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fcSErSSBURC, PA.,
MUx Morning - - May 23, 1S75.
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Meeting of County Committee.
To tuf. Mn.ur.KKS or the DtMocnATic
Committee of Cam it hi a Coltty htftlc
rnrn: You are hereby invited to meet in
the Grand J nry room, in Ibo Court House,
Lbeusbnrg, on Muscat, tl o 141ft day of
Jc'E next, to tlx a time f r holding tlio
M't County Convention a-id to apimint
Beimtorial conferees to meet like conferees
fioia M.iir County for the purpose of choos
ing a Senatorial dt legnte to the State Con
vtiution, mid to attend to such other btisi
c k a may le presented for consideration.
A full attetid.mce or the member is re
quested. J. Lake,
Chairman Dcia. Co. Co:n.
Hocasburg, M.tj 24, 1375.
' VwTk the administration papers are
hunting' around for an echo of tbe "old
relcleil" ftnd encounter such i-erti- J
ment as the following from the Mem
pni J.ital, the effect mut be truly .
discoiulitiiiir: "If the result of the
next Presidential election depends up-
on the prudence of the South, the vie- ,
tory 13 a ready v. on; I'-r our people,
are a unit in proclaiming that Set:es- j
ion dead ; bin very is dead ; that the
CoufiilCacy has expired ; that no one
'- proposes .to "exhurno its remains : that
y?e dismiss all our resentinents, and
j.iopose to cherish no recollection of
the war, s ive the memory of the brave
jnn who reflect honor upon American
valor."
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A PisPATcn received here from Lan
caster this (Wednesday) evening, nn
nounees the fact that jjeury Itatvle. of
j'rie county, was nominated for State
Treasurer on the second ballot over
BjtlerB. Strang. John F. JIaitranft,
having ito opposition, was of course
renominated for Got-rnor. Uawle's
nomination is the most decisive tri
umph that Simon Cameron has achiev
ed in a .State convention for the last ,
ten veafs, and allows that he holds the
Republican party of Pennsylvania in
the hollow of his'h.md. The Pepubll- '.
.can State convention having in this :
summary mannersent Butler K. Strang. ;
on of the "two ablest and purest men
in the State," where the woodbine twi
neth, the Democracy wiil next Novetn- ,
berscmd the other, John Y. Ilartranft, ;
to keep him company. !
The LUjcral Republicans of this I
State propose, it is said, to hold n !
convention bt Villinin'po'.t in August ,
next, and some people assert that at
this convention candidates will be ,
nominaled, with the expectation th;U
the Democracy will endorse them.
While vc believe with the Hollidays
burg Standard that this is mere ru
mor, yet it may be well f jr the Demo
cracy to speak out at once and in no
tmceil'tin tor.es. We have tried one
d-so f liberalism, on the very broad
est scale, to our sore discomfiture, and
we do not want any more in ours. Let :
it be understood that the nominees of
the Democratic State Convention will
not only be Democrats, but such i
Democrats as are worthy the support
of every, lover of good government,
regardless of his party ai'iliations.
UxiEn our editorial head will be
found ft notice, signed by the Chair
man of the Democratic County Com
mittee, c.tlling a meeting of said Com
mittee on Monday of the won-1 week
of Court, being the 14th of June, for
the purpose of fixing the time for
holding the next County Convention.
Although it is not to be expected that
til the members of the Committee will
attend, we trust that as many as can
possibly do so will take the time and
trouble to be present. Without pre
suming to dictate to the Committee,
we favor a late day for holding the
convention. The convention last year
was hold on Monday, the 21st of Sep
tember, which aflorded abundant time
between tliut and the election in No
rcrrbcr for conducting the campaign.
The State Convention will meet at
I'rie on Wednesday, the 8lh of Sep
tember, and .ve cannot conceive of any
reasy.t why the Comity Convention
should be e-d'ed until after that time
3ay Monday, the 20th of that mouth.
We believe that such action by the
Committee would give very general
Bi.tisfcclion.
The lion. 21. C. Kerr of Indiana has ar
rived in Washington fiom a six weeks' so
journ at Aiken, S. C. A numter of bis
friends hfic have approached him on tlie
subject of ihe Speakership. He hnsstatcd
li theut his position, which is as follows:
If the Speakership is otlVred him by the
unsolicited votjof the I louse lie will accept
it with pleasure and gratitude, and strive
to act so as to merit the honor and to ad
vance the interests of the Democratic party.
But he has not and will not enter into any
combinations, nor make any promises as to
hi pol:cy or as to the appointment of com
nttees. It is very evident from the above ex
tract, taken from the Baltimore Sun,
that Michael C. Kerr, the able and in
corruptible member of Congress from
the New Albany (Ind.) district is a
very different man from Samuel J.
Randall, in favor of wtose election to
tha Speakership of a Democratic House
of Representatives most of the Demo
cratic papers in this State have stulti
fied their record on the Congressional
back-pay swindle. Kerr and Randall
were evidently not cast in the same
mnuld. The former intends to rest his
case on his own acknowledged merits,
"r.nd will not enter into an-combinations,
nor make any promises" in re
ference to the appointment of commit
tee?. The latter is prepared to do
both, and no man can tell what "com
binations" lie has not formed or what
promises ne nas not maeie einnng
his junketing to Richmond and else
where. There is an ohl adage, how
ever, about Dead Sea fruit, beautiful
to the fight, but which turns to ashei
on the lips.
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Diking the last three weeks the
name of Hon. Cvrus L. Pershing'has
Itccn favorably mentioned by the Dem- j
ocratic ress in several parts of the j
State in connection with the nomina-
tioti for Oovtrno! bv the Krie Conven-1
tion. Whether the use cf Judge Per-
sliing's name has his consent or not, we
cannot sav, but we feel quite certain !
from our Ion- personal knowledge of
i.t. ..... 1 : 1 1 CL- o nm nnlinn i
ii Liu ir- " " -" -
Thit Cvrus T Per!) in" possesses '
those two essentilruisitL for a
fdthful discharge of the duties of the ,
office, unquestioned honesty and nd- J
tn'tted abilitv, will be conceded even ;
bv those who differ from him in polit- ;
. - , I, tr' fln utter Aran '
ual sentiment, lie t an t.ttei stran
per to the low artifices of the political ,
demagogue which in these degenerate '
,'irj nre so often the ladder Vy which
jo"piilnr favor is reached. To use a i
common but expressive phrase, he is
"a square man" in all that he does, and ;
no one need to search lonrr in order to
of tliis county is as pure as bis per
sonal character is mi blemished. The !
Democracy of Cambria fed a just pride :
in Judge Pershing and would attest,
their confidence in him as a caudidate
for Governor by a most emphatic ex- (
pression rt th polls.
The Pottsville Chronicle, published ;
in the town where Judge Pershing now ,
resides, thus refers to him and to his ;
eminent fitness for the posittou spoken
of:
"As a j-idge he pivsides with dignify and
marked ability, but as the executive oiii- j
eer of this Common wcaiih he wnld honor t
the position with that peculiar fitness and :
high character for integrity which few
possess and which is so desirable in an of- ;
rtcial, especially in th-sc days of public or- ,
ritption and official rot t emu ss. Judge ;
Pershing is not a candidate for the office ; ,
although fiejnently preferred, he l as nev- ;
er been a candidate tor oinee. i.ui uiai is
only another reason why the Erie conveu
vetili)!i should make him the standard
l!ii-r f'lirrmii offirp s"fkfrs make noor I
otticiiils, as a review of the wi etched ad- j
ministration of past yeais will cleat ly cle- j
monstrate, but it is the testimony f the ,
oldtimc pood government, that when the- j
spontaneous outburst of public senMment 1
oxaits a man of integrity to a position of j
power, it is followed by a faithful execn- ',
tion of the laws and a careful .ncTininistra- !
tion of every public trust. Such a policy
would eharnrterize the adniinistiatiou (f .
.Tiige Pershing." j
The simple sbite.nent that in the j
Court House in Chicago, one day last j
week, Mrs. Marv Lincoln, widow of j
Abraham Lincoln, w as declared insane
by a U'rv, will rause a foiling of doej I
Ditv thrmiffhout the countrv. The :
pfoceedings in court to determine the ;
condition of her mind were commenced j
by her son Robert very reluctantly .
and only because they w ere absolutely ,
neccessary. The testimony showed ,
that the well known eccentricities in
the conduct of Mrs. Lincoln coin-j
inenccd shortly after the assassination j
of her lm-bund, and that they became
more marked as time progressed. The j
Empress Chatlotte. widowol thevoung
ana uniortunaie -waMmuian, v. no was ;
execuiea in .Mexico, prc M-nis a parai- ;
lei, only that her mental disease is of
:i more n-.rrravateci lorm ami ner re-
covery entirely nopciess. As is Tbe
case with most persons afflicted with !
'a mind diseased," there is but a re- j
mote hope that Mrs. Lincoln willevcr
be restored to her former self. Her!
mental malady, according to the evi
dence and observation of her closest
friends, being thus clearly traceable to
the tragic event to which we have re
ferred, it was reserved for the editor
of the Johnstown Tribune, who has a
mind capacious for such things, to as
sert in his paper of Inst Ftirlny that
she has been ' hounded through life bv '
Mid also that if the convention should . u" "tg wf , ue town .tOsceola. Fi.enre '
confer it unon him he will deem :t an i,w;'K;.)ir out every place. All the public
honor which ho is bound to accept. ! buildings except the Catholic and Metho- j
ascertain what are his political convic- tweeu Osceola and Powelton.
tion.. ITio legislative rec ord for five ' not destroyed. Sheriff M'P
: .4t.,.rtc0r,f..t;v- ' Houtzdale at four o clock p.
ryMmuLiic(1;..nwi..lp.- - nf-thnt hour that foil!
a Democratic and secession press," and . tcKa.id stoics.
,u r ii t . ..- i Ou the west side of the creek, at the
thereov finallv drnen into "a lunatic ,:. t. ,, : ,, ni . , .
. - ,, r v , . . .. i same t une, first attacking the Philadelphia
asylum. Is this fancy or something: colliery, owned by the Kittanning coal corn
worse, or is it fact and could falsehood pany, bin ning, the chute and all the miners
and malevolence assume a more brazen houses and twelve tailroad cars belonging
and impudent front ? To '.he credit of ,
the press be it said that the Tribune
in thus wilfully misrepresenting the
facts in t lie case stands solitary and
alone in its work of detraction.
IIo.v. Henry Wii.so.v, Vice Presi
dent of the Cnitcd States, has been
making an extended trip through the
Southwest. Wherever he went lie was
received with marked consideration
and respect. It is gratifying to see
such an old time, consistent abolitionist
meet with so hcartv and cordial a re-
ception at the hands of those who were I
once tlie uncompromising nnvocatcs
and defenders of slavery. In all the
adelresses which Mr. Wilson has made
to the ex-slavelioblers and cx-relels
who have treated him with so much
kindness and good will lie has borne '. fortunate. Men have not money enough j
willing testimony to the general peace I u1 their families to their friends and '
and good order which he has found j U& anii 60,ne ,,ave nono to take lhem j
prevailing in the different sections lie j Money and clothing is needed and the j
has visited. For doing this he has, supply of food will have to be kept up for !
as in elutv bound, been sneered at and i a timc. A committee of the very best men !
denounced by the bloodv-shirt portion f.thc to,n n ,,,MV jn nje of the sun- ;
of the radical nress fust is Tnrlr-o P e coming forward, which are being dis
ot the rai lical press, just as J uclge ( r,ensed with great care and economy. A !
Kelley, of this State, has been bela- special police force is on duty and woe to !
bored for the expression of similar , thieves and robbers who come this way !
sentiments after his own personal ex-1
perience in the South. That "seeino-!
v. f t u i i -ii i . 'j ;
believing" has been aptly illustrated ,
in the case of each of these t wo prom-
inent leaders of the Republican party. !
If it would only please the Southern
people to elect to Congress corrupt
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and thieving carpet-baggers instead of,
honest, reconstructed rebels, cverv- (
thincr wroibl !o lovrlv ntvl of ernrwl ro.
port' in the estimatio'n of the newspa- '
per patriots of the party of great moral ,
ideas and Christian statesmen. Until t
i. i -n i i
then we suppose they will freely ex-!
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the .southern people, and when they
nre not. Iirliovoil rf swrnrinrr loi-n't.Ii' '
like "our armv in Flanders."
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MR. GoFonTil. f Pa., ha gone f.irt.h
from the 2d As t Attorney Generalship
ItfrEJ
Oiiccolti in Ashes,
TJIE TOWS BWF.PT OUT OF EXISTENCE KIF
TfcKN HCSUKED PEOPLE IIOMELESS
DWELLINGS, MILLS AND LCMBEK
DESTROYED T.OP ESTIMATED
AT SEABLT 2,000,000.
Tr. rv on 1975 A fire broke
pu, Rt jj 0'cijCk yesterday morning at the
Moshannon lumber company's mills west !
of Osceola, and 15.000,000 feet of umber
Ltlllieei. II'"'"' s " "
dist churches are burned, ano nine--ni .
of . the houses, about 200, are a total
T.clvc hunched people are houseless and
,,ie rKM,pe driven to the race course, where 1
they were surrounded by tire from all sides, '
communication betng cut off by fire, ibe
"ie department left here with their steam-
d'boJie cania?e, but could not reach
0sm1 ncf.uo,lt of the railroad track
burned. The railroad between Os-
eeola an d Powelton, on either side, is one
blaze or fn e. , Members of the Tyrone com-
pany fuught their way through and rcn
dercd all the assistance possible. j
There are about 20 bouses standing yet. j
Some half a dozen houses were burned be- j
t'owelton
herson left !
IT I
m. lie re- i
teen nouses 1
were burned and the conflagration raging
terribly. There is no hope for the town, J
every communication being cut 08 by fire ,
through the woods. At this writing nine j
saw miils, IIooppv, Humes fc Co.', Taylor's,
Mosbannon lumber company's, I'eims,
Bigs', Bell's, and Elliott & Caldwell's lum
ber weie burned, also Jesse Crawford's
new foundry and about thirty million feet
of Uimlrer were destroyed.
The total loss is about ?2, TOO, no:j. tien- ;
er.tlly light insurance. No lives lost up to
latest re'port. The people are in destitute '
ciicumstances. They have lost their pro- :
petty and everything else. The miners
who were on a strike are report eel as work- j
ir.g diligently to save Houtzdale. The
worids Wtwcn Tyrone and Philip-bnrg
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are on lire. 1 lie uurnca cnsrriCT, i leariui
t behold. The flies originated from the
fires in the woods. Twenty car loads of
men, women and children, were saved
through the promptness of S. S. Blair, sn
pei itendent, and I). D. Wood, trainmaster.
A REVIEW 'OF THE CALAMITY.
Tviynvr T . Mnv 23 The following
I has been received from the Superintendent j
of the Mochannon Land and Lumber Co.,
at Osceola, Pa. : j
I atrived at Osceola yesterday morning ,
and found the destruction and desolation ;
very much greater than it has been report- j
cel. It can be said with tiuth that there j
has never been such a tire in this country, j
Chicago was nothing compared with this, j
taking the size of the place into cousidera-
tion. I
It is enough to melt the sloutest hearts.. !
Xine-tcnths of the tow n is burned, leaving i
scarcely enough ashes to mark the spot I
where houses stood. Men who had by in- j
dustiy and economy secured for themselves :
a comfortable home, in be short sp ice of ;
Woand one half hours ar left with their ;
little all upon their backs, and light bur
flcns at that, witliout money, food or cloth-
Z w Iloin "!e ' UU1S-
fit' tl llV'iii u:t i
however, is supplied
fhe utifoitunate are heaping volumes of
praise upon the citizensof Tyrone, Philips
burg and Clearfield, and just while I was
there I heard that Beilefoute had seut a
large lot of subrtantials. They do not
forget the officers and train hands of the
Tyrone and Clearfield railroad. The lives
of many women and children were saved
by their action and energy in getting them
in and on cars of every description, and at
lightning speed carrying them to Philips
burg, where pitying, sorrowing, sympathiz
ing friends, for such they must be called.
, d rc.liy to Icccive ami minister to their
wants and comr ivt.
The tire first broke out at or near Taylor's
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miles above Osceola, and burned his mill
lumber and bou es, swept down the run
to Moshannon creek, taking in its course
the sawmill, lumber and houses liHonging
tr T. C. Dimes te Co.; thence down the
Moshaiiiion to the big mill of the Moshan
non land and lumber company, t hi ee quar
ters ot a mile above the town of Osceola,
burning mill, house and about 2,000,000
feet of manufactured lumber, besides a
large quantity of logs, thence down both i
sides of the creek, on the cast side, to the j
rear of Osceol.i, taking first that part called
Kreuchviilc, sweeping ovsr the centre of j
the town, taking in its course the Presby- '
terian cliuica and public school, and all the
best dwellings in the place, with all theho-
to u,e s:'nc company, hen the large guage
saw mill owned by tlie .Moshannon land
t and lumber company was between two fires,
; the lumber first took fire and was fought
, vigorously but to no avail.
The big mill, as it is called, was about
I the last to take fire. All is consumed
around ahd about it. Fifteen million feet
of lumber and the finest saw mill (so said)
on the continent, not-the largest but most
complete in all its parts; besides this the
large planing mill belonging to the Walker
Bios., the saw mill of Samuel Milligan and
a large steam tannery of John White.
In the midst of the conflagration thieves
and robbers were plying their trade, break
ing into trunks and appropriating to them-
selves sundry articles of value. The town
is being viewed daily by persons from a
distance, and all say they have seen and
re d of fire, but this exceeds all, and indeed
we tail to nnel language to give even a faint '
description of the fire, its fury aiiel des- j
truction, and picture the wants of the un-
,low"'
, """d!'. five miles abjve, on the Mo-
shannon branch railroad, has escaned rrettv
wellf only abont (jfteen Jsiapvin
burned. And bo it said to the credit of
the miners, even the violent strikers worked
like heroes to save the coal chutes and im-
P"'" onn therewith, none of
whieh have been damaged,
T,,e laiiroad will be repaired so as to
bring out coal by Monday.
Keports received hero this evening oe-
ribe the fire around Osceola and Philips-
bl,1S "
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I no manufacture of perensston powder
5 o.r th mot vna.L.J:
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joe worm ii. is usually made in some
isolated building, removed a ccod distance
from all other buildincs. Reccntlv John
rSlSwi"!11?'''10 me t,,is Pder
or the inchester Arms Company in ew
Haven, was blown into shreds. In a week
or two there were ten applicants for his
place.
i i i.. . r.t i.tit tvrc. thrown to most
Thk Louisville Courier-Journal pays tbe
following elegant and beautiful tribute to
the late John C. Breckinridge, one of the
most gifted of Kentucky's gifted sons:
But what shall we say of a irind so
gifted and a genius so commanding f As
a reasouer and a logician be was the equal
of any adversary of his time. As a rhetor
ician and an orator be was perhaps the
superior. But he never allowed the latter
to overshadow the former. In parts of
hi best arguments in the Senate, during ;
- - ii a:. ;
Which his feelings were excited by connict. i
be finds vent for bursts of patriotic and J
i,- t, -. the master and i
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not the slave
imnn-n-v n-l.irh arloiT.ed bis soeeches Hever .
impaired their strength or obscured theclear
contmo,, sense on w fj"'--
ne w m e ? 1 Ul- " " !
(ri.oci.riii nit limit lnif weak, lie w ho
rn-,. io tiwrh on ' the removal of the
filit. f.om the old chamber to the new.and
bis relv o Andv Johnson just previous to I
bis withdrawal from the Senate, will nnci
an illustration of what we say. The one
vcnnl.l hnvfl made Ouintilian stare and
ga-sp." j
The other would have captivated and
convinced a bench of august judges. lie j
was not only a statesman and an orator, be j
was also a soldier. His was the mind to;
grasp extensive military plans, and his
was the courage to execute them wiih a !
calm and noble valor. "If I bad an army,'' t
said Gen. Lee, "I would at once put it ;
under his command." Wc have indeed i
tried to iccall a character in history which j
we might compaie with his own. But we i
have failed. He combined so many of the
best quantities of the grat and good who
lived and died before him, that we cannot,
without difficulty, lit his genius to the mold J
or any one. He had the valor and energy j
of Hampden, the ardent public spirit of i
Sydney, the discernment and eloquence of
Hmke. tbe bumanitv aim mocieration oi
Lee ! And when the youth of Kentucky,
in some future reril ol their country, shnil j
wish to gather strength and d-M-ne a lesson ;
from the lives of the immortal martyrs of
human freedom, they can resort to the spot
consecrated by the ashes of Kentucky's j
greatest son, and breathing an atmosphere :
still instinct w ith the spirit of the departed
beio, their hearts will beat with a warm, r
love of liberty and their souls be enkindled
by a new and more glowing inspiration.
As Ikon Toweii Intended eor tde
Centennial Park. A large iron tower
is to be erected in the Centennial Park.
The place selected ,s near the Lelmon
mansion, on the west bank of the Schuyl-
kill, and a short distance north of the Cen
tennial grounds. The base w ill be 310 feet
above the liver, and the column will rise :
to the bight of about 200 teet, which will
give the look-out gallery an elevation of,
over 500 i'eet, while tlie Siars aud Stripes !
will wave from a staff on top 50 teet higher. 1
The observatory will be a novelty in its '
way, and as the nisi ever erected oi us
kind, wi'l form one of the greatest curiosi
ties of the great exhibition. The view up
and down the Heading road and the Schuyl
kill will be good.
The observatory will be wholly ef iron,
tubular in form, and is to be built in sec
tions, which will be firmly aCac'ied to each
other. It will be eight feet in diameter at
the base, aud somewhat smaller at the top.
The most remarkable feature of the ob
servatory is the fact that the elevator car
will ascend upon the outside of the shaft.
An annulai car, about twenty-five feet in
diameter, elegantly upholstered, and capa
ble of accommodating twen.y-five or thirty
persons, wiil be raised like an elevator
upon the truss work or guides. The car
will be raised by eight wire ropes.
Tlie lifting power will be supplied by a
double-cylinder upright engine cf forty
hoise power, located iu a building at the
base. The gallery and lookout at the top :
w ill be covered and enclosed by w ire net
woik, and are intended to accommodate
about 125 persons.
A Veitablt: Glass Eater. John
Mailer, a native of Prussia, who came to
Ameiica in lt57, after more than teu
years' service in the Prussian army, and
now a resident of La Salle, Illinois, is a
glass eater. Incredible as the statement
may seem, it is nevertheless, literally and
st rictly true. Pounded or otherwise cuish-
ed glass, "however kindly compounded with
o'.ber and more palatable and digestible
substance, is commonly regarded as a fatal
diet for rats, and has never lceti recom
mended by physicians and sanitary boards
as an element of hygienic regimen for
banian beings ; but the experience of the
hero of this sketch proves that he, at least,
can eat glass with impunity, whatever may j
tie the f ite of rodents indulging in such a
diet. For a small wager he will chew and
swallow a 7xS) pane of window glass or 1
beer mug, excepting only the bottom and
handle, on the solidity of which latter he j
is slightly averse to exercising the strength i
of his jaws or the reliability of his molars.
There is no slight of haiiei or trick of dc- !
ception iu the performance ; numerous re- ;
spectable witnesses w ill attest that they '
have seen him bite out mouthful from
panes of glass, chew it, show it to them in
the process of mastication, and then swal
low it, following it with a draught of beer.
He was about fourteen years of age, he
says, when -lie first attempted a vitreous
meal; he has often repeated it since, and
his teeth are none the worse for such
service. He estimates that during the
last two years he has eaten an average tf
ten pounds of gla-ss per annum.
The Cardinal's Diamond Cross.
The p?ctoral cross that was given to Car- I
dinni McCloskey last week was presented 1
to Archbishop Hughes by the late Queen !
Louise of Belgium. This cross, the per- )
sonal property of tbe Archbishop, h be- j
qucathed to his sister, the late Mother
A. n f vita f-ltVftA AlinAflAI 1 1 oUoro 1 if I
the Sisters of Charity, and by her death it
came into the possession of the community J
ol .uouut cr. incene.. nen ir. .ic
Closkey succeeded Aich bishop Hughes it
bad been the wish of Mother Angela and
Sisterhood to give him the cross. But by
the advice of Vicar-General Starrs the
piesentation was deferred to some future
occasion. And now Providence has so
ordered that the gift of the sainted daugh
ter of Louis Philippe to the prelate who
fttooil in the eves of the Old World and the
nr or as the most illustrious rem-eseiitative f
of the American Church shall rest on the
gentle and latheriy heart ot our
Americau Cardinal. 2V. Y. Htrald.
first
A Faithful Friend. Judge Davis has
a Newfoundland dog that seems to bo en
dowed with extraordinary intelligence, and
is very fond of children. The other morn
ing, during the very severe snow-storm,
Judge Davis's daughter and the dog passed
our office on their way to the school-house.
It was ali the little girl could do to waddle
through the snow, but tho dog would run
a little way ahead and break a trail, and
Mien rush back and take hold of her cloak
and pull her along. This bo did until be
got ber safely into the school-house. He
then took up a position opposite the build
ing, where he could see tho children com
ing from' all directions, and stayed there
watching uutil after the school-bell rang
and all the children were in, and then
quietly walked away. The dog knew the
children were in danger, and had any of
them got down in the snow he would have
b.'en the first to see them, and would bave
rendered what aid ho co'ild.- White Pine
JWr.) Acre. .
Kewf arul roittical Items.
Senator Withers, of Virgiuia, Las'
eleven daughters. No wonder be withers.
A religious procession wan attacked
by a mob in the street of Brussels on Sun
day last.
The consecration of Bev. J. J. Kain as
Bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of
Wheeling took place on Sunday morning.
Fifty-two thousand pounds to the acre
on a twelve-acre field is the story they tell
A. 1 4. , ...n. w n i 41. n svn a 4 n
oi a swees poiawj ciop mmi .ouij,
California. ,,,,. . .
Cardinal McCloskey Las been presented
the
the lady pupils ol M. tnceni iiisuiiue,
New York.
was recently issued
f , t k' t,, p 7Xm'o fie
i'" l u''f,,. Kol.Tl.
Washington Christopher Columbus Scbil
lenbercnnnanzi.
At Williamsport, on Saturday, $.2!
were contributed for the destitute people
of Osceola, and arrangements made for
forwarding a carload of provisions.
The death of General Breckinridge
leaves but four elected vice presidents.
They aie Hannibal Hamlin. Andrew John
son, Schuyler Colfax and Henry Wilson.
Recently fiftyMi "me colored adults were
confirmed in St. Benedict's C'Atbolic
Church, Savaunah, Ga. Six colored women
received the white veil at tbe same lime.
Has anybody remarked the curious
coincidence that the Schiller was lost on the
anniversary of the day, May 9, on which,
in 1S03, the poet whose name she bore died.
The Hon. P. Gray Meek, who is a
candidate for the Democratic nomination
for Senator in the Clearfield district, has
generously contributed $300 to the Osceola
6ufl'ercrs.
A special to the St. Touis Globe-Democrat,
from Sedalia. says three members of
a family named Pinley. living in Cooper
county, thirteen miles from Sedalia, died
t of starvation last week.
The Pennsylvania Editorial Associa
tion w ill hold a summer meeting at led ford
Springs, on June 22, 23, and 24, and a
laiye atte d tnee of the tditoii.il fraterni y
of Pennsylvania is expected.
Mattrass, a Chipewa chief, was put in
bis little bed in the St. Croix Valley, Min-
nesota, last week. He was 101 yers old,
( and might have been older if he had not
j smoked tobacco and drank fire-water.
The couple who were married in a
balloon to advertise Barnum's show didn't
live together three weeks. Ho boxed her
ears and she broke his nose, and the theory
Jesse j t, e inltUw Rnd Imud
woeJ ,lis blM . , disguise of n sewing-
ol tlie eastern current is still unsolved
machine agent. Imagine her delight, after
their marriage, in discovering that he
was not quite as bad as be bad led her to
suppose.
A petrified rattlesnake, measuring ten
feet, with twenty-five tattles, has just been
found in a coal mine thirty feet below tbe
; surface in Alton, 111. The formation is
said to be perfect, and represents a snake
i in the net of creeping.
Jacob Young, living in the suburbs of
i Brooklyn, murderec' bis second wife on
Friday night by chopping her head open
, with an axe, and then went to the ceme
: terv. where he blew out his brains on tlm
grave of his first wife.
I Pau0 Leary finished his walk or five
. ji una red mites, in I'liicajr" at one o elockt
thirty-two minutes, and fifty seconds Suu
day morning, completing the distance in
ten hours, twenty-eight minutes and ten
seconds less than the time allotted 150
hours.
General Beckinridge leaves one son
who bears his name, and another who,
curiously enough, wss christened "Owen
County," in honor of the comity which
secured the election of bis father to Con
gress in 1S53, iu the contest with Governor
Letcher.
Hon. George Vail, of Morristown, X.
J., died on Sunday evening, aged 72. He
was twice in Congress, and afterwards
consul at Glasgow under President Buchan
an. He was concerned with his father,
his brother Alfred and Prof. Morse in per
fecting the telegraph.
There is nothing new under the sun.
The latest Pompeiian discovery is a woolen
factory, in which were found pieces of
woolen eluth. quite carbonized, and many
- .. . .
instruments for caiding and weaving simi
lar to those used in some factories of the
i kind at the present day.
Tbe action of the Belgian Tribunal at
Liege in dismissing the charges against
Duchesne of plotting to assassinate Prince
Bismarck causes a sensation at Berlin.
It is generally believed that the finding of
the tribunal will not be regarded by Ger
many as a settlement of the matter.
While three carpenters were being
hoisted out of the Sh.ifton 6hft near
"Wilkesbarre, en Saturday, the carriage
got loose, anil falling a distance of one
hundred feet, the men were killed. In the
Boston mine, at Plymouth, two men were
killed, and at Fiue'liidge shaft a boy was
killed
There is a horrible picturcsqueness in
the reported discovery of the body of John
' Blackford, the American actor, who lost
i bis life three years ago in attempting the
ascent of Mount Blanc. It was found in a
: huge block of ice which lately fell from the
! mountain, perfectly preserved, like a fly in
amber.
A pair of boots with gold-tipped toes
; and heels of the same metal, and valued at
' $100, have been made at Idaho City, to be
worn by the high sheriff next Fourth of
July, when there is to be a festival cele-
j bration theie. They will afterwards be
sent to the Centennial Exhibition in Phila
delphia. An adventurous little boy undertook
to cross the path of a hnge elephant which
was walking in a circus procession through
Detroit the other dy, when the animal
seized him in its trunk, held him loner
enough to frighten him well, and then set
him down about three yards from
the
I starting point
When Secretary of State Fish, who
has been president general of the Society
of the Cincinnati for over twenty-one years,
presided at the meeting of the order the
other night, he wore the badge of his
office, which was a medal studded with
diamonds, presented to Washington by
sailors oi uie jt rencn navy
The miners at Summit Hill are re-
, . , . .
ported as going to work next Monday. By
me ist oi june a general resumption is
anticipated to take place, at least in tbe
Lehigh region, and will be under the
re- i
duction of the 18.4 basis. The miners
seem ready to resume as a general thing,
and all say they are heartily tired of tbe
long strike.
Another mnrder, even more horrible
in its details than that of Mrs. Bingham, a
few weeks since, was perpetrated in Bos
ton on Sunday afternoon. A bright little
girl, five years of age, was murdered in a
church, and tbe bruised and mutilated
body carried up into the tower and thrown
upon the floor of the loft. The victim of
this cruel tragedy was Mabel H. Young,
who, with her widowed mother, resided
with her grandfather.
Thomas W. Piper, the alleged mur
derer of Mabel Young, of Boston was ar
raigned on Tuesday. A person who pass
ed the Wan-en Rtreet church about the
hour or the murder identified Tiper as the
man he saw climbing from the belfry win
dow to Hie ground. Several little girls have
sraien cnai I'iper nas endeavored to entice
them into the church at various times. The
jMimHier oon lessen mat ne was not in his
right mind on Snnday, bat maintains bis
innocence.
A curious question, involving tbe right
of a Roman Catholic priest to accuse a ;
person married outside of tbe Church with j
living in mortal siu wbeu the accusation is j
1 without malice and only with the intention ,
tor, is to be tried in tbe Boston Courts.
The believers In special providences j
will find confirmation of their belief in a !
remarkable Instance of death supervening j
upon an act of brutality at Rochester, N. j
. Y., on Sunday. A man named Amos ;
Forbes in running away from bis bouse,
I after cruelly beating bis wife, burst a .
: blood vessel and fell dead in his tracks,
i Mabel II. Young, tbe victim of tbe !
fatrocious outrage in the Warren avenue
1 church, Boston, on Sunday last, is stilt
alive, but unconscious. me pnysicians
i think if inflammation doe not ensue her
! life mar be saved. Cumulative evidence,
am nni? other thine blood-stains upon bis;
collar, handkerchief andclothing strength- '
ens the belief in the guilt of the sexton, ;
Ti omas W. Piper. '
The Piesident is in a terrible rage at i
the Indians because they talked so plain to
him the other day, and made him no pres- ;
ents. It is also understood that Variegated ;
Caudal Appendage railed Spotted Tail, ;
in the vulgate asked ldm privately to
define bis position on tbe Thitd Term j
question, which contributed greatly to .
raising Grant's dander. j
Seven nersons were knocked about
promiscuously by a lightning stroke on !
i the farm of Mr. New land, in Lawrence j
'. county, Indiana, last Friday. The most ;
i singular thing alnmt the matter is that "
these persons were separated from each ;
1 other by a distance ranging from three '
, hundred yards to one quarter of a mile, j
! All fortunately escaped without serious .
! injury. i
i A letter received a few d.iys ag.i from
' the light-house keeper at the southwest ,
point of Anticosti Island, says : "On the :
I 22d of November last the brigantine Oiient
ran ashore seven miles from that island. ,
The captain and seven men were frozen to
death in the rigtjing, and six men perished j
in attempting to reach the shore. Joyce.
. the chief mate, jnd Moore, a deck band, ;
. landed safely, but badly frozen." j
A dispatch to the Ijnnrion Time, from
i Vienna, says a dreadful accident occurred ;
'on the river Muir at the town of Indenbaeh, .
j Province of Tyrol. Tbe ferry boat having ',
a number of Catholic pilgrims tn rou'e to j
visit the shrines on the other fide of tbe '
Muir from Jndenbaeh sunk in the middle
of the stream. Fifty-nine of the pilgrims ,
j were saved, but seventy-six are missing. !
all of whom are believed to have been j
j drowned. J
I Samuel While, a farmer of Ludlow, :
I Mass., went into a large bog pn to feed a ;
! number of the leasts confined there. A j
i large and very savage boar attacked him :
I without warning, and a desperate encoun
ter ensued, the man striking with a heavy j
club, with which he htd armed himself .'
' before entering, and the boar biting with j
ghastly effect. At length a deep bite in j
White's thigh severed the femoral artery I
and be bled to death. j
' Jeremiah Hamilton, the well known j
colored broker and banker of Wall street, ;
New York, died o i Friday of pneumonia, :
( at tbe advanced age of 52. He was said to !
; he the richest colored man iu the United
i ia:cs. ana was repnten to oe worm neany
two millions of dollars. He was formeily
t a slave in the West Indira. He b-avrstwo
: educated and accomplished daughters, and
at one time offered a large sum of mouey
- to any white man who would marry one
j of them.
Cincinnati claims to have the oldest
j woman in America, whose age can le
j positively authenticated. Her name is Po
J desta, and she was born in Italy. The
; officially attested baptismal register states
that she, "baptizata est die All. Januari,
1769." This makes ber over one hundred
and six years of age. The recent revival
of the question, are there centenarians?
has brought out great many probable
cases of the existence of people one hun
dred years old and upwards, Jnd some iu
which the evidence is most convincing.
Mrs. Mary L. Lincoln, widow of the
late President Lincoln, has been adjudged
insane in the County C rt at Chicago,
and will be removed to the hospital at
I Katavia, 111. The legal proceedings were
l 1 fli.l I 1 1 .1 ...
based on a petition filed by ber son Ilobert,
setting forth that bis mother bad preperty ;
exceeding 75,000 in value, aud was incap- !
able of managing her estate. After the !
verdict of the jury declaring ber insati",
Robert took the hand of bis mother af- j
fectionare'y, .and she exclaimed. "Oh. '
Robert, to think that my son would ever '
have done this !'
It. is known by comparatively few peo- i
pie that Lindley Murray,' the author of'
Murray's English Grammar, was born in !
the territory now included in Dauphin i
county. The place of his nativity was
Swatara township, which then constituted ,
a part of Lancaster county. Lindlev Mur-
j , a7 realized a competency in New York.
partly as a uarraster and partly as a mer-
! chant. The necessities of health obliged I
! him to remove to England, w here be spent i
the last foity years of his protracted life at ;
j Holdgate, near Yok, a feeble invalid, but ;
j resigned and happy. j
I Mrs. St. John Eckel's residence in )
! Litchfield county, Conn., was burned to
j the gronnd on Sunday night. She and ;
! ber young daughter narrow ly escaped with '.
; their lives. The bouse was stored with j
! valuable paintincs and furniture, and '.
souvenirs from her friends abroad, all of
which were l.tst. Tbe vestments and ves-
pels of the little Catholic church which she ;
bad built near ber bouse were also de- i
stroyed. She estimates ber loss at $20, 000. :
Mrs. Eckel is known as the author of i
"Maria Monk's Daughter." Sue is now j
in New York penniless. j
An attempt was made to burn Sbenan-
doah, Schuylkill county, on Thnrsday J
morning last. At Rile's Hotel it was dis-
. cohered that Coal oil and lighted matches :
naa Deen thrown in at the windows. In a
few minutes after the above discovery was '
made a second alarm was sounded in anoth- '
er direction, and a dwelling-house and car
penter shop were burned to the ground.
While the firemeu were working in an ad
joining building a third alarm was given
up town. A lumber-yard bad been fired and
partially destroyed. The citizens are very
i much alarmed and Vigilance Committees
' i rt ... . . .
and Committees of Safety have been or- j
gamzeo. Charles Hays was arrested the '
same afternoon, charged with being cn-
neeted with the incendiarism, and was i
j held in $1,000 bail to answer at the next -
term of the Court. j
A Non istown, Pa., dispatch of Friday j
says : There is still great excitement here
over the mnrder of Miss Mary Ann Wbitbv, '
at the residence of James R. Weikle. her:
siseer s uusoano, near I rappe, on Tuesday
last. Mi. and Mrs. Weikle started from
home for this place in the morning, Mr.
Weikle having been called on a jury. They
left at home Miss Whitby and their hired
boy, Thomas Francis Curley, aged about
18 years. Tbe latter has been arrested on
suspicion or being concerned in tbe murder.
Yesterday John Herpst was also arrested.
He answers to the description given by the
boy Cnrley of the tramp whom, he alleged,
he had seen leaving the bouse dnring the
afternoon, and on whom he endeavored to
throw suspicion. Herpst bad been com
plained of by a woman for following ber,
and was captured while trying to clamber
into i vara in uie low a. Hi r
himself was that be came from Beadinp-
: anu was peddling bnishes. It i boned
that the Coroner's investigation will throw
some light on the mystery.
Island diocese Episcopal co
Brooklyn, New Yoik, on
was the icport of tlie- CoTDrrntt''
Ifran education, which indicates,05 t
towaid witbdrawingthecliiirt
members from the j ub'ic i t(
rejKirt urged the c-stabllshmr t t' f i
of Episcopal schools, in Ml,j .j, r
children could obtain rehgi," I
possible in public fr!io!ls ..f,-"1)
The report uses strong j,,, "
ciation of the public scli(7,!.'"",i1.-
that tbe popular schools s,.,J,-j '," ''
Christian. A resolution as-'.
tbe report urging the st;ii '" V -"
rve?y possible effort, of nne'ro."' ?
institutions of ncknowltrt-f., .
A qniot game of draw.
was in progress the other cvt-n:, 'i '
Cal. One or the party rr.innV.'j''' -
beart flush, ace at tlie lead" .' '
deck, and laid it in l,u u'n C
rhar.ee to play it. Pif Ke,tv',v
rame. The guileless epiitW,'.".'
out 1 10 better with one Iianf, a.
went dwu with the othu ',a -.,jV
flush. It wasn't th-re. 1! ',
bis original hand. Tivjof .i.e i
bis 4') better, and r-ne t.r tj.'fv
show down produced tbe ielent.f '
tiush that be had been at niri'V'
setuie. He knew it was tli v, '
pee was eiinp-d just as i,e j, '
The secret was that Jia Wetl'e 4v
"Patsey," bad qtiietly p.,t i
jicked up the flush, rarn.i)
bis friend, wagged l is xc V
w alked off.
A Chicago dispatch r,f t:, " ,
says: The Tiiue l.ns i'if..:v '
Mrs. Lincoln to-day atcrip,..j t"
suicide by poisoning. A fie. WM
from the conrt-rooin wli .e t
judged insane yesterday, she -the
strictest surveillaeee. it K'l'i '
that she might do injury to ,
day she escaped from l-cr rrvin, .
to the drug store or Fiank Soii. .
the Grand Pacific lb. tel. Si.e r ,..
rejmpound of camphor and l i-1-' . , ;
teosiMy for neuralgia. 1 l-erlc-sk1 '
her it would take aboet ten ir ,
make it, wberertpr.n sbe ta.'H- a r
and drove to two o'her elri:"- s'" n .'
was followed by Mr. Squirts! i..', ', ..
case prevented the druggie f..''
ber tlie compound. Siie tin;t:'v
t the first p'ace and picr-i-ffl i
which he supposed was w!:t ti-r
but which wss harmless. s!,e ,i .
as she left the store, and as it I .',
she tried to leave her 10 m ng.ii, ;
a larger dose, but was yivu '.d -:
was removed to a private L--' -
Brvtavia, 111., this aHein on, f
will have eery attentiot..
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