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EDENSBURC, PA.,
Friday Morning - - Sept. 24, 1875.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
cm us rEiisiiixa,
Of Schuylkill County.
For stats tkeasuuek :
VICTOR K. I'lO LETT,
Of Bradford County.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
' KEOISTFIt AM) K ECOK PEK :
JAMES M. SIXGEK, Ebcusburg.
treasciveh:
N. J. FKKIDIIWF, Concmnugh Boro'.
COMMISSIONED :
JOHN CAMl'BELL, Coneniaugfe BW.
J. D. PAKUISII, Ebensburg.
POOR HOUSE 1)1 RECTOR :
JESSE PATTERSON, Johnstown.
acpifohs :
' JOHN R. ROSS, ttl.-irklirk Tewnbip.
f. p. Mccormic k, wiim.r.
Tiir. X. V. Herabl very wisely con
cludes that the Maine election, follow
in the democratic victory in Califor
nia, is disheartening to the Hepuhli-
c.in, niul mat Its piled win oc ieit m
Ohio, Pcnnsylvaui:i anl New Yolk. !
The people are tired of old cries and of
' , -r,. rttw. n..m,.r..tii.
appeals to the r fear or the Ii-'-t't. ,
party. The elections this fall cannot -
lx earned liy the lieatmpf ol gongs. ,
Thnt begins to be very plain.
At the solicitation of Messrs Persh
ing ami Piolett, lion. Hendiick It.
Wright, of Luzerne county, presiding
officer of the Eric convention, has
been selected as Chairman of the Pcni
ocrutic State Central Comuiittce. and j
has already called upon that IkmIv to ;
meet at the (Jirard House, Philadel
phia, on to-morrow (Saturday) evening.
The hope is entertained that there will
be a full attendance of said Committee.
Isaac Wire, Esq., of Wilmore, was
IecUd Chairman of the Democratic
County Committee by the late conven
tion. While we hare always believed
that the chairman of that committee
ought to reside at the con. ty seat we j
t:ke great pleasure in commending
31r. Wike's selection. The county
does not, so far as we know his record,
contaiu a more thorough and consist
ent Democrat than Isaac YVike. He
is a veteran in tlie cause and we have
never heard it intimated that he did not '
stand firmly by the integrity and or
ganization of his party. He has leen
bold and fearless as a private in the
ranks, and now that he has been in
vested with a high command, there
will le blows to give as well as blows
to take, anI under his skill ml and ag
- i
KNssivc leaaersnip uve democracy oi j
ine couniy are conntiem. oi auiiieing
a luilliant victory. We take special
pleasure in paying this tribute to Mr
Wike, becuuse.althougli we have reason
to believe that he has never looked
with favor upon our political aspira-
1 1. liio ni dpein his record as a Demo- i
. - ;
crat none the less deserving of coin- i
metidation. There are many honrt :
co-laborers in the cause who Iieliovc ';
.hat ll.nra nro tnn in th mnks more
deserving of the honors of the party
than we arc, and as they have a perfect
right to that opinion, wc think none
the less of them because they entertain
and act upon their convictions in this
as in other respects.
" TnE proceedings of the Democratic
county convention, held on Monday
hist, will be found published in the lo
cal department of this week's r kf.eman
The convention was composed for the I
moat part or as good material ns the
county affords, and it is therefore not '
saying too much to declare that the in-
v nf I lm I LinlAt n ( tit t it t w o a
... ot c .- ,
very generally represenieu irmn one .
township in tlie northeast to oder
townsLip in the southwest. Tlie ut j
most enthusiasm arnl irotsl feeling pie- i
vailel and the delilierations if the
convention were entirely harmonious
throughout its greatly protracted ses
sion. Next week we shall refer in de
tail to the merits, qualifications and
claims of the several candidates selected
and will, as we have always done, urge ; in calculating the three-mill tax, on the
and ad vocate the election" of the entire ! $3",00Q reported an the total bonded,
ticket. First and foremost, the con- t indebtedness of the city of Williams-;
vention was what might very properly I prt, the State only received $10.80
be called a public proclamation of the instead of $103.00, on a real bonded I
i eoplk of Cambria county in response j issue of over $000,000 which should 1
to the nomination of Judge Pershing ; have liecn assessed yearly for $1,800.
for dovci-nor. The convention was j The difference between $10.80 and $1,
cotn posed of his old friends and neigh- j 800, of course, either goes into the
,Mrs of men who have honored him : pockets of the bondholders who escajic
with their confidence in the past and : taxation, or of the city treasurer who
who will renew it at the ldlot-lox on j makes a fale return, or, perhaps, it
the first Tuesday in November. Of , may le a source of common profit to
course a large majority of theaspiranta all parties to the fraud. It is not a
for nomination for the reflective ' matter of so much moment who has '
offices have leen disapointed. This . this money which the Attorney General
has always been the case at all former : has authorized the Auditor General to
conventions and will continue to lw collect ami which will not be lost to
until the end of tlie chapter. They the State. When Auditor General
must remember, however, that tlie j Temple can get his hands upon dclin
regularly constituted tribunal of the , quents,. as in this case, he will have
pirty, to which they submitted their j their stealings and their seal ps. But
claims, has rendered a verdict against , there is a disclosure of a marvelous
them, and that from its decision there J rottenness and of a possibility and a
ought not and should not and cannot probability of defalcation in the State
in honor lie an appeal. When tlie ' revenues under this kind of ad minis-:
convention has discharged its duty ; tration which is appalling. The.
lairly and dispassionately, as it did amount of it evidently is only to lie
last Monday, no eood Democrat has 'measured by the scrupulosity of tax-J
juiv right to raise his voice or to oast ' payers nothing else. The sworn of-'
his vote in opposition to Its final do- ; fleer of the State, whose special duty,
crec. We ask the Democracy of , It was to guard against any abuse of
Cimbria to move in solid colmnn to ! official fiduciary trusts, was the medi-j
the support of the entire ticket. Mate
and county, which is submitted to
them, and to endorse it at the polls by
a majority such as they can always
?;Ive wli:i ther are nutted and work
or a com r noil purjios.
An Astounding Disclosure.
It is onlv necessary- to a clear oora- j
prtbciiSHon of the accompanying offi
cial narratire of fraud presented to the
raiders of the Patriot, that it should j
I nnderstmxl that in Pennsylvania
the State tax on loans is, by autlioniy
of law, deducted from interest paid to
Itum! holders ly the coqioratioiis issn
! ing the bonds; and that it is the duty J
f mnnw-iivil froroorations, through I
their treasurers or other officers, to
make an annual sworn ictnrn of the
loans due bv such corporations to tne
AuditorGeneralof tbeState,who, upon
this data, makes up the quota of State
tax. The penalty for a violation of
this duty is $5,000 line and prosoeu- ;
tion forpetjurv. The penalty incurred
by the late Auditor General of the ;
State was impeachment, during his.
term, had the fraud leen discovered, :
rmr prosecution for misdemeanor. j
It hit HIT OK THE CHAIRMAN OF THE FI
KANCK COMMITTEE Of TIlK CITY OF VII.- j
MAMsrOllT. !
Iii the matter of the state tax on tle city :
bond of tlie city f Williamsport : The
nndci signed chairman of the city council of :
said city, in behalf or said city council,
makes and presents to the auditor general j
if the commonwealth the following allega- j
turns of fact in relation to said bonds, and :
the state taxes thereon assessed by the j
commonwealth and paid by the treasuier
of said city, and also the names' of the par
ties by w hom said facts i proven :
First. The tenth section of an act of as
spii.I.Tv a ovod March 21. 1S67, author-
i7f..i ihr. nniioiiito ant hoi it ies of the cit' of ;
'TiIlianspoit to Issue bonds uoi cxceeuuig
$2i0T0fW. P. L., page 516.
Seam. Cnder the pretended anU.or.fy
of th s net. of assembly said city authorities
c,b;I f npo to ,he
lllollllt f $t43,ooo, of the date of Septcm-
,. jf iir8, and having tweuty years torun.
This cau bo proven by Win. F. Logan, ex
rnaror.
Third. All of these bonds except the sum
of $17,000 vcre iutd to citizen of Pcnn
..,,.,.'.. .iniu'iniillir ti I'oter 1 Iri dic. This
can be proven by Or. YVm, F. Ijog.m, ex. .
mayor, and Kiiam Mndge, ex-treasurer, t
both of the city of Williamsport.
Fourth. The amount ot tnese nmuis out
M;irij,,g n 13 was f;i!,0)0, and in 1874
SOI.OOO. This can be proven by extreas-
! nrcr Hiram Mndire, by tbe treasuier, YVit
liam . Jones, by O. 15. Ke, ana Mso by ;
the report of the city auditors for 1873. j
Fifth. The city treasurer for 187;?, in- j
stead of returning the true amonnt of bonds '
outstanding, returned the amount as f3n,-j
000, upon which basis the state tax was j
levied and naid.
Sixth. I). H. Else, the said city treasurer ;
for 1873, when paying the coupons, retained j
from the bondholders the amount of the
state tax on oil the boi-d then ontti lifting, j
V . : 1 I . . r. It- A v .f t It A 1 IllKll Vf irl
'mi(00 ".u. 1,1 !
aforesaid. This can be kIiouii by the said j
p. h. and Wm. U. Updegraff, his,
deputy. j
f-eventn. m. .onrs, me cuy iieas-
urer for 1875, mado a correct return to the
auditor general's office, of tho amount of
bond outstanding for that year, but was
subsequently induced by .Auditor General
Itiri'iii Urn 1,i rim nnf thr. return tit :!P-
.... .. ........ j. - - - --,
000 and the correct return tra destroyed by
the auditor general in the presence of said
treasurer. This can bo shown by the raid
Wm. N. Jones. j
Eighth- If direct evidence is required as
to what portion of these Itotids are held by j
citm-ns of Pennsylvania, it can be furnished
bv calline Pearson S. Peterson, of the citv
( - f 1Mlil.J(,eiPhia. AU of which U resct-
fully submitted.
S. T. M'Cormick, Chairman.
CERTIFICATE OF CITY TREASURER.
To the A uditor General of Pennnylcania:
I hereby certify that from the lest attain- ;
able information existing in the treasurer's
n: . l. , r ' : 1 1 : 1
.. ' ' .
there '
were outstanding on tne nrst day ot .lune,
1S74 nio,ooo of the coupon londs of the '
city of Williamsport, of the issue of Sen- ;
temtwr lf 1808; and further, that on the
2-d of August. ie74, f ,000 of said bonds
were redeemed by the commissioners of the
sinking fund of said city, leaving outstand- :
t ing at the time the sum of $615,000, and I
so returned the amount to the auditor gen- ?
eral's office, except that there was an error
of $1,000 in my return, and further, I called '
on the then auditor general atout January
9 or 10, 1875, to adjust and settlo any claim ;
that the state had against the city of Wil
liamsport, and vn induced by the then- '
auditor general and other to change my
return to $:($, 000 (see return on file in your
office), and in doing so I acted ;n god faith !
i and had no desire to defraud the state of
Pennsylvania, or protector enrich the own- '
"not said bonds. I am, general, ith '.
"J.
CERTIFICATE OF CITT CT.ERK.
J1,, the Auditor General of the State of
peunMylrnia . i ,,erebv certifv thsit it ap :
poar by the report of the city auditoisof
the city of Williamsport for the year 1873, .
ou .In 11,0 mayoi s omce oi saia city,
that there were outstanding on the 1st day
of July, 1874, $010,000 of twenty year six
jxr cent, bonds of said city of the issue of
1S88. E. S. Lowe, City Clerk, j
Seal of the city of ) ,
Williamsport. f
liy an error of AnditorGencral Allen
tun of a villainy whioli required forlta
successful execution not only jierjury
on his own jiart but on that of others.
He was the candidate of the radical
party in this State last year for re-
' election to the place he disgraced.
Worse than all, Trhen his dereliction
was dicovered by his late partisans it
was not denounced from the platform
or in the press, and he was allowed to
depart from the State with such
plaudits ami approval as are only due
to honest public service- Can there Iks
any explanation rdefence against this
fearfnl indictment? Ilarrisburg Pa
Terrible Storm at Gatvestok, Tex
as. The New Orleans Junes, intra in
formation obtained from papers and pas
sencers. gives the following account or
a recent wind storm at Galvestow : To
briefly summarize the disaster, a gale twin
the north by Wednesday at midday reach
ed such proportions that captains of steam
ers accustomed fin- generations to traversing
this portion of the gulf declined to put to
sea. Almost simultaneously with this de
termination came the repoit that a ship
yard at the extreme eastern end of the is
land bad leen inundated and men were
fleeing for their lives. A rapidly falling
barometer indicated an increase of the
storm, and the waters of the gulf, which is
on the south side of the island and in the
rear of the city, gradually commenced to
encroach. The gardens of scattered resi
dences, skirting the beach, were soon over
flowed. The waterduringtheday reached
a depth of two feet. All day long, and
during Thursday it blew a hurricane, push
ing the gnlf water over the entire island
and covering even tho highest elevations
to the depth of two feet and a half. This
ridge embraces an area of perhaps twelve
blocks of buildings, extending from Me
chanics street to Market street, a distance
of two squares from latitndinally, and Cen
tre street to Rath avenue, about six squares,
longitudinally. In the entire rear of the
east and west ends of the city, the water
rose to a sufficient depth to float large
wooden edifices, many oi wnicn aie very
valuable. The resident portion of the city
was mo-t affected. From Trcmont street,
where this section begins, for the distance
of at least one mile and a half west, every
garden and every foundation is destroyed.
DOMICILES SCATTERED rROMISCrOVSI.T.
Domiciles are scattered promiscuously in
the centre of thoroughfares, many of them
being jammed together. Farther to the
Park, where there are many small farms
nr? a number of stylish residences, the
water is reported to have reached a depth
of from six to nine feet. A similar story is
told of the eastern end of the island, which
extends from Centre street at least one
mile and a half into the business section of
the city. Large stocks of goods are kept
on the ground floors, and one cannot esti
mate the injury which thirty inches of sea
water would involve. It is fair to presume
that the earnings of an entire year will be
exhausted in repairing damages. Proba
bly vegetation lias been utterly destroyed,
but that the island is involved in wholesale
ruin we do not apprehend.
Gai.vesto-jt, Sept. 21. The steamship
Harlan h"s just arrived. The purser
states tfvat the town of Indianola is almost
roivupfetely demolished. Light houses,
wharves, business bouses and dwellings
are broken in pieces or swept away. There
are only three houses remaining which are
not damaged. The telegraph office is gone,
the signal office damaged, telegraph lines
down for miles, railroads washed away,
and houses, fences and tiecs piled op in
broken masses on the streets.
The rejwts of loss of life are conflicting.
All agree that there were one hundred to
one hundred and fifty lives lost. The pur
ser states that on account of theexcitement
it was impossible to obtain the correct
number. The ttoamhip retnrncd with
her cargo of goods, as there was no place
where she could land.
A Stuakce Stort. The Titusville
Courier has a curious story, as follows :
"About a week ago a gentleman stopped
off the ti o in at Tyronville and calling at a
house a short distance beyond Clappville
in which two families lived asked to remain
over nifdit, as he whs sick. The hus
bands of the women were away, but they
consented to allow him to remain over
night. The next day he was no better
and on tho third day be died. During
his illness Dr. Ashley, of Iilooming Valley,
was called in, and through him he request
ed tho presence of Rev. Mr. Eckels, but be
fore fiat gentleman arrived he expired.
One of the persons at whose house he died
came to Titusville and purchased a coffin of
Puss fe Davidson, paying for it in Canada
money. These persons stated it wasthe re
quest of the dying man that he should be
buried in Canada, and after being placed
in the coffin the body was taken by them
to the depot in time for the afternoon ex
press. Instead of taking this train the par
ties took the sixo clock train south, brought
the body to this city, where it was kept
over night, and the next morning taken to
I'leasn-mville, where it was inferred. On
their return the persons who had the biwly
in charge called on Huss fc Davidson and
redeemed the Canada money with Ameri
can bills. The deceased had a tiunkand
a box with him, and in the former was a
suit of fine clothes. It is snppsed by tho
neighbors that he had money which has
been taken care of by his wonld-be bene
factors. Our informant, who is a reliable
gentleman, states thrft considerable excite
ment exists in the neighborhood, and that
an investigation is going on to ascertain
what can be learned of the history of the
man, and whether there are grounds for
the belief which so generally prevails that
he was possessed of a large amount of mon
ey which is likely to goto persons who
have no right to it. There is an air of
mystery about the death of the man with
out communicating his name to any one,
together with the manner in which he was
buried, that needs clearing up."
The Discovert that was Made rt a
Travemxo Sewi.no Machixe Agent.
In one of the raids of the Cornplanter In
d inns many years ago,they took a young man
named B!esde prisoner, and he, through
choice, never left them, lie accompanied
them in their hunting excursions, etc., and
helped mine silver, which they used for
ornaments. They captured a loy named
Sampson, and Ulesdoe helped him to es
cape, and gave Sampson a rough map of a
silver mine on Pine creek, Lycoming coun
ty. Sampson kept the map, but gave no
thought to hunting up the mine ; and after
his death this paper fell into the hands of
one of his descendants. A traveling sew
ing machine agent got hold of this map,
and at last found the place and took out
some of the outcrop. A young man, exam
ining the wagon, discovered the ore, and
then followed their track to the mine. He
also took some of the ore and had it tested.
It contained about twenty per cent, of
silver. The mine is on the west side of the
creek, near the mouth of Solomon's Itun,
on land belonging to John Dure 11, and is
about twenty miles from Jersey Shore.
New York Democratic Convention.
The Democracy of New York met at
Syracuse, last waek, and after adopting a
hard money platform nominated the follow
ing ticket :
Secretary of State John Bigelow, by
acclamation.
Comptroller Lucius Ttobinson.
Attorney General Charles S. Fail child.
rotate Treasurer Chas. N. Ross.
State Engineer John D. Van Buren.
Canal Commissioner C. II. Wairath.
State Prison Inspector Rodney It. Crow
ley. '
How a Briber Came to Grief, and
Jlotr Old Vic. Mioiette r.Tvm
n Gang of Scoundrels.
Certain Radical jowmals have already
begun to iiitrodnce a story Ifcat Mr. PioWsU
was once offered and accepted a bribe of
five hundred ddlars, when in the Legis
lature, and say they will show up his
"record." The story of the bribe, as they
tell it, is simply miserable falsebtd, and
all we ask is that they will correctly print
the record of our candidate. If they do
that, they will be aiding the Democracy
effectually. The facts in this "bribe case'
are as follows :
Certain charges of fraud having been
preferred against the Lebtgh county bank,
a "wild cat" affair instituted by Mes G.
fJeaeh, of New York, in 1844, and a de
mand made for the reeal of its charter by
the leading citizens of Lehigh county, the
snbieet w;r referred to the committee on
banks, of which Mr. Piolette was a member,
w ho reported a bill favoring the repeal of
its charter.
During this investigation, and about a
month before the tinat report of the com
mittee, Beach, who was then publisher
of the New York &un ami other newspa
lers, aggregating a weekly issue of 300,0JO,
proprietor of several rotten banking insti
tutions and a man of great political in
fluence throughout the country, sent his
agent and one of his business partners,
Daniel McCook, father of the since famous
"fighting McCook''family,to Harrisburg to
iniluence the committee on banks to make a
report against the rejeal of the charter of
the Lehigh county bank, lie found thiee of
the seven members of the committee will
ing to do so, and, in order to receive thejeo
operation of the necessary majoiity, con
cluded to prevail upon Mr. Piolette to agree
to a report favorable to the bank. Know
ing Mr. Piolette to be opposed to any such
repoit, McCook tirst sought to procure his
vote through the inrlnencc of his personal
and jiolitical friend, lion. John La port e, of
fering to bribe the latter by making his son
a present of $5i0, on condition that the
father should iniluence Piolette to allow
the committee to reiii, favorably t the
bank. Being repelled by Judge Laporte,
an attempt was inado to induce Clerk of
the Senate Goodrich, a citizen of the same
county as Piolette, for the consideration
of $100, to influence the latter's vote.
Both these plans proving unsuccessful,
McCook determined to approach Piolette
in person. At lirst he undertook to per
suade the latter by the aigumeut that
those favorable to tlie bank were men of
his own party, of vast political iniluence,
and whose favor it was valuable for him to
secure. A few days later McCook informed
Piolette that he had written to the latter's
father to come to Harrisburg to use his in
fluence in behalf of the bunk, and had
promised him $300 to do so.
Knowing his father to le an old man of
72, and no lobbyist by profession, Mr. Pio
lette was surprised and indignant at the
infoimalion and gave McCook to under
stand that his schemes were useless. But
tlie briber was so iniortunte and reckless
that he finally offered Piolette directly
$VH1 as a bribe ami left him to consider it.
Mr. Piolette at once consulted his friends.
Judge Laiie, at that time surveyor
general, Hon. Jesse Miller, secretary of the
commonwealth, and Jeremiah M. Bnrrell,
esq., a highly respected member of the
legislature, and advised with them as to
the best course to pursue in order to fully
expose the nefarious attempt to corrupt a
legislator. Though his. natural impulses
led him to repel the scoundrel at lirst.blush,
his tetter judgment suggested a more ef
fective way of exposing him, and upon the
advice of his friends, who urged ujkii him
the beneficial eR'eet that would result from
such an exposnre by permitting it to be
consummated by the payment of the money,
he resolved to accept it and then thoroughly
exjHise the crime. Accordingly next morn
ing he received from McCook $400 (the
other $100 fo be paid aflerwavdV, which he
request t-d him to place in his bureau drawer
and to leave the room. As soon aa Mc
Conk was gone, Pioletie sent for his eon U
dauts. who he found had gone to the capi
tl. He then summoned his landlord, Mr.
Bnehler, bad him count the money and
seal it in an envelope, informing m that
he proposed to carry it into the House and
make a statement in regard to it. Mr.
Buehler d'd so and the money therefore
never touched Piolette's hands, lie at
once proceeded to the House, made a
statement of the foregoing facts and laid
the money oh tho speaker's table. A
committee of investigation was appointed,
who took the sworn testimony of Pioletie,
Laorte, Burrell, Goodrich, and others,
vi Inch is before us now and which embodies
the foregoing facts.
Mr. McCook, though defended by Hon.
Thaddcus Stevens, made no attt mpt ?o
impeach these witnesses, and accordingly
the committee reported the facts as herein
given, and a resolution, which was adopted,
dirccting;the Attorney General, or his depu
ty in Dauphin county, to arrest McCook
and bring him to trial for attempting to
bribe a member f the legislature. And
we believe that Mct-ook was tried, found
guilty and sent to jail. By resolution of
the house the money was directed to be
deposited in the Haiiisburg bank subject
to the order of the court of quarter sessions
of Dauphin county.
In both the minority and majoi ity reports
of the committee, it is agreed that a bold
attempt at corruption had been made.
Mr. Piolette's coursu i highly commended
as including nothing "calculated to throw
the least suspicion upon him as a man" or
representative, "and the committee concur
in this opinion that the exposure and
primpt punishment of this high-handed
outrage will tend to preserve, unimpaired,
the confidence of the people in the purity
of legislative action."
It is safe to say that there were no
further attempts at bribery that session,
and no one has been found since foolhardy
enough to undertake to corrupt Victor E.
Piolette. Belief onte U'atchnutn.
The Stort ok a Bi-oooy Shirt. On
the 18th of May last MUs Whitby, living
in Montgomery county, about three miles
from Phoenixville, was found brutally mur
dered. Nobody was at home at the time
except a boy of eighteen, named Thomas
F. Cnrley, who was arrested on suspicion
of having committed the murder. Curley's
trial conies off at Nonistown in December.
He pleads not guilty, and says he was out
in the field planting corn with one of the
neighbors all day. When he went to din
nerat noon there was a tram per at the house
wanting a meal, which lie got. On going
back in the evening the boy found the dead
tx-dy or Mis Whitby, and ran back to the
field to give the alarm. He described the
tramp, and it is said a man corresjondmg
to the description was traced from the house
nearly to West Chester. On the Monday
before the mnrder, Mrs. Nelson Stephens,
of West Chester, gave a shirt to a tramper
who called at her house, snd on Wednes
day this shut was found in Joseph O.
Sharpless' orchard, Kast Goshen. The
shirt sleeves were all over blond stains, and
the Bhirt was torn. After leaving this
shirt, the tramp came to the house ami
asked Mrs. Sharpless for a shirt. The
description of t his man is said to je ident i
cal with that given by the boy in regard to
the murderer, and Mrs. Sharpies has been
snbKeued as a witness in this case. The
boy's counsel is sanguine that the prison
er's innocence will be proven. Indepen
dent Phoenix.
Pershing preponderates in popularity.
Sewr end roUtical Item.
Neat elections Ohio and Iowa, Octo
ber 12.
A new definition of an old maid w
woman who Las been maid for a long time.
Theodore Tiltou is drawn as a juror to
seive in the Brooklyn City Court next
week.
A baby without n spine has ventured
into the world by way of Kt Haven,
Connecticut.
The greatest depth of the Pacific
Ocean, as found by tho British ship Chal
lenge, was sbont five miles.
The Catholic church at Tremont, ii
Schuylkill county, was destroyed on Friday
evening by an incendiary fire.
The Postmaster General has officially
thanked President Scott for placing fast
mail trains on the FertrfsylvAiiia, Railroad.
A mine of Inmey has been discovered
at Cajon Pass, Call. It is a quarter of a
mile long, and contains 1,000 tons of the
sweet.
There are said to be more than 2,000,
000 Williams in the United Slates, to say '
nothing of several hundred thousand f pm i
ous Bills. ,
A St. Louis woman enumerates among
her friends twenty-two women who have!
become bald from wearing heavy masses of :
false hair.
A political change in Pennsylvania J
proportionate to that in Maine, will give i
Pershing and Piolett a majority of fifty
thonsatMl. All the signs are propitious.
At Jefferson, Florida, a Judge of Afri
can extraction has condemned his wife to
three months' imprisonment for stealing
one of his .shirts. Roman jusl ice outdone.
Mr. Samuel Murdock, who has made
a thorough study of the mound builders,
will try to construct fac-similes of the
most remarkable work on the Ceutenuhd
grounds.
A man seventy years old is to be
hanged at Cleburne, Tex., on the first
Friday in October. He has asked for three
hours in which to deliver a speech ou the
gallows.
In 1872 the Republican majority for
Gi ant in the State of California was 13,302.
In 187-1 the Democratic majority over the
Republican candidate for governor in that
state is 30,003.
Wetherslield, Conn., sometimes called
Onionstown, derived its nickname from the
fact that a church bell hung in 1775 was
paid for by contributions of onion from
the parishioners.
Last year the Democrats carried one
county out of sixteen, in Maine. This
year they carry six and the Republicans
ten, with the news getting better and bet
ter. AU hail, Maine !
Theie is a ond near Watch Hill,
Rhode Island, the bottom of which the
longest sounding lines have never succeed
ed in finding, and which is popularly Mip
posed to be fathomh ss.
The most fearful ieiort from Texas is
that of the submerging of the town of In
dianola, under the influence of I lie equi
noctial gales a"l the loss, as a. result, of
one hundred and fifty lives.
It will be great cau-e for regret if the
rascal Westervelt, who is clearly shown to
have been i.-iij.lirated in the abduction of
Charley Rons, escapes prison through any
arrangement to restore the lost child.
A human skull of jiecnliar shape w as
washed ashore at Newcastle, Me., the
other day, and preserved by a resident of
Portsmouth, N. II., who thinks it has been
in the water more than one hundred years.
There was cast at the Tredegar Iron
Works, Richmond, recently a bed-plate for
a cotton compress weighing 42,000 jm.iiikIs.
The calculat ionsof weight were so accurate
that the molten metal exactly filled the
mould.
A council of Catholic Bishops and
Archbishops concluded its delibei a Lions at
Maynooth, Ireland, on Monday last. It Is
remarkable for the factthat it is t he second
that has been held in that county for seven
centuries.
Niantic, Conn, has an embryo ChaiTcy
Ross sensation. A note was h-ft at the
house of the Episcopal clergyman of that
town, threatening to abduct his child if
f 1,000 was not left beneath a certain tree
on a certain date.
The Pope has appointed Cardinal Mc
Closkey a member of Congregations on In
dex, Saered Rites and Bishops and Regu
lars. Another consistory was- to have In-en
held yesterday, when twelve additional
Bishops were to be appointed.
There is to be but one more total
eclipse of the sun during the nine
teenth century, visible in tho United
States, and that will occur in 1878. The
total eclispe of Radicalism will oocur two
years before that date, in 1S7G.
Barnum's rhaiiot girl, who was to
have married the unfortunate Donaldson,
has entered a convent somewhere in Can
ada. She is said to be very pretty and
very intellectual. An intellectual giil in a
chariot is something of a novelty.
A small yellow-spotted lizard, about
four inches long, w as found inside a water
melon at Dallas, Texas. Apparently life
less when taken out, it was soon resusci
tated, but lived only a few moments. It
is to go in spirits to the Smithsoioan Insti
tut ion.
For a week or two the indejendent
movement in Maryland had an appearance
of incipient strength ; but the moment it
assumed the malignant form of Know
Nolhingism it suffered a collapse. That
devil's invention must be tried on i,ew
ground.
In tho territory of New Mexico the
Democrats, according to partial returns
received, have made a gain of 2.300, fifteen
per cent., as compared with the election
for delegate to congress in 1873. This is
high ground, but the tidal wave has
reached it.
A number of the friends of Miss Eliza
Ann Lewis, whom a man named Duross
violated, near Scran ton a few days since,
have been making attempts to intimidate
Warden Lifts, of the Luzerne prison, in
order to get Duross out of jail for the pur
pose of lynching him.
A man in Michigan cut a large piece
out of his leg the ot her day, under the im
pression that he had been bitten by a rat
tlesnake, and then discovered that he had
merely been stung by a bee. A meaner
feeling man, on making the discovery, was
probably never raised in that State.
Friday the 17th was the anniversary
or four important events in American his
tory, the signing of the Declaration of In
dependence in 1776, the adoption of the
Federal Constitution in 1787, the promul
gation of Washington's Farewell Address
in 1780, and the battle of Antietam in 1872.
The Boston HeraUl says a pigeon
match for ten thousand dollars has been
arranged between James Gorden Bennett
and ('apt. Bogardus on one side and Car
roll Livingston and Ira A. Paine on the
other side ; hTty birds each. The match
takes place at Newport in about one week
from this date.
A Norwich, Conn., antiquarian will
exhibit at a fair in his county a book pub
lished in 1523, a cane 225 years old, a leaf
from a Bible brought over in the May
flower, and a piece of the white oak which
fell in 1808 under which the first settlers of
ancient Woodbury eucamped on the nigh
of their arrival.
A dispatch from Pine nifl, Ky re
ports the death of Jesse James, wounded
there several days ago when with the gantr
who robbed the Huntingdon (W. Va )
Bank. James was well known throughout
the country as a notorious Missouri outlaw,
whose depredations produced much excite
nieut some time ago
We have seldom heard of a more ter
rible affliction in one family, than was been
the case in that of Michael Gallagher, of
New Garden township, Chester county.
He has lost eight of his nine children by
scarlet fever, four having died within one
week some time ago, and four more having
died week before last.
Sunbury had a kitten w ith two-heads,
f ! fiend new on the same neck and
were joined together where the ears should j
be, cacn iteaa naving a jwj;o;ou n'uunr,
an upper jaw, one eye and one ear. Only
one lower jaw was attached to the double
bead. This complicated animal lived but
a short time after fcs birth.
The Oxford University Press has pub
lished the smallest Bible ever prdneeo.
It is printed on rough, unbleached India
paper, of extreme thinness and opacity; is
four and a half inches high by two and
three quarters inches ?road and half an
inch in thickness, and weighs bound in
limp morocco leather, les than three and a
half ounces.
Miss NeuT.icsin, of Canada, is trying
to live economically, and has thus far, ac
cording to her veracious friends, snboed
without food for five rrfoutlrs. Should she
succeed in dispensing with sustenance for
a year or two, she will have made plain tin;
niatiimonial problem which our young
jieople are slill wrestling with, hovr to
live comfortably on nothing.
A proposition to bury the bodies of
Presidents Jackson, Polk and Johnson in
the Capitol giounds at Nashville, Tenn.,
and to have the State erect over tbein a
costly monument, has been frustrated at
its outsel by the discovery of a clause in
the will of President Polk ordering that
his body, with that of his wife, shall re
main in their graves on the Polk home
stead. Says a correspondent of the Uniontown
Genius of Liberty : We presume that it is
not very generally kn-nvn that nails were
first cut west of the mountains at Mount's
Creek, near Conellsville, Fayelte county.
Pa., at, the Mount's Creek Rolling Mill, by
oxen on a tread wheel. This mill was in
operation at a very early day, and supplied j
the then Iinuttd demand of the West
with cut nails.
Conceding that the Erie platform is
not entirely satisfactory on tho currency
question, it is letter even for the hard
money rren than the Republican, for,
while the former demands that "the vol
ume of money be made and kept, equal to
the wants f trade,' the Radical plat form 1
d eel .nes for 'a uniform tintiotml currency j
adjusted to the groin ng leant of the busi
ness interests of tho country.'
The terrible storm, that so fearfii".
devasiated the Texas coavt, developed a J
phase of equinoctial terrors that cnld not j
lie prophesied by the Weather hure in. The
effects of the storm were not confined to i
Galveston, but included the entire Texas ;
coast. The winds drove in the t-ea upon '
the land, till '.he island of Ga" vest-on -.n-d j
other points were entirely submerged, j
The loss of projierty is very gie;it, and that
:f life is very considerable.
When a Cleveland husband tires of
his wife, lie kills her. This saves the
trouble and excuse of coiner to Indiana i
for a divorce. A Mr. McGillan. of that i
city, took the former method of divorcing ;
himself a few days ago. but concealed the
body so bunglingly that it was discovered ;
on Monday, and he was cruel! v incarcerated 1
j in the common jai'. And now the Cleve- j
i landers aro talking alioni breaking up the j
custom by hanging Mr. McGillau. j
i Kearney, Neb., has again been the ;
j scene of a brutal mm der at t he hands of a !
i band of Texas herders. A party of thee j
desperados came in with a drove of cattle,
Thursday night, and camjied on tl.e Platte
River, at the edge of town, ami left their
horses go into a corn field. Collins, the
owner, drove out tlie horses. The herders
Friday morning went to town, got drunk,
and returned to their camp and attacked
Colt ins, shooting him five times and killing
hint instantly. The citizens oiganized and
s'arted in pursuit of the Texans.
I loll Gate, a rocky obstruction in the
channel of East River, New Yoik, is to be
exploded next summer. Tho work of ex
cavation has been done, ami now it re
mains only to drill the holes for the nitro
glycerine, and then puck them in the cold
weather, and fire them when the warm
weather comes. The engineer are very
confident that this oceanic Hell ('a e will
be heard of no more. But the Brooklv'n
Aron says. tlnse who nnder-mine the j
theological structure of the same name in I
that city have not been so successful. j
The damage done by the storm at J
Galve.-ton was rather insignificant after 1
nil. In some of the stieets houses were
floated from their foundations, ce llars were J
filled and the goods, Arc., in them destroyed;
a bridge was washed away, railroad tracks '
were tmn up and telegraph poles pros-'
staled, but at no time was the city in dan- j
ger of destruction. The disaster was bad j
enough of course, but in view of the sensa- j
tion.il telegraphic reports with which the 1
press has been filled for several days, the
actual damage sustained is insignificant. i
Win. H. Westervelt, on trial in Phi'a- ,
delphia for complicity in the abduction of
litile Charley Ross, was on Monday found
guilty on the last three counts of the in- !
dictment. Amotion for a new tiial was!
made. Both the district attorney and the j
Ross family deny the sensational story in 1
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,! iwnneij Known ro oe still alive,
and that there is a strong probability of'
his being shortly recovered, that the prose- j
cut ion in the Westervelt case have with- !
held some important evidence in further
ance of n plan which promises to restore
the lost boy to his parents, and that Wes
tervelt is U have a King sentence and to
be pardoned on the restoration of the lioy.
The Pqe on Friday conferred upon
the first American Cardinal the titular ju
risdiction over a particular Roman Chinch
which always accompanies that exalted
rank. The Archbishop of New Yoik is
now v nrnmai oi the Church of Santa Maria !
Sopra Minerva, one of the most interesting,
and since its recent restoration bv Pius IN, '
one of the most beautiful of the countless '
churches of the Eternal City. It occupies
the site of an ancient temple .r Mineiva, '
and has been closely connected in nioie !
modern days with the history of litertum :
through the noble Casatenseusia:i Library
which is housed in the adjoining convent.
A curious water gauge also on the facade of n
the chinch is well known to travellers, j
which records the height reached by the i
Titter in the greatest inundations of the
last four centuries. j
When the "limited" mail train arrived 1
at Elkhart, Ind., at 3:00 Thursday morn
ing, it was twenty five minutes late a de
lay caused by the heating of a journal box
on the sleeping car. The distu.ee to Chi
cago from Elkhart is 1G1 miles onlj-, and
the engineer who took charge of the train
looked doubtfully at the time table. His
name is Francis Osgood, and his woik in
carrying the train into Chicago fast enough
to recover the lost time so strained his
watchfulness and nerves that w hen he shut
the i hroltle of his engine in Chicago eight
minutes ahead of schedule time, he" fainted
away, and for a few minutes it was re
ported that he was dead. The announce
ment caused great excitement. A large
Iortton of the Chicago delegation break
fasted with the postal officers, w hen com
plimentary resolutions were passed and
pleasant replies were made. Ten thous
and tetters for Chicago were brought by
the fast mad train for distribution. The
New York newspapers, only a day old
were sold in tho hotels at tho same price as
the Chicago d.iilies.
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