i -4 , ECEfiSDUrJC, PA., FiiLiy Mornlnx, - March 24, tS7G. Ox last Tiifsiiy, John Kvnns, 1ip post trader at, Fort bill, swore be fore the Committee o: expenditures of the War department that lie paid (ien- i ral lliee, of Iowa, ? 1 ,000 for mtrodiic pjlC ; in linn to uenerni iKiKiiaj. -M. Cl. Tkomas A. cVott President of the IVnnsylvanirt Tln.il Uor.d Coia Vnnv, has tendered a free passage to an.ffrom the CvMitonnial to the veteran Boldiern of the Mexican war residing in Texas. In his letter to the members of Congress from that Stale communi cating the fact Mr. Scott says: We fully "appreciate the fact that bt:t for the valor of these old soldiers the coun try through which our line of road passes would now belong to a foreign power and the directors nn.Vthc olli cers ot the company are very glad of the opportunity of making recognition of their service. , ii it n At the hour of rroing to press," (Thursday afternoon) wc can only say in reference to the Democratic State convention, which met at Lancaster on "Wednesday, that it, was called to order l,v Hon. rlvridrick 15. Wright, Chair- Committee, alter which lion. "William II. riyfon, of J Farette cuntv, was elected temporary chairman, t.ti'.l tne uuiai t'Dnuiiiutw uiDointfd. At t'r.c rftcrnoon session . statement tliat Kice Udon-s to Iowa, cs cione bo, out witu u ;r- j mass o ,-. o .! ( tYorl n.-n it.a pdif or. with whom no- rock or the iome ol Jiciuna , expfatns in: in.- -- ---- --r -. iw ad was 41 ,r ;,. 1 lr- t'.,t l'i.i.H i man mcal mendacity has become a laoor 1 anu v..s tie air.tir and t!uv. s t.iat ivice is a ma J , - fT,o 1 swelling of infinite resourcea. " .10Je. v. t;ict wi h the committee on permanent organiza- object was to produce me impression tion announced the selection of llobert ' cn his readers that he had the pro !. Monnchan, of Chester county, as ceodings of the convention before hira Presidvut, toctht r with a large nurn and that U1C3- would prove the truth of lur ot Vice Presidents and Secretaries, tlie charre. "We know whereof we The full proceedings will appear in our paper next week. "WnF.N the editor of the Jo'imtown Tribune charged I Hester Clymer with having voted $crint-ei'jht times in the Charleston convention for Jeiferson Davis, he wa? evidently thinking of his present political friend, Benjamin Y. Uutier. It suited his purpose, however, to throw the odium on Cly mer. Putlcr voted fifty-nine times for Davis nt Charleston, and we pro M,ni; voted for him afterwards at Hai ti more ninrtetn times, thus making the seren? v-eight ballots of the Tribune. And yet Hntler is na of the leaders of the partv of great moral ideas, while Clymer, who never voted foi Davis at Charleston or any other ,.cq, is a villain fit fur treason, t-tralagcm and fpoils. . Isaac II. H.ULr.Y, of New York, ha3 written to the Portland (Maine) Prist to say that no Republican who is an enemy of the administration can V elected President. "Whatever cbe tho Cincinnati convention may do," lie savs. ' it may be trusted Dot to tuesent a candidate who has ever whined and snivelled about the cor- ruptions aal frauds of lm party. All which the Pittsburgh Po.l accepts as authoritative, tnd considers it im possible for tho Cincinnati convention to nominate a man who has whined and snivelled about the frauds and corruptions in the radical party, inas much as there is not a radical paper in the country but will toll you that there are no frauds an 1 corruptions to whine and fnivil about. "Ltt no guilty man esonve," evru if he should be President of the United Mates. A special dispatch to tho Xew York E renin j PoM, Republican, says that a letter was wiittsn to Henry Clews by .Secretary p.ontwell "in Sep tember, 1372, directing Clews to send S'JO.000 to the Republican State Com mittee of Pennsylvania, for the purpose of securing the success of the Repub lic!! ticket :n that State, at the elec tion which was to occur in October, and promising, on the authority of the President, to reimburse him by early pec ret information of sales of gold to be m.vlc by the Treasury Department, ly means of which information he i-ouldjcrainble secure' jr and successfully in the gold and stock markets in Wall Ptreet." Here is another chaptrr of Addition, Division ami Silence. "Let 110 guilty man ccape." Jon:,' "W. Futockt, in pursuance c the Ao-rr-cmcnt entered into between J im and the State Legislature, deliv ered an address before that body one evening in the early part of 1;-. it week, in which h' related his experience in j-hiropt as the agent of the Centennial Imposition. There was nothing re l larkaU in the lecture,, but as it le l..ad t- t!u centennial, Forney felt Pound to te'I what he knew. Some eks be fore he returned to this coun try from his Iluropean visit, his special friends in Philadelphia caused it to lie published, for public information, that us sofwi as he placed his foot upon his jiative lu.tli he would satis'actorily explain all ;d-ut the ?25,0G0 which were MUUMCti .v w. tin- pHCilie Mail t'iip-'.V, in constd- f-ration of his CKoine ') cditorud in- . f rr ,., rrovcminent 1 nuoiuc- 10 . r-. p-UosHiv which mat evoiiii'.i.. , ruptly'solicitifig from Congrev'. he is regarded as a vepresentati ve r f ....,. rMtt nml freest country ct. ' 1 ' f, s"i -.1 fr I rHriii. itie uroim-nm fAiu.uiaiiuii u.ii i KVii most anxiously looked for. Rut Jr. Forney, although he has oeen hccK f .r a considerable time, has; failed to roMond to the general wi-di and ie-m-.lna as dumb fin oyster. Perhaps hn iM tfi'tc tim to make clear this trifling matter after th mote neigLly nfl-dnof th? ecntru'iial evafeo to op press fiiiu. Cj.ymkk i a i-lnekv friend, lie stuck to Jeff. Davis in tho Charleston Convention through M.-venty-i ic,i;l hr.lloth. lint that was nothing to the pluck he has recently evince. I in screening his friend Belknap by firitiiig away the only witness against him. We have no evidence that lie lias ever regretted , the Davis alliance, but this last has .irawn ,earBfrou1'oneeye.'Wo;iJWfolcn7VUiC. J were to undertake to retute the riant lics which are daily published by the J v-.i.... l.i,.. ..n,!,.,, .f t ,e . W t. S - I A. 1 ' V t M V V m-- ----- m - Ti... :.. . W e have occa- sioiially in exceptional and extreme j 'paper of any party may sometimes I ijive circulation to an V.n founded ! jive circiuaiion charge against a political opponent, but as it did not originate the falsehood it is not fairly amensblo to censure. An editor, however, who pretends to n eunor, notcir yiiu jusM-'ima '".once. , ,. have a political conscience and who As the cylinder enmo up the s.oro, the will sit down and deliberately concoct ' rnsl. , and yell and whirr of .the col. jnin a statement which he knows'to be ut- WiS0 and lE? ..e Yonder f terly false and without even the ecm blance of truth, deserves to be exposed and held up to public contempt. The paragraph at the heud of this article 13 un illustration of theprofoxindestdepl h of lying to which an editor can de scend when he enlists all hia natural energies in the effort. It was coolly and deliberate! j' wiitten with an in tention to deceive his readers, and it has doubtless had that effect, since he will never retract it, acting 0:1 the con venient adage, as he always does, that "a lie well stuck to is as good as the truth." Iliestcr Clyrner's vote3 in the the subject of newspaper comment, and why therefore did he say that Clymer biucK iu otu iuvim hi uiaicuinL'iJtK.'ii "IhroujU rrventy-ctght ballot His aflirm, and dissert on the authority of the published proceedings of the Charuton convention, that llieter CI311 cr, on every ballot from the first j to the last, voted for James Outline, of Kentucky, who was Secretary of the Treasury tinder President Pierce. And, further, that when the same convention afterwards reassembled in Haiti more tq finish its work, Mr. Cly mer again vted for James Guthrie on every ballot but the Uif, when he vo ted to make the nomination ol Stephen A. Douglas unr.v.imous. This is Hiester Clyrner's record in the Charls toa and Baltimore conventions, and the man who in the f-tcc of it vill falsely and kaowiijglv attempt to heap odium on him by publicly charging him with having voted for Jeff Davis "throtigh ? . , . ,. ,.. seventy-eight ballots," lies like a I ?c- tan, and is the right man in tho right place as an office-holder under Grant's aditiuistration. ae-4 - Tas 2atisn, published in N"ew York the ablest independent journal in the country, Cdnditd'5 an arti'-lo on "Tho Moral of the P.elkr.'.p case" in the fol lowing vigorous language: Ye havo ti"er: wsrr.ing th readers of thiii Journal for seveti yeivrs t li .if to this-om. p'.x ion it woe Id lome ai hist ; tlialtlie rei-.io urnler wl.jeh we were !ivi:ig was h- eoare aiil vnnal that It lrmst, eml in stirne tremen dous eata.-t .rop!:e tl-.at would cover ns with hliain.; and 1111 uk with desjiair; that the Southern "outragt a" or but a blind set up by thieve to throw tho police off th scent ; an.l that the great enemies of free govcrn mTtia this coMniry wera to he found not tri I.ouisi.v.iii anl MisH'.ssippi hnt in Wash ington ; and I hat the e'.inrtts of adulation and ap'.-Ioiry which was addressed every year hv !! P'lbii' Hii editors and Republican conven tions to tii Prcis!di'iit ."re only hardening a Homewhat oLtaf-e and sr-!fl:.;h naturo i'a conrff-3 and HS.'ociatir us which were full of danger to the country. Tho mischief ts, however, hy no means irrenaral.lo. We hnv.i j-ist one year more of this deplorable A dmirist ration to bear with, and during that P' i.'-kI we mu.-r, while pushing on (lie work of in vejigation and praying that tliediscor f ry of gnii! way Mop i-hort of t!r) highest place, po.'s.-ss P'tr Foil's in pafio'ieo. lint it i still in the power cf the American people to see tint the alil '-tion does not recur. I17 electing a .President whose sympattiios and has been tried by temptation and resisted if, and whn has Ihe cuur.oaa which is ne. 'lcd t't l. -al a revolution. I'or revolution there must h. The reform nf the army of 3,000 civil officers must come, and it mu-.t come, in spite- of the Cimernns and M ortous and Conk Hngs ami P.ontwfcils and Chandlers, if tho f rm of the governmeut is to remain un chauge.l. The campaign may be said to have incton. As Sl:ite and local orcrtnizn- tions, and individual Democrats all over the country, will have frequent occasion to address the officers, we append, at tha rcp.ic-t of the Com mittee, the following tnfornat'on : konns of Xatioxai, Democratic l-'OSCBHSSinNAI, ('(iMMITiEr, l.Ui V i;t., Washiiistou. D. C. iViiafe-IIon. .1. V.'. Stevenson, of Ken- j lucky: Ib.n. V. W. Elton, of Connecticut 1 Hon. D. V. White, of Maryland ; flon. JI J. Davis, of West Virginia; lion. J. It. CJorl don, of Georgia. i:iti of ;ir.S'itn!ive. UoTi. Tltinter Clymer, of IVnnsylvani:., Hon. V.. V,r. C ha ft 1 !Nrsaeliiisetl. JKsHutorCoiutMu. -Mr. W. V Corcoran ;.ir. ,ia:i,(.s K. Harvey and Mr. Charl. H m a" ""i'raiie. organization , nlj tJlft j toiates ami 1 erntoriiis are rf quested 1,, s(M1(t in- M.imraiii ( neir nmi ;nu ices un mediately Ut the Cong-. io...il Committee. 1 MrXi 7r. i ii. ritnln r.. .1... s.r-.rJ Vi " il l 1 V Hc-v. F. .rt wm, W I ---f - - ... . . (1 . n.w-n,n.P. . n CotnuiltfB wid bc furiu'-Ucd with all tlocu Z.ieiit fic of clrirne. Hkistku Otntcti, Cf;i:rman. XV. Jl. I!,IRSI'M, 'ifilsiiiT. Jamks E. Uauvit, fieereiary. Gooos f .r the fJen!nnia1 Exposition are tvginnfig to poiirh'fo Philadelphia, and the foioigu aiiivitL arc very large. associa.ions connect nun wi.n jue nsr pociai 1 evidences ot having been but lately trans lif.jef the country, who belongs to its men Iferred from their natural element to tho of honor and inU ict and morality, who is . ,A heights whence they fell to the earth. r-?V r.M 'I ' t? y'''S- P .V11"1 "S,ar a.", Vast ..ambers of small frogs have also been v l ' n," . "lr..r 1 T'.t.-,V!t1' t'vn to fall during rain "showers, and in lull' opened with the organization of crcat0 waterspouts mat raised vast Domes the National Democratic Conareseion- j of 7? l?V f,',n .tb "'V-m ,fn? . l ro-.n,-o:tf,o r,-b r. J. , R.nd n.s,.,!S. wentupwaid with tho elements I ; " , V o'i imeu they inhabited, i he shower of blood was iib men- rooms at 1 . 1 1- st reet, V ash- proved to bo caused " ' ... ""..' . x.irocic- ino upward centripetal mot on of tho tor- sippi ; Ho,,'. M.Sivh-r. of o .io. ' objects than worms to a greater elevaaon, i t ftl i , .... t I -. . It T M r . t A Terrible Tornado. ti. w,of in Wisconsin resulted from a collision between two sections of a : cloud which bad divided and come logeriicr ...-iin. The clouds joined, and a long cvl- . . ot ,w n. The cylinder was -y " ci,.cnmfe,el,cc and 70 feet "amc the ground a mile J furrow COO feet long, 4 feet wide, and sev- j era! feet deep, seemed to absorb the ear i p, seemed toaosoro me e.m A if. moved alone in a north sind rocks. A3 It inucu .no..K ... , eas-terly direction it looked line a ci.ij-wi- .... ... 1 1 column whirling with mcreaiine poe.i 1 id a central vacuum. It was a solid aroui: f heavy rubbish. Occasionally a stick would shoot off at a tangent Jiivoninto the ground, until tne stretch between the point of con- the earth and the edge ot mo vu- i - rrr.iva con ikim'u ti ,,iticci, ef scantlir.g. lmgo rocks, and the branches of trees. They arc driven into the ground with their heads r-oiiiung .11 a., y -if-ciions, demonstrating that it wasar.hi.l wind, and that the counterfeit grove result ed from offshoots from tho outer cucumler- ,rnQ?xMmrred tho attention of the pcor.lo of Hazel Green, and they flocked to their doors and windows. Readily it camo on, sometimes bounding 50 feet into the air, then rushing down again. In two minutes it descended on the little hazel grove just southwest of the town. The trees were snatched up by the roots and whirled 90 fert. into the air and suppotted there. Tho cap of tho column was a stono 8 feet long, 4 feet wide and 3 feet thick. This I stone was held in its position winie ine. column covered a space of three-quarters of a milo. Just between tho grove and the town, 250 feet fram cither, tho coUmiii halted and spun around over a small space, and then ir-commer.ced its inarch. I'ho I air was filled with the yells and lamenra- tions cf the people. Is ever before has sncli a tornado rcaclisd go f.ir noith, yet so fear ful and threatening was tho coming cjluma that the prophetic souls of the people sucm fd to warn them of the danger, and Ihoso who were not paralyzed dived into th'-ir i cellar, nnd these, shivering, awaited, the doom they felt must come. Tearing off ? Corner of a frame house, tho column lOfO borne thirty feet into tho air nnd there, hovering for an instant, fell per pendicularly upon tho roof of the Masonic hall, a stono building. Tho structure, was mashed liat. This was at 4:30, and a meet ing1 had been called fur five o'clock, half an hour later. Seventy soul3 would have been assembled in tho upper portion of the building. Tho next house was of frame, and occupied by Mrs. Richards and her family. A daughter-in-law and her two childiea were saved by the seantliDgs abovo them, whilo the rest of tho family weio killod outright. A fry ing-pan containing three cakes was on tho stove, and the frying-pan, still cyi taining the cakes, was fonad a mile a-. half northeast of tho village Tw i;y sis houses were carried beyond 1h ken of mortals. Where they wci, 1)r one can tell. Tho track of the. column is filled with F:wdusl and bitsofood. as though a saw- mill had belchc out a half finished lum ber yard. The cicps for several miles tro filled W't. oiiairs, bits of furniture, carpets, 1"" . U.1C? 0 1 hoi;! materials, 1 -jis. j.oonev clfv.iin2. bits of window shades and house- was sitting in her kitchen. The house disupreared as if touched by the magician's wand, and the crushed body of Mrs. Looney was found 400 feet off, ship ped of clothing, and with the skin peeled oil' her back from the neck down. There wero some miraculous escapes. A hoy and gill were foiindjout on tho prairie wandering about helplessly, Tiiey wciein a lou so of which no account has been ic- ce:vrv tli 0 air qv.arU r Tlicy remcinber being lifted into and whi.ii found were nearly a cf a milo from whete the house used tu be, badly bruised and unablo to account for their condition. Probably the most remarkr.blo spectacle was that of Dr. Kiltoe's ho-scs. An hour before tho storm arrivud tl-.e Doctor had been sent for to at tend a s'ck man some three miles off. lie returned word that ho would not rink his horrss over tho prevailing bad roads, and in sixty minutes those samo horses, bam, birgJ and harness were lifted sixty feet into the air and tho horses drop ted at least 10') rods from the former sight of the barn. The column was then a huge mass of debris and a spectator says that the horses went, up through the centre of the column w hill ing around fo swiftly that they looked as if torn in pieces. They were found utterly unbrui.scd, but stone dead, a:.d not more thau ten or twenty feet apait. Flstt PnnKOMENA. Tho New York Herald says : At different periods in histoy there have been recorded such sttango oc currences as showers of live fish over con siderable areas of land and all bearing tho the Middle Ages the inhabitants of Europe were stirred to repentance for their mani- I fold sins by the ominous shower of blood rn event winch was promptly turned toac cociit by the religious teachers of the time and pointed to as an evidence of the Divine displeasure ftl 'be wickedness of men. ISut f-keptic'il philosohers discovered that at mospheric whirlpool ;, such as that rccnlly experienced at St. Charles, Missouri, coiuu suck ftil tho wator out of pond, and even by thn red pollen of cei tain plants growing in Eastern Europe, and which, being borne through the upper air by the force of the winds, became mixed with the falling rain and imparted to it all the appearance of blood. If tho story from Sterling, Ky., is true, the shower of quiv ering llesh was nothing moro than a mass of tho larva, of inr.ects, which, having bjcn caught up by a whirlwind and carried to an immense height, returned to earth again i:i the form of a shower of bruised "and wriggliiig worms. Many of the lonely western lake shores are surrounded with vase accumulati ous of these larval of .lies which present a mo.it disgusting spectacle by the quivering, crawling m Tvement of tlio little red worms that compdso the mass. a:,u I,,erV8 no i,,,lH u,ac tne ""Pisit R Sterling, Ky., is duo to this cause. The quivering motion observed in tha so-callod nesu is eitner r.ue to tho "last kicks" of the worms 111 ! hir dvtng etrugles or to tuo action 01 a uenser atmosphere In tho far west the Indians dry these larvaj in Sto 1 df 1 ' , I.nnlcp" ?blc b',d diet 011 them .also. It is there- n?s to bo wondered at that tho Ken tueky hogs and chickens regarded as high living what poor Lo considers a delicacy? Tho town hall at Pottsville, Pa., was desl roved by fire on Monday morning. The building was owned by G. W. SUlcs? whose loss is SoanoD. M. Nichols, general store, loses f 10,000. Other parts of the building were occupied by Ibdl's drug store, a res- jlaurant $10,000, aud several lodge rooms. Loss Employment Scare in Thilad'a. Ma. Epitok 1 MeaRe sa.y to any of your readers who may lt) Uiinkiug of coming to Philadelphia to find work, that they had better not eoinc. . The city is flooded with men from all parts of the country, who have imagined that tho Centennial would bring with it plenty of employment for cvervbody ! They have forgotten the fact that thousands of good workmen, resident in this city, are now out of employment because of the stoppage of tho wheel of in dustry in foundries, mills, shops, and stores and whilo the Exhibition has given, and will give, work to thousands, yet the sup ply already far exceeds any possible de mand. The new comers are not only bit terly disappointed, but worse, for their little means is soon exhausted, and they are driven often to the verge of starvation, while hundreds have to seek the shelter of tho station-houses, or walk tho streets the whole night long. In response to an inquiry made of the j President of tho House of Correction, the i following has just been received : Offick or "The JTorsE ok CoKRECTrov." IHit.AiF.LrHiA, March 6, 1870. Joitn Wakamakkr, Esq., Dear Sir: In reply to your favor of tho 28th ult., I have had prepared the enclosed statement, exhibiting the number of admis sions to this Institution during the months of IK'cember, Jaunary, and February last, and also the proportion of that number who with committed at. their own request. Of twenty-two hundred and forty-Wo (2242) admissions, no les than eleven hun dred and iifiy-one (1161) wero Rolf -commit ted. The supposition that, a. a class, the occu pants of tne House of Correction are tltose who seek its food and shelter only to avoid labor is erroneous. On tho contrary, as a rule, thev work cheerfully enonch. even at tlio hardest and most disagreeable of out- door employments stone-quarrying, ditch ing, etc., though in very many cases, the m 'Mi hav been educated to clerical rather than to manual labor. The result is, therefore, startling, as an index of the overcrowded condition of many branches of industry, and lean ful'.v endorse as excellent, ih idea suggested in yomnote, ! namely, to urge through the columns of the i country pipe-h-, young men to fihtij trhcre they are, a'id i,ot crowd to !l.; city in aiu:cipuio!i of obtaining employment, at least at the present lime. Yours, truly, Wir.i.iAM Grr.TdOAB, Tres't. STATEMENT. Admitttd. Males. Frr.vales, Ttl .... W)'J 8'.i irWH .... 008 llf 721 So vj 43 j ISIS 2ti 22i2 &e'f-Committed. .v. flr-i) in 074 af0 1-t 13 8 lot 1111 37 1151 Deeember January February Total, December January ,, February ... TuNl. The writer is led to pond this communi cation because of the large number of let ters and calls ho is constantly receiving from persons in great distress, whose ex perience is suggested in tho foiegoing ; and ho feels that ha cannot do a kinder service to the young men outsido of Philadelphia, than to urge them, for thtir oxen .ks, to remain at home, tin less they hav the posi tive protniso of something to do when they corns to the city, and como for the purpose of claiming tho promise. John Was am AKKa, President of the Philadelphia Vuuug Men's Christian Association. A Strariye Affair. ROMANCE IN" TIIOU LIFE A M A RTtlAOK AB lilTILT TERMINATED. A few weeks fiiico One of our metropoli tan belles was engaged to a youth of ex cellent family, of good morals and consider able wealth, with tho e.itire approbation of both families. True, the young woman is a lloinau Catholic (a recent convert) and tiio young man a Protestant, but this was overlooked ; and it was hoped that she might after marriage return to tho Epis copal church. No time had been made for the wedding, but it was vagnoly set clown for this spring. A theatre party was given by the young man (Montague, we will call him, as that is so romantic a name) to his beloved and a company cf twelve friends, w hich was followed by a supper at Delmonico's on one Saturday evening. Everything was joyous aad serene, but it was like a day in summer which is followed by a thunder storm. On Monday morning tho young woman while still iu tier chamber received a nolo brought by a messenger waiting for an an swer that changed affairs matrimonial veiy decidedly. A c.i detant lover, a young of ficer from the far west, had i; his remote residence learned that Miss It. was engaged and abituttohe married to Montague. He obtained leave of absence, traveled day and night, and announced himself as above stated. It has not transpired what were tho contents of that note or its answer, but Miss 11. within an hour announced to her family that she intended to go to a convent up town for a few days for meditation and prayer. This she had previously done, aud it was not considered unusually eccentric, but the family were surprised two or three days after, when a noto was received from Father , asking if tlioy were aware that Miss li. was about to wed Lieut. G., that he had refused to marry them until he had learned, etc. Hero followed dtamatic scet.es. but horses could not drag the giil from the convent until eho went to church to bo married to Lieutenant G . Poor Montaguo loro his hair in vain, but he did not shoot t lie gallant and triumphant young officer. Just one week from the evening f the theatre party Miss B. was privately married from the convent in an up town Catholic church, cards of invitations hav ing been issued. After the wedding the bride returned to her fani'ly residence, and ho went to his hotel. Very few persons knew of this Rtratigo affair beyond those immediatey concerned. A splendid outfit was pur chased for the bride as quickly as possible, she assisting in its selection, and everyday receiving a short visit from Lieutenant G , in tho presence of sumo ono of her family. Three weeks from the day of tho manisga it was publicly announced, and the happy couple darted on a wedding tour. Mrs. Grundy says that Lieutenant G is a Cat holic, also that tho lady has a handsome fortune in hor own possession, and that a servant was bribed to give in formation to the old lover as tn the situa tion. Xeui York Corrc-pondonce St. Louis Republican. . There is a hermit at Sharon, Mass., named Oliver Kingsbury, who had a mania for collecting steel pens when young, and after finally inventing a machine for their manufacture left homo, and, for forty years wandered none knew where. When finally ho returned he brought with him three barrels of steel pens. Ha lives entirely a secluded life, aurl allows net oae to enter his habitation. A convention of Christian ministers and laymen is called to meet in the Hip. podromo, New York city, oh March 20th and 30th, under the direction of the evan gelists. Moody and Sankey. Ministers and laymen from every church ia the ITuiou aie invited to paiticipute. JS'eicf and Oilier Votings. -Terrible land elide on the Rhine eight houses buried and 20 persons killed. Snowhite and Snowhole nre the names respectively of two citizens of Lebanon. A great fire in Charleston, S. C, on Monday morning, dastroyed.?o00, 000 worth tif property. The Nonistown Herald thinks there was no nso of having a tshower of meat in Kentucky so long as the whisky held out. There is a Scotchman in Hartford who can speak fourteen languages, and he gets his living by performing on musical glass.es. A pocket knife nearly one hundred years old, Itelonging to a Reading gentle man, contains thirty-two small steel blades. All who aie in favor of and will agree to plant one or more Centennial shade or fmit trees on April 19, 1876, will please say aye. There is an advertised letter in the Danville postoftice for Joseph Kzmigietski, Joscpti doesn't call for it for fear of dislo cating his jaws. A good many towns and cities a'e bo ir.g rcheved of their surplus fools. Expe ditions f.tr the Elack Hills are foiming al most eveiy where A fire at Scranton Sunday morning de stroyed the old Catholic convent attached to St. Vincent's Cathedral and several small buildings. Loss, '0,000. Right Rev. Pir. (Jalbeny, O. S. A., was consecrated bishop of tha Roman CatLohc diocese of Hartford, in St. Peter's Cathedral in that city, on Sunday last. Orvil Grant testified that tie was tho "brother of the President and a painter by trade. He meant that, bo was a painter and a bt other of tho President by trade. The Secretary of tho Treasury is going to redeem ?o0, 000,000 of fractional currency with $12,000,000 of silver coin. Of course thei o is no question but what he w ill be able to do it. Matthew Doward's way of resenting a St. Louis girl's refusal to many h'ui was to throw vitriol in her face, and th law's way of punishment was to stud him to prison for live years. Mrs. Nancy Eckcrt, the last rnrvivorof tho Hradv family of tbo XYest Branch val ley, died recently in Lycoming county. 8iie was the gmnddaughtcr of Captain John Erady, the Indian fighter. Threw. servants often accompanied the Belku'.p baby never less than two, one to di" .v the wagon, one to c.ir.ty the extra wrappings; the third attended when T-ir. and Mrs. Eelknap walked behind. The Philadelphia Herald is branching out. It will havo a branch r.fiico on the centennial grounds complete in every elo partment, and a Campbell lightning pros that w ill print 75,000 papers an hour. i. ron.s "M:(nire of l,....tt ttii Vcot England reporter of tho New York Herald, I gets fifty thousand dollars by the wilt ef a J New Yoik man whose daughter hs once saved from drowning at Long Urai.th. Peter Dinger aud wife, of XVcst Co calieo, Lancaster county, who had been keeping house for more than fifty years, died almost simultaneouoly on Friday, and were buried in lbs same grave on Tuesday. An unknown German, who .had been rohlM'd of his money while eu tho way to Pittsbuigh from St. Louis, committed sui cide in tho former place by bntigiiig him self to a bedpost with a bandkt-ichicf tn Saturday. Thomas Boyle, aged fifty years, lias been sentenced to the penitent iary, by Judge Pershing, ef Schuylkill county, for eleven years and six months, for commit ting hu outrage ou a little gi.l who is deaf and dumb. A substitute for the postal caid is un der consideration by the post-office- depart ment. It is a stamped sheet, ef about note-paper size, with a gummed edge, to serve as both paper and envelope, which is to cost two cents. Jude Brad-, of New York, has granted tol'csach Itubenstein, condemned to be hanged for the murder of bis cousin, Sarah Alexander, a stay of execution until tho case is reviewed by tlio goncial term of the Supreme Court. Ih'ubon Dickson, of Columbia, Pa., aged twenty-three, recently got a wife cf the good old sort, lie was arrested for in decent assault on Alice Harris, aged eighty, but married her to bring about tho with drawal of the charge. It. appears to have cost Mr. Barlow, a mail contractor, $40,000 to havo a house committee whitewash Mr. Oeswoil when he was Postmaster General. At that rate it would bankrupt the country t-j white wash tho who'o administration. Mr. J. E. Elaine, a brother of tho Maine statesman, b.r.s had a linger in tho post tradorship business. Tho would-bo presidents as well as tho presidents, it ap pears, have injudicious relatives who have helped to pluck tlio soldier nn.i. Ten families in Berks and Lehigh I cmmics win soon leave lor lienry county, j Ohio. They have been engaged to work on I stock farms, and the inducements oifored I were a fice passage, rent free, C30 per ! year, and all the necessaries ol life. Piper, who murdered little Mahal j Young in the church belfry, may as well get re.viy to hang. 1 he Judicial Court on .Monday overruled all the exceptions made in his favor, and judgment is to be pro nounced in accordance with tho verdict. Captain Frederick Lahrbuch, of New York, who served under Wellington and guarded Napo'.oon on the Island of St.. Helena, reached his one hundred and tenth birthday last week. In honor of this ie markablo event a dinner was given him. Thcro are twenty-seven adjoining farms in South Lebanon township, Lebanon county, all of them being occupied by ten ants. The fauns contain sixty and more acres each and some of the tenants aie rich enough to bo owners of farms themselves. It appears that ono of B.dknap's achievements was the building of a pine fence around the military prison at Leaven worth for $100,000. lie evidently acted on the precept of that distinguished Venetian soidir, honest Iago : "Put money in thy purse." A loarerish young Califoinian married a servant girl, aud, after a day or two, de serted her. Three months of dissipation in San Francisco killed him ; but before his death his mother died, leaving him, as her oniy Lie, about $1.10, 000. Thus tho girl gets a fortune. A Herald correspondent who has been down in Kentucky, confirms the first stories of the shower of flesh. Ho saw a butcher who ate son.c of the flohh, and talked with other eye witnesses, who, ho sajs, are much amued at the incredibility of some writers on this subject. Henry Murray returned to his home, Baltic street, Brooklyn, late on Saturday night, and finding I hero an acquaintance, Henry Higginbothom, charged him with being too intimate with Mrs. Murray. A quarrel followed, during which Murray was fatally stabbed by lliggiuhothom. B. Back m vi, of Columbia. I.-im'Ur county, has in his possession a cane made ' of wood from the first houso built on the Susquehanna. It is 175 years old. Mr : Bachman proposes having it made into two gavels, one of which will he presented to ! tho borough council and the othr to tho ; school board. I A. divorce suit now in progress in a Georgia court is of a peculiar character. ! lho local paper says of it: The parties have been living together for over twenty years, and have grown-up children. One of the grounds of divorce is that the man was drunk when tho marriage ceremony was informed, and they married him to the wrong womau. ft mini t We con Jens -frrra the Lfi;;h r.rT the rtibrtance of irivei.-ftir'n r.bi etut Hail, in lhiiJiiirfVhiTXVJir.aiiak.er& Urown's " 1 "l Clo'.hin fi yv in America." A i-JU-r i-nJ hU.':iil:i:ii-.e i'e rprskcrf : I t:'or. " V l.-.t corner is th Ttv.iidiT.? r.n T' .4!citluTt. " South-Hii: c rr'cr .f i.:. Red Ilnrket. Ilcftt-'e nofe Vct SIX . II. f..r rrur.o trmiprrs Fivkii.y Onk liidl, have t.t.ii n.Li j'l ly de.igiioiK fr?ons." V. "it in perfectly cotossa; I To you Vtiuw lti dimcmioiis?' A. " I J.'.oO t-yisre feet rH MarVet, and 10 odd on ixtii, fix stories lou-li. Iui . r three acres UooritrJ, end v. r. t.(.i e or . e 0- cnptv l l.yv.rLiJi twenty doilc-rant LaJ nes p'tiec.'' V. lto yoi "use s'r-im-r-ovvrT?' A. " A fihint. you;-,; .:1;i;r.e dmi Im p'r f.'.-thc fruistht nnd -awcii c r t-1. -vutors. taid U. 1 - utter tteani f t umii-.g, t-jid the ctuer tpera tljn3 of the house." V. " WJint order Io yon t.-.l:" with r-rAT' A. "They are iir-t qe!l f.ml mmt -d In t:;D boMiuent.cn 1 :t I jnv eciuiit. ri, ri. J ti'.ui t'icn'er.ii the irj ri o!c rtoi" to the luk tur'i r .om on the-Hei.i f.oor." V. " Is lnsiH.'etir:ifl.e l'rst r-Tyrftton A. "No, Fir, inc'-' ur.r;T. 'i he good we ft mtd-'ured hi tho I :'e; e, men iii-r c(e!. 'i hu cloili pa mii over Toller la t!'e f:v:c ef a ttr. i k litrht, And f.vo Bic-n Fit, cv.e t'-f. ra cud e: e b'.oiaa tne piodfi, v. auhlr.p with the eve ef a hawk for tho lcRt pin-hole iiiiptrfeeti'-'n. aud inarking every Saw, t-o thi-.t tho nut r rr.?y va uwi tv.tid it whtu Le coiucs to cut Uie 4r luenw." V. " Von mnrt enploy on t r. ; c f ci?ti'rs?" A. "CV.rne to Ciir f.:'h ( t;;d me! We ieepT'J hands all lho t: A Ciiiii:tr i:p ti.e l' Ui intj frTJeiiK, hesldi mt Uiiei. tl.ut do t. dozen rueii's work ee.-!.'t a sT.ike.'' V. "Do you iaj.uiu.'.iiirc lU joar own EO0J3?" A. "We ?o, nnl roort esrrfuPv. Our er-Rj-.iners inK'tt ;vt;y t-tit-.-li and K'ru. u.d Cftr'.ify to every f.r.rn!-iit e cxtro.-v.tli i.it. ie Vicfore we put t.ur Uukct cn iv, aiii L-ceoouo . Vuur e v-U J - 1 M, sie-ia lru.it tav yon e srtftt A. "In every ttiTe-M'on. t'r. It Js h-rr-v. and economy we j'raeiieerji ; i- 1" e. ii limt euahlctt iu t-. j.ui, cui . .- ftw,i Ic. plo Mneiio." ty V. " After iia-Urig tis w.rk, v L?.tT.?i c:u: Of ii 1 ' A. "Before it pocs iutt ?li.--V U Urir?.. Tivery eiiilo Ft-rnieiit 1 ts : u.::Ur r .d ether TiiitH iii.i'.d If. .t that iw ert.rvr 1 -twry n.u bo tr.cci viuicul 1, u;.. :i lu" bcoks.-' X'. " Yet must l.ero Tt tr -T) suIc.toc 1. T' A. "Why sr. en l-uy !r.ysy..u j..kv,- ' V In the M-ioua ri.oii!. "and i.:::-s ryt..i ecliinsr U th thr.'rt:s of u-t' i.: r-." V. ,:la you do an crdcr LcV lr 1 ?;S end eirTCFs A. " 'try great. AU oer t';ce-i:r.trr. (;"r On Wednesday last at Otter Cre-k, near Terro Haute, lnd., V.'m. 'toss, an fl.l citizen, took poison. Ten days before he had stolen two bushels of wheat from a neighbor named Slalkuer, and as to l ave necn arrested, hence the d-cd. He had long .been known as a very honest man. and the theft was pet pet raiod to procure food for his starving family. In a suit for damages Mr. Henry Ator, of New Yoik, has been mulcted by the jnty it- t"20,0'.0 and costs. As tor, in a moment of petulance, struck a c'ld. ti.v.nvd Jose phine Ash, t lie daughter of a te;.:.:il n his farm, knocking her oirtcha:r and ii'juring lier sjiine so as to irmave,!tly crij pied her for hfe. The vciuiet gives kjicat sM;ft ti m to tho I'ubllc at Ponghkei jivio. Mr. Ator is ei;e -f the New Yotk At tors. -Unless the Pej ublicati viccoiy in New Hampshire i atti ibnt.ble to exces-dv-mortality timong Ilcinocrats for th.-y anxiously count tha dead i.iea ia N-vv Hampshire it must be legaided as a ;:e miuin uj)o:i pub'i.: j tbb-'iy and Bepuhlicau bribeiy. How they did gain after Lelkuap '. XVlieti stealing in high places in tha Ec pubiican pany was t-how ti to be so easy, and so common, evidently some of them wanted a chance. Mwti s".;id, "That's tho pai ty to be in." 'there is a man living within f-ir mile of XYaytms'o i' g. bet wee'?, fifty aud t-ixty years of .-"go, who U a well to-do-farmer, owns a farm and lias several thousand dol lars at intereM, iho wji necr u.sid tlio limits of Orceiio county l-ut onee i:i bis life, and that was yiars r.go v, hen he went over to Mills'joro. j.i;t over thee r sly lir.e, into Vfahington county, fi.r rs;i'it. He never saw a stcamtio.it n"r a rr.ilr,.ad, a it has been as long a peii-wl as we've years that he as m-t even in Wayu sbi.ig. It is stated by those who ought to know that about 2o.0-.W,O00 to?is of cal arc mined, yeaily in Pennsj Ivania. In the minps, nuwioujrht, ii is with fifty cents a ton, or I0,0,."VH.-.) ; mined and bioughl to the sniface, it is woirh I.a too. or !., O00,0f; giound, tuoken, and , laced oi the can, it is worth vJ.oO a too. or "', 000,00'.; delivered at the boundaries of the State or on shipboard, it is wmth on an average ifo.oO, or $nA.w.).f which is the sum annually paid to l'eum-y Iva iia for coal. -1' roro soven o c'oc- dav evemog ten iti- until leu tt ci"ck aiou'iuy .noj-inn ches of snow had f i!le;i at Memo'ii arid ic was still snowing. The street cars were unable to run, trains on nil ih roads were delayed, and streets A ere full of im provised Klig!is. Such a sn .w s-iorm was never witnessed there before, c'no one r.f last March, which was unprecedei-t ed, mdy lacasuiing about eight inclic. The tele graph lines south W'cre p'os'iatrd and it was not known how far south tho storm had extended. Under tho old law. when an assign ment was made f.r the benefit of ct editoi s. persons holding judgments against said assigned property c u!d issue an execution at once and self under lho shcril's ham mer. Under a very recent act, however, this cannot be done ; when propprtv is thus levied on by the sheriff the mrigneo can go into court and have the sale slop. ed, the court issuing an order of sale l'v the assigneo and sitting lime for said sale to take place. Under this hxw sales arc already being post jtoncd. Belknap lived for a short time, on first going to Washington, i:i tho fatal bouse built with prize money by Commodore It-gers, father-in-law of (ienei-al Meigs. In this house Secretary Seward lived at the time of the assassination ; John C. Spencer resided there when his sou was hung at Hie yard-arm of tho essel in which he was cruising; Earioil Key was killed immedi ately nTter leaving its threshold ; it was once occupied by a member of Tyler's Cabinet who was killed by the memorable, explosion on tho Potom ic, aud other mel ancholy associations ate connected with it. Captain Paul Boyton gave a public ex hibition at Louisville on Pridiy, having previously swam over the falls oT the OhhC Cf tho trip over the rapids, Boyton says it was as dangerous as be ever attempted', be having bad a fearful battle with the wind, which was Mowing a hurricane. The ex hibition at Louisville was veiy wonderful, and was witnessed by thousands of ieope of Kentucky and Indiana. Boyton per formed a dozen feats to :lh.trato the use fulness of his life-saving dress, such as constructing a wreck ou tho water, destroy ing an enemy's ship, casting a line, etc. He left Louisville for Europi the Kame r.ight. Three orphans two boys and a girl child ret. of Agustus N. Dickens, brother of the novelist, are in Amboy, Illinois. They are dest it 11 to and homeless" and tho detailed story of their condition is most pitiable. Up to the time of his death Charles Dickens rendered assistance to tho mother aud her olfspring, but by his taking off help ceased, and misfortune and want followed. Tho mother was a Miss Philips with whom Agustus eloped from England while his wife was still living and totally blind, but of whose existence Miss Philips had no knowledge. When she discovered her po- j silion it preyed so upon her mind that, a few years ago, eirn.itV' saiciJ b- Ul'ivi- V. P :,.;. C.iU n-nt 1: r u 1 !-fi:i. A. "My C . CA'-h e!i.rt-; : , thcrcuvtdy 1 r.-.-Ja 1.3 :r.s.t w , "V1 '.. '- r'A . V.lil V.-.j: I;.:.o . . a. " IM... i;..n,-;:t 1 ".i, cditir.a tn 1 rut:. 1 , ' c, -1 . 1 r . . u!.i your iMw i .... ,- t 1 w r T.rii.v ft ni.-.-.n. I,, r. l-ent. 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S?;ies !.! n.'iis hns m ic ( S. ei' hei ii !! a' a-" i a compared the: show s ha! rrt'.-i-i ; : ligiou b f . ;;.f i a'.jt i- i;i. ie A st'-.rv c a boy in that c v visioii. The ! :.i pit ; he is a'.ruir hitherto been joe:, b ind. Ib-iv.i'iy ! Fidel a!' mo 10 g.i : are mi.'i as t c in .efpo.' sc; t 1 '! that iivieg b.iojs j-'i'U'ly vi.-iMo to i ' of 1 he -arth : til .t l:!"e a p'l'nj.t.iTi. r' Cttces up, ti i-. co ' el. a! i.t wheel ?;ii:i ; California s-;--t v'ro taking i 1 h..'.i'h ' a-1 il h i- woth: :-t 1 tl.i i I; y exi-itfe i appt i. iatio e. f u i , ulLs.H;u)U vti.:i;!i' Hi L- lli it :J Li J -i V I'.tYAi'I Si HV inniEST ALLOWED u r f 1 1 1 1 ,- 1- . 1 . i ' r - T r - Lf : ii!i J. -u - . - ST?iec:j! j.tte::": ! .' , It 0:1 ;i's .' 1- - Nov. w. i-r.-tt. . IIirT VKlZi. AT t ! NU W. " 11 o t-oT Union Crop l ! 1'i 1-2" ' pio;; ;i;r V rf:.v.szvw'-v'" 4.0f-t ecr.l of .ik 1 1''T- CrhIi pst.i on ili llvi'.o t Jan 7, i;7i;.-ly. Boyd & Gar- 97 ,r,M f . And SuT3Grintc: Gormanla UanSt Vomer V:I s-5.1 piri:n: i.aic A-Vi;; IT.rlll .'lid ' CREENSCURCj Verv Centre Tewn. l'r.'U'1 ' i24.T.-tf.i ij: tsT - .11 lit Market ' , - V. "I 'i!-'' ch:r: 5Tt rr. ,J t: 5 r e I'ei ir-.- . ; ..;..";- lir c;-re. IU Ur:-in Mty-"''v ianc J .-e''-rr. '1 ;o -r'f.V."', ''iv--. l.:-rt. I'.e Ieovlry , V. " !! !.J. l.r.id: Z;T , v A. "i 111 i.jli f i.':;. ' v ?i. : 1 i-.'i 1
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