XFT CSS 152 TCBZSm THE MRU FREEMIi. 'ZrrrZ'r OA J EBBMSBURC, I FrMlJ MjrciflJ?, - - JanC 4, 1875. : i ; Meeting of County Committee. ; To the Mem nuns of the Democratic, Committee ok Cambria Cor xir-Ce nlk- ' ma : You are hereby invited to meet li. the G,ai Jryr,Hin .he Court House - Ebensbnrg, on Mom-av, the Jmoay i , J INK next, to fix a time for holding the next County Convention and to appoint v.. ....:..! ...... r.,...w ....... liL-o r-mi frrppn , Senatorial conferees to meet like conferees from 1 'la i i county for thu purpose of choos ing a Senatorial delegate to the ?t a to Con tention, and to attend to such other busi ness a may be presented for consideration. A full attendance of the member is re- tested. .1. .. LAr,, n?f;rrrnrVm. Co Cca. i b?l; iiir.i., ii Tiik Fa publican State Convention of Ohio on Wednesday last nominated Ilutht-rfuid I. liaynes, of Sandusky, for tJovernor, 'I hos. Young, of Ham ilton, foi Lient. (lovcrnor, and Geo. W. Mcllyaine for Supreme Judge. . - Of the " '-' delegates from Philadelphia, to Simon Cameron's I.niicasNT convention, Jortj.j,- were ; "i.l' I'll' "' l t J IUI'1 ... - - the '.itlVreiit corrupt rings whicn are plundering the taxpayers of that misgoverned city. When sin-h men t-jM'.-Vk foi the virtue and int'-'lligenee of the IlepuUiefUi pat ty in tlie metropolis if the State, political honesty is at a heavvdi-icotr.it an I political villainy co!iirn:-.nds a high premium. Wk suppo-e that after the practical ' perienee of the three "cntlemeii who ! experience represented this eotinty in the Lancas ter Convention, thev will not be rash enough to d.ny that Simon Cameron farries the Republican party of this 1 State in his breeches poeket. or that it moves obedient to his remorseless will. To a ItepuMu-an outside of Pennsylva nia, it has Io;ir 1 ee:i an enigma how a man with the tainted reputation of ; Cameron can dominate and control the State organization of a powerful part 3'. Nevertheless.; is the fact. "'Tiatrue, and pity 'tis 'tis true." Republicans like Samuel Henry, C. T. Roberts, and flen. Jacob M. Camplx-ll, however strongly they may favor the nomina tion for a State office of a bold anil fearlessleadei such asRutler R. Strang, must abandon him if Cameron demands the sacrifice, and gracefully step down and out without further ceremony. For thm ami those that believe with them his imperious will is the iron bed of PlOCUotC-S. The Chairman of the Democratic County Committee was not mistaken, as the Y"ii e nnl E ho of last Week thinks he was, when he stated in his call for a meeting of said Committee, on .Monday of next week, that one of j its duties would be the selection of! three conferees to meet like conferees from Rlair county to elec t a Senatorial delegate to the Democratic State Con vention. It is true, as that paper states, that the Countv Convention last September elected ex-Sherill Ron tieker, Win. Linton and J. (. Hasson Senatorial Conferees, but it was for the purpose of attending a meeting of confer es from Rlair county noini a vnniliilutu for Wale S:na!or. The matter was well understood at the time, and we have no doubt the three gentlemen named so regarded it. The only wonder is that when the convention had its hand in it omitted to provide for the election of a Sena torial delegate to the State Convention. Rut having failed to do so, there ought to be no difliculty aliout the matter now. Our own opinion is that the practice of the County Contention fleeting delegates to a State Conven tion a full year in advance of the time is all wrong, and that Hie custom would be more honored in the breach than in the observance. The next County Convention ought to ignore it and leave the delegate business lo be determined next 3 ear. m m It is very plain that if there are no degrees of guilt in the crime of theft, there are degrees of meanness in it. Several chiefs of the Sioux and other Indians, including Red Cloud and Spotted Tail, were at Washington last week for the purpose of having a taL- with tho President and that bland and chile-like gentleman, Columbus Delino, Secretary of tho Interior, in reference to the sale to the government of the Rlack Hills in Dakota, and also to set forth the grievances which their people suffer at the hands of the thiev ing agents w ith whom they are com-" pelled to transact business. While these noble red men of the foi est were at dinner the other day some unmiti gated curse entered their room and stole eight shirts fronj the Minnecon jou band, from Spotted Tail, $." from Swift Rear, $13 from Face, and $5 from Pawnee Killer. An Indian thoroughly understands what it is to be fleeced officially, but to be rob be I uuolficially is one of the white man's accomplishments which was never dreamed of iu his untutored philosfv phy. TheMiiineconjonsat least would Lave a good case iu law ngainst the landlord for the value of their shirts, whatever might e.said about the loss of the money of the others. Webster's dictionary- does not contain the word which Would adequately express the sublimity of meanness in a creature who would permit bis larcenious fingers to freeze to the shirts mill o-ritotliiL-.a of a party of Indians who haalrwl.r ti ,i...,m.- ... 1 .. . 'loeenciun ......v,v. . vllvs .uit mm siioais 01 1 pale-racerl plundering; and rapacity. The wretch who could steal shu ts aiid preen backs from a ehivalious, hio-h niiuded and guileless Dakota Indian, 'Would tal the gilding from an atrM's wings, 0 And rob the palac cf the King of kirf ." CoL. MX'lure, of the Philadelphia. Times who was nresent at the lflh-! , ; caster Convention, ana who generally ; sees as far into the future of political events ns most men, speaks of the nomination of Henry Itaule for State Treasurer, and the agency by winch it was brought about, in the following pointed arid emphatic language: ., ,-,;,.,,:., rr yir R;iWle forTreas- MieJ C"u blow! It ' !" , .. Xblv net so in'crdcd but t wil ! J' ' MTil it mtt'd.a ?. .... , , . of despond , , n ,- asr of Democratic i , ' it When Simon Cameron J . . .... t !u .1.t n tn rlnHe a candidate . rcns- urer the people of Pennsylvania know well what ii means ; and when he decides upon , ao amiable, blameless Imt unskilled and j 1, 'o xhe creating power of such Without political antecedents. r.-rri.;.,lr r., paM m ire- to eni.it.ier.d I j ;r to n (nvViili'.n for a mn.H important pliable man, no 0110 will be deceived as to I'tate r.fiirc, and unable lo romniand halt a score of delegates on his own merits or by his own efforts, it was natural that the earnest men of the party, who fought its battles when its victories were for princi ple and not for plunder, should earnestly protest; and the fact that their protest was as unheeded as the passing winds taught them the abject humiliation that ltenublicanisni has leaned as the fruits of its modern leadei ship. That Mi Hawle ' is an eminently respectable gentleman no i''","."' ""l ..' " , .- V. i by the Canieion power of tho State, as the in. in who would best serve the interests of those w'jo mean to control and enjoy the emoluments of the public treasury ; an j the fact that lie brings a good name to con seera'e to such a domination will intensify rather than soften the popular resentment the arrogant subordination of the conven tion must provoke. Mr. Strang was fought bitterly and blasphemed boldly on every hand by the dependents of tho masters of i the convention because he has flared to I himself, and iefued to worship the i idols of political prostitution and shame ;! and wifn him liave fallen in tins most im- ; equal contest every man who dated to i -. ,1 n ;tl, i m I.-ivo FnlL.ti in t Itw fiiiwl- 1111- cherish a conviction or express a purpose M1 0i.itin to the festering corruption i that rules in our commanding political cir- ! clcs. The men w ho have gone to the front iiiiu received me wouuiis fi i ne pi eieinicrs may bow passively to party discipline, but the tens of thousands whose earnest and patriotic wishes they reflected, w ill be likely to strike a revengeful blow that w ill give to aibitrary and venal rules its just retribu tion. J The three most prominent figures in the Radical farce enacted at the late Lancastei Convention were John j Cessna, Harry White and William R. Mann. The first named of this trium- virate (Cessna) pla'ed the part of tem- j porary chairman ; the second ( lute) that of jiermanent President, and the third (.Mann) nominated 1 1 art ran ft, preceding it with a high sounding, gushing enlogittm. This trio of Rad ical Pennsylvania statesmen possess nnnr things in common. Thcv are a set of about as completely played out politicians as hang on the "ragged edges'' of radicalism in this or any other State. Cessna had become so odious to his party that ! e was refused a renoniination last fall for Congress, and it is within the figures to say that if he had been a candidate the majoritv against him would have been at least oi Hioiimml greater than the 1,107 which overwhelmed so respectable a geiuieiuan as . iiair. I lie irre pressible, office-seeking White made a distiiet for himself in order that he might ventilate his ornamental, star spangled brnner eloquence before the assembled wisdom of the nation, but was consigned to the limbo of Radical politicians by a majority against him of 51 S, although the Republican can didate for Lieutenant Oovernor re ceived a majority of S"7 in the same district. William R. Mnnn. who is the AT. 11 f 11 m head and front of the Philadelphia rin" ! . 1 ami whose name has been identified for the last ten years with all the shameless frauds on the ballot-box in that city, was ignomimotisly defeated for the oflke of District Attorney last November, while at the same election the Republican State ticket had a ira jority of 12,0G:J. These men thus po litically crucified by their own cople, who know them !est, were all brought to the front at Lancaster b- the lead ers of a decaying party to do the fancv 1 woiiv 01 me convention. It was a most unhappy omen and bodes certain .1: 1 . .. 1 - i. . ...... . t disaster and defeat. "When shall we three meet again?" (Jrant has felt the blow aimed at him by the Lancaster Convention, and h-lx rtnfiftlin .11 1.. I i: ll.:.,1 "'J "''-'."i "' mini itl 111 1 ,,' -1 V - R,I.,,,V!,RWI 10 Harry hite, the distinguished President of the Convention, he says he is not ami never has been a candidate for a third term, and that he "would not accept a nomination if it were tendered, unless it should come under eneh circumstance.-! a.t to mak e, it an imperative duly circumstances not likely to arise." If it rant lias never ehe .1. ii;t never ciiCllslied nnv nsnirn. 1 1 - . , tions for a third term then somo ,r ti. leading l.epublican pajiers throughout the country have done some most egregious lying, and especially hi ' 1 by that I laiian. nwiirsiiiiiii, dames statesman. James 111s seeming disclaimer ear. lied with it a mental reservation do. ! pemling for its exercise or. "an imner- I a five duly," of which he himself of course is to be the Judge. In addition to this, he strikes back at the conven tion when he tells it that "the people pnnnnt. )u rret !!, 1 ..,.: 1 - ,,!,,,,, rrllKr ,, they re n,v restricted as to age. nat v tv- et. This letter will r.ot stop the agitation - of the third term question, nor was it honestly intended that it should. All its ptetences, therefore, only confirm the belief that Its author is as much a f.Bnt"'ai now as be notor.ously has candidate now as ling the last twelve months. The Indians, it is said, have agreed to a cept $25,000 from the Govern ment for a portion of their lands in Valtl-floln Vmf. .M . '.'tf-M.i, uni, -im uecune 10 dispose of the Rlack Hill ami removo tr, th Indian Territory - j .,1 Terrible Calamity . , ..nnTtr mi-nrir BURSIJtO Or A rur-Ain v. ..-.".- setentv-hx mteb lost asd a large svmbeu injured. ..,.ua;t Thursday M;"cIlurcU at sovUli llolyoke, Mass., during tl)C evcnjg services, involving the loss of sixty-six men, women and children. The exercises had nearly clostd, and a hymn being sung, when the draperies on he altar caught tire from a candle, and the wall being low and the flames streaming up, the Uuiioing wan set n dienco numbered aoout .w, anu luc p.. T. in the body of the church escaped, but on the stairway leading from the gallery, hu man beings weie packed in a dense mass, struggling to escape. As the flames rushed towards them manv leaped to the floor be neath and were trampled to death. The gallery skirted both sides of the budding, with only one entrance from the front. ' The -efiio wa? f-aifnl in 'lo- extreme, uur j the litlle while it listed. IVsides the ' m it j -six dead, theio are enough to carry ! tho total loss of life up to sc enty-live. I The priest's house which joins the chinch ! in the rear was also burned. The bodies i were taken to Peter Monett's store and the Park street school house for temporary ' deposit. The church and pastor's house ! u-pi-a totally destroyed. The priest's exer- tioiis to keen order were order were iruuiess. i no . - - . . . n-i screams of the livin? and tho moans of the l.ving made a deafening tumult above th oiders ot l!ie pastor, wi o wo. kcu iivi fiuvi no v . in saving many lives. One family of four were in the church and all wei6 killed. ; Many were pulled out by the arms and ; feet so badly burned that they lived but a few hours. The flesh peeled off on being .' touched. Some were taken out with scarce I y any flesh remaining fin their bones. The i Sisters of Mercy from the convent were soon on hand, caring for the wounded, ! with the priests holding services over the ; ding. The mother of Father Dufrisne was among those terribly tun ned, i no lartro wooden tenement block ol James Prew, near the burned church, wasthrowii open for the reception of the dead and WOllllCefl. niiU Several tieailis "ttuiini III this building during the night. Several weie also laKen lo rue ew iuik iiiiiis boaidmg house, Peter Monctt, to whose store the dead bodies were aftei wards taken, was in tho body of the church with three children when the fire caught. Ho immediately ran toward the flames and attempted to put them out with several pails of water taken from the priest's residence, adjoining the church. Finding it uselets ho then tried to save some of the furniture, but was quickly driven away. lie and his children were all saved. One girl escaped from the gallery by jumping on the back of a man, who carried her out. LATER r.UtTIClLAUfi. SniixoFiKi.n, May 2S. The bodies of fifty persons burned to death at llolyoke, last night, have been idenlilied, iu addition to those of fifteen or twenty w ho were at j once removed to their homes by their j friends. Nearly seventy have died, and j some forty more are more or less burned, j or otherwise injured. I he hero of the disaster was. John Lynch, a brave fireman, who was first to respond to the alarm. He describes tho scene w hen he reached the burning church as ap palling. People weie wedged tight and al most immovable iu the doorways, making a tlense mass of humanity from six to eight feet in height, none of them being able to stand npiight from the terrible pressure of the crowd behind. Without a moment's pause to consider their danger, Lynch and Chief Engineer Mnllin rushed into the flames, spurred on by piteous cries of 'For (jlori's sake come and help us !'' and began pulling tint bodies. A moment later and a well directed hydrant stream from Mt. llolyoke hose struck the brave rescuers and undoubtedly saved their lives, while upon ami over them a sheet of tiro rolled like a wave, streaming far out into the open air. Hundreds of men went, to the w reck as soon as opportunity ottered to search for the biKlies, and a police force w as organized to keep back tho large crowd which had grttheied. The greater number of bodies were found in the fatal entry way, burned, some of them, to a crisp. The body ef one woman was found in the seat she had oc cupied. Her clothing was entirely burned oft". A woman, weijrhinjr ISO rumi'ids. w;s dragged screaming from the mass. She was carried a short distance from the J 1 1 1 1 . . ... . 1 church and placed on (he grass, while the nesn actually peeled oil Iter back, and in a moment she fell fiver dead. The scenes last night and to-day in the school house basement where the bodies were cameo, were heart lending in the ex tiemc. In some instances the features were distorted as though extreme agony had been suifcred before heath. Hut many looked calm as though smothered ; all weie blackened with smoke and some were burned beyond possibility of identification, nothing remaining but the trunks. The church society was established about seven years ago, and Father Dufresne had been tli nulv mclm' Tl. ..:..i. : ..... H the Fruch Catholics of the citv whose , . - . , ... . " number is estimated at from 2,0(1)" to 2,.ViO pei sons. 1 ne ciiurcli was erected in 1S70, entirely of pine, and was alxwit fine hundred feot by sixty, two stories, with galleiies on tho sides and north end, about t weiity-fivo feet wide. There were two door-it in ti. north end, ami a vestibule, from which two j,Jle ,. . -- -...".. At the rearend was auothei door, by which a lew persons escaiicd death upon the breaking out of the flames. Louis Desjaidin, fifty-four years old. w hose wife and daughter were both buned to death, became insane to day from grief, and cried continually, '(, niy Julie ! my Julie!" S'.me weie taken out alive "who were under others who were dead, and owed to this fact their own salvation. One of the most protracted cases of sufter- i...i ..11 "If " J. is vtus mat 01 Mxiv 1 . 11,1 ,. ...1 . J - - .1 , nil.,. i.Kimn.n ami 01111a, some- ,,ow found her way to a hill north of tb 0,,l,,'ch an:l wandered around there about vven'y minutes before she was found and taken to her home. cd fifteen h cu iiiieen nours 111 fearful agony. ' he aie 01 ma .Meutner and her !. -.. a uching event of the fne. She was o.-. f"r t,,e evening in the absence of the s""" mm wan cut fu irom escupe when the church was burned. Her lover escaped, but finding that she was still within, returned to rescue he.-, was over come with the flames and perished with her. .s iJTKgSS de:id at 71 e,t,J o- ?. ,e - - m - v 00 1 it Aw uprB' wa burned and wounded 27. Of the 71 dead 33 are females and 1G males. A rather singularooinoidenee occurred recently at Turkey City, Clarion county. During a protracted meeting, conducted by Rev. E. 11. Knapp, of the M. E. church, two men, fine named Potter, and the other Maker, went forward as inquirers t the same time, exiei ienced religion at the same time, and connected themselves with the church at. the same tinm. Itecfittlv l.. ., I. I -... - "' v''it sick ami men the sme nay. within an hour of each other. They were Dr.,Ba at ."e t,m' fnueral ser ln.$ co,lflllctt:rt at the church for lioth together. 17i llolyoke Holocaust. rHE BURIAL SOMEINCIDESTSOFTHEFIRE- j OF THE VICTIMS. ! There is but little to add to the monrn ' ful story of the llolyoke church disaster. Many w ho were tmppostd to be only slight ly burned will die from their injuries, and a great many who survive will be maimed and disfigured for life. The funeral obse quies took place Saturday in the basement of the half finished church which was soon to supply the place of the flimsy wooden structure destroyed. An unfoitunate inci dent happened, when, afier three quarters of an hour's woik thirty-four bodies had been placed upou the daw. I he weight of them proved too much for the slender structure, and the middle boards gave way, allowing it to sink with the coffins several inches. The church had meantime become packed with people, relatives anil friends of the deceased, whs pressed about the dais watching the movements of the work men on ami around it, and when the tim bers cracked the crash sent a thrill of hor ror through all present, as it was thought that all the coffins were precipitated to the ground. But they weie spared this fresh torture, for the dais was soon repaired and made more secure. - One lady gave a heart rending scream and was carried out iu a fainting fit. The ceremony of "Adicnx, or absolution to the dead," was conducted by Fathers Dufrisne, Primeanandtlagnier, and consisted of a linal sprinkling of the cofiius with holy water while the choir chanted prayers for the dead. The funer al procession was over a mile in length, a hunt! red and thiity-two vehicles, besides several societies on foot, following tho re mains of tho victims to the grave. INCIDENTS OK TIIK KIRK. A sad case was that of Joe Richards, who was- in the building with his wife when the fire was found to be beyond con trol. He seized his wife around the waist and made a desperate struggle to reach the door. He had almost succeeded when a sheet of fire struck him in the face, tem porarily blinding him. His wife was torn from his grasp by the struggling crowd, anil blind and burning he was pulled out and will recover, but ibe woman was burn ed to a ciisp anil was recognized at the Morgue tin Friday morning only by a ring tin her finger. Several ladies, not burned, were made senously ill by fright, and Mrs. John Wilkinson, who lived near the church, became crazy and raving. The regular or ganist of the church was absent and Miss Ida Meunier played for her. The tatter's lover escaped, but finding that she was yet in the church turned back to save her and both died in the flames. She fainted at the commencement of tho panic, and was aftei ward found suffocated by the smoke, but very little burned or disfigured. One man in the gallery saved his wife and four children by his wonderful presence of mind. When the panic commenced he commanded them to stand perfectly still. Then going to the window he dropped them out fine by one, and thus saved the lives of all w ith scarcely any injuries. A stone-cutter, some of whose family were in the burning house, asked some friend to put him into a window. They hesitated, and he said if they did not do so he should go iu through the burning doorway. They finally heled him in, and he was able to save two or three persons. Joseph Chattelle, w ho perished in attempt rig to save his mother, leaves a wifo and four little children. Mrs. Mario Robeits, married but a week ago last Sunday, was burned to death, while her husband, who was seated in another part of the church, was rescued from amid the flames by the heroic John Lynch. One of the most touch ing incidents of the disaster was the death of Mr. Lep-enx, a French Canadian, who but recently arrived in this country. He saw his wife surrounded by the flames, and taking off his overcoat, rushed to her res cue, and caught her in his arms, but some how or other his strenth abandoned him, and he could not retrace his steps. Both wife ami husband, held in each other's embrace, met. with the most terrible of deaths. Mr. Boulauger, in attempting to save his life by jumping from a window, was held fast by the rushing multitude, and was burned to death, half of his body extending out of the window- and the other half w itliin. PRESENCE OF MIND NEEDED. Tt is doubtless true that many, with more presence of mind, could have easily saved themselves ; as the galleiies were only eight feet high, it would have been an easy mat ter at the outset, to drop from them and escape by the rear dtmr. Hundreds who mourned their friends as hst on Thursday nijlht afterwards found them safe at home. A lame girl was taken out by two friends ; her sister who had been home, hunted for her despondingly among the dead, hearing that some one of tho same name bad per ished. At midnight she went home and found her sister safe and unhurt. Amidst the terrible confusion inside when help first arrived a man named Oates saw a lit tle girl who had been nearly extricated from tho mass of writhing limbs ami bod ies which were piled inside the door ; be reached over and dre-v out the child almost unhurt. The charred remains of some of the vic tims of the terribio fire at South llolyoke Mass.) Catholic church arrived at Mon treal on Monday. When the train crossed the line there were eighteen coffins on board, eleven of which were left at way j stations. ! The ITarrisburg Pntrioi states the case I of the Eastern miners as follows: ! "We will state it in a few words. The ! strike forced upon the miners was brought : alxiit by the refusal of the various eorpo j rations, or "operators," as they choose to , call themselves, to continue "the basis" i agreed ujion for some time past, and which j woiked happily all round, for operators I weie making money, miners were fairly ; paid, and consumers were getting coal at ' reasonable rates. The strike has thrown I these men out of work for three or four j months, and the object of the parties who f forced the stoppage of lalxr being aecom I plished, they invite the men to lesume mining at the old. rates. The miners say, I "Xo, gentlemen ; we have lost throusrh ! your doings a third or more of a year. To i accept your terms now would bo in effect to i admit you are right, and to lose in annual 1 earnings all you contend for. We do not intend to submit, and shall teach you a ; lesson which may be of service to you in the future." Now we contend that these workmen are right, and notwithstanding the dis patches sent east, detailing and exaggera ting every act of rebellious individual mi 1 nets, theonus of all this trouble rests upon 1 the shoulders of the wealthy parties who 1 originated the trouble. In fai,t it is n war between corporate power 011 the one side and the rights of men upon the other, to which the general public is a party in in. terest, having to use coal, and it very fully realizes 'hat it is the pocket of tho operators that should be touched in the fight, being their only vuluei able spot, and noMhatof the miner and the consumer. S.iys Edmund Burke ; "If U beon of the objects to secure the weak from being crushed by the strong-as in all society it undoubtedly is how are the poorer work men as well as the masses to be saved from 4he tyranny of the wealthy? Certairly not by adding move and systematic means of oppression.' boy w ho is thought to look like Char ley Ross has becu found at Perryville, ya Hew ami rolttical Items, Two men were burned alive by A fire on Seventh avenue, New York, ou Friday night. It is estimated that Paul Boyton, in crossing the tides and currents of the Channel, paddled thirty-four miles. Further details of the earthquakes in Asia Minor show that several villages were destroyed and 2,000 persons Uwt their lives. The house of Mr. Van Meer. near Maxwell, Out., was destroyed by tiro on Saturday niuhtlast. Three of his children perished in the flames. Mrs. John Palmer, wife of a Steubcn ville printer, lias eiven birth to five children inside of sixteen months which is a pretty hard rim on John's "small can" case. A living tree toad was leccntly found j embedded in a gigantic sycamore tree, ; near Iexington, Kentucky... It is supposed j to have been there for over W vears George Pepper, pity it wasn't Tom, of. Somcrvilie, .Mass., was lataiiy siauoea sun flay night while hitoxhau d. His wife has been arrested, charged with the deed. ' Mix Fowle, about forty years old, rowed to Bath, Maine, from West port, Maine, in a skiff, a distance of nine miles, did her shopping and rowed back, arriving in season for dinner. Osceola, the trreat Pennsylvania lum ber centre, and now so terribly scourged with the extensive fires of that region within the last two weeks, shipped last year fifty million feet of lumber. Governor Jacobs, of West Virginia, has issued a proclamation declaring that the seat of povernment of that State has been removed from Oharlestown, and -that : it is now locatctl in Wheeling. I One of the modest little farming j patches in Illinois is laid out in 19,000 acres of corn, 2,500 acres of flax, 1.000 I acres of oats, and enough grass to produce ; about eight thousand tons of hay. j The largest field of pineapples in the world is probably one in the Eastern Dis trict of New Providenoo, 111 the Bahamas. From one sot can be seen at a single glance, 1, 20", 000 pineapples growing. - Four children, fine an infant, of S. M. Christian, at Versailles, Ohio, were burnt to death last Wednesday by the explosion of a can of kerosene, with which one of them was endeavoring to kindle a fire. A Colorado man sold his wife for 300 the other day, and when explaining the matter to his children be said lie lia'ed to let the old woman go, but "300 wasn't laying around loose like it used to was." On Friday, a nail factory near Wheel ing, W. V., Libby's elevator at Brookley. Iowa, St. Luke's church, sixty-two houses and shops in Portland, and a large furniture establishment in Worcester, Massachusetts, were destroyed by fire. Grant voted the Democratic ticket until he was elected President. Hai ti anft's first Republican vote was for himself, and now comes llawle, another renegade Demo crat. Ni wonder M'Clure wanted one Re publican on the ticket. Catholic Italy is ahead of all other nations in the matter of female education. Schools for cirls there p.rc numerous, and they are under the care of women snjer visors, w bo visit them at stated times and receive their pay from the State. The most destructive fire that has ever occurred in Spi ingfield, Mass., broke out 2J o'clock Sunday afternoon ami destroyed nearly forty buildings, including a number of business blocks, and causing a total loss of at least a quarter of a million dollars. The funeral of 48 of the victims of the Hohoke disaster took place fr m the ba e meiit of the new Catholic church at lloly oke, on Saturday. fhe services were con- ducted by Fathers Primeau and Gagnier, and a procession more than a mile in length followed the cofiius. An expedition to the Black ITi'.ls, un der the lead of a man named Gordon, lias j been captured by Colonel Mills' command. All the outlit of the party, except provis J ions enough to last until they get back to Fort Randall, was destroyed. Gordon is a prisoner, on the way back to Cheyenne. It is rcjioited that Anna Culver, of Pennsylvania, who went out to the Fiji Islands last summer as a missionary, is at home again. Her first Sunday-school class came shuffling into her bouse one morning with nothing on but necklaces, whereupon Anna s enthusiasm 111 the cause ail melted a way. Iu the suit of Fanning against the Rev. Mr. McGlew, a Catholic clergyman of Boston, who, it aas charged by the plain tiff, slandered him before his congregation for being married before a magistrate, the proposed ; his plan was simply to talk with jury failed to agree tin a verdict. They : ecclesiastics or other antl-Bismaickers, en stood 10 for the plaintilf and 2 for the do- i trap thorn, if he could, into some incautious fondant. j expressions, and then threaten to betray Two steamers and two barges were them if they would not give him moncv Ix.i-Morl ill l'iltch.ir.rl. . Tl,...l.... l. 1 -1-1 :. :. .1. - .... Mat tie Ebert, valued at 20,000, and the .......... . . l iuiu,ii, iiiu Juniata, worth .:(), 000 ; the barges with their cargoes were valued at $15,000. The Ebert had on board 400 tons of freight. Thero were insurances to cover one-third of the 1 ss. John Kennan, aged fifty five, residing in Cleveland, murdered his mot her-in law, Mrs. Bridget Genan, aged eighty, on Sun day morning, cutting, her bead open with an axe. The murderer thenfirave himself j up. Ho pleads insanity, and says there 1 has been no trouble between the deceased ! and himself. Tlie Ijftant Herald says a series of I terrible earthquake shocks occurred at the beginning of May in the province of Brousa, Asia Minor. Six hundred houses were de stroyed. Accounts so far received show that 161 lives have been lost and 187 per sons were injured. The total number of killed is still unknown. About midnight on F1id.1v Adam Sting and his wife, who were aged respec- iivi-iy a noii 1. eigiuy, were Our net! to death 111 their house at East llambnrg, N. Y. 1 he cause or the fire is unknown. Tlie house was situated at some distance from neighboring buildings, and was consumed before assistance could be rendered. . Jackson, the Boston swindler, was very impartial in his frauds, He cheated l l Si hT l r ' ,,be,d ,'!'a woher of n adi L 1 -'T v hr ""C d C in. l i r dealing from h,a own kith and kin as from those alien to him by , bltMMl." He is the most adroit, and plished robber the century has yet pro duced. I Boyton has at last succeeded in mak i tng tlie voyage of the Er.glisb Channel in Ins lifo-saving suit. This was not needed ; to illustrate its excellent qualities, but was ! done to show that he could do it. Ho is possessed of indomitable Yankee pluck. aim so oeterminetl not merely to show that " "'r ny " easv matrer 3 3 an easy matter. 1. r"nl obm' "own Wo. man ,.t i.riiuni s sliow, died at ber resi- denoo ,n East Baltimoi, on Friday, aged twenty-nine Her weight was five hundred incites, and span around the waist seventy-two inches. She was born in l.icfc. ing county, Ohio. Her maiden nam Hannah Jane Duck. , T. . .. ..r?- ?nr?1wr n "o- f -ET fnve inchcsrtS; navin the sbane nfaw. decorated wUh he ItoadinV V m 1XL) , , i.'"n.iiMn ii , Fiftv-five of the leading postmasters ! of Ohio came out in a card on Saturday ; endorsing Grant for a Thud Term When bo reads that card he will regret his rash ness in writing to Harry v bite, and will 110 doubt com o to tho conclusion that the ? interests of the noble army of postmasters I make it his imperative duty to accept a third nomination, j James Smith, an unfortunate colored j cadet, who after having three trials was dropped from his class at 'A'est Point, has ! been made inspector of militia in South Carolina, with the rank of Brigadier Gen eral. So he has got his shoulder-strips after all. even if lie did not earn them. Smith is lucky. He would have had to J stay in the army a good whilo to becomo General ftmitn. Mrs. Elizabeth Fngclker, of Jackson county, Iowa, could hardly get along if the old man should fall into the bands of ! the crusaders and sw ear oil'. She recovered four hundred dollars of one barkeeper and ono tlmusatid ' one bund: fed duV.a: of anthti foi bcliiiighnu wbUky. ha oubt to lock h:in up until he ctj eia.y diy and turn him loose 011 the next victim. Such a man is a treasure to a joor family. The walnut tree is proverbially long lived, and an extraordinary instance is noted at Bonvillieis, a village at the f.iotof j the Vaudois Jura. An old walnut tree, ! whose age is estimated at between three and four hundred years, is there still in a flouiishing condition. Its trunk measures over twenty feet in circuinfeic-nce, and notwithstanding its great age it produced last year over fifty bushels of walnuts. Gieat n;t 11 may change their minds. General Sherman wrote to the editor of the Memphis Appeal some years ago that ho did not want his biography to appear until j after be was dead. General Grant during j !iis first term as President said he did not ! want a second. And now Appletons aie try , ing to buy Sherman's autobiography from j him for $00,000, nnd Grant estimates that i nothing short of a constitutional amend J nient can interpose letwecn him mid a third term with any certainty of efficacy. A gentleman residing at Glen Mills, , Delaw are county, is tLe owner of a d-g of j immensely large proportions, his height ' being 32 iuchts. weight ISO pounds, ami ; age 4 years, lie was bred in Germany, j and is a comjound of the St, Bernard and ; bloodhound species, but apjicars to have ; partaken mora of the qualities of the for mer, as his disposition is of a remarkably docile and gentle nature. His coloring is J rather of a yellow cast, and bis whole niako j np ?s quite well proportioned. I On the premises of Mr. N. F. Beebtel, l Perkiomen avenue ai:d Franklin street, ( says the Reading Kaylc, is to bo seen one : of the most remaikable curiosities ever; j heard of of the kind. A large crab apple 1 tree is growing in the yard, and 011 the top : of the trees is blooming a pure white itse. j ,' The rose stem which is growing fr.jm the ! apple branch is over two years old, as it , has already bloomed two years. The j flower can be best seen from the second ' story of the bouse. Health Commissioner ' Miller says it is fine of the greatest curiosi ties he has ever seen. j j A trial of skill between two con tort ion : ists William Gaylord and a Japanese 1 named Tomv oeeiired in St. Louis. The j wager was $1,000, and the decision was to j be based upon "grace, skill ami difficult . ' work." Tomy st ootl 011 a high and unstable i pile of tubs, slowly bent backwaid until j the top of his head touched the level of his ; feet, and arose again to an erect j'sture ' : without losing his balance. Gavlord bent ; his lKwiy backward in a hoop until his feet were caught under his chin, and in that ! t posture trotted around on bis bauds. The ; stare va awarded toGalord. --The Portland (Me.) Pre tells ihe j story of a young lady of that city who lie- 1 came acquainted with a Boston drummer on the cars, allowed him to visit her, ami : finally consent e 1 to Ue bis wife. She af terward repented of her hasty promise and ; wrote him to release hei, but be wouldu't. 1 She received a letter from a Boston law- ' yer, Tuesday, stating that her was-to-be ' husband had retained him as counsel, nnd : that unless the marriage took place at the j iine set a suit will be commenced against ner lor ureacn 01 pinmne. As the voting lady is worth a handsome property the re- ' suit is anxiously looked for The latest plot to assassinate Bismarck, says Ihe Phila. 7 , turns out, like some of the others, to have been part of a black mailing scheme. The man who was ar rested is found to have had no accomplices, and 110 intention of carrying out what he 1 ins is wie scueiiie mai was incn on Father Bekx, who, however, detected it at once, and handed the blackmailer over to the police, and we have no doubt that a good many others of these awful plots are about equally substantial. The lftthof May, 17t0, was distinguish ed by the phenomenon of a remarkable darkness all over the Northern State, and is often referred to as "the daik day." At that time the legislature of Connecticut was in session at Hartford. A very general opinion prevailed that the day of judgment was at hand. The house of representatives adjourned. A proposal to adjourn tlie council was under consultation. When the opinion of Colonel Daveeport was a-ked, ho answered : "I am against an adjournment. The day or judgment is either approaching or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish, therefore, that caudles may j be brought." In tlieG reenvilleConn.)Fchool district, SOIOA U'l'll.- !tirrt mm tl.A f ... .. 1 1 ere indicted what lias proved to be a terrible piinisnmeni on a littlo boy not yet live years old. It seems he was detected in spitting on his slate, and the teacher shut him up in a room, locking him in. When tlie school was dismissed for dinner, he was wi.low, com,alled to work in the mill to snpport the family, missed Ihe child, and on inquiry round him locked up and in a i state or iirbecility. He is still under the inrirniroii. .. ia i physician s care, with some hope of his ultimate recovery. The mother, of course, ; is obliged t give up work to watcli over i her child, and beyond an apology from ' tlie teacher, there does not seem to be any thing done by the committee or anybody else toward aiding her in her difliculty. Sistehia- Affection. A Boston letter ' to an Eastern newspapers relates that unon !--f the fashionaLTe1 South End s, Ss ! . oi that city there has lived in a four-story , brick house, until very latelv a woman who has hired for her i, vail lVr "V?" , ter. Tlio latter was treated in all respects ' ! as a menial, and tho, ul Z T, ! her husband, having no children dined house, they never permitted the sister lo sit with them. Not only this, but tllA CIS. "V"" I"'? lu,w.' u.'" u,e ,i,.s- j l ,7. a ti 1 1 Y!t'K ,lFont ea,,y "'I 'ate, and there was no such thini? as leis- re for her, or a particle of the i I ! sister detii SXn S kn" red tbAt Bist and foimer miMrm iiai eiiTarpn ooarn Tor tho "."any i-tfB ana puddings. Weu Done. The mdication the strike of the coal miners is 0.. - TV. . 1 ... lJ'i'. '. mgio an eno. 111 me tieaili where there was lately g,eat tXCl. " peace and good' order again pre,,? work at many of the mines has xJL1 sumed. Evidently the niinr, not a bad set of men, since we ar?k. at the late gi-eat fire at Osee..a tin C" worked like heroes to save the pi,,,,.' the mines ami elsewhere foim .,', '' Iu this legion a very judicious c ,. '' been pursued by tho autlnintjtli j ; in"- oriler. The slieiirl lin ...... , .rH and sensibly, and ha. by the ai, 7"' j civil power in his control. pi.v.'a! I ricace far better and with less ', Y? suits than if he had weakly U l.l..,i '. demand of the mine owneis that lie rv.Tl ...iltii. rrf,Vff l-l.i ir for, .!; r. - - '"i.; ifjvsid' I It is well imdoistood that lie I,,,; inioiignout unucr mo atlik-e f K j Wallace, to whom the chi r cio'-? f . f peaceful restoiation of order in i!,. . 1 must be given. 1 1 was. w ell fui. t- 6 . f that tbv. merit? had a:: adu t ' ; with to-ibitw and comm-m it!. , ' : les- well that the sheiirt' wa-. a m.tVf r ol recognizing ana toil-twin t,? vice that was giveu him. .?. tclli'tjt'nrsr. Boyton's Rivals. On Tn. vh. week, a numlM-r of New Yik Usm ' ami uiiii-rn f.'i ine iiisiii ntiep accompanied Captain J. H. the bay to t?st the elVic.icy .,r e : MM saving suit. 1 he inventor, w i ) . f . . paniotis. Miss Gay ner, Mi. her sister, a gill el.en yi-ai j John St rat Ion, remained in t'l- 1V j an hour without Ix-ing w..M,ir,i ,,r r s and the exerinicnt mUcj -..,.; ,: s rated the utility of th- inv.-v-W suit is in three parts; e.i-h of why. t used alone, will prevent a pi-is.,-i f:,, .v i ing in water. The part of tin .; I put on is of India rubber, awl r person completely, leaving mb tV and h inds exoscd. A nviht 4 .ouiids is attached to eacii ar.kl.. t the body fleet. A jackf t -i it It tti! tubs each capable of keeping a afloat, is fastened around tlie hh-'. straps over the shoulders. A , . tacbtd to the shoulders. w-tiili. Mated, w ill sup.it the head, if Tli- ' desiies to rest by laying on his : buoy which can !k atlti li -l t th-t-.-' a rope, contains a tl 1. d i t.i ' a - r, cts, besides having roo.n f jr p;-.iv; . Great Forest Fiuo. K ,.(., . have again broken out in the ' Delaw are and Sullivan counties. NL. 7 doing much damage. The village of Bethel, Sullivan ..- was surrounded by tire two j.iy. -only saved after a hard ii 14 1 1 1 . A prominent and wealthy fumcr. Win. Ctubiu, of Delaware c ni:itv. .. rounded by fire while tigbtiu-T t:iL in his wotNls and burned to il.-;;:!i. " other men. similarly engaged. wereS. burned, and narrowly ec.iiJ &;. lives. Nrai ManaynnV Va'k-y, Siil'iv.T! r ty, a fiie was aocid?ntaov M-uif-l 1 a few hours a thousand a?:os .if n timber, a mill, and tlnee Im-i hf i and feet of himlcr weie destiow.i. In the towns of Fallsbusg a ij Mit the conflagrations aie so li. u-i-'!, li lies have been obliged to fly fi-r. . houses to save their lives, leavinj i household goods, stuck, etc., '.j k. t roved. mi: ir a it ri:i: tisi:ui: i N. F. BUTiNrU it it t-.i WATER WHZ; 5" I '"work in t Iu- I . 1 Jv- -- "-iiir twst. Nini-'.-en s 7 c. - I rn Inn rr thii -C'''" " X. r. lU KNHAM.'i I RR!6flir IODIDE OF AMINrlO! 1'nn-s pn rule-in. Vac Aclte. Ithpmsli" ' I r stc.l Kfl. ChOliiains. Sore Tlirost lr" Bni-n an 1 Woitrel ol every nature in it; mil. I'h- r.markalile t-iires xh'.t r-i!i--; fer'e-t -Ihs' it a on l tlie tiiut in:-' valinlile r-ine"!i-! ever il'.soivert-l I t ' an-l r.-li.-t ol pain. "In cnti. i.-irn.' piieain.iuin 1 have iip1 .on -i. .1 iiifi. !'. with mirke-l an-l lo-ia-1 UOBEiJTS. NEWTON, M. 1.. jT W , New York. Korsnle liy J. F THtlM rSON. '' r anj tiy a. I l'iru:jif Ileput V .'li '-v Til K H ii V M, li Y TH K W O M il- t 1 ; It lias r(nreil thoaun ! !r 'i: the irrave : riv n lioalth nnl :r- '-' 1 tJeetiiel tievi-tel tlie resell of nil th-!.- ' nu! lurnerf the path of nfH;eti..n t.- n- liv in tlie hleriina: within ii :r '.;'-. Y the dea-tly Krilo'e .list-use mi I Ii s'- ' 1 1 ca te? all (licenses ot the ki in: r -' " -narvtirsmis to t renvt'. h nml iM.wrr in a'' ft natural restorer t1 heitl; h. an.l !ir.-l- , ni'!"l womlerlal n"1 miraen l.a .11 r c ' ) fl'ec;tie 011 the Rl(t!e. AJ-tri-?. tr : etc., .iiit. EeoKNE 11. lltMisv. Wjii-. - . Advertiser's Gaz1 -1 Journal of Information " vcrtisers. Kdition, f.oo-i f l'ublislivtl trcehly. Tcr;ii.i annum, in atlranee. Fi-e ?ieimen enpici (tiiflor.-nt a'" ' dress for 25 cents. Olliee, No. 41 I'-' '. York. GEO. r. RO'VlM-i E'litor mi 1 ' ' . ii -.-m per tin vat home. T.rnf V' : v-"Giio. Stissox It i'o.. 1 ' $77 A WEEK jfuaranteetl to 5- mule A.-nts, In tlieirt-n MM HIN'O to trv It. Par: F. O. IC K E H Y k t 'I l. . A nt'- ; j. c. n i i.i. NORTH WEST. W HILL, WEST & CC MANl. FAl.Tl"KEIts er Brooms and Bnii; TRIM, STRAW, ItAC A MAILLl it!1. iTTojt a kii ii i:n p i " Flour Sncks. Cracers i" i -Will'1 TJZAS, T01tACCO,ClG&l 121 Kfr:-ixr ItirrwHN SMiTHnrt.n A?n vwf ' I a-i9. riTTsnuuGH, ARE YOU GOLW. TO T$ Averill Chemical F 1FT u. In cans of nit an 5 " lut the hrwsti .n Hint n. own enlnter or ro.iLe a lnlpe L' the cheapest and Ik-si. Try a " i'"I ' .. ONIOXS. BALDWIN 151 riTTSKi Bi;". r- FOR ibATFORM M SFR1NO W'?'' v I.A1NS1K1N r 1 ' j 1 llrarr an.1 ijRht Wai.n. -Wheell.arn.w. waaul'aelureJ ni ,rnerrri street an.l 1"'$ 4mIow Suifui."n Hriit. Ai.'k- lltrrtairiai pnwnpt'T "'f p L G-I3LK liW I T . . AIT II ui AJ mM I
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