THE UMBRU F Willi. EDENSBURC; PAJ, F7MarMwniDK, - - April 23, 1876. 3 ' The Prohibition party intern: to : send d a full delegation from this State h4tt National Convention to he I to held .in Clevelaud next mouth. They will also nominate candidates for the ICgisture in every county in the com monwealth. Thoy btlieve they can poll double the vote they did latt year, antL. are .determined to elect enough members to the next Legislature to enable' them to repeal ' the present lioeu-it la,w. The.leaders are very en thuaiaslU: if not numerous. . , . Tiik ' Flarrisbuig Patriot is our authority for the statement that the Mexican war veterans will be trans ported by the l'ennsylvania rail road company to and from the centennial free of charge. Tt is also stated that they will be furnished with camp equipage and subsistence during their itay in Philadelphia, and that pn the 4th of July each veteran will be pre sented with a bronze medal, made of cannon captured dnring the war. We judge from the article in "the Patriot that the proper State authority will i3iie the necessary notice in reference to the matter in clue time. Bl.AlNE does notdesiro to escape respon sibility, but rnther challenges it; he takes a tilt ;U every Democratic ineoiu-r ; lie stuzes every issue, and even now, threatened by an Investigation, he face it as Hereely a our good t'riexi l Benjamin i Ilutltsr himself tvotiUt ilo miller ttiu same circumstances. i'hiltultlptiia I'ttea. , The amount of vhrrk possessed by the man who' wrote the above para graph is simply amazing. It was proven, before a committee of the House of Representatives, after its author had gone to Kurope in the in tere-t of tho Centennial Kxposition, that he bat! been paid twenty fife thousand dollars for advocating in his nper at Washington an enormous mbsidy b' Congress to the Pacific M.iil Steamship Company. It is not necessary just now that he should step filth &d the champion or apologist of James G. lilaine, who seems to- le in volved in some very supicic.rs trans actions, lmt it wonld be in-order iF the editor of the Prcs would take time enough to explain that little arrange ment between himself ami Richard H. Iiwin, the agt ut of the steamship com pany aforesaid. IIU friends promised Unit he would do so as soon as he re turned, but as vet ha has made no bign. Until he does so, a sense of propriety ought to suggest to him the necessity of absolute si fence in refer ence to charges of corruption preferred against others. Tue repoitof the House committee appointed to investigate the ?r(and means resorted to, as well to pass as I j defeat the boom bill, will be found i.r another part of onr paper. The committee seems to have fearlessly pet formed its duty. The report de chirea that t o members I'etrofT, of Philadelphia, and Lynott, of Luzerne are both guilty of a violation of ar ticle 20, section 3, of the constitution ; or, "in plain langnagf, tliat they are guilty of bribery. The committee di rects the attention of the Houaetothe testimony concerning Miller, Uentner and Douglass, of Philadelphia, and Knight, of Rucks; and nlso invites its particular notice to the testimony implicating Skinner, journal clerk of the House, Peter Herdtc, Embick, Reck, and Ammerman, active members of the lobby both for and against the bill. The whole ul ject is referred to the House for its action touching those over whom it has control, after which a copy of the report and testimony arc recommended to be furnished the At torney General, for snch action as be di ly deem proper. Although, the re port does not contain an3'thing incul pating Mr. Hannan, the Johnstown Tribun will perhaps be equal to the task of extracting something of that kind from it. Hi mart hare optics sharp, I Tre, Who sees what is not to be seen," - Havino real the Johnstown Tri bune of last Friday, and the reproduc tion therein of itsunmanly.tnsinnations in the face of the truth, against the mwrabcis of Assembly from this county, Messrs. Hannan and Ruck, we have concluded in despair to throw up the ppongc and hereafter to permit its editor, so far at least as these two gentlemen are concerned, to roam un disturbed over the boundless field of defamation which bo has marked out for himself. The specialty of its editor consist in his wonderful capacity to produce from one first class lie a whole brood of lesser falsehoods, and when hard pressed, to repeat the process ad infinitum. It was a perfect surprise to us a few weeks ago, that after his repeated and baseless assaults upou Hiester Clymer, we succeeded in a single brief article in compiling him to shut down the sluice gates of hU calumny. To hope for a similar result as regards Messrs. Hannan and Ruck would be the wildest of delusions. Figs do not grow on thistles, Lor are roses gathered from thorns. Any ad ditional attacks on them that may hereafter be indulged in by that jour nal will carry with them their own refutation from the simple fact that they originated in the Johnstown Tri bune. The bane and the antidote will thus both be administered at the same lime, and the one will neutralize the intended effect of the other. l. S. The Tribune of Wednesday fully verifies our prediction. When It undertakes to play its congenial role of aspersing and villifying a Dem ocrat, it know no snch wxrd as fail, and literally piles Pelion upon Ossa. In its editor, Raron Munchausen 6'. ill Jives, moves and has a being. litbita in Congress. Because a large number of the mem lrs of the present Congress oc- (ciipierl military or civil positions in i s".lhflr uTllmin?twJ?Sl? i lion, it is the constant practice of the I radical prtea to atiinatizc and de- nomi(.e ; a9 . tie rfcuti-' or "Confeder ftte fj0-jrVeg3 ami to apply to it other j tf rma vf uc offensive import. The; purpose of this denunciation is to ex- j cite and keep alive the bitter animosi- ties of the war.and to use them inj promoting the success or tue radical party in the approaching Presidential e'ection. If radicalism is to be suc cessful it must lie achieved by a low appeal to the baser passions of our nature lather than to the reason and intelligence of ,hc people. After the war actually commenced in 1 wf 1 the Southern people were a unit in its favor and of forcible resist ance to the supremacy of the general government. Whether this was right or wrong is not now the question. It is the fact that i alone important. Who then but the most scurvy politi cal demagogue will arraign the South for having sent as its representatives in Congress the men who had stood by her when she honestly but mistakingly submitted her destiny to the decision of Ihe sword ? The Southern people had but a single source frcm which to cuto.se their representatives, if we throw out of view, as we must, her ignorant and incompetent enfranchised negroes, and that other mrc objec tionable class, the plundering and ra pacious carpet-bagger. ... .The representatives in the preseut Congress from the South will lose nothing b- a comparison with the del egations from the balance of the Union. The question is rrot whether they were once rebels', but whether they are honest men and faithfully discharge their duty to the whole country. In all that constitutes a true Senator of the United States what a yawning gulf intervenes between such high-toned men as Ransom, Gordon. Norwood. Maxcv and Withers, all confederate officers, and mercinary tools like Patterson, Conover, Spencer, Clayton ad Dbrsey ? If either La mar, of Mississippi, or Tucker, of Vir ginia, has a superior in the House from any portion of the North in intellect or high moral character, we would like 10 know his name. James G. RIaine, from his recent experience in debate with these two gentlemen, could give a satisfactory answer to the question. Until the advent of the slimy carpet-bagger into the national legislr. ture if there ever was a member of Congress from a Southern State who was charged with corrupt practices we fail to recollect the instance. What ever may be said about their peculiar political' views h t!i old days of nul lification and slnvery, they always maintained their oflicial characters pure and without reproach. Northern Congressmen of both political irties lmve-at various times disgraced them selves and retired from the pnblic gaze, but so far as our knowledge extends the same charge cannot be . made against a Southern member prior to the late civil war. How supremely mean ami contempt ible, then, is this radical cry about "reikis"' and "confederate brigadiers" in Congress. When they commence to steal and plunder and to accept bribes, it will be time enough to array Northern sentiment against them Hut as long as they puisne the even tenor of their way and act well their part these cowardly assaults of radical editors- npon them will be treated by the great heart of the Northern people with the scorn and contempt which thev deserve. As oxe of the many indications coming from various sections of the country in favor of the nomination of General Hancock foi the Presidency by the St. Louis convention, we pub lish the following well written article from the Norfolk Landmark, one of the most influential journals of Vir ginia: We copy elsewhere a statement made hv the Washington c-orrespon Jnt f Ihe Wrald to Ihe en'ect that Oen. Hancock is the "coin ing mti" for the Democratic nomination. Ordiuarily, we should that we have had too many soldiers In the White House ; and our opinion of the .-15sitt.pni.xhrd gentleman to whom we refer Is suvh that vro br'.ieve he would frankly agr.-e with t ; bnt the con dition of affairs is so altered tliat we innst abandon the objection. The position of the South is such that a change of administra tion is necessary to cur salvation ; and availability is an element of success which onght not to be discarded. In the case of Oen. Hancock, however, availability is re iuforccd by high personal character and superior ability. The men of this region have cause to rememler Mm, for he and Mahone often crossed swords, so to speak, in onr Utn unhappy war ; and it is sate to say that the courage and ability he then dis played are linked with a magnanimous temper. Rut, above these considerations, the country remetnlers the course he adopt ed in Louisiana. In that proviuce of tho empire he had thn hardihood to proclaim sound constitutional doctrines, and t he paper lie th.ni drew np shows that he is fully equal to the discharge of civil as well as military duties. His broad and cultivated intellect his genuine patriotism and moral courage were conspicuously shown on that occa sion ; and when the passions of tha bonr have cooled, his course In Lenisiana will stand as an enduring monument to his pnb lic. virtue. His past, lotli In peace and war, offer h guarantee that he wonld redeem the republic, and after a full survey of the field, aud still mindful of onr initial remark, we have co hesitation in declaring our opinion that his nomination wonld be an act of wis dom on the part of the Ieinocracy. In vain may the Radicals impeach hit loyalty. His military record Is one of tha most splendid associated with the army of the Union. His opinions on publicrjuisiioiis are known to be sound and worthy tho best days of the republic. In one word, he is tho tnan to reduce onr chances' of success to a certainty, and to beat Coukling, horse, foot aud dragoons. An explosion of powder on Saturday last, dui ing the operations in a new railway tunnel, in course of construction near Neath, Glamorgan county. South Wales, caused the roof to fall, burying all the workmen. Thirteen dead bodies and a number of wounded have Wen recovered. The search for victims of the disaster still i continued t last account. Jieport of the lloom JSill Investi gation Committee, . Mr. TTays," chairman of the committee to inveslmate the alleged bribery in connec tion with the boom bill, niado the follow ing report after recitiutf tho resolution oy authority of which they acted : . Tho committee submit the testimony or Mr. Miller, of Berks, and that of Mr. Mil ler, of Philadelphia, to the consideration rf the house, without expressing any opin ion as to whether there was any miscon duct on the part of Mr. Miller, of Phila delphia. " ; In the case of Mr. Knight, or Backs countvr the committee .would respectfully report, that while they are not prepared to say that he was guilty of any intention of on'ering a bribe, or suggesting to Mr. Stew art, the meiuber from. Lawreuce, that he could obtain money if he would vote against the bill mn its final passage or Withhold his vote, jet after a careful consideration of the testimony of Messrs. Stewart, Dickey and Theodore Hill, of Williamspoit, they are of the opinion that the conduct of Mr. Knight was very improper, and they feel that they would not be discharging their duty if they did not call the attention of the heuse to it. From a careful consideration of the tes timony of Messrs. Thornton,. Buck, Wise and Hannan, thecomniittee areof the opin ion that the eonduct of Mr. Thornton, wa improper in this : That the said Thornton appioached both Messrs. Wise and Buck, members of the house, in such manner as to lead them to believe that they could ob tain a valuable consideration for their vote against the bill. In the case of Mr. Gentner, of Philadel phia, the committee, after carefully weigh ing the testimony of himself and Messrs. Wanner, Miller, of Berks, Spicer and Stevens, nieirbcra of this house, are of the opinion that hU conduct was very indis creet, but they are not prepared tosay from the evidenco in the case that he was guilty of any effort to corrnptly influence any of his fellow iuembei-8. , Your committee further reports tliat as shown by tho testimony of Mr. Pctiott' and himself, Win. S. Douglass, a member of the house from the First district of Phila delphia, for the purpose of deceiving the friends of the bill mentioned in the resolu tion, authoiized Mr. Petroff to use his name as ono of tifteen who for a va'.uahle con sideration would vote for said bill on its final passage, and your committee are of tho opinion that in so doing he was guilty of conduct unbecoming a member of this bovine. Your committee also submits that it ap pears from tne testimony ot ueorgo v. Skinner, journal elerk of this house, of i Messrs. Petrol!, Douglass and O'Neill, members of this house, and of D. W. Seiler and T. It. Smith of the banking honse of Oougherfy Bros, ft Co-., cf this city, that Emile .T. Petroff, a member of this house from the fifth district of Philadelphia, solic ited and consented to receive from F. E. Embick, through Geo. W. Skinner, money for himself aud for others for his vote and the votes of others and with the under standing thn t his vote and official action should be influenced thereby on the bill referred to in the resolution, and your com mittee are of the opinion that by such con duct said Pctroff violated sectiou 29 of ar ticle 3 of tho constitution of this common wealth. And yonr commitlee further snbmit that it appears from the testimony of Mr. Lynmtt and Mr. Hannan, of the hnr.se, and John B. Beck, of Williamspoit, Pennsylvania, that he, Martin F. Lynott, a member of the house from the Sixth district of Luzerne county, received of said John B, Beck the sum of $800 for his voto and official influ ence and with the understanding that his vote should be influenced thereby on said bill, and that by snch conduct the said Lynott violated section 29 of article 3 of the constitution of this commonwealth. Yonr commitlee further report that while they are of the opinion that under the reso lul ion of their appointment their powers do not extend further than to inquire into miscondnet on the part of members of the house, they feel that they would not be do ing justice to themselves or to the house did they not call attention to the miscon duct on the part of others as shown by the evidence herewith submitted. They there fore respectfully call attention to the mis condnet of Gcoige W. Skinner, journal clerk of the house, as shown by the testi mony of himself, Petroff, DongKss, O'Neill and Messis. viler and Smith, of the bank ing honse of Dougherty Bros, & Co , of Harrisburg. They also call attention to the testimony of Messrs. Andre, Wanner and Miller, mem bers of the house from Berks county, and Mr. Geisclman, member from Adams coun ty, from which it appears that T. J. Boyer, of Clearfield, state senator from the Thirty fourth district, offered and promised mon ey and endeavored by tho offer and prom ise of rwor.ey to iufluonce members of the honse in regard to their votes on said bill. They also submit the testimony of Mr. Jieuter, of Montgomery county, nnd that of Mr. 'Uenry, of Columbia comity, members of tr's house, and of Jesse C. Ammerman, of Montour county, to your careful consideration for the reason that it contains evidence of corrupt solicitation on the part of said Ammerman in endeavoring to influence the votes of said members on said bill. They also call attention to the testimony of Mr. Lynott, a member from Luzerne county, from which it appears I hat John B. Beck, of Williamsport. attempted to iufin ence and corrnptly solicited the votes and official action of the said Lynott by the offer and promise of money and by the ac tual payment of the sam of $ 300 to said Lrnott for his vote and influence on said bill. Your committee call special attention to the testimony of George W. Skinner, jour nal clerk, Messrs. Gross, Potroff and Doug lass, members of the house, Messrs. Seiler and Smith, of the bankine house of Dougherty, Bros. fe Co, of Harrisburg, and of James Allison, clerk of the State Capitol hotel, and other witnesses, from which it ap pears that F. E. Embick, of Williamsport, was Ihe chief manager of a lobby in favor of the boom bill. That he engaged and with his associates occupied from the open ing of the present session until the 5th of April a suite of rooms at the State Capitol hotel and all the bills for said rooms were charged to him. That these rooms were kept open and members had free access to them. That shortly before the final pas sage of the bill he deposited over fifteen thousand dollars with Dougherty Bros. & Co. of this city, all cf which was drawn out tho day after the passage of the bill. That he negotiated with Mr. Petroff for fifteen votes for the bill and offered or promised Petroff $7,500 for such Totea and to influence Petroif in his public and official duties. Your committee also call special atten tion to the testimony of Jesse C. Ammer man and Messrs. Backus, Reutter and M' llenry and other witnesses, from which it appears that tho use of money and other improper means were proposed by Peter Herdie, of Williamsport for the purpose of Influencing members in their action cn said bill. Tho committee ate also of the opinion that the testimony of Messrs. Moscrip and Tracy, members of the house, and Luther Andrews of Alba, Bradford county, is de serving of careful consideration on the part of the honse witfi a view of determining what action it will take in reference to the conduct of said Andrews, in calling mem- bers of the house away from their scats by means of false telegrams, on the.final pas sage of said bill. Your committee lurtDc-r report mat tney are of the opinion that under tho resolution j appointing them, it is not within their pro- ,' vince to make any recommendations as to j what action shall be taken as to any one . implicated in improper conduct concerning j the passage of said bill, but feeling that the I house will take such action in regard to ; those over w hom it has control as will com poit with the dignity of a branch of the legislature cf a great common wealth, res pectfully refer the matter io the house and j suggest that after the house shall have taken j action, that this report together with a copy t of the testimony be referred to the attorney general for such further action concerning all parties as he may deem advisable. f All of which is respectfully submitted. (Signed) .Toseto Hats, Fred. W. Gch6Teb, A. Smith, 11. C. Chrtsty, ! Charlkh 8. Wolfe, Ww. O. Babsett, Uriah Tekkt, 8. F. CiiArtN, Committee in full with the exeoptlon of Mr. 1 ley burn. Centennial Proclamation. The fol lowing proclamation was issued by his ex cellency, Governor Uaitraufr, on Friday afternoon last : 1'ROCI.AMATIOJ. Wherfas, fty a joint resolution of the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress as sembled, approved March 13, 1876, it is recommended by the senate ami bouse of representatives to this people of the several states that they assemble in tludr several counties or towns of onr national independ ence, and that they cause to have delivered on such day n hlstorieal sketch of said county or town from its formation, and that a copy of saic tketch may be filed, in print or manuscript in the clerk's frlce of said county, aud an additional copy, in print or manuscript, be filed in the oltioe of the librarian of congress, to the intent that a complete record may thus be obtained of the progress of our institutions during the first centennial of their existence. .Now, therefore, I, John F. Hartranft, governor as aforesaid, de hereby favorably commend this rcsolniion to the people and the authorities of the various cities, counties ami towns of this commonwealth, with the request that wherever tlieolservaiice of the incoming Anniversary ot our national inde pendence will permit, provision may be made to comply with the recommendation contained therein so that thnse historical sketches may lm made to euihracc all the information aud statistics that can be ob- taincd in relation to the first century of our existence as a common wealth, Given under my hand and the great seal of the state at Harrisburif, this ?lst day of April, in thn year of our lxrd one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, and of tho commonwealth the one hundredth. J. F. II ART KAN FT. Bv the Oovernor : M. S. Ql'AT. Secretary of the Commonwealth. The N. Y. Sun says it is ft truly excel lent and admirable wink which Archbishop Williams of Boston has taken upon himself m connection with the affaiis of Patrick Donohoe of the Boston Pilot, who lately fell into bankruptcy. Donohoe, besides running his newspaper, had been carrying on a private banking business, receiving on deposit, m snnts ranging from $25 upward, the savings of hard-woi kiirg :nen aud wo men, who put entire trust in his integrity. The amount of these deposits front laborers mechanics, servants, washerwomen, and needlewomen, reached, according to the published list, as high as $73,000, and their losses resulted in an incalculable amount of sorrow and suffering. Into the ears of Archbishop Williams and hi priests their pitiable tales were poured, and he began-to cast about for some way of relieving them. After a time he offered to purchase the I'ilol, put $30,000 into its business, and raised more money in its behalf. We now learn that,- after consummating the pur chase, the Archbishop proposes to pay every dollar due to the poor jieoplo who deposited money with the former proprie tor. This is a noble deed, which will be appreciated not only by the beneficiaries, bnt by the people at large. Ihe Arch bishop has set an example which some other people connected with banking in stitutions would do well to follow. He was in no way icsponsible for the affairs of Uie IHlot, and even after purchasing it he was in nowise bound to pay the debts of its proprietor. He has by his course honored himself, becomo more endeared than ever to thousand of the poor people of Boston, and won the repect of all men who can appreciate a good deed. A Mktiiodtst Camp Durngd. At mid night of the 22d the Methodist camp meet nST grounds at Tarentum, some twenty miles from Pittsburgh, were completely desolated by an incendiary fire, involving a loss of $50,000. The number of buildings erected on the grounds was 15ft, all but about half a dozen of these being houses or cottages occupied by members of the camp meeiing association. The cottages were all built by families occupying them, they paying rent to the Association for the use of the grounds, so that the loss will mostly fall on individual? rather tha on the association as a body. The houses average in value about $400, though some of the finest were worth pretty well on to $1,000. Many of tho houses wero furnish ed, the occupants leaving their furniture there during the winter. The grounds proper embrace upward of fourteen acres, being a level plateau with ravines on the east, west and north sides, theentrauce be ing on the south side, the main road from Tarentum leading directly to the camp. Tho camp was one of the finest that ceuld be imagined, the plateau being covered with immense forest trees, some of which were fully two feet in diameter. Great preparations were being made for a nation al camp meeting on the 7th of Angust, but it is feared the grove has been so badly in jured that it will be impossible to hold the meeting there. Catholic Societies. Policy of the New Bishop. Frequent referenco has been made in the daily papers to tho policy Bishop Tuigg will adopt in his treatment of the societies connected with the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, and many ground less rumois have found their way into print. With a view of ascertaining the facts, a reporter of this paper called at the Episco pal residence last evening, and, so far as he could learn, the new Bishop will not oppose any association which has received the sanction of the Catholic Church. Se cret societies and all organizations which have an evil tendency will not be counts-, nanced by either Bishop Tuigg or any' member of his clergy, and as the Catholic Total Abstinence Society does not come within this category, the statement that the new Bishop will oppose it is false and without foundation. Of one thing we are positive, that the new Bishop has a mind of his own aud whatever course his con science and duty may lead bim to adopt, we may safely rely npon it that no Idle threats of any who may favor associations of an evil tendency will induce him to change bis policy or sway him from the course which his conscience and the teachings of the Church demand him to pursue. Pitts burgh PoL . , , - Senator Wallact's wife is dangerously ill. ieicf (ttul Other Hotings. A Wisconsin'calf weighed 115 pounds at birth. In Colorado county, Texas, the apples are now gettiug ripe. There is a barber's 6hop in Atlanta, Ga., in which all the barbers are young women. Two women, supiosed to bo Kate "Bender and her mother, have been attested at Laramie City. Berks county baa an anvil 177 years old, a clock over 200 years old aud a pocket book 125 years old. What next? A hen iu Perry county, it is said, laid a Centennial egg, on which the figures '70 were defined. A twenty-four pound baby was recent ly born iu Pittsburgh. - Its mother weighs but one hundred and twenty. Elisha Sampson, of Danbury, sixty seven years old, had his head blown off on Monday by hie insane sou, who was in the hands of the sheriff. A misbehaving woman was taken from her house iu Bradfordville, Ky.f by masked men, in the night, and severely whipped with beech switches. Dom Pedro will be provided with twenty-two rooms in Washington. On ac eont of its circumscribed limits he declines visiting Rhode Island. Mr. Drum of Troy lived and died with out knowing what a curiosity he was ; lmt the surgeons found out by dissection that he had only one kidney. According to a decision of the Supreme Court of Nebraska railroad companies are liable for damages resulting from prairies being set on fire by engines. Koine of the people iu Augusta, Ga., are decidedly nervous because the magazine containing 38,877 pounds of powder is in charge of a man named Thomassen. Six boys were arrested in Heading the other day for .attacking farmers 011 the way to market and robbing them. War rants are out for the arrest of nine moie. There is au artist in the Schuylkill county almsh"uso who has painted a fine oil painting of the bnilding aud grounds, lie is believed to be a foreign nobleman. Seventeen jiersons, implicated in the murder of Mr. Morgary, of the English ex pedition, will be executed at Uhamo, Bnr niab, Mar 5th, in the presence of a British escort. The schooaer Katie, Captaiu Ferristal, which left Port Mulgrave on the 2d inst. for Boston with sixty passengers, has been given up by the people of the former place as lost. Of the seven children of John Hall of North Troy, four of them, all under four teen years of age, weigh exactly 200 pounds and each has ten fingers, two thumbs and twelve toes. The State Supreme Conrt has just de cided that a register, County clerk or other recorder of deeds, mortgages, etc., isliable in damages for a false certificate of search for encumbrances 011 land. John Stone, of Manor station, Craw ford county fell in love with a girl only 13 years old, and because she was too young to marry he concluded to die for her aud shot himself through the head. James O'Dounell, while in his dwelling at Pottsville on Sunday, was shot" at through the window, the ball entering his head, back of the right ear. No clue to the guilty party has been discovered. A mountain of superior white chalk has been discovered in Idaho, and now if a never-failing spring is in close proximity, an enterprising man might start a dairy there without investing in a single cow. t On Palm Sunday, April y, between eighty and ninety Roman Catholic churches twenty-two of them in the diocese of New York, were supplied with real palms. They were obtained from Charleston, S. C. While five persons were descending a coal shaft at Brown's station, in Missouri, last Friday, the rope broke and they fell to the bottom,- a depth of over 100 feet. Three were killed aud the others fatally injured. It ie stated from Washington that the display of everything connected with fish and the fisheries to be made at the Centen nial exhibition by the Smithsonian Insti tute will be "the largest of the kind in the world." The family of the late Orestes A. Brownson consists of one daughter, Mrs. Mep.d, of Elizabeth, N. J.T and two sons, Orestes A., Jr., Superiutendant of Public Schools, at Dubuque, Iowa, aud Major Henry F., of Detroit. Patrick Boyle, William Roberts, Geo. Wilson and Martin MeGonan, convicted on Friday in Kings eonnty, N. Y., of robbing the jewelry store of Louis Billet), on Hicks street, Brooklyn, were each sentenced to State Prison for twenty years. Rev. Mr. Truosdale of the Sharon Presbyterian church, recently received a counterfeit five dollar bill for marrying a couple of strangers. It might startle the wedded pair to learn that no marriago can be legally contracted by fraud. John Jacob Astor and William B. Astor, esqs., a few days since, hearing that St. Luke's hospital was in need of funds, sent it each $25,000, a sum sufficiently large to enable it to continne its benevo lent work without embarrassment. A photographer has been swindling Lehigh county children by representing tbat he was authorized to photograph them for tho Centennial. He took in about one hundred dollars at Hazleton, the boys and girls were bo anxious to be seen at the Cen tennial. Mrs. Fitch (Gen. Sherman's daughter), will wear her diamonds after alL the Senate having on Thursday, on motion of Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, unanimously passed a resolutiou authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to admit the Khedive's present free of duty. Reports from various points in Iowa, Nebraska and sonthei 11 Dakota tell of de structive prairie fires for the past two days, involving great loss of property. No lives have been lost aa yet, though in some in stances people escaped with only their night-clothes. . Burglars have been operating exten sively iu McKeesport for some time past, but succeeded on Saturday morning in making their roost successful haul. The residence of John Larking waseatered and $4,946 in money, and two gold aud oue silver watcbes taken. Charles Cook, a young farmer residing at Hyde Park, Vermont, was murdered on Sunday morning by his father, who has been insane for soma time and was sup psed to be harmless. He attacked his son with an axe and beat his brains out. The elder Cook has been lodged io jail. A shipment of one hundred pairs of prairie chickens, ten pairs of wild turkeys, and teu pairs of wild geese is soon to be sent from San Francisco to Auckland, New Zealand, for the purpose of introducing there these hitherto unknown birds. The prairie chickens aud turkeys were caught in A tnan named Milligan, from Soranton, arrived at Fort Laramie on Thursday and reported that on the morning of the 16th inst. bis party was attacked by Indians fifty miles from Custer. Three persona, one or tbem a woman, were killed, a colored woman was captured, and three-men were wounded. It is estimated that there are 75,000,000 f?. mbSritnt,,e Lock ,Uvcr boom. About 750 rafts have reached the dam, and the majority of them have passed below. Tbe shipments of lumber by rail and canal ror the jyear thus far fosf up $4,450,000 rcet, an increase of 940,0Ti0 feet over the corresponding peiiod in 1875, A MATTER OF Wo cond?n?crroTn to Lrh!gh Umirtcr the u-r.ui-c of aonvfi juion nin-ntOak Llall. la rhil'ltJkl)'.yrt auamuier. Brown's " Larjrett Clotb i n iWitso in Amenta." A vinltor aud attcnclar.Mte the speakers : Visitor. " AVtst corner is the PuiMlug on V Al'.tndant. " Houth-Ka-t corner of Sixth and Market. 1'Ieafe n;a the SIXTH f jr some strsngers seeking Oik iJ iaII, have been tnivled ly U'tsiniui? persons." V. "It is pjrft'tUy colossal I Do you know Us riimansnMis?'' A. " !2,i0M equsre feet G9 n Market, and 10 osld on Sixth, six stories high, hss over three acixm '.jfc floorjj, sn-1 covers pnce tjvra occupied by V ir&uu twenty oi&treul busi ness ilce."j V. lo you use scam-power?" A. " A Riant yoi;nn engine furnk-hea prwpr for the freight aud pastcrpcr elevators, and tho boilers strain fur heauug, and the oujtr opvra- V. " What rvir (o yon tak with rnod.?" A. They are liivt tpOTed and arranged fn the b&sement.on long n counter, and taken thence on the fsjiljIevator to the invitee tor's rooifl on IX.tf-jTn floor." V. " Is inspect, nTiie ftrt operation ?" A. "So, a.r, meuiin?. The goo-la ere frt measured In the piee, Ihen injif tied. 1 lie dolh passes over rollers in the race of a sterna; light, and two men sit, one before nd oi.o behind the goodx, waU-hlng -with the eye of a hawk for the ieavt pin-hole imperfection, end marking every flaw, so that the cutter may aeo and avoid it wlieu be comes to cut tho trar menu." V. " You mast employ an arrv of enttrtT A. "Come t our fifth Uoyf nud wo I V keep 70 hands ail tins tiff cqAine up ihe r.lotu into parments, betMcyrJ moch.r.ea that do a dozen roen'a work eaciWt a Ftroke." V. "lio yoa manufacture all your own goodW' A. "W do, and most carefully? Our ex aminers inspect every stlu-h an seam, and certify to every garment as extr -well mcdo before we put our ticket on it, and becomo re-pcnilble Tr It." . " Your system must 6ve yon a treat ceal r - A. " In every direction, Mr. It la t rvatem and economy we practice all U W through that enables ui to put our prV Vown to Lha people as we do." y&r fVit r,After iliictirig 'k. hat becomes A. "Before It goes into Stock It Is ttcktd Zvery aingle earment has iu r.umUr and other pointa noted on it. so that its itire his tory cau be traced without fall, upou on books." V. " You mut have 80 or 40 salesmen r A. "Why sir, on busy days you mtyics 100 in the various rooms and suites ofroonu selling to the throngs of customers." ' V. "Io you do an order buAo by mail and expret V E' A. ' Very great. All over the country. Our A hail storm passed over a part of Kansas on Saturday afternoon which de stroyed all the orchards and wheat crop, not a single leaf, bud or blossom on the trees beinp left.. Large numbers of cattie were killed. In some places the hail was eight inches deep and the size of hen's egg. Wagon loads could be scraped up Monday morniug thirty-six. hours after it fell. It is scarcely credible, yet it Is a re corded fact, that Mrs. Sarah Call um, 81 years of age, a resident of Iowa Falls, the widow of a soldier of the war of 1812, has recently discovered that she is entitled to a peusion. She was married in 1810, and le came a mother in 1811, and lived all this time in blissful ignorance of the fact that the Government was paying pensions to soldiers. About a month ago a patient of Dr. Taggait, residing in Cincinnati, gave birth to a male child singularly afflicted. The left arm terminated at the elbow, and both legs at the knee. These unnatural extrem ities were well rounded, and, strange to say, the child is healthy and doling well. Of a similar want of the arm there are several instances, but that both legs also should be wanting is, we believ, unprece dented in medical history. When the charge against ex-Speaker Blaine was made of pocketing $94,000 of the Union Pacific money, lie said be wouldn't demand an investigation, as he didn't think the public would believe it, anyhow. Later developments in the case seem to warrant the belief thst he will le forced to subject the matter to an investi gation, as the phantom, if such it be, will not down at his bidding. Thi public isu't nearly as confiding as Mr. Blaine seemed to tbiuk. Some time last Thursday night a fami ly of emigrants, named Baker, from some where in Pennsylvania, were massacred by Indians, about one hundred miles north west of Custer City. The family consisted of a man, his wife and two ebildren, all of whom were brained with liatehcts or toma hawks and then scalped. The wagon be longing to Raker was rifled and everything valuable carried off. The bodies of the victims were decently buried by those who found them. The Columbia TTtruld, in referring to the fire in the Catholic church of that borough, on Monday, aays that when the fire broke out a littlo girl residing at the pastoral house, started eff in her fright and ran all the way to Marietta over three miles to notify her pastor of the trouble. The fact is that she outran the telegraph, for before the messenger at Marietta had reached Father Pieper, stopping at the house of a friend m the lower part of the town, she had delivered her message aud her pastor was on his way home ! Dora Pedro has lo6t bis annt, the Princess Isabella Maria Conception Jane Charlotte Qualberta Anna Frances of Assist Xavieia Paula d' Alcantara Antoinette Ila phaela Michaila Gabriella Joachina Oon zaga. This lady was the only sister of Dom Pedro's father, Dom Pedro I., Em peror of Brazil. She was born in 1801 on the Fourth of July, which gives her a Cen tennial interest for Americans; and from Match, 1826, toFebiuary, 1828, she acted as Regent of Portugal during the troubled childhood of ber niece, Queen Mara da Gloria. Mrs. Edward Filch, mother ol Lieu tenant Thomas Fitch, United States avy, and husband of the daughter of General Sherman, was buried from St. Authouy's Roman Catholic Church, in Union place, Greenpoint, N. V., ou Saturday last. At the church a solemn requiem mass for the repose of her soul was celebrated, at which Father O'Brien acted as celebrant, Father Lane as deacon, and Father Marvin as sub deacon. The attendance was large. Among those present were Lieutenant Fitch, Mrs. Lieutenant Fitch and General Sherman. The temains were interred iu Calvary cem etery. Hon. O. J. Dickey died at bis home in Lancaster on Friday morning, after an ill ness of eight weeks, of tyhpoid pneumonia. Mr. Dickey was born in old Brighton, Bea verconnty, on April 6, 1823. When young he removed to Lancaster and entered Mr. Stevens' office as a law student. From 1858 to 1839 he served as District Attorney of Lancaster county. On the death of Thaddens Stevens, during the 40th Con gress, Mr. Dickey was elected to fill the vacancy. He was subsequently twice re elected for full terms, retiring in 1873, after five years' service. A singular and inexplicable accident happened at the plate-glass works at Jeffer Bonville, Ind., one night last week. The watchman was startled by bearing a loud noise in the setting-up room resembling the breaking of glass. He feared that all the glass in the room had been broken, and on going there found about one thous and boxes or glass shivered. In the room bad been stored about a thousand boxes of glass, from 20x70 to 40x0, double thick ness. The boxes containing the glass were standing on their ends, about six inches apart, and bv some means the stsrt1 fn j ing like a row or bricks, increasing with j force as each box fell and going as fast as t a railroad traiimnt il the nd bx was reach ed. Nearly all the glass was broken. mm li 5 make i ft w ar 1 ' '. WT'I A If .1 - ' Ya 1 - A. Sir dear Mr! i " rh chfnn-d wuh ituVJ 1.rc!tu-M ' : '? nr . - v V.illi itm IH- 1 he Bhirt Tffti' Ut store. TV, w"?l?.r?,. Rc-rpirii.v Ko-rtn. Tl if f Iefor. H.e..:, " .; mor.t. Tl:e rJiv.V , : 1 "tW" score of nonnn rt!1: A. "I w ,.t ,.!f throuUry, itln fct'd r. ., ,. : ' "a "in 1T 4 1 : 1 , ' rn r, ' m T B'ent. The fhif rw! rULl to carry rn ilunsl,V-',kt,.,l': .lo bcteaa lU V " S-t-W.T k.T ... A. "In1d it it i frit. Co-hter s Iiepar.iDeBt i l of retell tl- on s. me rZ172 ZLl the lioiw tr. i. ..i ' V-fc' '.a1. A. - EiuCy ' You Sfh- on low rnicrrd i'ni,Sfe"lr.7't.. V. "Whrt are the -r," . mtich aboutT " A. "jur ivrtem of t .. irioo. no U-riau-jn ; 2 1 1 fH A tiinrania. l.tv ti.,;... . i - 'i. o - - i' tn-p lure.. I A . " Nell. 1 thai,. y-u.V V to? attention." ' A - N t at all. if, , tun t j fa r.iiti- ,11. 1 . ""-'-as maLer & l:ri.wr,'s ek Ha' ntr fciixth and Vi-kct f Good monuEfc. ' f E - i nomas . ii ca,... executed May 2Cth, f.r the et bel Young in the Iteifrv -J avenue (Boston) church," os F-- a sworn statement tlut Kb n-. nes tnat caused in-r death f, 1 door falling upon her head, ix i Irightciicd len be would tie ae J murdering her, and tlieivfo- J knowledge of the matter, tin connection wiih it would iinrbei j John K. Dolan, the murder oe, was executed iu tLp toa's yard, New Yoifc, at 9:47 y'd-cte morniug. ile d'md without iCtjI walked to bis noia with K.fR-J though he shed a few tat bound. He was bmneht ojt C walked firmly to the gllcwi b .1 light, lie stood under tin pa minute, l he rrje ws cut :1 aim me ixxty rose m the air. frl gled but little and died riDpax DolAii wrote a letter to 1;; con-a. day night, thatikine him fjrtisi enoris in ins ieua.i and re-jer.-- laration of innocence af tL w.it We were shuwn yes'.Hw. ; Knoxville Vhronklt, l-v Z-f? Franklin, a wooden wstcliewi Victor Doriot, of Hnst.Vi. TaM made of brier-root, and ti e hs'-i all except three of the wVti . sniuii-s whicii aie nicta. if "I boxwiMMl, while ilie fice v piece of the sh u'der Wade was run over bv a tin:?! vmI time ago. It is an open faftdv. a glass ciyr-tal, ani is sneiorir: workmanship, disi'lavir.2 s-ox'f- in t lie maker. It kns n't r; I than an ounce. Mat savs be s the watck a dnv or tsi a;:(!i: good time as any wstdi he evr; Tbe charges of aion an'' Fitzhugh. tho dxi keeper of w Reoresentatives at VWhin' vived, both piivstely nd iap'l indictments were firanrt Kentucky in 171 allegifg was promptly acjiTi:ted in I were gotten up. rs gentJei.Tes" est resrectahilitv assort. t.Ar J malice or under miaj';rf!ie facts. Another ehnrpt nr"5- hugh is that of attenuated brit!' lived in 1 exa l ist vear. i"" without foundation as tbe f FilThnoli has sent for effcii. and other proof- which tire innocence el tee iov 1' , it shall appear to be neot-ssruj "J- r r the Tullest laveslig.wwi'j r it., it ui (lie uuurct I A long story eomr i mrginatuig with rjreM'i im ' in charge of the sicnsl w.TJfLl who wa furmerlv pub ic fl'K Secretary M'Cnlloch. He be was engaged urns in -discovered great fisnds; debt staten-ent reporeu treasu ry that was pot on w I i.nsnt ma Tl.1ill2 tb r govern money to meet temporary nr , W I irv I- " ' - " - .irf I thmiean.l nf dilllan llf i'- ' 1 was placed in the handsel' i i i oV- to trie f"1 1 .... . . , i i)k( r" I individual mnas snu " .. .- Prender will probably tion before the committee . ill (tie irensiiij -i" V : 1 1 I . a rrnl-A What the Htrrisbcrf J of those idiots and nuw m-actical ioker, amufd.t;. pense cf a good tnan' J women in 'cw Yo.k tbe 1 inseited in a mwmiiK vertisemet.t for women to gf to the ipb, mentatfl..aoy. fc 01 tue anegeu -u"' "j.ii centennial was mn '" j;i applicants for eotFJ"-' be declared ue w-y w they had oeen .t no was oDngea i , - appeal to the lf y force to relieve biro wji twentT-rive cents !', rplewhoarra.n obtaining a hwliboeA v The Cincinnati (UIllO) spec.s. e-; - .pr. seven, became, filled him seiiMfleM , 1tftirl ana men uun-- . w log-beap, u,"k V- j nnt p d.ughtir if .f,;iS He then reported t i , ed. On Sunday be ; . XL. :.-Mf H.r hrother. W ' j ' After some quest. of the muroer. - . , the entire eip"'h, f and discovered tue compr-ed. na"nJi.iU bnt was arretted lt Ua 1,. ... "-l-TW t! went ff.rthf. ' '" I eil journal. cir uiJ r , 5i-.v. (K ll all your fntWTJ T' " leparm1MU,it fTt., mZnlE; isannocK, tire that place, while his son, aged fifteen. nji(
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