the mm mimi
e&EMSQURC, pa.,
F;i;hy Mo:nir,s, - - Dec. 8, 1876. ;
It vR.n llie Howe Sewing Machine Com
pany that ordered tbe discharge of all its
cuidiyee9 who voted for Tilden. This at .
the suggestion of A. II. Stockwcll, once .
president and principal gambler of Pacific ;
Maik Jloita't that for "bidl-dozing" ?
From Colambia, South Carolina come
the glad tidings that '.lie Demoratic House, '
now in session at Carolina Hall, has gained ,
another acquisition from the Republican
s.de, thus sinning a consVitiitional quorum (
sixty-three members and that the Su- ;
..,. t.oc ..1r;,,.,l it as the lee-.n
House of Representative!! and will isne a
mamlamns compelling tbe Secretary of
State to turn over the leturns for Covernor
jind Lieutenant Governor to Speaker Wal
lace, of said House.
The Lancaster Iittellijencr thinks it not
at all likely now that tho House will im
peach Grant. To be sure he deserves it,
but he has now got ft certificate of charac
ter from ich a high authority Hint none
will veiituie to question it. In his Thanks,
giving sermon Henry Waul JJeecher said :
'I believe that the time w ill come when in
the eye of this people, next to the martyred
hero, will ttaud the warrior who has ad
ministered the affairs of tho nation disin
terestedly and with wisdom," and Ply
mouth Church received the statement with
great applause !" That settles it. Give
Giant another term !
a-
After paying all expense the f "enten
nial Commission have a million and a half
f dollars in their treasury. This is the
amo.mt that was appropilatcd by Congress
to complete- the buildings, but it was ap
propriated with a proviso that, ifany moneys
should remain in the treasury of the Hoard
of Finance, after Ihn payment of all debts,
Jt should be covered back into the Treasury
of the United States '"before any dividend
it percentage of tho profits shall be paid to '
the holders of stock." This looks as if the
stockholders will get no dividend, ns the
payment of the United States takes piece
deuce, aud wheu the government receives
tbo amouul appropriated by Congress there
will be no funds left.
llos. Samcel J. Randall, Speaker of
the natloual IIouro of Representatives, has
selected the following named gentlemen
those in italic being Republicans, to pro
ceed forthwith to the respective States in
dicated and investigate and repoit on the
many frauds which have undoubtedly been
perpetrated iu the counting of the electoral
vote lu at least two if not in all three of
them :
Foalli Carolina Messrs. Paylor of Ohio,
Abhett of M AHMachnsotts, Ster.ger of Penn
sylvania (snhserjiently excused on account
Iiltitiiteil 111 hiit tilnceV Kden of Iilinoiii. i
.Tones of Kentucky. Phillips of Missout i. '
t anks cT Massachusetts, l.apham of New i
York, and lAtirvme of Ohio. i
IjouisiHiia Mensrs. Mortison of Illinois,
Jeuks of Pennsylvania, MvMsunn of Ohio,
Lvndo 'f Wisconsin, Ulaekliurn nf Ken
tnckr, Meade of New York, House of Ten
iene, PIi-lps of Ciintieetient, Kostt Penu
ilvaiiin. Tour-ni-nl of Pennsylvania, Jnn
ftrrd of Ohio, Ilurlbtit of Illinois, Crapo of
Mnachn!etr, and Jotre of Vermont.
Florida Messrs. Thompson of Massachu
setts, UnUi'.t of Missouri, Wullintf of Ohio,
Hopkins of Pennsylvania, G'urJcZd of Ohio,
and Dunntll nf Minuesota.
3--S-.
Wade Hampton has, as the Lancaster
JnUlligtneer very pertinently remarks, ex
cited a larger degree of admiration by his
conduct during the preseut political crisis
than any man in the country, and he dtily
gives additional cansc for the high regard
i t which he is held. Ha is the representa
tive champion of the law and of tho pcoplo's
i1ght9. He declares, as all the people
know, that lie has been elected governor
of South Carolina, that the law will so de
clare him, and be appeals to it to give him
the place he has been voted, asking the
people of the State to patiently await its
processes. He assures them "by tho eternal
God" that bo will obtain tbe office to which
be has been elected, or else the State will
be placed under military rule. Nothing
but superior force of bayonets' can defeat
tho people's expressed will, and Wade
Hampton covers himself with honor in de
claring that nothing else shall, He is wise
as be is brave and hr bravn as w ise. Wit 1 t
t
such a leader tho libeities of the people not !
alone of South Carolina, but of tho entire 1
nation, are eutircly safe. J
Through the workings of a system of i
fiaud unparalleled in the history of repub- j
lies, the decision of the people of the sover. i
eign States of Florida aud Louisiana as to ;
who kliall bo the next chief magistrate of j
the nation has been set aside by tbo min-
ions of the existing admintstiation, and a j
fulse figure-head is thereby attempted to
be set up. An honest count of the vote of
Florida gives Tilden a majority of 2,000,
but through tho manipulation of Stearns'
canvassers it is made to appear that Hayes
has $)00 majoiity; while in Louisiana, by
the wholesale throwing out of parishes
where Democracy is predominenr., the in- j
famous Wells' returning board makes it j
appear (on paper) that the State has falsi. ;
fied its record and gone for Hayes by 8,000. j
One week ago, it was known and admitted ;
that the Pelican State, on a fair count,
was on tLe side of Tilden aud Reform by ,
8,000 irajoiify.
Words are inadequate to depict (ho in-
famy and ninguitude of this outrage upon '
the will of the people, faiily expressed, un- !
faiilv leroided. Of course, as the case now
- j '
stands, South Carolina having already been
counted if not conceded to the Republicans, j
JIaye baa prima fiei the right to the '
Presidency, but the ultimate result is in '
the bands of Congress, which we doubt not i
will riftht the wrong and save from this j
worst of all desecrations the most revered
drinciples of our Republican form of goy- !
eirmiPiit. Let us therefore not despair, 1
but let us hope that in the- end right will
triumph, wongwill be vanquished, and tbe '
country be saved Luni ana:c!iyvaud lain.
I The Xcu- Speaker of the House.
The Democratic liin.i'-iil y in the lower
House of Cong i ess performed its first of
ficial duty on (Saturday evening last by
nominating for Speaker, in place of the
late lamrntrd Kerr, Hon. Samuel J. Ran
dall, of this Plate, who received 73 votes
in the the caucus against 63 cast for Hon.
S. 8. Cox, of New York. There were two
other aspirants or prcFtmicd nspirants for
the position Mcssts. Jlonison of Illinois
and Snylor of Ohio but both those gentle
men very gracefully withdrew on the open
ing of the caucus, thus leaving the honor
to be contested for by Messrs. Randall and
Cox alone, with the result on first ballot
as already stated. Of Mr. Randall, the
Rnrrpssfiil candidate we have deemed it
our duty ;;i limes j.ast to speak very plain
ly, especially in regaid to his course on the j
back nay ouestion, which we never bad
any hesitation about condemning
in Lho
most unmeasured terms. Still we are free
to confess that since that time Mr. Ran
' dail has done more than enough for the
I honor and welfare of the count ty to atone
! for that one false step, and believing as we
; have always believed that be is a man of
mut-A tlian fivilinm-v lnfollicroiieo And fitness
to lead, we cannot but congratulate the j
. Democracy in particular and the people of
; the country in general upon the selection
of so fearless and faiihfnl a gentleman for
the high and important position to which
! be has been called and which be is sure to
fill with honor to himself and entire credit .
to the country. Mr. Kandall is a nativo of ;
j - !
; this State, is in the very prime and flush of j
' intellectual and physical manhood, and has
; had a very large exvcrience as a legislator, j
having fust been elected to the Thirty-j
t eighth Congress, and having served contin- j
j tiously ever since. 'What fmther may bo ;
said about him could not be better said I
t than it is said in the following extract !
t from a long editorial on the subject iu the j
New York HVrM of Sunday last : !
i i
"He (Mr. Knndsll) was always an notivo i
' and prominent m tuber of the minority !
; through all the trying times of the war, but I
' never decidedly assunieil its leadership until f
' the elosting sehsion of the Korty-lhird Con-
' Kress, when ho won tho admiration, not of I
the 1 leuiocrutic party alone, but of the whole J
country. Iv eail.tnt nn.i liriwianl ti-ilit
against the Force bill. Tho readiness in de
bate, fertility of resource mid knowledge of:
i parliamentary tactics which he then itis- i
j played, surprised both his friends and his 1
enemies. His course gained him t lie love '
, and gratitude of the South, and nothing but j
; the superior claims ot Kerr upon the pat ty j
'. prevented the choice of Kandall for Speaker
j of tlm Porty-foiirth Congress at the outset, i
j In that txxly he has niiM.e played a most im- '
portaut part. In his position as Chairman '
I of th-i Committee on Appropriations he had
' charge of the great work of retrenchment,
, and he carried it out vith unrelenting de- i
! termination against the desperate opposi- '
I tiou of the lladical8 in the iioiiMC and tn lho .
I Senate. He was not moved by serious threats :
; of an adjournment without making any aj- ,
i propriationH, hut kept coolly and dogg-,dly j
J to his purpose, nrd reduced the appropria- j
; tions nearly S;j0,00O,OU0 below the expendi- :
' tares of the mevious vear. During tho '
greater part of the session he held the leader-
ship of the House, though tho honor and re
sponsibility of this post, owing to peculiar
circumstances, wero never fully conceded j
to him or to anyone. His conduct in re- j
gard to the Amnesty bill, for which he has j
been thoughtlessly ceiisurea, really deserved !
.great praise. The measure had been passed
u.v R l'publlea n Congress, and Mr. lCandall
right in offering it, Hud pushing it to a
vote. J'he result was a temporary triumph
for I'laine, at the utier sacrifice, however, of
his own consistency and of thai of his party.
The new Speaker looks the resoluto loader
that he is. JIo is tall, tluely-built and grace
ful iu person, with a smooth, dark, deter
mined, clearly chiselled fa-e. In dobato lie
is habitually passionate and aggressive, al
ways ready to assume whatever responsi
bility the occasion iiupoeis upon him, and
l cp relcss of opposition. His impulse on the
lloor has always been to strike for the es
sential ditfereiice In a debate, and to lead up
and straight on to the decision of the issue
on the merits of thai point. He holds his j
own opinions (irmly, and as he always aims i
to put. thetu honestly, ho is impatient of Mit-
l terfuges or pretenses on tl; part of his j
, enemy. The business of the House and the
j details of administrative atVairs are a f:tmil-
iar to him as an old song. As a parlianien- I
I tarian he is probably t, this lime without an
: equal in Congress. We repeat that fir the
1 work now before the House of Iteprejonta- j
lives it could hardly h ave a better presiding i
; ollicer."
Mr. Randall was on Monday tlocted to
j the Speakership by a vote of 1G1 to S3 for
Hon. Jas. A. Garfield, the Republican can.
didate, and on assuming the chair delivered
a biicf but eloquent and patriotic address
which was loudly applauded.
The Philadelphia Times has a pretty
straight story from Cincinnati, in shap of
j a special dispatch dated Dec. 4th, as to
j the probability if not absolute certainty of
j Governor Hayes declining to accept the
Presidency ia view of the many and glaring
fiauds which have been committed by the
returning boards in tLe three contested
States of the South. The dispatch says
that "three prominent citizens cf Cincin
nati had returned that night from Cobirc-
J"!, lle home of Governor Hayes, whore j
t,iey had n interview w ith F. W. Merrick, j
a lawyer of that city. Mr. Merrick stated j
to them that at a Thanksgiving dinner at j
t,ie homo of Mr. Hayes, the Governor said j
"iC believed that Tilden was honestly elect- '
cd President of the United States, and that
if he was borne out in bis convictions he
would under no consideration accept the
office if declared elected. Tho conversa
tion was brought on by the remarks of Mrs.
General Mitchell, a niece of Governor
Hayes, who said to the Governor that she
hoped her husband would be successful in
bis present mission to Washington, and
bring about a settlement of tho question
wbich was proving such a source of trouble
both to the Governor and his family and to
the country at large. To this Hie Govern
or replied as above,saying that he believed
j Tilden was honestly elected President, and
' that under this conviction he thouid posi-
tivcly decline to accept if declared elected,
Mr. Merrick not only reaffirmed the truth
tlie Statement, but offered to make affi-
davit to the facts contained therein. Sen. j
ator Sherman, K. Stoughtoti ami Eugene
Halo have returned from the South, and '
have been closeted with Governor Hayes
in Columbus all the afternoon. .Nothing;
positive is kiiown as to their plan of oper- j
at tons.
Mn. and Mns. Kafp were divorced in
Hartford. Con n., on the 10th. At. noon on !
the 23d Mr. KapP remarried, and on the
si me evening Mrs. Knpp married Mr.
Kapp's brother. Taken all In all, these
proceedings may well be said to Kapp the '
uiinux iu maumiouiai maiTors
Grant's Last Animal Message.
Grant's message to Congress is small,
! meagre, nod u'isat.bfactory. Of course,
; nobody expected ho would show any com
; pichension of the perilous political state of
' the country, or anything, in the lino of
j statemattshtp. There w ill, therefore, be
! no disappointment among those who look
S tli rough it.
At the very bcslr.ning, ns soon as be has
given the reminder that this is his last an
S nual message, he tries to deprecate the
judgment of justice and the animadversion
; of his countrymen upon his career as Pies
j ident by telling that his misdeeds have
j been the resnltsof his inexperience, and by
j cloaking under the name of "errors" ami
f "mistakes" those unconscionable enortni-
ties and that obstinacy in w rong doin
, which have been the main features of his
' t wo terms of office.
As soon as he has got through with this
deprecatory passage, he adds to it a Ftting
of those bald and dry summaiies of the
reports of the departments, which form (he
bulk of his message and w hich were furn
ished to him by Hie tnembeisof his Cabinet
or their assistants. There are lho tTsual
I paragraphs about foreign relations from
j the State Department, none of which calls
i for mention excepting that in which fault
j is found with the measures of economy and
j retrenchment, that were enforced upon this
department by thn Democratic House at
- - -- - ..... ...v. i. I'm ii.
graphs about tbe army from '.he War De
partment ; but. in supplying Iheni Don
Cameron has refrained from saying any
thing about the recent, and present employ
ment of our military forces in the Southern
States. There is a paragraph or two about
the navy; but Robinson here keeps dear
of all those fads relating toite mismanage
ment that would be of real interest to The
country. It is rather singular that we
have no reference to and nothing in the
way of a summary of the legal opinions or
operations of the Attorney General. Father
Taft. We are loath to think that Giant
forgot him, or that Taft himseif has been
kept so busy as to be unable to furnish a.
few lines for the last, annual message of
Grant, when he has no chance of ever ap
pearing in another document of the kind.
Having eked oul several columns with
the department summaries, Grant closes
the message, as ho had begun ir. with
few sentences that ;ue undoubtedly bis
own, though they may have received the
revisal and approval of all the minds in his
Cabinet. He takes bold, fiisr, of the im
portant question, to which be calls the at
tention of Congress, of "throwing some
greater safeguard over the method of choos
ing and declaiing the election of a Presi
dent," and remarks that, "under the pres
ent system, there seems to be no provided
remedy for contesting the electiau in any
one State." This is a good opening of a
disquisition upon the great question of the
hour, and now that he has at last reached
if, we may surely expect some enlighten
ment, or at least, some observations that
w ill set people a thinking. "The remedy,"
he tiext goes on to say, with a happy facili
ty that, loads us at once into the regions of
hone "the letuedy." well, what is it?
Why, it is the establishment of a compul
sory system of education, and tbe disfran
chisement of all citizens who cannot read
and write the English language. We can
only rc-enfoicc Grant's words enforcing
upon flic attention of Congress this "safe
guard over the method of choosing and
declaiing the election uf a President." It
is worthy of its author.
Tho next and last theme of his mind and
message, behold, it is the defeat, many
years ago, of his and Rabcock's scheme for
the annexation of San Domingo. He
grieves over the defeat, even to this day,
even in times like these. He reminds ns
c-f the fertility of San Domingo, of its
tropical products, ;if thn advantages to our
coinmeice of its acquisition, and of its at
tractions for coloied emigrants. He does
not think the whole negro race in this
countiy would have gone there; but they
would have threatened to go there, and
thus improved their position here. Such
is the culminating theme of Giant's last
annunl message, and such is the treats it.
His closing words express the improba
bility that public affairs will ever again re
ceive attention fioni him, otherwise than
as a private citiztn ; and we must say there
need be no inconsolable grief over this
fact when we see how utterly he has
failed, and still fails, to comprehend the
responsibilities of the situation, and the
gravity of the questions that are before tbo
country, JV". Y. iSnn.
The Pennsylvania Legislature will meet
on the first Tuesday in January. It will
bean entirely new body. Already there
area number of applicants for the minor
positions in both branches, which will all
be under Republican control. For Chief
Clerk of the Senate, Elisha W.Davis, an
ex-Senator, and Thos. 15. Cochian, assist
ant clerk of that, body for some years, are
the ptincipal candidates. In the House,
Harry Iluhn, of Philadelphia, is the most
prominent candidate for Speaker, while
Dr. Shnrlock, of Heaver, an ex-member, is
a candidate for the Chief Clerkship, lie
has filled tho position before. John A.
Smull, of llariisbuig. long the Resident
Clerk, is again a candidate for the same
position. James Onslow, au old Pi'tsbnrg
printer, and for many years Harrisburg
correspondent for numerous papers, is a
candidate for Sergeant at-Arms. There
are, no doubt, other candidates for these
positions, but we have not heard of them
at this writing. Huntingdon Ulobe.
TnE Baltimore S'r says "that when it
was announced that Mr. Tilden was elected
the prospects of business were momentarily
brightened. Everybody began to feel that
the worst was over, and that we were at
the dawn of a new era of peace and pros
perity. There were signs of reviving trade
in the increase of orders from the South
and the interior cities. Hut when it was
rumored that the result of the Presidential
election deluded upon the decisions of the
returning boards of South Carolina, Louis
siana and Florida, a reaction set in, and
that reaction has continued fo manifest it
self in a depression of all branches of busi
noss, and in the lower prices of all classes
of securities."
The N. Y. Sun thinks that, Parson
Newman possesses the most prehensile
tongue of any living creature, not. except
ing the giraffe. And the avidity with
which he employed it in his Thanksgivi ig
Dy sermon, w hen he eulogized the Pre n
dent for bis illegal use of United States
troops in South Carolina, shows that ho is
eminently fitted to make an acceptable
spiritual adviser to just sr.ch an Adminis
tration as Grant has inflicted upon thepeo- I
A theatre in Brooklyn, N. T., was!
destroyed by tire on Tuesaay night last,
and, horrible to relate, nearly if not quite
two hundred persons perished iu the flames, j
The play of the '"Three Orphans" was iu
progress when the fire, which communica
ted to the drapery of the stage from a gas
jet, broke out, and the scene that ensued ;
was terrible beyond descript ion. At latest !
accounts sixty three bodies bad been taken
from the ruins.
All of the States but one that gave
majorities for George Washington at bis
first election have given majorities for
Tilden. That exception is Pennsylvania,
which gave ten electoral votes for Wash- j
ington and eight for Adams. i
Servant a of the Vcople.
WORK YOU WHICH DKMOCU ATS AS WP.U.
KErCHMCANS PAY THE CABINET.
A3
Correspondence New York Sun.
Washington, Nov. 30. The heads of
ne seve.a. ocpa.m.en .e osy r..K-Kru
hi the preparation of their annual reports.
M IILOC .Till iivi noi, iiijm..iiv.,i.'ai.aji....v
virtu. Ikifiiris till. r. nf 1 i i r nf IVnurpfiH IS
Ti... ...;it ...occk ,n.r r..t- ttio i ma
short. The following abstracts of the
more important reports have been furnished
to the press :
THE INTERIOR DF.PA11TMEXT.
Days spent in the transaction of public
business Jl
Tlays spent in elect innecrimr for Unves. 3'i3
Num' er of Invitations to drink success
to Hnyes 3.T.VJ
Number ot invitations accepted S'J.'ifri
Nu rut. or of invilstions to drink contu
sion to Tdden, 24.002
Number .f invitations aeeepted 24.('
ToIhI number of in vitntions to di ink b4.f7-
lialunce to private uceount HIS
The Secretary modestly -calls attention
to the grand total given above as proof that
lie has not been uumindiui of t lie respon
sibilities and opportunities of bis position.
lie claims that no other Secretary ever
paid such unremitting and patriotic atten
tion to his interior department as be has
done.
The Secretary recommends the perma
nent lemoval of the department to the
Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York, and sug
gests that, in view of the heavy expenses
necessitated by the'Presidential campaign,
the appiopriat ions for the coining jear
should be doubled.
THE TWEASl ItY DKPAItTMKNT.
Secretary Morrill admits that his oppor- '
(unities to serve the Republican party have '
been mote limited than those of some of
the fdhor members of the Cabinet, but j
points with pride to his public- spii ited ac- i
tion when called upon to addiess the
batikers of Wall street upon national finan
ces. "1 have neglected no occasion," he '
says, "to impress upon the minds of foreign ;
bond holders the grand truth that t lie securi
ty of their investments lies, not iu the good '.
faith of the nation, but in the continuance
in power of the presant Administration." j
In anothui place be says : "At a time I
when the national credit was seriously ;
threatened by the omens of Mr, Tilden's 1
success, I was able to aveit a panic by a '
prompt supplication of the secret service ;
fund to j ay the expenses of Republican :
electioneering agents. This use of tbe se- .;
cret service fund is clearly that which the :
law contemplates." ;
The following is Secretary Morrill's an- ;
nual exhibit :
Number of 'lovernmr-nt employees as
ci sscil tor ilrt.vis 5 per cent
NiniUM-r retiismir to pay assessment
N umber disclou'irc (I
Total revenue ot department inbuilt). .
.Amount pan) Secretary Chandler of In
tenor liepni tsnent (about)
11. -50
lie
000,1 )
G00,000
"It is gratifying," concludes Secretaiy
Morrill, "that at a time of almost universal
business depression, the dcnaitment which
I have the honor to administer can show
the country
bitch creditable figures as
these." 1
TIIR WATt DEP A IIT.MKN T. f
Secretary Don Catneion declines to re- '
port concerning the condition and disposi- '
t ion of the ai my of the United States. He i
s;sys iu a piivate note : "The theory that '
tho atiny and its officers ate responsible to j
the people is about played out. That sol-
dicrs of experience and courage should be '
held amenable to ix-ttifogging legislators, j
whom they can make or unmake, is ex-I
treinely absurd. If Congress wishes to (
neai irom tne ai my outing me next session
iv van uiiuouo.cuiy oe itccoiuiuouaicu.
THE ATTOUNKY-GENEKAT..
Mr. Taft explains at some length that be
has been too busily engaged since bis ap-
poiiitment ni iiianiifactui ing opinions to
suit party lequiiements, in ncomniciuliiig
pardons for the whiskey thieves, and in
stumping for Hayes, to attend to the or
dinal routine duties of his oflice, or, in
deed, to ascertain what those duties are.
"No patiiot can be expected,'" he protests,
it a crisis like this to encumber his brain
with a useless clutter of indictments, de
niuirers, and judgments. The country
must be saved even though eveiything goes
by default."
THE TOST OFFICE.
Mr. Tyner congratulates himself upon
the application of a new and patriotic
method of administci ing the mail service.
While other Post niaster-Genei als have
taken a narrow view of their duties and
confined themselves to the transmission of
piivate matter of comparative unimpor
tance, he has sought tojuoinote the politi
cal education of the people by the gratui
tous dissemination of campaign documents.
The amount and character of tho informa
tion dispensed by his department are shown
in the following list :
Senator .'orton'i Great Misa'siimi
speech
Col. Hob Iinrersoirrt (! illation n( (Jn,
lie tio'vi r (iHrtlelft s llefeiiee oT Kepuh-la-nni.-pi
J$;ll Kemble's Hrst Principles of Arith
metic TibU-ii a li y i im ist
t'oiiicsof liinri ('Hmpnixii Supplement.
prtf.noo
7.VO0O
Son.roo
lir).ono
PXI.IMIU
.Mr. 1 yner recommends that, the Consti
tution be so amended that the Postmasters
i inr i until ciaies sunn lierea I ter elect
the President and Vice-President, thus Uo-
t the I, nited States shall herenftoi-
ing away w ith the absurd machinery of the
Electoral College and throwing the choice
upon a body of men eminent, for patriotism
and stalesiuanlike habits of thought.
Infantii.k Prognostication. The ba
by prognostication again presents itself,
The Cincinnati Enquirer was responsible
for its primal appearance, and now the
Washington Stur lakes it up. Hayes has
children, hence it isn't his turn to win
Tilden is childlesss, therefore he must suc
ceed. Precedent is the guide, aud the fol
lowing table makes it clear :
1. Washington had no children.
2. Adams , ,
3. Jefferson h,1-
1. Mndison had no children.
2. Monroe ) . ,
X Adams hatl
1. .Jackson had no children.
2. Van Pitiren , ,
Tl. Harrison '
1. Polk had no children.
2. Taylor I . ,
X Pierce 'v1-
J. rSiu-hanan bad no children.
2. Lincoln ) . ,
3.
I r rant
1.
Tilden has no children.
r.im.lCAT. LORK TOR. THE POLITICIANS.
The Western Republican papers are quo
ting the following portion of scripture on
the present situation with a good deal of
relish :
And Samuel arose and went to Eli and
sabl : -'Here am I, for thou did'stcall me."
And he answered. "I called not, my son
lie down again." So Samuel went,
and lay down in bis place.
This is from the third chapter of the First
Book of Samuel, and bad tho Republican
editors searched tho scriptures a little
further they would have discovered that,
the Lord called Samuel, and they would
have found that "Samuel grew and the
Lord was with him, and did let none ofhis
words fall to the ground. And from D.m
i ven tTiHershcba Samuolwas established."
Baltimore Gazette.
Father Oazzoli is the oldest priest in '
Washington Territory and has beer on the '
mission there for 30 years. He is the son
of a Roman prince, and Cardinal Patrizi,
who has just died, was bib uncle.
I A WoMiF-KFt i, Clock. Mr. Wm. C ;
! Ra tint lister commenced the construction ;
of a wonderful clock at Girardville, 5?chuyl- j
j kill county, on the loth day of September,
1S72, and finished it at Cniawissu, Colum- j
j bia county, August 10, 10i. j
; The inventor is a German watchmaker, ;
.... ji " o hinl
in Company i, sun uegimeni, i a. voiun-
leers. lie was wouimeu in me ien -it, in
- - - ... "
Charleston. S. C. Sept. 22, 18C2. from t
WHICH lie lias oeeu a unjipir evi-r mmit.
The height of the clock is 8 feet 6 inches,
contains 7H3 pieces, and weighs between j
500 and 000 pounds. It is wound up oneo j
a month, strikes the minutes, quarters,
and hours if desired. Its wonderful i
mechanism has astonished all who have
seen it. The figures representing tbe apos-
ties and pi esidents are carved out of chert v j
wood. It is surmounted by an eagle and ,
the stars and stripes. It was intended for
the Centennial, but was not completed in '
lime. j
Part first is as follows : It shows the birth :
! place of Christ the stable at Ilefhlehem
2. The door on the left will ojen as if by
1 magic, and the three kings of the east ap- ',
; pear before the stable. !
' 3. Chiist having arisen from the dead.
! 4. St. Peter, followed by all the apostles :
I save Judas, will appear, reveiencing Christ '
. as they pass him. j
j 5. Part second is as follows : Tbe door ,
' on the second gallery will open, presenting '.
I George Washington on a platform. j
f. President Adams will pass before him j
; with a bow, followed by all tho presidents, j
I 7. The clock shows rive different dials. I
! The centre dial shows the hours, quarters :
and minutes, the second the day of the i
i week, the third the day of tho month, the j
1 fourth the seconds, and tho astronomic j
I the evening star.
A TKnr.im.K Fatk. A West Chester
correspondent of the Philadelphia lime
says that on Saluiday morning, about 10
o'clock. Mrs. Mary Johnson, an old lady
aged 78, was terribly and fatally burned
by her clothes taking fire from a spaik
falling (Hi her dress while she was lighting
her pipe. She bad been left but. a lew
moments by her daughter alone when the
accident occurred. The fbitr.es quickly en
veloped Mrs. Johnson, who ran into the
ent ry, calling to her daughter : "I am on
fire." Miss Johnson hastened to her moth
er's assistance and threw a blanket around
her, thus smotheiing the flames, but not
before the old holy was dreadfully burned.
Drs. J. P,. and il. C. Wood were cm lied in
ai:d administered to the sufferer. Dr. J.
P.. Wood says that at least, ouodialf of the
skin was burned from her person, her face
was entirely divested of skin and the eye
sight destroyed. She also inhaled the
fiames, severely burning her throat and
lungs. She lived until about midnight,
when death relieved her of her suffering.
Miss Johnson was also badly burned about
the baud and arm, her clothes taking fire
w ...... n
i:om tier moijier s, but with great presence
' ' mind she succeeded in putting the flames
out.
The lTonesdale, Pa., ChronirU says
that as Samuel Cliff was driving through a
dai k and lonely piece of woods near White's
hollow, about twelve miles from Hones
dale, be beard a most unearthly yell from
some spot not far ahead of him in the road.
This was followed by a man's voice shout
ing in terror, "For God's sake hurry up,"
Mr. Cliff whipped up his horses, and a
short distnttco aherd iound a man standing
in the middle of the road holding a cotv by
a rope around its horns. The cow aa
: plunginc about
is if greatly frightened,
i and the man, William Loyeland, of Alden-
(Vllle, WSS HlsO It) Ullicll terror. Ho said
1 :'K "' was walking along, leading his
! c,,w", fie heard something come bounding
through the bushes, and then a large an
imal spiang into the road. From tho size
and action of the beast, Loveland knew
that be was confionted by a panther.
The niiiual crouched on the ground for au
liistanr, ana men with a wild screech it
sprang and fastened itself on the back of 1
the cow. The noise of the horses rutin in i I
j toward the spot seemed to scare it, for it j
; jumped oil into the woods. The marks of i
the panther's teeth and claws were visible !
till the cow's back. i
Pirtii after Df.atit. The Selings
grove Time is responsible for the follow big
remarkable, not to say improbable, story
A . . f r. i: . . .. J
.v iii.in 11.11111-1. vomiori nves aoout tniee
nines hack of Mekee s Half Falls, Snvder
county. It appears that he and his w ife
oiu not live agreeable together. Seveial !
weeks a-o she died, and nfi..P ,tMn. t.- .t-
and blue spots appeared on ber face and
other parts of her person. She was bur-
tied according to usual custom. There
; siHin was talk in the neighborhood that the
j woman had been foully dealt w it li ami that
' her death was probably caused bv violenr-i
, The talk finally culminated iu general ex- !
, citement, and at the end of nine days after '
; burial the corpse was dug up aain for ex- '
animation by three physicians, Dr. Rack- !
. house, Dr. Kircbner and another physician !
w hose name we cannot recall. The corpse
. ..-. ..w . .hi j im, i it i- (lecompnseti to detect
indications of violence, but to the niter
' 1 " i".o.o iwv us
XXZW
I astonishment of tbe physicians they dis
a child after she was bmied. the like of
which has probably never been heard of!
before. i
In West Albany, N. Y.," lives a Ger
man family named Meisner. The parents
have a daughter abort seven years of age,
and for some act the father, on Wednesday
last, drove her out of the house. The
neighbors in the vicinity have notrir that
the child was not well treated by its parents !
and therefore, when nothing was seen of
'he little girl all day Wedi.esrl.iv 9..,:
! Thursd
.
somelliirif
i y. " - I--- ovintllllll"
wrong liad taken i,hm .t i.:.
I minds. Saturday morning a delegation of
the neighbors become more and more con
vinced that something was wrong, and in
Miiuieu a scare ii lor the child. Near the
house there is a swamp abounding in un
dergrowth and rank vegetation, and on tbe
marchers penetrating this they found the
poor, little, thinly-clad creature cuddled
up behind some bushes, nearly dead from
exhaustion and exposure. She bad lain
there since "Wednesday, and both hei arms
atui legs were so badly frozen thatamnu
tation w ill probably be necessn.-v 'ZZ
is little hope that the child will recover
The parents wiH l proaecutcd.
. o , , ,
i streeU,Nev Orleans.and crossed Espleuade
'PPtJl nif f li lnm.a IT.
w- ... vMiiutniic
, o.ivci. jineo uiocks wero destroyed.
Most of tho buildings burnt weie small
cottages, henn Ditrieux, a member of the
fiie department, broke his leg in three
places. A negro w in. was detected setting
( fire to one of tho houses during t he contla
I gration was shot and instantly killed.
Another negro, also found in the act of
committing the same crime, was shot at
but was missed, and succeeded in making
bis escape. One hundred and twelve
; houses were des'.ioyed. The loss is esti
: mated at. from $300,000 to $400,000; insur
. mice $200,000. About fifty bouses wero
occupied by one hundred families who lost
nearly all their effects, and are left desti
. tute, many of them losing their vcarinr
I apparel.
A young lady named Ferry, residing
with her uncle at Newton, Luzerne county!
was shot, and seriously inim-orl ,(i'
pnt
igh
, while Hlaudiog near LU residence at night.
Xewi and fit Tier Jsotlngs.
"A cast -iron grandmother" is the name
of a new machine for d.irniiig stockings.
Alexander Peoples, of Chester county,
thrashed 333 bushels of what from eight
acres.
Fifteen thonsand gallons of cider
I were made this season by one man ir. Ches
i
- j-
Tititsvillians experienced a severe
tbock on I- riday evening,
was an earthquake.
Mr. Wilson, of Canonsbntg, recently
sold two hundred and fifty line wooled
sheep, which averaged 117 pounds each.
The main exhibition building was
wild on Friday last to tbe International
Exhibition Company for .rO.OOO.
Mi. and Mrs. Hick ley, of Schuylkill
county, were buried iu one crave last
week. Their deaths wero only a few hours
apart.
Funis county, Texas, cast a solid
Democratic vote, and then bad a jubilee
with 3,000 men in line, cannons and a
great ball.
In Cincinnati, tbe other day, Mr.
llounsdoi fer, of Illinois, need eighty-three
years, became tbe husband of a charming
young woman of nineteen.
Mr. Wolf recently killed four wild
tuikeys at one discharge of his double-
barreled gun w hile hunting on the side of
' t lie mountain, above Harrisburg.
Filiott Cheney, aged fifteen, while out
! bunt ing near Freedom, Heaver county, on
I Sa'urday, accidentally shot himself in the
! light side and died iu a few hours.
', J. A. Jamison, of Washington county,
recently drove from Yankton, Dakota, to
i bisboiiie in an ojen-top buggy, thedi-dance
; being 1.200 miles ; time twenty-one days.
I A Nevada man died a few days ago,
I from tbe effects of a gunshot wound re
! ceived in lSo2, the bullet remaining itn
! bedded in his lungs for twenty fouryeais.
A young man "in P.tidgeport, Conn.,
i puiled back so baid, wheu bis companions
i hauled hioi up to a bar to di ink. that one
of his arms was broken. Tbe tiuth of the
I stoiy is vouched for by the Hiidgepoit
, newspapers,
! An Irish democrat walked from F'k
' City, to bis home in Indiana county, nearly
i one bundled miles, to vote for Geo. A
i Jenks for congress, and then walked back
i to his work at. an oil well. There is hope
f for the country yet.
The Associate Judges all over tbe
i State arc dying off, officiaPy, by the expir
j:tionof their terms of office. Theie are
j but a few judicial districts now in which.
; under the new-constitution, Associate Judg-
cs are any longer elected.
! A Virginia Irishman did not have a
: very lucid idea of tbe inmlu optranii, but
i be forcibly "xpressed the popular view of
j the case ih-?n be said : "I wish some one
j would take that damned returning board
i and split it over Grant's bead."
! In Philadelpha, a woman named Cella
I MeClain is on trial for murder. She is
I charged with having poisoned James M.
! Canfield, a Centennial exhibitor from Iowa,
j Tbe verdict, according t the law, must be
j one of acquittal or murder in the first de
! grce.
i A Bethlehem, Pa., dispatch says more
I than one-half of the mines in the State aie
i stopped. The number of men thrown out
of work is estimated at between thirty-five
i and forty thouand. It is believed the sus
pension w ill be entire by the middle of the
month.
A negro named Crr.tcher attempted to
commit a r:pe on the wife of J. E. Cogar,
white, at Shaker ferry, Mrccr county.
Kentucky, on Friday, but failing in the
' !,t,er,1i,t 'lC H" captured by a
Xic1wIa?ivilI an.l hung tt a tree.
-I);ivui Monn, otNoith Sainlv, Merer-r
county, lett his sweetheart a long time ago
; atid went West. tor seventeen years
I Jived the life of a front iei snian. and nix
j tbiee yeais since lie came back and tnar
j ried the gii 1 be loved. Recently Le died
j in the almshouse near Fianklin.
On the Sotli Colonel McCenzie, bad an ,
engagement with the Cheyennes near the .
Sioux Pass of the Fog Horn mountains, in ;
which 173 lodges were destroyed. 5'MI !
ponies captuied. and 2" Indian bodies
found, r ivo soldiers aud one officer were ;
! killed on our side, and twenty-five wound- j
j eJ !
' The Joliet Ticcord relates an incident
of death from grief: "Mrs. McGeo. the'
1 mother of the voting man killed at New (
Lenox a few weeks since, died at ber home !
i in tins city last Saturday
mourned herself to death
i " " "Ul l"e "" as K,"','
I r I .1- t , -T, .
pillow w as found a photograph of her son ."
Cail Scb u rz says in the 11 Vj.fi' irhe Pont
j that from whatever point of view we con
! template the latest events in South Caioli
' u a, we can only look upon the inlei fereucc
i of military power in the organization of the
; J legislature as an act of usurpation and
j violation o: ii:e laws. hat
.usurpation oi power seems in
spirit that dictated the lawlessness.
A ( hester county farmer, named
' i
liickcl. residing not far from Pottstown
as a five year-old bu'.l trained t ion a
thrashing machine, and which this fall has
i iiiiiisneii an ine motive tmcr for the cut
- ..r r 11 i-,
! SlSlw ' i I li T. Z
only be driven upon the barn floor, when
be knows what is to follow, and takes bis
place w ith the docility of a horse accustom
ed to tbe business.
Charles Loudon, while at work recent
ly in a saw mill near Rlossburg, in taking
a heavy plank from the saw was overbal
anced, said in falling struck the saw. cut
ting oft one of bis arms ami throwing him
up nearly to the roof of the mill, an doom
ing oaek lie struck on tho saw ag iin. that
! I""6 ,c,.,U",!f ,,,,e;,f ,,is lrKR '"-"ig-
1 r iMuium. ne uvea
, t null' ii ftinn
'J III 11
o .
v.. ..uim.i.ij summon, a umipr m a
I I O.., !.. ...
! x-V,,nil,t ,);"to,b Ohio, burst. James
- ,e u,c,,,wno' was standing near.
I was severely bruised ami hadlv koi.i...! i.
j tbe steam. A boy assisting him was thrown
eome distance by the shock, but. with only
i a Tew bruises. The boiler, weighing a ton",
was thrown nTty feet in the air. "pieces
j were found a hundred yards away. No
damage was done by flying timber.
At Salinesvilie,Ohio, on Hie Cleveland
J and Pittsburg Railroad, last Thursday, a
i lAf itJa n n .i ; .. i r- -
niiun vluiilu. i wo miners imi ' . .
' sto,e "'e blasting wder in their house l . XtiX) c .i'u t-t
j ,,c' ignited from a spark, and as. explo- ' T.-trrPr. -
T" rcsuit.cd- T,,e """ bhmn to SELL T MU H LUttU'1'
"" ""'' men and the wife of one of : , , sltom
I them vorc killed, their bodies beintr hori-i 1 than the rre.nt . .
I - - ""J III UllU. I
iMn;uiaiHi iter miKikAiirf itn i. i a t w - - -
I Mrs. Irene House, who killed her bus- ; an.J Invite comps' i'11' 'V
j oano, vnsoii a. Ilouse,at Law rence station,
I N. J., several months ago, has been pro
i nounced insane, and on Saturday she was
( placed in the Insane Asvl mil nf Tioiitim
t)no of her delusions is that she has a mis
sion to perform in effecting a reconciliation
net ween the Catholic and Jewish Churches.
She has refused to eat. anything but the!
plainest food, believing thnt r.r,;i !
were endeavoring to poison her.
A lad named Lew is Ilarshfield,
ton. Pa., after witnessiiiir a roi-i
feats, undertook to get un an exhibition on
bis own book. He t ied one end of the rot m
to the dttorknob, and the other tothe knob '
of the kitchen cunlHinrd. Then l.o imt f i
the i rope and the cupboard toppled over, i uXi ' ! TP
...... iuii-s liner me young gym
hiiii n i.u. ............ i... - ....... .
nast might have been seen crawling from
beneath the ruins of $2. worth of crockery
I fl.'.Ml B-sswarw. Mo wasn't hurt ninth un
' i , '"otner got tUr
r.ii
P.
i .
r
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bef.uc elect... n iM
bntidicdH ,.f emi j,,v,.,.
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a
Ihey weie expected t ,
HFMHKUt.E St.,:,.,
S V, il: ;.,
"-.(
vegaiv.mg ihc dioo
I V . f
i hi n aca eoyuty. "t ,.
j acres, it is claimed. Y i '
. springs, and the o.o r
O.ie of tV.
I hey declare it been assayed and rio,,,,,,.
. V',"' jti win. f,.
V JL I t
; UMIJ III IIP (Icsl'lt,
: Dorado iukmi.c -. n .i.
-II T ,
j both without delay, pf j. .
this silver deK.it',e t..;r,4,:
j n.t be- financially iui:i,j f '
! nt least.
,' Herman Ott of 0;n ,, .
living as a carpenter. ,
came a graveIigap,. ,
! made him melancitoiv.
was unable to r-p,. t ,
', to bury himself. So J.,. ",',
himself at the biiuk c.r .:
i bad arrunged seveial t,."J ,
: on htm when his bmlv !:.,,!'
btit the contiivance iu , ,.
tne uuiiet kn: hnn. J
a change if einploMm
Andv Hiown. of v,"
into a blacksmith s',. , ;
other day with a ijum.
powder in hi" co;it t;, ; .
with his back towanl .'
from the anvil son( .,,
' f
lationship v it Ii the .j .
j one minute Andy sh.'t . .,
: diHr as if ho ti,,..
catapult. Hi coat is -!
when he sits d-iwn it U
, time giace and abatal,.i,
Tfie giil Mai v Kciv
. riousty simiit ;et,,..,
MtTim.-iy inglit, is
, tained by the r i:f,. ,.;,,
i also of ber lelativf s tl ;,
' cousin of the gi:l. is il.,. ,
fatal shot. The sl.ootii'
the yciiiij man baiiig i
i and having llw Im,:jm.
; bis Kssession tiie till f
; wanted by p iMnsj,,:, t..
and in the slight j-im-;,.
girl was slu t. I i.P j,,,
, Newtown, and i..e;Tt i
! arrest him.
Of all who biT
i nieilal for saving
ewr
!..;;..
' Charreton. Aged 7, is i..
. est. On .-t. i s!l4.
i sheep near Tram..'ii. t:, ;
little five year oj.j c !:' .
! washing ber aim on b-.i,', a
j deep tunk, i d ovei. r..?
1 most into the water. I
away for help -i ctvirv. :
girl quickly righted -.e ...
,' diow ii ing comp nii :-i I ; ;'
'. coeded in n sciiiig 1. i. s:
! w lapped tier b';tiu:i:Se ! a-i.,
j prtege in her own -ni :.:.
only i an off to get In !;.,
i Tbe ShtTvej-ort
' recently the ttisti.ir
i Msrshall and Texas s- t-:
j It was tbe pioputy of Mr.
! neatly everytlitvg le .
j was destroyed. la the if;:
' stood a l.nge w.n.ilcti c:-'r
, foundation, v. li :c!i as Kn'r
i red by the f.aiii-s. Int ..:
! black and legtittied ly t
I 3Ir. f'ition accvj-Ttu ti e s.:l
' the water, cut i-.n i j i . ire
1 which be bung o-e of ti.e n
! a half bnim cofditior. :. l
' self up a home i;i ti e ( - i;'
i placed a bed. brdi.i.
wpshstand. itc.: ai.ii iv :..f
i for t he w inter.
the eeewBS m
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will bo nppuront tosll ''; v...
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trs-iicti'Hi Iro n ' ""
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d ofl-'is ; Rooms, io d.mt.le their I ,
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