THE C&SSBBU. FBI .n EDENSSURC, PA., Friday Morning - - Sept. 3, 1875. ' ' " . ... . , " . Democratic State Convention. - . - ; At a meeting "of the. In-moeratie State Cmmitr.-e, held in Harrisburg, March 4li, ; not fall short, if it does not surpass, induction to wire-pullers and political trick l7r.. tiw following resolution w:w n,t..Pt,l : ; ;ltlurt aml chalac-ter most of tlie ! titers) are going to decide the contest this lt.-.hyi. rhat the r.rxt li-tnuonif ic stte K. . no, whi,h of lite vetrsi Fall. When business is brisk, wages good, 'n -rii inn. lor the; purpose ii nfiiniii:itiiif Maie COIi I'llllOIlS W IIICII Ol I.UC t-'" .,w,i,lvil,oiur(.L. "Hieli'I:,t (it (liivcrn'ir nml Seal'- ' ren surer. the SMi day of SBeTKM iiku, I.-T.5, nt noon, The conrf iition will c-onsiNt of the usual ' number of d.-Ie.-s vi-,. : . d.-lj-eat. f..r ! ki !i iiK'iiilxT ot the Senate mm House o: ltrnres. i.tativ.-n. i loirs Milm'.k, Chairman. WiTiioi'T goiiur into details, we are enabled to state from authentic infor mation that Samuel J. Randall's self- confident predictions of his election to the Speakership of the next national House of Representatives arc likely to come to grief, and, like Dead Sea fruit, turn to ashes on his lips. For well known reasons, heretofore stated by us, wenevercould believe that he stood tiie ghost of a chance. We are now well satisfied that the conduct of the war on his part will not come up to the high-sounding tone of the manifesto. In slang phrase, "That goose is cook e 1!" ' The I'lula. Tim' deems it worthy of note that the Cincinnati Republican Convention, which met on Wednesday, tabled a resolution demanding tin ro" peal ol the Ulno t.negari law. u lien hi,rh.tonC(i Sta,c o-overnment, and thev it is consi.leied that the party leaders f nut so much intcrested in the nom hae decide.! to conduct the canvass in ; innUoI, of anv two particular men for Ohio solely on the religious issue, tiie ; (Jovprnor an; state Trensurcr as they hyiHcnsy of their Pos,tion is made Lre that the candidates will fiillr meet painfully apparent by the ri f..sf,l tiK.ir oxpectations in that respect after the Cincinnati Convention to condemn j t( , 1(0rn pipeted tlie liueiran act. 1 lie lesolution iro- dnced a profound consternation in the convention, and bold protests came up nt once against its passage, when it t . - I I 1 I I ' A. I 1 ' was uuioi uv geue.ai consent. ,w.u . vet t it- (tlie.o'aii law is the whole stock ' s r - - - in trade of those who would degrade religion bv plunging it into a desperate political contest. It simply provides i that any persons in an Ohio charitable institution, needing religious ministra tions, :nay be attended by a minister of tliL-ir faith, if desired this and nothing more. It is not surprising that a convention refused to demand its repeal, but it is surprising that the same party clamors against a law be fore the people that they dare not manfully eendemn where a record must be made. It is onlv five weeks from next Tuesday until the Ohio election, and i yet the Southern outrage mill, usually bo busy just before an election in a .Northern ."Statu in grinding out homi cides ui' negroes an I ku kluxing of loyal white men, is idle, and its former bloody work, like Othello's occupation, is gone. If (Jeorge II. Williams was now (rant's Attorney l!eneral,as,thank Heaven! he is not, it would be doinir a ilouridiing business and would fur nish its stereot3 ped tales of butchery and horror, at the bare recital of which the northern mind would grow sick. Loiiisiami, under the Congressional compromise of last winter, w hich the conservatives accvpleo for the sake of peaoo, is quiet and orderly ; Arkansas ! having escaped from the threatened grip of Grant, and now being under I lemoernt.ic rule, is arl vaneim to urns. peritv with rapid strides ; the davs of 1 - 1 - the carpet-b:igger have passed away in ( Alabama and under the administration i if her new Governor i I Iouston l nencp and order nrev.iil. and as soon ns tho ! Democrats in Mississiimi. aided bv the intelligent but deceived ejlored voters, can giv Gov. Ames, the son-in-law of : Ren. Duller, "a good send oil"' through j the ballot-box, there will be no more ! bloody riots inaugurated in Vicksburg, j in that State, for political purposes. Altogether the futuie of the South is f 11 7 - bright aud promising for both the white and the black man, and the ra pacity of its oflicial thieves and rob bers will soon be a thing of the past. At the close of the A uditor General's report for the vear 1S74, under the head "Miseelhiieous," will be found the following item of expenditure Win. 15. Mann, District Attorney of Phila delphia, for examining llie hooks and ac enun'n of foreign insurance oinp.inie.", in Philadelphia, and reporting thft saint; to tho Auditor General .S'.,2t.4- W e do not know how many insurance companies there are in I hd- 1 1 ndelphm, but it may be safely assumed ' that their number is not very larjre. And yet this king of the Philadelphia ring, the notorious Rill .Maun, was paid out of the treasury last year over nine lhtj"iiitl dollars for examining their lMoks and accounts a sum, which is more thin one-lfiirJ what the an iin d salary of the President was before Grant mid the salary grabbers in Con gress increased it two fold. We do not suppose that "sweet Will am' spent a invat deal of time in making the examination certainly not one tenth enough to justify such enormous pay. The business has proven a rich !iiccr for such an enterprising explorer as Mann, for in IH(7, according to the General to send in a statement showing what services M inn had rendered for this $10,000, but Mann's ring friends in the Houe promptly votird it down. The whole thing is a shameless fraud arid is one of the innumerable wa3's in which the tax-p lycrs are plundered by corrupt radical politicians. Dill Mann is making speeches ami attempting to gull the poople into the support of Hartranft, lMjcanse, as he says, liar-j trauft is a model governor and the i friend of economy at d reform. Was erer impu.lenctf more uubludiing? KtateTreanrer s ivport he was paid . tlie W)UI)tr nn, the district, that the i neighborhood was thoroughly aroused for sinv.lar work 12,111.31, and in Cambria Conferees met nt the Sum , ,oubers wcre caught in a com field, 1 W2.7I During the session ! afternoon and Z ittCd l ItaMlin of isoy Mr. Rrowu, a Democratic p,)ir)tcd, not John II. Fiske, who is a TI " member from Clarion county ollered tnJtJ a,)(, nnflincl,5ng Democrat, but ,,nnd ,l'ICv mV excitement at Shc ,,t ah roniiostnio- the An I toe ..... .. : . nandoah, v ednesdav mornins-. occasioned i - ........... .in in rnrtor n r rilnrinna un it.n mm. I The Erie Convention. "- The Democratic State Convention :i . w. . n- , i i 1 w 11 meet .u jjiie on next inci;ii.f 1 . . . - ..i. ... . i i a very weigutv res nonsioiiuy win rest very weighty responsibility iwn it, ami hc result of its aeiibcra- tions will Imj awaited with intense m- terest. From our-knowledge" of the , , . , n j tlele;.ites w ho w ill compose it, person- ally as well as by reputation, it will . have nreccdea it. As much lsexpeet- . i . . .., Oil ot it, WC tllist that its niCIDMl'S Will fully appreciate the neccessity of a full an,ftilorou rh interchange of views,aml c . , i t lie reasons upon which they are founded, lie to re taking Iinai action on the important business committed to their charge. "Make haste slowly" is a motto "which everv- delegate to the convention ought steadily to keep in view It is an old saying, that in a multitude of counsellors there is wi i dom ; but. like all other general proj : isitions, it has its exceptions. We j have known more than one Democratic State Convention which has brought wreck and disaster to the hopes anil i prospects of the party, by hasty and ; inconsiderate action, merely to gratify 1 the imperious and unreasonable de i mauds of a few of its prominent and ! leading members. Personal consider J ntions"are only entitled to respect when I they are in harmony with the political j fitness of things, and when they w ill ; not endanger a reasonable chance of ! success. What the people now de- msn.I i an honest, economical and Samunl .1. Tilden, (Jovernor of New York, is a living and most notable ex ample of what an honest and coura- ! geous man can do as a reformer, when ,e n th(J worb wUh ft.arlesg -i i i . -n . i courage and an indomitable will. Al ready, at the very commencement of his administration, his bold and vigor ous measures have caused a terrible shaking of dry bones among the thieves and plunderers of that State, who will be made to disgorge their ill-gotten spoils and restore them to the treasury. Have we a Tilden, or a man who nearly approaches to him, in Pennsylvania? If we have, let the Erie convention summon him to the front, and the people will call it blessed and hail him with loud acclaim. They want no counterpart of the good-natured, easy, negative Ilarcranft in the Executive Vhair' nor of. the aflroit -Miniating i Maekev to take charge of the treasury I vaults; but honest, positive men men j who own themseivts'andare not owned by corrupt lings men who see the j right and dare the right pursue. Ve will not of course undertake to forc j shadow who the coming man will be. : Manv names have been mentioned in connection with the nomination, most of them from a feeling of local pride merely and without any ultimate chance of success. There arc, how- 1 ever, several first class names on the list chief amongst which, as wc have heretofore expressed our deliberate conviction, is Cyrus D. Pershing, now President Judge of the Schuylkill dis trict. From a careful study of the whole field, wc believe him to be the strongest candidate named, and that i with h'3 nomination the Democracy of i in., ci.i. -. . iii4i i .i -'"?'' wwmu imown icss on me "7n,r"'-:i mo!st l'iant consmci- ntion than thev would encounter with ! t,lat of any other man. There may be j,,st a possibility that wcare mistaken, i... i. ii... .... i imi, wc con less niai we mic uiicriy un able to see it. We feci that with him wc could certainly win. We will not say, iK'cause we do not lelieve it, that with another we could not do so, pro vided he possesses some of the same elements of strength that Judge Persh ing unquestionably does. It is our own judgment, however, that such a man will be difficult to find. If the members ot the Eric convention will rise to the full responsibility of the occasion, they can make the first Tues day of Novembers political Austerlitz, or they can just as easily curn it into a political Waterloo. KxowiNOthe fact that the Senatorial conferees from this county were in- when it appointed them to vote for John u Fhke as the Senfttorial dde. tc from (1:stri(.t .nimbi i nnd Rlair) to the Erie convention, and be - - lieving, as it had a right to believe, ,' that the conferees would act in good ' fnilh, the Democratic convention of , Rlair county, at its meeting on last Monday, conceded the delegate to Cambria, and deeming it entirely un- j , necessary to elect confetees for that j purpose, left the appointment exclu sively with the conferees from this county. This was right and proer : and threw the entire responsibility of ; the selection on the Cambria Conferees, precisely where it ought to rest. We have only time and space to day (Thursday,) to make the humiliating political guer ilia. In the name of a betrayed and .outraged Democracy, ne hereby regis ter their indignant protest against this high-handed proceeding. To them it is an insult, nt once gross, shameless and unpardonable, and not soon to be forgotten. The true Democracy of this Senatorial district will not be rep resented at Eric, but political bush whackers Will. ----. Nov. Em Slifem of Union County, declines to be a candidate before the Hriu Convention, for State treasurer. announcement lo tun cmni'Mcr rr i swimming ann wadinr tv thi tin.. LAST WORDS. . To less tliau one week from to-day tbe Kn f otiveutiou will nave mer, nounon-. - , . TrMiuBi- candidates-for Governor ana ireasmejt , . , Ann it laid down its platform," and adjourned. This, therefore, is the only opportunity we shall have of addressing ft few last words to the gentlemen who will compose that body, previous to their meeting... j'ht jojile (and we use the w ord not In thn emit of the stump, but in contradis- employment plenty, and not only the neces saries, but many ot the luxuries oi me within the reach of every indnstiious citizen, tho people are absorbed with then private nflairs, and leave public matters to be run by the professional rtIiticians. ' When, however, all this is reversed, as it is at thus time, aud buiues stagnates, aud thousands willing and anxious to work are found strnggling for the necessaries of life, then indeed do the ieople take an active and prominent part, in "the direction of their public affairs. Compelled to econ omize, trying everything and searching everywhere for relief, they scrutinize more closely and rigidly the management: of their public trusts. Such is their present condition, and such the work they are now nnd will be engaged in until election day. Of but little avail then will it bo for stump orators and party organs to proclaim that the State debt has been reduced, when they discover that had the taxes, they have paid been honestly appropriated, it would have been reduced still more that they pay no State taxes, that they are paid by the coijfoiatioiis of tho State, when their support enables corporations to pay both State taxes and large dividends that even if Hartranft and Mnckey have specu lated with and plundered the State funds, their predecessors did the same that sala ries md all the expenses of the government have iucreased because all the expenses of living have also greatly increased, when they know that they are living on far less than they aid a. few. years ago; as well might you attempt to satisfy the hunger of a starving man with promises as to hoodwink the people with snch subterfuges. They need, and must and will have some thing more practical, something that will give them promise of relief and better times. The promises of orators, newspa pers and party platforms will not satisfy them nnless, accompanied with candidates whose reputations will give assurance of their being carried out. Let the platform at Krie bo brief, plain, candid, and confined to State issues. Let it utioqui vocally commit the party to a reduction of salaries and all other expen ses, and to an honest, faithful and economi cal administration of every department of the State Government. - Then see to it that such candidates are nominated as will inspire the )cople with confidence, that if elected, they will carry out the promises in the platforms, and your victory of last will lo insignificant com pared with that of the present year. Our candidate for Governor should be a man of sterling integrity, and known as such throughout the State ; be should be neither an office holder nor one who has been an ollice seeker, for whilst we know men of both classes, who are thor oughly honest, upright and conscientious, and whom we could cordially support for any office, yet the people look upon them as identified with, and as having been in strumental in bringing about, the present state of affairs ; he should be a bold, cour ageous and iust man, not afraid to do right, who would strike down corruption within his own paity as soon ami as ear nestly as within that of his opponents. With a candidate embodying such quali ties p laced in the field against lackey's friend and co-speculator the contest would not. be doubl ful. The candidate for State Treasurer should he a man of like character, and entirely fiec from all corporate connection or bi ll uencc. From what we know of the gentlemen selected to the Eric Convention, we have every confidence that they will fully satisfy publicexpectation and the popular demand, well knowing as they do, that, whilst jHli ticians may set up and run conventions, the people when aroused determine elec tions. . What Caused the Failche. The fail ure of the Bank of California, w hile imme- ite,y c"ca y tlie depositors' run, was uiitouj nit- (imcdnib oi a conniCL uciween two classes of California sjiecnlators, one ot the Bank of California party, headed by Mr. Ralston and Mr. Sharon, and the oth er headed by Messrs. Flood, O'Brien b Ilaydcnfelt. The latter party have estab lished a bank in San Francisco, called the Bank of Navada, with a cash capital of $3,000,000, gold, and the right to increase to $20,000,000. Incidental to this light have been tho mining properties known as the Savage, tho Caledonia, the California, the Ophir and the Consolidated Virginia. Tho three latter are known as the Big Bon anza mines, and the Bank of California partly obtained control of them. In get ting this control the stock of the California was run up from sixty to 8.00, was then multiplied by five, which would make the j highest price $1.G0. It has since decline toiiliy-tinee. j lie ophir stock, while they were getting control, advanced to 7.00, was multiplied by five, making 7.00 represent 1.40 in new stock. It hassince declined to forty-six. The consolidated Virginia, dur ing the process of getting control, advanced from 80 to 7.80. A MEnriiAXT Robbed. On Monday, Patrick Flinn, a merchant of Mt Cai mcl, started to Philadelphia tobuy goods. While on the cars, at Minersvill, he made the acquaintance of a fellow-passenner, who stated that he was also going to Philadel phia. Tho two stopped in Reading, and missing tho regular passenger train, Flian was persuaded by his companion to tako me neigiu train. At Monocacy the new found friend suggested that they had bel- ter alight and walk Into Fottstown. as f l.ou would be discovered riding on the freight train. Upon reaching a point near Doug lassvillo, they were joined by two other men, and one of the three walking close behind Flinn, knocked him down, and the others kicked him until he was almost in sensible. They robbed him of $120 he had on his person, and sprang into a boat and put off for the opposite shore. The boat upset, but they made their way across bv by the shooting of Thomas Sauger, at Le high Colliery. Saucer was insida boss for J. M. Heaton & Co., at Raveu Run Mines, and was shot by five men, all strangers, receiving six bullets and expiring immedi ately. Another man, name unknown, was alos shot. Tho cause of the assassination is said to be that tho miners became dis satisfied with Sanger a year ago, and re fused labor, however, but since then he has received coffin notices, and notice to leave or he would be killed. A later telegram states that two more men have been shot. The California election took nlaco on I Wednesday the 1st inst. The Main elec tion occurs Monday, September 13th. -Sectional rrieiutehip. FI'KKCH OF 'a 'MISSISSIPPI EDITOR. . -i- . At a reception to an excursion party of Mississippi editors, on Friday evening last, Mr. S. II. Stackhonsejof the Hazel hurst Copiahan, made the following reply to the address of welcome : "When the Quen of Sheba visited old man Solomon's dominions in the ancient time, tie w over bis hills and dales in Ids lightning railroad trains, sailed over his jrreat lakes in his big steamers, rode upon his keel-boats as they plowed his canals, examined critically his faim and machine shops, she finally made her way to his headquarters and formally interviewed the thrifty old auto crat of all the Jews ; and in that interview candor constrained her to acknowledge that although she had heard much of his great ness and magnificence, yet the half had not' been told her. So it is with us, fellow citi zens of llnfl'alo, in reference to this tre mendous country you have got. We have heard t great deal about you. We have read much concerning you in your big newspa pers, of yoni thrift, your push, your genius, enterprise, wea'th, progress and irrepressi billity. But now, since we have traversed a considerable scope of your grand domain, we are, like the Queen of Sheba. forced to acknowledge that the half has not been told us. We are not going into any more war with you fellows. If ive had known how confounded numerous you were what vast resources you had what a nation of git up and gitters you are we should never have been guilty of the absurdity of trying to whip you in the first place. Now that we have seen for ourselves, and gotten some sort of an idea of the magnitude of the job of cleaning yon out, wo consider that Another war on our side would be preposterous and ridiculous, nnd we are for peace. "Yes, fellow citizens of Buffalo, ve are here in tho interest of peace God-like peace. In the glowing language of the in spired psalmist, 'Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war.' We believe in peace. We are quite ready to be har monized. And I am glad to be able to say that everywhere we have been in the Noith and West we have met a cordial welcome and kindly greeting. Nobody has made faces at us. Wc have felt O. K. all the time. The railroads have deadheaded us and given us the finest drawing-room cars to sleep in. The hotels have reduced their rates, and some of -them didn't have the heart to charge us at all. We have been well fed at all your eating institutions where we have stopped. In some places they have wined us and they dined us, rode usont in carriages and showed us the sights, made speeches to u, serenaded us with their brass bands, etc., etc. We have had just a splendid time of it. The ladies (God bless 'em," always) have smiled upon us, and the men have sometimes even gone to the extent of asking us to take a drink. That last is tho capstono to the climax of reconciliation. Hear, hear ! The true road to a Mississippi editor's heart is to in vite him to take a drink with you. If that don't harmonize him if that don't capture him i thiit don't bring peace to the land and save- the country, nothing else on earth will." A Se'.vino-Maciiine Agent Roasted. The Reading Duity Ea;le says: The usually quiet little village of Lees port, on the line of the Philadelphia an-I i loading Railroad, eight miles above this cityT, has had a sensation which has caused a good deal of amusement. A Reading sewir.g machine agent induced the head of a family there to take a machine and pay for it in monthly instalments. Before the ma chine was entirely paid off the husband and father died. Tlie widow was in des titute circumstances with half a dozen children, and unable to pay tho balance owing on tho machine, when the agent came around to take the machine away. She was determined that he thonld not re move the machine until he had handed back at least somo of the money that had been paid on it by her husband. lie was apparently just as determined to secure the machine without returning any of the filthy lucre, insulted tho woman, and en deavored to take by force w hat he said be longed to the company by reason of the payments of monthly instalments having been stopjied. Whilethe agent was inside the house she locked both the front atid back doors, put the keys in her dress pock et, and being a robust woman "went for" tho agent. She took hold of him, and a severe and prolonged tussle ensued, whilst the children weie frightened, and cried and screamed. The widow threw the ageut over the hot kitchen stove, and finally s'un cecdod in sitting him down on top of it and held him there, when he begged piteously for mercy "For God's sake, let me go, and I'll pay you back every cent your hus band paid me." Being satisfied that he was severely scorched, if not partly roasted around the thighs, she pulled him off the stove, but held on to him till ho had paid back every cent of the installments, and then she gave him two minutes' time to take the machine and clear out with it! Tho name of the plucky woman, and also that of the agent, are withheld by special request. TiieThisit Census. The census of Ire land, begun four years since and just com pleted, shows that there are 900,600 dwell ing houses on the island, a decrease of 3G0, 000 since 1841. The population in the same period has fallen off 2,70-1,000. From 1801 to 1871 the decrease of population was only 380,000, and it is not believed that the ua tural increase will soon commence to make up the decrease by emigration. Tho sur vey of the island shows that out of the 21, 000,000 acres of its territory, nearly 5,000, 000 are unfitted for cultivation, being eith er lake, bog or mountain, leaving an area of productive land little more than three times the size of Massachusetts for the sup port of five and one-half millions of people. Ten millions of acres of this is pasture, so that the tillable land scarcely exceeds one acre to each inhabitant. A Remarkable Discovery. A re markable discovery was made on an island in the Mississippi, eight miles below Davin tKirt, Iowa, on Friday, by some fishers. It was a subteranean cave, hewn out of huge rock, which was covered by rock, and which was reached by a stones throw. The floor of the cavity, which was made thousands of yeais ago, war thickly strewn with ashes and charred remains of bones, etc. They look to be dead leaves, first wilted then pressed together, resembling in color and solidity a cake from oat meal. Among the dry ashes they picked up three- tusks, about the size of a boar's tooth, and still lower tho boat came in contact with a hard substance which proved to be a skull, as brown as walnut, perfect in every re spect, and of extraordinary size. On furth er examination an almost complete skeleton was discovered ; but the most singular part came to light in the hardened and al most petrified leatherstraps, bronze buck les, and a wooden leg, which contained tho right eztromity of that limb, it having been removed half way between the hip and knee. This is a very interesting dis covery, provingthat a knowledge of bronzo was among tho learning of the aboriginal Americans, and that mechanical surgery in those days equal at least to tho adapta. tion of a timber extremity. TnE Texas cattle fever is prevailing to au alarming extent in Southern Illinois. Over Two Cataracts. MIRACULOUS PRESERVATION OF A WOMAN AND TWO CHILDREN. , Hancock,-N. Y., Aug. 20. Fall's creek is a small stream traversing t he western part of this county. On it, near Delhi, are two cataracts near each other one forty feet high, the other thirty. At the head of the upper falls tood for years a saw mill, Which disuse had reduced to a somewhat dilapidated condition. The recent rains had swollen the creek to three times its size, bringing the water up under the foun dation of the old mill. On Tuesday last, a sudden storm of wind and rain arose in the vicinity. Tho wife of Mr. G. L. Sloat, liv ing near the saw-mill, had started, with her three children, to go to- a neighbor's. Tlie storm overtook them below the saw mill," and Mrs. Sloat took refuge, with her children, in the old building. , While they were there the foundation was entirely un dermined, and ' before they could escape they were swept toward tho falls. Just as the mill was precipitated over the first fall it was discovered by Mr. Sloat, who was near by. llo did not know his wife and children were in the building, but out of curiosity to see how Jit would be broken by tumbling over the cataracts, he ran: to the foot of the lower fall. The old fchell went to pieces the instant it was struck by the water falling over the first cataract. As Mr. Sloat stood gazing np through the spray and foam he saw mingled with the debris of the old mill tho bodies of bis wife and children. Over the second fall they plunged. Mr. Sloat ran with all speed to a narrow gorge, through which the water passes, about four rods below the lower fall. lie reached it before any of the float ing timbers or bodies had passed through. In a few seconds the body of his wife came rushing towards tho, pass. He seized it and drew it out. Theu bo secured the body of his oldest child, and that of the youngest. The third did not appear, and after waiting a few seconds Mr. Sloat turned his attention towaids resuscitating the res cued. His wife was only partially uncon scious, and was soon restored. The two children were also resuscitated after a long trial, and removed to the house. The body of the third has not yet been found. A Tramp's Tnnu.T.TNo Experience. A tramp who was attempting to steal a ride from Ogdensburg to Rouse's Point on Friday night, experienced a trip which was well calculated to make an imjHX'Ssinn on his memory that will not soon bo eradicated. It appears that the splendid pair of tigers and zebra which formed a part of the Hip podrome menagerie, which has spent most of the summer at Ogdensburg, were ship ped that night for New York via Rouse's point. The tigers were removed from their cage, placed in temporary boxes and put in a box car. The door of the car was left partly open to allow a free circulation of air. The tramp, in looking for a good place to stow himself, away, came across this'open car and crawled iii. After the train started the tigers became uneasy from the rumbling of the cars, having remained in a quiet state for two months, and tried to get out of the boxes. The tigress succeeded, and as she emerged from her coop tho tramp shrank back into the corner and remained the rest of the trip as rigid as a statue. The tigress, af ter making an examination of the car, in which she even lapped tho face of the tramp, laid down at the open dor, with her paws hanging out, the rest of the jour ney. In the morning, when Ilerr Lingal came to look after his pets, he discovered the tigress, occupying the same petition, and ordered her back into the box, and she obeyed. He then discovered tlie tramp, who still occupied his crouching position, with his clothes wet. through with sweat, and speechless from his all night rido with the tigers. It was a fortunate thing for the tiampthnt it was the female that got but of the lwx, for she is as kind ami tract able as a kitten, while the male would have made tiger meat of him before reaching the end of the journey. The B ank of Californi a and Its Late President. Speaking of the failure of the Bank of California and the suicide of its President, the Chicago Iu-ter-Owtn says: Poor Ralston ! One day a bank President a bullion king, a princely host ; the next a bankrupt antl a suicide. On Thursday he drove his Mx-in-hand from his Belmont palace to the Bank of California, the envied of the populace ; on Friday, shorn of his wealth and his honors, be crept a fugitive from sight to the shores of the bay and sought oblivion" of his woes in the tide which, scarce a mile beyond, through the Golden Gate, joins the w aves of the Pacific. Men may say what compassion or what en mity dictates, but when William C. Rals ton voluntarily took his own life, he throt tled criticism ; when he accepted tlsc draft of death he cashed his obligations to the world. Proud, reckless, generous, be met adversity and succumbed. He cou'.d reign a prince among his wealthy fellows, but. he could not servo as a pauper, lie could dare speculativechcmes which would appal an ordinary man, but he could not faco an existence which had robbed him of affluence. He played for heavy stakes and won ; he continued the game and lost ; and then, face to face with ruin, he sought the coward's solace tho grave of a suicide. This is a fitting end to snch a career as his has been. The failure of tho Bank of Cal ifornia is a calamity; the death of Ralston, its President, is an afiliction, and those who have lost by tho suspension of the one will have no more poignant regrets lhau those w ho have kuowu and associated with the other. A "Wonderful, Swimmino Feat. Al though the distance from Dover to Calais is twenty-seven miles, Captain Webb un doubtedly swam a much greater distance, owing to the currents which, it will be re membered, carried Captain Boyton far out of his course. When to the actual distance traversed wo add the fact that Captain Webb was twonty-threo hours in water so cold that few men could have borne ex nosurn to it for mm- ll,in .m T,.-.. i " -... v.. .IlUl, V, o uo- I gin to comprehend the extraordinary nature J o, ma joai,. ifc is con lessccuy entirely with out a parallel. Marvelous stories have been told of the length of time that the South Sea Islanders can sustain themselves in the water, but the warmth of t he Pacific is so much greater than , that of the British Channel that no comparison can be made between feats of swimming under such different conditions. Captain Webb is be yond all question tho ablest swimmer of whom there is any record, and he has per formed a feat which not one man in a thou sand believed to be possible. If bis success will only have tho effect of inducing our young men to devoto to swimmino- some of the energy which they now give to base ball and boating, Captain Webb will Lave been a benefactcr to his race. Three months ago a discharged con ductor named Hm Vl press Messenger Price, while the former i njmg to roo nis car. Kecentlv the sum of $4,000 was paid by the Conductors ..Mutual Benefit. A ......wv-. ......... w iMiiKiey s I widow, herltusband having been a member ' .u owiiiumg. one is an excellent wo man, in poor circumstances and tho Asso ciation paid her tho money without raising any question as to. tho way in which her biusbiuul met his death. t'himijo Tribune Aeir. (i-ntl rolttical Items. Boston has a pauper who can solicit 1mt in ffn ,lifErr.iif. t:aiimi:ifra- For a fine complexion drink buttermilk testify ns to the ainl...,sj.; 'r every morning I? fore breakfast. ' ; clcs. For the sani" n... '" ri- .- A Noriistown girl of ten years is but tore of the paper are two and a hall teet Luyl;, aud weiglis only nine pounds. . The Poie has conferred the grand cross , cal tl.m iMi the in.r...t ..." of the order of St. Gregory on the Lord Garfield, to the eiVeet ri ! t.,..w,f llnl.l.n i tliat , .1 ....... ...1 .. Josephus Sooy, State Treasurer of New : system oft ihi. are p!.,.,, Jetsey, is retr thousand dollars of State money. Miss Nellie Thurston is to make a bal- , to kill a Credit yi,.): loon ascension at the Madison County (N. j l.) Agricultural l air next month. Mr. Sawyer, of Jaifrey, 2s. H., has the wedding hat of John Worcester, one of tho original settlers of tho State. It is 223 eai s old. Titusville. has a coopershop with a frontage of one hundred and fifty feet, ami a. capacity for forty thousand barrels. A stave-ing big concern that. A conscientious farmer, in Lcwiston, Me., wiped the mud from his cart-wheels before pei nutting his loa.l of hay to go on to the scales to be weighed. Ralston, the California banker, was not a native of this state. He was born in Wellsville, Ohio, but he got his business start in Pittsburgh as a steamboat clerk. Col. K. W. Longstreet, a prominent merchant of Syracuse, New York, killed himself on the 27th. The firm of which be was a member recently failed for $40,000. The murder of one woman by another is a rare event, yet it occurred in Chicago Saturday night, Mrs. Sachstadter killing Miss Lizzie George in self-defense as she claims. j The Catholic enre of St. Jean Raptiste j village, Canada, has given notice that he i will refuse sacrament to women of his church who wear low-necked dresses or pull-back skirts. Admiral Tom Thumb, in London, is six inches shorter thau our General Tom ' Thumb, is thirty-six years old, weighs twenty-six pounds, is a Hollander and speaks five languages. Ivouis Gonier, who tried to commit a rape upon achild nine years old in Philips burg, Centre county, in June last, has been found guilty and sentenced to seven years in the Western Penitentiary. A man in Philadelphia has a postal card with over 4,700 words written upon it, and ho expeets to write 2,000 words more upon it ; making G,700 in all. It is to be scat to the Centennial Exhibition. Monseigneur Dupanloup, who, it is re ported, will soon be made a cardinal, rises at 4 o'clock in tbo morning in summer and winter. He is frugal, never indulges in wine and is given to boim.lless chai i ty. Thomas Fisk is growing a mammoth sunflower. Tho stalk is 7 feet 2 inches high ; the largest leaves sue 24 inches wide ; it s 14 inches across the one blos som already out, and the stalk contains seven buds. A divorce in Grant County fWi.O was recently applied for because the young J place last year, and w. a lt I., U iiMHiit-i iHMsieu on iiaving a i. cranio, i family dinner. W Dass-wooo sap trough is good enough for that little red-faced vagabond," said tho brutal husband. t A thick of 2,500 sheep at Mission San Jose, Cal., got frightened recently, and ran into a natch of poison oak. Here they got tangled and piled one on another in layers six or eight deep, and some 700 were smothered i chrushed to death. State Treasurer Sooy, of New Jersey, protests his entire innocence of the charge alleged against him, and declares thatTa full examination bis books will show every cent intact. He is in jail, having been unable to give the bail demanded. The residence of ex-Mayor Chas. 51. Reed and Hon. Henry Rawle, Republican candidate forState Treasurer, at Erie, were entered Saturday niht, and seveial hun dred dollars' worth of silverware stolen from each. There is no trace of the thieves. A farmer in Wayne county, Pa., met his. death tho other day in a teriiblc man ner. Ho was carting a l:id of quicklime, when his w agon w as accidentally overturn ed ; ho was buried underneath the lime and died before assistance could reach him. In Beaver county are two I'ostnflw-s Holt and Bellmvsviile about four miles apart. In sending a letter from the former to the latter it is obliged to "travel' a dis tance of about sixty mile. The postal fa cilities between these points ate pretty bard to beat. Jesse Pomerov owes his life thus far to a deadlock. The Governor urges com mutation, but the Council refuses to com mute, aud the Governor refuses to sign 'he death warrant. So Jesse can neither be har.ged or let off till they get a new admin istiation. The New Oilcans Bulletin is phrophet ic as. well as classical. It savs : '-After the great continental reaction and the uew upheaval of the Democracy, the carpetbag gers still found afloat in the South, will be few and far between, rata ninU$ in gur gite rust'." Mrs. Mary Torbert, residing nearJCaln, Chester county, has in her possession a guinea eirg 50 years old. It was colored on Easter Sunday. 1810. It has the date and the initials of Phebc Freeman marked on it. She also has a lemon 31 years old it is quite hard and dry. ' It .a -.. . . 1 . , .. . 1 V . - " "!:. r i o-n ----- v. n mini ;n v -:i ' " ' Miss Edith O (,or,nan has sued the .4 rra- 1 tion of anv kind, d. i:!-.n iZnJl V "harp journal having bouse of William B is, l. i' " stated that he married Gerdemann, and I hem. and taking a bahr h- l?oJ er,,l1 me' .. . S.,M for carried it out in... i-.e : " ..- s.i'.i v mt- ,ew l orif ..,-,. t , i :.i . i. .,,.,-. Xr : ' k , . es 13 ,,Gr 'wycr. threw it down and lnt it 1 O'Gornism, O, Mosos ! Only a few days since an Arizona Post, master caused to be published a long and indignant card wherein ho resigned his office because the salary did not repay him for the labor. And now tho Government :s looking for that Postmaster, whose cash account, is $3,700 short. Bob Stickney, of Cincinati, the famous circus performer, having challenged Fred O Bnen to leap with him for the champion Khipof the United States, the latter has accepted, and has sent tho forfeit monev to fc rank Queen, New York. ' BobStickney has leaped with a double somersault over twenty-five horses. Few things amuse children more than blowing bubbles. Dissolve a quarter of an ounce of castilo or oil soap, cut up in small pieces, in three quarters of a pintof water, and boil it for two or three minutes ; then add live ounces of glycerine. When cold this fluid will produce the best aud most lasting bubbles that can be blown. A bell, to weigh 10,000 pounds has been ordered forSt. John's Catholic church in Cincinnati, the largest bell in America. It is six feet high and six feet. 'a month 1 he clapper weighs one hundred Marine City. Michigan, h .1 and Wty p,inds Whether the Repnbli- one hundred and twenty-; cans of Ohio will "nK" this be'l into the ! artesian well when liestm-; campaign as an issuo remains to be seen, j the twinkling -f an eve. n," '. hen Mis. M Cormiek.of Pittsburgh, ' of the auger, the w-x-ion m---was committed to jail for selling liqnor in of he we ,lke a e,,.ut. d.i1,', violation or the statute her five babies re- , pult, followed bv velum fused to bo separated from her and all went i gravel and mud. that n'se ic to jail together. The affectionate panic of feet into the air, while tlift'V w.c ),niKHrauiii Mieaoi losimr the r 11, r.aHnr ton-ent ann i"' r inoiner was one toucn or nature too many bris made Mr. H: for Pittsburgh justice. The little ones bad ; think they had sti men wny. At Pottsville, on Thursday, tho com missioners of Schuylkill county were con victed of misappropriation of the publio funds. Last year a barn wa$ built at the almshouse, in Pottsville, which cost $23, 09, and, acooiding to the highest estimate made by a builder, it should not have cost more than $1G,S(K. This is a wholesome example. Leopl.wlS. .lineman . tor or the Frankfort X. ," '"' 3 of the Genua,, l'a.siu,, J.!ls a"- .t. Sttilri .Li- ... --. j .... .ati Enquirer, is q.u.t,,,, ., '-U,- fil tl...l. ii. l. : . . " "'' X .In. ted to liave embezzled nuy ; It would be a v.nl ihi, ; in this ten il.le b..if.,;,.,l '"em . -i-.. , , " i. i "j on men ,f i have sat f..r their p-it.-.j. " the object bein t . . Centennial next in, ,'" residing near Maiyvii;,. u years old and is a n.-nu.', r 0 ..HI. UlllliaHll. ,.t l,I.Vlj,l , a native of Engl;,,,.!. ,.,v", , British navy sixty r,:, ""' Two wonipii'l,.,,, I,,',.,;'.1'-' Iowa selling corsets :,t ,,-, Indeed, their anxiev t., ' feet fit, and the in.-;.'..,;',;, '' asked for their sr rvT. s , ' ' T' Now not a lady in H ' has bought corse's i ;x '' ,': : two peddlers have res;,.,,', ',)"'" tire and occupy a diii,;,l Rosie Ootlei m:u,, a,.,. j".!,' man girl of Bloo,..;, . , ' in the way of an ii.faii.vV.i'; I put four or five sutler v: fence. Her clot hi wa v ' " from her and she r.-as j,.,',, v"';: the Mayor and po!,r,.. f oi-.i Horn t,e lamp poles were loud i,. ,,, n J f 1). .v ucncvoifii! tini-. the publication in a K.!,i a story telling !.. n f for a Mck member of , u. ,r dying, left him a s;'.o m winch was c)iic-.t'nii now me tanners p:u s . ; front bedrooms ami f, . ,; fixings, so long ns thev a it.,- A t aptam e!,!. 'is au .-, nir.-iiiM ,c;u oi Srt;,i.,, . English clKiii el fr..:,i l..vcr , coast, a dislatjconf -ji n,:;vs natural way without ;i r,. ...f kind, and gained a v t,.,,- ly virtue of I,U siil. This is one of them it v...:.,'. oi Human emlureiieo tlii: ever beard of, an.l we ,i nt r f ;, equal can anywhere be i (! : pages of history. Half a reutiir;i en. 3 fH. Ijouisiana. hi which weietw... young. The parent-, a helpless. They wo,. :,i .. , ,; , families, became pei nan'!, ;.' went to other paiis'ie ' .!,.. young, and finally 1h -c cue ,, . same parish, wheie thev same neighb-rrhor.fi and vi-r- i for about Unity-Eve yen- l; , in" iiivy nciu Mirers. 1 i,,. On Monday, at Hopi'iit n.X ! named Monis Ryan, aed ! stairs w ith a loaded i;,:t ; a cat. w hen his siter M.n v. , .. who desired to save the c-V :. her brother by the sl.o-.iN: -r ! back. At the sa'ne tiine .t. ..-u younger than Mary, c t-i.e : the stairs. In the" senf,;- ! and Mary the gun wept . :V. i ' and one of the other ;te.. 7 si.iter was wounded in the a -!;'.. a was wounded in the 1 widow. The entire besinr- 1" nojfisvillc. Pa., a station oil ;b division of Allegheny V ili, . ;:. burned on Sat unlay n, -i:,r; following business hones w :. Arcade Mick, in which xhv ti ? Cole's ha id w.ire stoie. S,;.;.' Tompkins A; Dhighan'-. -r -groci-ry. 1). Oyster ,v, house. Boguers A t'o.' ( Alexander" tbaig sfoie, mils restauiants and dwelling. T.-. sonic temple in course - f r seli..l lio;;e were also :. . proTuiclors of Reynold-.-:,;? ; heavy lsci-s. The to , I . at K1!S,0-V : insurance ;:! A singiil.tr case of ii j r ' before a Manchester, E 'r ' 1S50 the prisoner was n. i.iu ;; Talbot, at tbe Mat'ihe',-!- (V. lsCifi he was married M.. -' 1 St. Mary's Church, I. a:)-, . lth of May thisjy. a: t!:r ; again married to hi ti,t oner, after living wi;h 1 i r r months deerted her. a:i.-l a;:-:: neaily eight years. 1 e. ! ' ' dead, married a man nar-p-l v died, and shortly Wfo:e i.i! v the prisoner- made his nj;-j house of bis fiit wife ami " second time, the eerem nv 1 1 the ISth of May last at M- L.i -Church, Sal ford. Joseph Becker, a ly i- f years, whose parents r. ' l..' ' has develotK-d a want-ei l .a .i" I i proaehesthc horrible e.:i'- in other's torture in-tan ! :i: boy Pomerov. Thcaoo-'iin: w ith a club. Bat for t'.io i: :; neighbors, w hot.x-k tliey","-'!-froin his victim, young iu'c' killed tho baby ontriglit. y infant is supposed to have K-' yond all hopes of its l;itC- There is a stoi v t, t!c ' William II. Mundy" f S vtci: recently played at t. bat v'- '; games of chess at one MtLi'f ty-four different players. the men or boards, winch i;,;". more games than weic ever one time before. The v' ,v;-r ( the residence of Judge !"'' '.. player sitting on the st.j ' ' meantime and answering 'l '; the game. There was a 'H ositioii of the pieces in tw when .Mr. Mundv s,hI "P all the moves that had games and tho joMtii's ' the board. Mr. Muntly em games at once at nud-'n.;.. o i c nTotrn it is ill lie " j ' - ; -- best players. .Mr. Josech liami. Halm ani " j rial. Stones weigln"i 'r' ! ty pounds were projected Rome of them fell ciil""- t i roof of Mr. Halm's h.me nt. I the family were oblig 'i V' ! neighb,ir's f'" himia" 1 j, moment in tho farm h IM'- bo.lnxHlof Mr. Hah"' f' b . or small, was rarely f,,,,T"r, ' can 1k taken away l'.v ,IlC .. .rti t
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