GZZZ s2 mifl S .EV .BL Mnnia rnrrMiu I'KUStJIIIH I IILLSIIUiJ. ; - - - - -- - j E3SNSDUnC, PA.. Frliay Morninj, Dec. 3, 1875. - S. .L .W - -. , "We neglected to notice last week ! that the Harris burg Patriid bad don Led a now dress anil changed its form tioui a quarto to an eight page folio. II r. Me era, its editor, is a well known Dvuioi-r.it and a gentleman of acknowl edge ability, even if lie does ppell Slate with a small "s" and many oilier pro- per names in like manner. The 'a- ; Iriul the central organ of the Pern- oeralie party in this State, being pub lished at the State capital. It is well ; and ably edited and deserves to be lib- erally sustained by the Democracy of. the State, and we have reason to know i that it is meeting with its well ineriteii ' reward. ! j Dlrino the trial of W. O. Avery ; for complicity in the St. Louis whisky frauds, one of the witnesses. Alfred Devis, testified tisat Secretary P.ristow was a partner in : whisky firm that was i. tlie ring, whereupon General Henderson declared his intention to have Ilristow indicted if such was the case. That would look very funny, wouldn't it? Secretary Hristow, it is proper to say, indignantly denies the barge, and demands that the matter go befo-e Mie Grand Jury for the full est investigation. It is generally be lieved that the White House members of the Whisky King have made these I'bargea against liiistow to compel him to It up. me Ox Saturday Inst Governor Irger "M. of Connecticut, appointed ex-Gov-n.ior Jas. V.. English to lie United States Senator in place of lion O. S. Ferry, lately deceised. Mr. Fnglish is one of the able-t and best known Demo crats in the country, and was elected Governor of his State three times, viz : in ISC", 1808, and 170. He was de feated in 18Cf by General Hawley, but defeated Hawlev in 1SG7. In 1S8 he was successful agtv.nS Marshall Jewell, i the present Postmaster General, who; in turn, in 18R9, defeated him (Kng Itsh) for the same office. In 1870 he whs nsrain elected over Jewell, nnd in 13H Jewell once more defeated him. Take it nil in all, the mutual defeats and victories of Messrs. English and Jewell are without a parallel in the political histry of the country. Soohe another for the third term The Heaver Times, until recently mi willing to entertain the third-term 11 the I project, last week Hopped over in following grandiloquent style: "V"e, rather giies-i we are for Grant. First ! Because we regard him as the trust- j iest and safest man bet wet n the country J an I danger we Iiave. Second Be- I Htt3e he is the only President within j n period1 of nearly fifty years whose, j name has oeen assoctateu with a t!nr;l term. Third Because it is not likely that w ithin the next hit v vearstoeome ! we shaH have the privilege of voting , fur a President so highly honored, lourth, and lastly Because every-' thing serves to indicate that our op- ! poucnt dread his nomination far above that of any otiier that could be made ! in the Republican ranks, and we feel j like taking the candidate who is likely ! to worry them the most." We direct the attention of our rend ers to the prospectus for I7f of the weekly and daily New York Sun, which will be found in another column of our pnper. The Stn is an indepen dent p.iMT and is conducted with dis tinguished ability. Mr. Daim, its edi tor, N a bold and fearless man the inveterate fe of all manner of cor ruption and dishonesty in general, State and municipal governments and tlrat his efforts in that direction sre fully appreciated is attested by tho Htct that the Wvelly Sun has at tained a circulation throughtout the country of ovei eiyhfy thousand copies, w hile tho circulation f the daily edi tion' is about forty thousand more. We know of no city pnjx'r in any part of the country more interesting ami mtortnining than the Sun, ami no man who invests the trifling sum of for the weekly for one yenr, with the postage Jrcpnid, will ever re gret tho outlay, and will be remuner ated to an extent almost incalculable. Trts Vvice-Erho and I)rroerat (a Queer u.ixture) favor Kandall for the Speakership o does our member of Congress Hon. luliii IJeily. The virtuous Yem.'!4o;pose hi to Itecit.ise he is "corrupt. " If Itandnl! could onlv X''t 'he latter' support, ho would be all "himky." Of course the above lying paragraph, ao far as it refer3 to the Freeman, could onlv have been wiitten bv the editor of the Johnstown Tribune. Mc ! i ,k i: !.., i 7.7.- ! seem to be very much distressed nlsitit the position of the Freeman in reference to Samuel J. Randall's can cfblaey for the Speakersliipof the com ing Congress. IJotb are too.cowardly to attack Ilandall on tlie score of his bacfc-pay record, as we have more than nee done, becauss they would thet: Ik; charged with tnatou to Grant, who had his salary increased by the same bill from liceWy-Jivn to fifty thousand dollars. To denounce (irant for that would be just nor peculiarly hazard ous to the editor of the Tribune, and I'uckingham's head might be the pon- nltv. Will he tell when we charged Ilandall with 1km ng "corrupt"? We J never believed him to be so, nor Imve we ever sai I so. but have always based rrell known connection with the extra ; pay infamy. On that issue we take our stolid now, e wc have always done, and on that nue alone wo oppose tlie ' selection of -Mr. Kan lall v.n the prcsM-! fug offloer of tba national ilousfc of TUf f fit Wd rorrvot ti nnnrmnep the deflth f ! ...v. . . i i Iltm. VV illiani II. W itte.wiiiiiioccBrreti atlis lce-Kicllct.i Montgomery county, i H few miles from Philadelphia, on last vrulav. Mr. Witte. it seems, bad bren in failing health He was about for several months. 57 yeais ofi age, ami was one of the rrost able and j c louden t Democrats in the State. A i speech which he delivered at a Demo- j . emtio mass meeting in this place, in ; ' Sentember. lSGi will long.be remem- i be red bv all who heard it ; ami it is a the truth of political history to say that the triumph of the Democratic I ipartv in Pennsylvania in that cam- ! pan in i .o , i paign was mamiy one to me ooiu aim : fearless inception of it in Pittsburgh, ; i nan nu rated bv William II. "Witte aud Francis W, 1 lushes, the latter of j Pottsville. Theirs was the bugle blast i . i t f tu i that eumroor.ed the Democracy of the j State to a fnll ami complete victory, j I ne I ittsbnrgu Jcnl, one of whose ! proprietors, Col. James 1. Iiarr, was at that time elected Surveyor General, ; in noticing Mr Witte's death says : ! "As he was an rc'iveand pronounced Dem ' orraf, he soon altraeted the notice of the i leaders of that party, and in 1S52 was clect j eil to Congress, in wliicli hody he nerved : one term. Dnrir.if that time he. made a re i port irpin tlie Siniitisonian Inntitnte, which ! attracted much attention in all parts of the ; country. Continuing Lis party activity on I all proper occasions, Mr. Witte was named ; as t lit Democratic candidate for Governor ! in 1W.7, 18;o and lsr.3. Hut he failed to ' reach the goal of hii ambition in this partic nlar, nil hough on each occasion he received conipllmentari - vote In il latter pyr of t celebrant and the deacons began to soleni his life Mr. itte entl)li.xtjed in Philadel- I . , . , . ..,:- phia a weekly Democrat ic paper, called the 1 the. Commonwealth, which he conducted i ime of his with Ability until within a short time death. IIo wan also a, leading inemlxr of the order of Odd Fellows, ami Grand Mas ter of the society for many years. Mr. Witte wan a man of decided ability and a political speaker of far more than ordinary force, point and intelligence. He had an earnenf, emphatic manner, which told with powerful eslt cf ujKn an audience. "In private life Mr. Witte was one of the most, pleasant and genial -companions, po sessinglbe most agreeable colloquial powers, and a vast and varied fund of general and particular information. His loss will be sadly felt by a large circle of attached aud admiring friends." The Dearest approach to a union of Church and State h.is been made by Grant, 1 in calling to Ir.s assistance the Mothodist I f 1 1 11 1 oil it til f Wl t it r I liA Tniion t.ucniAec although the latest effort was not more successful in getting a rood man than if ho had been recommended bv Rabcock and McDonald. An exchango says : A few days agi the Mcth.tdist Episco pal Church recommended the appointment of a member of the Church living in Illi nois, vouched for iu the highest terms, as Indian agent at Fork Peck. The Church had been looking for several months for the right man to recommend, and, with the testimonials produced by the person recommended, it was believed they bad found a peison who would reflect credit upon the Church and the Government. The appointment was made, the commis- sion signed, and instructions issued, and Hie new A pent stalled for hia station Three liouia after ho left some additional infoi matioti regarding the appointee camo to hand, and the Indian Commissioner learned that ho had been indicted in Illi nois, and was not the kind of man desired by the Government. A telegram was sent, which overtook the Atrent on the cais, directing him to return his commisi ! sion and the papers placed in his hands. j This was done, and I once revoked, and t the commission was at the Methodist Chu-ch iccominend I Most ironRrm.R Carr-fK. A most horri ble story comes from Dclawate county, Pa. A young unmarried woman became the niotber of two infant children, a boy and a Kill. She had gone into the woods to hide her unnatural offspring. There she left the little babes ljing on thegronnd, to die of exposure and starvation, and went into Sea foul again, mid ate her dinner at her sister's, and remained there in order, no doubt, to avoid exciting suspicion. On Tuesday morning, however, a dog came up to the house with one of tho little vic tims of hnr cruelty in its mouth. On see ing the cvidunce of her crime brought so plainly before her she became terribly rgi tated and acknowledged that she had de serted it, and also that there was anotber one m the woods. After confessing her guilt she seized irK,ti a favorable opportun ity aim iien. roarcii was immediately iu stituied, when the body of the other babe was found, and, on examination, it was discovered that it had been nearly devour. , cd by buzzards. The coroner held an in- quest on the bodies of the unfortunate lit I tie victims when the jury returned a ver- diet that they came to their death from j exposure and starvation, by being desmted I by thoir mother. All efforts to Cud the mother have been unsuccessful. A SnAwr. Pin in thk Lcncs. A year C' Annie Meikcl, aged 14ycars, daughter of John Meikcl, then, residing at Leespoit, was crocheting and bad iu her mouth a shawl pin inches in length with a large black head, which was accidentally inspired ito her wir.diie and passed down into I her lungs. A physician was immediately sent. lor, but could not recover it. The ! i.rcsciiceoi mo pin caused inflammation and chronic cough with expectortation of pus and blood, mid it was feared she had gone into a decline with consumption of the bangs. The cough and pain in the lnngs were especially severe during the past month. Lest evening she attended church with her parents, and after returning home and retiiing to led she was attacked by a coughing sik;11 which nearly caused suffo- cation, when suddenly I flew out of her mouth j a hard substance and fell on the ft " n1c,Aru IO anl rcrc w "e r r i- 11 proved to be about one-third of . third of . about ten minutes another conTh;.fT n brought up the point of tho pin. Miss Merkel i rested very well during tlie night and is in vtry eood spirits U dav. Them i is j .y and genuine heartfelt thanksgiving j , ' .e' kers family to-day. Heading Presidrst Grant, though eternally vigilant Hi to the encroachments of the Catholic Church iu the grosa, is criminally negligent as to its inister advances in par ticular. Here, fr instance, in Chicago, the only city wheie the prominent Federal office-holders have nobly written to him that hiselccti n for a third term is demand ed by all the considerations of statesman- l ship, national safety and sIfdnteiest, not ! I only hate the Catholics iust comnleied ! their magnificent Cathedral or the Holy ! :y nV V,!t "'fy actually threaten to acquire ! Xr . " "V " V!i' W,rc"' ... .....r... wtsnj mm lasnionaoio ec clesiastical edifices iu the city. The con gregation buHdod Ijetter than they could pay, and their bonds for some $SO,000 are now maturiii'.', with no reasonable prospect that they will be redeemed, so that the llomau Catholic bishop .contemplates tho purchase of the building. As vet Mr, Giant is siient, but it may bo that. Congee- tatioua'aiits doa't cbunt. X F. WorlS. The CHrtlinaVs Greeting, AMERICA'S REritSSE.NTATITK OF THE BU fKEME POM1FF TELLING THE TKKT INTERESTING STORY OF HIS VISIT TO THE HOLT BEE. A carved door in the reredos of the Ca thedral behind the Virgin's altar swung in- J wsu-d at Lalf past 10 o'clock yesterday morning, ami mo neaa oi a religious pio- cession acolytes beating a crucifix, a; smoking .t n.se i , incense, and lighted takers j appeared. Then more aceolytes, robed . like the leaders,, in crimson and lace. The j color of the cortege changed to purple, the hue of the vestments of Falbcis Farley, ane, ana nogan, separately, cr:oi..w deacon, am! sub-deacon of the mass ; to black, the color of the robes of icar-Gen- ea, Quhlll aiul Fathers Kearney and Valois, and last, to royal purple scarlet, the ruling shades in the apparel of Cardinal McCloskey. A purple soutane, with a trai?'. was '' K' entr American Prince of the Chinch. It was gjlt at t,ie wai,t with a b,OHli scariet silk 8as,t weighed down with great tossels of gold. Above was a surplice ol solt lace, and a mantilla of purple velvet, lined with scarlet silk. Around his Imminence's neck was a golden chain, suspending a golden cross. On his erect, grayish head were the berretta and a skull cap both seal let. His signet,, the Papal arms graven on a large sapphire, was on his left hand. Acolytes and piiests riled in state along the edge of the elevated platform, on which the altais rest, and entered the clianc-l. All knelt f'jr a moment. Then the Car dinal ascended a throne of gilded and fret ted walnut, with panels of crimson silk. Fathers CJuinn and Valois took lower seats just without the canopy, the acolytes ar- rancei themselves attractively, aud the mze mass, tlie choir supporting tnem. At 01 iiib coiiicsioti inn v.ioiimi iru t',e l'vc coals in the censer with incense, and white smoke wreathed his person, the throne, aud all near it. Then tho priests incenHed the altar, and one auother, each in his turn. After the incensing the Car dinal whs absorbed in his missal a worn, bulky book that has probably been his vade mecitm since he was ordained. When the in u tiled gong admonished the wor shipers to bow their heads and tuin their thoughts to the altar, at the communion, the Cardinal stepped down from his throne, accompanied by the Vicar-General and Father Valois, knelt in front of the altar, bared his head, and bent low in worship. After Father Farley had intoned the hist Gospel, the Cardinal was escorted to the pulpit, hung witli purple in bis honor. Having read the 25th, 2Glh, 27th, 29th, 29th, r.Oth verses of the t weuty-first chapter of Luke, h said : My dearly-loved brethren : Yon do not, I trust, expct a sermon. I hare hardly re covered from the effects of a loutf and rather tedious voyage acrosstne Atlantic, and can not deliver a, net oration. Ill prepared thopgli I am, I feel that I should lack con sideration for yon, and do myself injustice, if I did not graip the earliest opportunity of altering the heartfelt joy that nils me. I rejoice that I am once more at my post, and at liberty to resume the regular pciformaiica of my official duties, among my well-cherished flock. I know that you want to hear of one whose name has been in your minds, and, nnuttered, on your lips since I bean to peak our Holy Father, glorious Tin IX, t he Vie ar.of our I,ord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. During my late visit to Rome I was per mitted to enjoy a great, deal of the nwciety of the Holy Father. Sometimes I sat in fami liar converse with him tin bis simple pri vate esAti net, an 1 at others I shared his walks, or listened to his words to the hun dreds that daily flock info his presence. I was profoundly impressed with the moral grandeur, ami the sublime dignify of the august head of our church. All whoenter- ed his presence werostrn.-k with reverential awe. A radiance, that lit up every seenein which he appeared, was in hisconntenatice, II is eloquence penetrated the hearts of those to whom it was addressed, whatever their professions or creeds. None looked on the Sovereign Pontiff", a eapt ve in his own pal ace, without feeling that he was nltove mon arch?, princes, or any of the great ones of the earth. Even when speaking of the womulu that cruel enemies have inflicted upon the Church, his words were not. harsh. He spoke like a father grieving over rebel lions children. "Sou have heard of the sufferings of your brethren ia less favored lands. Our turn to suffer may rm tiext. In the holy season of advent, which legins to-day, you ouht to revive in your hearfs tho spirit of fidelily to Christ's holy Church, t ha you may be ready, under all circumstances, to profess your faith. Hut had not the Church's children teen unfaithful and lacked gratitude for what Ood has bestowed upon them. His hand would not now le stretched out to pun ish 1 hem. He chastens that the chastened tn?lv turn t f tlim in fl ttiiilc r9 llerings, Let me remind yon that in all the church es of ibis diocese the collections of this dav are for the benefit of the new calhedrai. Wherever I went in Europe, persons said to me: "When will the great Cathedral of Sew York be completed ? We have no mod ern building that can le compared with it." Now, my brethren, if ymi will kneel, I will ltow the Pope's blessing, which he commissioned me to confer. The congregation knelt, and the Cardi ual, raising his hands majestically, pro nounced the Pope's bencdictiou inIUin. Ar. F. Sun, 29th. Few traged ies better deserve the name of "horror" than that which transpired but a few days ago on the railroad near Gop fritz, Austria. At a few minutes past one in the morning, at a train of fourteen car- n .es, wiiu passengers, was crossing a bi idee some fottv feet in hoiht. th ran from the rails, and it.bmtred i.o. it, chasm, dragging all but one or the cars with it. About a dozen passengers were killed and as many more seriously injured, the others, wonderful to relate (for the ears were heaped on each other and smashed to fragments), escaping with but slight wounds or bruises. The engineei and stoker were Clashed to a jelly and the chief guard de capitated. A mail clerk was fatally scald ed, though death did not release him for several hours, during which he lay beneath the ruin, audibly lamenting the fate of bm e ' fami family and entreating for water, which eould not be conveyed to him. A pregnant woman, whose mother's brains weredashed owt by an iron bar by her side, escnoed uninjured, and gv birth toher child while vet entangled in th Examination showed that the slaughter was suit of an accident, lor hand not the re aeeuAtoraerl to railroad work had removed the nuts and bolts from five rails on one side of the curve, and then replaced the rails so that the track appeared safe and untouched. The affair is all the mere horrible because but a little while before three attempts had been made k a precisely similar manner to wreck trains on another road. JV. Y. World. A roost singular freak of nature can 1A Seen i i & tro tij&r Y!iirL- m l.a-An. that is California, we suppose. It is half nin SklWi half fr Tfr ia rfnJ sival perhaps seventy-five feet high. The body from the ground to a distance of thirty feet Is Ptn-. l,enr! for a distance of twenty feet it is fir. The remaining twentv-frvo feet, like the lower portion, is pine. The fir portion of the tree is in a very flourish ing condition. The fopage on that part is so dense that the trunk or limbs can hardly be M-en-through it. On the pine portion the leaves are rather scarce. The tree is neaE tlie vniul. and baa Iwpii ttntinaA bv neaity all who ever passed that way. U ti raro cmiusitj-, aud well worth seeing. A. Fatal Whirlwind. A HOUSE DESTROYED FATE 09 THE IU 11ATE8. The Newbnrn (N. C.) Times lias a letter from Reaufort dated 17th inst., giving the following particulars of the ravages of a fearful whirlwind iu that vicinity : "A few days since a terrible calamity be fell the family of Mrs. Clara Gask-ll, of Harker's Island, in this county. A whirl wind or water-spout it is not positively known which was seen by iersous on the thanks approaching from the southwest, It came up tlm beach and followed the chore on the seaside until opposite Har ker's Island, when it crossed the banks, destroying everything in its couise, but causing no loss of human life on tlia banks. From the banks it crossed the sound, tak ing in its track the homestead of the Gas kill family, which it destroyed in a twink ling of an eye. Although the building was a heavy oe, it was so completely de stroyed that no two pieces of timber re mained together nor one brick upon an other, but its fragments, together with the household effects, were scattered for hun dieds of yards over the land. Everything in the house was destroyed, tho clothirg and bedding of the family being tint) into shreds and scattered far and near. The family consisted of Mrs. Clara Gaskill, a widow of about sixty-five jears of age, four grown sons, one daughter, jind the wife and five children of one of the sons Belcher. "The entire family, except Belcher, who was in Beaufort at tlie time, was in the house when the wind struck it. They had no warir.ng of its coming until the house was struck and swept away. The elder Mis. Gaskill was carried about twenty-live yards from the house, and when found was apparently dead, but revived afier be inj; taken to the house of a neighbor. Her injuiies are severe, but it is thought that she will iccovcr. Mason Gaskill. a man weighing 170 pounds, was whirled through the air to a distance of more than 300 feet, and when taken up was found to have sus tained severe injuries, from which it is thought he cannot iccovcr. lie is, how ever, improving. 4The two other brothers, Anson and Howard, were caught by pieces of the fall ing titrber, and sustained severe though not serious injury. Mis9 Sabra Gaskill was caught under part of the wreck and had a fHt and hand crushed. Two chil dren of Belcher Gaskill, one a boy aged about four years, the other a girl of about three jeais, were killed outright. The bodies were found 150 yards from the house. The top f the girl's head was knocked completely off, while the boy whs terribly crushed, and bad his head split ojeii. Two othpr children were caught mider parts of the falling building and badly but t, while a third child was carried lifty yards without sustaining any injury. The mother of these children was also hurt, but not seriously." A Band of Thieves. An organized band of robbers has been discovered and broken up, out in Washington county. The Monongahela Republican publishes a long account of the depredators who called themselves the "Hundred and Ono ; or, Happy Jacks." It seems that they were bound together by a terrible oath, had seciet sigus, passwords and grips, a:id numbered among thoir officers a fust king, second king, third king, chief of the watch, spies, patrols, guards, etc. Their opera tions were mainly c nitincd to petty thiev ing from the people of Moivoiygahela and the neighboring towns, but they would take anything, from whiskey, wine, Hour and butter, to poultry. They stole impartially, from rich and poor, town and country, purloining oystcisand portables from saloon-keepers in the city, entering the cellars of farmers to skim the cream off their milk and carrying off the parson's porcelain kettle so that their pilfered viands might bo cooked in tho highest style of tho art. For they wero a gluttonous set of feJIows and seem to have divided their time o'nights between stealing and feasting. Only occasionally did they stop people o:i the highway to demand their money, and their attempts of this kind failed either from foar of the consequences or lack of nerve. Tho ringleaders aro miners, but the man whose house they made their headquarters, or at least the'r "fence" and banqueting hall, is a reputable carpenter. His name is John Tomer, and it is through the Jcvelations of himself and wife, nvtde after ho had been arrested on suspicion, that tho gang has been broken up and several of the worst members of it lodged in jail. TheSestesced Murderers'. Meyers one of the murderers who is to be hung on the 6th of January, has been gi ving an ac count of his life. He says that he served in the Union army during the war. He separated from his wife since. tho war, khe having been twice married since the serr ation. She resides in St. Louis, where he also has a daughter fourteen years old, who is living with his brother. Ho still insists, that Meyers is not his real name, and says he will never reveal it, more on his daugh ters account than anything else. A petition was circulated some time since to be sent to the Boaid of Pardons to ob tain a commutation of Meyers' sentence to imprisonment for life. This petition was either never sent on, or nover acted upon. Mr. W. C. Moit land, oue of his counsel, went into his cell Fiiday evening, and of fered to bear his own expenses, and take his case to Harrishurg when the Hoard meets. Meyers positively declined the of fer and expressed himself ready and wil ling to die, although he still persisted in asserting his innocence. Meyers is making every preparation for death, a Catholic priest making frequent, visits to him. Murray, on the contrary, still persists in refusing all religious aid. He U taking the matter coolly, though at times he appears very nervous. He is the coward, and it is thought possible that he will have to be carried to tho scafToId. Vitltburgh Gate'lt. A Sisgctar Aftair. TVe learn tint within the last two weeks a singular dis covery has been made at the house of Jesse Garth, for many years deceased. It is said that a distinct and accurate likeness of Mrs. Garth, who has been dead for twenty years, can be seen on a pane or glass in the upper sash of one of the windows, present ing very much the appearaneo of a photo graph negative. The discovery is said to have been made by a woman- who was washing clothes in the-yard, who imagined some one was watehing her throngh the window, and went inside to see who it wasv We 'gather these faets from- Ir. Charles Brown, who iias himself seen the singular picture. Dr. Brown remembers that about twenty years ago Mr. Garth told bir.i that his wife, while standing at that window, was stunned by asudden flash of lightning, and the doctor's theory is that the outlines of her features were photographed on the window pane at that time. The youngest daughter of Mr. Garth, and others who wpro wptl nmnAintAfl wilti Ui- f 1 . . 1 . seen the picture and pronounce it a striking ' likeness. It is said to be more distinet about nine o'clock in tire morning and tlirce in the afternoon than at any other time of the day. Charlotte ( Vn.) OhromcU In York there are three sisters aud one brother who weigh 810 pounds. 2'e-ivs of the lVeeh. The Pcpo has conferred on Lieutenant Governor Canm, of Quebec, the Grand Cress of the Order of St. G rcgory the Great. The editor of the Paducah Sentinel saw them again last week. They assumed the foinis of lish falling from heaven iu showers. A '.car killed in Douglass county, Ore gon, a few days ago, weighed six hundred pounds, and furnished seventy-five pounds of clear oil. The planing-mill of Jacob Sneath, at Columbia, Pa.r was fired by an incendiary Thursday night aud totally destioyed. Loss about $20,0)0. A man named Krcssly has been ar rested for the murder of Mis. Joseph Schneck, of Lehigh county, which occurred about ten days ago. At Allentown three cannon balls were dug up from a depth of three feet. They j ma supposed to-have been cast during the American revolution. Hon. M. C. Kerr married bis wife in Erie, this State, when he was but eighteen yo:tis old. She was a school teacher and his senior a few years. In an altercation between two women at FaHshnrg, N. Y., a few days since, one raised an iron poker aud killed a child in the arms of the other. Paul Morphy is not insane after all, but is engaged assiduously in the practice of the law, and may bo seen daily upon the streets ot New Orleans. At Sinilhlaud, in Kentucky, a divot ce was granted on Tlmisday, Nov. 11, at 9 o'clock in the morning, and the plaintiff was married the same evening. The Toronto Roman Catholic, have subscribed $3,500 to be picsented to the jxlico for their action on tho occasiou cf the late pilgrimage riots. At a county fc-.ir, lecently held at Waco, Texas, a fanner rode sixty miles iu two liorrrs and forty-nine minutes, eleven min utes less than the stipulated tirfle. A millionaire living at Terre Haute, Indiana, has, during tlie last twenty-five yeais, given away nearly $2,000,000 for charitabie aud educational purposes. At Pittsburgh there will he a moeting on the 7lh of December to celebrate the centennial of the establishment of the Pres byterian Church in Western Pennsylvania. The commissioners of Ienih county offer $."500 reward for the murderer of Mia. Schneck, who was killed near Schnecks ville, a few days since. The husband of fers $1,000 reward. A water spout at Harker's Island, N. C, struck the dwelling of Mrs. Gaskill, a widow, totally destroyed it, killed four of her children, wounded another, and swept the 6ixth a baby a way. A large aerolite fell into the river at Ottawa, very near the Snsj pension Bridge, 1-ist week. Its apje,traiiec was that of a large globo of fire, and the spray caused by its fall was distinctly visible. An Lnglish clergyman who basteccnt ly visited Salt Lake has given currency to the idea that the Mornvms are maturing a project to purchase the Holy Land, aud set themselves up in Jeiusalern. A man of Mt. Vernon, lib, on getting out of bed one morning, not long since, stepped upon the body of his daughter, who was sleeping on the floor, crushing her chest, and killing her instantly. John Scannel, who was tried in New York last week for the murder of Thomas j Donahue, has been declared not guilty, on ; the ground of insanity. TIks judge ex- i pressed dissatisfaction with tho verdict and i remanded Scannel. ' It is a curious satire on the course of j human events that Sew ard, Chase, Sumner, j Greeley and now Wilson have died outcasts I from the party they four.ded, and that ! Grant, Butler, Morton and Logan arc in stalled as i;s leaders. A woman in Virginia City, Nevnda, who had been !odriddii for mouths, had to be carried out of the house during the late fire, and within half an hour fromthrvt her great fi i)jhtJiad effected a complete cure of her infirmity. Mrs. Livcrinore says girls are not par ticular enough about the men they many. Mrs. Stone, of Omaha, is so particular about the man the married that she takes her sewing to his office, and sits there all day, till he is ready to go homo. A San Francisco dispatch of the 2oth ultimo says that the schooner Sunshine, hence for Coos Bay, is ashore bottom up at mouth of the Columbia Hiver. She is reported to have had thirty passengers, besides a crew of ten. All are supposed to be hst. Dr. Davis and wife, sentenced to be , handed at Ottawa, Canada, for causing the death, by malpractice, f Jane Vaaghn i Gilmore. gave information which led to the I arrest of the seducer, and their sentence I was thereupon commuted to imprisonment Tor me. Moses Dickson, aged 64, a farmer of Amherst, Mass., was found murdered in his house on Sat urday night, his head be ing smashed in w ith an axe. The murderer was doubtless a tramp whom he hired two weeks before, and the murder was done for money. John Frederick Gunter went from Chicago penniless to Australia, twenty three years ago. He now advertises in tbe Chicago newspapers that he is able and willing to lielp his relatives, and invites them r write to him. And won't he hear from them ? Tho Warren Leler says that there will Iks but few sheriffs sales in that coun ty this winter, for the reason that proper ty will sell for nothing, and plaintiffs have no money to pay costs. The Brook ville Jeffernonian advertises one hundred and cloven sheriffs sales. "Coal Oil Johnny," instead of working as a laboring man on a railroad, is at pres ent building a fence around a 200-acie farm which he lately put chased in Califor nia. He saved $15,000 out of the general wreck, and "Johnny" has become a grau ger and is doing well. In the reconstruction of the Hotel de Ville, Paris, a machine is used for cutting at ono which roes in ono djy tho work of! lo men. it is composed of two revHlvinr cylinders furnished with marble hammers by means of which the stone is separated with great rapidity and precision. BiH'mga. a farmer of Wapello county,. Ia., lias walked from Keithshur? to Boston and back, a distance of 1061 miles, i in twenty-three and a quarter hours, the . road being in- some places heavy with ' sand. It is hoped that he may extinguish j O'Leary even as that public benefactor has : wiped out Wcstoiv. j Sevanton has another horror. The ' body of a man who had apparently been ! the victim- of foul play was found on ! Thanksgiving morning at the foot of a lugn cnti rrnm wlncli there were indica tions that he had been thrown. It was as certained that his name was James Kn and that he lived at Caibondale. Tim following account is furnished to ' the press of a much heralded spot ting event ; in Jersey : "The long promised fox hunt ; came off yesterday in the vicinity of Hack- ensack. The riding was a success, but tbe ! rwu proved a failure. The dogs lost the ' fox, the huntsmen lost ihe dogs, and tho j wKo on vers iosi me Huntsmen." ."0n' Thursday last a lunatic named Hill, at the Adams county hospital, killed a woman named Beattyv who went into bis room to clean it. He choked her until insensibln and then drove the small end of a broomstick into her brain. Sho bad been repeatedly forbidden to go into bit room without one of the keepois. 'fir 1 rX, i u i i i m vi'iii i U UJlls) XJJ UiLiL UUJJ u ur U U IrJ h of our intention to out NEW and LOWER Fitters on , The year's closing out sai.k will commkxck at iiALr-i'AtiT week day morning, and CONTINUE UNTIL OUIt PALL isj IS SOLD. ' ": this rvirs FACT We have made up too manv OVERCOATS and SUITS f. th;, ,. .. our Stock into Cash needed for 18?f, we will make o ', , ,..r.v ( apparent on and after WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER Klloi. x gone through our Salesrooms and cut off Profits, and even a j-..:t , - . many of our present prices. To be rery cxnct in ntatinj this mntfer, as ve do not i7.fr.-. ? i . or custom of our houe shall mi!eiJ thi'pvlUc in the l-i'i j i, . per to say, that this Afark Down. vhiUt it apjilis to A THOUSAND AND MO HI! OVLIKOA Ts A THOUSAND AND MOllK I'.USiN cVl4T HUNDREDS OF DKUSS COATS, SEVEKAL THOUSAND VESTS, SEVERAL THOUSAND 1'AIIIS OF IWNT-: and exUnds throughout our houss, yet there are some lol-s in ;r". '-, been marked at cloe priee,) tee shall m ike no cha.i'je. We desiiie to announce tuat this n Our FINAL and ONLY Mark Down tills 2 So that NONE NEED WAIT for Lu.v, u p1:, . The btep we take will wonderfully aid tuose who : li i. i :v -The Terms vf the Sate ft re the ttstuil Terms f'w;,, 1. No Second or Altered Price One Fixed Price. 2. Cakh from All, to warrant Low Prices- 3. The Contract u our pa-it, to rttum ihe money, is a an i f tU .Ncase (provided goods aie returned unworn). 4. A Full ,G uarantte given for each garment. The Stocte' we offer is all new, and is not "bought'' or '.'. ;! 11 OUR OWN CAREFULLY MADE CLOTH It will be remembered that our stock always enib;:ice ti.'- ( h . -btantial oooDs, and that every size and Haie is pi.ul. ci f i , r , It will also be borne iu miud that there is but ONE OAK HALL. the corner or 6th Hoping for a visit from each reader, and that our friends will i ; , to '.l their friends iu the country, We are Very Tiu!y, Governor Safford, :f Arizona, has of fered a rewaid of ifjfju f0- j,e raptuic of a man named Sheridan, who is btlievid to have committed ciybt murders by lining bis victims off into the mountains under pretext of showing them I icb mines. Including thot-e at Monroe on Fiiday, nine persons have been executed for mur der in tho Stale of Louisiana wilbin the last thiee years. The dtnth wananf.s of three otheis have been Mf!ii-d. The rt c ords of the Secretary of Suite's office show that in the preceding fifteen years only three executions for minder bad t:iken place by process of law in that State. They got up a mock marriage fr amusement at a party iu Portaire county, Ohio, the other evening, but a leal magis trate, who was among tlie guests, jkiT'-i mcd the ceremony, and it now epptaisthat tbe couple aro legally mairied. At lat ac counts they hadn't quire decided whether to accept tbe shunt ion or get a divoice. Some young men near Centre llidge, Hocks county, while out gunning, a few days atjo, discovered a small ojicuiiig iu a hill side, which proved to bo tlie entrance to a cave. Upon going inside they foiiiul two stoves, lamps, spoons, folks, knives, and other things, proving that it. had oi.ee been inhabited. No one in tbe neighbor, hood knew of its existence br-foie. and from appearances it was abandoned years ago. During the fire at Mclxeesport, on Tuesday night, a lady named MehatTv. whose family lived near tho scene of the conflagration, upon discovering the build ings in flames called to her mother to come to the window. The lady did as she was recpiested, and upon lHking out of the window immediately dropped over dead. It Is supposed she was affected by heart disease, and the sudden shook caused her . . crvaiu. A woman, aged forty, named Wiiheb mina Wcik, was arrested in ItufTalo on Sunday, charged w ith murdering her step son, agd fourteen, who has Ik cii missing since the 2d ult. The b'y was found in an old well on the premises, in a nude state, except a t-hiit, and with a chain and other weights attached to bis neck. Pro perty belonging to him. and revelling to her own child in case of his death, is sup posed to have lcen the cause. iss Elizabeth Collins, aged seven teen years, of Allegheny county? was kilic.i under the fallowing circumstances on Thanksgiving day : A neighbor came to t be bouse w heie she stayed and asked fr her employer's shot gun. He endeavored to dis charge it on the outside, but Tailing he l.iid it on the table and tampered w ith the ham mer. While he was thus engaged tbe giil approached the table and was about to re move a dress, when the contents of the gun were discharged into her groin, caus ing death in a short time. Now 1 hat the "mountains of solid gold' in the Plack Hills have turned out to be dcMsits of mica, the papers which are so anxious that all tbe surplus male population shall go West and grow nr. with Dakota declare that the mica will readily find sale at $1 a pound. There arc mountains of mica iu Mitchell county, N. C, within easy reach of railroad lines con necting the mines with the Eastern cities, where, the maleriat is used for lanterns stove-door-plates, &c, and it is a drug in the local market at 50 cents a pound. Recently Stantnn Miller, of Crawford county, found a buffalo robe on the road and took it lwme against the advice .r a farmer who told him that it had dropped from a passing wagon. The same ni.l.t the owner claimed damages from Miller, wno gave him a ho,se as security Toe the amount. Miller became delirious next day ami imagined that he was to be punished Tor taking the rol A few days afterward, in the absence or his attendant's. Ire partially dressed himself and departed since which time nothing has lieen heard of him. It is supposed that he perished in tbe woods. For somo time past a bitter animosity has existed between Oliver Diirbin sud .lohn Pettitt. in Richhill, C.teene county. Pa., the fend having originated in jealousy about a young woman. Several times Diirbin has threatened to kilt his rival, and about a month ago attempted to shnt him. List Wednesday evening the two men met at the house if James Dailv, w here a party was in progress, and before any one could interfere. Dm bin attacked Itttittand crusbed his skull in with a heavy stone, which had evidently been concealed about his person and taken to the ballroom to pel form the murderous work. The murderer was at once arrested, and it required the most determined ef forts on the part of tho aatljoiilies to save bun from being lynched ' A7 : U r1 v SIXTII-SIXTII-SIXTI I SI X i II Waaaiaafees & Bio: flit, V Aiii . The tif iv'.Ms ;!;,;: be sailed, as f ;. blli led ate be;: of William i I. S-.ii!..i i. . tbe hai bor ol A'.i'i ;.. g'-ntlern.iii fiom ; .., . t d tl;i-e l. I .:-1 ; dinning over t!:e ti!: . .. Ik'- illdlK't-d W.A. old Pieueh Miii.-i l;-u t!:e lot of ( '.-oi-M : Mated that a 1 i-.- m: bulled i;-ar Aiii!ih:, : dei ibed eii c.'i.-i i! bv-en pel f ctl :.: Ill of !;. r , -K.uiio.td n;.t -jonng lady dies-.-! i i ': ii'g who was t ; i : ' '" of her imHher, w 1 i r baggage car. ': in her sent and i: -! mtitdei r Svvc. ! f once i usl-.ed I i . leasoit !iad 1. f; li..-i lunatic, diM.ibi!-. .' row. Sbe w as I- . car. st niggling ' t be Ulli'.el ex i i - : tr-iin l.er fi.r:i u-lu-i svlf r to o: "m-. a place where s!.e .. . A mat b'e ( l mai kable wot !, - '. tl.e LollVIC. iil i ' : .. lure of tbe M: ! i!-- .V, -led standing, :n,.i j m her I iglit :u in. vi ' . she si.'ppoi ts ,; :. with tbe fv'Ms .f 1.. vtrings of her b -r) ; , . ginally e";oivl. i' . ' -are still visible i:i It: r was supp s--d ti !' i'i ' brolbeis Ju-tc, I'l 'i- came to- Prance i:i l v sixteenth centr.vy. i' Louvre by a p.iii.-.. r lector named Ti'ii-':i! f francs. The Germ:'!:' '!! gyfiph ayers t!:t a i' .' ered by tlie lYnn ;.'-:' pany to build a gi.t:-i ': of tlie city, peili.i; r ket Mi vets, w i' Fipiare of ground, t ' can be added. It ! 1 under consitU-ia;i.i:i I r another, to i-!i.-;j net n - tbe SHmjlkiii. i ! ; ''" Mai ket rtreet bii-'' ' ter proniint nt ( i ;': dejHt tbe ith-a is p:-.-'-- : Lomlon, lieie ti e ;-: in tbe heart of tlie which by ttmiit 1 i: ' "?"' "' teifeicd Willi or oil-' i!.-. Happy Sylvester Brown count , celehrated bii --'"lt ' company witli lii :""" After dinner be t"" nsot in fiemi. of tli- ' :v k-rt them rfil in " ;l" yards. Tbe !i " ! woiidcliug oibjui1'- ." when he was o:iiij;- !-' rail fence itli"! climbed a braneli tines climbed t r hand over b ind, ili-i' house, and iir'l ' pants in tbe ell ' -if she didn't li "";' knoek the s"e ". Sylvester Sin ! L" -habitant I 1-V.ly 5.,u l"" ' I', galheied at M"i""'- ' w itness the e !'' " ', and Alice l anis. o the minder .-f H'" ;,' . .f Alice, all e-l 'i '- . elected i' 1 1: cei'. y ' sipiare, near tlie 1 1 ' ten o'clock tbe r I' i: to the scaffold. 'H"1, wan ant f .lb.w "L !'r r wereg:cai!j --""-,.'. -The confessions f lislied in the O'lnel'- dav, show tli ir ""V'"",:. brutal ksumI.t yeaii of age, oi ' r. gle. Nellenm. , , ed the r-i" ah V! ll", f his side. Ib down bv ti e m 1 '". , struggles ceased. r.-tlv t.inioeed . tiou he maii.i!: H-'-'V t't i: Tin' A" minutes sifter were cut o ' ,,.,'. diiotod without l:,,':- were cut d " vf di.vppifbu'wu-
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