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'EaENSDJ.TG, PA.,
riHay Momins, - - Jan. 29, 1875.
A I'll.T
was introduced List wk in
.
the House to repeal thelocal option law.
Hi Uli.ved that it will ,ass that
branch of the Legislature, but that
it passage m the Senate is not
tured.
Hon. John II. Wai.kkr, President
r-f the late Constitutional Convention,
died at his resilience in L'rie. on Mon
day last. lie was Speaker of the State
enate in 1852, and throughout his life
bore tlie character of an honest, uiv
l ight man.
Mt'4--
StRfci.v no man, even though lie be
a Republican, w ill feci regret over the
defeat of Chandler, of Michigan, for
le-clection to the United States Sen
ate. He is a course man in every
sense of tho term, overflowing with
hatred and malevolence. II is Sena
torial crueer has been Irv.c. but it has
1'cn neither wisp nor brilliant. He
started out on the "blood letting"
principle r.iul hns persistently advo
cated it to the bitter cud. His dis
tusted constituents have recalled him
to lb-fruit, a location more befitting
him than that of a dignified Senate.
The Ilarrishurg Patriot, a. few days
after the meeting of the Legislature,
predicted that it eotild transact all its
btisi.'uss and adjourn in sixty days.
Tint it roti!, do so we are well eatis-l'-jd,
but that it trill is not thus far
foreshadowed. It has adopted the eld
and vicious Republican practise of ad
journing over from Friday until Mon
thly evening, nnd on Friday last it ad
journed until last Wednesday even-;
ing. Ail this iloes not look as it the
sesiion would Le brought to a close
in sixty days. With only four days
session in a week, that desirable re
mlt is not likely to be accomplished.
(Ji'.ant and tfie Itadicala propose,
fays the Columbia Herald, to tax tea
r.nd oolite in order to maintain "the
a mi-," and the annv is to l e used to P" "' en announced is the
.. , , . .... result of a preponderating strength of the
oppress the people, subjugate States, ,.:,rict L.g element in the Caucus Com
r.nd destroy State sovereignty. The mittee. We do not believe that the Re
attention of the people is called to this ' publican party will adopt it. It is not only
purpose of the Itadic.ds. Let them I
ee to it in time. ItwU'. W o-cmanueo.
f the next Congress, the Democ ratic
laajonty in the House, to refuse toap-
t rni'ii?it n ibilbn- for tl:o mnij.rl ,C'
the, "nrmv" utitn it ii rt..l..,...,i tUt.
II ll
army
lowest standard
and then guarantees !
pvfii that it shall be made, as by the
Constitution it is ordained, subordin
ate to the civil power. This is the
question for the people to consider,
this is the demand th peopie niu.it
make. TI.i array business has become
&n outrage.
The election of Andrew Johnson!
to tlie Senate of the United -States by
the Tennessee Legislature is one of,
most notable political events of the
tliij. The contest was protracted and i
intensely exciting, lasting an entire J
week. Andrew Johnson laid down
the Presidential olHce with clean Lands,
unstained by eithe r a moneyed or oth
er gift, which is more than will be said
f (j rant after he vacates the White
House. To the Kx-I'resident it will
le a memorable dav when he takes his
Beat in the Senate chamber, where only
a few years ago partisan malice cause- I
lessly arraigned him for high crimes :
and misdemeanors and sought to de
pose him trom his high ollice. That
c rowning act cf desperation bus now
returned to pbgue it3 radical inven
tors. Time makes all things even.
If anything wa wanting to render
Grant and Lis administration odious
jmd dt.testablc to the American people,
1 is military exploit in New Orleans
tin the fatal 4th of Januai v dug the
political grave of t'je lit publican par-
tv. A leading Republican l.aotr l e- !
i :.. :i .. c i ;
lowing outspoken language :
Unless the Republican party is content
to be swept out of existence by tlie stoini
i f indignant protest lising against the
wrong of I.uuii-iana (:-m all portions of
tlie country, it will seu that tins most
thamriii outrage is redressed wholly and
ht once, for if it is light fur the Fidcral
si 'hi ie i y to pack the Legislature of no
Slate in the manner Attoi ney-.Gt neral Wil
liams declaied it shall bo packed . or if it
can be d.me, :t is liiilit ai.d can bo done in
any other Slate. It is a matter that con
cerns Massachusetts. California and Penn
sylvania r-iall.y with Louisian.k, for it i.s
an net of Federal usurj at ion uliicli, if not
levoketl and cotidcmnrd by Ctmgiess, will
lead inevitably to the destruction of the
m Luic fabric of vur Government.
Dinixu the last and present week.
United States Senators were elected
by the Legislatures of the following
States: In Maine, Hamlin, Republi
can, was i eel cited ; in ?dassaciiusetts,
lawes, Hep.; in Rhode Inland, Gin.
Rurni le. Rep., succeed Sprague,
le.; in New York. Kcrnr.n, Hera., in
1 lace of Fenton, Liberal ; in New Jer
sey, Ex-Governor Randolph, Dein.,
hiicceeds Stockton, Deni.; in Delaware,
Payard, Dem., was re elected ; in Penn
sylvania. Wallace, Dem., takes the
place of Scott, Rep.; in Indiana. Mc
Donald, Dem., duceecds Pratt, Rep.;
in Michigan, Christiancy, Rep., in
place of Chandler, Rep.; in Wiscon
sin, Carpenter. Rep., was re-elected;
in Missouri. Cockerell, Pern., succeeds
Sehurz, Liberal ; in Nebraska,
Fx
Governor Paddock, Ken., takes
the
place of Tipton, Liberal; in Ten lies- I
bee, l'.x-l resident Johnson wns cuct
cd on last Tuesday on the ,15th bal- j
lit and will oust bis particular friend
Pa ram Iirownlow. In Minnesota no
choice has yet been made, although
several ballots have taken place. A
ltepublican, however, will lie elected ;
and in West Virginia a Democrat in
p'ace of noreman, Republican. The
result of these elections is a gain of
The Chicago Tribune, n.lministra-
Won, most severely denounces the pol- )
icy adopted by tlie Republican Caucus
Committee of the House, nnd has no
hesitation
in R.i vino that it has loon
Riior.rpsted bv narrow-minded noliti-
i b i o i i ri r i i c nv ririaiiin ri rrmi-iicr.
i-" ", -m---'"- 1 1
I ,n,, conceiving a poli
! tliru further says :
icv ior me in-
t:We cannot believe that the Republican
1 pnrty in Congress will adopt such short
f sighted and inconsequential corclnsions.
If it does, it w ill contribute to the stock of
the j-rils of the future by endangering
; party success in 1870, and give the Demo-
c rat tt a still stronger liold upon the country
I thin they nov tin fortunately possess.
' "The programme of this Caucus Com
mittee is little hetter than imbecile. It
; provides no remedy for the existing evil
it leaves Louisiana m tuc same tiiifortuate
condition it is now. It forces upon the
President tlie painful duty of sustaining
by the power of the United Stales troops
what he lias already characterized as a
gigantic fraud.' "
The article closes with a warning
to tlie niemlters of the caususand tells
them what I hey may expect from the
Democratic House:
"If the Republican party should adopt
these recommendations, it would simply
vaunt a red Hag in the fice of the Demo
cratic bull, which is going to make havoc
enough ?mong the china as it is. The
present Congress has a life of only live or
six weeks more. 'J'lien comes the deluge.
The 1 loose will be Democratic hy nearly
two to one. The power which the popu
lar branch of Congress can exercise, though
curbed to some extent by the Senate, is al
most absolute. I may clog the wheels of
Government whenever it sees fit, and neith
er the Senate, iur the Executive, nor the
Judicial- can prevent it. It has exclusive
control of all revenue bills and appro
priations. The Democi at ic House can re
fuse to appropriate .a dollar for the sup
port of an army which it w ill profess to
believe to be kept up mainly for the pur
pose of sustaining the Kellogg fiaud. It
may leave the countiy without a regiment
or a squad of soldieis. It may biing in
articles of impeachment against the Presi
dent. It may refuse accessary legislation
for the conduct of any branch of the Oov
enimetit, and starve tho Executive into
compliance. And it is impossible that the
Democratic House wi.l resort to some of
these dangerous pow ers if the Republicans
now bind it to a policy towards the South
which it cannot repeal, the Senate still be
ing Republican. The danger is altogetbei
too great to be needlessly incurred.
" e cannot help thinking that the pro-
wrong in purpose but hurtful in policy,
"' , yww..ieu.ts-VW
t tI'elI'",'l'uscand tothecountry."
i i i . t ;i .
If is said bv the friends of Grant
:. . ....
deieiice oi ins militai v
raid on the
Legislature of Louisiana, that nothing
in ore was done than removing , five
i members from the hall of the llouse
: who bad not been elected, tuid who
i therefore had no right to occupy seats.
The mere net of intei ference, no mat
; ter for what, purpose, or on what pre-
text, constitutes the illegal and unwar
J ranted offence for which there can be
no palliation or excuse. If a Sttte
con?titution has any force and validi
ty and if it is worth preserving and
being maintained, neither Grant, nor
Kellogg, nor any other human being,
h id any more right to decide whether
those five members were legally elect
ed or whether they were not than
would Marshall MacMshon, President
of France. It is a question to lie de
termined by the Legislature itself and
by no other power, and when its con
stitutional prerogative is forcibly in
terfered with, the man who attempts
it becomes a usurper an 1 a tyrant.
A legislative hall is above 1 11 military
control or supervision, ami when it
can be invaded with an armed force
nnd men are found willing to defend
the outrage, w hat is boasted of in this
country as the libert- of the people
becomes a miserable cheat and an emp
ty name.
TunnE i3 some excitement in the region
of Allentow n in rcgaid to a vastestate, said
to bo worth .$:O,0rX),fi0(, left by one David
.Marr, wlio came years ago to this country
. .ZT' " V.' ' '
couu.v. , ne auoiiiowii
lleru'd ?ays, in regard to tho matter, that
Professor McAllister, the magician, who
claims to be one of about thirty heirs, arriv-
t ed in that city last week and proceeded to
j the place of Mr. Man's burial to endeavor
to obtain evidence. On Saturday a letter
from M. .1. Fatzinger, Weaversville, was
! received at the Herald office, containing the
startling announcement that the writer had
; papers in his possession which related to
j M.nr. The letter was shown Mr. Mc.Mlis
1 ter, who was very much gratified at making
! this important discovery, little thinking to
i receive such favorable news, and which
will prove of great value in claiming the
estato and its title from that quarter. Mr.
! McAllister's family history dates back to
tho tiniH of the Young Pretender and the
Karl of Marr, who figure conspicuously in
j English hhstory. This David Marr was the
eldest son of the Karl, and at the time of
, the rebellion rled to Ireland, where he re
sided several years, and subsequently he
, came to America. Important documents
aro already in possession of the heirs, who
( entertain hopes that they will bo successful
: in securing possession of thU great landed
I estate. Yesterday Mr. McAllister pi oceed
, cd to Weaversville to examine the papers
; relating to w hat so greatly concern himself
, and relative?.
GkaxoMi-sicai.Rf.-Union. The t wens
ty seventh day of February will bo a me
morial day in Louisville in more ways than
one; on that riay they will have not only
the great thawing of the last Library Con
cert, but also tho great musical treat of
Gilmorc's renowned orchestra. Gihnore is
the peer, if not the superior of Theodore
Thomas or of Julian. This is his first vis
it to the West, and except for the gift con
cort there is little probability that the citi
zens would vei- li-.ivo lrwl i.ia r .i
iierforn. nines. Tn tl, vt- i.. i i
a hundred miles or more to attend one of!
' - .f..-.i, 'i.irii3 ll.ivt-l
-
U'3 concerts. Remember th'at only those
who held at least a coupon ticket in the !
i
drawing caii gam ao mission to the ball.
Governor Hartrauft has siciie.. th
death warrant of Ortwein, the murderer of ;
the Ilainnett family, and the document is J
now in ine nantlsof .sheriff Hare. Tues
day, the 22d day of February, is fixed as
ine nay oi execution
The Governor, it is
said, was thus piompt in issuing the wars i
rant because of the delays almnrlv ran-i. I
sioiied
u irom various causes in metmir out :
in meting out ;
'jLcc to tuU woist of cumhul
Legislative Standing Committees.
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PES ATE.
Constitutional Reform Messrs. ITerr,
Strang, Rutan, W'inslow, Joues, Wallace,
'. Dill. t'lavford. Roekwell.
Federal Relations Messrs. v ariei, v in-
I m - V . "11
Lrmentrout, Al-
Finance Messrs. Rutan. Davis, "Warfel.
Anderson (Crawford;, Wallace, Cbalfant,
Dill.
Judiciarv General Messrs. Strang,
Jones, llerr, Watson, Playford, Albright,
Yerkes.
Judiciary Local Messrs. Jsewmej-er,
i Payne. Winslow, Davis, licchtel, Ermen
i trout, Stanton.
I Ranks Messrs. MeKinley, Anderson
(Allegheny), Jackson, Crouse, Roebuck,
I Rowland, Wareani.
j Education Messrs. Anderson (Alleghe
I iiy), Warfel, Dunkel. A ndei son( Crawford),
: Chalfant, Wood, Clark.
I Accounts Messrs. Lemon (Blair), Yeak-
le, McMullen, Horter, Cobban, Chestnut,
j Russey.
I Pensions and Gratuities Messrs McMul
len, Yutzy, Ilorter, Watson, Wareani,
Shimer, McKibbcn.
Corpora t ions Messrs. Cooper, MeKinley,
Heihnan, Alexander, Rechtel, Isagle, Stan
ton. Mines and Mining Messrs.Maclav,Paync,
McMullen, McNeill, Albright, Colihan, "Shi
nier. Public Printing Messrs. Dunkcl, Cooper,
Roebuck, A lander, Chalfant, Waream,
Yerkes.
Railroads Messrs. Davis, Warfel, Ans
derson (Crawford). Lemon, (Illair), Lamon,
(Philadelphia), Dill, atde.
Retrenchment and Reform Messrs. Mc
Clellan, Roebuck, Crouse, Isewmeyer,
Clark, Chestnut, Russey.
Canals and Inland Navigation Messrs.
Alexander, Maclay, McNeill, Lamon, (Phil
adelphia), Rowland, Wood, McKibben.
Agriculture Messrs. Ycakle, McClellan,
liCmon (Blair), Yutzy, Shinier, Chestnut,
Russey.
Military Affairs--Messrs. Heilman, Yutey,
Jackson, Dunkel, Rowland, CJark, McKib
ben. Library Messrs. Jackson. Newmeyer,
Anderson (Allegheny, Jones, Albright,
Bechtel, Clark.
Vice and Immorality Messrs. Jones,
Watson, Yeaklc, Crouse, Chalfant, Row
land, Rockwell.
Public Buildings Messrs. Horter, Ileib
man, Maclay, McClellan, Dill, Ermeiitrout,
McKibben.
New Count iesand County Seats Messrs.
Payne, MeKinley, Davis, Maclay, Bechtel,
Stanton, Rockwell.
Compare Bills Messrs. R:ebuck, Ander
son (Allegheny), Crouse, Cooper, Rockwell,
Colihan, Stanton.
Municipal Affairs Messrs. Lamon (Phil
adelphia), Alexander, Horter, McNeill,
Ermeiitrout, Naglc, Wood.
HOUSE OF RF.PRESENTATIVKS.
Constitutional Reform Messrs. Guns
ter, Spang, Lusk, fcioss, Irwin (Allegheny).
PinchcrTwTTcriTnV .W iiV.;' v. hristy, Dickey,
Reyburn, Volfe, Brown Erie), Gehrand
Ettla.
AVays and Means Mess.-s. Talley, Par
ker, Spang, Conrad, Achcnbach, Embick,
Foster (Schuylkill), Stotzer, Large, S. P.,
Lusk, Law, Ryan, Yogdes, Hall, Smith
(Chester), Phelps, Ronry, Thompson (Arm
strong), Cruikshank, Morgan (Lawrence)
and Nisley.
Appropriations Messrs. Reighard, ITet
rick, Tanner, Everhart, Deyarmon, Er
win (Northampton), Gorman. Plummer,
Kimmett, Lyn tt. Toner, Smith (Chester),
Rice, Tlompson( Indiana), Yogdes, Wen tit,
W"illiams(Susqnehanna Bardslej-, Chapin,
Knight, Wishart and Humphreys.
J udiciary General Messrs. Parker, Well
ington, Eitlrcd, Spang, ltcijhard, Wanner,
Lewis (Luznrne), c'aunce, Harriett, Biickns,
Mitchell, Myliu, Reyburn, Schoch, Smith
(Chester). Cluisty, Jackson, Rawlins,
Reutter, Wolfe and Brown (Erie).
Municipal Corporations Messrs. Claw
ford, Richardson, Lynott, Gentner, ilenry,
Holland, Kennedy, Miller (Philadelphia),
Wilson, Zern, Douglass, Falkenbmy, Lew
is, Long, Newell, Salter, Wood, Honey and
Shonk.
Public Buildings Messrs. ITetrick, Fin
cher, Audio (Berks), Park, Boyer, Kims
mett, GafTey, Mumsord, PetrofT, Allen, Lo
gan (Erie;, Miller (Somerset) and Iont
gome i y.
Centennial Messrs. Zern, Ilartsborne,
Foster, Willett, Logan (Craw ford), Lynott,
Smith (Berks). Faunce, Talley, Yerkes,
Wimmer, Rogers, Jamison, Mit.chtll, My
lin, Honey. Salter, Yogdes, Hall, Douglass
and Yeakle.
Judiciary Local Messrs. Backus, Hayes,
Ilutlcr, Gunster, Haitshornc, Thornton,
llaunan, Dai by, Kistler, Park, Anstine,
Allen, Fredericks, Graham (Philadelphia),
Logan (Erie), Miner, Patterson (Philadel
phia), Rawlins. Rosenmiller, and Morgan.
Railroads Messrs. Wimmer, Crawford,
Carson, Conrad, Eld red, Graff, Gross Han
nan, Ilenry, Eveihait, Swan, WorralL !
Ettla. (Jillespie, Lasch, Mrg.m, (Law
rence), Newell, Wrcndt, Wood, Stobcr and
Salter. j
Education Messrs. Piper, Bamett, Fin-
cher. Law, Pallatt, Sieck, Stotzer, Wilson,
Wise, Rogers, Sturtevant, Campbell, llof- '
for, Humphreys, John, Logan (Eiic', Stew
art, Loudenshiger, Kinimell and Mateor.
Accttunts and Expenditures Messrs.
Suirtevant, Backus, Darbv, Matct-r. Mc
NJe, Pallatt, Piper, Butler, Geiselman,
Snyder, Biatt, Brown (Erie), Carej-, Chiis
man, Fredericks, Hill, Holler, Wolfe and
Jvoseh.
Military Messrs, Ilartsborne, Talley,
Hetrick, Carson, Kuij)c, Miller (Philadel
phia), M'Asey, Laige, A, Richardson, Slt
zer, Ringgold, Chapin, Graham (Allegheny),
Wolfe, Hostetter, Hiihn, Icigh, M'Gowan
and Minor.
Elections Messrs. Witliington, Plum
mer, M'Henry, Stable, Brown Jefferson,
Spiccr, llannan, Irwin Allegheny, Lec
ron, Dickey, Hall, Knight. Moscrin. Mor.
gan (L-tw rence), Quirk, Stewart, Embick,
iuk, omiiiisoii, v mat aim John.
Insurance Messrs. Spang, W ishart, Lof
tus, Achenbach, Barnett, Dry, Gorman,
Yerkes, Wise, Reed. Wendt, Ettla, Gehr,
Graham (Philadclph:.-.), Hoffer, Hostetter,
Kimincn and Fiudley.
Yice and Immortality Messrs. Rogers,
Thorton, Zern, Deyarmon, Keyser, Knipc,
Snyder, Talley, Toner, Willett, Williams
Clarion . Worrall, Ague w, Morgan Sch uyl
kill, Mylin, Newell, 0'Nsill, Smith Ches
ter, Sender, Williams Susquehanna and
Graham Allegheny.
Bunks Messrs. Foster, Ilasson, Bed
ford, Loftus, Miller (Berks), Monaghan,
. - --
j Mateer,
Bakeove
Hutter, Shidle, Stevens, Terry,
en, r ortenuaugli, Miiler homer-
set, Loutlenslsger, O'Neill, Heed, Smith,
Thompson Armstrong and Baily.
Fctleral Relations Messrs. Faunce,
Lewis (Luzerne), Loftus, Law, Butler,
Btevens, omeer, nycter, AenenDacn, xur-
. j
. . . . .1 ..II n n- Allfltk I 1 1 I .T I.CItl . I M W1
IVI, ilm , joints, jJniiT, v.sa, a,
Kimmoll, Reyburn and Wood
Corporations Messrs. Lusk, Durling,
Everhart, Fojfl-), Henry, Holland, Hayes,
Mumper, 8 wan, Williams (Clarion), Hol
lenbcck, Agnew. Billingsley, Gillespie,
Huhn, Jackson, Loudeuslager, Rico and
Summy.
Miuiug Messrs. Graff, Dry, Peyatmnn,
Harvey, Large, 8. P., Miller Berks, Mum
per, Rentier, Ryan, Willett, Billingsley,
Campbell, John, Leigh, Miner, Nisley,
Shonk, Souder and Miller I Somerset
M
(Allegheny), Buck, Carver, Gross, Large,
S. P., Loftus, Miller Berks, Harvey,
Richardson, Boyd, Campbell. Ciuikshank,
Edge, Endsley, Fslkenbury, Findley, Long
and Forteiibaugh.
Printing Messrs. Stable, Plnmmcr M'
Nite, Bntler, Cnwfrd, Everhai-t, Henry,
Hetrick, Losch, Miller Somerset, Nisley,
Yeakel, Long and Pet ruff.
Breau of Statistics Messrs. ITollcn
teck, M'Henry, Andre, Carver, Logan
Crawford, M-naghan, Mateer, Myers,
M.'Nite, McAsey, Schoch, Thompson
Armstrong, Huhn, Iewis Schuylkill,
Peakle,Moscrip, John and Morgani'Schnyl
kill). Counties and Townships Messrs. Plum
mer, Lccron. M'Asey Steck. Terry, Wan
ner, Wimmer, Brown Jefferson, Gunss
ter, Ilasson, Gorman, Quirk, Roberts,
Tracy, Agnew, Deverenx, Humphreys,
Leigh, M'Gowan and Long.
Compare Bills Messrs. Eldred, Erwin
Northampton, Bedford, Gemmill, Jami
son, M'Henry, Kistler, Edge, Graham Al
legheny, Kimniell, Mumford, Phelps,
Stober. Thompson Indiana and Y'eakle.
Agriculture Messrs. Smith Berks,
Logan Crawford, Anstine, Embick,
Geiselman, GrafTey, Keyser, Myers, Shu
pert, Buck, Endsley, Gtod, 'M'Gowan,
Roberts, Rosenmiller, Sourier, Summy,
Tracy and Williams Susquehanna.
City Passenger Rail -ays Messrs. Ken
nedy, Conrad, Dry, Centner, Holland,
Monaghan, Pallatt, Spicer, Worrall, Hayes,
Bakeoven, Hill, Leigl M'tiowan, Monts
gomery, Patterson (Philadelphia), Pctrotr,
Sa'tcr and O'Neill.
Iron, and Coal Messrs. Thornton, Wil
liams Clarion, Lewis Luzerne, Mum
per, Wishart, Boyer, Purling-, Fogle, Gent
ner, Holland, Kennedy, Bardsley, Chris-,
man, Deverenx, Graham Allegheny,
Miner, Morgan Schuylkill), Shouk and
V'illiams Susquehanna.
Retrenchment and Reform Messrs. To
ner, Shidle, M'Lcnn, Large, Andrew, Wise,
Hutter, Stable, Jamison, Rcuttcr, Roney,
Thompson Indiana, Baily, Blatt, Boyd,
Carey, Good and Hill.
Library Messrs. Lewis Luzerne, Shi
dle, Gemmill, Christy and Ringgold.
A Br .KE!f an's Bravery. Chas. Cran
dall, a brakeman on the New York and
New Haven Railroad, saved the life of
Mary E. Jones in Porchester recently at the
imminent risk of his own. Miss Jones was
croNsiog the track, w hen she recognized an
acquaintance in a little boy and stopped to
talk with him. He was not on the road
bed but Miss Jones stood on the track,
which was trembling with the approach of
a Boston express at full speed. A freight
train stood on the other through track, and
the men were busy switching cars on aside
track. Crandall was on a freight car that
w as moving, and hearing the express shout
ed to Miss Jones to get out of the way. She
seemed not to hear, and continued her con
versation. Crandall jumped fronvU. raovin" car,
nnd ran towards - wo- w! too late
t"Sve,s',"t.aYherdanger. "I thought
jN r; a sudden that I'd try," said he after
ward in relating the story to his friends,
'and I knew that it must be an awful quick
try. She didn't see me coming, but just
glanced over her shoulder quick like, and
then shrunk all together with a sort of
shudder, and whispered, I'in gone.' I
beard that whisper, and it seems as though
the engine might have beard it, too. It
was about, as near her as I was. It was
which and t'other betw een me and the ex
press. The girl put her bands to her face
and tottered backward. I just caught her
around tho waist, and lugged her off the
track as the whole train scurried past. I
looked thwu at the little woman, and she
was as pale as a ghost and hardly breathed.
Then I was afraid she would faint, and I
wouldn't bavo known what to do then. To
pull a w oman out of danger is easier for me
than tobi ing them to w hen they faint. . But
she opened hereyes and stared into my face
in a wondering way, j-ist as one does on
waking from a sleep after being sick and
light-headed. I think the scire itself came
near killing her. She found out where she
was quick enough, and bounded away.
Don't yon ever conio around this track
again,' said I. Then she laughed and
started for her homo, as she remarked, I
think I shall remember this forever.' "
Fioiit with a Wn.n Steer. Mr. Dun
lap, superintendent of Reavis' Tehama
county (Cal.) farm, last week had a terri
ble fight with a wild steer. Tho steer was
of the Mexican breed, so well known to all
old Califoinians for their savage and pug
nacious disposition. For a number of j-cars
this steer has occupied almost alono the
chaparral brushwood of the premises, all
beasts, wilt! or tame, seeming to acknowl
edge his undisputed right. He has suc
cessfully resisted all attempts at his remov
al, and made the place dangerous to all
trespassers. The old possessers of tho ter
ritory permitted his undisturbed occupation
rather than incur the risk to life in the at
tempt to dislodge him. Mr. Dunlap, the
n-jw incumbent, determined to make the
effort to l it! the premises of so dangerous a
tenant. P) one day last week, in company
with another man, both armed with Henry
rifles and bowie knives, they entered tho
chap mil. Not until they reached the cen
ter of the thicket did they observe the game
they were looking for. Their first intima
tion of tho steer's presence was the crack
ling of the brush, and then a furious rush
towaidthem. Standing their ground, they
poured from their Henrys shot after shot
as the steer approached, until his proximity
became too close to be pleasant or safe,
when they reti-eated to a tree near by.
They bad just reached their chosen in
trenchnient when tho Infuriated animal
struck the tree with his head, his horns ex
tending each side and reaching very nearly
bis hunters. For the space of one hour he
held them captive behind the tree, and
compelled them to quick -step all the time
to keep out of his reach. At last Mr. Dun
lap managed to get in a shot just behind
the shoulder, bringing his steership to his
knees, which, followed by another from his
companion, laid him out. Upon examina
tion eight bullets were found iu his body.
Prater for Citart.et Ross. As we
have tried nearly everthiug without avail,
for the recovery of Charley Ross, it is now
proposed to pray for him. A correspondent
says : Permit me to suggest another mode
t recover Charley Ross. Our people are
eminently a Christian people. Let them
call their several denominations together
and unitedly set apart a day or a week for
prayer to Almighty God for the restoration
of this dear boy to bis parents. If a day
is selected, let that day be tho Sabbath, so
that the services in all the churches in
America can be of an appropriate character;
the afternoon sosssion of all the Sabbath
schools in tho United States be observed
as a prayer meeting for a similar purpose,
and on that day let all Christians resort to
their accustomed places for public and
private prayer, each supplication to the
God of love and mercy to be earnest, sin
cere and determined ; full of charity, of
hope and faith. The Lord has promised
to answer prayer, and iu this apjcal, He
cannot, will not turn a deaf ear. More re
markable illustrations of answer to prayer
have been known than this and ' in this
emergency it is more than probable the
long lost Charley Ross will be restored to
his home, his parents, to his friends, to
Christian civilization.
Andrew Johnson is tho only ex-Presi-dent
who has ever been elected a U. 3.
Senator.
The VomptUttory 1Z1 neat ion Hill
Governor Ilartranft in his annual mes
sage lias suggested that compulsory edu
cation will be a good thing, and according
ly a bill has been read in place by Senator
Payne, f Luzerne county, mainly copying
the provisions of the New York compulsory
education law. Its provisions (printed at
length in our columns) are mainly as fol
lows :
All pa rents or guardians who have charge
of children betweei. the ages of eight, aud
sixteen years are to be compelled to have
them instructed iu spelling, reading, writ
ing, arithmetic, grammar, geography and
the history of the United States, for six
teen weeks in each year.
All persons employing children, between
the ages of eight and sixteen, are required
to see that they have been in attendance
at school for sixteen weeks iu the year pre
ceding such employment.
If parents or guardians prefer to give
children within the terms of the act sixteen
weeks of education in the branches of learn
ing fixod upon, at home, or at private
schools, they are at liberty to do so.
In cases where parents are too poor to
buy the necessary text books they are to bo
furnished out of the public fund.
Upon school directors and school truss
tees in townships, towns and cities is de
volved the task of carrying these provisions
into effect. They are to ascertain the num
ber e-f children of the propei age, to deter
mine the qualification of parents as in
structors in cases where private instruc
tions are tobe given; to see to the apprehen
sion of vagrant or truant children ; to judge
of mental or physical incapacity ; aud to at
tend to the collection of lines for violations
of the law. For assistance in these duties
they are authorized to call in the police
and constabulary forces of the state. The
school boards of each judicial district in
the state are endowed with sub-legislative
powers and may wdopt their own rules for
carrying the provisions of the law into ef
fect, subject to the approval of the com
mon pleas judges.
The school boards are authorized to sue
for and collect fines imposed upon parents
and guardians for neglecting to comply
with the law, which are to be placed to the
account of the school fund.
To any person who w ill give the matter
attentive study it will soon be apparent
that Mr. Payne's bill is a foredoomed fail
ure. So far as it provides for conferring
extraordinary powers upon school directors
and trustees it is clearly inhibited in the
constitution. The legislature is not at lib
erty to delegate any such authority as this
bill proposes to confer for the performance
of any municipal function. '1 lie authority
to enforce upon parents or gu.irdiaui urns
pliance with tho law, in cv.sfc of conscien
tious scruples ftv, Vo the quality of mstruc
titi'i Vra the public schools, is more than
doubtful. No prevision is made for ebils
dren who are not properly clothed. The
compensation for the labors of directors,
lolicenien, physicians and others is left to
be variously determined. The nature of
the duty imposed upon directors is so un
certainlylfixed that it may beeither defeated
by laxity or made oppressive by harshness.
Tho theory of this law is that crime
springs from ignorance and morality from
education. Neither one of these proposi
tions is wholly true or wholly false. Both
are uttetly valueless as the basis for legis
lation. When the state has made educa
tion free for all the children within its bor
ders abovo the age of six years, it has
reached the limit of constitutional action.
Tne task of making men moral has been
wisely left, as the author of Christianity
left it, a matter out of the domain of statute
law. Wherever it has baen undertaken it
has provetl a failure.
The report of the superintendent of com
mon schools shows that out of S.jO,774 pu
pils who attend the public schools there is
an average attendance each day of 543,026,
or G7 par cent. According to tho census
of 1870 there were 1,080,140 children of
school age in the state. From this state
ment it will bo seen that there are at least
5250,000 children iu the state w ho are either
instructed at private schools or do not at
tend school at all. With a compulsory at
tendance, including the per contage of
children who attend irregularly, the num
ber of pupils at tho public schools, for four
months of the school term would be doub
led. The number of scholars for each
school house in the state, there being 10,
t16 fit for use, would be 100. The number
of children ta be looked after in the matter
of truancy by the directors, police and con
stabulary would be half a million. On hik
ing over the crude and uncertain legislation
proiosed for so vast an undertaking, wo
think the legislature will discover such a
disproportion of means to ends as will servo
to defeat this bill, if it is ever reported for
further action. ilarritburg Patriot.
For a long time there has been trouble
between the races in Edgefield county, S.
C, and it seems to have been definitely
ascertained that the leader in the worst acts
f lawlessness has been a black man named
Ten ue n'., who is the captain of a company
of negro'miiit ia. Tenimet has been in the
' habit of calling out his colored troops to
settle his personal quarrels, and several
months ago the whites brought tn the ats
tention of the commander rf the Federal
troops stationed in Edgefield the violent
and unlawful character of his proceedings,
leaving the settlement of the matter in his
bauds, a the courts would not or could not
protect them. The negroes then consented
to surrender their arms and ammunition,
which wore stored in tho ourt house.
They continued however the work of sets
ting fire to the houses and barns .of the
whites, and at last the latter, fiuriing that
there was no hope of relieffrom the courts,
held a public meeting and resolved that
any person, white or black, caught in the
act of firing any house in Edgefield county
should bo lynched act which was extens
si very commented upon as an instance of
persoc.it ion of the blacks, though the resos
lutions drew no distinction in regard to cols
or. After this threat acts of incendiarism
ceased for a while, but a few weeks ago
State arms were reissued to Tenneut's mil-
itia, and simultaneously acts of incer.diar
ism again became common. On January
loth the house of Gen. Butler was fired and
destroyed in the absence of that gentleman,
bis wife and children barely escaping with
theirlives. The incendiary was discovered
and confessed that be was hired to fire the
building by Tennent, for whose arrest a
warrant was issued. The constables and
posse, while seeking the criminal, were
ambuscaded by his militia and fired into, and
this was the immediate eause of the latest
disturbnncesin that district. Ia the mean
time a bill is pending in the South Carolina
Legislature to levy a sjecial tax for the
support of the persecuted, unemployed lies
groes of Edgefield county 1 Ar. Y. Sun.
TnE N. Y. Tablet gives the following sta
tistics of the Catholic Church in ihe United
States : "Seven Archbishops, 53 Bishops,
4,873 Priests, 6,020 Churches, Chapels and
Stations, of which certainly 4,809 are
Churches, 18 Theological Seminaries, and
1,373 studying for the Priesthood ; 63 Col
leges, 51 1 Academies, 1,444 Parish Sohools,
215 Asylums, Homes and Refuges, 87 Hos
pitals, and a Catholic population (exclusive
of Baltimore, Charleston, Erie and Brook
lyn, for whch no estimates arc given,) of
5,701,242. In 1814 they were only 85
Priests, not as many Priests in the country
as there are now Catholic Hospitals; not as
many Priests as there are now of three
names -Walsh, Murphy and O'Connor,
A"cif. antl roliticul Items.
One hundred and forty-eight Sisters of
Charity, expelled from Mexico, have ar-
tived at Havana en route to France. 1
I A colored lady of Pitt county, N. C, j
lately became tho happy mother of a w bite '
baby, a mulatto, aud a black one, all at a
birth.
j A hundred years ago the nnlted popu
; la t ion of Philadelphia, New York, Albany,
Newport and Savannah was not more than
40,000.
j Flora Sqnier, wife of the district attor
ney of Luzerne county, Pa., committed
suicide by banging, at Caibondale, on Sat-
j Iaudcnburger's Hosiery Mills at Frank-
fort, Pa., are closed, the firm having failed,
and ever one thousand men are thus thrown
out of employment.
Mary Reynolds, of Hamilton, Mass.,
and a female accomplice were arsested in
Boston, on Friday, ou the charge of having
poisoned five infants.
About sixty employees have beep dis-
charged fiom the Philadelphia custom
house. The pay of messengers has been
reduced $15 per month.
Captain H. A. White, leader of the
Connecticut Colony in Russell county, Ks.,
froze to death near his home during the re -
cent severe cold spell on the plains.
Liiaiuueroi Michigan aud I liaycr of
Nebraska. two Senators who voted for An
drew Johnson's impeachment, step down
out of the Senate and Andrew walks in.
Next !
The Emperor of China is dead. ITe
was born April 21st, lSoi., and acceded to
the throne August 22d, 1S61. His succes
sor is only five years of age. No disorders
Lave occurred.
Says a Wisconsin editor: "A young
poetess sends in a contribution entitled,
'Let us Love.' We w ill do our best, but
e i.cive inru m.tri .ei over iour years HOW,
and are a little ont of practice."
It is mentioned that although Mr.
Beecher is sixty-one years old, he can read,
without glasses, very fine print. However
that may be, he has occasioned other peo
ple to road a vast deal of very coarse print
lately.
" The fastest railroad time on record is
said to have been made not long since on
the New York Central Railroad by n spo- I
cial train, which carried a party of officials !
from Rochester to Syracuse, 81 miles, in 61 '
minutes. !
By the failure of Ilenry Clews & Co.,
i., wvn. waller, oi jiiairsvn e. is out
?o,000 ; Richard Arthurs, of Rvookville.
$1,000; Clarion PcwW,- Bank, $3,000;
St. Peterburg P.ank, V00. This last item
is. wenrcd to a certain extent.
The Clarion Democrat says that less
lumber is lieing taken out along the Clar
ion river this year than usual, consequent
ly there is little employment for laborers.
Good hands are working in the woods for
one dollar a year and board.
There are 800 paper mills in the United
States, with ah imested capital of $40,000,
00'.', and a total production of $70,000,000
per annum. These mills give employment
t 20,IK)0 people, w hose earnings are esti
mated at $10,000,000 snnually.
St. Patrick's church, in Hartford,
Conn., was burned on Sunday morning.
It was valued at $150,000 ; insured for
$75,000. The walls are standing, but will
probably bavo to be taken down. The
building Is to be replaced at once.
In a gentleman's house in llntford,
Ct., thcie is now lyin very sick, an old
servant woman, 60 years of age, who has
worked all her life f r $1 a week and her
board, and her savings, put. into the bank,
amount now to between $0,000 and $7,000.
According to the official report of the
Mayor of Providence, R. I., under the
operation of the new prohibitory law just
put in force in that city, there Are more
places where liquor is sold than ever before,
and rowdyism and disorder aro on the in
create. Already predictions are made of a dis
agreement in the Beecher-Tilton case.
Mrs. Woodhull is talked of as a w itness on
the pastor's side, to prove that Tilton and
Moult on furnished her with the reports
upon which she based ber publication of
the scandal.
The defeat of Chandler in Michigan
moves the Cincinnati Commercial to a
rythmical summary of bis virtues, viz. that
he "was the loudest and longest, the stiff
est and the strongest, the gayest and most
festive, the most rampant and most res
tive, of the whole crowd."
On Thursday evening, says the Erie
Dipatrh, the wife of John.'Sberidan. living
on the Lake road a mile, or so east of that
city, gave birth to four female children,
three of whom were alive at last accounts.
Pater familiat is absent, having goue West
last fall and has not returned.
The Franklin Spectator says : Mrs.
Lizzie Little, a widow employed at the
Exchange Hotel went crazy last week and
was sent to her home iu Cranberry town
ship. Religious excitement is supposed to
be t he cause of her insanity. She had been
attending religious meetings.
A number of the residents of Corry
have formed a colony to locate in Califor
nia. They w ere to leave about the 25th of
January, and bad procured special rates
for passage and freight, which will enable
them to reach their future home for a com
paratively small sum nf money.
Thursday a man living near Fullerton,
Clarion county, undertook to kindle a fire
with oil, when the can containing it explo
ded, completely covering him with the bla
zing fluid, burning his flesh t crisp. He
was alive at last accounts, but there are
no hopes that he can possibly recover.
iir. nam. minis, oi J'ortiand, Maine,
is eu years oio. and lias smoked aud chew-
ed ever since lie was 7 years of age. He i
is hale and hearty, one of the lamp-light- j
ers, and goes his nightly rounds. Ho nev- !
er had a doctor, every tooth in his head is
sound and he hascut a new tooth recently,
W hile the bells in a New Orleans
Catholic chin ch were ringing for vespers
last auwiay evening, tne iron eastings fell
from the belfry and struck and killed a
little boy underneath. The child was
watching the sexton pull the roie when the
hugh weight dropped on his head, crusb
ing th skull.
The engine and baggage-car of the
night express on the Michigan and Lake
Shore Railroad was thrown from the track
by a broken rail, near Grand Rapids, Sat
urday moining. Tlie engineei, John W.
Anderson, was killed, and the fireman,
Walter Cummings, injured internally. It
is doubtful if be recovers.
The lioodsin California continue. Last
week many persons were drowned, and
there was great loss of live stock. Sher
man and Tw-tchell islands, in the delta of ;
the Sacramento, are flooded. It was rain-
ing heavily at San Francisco on Friday
nifht antsaturday. and further damage
in the valleys was feared.
The people of Hooksfown and George-
town, lieaver COimiT, ito n nuuuciiui
sensation on hand, in the shape of a tall
female 7 to 9 feet in height, who is said to
have been seen by m-uiy reputable per
sons within the past two months, at differ
ent and late hours of the night, on the
roads lending to and from the points named
above.
King Kalakaua is claimed by North
Carolina as the deoendaut of the chief of
one of its Indian tribes. His father, Pau
tank, according to the statements iu a Car
olina paper, was tho son of Kalakaua, a
Tusoarora chief, and emigrated a number
f years ago to the Sandwich Islands, where
be married the daughter of the then reign
ing monarch.
I The Scientific Amfrican lias fjRd an
old lady of S3 w ho has not washed for fif-r
years. She is so d.rty that death ani
devil keen at a respectful distance.
President Grant gains one more da
in office than the American rem u i.
gained for. 1 he 4th of March, ls;7 "i
j come on Pmiday, and by statute, the'inau
i guration of the President elect does u .t
I take place nhfil the next day. Twioo in
tho history of the republic this has occnr
, red, in 1821, at the second inauguration t.f
j James Monroe, and in 1849, when ZacLarr
J Taj lor w as installed. '
The Osage county Leader, Misson-,-
i gives an account of finding the dead bod
j with his bead and one arm cut off, an j tt.
j tirely naked. The head was some disiai c
; from the body with a pistol ball wound in
jit. A miner, whose name is not given, bai
j been arrested on suspicion of having riiur.
: dered Bryant, but nothing definite i
known. Great excitement prevails in tl
neighborhood.
Wm. A Weeks, colored, Assistant
Secretary of Ptate of Louisiana, was kii:ti
, on Saturday night. Strangely enough
j Gen. Sheridan did not send any dispatch t
i the President about it, asking for authority
'to go to work upon the banditti. TL:
j omission, however, is easily exp!aini,
I when it is known that another negro official
i killed mm in a quarrel about a negro belle.
The color of a murder makes all the d.flr-r
euce in the woild.
Mrs. Kate Clark, recently sea:nstrr?i
in the family of Senator Stewart, at WaM,.
ington. was m-rested in Baltimore on T(i,
day, charged with the robbery from Mrs.
Stewart, on Satuiday, of bonds diauio. Js.
laces, ii-c, valued at -K-,.500- The proi-r.
ty was recovered, and, with the aceud
sent to Washington. Two trunks we-
I also secured, containing letween $l.(nrt
J and $12,000 worth of plate, laces, tlvcts,
; anil oilier vaiuau.es,
The Pittsbiugh Pott says that An Aw
is on bis way to Washington, witn his ..
tie hatchet, and his war clothes, lie is
afraid the papers in a few ugly ras wi 1
be lost or overlooked unless be is on t'.i
ground, and says he did not know the
pigeon1 holes when he was President, a;id
1 thinks if ho was Chairman of a Coniniittt
of Investigation be might still find them.
He says he don't care whether Grant u.et u
him at the depot or not.
A dispatch from Boucherrille, Catiac
dated Jan. 25th. savs: A fire tl.i
! destroyed tlie feini' bouse occupied i'iene
i uvuutte
His w ife and eight children ir-
-.Mien in inc names, liuiurte was seriuiivv
burned in bis efTbi-ts to save his fatnilv a'l
is rat expected to live. His w ife aud chil
dren were literally burned to ashes, and
onl y fiagmcnt of the Ixxiies can bt fmii i.
The eldest child was thirteen years eld and
the youngest was a baby.
A Wisconsin paper tells us that tl -Chicago
Trihune. thinks that "the hero if
Winchester is about the last mar. to be in
trusted w ith such a drlicMe commission ai
treating with the White League traitors.''
It would be difficult for the Tribune t
think a corrector thought. Sheridan is
just about as fit to manage affairs at New
Oilcans as a bob tailed bull w ith the deliii
um tremens in fly time is to take an in
voice of stttck in a w holesale crockerv st'ire.
An event long dear totLe Pope, and re
w'lic'ihi was anxious to live to prof-Iain-,
is the Catholic Jubilee of 1875. Pius IX
has been permitted to fulfil the wih, aici
bis encj-clical letter has been published,
announcing the Jubilee, defining its na- f
tnre, and calling njn the faithful to
it for the highest and holiest ends and tl
benefit of the universal Church militant.
He has justified his prediction, 4i slm I
not die until I have proclaimed the Jubilee."
Mrs. John Wutchel, an old tesidtitf'
Lancaster, )., some twelve years aorav
needle into her breast aud failed to havei:
extracted, as it never occasioned her either
pain or inconvenience. A few days since
however, the lady felt a strange prickir?
sensation in a bunion on one of her feet,
ar.d, upon examination, found the point of
a needle protruding from the excresence.
With but little tronble it was taken ont. and
it appear to be t he same needle she lost in
her breast a doren years ago.
The following, from a St. Louis pnpT,
is given as one instance of suffering amon;
the poor this winter. The papers all ve:
the country report similar cises every dar
"The girl died from w ant of proper care a'vi
from exposure to the eoW. She had to g
every day to the sonp-house for a bucket
soup for her parents. She wore a thin c'
i co dress and a light skirt, but no lut
stockings or underclothing. In this cr
dition she visited the soup-house on tn
coldest days of last week, the distance r:
tween the institution and her home bcin;
one milo."
A correspondent of the Mercer Pitpnl-1.
says that quite a romantic affair recent!
occurred iu the northern part of the cuntv '
certain young man was to marry a cer
tain young woman on Christmas, but when
he went to claim her, imagine his surpri'
to find that she bad gone to become "tb?
wife of a handsomer man." Stra lge t
say, the j-oung man appeared disappointed
ai:d moped around for two or three diy:
but remeinlering there is a "balm in
ead," he went and made love to the f.!-
one's elder, and perhaps wiser sister, tr
we understand that "the twain are to b
made one flesh." "Sweet are the uses i
adversity." Take courage young mar
from this, and not lament over trifles, t
crowd nobly on.
The Parkersbu-g (W. Ya.) Tine
January 20 refers as follows to rura-
enrrent in the streets of that city on tl
day. The story runs thus : A farmer h
j ing five miles from Grafton, W. a., so..
! bis farm for $5,000 cash. The evemn
after the reception of th money his hou
was entered by three men, who killed th;
farmer's wife and two children. SKn tb
fanner arrived with a peddler, who, ont
j holding tho bodies of the killed, rti'-het
; the peddler armed with a revolver, into'
' room, w here they found the invaders li.
counting the money, at which the peiili:t
commenced firing, killing two of the i"''?
and fatally wounding the third one. ' f
course the affair is creating intense trc '
ment, the more so as one of the killctt1"'
glais wasrecognized as the brother -iu-te
of the farmer. We, however, have r
seen any reports of this terrible affair :
any of our exchanges, so we do not In?
whether it is based upoc reliable rcpoiU
Wosukbful Success. Three yars.'
Dr. Boschee's German Syrap was introd
ed in the United States from Oermany f
the cure f Coughs, revere Colds tOd r
the breast. Consumption and ether dises
of the Throat and Lungs. No mediciae
had sorb a success. 300,000 san; pie bet''
have been distributed every yer for th
j J irnBKist. in ail "-.
B.,
oth(.r prparat5on in their store, sells as
1 ftn.1 . h .xct.ilent Mtisfsctin.
wu ask is for you to get to yonr ProgC'
umnitn Si lnrrav, r r. M. woiesmK
Son's Store at Wilmore, and gt a sm f
oottlw fr 10 cents and try it ; regular
T5 cents. S
FitPR or Charge. Dr. Morris' ST!'J
Tr, Wild Cherrv and Horehound cuiM
all the medicinal virtues of th rt".
whieh long experience proved tefH"l
the most efbeient qualities for all disea'
the Throat and Lungs. Coughs and t : -are
speedily relieved by It and in r'"-.
a. ts like magic. Call at R. ,T. Lloyd ill
Store and obtain a sample bottlere ecf
or a rejtnlar sire for $1 ; or at P. M
Ingle & Son's Store, filroore. J-B. t
His, 113 North ?d SUt Phila. t13.-;-;
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