iilL Lft.iiUi.iu i ..Luna.?. EBENSBUnC, PA., Fililay MwRinK, - - Feb. 11, 1870. Twei.ev "goutl men and true' h:ive been found to try 15abeK k at f-jt. Louis, and the ease lias begun. The HeiubHc:m State Convention has been called to meet at IIarri.biii on Wednesday, the 20th of March one week after tiie meeting of the Demo cratic. Convention at Lancaster. TilK .orer House of Congress has passed the bill repealing the present bankrupt law. This will be bad news for the shjdock commissioncrH in bankruptcy, who have systematical! y .jK-rveited the law for their own per sonal aggrandizement. Next Tuesday, Feb. lfth, the first gun for t!ic centennial year will be fired in Texas by th election of a i.overnor and other State officer. Whatever may hspien hereafter, says the Har lWr.irg Patriot, the Democracy are certain of a good send-off. Henry C. Uowen, of Mrooklyn, who is supposed to know more about the "true inwardness" of Henry Ward JJeechcr tlian any other living man, lia.s addressed a letter to the executive committee of Plymouth church, in which lie given plain and emphatic ex pression io his convictions as to Jleecher's want of moral character. Although all that he says may be true, his position is not an enviable one when it is considered that he sat under Ueecher's ministrations, in Plymouth church, long after lie was fully satisfied of his pastor's moral degredaticn. i-i---t A majority of the five members of the sub-eominittee of the House Com mittee on I'acilic Ilail Roads have agreed tt report to the full committee the Texas Fad fie Kail Koad bill with the subsidy asked by Thomas A. Scott. Thereby hangs a tale. If the full committee should report the bill fa vorably, and the House should pass it in the lace of the adoption at the be ginning of the session, by in over whelming iii.ijoi itv, of Mr. H-.Iman's ojt-subsidy lesolut ion, which was sup posed to represent the views of the House on the subsidy business, what then ? Tint ghost of that murdered resolution will rise up to plague and a ilright the men who voted for it and ai'ierwards voted for Scott's subsidy, and it will not down at their bidding. Not one of them will be able to ex claim, "Thou canst not say I did it." TllE trial of the indictment against (Jeneral IJabeock, the confidential Jaec rttary of President (Jrant, who is charged with complicity with the whis key ring of St. Louis in defrauding the government out of the revenue on that commodity, commenced in that city on Tuesday las. Rahcock has employed able and prominent lawyers to de fend hbn and asertthat lie will prove hbnstlf to be as innocent as a lamb. We hope Ik; may be able to do iO, but it must Rtriko an ordinary mind as homewhat singular, that if he is as Jamli-like as he protests he is, it should i i""iuir the ingenuity and skill of ten distinguished counsel to establish his i imioee.noe before a jury. Would not onr or at most (no sufiiee? Rabcock evidently believes in the truth of the old adage, that in a multitude of cotm-rH-i there is safety. It is believed that tlr.-int him-clf w ill appenron the stand as one of R.d cock's witnesses. W'r. do this week what we did not j liavc time to do in our last issue, direct attention to the call of the Chairman of the County Committee, convening its ; Members at tlie Court House, in this I j l ice, on 1 liur day, the 2d day of II arch next, f r the purpose of electing two ropres; ntitive deltg ttes from this county to th'j Lancaster State Conven tion on thr -22d of the same month, and also to select co;if;-nes to appoint, in C""jiintioii with Blair county, a sena torial delegate fr mi this district. As vefriid one? before, we believe that the Committee in this instance may be -.felv entrusted with tin: election of the delegates, and thus avoid the incotiv,;- i niewj ofhohling (mo county coiivni tiona in thr same year. A list of the im'tTibeisof theConi'iiitteo will he found under the call in our loeal deinrtiuenl, pud it is to be hop"d that there wiil !ry n full attendance. A Ithougli it may be very inconvenient for most persons to attend the Itnte Convention and pay their own expenses, we have never known the time when men could not be found who were not o:i!y willing but rnxious to iuctir b th. At the meeting of the County Committee in May last, iti proceedings were mainly controlL-d by smht'itiite, and a very general feel ing of dissatisfaction was the c-mso rpiene. That crooked game must not be repeated now. When a man is ap pointed on the County Committee a du y is imposed upon him which he is expected to perform and not delegate to another. ThU duty is that of v r fnn'il attendance at all the meetings of the Conimitter. The regularly ap pointed members have the undoubted rieht to rrcfu'Jr substitutes from it1? deliberations, and if any second-handed cents thousand feet, as the bill ori gentlemen of tha kind' should present proposed, the revenue of the themselves thev ou-iht to be infortned ! Wiliiamsport Uoom Companv amount- tl..t t m cln :.! ft, if n ' . . iii.ii, urr line Hii-iiaui """;, and invftcd to step out. Let thecnm- vn'vm be commenced faitly and future har.nonv will 1j preserved. We tlierefore time upon every member of the Committee to lc present unless there the Committee tolcpr is some controlling reason to prevent hi in. In that way alone will the pro ceininzs of the Committee possess the v.-ility and sanction which ought to ;iLtach to then). Cot i.'.i.v't the T.ci-i.iture ui.-t oec make an eU'ort to hit out the six work- , ... . . , ing nays oi Ute weeK l H is a con- j summation devoutly to be Wished. It j I Uniform .ulirmrnm. i.t from F rid AT at : . i noon until .Monday evening calling down upon it severe but well merited animadversion. Three days and a half of work out of six is not the con tract that was entered into by its mc .libers and the people when they 'elected them. The practice of ad journing in the 'manner indicated ks especially to be reprehended in view of the statement made by the Harrisburg j l'u I riot last Monday, that tip to that ! t!me not a single bill had passed both ! its branches. If a Republican Senate trill waste its time, a Democratic i House ought not to imitate its vicious ; example The Democratic memljcrs ' of the House need not be reminded that , the Pittsburgh Convention in 1874 pledged the Democracy of the State to 1 the practice of the most rigid econoniv, j but that pledge seems to have been j ' forgotten. The best opportunity for i 1 - , i ! retrenchment and reform is in the enormous and constantly increasing 1 expenses of the Legislature. It may he very pleasant for the members to adjourn over from Friday to Monday evening and recuperate their wasted energies in tlie meantime by a visit to Philadelphia on free tickets, but it is very expensive to their constituents. Has legislation become a mere pleasant i pastime, instead of earnest, laborious work 'i It seems ko. To cap the cli i max in this unseemly business, both Houses, when they adjourned last Fri ! day, adopted a joint resolution that i when they adjourn on Friday the 11th j (to-day) they adjourn to meet on the i ICth, which will be ttc.rt Wednesday. j This suspension of legislative business but7tolof legislative expenses for four days, was made in order that the mem j bers from Philadelphia might attend j the election next. Tuesday and vote for j members ot the city councils and other j municipal ofliccrs. These four days of ; recreation will cost the taxpayers of the State not less than fifteen lhon;-and dollars. When a Democratic House could have prevented this outrage and refused to do it, what a mockery and a sham were the promises made two years ago by the Democratic press throughout the State in favor of reform? If the people will tamely submit to this unnecessary and swindling adjourn ment grime We are much mistaken in their temper. There is a time bejoud which patience ceases to be a virtue. The h!o;.d of the editor of the X. V. TriKnnc don't throb ns it .should for the centennial year, and is in doubt whether our emblem should not le changed from au eagle to a buzzatd. 1 T I near mm ; In these centennial years, it must b ron fssfil. the spu-t;tr!. presented is not, one ':,1, ll':!,",t to make every .American h.-nrt iiir-o wiin una''. e avo known nlirnn.l l,t i r n set. o! ministers and eonsnls, of whom the most 'nspiciiinis and important is tho emi-in-nl writer on the g:nm of Pok-r, whoso re lations with the F.iniii:i Mum and tin-. M,u h adoi'lahu, make it natntiil for foreigners to ask whether ih emblem of tho nation ho repress iitn HiionUl properly lie an englo or a buzzard. We have a navy, hut to the candid observer, it seeins t. be an institution com paratively useless except to coutraetors who want to rob tie; Treasury, anil high ollieials who wain 10 laKo ladies on an excursion at public expense. We have an army, of -which (it'll. Itabcnck and Col. Fred ir.-tnt are rat her t conspicuous otlicrs. We have a Treasnry i i -".w iiini i , me emei CICI K Ot WHICH i:ts ! inut eeil coll V If tcil Tvilli cr,-..vil 41, nM prominent Alicia Is, of conspiracy to rob the 1 " 'asm-y. w c :'ave an inf-nor Department t Twill VilP'Il " J'elSno has just retired, and swindled and li,!.'? itfrb-ring Indians are! looking to see whether h'-i successor means i to Ij'Jow- his example. V t- have a '.jst;il Dcp.u tiiient whose chief is jusdr honored lecat!se he Iris hci-n exposing and stofij;ig tho rascalities ;.-evi,iusly perpetrated there in. Finally, we tiavn a Congress, and the odor of Credit Moluiier, Salary-grab I'acilic Mail, and other .jobs too imuierous to mention so pervade. the legislative, halls that we look lnstincti vHy lor tha buzzard to perch over ! the Siovaker's desk. Xotwit i:;STANri.o the numerous as pirants for the occupancy of the White i House we question whether the average American citizen has a true apprccia l tion of the comforts and luxuries which : pertain to that position. In the dis ; cussion of the constitutional amend i inent limiting Presidents to one term, ! Ho;:. J. I'locLor Knott, who has the I amendment in charge thus pictured the i ail rornens ot the Presidential oMVo . A na'ary of .55O.0OO ; a mansion sustained m a sty.e ol luxury that t'. w persons dream- ' cl ot. 1 Mviiished. rennired ami lm-.t..l or nr. ; annual expense of Sl!.",( (id, w ith the very air i" .V;'- i J-'-'oon" . 'y ,re oxo,.ks I I - I -r- w p;.iii-ii niMi.e, II1,1- ! taiued at an annual expense of S.VOu'l a nri- vnte secret ary at t,t)oo a year to do the . President's writing, two assistant secretaries : at S-.-Vj!) a year to do the work of the private secretary, two clerks at S-M'.V) to do the work of t he assistant secretaries, a steward I at S2.OH0 to supply the President's table j with the choii est w ines and t lie richest vi 1 nniis that could tempt or satiate his appetite, with Si'i.tMN) a year for books, periodicals' j statiotiery, telegrams ami "other contiiifonl , l ies." If tlie children of Israel sighed" for j the nh pots of Kgypt, what must bn tho anguish of a sens! live tonl when taking a i last, long fate we'd of such salary and bixttries? T-lTI. , -,, . I HE lull to regulate the amount of. toll r.nd other cliafires to be eollor-t .1 I by the boom companies of the State ' passed the Senate last week withontanv iseiiom contest. Its success in the II otn is ngar.led as certain. The bill fixes the price of boom-tge at $1 per thousand feet, instead of ?1.2o as at present. When the bill was liefore i the Senate, Mr. Allen. Democratic! member from tho Ijvcomir.nr district. siiowcM irom ligures which were not ai11 coiou not be oisputcd that at 90 1 T I . , . . . . C(l nilltl.11 V O III .11' V i ' on; a - j "'.i io , ',C:ir yearly profit t more than $100,- uu0- It is surely tune that an effective blow should be given to thi rapacious monopoly of Peter Herdic's, and thus . relieve the lumbermen from Lis rob- bery and extortion. PainlClark col. a prominent Repub lican politician of Goldsboro, North Caro lina, has S;eii sent to the penitentiary for ten years for larceny. The J i. t JU trt t.cJnnertl Hill. , . , . . . . , The nromised work of practical economy h tn t,,e 1IoHe of 1.piwentatives last ! Yi-.liicsday, upon tlie appro nation bill i fur the Mnitaiv Acndtmv at West Point. ! .. . - The estimates for the next fiscal year re quire $4oO,4'. and tlie bill from the com mittee gives $M:U41, being a saving of lfcfi,8iy. This dill'crence is made up from various items, but especially in the pay and allowances to officers, professors, and ca dets. If it was proposed to single out "West Point from the whole public service, ami apply to it exclusively these rccTuctions, there would be some 'ground for the assault upon this economy made by the advocates of extravagance in the House. I'ut it is only a part of a system of retrenchment which is intended to be applied to all bi anche? alike. Why should the officers, professors, and cadets receive- more pay, allowances, and contingent funds than aie necessary to maintain them respectably? Nearly all the departments of life have been forcod to economize by the stringency of the times. In the tace ot this narsii expert ence, which comes home in 01.0 firm or anther to every individual, fa clamor is e,k 1 Tn i a , iin V... t riioi.iinrps whioh Ii;lvr sullied millions to excrescences which have added millions to the public bin dens, The Republicans, of course, resist the ' bill. Mr. Hale of Maine paraded a long array of mixed figures to prove how virtn ons he ami his party had been in the years of their corrupt and extravagant rule. They have achieved wonders in the way of economy, according to his statements, but unfortunately the books of the Treasury tell a very ilifl'crent story. Mr. Ilurlbut also was very violent against the reduction, and rehearsed the old story of continuing glaring abuses meiely because they have become chronic. Secondly, they know if the Democrats make these great reductions upon a princi ple of genuine economy, the Republicans must suiTer by contrast for the previous excesses at the Presidential election. Hence, all their efforts are now exerted to defeat this policy, and particularly to pre vent an entering wedge for it in the West Point bill. Their shams will not succeed in the House, but may prevail in the Sen ate. In any event the President is expect ed to veto eveiy real reform. This issue must soon t.akc form and sub stance. Parties will crj'stalize on it, and t the questions which have heretofore 'agi ! tated the public mind must disappear be i fore one which tenches .the sensitive pocket nerve. Mr. Blaiue and .Mr. Morton , may rave about dead sectional disputes ! ami try to fanthe en. bets of discord into ! new life; or they may attempt to pu.h the anti-Ca'liolic issue. But the laboring peo- p;o wise ars living on snort commons and wearing out their old clothes, demand peace as the first condition and radical re trenchment as the next. They will wa'ch every vole, and know exactly where to lis the lesponsibilily. ..V. 1'. bun. At the suggestion of the Centennial Com-n-isi.-n lr. George P. Rowel! has in con templation a plan for a large and complete cxhihitieti of American newspapers at l'Liladelpliia. It is proposed to just up a building CCt feet in lenglh and 4 J in width, and fti'-nish it with enough cases, contain ing t.0 pigeon holes each, to hold all tho 8,000 periodicals published in the United States. A room is .o be fitted up to serve as a sort of headquarters for newspaper men attending the exhibition, where they can write and read and transact all their business. The plans for the building have been selected and are now in the hands of an architect. Mr. Rowell has devised a plan for the conduct of the exhibition, and the project will be carried out if the pro prietors and publishers of newspapers fchow a disposition to co npera'o in tlie under taking. It is certainly desirable that so important a branch of American industry as is represented by the American newspa pers should have a proper treatment at the Centennial Exhibition. For our newspa pers are thoroughly representative of our people, and illustrate more- strongly than anything else the marked progress we have made in the fiist century of our national existence. Mr. Powell's plan seems to be a good one; it wiil cost from $15,000 to ifCO.OOO to cany it out, and if 200 of the leading newspapers of the country would contribute ijLOO each tho whole expenso could be met. Ar. Y. World. IIfxuy C'Bowen has written a letter in which he afiirms his "unwavering opinion" that T?eury Ward needier is'guilty of the crimes he.'ftoforo charged against him, and also of pcjury and hypociisy. The letter was present?! to the examining committee at Assistant Pastor Ilailiilay's house Friday night, and Mi', B"wen wassuin moned to appear bofarc the coumiitlcc on Tuesday last. This is Mr. liowen's ?n- I gunge : i have knovrn :.Ir. I'.cccher qn.to intimately since tho day of his arrival in Urooklyn. I It avo been acquainted with him socially and privately, in church and in the family, in business matters and in religious matter. I have heard attentively but with profound grief what has been said to mc confidentially against him. Xow boing summoned hero to speak, and to sjieak the tiuth, I solemnly give it as my unwavering opinion, in view of all the facts and evidences presented to me, that tho Itev. Henry Ward llccchcr, without even the shadow of doubt in my mind, is guilty of (he mrf ul crime of adultery, perjury and h'rpocriy. This I say again, and before the bar of this committee, is my deliberate opinion, and I may be permitted to affirm thr.t I give it caltnty, without malice,-and w ith no other than a sincere desire to do my duty faithfully to God and to man, to tho church and to the world. A Sagacious Doctor. On last Saturday night Dr. Win. F. Trout was called upon to viit Mrs. Adam G ress, of Tod township, who had accidentally swallowed a set of artificial teeth. Ppon arriving tho doctor found that tho lady, who uses a set con sisting of thieo or four false teeth on a small plate, had actually swallowed them. 1 ney lougcd at the entrance of the stomach, and ihequestiou was how they were to bo extracted. The doctor did not. hav -iti. Lim t!,e instruments generally iiF-ed in such ??!C.HJ ,",..at a ,oss hov .V Proc.eed cases, j He at length hit upon an expedient. i 'ro- curing some sewing silk, be tangled it into a kuoi, ami. Having attached a string to i it, requested her to swallow ir. This after j sorno difficulty she succeeded in doing, and the silk became entangled with tho teeth, when all that remained to do was to pull ' ii-eni.otu uy the stung. A casn like this probably never before occurred. Fallon Democrat. Peoplo without brains arc to bo found the world over, but tho n.iriiesville (Ga.) GuzcUr. doesn't understand it in thatsenso. It says : "We saw in the ofiieo of Dr. R. ! ir - f rt , , , , v. iiini, oi iceuuion, last WCCK, nuilo a j freak of nature in the form of a child. born without any brain. The body was well developed, being rather larger than usual, while the bones of the face and head seemed perfect up to a lino on a level with the eyebrows, where they terminated in a rounded ling, very much resembling tho top of a dipper. At the bottom of this the spinal cord may bo seen terminating in a sort of fungus, with apparently not a vetige of brain. The child was Btill-boiu." Xeivs and Other Xoliug.. W. F. Pardee, of Sullivan county, has eighty-ono cousins. V Congressman Piper, of California, is s.iid to own over 200 acres within the city limits of San Francisco. A woman of forty applied to the Chi cago County Clerk for a license to marry a boy of sixteen, and didn't get it. It is feared that some 150 lives were lost by the recent explosion of tiro-damp in the Jabin coal mines, Helgium. Within a week Henry llerr, of Mount Joy, Lancaster county, has lost on adopted daughter, his only little son and a brother. Henry Bailsman, of Lancaster county, sold tobacco raised last year on eight acres of ground to a California buyer for over $4,010. The explosion of the colliery at Jabin, Belgium, is almost an exact counterpart of the explosion some years ago at Cai bondale, in this State. Alfred Martin, of Wilmington, 3s. C, has a poi trait of George Washington, paint ed by the order of Lafayette, said to be an unusually good one. A Rochester, N. II., woman the other day picked out of her knee the needle that she sat down on twenty-five years ago. She was not so badly stuck afier all. Eleven poisons were trampled to diath and many injured in a stamjxide caused by a false alarm of fire in Robinson's Opera i louse, at Cincinnati, on Saturday last. The jury in the case of Patrick Quig ley, of Philadelphia, charged with killing his wife, on Monday night rendered a ver dict of guilty of jiurder in the first degree. The fires in the old Baltimore mines. rear Scianton, Pa., on which the steam i from forty boilers has been forced for two j years past, have been at last extinguished, j John Hamlin, a Luzerne county black- j smiui, perrormcu me tug leat ot sharpen ing and shoeing all around sixteen horses i in thirteen, hours. lie made etcrv shoe fly. T1 ; e :i : x i . There is a family in Ncwburvnort. Mass., occupy ing a house so situated that when dining at the same table the tVJier eats in one town and the mother in an other. A very young couple going to a Dunk aid preacher, in Plane, Perry tounty, to be married, were refused, with the remark that there aio enough people in the poor house now. - More gold has been discovered in the Black II ills. This is a good tirao of the year to make the discovery. Spring will soon open, and it will bo a favorable time for emigration. --The aci ial lady ts ho bestrode the broom stick in M. G.'s melody has a lival in a Pittsfield, Mass., woman, who, dining the recent gale, took, an involuntary ride across the street on a dry goods box. It was rumored at Antwerp on Satur day that seven packages of gunpowder had been discovered among coals on board the Antwerp steamer, which had one hun dred and fifty persons on board. It is said that ono important coal pro ducing corporation, tho Pennsylvania rail road company, will not enter the combina tion for the purpose of su.-pen .ling woik at the mines or fixing a schedule of prices. Tho jury in the caso of I.ar.dis, cf Bridgeport, Conn., on trial for the murder of C'aiTiith in Viiiclanrl some time ago, rendered tho following verdict : We find tho defendant not guilty on the ground of insanity. Both branches of Philadelphia Coun cils have joined in a cordial vote of thnt.ks to 1 bm. Thomas A JScott for the faithful and efficient manner in which he fulfilled his contract for the construction of the Market Street, bridge. Avery Skinner, Postmaster of Union Squaie, Oswego county, was appointed by John (.Juincy Adams in 1121 and st ill holds tho office. He Iias.br en twice in the As sembly and twice In the State Senate and is now eighty years old. A singular accident is rejvrted from Maiioctte, Wis. Oi:e Jacob Vest ecu stooped to drink from the river between two DiocKs oi ico, wtisti tlirs blocks camo suddenly together and choked him. They had to chop the body out. - Michael McFariden and Michael Burns of Fall Uiver, quarrelled in tho presence of McFadden's dog : the dg may not have understood the ail air, yet the next lime he met Burns he attacked him savagely, in llicting dangerous wounds. The Archbishop of Paris has received from the Archbishop of Bcyrout 12 large planks of cedar cut from a tree on Mount Lebanon that had recently blown down. A few trees yet remain, Hiipposed to be a old as tho time when Solomon built tho Temple. The dwelling of Geo. Ileindle, near ITomowaysville, Ills., was burned on Fri day night, and Mr. Ileindle. his wife and two children perished in tho (lames. A daughter, eighteen years of age, narrowly escaped by jumping from a second story window. John Dolan, conviclc.i in New York of tho murder of Mr. Noe, has been sentenced to be executed. The IMth of March was fied a the date of tho execution, in order to give Dol.i'i's counsel time to prepare the points for argument before tho Court of Appeals. Tho Constitution of Pennsylvania, adopted in 1770, had this laudable provis ion : "Whenever an offccfl, through in crease of fees or otherwise, becomes so profitable as to occasion many to apply for it, the profits ought to be lessened by the Legislature." The centennial year commences bad for mothers-in-law. At St. John, N. B. Feb. 3d, John O'Neil killed his mother-inl law and dangerously, if not fatally, stabbed his father-in-law. They had opposed his marriage to thoir daughter and persuaded her to leave him. The family of Lewis Neides, of Read ing, is unlucky. The daughter fell oft' a chair and broke her arm in two places. Soon after Neides himself fell and frac tured his ribs, and before he had recovered his son aged ten years, fell and broke his arm at the elbow. The latest intelligence as to the health of lion. Alexander II. Stephens indicate that he is slowly dving of consumption. lie has r.r cxpcc'aiion ef regaining his health and has written to a member of the Georgia delegation to attend to his unfin ished business at Washington. A most remarkablo illustration has just been furnished of the overmastering force ot genuine patriotism. Twenty new"-ly-mai t ied couples stopped at a Philadel phia hotel one night last week, and nine teen of tho brides sat up until afier 12 o'clock rending Centennial tracts. The trial of Jos. Flemm, of Pittsburg, Pa., for tho murder of bis betrothed, Miss Amelia Hailing, rn tho 13th of last month, was opened Monday morning, and the easo given to the jury in the evening. They re turned a verdict of murder in the second degree, and the prisoner was remanded for sentence It is staled that the name of Pev. Thomas Scott Preston, of New York City, has been sent to Home as dignitsimux for the vacant I.oman Catholic See of Hartford Conn. Father Preston was born in Haiti fotd in 1824. was graduated at. Trinitv Col. lege in 1843, and was au Episcopal c!crv- r. imKl Ull'l Bj man until 1810. An exceedingly curious easo is re ported from Enslls, Maine, where a Mrs. Cyrus Wing was seized .1 feiv days since w 11.11 a pain in one of her fingers; and in -eio-ht hours ihe fleOi l.-. r lui.y-eiKiii iiouih me nesii nronned ftnm .,.. 1 1. . n , . " her arm as if it had been enr.Ve.l t, " j On Wednesday the clothing of Mrs, ! Samantba Browning, of Luzerne county, , took fire while she was sitting in front of a ! range cutting carpet rags. In trying to j extinguish the llames she set the house on : fire. By the application of a bucket of j water she saved the building, but she fell : to the floor and died. A man and wife in Eastonton, Ga., were remarried after two vears of matri mony. The first ceremony hating been in 1 ixome way iiiiormai, anu inc iiuiei irance oi i largo amount of property depending upon ! J the validity of their marital relations, they j i called their fiiends together, had a brilliant ; ! wedding, and went ofl on a honeymoon i tour. j A monstrosity is now on exhibition at Borah's Hotel, Pottstown, Pa. Its ribs on , the left sido are formed like thoso of a j i horse, while the right is that of an ox or bull. It has two pair of hips, one behind i the others. Tt has also two tails and geni tal organs of both the horse and the bull. The left fetlock of the animal is that of a horse. A fire broke out in Xew York city at C:30 Tuesday evening, at No. 125 Grand street, which proved the most destructive for years. The fire burnt through ther entire block bounded by Grand, Howard, Broadway and Crosby streets, destroying altogether about thirty buildings. The total loss is estimated at four and a half millions. Senator Christianey was married in Washington on Tuesday morning to Miss Lillie Lugerdeel, lately a clerk in the Treas ury department. Senator Ferry, his col league, officiated as groomsman. Senator Christianey is according to the "Congress ional Diectory." nearly sixty four years of age, and the bride is represented to bo only nineteen. Bowen declined to appear before the I lymoutn church examining committee on Tuesday evening, and wants the questions he is expected to answer reduced to writine, . i. . . . , .... . so that there wiil bo no trouble about the matter. He insists that lie has made a full statement, but that if the brethern want to go on with catechism they must reduce it to writing. A poor abused and deserted Detroit wife killed herseif the other day, leaving the following proof of the great love she bore the mii who was really her murderer: "My dear Ib'chard, for love I got married, for love I die, and (iod bless you. and I freely forgive you. Pray the same, and wo will meet in heaven above. I got the ten cents of Mrs. Itutridgc to g.ct lauda num." The people of San Rafael, Cal., were teiril.ly startled recently by a man gallop ing at furious speed through the streets, crying as he went : "Flee to the moun tains ; the reservoir walls have given way!" San Rafael lies under the shadow of a 10, Ott0,(!00 gallon reservoir, and the proclama tion created the most intense excitement until it was discovered that the fast rider was a lunatic. A singular ease has hist been l.roucht before the Board of i'atdons. A boy, six- teen years of age, is serving a term of im- j pi i;;ot)mont iu the Schuylkill county jail i for having shot another boy, but without fatal effect. Strong efforts are making to i piocure his release, but these are opposed ! Iy the youthful prisoner himself, who likes the jail so well that he desires to stay there. Ho is employed by prison officials as a mes senger. Among tho passengers on tho steamer Wilkand, which arrived in New York, ;i ! Monday, were Mrs. Thomassen. wife of the j author of the Bremen-! lavendynaniitc d;s- I aster, and her four children. She expressed ! au unwillingness to talk about the cause of : her unpleasant piominence, paitictdarlv in j the presence of her children, who. as Vet, 1 are innocent of the whole affair. She pro- ' poses to seek retirement in her owu homo ' in this country. j Thcte isiuitc a sensation in Newburv- port, Mass., over the marriage of James Barton, tho author, to bis stepdaughter, " such marriages being forbidden bv tho statutes of that State. The bridegroom learned his status on tho morning succeed ing the wedding, and, to prevent further scandal, left his homo in charge of his wife and took rooms for himself at a board ing ho;ise. He will apply to the legisla t nro for a special act sanctioning the mar riage. Mrs. Stevenson, a dashing widow of l incinnati, whose true love on the eve of! marriage absconded with her jewelry, af ter searching for him for manv davs found . A - - . . . iiit man at v inc street, seized i,;, i Him mien ne irn-ti 10 escane. aer:-.sfl , i... ... ' h.m vuluably of his dushunesty tnd ,Krfidy, Rotknocktrt down coased h.m five hl.Kks, wot-stcd h.m in a ttht ana held him till a i'win.i;nnii culm up .inn iook mm to the station house, whero sho discovered that he was some one else. Cardinal Manning writes to the Lon don Times stating that the tel'-rams from Rome that ho intends to proceed thither to promoto the union of a portion of tho j-.ni nsn ruua.iMic clera Catholic rlmirli ,,,h l...f i 1 1 - p'Ialslo'tt V;?ic" ;,tRd, V W til I lie fiimin end are wlmllv f-,. .. " ...s - j, in oh hr l.ll., MUIOHIOI truth. Ho says : "No scheme whatso ever on the subn et of ritual been, to my knowledge, proposed or oppo. cd 01 defended at Rome." Monday afternoon Helena and Anna Dunn, aged respectively five and three years, were roast. -1 to death at their resi dence in Linden Place, Philadelphia. Tito mother went out shopping, looking tho chiidien up in the house. About an hour after her departure a neighbor noticed a light in tho second story, and breaking in the door found the eldest child on the land ing and tho other in the centre of the room, both dead. Tho furniture was on fire at letuno. The bodies presented - i, oriilile lit. Miss P,ello Harper, of Fairhaven, W. a., was paid attention by a young man, who finally said he would not have her'. Then Miss Hello armed herself with her father's shot gun, stepped out of ber door as her lover was passing on the opposite side of the street, raised tho gun and, as she says, "look aim, prayed to tho Lord, and fired." The young man fell, Mis, ilarper stepped backed into t he house, ai d said to her father : "Pap, pv0 shot bim," and then sat down and ate a hearty dinner Mic is out on bail and ho will soon bo out on crutches. While clearing snow from the Midland Lailroad, in Connecticut, on Wednesday the plo.v left the track, and crashing into the bridge over the Willimantie river, smashed it down, and bridge, plow and en gine tumbled into the river, together with Ihe nine men on the plow and cab. Thoso on tho plow were all more or less biuiscd and cut, while thoso in the cab. in addition to other wounds, were severely scalded one or two fatally. Tho mail and passen ger tram was flagged by a man who extri cated himself from the debris in time to prevent it plunging into tho wreck. Fresh illustrations of Yh.i dling come to light daily. A gentleman interested in a Christian object recently went to inslow and asked him to con tribute something. In tho course of tho conversation the gentleman remarked that ..e ...iu a cnecK tor o which he proposed glad to have an oppo. tunity to give what I can to it," said Winslow. "Here is -i nolo for 100. mo o-.'cu named. ! ?30 cheek, as I CM'nn S Z w ? . wiiinuiue , .... . . more that-. -.n it ! t.h. th f X r. " J ,,e,eV.IeM...l: S needless to fas mi NOTIFY I " tn l llU ES Oil nniM r rr. 1 "1 (L I Hfc TKAK 6 CIXTSIXO OUT SALE WILL COMMENCK AT HALF r week-day Mor.Nixc and CONTINUE UNTIL OUR Fr r "T"XOci" IS SOLD. uttT3 i i i ill: rviviiv iwcp W e have made no too manv o tltCUAl S and SI'IT . JV4r ... our Stock into Cash needed for 1870. w; will nnt '' apparent ox and aftku WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER FIPsT ' gone t h ron gb our Salesrooms and cutoff Profits, and even aim; f ' many f our present prices. lutt To be very dart in ttating thi matter, an ce do not ,v, fJ , n t rijitmn ft f sitf 7jiia ml, nil i ?a1.,r.,1 41 - . . 7 . mi , J per to say, that this Mark Down. wJtilst it applies to A THOUSAND AND MORE OVERCOATS A THOUSAND AND MORE liLSIXE.S HUNDREDS OF DRESS COAT SEVERAL THOUSAND VESTS, SEVERAL. THOUSAND PAIRS OF PANTS and ertend fJirougftcut our Jieiwf, yet (7,ere arc ome io.' in iri u , been marked at elos price',) ite sli-ll make no cJi-tnjc. " Via crrsiftE To annocno: that this n Our FIHAL and ONLY Mark Botzu this S- iii.ii aiv.iu 'no tui iaiwek rKirr, TilE STHP tVE TAKE WILL WONDER FCLLT AID TftOSE v. HO Ftl.1. Lite I Jie Jernif of the Sale are the itnrl Term of,, 1. No Second or Altered Price One Fix ed Pkice. 2. Cash from All, to warrant Low Price. I he Contract on our part, to return the money, is case (provided goods are returned unworn). 4. A Full Guarantee given for each garment. The Stock we ofler is all new, and is no1 "bought" OUR OWN CAREFULLY MADE CLOTHiN Tf TT" I 1 1 1.11 I'fMMn T, 1 I 1 ... 4 .-..v.. r- 4 . 1 - T - . . aw "in i v i -n. i u i mi m.tt uiu siutiv iiiajs cniu;,iccs Wit f ptantial ckiv, and that every size and siiai-I: It will also be borne in mind that there is but ONE OAK tiie eoitNun op Ofl, SIXTII--SIXTII--STXTIT-SiXTII Hoping for a visit Lorn each leader, and that our friends ivill pass t!,ba to a!l their fiiends in the counfiy, We are Very Truly, GEIS, FOSTER & QUIS 113 and 115 Clinton St., Johnstown, ALWAYS HAVE THE XEWlvST, LATKrlSST, CIIILVPESTAKD Stok or Dry Goo Is. 'NotI n. Millinery. r.rji. Oil floth .e . t- to fvnr.-: :r.r-i---l ty. v-l)-in'tIor?ct tli? nuiuScr a!.l s;ri)'.-t. A few days ao Edward S. Stokes tho murderer of Jim Fisk, was granted a writ f lale tx '" by Jnde Dykeman, and on S.itutclay morniuv ho was taken before the Court, win. refused to release him on the rround that the timo he was on trial and waiting to be tried could ivt bo c n sich'ied as part of the f.ur years' sentence. During the recent tii.il .f Doyle, at Mauch Chunk, for nut i dor one of the piis oners now in jail there for being concerned in the murder made a full confession of the minder of special Police O nicer Yost, who was shot, ami killed at Tamaqua. on the night of July ", lST-l. A reward of several i thousands doilais was offered for the mur derer by tho town and county officials. The confession having implicated men named Carroll, Dtifl'y, Hoyle, ljo-uity at:d Mctichen. these men were arrested near Tamaijui, 0:1 Saturday and taken to Potts ville city at once ami lodged in jail. Much excitement prevails over tho arrest at Tain aqua. 4)1 the CO. 030 men and loys whom tho . . . the anthracite coal re- ;....- :n , I ri'MI.-, villi UIM'i IHil II I l7.000 are in the ea. Wvomi,- cl lield, bondalo to Jenkins t- i gions will throw out of employment about eastern districts or th extending from Car- behiw Pitts- ton and includiug Ixith those places. Mote than 23.000 men ard boys wiM bo thrown idle in tho Schuylkill region, including the Pottsville, Shaniokiu and Ahland district, ami in tho middle districts of Luzerne and Carbon, embracing Wi'kcsharre and Hazle- 1 ton, and tho southern distric. of Luzerne 1 huh vaiu'iii, exieiKiiiig irotn JCUkiiis town- "Von.- I 1 . , r- . . . i"y, vcr 0,uu,. men ami Hoys. The following ap chrvt!ial storv comes from Machias, Maine : More than a vear ago a lady in that city, while "stiri ing up" a straw bed, lost a ring from her linger, strict, search was made, but the ring could not be found. Tho straw was emptied in the spring in tho stable, and ued as IkhI ding for horses, and thrown up-n the raa nurobeap; the manure was hauled about three miles and used upon a potato lot. The crop of potat-cs was dug and cellared, and as tiie man was cutting some of them to feed his horses his knifo struck upon some hard substance, which, on investiga tion, proved to bo the identical ring lost in the straw bed more- than a year previous. A Troy (N. Y.) man has been trying to kill rats with bread covered with arsen ic. The bread disappeared, but the rats didn't diminish, and finally bo caught his thirteen year-old daughter eating it. Sho confessed that she had disposed of all of it, ami liked it better than anything she had ever tasted. It appears that tho girl had fits a year ago, when she kept begging for arsenic, and the d;ctor, thinking she was going to die any way, gave her some, whereupon she got well. Since then sho has beeu given the deadly poison at diiTor ent times, the only effect loing to make tier appear well, bright and eheeiful. Tho case has been laid before several scientific men, all of whom pronounce ir. ono of tho most remaiknblo phenomena of the age. Additional particulars of the tragedy in Lyndon, Yt., on Tuesday of last, week, which resulted in the murder of Mr. av.d Mrs. Yilder, tho wounding of tho murder er's wife and tho suicidd of the murderer, invest the affair with a deeper horror! The fiend accomplished his work most ef fectually. He struck his mother three times, settling tlio whole bit of the axe into her head on cither side just above the ears, and inflicting a blow upon the neck, which severed ber bead from her body, two small pieces of skin only holding it. The f.Uber had, beside the cut on his neck, which laid bare the windpipe, two deep cuts in the head with the axe, reaching from the crown of bis lioad down 1elow the eve. intr. i each of which a man's hand could' be iti i scrted. The young man had a severe I knife cut in his throat, w hich shows that he attempted suicido by cutting his throat before banging himself. It is difficult to j account for this triple tragedy. There I seems to bo evidence of his bavins a nas- sionate natuie, and that, there had been an increasing ill-will on his part toward Lis i mother since bis marriage, which occurred a little- more thau a year Rgo, III IS: ,,. - if ( ; COATS. I'-n t cf t!.e or '.v !n..;.t :.Toi(. ; is provided f -r h.i II A & laUuf tiik toir ;o i ocT;'-r.br t Ki'it r:icp.- ii-.i't ciin trirri !"-"-: - l;llTT;l)- I.itV'i T tt'O t! 1 M ! I . an t xt'.'h lit nin-: '-.-noe: ;nv l..rt.s t !ip ;it t: :.- : t.vrvn . 'Mij"i iart oli h,,:". , m'I, A"i'? '.;i t'ti 3.Sv'-',i :. 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