trims us. Lfinl DU Q I H LL III 1,avc 1,m sillw !ssa away for almost ! .f ""j'iSi!" ; evr kmo to have its jC3-, ier, who was known as ' I he lving a Fool." It so haiiens. as it has often A yew I'orJc Tragedy. EBEN5DUI7C, PA. F.ihy Momim, - - Feb. 4, IS7G Tnr. joint resolution provtlin.r for the purchase of Punloti's Digest for 1 sun appendant to the kindly tiotise earn ineint-r i me legislature, al though clcftj-itoil in the House last , Tuesday week, is n t ilea1, hut sWp- ' etn, a Republican member from Pliil- MAJf I.ITEKAI.I.Y CCT TO FIECE HIS HEAD FOUND IS A LUMBER PILE AND HIS BOUT, ARMS AS D LEGS NAILED L'H IN A TRUNK DISCOVERT AND COXrESSION OF THE Ml'RDEKEK. New York, Jannary 29. W. W. Sim iles a lineal descendant of this ncccs- j " " ?, " A r "! nc. i : lime jv riiiit'j 1 " 1 ' f1" ine establishment in inookiyn, iu. u., mis n:e III1SMIU? SltlCO 1UUI8U.1V HM. afternoon bis head, partly wrapped ' happened before, - . House of Represent th:;t the present i .ativea.of this State hold, who may be appropriately styled "The Hons'?of Assembly's Pool." 8. A. Losch is his name and Schuylkill Haven is his home. When the bill Ibis in a adelphia naimd Yeakle havinjr moved 1 appropriating a million and a half of fi reoonsiiiefUi mi or the vote. Ii Yeakle wants to know the contents of Pttrdou whj don't he buy one, or else borrow one from. Sam. Josephs, if that enterprising ex law-maker has a spare dollars to the Centennial Commission ers was before Congress, Mr. Coch rane, a Democratic member from Al legheny county, in this State, and Mr. S tender, the Democratic member from piece of newspaper, and severed from the hotly, was found lying between a lumber pile and fence in that city. Physicians say the man a murdered At least twelve hours previous to the head .being fouud, and that an hour elapsed from the time of the murder till the head was severed from i the neighbors to their doors, and instantly the body. The police are now looking for , thereafter an explosion took place upon the the missing body and the murderers. sheriff's pavement which tore outthecuib- ISf.w lOKK, Jan. &. Detectives were stones aim threw them through a utrong A fiendish Act, ATTEMPT TO DESTF.OY LIFE AND PROPERTY BT MEANS OK MTKO GLYCERIN E AT CAR LISLE, PA. AN ENTIR1C SQCAUE OF RES IDENCES SHATTERED. We have to record to day the most dia bolical attempt at murder ever known in our comity. About sue o'clock yesterday (Thursday) morning, or within a moment or two of that hour the citizens of this bor ough were startled by an explosion which shook the ground like an earthquake and lit up the atmosphere as does a Hash of the most vivid lightning. A moment before this the front door of ex-Sheriff M'Cartney's residence, on South Bedford street, was forced violently from its hinges and fell into the vestibule with a crash which brought copv of the dozen or more out of which mc rraiiKiiu uihihi, irr511' j working busily ro-oay on me ween point fence on the opposite sine ol tiio street' he plundered the State duriiv his long vigorous and earnest speeches, on the , minder case, iu which the head of Wm. W. j forced cellar doors from their fastenings, mid illustrious career in the House spec-Hie ground that Congress had no j Simmons was found in the ship-yard of demolished all the shutters, window sash rum lUUSliiotis carter in uie nous.. y p , .,. .1 tn (li.nn,p John English, on Milton street. From the ad glass for half a square north and Will the House go back on its record constitutional .oner thus to dispose , jmi of t,)e ,ie;M, tu lhe river it Wrt8 j southbof tlie t wLe tIie lestlttCtive niuh r tho hml of Yeakle tut the ol the people s money. 1 his was more llwl.,llt iMiv had been thrown in the ! .r,,t .-.- i,niiti.d. At tl, n.KiiLiwH of made at job through ? We will see. than tlie patriotic soul of the loyal j water. Inquiries wore places T ......1.1 I - ..i.l . ii im t I o: :.. 1. 1 1 .if- .-.1 vikiruur I' S The resolution has aain oeen ijuc tuum uvi, aim un- u'jjni inj . ih.ic kniuiiiu m i,u. .......v . .... . 1 ' ... ! n . .i ..!.:... I imi in TMn-Qrtii .irknmvlftilacd Ikitiiil' seen flefnofi..! r1 K niivil )1 1111(1 t Ur " S vUO.T I'l ISUIIICU IU 111 111 J I .tlll: lllli t"--" ZnterJk?&U, Yclkl. I lrrt.l' lTi..ativc f.m. I.y ..riklnl j tW. JXSi i a blow at Messrs. Cochrane and bten- j . , im., a.i to wilom ti,a officers looked Thk project of removing the State ' ger which would utterly annihilate J for the most authentic information, was capital from Hart isburg to Philadel- them, and hohl them up to public j Victor Kretz, who was known also by the iia has been revised in the Senate, j scorn and contempt. He accordingly Kidy . set hunscir at work to impale tin nted : offering a preamble and certain nh Mr. Crotise, a member of that body froin JMiiladelpIiia, having mon the hobby by off; ring a bill for that purpose. Tlie removal can take place hem by reso lutions in reference to the offense which he assumed thov had committed, and name of Andreas Fuohs. He was a helper in the same shop an Simmons, and worked by his side, and was also believed to be an i intimate friend f deceased. He appeared J to be uneasy under the questioning of the j police, and pietended to speak very poor r J ..I - m.l,v.tlr vf krt tff.ra f . trtili Pfin 1.1 nnlromonitnfmm n mind ! EncMMU lie told the CletCCtlVe8 Of bllll- !he State say 8Jo at'the election in Xo-! so capacious as that of Losch'.. It ! Z maT vember, under a provision of the new , was a cheap effort at notoriety made i ing jIiqui..ieR t,li8 was fOUnd to be untrue, coustittUion. Wc have rot the most by a very 6aiall man of the Elijah ( ad was told by Kretz to mislead the po remote idea that the bill will pass. : I'ogram school. He does not seem to j lice. The capital is now just where it ought ' know that a member of Congress is Kretz was detaiucd in the police office .i , 'l n, ! ,.,,,:i i rr. Lta ;,, , i,:! two or three hours, and was anxious to get t. be, and we think wul rem? in there, ; lespons.lle for bis acts only to his j toa .. hewas af ja at least until the next centennial sl'all constituents and no the Legislature of j ,,e wa8 to be ,K.ked up as a wiUless. I)e- 1m ushered in. The idea of the law- his State. We very much mistake ticlives did not think that Kretz knew any- iDakcrs of this State meeting iu Phil-' public ficntiment if the voters who thing about the murder, and he was allow- ..li..!.;. al.Prr. tlinv would bfi sur-! sent Mr. Cochrane and Mr. Stencrer to cd to go home. Among others interviewed rounded by corrupt ring more nu-! Congress do not endorse their action, merous than those which encircle the ! He that as it may, they are not amen- planet Saturn, is calculated to appal ( able to, nor can they be insulted by, : the stoutest heart. I f the people ever the puerile twaddle of a legislative bit (Toon like Losch. Here is what he proposed to do amidst a universal shout of derison, and he is the man to whom the leather medal of which he speaks ought to be presented : WnEREAS, Messrs. Cochrane, Stonger and otherr, representatives in the Congress have an opportunity of voting on this Philadelphia scheme, they will consign it to the limbo of politics by a ma jority that will forever bury it out of eigfit. Jt'BT at this time some people look Upon the State as a tfood coose to be I of the United States from this Comtnou- plucked for Centennial purposes. Une Light last week, Victor E. Piollet and other Grangers delivered speeches in the hall of the Honse at Harrisburg in favor of procuring a loan of $50,000 from the State in order to erect a building on the Centennial grounds tor the accomodation of the Grangers. Their modesty is to be commended for the reason that they do not ask that the money should be bestowed as a gift, but as a loan, which of course wealth, have iu the discussion of the pend ing appropriation hill for the Centennial announced ibeir opposition to the same : Resolved, That, in view of the high ability, the latent pairiotism, tlie ecstatic economy that has animatnd their high-toned corporal ma.ses, that, the thanks of this grand old commonwealth of Pennsylvania be extended l to them. Itxolred, That hi their opposition to the encroachment of uniiist ami burdensome ' taxation we feel they have proven that they J ! possess ths germ of first-class statesmanship, j and it is fitting that this body should express I their substantial appreciation of their merits. ! Resolved, That the Secretary of the Com- j Inn.llnaroctibitmn ITtlmT nrriclntupn ; monwca.ru oc aiituor:z"". 10 purcuase a t,n I I WW lii.llft A.l iVuil I II' t. ur.ifi - 1 II U Q aIca n i 1 i it - . ... niniiif n't iii.ii v" ii ..t-'-vi u.t , mi ii wuiii' i nii'i "uuui iivLmt vj iiii it;iin:i were the watchmen on the dock on Satur day morning, and was quite positive about tiio iflautittr npfprtivfia flietl finnnncAil if jmciz was nob me guuiy man i.e Knew something about the murder, and they went to his house at 98 North Third street and arrested him. On his way to the sta tiou house he purposely cut his hand. It bled freely, and he kept rubbing it on his pants. When this was observed an exami nation of his clothing was made, which re vealed a large spot of dried blood on his pants. Detectives then visited his house again, and found a trunk locked and nailed together so tightly that it was opened with greatjdifficulty. In this they found packed the ai ms and legs of the murdered victim, and in a boiler tliey found the trunk of the body skinned and cut up. The entrails had been removed and quick lime put inside so as to cause speedy decomposition. Dr. Grove, on Pom fret street, full a square f'U'tanf, the force of the explosion broke in the second story window, threw the doc tor's mother down, aud extiiguithed the light in the room. A portion of the caso and rope in which tbe destructive agent was enclosed was also picked up iu the doctor's yard. The explosion was heard several miles from town by farmers who happened to be awake. liumor says a carriage or other vehicle was driven at full speed out Bedford street the instant of the explosion, anil some of the neighbors report having seen certain parties at the spot the moment after the disaster whom they intimate were suspi cions characters. Those claiming a knowledge of explo sives differ as to the agent employed on this occasion, some dcclaiiug it to have been nitro-glyccrine, others gun cotton, and still others believe it was a combination of both destructives. Some aver it was ex pl'xled by means of a fuss, others by con cussion, and others by electricity. There is room for all these opinions, as rope, wire and particles resembling burnt fuse were picked up at aud near the scene of the ex plosion. The torpedo used was evidently prepared by some one conversant with such things. Tho explosive, whatever it was, was en closed iu red paper (fragments of which were found in the exploded torpedo) and around this were many thicknesses of cot ton cloth, which was first tightly bound with wire, over which was wrapped cotton rope similar to clothes lines. The torpedo, in exploding, broke into two parts, one of which is in Mr. M'Cartney's possession. We have seen both parts, aud from them would judge the torpedo to have been about sixteen inches long by three or four inches in diameter. There cau be no doubt that the mative which prompted th act was murder, re gardless of destruction of property or in jury to residents in the vicinity. The i There had been a pool of bloid on the Moor, bursting in of the door was doubtless with i but efforts had been made to obliterate it ! th by scraping until the boards were almost ' white. Upon the dress of Mrs. Krets, j which. had just been washed, were stains! of blood. She said she scraped the floor at the request of her husband, that Simmons called at the house on Thursday night, and they ail had drinks together, Simmons e view of throwing the explosive material into the house and thus securing the de struction of the house aud death of the in mates. Thousands of people visited the scone during the day, and the universal opiuiou was that the perpetrators of the crime should ue lynched, nut as they are yet at leatber meual in commemoration or the one linndreth anniversary of our American iudc- pcnilence. ! Resolved. That the action of thisbn!irbn transmitted to them duly engrossed on gilt edged paper. drinks being made stronger than those of large and are undoubtedly scoundrels of of the Grangers, we would then have the Women's Kights Association of t.h Stnt.o mnkmor n mmi Ur nnnlieovinn I and perhaps other associations doing the same thinj, for if the business was once commenced no human being in i A rw" days before the meeting of these days of centennial gush and pa- ( ue National Republican Executive tr'.otisru could guess where it would j Committee at Washington in the be-' stop. Cut the hands ot the Legisla-1 ! ginning of January, it was telegraphed : ture are securely tied on this subject ' ffom that city, as if by authority, that bv section 6 of article 9. of the new ! Grant had prepared a letter to be laid constitution, which says : "Thecredit i of the commonwealth shall not be! pledged or loaned to any individual, company, corporation, or association." j It follows, therefore, that if Col. Piol let and his Grander friends want a! building at the Centennial for their j own exclusive accommodation, they J must erect it themseives, without call- i ing on the State lor a loan lor that purpose. Jere. Haralson is a colored mem ber of Congress and represents the first Alabama district. He voted for the general amnesty bill. For doing so he has lieen denounced by the carjietf bag element of his district, and in de fence of his vote has addressed the following letter to if colored friend of hi named Cashin The man Coon, to whom reference is made, is a carpet bagger of the George E. Spencer stripe, and is of course indignant at the vote of Haralson in favor of peace and re conciliation. Haralson is imbued with the proper spirit and writes sensibly, knowing as he does the supreme ne cessity for the cultivation of the most kindly relations between the two races in the Southern States. Following is the letter : Hoitse or Representatives, Wash ington, January 19, 1S76. Dear Caxhin : Ynrsof the 15th lust, to hand, and contents nofed. I expected before I voted to hear a howl from Uioe hell-hounds below ; but say to tiiam all that. God being my help, I shall met them at Phillippl. My explanation for voting for general amnesty is : (1) Bo cause it is right above all. (2) Pecause I wis electd on that principle; our platform adopted at the Republican Convention at Montgomery, 174, says, "that the Republi esns of Alabama demand the equal civil and political rights of all men before the law." (3) Because I am a Grant man, and Grant recommended gneral amnesty. (4) B.v anse the colored man In thu South wants peaea and good will to ail and hatred to hub, and asks for others what he desires for himself an equal chance in the race of J5f. We, a" race, cannot afford to aid in tiy manner tu keeping up strife for Ihfl ben efit of ofttca-bunters. Allow rae to ask your attention to a few questions which 1 hopo on wtll P't to Coon, Rapier, Curtis aud Others. (1) 11 better for ,,s colored men to forget "d forgive, and have the good will r the'v'T'd, or is it letter for us to stir up tr n erneltK'" cf ln r,,t ftl,J ""r' vs"er. In order thit fw & Co. may profit ther.by? 1k I represent tl.e true pnnmplesof Repub licanism and our . ",ri ? P th seal of peace aiul 700..-will upon animos lt ? I it not better it 9 general, espe i , ' ..... a...,ti. thai: there hH good fel- v . . . hnth wtlll a lUacK before it, in which he would decline a nomination for a third term in lan guage clear and explicit, and which would not admit of a double construc tion like his ambiguous epistle to Harry White. '1 he Committee met and adjourned, but no letter was re ceived from Grant. A short time after that it was assorted positively that he had addressed alettertoGovernor Mor gan, of Xew York, on the same sub ject, distinctly declining a nomination and that the letter would be made public. But Gov. Morgan exploded I the story by the statement that he had never received : the others, and that when hewas stupefied with liquor Kretz took a hatchet and chop ' ped his head off, the act being witnessed : by his little step daughter. Mrs. Kretz i ciir! Mi4f fttio Lot-coir voa tlmn nn cttii-a When Kretz 'heard the body was dis covered he admitted his guilt, and said he had done it because he had found the vic tim in criminal intercouisc with his wife, but this Mrs. Kretz denies. The murder was no doubt committed for robbery, as Simmons was always known to have money on his person. The prisoner was also found in possession of Simmons' watch, and tho little girl says her father took three- dollars and some cents from the pockets of the murdered man. Mrs. Kretz was taken to the station-house and locked in a separate ceil. Tho prisoner, who says his real name is Kretz, is an Alsatian by birth, about forty years of age, stoutly built, five feet six inches in height, and has a rather for bidding aspect. The Perry county Democrat, which is owned and, edited by Hon. John A Magee, ex-niemberof Congicss, publishes a telling article in regard to the vicious practice of compromising with govern merit defaulters. It no ordinary prowess, it is more than likely that the excitement will expend its fury before they are caught. The building in front of which the ex plosion occurred was not injured other than above described, most probably bo cause its walls are strong stone structures capable, one would suppose, of resisting any force that might bo brought against them. Efforts arc being made to ferret out the perpetrators of the deed which it is hoped will be successful. Carlisle Mirror, 2H?i. Is it not better tht th- leading r-Ioid men take t"bl. lhh. In tia.ida.Ml Imild Hp build up our pay up-miun . K" of right nl Justice, of Rep.iolicamsin, W ilrlvJi tUo who are strvlug to ride intp of- f.o on prejudice Into the blackest politic! gives a table containing the names of fourteen nromilient default mir e.dlleclni a rf any SUCU document. I internal revenue, with the amount dun from Two weeks ago it was civen out that f each, the amount released throuch coni- Senator Conkling, of Xew York had l,rmise and the dates of the letters written in his possession a letter from Grant' by fecietane" S tbe Treasury approving , iii i- l .i - " such compromises. The total amount wiavi.tiiiiiui; uny uuru lerin j owed to tho govern pretensions, but that Senator says that 1 collectors was $ 1, lie never talked with Grant on the subject and has not received any letter from him in relation to it. Grant don't intend writing any more letters about a third term, as the one he ad dressed to White answered his purpose ot satisfying both his political friends mcnt by these fourteen 604,075.29, of which $1,231,604.77 was released and thus lost, leaving only $372,470.52 to be restored to the Treasury. There is no apparent reason why most of this stolen money should not have been recovered from the sureties. Certainly a sharp prosecution of the sure ties, who were commonly responsible men, would nave saved a much larger percentage and his Republican opponents. He is i " as saved oy the suspicious system of -t:n : iu -l.i i i , , ., , v)iiii'iuiinr. xii mo case oi vouecior Btill m the field ami is by odds the Joshua A. Railey, who got away to Brazil, strongestcandidate forthenotnination. or some other safe South American country, Blaine raaj- hurl his anathemas against ' wth $728,891.82 of moneys collected by Jelferson Davis, Morton may shake ' h,m ""accounted for, the Department the "bloody shirt" in the presence of ""v.M ltZ'JZ ann comPr""- .i e i t i - ised on receiving $.0,000, thoueh such men the Senate, and Bnstow may continue as George OjSyke', Aug Schell and to expose and punish the men who Thomas C. Durand, loading capitalists of have defrauded the government out of York, were among his smeties. Why the tax on whiskey, but each of thera ' Pec,'etan'es of the Treasury should accept will come to grief and the Dresent ! ""r" nJ 1 " abundantly Sphinx of the White House will re ceive the nomination at Cincinnati. secured isamong the things that "no fellah can find out," or has succeeded yet in finding out. The present Demoeiati hy not f lhe negroes and carpet- House may manage to throw light, upon it. baggers are under bonds to send a ! JTr )laSee complains that he introduced a solid delegation in his favor from the J0 "r0" ,n last "0"s,e calling for in e i e it -n .i " , formation on tins subject, but tho Hepub Southern Mates. He will then lack lican managers promptly squelched it!- oniv juriysij; oica oi a majority oi fniiaaeipim limes. the convention, and what sane man doubts not only the disposition but the ability of the horde of custom house officers, post masters internal revenue ' officers and other understrappers of . the administration in the northern, j middle and western States to deliver j at Cincinnati forty-six good and true men, wearing a Grant and third term ; collar around their necks ? That i Grant will be nominated at Cincinnati in .nine ana ingiorioiisiv aeieatea in Novcnibe set dow near political luture. 0 mm - TriE World Almanac for 1876 fully maintains its former well earned repu The following letter has been addressed by Hon. M. C. Kerr, Speaker of the House of Representatives, to J. II. Ueall of Phila delphia, in reference to the Democratic nomination for the Presidency : Washinoto, Jan. 25 1876. ,7. JJ. Renll Esq., Philadelphia: Dear Sir: Several days ago I received by mail, accompanied with your card, an article over yonr name pub lished in the Delaware comity Democrat of December 30th last. I pernsed the article with ranch interest., and many of Its views command rriy unqualified approval, bnt I A WoxDsnf Cb Wheat CoCntrt. We have been in the habit of supposing that the Willan.et Valley was the greatest wheat-growing country ou the habitable globe, and have felt like indulging iu an indefinite amount of vainglorious boasting over tho record of fields producing fifty bushels or more to tho acre, and whole farms averaging thirty-five to forty bushels. Hat our beautiful valley and our farmers must look to their laurels heucefoith. From a gentleman of undoubted veracity, carefulness and accuracy wo receive some information concerning wheat-raising in Eastern Washington Territory which sur passes the best showing we remember to iiave seen in this part of this country. C. Maler living near the base of the Blue Mountains, in Walla Walla Valley, in 1874 raised on a sixty acre field 4,020 bushels of wheat, an average of C7 bushels to the acre ; and in 1875, from a sixty acre tract, 8,420 bushels, or 57 bushels to the acre. Mr. Masterson, residing four miles south of Walla Walla, raised ou ten acres 850 bushels 85 bushels to the acre. Mr. Kennedy, whose farm is on Dry Creek, six miles from Walla Walla, har vested 5,252 bushels, from one hundred and fifty acres 35 bushels t the acre and this was a volunteer crop, that is the second crop from one sowing. These crops, says our informant, were produced on ordinary wheat land ; that is considered good, "but no better than hund reds of thousands of acres dow ly ing vacan t in Walla Walla and Whitman counties, es pecially north of Snake River, where there is a country vast enough to produce more than 25,000,000 bushels jer annum, and where a failure of crops lias never been known. Portland Oregonian. TnE Water of Lourdes Ccres a Hope less Case. Miss Mary McCarron, the young woman miraculously cured by the use of the water of Lourdes, is in the city on a visit to friends and relatives. We have the particulais of her case from her own lips. For eight years of her girlhood into womanhood she was uuable to stand on her feet. She was wasted almost to a skeleton. It was a miracle that she lived so long afflicted as she was, but she appears to have been kept alive for tho performance on her persou of the visible miracle which was wrought on her. Miss McCarron, as was stated at tbe time tho cure was effected on her, was pronounced incurable by her physician. Indeed, he told her friends she could not live many days. She could take no food, no nourish ment. Eight years of pain and suffering had almost done its work; but miraculously, as soon as she bad drank a small portion of the water of Liourdes, probably not half a teaspoon ful of it, she fell into a sweet sleen. from which she awoke without pain and in ier, are two events that mar be ! have on1y time now to ,hank y for yonr wonderment at what bad happened. For n is reasonablv cert-iin in tlm ' ve7. kind T?f'7'eA,cie to me '" ,hat "tide, , tho first timein weeks she felt hungry.and n as reasonaoij certain in the aud to say that it is not my desire, in any asked for food and ate it. She felt that she degree whatever, that my name nhall b nsed In connection with the national ticket cf this year. The Indiana democrats will present to our national convention another of her sous as a candidate for the presidency Is It not the truth that such men as tal.'OU, and when that is said any ad- Governor Hendricks in whose advocacy l.cll ? Kapler, Coon and ot tiers ar uia soia cause dion.ll praise WOllld be superfluous. I ior I"1 n,u I,,ace wm.V , WUn XMm .r U.t ntrtT beine defeated In Alabama to- r . , , ,. . 1 ., . In hearty co-operation. Mv judgment is Jkt ? K yo" Vli..W ther. are thousand IS accurate ami reliable in all that that our friends this year cannot do better, of white men in Alabama who would gladly COntain.'an 1 its appearance, printed if so well, than to nominate Governor nen- 1 .In the ranks of the Jtrml'licn party and jfc j, in -xr .handsome type, is re- rtr,Pk- I an'r with great respect, very i i hniM nn tho party upon tin atromr "" , , ; truly yours, M.C.Kerr. ir ,?hp1m ofRgh. Jn-ueo. good for all. .d markably neat As apolitical manual . ?Tl, n r. i';;t it i .ma(i ami ought to be in NeXT York Catholic9 Are try. 1,-11 hornd. and gojnpeace uotwaen tho t,,e hjlni, of every m-n who W.ohe to ' ,nff f) t.(,n9 mj,lion dolUn w ,Urt twn Tjrnj yours, Ja. IUat ao. ' be well Informed on public affairs. new .vaewipaper. could stand on her feet, and did so, and irom that time on sue has been gaining strength, and is now in as good health as she ever was in before. Dubuque Tele graph. The Virginia Conference of the Metho dist Episcopal Church North will be held in Alexandria, Va., on the 23d of Feb ruary. There is said to bo a strong dis position on the part of a large number of tho members to pass a vote of censure upon Bishop Haven, while another faction is working to secure au approval of his course io regard to the Thud Torm. Jt'etvs and Other Iseting. Tl newest thing iu twins v the pro duct of Glasgow, Ky. They only weigj two pounds and a half each. Two- Canadian girls skated 18 miles the other day. Their last stage was worse than the the first, for it was a coach. A giil in Mediua, Ohio, has a hvait just tho size of Daniel Welster's, or tbrve inches 'larger iu eiieumferaiice thau the average of men. Lieutenant Cameron traveled on foot 2.953 miles, from Zanzibar to Beugucla, trusting to mere accident for hn livelihood as he went along. John Armstrong, of La pert e, Sullivan county, has iu bis possession a swot d which was taken from a Tory at the battl of Germantown, September 15, 1777, Four men, while filling a llmo kihi, at Columbia, Pa., on Saturday, were over come by the gas, and fell into the pi. Only one of them was resetted alive. K. D. Winslow is the sixth member of recent Massachusetts legit-luturrs who has committed felony Hard well, liet, Judd Bond and one more, beiug tlie others. There is a man in Philadelphia who not only has the impudence to be John Smith, but the "hardihood" to Lav lived already 104 years and lie is keeping on. Mrs. Edwards, of Streator, III., wrtl not cut bread with her baby iu her lap any more ; at least she will not cut off its nose when she does, for tho noso ia off already. A party of contractors, while filling in Long I-e, a point twelve miles from St. Louis, dug into a mound which will prove a perfect bonanza to curiosity hunt ers. A law is now proposed in California requiring banking corporations to keep posted in a conspicuous place the names of their stockholders and the number of shares held by them. A large lake has been discovered forty miles west of Laramie, Wyoming Territory, in tho bottom of which is a thick layer of sulphate magnesia or epsom salts in al most a pure state. Joseph Mishow, of Williamsporr, who will be 100 years old on the 8th of March, will be taken to the centennial. Mr. Mishow has a son aged seventy years who is the father of eighteen children. Tho Marquis of Ripon, who is now in Rome, has made a present of fifty thousand dollars to the Pope. A contribution of forty thousand dollais has also beeen of fered to the Pope by M. Salwyna, a Belgian Senator. The well known Catholic newspaper, the Boston Pilot, suspended publication on Saturday owing to- tbe failure of rts owner, Patrick Donohue, bk seller. His liabili ties are put down at 1300,000 and his assets f215,000. A Schoolcraft, Mich., apple tree, plant ed forty-fire years ago and still fruitful, measures seven feet seven inches in cir cumference, and at the height of six feet branches iuto three limbs, each over a foot m diameter. A Salt Lake Mormon has written to the Centennial Committee proosing to exhibit his nine wives at Philadelphia, "to illustrate one of the social phases of Aineii can life." Ho and that his wives are anxious to go. Tho Philadelphia correspondence of 1 the New York Tribune says a seiious move ment is on foot among Pennsylvania re publicans to put Gov. Hartranft on the track as a Presidential candidate with a solid backing. Johu G. Thompson, of Ohio, Sergeant-at-Arnis of the House of Representatives, has been appointed Vice Chairman of the National Dcmociatic Executive Commit tee, in place of Representai i.e Randall, who declined the office. Mrs. McKenzie, who eloped with Fred rick Bi ydge.s from Montreal, is said to have sailed for Liverpool with her four chilorcu from Portland, Mo., on tho steamer Sar matian, on Saturday night. Fred. Brydges is still in Phocnixville, Pa. A dispatch from Philadelphia says that George Magnire, a director of tbe first school district of that city, has been con victed of the larceny of coal from the school houses in bis section and sentenced to four months' imprisonment, Speaker Kerr's father was never a rich man, but he had a very narrow escae from it. He sold his farm, near Tifusville, Pa., in 1854, for f 9,500 ; the nest year petroleum was discovered on it, and not long after it was sold for over $ 250,000. In the Maguire whiskey case at St. Louis twelve gentlemen from "the interior' were impanelled as jurors. At Indianapo lis Hill and McGraff have been refused new trials, and at St. Louis Wm. McKee, of the Globe-Democrat, has been found guilty. Putting it the other way a Dayton, Ohio, baby can count up amonj; his living ancestors one great-grandfather, two grcat grayd mothers, one grandfather and two grandmothers, besides his pa and ma. They visited him in a body the other night. Boynton, tho swimmer, encased in his patent "life-dress," on Saturday swam from Alton to St. Louis, a distance of thirty miles, when tho Mississippi was filled with floating ice. Forty thousand people gave him an ovation when he lauded at the St. Louis bridge. A hat made of human hair was re cently sent to a Chilian exhibition by a Guatemala woman, the material of which came from tbe heads of her two daughters. Hereafter young ladies are expected to present their lovers, not with a lock of hair, but with a bat of hair. A freight train on the Pennsylvania Railroad was robbed on Friday night, near Elizabeth, N. J., of a quantity of goods, designed for western firms. Bales and boxes were pitched from the train by tho thieves, who got aboard at Jersey City. Ono man has been arrested. And now it is revealed that Mrs. Cun ningham Burdell married her first lover, Captain Hyde, of Lower California Penin sula, after her acquittal of murder In New York. His two children died suddenly, and the woman left him to live with a Mexican paramour. She is now living a "fashion able" life in California. John Lipps, a German residing at Sedansvillo, in the suburbs of Cincinnati, was arrested a few days ago for rape com mitted upon tho person of his own daugh ter, aged 1G. Lipps is a worthless feline spending most of his time in the groggeries, ins wiieeupporis mo lamiiy by stand ing in the markets as a huckster. How is this for a small tea party ? In the Province of Piauhy, Brazil, there is still living a Brazilian lady of 98 years of age, who has lost 5 children, 17 grandchil dren, and 123 other descendants, but can still gather around her 753 descendants namely 23 children, 242 grandchildren, 365 great-erandchildren and 123 great-great-granchildren. Charley Ross's father has received from some philanthropist a few mysterious words which ho is to repeat at midnight while he walks around tho four quarters of a freshly-killed and cut-up pullet, tho re ward being tho immediate return of his son. But as Mr. Ross obstinately refuses to try this simple recommendation, of course he is still bereaved. The Paris correspondent of the Now York Tablet (Catholic) gives a circum stantial account of a miracle performed by Pius IX. in restoring a paralyzed arm of Mother Julia N . of tlm OivW r o.. i Sacred Heart, to normal vitality. Tbe i uio wits not inscauianeous ; but, by mak ' ing tbe sign of tho cross a few times, the arm was so far restored that she went home and wrote a long letter with tho baud that 1 bad been. pxwerle. THIS WILL IGTIFY Tip w. ...i-i.uvsu v Jli 1 m T HUB kAJWH rKlCEt oil tliucli The year's cxosixo out sal wixl cowwaxec T r,. . .ii,, P.V,,,.. . wkbk-dat morjilso. and CONTINUE UNTIL OUK F W i IS SOLD. ,,uvs Tms nrvTiv fact We have made m too u&xt OVERCOATS aad SUITS f ,r n ; our Stock into-Cabh net dud for 187C, we will make frrj, fl ' apparent eef and after WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER ITI;r f gn tnrongh our Salesrooms aud ut oil Profits,, and e?en a '"'u, Pi t tf .1 many f out present price. To Is xerj exact in stating this matUr, as es da inu . ' r . or ruttorn of our house sliall mislead ths public in tl U,i,t pari. per to tai'r that this Mark Down. vLutt if applies tv A THOUSAND AND MOllE OVKP.COATd A THOUSAND AND MORI BUSINE cim TI UN D RE DS OF D It ESS CO A TH, ' SEVERAL THOUSAND VESTS,' SEVERAL THOUSAND PAIRS OF PAST and" exUnds throughout wr hs-vrser yet there are semtt lots in been marked at dote priets,) u aC take no change. Wl Ti-BZVKT. TO ANXOCXCE Tn.'T THU la Our FINAL and ONLYETark Down thi'3 h, fi.i tu f "Tr-iVr"" vrfn tru-r r - run lxvwtu PriCE THB 6TKP WE TAM Wri.6 WOSDEnrrr.LT AID THOSE Who FEEL In TV vj iic otiu; i-e iw usual lertnt ef orr R 1. No Second or Altered Price Oxe Fix ed-Pbiciv 2. Cash from All, to warrarH Low Prices.- TUe Contract on our part. So return the money, U a pu t e; U, caso (provided goods are returned unworu 4. A Full Guarantee given for each garment. The Stock we offer is all new, and is uo oi-ght' or .. OUR OWN CAREFULLY MADE CLOTH'V Ti. 1 . ... it win ue remenioerea mat our stock always embraces the cnorcE - btastxai. goods, and that evekt eizeand shape is provided for both kJi. it will also be borue iu mind that there Is but ON K OAST HAII . the corser of h SIXill-SIXTFr-SIXTir-SIXTH r Hoping for a visit from each reader, and that our frieuds will pas. tbI-iB J to all their friends Wo are Very Truly, JriiErirefJrfif A. Tho bonanza kings, Messr. Flood, O'Br ien. Mackey and Pair, have for some time had under cotisttleratioB a plan to ex hibit at tho Centennial exhibition the products of one month's yield of (rold and silver from tlwr Consolidated Virginia and California mines, which it expected can be made to reacii f 10,000; 000, made up in 3,500 silver bricks, weighing l.VJ tons, which will require fifteen ears for transpor tation. A fJerman enzpfd fn cmTecfin hones on the Kansas Pacific Railroad wasattacked by a small party of Indians, who made thirteen bullet holes in his hat and clothes without touching bis skin. Ho kept up a ; steady fire from a site-n-slwK.trT wh-ilo Ire walked five iniTes, never stopping but to load and fire. Hie Tudians gave it up at last, supposing he bore a "charmed life, while they carried away someof bis lead in their bodies. A Tiflin (Ohio) dispatch reports the discovery there of a child sojvposed to be Charlie Ross. His photograph has ben sent to Mr. Ross at Philadelphia, who ad mits that the boy bears a cV ma resemblance to his son, and asks that he le kept until Mr. Ross reaches there. Tbe child was left there iu October last by two men who have not since been seen. lie gives bis name as Charlie Skates, and says be carue from Cincinnati. Upson comity, Georgia, claims tho champion contennialist. ile is a negro named Charles Dubingnon. is 123 years old, frisky and vigorous. He was captured in Africa by Spanish slave traders about a century ago, and was taken to Spain, where he lived in shivery for many years, and didn't know Genoral Washington. He joined the Baptist church last week, and washed away a ceniury and a quarter's load of sinsia tho Flint river. Patrick G.Tt'andt and wife were found on Saturday morning, near their farm, fivo miles south of Rock ford, 111., frozen to death. They had been doing somo market ing during the day, and at night started home In an open wagon. Both were prob ably under the influence of liquor. Mrs. "rtui.uiui tuner ien irom tno wagon or was thrown from it, and striking "in the road face downward, was frozen tfrdeath In that position. Her husband was found near the bog pen of bis place, also frozen stiff. The body of a Swede, named" Peter Nelson, was found on Fridav near tho miues of Gilchrist & Co., near Rapid City, III. His wife testillcd, at the inquest, that. Teter had beeil very cross to her and bad accused her of Infidelity recently ; that she got out of bed early, took a small nxo and struck bim repeatedly on the temple, and completed the murder by cutting his throat, afterwards dragging the bodv across the road to where it was found. The murderess has been taken to Rock Island and com mitted to jail. The residence of David W. Skidmore, near Deer Park, Long Island, was de stroyed by Are on Saturday night. All the occupants Mr. Skidmore, Fleet Weeks, and an old man who lived with Mr. S. for many years. Mrs. Titus, tho housekeeper, and her husband were burned to death. Skidmore was an old man, almost constant ly in litigation with the neighbors, and had, it is alleged, many enemies. The supposition is that be was murdered, and then the premises fired, tho other occu pants being unable to escape. The Cumberland Valley Railroad will next.su mmer run commodious passenger oars to the Centennial grounds, in which the seats will bo numbered, covered, and locked, and a key given each passenger who purchases a ticket, to which is attached a check corresponding to tho seat lie occu pies. When the excursion reaches Phila delphia, be can bwk up withiu the enclo sure which contains bis seat, any food or clothing necessary to bis comfort, aud ifflio does not choose to put up at a hotel, can have his own private apartments in the car which takes him to the Centennial. A terrific wind storm in Kern county, Cal., two weeks since, destroyed some thirty-five thousand sheep. It seemed a storm of gravel, sand and stones, the latter driven with force enough to beat the animal to death. A wagon was capsized and nearly torn to pieces by the wind, and men on horseback left the animals and came into camp with their faces bruiseft so as to nearly closo their eyes. Thousands of sheep were driven into narrow gulches and finally cove rod with sand literally buried alive. On the San Emidio cattle driven into tho beds of the st roams were in some places buried completely out of sight. Tho grass, which had grown to eood feed was taken out by the roots and pilad up in Wave along the pUia. r r A singular fatality f of .Mrs. Xiinry White. h;r!i r flown in Lwirtiers townsV-. I county, a few days agr. T:,t the man Ciawford. ) Wastifngttm county fir th? in-v son, I lie owner vt th? 1in. I was fttcked by a lirrse m.iinri- ano: nurel If. White w rra o( AlficiJ Rc-ildick. a j ir.l -year, formed a liason 'bi e with tbe wife of Parirf Tk Term. Mrs. Kcc on Fn.bju Reodick coming to- see Kr. --c later he ncnt into Lev tr-v merrt, procured a pisi!l nu-i I Reddick seemed passi.ivav r 4rs. i.ees, and would liared thing at her command. Th'i -a ve.-dict of suicide, and cLf man with being the caue )f ; Mrs. Reese is tho iiKtli-T T c: oler enough to bnve burn K -ii I he organs of the ':r been slow to answer tl its put in circulation rei.itivo 1 . 1 made by Anglican Ki:;;n-$. of being received inf. tlf i" Catholic Church. TJ;e Vfr the clerical papers cf R'u c isi consider as Roman Cat ho;;?:!.' Ritualists who wanted to tr.; and to j reserve tbe nisiri.ijf so privets aiready niarrc-l. T.i sMice," as said the Mi UV.e A;:-' of Catholicism prevented tering into anv contract m " those who would net rtv il ii of the Church. Much exci'ement lias -r Roman Catholic ciicles it C priest being refused i.'licv:,' testant hospital under tbe ' cumstances : A yours rim ing, sent word to Father It;' wished him tocome sr.d retv:c: Roman Cotholic Chutcli li'f tbe priest presenting l:ims?!f.:! Superintendent refused him J the djing man, f.iving trt must be made through the h ; ties. The priest then t:nip.T mission to see the man in t'- r two witnesses, but tlii. t.1. " and the voun? man dirl. General John F. Hart and Commander-in chief A'l'- nia militi.i. i,'ies an order C" mission tn n'l armed b'l'M fc euardsmen from otl er S;trtt"f thronirb. and remain wit! in the C'ommonwelth at mil:' of the holdincoftheCciiJf'iu J If the permission f tlie Eief;"' only warrant needed i-t pt-ii.- invasion, the order should br' as to cover troops from r.'v iT We shall probably hare aeu:- both Continents, and e have some officers i f ruiM Ti'- eliould be pleased to see m nr. The Boston -.;i.J : that, iu such a life s that t Itrtstnn ewindlnr. mSV be f&n " alizinir influences of the rage of speculation, thcha.vy kIiimI nt lh lir.Sfttlill!: mitinni f Trt!ane. "d t- corruption which has crept e . i j i. ..a rvillffS. i- t w-f -Q cw n n n 1 1 1 1 ll'irt rilit'C. . .1. lliat it e aim utsgraceiui leauur - developments that it srr" Iiul Jlllll'lil I ' .-.:...iu. ;.. f..r..prie. t1" on uiuiti in nia nrl cai.l rirtt liilllT alll.'llt makinir him nhi'le. Old-f j T ii .i.: rt nt tliircf - felony, and it is to be liod a ... i.. k;ntwl- that :n;A I.-.nks have ta" M 9 H. llllllI tU against these men. ., A singular nd curred at a blacknutn i City, Nevada, tbe other dy. men were severely i"jur ed- ..,, a bucket of watei Jf"! a fire, there being st the f.. men in the shop, and whi ,, in the act of bttingu"" , s . . . . Tri l' with great violence. tho shop were struck '"' "' ( flying pieces (the buckrt i sheet-iron) and were cut in . ( but their principal inujii direction oi ni ' , legs, the nieces of beinc d,ir iron -. canse ot iiiiscuiuhi-i ' j-:- thawed out in the tl,c;nr sides, and probably water, were coateJ wt . ,: matter (nitro glj w"u-! lK itndke.
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