1UI MIL bfiKHUma I Human. FiKay Moinlsg, - - March 5, . "Til ft whirligig if tirnV' often works ? :i;-;ojing wetahMs. In Andrew J.lii!3'n appointed Ai'S. ruddock, of Nebraska, G overnor of Wyoming Ter ritory. Last month, ia the Nebraska Legislature, tx-Gov. Paddock was tlect.fl V. S. SYmdor over John M. TLttVer, vhov.ntd f-ir t'.iu UKpeich inent of Prcardetit Johnson." Now President Grant has appointed cx-Sen. Thuvcr Governor of Wyoming Terri-Vr.-v. a i -c -a c We were sornevt'iHt premature lst tvtck in r.r.nomicir.g that the local option Law h.-l been repealed in the House, .1 statement to tfi.it effect in several of 1 in- exchanges having led 113 astray. We fsn now say, however, to a cer tainty that so 1"ir as the House is con-crn-ed the in.T rtrf-rred to has been wiped from the sttttdte books, thefin:il vote on t!i:it 1 pies t ion 011 Tuesday last blinding 124 in favor and 54 against tat repeal d that measure. What the Senate, will L in the pre.nises i-till lemains to ho on. T:ie rt.nM::l 1 Jeetion in New Ilr.inp- . s!ore will t ike place next Tuesday, j A (lovernor, Lecisl t? me and mcmbots j f f Congress will bv chosen. For some ( years past politieal parties in the Gran- 1 ite .State have been pretty nearly j oqtirdly divided. An was to have been : expoctcfl, tfr: C'.ttiv:is3 in tliat cold ami j frigid re;;;m fias been a remarkably" . ij-iiet on-j, ftltlioug'a the I't mocratie , press in the iitate very confidently pre- , tlicts :i victory for its candidates. We r. ill see Iiow well or how ill founded ' it its judgment a3 to the result. j Foster's suindlingLegi-dativo Hand , Hook resolution, ha vine been reported from the committee on printing, has p issej the llou-e, and, so f::r as tlie . pufdisfied prjrv.".!:ngs ?how, v. ithcut a single word of prjtest. Foster in foiiuf d us in his lc'Ler tli it "tlie mcm-j beru are all vrry avximi? to have th.em i (the Hat;. I Hook) for their coiiititu- J ci.tV we assume that the Senate will 1 endorse the fraud. When the young ; ison of the b'velish statesman. Oxen-j iftiern, was about to make a jottm'-v through Lurope to learn the ways of, men, his father said to him, ' Go forth, my son, and see with how little wis dom the world is governed."' It that ', youth was now contemplating a tour i of observation through this politically ( debaitehed Republic, his iilu-trious ( parent might appropriately say to him, i 'Go, my son, in your travels to liar- i ii-burg, Pennsylvania, and see by what "ways that are d.nk and tricks ( that itra vain the Legislature of that . State cm plunder the tna-ury of tLe , pop!,?.-' j .... -a aw x ; A m nokitt ui roF.T on the Vicks- b.'.irg troubles hris been prepared by l?epre?..'nt:itives Si eer of tiiis Sfato and O'Hr.en of Maiylaul, wlio draw: a strong picture of i lie corruptions and :ipress'u.na cf the ci.loied oi'IieiaN. ' nod say, among other tilings, that the whites p i.v about 9 'j per cent, of the I taxes, and that t:e? negroes chiefly ,- 1 r'ss, collect and disburse tlirin : :do, ; th it the? debt of t!ie city, wlifcli was tl3,UtrO in Hfd, is now, .is t'.r can , Ik- cseertaineil. ?l ,-lOO.tiOt) ; that Peter' Crosby, the sheriff and tax collector, ! w as tiie jvi'.itie.d and personal frien I of tfie corrupt ollieials, and by his i power in summoidiig juries their con-j vitrtion was rendered practically iai- i pvssibl. The conflict of IVcetuber ; t!i, resulting m the killing f two : whites and twenty-four colsred per- j sons, vvas solely and wholly caused by the armed attempt of thn negroes of; Warren county to invade Vick' b irgi; : th;tt there is not and has not been any 1 organized re'tstance at Vicksburg on tii3 part of the whites to l.ivrful nu-; thoiity, but on the contrary the white ! people, owning nearly all tlie property 1 and pa yinsf nearly fill the txes, are 1 t.ie.ceiely desirous of pre:'ivii:g peace cn 1 g o 1 order. Their iaterets, so ci il nnd bti i:.tss, give strength te this desire, and the patience they have ex- J Iii bi ted under accumulated wrongs and : outrages, such as citizens of a northern city would not to'erate f r a day, is . the marvel of our civi'i.ati n. j The Civil Hights bill as It p.od ! the Hons?, which we published two weeks ago. passed tlie Senate on S.d- ; unby last by a vote of ?.$ yeas to -2i' n-iys five Ucpu' IL'.'in S n-'t n s vo'.i' g in the negative with the lPTvcrals. i The etf'O't of Its pa-;saze will 1 c to iii- j Ci'oaee the dis irg i ii. it'oji of tVe radi- cal party in the Northern States and i t j insure it3 certain defe it in eve ry : Southern St.'te i;i the Union. liver' since the close of the tvir tii-3 rudiehls '. in Congress have been Intent only on legislation that would secure a solid ! negro Tote in their favor. While the passage of the bill mny retain the vast 1 bulk of the colored vote, it will split j the Hepnblicin party in ths North 1 into fragments, and will prove to be the last straw placed on th-i camel's back. ' 1 What ia known na the infamous Force bill passed tlie House, Hl'ter a bitter str.iggle, bv a vote of Fi yens i to 114 imva, 011 the same day the Civil Ilfgbts bill passed the Senate thirty-three Republicans voting in the negative, lhat part oi tua i; 1 1 an-; thorizing t!;e President to suspend the' writ of hobrait corptti was unioiidctl so as to limit its operation to Louisi- j ana, Ark.vaaaa, Mississippi, and Ala-' lann. This bill, asls well understood, ' Is intended to place the elections in ; the South under the nbsoluts control . pf Grant, nnd thus enablo him to carry fut bis third-term project, which is hw an open secret. It is not lc!ieve l tbat the b.11 can the Senate. Tik bills for the ndirissiou of Col-j orado fiinl New Mexico into the Union ! " fctatc"' which passed the Ici : passed by the Senate at U.C close , Sta.U-3 Senate, IJut m tins tney are. counting their chickcua before they . . 1. . 1 1 !,..,...,. i,..t. f 1. . , .1 1 .r ti ' tltcieii a -era. au, "ll " " gress, Rinl last o ember t,o!.. ado , ave the Democratic candidate .a ma-, jortty of 2.1C3. ; wen ! . 1 : all 'a w i. n . -v fini..Miiii.i,ri,iiiiaKi. - . . i . i . ...... . - ; time. ho longer speculate as 10 wneui- sumption. Mr. KurUiyvas bwn 111 ; tP.em were adopted, in wnica 11 wm , ,., r,rnt desires a third elec- ' erford, Irelard, and was therefore a : re necessary for the House to concur. 1 . p,,,-?.!,,.,,,., That ho blooded Irish giant, and a large one, I Already we lmve too -many f what 1 ,.,.,,.,., . f,' . irinVcd hp ! h,S nrrn.y eight feet in his stockings. I , .1 ,J f 1 SiKiinto be a candidate fn- rcelec- ! ,4. So-;ie monlils a.,.n llfow2 ...... ..s. , ,ti, n j3 nov-seen as clearly as any comparatively Td hoalih, I.e wt-i noi 10 nave uasei. 1 f lamui i ol :oct ;n"the noon lav mn by Pcmo- lmuK lie had weired more when !xrfi, however, seeing that the political J . rjnl. !;.-.,,, a M,i hv nn : heal:h was better. ..Ho had been in 1 K-ejvtre is about to demit from them,- t,, L r s..;- fivedtheetwomtauiisthiMiLhCon-, v""- T KirV it eZl I L,,"Shr ',c, by lalljer aud-uiotber. ? , 'l.V f:.Lv;.(r th.,r I,pv will thereby 1'!a.ine! "hoJS remarkable fund of tnct xvho ,tin live at the house on Chester st rcet. 1,.; .v.. j, . ant, gfircw((;iCSS 1S steactiiy Uireciea the c.ant tiave!l tiure voars with lar- ! I c.m ru .- ini.in I ii'l'U :l the L' lilteil ' . . . . ; ! :......' . ' - - - . ' in.fn TI10 knntfv iirnlil.m ol lnnKinjr a mun as one 01 uic jrrcai iiv::;c curiosities It is a L'rir-3 outrage and in every;". : 0 as pert nnir.t that Co t tin init that Colorado with a;', V . .im i p;p nat ton, R.ccorning to uie census 1 oflS70, of only 39,604, should exer- '. cise the same nurncricfd strength in j the Senate as Pennsylvania with a j population of three milliona and a half, and that New Mexico with 111,303, should oflset imperiil New York with t iAmot fovr and a half millions. 15olh J these Tcrritoiies combined have only j popnlation enough to elect one mem- 1 ber of Congress unoer the present ratio of representation. This,' of it self, ought to have prevented the pas sage of the bills to admit these two Territories f.s States. Put, iiiceiien dct.t i;f this, who wil' sr.v that the character of the population of New ( Mexico is such as to make it c'csirable j th.at s!ie s'wnild forin one of the States j oi the 11:1011 ; (icncral lir.zen, a com- -. ... . p ,1 1 IH'tent pi-go, in speaking of tlie pro-1 ' . . J . w , .. - e, , 1 position to admit ner as a State, savs: 1 4 lake away the army, its hangers-on and the transient miners, and the re oi tnese nr taken until .July, 1S7(5, and they can not therefore t ke part in the next Presidential election. A criminal pro'iccntion which was lately tried lefore Mr. Justice PJrett, :.t the assiz...s- held at Chester, England, met with a very different determina tion from most cases of a similar char acter. Mary Lancaster, the wife of a ! laboring man named John Lancaster, I was c.u victed of the nianslaughtei of! her husband. The deceased had long j led the prisoner a wretched life, and j or.e dn v came home drunk, kicked ' over the meat which she was preptr- ing ftr dinner and cruelly be;.t I;er. The abused wife, i:i her aiiger, sei.ied a shai c::ed steel, threw it at hiin.and ! ti:if.)i tun ate I y eauaed his death. Judge Hre-tt evMent'y believes, with Sh.ikec-! I0Hre, that ' lie ,vho l.ivs his hand tiptn a wniran, Kri pt in the war of kindness, :.s a ..e.var.l Vh.ni it crliis il it try .loe;i;l a v'dlian." When Maty Lancaster was calked be fore the Court to receive the judgment ol the law f r the ollense of which she bred bee n found guilty, Mr. Jus.ice Brett, instead of passing sentence, ad-eire-sed her as fj'ilowii : I be'ievi that if I thought it i iglif to act according to your own feelimfs I honid say . . . , ..ii O' uijuu ioc t.nuab oi iinv oiei lean ni unnig American population could ; ,, . ,. ... , , ,. ,. , . 1 1 . . lleiubiic until Le s.hall final v be' sit in the sha le or a goou s-.zo-ti appie , , . 1T , . - . , 3 i cnokeel o.T. lie has openlv shown his t:ee. !..,....',,- ( The vote on the constitution or each j Ci,imrt ,or .,ino1 .can party, i i rw-t -1 ' r.c: iv 1 1 1 rti"ir I i . i . .i to i ii.it nu ii iu:ni in in hi i nr i - t i nothing about this unhaonv huib.v.ul of i.ime than your luiM.and was I have sH- ' doui hc.od of. ihe deposit ions show that, ; i i..n;enl of i-asnon, took up a formidable j wei.p.,:i and threw it at him I U-Iieve, i w n-ooit the intention of st. iking him. It j bd strike him. and ";, imini diately ran j fa assistance, aid -did all you could to save ! hiia. All Ihe real rijiht iu this ease was on I All Ihe real rig tit iu this case. waon ! yon r sale a1 1 the iea! wrong on 30,11- has- ; hard's; ard Ceil f.abld lhat I should pun. i-li. ...i. 1 v ih bj no ;-.! I.v to it. I will ' 1:01 eve. 1 ma.;e -is. is p.. igment complete. I ; i.i m.f siijiv 11 10 ne saei by anybody tiiat you are a convicted felon !or a convict ion l is not c nipli te until a sentence is passed, aid I n.er.n to 1 :.ss 1:0 sentence at all ( l."iid cliffMinu, which for some time the ef'.ici.ds of the t'e.uit vr.inly endeavored to su pies ) I shall merely ask jou to enter into your ow n recognizances to come up ror judo-iiieut if caUcd'rfpon, andnohody io the w 01 In w ill ever call 11 pen you (Jod f-nbld il.'-y ever should. (C heei ing eluring which the pi issuer left the dek.) M.vKix.i It ' Fat.'' Those ,f our readers who receive and persue that interesting publication, , The rV-j the truth of the : t -'re l'..'cird, will admit f dl v. ing comments of a cote mporr.ry upiai the manner of its publication: . "The printer makes a line out of Mlovd' a:.d 'Lont' in reading the yeas and nays, ; ae.d t'.e:eiv takes up a whole column with j what fhe-uld not eon-unie more thfln one- third the spac. (See pag -i'j n. Again, , a brass t:b ciert'-s a blank of one "inch ' which slionld not he over one-thiid. (See ! page 447, any many otheis). The number I in question has three of awns of yeas and j nays w nien siio.in: an be put in one column This kind of work is a fmar.cia! gain of Go ! per cent, to the operator without any other I improvement whatever, and will just de- i pkde the s ate treasury unnecessarily to : that amount. As a taxpayer of this com- j monwesdi h, we aic opposed to this m'sltsix : percent, slice. The publisher orthe llicord ha no more right to charge the taxpayers J f ;a whole column of matter. whe:iheon!v gues ooe-Tiinn, man a i.trmcr has to char. ai-e ; uas- I .'nr a bnliel f eraiu when lie only meas iiiw out a ban oiislu I. ' People who came to the conclusion a few mou.hs ago lhat Grant hael abandoned his Third Tenn project, are beginning .to change their opinions. Leading Republic cans in Washington are beginning to freely admit that tln-re is no doubt he will l a candidate in 1S7 I. He h :s the party under his heel and lh leaders dire not oppose his schemes. There are naturally enough ; mn like Huiler, Chandler and Cai pen ter, i who have been repudiated by tiieir constit uents, anxious to help Giant along in the submisjiion .f the government as the only chance that now oilers tl jvi for place antl Miwor. t make tho schema a formidable and elangcrous one. nollung atiout this unhappy hu,b.v.ul of : i.ut.lic in ii Conores3 Vy ho has h-df the ' Sl!',vr i,s "loi.th, fallowed the s? ream some yo-.ns. ,s far as I cm ce, you were a; i ..,:.. ?,ic.:p,. i - distance, then struekieross. the country to a res:.ectah'e. haul-wo, king, well behnved i u'!';"" nt to justify Imn Ul be ing j . t ca:t of ,,j0 UtU. M ,!l8 (jhev wife, and I feel bound to say a greater , thoro knows what IS meant by this Ar- ;(lnr.e rivrr was a party of two hundred even ..nine very msi uiy you were togel her, : bility of approving or condemning this ' l,:,ss 1,1 ,1,c f,,ut of ,,,e h"is' '.'' s,n,r!t -'" "' ,L ' '" " maue ins .j,:,., t..... ,,.,'., r . -.i t into the mountains, aim :. ner plowing i r.cir home com fort a; e and lonml:.- him 5,n.,r.v. 1 1,111 ' 1111 -11 Uiamlcsto 18 adroitly but I , ;,. ,.f I It was only when lie had diivenyo,, todeV- j heavily laid upon Congress. 1 "he re- I lau'ey's peak. In" fifteen days from the pe iatiuii by ill-t i c alieg you that you, in a , snonsibiiity cannot be shirked. What. ! date of their entrv into the hills, they erect- The Third Term in Congress. .-Tl'l ...1. .T..1.T 1.Tvit!r tho r.rdltL ,. , ' of WMhincton City, iljtcUi t'ly reJ tIu slgns of the ....... . 1 . . . 1 ... ... - . . . ... fi , r-, i without sending the I.cimblican party . . to the crave lor. with him 1 uat ne, inteIuls to have an.l to hold the chief . in ihe Government at i cast for our year8aftcr March 4 , 1877,1 . lmvin.lul the holdino- of that , , ! if the having ' sit, his coinran.':; . i:u own acts areitai v placing bcvori'i the dcubt of men whom common se-"o t rehes to believe that motives l'e T oil-1 decisive ami per sistent actio'' He has been piteously ini.loreel i.y lee.ding men of the le tiublican p.-vl v' to disavow these dan gerous asph tullenly rr. scheme, like naut,'hr.s g:, other, from I o:i,, but he has remained i , ., ., ., . . , : re vn-.Ie the third-term j ; '.U rd car :f Jugger-; o'.'cr ti.em one after the r. I.) Chandler. The people have placed their seal of con demnation on Grant's unsurpAtions in Louisiana, and, being rebuked f.r re versing tlie Louisiana election of 1S72, he has responded by sending Sheridan to New Orleans to reveuse the election of 1874. To relax his hold upon the nower whvrcon.be has once laid his luimi is u tiling h iiitu 00 ;i 1 i:k.-ii 1 1 itnj : it-. ; w,i i.n t can teach him to :o. With bull-dog . .. . , , , , . . 0 throat of Lotnsiana, as he aims to hold men who have evinced a desire to make the P.cpublican parly something else than an appendage to Grant. A ml yet in the pretended interests of that party be eltmands that Congrces shall make him military elictatoi over the whole country, with a enceirJIv imiIievl lit cense to revolutionize the entire South to the end that the Republican party may be perpetuated in power. ' He has not only seat Sheridan to New Orleans for the purpose of smothering the voice of the people ef Louisiana as it is ut tered at the poll?,, but he has placed him in command of a military district which includes the State of Arkansas. Two weeks ago he asked Congress to take the reojionsibiiii v foi rrivin? Sher idan work to do in A rkansas an. in j other Southern States; and his Third- j Term rpokesmen in the House of Kep- I l ese-ntatives are now urging Congress ' to take the responsibility, as it is asked f Le tlo. More lLan this, he has very j plainly intimated that unless Congress j takes strong and decided action to the i contrary he will at an early day set ; Shvridau :.t work in his third-term ! campaign. The pretext that there is j need tor fresh military interference at , the South is altogethe r too thin. The j Pre i lcnl's A rkansas message is public j notification that the third-term cam-' paign is burly opened. Every IIc- Kansas message and the b:!l liroposed in accordance with it. does the Republican m-vjoritv in Con- ! c,.eS3 lrr,ose to tlo iboiit it"? to I n po e to (to about It f e-o Leo at. Martuag since 185?. It has iast been diseovere.I that ih li.fln-.-. has just been discovered that the Indiana mariiage law of 1S52 (under which ali mat- j rimouial contracts h.ave been made since- that d:e) is ur.conr-1 i'.ut ioual, null ant) i voni, ami, con-ee.Mentl v, all lnarriaes un- ' ier Hen law ar:j illegal 1 he dire-very was ina.lebv T. J. Tm-?- ler a ad O. N. E!.lv, clerks employed in the Seeietary of State's ore-e. Article four of the constitution, on ihe legislative branch of tin govern nea',, pfwuh's lhat all laws shall begin : -Bc it enacted hy the (S.meial Assembly of the Stale of Iu li ii:.i," etc. Inr some of tl-.c limited vol umes T the statutes this enacting clause has been inseited, hut in the enrolled copy of the 1 iw in the archive of the Secretary of State's opiee the enacting clause has been omitted in violation of the constitu tion, and hence the illegality of thehn. The law was passed March o. 1B1 John W. Davis the resent member from rhi'k -'s "'e Speaker of the House, and ( ii.u lamous .um ljaiie i 'resident of the Sen ate, and Joseph A. Wright Governor, and I it was signed by all these gentlemen, as the constitution requires, without the dis ! covery of the error. This act provides, j among other things, that no white man . shall marry a woman with one-eighth of , negro blood in her veil 8 ; and there arc now : men serving in the penitentiary for violat- lug this provision, which U illnn-.l n 1 proper legal process they can be released immediately, and if the old law ,f ilia i i f " moil 10 IIIVI'.II. lilr" niKkng. in view of the fact lhat an illeci.l PI,;ictment cannot repeal alegal and sound . 1. . . . . i" 11 w, men uiese meu can be lelease-d, for the law of 1843 permits a marriage between a white and one-half negro. A bill is to be introduced iu the Legislature immedi ately to legalizo all marriages since 1852. One of the events of tlie past week in Congressional circles was the somewhat. sl ti tling and significant cam so taken by , Gcn- Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut. ' During the debate mi what is termed the , , r. i' oree Bill, this distinguished gentleman took occasion to say thai "he had been all his life a radical in politics, hut the time had come when he had seriously to con- su'er whether he could go on with his rad- lei.! associales. He did not like to na-. conpiany with them, but he no! to it lie cilia not agree to put any further or greater power iu the hands of the Presi dent. TllE iniouitou3 Force h'.ll i;.1 hearing in Ihe Senate inior to the final ad- : j niinmcnt yesterday, 4ih inst., at 12 o' clock. Thus has a "most foul an.l -i-lrf conspiracy against personal lilicrtv, with Grant at its head, failed of its infamous purposa. i i I he vpsn.-nti. ' with them. Aftei About the Dead Giant, JTr. James Murphy, jr., ii giant who has bren keeping a restaurant at 151 Sontli Chester stitct, on Feii's Point, in thisciiy, fur a year or past, died ea;-.y yesterday morning of a bronchial aflVrtion- or cons Wat- full- stand- II o unmar- s in Khed 3ol liis this country twenty.fcur years, having been of the world. Iii !iisirofos'ional career he vitLiril ovrrv iwir ri line P Mintrtr - fiviM M!iiliptn ,-ur'- r.n.Hh.. ,i s,.(i, After terminating his engagement with Darnum, the giant traveled with a circus, here he c.ntiacted the bronchial disease w f,15y, t - When, in ,e 1,ad a fiesh' I'l"?."1- '-. ic an large men, ari particular!, ""'13 t ...e o.ms anu. nursery ia;rs, was as aartiauio as lie was great in stature. He had a very youthful expression of cmntenancc, coal black hair, and his hands were so large that one of them conld cover the hend of an ordinal y man, just as an ordinary hand would cover an orange, llis feet were not so large proportionately as the hands, but W!,H nn !-':n:lT nnc .i n.s Mines would seem to he a sufficient habitation f()1. .Hlse old woinnil- of thestoi v book, who "had so ma:.v children she did not know what to do. ' "When the u-'dertakcr came to measure the dead giant for his cofiin il vas found that the deceased was full eight feet long. Surely the measure of r.a;i is correctly known when he is dead. The coffin will be nearly eiht and a half feet Ion g. The body was visited by hun dreds of people yesterday, the giant being well known 011 fYil's Point, where he wa3 justly cr.iceim d for his amiability, espeeial- ly by the children . who. after Ihe first shrinkagp, grncr:l!y likrd to be taken in his arms and elevated so far above the beads of their parents as he could conven iently hold them. Some of the little boys in the neighboi hood knew h;n; only hy the name of "The Cii'nt." The body lay in a small room, about twelve feet square, agaiuat the south wall, feet towards the we';t, stretching almost across tlo apart ment, from side to si do. Candies were burning at the head and foo ant sids of the corpse, which was covered with a black pall, with a large white cross on the breast and crosses in the corners of the cloth. The father of the giant, who is sixty-five years of av, probably older, is a large man. When at; his bost be stood over six feet in his stockings, th- ugh lie is now a little bent. The mother is not a lar-re wo- roan, being not above the medium size for j ine s x. c-ne is neai iy ner nuoaiii s atre. Both the old pe'ople arc in good health, and seem vigorous for their v fa rs. Ie.clud - ing the giant, they have had horn to them 1 five sons ai.d three daughters. One son ! on'y is alive. Some of tfi." ehildien were ! undersized. Only one, a son, attained to j the size of the father, except the giant, ! who exceeded Ihe growth cf the parent by nearly two feet. The fuucral will take 1 place ori Monday, and Ihe btiri-tl will be in the cemetery of the Holy Cress. 13aHi rrers le The liliick Wil. Siorx Citv, row a. Ftb. 7. A City Jovrnul says : E; ii Witel.er,- ; we; known ti. izen of oiouxl 'i'3', r.i.'i.it.rr of a recent expedition to tie Black Hills, ar rived at Yankton to-day. He repor's hav ing lei';, his companions at the stockade of the expedition within two miles of Ilaney's Peak on the Box Eider creek on the tbirtl instant. Vi:chcr says the expedition was com posed of twenty-seven men, ono lady ami her son : There acre six wagons, well armed, some mounted and snpplieel with provisions and mining tools. The expedi tion left he ve October til Ii, struck Xebiaska creek, about a hundred and twenty miles mounted Indians: held a peaceable i arlev vcacoing aiparent nd a stockade eighty feef long ant! built log cabins from an abuudsnt supply of tiniber that thev found. The cold weather g-.catlv impeded their prospect ing. They sunk twenty-live prospect holes and 0.-.r .r n iv wu-r-vv vrvcs. STHt.CX GOLD IN E7F.V.Y IS3TASCE, From the grass to the bed of the rack t! i v t'.i.-i..l iiiimr-roos cold and silver benv- i.," onai tz lodes, and' the specimens Mr. Witclicr has bn rouirht back ore pronounced ver rieii. ins pany neei M.vaiiiuinn while in the bills. Mr. Witcher describes parts of the liiils they saw as having magnifioe.nt valleys seemingly limitless, forests of pine, abun dance of elk, deer and oilier game. The g' eater portion of the return trip was made through snow drifts over a trackless c mn t iy in tl-.e most stoimy and severe weather. They discovered in coming out of the hills what has been named Witcher pass, a good natural wagon road. Tins shortens the way out of tlie hills by thiitecn days. Their animals lived on the grass they found beneath the snow. Another says he can take loadeel ox teams into Ihe hills from Sioux Cily in thirty days. Members left in the hills are in good health and spirits. Witcher returned for reinforce ments. He says there is no evidence of other parties being in the hills. Gordon, who came with him pa:t of the way, was delayed by a horse giving out. Nothing was heaid- or seen of the two disastrous army expeditions sentout to intercept them. rr . - T . . 1 I Dr.ATii or A Mysterious Ch akacteti. Daniel Schock, 5o years old, was laund dead in bis 100m in Cincinnati on Friday evening fast. I irougn naviug 111s nome in ,t.- 1 .. ute very heartof the city, be was practically a hermit.. Eight months ago he rented a little hovel in the rear of a Fifth street store, into which he moved his scanty effects, and thus, hidden in a dirty back yard from all observation, be lived entirely alone, seem ing to have no amusmcnt or occupation but smoking his pipe. Promptly on the 2 1st of each month he paid his rent, took a receipt an cx p" and said nething. Iast month tne :ist vine on Sunday. The landlord did not t.:n. l.,.'i. n-!.i Iia rtm not. pnmfi t .lW. 1111.1, l.Hb " "L.l .I." - ' - ...w -. " " on 1 hiirsday tlie landlord weni ro lnquiro whflt was the matter, and found the dor 'locked on the inside. Entering, he found ; 1,16 ma" dead on a cot. lie had been dead ' perhaps twenty-four hours. From letters j lound it appears that ne nas oroiuers anu sisters living in- lluntingtlon county, 1 1 '"ounssoiy notes, amounting 10 over 5)()' were found in his trunk, and $20 ii m monev. 1 nn interior ol the room was i wretchedly filthy, antl the body was covered ... : 1 1 . : . . 1 1 : : O t- 1 ..... . l.AA. a man of wealth years ago, who lost by geiing nun vermin. lie is naio i. n.i.o wvi. m secuiatv for others, and becoming morose, chose this miserable moelo of life. Tho hovel was so completely lii.idei fence bad to be broken dawn iden that a board to allow the colliu to be carried out Vennsi'lvania Jlailroad Hi-port j In accoidanee with the sncslion . f the sycial committee of stockholder appoint - cd at the last meeting of the board of rectors of tho Pennsylvania- railroad, that company T'ublisli 111 advance for t lie 1:1 for - mntion of the st 'ckholdcrs the twenty- eighlli annual repon, which wm ue p.e- scnted at the anmt.d meeting of the com- pany, to be held on Iarch Dili. The ro- port gives the operations of the main line, ks blanches and leastU roaus lor liie year 1ST4, and makes a very pratifying exhibit. The gross earnings of all the lines east and west of Pittsburgh during tho year weie $363,933,2 1.25 ; expenses, mcluoaig rent- 43, 779.46 as compared with the figures ef the year previous. 'The report also gives in detail the opera- lions of the leased roads, the coal compa nics and other interests controlled by. the company.- It is noted that 4he united railroads and "canals of NfW Jersey show "very" gratifying results compared with those of lSi.J, lliey having met every luiinuty under the lease except $31-,1G1, while in 1873 the net loss under lease was C35,7?9. 70. The report speaks of the general tlc pression in the business -f the country during the whole of the past year The remit as shown upon the traffic of the lines has been a diminution in the ton nage ef the main road of 88U.372 tons, being a decrease of 8 8-10 per cent, as compared with the trafSc moved in 1573, and a conse quent reduction in revenue. Largo reduc- tions have, however, been made m the ex- ! . 1 . . . . - ... I . . (2- - . 1 1:1-. -1 1 - 1 1 1 s . i iv ti . 1 mu ctti nrru v. ; not earnings, ?23,525.7C5.97. The earn-; mond shaft near Wilkesbarrp, jumped on ! niembero. the legislature of x, i ings of the main line and its Pennsylvania a cog-vshetl in mo'ion, Friday morning, Caio.ina was last week expeihd fif,m ' branches were 22,642,371. 3o ; expenses, ! a,,d was instantly torn to pieces. j Vw,', for having wittlena rmi.hl.-t A-,-. I incle.ding rentals, f 12,701, 518.20; net earn- J An Ohio man has been snatched frcm . '"3 l'te existence or a bupreine H-,lt.r ;,f ings hf.er raying rentals, ?!, 89G. 924.28 a drunkard's grave eighty-nine times. ?,ieN'"eie', - E,,ni,ar ,S!-U nnl, i .1. n a. ;,, i,;,.rr ' w: 11. i.n r 111 Aew loik lurinir a recent trial. m-i.... pense ;l manuaunng ana opeiaiing inea'Tcl lines, thus enabling the boaid to present j i ied to a little girl of tl"'i (t en years, resi results which they consider very satisfac ; dent of Jasper, Tenn. The ceid snap was lery. j too much for him. The report also speaks of the improve-j They build very large residences out ments made during ihe year, and says that West. An Iowa paper says : "It's only it is proposed by tlie board that the entire j twenty-one years since the first house was Moating debt ot the company shall be pa'.d oft" during 1875, by disposing of sec.iiiiies that are no longer of value for the purpose of controlling the roads by which they were used. A tabular statement relative to the line west of Pittsburgh show that the net result after paying all leases, and other rent als interest, liabilities of every nature, working expenses, etc , is a surplus profit of tS44,5138.43 which sum is more than seven per cent, on the entire capital stock of the Pennsylvania Company. The report makes a nice reference to the controversy going on relative to the Balti more and Ohio road, and sts that it is hoped with a thorough understanding of evta-jthingpertaining to the question pro per results may be arrived at. The report concludes by saying that the board has concluded to adopt, as a general policy, that no further extension of lines should be made or obligations be assumed by the company, either try leae or other wise, except to complete the several small branches and extensions now in progress in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. A. Terrible Citusl,ophe. An awful calamity occurred in Xct Yok on Thursday evening of last week. St. Andrew's chnrc'i stands mi the north siele of F'uanc street, near Chat ham. .Tnste.U't of it. on Dnane street, and adjoining it, is a ta'.l, narrow store, six stories in Jieiirh?', w hose interior was consumed by fire on the 12th of January, leaving its iron front and le iek side-w ails standing. St. Andrew's chinch, aealholio placed woisip, is a lew, large strnciuro, seating about fifteen hundred people. Between rnis low-i-ooted ehuich and the western side-wall of Ike t nil, dee p store left standing since the fire of Januaiy 12 in was a space ol seme two or t hree feet. Thursday evening the congregation of the cIiiit'c-Ii assembleel for services and had gone through I lie prayers and chants, and Father Carroll, of Sr. Stephen's church, was in the pulpit, in the midst of a discourse which rose to an unusual pitch of solemni ty, as if some mytei iems pi emonition were operating on tlie minel of the preacher, lie was speaking of ileal h, r.nd warning the dense congregation of the feaiful d-n-ger of postponing preparation for that event, when, with ib eadful suddenness, his discourse was iutei repteel by a louJ, stupc fyi!)T crash, followeel in a second or two by another. The wild amazement and frantic terror which ensued eieties description. Those stupendous crashes came through) the roof on the cast side ef the building, bringing down portions of the roof and a l-.eavy, crushing mass of pH?e bricks upon Ihe heads of the 1 coi cople in the gallery on that side. In the consternation, astonish ment and horror which seized that crowd ed congregation, persons in the gallery leaped over upon the heads of the people iu the news, and there was a tumultuous rush towards ihe doors, in which many were either squeezed and crushed to death or dreadfully injured. In t he confusion nobody knew how many ha.! been killed or how many woundeel in the gallery by the weight which came down upon their heads with the falling rouf. On examination it was found that the following persons had been killr-d : Mi chael Mnrrav, aged 35 ; Rose McGlynn, aged 51 ; Michael McCarty, aged 20 ; Mary A. Connor, aged 25 ; Catharine McGinness, arcd 50: Michael Fecny, aged 15, and twenty-six wounded. The cause of this horrible aff lir. which came without warning antl with such ter- rible swiftness upon that peaceful religious , , e . 1 . 1 1 assembly, is ajq-are in 11 0111 ine iioove ies senp' ion of the locality. 1 he long, high, western wall of the six-story burned build- ins,' left standing since tlie fire of tlie 12th of January, had suddenly lallen upon the low roof of the church, breaking through and driving down Ihe heavy incumbent mass upon the beans of the people iu the gallery directly uudcrneath. Stahved TO Deatit. A touching inci elent took place at Bellevne on Frielay e.f last week, the sad reality of which sets ro mance completely in the shade. A man named Dagger, living in that vi cinity, who had been out of employment for some time past, antl who has vainly sought woik until weary of the entleavor, gravitated into a Lackawanna avenue base ment, w here be speii. the greater part of his nights and days, while his wife and little ones were left tt sit, cold, hungry and unprovided for, by a neglecteei hearth. On Friday last one of the chihlren, who was formerly a bright, interesting girl, but whose worn, sad face now told a tale of! . . ? : 1 -. 1 . t want and misery, worn out with hunger, wasstiicken down on a bed of sickness. A charitable neighbor named Mrs. Hale, hearing f the little one, called and brought her some'hing to eat, in the shape of an was found in an old abandoned mine tailed at these dimensions niht and d;v with oyster slew. The child devoured it raven- the Devil's Table. I striking regularity. The beat emitted by enisly, until at length Mrs. Hale, seeing her An undertaker in Washington town-j so large a body of flame is very g e.it. eat so greedily, took the food away and 1 ship, Berks county, nine years ago made a ! The trees all around at proportional i's laid the girl down to rest. The famished cofiin for a man who had" formerly resided ' tanea sare budding and the grass ispiowa2 child clamored for more, but discretion die- in that township, hut who now lives in finely. Sufficient light is produced to fil iated that it would be dangerous for her Reading. The casket occupies a place ' able one to read at atiistance of a mile and just then to ?;et any more. A few minutes nnder the bed in the gentleman's sleenimr ' a half from the well. The noise as the later the child, was seized w ith the parox- ysms of a most acute pain. It was the pain of death. In less than half an hour after-1 n-nulo 4 I,a l;f,lA .... A',. .. "' ,,v ,M"ra nuiiriri nn n corpse. ; nameei james jjaiiin isiiemg Tried lor ; are said to be going on lor the pui eu---V hen the father returned home a sad ?ic- I murder in tlie fust degree, without a jury, this well by parties who are studying tin ture met his gaze. His little one had died at his own request ; he preferring that the 1 problem of utilizing this jiatuial ti ec'nr of hunger, and Ids wifs upbraided him bit- ' two judges shall bear the testimony and in their various enterprises. The tools u"0:1 terry on entering ; the scene was a bitter decide the case. While a prisoner has a , in boring it are still in the well, f"J ' one, intleed, to which no words can do am- legal right to be tried by the court alone, ; itbdrasvn a far greater volume of pie justice. Scranton Republican., 2d. it ia seldom that the right is exercised. ' would probably escape. ZTeic? cud rolitical Items. J A man Pn-jviscd to be Ccnder the j Kansas inu;dcr-r, has been arrested in ; Florence, Arizona. t 1!ic New Yoik Sun cxprer.se5 tlie cpin- 1 -Jon that whatever the verdict may lie, j Plymouth Church will continue to adhere 'n,iffrp j tu impeller. The Filtsbrinr Pont says Grant ' qnire Another increase of salary if Congress j persists in raifcin the tax on whibkey to ninety cents a eal.'on. Little Kalph Tilton, about whose pas teruity a doubt was raised in the state ments and tee simony in the great scandal case, is repoited dying. he wanted to be snatched some more.- At the funeral of Johii Barnes, who 1 died at Bristol, England, a few days ago, ; aged 100, the eoflin was.-followed by his ! gra' Is n, who is himself a giandfather.. j - In England, recently, a-tiu-of beef, I wh'ci had been prepared fjr the soldiers 1 in tlie Crimea in 1S38, was recently opened. and its contents found pe.i fectly sotind and wholesome. ' ' There is one case on the court callender in o T7 Yrilr i'ltir" flrtitnwl I Tweed to recover ?1 1,000, 000 alleged "to nave been stolen by mm tr jisous con- j nected with him. The Pennsvl vlvRuia Ihulroad Company nake a i eduction of 25 per (inQ nfTl.-f.l ffl IT1!.U-P H 1 I'Ct mi inn lt T-fl' cent, on pine and 35 per cent. or. hemlock laiiibei Irciglit, l.oi.i llie e. i.;.i iie.a lumber region eastward. Daniel Jlarlin, of Scnttleboro, A!a., seventv-six years, was rccentlv mar erected in Burlington, and now it contains 20,120 inhabitants." All of those injured by the d;ast r at St. Andrew's church, iu I" w Vol k, em Thursday night, are reported to be doing well except Patrick Laviile, who was fatally injured iu the spine. A wondei fui exhibition lias been open ed at Brussels. It is a collection of about 100 landscapes of great merit painted by a by named Fritz Kerehoveof Binges, who ilied an idiot ;;t eleven years of age. -Tlie Texas Jjegiol.ituie propilscs to make it a pemd o.Tence f .r a person to walk on aiailroad. If Legislat ui es go on in this j manner theie wiil soon be uo way in which a man can legally make a fool tf himself. An Omaha w man lifted a barrel e.f Hour from the ground into a wagon on a Tuesdav. cave birth to twins on the il.iv following and on Saturday of the same week split wood enough to last over Suiis day. ' A lady of East an, Talbot ci'inty, it is raid, basin l tr possession a va'enliue which was sent to her gramlnuit her in 177G, and its it Will be just a hundred years old at the right time, ii. is pi (posed to exhibit it at the centennial next year. The huntiag for Indians' skulls and thigh bones tm t lie Plains is reported tohe. a very profs rablo business. The skulls are t ... . ... t . i .-- r ,i. . 1 . i . ., - , -I .-'win. i'fi K-.tm 'j-. ii'itt trie iniii OI me icu man imiiios r-iiixe-lianuies that are i km i.t,nw,-i i.i.i.u-.i.iiiuies lua l are j " qual to ivory in apptai ance. j Pafiiek O'll.or, or the bl.iin? Th.ere is"a young KU) hi nabuque who 1 I'TS'-atmc, desires the pastge of a hi.l ,-l.istles so sweetly that people come from I ""l1"'' A "'te cf nor i ss th-m 2a in.. ag distances to "hear her. She has been : nl'"e tiuwi 1CH) on any person wh s!i..ll equal to ivory m nj-peaiaisee 1 ofVeree' $"100 a week and expenses to travel and pe:form in pubbc, bat her parents are well off and re fuse their consent. It is simply absurd total's about a wo- j man be ing qualified te fi'I every position in life that a man fills, l or instance, what woman could lounge aroui-.d the stove in a ! country grocery store, and lie about the number of tishes she caught last summer? Senator riye, of Nevada, used to be famous for his jovial spirits. He was a fellow of infinite jest, and was wont to set the Senate in a roar, and now be ha been found wandering in the street of Richmond in attire of the. night, helpless and dazed. Perhaps one oeijiht not to mention uich things, says the (.'o'ri'-rJourn-t', hut it's haid to keep from thinking h w different tiie history of this country might have been if Flvsses S. Grant, Benjamin F. Butler, and Henry Waul Beeeher had been born girls. nr .11 ,t.. i vri an me no. i en .ia:ncu in connection with the Beecner case, Jlrs. Moulton was tlie only one who seemed animated by a downright spirit ef honesty, and wh.? gave I the pastor really brave counsel ; and upon 1 her, ihereiore, is liKCly to fall the fury of resentment. Mrs. Timothy Gibson, an Itish woman about fifty years of age, was found frozen j toeleath in the street at Springfield, Mass., ! on Sunday morning. She was out with j her husband on Saturday niht, nartiallv intoxicated, and wandered away from him ! and lost her jvay. Ihe Dominion Parhamutit is consider- I be remembered, says the Pittsairg i'i ing a bill which imposes a fine of $2,000 j pufch, that a few weeks ago two meu weri upon any railroad company that employs a j observed to break through the ice wli.l man who is found intoxicated when on attempting to cross the Allegheny river bo unty. The principle has Iwmmi tried on the ; low the Suspension bridge who have never Grand Tiunk Railway, and has been found j been beaid of since. It is possiole ttia to work admirably. j body found is one of these. The Legislature lias passed and Gov. Hartranft has approved an act imposing if 10,000 hiie and twenty-five years' imnris- onment upon any person or persons who j may conceal, or know of the concealment j of, an abducted child, with special ex post ' facto reference to the Charlie Ross case. j iei... .K- :-... I .1 . i urn 1111- oem 01 1 ue snnury appropi 1- anon bin giving .1'i.irJU tor .viiss ltansom s portrait ri ijren. I nomas at Uluckamanga, and $20,000 for Carpenter's emancipation . picture, was readied t riday, the House re- ! fused to consieler either Hiester Clymer, j of this State, is credited wilk defeating the . appropriations. An Indianapolis mother, whose daugh ter was soon to marry, told that female that she might select from a lot of furni ture stored in the garret such articles as she desired for housekeeping. The old family cradle was found in the centre of the pile, and set aside in accordance with this nermission ' In order that Grant may keen a r.aid I 1"IT1 XT ir 1 III) Xtlltll Vln wi In . 1 - . ..I pay $8,000,000 in the form of increased tax Oil RUO-ar : 4.fr00.000on tr.han.nn '.r.,1 4l 1 000,000 em othor manufactui-es of articles ot necessity from cotton, wool, leather, iron and steel. Is radical administration worth the price of il ? A I- renc'.i traveler arrived in Paris the other day from the Cape of Good Hoite 1 . ..: ; . . 1 , - - . . 1 t bringing with him a diamond larger and more beautiful than the celebrated Re- gent's diamond. It is of the purest water, : and is worth more than 1400-000. It 1 apartment ready for occupying whenever ! the angel of death visits him. At Bridgeport, New Jersev, a man I j T r . . - 1 . .. - Ono of th.e gentlemen injnn-d jn7 accir'nit at Mingo station, on tii.- I'.ci U " die lI.iil;o;;d, Mr. Harvey Ma-in. f for.le. Centre ctmnty, died at Su-iii,,.,!. . : on Friday evening, and 1. 13 rcni..;...s ' taken east on the Pacific Lxpress I s ui(i;ir. lie was an axe tnasitj , ; trale, a siule man, and ajed tbirtj : years. ""1 f j The San Francisco Dult;,i sw the first piece of gold fourd whic-i, ,,v . i s-.ich a revolution on l the Pacific c-.a.t . val.it is bet-,ver r 4 still to be seen. Its and five dollars. It resembles a p tee . spruce gum just out of the Tumi'li of Pclnol girl, with similar indenta:i.u n could easily be identified by anv owe v judge sustained au objection t tlm ,.v'l; bility of a witness on the ground latter was An atheist. 4 A strong-minded woman hi Detr.'t male the fe-llowing gentle reply to a p.-j-jj. cian who had called at lier h ine tu C( Iter hnshand to- gtO the polls and v, lt 'No, sir ; he can't go. lie's wash in.' n.-' and he's going to iron to-morrniv : and if t lie wasn't doing anything he couldn't : I run this 'ere house, I do; and if anvu'-a Tmrf 'i 11 ub mis s;inij wjni 11 ! . If. William S. King, of Mi.r.ic-v.i. C11 , im"-.' .:;) 1m lievp, then let the prosecution pr.-1c-.cj5. j tI e c.uiiest possible moment Kir-; ; coolest rascal developed m p ..it.os f .., !u; ! a century. He is m-.reagirravating l.y ft than lioss 1 ween. Ivlng s:ion:d bo ,c-i? fro. n soelety for a term of years, if tV-itij ! any way of accomplishing th.U l-.'kieiVie feat. An important bill in relation tntiUt lands passed the House of ItepreseiCaavn at Washington early last week. It jr-s vides for the sale of lands in lots of f,,r:v acres in the Territoiies of the Ucited S: e to any one person or association of pve- ins ane! in I'ahfornia, Oregon, and W i-ie.i; i Territory,- it fixes the a-rount at 1-i i ac:,. It relates oaly to land which is varuMs fjt tim'oe--. Mr. Wiiiinm J. Stoddard, ir.sur.-.r.co agent in San Francisco, lias a horse wuh six peif-ctly formed fe f, but only f ,-r legs. The two extra feet grow out e.f t! fetlocks f'f the two fore lgs, ar.d th-.-h small, are fully developed. The li.;v, whie-h was raised in Oirgon, is roe yea:s old, sijlislt, and works in singleaml ilvi'Ve h u iirss. His extra feet can --e him tu h. convenience. How long w ill a locomotive hist a ",-lV,3 seiviciable? An engine on t' e Kcaa.r road lias ben em duty si?;ee 1857, and his run iu that time 475.733 miles, or aa aver age of r.eaily 17,t:00 mil.-s pr year 1 r twenty-eight years. ProhabSv tie re is j vo,'y ,itt,e of the original engine reraaiab? I except the frame and minor parts. Another i engine, made in Liuiou, England, in is still doing dutv. At a meeting of the miners. le-Ll n Po'.tsviile o:i Friday, it was agreed ;!,.; they should demand an increase over l!u liasis of 1S71 r.f ho:it e:ght per rc-it. The o;erat"rs offer f:ty per eent. l.fl.T the basis. Tiiis is a pretty w:d-j eliT-re ic-.. and eloes not indicate a soeedy se'i;lenir;it of the trouble. In the meaniim-j th m-:n of the Sehnvikill, Wilkestiari-e, and LihL- i ! rriThin i ,.r--. in i . 1 1 o invite another to dunk any cit.-xir e; i liquors. Mr. O'Hair belicvis in stii';; : at the ro -t of t' e evil, ai d ih 'r.v nod! 1 e au exeeiient one if p I'a.c r nti at c xl be tuned up to m t. e its c f eerac-ut p,.ic ticuble, which we veiy maeh d uiht. Geoige W. Plumber's box fie'tnr ia Philadelphia was b j.-ne 1 -:i M vid iy 111 irn ing. Boss oTi the building. $50.0 : pr.t'y insured. The' loss on the stock is4 i."'. ', which is fully insured. Three thoasatid girls are thrown out of employment 1 ' this fuo. In the fall of one of the Dili's all the telegraph wires were can ied el mt, Shoemaker's paint and plitto glass ware house, ad.joini.ig, was considerably diai aged by water. Pennsylvanii owes a vote of Ihvik tv the Hon. I leister Clymer, and the nti:i to Pennsj lvania, says tlie Philadelphii Pre, for the good work done by hiai ii the House on Saturday in striking o.it tl 0 irregular appropriations for the two ir reg ularities in the way of art, known as iii Ransom picture . of General Ceorge ih Thomas and Carpenter's "Eoiancip ati.ia PreK-lamation Scene." It is gratifyiniT tv know that the culture and taste "of tlis country has some representation in Ca gress. -The holy of an unknown man wn found on the iee at Brown's Island, neir Steubeevii'e, Ohio, on Sandav. Heisi - ! posed to have bocn frozen to tleatli. Tjv ' body had been seen Kin" there several days but was mistaken for a log. It wel I Curious if true? A Grrmrn rr.nad ' Tacl ' lachtman, residing 111 St. Lo-.ns, is iiu i victim of a singular form of insanity. Ths ; playing el music excites him to frenzr, ! aiul at certain times lie expresses a desi-.e j to minder the performing musician. Ai other phae of h'S insanity in his constant , 1 1 - f . . - . -. . 1 ncuti vuai ne IS upon 1 lie verge OI ileliriaai. Tachtman was formeily employed as aa attendant on the philant hropist, Mr. Jnmc? ' Lick, a pait of bis duties being to rub tie j invalid wit) it. t i i 1 ..f I ill. Air. 1 w ,111 llliu IIHUUS. anu to 1 ' " j vital forces during the process the iai-f.i- tutie is attributed. A Buf.ntno Welt.. A burning oil well is situated about nine miles from Tavci tnm, Pa., and fifteen miles south of Butler. st a place called Lartlen's Mill, r.4 ! owned by a company. Tlie well was ar I ned altout twelve wofks sen. A del th f tvt 1,01 1 .. 1. j - o t, H-.-t 1145 feet had been reached and the "fir.-- sand rock" had been struck. The litht f tlie burning wpll ran hn turn at a ev lance i thirteen miles at nighb and d scene in the vicinity is described as giaml beyond description. Hundreds of people flock nightly to see this great wer.hr. The first thing to strike the visiter on ar riving is the great mass of fine white flan.o of intense heat and brightness, the hoH'1wi rumbling noise heard as the ont-rushir? pas plunges into the atmosphere antl lig':s ; all around by its impasin? brilliancy. Th j flame of this natural force is alout feity 1 feet lm .il fiawn r.t mul kci'f ' rushes out and is consumed is wosdeioi". ! and tho sound can be distinctly heart! ' the-distance cf four miles. Necotiati""! , . . .. , . .i , .1
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