!Ir lS BST " THE C&BBRI& FBIEI M j . n ia HWllt EDEMSOURCy PA.f Friday Mamie?, - Apiil 30, 1875. Is rtvlv to tb.j assertion oi tr.e u- . tttfe tha't Wince, the Mle -nag- , rfcrf3.OU0.CCO worth oflaces, is a , T th Pif-d.nro-S P,' verv ' things it doc uu we cur J-J 'o. - Democrat mg-.ges m such business. Coiiseanciillv the i'o.-. lik ourseii, is , in favor of p'tiiiihing Mr. Lawrence to the full extent of thr lav. No Demo crat o:i;rht to sintmgle lact-; there are il.vlicals tn'jv.h that business. At tho cenieiiiiial celebration of the battles of Lexington and Concord, on . .1 ,1.1 the Itftli inctant. a secca vv:ta u:. - cJ at the Crdt mentioned place wuicn ' ' rn a 1 -rv- ri-ilHl Il")t!te and met with heaitv commendation. Uti. eralWiUiana F. Ilartlett, of Massachu cff 1. ofTiL-c-r in the l..te ciril war, where he lo t b"th an arm and a h p, was the fjaker. His sjecli was in re pi r to a toast. "The North and South."' How plea.si;i:: i the contrast between the mar)iaiiiinous sentim. nts of this crippl . 1 hero r.nd the dismal croakin?s of amateur soldiers, dot editor; cf ra;l ioi.l n-'v. s;pe: s, who are predicting the downfall of republican liberty in this country because the Southern people, . i in-tead Of frleeting ignorai.l negroes and corrupt Cirput-hagtrers to lepre- : Cr.t t in r.vi-rrpw i". ft r to stlil ! lib lliV H .Jfc fl ' men of culture and refinement like (Jnerui Gordon. General Ransom, and Lamar, rebels though they were. lie fer ricg to Soutiitrn soldiers, General Ujiriktt, ia concluding his address, said : "Asa i A-nn-M, I am as pr.m.l of the TiK-rc w'ao th.'irzed so hr.vp!.r with Pickett's liri,1.ni on our iinesat Gtryli-.irg as lam t( the mo i wLo liravely met anil repn'ed ths'n ti r:. Uf't taiiiint aiwas thojse ih? ricl. I'!:t wi-i, having chosen that whu-h tlifir c-;s i' M' B di'-tati-s, ther are I rea-lr M die fr it, ii' ih-y justiry not their i a-: :!ipv at lnn; cimou'e i-rns-l vc; and tbo rnii who for cuisoi-nce rzke f-uht Rgainst thoir Government at Gettysburg oHifi.t easily to he t iriven by the sons cf me?! who fur cons if ne akc fought against. thir Gorenim-tit a L?xingtou and But.ker Iliil. Oil. sir, a Ma.-a ;b'isvtt was first in ar. fo let her '. first iu pca' e, and shesha'.l forever ts first iu th hearts of her coautry- ictn." -- I'ji' "Ir w- co-ild app-.int the Speaker from tin whole In. It ot Atneri-.-an people, we i i . e- 1 T T.. I " 1 The forgoing elegant extract is i taken from a g j:ii:ig article in a paer pub lished iu the tar and turpentine Stid.e. t is nra;e indeed, and is the most ex- travaUnt compliment that weremeir 7 ,. . .. . ber ever having seen l-estowtd on a member of Congress from this or any other Strite. Its editor was determin ed not to be outdone by his Democrat ic brethren in the Keystone State in the expres-ion of his profound admir ation for the brilliant Congressional achievements of Pennsylvania's second "ivorite son," who unfortunately hap pens in this instance to have been one cf the foremost champion? of the back pay swindle. To such base ues have we come at last. Let us suppose for n, moment that this "i-ose and expec tancy of the tate'' should fhuffle off' tLis mortnl cil before the meeting of the next Congress. What then? .Sim ply to do the next lest thing, and that would be to elect ids executor. There would be no other alternative, and be sides this th r commendation has a precedent upon which to rest. When Ilenry Clay, in 6il, was defeated for the Presidency Iw James K. Polk, an enthu-ii.istic but dusgusted admirer of the great Kentucky statesman assert ed, in language more vigorous than polite, that it was the foleum duty of the Whig pTty to run Clay as its can didate every four year, and if he was unsuccessful, then, alter his death, as'a mark of its undying devotion to htm, to nominate and trv it luck with one of his executors. His advice was not followed, but in Kandall's cae it might be adopted if the contingency above referred to should happen. It would simplify the matter wonderfully. - Ix is claimed by certain pppcrs pub lished westof the Allegheny mountains, 11 that the next Democratic candidate eell liquors shall give bonds in the for Governor ought a3 a matter of right ' sum of $2, COO, with two sureties to be to be taken from thjtt section of the j approved by the court, ''conditioned Ktate. It is tlie sime old parrot cry to pay all damages which may be re in faror of location or sectionalism, re- j covered in any action which "may be gardless of considerations of Clness for instituted against him under the pro file ofice or strength with the people, j visions of this act, and all costs, fines Standing by itself, it is tlie sssertion ' and penalties which may be imposed of a blind preference for a local cand:- : upon him in any indictment for viola date, to be followed pc-ihap by defeat, 1 ting this act, or any other law of this rather than success with a nominee : commonwealth relating to selling or from another section. Can any man furnishing intoxicating drinks." atif.ictoril? explain why the western If the terms of thislaw are nronerlv portion of tb" State is better entitled tothccuuhd.Ttetra'itheeastern, north-' rn, or southern.' All other things burg Patriot, it will have a powerful ater" 5omo jumped over with their U-ing equal, such a demand would be tendency to improve the condition of ! 5-"Ym' 'n? V -!r bafnelf Pieccs ,f entitled to respect, but of its tmre self, j the liquor traffic by largely changing j Sldt'S 'im-' It l j DUo and absurd in national, State, , Vac personnel of dealers. The eleventh 1 mediately dashed m and commenced rescu er county politics. The only a rgu section ofthe law nrovides that "it. ! these people. So'me were saved in n.u rnent, if it couM lie called such, in fa- .11 .l ; f . i .w i . v. iuvu v i . . u . . v - I X'a Y t T "r -t , T i u.1.it. but even if it had. he would j l.ave been defeated just as Woodward, : Clvmer, Packer and Buckalcw were, j We cannot or course anticipate the rc- lion ,f the Erie convention, but we j hive a very decided notion that if the , convention understands its business, ( as we think it will, it will not select a man siranly because he resides and . r.rrS bvna in . r.nrtlxnhr .,rf r i, ' c. V YrC ' V 1 I ....... i..i.i. data 0. admitted qualification and un- j doubled integrity one who can not niy poll the undivided vote of the j Democrat!, party, but also the conr- j vatiye Ilepnbl.can vote, because that will be r.ecesssry to insure success it will be the plain duty of tlie conven- tion to nominate hiua. If itcanuot, it oust look for such a nan elsewhere WU JOOMor sjen a cua Ubewaore, Tun difficulty wbkh 1s sometimes in iv.nvtv f rt- finer All- v iiv: v 1 1 1 1 i -t ! " r Tr,ca ox-cn I K.Mirrfi ht lu Ilfenrv Ward j Beecher himself, to give a direct an swer to a !la1n question, was never 1 V , V. " " J w-w - 'more completely illustrated than ia i . . t l... T' T...1 t.''..llo.-tn.-i in I j T.-. rt fAltAn i . - - ------ , . " . " K caslon in ter 0"n UOHW' 1 ' i! nAmn TlfMv hrr in cvidence, had poetically term- ;n,"rtion." The fol- 1, r.,1- lowing; were iu uiiwiiuno .- lerton and the answers given br 15ccrti- er : Q.'W'b'n w it M-M Mrs. M.uHon pure von (hit kin of ini-pirat Jon" an yon term ji? A. It was Satur.lay night, the 31st of M-T. . . , q. .Alt'! wuerc were you in-n.- A. In Mr fwiiton s BtuJv. -j, tw rtown rpon lhe FOfa th,n? .,-0, iir ; I w.ta titling at th tabJeat tbo time. i vf. iM were you ai inj .:uicuu.ihu ; cvetijpp lyinn npon ue oia. a. .u, n , : I know I was not. i Q. Your rt-coMcrtion !.iostive upon that? ; A. It n verv in-siti.-c. O. V.n can dtinztu-I) l-etween tiiat vis it and all the .tl-r visii? A. That visit staiupitl itself very iii.lt lil'ly on niy mind in r-pard to such fi aiures as I reco'!e t. Q. Do you rtfolle. t that when Mrs. Monl tn: -urfin nn thrt htainl sh m askeil the n? A.-! heard but a i:irt of tvr test; moil v, " 1. : . q.Ij,j tu hear that? A. I dou't re-coili-ct whether I did or not, sit. o Was not Mrs. Motilion asked Id yonr nrenca in r-ffird to kissinz you A. 1 u-h.-ther she was asked in niV presence, and I lanied it froia hearing li-r, t whether I read it in the testimony ami li-arned i so. I H Didn't yoj sngjo.st to your counsel to ak that question? A. It may le that I did. Q. Don" t you recollect ihrtt yti did? A. I think ou are helping niy metr.orya little: yon and I together will g'-t it out. I have an impression that i iui a.-K my ronnsei, 'd a.K my conns. i, : U on a s'in of nipef I Yes, sir, I think ! and thi ret'ore that I must Q. Didn't you write aiul hand it to l.-ini? A so. hcther 1 wjisp-rei n or wrote ii upon a piece of paper J would not say now. My impression is that I did Miggestit, and there fore 1 must have heard it. Thus at last Fullerton succeeded in forcing an unwilling admission from Ueecher that he had prompted Lis counsel to ask Mrs. Moulton about her angelic ' kiss of inspiration." .-- Last week, George IT. Williams. Grant's Attorney General, tendered ids resignation, to take etfeet on the loth of Mav. This retirement of Wil liams from the cabinet has given rise .. . m' i:,i. : lis irue eau!e. i uc ictsuii nn-ii im pelled liim thus to take time by tlie A. , . e r-... non uiai one oi me ei v mat acis ui : the next House of Representatives will Ik? the appointment of a committee to ' m. ke a full and thorough investigation ; of how and for what purposes Williams : has disbursed the enormous appropri ations made by Congress, nt his re ' quest, to carry on the Department of . Justice over which he presides. That it has been shamefully corrupt was : plainly established before a committee at the recent session. Ot course, Grant ! will furnish Williams with a certificate ; of good character, lie did that for Tom Murphy when he wa.s driven from the New York Custom House by the 1 sheer force of public opinion, and did not hesitate to confer the same favor ) I rnpt chief of the Washington King. It is his way of doing things, and it will not he withheld from Williams, who has been tlie- head and front of Grant's repressive and vindictive poli cy towards Louisiana and other South ern States. It was reported and believed, a few days ago, that Delano, snuffing the coming storm, was also alxjut to lay down the cares of the Interior Depart ment. He says, however, that he will not do so just now. No branch of the government is so rich in plunder and fraud as tiie Indian Department, which is managed and controlled by the Sec retary of the Interior, and it is safe to predict that when Congress meets next December, Columbus Delano will be a private citizen of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. The tenth section of the new license law provides that a person licensed to observed and enforced bv the courts of the commonwealth, says the Harris- , V 1 1 Ltf ji. ... shall not be lawful for any person, with , v finiivub iiv iriic. iu sen : i ii v neison . i - ; ir- i - S UU,i " - Ua-V 0,1 I which elections are now, or hereafter j may le required to be held, nor on j Sunday, nor at any time to a minor i or to a person visibly affected bv in- toxicating drinks." It will livery difiicult for persons of notoriously bad I habits, under such restrictions, to find i property holders who will be'w illinT j to run the gauntlet of surety against i f....t , i.- ir i i """-,J1 lue liquor laws OI tne ouuu, n.iu we nope lor tne most sal u- j tary reform in consequence. There 1 having been some question as to the j requirements ofthe new law in the! case of keepers of restaurants and beer j saloons applying for license under it, I Judge Ross, of Montgomery county, ' has decidod th.it thov mnat. kJ 1 same security as anclioants for hotel ; 'li.n Pt eI ' .Iicens?. Three Steamboats Burned. FIFTY LIVES SACRIFICED DISTBESSlNfl ICENES AMONG THE "WOMEN ASD CHILDREN. A special to Hie New York XfrraM of Saturday gives the following particulars of ri.eburiiimrof the Mcarr.ers Kyl; Exporter . . ,- n.ln T-"iidv f. ;fte -t ter , f o'clock, a time when the levee is usual y r.ios crowded, a fire broke out in the uiack- crowded, a fire broke out in tlie black- whole boat was in Games, ume was, however, afforded to rescue a few lady aurl r.thers before she was 1 uHed ont into the stream, the tire ai- , tiict-Atrorney I'helps, Sinclair I ousej, V?1;. most immediately caught the Bodmann, : lector Arthur, Hon. ThosrIurphy, and whose paseeuers and people on board near- j many other well-known citizens. At tweu Iv all escaped"to the Exporter. As soon as i ty minutes to eleven o'clock the bead of the fire was discovered the lines of the ' the procession emerged from the vestry, the boats were cast l.Kse from the shore and a acolytes leading, bearing in the procession steam tug pulled them out into the stream. ( the cross and tall tapers; then followed The d.tyvas unusually clear, with a strong i lonjr lines of clergymen, who, aftermaking north wind blowing. As soon as the boats pemi flux ions before the high altar, passed cle.ncd the eddy, atout wo yarns 1. me shore, thev were struck with the full force of the wind and were almost instantineons- Iv wrapped in ilanies, chiina the helpless . passengers into n.e mci. .. .... tlie crowded levee was heartrending in the " t 1 I . a cia f wm extreme. THE SCESE ON THE BODMAX3I From the Kodmann men, women and 1 : 1 1 .l...;.l.;nM itrrinfr fi T" lirlri ' c,m"11'' . -V', i were seen w jump iniu mr rmv. " 1 while the spectators on shore were power- : The Extorter did not ! less to help them. ",c" ' ' e U,V,.'V. "."i .V. time crowded with loier.isiie vs ai. me u people, the lmmlier being estimated by j witnesses cfjhc catastrophe at from ICO to i 150. As the huge sheet of flame swept down npon them they were seen to jump ovei board like a startled flock of sheep, I when a number were rescued by skis and ! tugs, which had put out to their assist- ! ance; but the great majority were drowned, j TtllRTV WOMEN AND Cnil.DrJEN LOST. Albert Myncfc, the watchman ' of tl.e i Bodmann, who was saved with its captain, ! 1 repoits about twenty-five or thirty women ! nd c.jliljrfcn as ost upoll that boat, and j the same propoition was estiinaled by i spectators to have been among ths frantic j crowd npon the Exporter's forecastle. In t thirty minrtes after the tire broke out the j Kyle was floating down stream nurnea to ; the water's cdjjp, a:id the wrrcKS of the bulls of the other two boa's had drifted over to the Algiers shore, where they stil smoulder. THE RESCUE. About twenty of the rescued, among whom a;e several ladies, were provided for upon the steamboat Louisville, and just as t the deacon and sub-deacon, your correspondent left the lcee two more Bishop Laughlin read the Infrr.it, recited ladies were landed from a skifT. Some of ! the Kyric, and intoned the Gloria tn Ex thc rescued are badly burned. Both the 1 rrlm which was afterward sung by the Bodmann ar.d Exporter only arrived last choir. Collects were read by the celebrant night, the latter with an excursion paitv d the Epistle bjjthe sub-deacon, while on board, among which was the famiiv.of j Bishop Laughlin read the Gosjiel, the en her owner, C aptain B josc, of Pittsburgh. ! tire congregation lising to their feet. He Foitunately most of the passengers were i then chanted the woids "Credo in I nura up in town when the firo occurred, but ! in a low voice, and recited the re- Mis. Hecse and her daughter, with another J mainder of the 2icene Creed. When it lady, remained on bo.-wd. Of these two was concluded the celebrant, together with were, saved hv a skiff, but Mifs Becso is ' the assistant deacon and snb-dcacon, sat supposed to have been lost. Captain Shin kle, of the Bodmann, also lost his son, fourteen years of age. THE LOST. It will be very difficult o ascertain the names of all lhe lost. Among them were many sjcctators fiom the shore, who went aboard the burning boats to assist in put ting out tlie file. Eie they could return . l ... they found themselves out m the stream, enveloped in llame. One case cf heroism j a(ld p;isi10,,s ,;siT and removing their isivpoitcd. rI wo women whosprung over- ; Initie,. t,e priests and tho entire congre board succeeded in gripping a ringbolt ! Mij)n xuz. At this time the church upon the bull ot the Exporter, where, partly sheltered bv the guards of the boat. they clung for about fifteen minutes in full ! view of nil on shot e. In the mcntinic t hree skiffs made repeated but ineffectual at- temrits to reach tliern. hrir.r- enrli time i ri,-ivcn back by the intense heat of the ' flames. .Inst as the hundreds of breath- ! less SDectatois were noon the i.oint of abandoning hope, a loni; lead colored skiff with a single rower approached and dashed is to their side. In a. few minutes it emerged in safety, having succeeded in recuing loth from watery giaves. This g;il!ant action was rewarded with a spon taneous cheer from the crowd lining the liver bank. The latest estimates reduce the loss to about fifty souls. The burning hull of the Exporter is now being towed down tne river bv a tugboat captain Hutchinson, ofthe Kvie. reports .. .. . - . all saved upon his boat, through himself, the cleik and one or two others are some what badly burned. He says that in less than three minutes from the time of dis covering the fire that his boat was one 6lieet of flame from stem to stern. To adopt an expression ussd by an old darkey witness of the sad affair "They all burned like broom corn." BUnXING OF TIIREE BOATS. It now appears that all the three boats were tied to the same ringbolt upon the levee, and that on endeavoring to cut the Kyle's moorings all three were unfortunate ly severed at the same time. The river makes a rapid eddy at that spot, and they at once diifted out together, thus com municating the fire to each other. The tugboats, Ella Wood, Nellie and Dome, nnd another weie in the immediate neigh borhood. The two former, it is said, lost both time and opportunity for saving life in a vain endeavor to extinguish the fires by throwing water iqon the burning boats. STORY OF AN EYE-WITNESS. Another eye-witness to the catastrophe, an old met chant, says he arrived on the levee just as the boats diifted out. The forecastles of the Bodmann and Exporter were then crowded with people, who just at thac moment seemed for the time to realize their danger and became panic stricken. In a short time, he said. 1 ie Kn ur over a hundred people struggling in the 'manner nthAra . manner ....r r, mi. iu lioHimg spars ano le saw, ne thinks, upward of r . ... r. . i - - iony or nny, among whom he distinctly r"e-ts two women, who were drowned. There was a lamentable want of order in managing the tugboats, otherwise, in his 2Pinion n,any more mighthavebeensaved. BcfMe be des"'l,C8 as n,ost horrible in oil on board. One of the boats had on board a quantity of oil' w,ich floated in flames upon the Ru,,face of tl,,e waler ronnd the struggling victims, and thus adned tenfold to the horror of the scene. Many of the rescued. are severely burned about the head, and no doubt it precipitated the drowning of mAny- m t II1 to Colonel N. Smith"? Kentuck?. ifil Imminence theCardinal Archbishop of New York, it is said, will perform the ceremony. Z ' W , pac? ,a 1,10 Fa)1' ',en L.001 rtu,u hsr cntempla- ted Earopean i. America's Cardinal. ARCBEISHOP Jt'cLOSKET RECEIVES EEERETTA. THB Thousands of ppectators gathered at Sw Patrick's Catbedial, New York, on Tues day a. m.. to witness the cercwiony of con- fenin? the Berretta oq Cardinal 3IcClos- Key. 1 Here nn ueeu an euyi muu- ucinuu for tickets, and a number of those who had them found difficulty in gaining entrance through the crowd. The streets in the im mediate neighborhood rvcre packed with human beings all anxious lo even get chance of seeing the portals of the church-. Great interest was manifested. Representatives from every part of the Union were piescnt- A number of front seats were reserved fur the invited guests, and among those seated in them were Chief-Justice Daly, Jndge Donohue, Dis- down the centre aisle, which was soon parked. V hen tne snrpliced priests ltad all taken their places the icpresentatives of ii 1: : 1 A 4 . w . the various religious orders in the diocese began to emerge from the vestry in their j piesureue habits. When the procession had all been arranged in proper place, there ; was an interval of ten minutes, during ! which the ehnrch was filled with joyous mie from the choir 1 he procession of 1 . 1 1 u 3 r... i. 1 P-.. " " ' wit, n? measured tiead. The audience 'unfold itself. The scene was one which New York will probably never again wit ness. Koys with pictures, robe and swing ing censors, and dignitaries in dark purple pircedcu the Archbishops and Bishops. The procession was closed by the cele brants of mass. Bishop Laughlin, of Brook lyn. Ilev. Dr. Mclilynn, assistant ; Rev. lather McGan, deacon, and Father Kean, sub deaccii, then Cardinal McCloskey, the Pa ral Envovs. Dr. Ubaldi, Monsignor TJoncetti, and lastly the tall fisnre of Count Marafacai, of the Pope's inible guard, in his dazzling uniform. Caidinal McCloskey wearing bis roch nianttlielta, Vnelt altar. r His rociiet, porj'ie cassocK aiict at the epiallo side of the The Archbishop of Baltimore sat on his throne on the same side. The officiating bishop ami clergymen stooit at tne altar stetis. and mass was coinme'iccd at tne contiteor. The Cardinal stood np and pro ceeded to his tliron at the gospel side, he alone, of all the prelates present, having a pastorial'stafl", which was carried by an asi sintant rtliciating Bishop. After ir.cens- irg the altar three times he sat down witn I, t.:.t .!: I...1 1:.1. . oown until tne cuoir nau unisueu. xiiiui I.auchlm returned to the altar, where, after the customary Dominu Vohhnun and Oremu, he proceeded to read the prayers at thn ofl'citory. The dencon and sub-deacon, then pre- paied the sacred vessels and bread and wine. M'ercnndanU Qutm Dileta was sung during this period, the acolytes again advanced with censors and the altar was incensed by the celebrant, the Archbishops was a level sra of heads from right and left, from the sanctury to the doors. The light, left and centre aisles of the church were packed as fidi as they could hold with people who were glad to have standing room. When the leil tingled to announce the opening of the canon or solemn part of the ceremony, I be people standing maae an a.te nijt to kneel, but were unable to do so, being massed so tightly together, and a ! very unusual spectacle was witnessed of hundreds standing up during the consecra tion. I o aids the end oi tne mass was in troduced the curious ceremony of giving the "pa!" or kiss of peace. It is not exactly a kiss, but an inclination of the heads together, with hands resting on each other's amis. The pax was given from ' rt. ,1.a -.ll.or until il. t:iMf1 alons to tine in luc viik II " I - - - . ..:. .,j i0rt oil f',,rrl. ib cioI,..l ilI1ctu;1Vv. When mass was finished, the interesting part of the ceremonies com menced. "Cardinal McCloskey rose and knelt at tl.e left-hand side of the altar. The Archbishop of Baltimore stepped down from his throne and knelt at the epistle side. The audience rose with per ceptible excitement, and some had the bad taste to crowd up amongst the clergymen in the sanctury. Ablegate Bonctfa stood beside Arch bishop Bayloy, and in a loud, clear voice, read the message in Latin from Pius Papa to his Yenerablirt Fraler, Archbishop of Baltimore, giving the reasons which in duced him lo confer the Cardinalate on Archbishop McCloskey, and at the close handed him the brief authorizing him to confer t he Bei rettaou this new lyappoiuted prince of the church. The Archbishop, having replied in Latin, passed the brief over to Father McLean, deacon of the Mass, who then read it. Count Marafacai then surrendered the Ber retta to MoiiMgnor Ronetta, w ho handed it to Archbishop Bay ley, who then walked ovr to the Cardinal and placed the cap on his head, at the same time addressing him ia Latin as Kmenentia Tua. The Cardinal made also a suitable reply in Latin, nnd, after intoning the Te Deum, retired to the vestry and put on the crims son robes of his office, and returned to the altar, while the choir sang the Te Deum. At tlie close of the hymn the Cardinal gave the pontifical benediction, the cere monies were ended, and the vast congrega tion passed out of the Cathedral. The Letter Boss Grant Should Write- Loud calls for remarks from Grant on the Third Term subject are be ginning to come from unexjiected quarters. The Boston Journal and Providence Jour nal would like to have him say just a word one little "no," or something to that ef fect. Perhaps he will decide to gratify them ; and then if he should finally decide to become a candidate next year, be could write a letter to his friends, running some thing like this : Wearied by importunities and weakened .by the result ofthe Connecticut election, I gave a letter relinquishing the ThiriTcrm under assurance that it would remove all difficulties between me and my party. That letter I now revoke. I was persuaded to do ir, almost forced, when I was in a weak ened state of niiud. 1 regret and tecall its statements. Worcester Prett. U. S. G. Iron City Commercial College is the on,y "stitution of the kind in this city , Pitburrrk-thab we recommend to the public pati-onaSe.-iyrian Banner. A Quadruple Tragedy. TERRIBLE STORY OK LOVE, ROBBERY AND )!l'P.nER--THREE VICTIMS TO A VA RICE, JEALOCSY AND REVENGE SCf CIDEOF THE ML'REEIiER. On Wednesday afternoon the town of Cuba, New York, wns thrown into great excitement by a man from New Hudson dashing into town on horseback after a doc tor, aud announcing that James Laflerty, a somewhat notorious character tn that part of the country, had murdered his grand mother, an aged lady with wlion. he lived, shot the wife and daughter of a farmer named George Yannoy and then killed him self. A physician and a number of citizens accompanied the messenger back to an noy's, w ho fi ves abont five miles from Cuba, near the road leading to RockTille. Arr,T ing there, a sickening sight was presented. In the door yard, near the bouse, lay the dead body of a man'aboat twenty years of age. His face was turned upward, and from a wound on the side of the bead his brain was oozing out. This was the body of Lafferty. By bisside, and near bis hand, lay a revolver. In the house, on a bed, with blood pouring from wounds on their faces, lay Mrs. Vannoy, a fine looking wo man of Ihirty-fivz or forty, and her daugh ter, a handsome girl of eighteen. They were both conscious, but very weak from loss of blood. The physician, Di. Carper, examined the wounds, and succeeded in extracting a pistol ball from Mrs. Yannoy. It had entered her head near the temple and lodged back of the ear. Miss Yannoy was shot in the right cheek, the ball passing through and lodging in the back part of her head. The surgeon was nnable to extract the ball. Although in a very critical Con dition, the young girl related THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE SHOOTING. Lafferty came to the bouse in the after noon. Mr. Yannoy was in the barn at work, and Mrs. Yannoy was in the kitchen. Lafferty entered the room and commenced talking with the young lady. He bad for meily worked for her father, and had for a year professed to be in love with her and wanted her to marry him. She bad Invar iably refused his offer, and bad told bim several tiroes that he must not speak to her further on the matter. He had often talked of committing suicide, or of doing some thing else terrible, but she bad always laughed a. bim. 'li;n he eamo on Wed nesday, lie renewed his proposal, saying that his grandmother had given him a lot of money, and he would give it all to Miss Yanaoy if she would marry him. She told b'rni that she did not wish to ha-ve airy as sociation with hm, as his character was not what it should be. He said he would be a better man if she were bis wife. She then rose to leave the room, w hen he hand ed her a newspaper and told her to read a paragraph he pointed out. It was headed "Murdered for Love." She had turned her f.ice aw ay fro.n him in looking at the paper, and had just glanced at the heading of the article, when he drew a revolver and fired. She ran, shrieking and bleeding, townrd the door, when her mother rushed i:ito the room. Lafferty then shot her, and iti hurriedly out of the bouse. Mr. Vannoy, hearing the filing, left the barn, tra'l was hastening to the house when lie saw Laf ferty leaving, with his pistol in his hand and a wild look in his f.ice. The farmer shouted to him and asked him. Ybt, in the name of God. is the matter?' Laffeity wheeled and fired at the farmer, but missed him. Without waiting to see the effect of his last shot, he placed the revolver s:ga";iist his own head and KLEW OUT HI5 TRAIN". Mr. Yannoy entered the house and found his wife and daughter lying on the floor weltering in their blood. ' Me lifted them to the bed and was about to d.isii on his hoi se to Cuba for a surgeon, when a man rode up to the house evidently in great ex citement. "Have yon seen anything of .lini Laffer ty?"' he asked, as Yannoy stalled on a inn to lhe barn. "His old grandmother has been found dead in her bed at Pocki ille, and has been strangled and beaten to death. The house has been ransacked, and a Jim has hnd plenty of money bitely thn folks think he killed the old woman and Iia looking for him with a wan ant." In a very short space of time tl.e officer was made acquainted with the details of the tragedy at the farmhouse, and he galioped to Cnba, got a physician and gave the alarm. Coroner Young was notified of the quad ruple tragedy, and took charge of the bod ies of the murderer and his grandmother. The former was buried in a pasture lot not far from Yaanoy's, At AN INQUEST held on the body of Mrs. Lafferty it was elicited that her grandson had been seen lounging around the house on Saturday, aud had not lecn there for some time be fore. He was sen to leave on Saturday r.ight, which was the last, seen of bim until he appeared at Yannoy's. The deceased old lady was known to have about $130 in her house, which she had saved from her earnings, and which she bad laid by for her funeral expenses. None of this money could be found at the house, but nothing which could bo identified was discovered on the body of James Lafferty. Mrs. Vannoy and her daughter arc quite comfortable, and the doctor thinks they may both recover. The family is a highly respectable one, and Lafferty, it seems, had presumed upon their kindness and gener ous treatment of hint while in their employ in making bis overtures to Miss Vannoy, who ridiculed his pretensions. He was an Irishman, and had long borne a hard name in the community. The greatest sympathy is felt for Mr. Vannoy and his family throughout the ueighboihood. To prevent numerous accidents to which raihoad trainsare liable from one car jumping the track, it is proposed to apply to cars a kind of shoe, consisting of a clamp like arrangement which is affixed between the w heels of each truck. This runs about two inches above the rail, and if anything happens to throw the wheels from the track the clamp at onco grasps the rails, holds the car on the track, and brings the train to a speedy halt. Such a shoe will, it is claimed, prove a great saving of railroad rolling stock, and will add one-third to the strength ofthe truck, it being constructed of iron and weighing about five hundred pounds. It is found, by experiments made with cars provided with this device, that the arrangement insures perfect security against the class of accidents it is designed to meet ; and it is also estimated that, on account of thq additional strength which such an attachment must necessarily sup ply, a car must last tw ice as long, on an average, with as without it. Eleven years ago, says an exchange, Mr. Chauncey Lewis, of Union, Erie coun ty, lost his pocket book containing $ 1,300' in notes and currency. Two years after ward he received a letter enclosing him the notes and securit ies amounting to near ly $1,000. Last week Father Lonergan, of Corry, sent for him and handed bim $300 in currency, the same identical money that was in his pocket book at the time hs lost it. Tlie pocket hook had been picked up by a mau in bis employ, a Catholic, whom be did not Fuspect of dishonesty, and for eleven years the unhappy thief wrestled with his conscience until lie conld keep his guilty secret no longer, aud confessed it to Father Lonergen. Keu-f end rolitical Items. "Boston" Corbett, who killed John miles northwest of York, is Wilkes Booih, is at present a nat-maicer in j P'"- min.n mcU, ; a f lAFAiinri maTiiiisirinrv. -St. Joseph's Iioman Catholic chnrco, ! cicnt custom, and placed oa 1 o t,., ... Knmed on Friday. ! the year iv.. Tl.erarethr.f i-nVn . i? non I foar years old. and , ifi.S, -J,rrJ l iuji am.--, v -'"-" , .... ' ' - la Mrs. Mabel Hubba.d. of Carthage, good condition t Y.. say? that she is now 103 years of age , All hopes of the recoverv0f . 1 and the mother cf eighteen children. ley Hos a now been aim.; ' t A man in Utica, New York, has ' It is recited that Westerve' - i - AmA K- .r Prince . brother-in-law. is now wi.-j : "en tune v eisu un j, " . ; . . ey B ' Consort for the World s r air iu i-ji. i i-"u awaiting ! V large nnmkr of fish have been J charge of being concerned ; frozen to death in tbe canal, two miles east j a guilty kifowledge ofthe s f Vew Tendon. Oneida county, New Y ork. Ooy H'tnnihilr OlintV. Iowa, has never Known rutu i ruin. , T. . - - ' hi ! rttcnt burning of its ouly Li m burger cheese I ifry-sveu year ae-.,n Sat :V ; f i. - a iimt caused lit I no iriui i i m pumi time a - ; factory-. , j i & i dirrr i r i ti oi i i i aiuuno " ""j . - a h an. ' f- ---"- . t . . A l.urglarin isortn aroun- - ., n-n aum,. upon being shot by a farmer into w hose ageoi 10 years, leaving been house be bad broken, to be a woman - . ... . , m w.,nnT wim i r.T r i....t A Republican jury in Carlisle acquitted j niversary of the death of his i f, t two negroes of the theft of a watch after wat agarin married at the flr having confessed their guilt both outside . Elizabeth Decker, of Nevtri, t and in open court. . I jt the age that Ebruezr tu,," They had a Welsh spelling match in . first wife died. Ptica last week, and here are some of the ; A cable special to ti e , words they spelled ; Ddimal, goch, cy wfan, Herald of .-Niturday says : p,,. p nwfns. buddvgL amrybw, cyllataieddiau. j is out a wrecu f i ins former The rIice authorities of Posen nave . magnincent notified all the Ursuline listers in t:iat ois- , ue unjust 10 i trict who are not natives of Germany that j not accord irg to the im: .e-,i-,a 'j,, i they must leave the country within two i months. An accniint of the snowfall in inches in Clinton county since the year lS-'G ranges from 30$ in 1S62 to 102 in 1S05 and 107 in ISTo, with two tnoie snow to bear from this vear. .1. H. Keen of California has sold to C. W. Kellogg, the San Francisco millionaire, the trotting stallion Sam Purdy for $50,000. This is the highest figure ever paid for a trotting stallion. A desoerate fight occurred on Thnrs- ; day last between a band of rading Cheyen- ; imprisonment. Bra Mee i f , .1 ! nes and two companies of the Sixth United ' made a Confession Wore Lis :fy' States Cavalry, in which twenty-seven in- j i nixea states uisinct art i:.t-v. f dian were killed. 1 A Jeffersou coa-itv li.S,, j A printer in Philadelphia is father to . days ago bad been to l'itf-b ji z . i twenty-six children, ranging from antique received a Inrge sum of tr .: v fr - I daughters to full-face bouigeois boys, and : by whom he was employed u ;rir. j nonpareil baloes in small caps, lie ougiu to start a family paper. A curious incident happered at Ilart ! foid last Wednesday night, llats invaded i the warerooms of a commission merchant and devoured forty canaries out of a stock received on consignment. A train of one hundred wagons with six hundred persons, a herd of milch ows and the usual assortment rf babies and vellow dogs, bound for California, left i Kansas City a few days ago. j A loving Berks county you-ig man. ! healthy, strong and well-to-do in a worldly ! way, turned his mother, a woman seventy ' eight years, out of doors, the other Hay, ! with a warning not to return. ! The champion string of kittens is re- ported from the f.imior.s stock growing ; region of Kentucky. It consisted of six. nutted by a ligament like the Siamese tains. Bourbon cTTT:ty h the honor. , r-rooklyn has lec"l .'-ntdoiie. The Clin ; ton In;i.irvai gives r.n .T?o urrl of a trial in ; which ;nc of the plait-. tiffs i r.uw n the witness stand, it bcin' h is sovc::tre:ih day, ! with an average of se ven hours each dry. ! Bi iiiharrr Young has been summoned ' teLic "Chief Jusiie Lowe fc r contempt of J Cunt for not paying Ann f.iza some ?S,500 alimony. The case Ins been ap pealed tothe United Sta'cs Supreme Court. I Six and a half feet of a bride stood le- fore the altiir in a Paris chinch tha other ' day nnd promised to love, cherish and j obey three feet and a qu-.irter of bride i groom ; ai:d that is the long and short of I t. j Mary E. Boyer, a sixteen year old gill i living with her parents near Ply month, j Asht.-.bula county, Ohio, recently conimit j led suicide by tftkisig corrosive sublimate, j Impediment in her speech was lhe supposed j cause. i Last Saturday a heart masher from Mansfield, Ohio, went to Tiin to wed a j young wonian with whom he had been j corresponding ; but. much to bis disgust, ; he found that his supposed lady couespond j ent was a man I i he refusal of State Treaucr Mackey to allow a legislative committee to examine ! his books causes great excitement in Phil- adelphia. It is thought that Mr. Mackey's I action will injure the republicans in the i approaching State election. Pennsylvania, in 1874. produced twenty-one million six hundred and sixty-seven ; thousand tons of anthracite; coal, and yet ' all this digging made a hole in her coal de i " ..... . po.ts no more appreciable than a bucket of wafer taken out of a lake. There is a negr in Guilford, Conn., who has predicted all the bad wer.ther the past winter. He says there w ill lie another snow storm next Tuesday, but some of the people down there say that if it comes they . will have that nigger's lread. A mob of "respectable ladies," in Wilton, Iowa, tarred and feathered a yomifj giil because they suspected her of not be ing "respectable." Why send missionaries to the cannibals Hottentots, or any such folk, when we have a Wilton among ns? The Detroit Free Prens libels Penn sylvania when it says "Pennsylvania has $1.65 in the stato treasury, and the ques tion is w ho shall grab it." That balance is 1.7f. It is such reckless disregard of, nal. That thev are increasing m; the odd cents that has brought ns so low. : quite obvious. They already Lave e:. The experiment of transfusing blood theological schools, or setnini:;r. i . i . l f : , . . . . nas jusi ueeu aiipm-u iu vjcneini iiain nearly i,oou students: over : T . . . , f M - t . . . 1 iiiair, w no nas lor some time ueen prosirat- ' ed with paralysis at bis home in St. Louis, i ' 1 f 1 I 1 z . . 1 , : ri x. ounces oi oiom were mjecieu 11110 111s veins, and the result is said to be favorable. ; Attorney-General Williams has ten dered his resignation, to take effect on the 15th of May. This is regarded in Wash- ' ington as a prelude to a general break-up j of the Cabinet, and Secretaries Belknap and Robeson are expected to resign shortly. Colonel Blanton Duncan has corns nienced suit in the United States Court against the Louisville lottery. The suit seems wholly a matter of private philan- ! thropy, but there will be many utit.i; tun ate ticket, holders ready to rise up aud call him blessed. i A Newfoundland dog, going to one of the wharves in Portland, Me., and perceiv- . ing that a vessel he expected to find tbera ' bad sailed, jumped overboard and swam ! after it. He bad gone a long distance back to th oniw- ori miii her down ibe harbor, when he was picked up ' bed-room and ensconced her ia li nearly exhausted. left the room. The vouti" lad v. en s" lhe- Armstrong Jiepnbliran says: ; ing next morr.ing, knew notl.i;i- f ' Farmers who, on opening their potato hills ( she bad perambulated, or anvlh::; find them frozen, should bear in mind that her nocturnal visit oy covering tliem up agaiu in the bills and i permitting them to remain until the frost ' is entirely out of the earth enclosing them they will be left perfectly sound. ' The latest discovery in Franca is that : the numerous Gypsv bands scourin- that ! country are entirely under marching orders - iiiuimij ,ti.--;ij'iiiic: iiiriu Dl'iuil. A lltrj are wemttopickouttheircampinggronnds fifty miles ahead, and know in advance the . name of the man owning that ground as well as he knows it himself. Just as the Uhlans did. A woman in Wilkes county. North Carolina, has given birth to triplets five times in succession. The children of each birth have been raised, and the whole nnni- ber are now alive. No t woof the children ; resemble each other in any marked degree, j except the color of the hair. In the sex the female predominates largely. The children are all well developed, and without the last malformation. I The York Telrrrnm I on a farm of Israel Lonck.' ' -1 was burned - on Fiiday. ; the yearlSO Tl .ejai-etWll prison wa;rjn2 ., H- al-l.... The charge is baed r.n V:" marks that accidentallr fei r, , ; rUIllOll ' -J iiiviim-. ua. ru'M I Ji:I Ipnu. ' I Ti Fa sufficed him until i r r.- . . :. : . ,,,c ''''Tsf.fc wreck, iieveiflie'esi to myself were I to me irr my imti inrervie--. sn... j in ail probability not I .r ,4h' ; Plus IX. will take to his bf-rl :.;? j raise fiom it again. But ; day may le stul far away. The Uniontown Giiiiut c'Js . that a United Stnres detective in pan y of an old man has inaoe ; ance in that town in sea:c!i f bidden by the famiou Dr. Ilrnv! : was tried in 141 f.r r-.LlKivi.f States mail, convicted on t'."e Jus accomjiliccs, and sentei;?. t , year, lie placed it in L:s p K.kt i started on his way home. 'Wlic ';. to pay some bills he ftlt for the I -., to fir.d that it was gone. !!- rr. - . ' never expecting to ce tl.e !-ir,i wages of a year ngain. wh-n :1c r a package airivrd at the bv.k i:i ville containing his ht j-'-rkt-t-l. contents untouched. ; Paroxysmal, paternal. r. -. . ciliatory, and inspirational l.iA ; I to be as familiar to Mr. IWciu-r a- ; liold words. The honorable ti-.f. accordirg to his own ace-mnt, Li . great deal of kising. He Ins ki- 'I iiton sisterly 1. Mrs. Monitor . : allyi, Mr. Monlton 'esperimerri") Oliver Johnson Cuiiwilnt'y . Sit f sdii unavoidably), Mr. Evans ;.t ally:. Mr. Shearman i indtj'i.iii:v . Turner (fatherly), and. TLe.'J:e 1 'reconriliatorv ). I Felix" McDermoit, whoso f!rr.?: in the Western jen:tenti.iry the .:'- ' was taken from there to the v -.' serve out another sentence wIkcj : feet when his time expired in f:.e -.- ' tiary. As soon as the do-.rs . f L closed upon him at the work!: L ' called hack and presented w i:h a ; . , Tro n tlie governor, helix w.? k four years in October 171, but hi'. ened his term by uniform g d c and faithful service in attenii:'i when the pestilence was raging i:i t: i stitution. lie was convicted of e:r.r : building vritb felonious intent. The N. Y. Worlt says tl.it Prince Bismarck carries his war . ; Catholics to tlie length of expel! ! Ur?c?itie Sisters from Germany be r; only a very unwise but a veiy da:; thing. We liave beard of na c. against these very worthy persot.s. t I is difiicult to imagine how they c.v. :. ' fere withPrmee Bismarck's jxi'iticV'. It is knowrjyto all the world that : j same nuns did good and nojle .:S : ing the Fianco-l'russian war. and i fc-ars of another coming content ia L ; should prove well-grounded Bisniarci have cause to regret the loss of il.t;. I vices. ; A rather unique sort of a miser f. week or two ago in Hudson. N. Y. ' was an Episcopal minister who scrv; a missionary for his church in G.ecn ty, receiving a salary of $20!J ar, J t.ut, , donations. He lived in extreme p'v j and wheu he died a subscript ion na' ! up to pay the funeral expenses. AT; I funeral his rooms were examined will found, together with a packa-r ; taiuing $04,000 in government b .c ! a bank book showing a deposit ef ' ; iu a bank in New York City. TLr gave half of bis property to'his :-. ,' and the rest to St. Luke's IIosp-u! s churches in which he had preacii.l clergyman's name was Clprk. and ! e , to Gieene couuty from Halifax, ". , A Catholic statistican claims ;V i of the 40,000,000 of souls in the t States, 5,761,242 are Roman O': ; They occupy 6,23 stations, chr.jt ; churches ; they have the service uf ! priests, six apostolic vicars, f ::; 1. : . 1 . . lmsuojis, nine arciioisnops, and o::e of all grades and more than 3 M a- and hospitals, l he jnrisdicti-m i f prelates has a very wide range, f.-oir -souls in the diocese of Little Il.vk. . to 3.000 in that of Chicago, ami f o' archbishopric of Oregon, compri'ir.; -to that of New York, rated at 7 M.0.' A remarkable case of sonir.a:t;i' says the Weldon (N. C.) .S-?.' 'fl at Muifreesboro, a few evenings of the young lady students of the College during the night g.t up fvr. bed, threw over herself a l.ve and started down town. She Colonel Yaughau's residenoe, a:iJ i" room and laid on a lounge. It gres:? prised and fi ightened the Cvi t.rl. he knew something was wton;. v.' not molest the "sleeping beai:y." ; Rev. W. G. Starr was informed w!:f" girl was and went after her. Us t Among the novelties in the F:: tiary at Shelby county, Tenner been a dumb convict who. fo the s of dumbness, added that of idiocy- a curiosity was this man Wylie, ' offering much entertainment t" evcrj"' for his crazy freaks of singing ani du and making faces were funny "u tie me. So harmless was he thor-S he was allowed to polish the l"1 ":f 1 officers of the prison, going ou;: ? walls every morniug to perform v'-'j A few Sundays ago came the 'Tlf tlie dumb man had bee n waitini stole two coats and a rair of lU and all the money he could, ai'l The country was scoured am) J c.. captured again, but be wasn't tn Wvlia iu most resntLts. H . . ..... .. . ' . 1 . .' I but Idiotic lie was tRuc d(vn't attiact much s- ir.'-; i".tc 1.','-
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