u THE CIHB8U FHEEMIH. FrL'av Morning - - Dm. 25, 187-1. Col. John M. Thompson has been elect- cd t.C(.njries for the unexpired term of MMunkla In the Twenty-third district.', The vote was very light. I Tii s ; Tv- -..nteted election for State Senator between William P. Schell, Democrat, of I led f.id, and K. D. Yutzy, Republican, of, Somerset, was heaid last week at Burner- set before Judge Hall, and resulted in a decision favorable to Yutzy, who held the Cerlilicato of election. .u ici m mm Cox on km adjourned for the holidays j fior.i Wednesday last until Tuesday, tho 0th of January. Thus far it has not trans acted any business of national importance, ami we think the same iom.uk will bo ap plicable lo its proceedings when the ses sion tciniinates on the 4th of March, 1875. Ik so Md a journal as the Pottsville fit.tnd ' trd should see proper hereafter, as it did last week, to copy an editorial arti- clo from the Frehman, itought to conform j to the will recognized rulo among gentle- men of the pi ess and give us the proper j ciedit. It is a scurvy practice, this thing f appropriating other jieople's literary efs forts, and ono winch with some obscure pa pers has become n second nature ; but we trust that tho Standard, which has a rep utation to bu.-tiAui, will not takestock hcre-afu-r in a practice which manifests a lack of brains and gentlemanly attributes in aiiy uditor who indulges in it. Jvioiyr. from tee uuanimity with which tho press of both parties thioughout the State has spoken on the subjec, popular opinion demands tho repeal of the Act of Assembly providing for the election of Jury Commissioners, tho repeal to take ef fect on the first Monday of January, 1376. The object in passing the original act was, th.u tho minority party in each county should havo a repicseutative in the board of Jury Commissioners. The seventh sec tion of the fourteenth article of the new constitution provides fr the election in each county of three County Commission ers and thieo County Auditors at the elec tion in November, 1875 each elector vot ing lr i:omreJ han ttco ersons. This will secure to tin minority one member in each board. The board of County Commission ers thus couotituted will be quite as com petent, a ml we think more so, than the Jury Commissioners to select the best men to serve as jurors. We therefore favor tho repeal, which will restore to the Coun ty Commissioners the duty of ailing the juiy wheel. "V K strongly susfut from recent politi cal movements in certain portions of the State, that the Speaker of the House at the approaching session of tho Legislature will be a gentleman who, whatever amount of intellect and education he my possess, is entirely without legislative experience. If this fhould prove to be tho ease, it will be a fatal blunder. We undertake to ay, and ww havo some experience on the sub ject, that a man, though he had the brains f Webster, but without a knowledgo of the rules of legislation, would make a sad failure as the presiding oflioerof the House. It is a mistake to suppose that only a man of rare ability can be an efTieient Speaker. The Speakership requires three requisites first, a correct knowledge of the rules which govern legislative bodies; second, ast rune, ringing voice ; and, third, prompt ness of decision. Any member who com bines in himself these qualities cannot fail as a fjcaker. We do not know of an in stauae in which the Speaker's chair has been filled by a member wh had not pre viously served in the House. The5peaker is to tho House what a main spring is to a waich, and if the new members do not wish to turn it into a perfect Pedlam, where "confusion will be worse confound ed," they will not risk tho untried experi ment of electing one of their own number to preside over their deliberations. c Bf Tiik Pittsburgh Gazette and some of the rural Republican papers have taken ground in favor of the nomination of United States Senator John Scott as the next Republi can candidate for Governor. This is a timotv wartiin to ITnrtranft fro "str tlovrti and out." Wo are unable, however, to see J wiierein John Scott would ; ssess any of tho elements of strength as a candidate. That he has ability no one who knows him will question, but in this State sinco lS(tj this qualification has not been doomed es w trial y the radical party in the selection of its candidate for the oiliee of Governor. Mr. Scott's career in the Senate, while it has boon respectabis, has by no moans been brilliant, and has fallen far short of the predictions of his most intimate friends, i As chairman of the Kuklux committee of e learn' ,ho avalanche of office -seek cr the Senate, ho visited snmo of the South. I tbat win be precipitated on Hart isburg be eiu States a few years ago at a heavy ex- j '-" the first and fourth days of January pem.0 to the Treasury and took an immense j wi:i ;,c ful to contemplate. They will anio tnl of testimony, most of which had C nt '"gh but it batalions, It will bo been prepared to order by carpet-baggers a s"rr siB,,t; a scandal to tho Demo, ef tho John J. Patterson stripe. It was ' crati rart.v, and while wo know how dif all published in book foir.i and for a time ''cult u Wl11 be resist their importuni gavo a certain degree of prominenco j t'"1 w0 tru,t 11,0 Democratic members will to the author, but it Jsoom passed out of unflinchingly meet the terrible onset that recollection. j tlip w511 fiU tho mces they may deem ab- HuntiiiKdon county, the home of John ! lutely necessary with competent and de- Scott, was reliably Republican until ho undertook the leadership of his party, ami the result has bet,, that he has split it into in.r ioeeon-iliilK, fu-ions tho two waning, lueconciliaolo tactions, tho result whereof at the last election was the ana Senllme retrenenment anu reiorm : ,,e ia8 blen drowned, murdered or other election of a Democrat and an anti Scott The VcoV demand a strict enforcement of J wise put beyond reach. A declaration was Republican to the Assembly, as well as a Democratic State Senator and a portion j of the Democratic c.unty ticket. If he ' ever had a y political inlluenco in his set, f.onof the State, he certainly has n..en..w. ,. ,,,.,,,,.., w: ,.Tr f. a nomination fW Governor are not flatter- ing, and even if he should receive if, his c'lances of h'-iu elected aio infinitely won-. T;ie discussion of the merits and qnali- fications of the different candid ites for United States Senator from this State, has latterly been conducted in a much better ! spirit than was manifested as soon as it was knoirn after the November election that the Democratic party would hare a majority on joint ballot in the next Leg- lattire. This is commendable, and we trust will continue until the ouestion is finally settled. The names of five gentlemen have been prominently mentioned, and it is safe to assume that one of them will be the sue- . cessor of John Scott. They are Jeremiah S. Black, William A. Wallace, Charles K. JJuckalew, lliester t lymer, ana i-.agar . Cowan. Others havo been suggested from i a fee.ing of local pride and as a personal , j compliment, but the coutest will roally be between the gentlemen we have named. We have heretofore said that Judge Black was our first choice, and it is not necessary now to repeat the reasons for our prefers ence. They will readily suggest themselves to every man who is familiar with his ju dicial and political career. While this is our position, wo have not sought by any words of ours to detract from or depreciate the just claims of any other aspirant. It is fortunate that the candidates referred to are A competent for the position, though ; a different degree, each one possessing one or mole qualities in whioh the others aie deficient. Some of Judge Blaek's ear liest efforts at the bar were made in the courts of this county, where he is well known and kindly remembered. Then he was a rugged, stalwart disciple of Black stone and Kent; in legal learning he is now an intellectual giant. Nor is William A. Wallace a stranger to the Iemocracy of . Cambria county. At the October election in 1S'32 they aided in electing him to his first term in the State Senate, and also in 1871, when he was elected for the fourth time. For twelve years he has occupied a conspicuous and leading petition in the politics of the State, and has fought the battles of his party with uutlagging energy and courage. Wo have never heard his personal integrity truthfully assailed. In our judgment he has committed weiuc mis takes ns a Senator, but who has not.since it is human nature to err? We havo no kind of sympathy with any Democrat who, to promote the success of his own favorite, will attempt to strike down Mr. Wallace. We have no taste for that sort of guerilla warfare in politics, as no party benefit can result from it, and it will always react on those who resort to it. There is no leading Democrat in the State whose political record is perfect and against whom some plausible objections could not be urged. If there is such a man we i l 1:1... ... i. t. : - .. A Ani..nK i lew mad imprv?ie ono cim awiiv u hj j we prefer Judge Black for Senator, we aoout the place knows how to plan and or eannot quietly consent to see Mr. Wallace J ganize. Inquiry shows that all depart- uwiustlv assailed, nor his services to his party ignored. Let justice be done though tho heavens should fall, and let the Demo cratic press so conduct the struggle that whon it is over no embittered feelings will : survive as a legacy of discord in a future contest of the same character. The Democratic State Convention which met at Pittsburgh last summer pledged the party by otic of its resolutions to "r Jionest and economical government, tht lopping off of every veeJU trpetut, and a reduction of the number of office -holder." This was a pledge which cannot be lightly disre garded, and the people will demand its strict fulfilment. The Democrats will have control of the lower branch of the Legisla ture, and thai is one of the places in which to inaugurate retrenchment and reform and reduce the liNiuber of office-holders. There are over fifty offices to be filled in the House just about one-half the number of members uedor the old constitution. In the Senate there are about forty subordi nate position, making over nmety in the two houses. Their aggregate salaries amount to !f 85,000. E. H. Ranch, editor of a Lancaster city paper, who has been Chief I Clerk of the House, declares that less than one-half then umber of subordinates would le amply sufficient, and that their pay should not exceed "28,40O, which would be a saving to the taxpayers of f"(,000. A large number of these offices are mere sine cures, the incumbents having little else to do than draw their salaries. Under radis cal rule it was the practise of almost overy member of that party to take his man Friday with him to ITariisburg and install him in a comfortable position at the ex pense of the people. Will the Democratic members of the next House imitate their example ? We hope not. This horde of useless oflice-holdcis was provided for by the radicals by an Act passed in 1873. It made Harrisburg the Mecca of broken down and disappointed politicians. In their caucus the Democrats ought to fix the number of offices to be fillod in the House, and that number ought to be far below the present extravagant list, if there is a:iy virtue in the Pittsburgh pledge and if it was not "made to the ear only to bo broken to the hope." From all that we cring applicant, .tiiu tuus prove that the : !t-lte wotion wm homst when it com- ; fitted tho Democracy to a reduction of the number of office holders as well as true , , tho Pittsburgh resolutions. Mn. Christian K. Ross father of the ...! l.:i.4 !.... ..... i t satisfied th .t the burglars killed at Bay Ridge, Long Island, were the abductor; r.tiisr.K'srr.ii tllelctrt. He designates six places in Baltimore. B.ston, New Yo k and Wash- ington, to eit her of which the child may be Ukcu or bent, and "no question askcd." DiA'iirii viiiiii. v-iifiiu-9 iivwft i Lrvoikr j A Great Vhilndelphia Mercantile J louse. What A. T. Stewart's establishment is to the dry goods world Vr'anamaker & Riuwn'R Oak Hall. Philadelphia, is to the ! clothing m-"lJ:X",r I . X' l. C An kllnK. inalityand completeness. The vast ware Uie lit rtJ Mli;nni."U nn? ti vi iu wws wa bouse occupied by Oak Hall, of which we j give a picture, covers the whole end of one j o , ftet and otl rar),et 60 feet. The huge ; jron an,i brick facade, with its many wiu- ' dows, stands where one hundred years ago stood the famous mansion of Robert Mor ris, the financier of the Revolution. Im- ( medjatcly adjoining was the garden of George Washington, whoso residential mansion wasthen the first iu the city. The 'r.OTl? known through their large dealings and honorable record, began business in 1861. Mr. Brown died in 1808, aud Mr. John Wanamakcr purchased the interest of Mr. Brown from his executors, when he became the sole owner of Oak Hall. Fourteen years of the most determined effort and iron-hearted pluck, coupled with admitted skill, has built up one of the largest indus tries, to which Philadelphia points with just pride ; and the success of the young merchants, even if deserved, stands out as a erand illustration of what integrity and application will accomplish in this country. We cannot enter into minute details, but a glance at the features of Mr. Wanama kei's business will be of common interest. The first thing that strikes one on looking through the vast establishment is its re semblance to the great warehouse of the Rylands, of Manchester, and similar solid business concerns of London, where in stead of vast, unbroken tloors, numberless rooms are connected, showing that accord ing to the amount of business honse after house was added. This is the history of Wanamaker & Brown's establishment. From a very small concern it grew year by year, almost-., every year witnessing fresh additions to its warerooms. Instead of the immense rooms in which strangers generally feel more or less awkwardness, Oak Hall is a combination of moderate sized rooms, where one feels at home im mediately. Premising that the establish ment is strictly retail, we will take a rapid run through the house. This takes us, on entering the door, by the gentleman's furnishing department and between coun- teis piled with youths', boys', and chil dren's clothing, which occupy almost the whole of the first ti or. Rising to the second floor bj- a mammoth staircase, we stand in the custom department, where goods are made to measure. Adjoining is the pantaloon room, the room for black goods only and the room for extraordinary sized men. On the third lloor are the coat rooms and rooms for tho inspection of gar ments. The fourth floor is devoted to the cutting rooms, trimmings department, and stock rooms ; fifth floor, the piece goods and sponging rooms, department for mail orders and reserve stock rooms ; and the sixth floor rooms are for manufacturing. If ever there was a human bee-hive Oak Hall is that place. Notwithstanding the buzz and activity thioughout the whole concern, there is the air of order and sys- ments are like the wheels oi a great eiocit, each in their place doing proper service, the key that keeps everything going be ing held by a master band. The most striking peculiarity of the house is the course taken to obtain high excellence by employing good workmen, training them in the service of the house, and by kindly deeds attaching them to the establishment and Its proprietors. It is said that any one who becomes associated in business with Oak Hall regrets to leave its kindly roof. Almo6t all its bands are "old hands." Another feature is that afforded by ex traoidiuary foresight and vast cash capi tal in securiag direct from manufacturers immense lots of goods at prices less than that for which they are usually sold. The importers and owners of mills seek Oak Hall when for any reason they are desir ous of reducing their stocks, and in this way purchases are made that enable the house to sell their celebrated clothing at retail at lower prices than most of the wholesale houses sell the same qualities, which are not so well manufactured, by lots of dozens. For example, during our visit to the house a purchase was made of 1,000 pieces of heavy beaver overcoatings for the winter of 1375. Of courso they were obtained so far ahead of the time needed from a concern anxious to realize, willingly selling them greatly under the nrice This one mil oi one ioi or one K-.na 0r poods amounted to ?8!, 375. This serves to show the financial ability of the house an1 the ki"d of operations it makes. It is there tore clear tnac sucu a concern, ooiog business running to the millions, can bring large advantages to its customers in cheap ening the price of at least one of tho ne cessaries of life. The system in which business is done is $o t as we know, un like anything in practice in the United States. " On each garment is a small print ed label, bearing the accurate name of the material as well as the character of the man fact ure, so that nothing is left for donbt either to tho customer r salesman. With each purchase the customer takes away a little paper containing tho signature of tho firm to a guarantee of the article sold. Articles sold may bo returned within a fixed time, and whon presented at the cash ier's desk all the money paid for them can be drawn back, just the same as if they were checks on a bauk. One price is mark ed in plain figures on each article, and no deviation allowed. Salesmen are polite and uncommonly cheerful. A little sign on ono of the walls is significautly true, "No grumbling people at Oak Hall." We closo this article with great admira tion for the splendid triumph andbright bi.sir.es enterprise of Wranamaker& Brown. Tho old firm name baa always been kept up (though without any interest other than that of Mr. Wanamaker and Mr. John. F. Hillman, admitted in 1871), and if our judgment is good for anything, this house w ill make a still greater mark in the mors cantile history of our country. Common sense, quiok perception, rapid execution and integrity is the character of its chief, who is still a young man, popularly called "only a boy yet." N. Y. Diuly Graphic. The Tittsburg Dmpatck deems it ques tionable, after all, whether the shooting of Mosier and Clarke alias Douglass, ana their discovery as to the abduction of Char lie Ross, has not made the case more pain- . ful than before. With the death of these parties the police seem to have lost all chance or obtaining a c hie Jo the where alK"tof th.e.b7- Ah eady the patent are distressed by harrowing surmises thai ents made in telegrams from Philadelphia last evening that the authorities proposed em ploying Mrs. Mosier to act in the capacity of a detective. If she does not know . 'V CS? no ? ,caa to ; lVfw uJ". KV"? " ! i"-0'.11 rrwrcf:r P,' ticularly since her engagement by the ; Vllce bM been th,,S Pub,,cly advertised. . ' jEFPi:m;wK Da via is scrioutly ill. , . ...... A SOI'THERS CCRSK JN A NORTFIERS Homk. Commenting on afieadish outrage perpetrated only tho other day npon a young daughterof Judge Lowell, of Boston, Mass., by a black scoundrel in human form, tho N. Y. World draws a picture which it would bo well for all lovers of the negro and haters of Southern white people to contemplate. Here it is : "And bow will all tho men in Massacbn sotta who felt this divine rage, this soared asd virile wrath ia the defence of helpless ness against Aendish bratality, of grasions and reused inuoeeaee against foal and grov elling orime tingliag hot in their veins on Saturday )at, as they read the Miserable story of Judge Lowell's outraged home, bnt do themselves aud their country the whole some service of reflecting that this horrible thiog at which Massachusetts stands to-day aghast has been stalking for years past by night and by day ever the length aod breadth of all the Southern States of this Union? Ko donbt thsre are many men at the South, hot of spirit and slow to ltarn, who havo eaa and again sinco the close of the war manifested a disposition to deal ovev-harsbly with tho race which they aad their fathrs before ihom, and onr fathers before us. as well as theirs, were trained to regard and to treat as inferior by the Divine appointment to the ruling race of JEorope, of America, and of tho world. Bnt the vast body ef the Bodthera whites arc of another strain. They accepted the results of tho civil war honestly aod manfnllv- They knew that tho majority of the Soothers ne groes were neither in themselves savage and cruel, nor disposed to live on ill-terms with their white fellow-citizens. Bat they knew too that, as they are in all Ignorant and lougbrntalixed races, tho lower passions are especially strong, and tho intellectual forces by which the lewer passions, if they are to tie controlled at all, must bo controll ed, are especially weak in tho negroes. And they looked forward then with a pecu liar anxiety to tho increase at tho Sonth of precisely such intolerable offences against society as this which has Jast desolated ono of the best of New England homes, when thev fonnd that the bonds of public order at the South were to be suddenly relaxed by an ignorant, passionate, and dishonest oolitieal interference of the North in the affairs of Southern society. Their bitter anticipations have been mere than realized. Naturally enough the consequences has been that maddened outrages have provoked signal and nummary chastisements. If the men of Massachusetts will but put the case of the South to themselves to-day ia the light which is thrown upon it by this aw ful Incident at their own doors, the future may easily bo made far better than five years ago It threatened ever again to be for them, for the Sonth, for the Kepsbllc, and for the negro race itself." A Negro Murderer Convicted. Al bert Brown, the negro murderer of little Cora Ureenleaf, near Minnequa, Bradford county, Pa., one of the most fiendish crimes ever perpetrated, has been found guilty of murder in the first degree. Brown, at tho time stated, was in the employ of a Mr. Greenleaf, the fatherof his victim. Being an unusually intelligent aegro, and profess edly very oious, he was permitted many liberties. He had a class in Sabbath-school, and was a great favorite'with tho children, especially with the child he murdered. One day in August Cora was left in charge of Brown during the absence of her parents. The negro took her into an nppor room, whero he first violated her, and then cut her throat. He fled, but the crime being dis covered shortly aftr its commission by the parents of tho child returning, search was at once institutes for Brown. He was found next day at a station on the railroad lying at tho depot'with both logs broken. He had attempted to commit suicide by jumping in front of a train of cars. When his crime was made known the fury of the populace at the station was so intense that it was only by great effort that the negro, mangled as ho was could be saved from lynching. Ho was taken te Towanda jail in a wagon. While on the way he was shot at several times by persons in the crowd that followed. Several of the shots took effect, bnt none struck a vital spot. It was not thought that he could survive his inju ries, but he recovered, and has been tried and convicted as stated. The time of his execution has not been fixed. Cor X. Y. World. A Horrible Cask. A Cincinnati Dia patch of the 22d inst. says that au aggra vated and brutal case of abortion has just come to light. The parties concerned in it are of moot respectable character. About tws months ago Belle Werts left her home in Miami, a town near this city, ostensibly on a visit to friend in Greensburg, Indiana, where, two weeks since, her father was summoned to her death-bed ; but lefor bis arrival the body was shipped to Cincin nati, and thence to Miami town. Dr. nilt, who attended her, said she died of inflam mation of the bowels. Suspicions of foul play were aroused, but nothing was done until the funeral was pogrossing. While in the church, the excitement increased, aud the ceremonies were stopped. A jury was enipanneled, and an inquest held on the spot. About midnight the examination of witnesses was concluded, the church cleared, and a pott mortem examination made, whioh proved Belle Werts death to have been caused by the procurement of an abortion upon her. The examining physicians state that it was a bungling and brutal operation, and must have resulted ia speedy death, as the oagans were terribly ruptured and lacerated. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the facts, and charging Dr. Hilt, James Coliins, the girl's lover, Mrs. Little, her sister, and Charles Little, her nephew, ad being accessories to the crime. The Great Ejectmkst 8cit. The ejectment suit of Mtister et. al- c. Bissell efc, alM for some seventy aorcs of land in the city of Pittsburgh, which had been on trial in the United States Circuit Court during the last and previous week, was brought to a sudden and unexpected ter mination on Monday morning. The whole question turned upon the validity of the marriage of one William A. Mowry in whom the title of the property in dispute was previously vested with an Indian wo man in the State of Michigan about the year 1845, by whom he is alleged to have had two children, one of whom is still liv ing, and a party to this suit. His Honor, Judge McKennan, informed tho counsel in the case that unless they desired to address the jury, he would relieve them of the ne cessity of doing so ; that upon a carefnl consideration of the law applicable to the case, he had come to the conclusion that under tho statue of Michigan the alleged marriage of Mowry and the Indian girl was not valid. Under this instruction the jury, without leaving the box, rendered a verdict in favor of the present owners of tho prop erty. This, however, does not end the matter, for the plaintiffs will appeal the case to the United States Supreme Court. A singular Btory, but a true ono, is of the serions harm whioh has come to Mm. Maiy Caron, a dress maker, in Springfield, Mass., from the bito of a rat. Some two months ago, while she waa assisting in killing one of these tronblesome animals, it seized her finger with ita tooth, and would not be removed until it was kicked off. In a few days her band and arm swell ed frightfully, and the whole aide of ber , body was paralyzed, the was at times ' thrown into convulsions and for many days i had to be kepc under the influence of nior ' phine. Four physicians vere in attendance, i She has now recovered to some degree from i the more terrible effects of the bite, bnt I ber hand is still paralyzed, aud she is much emaciated. ui end JTolttieml rteu$ f Chicago had its first drove of hogsin is-26. r:r" There is a Scotchman named Jan.es M'Clairn living in the city of Erie who ia 104 years old. Wm. Rice, of Waterford, Erie county, made eleven hundred barrels of cider du ring the past season. Three children, named Vrieland, were drowned in the Morris canal, near Pattern soi, N. J., en Saturday, by the breaking of the ice. Miss Clarissa Johnston, a sister of the late Confederate Geueral Albert Sydney Johnston, ia a recipient of public alms iu Padncah, Ky. A Philadelphia family, born within sight of George's Hill, consists of seven living brothers and sisters, whose average age is eighty-one years. Two pupils of Montieello (111.) Semina ry bet all their clothing on the recent State election, aud the loser was obliged to send to her father for an entire new wardrobe. Moore county, Tenn., ia taking caudle over a baby with a double tongue, twenty four fingers and toes, and numerous other personal attractions of a teratologieal chars actor. They talk about tbe reckless extrava gance of the American people, and yet a Bangor man worked all day to clean a three cent stamp so that ko could use it again. The George Arthur Throckmorton of the Brazil diamond wedding is the hero f a disreputable affair with a lady ef Louis ville which caused so mnch talk a year or two sinco. Miss Anthony will be horrified to learn that 750 doublo bedsteads were recently imported into St. Paul, Minn., in one lot, the original St. Paul to the contrary, not withstanding. Miss Julia Stockton, daughter of the Senator, wore at the Centennial tea party, at the Capital, a dress that adorned her greatgTandmother.when Washington pass ed through Trenton. When Albert Brown, the negro mor derer, In Bradford county, stood np for sentence, and was asked the usual ques tions, he said he desired to be hung Augus 28 at 10:30 a. m. sharp. Silas Oliver, one of the negroes arrested for murder at the time of the attack on Vicksburg, declares that be murdered a neuro named James Gray, by order of an officer of the Black League whom he dared not disobey. At Kalamazoo, Michigan, recently a triple wedding occurred. Mrs. Teedeyk, aged 50, captured Mr. S. Smith, aged 60 ; her son wed Miss Susan Plow, and her daughter C. Dcmall. The Holland minis ter did the whole job at once. The daughter of United States Judge Lowell, aged twelve yi-ara, while returning home in Boston from skating Saturday was brutally assanlted and mutilated by a nes gro. The ohild is thonght to bo fatally in jured. The negro was arrested. Tbe roof of the new Catholic church in oourse of construction at Sedalia, Mo., gave way on -Saturday morning, precipita ing three carpenters a distance of thirty feet to the ground. Henry Myers was in stantlykilled and Wm. Hughey and John Gallavin fatally injured. In Worcester recently, a husband and wife appeared as rival candidates for mem bers of tho School Committee. The hus band was nominated on tho "Citizens," and the wife ran on tho "Independent" ticket. The lady proved to be the favorite, and received nearly twice aa many votes as her husband. In the next Congress, Philip Frank Thomas, ex-Governor of Maryland, will be the father of tho house, having served his first term In 1830-41. Then comes Fernan do Wood, 1841 ; Alex. H. Stephens. 1843; Wm. Pitt Lynde, 1848 ; John Bobbins, 1849 : Charles J. Faulkner, 1851 ; and N. P. Banks. 1803. Tho Haynes-Oraves murder case, in Potter eounty, in which Mrs. Graves and hor paramour poisoned her husband, i set tled as to Haynes. Ho has been found guilty of murder in the first degree. Mi's. Graces has not yet been tried, her trial hav ing been postponed in eonsequence of tier delicate situation. The late George La bar, whoso death at Stroudsburg. Pennsylvania, was men tioned a few days since, left behind him 816 descendants. His father, who died aged one hundred and eleven years, soven months and five days, married a second wife thirty-twr years old when ho was in his ninetj-fifth year, and ho ontlivnd her. Chicago has a sad case of a crippled soldier. His wound is such that he is com pelled to lie on his faee. and in this con dition he has been, with no hope of re covery, for a number of years. Though in this painful and unfortunate state, he utters no complaint, but is as cheerful as though such great afflictions were not upon him. Weston, tho pedestrain, has at last ac complished the feat of walking five hundred miles in six days. At 11:40 p. m. on Sat urday night, at Newark, New Jersey, ho finished the undertaking, with twenty min utes to spare. Ilis last mile was made in a little less than twelve minutes, and he did not rest during the last fifly-eight miles of his journey. While excavating a street at Helena, Arkansas, a day or two since, the work men struck a huge iron lid or cover eight feet below tbe street surface. Oc raising it, an immense cavern was discovered, the dimensions of which were very large. The chamber is believed to be the work of a former civilization. It is now partly fill ed with water. A Kansas City dispatch says : The dead bodies of two young men were found on tho track of the Mopac railroad, five miles east of this city. The Coronet's jury found a verdict that they had lie en murder ed and placed on tho track. It is believed they were two of Pinkerton's detectives, who have been in that section since the railroad robbery at Munete. In the matter of cold weather there is always a lively competition for the chams pionship. Canada put in strong claims for Monday night, but Lancaster, N. II., a town that has made a beautiful mercurial record of late years, went down to bef sub cellar deposit and scored thirty degrees be low zero, distancing all rivals beyond any possible excuse for controversy. Roland Patterson, a colored man rf almost gigantic size and great strength, died recently in Lancaster, Pa., of hemor rhage brought on by Injuries received by performing some extraordinary feats of strength, no was almost seven feet in height, and in liis best days frequently car ried a barrel of flour under each arm, and could, unaided, put a hogshead of sugar on end. A farmer in Oregon recently bnichored a cow in whose stomach were found a large quantity of buttons. There were many largo brass ones, which lead some of tbe neighbors to infer that she had eaten a policeman at some period of her existence, while a large collcotion o white buttons was almost proof positive that the animal had been in the habit of robbing clothes lines. The New York Tribune, commenting on the disclosure relative to the Freed men's Bank, says : "If the full history of its operations is ever brought to light, we believe the country will be amazed by the disclosures of baseness in high places, and dishonesty running throngh nearly every branch of the government, and shocked to discover how many public men there Are moan enough to rob a negro." . Tho body of a young woman was fonnd on Saturday in the medical college ou Niuth street, Philadelphia, whither it had been taken, it is alleged, by the police from the Women's Hospital on North Twelfth street. The remains bad been packed in a trunk, tbe legs being pinioned behind. Dr. Perpente, aliat Dubois, said to be the keeper of the Women's Hospital, bas been arrested. One of the aaost terrible marine disas ters of (he year now drawing to a closo, waa the burning on Thursday last of tbe Pacific Mail steamship Japa?, near Hong Kong, China. Tbe particulars of the loss of life have not yet been received, bnt it ia feared that several hundred Chinese per ished, as well as a number of Americans and Europeans. Tbe mails were entirely destroyed. Tho London Medical Record notices tbe death of a young man who wagered that he would smoke twelve cigars within two boors. At the end of the ninth be grew dizzy, the symptoms becoming more decided until the twelve were smoked. He was then attacked with vomiting, which continued until he died. An attack of heart disease may have helped on the fatal consequences. The Saginaw (Mich.) Courier of re cent date says : "Yesterday a woman was observed bringing a load of wood into the city -Joing the driver's work, and unload ing the sled. We have learned that the woman has. a sick husband and four yortng children. She not ouly delivers tbe wood, but she chops and saws it, ton, and tbns becomes the support and reliance of the whole family." In Olcan, U. Y., the people were gathered to witness the wedding of a young lady of the village to a suitor from Cortland. Tbe appointed time passed, and, an hour late, the bridegroom made his appearance in a shocking state of intoxication. Tho ceremony was not performed, and that night the offender was taken from the botel, tarred and feathered and carried ont of Olcan on a rail. A New York horticulturist 6ella Bald win apples at f 10 a barrel. Here is the secret : Take a slip of paper aad cut chil dren's names; then place the papers around the apples when they begin to color, and in a week or two Mamie, Jamie, Johnnie, or Susie appears on the apples in large rod letters. These picked and barreled by thomselvep, bring fancy prices for tho New York Christmas market. ! The persecution of the Roman Catholic converts in Tong King, China, has been more disastrous than heretofore reported. About 70,000 persona have been killed or driven to the mountains ; 200 churches have been destroyed ; 300 villages contain ing 14,000 families, and ton convonta of Annamite nuns have been pillaged and burned. Tho losses to the missions and people are estimated at five millions ef dol lars. About 1,000 persona assembled at Car son City, Nov., on Friday laat, to witness the execution of John Murphy, the mur derer. All preparations were made, and the doomed man was brought to the scaf fold by tho Sheriff, when, at 1 o'clock, a reprieve postponing the execution nntil the 24th was received from Governor Bradley. The reprieve was read to the crowd from the scaffold, and received with prolonged cheers. A Fitchbtirg (Mass.) conductor stop ped his train, the other roornie?. for a wo man who was rushing wildly after it. Pho thanked hira warmly, casually remarked that she had forgotten to kiss her btaband. made good the omission, and then strolled home again. The conductor sarcastically asked the happy husband if the train should wait till he had -sent for and kissed his mother-in-law, but roceiving a mild nega tive, jerked his little belL The little folk who witnessed the Con gress of Nations at Barnum'a will regret to hoar that the tiny girl who sat jauntily on the prow of the lilipmian car in that magnificent cavalcade is dead. Her name was Minnie Hoglo, and she was only four years eld. Minnie was the pet of the com pany, and in October last, whon the Hip podrome was in Cincinnati, Mr. Donaldson took her in his balloon to the clouds where she enjoyed beriolf immensely. Commenting on the readiness mani fested by Congress already to cut down the next President's salary, tho Chicago Tri b'tne is ungracious enough to suggest that members might hasten the work of re trenchment a few years, and bring it near er home, by cutting off the feature of fors ward-pay in their own salaries. Under tho present patch-up of tho salary grab, a too TnHr elect may draw pay from March to December nine months before he puts in a single day's work. Twenty thousand persons, in Kansas alone, are in peril of starvation, in conse quence of the ravages of the grasshoppers, and that portion of the population who es caped damage from the inseots declare their inability to extend to them tbe needed relief. What, in such emergency, is to be done ? Shall these people perish for want of food ? God forbid 1 Snrely, those in tbe East, who have abundance, will not permit it, and yet there appears to bo no help for it, unless more liberal contributions are made te the fund now being raised. Father Boehm, the oldest Methodist preacher in the world, is having published his memoirs of the past cent nary. In a few mouths he will be a hundred years old, yet "his general health is good, his mind clear and wonderfully discriminating, his memory remarkably accurate, and his power of expression excellent." He is able to shave himself three 'times a week, and is altogether a remarkably well-preserved old man. He is ten years older than the Methodist Episcopal Church, in whioh bo began the life of an itinerant preacher in 1799. There bad beer, a lynching near Pa dncah, Ky., and a little boy named Arthur Holmes had been one of the spectators. For days afterward the event was upper most in his mind. Taking his younger sister off into the woods, be suddenly whip-, ped out a rope, adjusted a noose around her ncek, put the line over the limb of a tree, and pulled ber off her feet. After suspending ber few seconds he lot her down about half choked to death, and wa solemnly adjuring her to confess to steal ing horses when the father appeared. A sound spanking closed the scene. One of tbe Ohio State Senators, Bi r ton, of Hamilton, has jast received a wr rant for a section of land and a thousand dollars iu Texas bonds, in recognitior of the service be rendered to that State be'ore it was a part of the Union. He wai an adjutant general on Hamilton's staffduring the Presidency of Sam Houston, and, in 1836, having fallen into the hands f the Mexicans, was sentenced to bo slut. A Woman who became interestod in hi and his chief secured a postponement cf their execution, and on the night befoie they were to be shot piocured them tho counter sign and enabled them to escape. A large new dam, just competed for Hayden, Greer & Co.'s brasswoiks Hav densville, Mass., burst about 11 o'clock Saturday morning, and a large body of water, covered with ice about ten inches thick, swept down the channel through the village with a crash similar to the flood of May last. The cotton mill dam. just below the village, hold the water and ice. There wcro 75 or 100 children skating on the pond at the time, but it is thought all escaped. There was great excitement for the time, as it was reported the two large Goshen reservoirs had broken, and the inhabitants were making for high grouud as fat as possible. Ilerndon and wife, and littlecoW';' Addison Rnssel, were cmellv m a young negro named Jess. Fouks vAly found the old mau was not v,t qui a and lived long enough to Wl fi discharged Fouks from hi. 'tiiri stealing meat, when the latter f r and wanted to settle the matt., 'J Herndon refused, when Foi.k, .J;, 1 1 ... wlicii no am ., work, after which be robbed the ll y t23-. The mmHnr I... ' ll,,u of At ? o'rhvlr nn Mt... J-- the engineer of the hi-ai..- . ,. nio-.iii,.,. ' - ..... i M( 4 m. ii.. Swamp Colliery, two mile, and a h.-'r Shamokin, Pa., was entering tLe ti! f "8 room, he discovered the lHly i.f I rci" " Hesser, tbe night watebman. win, iinf beaten to an nnreoognizahto ma.s T engineer seut for the authorities. - l rived shortly thereafter. Th W r" quite cold, the ded haviut bee-, cu,.' M during the night. A scaict, T", the premises, and a halrLet aud , "r club were found in the engiue -i,, ! as blood is on these weapons, tl.re' donbt tbe assault was mafi t,";It ' 80 Heer was a very j-opular ami ami gentleman, and wp.s vvt be! er.-d ,0 j? ' enemy. He was elected r,c..,tlytt J,f rUe of Coroner. He w, frt t , " "e of" of ajre, and leaves a large family. Tl.'C not the slightest suspicion u to wh ,k guilty parties are. lM On a hillside in King-ton. TVnn.p a farmer was catting logs. all,l bit twa j.V. tie boys were playing near l.v. Th W as fast an worked into lengths ai . mod of branches, waie bio. e 1 w. h utonei or chips to keep them from lolh-.p ,ff ,wn the slope. One of the l-raiestt.4a,e bKwened, and began to nj' re, at first and faster as it pained motsr.t'n Tho father saw that tl . . '. boys was playing, uiiniinufil f the jv Sr, exactly in the path of t!.e in n t, railing log, but to far awav too be mved br him. He shontod, aud the little tt'hw looked up. The log was the.i a bo-it hundred feet distant, and iccasi:.ff 'n idly in kjed. The boy, dar.d i "f,irhC ran straight forward instead of escai. . to one side, as he might easily luve d!r4 lie fled as fast as be could.' but the" log soon overtook him, rolling ovsr Vis hudv and crushing him to death. TO AT.I. mm ii m man F77 imr ho tte treat sti-c.tf -?L - ... a. or money ami t lie Iiig ecri' tinned neglect of many of my ca?tone- to pay up their indebtedness fr U:e ict jtar or more, I am oompelled to siioj t ANOTHER SYSTEM of doing busiuesr. Very many of my cr' I tomers have allowed their accoostn to ran i fit- snch au unreasonable length ef Xa j that a groat loso to me, without any beutf! i to themselves, bas been the icsnlt. tietce it is that I rind it bpcs2 la Ccsfcus (h Crsift !j&3 and at the same time keep np my tov and meet my obligations promptly. I am sineerely thank f si for tbe libenl patronage that has been extended to rcr. and now earnestly ask one and all who. indebted to me, no matter bow larpe how small the amen lit, to call anif C. either by cash or note, BEFORE THE 1ST MY OF JAMARY. IC as I need and must have rnntttr. Fel Ing aa I do from past esperience ;w have paid well for that Hw;ll he better for me as well as for my custovsers to alert the ready-pay ystera, I "VA'irL, NOT After the FIRST of JANUARY NEXT,, SELL AST 600 WM CREDIT. I am fully convinced that in tbref out of four persons baying goods re rprfarf j a mora convenient time to pay tn ie j they make their purchases, and ss a in ducement to my customers to buy f' c1 or in exchange for con a try produce, 1 i after the above date, KNOCK OFF ONE-HAIF the PROFIT I heretofore realizod in this place on govd , of tbe same class. i Ilop'ng th.it my old customers wi" tak , no oflinse at the new mode f dir.g h;ii- j ness I am about to adopt, but will ceniin ue te favor we with their patronage eo stricJy cash basis, which they will heenre to fnd the very best for all eoncr rcta. I pledge myself to mark my gonds d jn " th lowest cash rates. oxk ruicn to all: AND COMPTITICN DEFIEP! IN GOODS AS WELL S PRl'.ES. George Huntley. I) E A I.F. It IX Stoyes; Harflware, TinEiu Gnssns. Paints, Oils, &c.f &c- T". S. Msnnf-x-tnrer ind other J" times fln1 It neeesry to send ri 1 r ,' ''r through their en. j-lnyes. en mak'' v ' ranct ment, with tho intersnui'"F , mAt accounts will be paid Iu felt st th eo ' ; " month. necMMi. ASSIGNEE'S SALE REAL & PERSONAL PEOPEFiTT. 1 )T vtrtn of sn enter l!med ot nf tt T,C,A I Ststet Plstriet tMirt. tbe un-lTx-expo to public sale, in Lorttto, I'soht-e .. On TUESDAY, 29th DeocniivT, r Bell. T Blind Itrtdles, Ket'SS, 101 Hlsnkets, Ac. Also, p ,, I ildaina, 1 S& 1 lisiM 9 '- f SLantrtl ('hftirtt 1 Wardrobe and many other art c!es Also, st the nme time " 3 LOTS ftVrVrH Assignee of F" IMPORTANTj 1 three .rir. H K. IRAK ttMH V jiifll OA H R I AO E. 2 TOP PIU. II FS 1 'YeVcH el ssl 4 sinte fels Hakkbss. 11 " .Hcj 1 !"'- r 5-
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