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EBENSBURC, PA.,
Fi'tfay Moinin,
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j The Harrisburg Patriot about two
w?eks ago contained a lengthy ami
intercstm; article on "the desti nction
r of our forests," from which we publish
: the snliioir.el o-rlrrtct. Th snhipct. i
- Jill. 21, 1876. one that is beginning to attract Terr
jlt,-t- ! cetieral attention throughout tire coun-
Tur. PunloiiTs Digest swindle was tr3' i'ice the demand for timber for
defeated in the House .it linn islun n- rail road Mirnoses lias become 9
ou Tuesday vens 72 ; navs 83. j enormous. That this riem.iiul must
i.o.a I render our forests treeless of what is
. John XV. Fop.net, it is announced, called hard wood, is quite apparent,
will return from Kuroje about the , In anticipation of this event scientific
middle of February, v hen it is to be men hare been experimenting with rail
hoped he will find leisuie to explain road ties for the purpose of ascertain
H about that 2.r,0u0 transaction in ing whether thev cannot be rendered
comiccticn with the Credit Mobilier impervious to water and therefore to
swindle. rot and decay. 1 hat the problem will
yet be satisfactorily solved is fair to
presume. If "it is not. what will le
Philadelphia. Times for a copy of the , substituted for wooden rail road t?es ?
"J((- Almanac for 18iG." It has ' This is a most important question and
been prepared with great care and la- well worthy the attention which is now
bur and. is a model of its kind. It ; being bestowed upon it. From the
contains almost one hundred pages 1 article in the Patriot taking the num-
and is replete with election statistics, j Ir of ties required for one mile of rail
particularly those of PennsvLvania, as road in this State, which must be re
v.ell as a vast amount of other useful : placed about every five yea is, a correct
information. Xo man, and especially est imate can be formed of the vast
no man who feels an interest in the 1 annual destruc tion of timber tliroiisrh-
political affairs of this State, as well out the country for that ore purpose.
Wr. are indebted to the editor of fie
? IjwI i una " ilk - I)eMcrtttl4!
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State Ctmimtttee. -
Pursuant to call the Democratic State
Committee met in Committee Room No 12,
House of Representatives, Harrisburg, on
Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Chair
men Wright called the Committee to order
and after a few appropriate remarks, the
j Committee ptuceeded to discharge the du
ties which they bad met to transact.'1
The Scretary,George IT. Kuhn, called
the list of members, when the following
answered to their names ; ' .
A. A. Laws, John W. Campbell, John
E. Faunce. A. D. Boileau. Thomas A. M'-
A kkw weeks ago, when the Republicans
in the House were wasting so large a mea
sure of buncombe in an Attempt to put the
majority into a false attitude towards their
soldier employees, it will be remembered
that the Ohio Legislature hastened to their
assistance with a set of spread-eagle reso
lutions, severely reprimanding the Demo
crats in Congress for Iheir "traitorous"
conduct. Their 'wonderfully disinterested j
patriotism has now met, we regret to say, i
with a melancholy tumble. On Wednesday j
hist, when the Republican majority in the
Senate, having placed in nomination for a
clerkship the name of an able-bodied Af- j
tican. who had proved serviceable in local
Devitt, James Atwcll, A. II. Ladner, Lico. I politics, were contentedly awaitinir the
Pallat, S. L. Fairlamb, Allen IT.- Heist, discomfiture of the minority, they were
Benjamin E. Dry, M. Longaker, W. Hays . startled by the nomination of a one decreed
Grier, A. J. Stiucman, IL C. Raymond, J. I lieutenant, who had fought all through the
H. Fngel, Wm. Gossert, John Stotzer, R. j war, from Foit Donelson to the battle of!
JJentonviIIe, Is. C, March, 1865, a good Re
Jones Monnghan, P. A.' Beamish, A. J.
Darling, Delos Rock well, "J. Am merman,
C. Hollenbeck, Robert Swincford, Jere.
Carl, O. P. Bechtel, A.-J. Randall, W. J.
Jaekman, E. W. Stehle, B. MTNead, T. J.
Hover, R. L. Johnston. John II. Uhl, S. C.
Thompson, Martin Williams, James I
publican and voter for Governor Haves.
as the Democratic candidate. The Repub
licans saw they had fallen into a trap ; bat
it was too late to retreat, and beinar
j ashamed to crawl out, they elected the
coioreu man. i nat done, their first tlwi't
past as present, should be without a
copy of this invaluable compilation.
"In Pennsylvania, according to the
report of the ami itor general for the
year 1 s j 4, there. were 4,302 miles of
TtiK Philadelphia Centennial folks , main line of rail war in operation with
have succeeded in getting a bill re- j 94:i miles of double Hack and l.oOO
ported by a Committee of the House ; miles of hidings. Adding the double
at Harjistinrg impropriating fifty j track to the length of main Hire and
thousand dollar. to constrnct a new ; leaving out of consideration the sid
building for the use of the State on the ! ings for the purpose of this article we
Centennial ground. Is not this ecu-j have 5,335 miles of railroad track to be
tennial sub-ndy business becoming a furnished with cross ties and timber
lruk too fcteep ? It ought to have an j needing renewal as often as once in
end some time, but a? the A r.ierican J five years. Allowing 2,500 ties to a
eagle is a!) ut to take its loftiest and mile of road it takes 13,337,500 ties to
longest flight, we presume the money furnish the railways now in operation
wilt be forthcoming, and even a further j in Miis state for five years, or 2,667,500
instalment if it is asked tor. Patri-! per year. This form of consumption
oti-mi in these days is very cheap when j attacks the hard woods ami theyonng
backed by the public treasury. timber, and allowing two ti-js to the
tree, calls lor the annual destruction
of 1,333,750 trees of the varieties in
demand for this purpose. There is an
average of one wooden bridge to every
three miles of railroad, besides the
wooden cars, passenger, freight, and
water stations and engine houses and
shops, which arc to be considered in
the consumption of railroads for per
manent way and whieh are in constant
process of repair and replacement.
Of late years, and partly in conse
quence of scarcity and dearness of
wood fuel near the lines of railroad.
coal has largely displaced it for the
--.i
Thk I 1 1 1 appropriating a million and
a half of dollars in aid of the centen
nial celebration passed the lower
branch of Congress last Tuesday by a
luajoiity of IS votes. No man seri ously
chiims that Congress has any
power undei the constitution thus to
dispose of the public money. It is
.nothing but a nub., idy, and in the face
of the almost unanimous vote in favor
of Judge llolman's resolution at the
commencement of the session against
Mibsidics in till sh.ijies and forms.
shows that some Ihinirs can be done as
well as others. The ueoule. however. ' purpose of fiiL'l for locomotives
are used to Conirressional iobs of this I leaving out of consideration this item
character and will endure this one a3 ol" wood consumption, how long can
they have the rest, with Christian for- t,ie forests of Pennsylvania supply the
titude and resignation. increasing yearly demand for railroad
Tub Mississippi Legislature, which
is Democratic by more than a two
tiiirds vote, last week elected I. (. C.
Lamar to the United States Senate as
the successor of ex-fiovernor Alcorn,
whose term will expire on the 4th of
March, 1877. No man in Congress
enjoys in a greater degree the respect
and confidence of its members than
Mr. Lamar. His abilities are unques
tioned, while his personal integrity,
like the virtue of Cnesar's wife, is not
only pure but above suspicion. Ue
may be regarded as the most promi
nent public man in the South. Jn all
the attributes that constitute a man,
what an impassible abyss there is be
tween Lamar and that slimy and cor
rupt carpet-bagger, Geo. E. Spencer,
from Alabama.
Toner, M. R. Wise. John Gilpin, George was "revenge," and they named for the
H. Kuhn, Thomas Fagau, John Covle, T. next clerkship a one armed soldier of their
O'Leary, jr., B.F.Morris, William Henry, .own choosing, expecting, of course, that
M. Park Davis. , t)ie opposition would vote against him.
I he following resolution was ottered by ; Rnt the Democrats had no intention of
'. : n- l . I 1 t 1 ' V - . .
We stated in our Isst issue that with
that niimb'T commenced the tenth vol
muecf the Freem.y. During the nine
years that we have ha I control of it
we have endeavored to make its col
Thk proceedings of the Democratic
State Committee, which met at Har
risbiirg yesterday week, will be found
elsewhere in our paper. The Com
mittee decider! that the State.Conven
tiou should be held at Lancaster, on
Wednesday, the 22d of March next.
There arc no State officers to be nom
inated this year, and the only business
for the convention to transact will be
the appointment of Presidential elect
ors and the selection of delegates to
the National Convention. The ques
tion now arises, how will the two rep
resentative delegates from this county
to the convention be chosen, the Sen
atorial delegate beinsr conceded to
Blair county ? Shall the Chairman of
the County Committee issue a call for
the election of delegates to a County
Convention to elect them, or 6hall it
be done by the County Committee?
If a County Convention is called for
this purpose, wo will have tweonven-
i lions in the same year, in as much as
Chairman Wright and adopted unanimous
llesolred, That the Democratic State Com
mittee of PcniiKvl vania most respectfully
suggests to the Democratic National Com
mittee the propriety, in this centennial year
of our national existtmre, that the old State
House, in the city of Philadel pTiia.be desig
nated as a historic locality for holding the
convention, and that the day be the 4ih of
July, 1876.
Several places were named as proper
places for holding the next State Convene
tion, nnme-, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Al
toona, Washington and Reading.
A vote was then taken which resulted as
follows : - '
Lancaster had received 20 votes. Han is.
burg had received 22 votes, Reading had
received 1 vote, Altoona had received 3
votes, Washington had received 1 vole.
A second ballot was taken which resulted '
as follows : Lancaster 21 votes, Harris
on rrj 23, Altoona 3.
Third ballot resulted as follows : Lan
caster 24 votes, Harrisburg 23 voles .
It appearing that Lancaster had received
a majority of all votes cast, it wa resolved
that the next State convention be held in
that city.
The following named members of the
committee voted for Lancaster : Messrs.
Laws, BonVau, Atwell, Ladner, M'DevItt,
Pallat t. Fail lamb. Heist. Dry, Longaker,
frier, Steinnian, Fcel, Beamish, Durling,
Randall, Gilpin, Kuhn, Fagan, Coyle,
O'Leary, Henry, Davis and Wright, chair
man 24.
The following voted for Haiiishurg :
Messrs. Campbell, Faunce. Raymond,
Gossert, Stotzer. Monahan, Rockwell, Am
mcrnian, Hollenbeck, Swineford, Carl,
Bechtel, J.ickman, Stehle, Xead, Boyer,
Johnston, Uhl. Thompson, Williams, Ton
er, Wise ah d Mori is 23.
After considerable discussion, on motion
of Mr. Coyle, of Allecheny county, Wed
nesday, the 22d day of March, at 12 o'clock
m., was agreed upon unanimously as the
time for holding said convention.
M. Park Davis, esq., ofleicd the follow
ing resolution :
Iirsolrd, That the Democratic prSH
throughout the state is requested to publish
these proceedings.
Adopted unanimously.
The Hon. Dclos Rockwell .offered the
following resolution : . -
Renlvpr1, That we hereby tenner onr wor
thy chairman, the Hon. Hemlrick B.
Wright, the thanks of the democracy of the
state of Pennsylvania for the able and effi
cient manner in which he discharged bis
dutieR as chairman of this committee during
the last campaign.
The question was put by the secretary
and adopted without a dissenting voice.
On motion of Captain Pagan the com
mittee adjourned to meet at the call of the
chair.
being caught uaijoinar. and thev at once
made the nomination unanimous. Then I
the Republicans, wild with chagiiu, threw j
away an reserve, and nominated for the
remaining office a one-armed hero, who, as
the local report facetiously puts it, "had
lost his hand while fighting a Republican
saw-mill np in the Western Reserve." The
minority offset this gallant fellow with
their original candidate, the one-legged
lieutenant, and once more compelled the
majority to go on record as refusing office
to the very men whoso claims on Congress
they had so eloquently indorsed so short a
time ago. Now let us hear from the organs.
Is it that the Republican party loves the
wounded soldier less or the able-bodied
colored man more? Come, gentlemen
don't all speak at once lI'hi!a. Times.
A Bktravkd Hl-srand's Revenge.
The little village of BetUville, Heneca
county, near Tiffin, is shaken from centre
to circumference. Il appears from infor
mation gleaned from an exchange in refer
ence to the aff.iir, that Mr. S. Norton, of
the above village, has for some time sus
pected his wife, during his absence from
home, of being improperly intimate with a j
Mr. Chapman. For months the husband
kept bis own counsel and awaited events ;
but at last he became, so troubled concern
ing the matter that he s;oke to Chapman
about it, but the latter nevertheless per
sisted in continuing his visits to the house
during Norton's absence.
The other evening Norton hapi-encd to
go into a store where Chapman ws loafing
and almost immediately Chapman Sneaked
out and proceeded directly to Norton's res
idence. The husband's suspicions were
aroused, and he went hurriedly home and 1
actually caught Chapman and Mrs. Norton
in tlx ltter's spattmetit both talking earn
estly and excitedly ou what they considered
a private subject. Z
The infuriated husband at once drew a
revolver and snapped it at Chapman, but
the weapon hung fire ; and as Chapman
was making an effort to escape from the
room, Norton caught hold of a coal oil
lamp that was burning on the bureau near
by, and hurled it at Chapman, striking him
in the face. The lamp exploded ; the
pieces of glass cut Chapman's face terribly,
and the burning oil ran in streams of fire
over his person, burning one of his ears
almost off, destroying the sight, it is
thought, of both eyes, literally cooking his
breast and shoulders, and burning tho hair
all off his head. The fife was at last ex
tinguished, but it was feared that Chapman
was burned so badly that he would die.
We learn, however, that, he is now im
proving. The physician who attends him
says that he will doubtless lose both his
eyes. iSandvsky Register.
.1 t i , . .. .1 iim.ii tinsvill i l? iMIILT zilLCr Like
urnns both useful and interesting to .,..,.; ,e c, . A i-
i ! i . .i . F meeting of the State Convention to
our Kiilisc riders nnd tn that. nil -n . " . c"uu"' w
have devoted ourself to constant and
unremitting labor. That is what the
publ sher of a newspaper muni do if he
hojes to retain his patronage, but es-leci-illy
so if he is ambitious of in
creasing it, as every newspaper pul
lisher ought to How satisfactorily
we have performed our duty leave our
patrons to judge When we take into
serious con-ideiation the constant de-
iioiu unite a county HCKet. Jt seems
to us that the County Committee is
abundantly competent to select the
delegates, and can do it quite as intel
ligently as a County Convention.
This is our view of the matter. We
commend the subject to the careful
consideration of Isaac Wike, Esq
Ch airman of the County Committee.
Mr. IlfssET, a Democratic member
of the State Senate from York county,
iu.uid on our time, oftentimes running '
..m :,.f. i. i . I
L 1.-1.1 i i;..i . for t,:e relief of the surviving soldiers
v. fcn .nisi .net utiiLt ii.il l vq 0 1 rill
in the oll'ee, we f. el and know that
our jKst is ho one of leisure, but one
or constant, unremitting tod. As we
have already said, that is the penaltv
of an editor and is not to e complained
of, provided nlwavs that he is ade
quately rewaroed font
the publisher of a cou
of the Mexican war, which provides
for the payment of a bounty of 200 to
every Pennsylvanian who served in
that war. This is right and wc trust
that the bill will pass in this centennial
year, even though James Q. Blaine at
nt-new Ppneral mnestJ bil1
f h ill tlionr.AMBf rtQi.l iiiin f.M liiaUl.n - . J m tlic
. ,, - t : j rr.(.c of the iiol,Se of -Representatives
in the whole community, and any one I of i,o tht J A..
r..- .: I "the company that went from this
meat wm be forced to the same 1 ,
chu.on. Subscribers ,n .y be bad in cl,uli c t M. himself, and one in
aoundancc most of whom, fll.v Jnhm?onnlm There may le Xrs
predating their duty . do not fad to l,,,. if lhtre are wc cannot reeaUt em'
l J l f - - i a n ru it tin ivi a r
number who are criininallv remiss and !
.ssein t. th-nk that an editor is not
made ot the s line material as other
men and that his worldly wants and
necessities are matters of secondary, if
n it trifling, consider ilion How a
say how many of the
memliers of Capt. John W. Gearv's
company from the Summit are 6till
living, but their number is doubtless
small. The money that the Legisla
ture proposes to jikh from the State
, treasury to purchase a copy of Pur-
. . 1 . I i . f t v
min oi or. unary uonesiy, as me woria , Ann iy,,rt fr r ;t " u
goes, cm have the cheek to biibscrilw i wolli,i " h mf, llian nnv t.
- .. ' j iis ri i
f r a piper, read it every week for one pose(1 bount of ?2oo to lpv
two an I even three years, and never ing Mcr ot the Mesici
tuinK oi pacing ior it is one of uie Cambria countv.
unsolved problems of American civil-1 T .
fo our RubscniKMS who have '
ery surviv-
exican war in
ization. jo our RiiDscniKMS wnonavc ' Allegheny Covxty has a Stat.
promptly met their obligations and . Senator named Wood, whose natural
thereby en aided us to keep our head ! place is not in a deliberathe IkkI-,
bfve water, we are profoundly J hut in the arena of a circus dressed in
thankful, while to those who have the fantastic: . suit or a clown. His
turned a deaf ear to onr reiterated ap ' preamble and resolution last week in
peal in that respe.H. wc again repeat, , favor of making ground hog day ft le
nd our determination i as irrevoca- gal holiday were not original with him,
M a tho m of the Medes and Per-' but stolen from a memlier of the In
dians, that their nam will be stricken diana Legislature at its last session,
from our Iit and an apjal mde t The legislature should make an ap
the law to enforce tha payment of ruopriation to purchase a cap and
Vhafc w har labrou-ly an J b r-uV.Iy Wll for Wo-1. and then Jet him seek
earned. fan interview with Birnura.
Senatoti P.rTAN, in his I3eaver county
pper, candidly admits that the cry against
tho Catholics in the last; election was with
out reason, and merely for political ad van
tage. lie says: Now that the heat of
political excitement has passed, we have
little doubt, that the judgment of dispas
sionate, candid men is that -there was
nothing in the passage of tho Geghan bill
in Ohio that warranted the inference that
an attack was premeditated upon the
schools of that or any other State by the
Catholic church. The bill in itself was
essentially right, and its substance was
adopted by the legislature of Pennsylvania
at the last session without a dissenting
voice. Wo refer now to an act making an
appropriation to the Western house ' of
refuge which contains the following provi
so: "And provided further, that minis
ters of any religious belief may visit in
mates at any time whether sick or well,
and give them private religious instruction
without the presence or interference of any
officer of the institution." This Trovisr
was inserted at the request of the board of
managers or the institution, all of whom
are 1 rotestants, we believe, and most, if
ijoi an, nepuoucans. l no intention of the
proviso was to secure to Catholic inmates
tho l ight to receive visits from priests or
miuisters of their own faith. This is jnst
what the Geghan bill was, in substance,
and there is not an intelligent man in the
country who understands and believes in
the principles of the Federal constitution
a-ti Ivrkt.l A. 1 . .
...... nut iuib io jjive mo mem hern or
aonereius oi every religious sect, or denom
ination confined in our public institutions
tho tight to receive spiiitual consolation
from ministers of their own church.
A sad story of betrayed innocence, sor
row, shame, crime and death has just been
developed in Lancaster. A young lady,
the daughter of a hotel-keeper in that coun
ty, got into trouble of a peculiar character
and fled to the city, went to a house kept
fov improper purposes, became a mother
and subsequently died. Her remains were
conveyed to the home of her paronts, who
summoned two physicians. They investi
gated the caso, declared the girl died from
the effects of nn abort ion, and in conse
quence of this action a doctor of Lancaster
was arrested and held for the offense. The
story of the doctor is that, some time ago,
he observed a young lady sitting upon a
doorstep opposite the railroad depot in
Lancaster ; that he accosted her, assisted
her to rise and gave her his professional
address, in case sbe needed a physician.
He was summoned, found the same girL
who confessed she had ill used herself, by
the advice of a married friend, and shortly
after became the mother of a dead child.
, 8he subsequently died, when the doctor
( hired a wagon, drove to her home in the
country, brought her sister to Lancaster,
i procured a coffin, in which she was placed
( and conveyed to her father's house. The
doctor confessed he had told a thousand
lies fto screen the family from shame and
nAXOED by a Mob. A special to the
Cincinnati Gazette says that Edward Wil
liams, who, with .Mrs. Meeting, was arrest
ed for the murder of the latter's husband,
was taken from the jail last Saturday night,
at Barboursville, W. Va., and hanged by a
mob. The prisoners were assured by a
minister that sufficient evidence of their
guilt had been obtained and that the jail
was surrounded by a mob of excited people,
but both denied all complicity in the act,
although the minister continued praying
wilh them and asking for a confession.
The mob finally forced the keys from the
jailor, took Williams out, and placed him
under a tree in the court-house yard, wheie,
with a rope around his neck and he stand
ing on a barrel, he made a confession, lie
expressed a hope that the mob might ob
tain God's forgiveness for their crime as he
had for his, and declared ho was happily
started on his journey homo to heaven. IIo
died after fifteen minutes of terrible agony.
Mrs. Meeting was then bionght out, and,
placing her in front of the dead murderer,
the crowd called for her confession. She
said Williams had been her paramour for
three years ; that she had been trying for
the past three mouths to ooison her lni.
band without success ; that Willian.s
struck Meeling on the bead with an axe
while he was asleep on Wednesday night,
afterwardscuttinghisthroat. She assisted
in destroying the evidences of the murder
and in burying Meeling. She accused
herself of beinc the cause of the murder,
but liegged pitifully for life. Though the
feeling was very strong against her and the
crowd voted unanimously for her execution,
no man could be found who would put the
rope around a woman's neck, and she was
returned to jail. Williams' body was left
hanging unt il it was cut down by the au
thorities next morning.
Dr. King, of this city, says the Pitts
burgh Dispatch, wrote a letter the other
day explaining that Mr. Blaine was not a
Catholic, and disapproving, anyhow, of the
discussion of religion in politics. The New
York Tribvnt says of it : We fear the
Doctor has laid himself open to criticism by
this expression of disapproval of the meth
ods resorted to by the able and intelligent
persons who are engaged in circumventing
the Pope. And we are not quite sure that
the admission that Mr. Hlaine's grandpa
rents on his mother's side were Catholics
will not be fatal. It has not been definite
ly decided yet bow far the taint reaches,
whether to the second or only the first gen
eration. We cannot be too CI TO fill lr
grarding against the "machinations of the
Pope." They are said to be "insidious."
Arthur Devlin, who anot unknown in
these parts, is again on his travels. After
one "f his craxy No Pooery lectures in Do
ver, N. IL, recently, Devlin was assailed
by a mob who had not even his excuse for
making fools of themselves. But his was
only a mild martyrdom to free speech, as
'""i"" uninjureo. ueviin oneht to
settle down to the editorial charge of some
Know Nothing nnimr lilr !.. IT...-:..
sorrow, lmt declared he was Innocent of , burg TeUyraj in which he could roar
any crime in this connection. StilL thent . airainst th Pmw Hn liia .
' . . .... . . - - ' " ' " MI U.
I " my"ery enongn in the whole matter to j lie possesses admirable qualifications for
warrant a full judicial investigation, and . such a position. Harriabura Patriot.
that will take place at an early day. There
ia great excitement iu Lancaster in refer- It is estimated that, on an average
ence to the ease, and a most searching jn- ten washed or fraudulent stamps are mailed
dicial inquiry will be mad into all the daily at each of the 83,000 postofflces in
I raeta and eircumstaucea eounectcd with the the country, thereby involving a loss to
a affair. the treasury of about $8,811,500 naully.
yews and Otlier Xotitiff?.
By a fire at Soochow, China, 1,000
houses were burnt.
There are five counties in Georgia in
which there is not a hired man.
A family of four persons in Montgom
ery county have died within the past nine
months. . -
A widow baa just died in Rome and
left a quarter of a million dollars iu cash to
the Pope.
The business of the New York Post
office amounted to thirty-live million dollars
last year.
There are 570 prisoners iu the western
penitentiary, a larger number than ever be
fore confined there.
Suicides are common in Erie city. It
stands at the head of all other towns in the
state in this lespect.
Mr. Charles O' Conor says he is improv
ing rapidly, and considers all danger from
his recent illness past.
A hero of the late war, named Philip
Clancy, has been left a fortune of $60,000
by a relative in Dublin.
An old man named John Fergnsson
has died in Emyvale, County Monaghan,
Ireland, at the ripe age of 109 years.
Mrs. Corvart, of Dawson county, Ga.,
with thirteen children growing up, recent
ly preseuted her husband with triplets.
A man named Masters, of Jefferson
county, is said to have fallen heir'to a for
tune ii. Saxony reaching into the'millions.
Thirteen persons were killed in a rail
road accident near Huntingdon, England,
Saturday, among whom was a son of Dion
Boucicault.
There is agatn a painful rumor at
Washington that Grant has written a letter
declining something or other. If true, it
will be the first time.
A girl, one of a bridal party of tourists,
was recently blown off the highest cliff of
the Giant's Causeway iu Ireland, and of
course instantly killed.
Mr. Cooper has an orchard within
about twelve miles from Santa Barbara,
Cal., of 12,000 almond trees, 1,000 English
walnut trees, 5,000 olive trees, 0,000 grape
vines, G,fKK) eucalyptuses. " -
Thif-being leap year Miss Belle Harper,
of West Virginia, went for a fellow with a
piitol. Fhe was incited to this defense of
her rights by his refusal to accept her offer
of marriage.
A lake a mile and a half long by a
mile wide is said to have been discovered
in Idaho, which is so densrly inhabited by
tiont that they appear along the shores in
immense numbers.
The Philadelphia revival is fo be con
tinued. Conceit hall has been rented for
tho pmpose, the freight, depot being no
longer needed now that Moody and Sankey
have gone elsewhere.
A Brooklyn tramp, hungry and savage,
threatened, a few days since, to cut off the
head of a bishop the Right Rev. Bishop
Loughlin and the ears of his servant girl,
if he did not get bread.
David L. Fleming, managing editor
and part proprietor of the Pittsbuieh Ga
ftte, died Friday morning, of brain fever,
lie was a native of Chester county, and
about forty years of age.
David Ilassinger, of Beaver township,
Snyder county, is eighty-six years of age
and resides on the same farm where his
grandfather settled. The farm is now oc
cupied by the fourth generation.
The Schuylkill coal exchange held a
meet inc. Jan. 25, and agreed to srop work
from Feb. 5th to March 11th. They also
adopted a resolution providing for con
tinuation of last year's basis daring 1S76.
An Owensboro (Ky.) dispatch reports
a peculiar accident there. A three vear
old son of Dr. C. E. Cottrill, while playing
with a tin whistle, fell to the pavement,
driving it through his mouth into the brain,
causing instant death.
Compulsory voting is advocated as a
cure for political evils by Mr. P.etl.nne, a
memler of the Ontario Legislature. He
has introduced a bill which would punish
by a fine of five dollars every man who
might vote but did lo t.
Prof. Mosler of Germany is now treat
ing phthisic, or pulmonary consumption,
by making a hole through the wall of the
chest and drawing off the pus with a sy
ringe, jand afterward washing out tho ulcers
with weak carbolic acid.
About forty houses were burned down
on Wednesday uight, at Apollo, Armstrong
COUIitv. rniisintr a !, .f "".n ooo Tt
gmated in a shoe store, by the explosion of
i.tt :.(-. it? ini, huh was not got unaer
Control till about midnicrbt.
A man iu Iowa is credited with having
built tho smallest steam engine on record
The little beam weighs one pennyweight
and seventeen grains, is complete and sym
metrical and when steam is applied it runs
Biiiuoiuiv ami SMips swecuy.
.-v cnienniai pig nas oeen born in
Kentucky. Its distincnishing character
istics are a perfectly hairless body, eyes as
mi an Mieep.s, ears UKeiuoseoi Hie hare,
and a horn, several inches long, project
ing from the top of its head downward.
A citizen of Stonington, Conn., has
an old button which was ploughed on iu
t , , . . . I
one oi nis neina. nnannrr t im rii-n rr '.i.
. - n . ,,n.-u
I mgton s first inauguration, and with an
inscription showing that it was made with
others in commemoration of the event.
jura. AiCKenzie, the runaway Canadian
wife and mot her. has cmrm lu rr,m Ti.;i
adelphia to Montreal with her father. The
upshot of the scandal will doubtless be a
divorce suit on the part of the injured hus
band, and the possible reunion of the guil
ty lovers.
After living together 32 years and ac
cumulating $ 10,000.000 or property, Mr.
and Mrs. Alviriza Howard, of San Francisl
co, have a suit for divorce, on the ground
of desertion, although they live but a few
hundred feet apart. They are both over CO
years old.
A large vessel was recently found sev
eral feet below the surface by some work
men at Chatham," England, who were mak
ine excavations. Seven guns, a quantity
of shot, some tobacco pipes and a coin
dated 1633-were among the articles found
on board.
Ex-Governor Francis Thomas, of Mary
land, lato minister to Peru, while walking
on the track of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, near his home at Frank ville,
Garrett county, on Saturday afternoon,
was struck by the helper of au engine and
instantly killed.
A Chicago insane woman resolved, as
a religions sacrifice, to starve her five chil
dren to death. She locked them in a room,
and for three days gave them nothing to
eat or drink. Cold added to the suffering
of hunger, and they weie in a pitiable con
dition when found.
.. Taylor, a young negro at Keda-
lia, Mo., has gone mad and believes him
self to be the Saviour. In bis paroxysms
he recites whole chapters and even books
of the Bible without missing a word, a feat
all the more remarkable because he cannot
acad and was always a vicious boy.
When Dudley P. Ely, a wealthy citizen
or Norwalk, Conn., was three years old
his nurse put f in a Hartford savings
bank. He has never added to it or collect
ed any part of it, but recently he had the
bank book written up. The f5 had been
there 56 years, and Mr. Ely found that the
interest had increased it to $175.
Marshall Crain, one of the noted Illi
nois outlaws who made a national reputa
tion Tor Williamson connty in that state as
the scene of a most horrible vendett, was
banged January 21. He confessed the
murder of William Q.. -.1 l nr
?'?,ni7i t,,e Uttor person he was hired to
killed for 1300.
THIS mil NOTIFY THIS
of onr intention to put skw and lower prices on muei, of L
The tear's closing oct balb will commence at
week-day mokxixg, and CONTINUE UNTIL OUR FALL a
IS SOLD
THE IMVTIV FACrJ iSt
We have made up too mast OVERCOATS and SUITS for thi8 v
our Stock into Cash needed for 1876, we will make eertain ,-'
anniwpnf v ivn irrrn WPIlPSn4V TIP-OVM ti Pn r-..,, " ' 1
ir - - j--'i u K.H r f w
litu t
' .... iloi viriuo ouu VUI VIA & L, SHU eVeQ a trart
many of our. present prices.
To be tcry exact in ttating this matter, a trc do not intend t7t jt a
or euftom of our house tJiall mislead the public in. the least particular ' "
per to say, that this 2fark Dovtn. it7iill it applies to '
A THOUSAND AND MORE OVERCOATS
A THOUSAND AND MORE UUSIXESS COAT
HUNDREDS OF DRESS COATS,
SEVERAL THOUSAND VESTS,
SEVERAL THOUSAND PAIRS OK PANTS
and extends Utroughout oar house, yet there are some lots in vhkh i t
been marked at close prices,) tee shall make no change.
We desire to axsockce that this is
Our FINAL and ONLY Mark Down this &
. So that NONE NEED WAIT rou Lower pliItEi "
The BTr.r we take will wonderfullt aid those wno fuel iike f
The Terms of the Sale are the usual Terms of our U
1. No Second or Altered Price One Fix ed Price.
2. Cash from All, to warrant Low Prices-
. The Contract on our pait, tor return the money, i a paiur the i- .
case (provided goods are returned unworn).
4. A Pull Guarantee given for each garment.
The Stock we offer is all new, aud is uol "bkit.hi" or Sviionvul-
OUR OWN CAREFULLY MADE CLOTHIN;
It will be remembered that our stock always embraces the imk rT
stantial coons, and that evert size and mi ate is prodded f,.r both
It will also be borue iu mind that Here is but ONE OAK HALL, au -.
the corner of-
f 1. SIXT1I-SIXTIT-SIXT1I-SIXTII r
Uull vnti rviticir stioots. t
Hoping tot a visit from each reader, and that our friends will pass thisKiK
to a!l their fiiouds iu the country,
We are Very Truly,
ABEU'Hl .
At Viiginia City a few days since,
Lama Chrystie, an inmate of Rose Herja
inin's dance-bouse, died, and the
cal mistress exhibited the corpse at.a qnar
. - i , .i . .
ler ucdo, me proceeos, together with Hie
tirofits derived from tho c-i 1 ,,f 1:
quors and cigars, being applied towards
ll.A f . , . . 1
J. M. fllltfliilic-s rtf Vnwtn!l
discovered in the head waters of Kern riv
er: 10.500 feet above the kt a nur ot.1
beautiful fish, which he named the "golden
trout." Its color is like that of the tfold
fish, but richer, and dotted with black
spots a quarter of inch in diameter, and
wilh a black band along its sides.
Tl. T- r . . . . .
iiii5 i reasurv l 'etiartincnt fKciOes '
that the sale of plug tobacco for retail pur- j
poses in any lmt the original stamped pack-
ago is unlawful. To comply with this
manufacturers will le compelled to put up I
largo quantities of the weed in three, fie !
and ten pound boxes, or lose the custom of
the multitude of small dealers who cannot
invest in a caddy.
It is remarked that the ptesent winter
closely resembles that of 177tV-one hundird
years ago. The military operatiims of!
Washington and others, depended on the j
condition of the weather, and hence the;
character of the winter referred to is clear,
ly mentioned in the history of those times.
The January of 1776 was mild aud plea- i
ant, as it is tins year.
Ex Gov. Charles Jackson who died in
Providence last week, used seven tv-nine,
was, it is believed, the oldest manufacturer
of textile fabrics in the United States, lie
was noted for severe treatment of mill
ojcrativcs. His factory at Jacksonville
was kept running fourteen hours a day,
and his employees, many of them girls,
were poorly compensated.
A Mr. Pemlwton, of Jackson, Mich.,
proposes to exhibit at the Centennial two
curious specimens of forestry. One is a
section of a hickory tree which springs
from two separate roots and unites in one
trunk above. The other is a section of a
water leech, from which a branch springs
and after growing some three or four feet
again unites with the trunk.
A horrible murder occurred near Tor
onto, Canada, on Saturday afternoon.
Samuel Hopkins, contractor for a bridge,
was noticed bv the wrtrkmon tn I... I,ll
ing from a cut in the neck. They repaired
w me uou.se, wnere tney found his wife
lying on the floor stabbed with a butcher
knife and her skull crushed in with a hoe.
Hopkins was immediately arrested.
Mis. Hannah Stover, of Howdoiham,
Me., has a right to be regaided as a hero
ine of the Centennial year. She was born
on the Fourth of July, 17T6, at nearly the
same hour when the great bell was ringing
out the news of the Declaration from the
old hall in Philadelphia. She is in good
health and hopes to celebrate the hundredth
anniversary of the uatiou'g birthday iu
July next.
The Tribune remarks that "there are
many indicationsjtbat Mr. Blaine is rally
ing from the bad efforts of his amnesty
speeches." He doesn't "rally" so much
as he "falls tiar.t" nn hio c.- . . : .. .
- un.ljMlUrVnr.
But the Tribune's candidate will never ral
ly from the political misfortune of having
had a pious Catholic mother and one or two
feminine relatives in a convent. The K.
N'a will have uo such candidate for Presi
dent. Alvin and Charity Haywood, husband
and wife, lived together in extreme poverty
in Sau Francisco for many years. Mining
speculation has enriched theiu to the ex
tent of ten millions; and now, when both
are over sixty year old, they have decided
that they will Iks happier apart. The enor
mous estate is to be divided evenly between
them by mutual agreement, and he is to
allow her to get a divorce on the ground of
desertion.
At the bottom of a mound cut through
by railroad ditcheis near Alton, 111., Ust
week, inclosed in a bard ceniect, perfectly
water-tight, were round large quantities of
beads, shells, necklaces, stone implements
and weapons, including a spear about two
feet long, made of clear white flint, with a
handle wrapped with copper wire. It is
thought the spear was a present to the
mound-builders from Father Marquette or
La Salle two hundred years ago.
A curious old bell is to be hung in the
belfry of the main building of the Connec
ticut Screw Company at TarifTville. It
beats au inscription, only part of which
can be deciphered, showing it to have been
cast at Rouen, France, in 1787. From
that place it was brought to Newgate, the
old Simsbury copper mine prison, where it
did utrv!i till tk nun -- -J : m
, 1 be bell baa a considerable amount of fcil-
nr in If 4. ln a .
www una iuhi m uuo VOUO.
The discovery f human K
f the old San Audita -il'p;i
explained by the fact ttat t!
the Inca race were removed f.i
order of a Spanish irt r v, rxJ.
the hospital walls. Tlw taw!
moval was that the bulla it
borhood of Cuzco weielis.i!T..o
presence amng them of thf 1
honored dead was a oMiiiiu',
insurrection. The Iiti'ti-:::;j.-yifice
many victims i:i Uxt. t
ished there only a few yri-.
Supeiiiitendent VValihif V
has information w l.ich T V'
important in regard totl.env
as, the dynamite fiend. v,;U
any particulars until li 1 if
ted the reports that helis'""
believed that the iiif itmst c :
was obtained from lVrik
that it relates to a tiansw-.U :
in that vicinity. The .-!.
if the facts aie as tirv -t -he
they will astoniOi tl-e w-'i
limbed. It is possible Tb r
thimr to do with tlin c;i:rr"(
A frightful aori.l.'iit
nary 2!, "at the IalU lle .!
sre; Allegheny. A lj:rt i
heated to a white kea. njMa-'
the rils when a catcher tj t
John (JrafT attempted t f
pinclicrs. Unluckily lie miw!
iron striking him hetvTn :
passed th rough and into the l:r
and the heat toeether rursi":
downward until it fell totbfr
unfortunate man wasimmfdK
to his home near by. and Dr. J
summoned. Two otlier rli's'
subsquontly called, and wrj!"
to relieve f be sufferer. Ths
hoje of recovery, lie
has been married b nt we ti
Jonathan Case, of
wralthy. and eighty vpct is
young widow charmed tim. '
ried her slilv. His wedd;rcr
? 1,000 in cash. ".Viw. f "
the new wife, "get all ymrV
zages. and money, ai d brFf "
I will take "good care ef t
He went, but his fan-.i'y
the marriasre. imprisoned lurcr
declaring that he slmnM
wife. He had made a vi'lr
property,'Hnd they did not "'
ot of it. Mrs. Case Fent c
stout driver to get the :'& irl
fort failed. Then she V
aidel by a hired man, tx1';
the door of which were l''
band shoutetl encouragement
window, and pistol rere 1-
both parties, but she had tr"
out him. The courts
Montreal was esritrdc' f,
clojMmentof Mrs. Marv
Mackenzie, M. P.. -f M ,tr?i
tenant P.rydees. of 1(''
vice. The wpmsti
dren. A teleffram f '
New York, where a jf!:""--them
at the Fifth Aw'
were taken before a j;K'.
on a HiiVih erptj$. Tl
Mrs. Mackenzie pnmii'' .
treal with her brother in t
Come to the city in rx'J' l",
left the court together. t
few hoars the 'iT.
smiths" wa verifle.1- T,
ant, the lady ar-d l!t,(!.
est, and it w fninJ i
repeclive LwtyinK l'- ti
other. Thri"i'iil'"7,,
ties rHli:ere.l Mr. ana .
PhinixvilK roomS'l -Ul
h tek riiilaoelt t'-
A Mecklenbure pr '
lowing historical i-c d'
attempt of Thoni
Mosel: In the sprinew '
fleet lav in the harN J
Master-"ei.eral of tb
tay Wransel a te ,
Sweden on board tbT
Plume on board the 1 j H
wished to send off ' &
of the two vessels. "J, ,
shipped the one to 1 r
ral's ship sto.l already
magaiine a noie .
chests as from c11!;
opened, and a mec'; '
clockwork as f""'J,L
fire-steel and a '0,'l'..tf
them powder, ldtcli, .
shipper of the chet. a or -of
Barth, rretenoed to;
chests from three cit', t,
was re polled to have JVj;i
Danisli factor at Lutec
on the 5th of July.