EGK5L2U;?C, PA., Friday Mm n ins, - - Ocf. 15, 1S75. 1 JL . . I ' DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. ron ooveisxor r a in s i.. rnnsiiiXG, Of Schuylkill County. Fut stat:: treasuber r nvTon i:. viollkt, Of Bradford County. V v . . DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. FOK STATE SE.WATOU, SAMUEL IIEXSHKY, of IJIair Comity. KEOIKTEK AM ltECOHDKIt : JAMES M. SIXGFJJ, Ebensburg. tkeasi-ker : N. J. FREIDIIOFF, Concmaugh Boro'. C OMMISSION Fit. : JOHX CAMPHEL-L, Couemaugh Bora'. J. i. parrish, i:i.oi.shnr,j. POO It HOUSE HIHECTOU . JESSE PATTERSON, Johnstown. al iito:: : JOHX B- ROSS, Wncklirk Township. I P. MCCORMICK", Wihuoie. Sinf.y, recently on trial in Clear field. w;ts !iffnitU'(l, s:iys the Commer cial ami Gitzefte, both Pittsburgh pa pers, because he was a Catholic ami a Democrat, and a jury of twelve men, all Protestants, wire afraid to convict him. As tiiney is neither a Catholic nor a Democrat, the I'o.'t is at a loss to know whete the joke comes in. Ilo.x. Samlet. H Himmick, Attor ney (jeneral of this State, lied at Ilar risbu rr on last Monday night. At the time of his appointment he in Honesdal, .Susquehanna county, and nn ' was oi! ot the numerous ami wen Known iMintnicu tamilv, ol norm oas- tern Pennsylvania, many members of which have held high and honorable sitions in the Drmoeratie party. Tlie deceased, however was a Ilepub lican and w;;s appointed Attorney tJeneral by Governor Hartranft in lar.unr-, 17.1. lie was a gentleman of well recognized ability in his pro fession and of pure and unsullied per- ! soiial character. As a public olliecr, and as the legal adviser of the Gover nor he discharged his duties faithfully, abl- and conscientiously.. He was ;; years of age at the time of his death. Tub Democratic conferees from this Senatorial district (Cambria and Hlair) i at their meeting at Altoona-yesterday week, nominated Samcel IIkxsiiey, of li'air county, as the Democratic can didate for State Senator. The contest for the nomination was In-twcen .Mr. Jli-nshey and XV M. II. Seciii.f.r, Ksq., of this place, the conferees from this county steadily, as they were bound in l.onor to do, voting for the later named gentlemn:!, while the conferees . J i from IJIair unifoimly voted for lltxsiiEY. Alter a somewhat pro tracted, but friendly, struggle in the j foil Terence, Mr. Securer w ithdrew his j Maine, and Mr. IIknsi.ky W;;s unani-1 nvMisiy nonunaied. -ir. IIENMIEY is a gentleman of high respectability and of well known integrity, lie is em phatically a man of the people, being a working man himself. He is a gen tleman of intelligence and is entirely ecmietent to represent the people of this (lis riet in the Senate. XVc pro jmsc next week to discuss the merits of himself, as well as of the 1'epuli lican candidate, John Lemon', and re view their respective claims upon the wiitfrages of the people of the district. We do not entertain the sligliest doubt about -Mr. Hensiiey's election. The district is Democratic, and with such a popular and unexceptionable candi date as Samcel Hensiiey is admitted to be, success at the election is assured in advance. The election in Ohio on Tuesday last, resulted in the success of the Re publican State ticket by majorities ranging from six to ten thousand, the majority for Hayes, tlie Ilepublican candidate for Governor, over Am.ex In-iiig estimated at the latter figure. The lield was stubbornly contested by lMth pirties, and although a Demo cratic victory was hnjil for, it Avas not iKisaiblu for various well known reasons, t roin 1 o.i.i opto the election of Allen ns Governor in 1874 by the ! radical friends will haAe to try some meagre majority of -Si 7, a period of ' thing else : eighteen years, the Democratic party ' Wtsox, SeptemWr 25, 1875. Mer. only carried the State once, viz: in t .rftV r Bwtifurd Importer: I observe in 1862, when it succeeded in electing its ! ,,ie ,ast of v"nr, vmYer 5 rvJ tof a - ... i: i r - r o tt ! rer served upon my husbar.d ami myself in candidate for Secretary of State. All t C(lljity SsSMcd ,,y he col1I.ts of I5?adfoid the other elections were uniform lie- comity. - Whenever served with notice to publican triumphs. This lieing so, ; reply, all the allegations in this bill of com the success of the Democratic ticket ! l ,:lil,t be satisfactorily answered, and last Tuesday was simply a matter of ''l vindicate the personal honor of my .... , . , .... 1 - . .. w i I usbanil. A hatevcr he has done at any political impoesipmiy, ami tlie Jesuit ! Ma?e of ,e i)Isiness nffni,.K of my father's must not discourage any Democrat in ; i state or his family, he has done at my in this State from his Avhole duty at the j stance and by my request, and for which 1 election two weeks from next Tuesday. a,OITe "m i-eiiisible. The Ohio Democracy, in addition to lbving published a form of legal nro ,, 4, , lit i ..,. u- . .reeding in advance of a reply to preiii- s!l this, had local difficulties to con- (lire my husband, as I supiKje, in public tend with In their own ranks Tviih j estimation I ask you to give through the which their brcthctn in Pennsylvania same rhannel this communication. Onlv are not emUiras.ed. All the political ' ""narking that my husband has always ftigns iMiint to the election of Pershinrr i fe" wn.ler kind ""vice oH i i- ii 4 i .i -i i I ' . thc member of my family. lam, most re- nn.l 1 lollet, and thev u ill !e tritim-; SIcifiilly, yours, Jane S. Piollet. phantly elected if every' Democrat I discharges his full duty. In Iowa the Toavaxpa, September 27, 1875. Editor flection on the same day resulted as a Ih-ndford Jlrporter: The complaint in ln itter of course in the success of the ' ,1"if3r issued by the court of Bradford Iiadieal State ticket by about 30.000 ! "J""' H:"'.'' f T'Ti. " .be?"" . .. ' i t v. It bout a full knowledge of the situation majority. Ao man outside ofta litna- of the C(,w Bntl npon information which I tie asylum looked for anything else, have since found wa erroneous. This en- It was simply the old storv of the tire transaction lias been satisfactorily ar Jhilrh taUnv'folfnnd. " hanged nnd settled without impairing my i c cj" " it t i rontideneo in my children. Jane S. and F. feince the foregoing article was Vjclor K I.ioIlefr. As ;!ir v'r hal written ami put in type, the situation piVen to the public what appears to place lias been materially changed by the me In an unkind and hostile attitude to very latest news brought bv the Pitts- wards those from whom I have alwuya le- buro-h naners of to-dav iThuisda vV ! Tlie rosult in the State is of course not definitely known, but the Demo, crats claim that Allen Is not defeated by more than 2.T00, if he Is defeated t lit all. Iliso "pyi-l, WlM.lA.M Ai.i.kn J Cyrus L,. 1'ershing. Tt was expect ed that the indieal pa pers throughout the State would pour upon the head of Cyrcs L. Peushino bubiu.w the vinlsof their Passionate wrath and heap upon him all manner of vile po- litien.lnlm.se. If they had pursued a i:. t. not. hnvp ditlerent course they would not have . . tt 1 - been true to their wen earneu rcpuia- Hons and to tueir well Known political ' instincts. Judge Pershixo has, there- fore, been ami still is a bright and of radical calumny and defamation. But these envenomed political and even personal shafts will fail to hit the man at whose breast they arc aimed, and will recoil witli fearful effect upon those who are attempting to speed the bow. In Cambria county, where Cyrcs L. Persuing lias spent most of his life, and where he is respected as a high minded, honorable man, no answer is needed in his defence. There is not a man, nor is there a lady, in this whole county who is personally acquainted with Cyrus L. PeivUing who will not endorse him as a high-toned gentleman and "an honed man, the nolnert work f (iod." Whatever any Ilepublican in this county jnay think orsay about his political views and opinions, he will not ilmp to im mite to him a want in the slightest degree of ersMial mteg ! rit v. The honest and unbongh. voters i of this county elected him forjlce suc ' cesMve vcars to rrpresent them in the j lower branch of the Legislature. That 'was a high and manly expression of : their perfect confidence in his integrity I such a confidence as Cambria coun ty has never belore reposed in anyone of her citize ns, although some of her b.-t men had before that time and xince baen honored with their suffrages as their representatives at 1 1 fin ishin g. I It was just after the rebellion com ! meneed in ISfil that Cyrcs L. Persii- TNd was first elected to the Legislature, a N-nn.Ev (I Ccrtix. known to all the neonle of this State as the '"War Gov ernor" was then the Executive of this Commonwealth, in full sympathy with President Lincoln ami the friends of "the Union now and forever, one and inseparable." Did Cyrcs L. Pershinii, by any vote or any act of his as a member of the Legislature ever betray his country in the struggle that was then tending and upon the result of which the very cxiotence of this government delud ed ? Did he ever raise his voice or cast his vote against any of the Avar measures of Governor Ccrti.n? If any man refuses or hesitates, let him a-k Andrew G. Ccrtin, and surely no soldier from Pennsylvania will doubt what Ccrtin then said and what he oir says aoout tnc ame ami eiueieni j support that Mr. Pershing gave to his j administration, in regard to tlie Avar, Cyrcs L. Pershixo is fully and squarely on the Lerjixlntin' Jieeord, as witness the following in 1802, the first year during which he represented the people of this eonntr. It can be found in the Lerfisfatire Jieeord of said year, page 2.V2 : Mr. Pershing (on leave given't offered the following resolut ion, which was twice read: That this house has heard with feelings of patriotic joy I lie intelligence of the capture of Fort Donaldson, and we here by tender the thaeks of the people of Penn sylvania to the gallant ottieers and men of the army and navy, who, ty the recent A'ie turies at. ltoanoke Islam!, Fort Henry and Fori Donaldson, have added new bistre to the American name, blighted tlift hopes of treason and of traitors, and thrown an im perishable glory over the age and nation. Did ever Cyrcs L. Pershixo in all his subsequent legislative career go back on this resolution ? Never. We therefore conclude as aac began, that Cyrcs L. Persiunu needs no defence at our hands. He stands here amongst his old associates and friends as a man without guile and without reproach knoAvn and honored in all the length and breadth of Cambria county, whose people at the ballot boxes, the crucible to test the merits of candidates for political honors, will pive him xmh an endorsement as will do honor to him and at the same time confer lasting credit upon themselves. For want of a letter objection to j ii.. T i:. l . r I ine i 'eiuoci ulu: i.imuiuuv lor oiaie Treasurer, the radical newspapers have laid gieat stress upon a statement they circulated that Col. Piollet had leen sued by his mother-in-law. Now that the following correspondence very ef fectually disposes of that canard, our ceived love and kindnesa. 1 ceiveii love aim kimmesR, i ucs.re you to i givo thii tlie same circulation through the columns or your pajier. Respectfully yours, Eliza Miller. The workingmen of Philadelphia will st a solid vote for Pershing and Piollet, 1 cist riollctor 2IacI;cijA Great infer ence. ti.o nnm;.intirn of 1'ioli.et to be State Treasurer of Pennsylvania is rewired with . , Uil nPW , possessioe. ,, m M.ky. the present Treasurer, aualices the most remarkably objecton 'to him we have' yet seen "" iicwsuaner the f.'i.I 1 ittslniign voinmer- newsuaner- rial that Piou. ,t is not tit to be TYeasu- , , . to tke a b'iibc Al)OUt tliit-ty years ago, Piollet, , .. member of the legislature, was j 0Tevcd a sum of money for his vote, and I mcu a .wiei . . -ccount. WM hi-'hly scandalized, and borated himsotuid- t r..r a.nt .f fckill." Iet us see precise ly how these pentlemen differ in their treac f o t.-iKl.-.f-d bribe, and we may then le aMe to understand the true reason of Mr. Macket's disgust. In the winter of 184S a petition for the repeal of a certain bank charter was pre sented to the lower house of the Pennsyl vania Legislature, and referred to a com mittee, of which Mr. Pioi.I.et was a mem ber. Three of tlie seven committee men were in favor of, and four, counting Pioi, T.ETr were against the bank. The bank atrent endeavored to persuade Pioi.I.et that lAvas his duty to vote against repeal ; but failing in that, made various attempts to secure his support by offers of money to his friends, and even to his aged father, all of whieh iurfignantly refused the proposals. j At lrngth he went fluectiy to i ioi.i.kt wmi ' an offer of $400 cash, and $100 conditional. Mr. Pioi.i.kt took into Ms commence three or four of the purest and lest men of the d:y among them Judgo Lavokte and the late Jesse Mim.ek and determined to teach the bribe-giver a lesson. When he calkd again he told him to put the mon ey in a drawer, from which it. was immedi ately taken by the landlord of the house, counted, doue up in a package, and sealed. With ihis package in lain hands PiOl.T.ET walked into the House the next morning, and after denouncing i" tilting terms the attempted crime and the rotten bank in whose interest it was undertaken, he laid the money on the Speaker's desk, from which it was in due time removed by a resolution to the Court of Quarter Sessions. The exposure w as followed not only by a leg islative investigation, by which these facts were .established, but by a criminal triaL and the conviction of the bank agent, who unlike the bi ihe-givers or bribe-takers of to-day, served his allotted term in prison, and wp.s never nominated for Governor or State Treasurer. lint Mr. Pioi.i.et's old fashioned repug nnnre to bribery, and his summary met hod of meeting it in his own case, have excited Mr. Mackey's piofound contempt. He doubtless regaids Mr. Pioi.i.et's conduct as an exhibition of brutal integrity, of which no properly educated gentleman, could possibly be guilty. If be was too squeamish to put the money in his own pocket, be might at least have refrained from putting it on the Speaker's table, and thus spoiling othci iieople's chances. It is not Mr. Mackey's way. He ran take a bribo with a grace which defies criticism, and which no expert from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh would venture to denounce as not being perfectly skillful. When KiciiMOxn L. Jons offered $1(7, 000 in the second mortgage bonds of the soulli Pennsylvania lion and Haiboad Com. j,nny tu induce Mackey to put the money of the State where Jones could" borrow it, he didn't call in a parcel of honest witness es, w ith idiotic scruples almnt taking mon ey for a public act, but chucked the bonds in his pocket and gave the requisite order. A little further on he had his own name erased from the books of the Company and C L. Magee's fraudulently written over it as the recipient of the bonds; and still further on he swore with a gieat deal of complacency that the iH.nds really belonged to the Allegheny Xational Bank, and were purchased from Mac.ee for a bona fide con sideration. This part of the business, in- volving a neat and perilous feat of perjury, was A-rry "skillfully" managed, and excited considerable admiration at the time. If Jones and the Treasurer of the Com pany had been equally deft, Mackey might have got away with the money, and left ns to guess as to what might be his peculiar way of treating a bribe as contrasted with that of Mr. Pioixet. As it is, however, the pople can take their choice. If Mack ey had been in Pioi.i.et's place the bank agent would have saved his charter and gone ahead with his swindling machine. If Piom.et bad been in Mackky's place, .Tones would have been collared and hand ed over to the Court of Quarter Sessions, where he might have been rendered useful as an example. Will the people of Penn sylvania choose the vaunted ski'dof Mackey or the sturdy integrity of Pioi.I.et? A". Y. Sun. The True Tssce. The true issue, after all, in Pennsylvania, is honesty in the ad ministration of State affairs against the public robbery of the Cameron-Mackey lling. What we want is to stop the steal ing of the money of tlie Commonwealth. We can only do that by tnrning thieves out ? ? and r"tting Lonest men iu tLcir l"'yp' Cyras L. Pershing is the terror of the Ring and of all the public robbers in the State. He gave them a sample of his stem, unbending justice when he sent the three peculating Commissioner!! of Schuylkill county to the penitentiary. The Treasury thieves know that his election means not only no more stealing, but public prosecu tions of criminals in high places, convic tions, imprisonments and restitution. They knew that when one of these public robbers gets into prison no question of party policy, as in the case of Yerkes, can get, him out. He will make stealing odious and unprofitable. The King doesn't want a G overnor like Pershing. They prefer a man who was, according to Forney, a joint ojerator with Yerkes in stocks. Victor E. Piollet suits them still lesa. That honest old Granger is as firm as the adamantine hills. He calls a spade a spade, and with him theft is then. As Treas urer of the State, and with the workingmen of Pennsylvania at his back, he w ould make sharp work of the rascals who have brought reproach upon the Commonwealth. They don't want Piolle. Hut the people want Cyi ns L. Pershing for Governor and Victor E. Piollet for. State Treasnrer, and they will have them both. Let every Democrat and Liberal Republican go to woik, and it is not so much a question of electing these honest men, a it is whether their majority fchall lie ten thousand or fifty thousand. Push on the column. Vena nga Sjtectator. An extraordinary coal deposit has re cently been found in Uinlah county, Wy oming Territory. A newspaper correspon dent states that the mines or rather series of mines, is located in a sandstone motm- j tain, about four and a half miles long, run ning north aim south, and about three quarters of a mile across ; the mountain dipping suddenly at each end. There are sixteen veins of coal in 6ight ; the bottom one is the smallest, being five feet ; the next, is the largest and most easy of access, and is upwards of seventy feet thick ; the uext above is sixty feet : another of forty feet; another of about thirty feet; five of aliout twenty feet each ; the last one is about twelve feet altogether about four nnmlred teet or coil four and a half miles I long ; in fact, it may be correctly termed a mountain of coal, j Thrilling Xarraliic. SUSAXNAH PEN PI.ETON S RECITAL OE IIER . HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE IS THE LATH DEVASTATING FLOOD IN TEXAS. No more thrilling narrative could be im agined or described than that relating t Miss Susannah Pendleton's experience in the irreat storm, told, as Tt was, in the lan guage of truth and simplicity, conveying a ; 1 . . : . 1 n n .ill 1 1 1 1 .1 19VA fl 1 itlf It. I IVI J.ll'A ... ' -' - -" - - j nntr ntlipr wav. Passing as she did through ! all and moro dangers than any other, wit- nessing the death of one after another of ; her acquaintances and feliow-sttKerens hearing t he despairing entreaties sent forth by agonized lips to the throne of the Most Highifor nelp and succor and mercy in those terrible hours that fearful day and night, when the awful majesty of Gd re vealed itself in the sublime tempest that sw ept away scores of lives and a nourishing city of five thousand lnltalutams. Wednesday came the first indication of! a severe storm, though so nsual were a. I the phenomena that no more than usual j results were anticipated. The waters of j the bay rose six or seven inches more than customary, but did not alarm those who had seen tlie same thing occur many timts before, with no more serious resu!.s. TJnirsday morning daw'ited, lowering with heavy storm clouds, and with the wind blowing strongly and fiercely from the east. The waters rose still higher, yet still no more danger was felt. Evening came with an increaseof wind, when the bay filled high with waters from the Gnlf, and the bayou, near where their houses was, aided in the destruction commenced at an early hour Thursday evening. First, the watei lap ped gently the streets ; then a little higher the doorstep; higher still, and it was upon the floor of the house. He fore this, we would have had time to cook dinner, as Miss Susannah said, "so that in case Ave did have to take to the b.ats, we'd have plenty to eat." Ere the meat would have time to cook the water was sweeping through the room and over the stove. Retreat was made to the upper story, all the valuables and movable effects of the family having already been placed there. Other eisous (neighbors and friends of Mr. Morrison, whose house of two stories, strongly built, was deemed safe and secure) had taken refuge with him, driven from their own homes ty the using wafer. In the luimamty and love bo.., by the old man to-I si8 down 'by a hole in the crner very , ward those of his km.! , dange, and want, j ,mjch Hke a c;lt witl, ,,ei. ,3x,.f, he had that evening, though hfty-four j ,,n.ow. She sometimes occupies this po jears of age and feeble in s length, gone j B,ion fwr a hour without moving, till a , from bouse to house, throng , water up to j monsc makes its aniiCalancc. when, with a 1 his waist, and gathered into his own habi tat ion those Avho were not so securely situ ated as he. So the night closed in npon those thirty five devilled men. women and children, twenty-four of whom ivere never again to see the dawn never again to clasp each other by the hand, and many to be denied even the lites of burial. Harder and harder raged the mighty wind, higher rose llie remorseless bay, un til the second floor, upon which the lor, terrified creatures were gathered, was reached. Then arose to Heaven a wailing cry of distress; from distracted mothers, with their little ones at their breasts, from stiong men stricken w ith an aw ful fear, and from tiny child lips did that cry go up. O, mother, Mrs. Cole, when entreating foe mercy in that fearful hour, was cheered by comfort from a sowee hardly expected. From the bps of her little fonr-vear old daughter, above the raging of the wind and the sea without, and the cries of te rror within, fell Avoids that will linger forever in the memory of those who heard them "Don't cry, mamma ; God will not let us die! God will save us don't, don't cry, mamma God did, indeed, answer her prayer, and saved the hTe of the little pe titioner, and mamma and papa, too. And a little two year old boy in the same room, clinging to his mother's knee, every time the waves would wet bis little feet would shudder from the contact of the cold ele ment, and repeating the cries he heard around him, would exclaim, over and over again, "Mamma, mamma ; save me ! save me !"' Oh, it must have been terrible, in that small room, the furious wind threatening every moment to tear the roof from over their heads, with the giant waves, their white crests laden with the timbeisof some ruined w harf or wrecked vessel, and serv ing as a battering ram with which to tear down their frail protection ; it must have been terrible to hear the wailing cries of those children, and know that no hope, no snccoi, no chance of life, existed but in the feeble security ftered by the weak building iu which they stood. Son a plank from a part of the house most exposed was torn off. Instantly the consuming waters rush ed throngh ; another, and still another, widening the opening, and revealing to the unfortunates within the terrible and "never tosbe-forgoiten scene of stormy ruin and destruction which met their first glance outside. Hut little timo then had they to see or think. Almost coincident with the tearing aw ay of the sides of the house, the roof was lifted bodily up and set down in the water outside, close beside the thior upon which the people were standing. Some six or seven, Susannah among the number, jumped from the insecurity of the tottering building to the roof, believing it would float and sustain them. Tn the brief moments before all were seperated occurred scenes nei-er to be forgot ton. Ciptain Lawtan was attempt ing to save one woman who was struggling in the water. Several times he attempted to pull her upon the raft upon which he was but she would not desert her children. "Let me die, but save my children," were the last woids the poor woman spoke. All were lost herself and both little ones. Upon every hand now was seen the struggling forms of despairing men and women, and the witness says that all about her could be seen long hair and white faces floating in the water, belonging to those whose spirits had gone to their Creator, borne upon the w ings of the terri ble Storm King. Hut little while did the frail support bear the combined weight of the six or sev en gathered upon it. Ere it fell to pieces young Willie Morrison saw bis mother floating by on a single plank. Jumping from his position he swam to it, took her back to the roof with him, and had barely placed her in fancied security when it parted, seperating in pieces too small to aiTord refuge, when the mother, so gallantly rescued, went down to rise no more. Susannah, with the little sister of Capt. Hrennnian in her arms, had taken refuge npon a large timber from one of the wreck ed wharves. A tame bear, a pet of Mr. Morrison's family, swam to it, crossed t, and wound arope that was around his neck, several times around her body. "How I got it off I cannot tell," she said, "but pres ently I becamo disentangled from the coil, and hardly had I shoved the animal away lirn li.lfVA TA n 1 . : a 1. .M..i " i.vt "uitii n'.inoHi, lmmeni- i ately buried me and the little one below ' llie surface, threw across the bear's bodv a 1 large log, crushing his life out, savintr c- nie same time ner liokl upon the child Avas lost, and it, too, sank with one last wild cry of "Oh, save me, Susie, save me !" Regaining her hold upon the friendlv : . l . , . . . plank with all her companions gono, with .... iiiieui, nope 01 ine, ner presence or mind and courage, her faith in God did not yet desert her. Far ont npon the wild waste of waters she loafed, with the frail nPP w tliat single plank bet ween her and eternity. How far, or iu what dircc- lion, she was carried she knew not, nor iui,Kor frr.ir. One mo I t. u ... . i.a tict ir a Ii litre" j llieill. fciie wou.u w.. - - - - wave, auu me next in me ooou with what she supposed to be whole houses aliout to fall nin lier head. How she es- caped being crushed to deal h by t he mass of limber amidst which she floated she can never explain. Hut with body bruised, torn and lacerated, with herclothes almost eutirely stiipi-ed from her body, she still floated on, wherever the winds ana waves carried her. Friday morning ner ieeC ! struck a knoll upon ,on the prairie, niee miles from Tndianola. She lrajrfen Iierseli to higher ground, w hen f rom a sense of safety , and overpowering fatigue, she liy down! where she was, part of the time in an old , empty hogshead, and fell fast asleep. j When she awoke she found an old quilt ; near, which she wrapped around her. un til hi got where some men were working atxiut a schooner, where more clothes were j given her. She remained iu camp, where also wcro Mrs. McFarland and her family. who were all saved, until a vessel came take them olT, when she carre immediately to Corpus C'hristi, as full of life and hcilth, albeit 'a little bruised, as she w as before the storm, but thankful with eA-ery thought to God for her preservation. Corpus Christi Times. A C4tt Child. THE It EM A Tt K A ni.E HISTORY OF A CHILD THAT HAS A STKANCE TASSIOX I'OK CATCHING MICE. An Erie correspondent of the Cincinnati Inquirer says : A singular phenomenon is just now creating a sensation a few miles south of this city, in the shape of a mouse catching infant, surpassing in rxpertness the agility of the best canine or feline mouser in the country. The report of this singular freak of nature reached meso weli authenticated that I concluded to gratify my curiosity, and possibly be sold, as I had often been ; but to my surprise the fact- turned out more remarkable than the re jKtrt represented, and the most astonishing natural wonder I ever witnessed. The lit tle girl iu question is a tririe over a year old, and can but just begin to run about the house and yard. The moment she works and gets out of her crib she g'es to the old kitchen fire-place, which is infest- ' suririen start aim apparently without any effort, she seizes her victim by the neck. s soon as her prize is secured she seems to be electrigcd with joy and trembles from head to foot, uttering a kind of wild mur mur or growl, resembling the half-suppressed snarl of a eat. On arriving at the house and making known the object of my visit the mother expressed the willing ness to give me an exhibition of t he. strange peculiarity of the baby, providing I would promise not. to make their names public, assheseemed todread the notoriety already given to the affair. T, of course, made the required promise, and had the privilege of witnessing with my own eyes a perform ance so wondeiful and novel that I can never forget the impression it made. The babe was asleep when I arrived, and on awaking she started at once on her strange mission. She is a beautiful little blonde, of delicate features and bright blue eyes. i nuisitclv-formed golden curls, alvuit the aim ner nair lies an over ner neaii in ex circle of a dime. There is nothing unus ual about the countenance of I he child or different from I hat of any pretty-featured baby, except, while stalking her game. Then her eyes become glistening and Hxed, sparkling like gems, and her face and hands turn pale as waxr while she appears to no- lice nothing going on around her. but keeps her eyes steadily ce-itereo cn the burrow w hence she expects her game to sally forth The mother, an oldest sister of the child, and myself, sat in a semi circle around her, silent, as if in a spiritual seance, waiting for the signal of departed spirits. Had no mouse made its appearance, the sight Avas one never to be forgotten the deathly pale face of that motionless child, ami the riveted, sparkling eyes concentrated for thirty minutes on that mouse hole in the brick hearth. During that half hour Ave neither moved noi spoke above a whisper, when suddenly like the springing of a trap, the liltle thing's hands went down on the health, followed by the fine squeak of the mouse, and that strange, low growl and singular tremor of the lMdy of the child. As usual, she held the tiions? by the neck in her right band while it squirmed des perately to get away. She then pressed it gently and softly with the other hand ; then would dexterously change hands, care fully keeping her grip on the neck to avoid its bite, though her mother told me she had Iteen frequently bitten, and while sensitive to pain and crying at the least ordinary hurt, she never was seen to show the least pain from the biie of a mouse. I examined her fingers, and found oi"r..- -m uil litem . f . . cn . J ; . T .1 1 j n"" o. mi., (jiui-.i iiiiciTs nic nan neen ooil-ii. i.i.-n n i.-.to.e now ine leat naa 1 been accomplished, but it was done so sud denly there was no time to analyze it. Yet frequent observations, that the mouse w hen once out 01 its hole, seems to become charm- ' . in, Kioiiii, lilKfll ed or magnetized and has no power, at least shows no disposition to escape till caught, when it is too late. If any one approaches the child to take the mouse away from her, she will utter a shrill scream and then try to concoal the prize by putting it into her mouth children, but I guess this is the first mouse catching baby yet developed. I wonder how Darwin would evnlaiA h .1 instinct by the laws of evolution and natu ral selection? ... " " " ' Jctioe PEitsniNO at Home. A corres pondent of the Reading Eagle at Pottsvillo, writing in regard to Democratic prospects in Schuylkill county, says : Judge Pershing stands well in this com munity, and it is confidently expected that he will carry Schuylkill county by at least 2,500 majority. You can't ask a poor man or a woikingman in Judge Pershing's , neighborhood but who will tell you thatlie I is an honest man and a warm friend of him who earns his bread by the sweat of, his brow. The people in Pottsville haA-e great faith in Pershing ; they believe in ! bim and trust in him ; and further tbey ' are going to support him for Governor, j Some gentlemen in hich standing iml who are supposed to know something about politics, think his majority iu the State will reacli 25tU(K votes. T was talking to a representative miner about Gov. Hartranft, when the gentleman said that there was no use in him exiee.t ing any support from them. The men were "? utspoken as a general thing, but I,,eT w,ll voo against lnm, as they say he naa no right or cause to treat men vim were struggling for their rights in such a disgraceful manner by menacing them with armed troops from all parts of the State. This is the general feeling among the mi ners, and they will vote against Hartranft. Colonel Thomas Jefferson Randolph, who died on the Tt li iust., was the grand son and literal y executor of Thomas Jeffer son. He presided in the Haltimore demo, cratic national convention in 1872, which nominated Horace Grcclcy for preside ut. Xcu t.nU J'nlitical Ileitis. In Glade towr.shiis Warren county, there are eleven pairs of twins. -'In Lebanon county there is a lady ninety-five years old w ho does her ow n house woik. . The Catholic church at Doylestown was robbed of all its sacred vessels on Wednesday evening. Mrs. Swim, the mother of the Sharps- T M la 1 At I1P6i1iIm1 Willi fl (H)ff . , , ! : j : m n-r - t y yr , . ; o o inn.-.r v.......... , . indemnity, sentenced twenty two prisoners eight to the eastern penitent iaiy. The fortrmeof Gen. Giant is now no less than $1,000,000. and- is still growing. Iu lSfiO it was less than 703 year. Andrew Hurke, Esq., one of the oldest members of the Allegheny county bar, died on Saturday evening last, at an ad vanced age. An Allentown family has been dis covered in such extreme destitution that their only food during three days was one green cucumber. Cardinal McCloskey bade farewell to the Pope and Cardinal Antonelli on the 0th, preparatory to his departure from Rome for this country, A woman in Massachusetts fed a tramp the other day, after which he asked if be might go to lied long enough for her to wash and iron his shirt. Mgr. Roneetti, wh brought over Car dinal MeCloskey's lnretta, has written a letter in'whicli he expresses bis great giat ification at Lis handsome reception iu this country. Rernard Rradly, of Lawrence, Mass., while drunk, on Saturday night, beat his wife over the bead with a bottle and then jMinred lioiling water over her. She can not recover. Philadelphia is happy. In demolish ing an old building in Minor street, about two bundled old Hessian soldier h;its were fonnd secreted in the rafters, "in time for the centennial." A young lady living in Lancaster got the blues the other day. and tMk a Oyi'ig leap from a third-story window, alighting on the pavement with such force as to re ceive fatal injuries. A novel funeral took place at Antrim, N". H., some time ago. A deaf mute dy ing in that city, his funeral was attended by l. deaf mutes, to whom the sermon was interpreted by signs. Italy will apjoint a committee of Italians resident in America to ect at the eentennialexbib-tion at Philadelphia. T!;e Pope will send two mosaics representing the Madonna by Raphael. j to . , I , J . At. Hordeiilown, 2. J., on Monday I evi iling, Mrs. Failing, in coming down stairs, tiiped and fell, breaking her neck anil killing herself instantly. She was a widow and leaves one ehiid. There is an old man engaged as a com positor in one of the Lancaster printing offices who still winks at case' although 71 years of a. For forty years he lias been employed in the same ofrirp. (1. T. Heard, chaiged with an ngcia vated assault on two gills a nionih since, at Conyers, Georgia, wa tried on Saturday and convicted. He committed suiciie im mediately afterwaids by taking morphine. Thomas Devine, the night watch man at the Palmer colliery, mar Xew Philadel phia, Sch ii a lkill county, wasshotaml prob ably mortally woundtd on Monday night while on his way to woik. The assassins cscajicd. .V sacrcligious thief entered the Pick bytcrian church Noilh Eist Alereer county, a week ago Sunday stole the Hible from the pulpit, words pawned it for a dollar, been recovered. The sum of ?12,frXt, blackmailed from the Department clerks at Washington, has been sent into Pennsylvania to aid in eleetillrr flip Tri-Hiinr I.'iixr It !c t!,. I people to sav whether o.o" State iM.litirs I wt.-.n l. l.....',.. i... .i... : :.. power. The English steamer P.iscay, belon;- mg to .New t nstle, England, stranded ofl" Jut Island, while on a voyage from Coon strandr, Urewer Haven. Eleven persons were drowned. The Hiscay was an iron steamer built in 1S72, and Avas owned in London. After the little body of a child was transferred from one lot to another in the rew Haven cemetery, on Monday last, a j bard lalH.r"' pronounced, he :; little black-aud-tan dog belonging to the I forward and shook iike a ) deceased lay down on the mound, could ! tipstaff removed him to ti e i : not be driven or coaxed away, and at last j was seen that he was cixinj -accounts was still keeping faithful watch. ! and when he t.n.k his sVar"Y A disheartened tailor, while nndei the i head in his hands, am! on i;n : influence of liquor, tried tocommit suicide. On Thursday nilit M in-. i at Rahway, Xew Jersey, on Saturday I sentenced to ten years inq. i n morning last, by stabbing himself nineteen : her escatic from prison in I. f; rimes in ine heart and live times in the breast. He did not succeed in the attempt, and then tried to hang himself with his susjienders. Mrs. S. IT. Griffin, of Xilcs. Mich., re cently exhibited at a local fair a linen ta ble-eloth nearly one hundred years old, which was spun and woven by "her ereat- gratid -mother in 170; a bed spread one ' i-iii nil. I Il.tll.1 KM C!; lei lot n.1 i-rl x-rn.-a ..1 I 11 i r maile sixtv voire oirn These articles are to be sent t.i Philadelphia next year. There is a school of politicians who believe that jtoveity, bankruptcy and crime. , llWllICt i-i-j oiw 1 . thievery and feiTterin il iToffiS ! are no lenroarh in a iiatimi Iml tt.n existence of a greenback is a burning na tional shame and disgrace. This sclutol of thieA-es now have control of the govern ment. .... ............. me li H" 1 A citizen of ITolbrook, Mass., lias sold in eighteen years, from a single peach tree were sold as liiMi n S::r. o i)n,n . I r, .i ... oo " , . ' -l " v l" - ' I tliemat mi avcrace 01 k s a riii,n The fi-tttl. -n ciiieny sold iu the months of February and March. A curious potato was grown in a Utica garden this season. It resembles the for ward portion of the left f.tot of a man, being iu good proportion, and all the toes being well defined. So close is the re semblance that the toe nails m- itini-Irn.l ti. the natural eves of iho rutin In ttus! 1 toes are joined for a short distance gioupsor two, asisoUeu the case in the human foot. One by one. the States arc eomin to adopt the same date, or nearly the same, for holding their Gubernatorial elections. Among the results or the election in Con necticut on Monday was the adoption of a constitutional amendment making the State election occur in Xovemlter ami ex tending the term of office of the Governor j two years. This will greatly lessen the iiiipriirtiiceni ine elections : r hereafter as they will at tl.e a. ;.,. with those of other and larger States, their political significance will Ite almost lost. The Catholic Total Al.si 01 America, recently in session at St, Louis, ii.t,it.-u me lonowing oliicers lor the ensn ing year: President, Very Rev were adopted approving the erection .-.f Ihn ; cenienniai lountam in Fan-mount Park, and appointing a committee consisting ,f the presidents of the subordinate unions to take charge of the matter and to issuo a call to the local societies for fund. Tho convention adjourned to meet iu Philadel phia on the ilh of July next. i 1? t i j , , io i icsuieiii.s, noie opj.ortun.tv pi.co.. , . , Kev. John IV. Colter, of Minnesota, and j bim thionh the heart- iU ery Lev. F. X. J. Michaud, of Xew shot was standing on a bai.''-""',, . Hrunswick; General Secretary, James W. fell int.. the river. It wa '"'J . O Hrien, of New York ; Treasurer, T. IJ. land Ilium!, suspicions -f f"'1 ' ... McCormick, of Rhode Island. Resohuiotw ! .t.i..4.;..JT.i .i.J. ns no V"' ... ! A SU!I FlMIU l.c . lnr. . out a brood i,f c-i. , 1., , . " brought oirf tlie .vlK. t.. reaveineiu -f H-.; ,,, , r saw a rat skuH:ii: trif l strengthen,-, niton uiai. im f-1-...t and dropped him i:,t., ;, i'.'" rat was drowned ;js V.'" took warning a.ml U t ti ,"V r i years or the Ilarifow aiPI; wasgiveu a tho.n.,1,,,1 , "Tk1 n... tvr j! passenger f ir f.;.. j. baggage ear !.. : turning tlie I'Tsm :,. , ",, .,' it. to him. c!.iiiiin. t , j.'., ticket. Mc!vi:iiiry" savings bank, h:,'.,. i( t I. : I" story lias r!; ;i 1,..,.;, per, yet no ciaui-int A timber iii.-ic! ts it-. lias en exhibit i,.,i 'nit ;., Alabama, w hicli U t;,; i . . i ... . lllll-C illiu .1 1 1 a . I It l v . ; v:,, rhes thick, a'id is :;. , This is jii t-h.rt.lv Hip !:,, ... ' ever seen in any iimi l:,.f nia. The e:ir.).a:.: t.Mi V sei Ved for otirCei.te.mi:,; j- ' tree from l.ih il. i", " must have iiie.i-u; cd .i J diameter. Mr. T..rr. f A,,i(i,T -just surpassed ni.y; .,( ' . '' ern times in the M:r.. r '.' lie is oe.e of the p.-...,;-. .... . .. of Great Hritain. A f. eignry-iive ainei .: average f '2,."i."i I'tieed beat. ?1O.SM0, and oti,,,' 7,r00, So.o-in t vv,, at from l.OMto s: ;i.t i; r , : . a . 1 1 , : IKiiSoiis wr re previit. The Mai ij .," '., Monsigin.r Canel hi, :, atl'ardiiF. with its : grounds, coni;n ii' for the use of the i! .;.., , It is thought ih ; t' , i;.. lie Coiiei;e. whirli -,. temporarily at 'A '.-t ferreil to this f;i t. ; ;t-. family for rent uri.-. have been sj nt ltcimiv interior of the c;t:V. Tw it years ag ,i ;m E;ist. sent over the I : to Stock the wrecked by the f..--- Eikhiu-n River. 1 --. Omaha. The M i- ; . i Siil.'iion, and oth. i k'' l into the lives-. Now i! millions of these (:'). happy one in this ic-i-o ie would li.'ivi- il.'i ii , , have made the vxpf i::i Nebraska. A horse rncr ii; f ( ! V :t f w.m a great i--p"it:i?i- perforni-l at r. n-.-n ; thalph.ee. Hewasihi in a very eh'si- hf.it. : broke anii t he ri'ii;., i! al-le. Rel.-aii hi fv IV on the th'lis, he j,,,,,., the litp.ie and crept :i gui-sp the sna;!ii-. perilous peich with haul enough v it h t he i-eil back on her h:t:i:: Colli i "l over h-r. n 1 he -J'ti !i ir.st.ij.! its indieial elect io:i. ii tune a Supei i;:ti ail -i t tio:i. l.i the i;i-t Ml 1 t .-' ' I , 1 ' l! i nis-'ht. and j held in Oregon ;:' .u He after- lory. In the J.i'tei. inl and it has j t ion to prepare a Const 'to the atiliiisMoii ..j' 1! ! State, are to be elect" 1 j election will Ikj a p'ci i i oi i ongress to li:l a vnri.i'-;. : of Missouri will vote to j i;:t, ! new Con.stitut ion framtii i tion in August last. In the Court f (Vinrtei s adclphia, on Sat tied y m i i i Eleiek sentenced Vestrve!'. i b"ine implicated in the alwl ; , ley I Joss, to seven yea is 'i j Penitentiary in soliuny cm;; ; fined him I. The prisoner j apparently close interest to !i Judge. When the severe not ii iced, ami the words .AIo., tiy foicilli' her b 'iv tin- transom of her cell. Mine. Fi-.' convict eI at the April tei rn .f iin ' Criminal Court of the nnii.lt i -:"; gill named Iena Miher :ml i child by malpractice. Af ei I-f '' seaich was made of !u i li.-iit chat red boors t.f t wo ii,),i;it a stove in her bed-i'itoin. S ' a detective thai one of tin- i- '. of Lena Miller, w hich she i: ..i A number of hoiiible !( i ; -lowed. showing the acensed i" ! ster, it Ihmiijj a pie'iee "f h : ' evciy child delivered by l.ri. w'- or alive. There is re.is..ii x ! ' she murdeii'd and burtieil at lt';: : fants during the juosiH-nti 'ii of man business iu St. Louis. A horrible outrage was jhtc" a woman iu Hav Citv. Miciiiirn. "'" last week. While asleep in li"r " -her husband, Mrs. Gem to F"" I awakened by simiething di-'if"-' J face, and which created a U"'-,k tiou. Her screams awoke ,cr!'t who immediately coined ln-r ,ie water. It was s.ton disc -vcrrH had been jioh red over h.T f .c ' ;:r" ; . neck and face tei ril ly. !i- l a A-ery dangenms eomliiion. ai tr her recovery are enteit;:r;nl. -'r survives she will probably l-? ',i:f ?Jj The fiend effected entiaiu-e il.f " V. dow and escaped throuJi t! e ' w hich was found jeii. h acid was not. iiitpinh-il f 'l 1 11 but for a young girl who 1;: with M i-c l?.,r.,..-i siefl-i i or during a short absence of be' 1 " that the crime was -,iiimii it ted '7, -. that this giil had jiitr.l or "i''', 'v A remarkable instaniv rej-e:itenee has recei.tly oei-nnv" . county. Ky. A man w li" 1S T"-.' t fident that his last hoar wx f',s ' V. insr. sent for a iua'itran. ' , jy - confession that in the a cat Is- . murdered a man named t li:i,l .. on Green river. His story w;,sr the war lie and Mitchell li:il " 1 , named DaAenjtoit in ;n""r.v that in the division of the ' ItA.t lL.i mmo limn his t- j venge, the self-confessed n n'''T( , - his victim for ten veais I -a: rick i ol killing him, and at I. I his death 1,.. tire" shot, having eased his """Si"'ci:1V fession, immediately beg:" ." "j, 1 lie man "- -. y anil now prttmises to tec tirely. In the mean time law are preparing to arrest " bim whenever he h; recvri' to bo safely removed fr.'i.' liis . . . inn i
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