THl CIHBBU FREEHU.
EBEHSBURC, PA., j
FrMiyMjicinj?,. - - Jane 4, 1875.;
Meeting of County Committee.
To THE MKMBKR9 OF THE DEMOCRATIC
Committee ok Cambria Cottty Oenllf
mtn : You are hereby iuvited to meet lii
the Grand Jury mom, in Ihe Court House
Ebenburjr, on Moni.av, the 14th day of
Jink next, to fix a time for holding the
next County Convention and to aroint
Senatorial conferees to meet like conferees
from I'lair county for tho ourpose of choos
ing ;i Senatorial delegate to the rtate Con
vention, and to attend to such other bnsl
iicsh a may !e presented for consideration.
A full attendance of the members is re
quested. J. r. LA"f,
Cbntrtrun Prrv Co. Ccr.i.
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Tub llepublican State Convention
of Ohio on Wednesday last nominated ,
llutherfoid It. Ilaynes, of Sandusky, j
for Uovemor, Thos. l oung. 1 Ham
ilton, fot Lieut. Governor, and Geo.
W. Mcllvaine for .Supreme Judge.
Or the " ';-''' delegates from :
Philadelphia, to Simon Cameron's j
Lancaster convention, f orbj-f.ee were
ollice-hoMcii and active memliers ofl
the (UU'eieiit corrupt rings which are
plundering the taxpayers of that
misgoverned city. When such men
sjH'ak foi the virtue ami intelligence of
the Kepublican party in the metropolis
of the State, politic! honesty is at a
heavv discount an I political villainy
commr.nds a high premium. j
Wk suppose that after the practical j
experience of the three gentlemen who j
represented this county in the Lancas- j
ter Convention, they will not le rash t
enough to deny that Simon Cameron j
carries the PiepuUioan party of this J
State in his breeches' pocket, or that it ;
moves olH'dient to his remorseless will, j
To a I'cpublican outride of I'ennsylva
nia, it has lo;ig I ecu an enigma how a j
man with the tainted reputation of j
Cameron can dominate ami control the j
State organization of a powerful party.
Nevertheless i is the fact. " "Tis true,
and pity 'tis 'tis true.'' Republicans
like Samuel Henry, C. T. Roberts, and j
(ten. Jacob M. Campbell, however!
strongly they ma 3" favor the nomina- :
tion for a State office of a bold and ,
fearlessleadei such aslJutlcrR. Strang, 1
tnustabandonhimif ( amerondemands
the sacrifice, and gracefully" step down
nnd nit witliout further ceremony. 1
For them and those that believe with
tLem his imperious will is the iron bed
of Procures.
The Chairman of the Democratic
County Committee was not mistaken,
a- tin; 1'itii e timl fJr10 of last week
thinks lie 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 ofi
three conferees to meet like conferees j
from Ulalr county to elec t a Senatorial
delegate to the Democratic State Con
vention. It is true, as that paper
states, that the County Convention
last September elected ex-Sherifl Uon
acker, Win. Linton and J. (i. Hasson
Senatorial Conferees, but it was for
the purpose of attending a meeting of
conferees from lllair county to nomi
;itt a enndidnte for Stale Senator.
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 dillieulty alxxit the matter j
now. Our own opinion is that the I
practice of the County Convention j
electing delegates to a State Conven- 1
tion a full year in advance of the time
is all wrong, and that Ihe custom
would be more honored in the breach
than in the observance. The next
County Convention ought to ignore
it an 1 leave the delegate business to be
determined next year.
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It is very plain that if there arc 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
S otted Tail, were at Washington last
week for the purpose of having a bij
tnh with tho President and that bland
and chilcdike gentleman, Columbus
Deltno, Secretary of tho Interior, in
reference to the sale to the government j
of the Black Hills in Dakota, and also j
to set forth the grievances which their I
people suuer at the hands of the thiev- j
ing agents with whom they are com-'
polled to transact business. While j
these noble red men of the foicst were I
Rt diuner the other day some unmiti
gated curse entered their room and
ttole eight shirts from the Minnecon
jou band. from Spotted Tail, $0
from Swift Rear, $13 from Face, and
5 from Pawnee Killer. An Indian
thoroughly understands what it is to
lie fleeced officially, but to Ihj robbed
UUolficially is one or the white man's
accomplishment which was never
dreamed of in hi untutored philoso
phy. TheMinneconjonsat least would
Lave a good case in law against the
landlord for the value of their shirts,
whatever might be said about the loss
of the money of the others. Webster's
dictionary cloes not contain the word
which Would adequately express the
sublimity of meanness 111 a creature
who would permit his larcenious fingers
t freeze to the shirts and greenbacks
of a party of Indians who have already
sounded all tho depths and shoals of
pale-faced plundering and rapacity.
The wretch who could steal shiitsam!
greenbacks from a ehivaltous, high
minded and guileless Dakota Indian,
"Would tal the giUliug from an angel's
wing.
Aud rob the palac of the King of Ifirgr."
CoL. MX'lukb, of the riiilavlelpliia
Time, who was present at the lah-
castef Convention, ami WHO general iv :
sees as far into tho future of political
events as most men, speaks of the
nomination of Henry Uawle for State
Treasurer, ami the agency by which it
was brought about, in the following
pointed anil emphatic language :
"The nomination of Mr. Rawle forTrcas- ;
uier was Haiti aiifVs severest blow. It ,
was probably not so intended, but it will
grow in its dead weight until it must drair j
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foil y can it. When Simon Cameron
sits down to choo.e a candidate fr Tresis- (
urer the people of Pennsylvania know well 1
what it means ; and when he decides upon ,
!.n .l.nhihle. blameless but unskilled and i
pliable man, no ono will no ueceiveo. as
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the rminose of the creating power ot sucli
a nvruuiee. iiuoui powncimun-,-eiviM!.
r-r r:: j-er'c-ii"e, rr past "rrxire' to rmninciid
),;,, hi coiivr nl'ion for a nm.n important
!.trte r.fnre, and unable' 10 command half a
score of delegates on bis own merits or by
bis own efforts, it was natural that the
earnest men of the party, who fought its
battles when its victories were for princi
ple ami r.ot for plunder, should earnestly
protest ; ami the tact that ineir protest
was as unheeded as the passing winds
taught them the abject humiliation that
Republicanism has leaped as the fruits of
its modern leadeiship. That Mr. Hawle j
is an eminently respectable gentleman no;
one questions; but he was unthought of
for the position until he was decided upon
by the Cameion power of the State, as the I
man who would best serve the interests of ;
those w'10 mean to control and enjoy the i
emoluments of the public treasury; anJ !
the fact that he brings a goou name to con
.ir xts ctir.K O ilktllill-lt iitfl Will ltlffMIKlfV
rather than soften Ihe popular resentment 1
the arrogant subordination of the conven-
tion must provoke.
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bitterly and blasphemed boldly 011 every
hand by the dependents of tho masters of
the convention because he has dared to
own himself, and refused to worship the
idols of political prostitution and shame;
and with him have fallen in this most mi
cimal contest everv man who dared to
in omioMtion to the festering eorrunt 1011 '.
that rules in our commanding political cir
cles. The men who have gone to the fi-otit
ami received the wounds of the pretenders
may bow passively to party discipline, but
the tens of thousand", whose earnest and
patriotic wishes tbey reflected, will be likely
to strike a revengeful blow that will give
to aibitrary and venal rules its just retribu
tion." The three most prominent figures
in the Radical farce enacted at the
late Lancastei Convention were John
Cessna, Harry White and William I?.
Mann. The first named of this trium
virate (Cessna) played the patted' tem
porary chairman; the second (White)
that of lK'rmanent President, and the
third (Mann) nominated Hartranft,
preceding it with a high sounding,
gushing eulogium. This Irio of Rad
ical Pennsylvania statesmen posess
ninny things in common. They are a
set of about as completely played out
politicians as hang on the "ragged
edges" of radicalism in this or any
other Slate. Cessna had become so
odious to his parte that I 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 majority
against him would have been at least
one t!ion.'ind greater than the 1,107
which overwhelmed so respectable a
gentleman as S. S. Rlair. The irre
pressible, ofiice-seekiiig White made a
district 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 ag.iinst him
of MS, although the Republican can
didate for Lieutenant (Jovernor
ceived a majority of S57 in the same
district. William R. Mann, who is the
head and front of the Philadelphia ring
and whose name has been identified j
for the last ten years with all the
shameless frauds on the ballot-box in j
that city, was ignominiously defeated
for the ollke of District Attorney last !
November, while at the same election I
the Republican State ticket had air a
jority of 1 2,00:?. These men thus po
litically crucified by their own people,
who know them !est, were all brought
to the front at Lancaster ly the lead
ers of a decaying party to do the fmr-v
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woik of the convention. It was a I
most uii'iaMpv omen and bodes certain
disaster and defeat. "Wheu shall we
three meet again?'
(I rant has felt the blow .timed at
him by the Lancaster Convention, and
has inrtialhj unloaded his third term
pretensions. loan evasive and self-
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laudatory letter addressed to Harry j
White, the distinguished President of i
the Convention, he savs he is not, and
never has been a candidate for a third
term, and that he "would not accept a
nomination if it were tendered, unless
it should eoh' (tul -r toieh fireum,fan-
ees as to make it an tmpC rati re duty
circumstances not likely to arise." If
(trant has never cherished any aspira
tions for a third term, then some of the
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ieit.1111; ieiiioiiean pajK-r.s throughout i
the country have done some mot 1
egregious lying, and especially his I
jierson.il 4, W.,1..U. eMu". ,
lv that Christian statesman, James
naiian. 1 1 is seeming disclaimer ear-
lied with it a mental reservation do. '
pending for its exercise or. "an imoer
ativo dnfv of nliii 1, 1 ' 1 ir r
3tnc ili'tv, ot which he himself of 1
"J -e juuge. in addition i
to this, he strikes back at the conven- !
tion when he tells it that "the neoole '
cannot le restricted 111 the r c hoice b" !
resolution further limn i, "
lOsolutio i, lnrther than they arc now ;
restricted as to age, nativity, etc" i
This letter will r.ot stop the agitation I
of the third term question, nor was it ,
nonesiiy intended that it should. All
its pietenes( therefore, only confirm
the belief that its author is as muc h a
candidate now as he notoriously has
been during the last twelve months.
The Indians, it is said, have agreed
to a cepi $2o.000 from the Govern
ment for a portion of their lands in
Nebraska, but still decline to di
of the Black IIiIU and remove to the
Indian Territory.
A Terrible Calamity.
BURNIJ-G Cf a French catholic church
SEVENTY-SIX I.IVKS LOST AND A
LARGE SVMEElt INJURED.
A terrible disaster occurred last Thursday
n-gl.t in the burning of the French Catjio
lie church at South llolyoke, Mass., during:
the evening services, involving the loss ot
sixty-six men, women and children. Ihe
exercises had nearly closed, and a hymn
was being sung, when the draperies on the
altar caught tire from a candle, and the
wall being low and the flames streaming
nik Iltft lull 1.111117 WilS Stl JI1 lilt-
in the body of the church bt on
tho stairway leading
man beings we.e packed n a j
struggling to escape. As the t . m n uishcd
rowarus uiem ...a..r rr - - -
rn.-t.i- tramoled to death. The
i i i .1. .;.!... .i the lmilililif.
gauery sKir.eo own. r" T
.. in, ,,l7 inio piitianoe lroni ine innii-.
! The -cene was f-aifnl in 'he eMieme dur
j iiiT the lillle while it lasted. I'.esides the
' Mvty-six dead, theio arc enough to carry
'the total loss of life up to seenty-hve.
! The priest's house which joins the ehuich
! 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 ami pastor's house
were totally destroyed. The priest's exer
' tions to keep order were fruitless. 1 ho
screams of the living and the moans 01 ine
dving made a deafening tumult above tho
oidcrs of the pastor, who worked most
heroically and was personally instrumental
in saving many lives. One family of four
were in the church and all were 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
ly fill V floOi rfMiiaininiT on their bones. The
Sisters of Mercy from the convent were
soon on hand, caring for the wounded,
wiiii me iiriesis 110 tun" sciyhts .-i
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ding. The mother of rather imtnsne
was among those terribly burned. The
huge wooden tenement block of James
Prew, near the burned church, was thrown
open for the reception of the dead and
wounded, aud several deaths occurred in
this biiildintr during the night. Several
! weie also taken to
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ine ,ew ioik nuns
uoaiuing 11011st
Peter Monet t, to whose store the dead
bodies were aftei wards taken, was in the
body of the church with three children
when the fire caught, lie 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 usele ho then
tried to save some of the furniture, but
was quickly diiveu away. He aud his
children were all saved. One gill escaed
from the gallery by j. imping on the back of
a man, who carried her out.
LATER r.VKTIC L I.AItS.
SritixoKiKi.n, May 28. The bodies of
li Pt y iersoiis burned to drath at llolyoke,
last night, have been identilied, in addition
to those of fifteen or twenty who were at
once removed to their homes by their
friends. Nearly seventy have died, and
some forty more are more or less burned,
or otherwise injured.
The hero of the disaster was.Tohn Lynch,
a brave fireman, who was first to respond
to the alarm. lie describes tho scene
when he reached the burning church as ap
palling. People weie wedged tight and al
most immovable in the doorways, making
a douse mass of humanity from six to eight
feet in height, none of them being able to
stand npiight from the ten idle 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
God's sake come and help us !'' and began
pulling out bodies. A moment later and a
well diiected hydrant, stream fioni Mt.
llolyoke hose struck t he brave rescuers and
undoubtedly saved their lives, while upon
and over them a sheet of fire rolled like a
wave, streaming far out into the open air.
Hundreds of men went, to the wreck as
soon as opportunity offered to search for
the bodies, and a police force was organized
to keep back the large crowd which liad
grttheied. The greater number of bodies
were found in the fatal entry way, burned,
some of them, to a crisp. The body of one
woman was found in the seat she had tic.
cupied. Her clothing was entirely burned
oft. A woman, weighing ISO pounds, wa.
dragged screaming from the mass. SI
was carried a short distance from t
church and placed on the grass, while
flesh actually peeled oil her back, and
moment she fell over dead.
The scenes last night and to-day i
school house basement where ttie
were cau ien, were huartiendiug in
tieme. In some instances tho
were distorted as though extreni
had been suffered before oeath. L
looked calm as though smothered ; aTrweie
blackened with smoke aud some were
burned beyond possibility of identification,
nothing remaining but the trunks.
1 he church society was established about
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been the only pastor. The parish included
seven years ago, aud Father Dufiesne had
all the Fruch Catholics of the city, whose
number is estimated at from 2, 000 to 2,i)0
persons. The church was erected in 1870,
entirely of pine, and wasalont one hundred
feot by sixty, two stories, with galleiies on
the sides aud north end. about tweiOv-fivf,
I feet wide. There were two doors in tho
j north end, nd a vestibule, from w hich two
I doors opened into the lody of the church.
" ..j,..vu iniir 1110 vesuouie.
At the rear end was anothei door, by which
a few. persons escaped death upon the
1 lie galleries opened into the vestibule.
breaking out of the flames.
Louis Dcsjaidin, fifty-four years old.
whose wife and daughter were both bunetd
to death, became insane to-day from grief,
and cried continually, "O. niv Julie mv
I Julie!" Some weie taken out alive who
I were under others who were dead, and
! owed to this fact their own salvation.
I One of the most protracted cases of suffer-
I ing was that ot .Mary
llesi iKliii. who
burned tast all reeoo-mt ion nn.l Klii..l ........
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,mw 'ounu ner way to a lull north of tb
0,",,'cl, an:' wandered around there about
"?nXyt ,n.imu1es bvf,,,e 8,,e ws found and
ZiZu
ed fifteen hours in fearful agony. 1 jie
sa' Ia,e 01 Mcuiner and her lover wa
as
a touching event f the the. She
was or-
K f"r l,e evei,ln8 m the absence of the
regular one, and was cut off from escape
when the church was burned. Her lover
escaped, but finding that she
within, returned to rescue he.-.
Was still
was over-
coms witu lLe llames and perished with
-ri ,
f he latest revtsed figures concerning the
losses by the llolyoke disaster give the
dead at 71, fatally burned 22, otherwise
burned and wounded 27. Of the 71 dead
55 a,e ft,mak"9 and 16 males.
A rather singular coincidence occurred
recently at Turkey City, Clarion county.
During a protnicted meeting, conducted
by Rev. E. It. Knapp, of the M. E. chinch,
two men, tine named Potter, and the other
Baker, went forward as inquirers nt the
same time, exjiei ieneed religion at the
same tim?, and connected themselves with
the church at the same time. Recently
both took sick and died the sme day,
within an hour of each other. They were
both buried at ine time, the funeral ser
vices being conducted at the church for
Voth together.
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80MEINCIDK5TS0FTHEFIRE THE Bt'RtAL
OF THK VICTIMS.
There is but little to add to tbe mourn
ful story of the llolyoke church disaster.
Many w ho were suppostd 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 tine flimsy wooden
structure destroyed. An unfoitunate inci
dent happened, when, after three quarters
of an hour's woik thirty-four bodies bad
been placed upon the dais. The 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. Thechurch had meant iuie become
packed with people, relatives aud friends
of the deceased, whi piessecl about the
dais watching the movements of the work
men on and around it. aud when the titu
lars 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. Rut they weie spared this fresh
torture, for the dais was soon repaired and
made more secure. One lady gave a heart
rending scream aud was carried out in a
fainting fit. The ceremony of "Adicux,
or absolution to tho dead," was conducted
by Fathers Dufrisne, Pi imeau and (Jagnier,
and consisted of a final sprinkling of the
Collins with holy water while the choir
chanted prayers for the dead. The funer
al procession was over a mile in length, a
hundred aud thiity-two vehicles, besides
several societies 011 foot, following the re
mains of tho victims to the grave.
IXCIDKMS OF THK FIKK.
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,
and blind and burning he was pulled out
nnd will recover, but the woman was burn
ed to a crisp ami was recognized at the
Morgue on Friday morning only by a ring
on her linger. Several ladies, not burned,
were made seiiously 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 hitter's
lover escaped, but finding that she was
yet in the church turned back to save her
ami both died in the flames. She fainted
at the commencement of the panic, ami
was aftei ward found suffocated by the
smoke, but very little burned ordisfigured.
One man in the gallery saved his wife and
four children by bis wonderful presence of
mind. When the panic commenced he
commanded them to stand perfectly still.
Then going to the window he dropped
them out one 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
friends to put him into a window. They
hesitated, and he said if they did not do
so he should go in through the burning
doorway. They finally hcljied him in, and
he was able to save two or three persons.
Joseph Chattelle, v ho perished in attempt
rig to save his mother, leaves a wife and
four little children. Mrs. Marie Ilobeits,
married but a week ago last Sunday, was
burned to death, while her husband, who
was seated in another part of the church,
wa 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. Lepienx, a French Canadian, who
but recently arrived in this country. He
saw his wife surrounded by the flumes, and
taking oil" his overcoat, rushed toheries
cue, and caught her in his at ms, but some
how or other his strength abandoned him,
and he could not. retrace his steps. Uoth
wife and husband, held in each other's
embrace, met with the
deaths. Mr. Hoiilan'rgr.
Amidst
TTTble confusion inside when help
first, arrived a man named Gates saw a lit
tle girl who had been nearly extricated
from the mass of writhing limbs and bod
ies which were piled inside the door ; he
reached over and drcv out the child almost
unhurt.
The charred remains of some of the vic
tims of the terrible 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 w Inch were left at way
stations.
The Harrisburg I'.itriot states the case
of the .Eastern miners as follows:
Wo will state it in a few words. The
strike forced upon the miners was brought
altont by the refusal of the various corpo
rations, or "operators," as they choose to
call themselves, to continue "tho basis"
agreed upon for some time past, and which
woiked happily all round, for operators
weie making money, miners were fairly
paid, and consumers were getting coal at
reasonable rates. The strike has thrown
these men out of woik for three or four
months, and the object of the parlies who
forced the stoppage of labor being accom
plished, they invite the men to lesume
mining at the old. rates. The miners say,
"Xo, gentlemen ; we have lost through
your doings a third or more of a year. To
accept your term now would be in effect to
admit, you are right, and to lose in annual
earnings all you eon tend 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
ners, theonus of all this trouble rests upon
the shoulders of the wealthy parlies who
originated the trouble. In fat it is a war
between corporate power on the one side
and tbe 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 ihe pocket of the
oeratorB that should be touched in the
fi-jht, being their only vulnerable spot, and
not that of the miner and the consumer.
S.nys Edmund Burke ; "If It be on? of the
objects to secure tho weak from beinw
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
4 he tyranny of the wealthy? Certairly not
by adding move and systematic means of
oppression."
V boy who is thought to look like Char
ley Boss has beeu fouud. at Perryville, 'a.
most terrible of j
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New? etui Political Items.
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Two men were burned alive by a tire ; cnaorsing uram ... . '""J
on Seventh avenue, New York, ou Friday j be reads that card he will regret
. . , . ' j ness iu writing to Harry White, aiul will
'tU is estimated that Paul Royton, in ; no doubt come to the conclusion that the
crossin- the tides sud currents of the interests of the noble : army of ,MJst.nasters
Channel paddled thirty-four miles. I make it his imperative duty to accTt
Further details of the earthquakes in third nomination.
Asia Minor show that several villages were -James Smith, an unfortuna e coloied
destroyed and 2,000 persons lot their lives. ! cadet, who after having three trials was
-The house of Mr. Van Meer. near , dipped from his class at West Point, has
Maxwell, Out., was destroyed by tiro on been made inspector of m, ht.a '
Saturday uiuhtlast. Three of his children Carolina, with the rank of 1 nga. . cr .c n
perishecfiu the flames. , " Ural. So he has got his shouh cr-s tr.
, -Mrs. John Palmer, wife of a Steuben- after all, etn if be did not earn them
ville printer, has given birth to five children Smith is lucky. He would liat o had to
inside of sixteen months which is a pretty j stay in the army a good while to become
hard run 011 John's "small cap" case. General Smith. .
I A living tree toad was leccntly found Mis. Elizabeth Lngclker, of Jackson
1 embedded in a gigantic sycamore tree, ; county, Iowa, could hardly get along it
! near Ixington, Kentucky... It is supposed 1 the old man should fall into t he hands of
' to have been there for over 300 years ! - 'the crusaders and swear ofl. She recovered
r- r : .... ..- .r r.iiii- I. mwlrd dollars of one barkeeper anil
1 i . 1 1 f 1 1 ' t: 1 1 1 1 M" 1 - 11 1 v 1 - naou f v 1 1 .
' Snmei ville. Mass.. was fatallv slabbed Sun
- - -rt .. ... ..
I day night while intoxii .at d. His wife 1ms
leeii arrested, charged with the deed.
Mrs. Fowle, about forty years
old,
rowed to Rath, Maine, from West port, .
! AlaoiP. in a skifT. a distance of nine miles. I
!...'. . . , , ,
' did lier shopping and roweu uacK, arriving
i in season for dinner.
Osceola, the great Pennsylvania him-
fseourcred
with the extensive fires of that region
within the last two weeks, shipped last year
fifty million feet of lumber.
Governor Jacobs, of Wesi Virginia,
has issued a proclamation declaring that
the seat of government of that, State has
been removed from Chariest-own, and that
it is now located in Wheeling
On of tlm modest little farming
patches in Illinois is laid out i.i 19,000
acres of corn, 2,500 acres of flax, 1.000
acres of oats, and enoucrh grass to produce
auniit niit iiioiiiiim imm 01 iirt.v.
The largest, field of pineapples in the
world is probably one in the Eastern Dis- i
trict of New Providence, in the l'ahamas.
From ono spot can bo seen at a single ;
glance, 1,200,000 pineapples crowing. - j
Four children, one an infant, of S. M. i
.1 . , . . 1 . . .1 4 . . r 1 . -
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 !?:00
, the ofher day, and when explaining ihe.
: matter to his children he said he hated to
I il. ,.1.1 1..,, c.JrOAO .. ..t..'t
laying around loose like it used to was."
On l riday, a nail factory near n heel-
inc. W. V.. T.ibbv's elevator at R rookie v.
! Towa, St. Luke's church, sixty-two houses
i and shops in Portland, and a large furniture
establishment in W orcester, Massachusetts,
were destroyed by lire.
Grant voted the Democratic ticket
until he was elected President. Hartranfi's
j first Republican vote was for himself, and
now comes Uawle, another renegade Demo- apple branch is over two years oln, as it
crat. No wonder M'Clnre wanted one Re- ; has already bloomed two yeai-s. The
pub'.ican on the ticket. flower ran be best seen from the second
Catholic Italy is ahead of all other ' story of the house. Health Commissioner
nations in the matter of female education. Miller says it is one of the greatest curiosi
Schools for girls there ?.re numerous, and ties he has ever seen.
they are under the care of women snjer- j A trial of skill between t wo cntortion-
j visors, bo visit them at stated tunes and
. receive their pay from the State.
The most destructive fire that has ever
i occurred in Spiingfield, Mass., broke out
! 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon aud dest royed
J nearly forty buildings, including a number
j of business blocks, and causing a total loss
J of at least a quarter of a million dollars.
f The funeral of 4-S of the victims of tbe
! Ilohoke disaster took place fr m the ba e-
I meiit of the new Catholic church at Holy-
oke, on Saturday. The services were con-
I ducted by Fathers Primeau and (Jagnier,
j and a procession more than a mile in length
, followed the coffins.
An expedition to the Black Hills, un-
ner ine lean 01 a m in iiameu tioraon, nas
been captured by Colonel Mills' command.
All the outfit of the party, except provis
ions enough to last until they get back to
Fort Randall, was dest royed. Gordon is a
prisoner, on the way back to Cheyenne.
-It is reported 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 shuttling into her house one morning
with nothing on but necklaces, whereupon
Anna's enthusiasm in the cause all melted
away.
Iu the suit of Fanning against the
Bev. Mr. McGlew, a Catholic clergyman of
Loston, who, it A-as charged by the plain-
tiff, slandered him before his contrretyation
! for being married before a magistrate, the
jury failed to agree on a verdict. They ; ecclesiastics or other antMJismarckeis, en
stood 10 for the plaintiff and 2 for the do- I trap t horn, if he could, into some incautious
fent'ant. , expressions, and then threaten to betray
Two steamers and two barges were j them if they would not give him money,
burned at Pittsburgh on Thursday, the This is the scheme that was tried 011
Mattie Elrert, valued at $20,000, and the , Father Bekx. who. however, detected it at.
1
i Juniata, worth $:, 000 ; the barges with
, their cargoes were valm.d at $15,00). The
f Ebert had on board 400 tons of freight.
in-iu Mei.c iiiaiiiauees iu cover 0110 111 u
of the 1 iss.
1 John Kennan, aged fifty five, residing
1 in Cleveland, murdered his mot her-in law,
, Mrs. Bridget Genan, aged eighty, on Sun-
j day morning, cutting, her head open with
i an axe. The murderer thenfgave himself
up. lie pleads insanity, and says there
has been no trouble between tbe deceased
and himself.
The Lev::nt Herald says a series of
terrible earthquake shocks occurred at the
begiuningof May in the province of Brousa,
Asia .Minor. Mx hundred houses were de
st roved.
'";: o in rereiveu snow
! that 1GI lives have been lost and 187 per
sons were injured. The total number of
j killed is still unknown.
i About midnight on Friday Adam
1 Sting and his wife, who were aged respec- j
tively about eighty, were burned to death
; in their house at Last Hamburg, N. Y.
The cause of the fire is unknown. Tho
house was situated at some distance from
neighboring buildings, and was consumed
; before assistance could be rendered.
: iackmoii, ine lioston swindler, was
very imparl tialln his frauds, He cheated
.. ,.i...ers estate, ronoea nis orotners ot
la.iiuey nan, oeuauoeu ms uncies, and
i n,ade as ,,,t,,e of stealing from his own
kith and kin as from those alien to him by
i , , j He is the most adroit and accom-
i""" toouei iue ceuimy uas yet pro-
dnced.
Hoy ton has at last succeeded in mak-
, tng t he voyage of tne English Channel in I the teacher, there does not seem to be any
los hfo saving suit. This was not needed thing done by the committee or anybody
to illustrate "s excellent qualities, but was i else toward aiding her in her difficulty
; done to show that ho could do it. He is Z . .
'possessed of indomitable Yankee pluck, I Sisteiu.y Affection. A Boston letter
and so determined not merely to show that j to an Eastern newspapers relates that upon
he could five 111 the waf r many hours, ono of the fashionable South End sou ires
but that a voyage of fifty miles was an of that city there has lived in a fo.S-MorJ
easy matter. brick house, until very lately, a womaii
mW- "f P ' T" aVh, !Tat W'N 'or her servant ber ow, sis!
man of I, ai minis show, died at. her rKi. 1 Ur Ti. if .
deuce in East Baltimore , on Friday, aged ! as a meida, "md thm g , 'ZS'
nr,!,,ne;i ,Iprwe,tVRr,,Veh.nnd;e',:,,er disband, bavin, no children, dine
and eighty-three pounds, height six feet alone when there was no company in tho
evIVvC 'eS, a". 8IH, arm,'d U,.e t!e. they never permitted ihe sister to ,
seventy-two mches. She was bom in Lick- ! sit with them. Not only this, but the sis
.. g county, Ohio. Her maiden name was ter-servant was kept at work from earh '
Hannah Jane Duck. , ti ,nt Rnd thero SIIOS(lcI, tlli
stettei has just oaked a cake which mea- tion duo from one so neatly related to her
rare n.uo feet five uichcs in circumference, i Finally, the woman moved out of tow n !
and weigh. V,0 pounds. It is ornamented i and the sister determined to fi d an easier
heVlha'f a6tPieCe ciPSCd,0?Mcin' i,; p,acR' Accordingly she engd to R to
Hie shape of a tower, decorated with the a summer icsort as a pastry-cook in a fo,
national colors Tim cake has been baked : ionable boarding hou.se. 5my it 1." s trtnt
Pe ,din ' y "Ch W1" fe ive". In aid of the !red tl,At ' and f , n er mist
iiaiMisome img It will bo divided into not only at this very resort but lo tK
400 slices and disposed of at 23 cents per Jh where Iter mSVmJ to fuVuilh
, the daily i-U;b and puddings.
I Fiftv-fivo of the leading postmasters
l of Ohio "came, out in a card on Saturday
, - ,1 . r - - Tl.:..,l TV -.- Wlmn
; - -' - - - -
one thousand - one bund: ed duV.ars o
another forcliiua: him whUk.v. be ot'.ht
to lock him up uutil lit eti era.-.y diy and
turn him hose 011 the next victim. tuch
a man is a treasure to a poor family.
The walnut tree is proverbially long
1: 1 n ovtra.irilinarv llltnilCe IS
. n-u, j -
I noted at Ronvilliers, a village at the f ot of
the audois Jura. An old wamuc nee,
; whose ace is estimated at between three
' and four hundred years, is there still in a
llomishin? condition. Its trunk measures
over twenty feet in circumference, and
notwithstanding its great age it produced
last year over fifty bushels of walnuts.
Uicat men may change their minds.
("Jeneral Sherman wrote to the editor of the
Memphis Apvertl some years ago that he
t did not want his biography to appear until
j after ho was dead. General dra-nt during
j his first term as President said he did not
I want a second. And now Appletonsate try-
ing to buy Sherman's autobiography from
him for $00,000, and Grant estimates that
nothing short of a constitutional amend
ment can interpose letwecn him nnd a
third term with any. certainty of efficacy.
A gentleman residing at Gleu Mills,
Delaware county, is tLe owner of a dog of
immensely large proportions, his height
I being 32 inches, weight ISO pounds, and
age 4J years. He was bred 111 termaiiy,
and is a comjound of the St. Rernard and
bloodhound species, but apjicars to have
partaken more of the qualities of the for
mer, as his disposition is of a remarkably
docile and gentle nature. His coloring is
! rather of a yellow cat, and his whole make
up ?s quite well proportioned,
: On the premises of Mr. X. F. Reehtel.
Perkiomen avenue and Franklin street,
says the Heading Kfjlc. is to bo seen one
of the most remaikab'e curiosities ever
; heard of of the kind. A large crab apple
1 tree is growing in the yard, and on the top
. of the trees is blooming a pure white lose.
! The rose stein which is growing fr.mi the
ists llham Gaylonl and a Japanese
j named Tomv occtired in St. Louis. The
wager was 4 1,00(1, and the decision was to
be based upon "grace, skill and dilficnlt
work." Tomv stood on a high acd unstable
j pile of tubs, slowly bent backw.ud until
j the top of his head touched the level of his
, feet, and arose again to an erect posture
! w ithout losing his balance. Gaylord bent
' his Inxiy backward in a hoop until his feet
; were caught under his chin, and in that
j posture trotted around on his bauds. The
stal e va; awarded to Oajlord.
j The Portland (Me.) IW tells ihe
j story of a young lady of that city who be-
' came acquainted with a Boston drummer
on the cars, allowed mm to visit Her, and
finally conscitc 1 to be his wife. She af
terward reented of her hasty promise ami
wrote him to release hei, but he wouldn't.
She received a letter from a Boston law-
j yer, Tuesday, stating that her was-to-be
husband bad retained him as counsel, and
that unlets the marriage took place at the
:me set a suit will be commenced against
her for breach of promie. As the young
lady is worth a handsome property the re
sult is anxiously looked for.
The latest plot to assassinate Bismarck,
says the Phila. Tiine turns out, like some
of the others, to have been part of a black-
j mailing scheme. The man who was ar-
rested is found to have had no accomplices,
, and 110 intention of carrvinrr i.t whnr
1 proposed : his ilan was simply to talk with
! once, and handed the blackmailer over to
! the police, and we have no doubt that a
' good many others of these awful plots are
i aooui equally suirstantini.
Tlie litthof M:iv. 17S0. was distinriiih.
; ed by the phenomenon of a remarkable
j darkness all over the Northern States, and
J is often referred to as "the dai k day." At
that time the legislature of Connecticut
was in session at Hartford. A very general
opinion prevailed that the day of judgment
j was at baud. The house of representatives
adjourwed. A proposal to adjourn the
j council was under consultation. When
j the opinion of Colonel Davenport was
a-ketl, ho answered : "lam against an
- adjoin nment. The day of judgment is
1 euner anproacnuif or it is not.
11 it is
not, there is no cause for adjournment.
11 it is, 1 c noose to 00 lound doing my
duty. I wish, therefore, that candles may
be brongh."
In the Greenville (Conn. School dist net,
j some weeks ago, one of tho female teach-'
1 era inflicted what has proved to bo a terrible
J punishment ou a little boy not yet five
years cdd. It seems he was detected in
I spitting on his slate, aud the teacher shut
j him up in a room, locking him in When
t he school was dismissed for dinner he wi
; forgotten. The child's mother, a ihh
poor
widow, compiled to woik in the mill to
support the ramily, missed the child and
! on inquiry found him locked up and' iu a
j state of iirbecility. Ho is still under the
physician's care, with some hope of his
ultimate recovery. The mother, of course
is obliged t 1 give up work to watch over
her child, nnil hormul o, ,i.r.l.. r
indication
the strike of the coal miner is nV
iu--to an end. I'n ihn ru..-
in
w here there was
as lately cient
peace and good order a -ain
peaco rtiio oioei aain " '
sottied. Evidently the iniu,-,-, ;
not a had set of men, sinci? e ai.T
at the late great fire at Om-o.,1,, vl'-'
worked like heroes to s,tc the tn!, !"
the mines and elsewhere fi,,, , , " i
In this icgion a very jnli-i..,ls rV,.!
leen pursued by tin. auih-intH. j, ,
ing onler. The sheiill li, (
and sensibly, and ha, by tli. ,', I
civil power in his C 'liti..), i...v!u i
is-ace far better and with lS, u "
suits than if he had weakly .' f
demand of the mine ownei i',. 1,
call on the governor for military a, '
It is well uinleistttol that lie !,'
throughout imder the Hchkc (.f '
Wallace, to whom the clii.f end" f
peaceful restoiafion of oiflei ?n t'p C
iiiost be given. It w;1v v.t'.l f .' ! t
that, tl Jicn-r had a::
with co.t'ncs and connvi J
les- well that tbe slici i'i n n. ,'";
, of recognizing and fo!l'win- ti. - t
vice that was givcu him. y, . ?
(Mint'nrsr.
i
Boyton's Uivai.s. OiiTiu v', t
yvcek, a uumlM-rof New Y i k bijli-"' i
and officers of life inni mn. c ,T
accompanied Captain . I. -,.it. '
the bay to t?st the etlie.tey i.f , ...
saving suit. Tho inveiitor. nv .
1 jianioiis. Miss Gayner, Mi-. , . i
her sister, a gill el.-eii m-h ,, .
John St ration, re:n;iiiicl in th- w . '
an hour without Ix-in tM,j:., ,,r
and the experinieni t.n',M.. :
sratcd the utility of the i:iv. i.
suit i in three pn t; e e li .,f .
us-d aliiue, will pn-venl a 1 !. n f,.,.,
ing in water. The part nf t'.i,. v
put on is of India ruhln-r, a'i.1 .r-(l
person completely, leavii'g onlv :jl :
and hands exsd. A wrii t .,( J
rfuiids is attached to e;icii auk;.
tbe body eieet. A j.i( 1: t f.-.t.'.
tu'cs each c.ipabh; of keeping ,.
alloar. is fastened arou ihI tii U
straps over the sliouhh-r-. A i.;;;.,". ..
tachttl to Hie shoulders, wliieh.
rlated. w ill s11pp.1I the 1h;;k1. if t,
flesiies to rest by laying on l.s ;.
buoy w hich can !e at t tr)i,- l t . :!i .
a rope, contains a tl i;. tl i-t rl -cts,
besides having ro..n f r p r
-
I GltKAT FoiiKsT Fllti. F.i;m -
have ngain broken out in the ri-ii ;,
Delaware and Sullivan coiiuIr-n ..'. '
tloing much damage. f
, The village of i'.e'hol, Sullivan r '
was suiT'iuniled by tire two .1 1. a. :
; only saved after a hard lilit.
j A prominent and weahliy fiiiiu-. r
Win. v'oibiu, f Delaw .ire c ni.itv. T.i
rounded by fire while tililin t:ir
in his wot wis and burned . .c'n.
titber "lien, similarly eng:igcil. wt-.-burned,
and narrowly ecajpeJ ;:L.
lives. ,
j Nrai Manaynnk Yallf-y. Sniih-.: :'
ty. a fiie was accidentally -i.tiiLi
a few hours a thousavl a:':es of v.
timber, a mill, and tln.-e !i i;il '-.
and feet of lumWr weie (leti 'vi-.i. ;
In the towns of FalNbn: ,r:d Mi
tlie conflagrations nie so u- ; e
lies have been obliged to l!v f: r.
bouses to save their lives, Iraviv; V
household goods, stick. etc., V. .
t royed.
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r;.Mol K-et. hilliinin. Sort Throat 1"
Brnirt ml H otnels ol every tiat uro m: r.;
mil. I'll- mnurkahle cures tlii? r--iu-Tif'-d
c!nsr it a in- ol tie tun! .w.-'
v:iln:ille r'tiieli-i ever ilicvrr. ! '
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the irrave : jriv-n lio:iltli nml -tr
tlfetiic-fl Ix'vonil tli rrttr'h ol a'.l
nnl turni-ff the p:ith of n III let ii .ti t"
tn s in Ihe lIi-sin-r! witliin :r
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cattf all iiiftisi-"! ol t he ki iiu .' : r -nary
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