t -J"- J xj THE fiftSBRii rtfctiuAr - . n--r- i JT- - -. . PA., F.iliy Moraln, 1V " 1S71 ' - i Deinoi-iiiii? Xf.-iis L'ojm'v ution. l,8e ct rU-iiMj: .lfl.-:irf!i t. if,w.,t iiif. i m'h! nr-'T;-"8. vl jj.r BI..l an.jurb .M.rr . t Mllli tbiiies as tho ail rnvtrntiuu nii' U-etu neces:iry ami im'pfr. l!ESinan 1. VVkv-ht, C''.tairruri.. Cnrrr Jt"STicElY.vr,sf Wioconsin, in a decision dviiving "the application of a Mies no;de!!, r,f Jar.es.vMIp, ia th.at Jttate, for por iiission to pra-ti'? la-.v, has decidctl liat there is n ViH- Coiisin Ptat:itQ hich aulhorizt'9 the j admission of fjiiudcs to tite Lnr. nr.d that a cortrnrv ronstrtu-lion of the! t-tatttte tyruUl l.ienk dona all di-stirjc tioasofsex in the State "overr.i:uMl i. :i:ms mis ne is K.a.i i .t, yi ..c , Uoesn't think t!i Imp gr Wfitn ( iHirU i I the proper place for the exercise of a .. . .. .. . preservation oi uer purity anoi which Ti ui.i o.n.o. .1.1.5. vo 1:;;5. ..r t.wx ..,....(:. ., ..r .1... i t'tlSSJI -tV'-" - ;,-7 : t to the Democratic National j rMJJr J;(e -''r,:;-tt.t the .,I.;....-i.ry .,f ti. Mai,., through. Convention to vote (or Governor Hen- ; Tie snH,.,.t w arft ow it a I0. the.r 0.rna.(s Ml lU '.,v "f, I dlc-ks of Imliana. for President, at:d 1 P;tin!1 to Mate the followii,- facts : Lancaster on t-iliit-4ay, tin: '2i I (if w,,lM , " . u,. f tt, Vl nf AnriT list: March n,t. at 12 ,cV,V m., for th nur.' ex-CJoveinor Cuit.n, of I'enns vlvan.a. , r -1 .v J L J- - ' lf n ot lK-r purity allot w.ucll j . , u,(,;urs,; it ,.innot bc nri,roa(.i1(.(i ly the pope ; uird that b-shop may be de ri;h ;i heart V reUonse from ' . 1 - i , i i posed hv the sentence of a purely civil court, . ;' , J J. ,,: . A C Willi argument, or it it could he, would j ,, Oen. h..hof. The clergy hav4 .cry.lianv.no IS 1U to . trt-at it V,-itIl contempt. It lias but ; therefore been culled upon to choose M ween will meet w v.n.11 fl.i'l 1 1.-1 .11.111 . ll.j liu ; ...... J .... . .. . : OUWUlcul tl.e wausoiaumalicayi.im. TilEl)tMito"3ratie(?,ruV)innutt?e I will m?et:icxt T,furjl.i;, and we again ; ... . i .: ... ..r , mi iift-i iipori us uieiiioeu uie muv oi : giving it their personal r.ttendance. The main purjioyc; iti calling it together io i. l....t t.... l'....,u..iJ(i,..,l.-.l..,r.,t: to the StHte convention, to he held r.t ! Lancaster on Wednesday, tlia 22d of ti r i.,.. .,,.,.! i'1,111 II. J II M UVI 1 ill - 'I'l . I. C 1.4 I -V quvtit meeting of the Committee, no presume that at its meeting on Thurs day it will al fix the time for holding the next county convention. As the general election is now almost a month later than it nas before the adoption of the n.w constitution, there is no ne cessity for an early meeting of the convention. It was held last year on Monthly, the 2oth of September, being the Monday after the Scptemtier Court. That arrangement proved entirely sat isfactory to the Democracy of the countv, nnd we trust that the convt r- tion will be onlered to be held on the nine Monday of September in the present year. It will afford ample time for conducting the campaign. It will be remetntK'ved that Henry C Iiowen recently wrote and published a letter to Dr. West, of Plymouth church, in which he asserted that from evidence which had been laid before him he wa3 fully convinced ami did not hesitate publicly to declare, that Henry War I P.eec'.ier "u as tjuiUy nf aduilrry, perjury aiul hypocrisy:1 Jn replying to this direct charge some davs since before the Advisory Coun cil of Congregational churches now in esion in Brooklyn, lieechcr gave P.owen a UoUivl for his Oliver in the following con' luding sentence of an Kddress which he delivered before it : As fir mvRelf r have only this to say : T roumtiiro'all the insinua.lons and all the allegation h (Hwen) lias nade false. With AlrdghtT bl Ix-fore ne and the Judgment Day I arraign Idm tt3 a slanderer and a liar 1 Great applause and cheering followed Mr. Beccher9 speech, and somebody t the door, who couldn't get in by reason of the crowd, shouted, "Uully for you." Hon. Wii.mam P. Heed died in "ew York on last Friday. He was 1t years old and was born in Phila delphia of good old revolutionary 6tok. yr. Heed was a very distin guished man. He was great as a lawyer, great as a man of letters, and great a si diplomatist. In early life he represented his native city in the Leg islature and dining the latter part of (iov. Hitaer' administration was At torney General of the State. When the Know Nothing t.'igai.is.i'.ion supplant ed the Whig party he became a Dem ocrat, and ever afVf continued to act withth.it p.irtw He r.ii appointed 1?"7 by Hu-1 All.. fat. .f In CI inn chanan and succeeded in coi.-Iuding a I most important treat r letweeii that couatrv ami the United States. This j ws the last political position he held, but was on the editoral staff of tLe : . 'J'VI . ' ....... -- - - - m New York IKortZ at the time eii liist .. ..... death. Few men ia this count ry were gifted with a 1 -tiger intellect, or pos sessed more of the true e lements of greatness thaiiWilliam Haadford Ke-ed. g.-- e -c Fuzd. Grant, eldest son ef the Pivsideiit, ft lieutenant in the army s.id also the partner of a young man ra:neel Sherman m the banking busi ii -s in Washington, has undertaken to cut the Grdian knot of Ihc third term problem. He is reported to have said t.itwoge;itIc-o.en who visited the White House one da hist week, Unit "if any IhhIv thinks t!it:V3 any third term h:r, he's mistaken. Father elon't w .nt lo le President .my more, and vou't accept a nominali'm f the Ciu- ei.inati convention should oner u him." He also expressed un-.ounei admiration for Senator Conkling. rc- maikiii"': "He's ft stair's m ail, a good Lincoln did in lSf.O. We ma V expect ' an ofllcifll denial of Fred's authority to r." lUmnni.. the White House. , 1 . ' as i Grant stand uy hi leiicr to iiarry . tvh;tlt. Mm- which, like the respon, BUi of a celebrated Grecian oracle, is .:i t r m .s.i t o rniitit,rii I BUH'r aii'ie ui ,rl""v . Henubltcan and just the man for Fres- .ince, whe n a negro contestant would : ,WCIt n a neigiiDoung monastery, idenfand believctl that if Cvukling have had little dimcultv in securing ft!,d was celebrated for his akill in in lit, dun uuiiuu ma- v u i. . " medical practice. The monk succeeded in o-i.t the nomination he would slip in as ; the se.', ol a ?ouiuerii iemocrat, on R!.vinTih two lives. ThAchii.i tioiM. "You pavs your money umi, j nr. i.niim-in, xwn,...... ; TOU "takes your choice." When he Committee met at Washington n j anoke of Coiikline- as "a statesman" , Tuesday last and decided that the r.?i- spoke oi coiK a'tional DemeKratio Convention should he differed slightly Willi -Mr. JMaine, , ' rr.,0,i0,T ,i,rt I better judge of the New York Senator, be held at fet Lous, on Tuesday, the who pronounced him, in a speech in the , 27th of next June twelve days alter PoiiL onnip vtalS a 0. to be nothing IOUe BUUic i o j n lit ( i ij j- l urlrpv rronrjier ' I'rt-e ,5.'.rre Convent ion. ATlI.otigU it has not taken, definite thane, ther is an lMpivssicm abroad ! 1 ' -.',, .. .1 til lliat at the Mate Ouvenlior., to be held wt Latiaastrr 00 the 22d of Marerh, an attempt win i'.; uiaue uy ccriaiu sea- i constitute! VaVcn- of the Democratic ! .... .. 1 ! party in. U11 3 State to jiroctire the ol a rcSOlUlion tnsirucunri iiw for Vice President, If there is n.v t'- -pott, as Wc tn,St there , w not, those w o conicmp a c the act , r.l .;..., to rr Mr ' . v r are llClinci mi1 n"- ' Jlendricks nor of the Democratic par- tv We do not prorose now, or here I 1 ,. i after, to enter upon a dcnss.on of the . relative nierus i ine oiurie.iL I'tirt;- ; cratic api rants to the Presidential nomination. That is a question to he j .1 f cirmlmiil w lio V u t w n n 1 Cnnvrn. I j lion, composed of delegates from all the States. e are decided! v opposed, j however, to pending an instructed dele gation from tins State to the conven tion. A delegation whose hands are tied hy an instructing resolution is ,W.WM.. tr, ntr ..,. fr;e,1,is to ita can didate, hat potent in compelling other delegation to seek an alliance else where It has no manner of iniluence, . -. ... . i treat it with contempt r , ... , , .. iu view, to i V,,W ot!lt'r considerations tmt he 8,iom."1 Jem-, aim ..o.u ; UllKie nrovoKi-s a sierii ieti.-iauce w ... 1 - 1. ..:......,. . . , . , . . . , 1 , , " . i I Its demand. Ati OllOlt at this time j to conimit the delegates Irom this ..... r . .. . e t . II 7 oi.au: in j:nui i iw. ""inw, 'i 1,1 T "f.::,-v other candulate, woul ri(f 'ort-s-ghtM and impolitic, and without the shadow of an excuse. I What man from the Delaware to the j Ohio can tell what the Democratic J sentiment of the State is on this ques . tion ? The Lancaster Convention will not contain the delegate who can fur nish that information, resting on any substantial grounds. Some Democrats prefer I Icndricks.some Thurman, some Tilden, others Layard, and so on to it ,.i ii .i1 i .1,.,,.,. i he end of the chapter; but theie hah oeen no Mguiucaiu cxpicssiou ui i'i ih ocratic preference in favor of any one of them to the exclusion of the others. The present is peculiarly a time for the exercise of the greatest prudence and caution by the Dtinocracy of the State, and a single falje stop may prove fatal. We trust that the Lan caster Convention will be actuated by the highest n.otives and that it will be harmonious in all its proceedings. The selfishness of some and the politi cal ambition of others must not be permitted to disturb or interfere with its deliberations or its action. Let it send the very ablest Democrats in the State to the National Convention ioi-ini-tritctrd, and trust to their sound judgment and discretion in the prem ises. 8- The most amusing political farce of i the day is the effort that is being made by Matthew S. Quay, HarlranlVs Sec retary of the Commonwealth, and a few others of the same stripe, to nominate Haitranft as the next ltcpublicm can didate for President. Whatever else Quay may be, he has never leen susi pectcd of being a fool, and our pri vate opinion is that lie and Dob Mackey, tho State Treasurer, when pursuing a common political purpose, constitute about as strong a power ia the I.cpuli lican rrnks of this Slate as eould well bj organized. Quay, however, is too shrewd a politician seriously to think of Hart ran ft 's nomination. Knowing him as intimately as he does, he cannot j hut be full conscious of Hartranft's total unfitness for the position, and of! the follv of attempting to nominate ' ; ., 1 ,.r. . . i Inm As a wily politician Quay is simply playing the same gnme in this State that the members of tlio Ccnklino-' movement are plavinf in New York? j and the pretended I lavs men in Ohio' Hi, . .,- , , . . I lartrantt secures the delegates from I en!ivlvama, a.i we presume he will, they will be transferred At the proper ' time to another, and then Quay & Co. ! will get the credit ot having made, or i at h-ast of having assisted in making, i.l... . ... . n . . . c nomination, wn.cn, n rauned Dy the Pe-1. U g've Quay a -commanding : influence in this Slate as the dispenser ; of Jo. .eral patronage. All his efforts in j favor e.f Ilartranlt mean.this and noth- innr 111lt-. I.il rj Cil.O cllirr o iM.ifn ' . . ...vi v iiviv.-- signal politicians made. The SPj.t of Jere. Haralson, a colored member of Congress from the First Alabama dislrii, is contested by Ib-ombero- a white mm and a Demo- ! crat. Jere. had a majority of 2,C00, j t i it a t . , which would seem to be larb'e enough , for all ordinarv purposes, anu tlie Committee on Flections, composed of i majority en wetnocrals. lias unani mously decideel that he is entitled to hold hii Bf-;it. I I.'ir.-il 4nn voted for tho general amnesty bill, and the radical' 1. ...... .t. i,:. i : " V "" .i:.hiS done so for the purpose of ingratiating himself into favor with the Committee, , and thus secure a report against Hrom- ' berg. What.Iere's motives were we ! do not know, out we iKHeve lie acted from his own convictions of riglit and i ... . ..i 'justice. J DC re was n time, not long ' the I Jen f political necessity super- I added to j adiCnl hatred of, a relit 1. The r.b,.. of thfl Committee in this case ' . .. . ... n-iii t... snows tiiat vue ww io c niu tustice is done. even. though it be dis astious to one of their own oarty faith. ... .. , t-.. ,t:.. ii l i w rs ii - kStAT-k v nrinnni . ! 'in r r tne meeting oi me lvepuoucau tuu- -i- 4i Ttauua a& vjuwuimu. i Persecution of Catholics in Gcr n tatty. ' 11 ,1" 4i;t..r f th I on following letter to the eilitoi 01 me i..on- , Timi - .... i ? i i ii. Sir : Will yon allow rue to call attention 11 ro.ii nt condition of the Cathclic to the eU-rgy in ijerinany ? A 7"',"'Vw".r 1" in. t I.otd Petre, I-rtl Amntlcll rt N arU- oi , ,,nl M,(W.,r,i 0f c,i,)Ssop, Lord Kmly, MotiMgm.r rauerh-ni, me nev. 11.. 1. 011- Vn0 ooo b.W 1-em ith.' oli c h in l-in w--- Iraivn from the Cath- the lne payment of ltlili.li It.t .Mill HII I'lltlL V L I X niirni II V i i i... " " " ' r. ,.0norla(s U'tween the Prussian Uovern- m,.t nvil the IIly See, w:i9 hy no me ans a frtat snhsMy t the cath.lic Chnr. h, but an allowance male in coiisiilfTation of seniles- ZcilltU- properly of fargriater an.,ai value. Third The. nnrnber of priests whoso in come is thus stopped, either whully or in part, is about l(l,0 0. fourth The only tetMis on -s-hirh tlieeler py are -ntitleti iimier tiin law of th 2-Jil of April to claim the resumption of the pay ments thus stopped are by entering into a written engagement with tlietlovennnent to 'oliey the l.iws of the state," atnong which ar th -Falk" laws. I'ifHi The Fa lk laws ar simply incom patible with tho practice of the Catholic re ligion, providing as they do, inter ttlia, that the education of the clergy shall lie conducted in sta'e universities in which anti-Christian principles are openly taught ; that no disci plinary powers shall he exercised in Prussia '-Pry and apoMasy. They Lave chosen tU i8 not all. In many in- , i" 'V; '-" timitt liu i..rut.ilM1wllp.1 !1 !L rnrntti.'L ll4. the ordinarv punlic worship ot the Church ihe a,nr.,ir-..1i'i of the sacraments, even ' the burial of the dead, have been treated as crime. Six bishops and a very large num ber of priests have been deprived of their personal liber'y. Some are confined with and treated as common criminals, and thou sands of the faithful are without pastors and spiritual consolation. Seventh Nur is it, possible for the Catho lics of Prussia to lo much for the support of the impoverished clergy who as yet have not. ' leeii thrown into prison. It was stated in a j telegram whi'-h appeared in your columns j on the lth of May !ast that "orders had hern sent to the district administrators according to which collections made, without Ihc sanc tion of the Governor of the province, to compensate Catholic priests for the penalties punishable by law. Wo are in possession of evidence that in many provinces the order isllp5K cCorrf.lh .,., 3lnilt n, ,e piM(r,.r parishes esp-'cia! iy in rural ones l be clergy are suit-ring the greatest privations, winch their people are unable to relieve. A very high authority states that in the dioceses of Treves. Hildeshem, L,imhurg, Fulda and Culm it is utterly impossible for the faithful to support their priests, and any protest hy the laity , through tho public p'ess or other wise, against the policy of tlio Government is repressed by fineaud imprisonment. In such circums'ances it appcarsto tis that an appeal may oonfulently le made on liehalf of those sufferers for conscitience sake. Ac knowledged to bo men of exemplary lives and entire devntien to the duties of their sa cred calling the only crime alleged against them licing their refusal to submit to the dictation of the state in matters of religion they are entitled, as ir seems to tis, to the respect compassion and active sympathy of all true Fnglishmen. I am, sir, your nledi ent wrv.ml. N'ohfoi.k, E. M. Norfolk House, St. James' S piare, S. V. Hapc.u.ttt in St.-iTf tt.sit.t. Cocxtv. A special dispatch from Potfsvillc to the Phila. Timt, dated Feb. lst. says : Start ling disclosures were made this morning in court. It has long been known that town ship Affairs in this county were conducted with a looseness tha; amounted to culpable negligence, but the enormity of the crimes of which certain ofiicers are now charged only proved itself to-day alien the f:j'cial auditors appointed to inquire into the af fairs of Iho school district, and township of Mahanoy presented their reports. The documents state tho conclusion in the minds of the auditors that the school board and township officers were engaged in a sjslematic system of peculations upon the tax-payers, liich developments of fraud, thievery and fotgery were made, in which tl.e names of many well known politicians appear, and at the conclusion of tho read ing of the reports the court ordered Ihe i Tnrpr t. fo 4i!fl r1iir.rtw1 4 1, a otfAn tion of the District Attorney to the ma tier, ?!r. McC'ool, one of the auditors, suggested ,,,at ,,,e fM,Pffl orders and a time book, '.mvi,"R h"htn,i mar.ipulations be rc- tamed. Accoidiugly the District Attorney took tho document-, and will take such Action as the circumstances will warrant. This promises a case of official corruption compared with which that of the convicted "nV,,is8iol,crs Vf ll'tV- t.y-,'S aS !,0,hin It is expected that Distitct Attorney Kaetcher will take steps at once to have tho guilty olPcials apprehended, and then-cases n'-ay possibly corns before the next grand Jl,,'y which meets on the 13th of next , , C.kx. FiiKntOAN says that if the pay of army officers is reduced, the very flower of them will resign. Yeiy well; let them resign. It will be no trouble to fill their places with equally good if not better men upon a reduced salary. Wo used to have quite as efficient officers when the nay and allowances were about half what they are now, atid we do not ieniinber that any of them belonged to a Whisky Ring. If Gen. Sheridan cannot stand 10 per cent, off his 11,00 and allowances per j-ear, let him resign and go back to clerking. Ilcfore Gen. Kichey got him a pi ace in the army, ho was head clerk in Gallin's grocery store frT '" ft the magninccnt .alary rvf.iii l ino vrum i n ft: is . ll II V ( It 111 K A that there is any grocer in the country that -ill pay him over f 10,000 a year for tying ups''gar, coffee and candles, let himjesign his olhc." and try h.riUs'uurgh Pott. Fhancis DfaX", the Hungarian sfates- nlan T'h? d5ert l,,c "I'iT vns ihe "n of an innkeeper near ieluda in Hungary, and was brought into the world with great difficulty. At the time or his mother's confinement.tko physician in attendance announced that tho case was a difficult ""ctUt it would lie neceaanry tacrific tMLiier i lie n ni or or iiif riiui. i no i:irii. cr ,lowever, beine 1(th to rt.cmici,o him. self to tho loss of cither, called in the Kor- vices of a r ranciscan monk, ltcas 1 ieth, Francis, in gratitude to the Franciscan. and when the monastery was burned down few years back, it was rebuilt by Fian- cis Deak to a great extent. j- Monroe, Mich., had a lively shako tip on Sunday morning, about 8 o'clock, by a s yemng earthquake which was felt distinct- jouug earinquaKe yemng earthquake . . . iy an over the city. In the Fourth Ward, separated by the river llaisin from the other part of the city theKL. k was most, severe, H-y" ere shaken, glass and crockery lattlei!, and people rushed into the street alann Tho c,mf,,rralion of Su laiy's, while at.rnass,ere panic-stricken. und leit tnc cnurcu wiri.our. ceremony . Tl,. tt.,.-V l-iktod tt..rn1 seconds "vV r Asotiiku REtiNiscn:.cE ok Xiaoaha. Tlio Detroit J'oft publishes an account of tho plunge f Ihc old Niagata over Ni agara 'Falls with its freight of wild animals Htid a mimic crew ; but this performance sinks into insignificance when compared with a similar one which, 1 think, was in the summer of 1SC3. It was ies lved hy the hotel keepers, 1 hack men and ctiriosily venders to get up a 1 praud affair for the evening of the Fourth of July, aad attract a great crowd. A ship was to he sent over the roaming cata ract. Tho llorse-irho Vv was to be il ! luniiiotcd by calcium lights, and a fine : display of firewoiks was to add its attrac tions to enliven the scene. 1 An old condemned scow was purchased. ' and moored at tchlosser Landing, famous in history. Pho was leaded with ever greens, and at the appointed signal was to le towed into the .rapids, anil sent upon her fearful voyage. At the same signal, . Professor Bullf.tnger was to start np his grand illumination of .the Falls; the vil : h':;e. itells were to send forth their peals, avil I he display of fireworks was to begin, 'i lie lirewoiks were stationed upon a plat ' form in what has now been fenced i' as Prospect Park. ! At the signal, the old craft was launched ' into the angry flood, but much lo the dis appointment of the crowd, she plunged inlo a deep hole opposite to Street's, and stuck I fast. The fn ewoi ks, by carelessness went : on the rampage on their own account, and : fifty rockets were discharged in every di rection, hissing and sissing among tho ; andience, and one passed through the : thigh of a young lady, causing a fearful wound. The calcium lights refuted to give out their tuual bi ilii.itscy, and the il lii'ninat ion was a giand failure and a faico. ' Ltlltr lo the Jiujf'aio Commercial. WrxsT.ow's Family. The statement in icgard to Wnislow's ancestry which gave the family very had antecedents, is pro nounced iiejust by thellev. C L. Eastman, of Somei illc, Mass. He says in a commu nicrtion to the jrts : 'I knew buth his father ami mother. I was their pastor tvo years in Ware, and was often in thoir fam ily, air. Nathan Curtis Wins-low, tho father of Ezra, was a man of feeble health. He had the consumption for years, and was able to labor but a small pait of this time; consequently they were poor, but he was an honest, upright christian man. Mrs. Winlow was a kintl lady, a careful mother, and a companionable wife. The feeble health of h r husband put a heavy buulcn on her hands, and her life as one of Uil, care, and snciilice. She was a Christian woman, without reproach in the communi ty where she lived, and ought, to be held responsible in no way for the flagrant sins of her unfoi tunato Ron, Ezra. Tho con nections of the family were rrspctall and all stood well in ihe town so f.vr as I ever knew. They came f.ooi the town of Barnard, Vt.t and are not of the family of Wiuslows from liarre, Mass. 1 hope, for tho sake of friends, this mistako will bo corrected. Let the sinner alotic bear the fins be ban committed, and not roll them back on the innocent dead. Il is well tha, they died before this evil came." A PiciiFortMiNo Mousf;. A curiosity in the way of a peiformiug mouse is just now one of the enlivening fcatmcsof our county prison. One of the prisoners a couple of weeks ago suceeeeh-d in captniinga mouse that found its way into his prison abode, since which time he has been busily en gaged in educating the little et to do many things entirely foreign to the mouse family. This animal will now leap over small bars prepared for the performance, climb poles, walk backward and even climb a niinature ladder in older to enter its little house that has been made for it and placed against, the wall of the cell. It does dozens of little playful antics after the manner of a kitten and is of course a source of great company to its "caged'' owner. The jiim orr andi employed in schooling this mouse was as follow : First the man curtailed it. in order as he said to rob it. of its spirit. Then he placed it on his tablo and every tinio it would jump off he would catch it and plunge it in a bucket of water, and tho re sult was that the mouse could not be in duced to leave the table only at the com mand of its master. An. I so the education goes on day by elaj. each evening seeing Ihe mouse more perfect and better versed iu the accomplishments prescribed for it to lea- n. West Cheater Jejj'ertonian. A RF.MAr.KATJT.F. Waoeu. The Troy Times says : Some weeks ago, J. V. Ser viss, ot Amsterdam, and David Manny, of the Manny House, in order to play a joke on Stephen Arnold, of the Arnold House, both of that place, went to him and sairl that they bad bet drinks on a certain quos tion in dispute, and that they elesired him to act as referee, the drinks to bo paid for when the bet was decided. Mr. Arnold ae. copied the terms, and drinks to I he amount of '2.50 were disposed of. Mr. Serviss hen said that he had bet Manny the drinks for the entire party at Arnold's that when the spiro of tho new Catholic Cathedral fell, it would fall to the west ; while Man ny had bet it would fall to the east. Of course the laugh was upon Arnold. He looked puzzled for a moment, then quietly producing a book, he carefully noted down the terms of the bet. During the gale of last, week the spire of that, cathedral fell. It fell to the east. Tidings of the fact reached Arnold, who drew on his Ulster as if he hael been greased, drove up to his house as rapidly as possible, produced the book in which he bad recorded the bet. and almost before Mr. Serviss had beared f the fall of the spire he was presented with a bill for 2.50 worth of eh inks, with seven years' interest added. A STr.AMKTi Scxk. Fifty-nine Persons Proirned. The cable brings the following news of a terrible marine elisaster in Dover bay : The steamer Franconi.i ran into the fiteamer Strathclyde, of Glasgow, off Doyor, on Thurstlay afternoon. The boiler of the Ptratchlyde burst, anil she sank immedi ately, t he steamer sailed from Lonelon for Bombay, l-.ad been into Dover bay to land her pilot ; as she was steering out again, a mile from the Admiralty pier, alio was caught by the strong tide, wh'ich turned her bow towardsthe southeast. The steam er Franconia, which was coming down tho channel, ran into her with great force on her port quarter. The collision eiccurred at 4:30 p. m. Twenty minutes afterwards the boiler if the Stratchlyde exploded, and the steamer went to tho bottom. The Franconia was badly damaged, but kept afloat. It is thought that all her compart ment plates were carried away. Two tugs immediately took her in tow. The weath er tvas clear and the sea calm at the time of the disaster. The Dover life boat was launched, but failed to reach tho scene in time to rescue any of the Strathclyde's passengers or crew. Eleven persons were saved and 59 drowned on the Strathclyde. A negro in Arkansas recently persua ded two other negroes to accompany him into tho back part of the Iiollon plantation where he made one of them kill tho either. He cut off all the fingers on the left hand of the elead negro and put them in his pocket ; then cut out his heart, ate some of ! the 1'at from tho left side ef it and then burned the rest. He then made the third j negro bury the body. All of this was done, j i as he explained just before they lynchcel , him. in order to protect him from cDnger ai d mtke him successful in hi busiucss. 1 JYetc and Other Xvting.: Lieutenant Governor Davis, of Missis sippi, has been formally impeached. The latest from the IJlack Hills is that the miners are working for $2 per hour. There are eight negroes iu Congress and only one German, Gustavo Schleicher, of Texas. Uy Job ! Germany proposes to send TTeir I'iles to our Centennial, with tho Heilin Imperial Hand. I'.y an explosion of the toiler of a por table saw mill at Farniington, Mass.. Feb. 18t)i, three of tb.3 four men employed weie killed. Shakespeare said, ''There is a tide in the atlairs of men," but it appcarsto lie pretty much all tied back iu the affairs of women. In Lehigh connty there is a bog which is expected to weigh 1,000 pounds by the tiic the centennial opens. It weighs 800 now and is not fat. The inventor ef fiie rut chewing to bacco is said to have been a lady of Xtiw Yoik, named Mirs. Miller, who nourished about half a century ago. William Fieeman of Cherryfield, Me., ninety-three years old, has jnut published a volume ot ptcms, most of which he wrote within the past jear. A California inventor has patented a contrivance for driving sewing-machines, which eloes away with the tieadle. It is ehiven by ami runs like clockwork. A New Yoik latly has a punch-bowl that belonged to Mithridates, the Great King of Poutus, who has been dead these eighteen hundred years and more. The dilapidated old house in Salisbury, N. C, where Jackson studied law has been purchased by a Mr. Wells, of Petersburg, V'a., who will exhibit it at the Centennial. A four-year-old child, named Cochran, whoso parents resido in Pittsburgh, fell into a kettle of hot wash water on Thurs day evening, and was so biuly scalded thai it died em Friday afternoon. Charlotte Cushman, the actios, died last Friday, at the Parker House, I'oston. of pneumonia. She was a lady of very ex tended and excellent reputation, and an actress of very high order of ability. A report published in Phi'. -.deh.hia to the effect that the Pennsylvania Hailroad Company had joined tho anthracite coal combination, organized to keep up prices, is emphatically denied bv Col. Thos. A. Scott. Michael Cahill, of Shamokin, has lost within one week two sons aeel eight years and one year and six months, respee! ively, and two daughters, one six years old atid the other a baby. The scourge was diph theria. Last week the bodies of six nsgroes, tittl with ropes and with their throats cut. were found on Watts's Inland, in the Chesapeake river, but no rlue to the er petrators of t he deed or its motive has been discovered. Charles Ganawere, of Allenfown, aged 51 years, fell dead in a shoemaker's shop in that city on election day. He had just voted, and'-.vasconveishigatthe time. Mo -al steer clear of shoemaker bhops after yon have voted. Geirit Mink, of Tond du Lac, Wis., called recently upon the District Attorney and bad himself sent to jai! to stand his trial for perjury. His crime had been un discovered, but conscience Lad made a coward of him after all. What putiiotism I The Light Guard of Green Bay, Wisconsin, will march, yes sir, actually fnot it, the entire distance to the Centennial, a ramble of 1,Q. miles. Farmers along the route arc somewhat anxious about their poultry. Mrs. Capital of Hho.Ie Island, is a widow, and is worth $:j,GO0,000. Here is a capital catch for some, enterprising vomi" man; but no doubt Mrs. Capital "will n.d enter into life partnership with any man who has no capital of his own. A story comes from Sa'.tsbrrg to the effect, that a youth named Keddick Mc Dowell, son of Joseph McDo well, was mir aculously cured of deafness of eleven years standing, while listening (?) to He v. Dr. Young preach a powerful sermon, on Thursday evening a week. Falhei Chiuiqny, ihe French Protest ant evangelist at Montreal, is to tie prose cuted for libel in including in his published lists of converts the names of certain per sons who indignantly declare that, the al legation that they had enjoyed a change of heart is a malicious false Immh, Samuel L. Avery, of Louisville, won !?lO,OO0 m the election, but the law pro vides that the State can recover money won in this manner and divide it betwee.i the State Treasury sn.l the School Fund, so that. Mr. Avery will not bo so Tar ahead when tho Attorney General gets throu-di with him. The unusual torture of freezing and burning to deidh was the lot of a- negro girl in dimming, Wis. Hcrc'othiug caught tire, burning her fatally ; and then she ran out of the house, almost naked, and the extreme cold helped to kill her before she could reach a neighbor' a house for which she bad started. The engineer of a train of cars ap proaching Alfied, Me., several days ago, saw a Newfoundland dog on the track, and tried to frighton him oil' by sounding his whistle. As the dug did not move, tv stopped the train, and then found that just around the curve close by was an ix team fast to the track. A wedding occurred at a P.oston church the other evening, and at the con clusion of the ceiemor.y the bridegroom's grown-up daughters saluted their new step mother by making a charge in full force, and were only prevented from tear ing all the clothes oir her back by the inter ference of a policeman. The tickets used in the election in Texas last week were unusually long, in cluding State officers, judges of two State courts and the District courts, Senators, Representatives, county efhcers, justices' constables, itc. That used in Young coun' ty contained sixfy two names and was 2 feet 9 inches in length. ThcLcwistown Gazette,say : We have half a centennial here a Fourth-of-Jnly boy, who will ho fi fly years old next Fourth, and lias had thirteen children, the number of original States. His name is Samuel N-.ghtsinger, and the Centennial Commis sioners ought to give him a free pass to and from the Exhibition next Fourth. The Welsh colonists in Patagonia are almost m a starving condition. The colony is on the river Chupat, and the land, like that of Egypt, depends for its fertility on the rising of the river. The past, season the Chupat did -jot rise, and there was no crop. It is expected that the Argentine Government will help the colonists to tide over their troubles. The mysterious music in the air, which has caused much wonder and some alarm the neighborhood of North Chili, N. Y., is now explained to be the sound made by a steam whistle ten milesdistant. Owing to tho peculiar formation of the ground the sound seemed to come H-oni every direction, while at the same time the notes were much changed. A special train which left New York on Monday morning, having on board .lames Gordon Iiennett and eithers, arrived at Montreal at f.iHO, on their way to the Earl of Dufierin's ball at Ottawa. The run was made in about ten Lours, and is said to he the fastest time on record be tween the two cities. The average time on tho Delaware and Hudson Canal Com pany s roael, betweeu Albany and Moore s Junction, was nearly forty-four miles per k MATTER OF t!',r.:j'T:- e of a,i:vi rfciti,r b-j;it t ak Hall, in Hi:l:iieY,,y'rt nanaker lir.iTii's " Ijirsrt CSotrMtvy'ViW! In inenciL" A visitor tnl it:'nK i.'ive the spon k rs : l !..r. " Vi.ot corner is the Tu'ldtry r,n AUrnd-ir.'.. " 6o ;;-.-J .a. t crurr f Si itt r.n I'r.Tf'.t. J !e?:;t nt ;o to SIXTH, fr t( ine tt-rneT" e-ki': enk liall, have b-jca niL.li.-4 hy OesinitiR tK-rsons." V. "It is pt-iiecuy coloses.1 1 Io you kner Its .liirien- i jn .' ' A. U.'Mi rrj-jarr feet T.. cn JTe-Vrt, nr 1 7C oO 1 mi Pix'h, x "-.es loph. h? crer thrn trre.i fvflo.j-;i. fii"l i-nvers t j tee r oc;-upie.i by T&ni.ii tAeiity clUIeiei-t tii ries places." V. " 1 'j yon o t"i-n.-ti-o.7' A. " A fi in. ymnvr cn.'ine fi'.rTi,:v'- jN.i-r-fr die fr. icbt mt.-I piu -t r rlrvr.t. t:-o t-o. ers &: c:a f'.r hi nting, and ijic oiLr ot-cm-ti. tis ot tiie heu-." V . " Whr.t drier'') ?y -a r,r 35-- A. "They r Lirt . '7?2. un t rrnrife t 'n the t a mint. on .nit. critit.ters.er:'; t-.'.ci t.'iencc ,n the ?-::r''clev.;or to Uie iafxe tjr's rv:a on ih i-i f.,-:r." V. - Is in("-i.n!iiL. f rot r-rrr tn A. "No. s.r. rLiea-c.i mc. 'j is r.re f r-t miaiireJ fn t c j'ie e. ihc-i lrsccn J. i h cId n pres of r r.n e:s in ti 1 ia i.f r -rr. tj litrlit, ami twj tun '-. rt 1 he fr.ro m i 9 bv ii.id t" t;os. wate.dn-.; r. ;t.'i tl.e rrt t,f i iLHi';ti'-f-ve-y fnw, Mi tint Vntu r r.ir.y ici i cvijul ii wbeu he coasts Ij cut U.u tar- " ' 1 :u ie.i p. :i-n":e :i"cr c"li( 11. tl. I V. ' Vo-t rrnrt er-pT'-y an t-ri'.-1? rv! A. "(V,:n.; 1 1 our l.i::i Jo. t::, r t '.-.p" hand? nil Uie te c-yti'tig t.p tb i:ii tarir.er. s. hcti'.f' machii.c-s V. ' Yen rv:rt rjly an i-nf,- cT evU'T"" A. "(Vi:n; li our l.-lth C.;; e::.1 i v.v. cV-l m. ilor Tin ri u-n.'.- ..iX'T -,.i.,. . 1 til ; V. "Io you mnuuX.-tcierq til your on go-'dS:'' A. " V do, ard Tr.nEt c-e:'V. C-it t tT.iiners l.-iSj-K-'. t every t.l u:. ndVr-i f-i cert-iyt i every piru'-r.t u estrm-xv I i. -.'o Lirforw we put o.it ticket cu it, and bc:oi.io rc-;-.-i'sib: f. r It." . " iuur cyaiia mnti tave vou a crctt aeul 1 ' , A ' In eve-- 'Tfre-tlr n. -Ir. It t :.m!rn and cci.iiotn we prR' ti ea.:i t, '-svjr thr"; r ii ttiit eru.Mej t-- pel uur p.n-: k n to u.e I "-'i 'c a? ter iiii"tir5 j t'-.e work, -what ! errn A. 51 -'-g (no rf-k ft fi f.o-.i I-very n:.B, Cii-. n-.-t f it- r r . -i cTr-T p-i:nu ij. ,jf-.: t n i; . th-it list, t -e t- -t TV t-nii l.e IfiueU Wiini.ut it-.i, t ;(Ja ou V. " Yon tnu.'t htvp .-. or V' i!eir-."r-. A. "itfcy ir.wi I -ikv d.'vjT .-j lu -'i., ...5 in li e M.r: u? ror.,s i-.-:"E.'jU, iY kcii!:-, t- tl;e t-iroii..? of c t-V u. ri " r.nex-wysr " crasr tur?V-? A. " v ery greit. Ail over tlje elr.trY. r Ur i GEIS, FOSTER Hi IS; 113 and 115 Clinton St., Johnstons, always hayj: tiii: Newest, Largest and Ohcar Stock i f Dry Ooods. X.l m. Viillnrry. er.; eil t2-- county. j-l).n"i f..rn-.-t il.o riumt.r n:,.l Tho city of Dinghauitoii, N. Y-, for the first time iu its bistort, has a Demo, ctatic Mavor. He lias 1 cti tint a few days in Iire, yet long enough to ascertain gross irif gularities in the management of the liaances by the Republicans who have had "undisputed sway for yea in. These irregularities are cropping out in all direc tions wherever the party of boasted molali ty has bad sway. Ia Die village of New IToNtetn, Calu met county, Wisconsin, there occurred, o:ie day last week, in one family, three tved dings, namely, a go'den wedding. silver wedding ami a linen wedding. The old folks c Itbrated tle-ir roH.si we l li i.r tbeir o.di-st sou and w ife cei.-b-, ated silver weddin. and their son and llu-il- w i I'e thci; celebrated their linen cliild was ba'if :z;-d. wtd.thtg, and Falher Adams, the gallant pisest v.!:o jumped from a Hio.k)yu fery hint to save the life of an insane woman, is the as sistant pastor of hjr. Yincer.t do Paul's l Roman Catholic) church. He- is about ,10 years of age. While finishing bis educa tion in Spain he was knighted f..r an ex traordinary act of bravery, and be bore on his breast at the tinu of rescuing t he tv -man the badge whose honor bo maintains so nobly ami so w ell. The two hn-idiedth anniversarf of the burning if Medlh-bl, Mass.. by the Indians, under King Philip, was celebrated in that town tin Monday. Cannon were fired, bells rung, and bistorie.il addresses ma.iej the whole concluding with a public dinner. In the morning a four horse wagon, fillvd with persons on their way to the celebra tion, was overturned, and Rev. Mr. Alger, of South Xat ck. and Sabur Smith, of ll.nst Sunimerville, were fatally injured, and others seriously wounded. The paymaster of the Canadion Rojn daty Line Commission, Hugh O'Doiincl, settled his accounts, amounting to scveial tbusand pounds sterling, some time ago, as ho thought correctly. Th otberd iy ho received a letter from the Foreign Oihce, London, stating that on re-examining the accounts it was found that there was a bal ance due him of 44 cents, and the sum of oO cents was inclosed in payment, lie. resolved not to bo outdone in -honesty by tho (Jovernmei t, lias returned Ihe G cents. R. D. KuiTin, a negro member ff the Virginia Ihutse of IVUKatos ft-oni Dmwtd die county, was expelled on Saturday for improper conduct in ahstiacting money from the pay-book of the sergeant-at-ai ms. His cniit was established beyond a doubt as the missing money was t tared to him' and ho confessed by giving an order against his per diem for the amount. The money he took was that of another colored mem ber, and was in the pay-b.nik near bis own. Duo of the niOSt I" II 11(111 & fllitirre at 1 . a Philadelphia exposition will be an archi- ' . . ..n 1 . r .1 .. ... . i " -""'" pi. in oi i ne city oi .viex-'co Its dimensions are S:10 by 231 feet. It will display all the characteiistics of the city, and w ill be peopled by CO, 000 leaden figures dressed in appropriate costumes some for the opera, ball and social party, and others t-.iin.iK nuns nun ice cream, carrying i baskets and lolling barrels. In the stnets will be 1,000 coaches, an npual number of ' i.ini.1 o-iiitirs, iinu a mi oi artillery pieces. Some of the most noted citizens of -Mexico are at the head ef the nndei taking. It would bo charitable to suppose that Henry "Ward lieechcr has gone stark, rav ing mad. In the Congregational council, on Friday, lie made a most remaikable speech in which among other thfhgs savor ing of blasphemy be said: "If "there is any man on earth that has anything to say to my detriment, I am here and chaileng him to say it. I go further I ban that - if there be any angel of Ood, semi-prescient and omniscient, I challenge him to sav aught, and I challenge tho truth from riod himself. The man who would indulge in such language must be either a demon in human form or irresponsible for his words. Let us charitably believe the latter. A few weeks ago Mr. Chas. O' Conor was supposed to bo at the point of death. Iho whole country, hoping against hope, waited with sorrowing expectation for ihe news that ho was dead. He slowly return ed to life and strength, and lias ro far re coveted that he was announced to appear on Thursday of this week as President of a meeting in New York in behalf of the State Charities Aid Association, fy'o social reform is more consonant w ith Mr. O Con or's life and thought than the work of this Association, which aims to elevate the poor by teaching them indcnidei!ce and self help, and which would abolish that indis criminate charity which is moio a cursa than it blestdng. vmm d: o-rc-. 1 - . -vo.-. .:vv ln tt. ir-i. ! v ..- -.---H.0 A. 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I-" Kavstbp -..?. -tfr , ; f yc:i:T:iig c-iif riijuj. when it w an ap;1?- most t ici ni-ly vt t -V-i. t:o resistance at !: st S'une tiiori, ;i; ti- t to the most ;'.-. 1-- ri ,. The male f i 1 v.iil i!-. .. in a'nl biting it ;;i -., Iy, in sheer h ; j:.. and butted t'.iC e::f :i .-, -head. The ni'i'e f-'il to the gr-.en.t. :i- ; who wttiM isSi-d i! p si:i.v up thw foutid i t tl:e ci'f, sta-.Mi;- j a f . ap'pirrnily : i T r . A. special '.V i-'ii i ' N. Y. ,1-,','i P."'. investigation of t': ' has t.r.. !iiecd s i v-.r.'w of f.aud. ami sli-n-.v.i . the navy has r- ?:i y-; i:tl VIM'S, that i l-e !I : Naval Atfaits wj!! i- -., -yard on the AV.-.r. of I Yisac-i'a. a-:l the Pacii'Ic s.i"e, t!. stations beiivg ? i c,.'i! d i not deiii it wi-ith i them. The V.'a- . i t- ! the next to reevs ' k:. results of t" ibe i'i's i : expected t- deve!-' il Ilroiklyii N.ivy V:'i'i w : visit from Mr. Wii;!e!; As lion i1,.;,. a ill :.'!:. ;' p-issili'e f. ir a tu ri Ligraiigc. Ky.. r.t '. '" night. Phi' vict i'n ri j -' engineer on the 'i". I I. the conij.any c.,,-s;,l. ;. ' ioi-ii. At the time 1 : ' : freight train. The r.sio In tatcd the engi e ! 1 1 embankment. Pi'i'V-'i' " means cai.gtit f t 1 t " ' held so thai his c ire;, i fed, his leic.tsH. ' water p. no i d i;p -a !.: ' ' a broVeti b-.iier. N ' :-' tended to tl.e snTT-tc. .v -. ' t ible. agony he N-ra" e soon the dead s".:,i f : ' peeled oil' he) i;- i,s : jdiysician fiom : was dying, tt i; ii 1 : ' -' ping oil" from the :V. - - ' which had fiiccii itst'ifi '' ' Ezra W. Wis: -. conies ;f a f.i:i.i'v ef -and law brcakeis. !.."-" years ago in ainl a" :-'1 Thomas Witis.w wis i for coiinte'fei'.ing, av"I a:.. " bills was found ia lis r. Mark was icie of tire tii'-t feiters in the S.-ait. ! f suicide rather tl:a-i stive ; twelve years. Ela. k followed Ihe same 1 1 a.i". 1 half his liTe in jvl. 1. ' ' 1 in the gang, and si,V" ; ward, removieg to rt';' ".r " came the reputed i,,,! piesently haugeil firn-1"-self a narrow escv. f-"'". accnijilice. Sli'i l:t!t'i e ing theatrical eotnj'a"?. 1 South. Mic was a 1' winning mannei is. i"; r , ii-:.. 1 w o ol her sitei et me - - wcll-iiiowiiiivantei ifei'f- Four itmiH'ei't IIMllbllll 1 out f tl tllt'B i after spending tl.:ce yt sentences. In 1-72 vrsrr - a lonely place by four r.- took from it gold iu' " ' ' nearest house as t!'" ftiiii- ninn nlm ntlf 8l'':". convicted. Foot pi in' fi.n tli.it i;:ire ol t house, and it was also .is -men bad been out lat "V crime. Theic wa no ' ; their guilt; bat tl.e r'.. , very strong against "'y' ) t, convincing facts wen ; visited tl.e house, r-i"-'1 and scared him w ' tiviim I l.:it he find d:P ' . The fais confessi ; tv his life, bat tl :i. I i i -1 and I ht n he Icc i' '' 'tr''. bis statettunl. 1 111' ' ' , .. burrieiily cnvi life, althoitgli the :: IVI to an otiinioti th-1' th.'.v it' tiers, f..r tl hv I. ICS : t. . ..l..it B t2 capud leicg ( w - VJ.LiS Pvccontly the t t'al i i,u"'3
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