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CBEWinURC, PA.,
K.'hblV Morning, - - NOV. 7 1876 .
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It we fed bored, as we certainly are not
1111 fieri nonllv iniit
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stik.is after tbe latest election returns
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twit uuit be the condition of tbe people
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of LoiiiMuiia, where we arc told lhat Oca.
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Atu'ir himself has been paced in com -
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maud c.f the I'cdcrul troops? Sli wc houe
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it Hon t ausur any worse for the cause of
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1 udeii anil re fur 111 to have such a man wilh
sncli a name nt the head of inilitaiv mat- I
ters in that State than it does to have so
distinguished a soldier as ISeticial linger
occupying a like position in Florida. i
I he stars in their courses fought neainst '
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k-i.--i., .urn iu.li. i.ici prompts ue jiarris-
liurjj r.itritd to look upon Hayes as the
Siscia of the Republican party. In Ver- j
inont the radicals made the stupid mistake
of placing a jMistrnaster on their electoral '
ticket, he being ineligible under the con-
st it u 1 1. n bec.iiisc he is an employe of the '
government, and every vote cast for him
in therefore in effect a blank. In Wiscon
sin a like blunder was made by the same
patty, but it was discovered in time to have
a pait of the I'epubiicau vole returned for
the pel son substituted in place of tho inel
igible fleeter and pait for the latter. It
teems therefore as if the Republican ganio
in the south would be defeated by Hepub
c.in blunders in the north. Tilden, how
ever, is all right without such aid and com- j
foit fiom his enemies.
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IT so happens, says tho New loik Sun, !
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that every t went j--eight years the 4ih of
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.Tlaicn, the day fixed for the inauguration
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of the 1'iesident, falls on Sunday. This !
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recurs next year for the fourth time in the I
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Instoiy of our nation, and fallowing the
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precedent Cbtablilied by thiee of his pre- 1
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tleccssors, the new President will take the !
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oath of otiiec on jlotidav, the oth of JIaicli. !
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J ii lii-i-t inauguration on the 5th of March,
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was that of George ashington on entering 1
on his second term. The next time the 4th ,
of March fell upon Sunday w.is in 1321, J
hen James Monroe was the Picsidcnt ,
elect for the serorul limn an,I 1 !
inaugurate.! on Monday, March 5. The
third occurrenc of this kind was in 1849, " l" a ce,ti,,u
viiei. Zathary Taylor was inaugurated on number of ltonV Tallahassee, the ca pi
Monday, the 5th of Match. After next ' tal f F1,"I,1a' Columbia, the capital of
jfar inauguration, the day will not fall on
Sunday again till 1903.
Jou J. Patterson, an infamous po
litical adventurer of the radical stripe who
certainly needs no introductionjto our read
ers at this late tiny, telegraphed to Gov.
H.ivm that ho harl ,;,;,irw ,r f,. n i
and in South Carolina sure before the votes j U,e conl,,r.V has Grant to supervise by mil
were counted. This shows, says the Harris- j autllo,'i,J ll,e diction returns in Flor
l.nrg r.tfriof, that John has" great confi- j Hny n,0,c l,,an ,ie has rennsylvania?
d.-nee in the working of the" Returning Is t,lis B"vcnimeiit of law, or is it a mil
l'.oard. as well as in the patience and fori , Uary t,csl,otism hke tl,rtt of Russia? The
bearaucc of the Atrciican people. Penn" i l'col',e of llie south have been calnr and
ivlvania R-;.ublicatiR look forwanl t-otonlv ' l'eacra,'le "'er repeated insults, and will
with complacency, but. wilh undisguised .
delight, to the indecent and fraudulent j
process';? by which a board of infamous .
Fcotindiels propose to efface with the stroke !
or a pen returns of whole counties, and by j
thu overthrowing the vote of a State, to j
nullify the wi!l of tho nation in the elec- j
l ion for Picsidcnt. Let any Republican j
who btdieves in such a process look in tho
glass and he will recognize the uumistak- j
able features of a political knave.
The question of usurious interest and i
how to prevent it is probably boyond the our country will commence a new and as
power of laws and courts to dctctinine. i sl,rV1 n,va''JC l,lC l'th of peace, proa-
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in a
'(Ircision nn tl:! mibiprf. rpiidnriwl nn Iin
day last, said that the fo.citure of niincipal
,
as well as of interest was "found not to ar-
rest the practice, but only to increaso the
unjust gain of the usuierj who required to '
? "'.'T''""'"1 " r bo,row" ;
the risk he rai by a much increased rale." ,
The Pittsburgh Di.tnatch says there can bo '
HO doubt of the correctness of these obser- method of communication still holds in that
vntion,, I,,, ,,, ,, , , jSWiite
conclusion that a foifeituro of the usurious ; is a floating palace, and which does well if
iuterest tends to tho same end. Money J it makes five miles an hour offers the only
lenders make their charges ecnrdin o ' c,,nrm"ication with many parts of the
the risk, and when the risk is increased ! i,,ler.ur-, . There are no railroads, no tele
. ,, , , , 1 Ieascu' craphs, the comical little steamboat being
whether by weakness of security or statu- j the only means of communication. The
tory enactments, the charge for usuai.ee waiting, however, has been found not at all
raises proportionately, so that the severer! comicil1. if elections are often to de-
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legislation of both Lngland and America other close elections, but none so peculiar
has failed to prevent usury, the wonder is 1 this. In 1797 John Adams was elected
that usury laws have not long since been i y ,,,1C(? oio- Jefferson in 1301 received
repealed. ' '3 vo,0f!' an(1 Bl" 3 votes, and tho ques-
j tion had to be decided in Congress. In
'4-4- e j IJ3I2 there was a difference of only 12 votes
T ie question as fo who will be President ' Vetween Madis,,n a,,,, Clinton. In 1844
.r , St. , r,. ,,,., s 1 5sii xX
March 4th, until ikkjii 011 Monday, March state lcing only 5,000. In 1848 Taylor was
.mi, noxi ensuing, nasol late puzzled more
than the newspapers, but tho fact bein '
that the term of Senator Ferry, President
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of tho L. S. Senate, expires 011 the 3d of
.March and that no one can act as President
until he has taken the oalh of office and
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induced Grant s kitchen organ, the Xa-
tional 1'i'pubtu'an, to give curicncy to the
rumor that tho "Great Unknown" will
after all be President of the United States j
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for one day. TI113, however, is the sheerest ;
nonsense, as will be readily admitted by all .
w hen. the fnct is taken into consideration
that if the President of the Senate, who is
now the "Great Unknown," can qualify on
Sunday
lay, tho President elect can undoubted-
1 the samo thii.ir : hence the onlv con-
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elusion to reach is that from l..c expiration
of Grant s term nt noon on Sunday until '
tho inauguration of his successor twenty-
f.ir 1. -. ilioronftor. tl.niA wilt in ii '
probability be no incumbent of that office, I
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and therefore tho "Gieat I. nknown will
have no chance even for a single day.
Should any emergency requiring Ihe action
of fhe Protdent- iriso in Ihe meantime,
lifnrcvr, f". Tilden or Mr. H tyes, tho
case nuty b, cmM bo and would be quietly
qualified by th Chief Justice and assnmo
the duties of the Presidency without lot or '
Jiiiidiaiico.
The Situation.
We cniinot to-day (Wednesday after
noon) announce with anv absolute ceitainty
1 1 lie result of the Presidential election'
T,,al il 'I"' esl85 electoral votes to elect
is a fix d fact, And that TiUlen and Hen
dricks have 18-4 undisputed electors, just
, one less than tlie necessary number, is ml- )
mittcil by both parties. Tbe ultimate de-
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c-.sion of tins most serious and vitally im-
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poi taut quest ion oepends upon tbe count-
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"C and correct and honest return of the
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: votes of the three States of bonth Carolina,
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' b loi ida and Ijouisiana. That South Caro-
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. una had elected ado Hampton, Demo
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: any doubt, lie says so emphatically in all
his latest dispatches and claims his election
confidently by 1,400. Tilden, it feonis,
i nns slightly behind Hampton, and ihere-
r.ii'. mnv nr mir'tliil 1 1 fl ft W.r 1 lllA Ktaf A
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r lor id a is claimed by both p.ntics and the
irsult can only be ascertained by the offi
cial vote, while Louisiana has certainly
given Tilden a niajoiity of not less than
8,000. In reference to these thiee States it
is proper to say that the vote is counted by
what are known as returning boards, tho
members of which are appointed by the
j respective CJovernors of said States, and as
these three Governors are Republicans the
ret ui ning board in each of them is of course
composed of a majority of members of that
party. The returning board of Louisiana
has for years past made its name infamous
and a bywoid and reproach throughout the
country. It has boldly and impudently
overruled the verdict of the people of that
State and set aside their will as expressed
J through the ballot-boxes. AY ill this be
done again in any one of these three States?
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t u win sue iiu lust ii Muslim! win mi-
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swered and whether Sam 1 J. Tilden, who
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received a majority of the voters of the
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Lnitcu States of over wr hundred thoui-
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una, can be fraudulently cheated out of his
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election. These returning boards are no
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m session and many prominent and well
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Known meinlers of both political parties
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from the north ana from the sout4t are at
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the respective State capitals to see that a
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fm r and honest count of the vote of these
,h,ee StateS Bl,al! n,ado' a,"J t,,at
tice J11 do,,e ibwh lLc hcaus
shu ,d fal1'
Granf' ,""1c!' tl,e bayonet, or at
I least attempts to so rule, ordered General
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bout ii Carolina, ami to ew ui leans, turner
the flimsy pretext that Democrats intend
ed to take possession of the election returns
and falsify them to their own advantage,
and this too in face of tho fact that the
three returning boards are made up of a
majority of his own political friends. What
'gi'i niMier the constitution and laws of
bear themselves patiently and with dignity
under the present attempt of a defeated
patty, acting in the name and under the
usurpation of its chosen President, to nulli-
aml set asit,e military interposition
their solemn and legal verdict as expressed
throughthe ballot-boxes,
I'tt us hope for a peaceful solution of this
apparent difficulty and that the overwhelm-
'L'ciee el tho American people in favor
of Tilden and Hendricks w ill eventually be
recognized from Maine to Oregon, and that
l,ll,,'jr a sound Democratic administration
leiity and fraternal love,
nZY7Ti,e CCT J l,,e
presidential election is almost without ple
cedent, and it is entirely exceptional in
these days of steam and electricity. For a
'' half the country waited in a state
ri'rxiM ."s
bayons of Florida. Persons familiar with
those latitudes know w hat wonderful
ejected over t.,ass by only iy electoral votes,
Various instances are known where state
f i?i!;rofVVl02 v'.,,eso, k's'
'he case of Marcus JI01 ton, chosen governor
of Massachusetts in 1835 by a majotity of a
single vote, lias long been famous. But
lospi,e olI,cr instances of close elections
8zz ;,';
for its closeness, but for the time consumed
settlement, at a period when science
J",i,iin t" ,,ave annihilated time and ipace.
Z'TTlCl v)J
some por.ions 01 the Lnited Stated are yet
in as piimitive a condition as they were in
' days immediately following the re vol u-
uo"- 't'-uacipnt lelegmph
A certain man w hose name was Zacha
riah'went down from Washington to TSTpw
York and fell among thieves, and the
1 t,,.iv,R ceived him gladly, and he abode
with them manvdavs. And ho Paid unto
,em . ..iJell), r h:ITe t, ee stated So,,, h
Carolina is mine, Florida is mine, and
Louisiana is mine, and there are nineteen
electoral votes in those tin oe. Gonow and
mt ?.i?F'ni"?
VU,J'8. we will count in these nineteen,
and the inheritance w ill bo ours - for we
Hiiaiiscoopine ooys." Jiut behold the boy
Kent spies into the states of Zachariah, as.d
Floiid was not his by a thousand, and
South Carolina was not his by fifteen htm
died. And when Zuchariah saw that cer
tain wise meu had been sent down from
lb north ti oveisaw the count in Lou
isiana, he girded up his loins and fled swift
ly. For the last .Mate of thit man w Am
thousand worse thau the first. - World.
lliytit wiU Vindicate Itself.
Wecheerfnlly eive place to Ytr. Smalley's
second communication on the vexed Loui
siana problem. Hi)ust tribute to the in
famy of the Kellogg return board is, in
itself, a conclusive answer to all the special
pleading he has made, or ever can make,
to sanction or excuse fraud. The attempt
to extenuate the intended fraudulent le
versal of the popular vote of lAuiiana, by
echoing the patriot cry of Kellogg and his
confederates that Mississippi and other
1
i Southern States have been made to vote
j for Tilden by violence, might do for an
i average United States Senator, but it is
not woi thy of an intelligent and esteemed
journalist like Mr. Smalley. Such nonsense i
was somewhat in vogue be Tore the election, ;
particularly when .Morton and filauie ran
the campaign in defiance of Mr. Smalley's
earnest protest; but it is too late for the
journalist to begin it when unscrupulous
Senators have abandoned it. There has
not been a complaint, formal or informal,
from any section of M ississppi charging in
timidation or unfairness in tbe vote or re
turn. But the question is asked to w hom can
the country appeal from a wrong of the
Louisiana return boaid? Lnder no cir
' cumstances can there be an appeal to mere
partisan prejudice, or to any mere partisan
tribunal, nor can there be a successful ap
peal at all on mere partisan complaint ; but
if the action of the Louisiana conspirators
shall be such that tho considerate judgment
of the country must accept it as a fraud,
the appeal will carry itself to the supreme
will of the nation, before which even the
swoid must sheath itself and wrong-doers
must flee or be broken. The calm of to
day is not the calm of submission to w rong
on eithet side, and those who contemplate
a fraud that would appall the civilized
world, will do well not to misunderstand
it. The people of all parties want Mr. Til
den returned and inaugurated if honestly
elected, and they want Mr. Hayes returned
and inaugurated if honest ly elected ; and
they will be content with nothing less. No
reckless exercise- of a power m beslimed
and distrusted as that of the Louisiana re
turn board, can for a moment command
respect for its action if it flagrantly defies
justice, and it is idle to discuss the ques
tion as to how or w hen or where an out
raged nation would vindicate its own judg
ment and its own laws. It would do it in
its ow n way, ami, when done, the technical
quibblers who hang on the ragged edgo of
leiishiiig political hopes, will be amazed
to learn how sublimely and triumphantly
the Amciican people can commend obedi
ence to the right. Be calm and patient ;
the right will come in the right way and in
the right time for the sake of the right.
I'll Ha. 21 men.
A Heroic Wife. Last Tuesday morn
ing, about 3 o'clock, Mr. A. Rambo, who
lives near I at an, was aroused by cries of
distress coming apparently fiom the river,
the voice being that of a woman. He at
once uii fastened a skiff moored near his
house and rowed out. in the direction of the
sounds, which seemed to grow fainter. lie
called loudly, and in answer heard a faint
call considerably below the point where he
first heard it. Following as rapidly as he
could, ho soon came in sight of a daik
object floating down the river, which he
overhauled, and discoveied to be two skirt's
lashed together and bottom side tip, and
Ihe foim of a woman clinging to them.
She called to him "for God's sake to lie
quick," as she was nearly exhausted. Mr.
Rambo pulled alongside the floater nnd
discovered fnither that she was holding to
one of the skiffs with one hand and with
the other clutching Emily the hair of a
man's head, which she was, with heroic
nerve, trying to keep above the waves.
After much difficulty, the inanimate form
of the man was taken into the skiff, into
which tho woman followed, aud not stop
ping to ticcmo the boats, made for the
shore, where the man was taken out and
found to be insensible. Restoratives were
procured, and after several houra' hard
work life was restored.
They gave their names as O. Foster and
wife, and said that they, in company w ith
a man whose name we failed to learn, had
started from Omaha in the two skiffs for
some point down the liver. Several miles
above latan, about 10 o'clock on Monday
night, the lioats struck a snag and weio
ovei turned. The stranger was drowned at
once, and in the attempt to save him Mr.
Foster became so exhausted as to sink, but
was close enough to the boats, to which his
wife was hanging, to be caught by her ;
but being unable to change her position,
she was compelled to lloatdown in the wild
waste of waters, expecting to meet, death
every instant, until she was beard ai:d
rescued. Leitrei. vorth Times.
A dctift-i. Davgtiteu. -Tho kind of a
daughter to have is the one whom William
Butler Duncan, tho ruined New York
merchant, recently found out he had. For
two or three years, during the summer
months, drivers and equestrians on tho
public thoroughfares or Stat en Island have
met a young lady equestrian accompanied
by an orderly, whose elegant figure and
superb horsemanship elicited general ad
miration. She had had everything from
infancy that heart could wish, and was
supposed by those who knew nothing to
the contrary to be a gay butterfly of fashion.
But. soon after the suspension of her fath
er's firm, unknown to her family, she un
dertook the translation of a work which
was attracting not a little attention in Ger
many. Secretly she kept at her task, night
and day. When it was completed she
went alone to the largest publishers in the
city, submitted her manuscript for inspec
tion, and a few days later made a contract
lor the publication of the volume. When
the first copy was printed she placed it in !
her father's hands, and. telling him what
she had done, expressed the hope that she
could do something toward relieving his
financial troubles. The translation has
proved a decided success. It has met with
a large sale, an-! the royalty already paid
to the devoted daughter has amounted to
a cousideiable sum.
The Gazette with its usual narrow nnd
bigoted spirit states that the Catholic'? d Nm,,,ein States is that whilo the
prelates of this country are congratulating j fo,n,c.r B've the figures from the difiereut
each other on the election of Tilden and I cou,,es an' parishes to support their con-
that the Catholic priest of this city in
structed their people to vote tho Demo
cratic ticket. Catholic priests, as a rule,
never vote, and are absolutely fot bidden
to mix politics with religion, and it is un
heard of in the United States where the
Catholic pulpit has sver been used as a
political rostrum. Neither in this city nor
, any other did the Gazette ever hear of a
Catholic priest preaching politics.
J It n not ignorance, but insolence, that
questions tho right of a Catholic Bishop,
priest or layman to vote as ho may se? fit.
j This effort at intimidation smacks strongly
j of the Kellogg nn Packard tactics, anil
j outlines willi marked distinctness! what
; such people would do her if clothed with
similar power. 1'itMurgh Pont.
So after all, remarks the Pittsburgh
, Vwpalcn, 1 weed, who was for a time nnt
. down as a modern Jonah who should lmv
swamped the Franklin, permitted her to
, ;- nww Hearing
' rsew i oik if he has not bought the ship
I from thecaptainand taken the entire party
on a pleasure trip to the North Pole or
Hudson hv TiAft tho .nt
i . , j wining niau,
anil Iia. h.n i. fV,
What TiUlcn's TJlcclion Jfetms.
I grantism killed thk republican PARTY
FKACK, FlUTEltNITY, PROSPERITY.
But the most pdtent element of Mr. Til
den's probable tiiumph may be given in
one word Grantiun. President ' Grant
went into office by the vote of a party, com
pact and all poweiful. By bis want of
wisdom, and by his want of other things
better still than wisdom, he disunited the
party, drove out of it its men of real in
lluence, he scattered its strength to the
winds, and wrecked the party itself as no
enemy uetermined to wreck it could have
doue.
uis lyonisiana policy, which was
the policy of the bayonet against the ballot, !
and winch was the policy he pursued as to
the entire South, neither gave Louisiaua
nor the South to the Republican party uor
satisfied the sense of the Xoiih.
It was a policy of disunion, not of union.
It prolonged the war years after the war
h.i ceased. It. made impossible a true
union, for no union can exist anywhere
without the existence of reciprocal interest
and feelings. In times of profound peace
he over-rode the Constitution by using the
army for mere political purposes, and
thus again arrayed the South against the
North. He inhibited the growth of frater
nal sentiments, of trade between different
sections. He cut off the South from the
North, and so cut off from the North the
benefits of a rich southern commerce. He
used his high office for the aggrandizement
of himself and his relatives aud friends;
he used it as if it were a meie perquisite ;
he wielded his authority as a master, not
as a servant ; he disregarded the public will
and made his own will the supreme law of
tho land. He surrounded himself with
men without the respect or confidence of
the nation, and he made the principles
of the party that elected him to mean
nothing but devotion to himself. To-day we
see the result in the ruin of a great party
which deserved a better fate. The countiy
has set its foot upon Giantism, just as
Grant ism set its foutupon the Constitution
and the noble principles of Republicanism.
The election of Mr, Tilden, if it bas occur
red, means tho repeal of the resumption
law of 1S79, and under that repeal there is
hope that business confidence will be re
stored and trade revive. We have the
promise that it also means a reformed civil
service, economy in expenditures, a South
and North united In spirit and in fact, and
if these promises be made good, the result,
if it be what we fear, will lack all elements
of disaster or humiliation. l'hila. Inquirer,
Republican.
The Centennial Exiiihitiox closed
November 10th with foimal ceremonies.
A brief resume of the statistics of the
exhibition shows some very interesting
features. The number of paying admissions I
on May 10, opening day, was 7li,l72, but it I
iscs'.imated that, including free admissions,
there were over 150,000 persons present. (
On tho 4th of July the principal ceremonies j
of the day occurred in Independence I
Sqnsre. The paying admissions to the ex- !
hibition that dav numbered 4(1,290. Penn- i
sylvnnia day, September 28, had 2.77,169
paying admissions; Maryland and Dela
ware day, October 19. 161,355 ; New York,
122.003 : Ohio. October 28. 122.3(H). With
the sole exception of Pennsylvania day, I
Maryland and Delaware day drew the
largest attendance to the exhibition at any
one time. The total admissions for each
month may be estimated from the follow
ing cash returns fiom the turnstiles : The
total cash receipts in May were $ ISO, 490.35 ;
June, 347.833.41 ; July. $313, 19H.23 ; Au
gust, $415,659.25 ; SeptemlM-r, $939,056 :
i October, ? 1, IfiO.8ll.nO ; ten days (estimat
ed; in November, $475,000. Grand total,
a. cr r4i r i. .i.. i . . f
fi.c.j.i,ui3. n ior me ii"ie rerin 01 iue ex
hibition. The ltnard of finance expended $7,000,
000 in tho buildings nnd impiovements of
the exhibition. This amount is covered
by the following receipts ; Pennsylvania's
appropriation, $1,000,000; Philadelphia's,
$1,500,000 ; co net ssions, gifts and interest,
$00.000 ; stock subscriptions, $5,500,000.
and the national nppropi iation, $1,500,000
total, $7,000,000. The expense outside
of $7,000,000 will amount to about $1,830,
000, and this deducted from the admission
money will leave over $2,000,000 net profit,
or eighty per cent, on the stock subscrip
tions. Wonders of a Lake. At the Dickinson
Place, 011 Bullaid Creek, near Six Mile
Station, is a ten-acre field w hich is nothing
more nor less than a subterranean lake,
covered with soil about eighteen inches
deep. On the soil is cultivated a tick! of
corn, which produces thirty or forty bushels
to the acie. If any one will take tho
trouble to dig a Vnle the depth of a spade
handle he will find it to fill w ith water, and
by using a hook or line, fish four or five
inches long can be caught. These fish are
different from others in not having either
scales or eyes, and arc perch-like in shape.
The ground is a black mail, alluvial in
its ualuie, and in all probability at one
time was au open body of water, on which
was pccumulated vegetable matter, which
has been increased from time to time, until
now it has a crust sufficiently strong and
rich to produce fine corn, though it has to
be cultivated by hand, as it is not strong
enough to bear the weight of a horse.
While nooning, tho field hands catch great
strings of fish by merely punching a hole
through the earth. A person rising on his
heel and coming down suddenly can seo
the growing corn shake all around him.
Any one having tho strength to drive a
rail through this crust w ill find on releas
ing it that it will disappear altogether.
The whole section of country surrounding
the field gives evidence of marshiness, and
the least rain produces an abundance of
mud. lint the question comes nn. lias nt
this body an outlet? Although brackish
the water tastes as if fresh, and w hnv
no doubt that it is anything else than stag
nant. Vet these fish are eyeless and scale
less similar to those found in caves. It
is a subject for study, aud we would like
to have some of onr scientists investigate
it.
Tiif. difference between the claims of the
Democrats and the Republicans in thedis-
viuoiuim, me nei iioncans make only the
general claim lhat they have carried the
b ate, and talk About frauds and outrages
which they fail to sustain by anv evidence.
This last is very suspicions. The Repub
lican despatches fail to indicate any hon-
"i uniiiuriii-e iii success on a fair count
1 Taking the reports from the Democratic
and Itepublican success, no man accustom
ed to weighing evidence can fail to see
that the proof of so far as it has been pre
sented all on the Democratic side fttt
burgh Pont. .
Sixty years ago occurred "tho year
without a summer." Frost rwnr..,i i
every month in Ihe year 1816. Ice formed '
half an inch in May; snow fell to the'
depth of ten inches in Vermont, seven in i
Maine, threo in the interior of New York,
and also in Massachusetts in Juno. Ice to
tho thickness, of common whirl. . i-.
i was formed thrmiot.r.,.1 "V..,
Tllvi'in1 !
: New York and some paits of Pennsylvania
mo .nil oi juiy. jntliail corn was SO
frozen that Ihe greater pait was out down
and dried for fodder in A u aunt- and far
! men supplied themselves from the corn'
iti-nsl .1 ;.. iuu i t ...
i m iou tu mo aecu oi tne snrfnc
I " f IOiv o
of 1817.
2ewfi ami Other ISottnffs.
West Keating, Clinton county, voted
solid for Tilden.
Mr. Hemming is the appropriate name
of the great English needlo-maker.
Martha Parrel, of Chester, aged 103
years, and remarkably active, lias visited
the centennial.
Eleven hundred girls are employed at
one artificial flower factory in France, none
being over twenty years of age.
A child of George Howe, of Bradford
county, fell into the fire during the absence
of its mother and was burned to death,
"Snibbs" Arnold, the worst man prob
ably who ever lived in Western Pennsyl
vania, died in the Penitent iary on Sunday.
One of the remarkable discoveiies
made by the gallant Arctic explorers is
that the length of a Polar night is 142
days.
A wild goose recently struck the chim
ney of the market house in Pottsville in its
flight, fell to the earth aud was captured
alive.
Clark Jackson, aged 12 years, recently
killed a catamount in Bradford county of
the largest size. He was aided by a dog
and a shot gnu.
A comparison of the votes in 1S72 and
187G, shows that Tilden has gained 1,400,
000 on Greeley's vote and has a popular
majority of ful'ly 400,000.
A Jamestown man attempted to com
mit suicide because he thought Tilden was
elected. A stomach pump saved a Repub
lican vo'.e for coming years.
A white owl, measuring fivo fert
across the wings, was recently shot, in
Mercer county, by Frank S. Reeger. It
is a rare bird in that locality,
A buck deer recently attacked Miss
Dunkle near Sinnemahoning. Sho was
rescued by Mrs. H. E. Chamberlain, who
killed the animal with an axe.
Cardinal Simeoni, recently the Papal
Nuncio at Madrid, has been apointed to
succeed the late Cardinal Antonelli as
Secretary of the State to the Pope.
Mr. Norwood, the new United Slates
Senator from Georgia, is the son of a tan
ner, and forty six jeaisold. He is one of
the most inveterate jokers in the Stale.
Boss Shepherd is said to be bankrupt,
and now his old friend flock around him
to buy his furniture at the sale. A friend
in need is very often of a business turn of
mind.
Tbe grass and timber covering T,ook
out Mountain, the scene of ILtoker's great
victory, were hunted last week, forming a
pillar of fire by night visible for many
miles.
At a Republican torchlight procession
at Wrightsville on Saturday, a young man
named Cully fell from a wagon and the
w heel passing over his head killed him in
stant ly.
Two young democrats of Gallauhcr
township, Clinton county, named James
Hennessey and Jacob Barker walked 10
miles on Tuesday night to carry the elec
tion letuins to Iick Haven.
Justice is still pursuing the murderous
Mollie Maguires. Pat, ick Tilly was at test
ed on Sunday, charged with having assist
ed in the killing of Alexander Rea, a mine
boss at Mount Carbon, in 1(58.
The Campbell Lightning Press at the
Centennial on the 8th inst., was run at the
rate of 43,200complete papers per hour. A
numerous throng wtiuessed the feat a-.id
pronounced it a success in every respect.
Pitholo City, the famous capital of
oildom. which tw elve years ago was a hive
of mining industry, lively wilh speculation
and gay with grease, now polls six votes,
three for Tilden and threo for Hayes.
Even its politics is nix.
Dr. Thos. J. Monahan, who died re
cently in Bait imore, left$2.fi00 in the lin
ing of his vest, (which has been pulled
down,) and three wills, which have created
an enmity among his relatives that a bun
dled millions could not allay.
Gov. Tilden isn feet 10 inches in height,
and is spare in tiuie. His head is largo
and round, his eyes are blue, his abundant
chestnut hair is sprinkled with gray. He
is 03. and the family arithmetic shows that
1 4 of his ancestors attained the average age
of 7! years. "
. A pigeon recently alighted on a coal
schooner seventy-live miles out from the
Virginia coast, and now refuses to leave
Ihe ship, preferring tarry feathers and a
life on the ooean wave to being stoned by
lioys on land and kept in a continual stew
about pot luck.
George Cook, a clerk in a drugstore
of George Hill & Co., Williamspoi t, lost
his eyes one day last week by the gas lhat
had generated in a bottle containing nitiic
acid and mercury, from which he suddenly
pulled the cork, flying over his faco and
into his eyes.
The latest reports arc lhat Oregon will
wheel into iho Tilden column, a private
dispatch from Portland, Oregon, bating
that some of the remote counties which
were claimed by the Republicans have gone
Democratic. There has been no news from
Oregon by associated press for six days.
Mr. John Lawyer of Mifflin county,
last week climbed a tree to secure a squir
rel be had shot, ami when 30 feet high, a
limb broke and he was piccipitated to the
ground. Both his arms and his left leg
wc;e broken. When found his dog was
lying beside him, wilh its fore legs around
his neck.
Experiments are making at the Cam
bria iron works, Johnstown, to test the
possibility of coking as they do in Wales.
The following mixture: Anthracite culm
or slack, GO per cent ; bituminous joaI
( La t robe; 32 per cent.; pitch n per cent.
The test is being made in the Belgian
ovens of the Cambria iron company,
The Japanese commission sent a com
munication to Ihe mayor offering to the
city of Philadelphia the Japanese building
and garden at the centennial grounds as a
token of the appreciation of his majesty's
government of the hospitality and kindness
received by the Japanese. The mayor has
sent a suitable reply accepting the gift.
Sophia Valentine, a giil residing near
Peekskill, Jefferson county, strayed from
home on the 14th of October and was found
on the 27th in a swamp near that locality,
dead. Her clothing had been almost en
tirely torn off her in her flight, doubtless
through briars and stones. Her tlesh was
bruised and torn terribly, and her bare
feet cut neatly in pieces.
Two brothers, named Edward and
Joseph Riddle, living at Sptingdalo, on tho
est Penn road, went out of their house
on Saturday night in quest of what they
supposed to be a proxy ling burglar, and
each mistaking the other for the object of
his search, both fired, Edward delivering bis
ball in Joseph's breast and Joseph shooting
Edward in the thigh. Both will recover.
John II. Miller, of Chester county,
lost, fonr members of his family last week
by small pox. Tho four coffins used in
the burial of his dead wife and children
were brought by his neighbors near tho
building, where they were taken by Mr.
Miller, and the corpses placed in them by
himself as well as he could, the lids scrowell
down, and then drapced hv hi in it,. ti
road, when thy were taken by his neiifh
bors and bnried. -
1ol2l!!i, iTny nmirt, ''y rtver Van Burn in
1R40 in this State wan only 34U. Polk's in
1844 over Clay, 6,332; Taylor's in 1848
over Cass, 13,537 ; Pierce's in 1852 over
Scott, 19,44fl, Buchanan's in 18T0 over
Fremont, 83,160, and over Fremont and
;oJ. ore combined, 1.025; Lincob.'a j
ff',ve; "'els. Rell and all op,Mitin
Z j , ""V"' " over Seymour, C8,-
m ; Oram's in 1673 over Grtwly, 137..VW,
Now is the time for items resjiecting
tbe venerable voter, who beginning by vo
ting for Washington or Hdams, ended jer
haps on last Tuesday by voting for Hayes
or Tilden. Particular mention is due to
Capt.C hester IJugbee tr rent ham, Mass.,
who, being 90 years of age, in spite of he
peltings of the pitiless storm, Vt aiked five
miles to the polls to vote for Hayes and
Wheeler. It is not necessary to sny lhat
there is no doubt about the returns from
Wrentham.
The champion mean man lives in
Montgomery county. Ho has been mar
ried four times. When his second wife
died he split his first wife's tombs.'one and
laid the two bodies side by side, each with
half a slab; w hen his last two wives dejvai t
ed, he placed them in graves head to head
with the first two, so that the split tomb
stone would do for all four. He w ill not
many again for fear he cannot utilize that
stone again in case there is another death
in the family.
Neither Gov. Hendricks nor Gov.
Hayes has reason to be especially delight
ed with the vote his own State has given
him. Gov. Hendricks's majority in Indi
ana is now put down as 5,500, which is
only a few hundred greater thau the plur
ality for Williams in October. Gov. Hayes'
majority in Ohio is little if any larger than
that of Mr. Barnes in October. The cause
was undoubtedly the same in both States,
an acquiescence in the verdict of Octoltcr
without furl bet effort.
In Chicago, Sandy Richardson, a
colored waiter at the Palmer House, was
killed last Thursday night by Mike Scan
Ian, also a waiter. It seems that Richard
son aud Pcanlan quaireled tin account of
republican sentiments which the foimer
expressed, when Scanlan terminated the
disagreement by dealing Richaidson a ter
lifio blow on the head with an ice hatchet.
The wounded man crawled away to the
stable, where he was found dead next
morning. Scanlan was ariested.
A dispatch from Calcutta says it is re
ported that. 20,000 persons perished in the
cyclone of Octotier 31, and some estimates
place the Ions of lives as high as 40.IK10.
In the town of Burrishol. capital of the
Baekergunge district, 3,000 hou-es were
leveled with the tarih. IaIIcis from sur
vivois report that a great wave nine feet
deep swej over Ihe l uge islam! of Dak
bin, Shahabazpore. The whole of East
ern Bengal apjn ais to have tuffeid se
vetely from the cyclone, and Calcutta
narrowly escaped.
As the boat commanded by Captain
Joseph Brown, of Schuj Ik ill 7 Haven, re
cently neared Blower's Lock, on I be
Schnyikill canal, below Pottstown, he sig
nalled the luck-tender. Receiving no an
swer, and the lock gates being closed, he
accused Frank Reed, the lock-tender, of
neglecting his doty. Rood called him a
liar, and the Captain choked him, and as
he walked away Reed entered his t.fiice.
procuied a shot gunand fired at him. the
contents entering bis back, causing a hor
rible ami fatal wound.
Over four hundred lodges of hostile
Indians sutretidnred to General Miles on
the Yellowstone on :ba nth instant. Sit
ting Bull, with bis Kmall band of thiee
hundred lodges, escaped. Gen. Miles is in
pursuit. Crook and McICenzie have gone
after f'razy Horse and the hostile Cheyen
nes, and Gen. Slieiidan thinks the Sioux
war and all other Indian wars in this coun
try will soon be orer. Gen, Sherman, in a
congiatuhitorv dispatch, says be hopes
Gen. Miles will crown his success by ca
turing or killing Sitting Bull.
Pa is is admiring a new clock formed
of a horizontal bar, a-ith two In ass balls of
equal weight attached to tbe ends and
worked upon a wheel placed horizontally.
The hands are over a yard long and there
are six faces to the clock, on one of which
are walked the bonis on another ihe min
utes aud on the thiid the seconds. The le
maining three indicate the yeais, months
and days. It requires winding up hat
once eveiy fourteen months, ai d is said to
have every quality tyf t,e j,est time-piece
invented up So llie present day.
John Welsh, who was burned at the
Hickory Shaft, in Schu!kill county, last
week, died on Fi idav evening, after linger,
ing in great pain. Mathew D.rnt'dy, it
wiil be remembered, died last week
Peter Reilly, the third man ofthepartv, in
in a veiy critical condition. Reilly is oi'dv
about twenty years of ago, and" tlunnd,
terribly burned by the explosion, ho carried
Velshovera mile, groping his wav in the
dark. His sufferings must have been ter
rible, and his brave endurance f..r the sake
of Ins stricken comrade is worthy ,f U,e
highest eulogium.
On. Friday, Novemlier 3, a man named
Alex. Drake w as engaged in c hopping WUod
along the roadside near Shade Gap. Hunt
ingdon county. An old companion named
John Sir.it!, came along, when the two men
got to fooling in Mine manner with a gun
Of course the usual result followed. Diake
was shot, 1 be ball passit. g through both
lungs, and entiiely through the ImkK
the unfortunate man straightened him
seir up, said, "John, you've shot me," and
fell to the earth dead. Smith is almost
wild with horror atthothonghtor the mur
der that stains bis hands.
A very unique case was brought be
roro a Wateiford, Conn., Justice, last
week. It seems that a woman or that vil
lage exacted Iho death ofone of her chil
drer, and borrowed a dress t.r H neighbor
to wear at the funeral. The child recov
ered, which caused its mother so much
happiness that she went to a tonic beer
party, wearing her neighbors dress, aiI(1
spilled some of tbe beer ou it. The owner
ot thedress demanded condensation, w hich
was refused, whereupon she appealed to
the law. By the advico of tho Justice the
affair was settled without a trial.
On Thursday last three aristocratic
young ladies entered a Brooklyn horse-car
and two of them began a conversation le
lating to the Presidential election Sift
words soon grew into l,d and acrimonious
controversy, in Ihe beat t.r which one ,.f
the dispulants,;d rawing off her gold watch
and chain, oflered to bet them against 150
that Hayes was elected. The nioneyVas
at once produced by the other, and tho
third young lady pocketed tho proiertv as
stake-holder. Then the car was Moifrw-d
and the thiee beauties, two with highly
flushed faces, tripped Ktacefully away
Mr. Nathan Bartolette, "living near
Pnghtown, Chester county, recently left
home to go to Pnghtown, which is a mile
distant, and befote leaving kissed his little
three year obi daughter and bade her
goo.l-bVe." On his return he found lhat
the child was missing. Search was made
during the entire night, but not until Fri
day morning was its where abonts discover
ed, when it was found lying in the road
altouta mile fiom home and dead It is
supposed that the little one bad attempted
to go after its father and liecame lost and
wnndered around until it finally died from
exposure.
The Phila. Time says that one of the
most eccentric pei To, niances in which a
locomotive has Wen know n to indulge in
this Centennial year, was that of the l.ci
niotive at Jersey City, the otherday, which
forgot to stop wiICI) it entered tbe depot,
but went crushing through tho building
and plunged into the river to the discomfi
ture or tho Terry boats and of tho passen
gers. Nobody but the engineer was hurt,
and he has not yet explained the excessive
zoal of his engine. It is a matter t.r con
siderable interest to tiavtdet to know that
the train wj not provided with the air
tnake. Wn should give up H confid.-i.ee
... .i.n,nt,s ir tuiii liiveution fcbotiid
bak on us iu this way.
Waitinc ior Health
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to com to you, , , .,' ' r,rf,
return without making . 1
it ; .In yon wait for v,.nr t ,-,, rt ,n
grow williont cnlturV .r v,,.',' ':'
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consumption ; elir,..,j,. ,)',.."' " '
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value. The.' Sh.cv'.s ilri. '
terns ami eoinriiic,
the finest gom) i m p, ,rT.-d T ' ' "
oppoj tiinil v :. sei nrp a l,;ii,K ..
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maikable pair of shoes' f..r 'x
who lives in Atkansav. Tvl
shoes is 17 inches, at.l r. ;r,.f .
the sole. T he negro'.. f,,t a (( ,
meauiemen is 14 inches ',!, j!
while the instep is p.i ;,,,.s -j;
over T feet in height.
and is not moie than Qf, is
has not woni a pair ofl,J,t f,.
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