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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
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... . . (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-
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