THE CLHBRII FBEEffllN Organization of the House. II 27ie President's Message, ERENSBURC, PA., F.Mav Morning - - Dec. 10, 1875. Uv reference to our Washington wAeiiiwi.., '- I.. - dispatches, says- the Pittsburgh Pont , heneSliago open8 with a reference to of Monday, rt will be seen, that the : tl)e ccr,tnnial year and the progress made I.)emocratiecaucus,oiiSirrciajagreea ; by the country, during tne past ceuiury, T ii v. Hon. William M. Evarts, who to his the orator of the CenU'rmvalris a grandson of Kosrer Shernvan. the ehovniaker statesman of Connecticut. In hU irreat speech in deftnse of An- rlr..w .l.iluicim nml if t he constitution contest, wns a siuritetl one. S!cen) of the country in the impeachment have been more harmonious than such tti il, Mr. E vails, iv the llarrisburtr affairs generally are, the defeated enn 1'nhiol well remarks, vindicated his didates acquiescing gracefully in the claim to be regarded ns the first of result. While the organization did American orators. The selection is j not come wholly up to onr personal therefore most appropriate. i preferences, it is nevertheless a good 1 1 I . . Ml . 4l... 1 - i one, ana one mat win m cue euu nuic to an urbanization ot the House, not-i in population, agriculture, coiumeiw. so freely indulged in by the Uadical t tiroresa of the nation. wiseacres for the past few weeks, that atKj tourhewto a considerable extent upon the differences between the opposing . tBe gradual extension of territory, the ad enndidates for the various position vancement of agriculture and mechanics, i i WKiwr, : with the development of mining resour- Itefcrring to political equality, ft says : We are a republic whereof one man is as good as another before the law. It is of the greatest importance that all should be possessed of education and intelligence enough to cast a vote witft the right of un derstanding of its meaning. .tfen cannot considerable penoo oppose a sue for anv M.KT.tbc democracy ot fiZ national House of IlepresentatM es, j whole country. ' evitably sink into acquiescence to the will win a moft active member of the I tr- i 1 bore was really no issue or policy i of lllteiij,,cncef whether directed by dema-tv-s cond Coiiiiies!. He is tall, thin : in the organizationas regards any e.- f goguery or by priestcre.ft. Hence the erf- siiul ei v ' iie His face is thin and sential dilferences in the Democratic j ucation of the masses becon.es of the first ancruhr ll'is'cves ulow from under ; ranks, notwithstanding the industrious necessity for the preservation of our instr- :;;:.;'ir-w... .m.; or ,u.nc.ijr.u . j-n-jsssssiS nose is long and sharp, and qui vers this lact appear. The only question , ,(( J)0 glcatest proportion of the population liL. -i wil.l man's whon be is excitftf. ; ai issue was me csseniiai iuiicss 01 me f Anv foim of eovernment devised, lie ii.. ...,.. o ,,f lninol)o beard of i man lor the position, and upon the iv v,li.jfk !- - ' ' " a sa'idv color. lml. I with jt tfrirk lower erovrth of i pants ot the caucus of lajMobe beard of i man lor the position, and upon the ! sugcets that congress consider trie suo- Ho is consideraMy question of fitness simply, the parlict-. jeci an.i earnesuy recommcmi.-. divideil. I., , "aV"lTrV ... s:inlv !i:.ir. Hfs dn-ss is of rnsty black, wfiicli fl:ips and clings to him J ke xvet garments hung up to dry. Ho ha a voice as clear as- a bugle, and while he cannot be classed as an ora tor in the popular se nse of the word, his friend onsrht to thank God for it. Th'? day of froth and flowers is gone in Congres. As will be seen in another column of our paper, lion. Michael C. Kerr, of Indiana, was elected speaker of the lowvr branch of Congress at its niect- in; last Monday. The contest for this high and responsible position, which j has been carried on with some bitter- . . . it. t ness. lias t:ius peen aimcai.uv aim as e think pionerlv and wiselv We were opposed from the very com iiu-nwmeiit of tlie struggle to the pre tensions of ;'mul .1. Itiindall, although he is from tins ftato. We distinctly a id frequently stated the reasons why we opposed his nomination and will not now repeat them. We always re spected his ability, but just as decid edly doubted the policy and w isdom of his choice. Mr. Randall, after Mr. Kerr's nomination by the caucus, made the following brief and exceedingly creditable speech : "Mr. C'liairinan, lt the wish of tlifi major ity he tlif voire of all. From tbiH moment the d: Iterances anione mirselveH must heat an end, that we ma.v Mm pr-sent an united front to dii r adversaries. Our mission on this rt.ior must le, as far as we are alle., to restore the government to its constitutional purposes au. I to expose tlie corruptions of the aitinin isl ration. A word more of a personal eliar-m-ter to those around, who have so stealily supported me. They have lost their choice. Lilt have gained a life-long friend. I now tin.ve that, the nomination of Michael C. Kerr, of Indiana, he made unanimous." The motion was adopted. m- The Secretary of the Treasury pre sents the following estimates for the fiscal veor of 1877: OIMKCTS. Congress . Kxe utive proper Department of State Treasury I H-partment AVar pepartiuent iavp lep:rtliient Interior Department. Vostoffiee Department Il.-partment of Justice Department of Agriculture flrand total The appropriations for Tear ending .June '.0t 187T. SKi 512 less than the estimates, and Uk estimates for the fiscal year ending .Tune P.O. 1S77, are $,012,fi(.S larger than estimates for the previous year. Hut we rather fancy, to quote the lan guage of the Pittsburgh '.f, that the House, and it is to be hoped the Senate, will intefere materially with these esti mates, to tiie extent of nearly or quite $.-,0,000,000. To begin with, :l().0(0, 000 can s saved in the War and 'avy PepTtments, $2,000 000 for Congress, $5,000,000 in the Interior, $10,000,000 in the Treasury Department $:,000,000 in the Postoffioe and Judicial Depart ments, and $1,000,000 i:i other direc tion.., or a total saving of $50,000,000 in the taxes of the people.' The vacant Attorne- (Jeneralshipof this State has at last been filled, (iov crnor llartranft having on Monday last apixiinted Hon. (Jeorge Lear, of Bucks county, to tlie position. The new Attorney General, as we learn from the Ilarrisburg Patriot, was lorn in Warwick township, ttucks county, on February 10, 1813. His boyhood was passeil on his father's firm, and at the age ofnineteen he lccame en gaged as a te.icher in she public schools which occupation he followed for four years. lie then filtered a country htore, and meanwhile studied law, be ing admitted to the bar on November loT 1344. From 1843 to 1S50, he served as Deputy Attorney General for Bucks county, then being superseded by an elected district attorney. In 172, Mr. Lear wa elected a delegate to the constitutional convention from the Seventh senatorial district. As a member of the convention, he served on the committees on "county, township and borough officers," and on "educa tion." Mr. Lear disapproved of the more radical changes made by the new constitution as finally settled by the convention, and was one of tlie dele gates who declined to vote for that instrument as n whole and to sign it. Since March. 18C5, Mr. Lear has b?n president of the Doylestown national bank, but his financial business has not b?en suffered to ink r'ere with his prac tice at the bar. Asa lawyer he has had considerable experience, but his pronounced opposition to the new constitution will not tend to make his nomination popular. It will lie taken as i new evidence of the hostility of H T.nti'flntt to tlie organic law . . . , i t U'Uii I. T..C l.s life t Hon. Michael C. Kerr, of Indiana, was agreed upon as- Speaker on the third ballot, the vote standing, for Kerr, 00 ; for Randall, CI ; for Cox, 7. Mr. Kerr is enieef tire ablest members of Congress, nd while he perhaps lacks the thoronghness of a knowledge of parliamentary law possessed by Mr. Randall, he will fill the chair in a most satisfactory manner. II is brilliant ami consistent icconl of uncompromising hostility to the Radical corruption of the past fifteen years is a sufficient guarantee that oQicial corruption and Ring rascality will find no favor in his sight. The action of Mr. Randall in moving the unanimous nomination of Mr. Kerr, reflects the highest credit settled. I "P?" himself. lion. John U. lhompson, or Uhio, wasd esignated as Sergeant-at-A rms on the first ballot. He is pre-eminently fitted for the position, and the honor could not have been moie worthily be stowed. For Clerk Mr. Adams, of Kentucky, was chosen on the sixth ballot, making the selection of the three principal officers of the House from three ad joining States, but which represents nearly one-fifth of the total population of the country. The only objection that could possibly be made to these selections is of a geographical charac ter, but this can have cut little force. Mi. Adams, who is an ex-member of Congress, isespecially qualified for the office. For doorkeeper Fitshugh, of Texas, was elected on the second ballot. Stuart, of Virginia, was chosen iost master on the second ballot, and Rev. J. L. Townsend, of the Episcopal Church, was named for Chaplain. In the Radical caucus Speaker Blaine and all the Radical officials of the House were renominated, demonstrating that the ruling passion is strong in political death. It now only remains for the House to organize promptly to-day and go boldly and intelligently to work. The people of this country look to the present House, not so much for leg's Iation, as the exposure and punishment of official corruption f that have well nigh destroyed the country in the last six or eii;ht years. Nor should they be disappointed. Ofilcial thieves should be unsparingly exposed. If there are any men who claim to be Democrats, and have participated in Radical plunder.'they should be made example of. But in the exposure of Radical official corruption, necessary legisla tion and legislative reforms should not be lost sight of. The two are not in compatible, but really gohand in hand. The duty of the present House cannot be misunderstood nor shou.d it be iicsrlected. --. FSTIMATFS ..3 0!'.".H.4.V !S,400 l.fiOl.OO.-. ... 171,1.1,J7 . . 57,4:t(,4titi .. 2'-'.7!1.4J ... 40..W4.1W ... ,Wi2.714 a,8.-o,o40 251,5r. ..?:M4,012,0m; the fiscal were $1R,- Wr. direct the attention of our read ers to the prospectus for 1870 of the weekly and daily New York Sun, which will be found in another column of our paper. The Sun is an indepen dent pajier and is conducted with dis tinguished ability. Mr. Dana, its edi tor, is a bold and fearless man the inveterate fe of all manner of cor ruption and dishonesty in general, State and municipal governments and that his efforts in that direction are fully appreciated is attested by the fact that the Wcclli Sun has at tained a circulation throughtout the country of ovci riVAy thousand copies, while the circulation of the daily edi tion is about forty thousand more. We know of no city paper in any part of the country more interesting and entertaining than the Sun, and no man who invests the trifling sum of $1.20 for the weekly for one year, with the postage prepaid, will ever re gret the outlay, and will le remuner ated to an extent almost incalculable. rrl,tk.-j b-nd toobey. Grant in his late message advocates a constitutional amendment making it the duty of each of the several States to establish and forever maintain free public schools, adequate to the educa tion of nil the children in the rudi mcntary branches within their respec tive limits, irrespective of sex, color, birth place, or religious, atheistic or pagan views and prohibiting the grant ing of any school funds or school tax, or any part thereof, either by legisla tive, municipal or other authorities for the lienefit of any other object of a:iy nature or kind whatever. He borrow ed this idea from Blaine and it is, as the'Pittsbnrgh Pout truthfully remarks, an idiotic idea at best. The people of the States have the patriotism to edu cate their children without any com pulsion from the general government. a T. D. Kelley, of this State, Is the cldeat conlinncd member in Congress. DMF.XT, tlie full text of which i published in the next column. TAXATION. He swjrgesfs taxation of all property equally, excepting wly the last i-estiug plaee of the dead. THE FOREIGN T1FXATIOXS with most of the powers remain satisfacto ry. Along with the message is transmit ted certain diplomatic correspondence showing the exact condition of fo;eign rela tions. THE MF.XICAK TROUBLES are next referred to at some length. The marauding excursions, the frauds of the United States revenue and the number of murders and outrages on the Mexican bor der have been made the subject of renew ed remonstrance by the United States to the Mexican government, but without ap parent effect. A larger force of troops is necessary to guard the American frontier. The result of the joint commission on Mexican claims will soon be communica ted to congress. lie is happy to announce I that Venezuela has abandoned her objec tion to paying to the Lnited btates that portion of its revenue allowed towards the extinguishment of the claims of foreigners generally, and annonnccs the ratification of a treaty of commerce and navigation with T'elffium, and of conventions with the Mexican republic for the farther ex tension of the jint commission respecting claims with the llawaiau islands for com mercial teciprocity, and with the Ottoman empire for extradition, all of which have been duly proclaimed. The President then discusses the Ala bama claim. One thousand three hun dred and eighty claims have been presen ted, of which six hundred and eighty-two had been disposed of at the date of my re port on the subject. One hundred and seventy were decided during November, and decisions are being made in the re maining cases rapidly. OCEAN CATU.ES. The President then reviews the history r of ocean cables and comments freely upon the action of the government and cables ( in relation to the landing of the cable on J the shores of France, and the action of the 1 Anglo-American company in endeavoring to advance the rates upon the competition by the direct cable. FRAUDULENT NATURALIZATIONS Among ihe important subjects to which the attention of congress should be directed are those of fraudulent naturalization and exportation. He invifes the attention of congress to the necessity of regulating by law the status of American marrying in fr eigners, and defining the statusof children born of American parents in foreign coun tries. The message then reviews the re port of the Secretary of the Treasury. IN FAVOR OF RESUMPTION. It will be a source of great gratification to the President to be able to approve any measure of congress laoking effectually toward securing resumption. Unlimited inflation would accomplish it, but at the hacrifice of honor. Ilefening to the Secietary of War's re port, he recommends a:i appropriation of 800, 000, 000 for the subsistence of the de partment Iks fore the beginning of the next fiscal year, and recommends the repeal of the law abolishing mileage and the return to the old Rystem. lie recommends a reduction of govern ment expenses wherever it can be done without crippling the functions of the government. A restoration of the duty on tea and coffee would increase the revenue by eight million dollars. THE TARIFF QUESTION. The subject of the tariff occupies consid erable space. REPORTS OF TIIE DEPARTMENTS. The President, on the navy, then says : Policy requires that we should have a larg ernumberof torpedoships while the warlike situation continues. The condition of the navy, however, is, upon the whole, satis factory. He recommends the immediate completion of five double-turretted moni tors now on the stock. The report of the Postmaster General is next discussed, and various recommenda tions made in connection. The thirteenth report of the interior de partment is next reviewed. The report of the general land office shows that there were 245,tK)l acres less disposed of duiing this year than last. lie recommends that the government's contribution to the Centennial exhibition be of a character and quality and extent in keeping with the dignity and credit of the country. The reports of the several departments are brielly referred to. lie recommends that a joint congressional committee be ap pointed to visit the mining states and terri tories next summer and report such laws as may bo best suited for the development of those territories. The message closes with a recapitulation of the various questions which the President deems of vital importance, such as educa tion, opposition to the teaching of sectarian tenets in the public schools, the driving out of licensed immoralty, polygamy, etc., and the enacting of such laws as will insure a speedy return to a sound currency that will command the respect of the world. Col. M'Clure on Grant's Message. Commenting on this labored document, the Philadelphia Times among other things says: "After our relatious with Spain there are but two questions of vital interest pre sented in the message, beyond the usual routiiM records and suggestions. The dusky son of the forest who, in deciding how he would receive his government ktt lmitr, said, first some whisky, next a lit tle more whisky, and finally t he rest of the account in whisky, weM typ'fied thePresN dent's devotion to the school question. And like the Yankee fiddler, who always ended every tune with Yankce Doodle, he weaves the sectarian or educational is sue in as the blossom that is to bear the richest fruit, whether from thistles or fig trees. Edncat ion is the first want of a free people a platitude that nobody will dis pute and then he wanders into the laby rinths of imaginary sectarian conflicts un til be invokes the fundamental law to help him out. Aud from a general coramenda tioi of education he rloundeis on to the churehesr and demands that they shall pay on their billion of property as-do oth er people. Again he bobs the schools against Jewell's Post Office Department, aud christens them willing haud-maids of progress, and finally he flourishes his cli max by demanding compulsory education, and disfranchisement, after 8J0, of all who cannot read and write, excepting those who were anable to doso atthe time of the enactment of th new organic law. The school and sectarian issues are evidently the politieal bees that buzz in the Presi dential bonnet, and he strikes out wildly in his ill-considered assaults upon imagi nary foes of free institutions." That this is not an unjust estimate of the Presi dent's views and purposes in this regard will be readily inferred from the language of the message itself on the subject of ed ucation, which we quote fn full : THE IMPORTANC E OF EDUCATION. As we are now about to enter njoo onr second Centennial, coinmenriiijp nr man hood as a nation, it is well to look Lack upon the pawt and study what will be -M to pre serve ar.d advance our future greatness. From the fall of Adam for hi transgression to the present day, no nation has ever ben free from threatened danger toils prosperity and happiness. We should look lo the dan gers threatening us and remedy th?u so far as lies in onr power. We are a Republic, whereof one is as good as another before the law. Uudr such a form of government it is of the grat"st importance that all should be possessed of education and intelligence enough to cist a vote with a right under s'andingof its ineauing A large Association of ignorant men cannot, for any considerable period, oppose a successful resistance to ty ranny and oppression from the educated few, but will inevitably sink into acquiescence to tlie will of intelligence, whether directed by the demagogue or by priestcraft Hence the education of the masses becomes of the first necessity for the preservation of our institu tions. They are worth preserving, because they have secured the greatest good to the greatest proportion of the population of any form of government yet devised. All other forms of government approach it .inst in pro portion to the general diffusion ot" education and independence of thought and action. As the primary step, therefore, to our advance ment in all that, has marked onr progress In the past century, I suggest for your consid eration, and most earnestly recommend it., that a constitutional amendment he submit ted to the legislatures of the several States for ratification, makinn it theduty of each of the several States to establish and forever maintain free public schools adequate to the education of all the children in the rudiment ary branches within their respective limits, irrespective of sex, color, birl h-pi.K-e or re ligion, forbidding the teaching in said schools of religions, atheistic or pagan tenets, and prohibiting the granting of any school funds or school taxes, or any part thereof, either by legislative, municipal or other authority, for the lencfit or in aid, directly or indirectly, of any religions sect or denomination, or in aid or for the lienefit of any other object of any nature or kind whatever. Tweed Gives IE3 Bail. The escape of Tweed is what Shakespeare would call "more matter for a May morning." The Warden of Ludlow Street Jail aud Deputy-Sheriff IIagen went out driving in the Park with their prisoner, and allowed him to call at his own house, where they sat cooling their heels in waiting while he went up stairs to see his wife. According to their own story, they snsected iu a little while that he had taken Fieuch leave, and made diligent search and gave the alarm. Up to the present writing uo trace of the missing man lias been discovered. If the Warden and t lie Deputy Shetiff are not liars and accomplices in Tweed's escape he had nut more than a quarter of an hour in advance of his pursuers, and for an old man broken with the storms of state, and fat besides, that was very Kttle. On the other hand, if the officers aided him he may have had several hours' start, as consider able time intervened between his leaving the prison and the alarm of his escape. Uuder the most charitable construction to be put upon theirconduct we cannot fail to conclude that the officers iu charge of Tweed are unfit for any public trust. If bribed to connive at his escape, they are scoundrels. If so silly as to trust him out of their sight in a house with an open lot in the rear, leading on to an avenue, they ar too stupid to be set to watch thieves. It is probable that they have been really stipendiaries of the prisoner for months granting him for a consideration those fa vors which are always for sale at a debtors prison. This escape is even more vexatious than that of Genet, although Tweed had already suffered the penalty of the crimes lie had committed, and was in jail simply on civil process, a.s unable to procure bail for the amount repuired of him. It is hard to see how he can avoid pursuit if it be vigor ously carried oa, and whether he be recap tured or not, his property will serve to sat isfy judgments against him in the suits to recover the plunder taken from the city. His arrest was a measure of additional se curity, but it has not proved a very effect ive one ; for a New York jail is like a jug cler's box things disappear out of it in the most unaccountable fashion. Sheriff Conner and Warden Dunham are liable to a fine of f 1,000 and one year's imprison ment; for their neglect, and if Tweed is not forthceming they will be apt to get the full benefit of the law. N. Y. World, 5t7u A Hartford (Conn.) woman has had four husbands, all alive still. The four husbands, however, constitute but three men. She changed her maiden name for that of her first husband, got a divorce and married a second, left him on account of his attentions to a pretty sewing-machine girl, now a prominent actress at a New York theatre, and, as soon as divorced, re married No. 1, lived with him a short time, got another divorce, and has now married for the fourth time a man who had been divorced from two wives. Up to Wednesday last fifty-nine bod ies had been recovered from the Swaithe main colliery, near Beansley, Eng., and it is now considered certain that the dead will namber between 150 and 14C. In Rutland, six miles from Watertown, N, Y., Tuesday afternoon, SarahJCouklin, aged fourteen years, while returning from school through a piece of woods was mur dered. When the body was found it was supposed the girl had received a fall which caused her death. Yesterday an officer from Watertown visited the spot and found strong indications that the girl had been murdered and strong evidences against a boy aged sixteen years, named Rutar, who lived near tho scene of the murder. It is believed that be attempted to ravish the girl and, failing in that, killed her with a small hammer. He was tracked to and from the spot and a hammer was found which fits the indenture in the gill's fore bead. - Rutar has been arrested. The sugar house boiler, on the Fairfax plantation, nine miles below Franklin, La., exploded Friday night, instantly killing three men. mortally wounding two and badly scalding many others, besides doing great damage to the buildings. No par ticular reason is assigned for the accident. The killed and mortally wounded are all colored men, except one, the sugar boiler, a white French creole,from Lafourche, name unknown. The Fairfax plantation is own- ' d by Stnrges & Co., of New Yotk. Sews of the Week. A Berks county cow weighs 1,450 lbs, Cony bad three fires within twenty four houi-s the work of incendiaries. A boiler exploded on Thursday in a saw mill at Cleveland, Ohio, injuring ten men. two of them fatally. Twins a boy and girl born in Read ing, a few days ago, weighed fifteen and fourteen and three-quarter pounds. Good beer, eh ? A black bear boldly walked through a street of Milford, Pa., and after leisurely enjoying the town sights, walked away, no eitizen disturbing him. A severe earthquake shock was experi enced in Grass Valley, Cal., on Saturday. The vibrations lasted ten seconds, and ex tended north and south. Charles Avery, aged 100 years, died in Cincinnati recently. He started the first pottery in Ohio and owned property which is now worth $2,000,000. Philadelphia common council his ac cepted the proposition of the Pennsylvania railroad company to erect a temporary bridge over the Schuylkill at Market street, Love induced a Portland girl to steal her father's best boots and overcoat and give them to her lover, thus enabling that impecunious youth to go on a hunt for env pi oyment. Charles D. Wetmore, of Berlin, Wayne county, has been arrested on a charge of assault and battery and rape committed or his own daughter, Olive J. Wetmore, sev enteen years of age. A lamp containing gasoline fell from a wall in Frederick Kan'maiirs beer saloon, Newark, N. J., Friday night, and Mrs. Kaffman and her daughter were burned so badly that they died next day. lion. John O. Smith, of Ohio, one of the Force BiM members of the Forty-third Congress, takes the plaee of the other Smith as Commissioner of Indian Affairs There rs no doubt that he wiH stick, Fifty years ago Mr. and two Misses Keith, of Bridgewater, Massachusetts,mar ried Miss and two Messrs. Robinson. The six are still living and the last of their golden weddings came off recently. Within the last two years Mrs. Martha- Jobson, of Middlctown township, Dela ware county, 87 years of age, has pieced together IS quilts, some of tiiom quite novel in pattern and Use work Que. The DemosTatie Uinmph rn Missis sippi involves the cutting down of the state printing bill from $100,000 a year to $ 10, 000, and Repnblican newspapers in the in terior are very generally suspending. J. W. Freeman, editor of the Fittstoii (Pa.) Comet, convicted of libel irpon Jules Henri, has been sentenced by Judge Hard ing to pay a fine of $."0 and u tide rgv seven months' imprisonment in tlie county jail. Of the 2G5 members who met in the two Houses of Congress on Monday, 190 have had previous seivice, while lo are without Congressional experience, and are absoiutelv unknown to the couutry at large. The skeleton of the horse that carried General Sheridan on his historic twenty mile ride to Winchester, Virginia, during the war, is owned by a Rochester (New York) man, and is to be exhibited ut the Centennial. There is said to be a man at Harper's Ferry whose name is Samuel T. S. J. B. V. M. B. Case. It is strange that a fellow will mutilate the alphabet in that way when nobody hinders him from taking the whole of it. A man who was buried in Sullivan county only one year ago weighed eighty pounds two days before his death. The other day his body was exhumed and found to weigh four hundred and seventy-seven pounds. A case of petrifaction. A Reading woman who was "given np" by the doctors is trying to cure the consumption by eating dog's flesh and drinking oil made from dog fat. She has got to relish this diet, and says she will be walking around and be well soon. Mr. F. S. Corbctt, of Clarion township, Clarion county, found a calf on Thursday morning last, on his premises, with two perfect head. The hide of the curious animnl lias been stuffed by Mr. Corbett and can be seen by all desiring to examiue it. Paul Boytnn is coming home soon to display an invention to preserve the lives of skaters. Any one who has ever tried to break up all the ico in a mill pond at one fall, says the Detroit Free Pre, will have a dim idea of the spot where this invention is fastened. Samuel Love, of Butler county, has spent thirty-eight years of his life iu carry ing the United States mails. During that time he traveled, on the average, twenty eight miles daily, and in the aggregate two hundred ami eighty-three thousand eight hundred and two miles. There is at Winston. Ala., an aged couple, Buckner Walker and his wife Seliva, the former beiing 104 and the latter 103 years old. The man runs a flour mill and the wife does her own cooking. They have 102 living descendants; 12ohildren, 02 grand cnildren, and 28 greal-graud-chil-dren. A few years ago there resided at Ro chester, Perry county, Emma Johnson, a beautiful girl. She became acquainted with a young man, who ruined her. After ward, deserted by him, she became an out cast. Last week she placed herself in front of au approaching train aud was killed. Two children of John B. Hicks, of LUierty, Va,, while playing on the bank of Staunton river, fell into a pit sixteen feet long, twelve wide and six high, and at the bottom discovered the remains of an Indian warrior, well preserved, and surrounded with bows, arrows, ears of corn, and speci mens of pottery, Edward J. Backenstose, a justice of the peace of East Hanover township, in Lebanon county, the owner of a farm, and extensively engaged in the shipping of cattle to the Eastern markets, appointed an assignee last week. He has since con fessed to the forgery of notes amounting to between f 10,000 and $15,000 and has lied to parts unknown. His liabilities are re ported to amount to $ 25,000. It appears to the Louisville Courier Journal that Governor llartranft 'stiU clings to the antique fallacy" that "as Pennsylvania goes so goes the Union," and it remarks : "Pennsylvania may go for llartranft, but if she does she will just then experience that appalling sense of solitude which the traveler would feel in the heart of the Great African Desert, with not a human being within a thousand miles of bim." President Grant's message occasioned great excitement in the Spanish capital, a complete summary of the Cuban section having been cabled to the Spanish minis ter. The delay of one day iu delivering the message to Congress is regarded sus piciously, and duplicity will most likely be charged against the American chief mag istrate, and the ultra Spanish organs inti mate threats of a Carlist recognition by the United States. Any information of a little girl named Ellen Gilroy, twelve years old, with brown hair and blue eyes, who wore a black and red shawl when she left home in February last, will be thankfully received by her mother, who resides in Crowntown, near Pittston, and who seut her to the store to make some "purchases, since which she has beard nothing of her. Address, Margaret Gilroy, Pittston. Papers copying this notice will confer a favor on a worthy poor woman. TH IS WILL IflTIFY THEPM of out intention to put nkw an! towm prices on much of our Sw The tear' closing out sale w ill commence at half fast !!i0c,Jfr week-day morning, and CONTINUE UNTIL OUR FALL and ATlSTf 13 SOLD. TIIE FACT IS: We have made up too many OVERCOATS and SUITS for this jr,r, our Stock into Cash needed for 1876, we will make certain .,rr;frtt ,; t apparent on and after nr,u.x.ai.w, ....w.. ... wue-iw., one through our Salesrooms and cutoff Profits and even a part of th, many of our present prices. To be very exact in stating 7a matter, a tee do not intend tt,.it .f.,j a,,. or custom of our hou$e ghall m Ulead the public in the Uat particular, Vt v per U say, that this Mark Doicn. rrhilsl it applies to A THOUSAND AND MORE OVERCOATS. A THOUSAND AND MORE BUSINESS COATS HUNDREDS OF DRESS COATS, SEVERAL THOUSAND VESTS, SEVERAL) THOUSAND PAIRS OF PANTS, and extends tltrovghovl ntr Itertse, yet there erre some lots in vhich ' r t. l ,, ben marked at close price,) ve stiall make no change. We desire to announce that this is Our FINAL and OiTLYMark Down this Sea So that NONE NEED WAIT for Lower I'ukt... The step we take witi won rerfitlxt aid those who fef.i. unr. The Terms of the Sale are the usual Terms vf our 1. No Second or Altered Price One Fix eu Price. 2. Cash from All, to warrant Ixw Priees- 3. The Centraet ou our pait, to rttvrn the money, is a part of the b rK nwxUsil niVi arr returned nil worn V Vdov y i v i .v.v-m fcy v . . - - 4. A Full Guarantee given for each garment. The Stock we offer is all new, and is no1 "bought" or "witoi.r.vu.t" , OUR OWN CAREFULLY MADE CLOTH1NC It will be remembered that our stock always embraces the cikucmt i-nit. STANTIAI. goods, and that every mzk and shape is provided for botlj men,. It will also be borne in mind that there is but ONE OAK HALL, ui ru THE eOUNF.R OF SIXTII-SIXTII-SIXTII--SIXTII Hoping for a visit from each reader, aud that our friends will paw tlifc auG;.u.- to all their friends iu the country, We are Very Truly, ,W&m.atfeQ3 & Bro 6th If you in larger find no bliss, and loathe cigars no child to kiss no wife to love no gal to hug don't seek oblivion iu the jHg ; and if you- haven't any sinter, just ask some chap 9 lend yoa his, to soark for a little while thew "splice," and all the rest will come in nice. The Oshkosh A'ortlietstern says s There is a man, an inmate of the asylumr whose skin, although a white mau, is as black as a negro's. It was caused by a dose of aitrate of silver which he swallowed by accident. The acid coming through the pores tlie fckin turned blaek by the light of the sun and remained so. He is ciazy, however, and is subject to fits, dnrincr which he often falls and cuts j himself. Tho wounds heal up with r.cw ( and white skin, thus leaving the white scars all over his face and head, which looks still whiter on accouut of the black ness of the skin. On Saturday last Rev. Father Murphy, editor of the Montreal T rut Wiinesi and a famous lecturer on Papal infallibility, etc., and Rev. Father Lynch, a talented young priest laiely from Irelaud, drove out to Back river, seven miles from Montreal, and stopped at the La Jeounesse hotel. At night, after retiring, a fire broke out in the hotel and Fathers Murphy, Lynch and Madame Champagne, a lady sleeping on the third floor, were burned to death before assistance could be rendered. The La Jeounesse hotel was a large wooden building and burned very rapidly. The flames spread to Marcott's hotel, opposite, and both were burned to the ground. Going for a Husband She nAS Never Seen. The Rockport Democrat sayi that Caledonia, Livingston county, has had a genuine romance. In substance it is that a man, whose name is not given, left that town about eleven years ago, and neglect ing to write home, was given up as dead. Eight months ago his sister, Mrs. Hackett, received a letter from him, stating that he was in New Mexico, and that he had made a fortune there. She answered the letter inclosing a picture of her daughter, Maggie Hackett. When the long absent man re ceived this letter in New" Mexico, he showed the photograph of his niece to a companion, who ws so "struck" with hei appearance that he wrote to her, proposing marriage, and offering to furnish the means for her outfit journey to the west, etc. The proposal seemed to have been looked upon favorably by the young lady, who answered the letter, he sending her by return mail $300 in money, an engagement ring, a set of jewelry, etc., and a request that she would correspond with her uncle as to his character, financial standing, etc. She did so, and the uncle reported him well to do ar.d a "perfect gentleman." It was in due time arranged that she should take the money and valuables and go to New Mexico, with the understanding that, if after becoming personally acquainted with the lover whom she had never seen, she was not suited he was to send her home again. She started three weeks ago. She is eighteen years of age, a poor work ing girl, belonging to a respectable family. Her lover admits to being over forty. A TRiiHifi.F. Kxriy-mN f.,; and Forty Ltrts Ltt in m f,j. A Londou dispatch of theft;!. awful explosion eJccurred "bs Swaithe Main Collerv, war IU the West Riding of ;Voik!i;re, i feared that at le.-vt twe liuiMiti . lost. At the time f tLe who were able rubbed to the j: mil me tra wing-cage i.aa i-,, c- The bodies of the ir. now being broiis'1 to tlu:f:.i The colliery bek'n t M :i ) k Co., is one "f ll:e rc r southern pait of YoikM.iie. 1 by uudergiound-woilihijj iL I; main co'.iieiv, where, tt!re t; yesterday, over tlm-e tint ctc perished. TLe woiks fxte d f miles. They are eiit'wly safety lamps under v.-ry riic? and were considered safs. A; ( this rrorning'aboutrtliite b:r,:V- boys descended, and brran I At C.S50 a terrific explosion ncari exact jK)sition of the exj-'of-.-ft: ent unknown, but the miners i"i the pit were stattled In ;i lowed by a large cularnu i.f c tcr-darup. As soon as possible vlr.w? ized to search for the dcrt a; those who had escaped. Af fiW . for some time the volvrw about noon that they nut rtr culty. They saw many Lv r but. unconscious. Tlie operatives in all tLcr v"'- district are on the spot ready' to do all possible for tlie ie.io a . ferers. All the local sjire.'i.u arrived. All those who have been r" far an. ftfirioncW hnntpd ADil Hni.di-eds of men. women r are congregated at the niwth o' ; and as the disfigured bxiicsaTf -the surface the scene is of t!iem rending character. The latest accounts from Colliery indicate that the t ;ai a " lives lost is 140. The exj lf lk by careless blasting opernlvr- ANOTHER HAT A! Another disaster of a ir.i;'J; r is tfnnitfil tosrlnv in a ToA ttJ Ti,it t rli lit rft.if I. Wales. T't. sons were killed and ten injjrei A HouRiBEE Butchery. About seven o'clock on Saturday morning last, William Aiden, an Englishman, an cxpressmau for Cobb & Co., living on Scranton avenue, Cleaveland, O., quarreled with his wife, aud becoming enraged he caught up au axe and commenced butchering ber with it, severing her head from her body, and oth erwise horribly mutilating ber. He then went to the corner of Garden street, with the axe and a hammer, aud attacked his step-daughter, cutting her in a fearful maimer. Mr. Benton, who attempted to intefere, was also chopped, and pounded with the hammer. The two latter, al though still alive, are beyond all hope. The bouse presented an awful appearance ; walls and ceiling bespattered with blood, and pools of bloody gore lying upon the floor ; dishes broken and chairs upturned showing that there must have been a terrible struggle. Aiden was arrested on Scrantou aveuue while deliberately settling up his affairs and locked up. lie gives as a reason for bis triple murder that his wife, who was a widow woman when be married her, aud the step-daughter were stealinghim out of bouse and borne. When questioned why be was not satisfied with killing bis wife, be stated tbat he wanted so put an end to all the damned whelps for they drove him to it. There was great excitement iu that city over the butchery. Nothing bo horri ble has ever before happened there. An Infant Smoker. A c1 writes to the Cincinnati '-1"1h Bradford Junction, Oiii: A W'J weaned with considerably ' age of two years. All ibe uu provided to bamboozle urchins i: were indignantly rejected by food was refused, and li1 and constant fretting he suffer ly and his health failed toaci t Ait4ciAn feiin kii c alarm. . too, from au excess of sal'va U'K stomach, a disease whitb nlil!rl ably more fully undrsund than bachelor correspondent. F or . of temporarily pacifying biu). ' inveterate smoker, occasH'Uf'J . the child's entreaties, by 't'''1 irv r fWtm dtwn lllttlltll AUG ' n a a v in iovv" - , a mi"" from the beginning w 11. i lUS-1-' boy to iuff at it for a time, in his owu seved found substitute for invariablv pave entire stomachic complaint d'sarreJ,1j acquired an aijn:iiic . $ io in rive. Diiv t rs - .anllllV. T'l iiicraiurl nven more iai',fllJ- l:..u : ..AT at the nine iuiiiat.ivc i'uhj ...vuM cuna grew into wi,"u6 - r j: j . . i t,n ntinice' j uay, auu "'" "'X froinB cigars daily. It was " suffered in health, suffered' lost Mesh ; and that inenti'J of the healthy curiosuj At.. 1 - - . i . . : - iii.l null io lime iuius" - lmr-T- or of children of his age ... . a. irradully reduced to n1"1 ,htiv day, and he continues ,u'r 'j, with every appearauce u bodily growth. . At "I t...-t. Kr rivmoutD cnm-. , Fridav. the robcy oi ted by Mr. Beeoher ws 1 1- n p. ed and the gage oi o' vi Deacon West, Mis r.-kA nn ann flonn)0 . siderable exhibition of t v nun j i same meeting a - ., wa presented reneri ncuianiv 't v. " k , . The letter was referred w au examining eomxnitt- it I;.
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