2 m rllnnil rnrrfJiy I Wilts Hie Legislature fuTjonrnefll I ft 11 H 1 r H f J fJI ft n ' las March, two hill of the very first . fl!:VJi:j Jiiy2: i important were rdig---one in the ; rr-s x . - - (Hows and the other in Uio Senate. I Fkfchy ilurniag, - - Jan. 14, JL llome-Bretl llero-Martyr. ravine oflife. savs the N. Y. I noune, was tliat of John Horn, 'jf Detroit who may be The bill In the House, which had passed i Q"7ft a. t t :, : ! of the new constitution requiring' the I 1 ntlr ntntr omnittifc 9irtur. ' Legislature to regulate the amount of ;M,W Htvled a home-bred John Lambert Dkooatic State e uwiites m rr.!!'A,' the tinnu.tl ftf s to Le received hy ; -i iiii.n-nctcrand adveutnres of John Lam- connty officer? in all comities contain- ! bert, of Scotland, were very graphically in-r rni.ro Minn I.MMIOl) in hfl lir..mti I -"' - J " There are only three such counties in : beautiful medal presented me by the citi zens, and I think you wnc one of the gen- Otkroke hctdrf.d PERSONS bavid fBOU ! tlemen Connected with it presentation. I Dkowing By oke mam. 1 have been informed that I would receire a I medal from the British Parliament, but it Among the application made to the last has not come. 1 don't ask any. Congress for a medal for services in the I Raved "a pour unfortunate individual" A and Other Settings. WiLKuetBAiiKS, Pi.. .launary 1, I ' The nimlTH of I hi Democratic Stare: Ooiiin.ii.iet: ar- requested u m-et at lloitou's hotl, H.iri iLnir, n '1 hnrstbty, the 20il ' day of January, 1H7R, at 12 o'clock, in., fr- . fi purpose of . fixiuyr a time ami place fur: lioH'ting Democratic S ale convention, to elect deitgitrs'to .Ibu Democratic National; f'oun-n ion, to notn'uara candidates for President ami Vice President of Ihu Uniud Slates ' I HekhhiCK B. WmonT, Chairman. ( last month, when I took a severe cold, and an 1 was lying in bed reading the proceed ings of Congress, I saw something about an appropriation for medals to persons for saving life on the seashore, and I thought described by Charles Rcade a year ago lit : then that some gentleman would be very the New York Tribune, under the title of! likely to remember also those who saved a "Hero and Martyr." Mr. Horn is a ! life on the northern lakes and livers. tfte felate, viz : I lnladelplua, Luzerne ; young man living at Detroit, assisting his ! There are many other cases which I dourt ami Alleghenr. A bill complying ; father there in a smalt tavern near the pul- A street car moved by condensed air pressure has been successfully tried in Paris. There are eleven Pennsylvanians in the California legislature. Enough to ven the wholo lump. A Heading inventor claims to have a car brake for which he has refused $100, 000, $20,000 of which were to be paid down. Washington Hays, of Butts county, Ga., has lost three sons throngb'gunpowdcr accidents. The last of the three w as killed on Christmas. The Peaks of Otter, naar Lynchburg, THIS WILL I0TIFY THE The iVoiet!.tnt eiorr of Tlia wiil hoi. I a '"(JavUtiitii riiihulel-C'onvcn- ticn' in that ei!.v on Welnc9(lav ami h ami 20th, IV invite Lvansrt-i- 'ilniiStlav, 1ST (J. The ie.ilMini-tvr r c-r.s, pi tion iiiyffie:!, to in et with them it tliat time. 'i;.:i f vit-il interest in CMni.a tian vurk u ll u'tsei-.vl dm ii!g the lUCttiiJiT. January V con.! i nil i, en-tors ol reliioiid scoreiliteil Chris- i a Ths re'i'is Iv.itii.t Kilitorial Asso ?intii will mt.".;t for tin; traiisaetiou of rl.ii;ine-i in the Somite room at llanis l)inr. on Welnes'hiy, January 19, at l'J oV!" U, s.. m. As this will he the f'.-iv following t lio (tovernfir's imiiigu r,tion, iiii'l the day I fore the incMing of t!.'e Peinovratii; State Committee, thern will i iblh'ss he a lari;e repre cntation of t!:e journalists of the Sta'e in jittei:'Js.nee. with tlie constitutional provision re-1 ferred to had pased the Legislature at j its prrtiou session and was sent to j tlie Governor. After letaining it a; long time, he veoed it on frivilous ani purely technical grounds, at the instance and dictation of thafprtre and model politician, William Ii. Mann, who desired the old state of things in ! Philadelphia to remain, out of which Mann and hU associates had for years j raised a huge corruption fund to con- j trol the elections in that city. It is ; important to the State in a financial point of view that such a bill should J psss, and a the constitution impera-f tively requires it, the Legislature will j prove recreant to its highest dut3 if it ! neglects to do so. Let there be no ; unnecessary delav in the matter. j The other bill which passed the House ami was pending in the Senate, i 13 knowu as "the AVilliamport boom ! bill. tto:i at that lnaee known Peter Herdicis the controlling lie wharves. Doubtless this proximity to the water has given him the opportunities which he has had in several years for saving what he calculates iu the aggregate At about one hundred hutu.au lives from death i watery grave, by drowning. The Hon. Moses YV. Field, of tlie House of RepresenlaUitives, who knew Horn iu Detroit, brought his claims to the atten tion of Congress. In collecting informa tion in regard to Horn's singular and thrill ing adventures, the following letter was obtained from the hero himself. It is a very modest and not detailed report mention, as I have not got their names. j Va., long supposed to be an extinct volca- lou must know yourself of a great many, j no, have recently given unmistakable evi as your place of business ana warehouse : denees of action. are near by, and I recollect seeing you sev eral times when ref cuing people from a Wishing you and your ramiiy good health, I remain, very truly yours, (Signed) Jons lions, Jr. Detroit, Feb. 22, 1374. and homely language, and w ill be read with peculiar interest : THE HERO'S OWN STORY. The Hen. Moe$ W. Field, ZIoute cf Hepre tentaiires. Deak Sir : I bave never desired a pub lic statement of the service which, under (tod, I have been able to render in saving human life, but a you have asked me to seiid you a lit of men, women and chil dren whom I have rescued from drowning. wiildofo, so Tar as lean hum The Superintendent of Pablie Instruc tion, in presenting his annual report to the Legiflalnre. says : It will show that the system adopted for the education of the 1 Wy., it beine elaimed that the Quarts is of i cniinien oi tlie people has become an inter- ' the richest ever found pie est of vast magnitude. Pius IX., with other good qualities, is an excellent musician ; as a young man he was a magnificent tenor, aud w as carefully educated musically. In the court house at Sunbury may be found a desk and eagle quill which dates back to 1772. Pa say the grand jury ii their ofScial report. A rich deposit of gold has Teen strutk in tlie Centennial Lode, near Laramie City, of our intention to put sew and lower, pricks- on much of THB YKAB'e CL0I50 OUT SALS WILL COXME5CB AT nALT-PAST tlx Pi both in respect to Antox ( llEsixo.princip.-U editor of lors down the Susquehana rivei the vVaje's Zcititni. (C !iic:ipo.)J.Mi3 ar- ri n t where thev are cr.uirlit 1 .. ... i - with several others, jo:ne tas so lar as lean tioni memoiv. i he boom company or corpora- ! I have never kept a record of the names. at tliat i.iat'e, of which the wt il i hhu me nnuii.fr in no great mat you will excuse me u J leave Rme uurueiitioned. spir.i. one oi me most graspmg ana ; u,.,n lu0lmnuui K ings, but I take no credit ! im.-crt piilons monopolies in tlie fetatc, : about this matter, and I have never ro j and is the opirefsor of every lumber- gretted doing what I have done in any cae, man engaged m tlie business of floating although I have hail at touts to keep my to that bv rcste ago. fur dcfrntuiil'g the government out of t!;e tax on whukey. Jl'is t);t.'cr w:i3 the tuo-.L j ole:;iial of all the German organs in t.hi we?t, and exeif!'d r.l uiodt unboumUd ir.ibur.ee over t!ie (Jer.uan Vote. When the Liberal Re- nod detained in the boom for market. The purpose of the bill is to reduce the tin- ' iirjiist and extraordinary charges of the company to a fsir but remunerating price, thus protecting the lumbermen, atnl .".t same time, doing ample jits-' tice to the company. Of course Hcrdic ; publican party came into existence, i will report to all hh fiucv.; legis lative arts and appliances to defeat it. He did so at the lat session r.nd will tlo s.0 at the present one. No man who is at oil familiar with the subject doubts the propriety and justice of the passage of such a bill, ami in defiance of all the personal efforts and appeals cf llcrdic, the Legislature, as a dutv to the hard-working lumbermen on the ; Susquehanna and its tributaries, ought at the earliest day consider it, pass it, and then let liaitraul't take theie- eponsibility. uestn was regai ue' t as one of it ablest and mo-t eilicient leaders, lie i a man ofgre.it natural abilitv, and it is a sd thing to contemplate the tud'len and ignomin;oii3 fall of so bright a star in the political Cinia-tnent. b d for manv weeks on account of the ex posuro in the cold weather. It is well for me that I had a good mother to take care of me in such times of nicknesB. On the 21st of May, 18, I saved Mr. Manning, of Windsor. On the 7th of July. 180,1, I saved Mr. George Taj lor, of New York State ; he was very near dead when I got him on the whai'f. October 10. 18o"), I saved a child of Mr. F. Gorman, of Adrian; she was about 5 yrars old, and was near tlrovrncd when I cot h'r out. December 12, l.v I saved a son of Mr. Yates, who '"t a clothing store on Jefferson avenue. The ulgi.r vta ve, v c"b. a high wind was blowing at the ti..?"- dje was very near dead w hen we reached whatf. KiNr rr:i:Fr.s,i savi.ii i o;sr vICKT. the hundreds of thousand of our youth who partake of its benefits, and to the number The feeling of alarm in Europe at the near prospect of war is unabated. Den mark is fortifying herself, and Holland is of officials employed and the amount of i reorganizing her army. April 11, 1S56, was the worst i)i tl Bismarck, w!m has earned tlie unen-' viable title of despot, now finds thntin ; TepreMi!g CInijcinniLv he has libera ted the communistic element, which he , is being made t; fiice. uflicient pre monitions are given him that Hit ma teiiiisii for wloch he has struggled. The av.ticiiiated ditlictdty between ' w ill ; the Senate and House of Kenre.senta-' overwhelm t!ie per.C3 of th- empire and tivts of this State as to whether the I eunirhin. with it. His vim lenting present session was a mere continuation persec-it'ion of t-lie Catholic clergy, the . of the last one, or an entirely new one, most conservative class, breaking up ; was, fortunately and correct 1 v. as we' the. 6cho I--r, imprisoning the teaeliers. have alwavs believed, amicable adius- : ted 3 esterdav week bv both houses us me i ittsinirga I'o.x remarks, and ba".ish;ng tho?c who preserved order, le!t tlie people exposed to the iron war. machine, eru-hing their ener gies and depleting their purse. lie eaye the subjects of the Emperor must worship the State instead of God, and .he is n'iw brought to tasta the fir3t fruit3 of fiiil tre. adopting the following report of the J unt committee appointed to investi gate and settle the matter. It follows of course from the adoption of the re port ot tlie committee that all legis.a tion at the present session must com mence anew, without regard to anv progress which msy have been made by either house in considering a bill when the last session The petition presented bv Senator! Sargent, of California, signed by 26.61G women of Utah, asking for a repeal of. the -law 'prohibiting polvgatr.v, is a, most rentii kab'c incident, and the. Harrisburg Patriot think it would not the Legislattite as it was dropped at j have b.'cM a matter of so great surni ise tlie March adjournment; but s that) course wouia ltKciy crtect the constitu-; tionrlity of its action, it wa3 much; safer to adopt the report and thus re-! move all doubt or cavil. The follow- i ; ing is the report of the joint committee: ever had. It will be ever memorable as the niuht of the treat conflagration at the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad depot, when lf poor fellows were drowned. Ires cued 9. and the:) became so exhausted that I could n t sw im, and had to abandon them to thtir fate. I got, a very bad cold and lay in bed two wcekn, but that was nothing In comparison to the goal acc(.niliKied. July 25, ISfit. I saved Mr. Joseph Noble of Windsor, ami I believe you were there at the time. He was once engineer on the Great Western Railroad. You know lie came near drowning me by his struggles in the water, at whirh time I received se vere internal injuries. April 7, 1SG7, I saved the son of Mr. C. Myers, wlx lived in Mullet street, lie wan a boy about 12 years old. June 14, 1SG7, I saved the daughter f Mr. Andrew Norse, of Cleve land. Hie was going on board the ferry boat wit h her mother and voine ol herladies, when she Mi oft" the plank. When I got to the wharf she was going out of sight for the last time, and I plunged in and brought her to the sin face. September 15, 187"I saved a colored man, who was a deck hand on the propelior Meteor. He kicked nie about in tho water terribly, for drowning men are always Crazy. November 2, 1867, I s:ived Mr. David Miller, the man who drove a wagon for Hull Bros., storekeepers I money raised and expended in carrying: on us woik; thai me lapulity or its growth within the last few years has been almost without a parralel In the history of this or any other country, and that its results have become so productive of good aw society, and its peretuity so essential to the pros perity of the State, as to make it an object worthy the generous suppoit of the Legis lature, and the source of just pride to every patriotic Pcnnsylvanian. GENERAL STATEMENT. Number of mliool districts in the Riate.., Nuuilier f Hehoolii NumtH-r of graded schools Nmnlwr of school directors Number of superintendents Number of teachers Average salaries of male teaeliers per month.. . Average salaries of femal teachers p: r month Average length of school term in months R.8JS Number of pupils P00.P7.1 Average number or pupils 551, MS Percentage of attendance upon the who!' nmnlii-r registered Average cost of tuition per month for each pupil , Cost of tuition for the year $1,74,$76.52 Cost of building, purchasing and renting school houses 2,059,4GV83 Cost of fll-I, coti tifrneies, debt ami interest 2.0S9 17,932 5,t25 13, 82.1 87 19.8.N0 $41.07 $34.09 j i 62 i 92 i 2.41?,?ia.78 IS 450 75 553 II the w ent in a :nen of tliat territory had petition praying for the le galization of polyandry as a lair offset for th? .Mormon system. The acqui escence and approval, which the exis tence' of this petition presupposes, of the doctrine that one man may have as many wives as he can take care of, shows that t!:-3 Mormon women are tith?r crnzv or nnscxed. It is the most convincing argument yet adduced of the dangerous character of the Mormon fmaticism which can so com pletely nivlo the work of centuries in the course of a few years. adjourned in .omen. It is true tnata tieiVV mih-iho on Monroe avenue. M:i10. 1SR T amu-l could have, been saved to t he Stale by l?"hert Sinton, known as "Free Pre j taking up the unfinished business of P"b" "l,'k',,,w be used N. he a reporter i ioi mc rirog cj.t. aiiuiii nis n:sie to get j news no leu in, ami 1 got lion out. A few nighlafter that I saved Mr. Steele, who used to keep a store on Michigan ave nue. He was on the ferry boat with his wife : he'had a very spirited horse, and was holding him by the head when the boat struck the whaif. The hoise jumped and threw him into the river, when the current swept hini under the wharf. I jumped iu and got, him out all right. Oc tober 4, 1801, I saved a daughter of Mr. McDonald's, of Windsor. May 12, 18H!, I saved Mr. Flattery, one of the Flattery Brothers, who keep a furniture store on Woodward avenue. He was a heavy man; when I got hold of htm he was near gone, and I came near losing my own life iu get ting him out. June 21, ISfO, I saved a man called Mr. tieorge Brodier. I The nmWsigued, a joint committee of ihe Senate and House of Representatives, ap pointed to report on the order of lejrislat :on lor tlie present session, respectfulH report tint in view of ihe dittVrem-e of opinion ex isting up m the su'ij-ct, and the fact that the course, they pre. pose will remove, all doubts as to th validity of legislation, they recom mend tho adoption of the following resolu tion : Rtsob-rd, Tliat no Viill, resolution or other rn-irS4 per a ig at !. e'. n of ihe session At t'ue head of this column will le found a n ot:c2 issue1, by Hon. lieu-' drick It. Wright, chairman of the Hern-1 ocratic State Committee, calling a meeting of tlie conitniffee at Hoiton's j liolei. II inisbuig, on T inrt jt . Jm-v-:r;f 2vth, for the purpose of fixing a trine and place for h.il.'.ii'g the next, Democrat in State convention. It will be the duty of that convention to elect delegates from this State t the D in oeratie national cm vent ion to i.omi liate candida'.es for Prcsid ntr.n I Y:cj President. It i:i important, thiref uv, that this S?nfitorial ilistrii.1 (Cambria' nnd Itiair) should be rej ..resented at tlie meeting of the committer r.t Harris Vt;rg. At tlie l'r'e .onventif-nd; , Sejv- 1 temhor, the deb-gates from this and P.iair c r.tii'y 6t-Ieetcd Join porter, '. as tlie member of tho State Co-um'.Cco f;nm this district. Mr. Po.ter h.s recently removed tofheens- burrr, and of course has ceased to rep rcsnt fit? listiiet in said capacity.' M.r. 11. H. Brv.vn, of Johnstown, one of the d ..legates from this county t(, tlie Kri convention, has also left tlie county 9ivl taken up Ids residence in Philadelphia. Th? three remaining delegates to the LV.e convention from this dbtrht ar. Win. II. Scchle;-, Lsq.. of this place, Y. I. Tieiney, INq , of Altoona, and George S troop. LVp, of Tyrone. Thoj gentlemen have tlie right to fill the vacancy in the State Committee ore ted by Mr. Porter's removal from t!;c distri t. We would Rtilgtst to them the propriety, as well ! as the nces.ity, of their meeting early ' next week at A 1 toons and appointing ?Ir. Porter's successor, in order fhat the Democracy of th3 district may have ' rt voice at the mating of the State Committee next Th"r iii: XVe have j no doubt that Messrs. Seeliler. Tierncy nnd -Stroop will ire the necessitv of prrrrft dftfon in thi important taa . i I'S.o sna:i i - . tisiiie mi e-s at-ain Intro Uict-.l, ri:.JII'-d . Jos." W. i'AR'tr.R. n. n. Smivn FAVce, (i. V. Liwrrn-ck. y - l... AI.HRM1HT, was Jno. K. J. I. MITCHFI.I., Coil), ot II. Of l ed at t lis S' ssion , eating dinner at the time, when some per son c-ime rutiniug in auer me, saying, 'There is a man in tho river." I ran out and jumped into the river, and as soon as 1 got near hi in he clutched me like a vise j and took me under the water twice. When ' Com. of Sunate. ja. Total cost Tor tuitioti, building, feel and contingencies .- ? 9,254. 55-6 13 Total cost, inchiiling expendi tures of all kinds 9.3f3,'.?2 07 Total State appropriations 1,000,000.00" Kstitnated value of school property 24.200,7X9.03 To the $9,3tS,927.07 named above, ihere should be added 577,324.32, increased ex penditures in the' city of Pittsburgh, not in cltided in the summary : SS5.815.94 expendeil for Normal schools, ami $423,683.76 expend ed in support of the soldiers orphan schools to ol. tain the full sum of 59,950,760,99, ex pended for all scliool purposes during the schi1- vear 1875. The changes in the most important 'terns of our school statistics, as compared with last rear, 'are a follow : Increase In' number of districts. Iuc-reaSe':in (number of schools... Increase in number of graded schools Increase in number of school dist ri-t Increase in nnrnher of teachers Decrease in the average salary of male teachers per month.... $ 1.88 Decrease in the average salary of female ti-achers per month ? 1.78 Increase in' Average length of school term..'. 25 days Increase in niiinler of pupils.... 39,299 Increase in averagn tinn.lK.-r of pupils '. 8.822 Increase in cost of tuition 3 219,5t37.49 Increase in cost, of buildings, fuel continirencies, etc 8 297,158.76 Increase in cost of expenditures of all kinds. 5tl.941.C2 Gn ant amdthe Church. Suppose that aftei full and fair discussion of the subject of taxing church pioperty, or projerty de voted solfly to- religious uses, ic should be decided that church prepeity might lie a proper subject of taxation, the same as oth errcal estate, in a State, what thenl? What has tha general government to do with it? What business has General Grant, as Pres- idem, to meddle with the matter? As a j member of a church, if he is a member, be j might hare something to say ; but as head of tho National Government, which docs ' not levy taxes on real estate, it does not become him to take the initiative in matters which appropi iafely appertain to the States. True, the ( 'onstifution could be changed, so as to give the genera! government this power ; so that United States officers might put in their oar and row the churches ac cording to the latest State craft idea, their io Bradford county, the other day, a father aged ninety years boxed his sou's ears severely for abusing Lis wife. The boy is about sixty years. Senator Oglesby, of Illinois, had his infant son baptized last Saturday in water i which the Senator brought from the River j Jordon twenty years ago. I he story that Babbitt, the New Yoik soap manufacturer, could have been robbed of ( 000,000 without missing the money, unlike his soap, won't wash. -On Saturday morning George Tate, aged twelve years, had his foot cut off while attempting to get on a irorning traiu at the Union Depot, Pittsburgh. Wm. Thompson, convicted of on out rage on the person of a girl 12 years of aire at Baltimore in March lt, was sentenced tin ciuinuj iui years couunetirem i:i ine peniientiary. The Duke of Norfolk, President offhe t Catholic Association of .Great Britain, calls j for snLsci iptions in aid of the persecuted Geinian priests. The Duke snltsoibvs $5,000 and Cardinal Manning $1,500. The last descendant of the famous nav igator, Amerigo Vespucci, who gave his j name to the New World, has just died ! near Florence, Ho bore the same name as tho gieat sailor of the fifteenth century. A resilient of Ottawa, Can., having a horse that he found useless, drove iu into the bush on a cold night, chopped the hoofs off the poor animal in order to get its shoes and then left it to its wretched fate. The sworn statement of the commis sioners of the sinking fund, published ac cording to legal requirement, shows a bal ance in the sinking fund, Dec. 31, 1S75, of j 51,22o,JJ5.h.. v here is it deposited ? i Who cts the interest ? ' -Th bTh which flew off to Flor'da to J escape chiTl'tng winds here, dived right into the snosv-'-anks. In the Orange State the season is uuusu'dly severe, snow, frost i and ice seeming to have followed the fash j ion of goinr there to winter. 1 Timothy Kit by. ad old citizen of Chi ! cinnati, died on Monday morning, aged eighty-one years, leaving an estate esti mated at between two and three millions. Among the few heirs are Don Piatt aud Congressman H. B. Banning. A train rilled with military recruits ran off the track at Odessa, Russia, on Sat urday, and plunged dow n an embankment. The wrecked cars caught fire In-fore all 39 ! the men couhl be extricated. Many were j burned to death. The total number killed is sixty-eight, aud fifty-four injured, sever al fatally. Mm ray, one of the murderers hanged at Pittsburgh, on Thursday last, died an infidel, resisting the efforts of ministers of various denominations to the last. His gallows companion, Myers, became a Cath olic, and joined in the endeavors to convert week-day uohsaa, and CONTINUE UNTIL OUR FALL ad IS SOLD. THE 3rVTTV FACT Is t W hawa ma.d nn Tor MiKT flVKRITTfl a ,,A 11'ITU m , . 'w"ww""jear,Bdk our Stock into Cash needed for 1876, we will make terLiin. ... - . . rt.., irrnvrsn it nrcrvmrn r.tr. " gone through our Salesroom and cot off Profits, aud even a r,rt r V ri oi tht many of oar present prices. To be very eraet in ttating thit matter, at ve do not iUri tat . or euetom or our houte tall mielead the nub lie in tu u.nt ,.;,.-...? per to ay, that thi$ Mark Doxen. uhiltt it appliet to A THOUSAND AND MOKE OVERCOATS - A THOUSAND AND MORE BUSINESS COATS HUNDREDS OF DRESS COATS, SEVERAL THOUSAND VESTS. SEVERAL THOUSAND PAIRS OF PA NTS, and extendi throughout our hue, yet there are tome let in tkh tm ft 1 been marked at clore prieet,) w thall make no chanje. We desire to announce that this is Our FINAL and ONLY Mark Down this Sea; THAT u LrlJ M Al I FUR LOWER FRICL3 " " "-w... MO FEEL LIKE Ecxiijir fwl m rm f w n m - e xermm oj uic &aie are ine u.tu-at A errtim of our Uw 1. No Second or Altered Price -One Fix ed Price. 2. Cash from AH, to warrant Low Prices- A. l he Contract on our part, to- return the money, is a part of the ba-n i case tproviuea gooes are returned unworn;. 4. A Full Guarantee given for each garment. Tu. c nr.. ii i - . t. . ,. uo uwv tc unci ia mi - r. vr, miir m 1JO BOtOHT Or WH0I ESitl" OUR OWN CAREFULLY MADE CLOTHE It wiil be remembered that our stock alw ays embraces the cnoicE.T STrft. stantial GOODS, and that every 6IZE and shape is provided for bth uv It will also be borne iu miud that there m but ONE OAK HALL, L.3 THE CORNER OP ntl, SIXTII-SIXTH-SIXTH-SIXm r ViUll Aiitl IVIlXtliT Streets. Hi-ping for a visit from each reader, aud that our friends will tlUa- , . ..r? r - t :.. .... . w a.i unci n lout i u me couiitry, We are Very Truly, A musket is an exhibition at Lancas ter which was earned at Vailey jrige and in the battles of Bunker Hill and Lexing ton ; was present at the surrender of Lord Cornwailis at Yoiktown and with Wash ingtim when he crossed the Deleware. It served thiough mucli of the late rebellion and was captured by the rebels. At Get tysburg it was recaptured. --It is stated that during the Land is Carruth muider trial, now in progress, Mrs. Lund is who has been legally separ ated f'ouj her husband, and would have been divorced fioip bim but for the law of the Roman Catholic church, of which she is a devout member, interdicting it, and Mrs. C'arruth, at present in Vineland, will both figure conspicuously in tho trial. t-Miice Bishop Haven drclaicd in favor of another course of Grant, the small critics are slicking pins into him at all points. One of the latest of the terrible things they have discovered about the Bishop is that not long at;o he delivered a lecture on behalf of a Kalamazoo (Mich.) chureh, and bulk $0 fur his services, though the house did not pay expenses. Some time since it was reported that the stamp tax on bank checks would cer tertainly be removed at the uresent session of Congress. Now it is asserted that it Murray, but he died declaring his disbelief i will be retained, as will also the tax on in religion. The body of a laborer named John White was found in a vat at the stock yards. Chicago, on Tuesday nwirninir. Ho ! was hauling offal to the vats Monday night, anil it is supposetl lie tell into the boiling blood. His fiosh was almost entirely boiled from the bones at the time of the discovery of his body. Jesse Spencer, ycneiable colored resident of Shasta, Cal., lias been placed in communication with his wife and fami ly, from whom he was sepamted in the old plantation days, long jears before the war. They were discovered comfortably settled at Quincy, III., by means of a traveling newspaper item. --The Boston Herald has seen a man luMiiiien. i no oecretary I rue 1 reasury says the government can not afford to dis pense with these taxes and the Committee on Ways and Means will not recommend any change. At Orleans. N. Y., one day last week, a shopkeeer hearing a rattling and squeal ing in his cellar went down and discovered a large rat which in running over a iile of I clams bad been caught by the tail by one ' . -J" . 1 . 1 o 1 .ft - . i !. niieu-iisii. i ue animal naci dragged the bivalve to its hole, but was unabie to pull it through on account of its size, and was in this situation when it was captured and killed. A novel clock has recently Wen placed in the tower or the Albany (N. Y.) Savings Bank. By n incenious arraiie-ement n Further Ijsn."cu:s Ai': ivn lira fxrr&.9 doubly sure. I homas. the his arrival at Bremen, trc;.' OUS Ctiest, tOoSc out the ntc';;: sent it to a clock maker t bi r tested. The opinio'i is almw who saw it on the occ: n trt: biii oei-ieacneo muit-eil m u-si who ronstiuctcd a id rty that the wcuks weie ir,tei;cd i up. i ue liammer, it aj-pfimv. I icateiy poised, that a:iy n:d b; the chest must have ti-oo;ht .: : btfoie the spring wsmi1ic: .' to lift thelcvera:d letit ta'.!j it is p. ssible that tn the rhrv. iv- from the wagon expl ion wi directly by the concuss ton off:1? as Iis been hitherto aNnw4S, ly, by the hammer lesi ii.g "r' and acting prematurely u ; M apparatus. i lie l-onol lu.t mechanism is placed is b jt -r. and lias been handed to 'M r It consists of five laverF- ff titting, and strongly conrwcrf-l other by screws. The m Jt. : to, is in lOstessTon of th k I he delibeiation with wh eit set to work may be gatlisd :v tliat be proewred the tnatf :' mission f h'.s crime in rrHi ities. He boiwht the x,.'- in America, and either ccnw many as passenger's hipffHtf-ff sent arter liim, a jN.it on doubts sseur to har rien. model of bis pernicious citi1 tureu after Ins own iiT'l ordered the clock at Bemb i metal case and oorien c!:ett who saw two other men who heard it said j dial is illuminated by a gas burner, lighted by the confidential clerk of a prominent ! automatically at eaily evening twiTight, politician that Gen. Grant would not allow ! ud extinguished at daylight. This is ac- Mirims i pin nioi in nominaTiin lor a ; compnsneti oy means oi the mechanism it third term, and that he favored as his sue- ! self, without the attention of any person censor Minister Washburne, with Conkling J and what is still more wonderful, although Vv E lllllilial Wickeivhatn schools of this Mate, which will the reader some i.lea of the m.-imiitud'e i in another column Mr s figures in relation to the Jii ve 1 came to the top the last time, my fa her i own way. But this idea of having the handed me a long pole, which I caught, I government enrveill ince of religions mat and that saved me. He was a noweiful ! ters. is iust a little bit. danceron. To be as his second choice At Osborn, Mo., on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, on Thursday night, : burglars bioke into a drug store and stole : a bottle of chlorofoim, with which they t drugged the whole town. They roblied ' l...-l n . , J . I man, ami k'eked and 'strnf.rhd so I, .,,1 1 enlii elv and forever itidetxMident. of tl.i I . ... ' -. . l"""IIJ Im i.ii.L mi, U. !.!.. j il. r f !.: r e, resioei ...... ..v. ......... o-yo uirtiv iiu uiue lor l very inuig, our inn-i iiurri were prompt innny mo'.Miis. , i n oiler ud in defence of their to offer u n in defence of thrir fi-eerfotn. M .. .... t... ii . . ! . . .... : .f tln w.... .r i K"cs i-i inceogc oi tne wiiarr i tneir lives, meir fortunes ami incir sacied oi uic S s.em en.een thousand with me very often, when I jump ... but honor ; and their sons will be found ready '"out iiiuuaii-i teat ners, . "eo sue sees persons struggling iu the ; to do it again iwetuy-lotirmiliionsorsr-liool oroivttv W:l?er a!lf uiowning, she, never holds me I overshadowing and controlling religious eoslmo; in al-out ten million to ' aflaits, by the minions of State ; this worst i:iaiul:tin. with nine hundred thotim,? JllK1a "Is IIFK ar ivk hundred j jKissiblo union of Church and State, iu dc-iv-. a'H f ri, ,t n, , i ! . FToon tdi.t ny. fiance of the wishes of the United States ; p..p..s, . .tl.oi.g. not much over half An gist 24, 1871, I saved the daughterof ' this rndical change in the very stihsta-.ee ciP? n:i;n her are daily atteudniits. The Mr. A. Wilson, of Milwaukee. March 4, j of their government, had better not be ton Plr.lndeljoia Times' coiumentary upon is"t F:iv,r','1 colored man by the name boldly attemjited by n.en who wish to re- the siihi-.'ot s;i vs . " : of George Wiikes;hc fell off the wharf i tain a particle of the respect of our country. l'J' n i,;i. .....i- ii,.. :. .ii.... ..i- i- . . . . .... . J , ,,u iiqunr, nut i; men anc country women. l nere nas been think he has been a sober man ever since, j tomfoolery enough in the Presidential chair July 4. 1873, I saved the daughter of Mr. ' by the President and his immediate sur r . Barlow, a butcher, who keeps a stall in rou tidings, and tho time has come for a the market. She was going on board the j full investigation of the past, by the House ferry boat Detroit with her mother and I or Representatives; and little heed should some other ladies; the crowd was very be given to the firebrand suggestions eman gieaf, being the Fourth of July, and al- ; ating from the White House, designed to though her mother held her by ihe hand. pari y the home thrusts, which should be de the ctowd surged, nnd she was ciowded off i laved no longer. Look into the past wrong, the plank and fell into the river. There ! Tul acts of Grant. Remedy them, and let were about aOO people on the what fat the the Constitution alone. Pittsburgh Pott. tune, and they were nil staring at the pfior i - girl struggling in tho water, not one of Large FamiMes. The forthcoming rlook. that the school ini.m is ,.w...,.i if. j them daring to go to her rescue. I was in census retiorl of New York, for 1S7S. will em- hc '",usc when some one came to give Ihe ! contain some curious items. No family alarm, anu w iien t got out there I could has done more to increase, the population just see her dress as she was going out of 1 of the State than that of Peter Moian, of Rigni i.nir or nve leei nelow tlie surface. ! Oswctro. Me is forty-five years old. and me lime oi tiajngiit varies very greatly from month to month, the clock lights the gas at precisely the proper time from day today. A student in the institution at La flal le, Canada, has reason to bless the mirac ulous powers of the water of Lourdes if what is said or its effect upon hini be true. It arrested the hemorrhage consequent upon the extraction of a tooth after it had continued uniiitei-i-noiati? una reaoy tk.; n-:.- ,!.-... , ... , . i " , V . V '"" v' "mt" This tyrannous thought of l V ! " " T ' ! ' "I 'M"'. tn condition of . w.1;-:.-..... ,i-.tt a. i iihily "" miliar in mar. recordert or tin. sainted sister of Sir Peicevah throni. ices. I hey seemed several thousand ! dollars, and escaped. j A young lady of Hardin county, Iowa, ' who. merely to show her lriuiU,i .-.r . - - It is noteworthy lhat Mr. Wic';ersham, though he thinks it wor:h w hile toquote the I'r-sident's !' Moines speech as a part, of the current. Ii n-rat ere c;t tlie subject, is in no great alarm aiiont "sectarian encroach ii.ou," ami he is rot disposed to inaku a point of "ihe iii,!c in ihe schools." Xo bo .ks should In; uei, he thinks, no exercises take place, to which any rcasnitaMn man ,.an coiix i. iiii, nsl v ohject ; the majoritv ftrin i iplo mast lie waived here, ar.d the rights of the chii-.l of tho most obscure and most friendless citizen nnm tm respected," There is an important point nhich people who ex cite themselre on this snl.Wl cr..,. ,..,.! orerto o. that tlie school nwi..,,. i -,w...i i i mem uaiing ki go io tier rescue. 1 was in o.ir American prin. inle of' local self.r."er..- mC house when some one came to eive Ihe ruei;t. ami that such questions as these of religious exercise and Ihe like, when left as tl.-y must l-e, to comparative! v smali eoinmnntties. commonly seMlB themselves. Tl:0 ol j iiori, to hihler'eadit g in the w h-uls come, from hiu' a dozen widely different Sonne, wiih as many widely diflTerent rea S'uifi, but tho American people havn alto gether too much f.ominon sense ever to get into a ver serious fight upon the bu! Ject. . on i t v l .i . . . . ' - J st-vcini looiiuis ago, nas jus. received a notice from the bank to walk around and settle it, with interest. She thinks this is carrying a joke too far. At Milwaukee, on Saturd -J f I - ments were made with "Gray's Harmonic I jumped in ami catieht her, and when I got. out on the top of the wharf with her ; the people gave me three cheers. March L4, 1873, I saved a young lady called Miss Louis McKenzie. This was the closest call I ever had for my lire. I was in tho water about seventeen minutes, and the Tn the coal mines at Forty Fort, Lu j:riie county. Pa., Joseph Marsden, aged 13, was killed bya b'nst r which the miner in charge gave no warning. At the same place, Michael Wsldton, aged 14. was crushed to death under the wheel of a loaded co..l car. The inspectors of coal mines for the Wyoming district report eiiih'ren accidents for the list month. Irf his w ife forty. They have five single births nnd four pairs of t wins recorded in their family. The oldest child is twenty-four years old. and the two youngest between two and three years. The single births all preceded the twins. In the four pairs of twins there are lour boys and four girls. which nine men were killed sricu!y burnt or wenodej. liver being full of floating ice at the time, J In Tully, Onondago county, there are frip I was nearer dead than alive when I got lets, two loys and one girl, ten years old. out. Four men carried me into the house, j In Lockpnrt there is a quartet of four girls, aud they rubbed me with hot whisky for eight years old. Although the census over four hours before circulation was re- makes no note of the fact, there were ao stoied to its normal condition. This severe ' tually six children born at once in this exposure mado me sick, and it was overj family, two of which have since died, leav thrce months before the right feeling wan j ing the four as above noted. There is in in my hands. - i Warransbnrg, Warren county, a six-vear- "in iciiicmiirr mis incineuu inr : tun wiv. iirimvn r mux umiriiv. Ihtl. ,!. u coneu was whom the moon shone and the lightest i west wind blew as through a Lalo or an aureole. ev. b.ernard Keenan, of St. M.ltV 8 Catholic rlim-oli T .,..,.,. I . System of Multiplex Telegraph." A loop now the oldest cler-yman in the' United was arranged to Portage, by way of Hori- , States. Re was Wn in Tyrone Ireland con, and back by way of Watertown, a ninety-seven years ago, and came to' this distance of JM) miles, and over this single country iu Nven.ler, ISiO, with Dr Con wire, it is said, eight messages were sent ; ell. who had just been consecrated liishon and eight received at the same time. of Philadelphia in London. Three yeais , A few days ago Mr. Perkins of Brook- ! later he went to Lancaster, and has 'beer haven, Miss., playfully measured J. H. pastor of St. Mary's without interiuntion Mewartrora cofhn. and ascertained that for nearly Sfty-f uir years, winning the es an etghteen-inch box would do for him. j teem ami confidence of the entire coin About eight hours afterward he was aston- munity, irrespective of religious ooinion shed to receive notice of Mr. Siewait's A lady at Bradford, N? H., hn had a oeath and an order for a coffin was ser.t iu ' "arrow escapo from being buried "alive accord nice with the above measurement, ! She had been sick for some time and had There is a musical prodigy among the j apparently died. Preparations' for the coal nimers near Massillon. Ohio. He is a funeral were made on the third day after boy of 17 and seems devoid of intelligence, j the mi pp. wed death, when it was observed except in musical matters. Brought up ! she was placed in her coffin, that one of in tne mines, without, training of any kind, ! the eyes was partly open. Nothing was, lie has nevertheless lemaikable powers J hoxvever, thought of this, as it was thoncht for masteri ng music, ami readily learns and, ' muscular Contraction after death plays di hcult airs without missing a note. Ht when all the arrangemen s foi ' the i ,'B eH".,'n,t," at Q'leU-c of the I f'l'teral were complete, she astonished t e hundredth anniversary of the repulse of attendants by a sudden request 7" be p aced Monteomerv. mnv of t j :.i . J i w puten in tl. Pv. m. ' ? ,7 v I. , ,r ?"'v- r recovery is expected. and sixreen 1 yon came tome whn I was unwell, l-ed, in June .Ust'-wheu rTt fwry mtf?h at this Mine I kwa Ukn-11& pounds. in the costume, of 1775 .,ri ... " i f. ; . ." ' .... 1W J" "M""". tl. ' .-, n .nr. " I'luposeo io erect 111 hairmount Harrmver, wore the coat of his grandfather Park, Philadelphia, near the Cent"nn!al bi rial oVxf?; "'l""" the I buildings, a n.ouumei.t one hundred fret bu ial of Montgomery's body and held the j l'Kh, commemorative of a centurv's oro dying Wolfe ... bis arms sixteen years be- j press of our country. nJ oesign is a suet Fdwird M,-; - , . cession of gradually diminishing star- 1 7 Martin, a cigar maker who shaped Rtae corresptnidine with the lo Read f remOVM? tr'm L"er county .un.ber of States in tlifun on ; M.e or?i '3:2 "-,' r" t? .' V anlho, U I al thirteen forming the base or rldSl oi ..he rest. From the thiiteeutli State, and at five different intervals thereafter, the stages will be increased in height. On tuose designs the statues or (be Presidents w.ll appear in their tegular ordsr, from v ahington to Grunt, . , ties of Ilia Inf. -.1 .1. . . . - ....... p,ACt, i:J ll ins iiangiiter, a girl or sixteen or seventeen i... I uncontrollable mania for dressing herself tin boy's clothes. Sim h. ;r..V..A i ,rtiiKaiou evo4 tluoe she was cicbt year ct ago, " A Remarkab:. rttorar' CESS. Among the i!-;a:t'i r" of this couiitrv who hv !.'' dinary success is Dr. R. V Tf N. Y. The pnnuineiuf si---esl has lieee reache 1 thro :gt " mate means, and, so 'f'-' Serves tlie niTi it' e re"it ' enjov s. This 1 art ni-sjnrr (T result of a thorough and rri-' ' for liia railing, a'.l eIt!', a long and nnn-al.y !; r have enabled bim toct'.r. !r i- " eveu frotn his protessicv- I ' ting his attetitihn to n ra;1 "j the scienc- hn has sc i-sria. ' : Le has lieen rewardeil in rt.r ' In these specialities, lie L' nized leawler. Not ft fr c- -' firescribes! hv him liavf, .' ' a-lopled and prescrih-il l'J !''''' . -I . - 11 .a nf'VY r'' I'losie 'rai hit. ( - ; works have lieen rei-eive.! '' lions to me.iii-al knoV-'- ' addeil a!ioher, atel rrliap--work.Jl'ecanse f tuere p- '-r ; to the liet of his ru,t.:i'! ," liook, entitled -The IVer'"".; Medical Avlviser." is general circe.lation. Pf acknowledgements ; ,. sources, and eMi-cia';? -'!'M from two of th firs! the laud. 'f. Isjuif P.EMEM Bf.B TlIIS-N ' ''' vear for I'heum ni's. L't:'f . i'. l.l. f..-t r.'llt PI r " i.'onsumpti.iti aim - ,-: Diseases lWKrt5l-t been nsed in this 'z'b t, two or three yr w"hl"!'t cure. If you Lave rot rourself, co to vmir -u.)., Murray. E'.eiis:mvc. Pf - ' , ., Wilmore, and ak '""n,;;, miceess mnniir itieiri" will rMliwve the wcrs' f ; . ; . i.e. ; nun in any m--"" , Bottle cf Boshee tren .. and try It. l'..-p"'ir 'I; -Don't neirlect a coajU t" THE great Cei terr at hand st-d it Wltoov.- tot inteniN to visi Tiie v tion at Phila.lelpl.ls M .'of. j In wearing spprel ' . occasion. To ail wm; - ff , to this Important n! ( rJ mend the iinnim'- WorillV irieim v . the oldest dealer V;J. )ir, P can lay elaiin to. ' street, next l.vr to M i , StOflt is ine no--- , the lowest in Centra- tc -'.it ffr. l lnnf l ' "i i -I.- I. ....nlllieeJ tnCl re KLinevS and H; l'hr; r.'jfj orlnailon io t?!''r,, . m. i" ?m !, fieri. hri0ii1ii' . J paia In ibe cBtJ f.i-Mh-1-r " "
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