. H t.d Wtat
pronounced incurable by the bt pbvi-4
umiiH, una no treatment bad er lu.
flted him in the least. IIo ia too joaaj to
be influeuoed by Imagination or etca.
rr.ent. He was certsinlv hilnim f-.
days ago, and yesterday we saw him vV,k
so well that we would not have saspo
him to have ever been a cripple. H
had no treatment for Geaiiy a yer, j.
cept to use the water of which we Lit
spoken. These a: the facts. We Itsr,
our leaders to form their own oonclus tn.
Is it a miracle, or is it simply a remarka
ble recovery without Divine intervtctxi!
A WirR Kcucerer Arshtei. (51
Martin, the man who murdeiej hi rirt
Cloverdale, Iud., on Sunday last, was tek-,'
en to Greencastle on Tuesday ud j no-rf
in jail. There is no excitement, an t
probability that any attempt w;.Y bo k;c
at lynching. 3iai tin is au orainrv-loji
g man, lather medium ;z. auJdjftti.
appear capable of doing uch a deed. 4
is saia to be reigning insanity, and to'dir
cral peison before being arrested that 1.
had killed a man bv the name of Altpn
who, he said, had boen playing cardi wit
nisi, anu toey got into trouble, aud Aser
tiied to stab him. It teems Martin mil
wife were visiting one Riley Stanton, a
wuoae uouse ine oeea was eoicir..;vo
Stanton, upon hearing the shot, iate:fc:
I to prevent further shooting w hen Mrti
j tr.td to stab him, but did not injure hia
. ,.... tw- -..
1 I iuuim
, .. -
ine wemau was sitting in
rocking chair with her babe, a-ed abeut
eiht mouths, iu her arms. He had give
htr ten minutes to retract something s-c
had said a few days before. At the eip.-,'
ation oi the tirae be piaceu a revolver Ivbrf
bead and llied. killing her mstanUv.
3
bad been drinking qaitc hard lt a.
was under the ictlueuce of liquur at '
time.
Dicidedlt the best remedv thai hit
ever been discovered for ibou&at.icf
swoolen or stiff joints, flesh weundj
rprains, bruises, outs, and burns, if . W
son's Anody ne Liniment. We use it, i
always recommend it to our friends.
um,
Ayer's Cathartic Pills
for Uic
core of all icru.J
tneriM lb (te
ach, liver, an 1 1
els. Tliev arrant
Keine Hrcr rrJ
tahJc tnc J
no mercury w '
ral wliatrnsr. 1
ufforinrf i-l-rrv-J
oil In- ilicir nx I
anil errrv family hoiil'l liavr Jlii'in "U ti-1
Sr tlifir nroLfM-tion ami rrlicf. nhea rtr-r.n:
.oiijt oxiprifJi'-c r:.is nrovrd ti.-om li. lie ind
snrc'rt, ami U-t of al! the I'tli with wl :
lie m&rkei nhonn ls. f!y their reasnnirl l-
the hiooti is nunlic
I. Die rorrni'Uona f Liif f
U-m oxiHHe.l,
filist ructions removed. ttJid '
wh lo iimclunerv of We rutorel to its a.
net it ifv li-.lemai orenna which heroine cine
n,! li"iiriri.h re rlfai.scd hv Atfrr'm fills
tUT.uil.Vted into action. Thus liiclidciit i:f
U clumped inl" health, the value of hirh chui'
when reckoned ou the vas-l niuiumuc hbo i..
It, can hardly be comvuted. Their nicnr r s
r.mkes them pleasant to Like, aad preserves 1,1
virtues uiiiniii!iircd fr any leticin f !:...
IJiut ther are ever fresh, and lx rre. tlv rc!;i
.Although searching, they nre. imid. ai.d v
without disiurliaiioclo Uecoi.suiuliou.oruu.'
0 cuiiatiou.
full direction are friven on ""Pr
each box, how to m Oiem as ?i h .vtiii.v l r-;
ond for the following compl uiit-, wiutk i-
For llTipemla or fllslo.-- , t'"n
W judiciously taken for each cae, l" '.jj.
diseased action or rouiovc Uic oli-tru'
came it.
For IlrteDlrrr
lllarrk
complaint tliaapicnr. , ilio
Kor llremr and lropelc-J ,"'DVdoJ
ther should be taken In Isrce and Virm
takeu, aa it i-roUucw the dctared ceci )
cleansm aad renovating enca w
apparatus.
.nnr
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rp taXl CT allWWBlS J
Eagle PLANING M&H
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w " ..tv -i'IM 1- !
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-.J a.LU!Hl -NV
rCM j
waa persouauy cognizant of one kueh .
which occurred in Hardiu conm i "
urged Mr. and Mrs. Beechler t,Jt7K
some of the water and try iu ffiP "
They consented, and about six .k 1
two months ago commenced u.inc n VI0T
prayer, of the church a, pril,d
suoh cases were enlisted, and the .
was given internally and applied f,.,'!1
to the afflicted parts. To tkf.i, aT,
manifest improvement was s.,,,,,
tho case. The child wa knm .', , I:
tint, Laurnar and l.o of pprii" 1
thoiil l Ik; uiken moder.-iti iv U .-U-iJi:--'''- "-"1
arh, and restore in he.iltl.v t me ai.d ' J
I-or l.ltfrComplalnt ai:d iu '",.
toins, Illliona Iidicte. rA
acbe.Januairr or Oram Lo
Inn. I nllr and Illlloaa Fftf r. t.T ,
mild done if Kenernllv required. , ja
or Ilhruiie(tai. Oou, -r :b
Citvtllon of Ibo tlriart. " rl ,
ld. Hack and Lalnt, Uk-v ' ' .'.' '
l.ou-lv taken, as rixiaired. to -Wiuro t" ' ,
actum' .f the svPtem. With fuch cli.if-
rr.yn IHmmrr . take one er '
tTomote tlipexlion and relieve ' ; h
An occAMOtial dose etiinulatcf m - tp. ;;
towela, restores the a.ente. and " J;
system. Hence it U often ',vD,lJ fr
lio serioue derangement cxil. ' (1f tt
tolerably well, often Und tim:
! makee him feel d-idM!y '
j::