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EDENSSURC, PA.,
Friday Morning - - Sept. 3, 1875.
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Democratic State Convention. -
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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
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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
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was uuioi uv geue.ai consent. ,w.u .
vet t it- (tlie.o'aii law is the whole stock '
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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
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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
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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
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The Erie Convention. "-
The Democratic State Convention
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1 w 11 meet .u jjiie on next inci;ii.f
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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
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tlele;.ites w ho w ill compose it, person-
ally as well as by reputation, it will
. have nreccdea it. As much lsexpeet-
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Oil ot it, WC tllist that its niCIDMl'S Will
fully appreciate the neccessity of a full
an,ftilorou rh interchange of views,aml
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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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-.
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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.
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. 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