-JU jcHt-r a-?r " the cieaiuemJ EBfJSLJU.iC, PA., FrilbV Morilin.?, - - Feb. 2, 1877. ' that Giant has thus fatily met the demands ; returns by the Louisiana Returning Board J ' , , 4 isone or the chief topics discussed here to- , of public opinion, and as we have a country f,',,; tbe of a niicl,,,Cope the Twk bill pvoviding Tor the removal orthe ' 0 be saved and a government to be handed transfer of votes from the Tilden to the capital of this State from Ilarrisburg to uwii to future generations, as they were , Hayes column isclearly discernible by hold Phil.ulelpbia, in the interest of a certain j fiive to tis by OIir forefathers, we cheer- 1 i"g the ,,ner up to the liuht. in t bene mu li;na in .he city last named, was defeated j flllly cll(Iorse ;lM lhat lbe President so well ZSinZ Id the House of Representatives at Hams- j and truthfully says iu this brief but per- ! c.T.imn. and the character "0" as many burg, on I uesday last, by a vote or .5 y.as to 123 uays. We regard this vote as . - 1 il.r. 1 - . ft II.:. cnciu-ive, ana mcreioie imp im.i. i.ms insane project has received its quietus for all time to come. Paris N said to Ixs F ranee but we denv that Philn.l. luhia is I ... -oSSafo tea.nL. P a mm t .Ti-tif:iNf: from riPseilt arifearailCCS the i ... , I 1 ew fenateot tnei. mrru stales win oecom- , .:.! ,.r ;..!. r l...,.Kl; .... t!.;t i j n-iii .... vj ....... .......... ......j ti.ueMriK th.- electoral votes enst Ht the thrPO Iem'icrats and two In lepeli lent He- lnf eleetion l-y one or irmre or the States de . .. . . i k.-iiiU I he oiien'ion whet her one or the other of publicans Judge Davis ami ex-ljoernor ; Sinndens of Xebrasia-who-will probably ! art with the Democrats There will be two contested seats for Louisiana and one for South Carolina, and :f Senators P.ooth, C'hristiancy, Wadleigh, Patterson and An g.is Cameron vote for the admission of the Democratic claimants to seats from South Carolina and Loui-iana, the Democrats ; . , . , i I will have thnty-eight members upon wliom tii-v e .n i. !. if llm Remln is full So we tiicv can icly ir iiio senate is nui. bo e wiil hold tl0 l.aoicals even. Ovp of II. o irieiiressilite uirmbeis tif the ! , t i r I jower urancu oi me oiaie ijegiMai uie noiu ; 1 ili.liilii i Ve ikel hvnimp ofTend a ! tions not best enlcnlale.1 to prodiiceatrreement 1 h.ladclpliia, lcaket oy name, oueuu or , irtn?t; c-ulm ri-piinir In thfnt---! lrMticti resolution on Monday last fixing the final i es of (io eminent, or nmnnir the people of the . , country. In ene where, a now. the result is ail journnient of both houses for I liilisoiiy, j involved. It is the hfjbe. l .luty or thelaw-mak- M, . .-...i.t : n,ii .,..,1i i f tiir power to provide in ad vanee a const itu t ion- arch l.tli, to assemble in adjoin mil . 0Vde, ,y and just method of executtn the annual session on the first I uesday ot Jan- , uarv, 18T8. Wo render unto Yeakel our r , , r , . f o.i: .,,. full meed of praise for the final ailj min- j tnent clause in his resolution, but when he contemplates an adjourned session in Jan uary next he insults every taxpayer in the commonwealth. Yeakel ought to know that Pennsylvania, as well as the balance of creation, is governed entirely too much. The.e is no plausible excuse whatever for j no adjourned session, and yet the project will iu all probability be cariicd through. O- - -Cm If there ever was any doubt about the fraudulent and infamous proceedings of the world-renowned .Louisiana Het'irning T-onrd, it was removed on Monday last by Littlifield, the clcik of said triumvirate, who swore before the Congressional com mittee that he altered the original returns from Vernon parish, iu the presence of Wells, so as to transfer a majority of the votesjfrom Tilden to Hayes; that he did this under the direction of Wells himself, and! , . ... , I luai aiier maKing copies oi ine altered re turns, and substituting them for the orig inal, the latter were burned by the express order of Wells. If any one has doubts of the doublo-distilled villainy of the Lonisi aia Kettnninc Hoard, this sworn statement of the clcik of sai'l boaid oughi to tscrve to open tlicircjcs to the truth. Ji dge David Davis, one of the Associ ate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, was elected by the Legisla ture of Illinois, yesterday week, to tin JU. S. Semite for six years fiom the 4ih of next March, as the successor of John A. Lognn. .Tiu'ge Davis was the intimate friend of Abraham Lincoln, long befoie the "attr became Piesidoi't, and in Mr. Lincoln nominated him to the judicial position which he now holds, and which he has till ed with so much honor to himself and ( credit to the country. He 'as originally a Republican, but never ultra in his politi cal views, and if he, elected to the Senate as ho has been by Democratic votes, is now identified wiiii that pally, it is be cause Republicanism has ceased to profess, much less tocirry out, the principles of iis foundcis. KNOvriNO full well as we do that thct d ' itor of the Johnstown Tribune is an tin- j Fcrnpulous and bigoted partisan who acts on the piirc'ple that the end justifies the means, we are not in the least sui prised that he permits James Redpath. his Wash ington correspondent, to disgrace and dis honor the columns of his paper by publish ing the most miserable and unfounded cal umnies against the Catholic Church, and the Democratic party. If Swank can thus nftord to libel a Christian organization un der the cover of Redpath, and iusult the community in which he lives, moves and j lias a being, we are very sure that tho i . i I ... 1 . ..l. ' niurcn, oi which oe cems to uo so iiiiicu afraid, will still live and not materially sutler from the venetnous assaults of this contemptible scribbler, who would make a tedf ith indeed through this land of civil nnd icl'gious liberty if he had the powr as he has the will t? fan the tlames of re ligious and political persecution iu our midst. Os Tuesday last the Senate of the Uni ted States elected five members of that body to serve on the commission for count ing the electoial vote. Their names are, Edmunds of Vermont, Frelinghuysen of Is'ew Jersey, and Morton of Indiana, Re publicans, and Thurman of Ohio and Bay ard, of Delaware, "Democrats. On the same day the House of Representatives elected Payne of Ohio, Hun ton of Virginia and Abbott of Massachusetts, Democrats, and Garfield of Ohio ami Hoar of Massa chusetts, Republicans. In a political sense the I wo committees are equally divided. Tbe four Justices of the Supreme Court designated in the bill, namely, Clifford of Maine, Strong of Pennsylvania, Miller of Iowa, and Field of California, met on the following day (WeJnesday) and elected Justice Rradley, of New Jersey, as the judicial branch of the electoral com mis sion. The members of the Senate and House assembled in joint convention in Mia bill of the House vcfterdav. but nt this hour (Thursday, 4 P. M ,) we o course . . , , . , , have no Information of wht transpired, Let every honest and law-nbid.nir man possess his soul " PMencP and pay , .neau.ime ...... o. v. ,.c .. . ... the country may im-o a sate deliverance i and that the blessed reign of p.ace and jooJ will thro jyhout the lv re-torcd. ho laud my oun We give place herewith to the message resident (J rant, issued on Monday hst, roving the bill for the peaceful find, as we believe, legal and honest settlement of tlua Picsidetni.M difficulty. I; Is not often , tiuent document : j T the Sewxtc f the United State: ' T r.llnw llm nvnmiiln V - ff. - occislnna'ly is moile inv - "":h( ,,,!,, m ; .oval or tiie a.-Moproviitt-frHod uhite l?. .0?,""Vn J,e." rf-io.w7nnPsti.ins I " isinir thereon-' be. -an -tent my apnreciation ior P W .tt HHiiM n n is ti.ni niiiiiiiiouni m- t numt rv. uiulfr the rontitution. s it now l. a enpe. l or rue ni si inim m int.- iMBi.H.T "i mo . .liapnt. exii. witli rt-irnril to the result if the i- of i-hi.-r MMvi.trnteor th- nsttin. It is . iiiideist.-oft thsit iii.oii the rtispo. ition of dis- th(, ean'li.lutee rr the I'resi.lency i the lawful j yS l:i tt. whi;h f the two eitiz-n bus been fleeted inift hnviir the riRlit to this liijrh oltiee rmw nized and cheerfiilly airreed in by all tlie people I of the repu public ciiiinot be overest:mated, and i letiris me to express lo Congress mm me iimiioh my jrreat satisl'ttction at the adoption of the HieHsureth.il alio. ls an erderly means of de cision of the sxnvely exeititiif questions. While the history of our own country in Its earlier neriori shows that the President of the Senate has counted the votes and declared their Mnndinjr, our whole history shows that In no in,t,,n,.e f f;o,,it or depute has he exereted ," P"wer or defidinir, and thill the two tiouc9 or ,.onB.9 h.,Vrt ,jSI)BPd of all such doubts and disputes. nMhouirh in no instance hitherto have they been such that their decision could ! exsentttllv have elTeted the result. For the Ilrst time. thtn. the IJiivpriiment of the I'niteil States is now brought to inert the question as one vital to the result, and this under condi onst notion in this most inrerearimr nn criti- cal Hauscor It. provist.ns. The doing so, far tn.m leing a compromise of tight is an e,,- forcemetit of right and an executiin of the pOWCr!, w,nr,.rr,.7i ,,y ,i, Constitution on Con- (rress. I think that this orderly method has been secure by the lull which, appealing to the cmsti'.u ion and law as its Kif in ascertaining right provides the means of deciding questions of single returns through the direct action of C ingress and in re.ipeel to double returns by a tritium;! of inquiry, whose deeisions stand, un less both houses of Conirress shall concur in de termining otherwMc. tints securing a definite diMiositinn of all miestioiis of ilisoule. in what- ever aspect they may aiise. Willi or without a tie ote is impossible, it must bo that one of the two candidates has been el-cted, and it would ! deplorable lo witness an irreirular eontroveroy as to which of the two should re-Ci-ive or which should continue to hold ottice. In all periods of hUtoty controversies have ai i-en as to thesiiceesvion or elioiceof chiefs of States, and no party or citizen loving their country nnd its tree institutions can sacrifice too mueh of mere leeling in pros, rviiur throuah upright course of law, their country from tlio siiuillcst iliinyer to Its peace on such an occa sion, and it eiin not lie Impressed too firmly in the hearts of nil people that true libert- and real progress can exist only through cheerful adherence to constitutional law. Tli j bill purports to provide only for the set tlement or questions arising from the recent fleet ions. The fact I hat such questions can arise demonstrates the neeessitv whieh, I can im- inn, - nia in i iiv .-i,i. iiii.. iiii-i, mi ti not doubt, will, before long, tie supplied bv I",'",al,,,,,t eneral legislation to meet cases whieh have not been contemplated in the t'on- slitntions or laws ot the country. The bill mav not be perfect and Its provisions may not lie sneli as would It best applicable to all future occasions; but It is calculated to meet the pres ent condition of the questions. Tiie country i3 Hgitulcd. It nrc.is nnd it de sires peace and quiet and harmony between all parties nnd all sections. Its industries are ar rested, labor unemployed, capital Idle and en terprise, paralyzed, lly reason of doubt and anxiety attending the tin .eriainty of a double claim to the chief magistracy of tin nation. It want, to be assured lhat the result of the elec tion will be accepted without resistance from the supporters of the disnmiointcd Fnndirlntp. uml that its highest otll.-er shall not bold his pl,:c wiih a questioned title of right. Holiev Ing flint the t.ui will secure these end. I give inv signature. T. s. fitNT. Executive Mansion, January 2!), 1877. We published in full last week tho ar bitration bill of Congress for the peaceful, legal and honest ascertainment of the re sult of the late Presidential election ; and, so far as our humble voice has any etTect, gave ii our hearty ami unqualified appro val as the only apparent method of esca ping a great calamity. The bi!l, after a fu 11 discussion in ihe Senate, passed that body, after an all night session, on Thurs day morning (yesterday week), by a vote of 47 yeas to 17 nays ton Senators not voting, Borne of whom were absent and others not having the courage to face the music. The only Democrat who voted against the bill was Mr. Eaton, ofConuec- ticut, who, we regret to say, would not by his vote strengthen such kmen as Jud"e Thurman, of Ohio, Senator Wallace, of this State, Bayard, of Delaware, Ransom, of Noith Carolina, and the other Demo cratic members of the Senate, as well as P.dmunds, of Vermont, Conkling, of New York, Frelinghuysen, or New Jersey, and other distinguished Republicans, who im mortalized themselves by their able and el oquent defence or this peaceful measure, and all of whom gave the bill their enthu- siastic support. We have no doubt thai 51 r, Eaton, who is a Democrat of intense iitiif,tiiino . tnrt a n .... .1 : .. . 1 . . convictions, acted according to the right as ho understood it. To this, as to all oth er great measures of public concern, there are always tiro sides. Of the 47 votes in favor of the bill in the Senate, twenty-six w ere cast by Democrats, and t went y-one bj Republicans and Independents. All the 17 votes against it came from the Republican Ride, except, as we have already stated. Senator Raton, of Connecticut, It is not necessity to state that under the lead of Morton all the cat pet-bag Seuators opposed the measure and voted against it. The bill having passed the Senate was prompt ly sent to the House, and was passed by that body, on Saturday last, by a vote tr 191 ytn to nny. We cannot give the vote in detail, and need only say that it was overwhelming and in accord with the well understood sent imenfsjof the commer cial and business men of the whole coun try. General Grant, ignoring Morton, Sherman, Cameron, and all their vilo crew, signed the bill on Monday, aMd in a special message fully and freely endorsed it as a peaceful and satisfactory solution of what at one time threatened to be the most seri ous and alarming political crisis through which this country has ever passed. This message, to winch we briefly refer else where, will be found in our present issue. Even if Morton had agreed to the "IZffA 0,lIf,; "lfr the 1 lesicleiitial vote ho would have shown a degree of incons.stency with his own Thar Rcter v, hich no one had a right to expect As a con,em,o,ary remarks, he hasaay. exercised I ne right of going back on last year's record when l.e Vvir i7t-s. " . .. report of the .....mi.V.. i the very features he wi himself dvo,. the verv fc.atn.e i .J "J" l -log a year ao. Our U ashington Inciter. ,VlcmvnTnv n r. .Tan. SO. 1877. ,,d.,ti,b .Weionments -,,., by l)ie Committee of tbi House with tbe mutilation of the original times over the erasures in the Tilden col umn. All the circumstances anemiing , the alterations, names of jiersonB, when anrt lm their nira made, etc.. are also ,J i.... n,a rf. ..c . are also . tl pOSSessjon Gf t,e Committee, and the Ihiard will he so overwhelminely con- fronted with such damning evidence of "-c-litj the Rads wi I. not as ; much -.--. -- electoral triounai. The caucus of the House liepubitcatis, hehl on Saturday, was stormy aim inn oi discon!eiit between the two opposing fac tions of the party, and came near resulting in an open rupture. The extremists at- tempted to defeat iMr. Hoar as one of the eh-ctoml five of the House. Their idea I mi tn o-At mrte hnf. I;iftieil on the Com mittee and thereby accomplish what they . , j ..-. r'--...ii.. l "- " v.......... v .- wcek. Frye got off a lot of bitterness against all who approved w hat he called the surrender, and especially was he vio lent against Mr. Hoar, who, with Mr. Gar field of Ohio, was (iuallyin direct opposition to the wishes of the extremists. Mr. Hoar looked as if this victory was greater than the other. The Democrats, npon learning that Gar field was nominated by his party to goon the "House five, " expressed much inclig- nation, and will doubtless refuse to appoint him when his name is presented to the House for the viva voce vote, ns lie has made himself obnoxious to all fair-minded f n - A t 1l IO ATflAll.a trio P A rtm-irtnT -! - to the discussions upon the electoral bill. The Democrats have placed the presen tation and manacement of Mr. Tilden's c,se 51 the IAnda f jjk0 I$;ick, Lyman Tinm.,in ... 7 , ,. ',...,,.- cans have engaged Sir. Kvaits, of New York, Iob Ingersoll. of Illinois, and one or two others to submit. Mr. Hayes' inter est to the electoral tribunal. The Demo- ciats can get in all their testimony in re gard to Florida aud Louisiana, while the radicals can come in only under the rulings of the tribunal. The latter intend to deny tho authority of the tribunal to go behind the returns and bhould this point be deci ded against them they will give up the fight and make only a pro forma contest there after. The Democrats have not decided upon their members, but Jencks and Tuck er will likely be of the number. It is not at all likely that Morton will be selected by the Senate to serve on the tribunal, while all suppose Messrs. Thurman and Bayard will be. Grant has expressed his deter mination to approve the bill and we pre sume he will do so to-day, thus making it the law of the land. The extreme demor alization of tho oftice-holding Republicans since the adoption of tbe electoial compro mise is very significant. "Curses h.ud and deep" greet us on every hand. They say Edmunds and Conkling have given Hayes away. Such is their dread of an honest count that the confidence of the Democrats under the new order of things fills them with consternation. How are the mighty fallen ! A few days ago they would listen to no reason nor entertain any protiosiiion other than that the President of the Senate should alone count and determine the vote. But now a more crestfallen crew cannot be found. Tney evidently see the handwrit ing on the wall. Grant has changed the orders relating lo the movement or the troops, and instead or massing them in the South, as has been contemplated, campaigns against the gen tic savages will be made as soon as spring opens, now that the passageof the electoral bill by both Houses and its prompt ap proval by Grant assures the settlement of the Presidential complication upon a har monious and peaceful basis. The drag-net process of Morton's sub committee was well illustrated in a large number of dispatches in the Cronin Oregon case, which were perfectly valueless, inas much as they had no address or signature. Morton's investigations prove nothing wjiatcver against the Democrats. Senator Kelley is ready at any time to translate all telegrams he sent or received in cipher. Rut Barkis (Morton) is not willin'. Just so with others. Mr. Morton will not per mit them to tell all they know as they would thereby disprove all allegations of fraud and corrupt use of money. It furth er appears that Mr. Conkling of the Senate will decide Cronin is entitled to receive the certificate as a duly elected elector of Or egon, as the Senate is on the record in the Vance-Abbott case from North Carolina to the effect that the next highest candidate should be declared elected when the one receiving the highest number of votes isin eligible from any cause. The Democrats can therefore gain their case upon the Or egon vote, even if they abandou all the other States. We reel thankful that Judge Davis will not resign till after March 4th for then "Uncle Samuel" w iH appoint his successor. The members of the Louisiana Return ing Board are still in confinement. Ken ner, the little mulatto, showsevident signs of weakening, nnd will yet confess his sin nings if kept separated from his white as sociates. Anderson. The election of Hon. Ren. Hill, of Georgia, to the United States Senate will be all the more grateful news to the coun try, because of the eminently patriotic speech which he made in Congress on the bill to create the electoral commission. The telegram which announced his election was handed to him jnst as he sat down from a seech ending with these memora ble words : During this whole controversy (I say If with pride and pleasure) the South lias manifested but one spirit, and that lias been the spirit of forbtaranee, or kindness nnd of fairness With the chains of the usurper still on her limbs; with "thegree l of the stranger" at her already exhausted coffers; with tho army of the United States now scattered throughout her borders and standing sentinel for the pro tection of her rubber-, tho Smith -it -. - those who have been her despoilers, and who I HOW thriHlpll In hn lhA.lna..fl.. ..r ..u -n but one voice; that voice is "Peace I Peace! Civil war redresses no wrong and preserves no right. If you doubt look here and be con vinced I" I hope that that people will never again be derided with the charpe of rebels and traitors, solely Tor offering up their lives In vindication or their honest belicr lhat they were right. t-?t n.e express the hope that In the future he alone will tie regarded as the chler rebel who, after the passage of this measure or peace, shall first whisner the words of -tlniai ahit I Let him tie regarded ns the chief traitor who ! -ft... .1 . i i . i . . . . -'"ii men... ik ... tirccu .eciioiiai Rtrtre. ror myself f reel a prid in being able lhat T can look upon every foot of America and thnnk God that it is part or my country. 1 can look on every person in this whole land and my, This is my fellow-citizen," an. I I can raise my vision lo the uttermost boundaries of the re public snd say. "My country, inv whole coun try, blessed is he who bless thee, and cursed Is who curseth thee." Kieneral an enthusiastic appluuse.J John I). Lee, the Mormon bishop who was to have been shot on Friday .or com- j plicity in the terrible Mountain Meadow j massacre twenty years ago, was granted ' a stay of execution by the Supreme Court I F T-ft-1. 1 r, . .. I . 3 oupi en OI ? my .lsoiy mill iiirtner P" '"?" miserable existence by an aD- ieal of his case to the Supreme Court of the United States. What lifts lieen Established. The debates upon the arbitration bill at Washington last week, which ended in the passage or the bill in eacb House by a ma jority ot more tuau swo-tnuas, nave noi, . determined who shall be President, but 1 they have established, beyond all Tutine ! distui bance or denial, a few points of im I portance, which ari really worthy of public I attention. I. Tbe proposition that the Constitution confers ujion the Piesident of the Senate the power to count lbe electoral votes in a Presidential election, including the power to determine, when there is more than one certificate from any State, which of these ! certificates shall be counted, and to declare j the result, while the two Houses of Con gress are present merely as witnesses and spectators this proposition has now been subjected to an exhaustive discussion, in which the Constitution and the constitu tional history and practice of the country have been thoroughly oxplored, and every principle and every fact bearing ujwui the subject brought to light; and the judgment is that this proposition is utterly base less, without anything to stand upon, a mere device and invention trumped up for the occasion and brought foiwnrd for a partisan purpose without any reason, or fact, or tintli, or law, or precedent to justi fy or support it. II. It is established that the scheme of counting the electoral votes of Florida and Louisiana, as certified by the Returning Boards or those States, iu favor of Hayes and Wheeler, when, in fact, the people of each State gave a majority of their votes in favor of Tilden and Hendricks, is a scheme that cannot be maintained and carried through by any means hitherto known to our laws, III. It is established that the claim of the Republicans that Hayes and Wheeler were elected in November by the acti n of the Returning Boards of Florida and Lou isiana is a sort of claim that the Republican majority of the Senate do not regard as substantial enough to insist upon. IV. It is further established that, pro ceeding upon this unsubstantial and hollow claim, and maintaining that the frauds in Florida and Louisiana were not frauds, certain of the Republican managers had conspired to declare Hayes Presidin", o in augurate him, and t put him in possession of the Government without any legal or equita'jle right whatever. V. It is established that these Republi can managers had conspired to do this through tho usurpation, by the President of the Senate, of tho power to pass upon the electoral votes by virtue of his own al leged authority alone, without allowing either Senators or Representatives to object at any stage of the proceedings, or to call him to account for his action. That this was their design is certain, not only from the universal avowal or Republican press and jHlit icians, but also from the fact that most of the debates were devoted lo over throwing and annihilating this pretended power of the President of the Senate. VI. It is established, finally, that the con spiiators had arranged and determined to employ military force to carry out their programme, or else the project of counting in Hayes by the Semite only would not have been a thing Tor anylrody to be afraid of. To th is consummation President Grant was pledged. For this pui'ioso he had brought troops to Washington from distant posts. This design he has clearly an nounced on several occasions, and it has been boldly expressed in tho National Uc pnhlicun newspaper, the party organ- at Washington. This design and the military preparation formed the only real, hubstau tial element in the Republican case. VII. This conspiracy has now been de cidedly checked. The pretended power of the President of the Senate has been ex ploded and rendered ridiculous. The con spiracy to declare Hayes elected by the frauds of the Floiida aud Louisiana Re turn ing Boards has been defeated , for the present at least ; and the scheme of using military force to put down the House of Representatives in a i evolutionary man nei, has lieen anticipated and stopped ; and hence all the public satisfaction over the passage of the bill. VIII. All these things have been done, declared and established by a majority of more than two-thirds of each House of Congress. What may be the future develepment in the workins of the arbitration act, time alone can show. But these present results from the debates and votes r Congress are positive and indisputable. A. J". Hun. Joxks !--Red Headed and Cork Leo oed. A lecent correspondent to a Pitts burg paper, in notes from the Capitol, states that there are now in the State Leg islature two men, entire strangers to each other, who answer to tho name of I). M. Jones, and that both are red-headed and sport the same amount of cork leg. Truly, a most remaikable circumstance ; but tho coincidence would bo still more ex traordinary if the front names of tho two law-makers of the Jones family were "John" instead of "D. M." It is not such a curious thing that two legislators should lie named Jones, or even that their initials should be "D. M.," but the queer part of it is that both should be red headed and both have a cork leg ! To cap the climax of this thing, their names should read "John Jones." This would be as aston ishing as though their names were "John Smith," still with the cork legs and red heads. We venture to say that no legis lative body in the world ever saw two Smiths in it at the same time, with the same initials, and red heads and cork legs. Should such a thing occur, the world would die a laughing and the universe bubble over with merriment. Funny as it is peo ple can stand it as long us the name in Jones, and particularly 1). M. Jones ; but if the name was Smith and especially John Smith, every community in the land would go into chicken-fits "te-heeing" over it. There would le n pretty mix if these two red-headed and cork-lcgced Joneses should bring their wives to Hariisburg and both board at the same hotel. They hadn't bet ter do it. Might cause a coolness, and that would bo bad, too, supposing them both to belong to tbe same political party, which of course, in order to cany out the resem blance, they do. We doti't see any hope for these Joneses. They seem to be in for it. How to extricate them isn't plain. It's bad enough to be Jones and bo red-headed and sork-legged when you're by yourself, but to have another fellow in the Rame house with you who is Jones and red headed and cork legged too, and you trying to bo a statesman, is enough to make you wish youliad "put away your little aprons and had climbed the golden stair" long, long ago, before your hair had become red and when you didn't need a cork leg. Posi tively, the only remedy we can think of for this thing is a means Ht prevent a repet ition of it, and to this end both nature and art ought to be petitioned not to agree npon any more men of tho same name, com plexion aud legs. Watchman. The Democrats of a nnmiu .r i.- townships of Berks county raised a large pole on Spitzenherg Hill, one of the loftiest elevations in that tortion of the county, 1 on Friday. Upon it floated a flag in honor ' of "Tilden and Hendricks and the Demo- j cratic victory of November 7, 1876." The ' hill is fifteen hundred feet almve the level of the sea. This is the third liberty pole that was erected on that hill, all of which stood in the same hole. One was erected during Jackoon times. Jeu and Other Votings. Little girls are employed as pajes in ; the Kansas legislature. - Abbi McCloskey fell down a cellar ; stairway in Chester county recently and was instantly killed. j The Sheriff oT Marion county, Iowa, is ; in trouble through helping a irurderer to escape fiom piison. Mr. Andreas, of Northampton county, owns a bores 40 years old, which is still ; 8tiong and spirited. A house occupied by P. Dnbe, a far- ; mer, at ot. t laive, (Quebec, was burned I ! :.! : I . Ti i ii r I i - ! . in jr ii i) ut. lurec cuiioi .ii pel isncu iu the flames. . The dial for the new clock on the ! Crystal Palace, Sydenham, is forty feet in j diameter. The length of the minute hand i is nineteen feet. Coasting is killing more children than diphtheria in this state. Our exchanges all bear w itness to the deepest ribk of this homicidal pastime. Oddy, the pedestrian, finished his 110 miles at Turner Hall, Omaha, on Saturday night. Time, twenty-thiee hours and twenty-seven minutes. Mr. John Mellott, of Licking township, Fulton county, is in his y9Mi year, lie boasts that he can still husk corn at the rate of 90 bushels a day. On Saturday the yi'ime Democrats of Lehigh township, Lehigh county, ranging . from ten to fifteen yeais of age, raised a liberty pole at Rockville. Samuel House, an unmarried man of considerable means, died of starvation in Baltimore, the other day, being too miseily to supply himself with f'sid. A candle box placed on a pole set where two roads cross, aud two miles from a human habitation, constitutes the post office of West Belknap, Clay comity Texas. Nathaniel J. Kirby, of Berks county, is thirty-two years of age, and has ppent seventeen years of his life iu prison. He is now in a Philadelphia jail awaiting trial. Mine. Berghmanns, the fascinating and wealthy widow of Washington who recently married the clerk of the Alabama Claims Commission, settled f 12,000 a year on her husband. A thrifty young woman in Boston got tip a handsome subscription for the letter carrier on the route and tLen married him, and used the rund to defray the exjienses of a wedding tour. Cleopatra's needle, which was given by Mehemct Ali to the British government, and which has remained ko long on the shore at Alexandria, will before many months are over be set up in London. A woman or thirty-five years, residing in a fashionable laai ding-house in New York, amused herself the other night by drinking freely and chasing her daughter, aged ten, down stairs with a revolver. The Shamokin Time says Mr. Edwin Cook shot, two monster hawks last week. One of them was three feet ten inches, and the other four feettwoandone halfiuches, from tip to tip of his outspread wings. " j A Clarion county man, the other day, ! shot at a rabbit in a brush pile and bit a i can of glycerine concealed there. The ex plosion knocked the man down and made a small earthquake in the neighboi IumkI. Anegro recently rode ciosxwise over! tbe trucks of a car on the Northern Cen tral r .ir ad fiom llarrisbiiig to York, and in extrnuAly cold weather. He complain ed of hi feet reeling chilly w hen he arrived at his destination. An aged woman in Ind ianapolis is sup ported in luxury by her wealthy son, but he will not pi ovule her with tobacco to smoke : and consequently she knils stock ings, sells them, nnd thus obtains the one thing thai the son denies her. The country can never be too thankful to Mr. Hayes for his refusal "to influence the legislation of the country," while the electoial bill was pending. Had he under taken to do so, there is notelling what the consequences might have been. On Wednesday evening Mrs. Mary Geary, aged about fifty rive, .eft a neigh bor's house near Meadville, to walk to her own residence, some distance away. She took the wrong road, and was found Thursday evening frozen to death. Governor Kellogg, Marshal Pitkin, and Senafois Hoar, Hamilton, and Morion called upon tbe President on Monday last with a view to urging upon him the necess ity of recognizing Packard's government. The President declined to do as they re questrd. Nathan L. Lehnheim, junior mcmlier of the banking firm of Lehnheim fc Son, Montrose, Pa,, was arrested in New York on Saturday, charged with presenting for discount at the Importers' aud Traders' Bank a forged nrte for $ 10,000. Lehnheim pleaded not guilty. The w ife of I. en. Sherman is distribu ting, as an agent of tho Roman committee, circulars inviting an extraordinary coilec tion of "Peter's xuice," for the fiftieth an niversary of the Pope's episcopate. Dep utations from all countries will go to Rome for that occasion. The postal officials believe that the Government is swindled in the aggregate to a large amount by the washing and second use of stamps. To check the prac tice a new three-cent stamp, so made as to show any attempt to efface the cancelling mark, is soon to be issued. Harrison Turner, au insane man living at torrel Hill, in the oil regions, and who for some time past had been confined In a lunatic asylum, and recently released, on Wednesday last shot and instantly killed a companion named Anderson, and within an hour afterwards committed suicide. -Aycr, the patent medicine man, has been adjudged insane. His property, which i supposed to be worth three mil lion dollars, will probably pass into the control of his wile and son. This "large estate shows that he has puked and purg ed the people who have bought his" nos trums to some purKse. In the coal regions lately a young man named Rcinholtz, aged twenty years, led to the altar Mrs. Peter Girl, a widow lady aged seventy years, who has Tor a long time led a hermit life in a little cot on top of Broad mountain, between ML Pleasant and the Buck Horn hotel. The old lady became tired of her lonely lot. Mr. Rethnel Brocket t, of North IT ven, Conn., w ho fell upon a mowing ma chine last summer and lost his right hand and a part of the left one, recently soled and heeled a pair of shoes for himself, ac complishing the work with one finger and ! a thumb of the left hand and a contrivance i I . .1 1 .. . i invented oy nimseii ior the right hand. A peddler.cilled at the bouse of S. S. Chalfant, near Thorn ville, Ohio, Friday evening, and obtained permission to lodge over night. During the night he chloro formed the entire family and ransacked the house, cai rying off $900 in monev and $ 35, 000 in drafts. The robber was traced to Lancaster, but has not been apprehended. The Lock Haven Democrat says that an improved lime kiln has been invented by James Dovling, of Flemington, and patented, which effects sncli a saving that lime can be burned in it for cents per bushel which by the usual process costs 6 cents per bushel. The improvement can lie introduced in old lime kilnsat a trilling expense. A Sheffield, Eng., boy, nine years old, taking care of his one year old sister, while the mother was out, first tried to set her clothes on fire, failing in which he be gan cutting her throat with a carving knife. Interrupted by neighbors, be at tempted to hang himself, and was nearly soccessfui. being quite black In the face when cut down. A kind of epizootic has broken out '. among the hogs in a portion oWIlinois, and tbe number of poikers succumbing to the ailment is very large. The first symptoms of the disease are manifested by a violent couching, and very soon thereafter tbe af- fected bogs die. It is stated that the at tack is particularly prevalent with the , Berkshire and Essex breeds. i A fire broke out at McLlaiighlin's fur- ! nitnro store in Parker City, on Sunday, and before the 'lames could be ixtinguish- J ed the fallowing named iersonswere burn ed out : Joseph Bingham, bakery; Mrs. George, millinery ; John McLaughlin, fur niture store; W. O, Gleason. clot bier; Michael Dessing, saloon: Mr. Peters, bo.irding house ; J. W. Miller, grocer, building wrecked by water. The total loss will reach $20,000. It was stated some days ago that the Supreme Court of South Carolina had dis missed tho quo warranto proceeding brought by the Demociatic Electors to test the legality ir the election or thPriiajCBL" Electors. The Court has decided adverse ly to the Democratic Electors on the ground, or want or jurisdiction iu the "Supreme-; Court or the State, the proceeding not", having been broonght in tbe name -or the United States, which is tbe real novereign from whom the Electors derive their Trail- 1 chises. j A. D. Orton, a "lightning calculator," has died in Baltimore. He xssessed phe- j uomenal talent as an arithmetician, and ' for many years made a large income out of ' his gift. His mode was to travel with a carriage, give street exhibitions, and sell ; books in which, he said, anybody could i learn to be as skill fill in ciphering. In this way he traversed every State iu the Union. ' Several times he was offered good positions: I as instructor in colleges; but he preferred j his wandering life, and always ieedily re- j turned to it. j A Sister of Charity died recently in j Beusheim, Germany, who had charge f.f ; the typhus ward in the military hospital at ! that place dm mg the war of 18.0 1. At her funeral tha coffin was boine to the cemetery by twelve veteran soldiers, among whom were several Protestants and Jews, w ho outrivaled the Catholics in their ven eration for the deceased. The muncipal authorities not only gave a special place for the interment of tbe Sister, but have also undertaken to erect a sui! able monu ment at their own expense. "Better read oinie novels than not read at all." Little Charlie Barrett, off Boston, thus whiled away his play-time j and his head became so lull of Indians and ' trapping and big trees that he stole I75 j from his sick mother and bought a through j ticket to ban I raneisco. His mother died of a broken heart and now Charlie has been brought back by the police. His ad ventures are descriled in roll in tho Bos ton pnpet s, to the envy or the w hole juve nile population of the Hub, many of whom long to go and do likewise. The mcaoest man in Ameiica lives in Lodi.Ohio. He is a well to-do farmer, aud his mother lives alone iu a small house near his farm. He supplies her with fresh milk from his dairy and makes her pay for it. She dics not require much tnilk only enough to dilute hj tea morn ing and evening a few tablespoonfuls a day. He has ascertained how many .khui fuis a measure contains and keeps count or the numler which bhe receives daily. When the quantity'cousnmed ipproximato a quart he presents bis bill. Milk Sells for i three cents a quart in the town. I The main building of the kerosene oil ' works of R, fc F. Jenny, in South Boston, j was rlemoiislied by an explosion on Friday evening, and the riiinsimniediately caught fire. Three men were in the building, two of whom escaped ; the other, John Corliss, is missing, and believed to be killed. While the tire was burning, some connect ing pipes blew up, iiijuin two firemen dangerously and seveial other persons slightly. A crowd of people stood on the ice near Boston whai fwatchingthefhtu.es, when the ice broke, drowning a boy and a girl. The loss on the property is estimat ed at aUtnt $0,000. The explosion iu tbe main building was heard or r.lt for a ins tance or two miles. A burning gas well in the Brad ford oil district attracts great .attention. It was struck Octolier 4th, at a depth or 810 feet. the volume or gas suddenly ascending I proving so strong that no further diilling j could be done. The gas is now cai ried j from the mouth of the well up two 2-inch J pipes, from whi.h the Bradford Era siys i "the g-s belches forth with such tenific j forco as to render ordinary conversation ' inaudible at a distance of a quarter of a j mile from a noise produced by its escape." I It can he heard five miles away from the well. The gas is burned as it proceeds from the pipes, sending up a mass of flame ; to the height of 2."i to 40 feet with a heat i so intense as to make summer weather iu all its vicinity. The ground is warm and grass is growing within a radius or IiX feet. The light is sufficiently brilliant to enable a jterson to read a newspaper by it when half a mile away, and can be seen on dark nights for a distance of 20 miles, at the towns of Olean aud Salamanca, iu New York. A Heart. Ess IIusbaxd Leaves His Wife to Starve in the Woods. Wed nesday of last week, as we sat alone in our sanctum, a woman clad in a well-worn suit of linsey-woolsey, with a large sun bonnet drawn deeply over her face, and carrying under her arm a small bundle, abruptly entered and to.k a seat by the stove. She was not long in making know n her errand. Her stoiy was a sad one, and as she related it the tears would trickle down her care worn tace silent affidavits or the truth of her statements. Her name was E.ender Vance, aged fifty years the mother of ten children. The wretch to whom she had wedded her life disgraced the name of Fleming Vance. They had lived a few years of their married life iu East Tennes see ; then moved to Oreensburg, Indiana, where they lived for about fifteen years. Their children had all grow n up and scat tered out in the woihi, and but olie son, fifteen 3'ears old, remained at home. Vance took a notion to go to Texas, and about the middle of July last he and his wife and the boy Zebulon set out nfoot. They would stop at farmers' houses and woik for a Tew days cutting and husking corn, and any. thing else they could get to do, and then would move further on their way. They had come into this county about a week before, nnd were traveling along the forest between Apos Tucker's nnd the Big St. Francois lOver, the bleak wintry winds piling the snow in drifts as blockades to their progress. There came a halt. The man who had taken a solemn oath before tiod and man to love and protect the woman who journeyed with him that cold, stormy day, now told her he was going to leave her there in the wild woods, far away from any habitation, save those of the roaming beasts ; and, worst of all, that her son her only son left her was going with him. "Pap. for tho Iord's sake, don't leave me, for I'll freeze to death," cried the wife and mother. But in vain did that plaintive wail Reek to arouse the heart that was dead to all sense of love, of pity, or of shame. He that watcheth even the fall of a sparrow did not fin-sake this sad object pity and distress, and some passing strangers showed her the way and advised her to go to Fred erickstown, and call at the Farmer and Miner office, and publish the wretch Flem ing Vance. She wanted us to write a letter to her son atOreensburg, which we did, nnd if be Is human he will come at once to her assistance. Fredcrickttocn (Mo.) Miner. A i!rt i ii.-. ... disaster is tol l , ..... - ' "' yestetdiv. wl.--i. ..' '' V, asylum fr iLc m-'u,,."' , 'p Jamea It V'.. " I - ill. ii ;i tneichant and -t. j.., .,' " !' t operator in oil. j j,. ' "', i ness in New Y.,ik '' - ' the oil excitement i ..' ,:' celebrated N..i,;,; no easy fortune. a.,, 'j ' ':' years ago, n,!i :, ' f J '-i lars, and establish, ,! ,; . ou.ury-scai on I. ,i - , , V speculat ii ! i. Jong Island l..,i ... .. " I., suits, in w!. .i I-, gradually eaten up " iT1,' 1 ' 1 en wit,faraHM,: hi ., I"! on the a mu mi.- . . " "t- . in an i in i .i i . . . t vi dead ni.,i tl.e t; ' ,s ' piyi-etty bad l J, I left i. will, Ll.,,.,.t. 'f ': -.estate wns sold. Wllll ,, ' 1 - tosatisryjiMjj.,,,..,,, . ... ms were cast ,.,u -Jess and iK-ii!iil..s I, 1 p o place, a eiipj,',., ' volei.ee ..f s.vn-, , .5 ' t in ist mas nicl.t a ve ,, a. "' V Was killed upon the ly.. ? V " The tottciug .?(.:;t.(.t :v ' man gave way n,,.. f taken to the asli;.n '.. ' ' death affects as.,,, l!w'; to his remaiiiiiKr (-i,,!,) ' "" timi of the Mupenv',.;, iV this is all that now rer..; k some rottutie will, i,;-;, , ' ," tired ten years a,T.,. y. , 1 preacher is this pft i.iVe t -!a The Washhgto,, r,,.,.-,., . New Yo,k irr'. le.,.,,--,1 last that the Tailuie of turning Board !..!, a V " accoi dance with th,- te. nip oo;u,. ! ,,f ( "ie, is generally :H-kii lican law vers it, . .'V. " - "-:u! ! t,e !-,.;,. the New I i leans !,:,., , takes up tl.e li.t.v ,.f ,,r.'r'. tail, and shows tl, ;.. . formalities (if tl,.. . ' ' ''' 10 give ine Ketnnifur j; ., ,j cast out the vote of the ; this is made c'.-ai fY..T ri- f, by Senator Miein.-ui !,:-. .,-. of the S.ipci i -i (, requited l y 1.. r. . ;, ,. L , , all the parishes ..f wi.u'j" ; , jected by the V. -mm, , .. were suppli-d ;.f...,- -i f. OllailS. TilllN !,.- I...-;..;; made by an iiicu! methods. r.v Chronic Pat;; v -t: disease ! jrr.-i.l-! i; the Cf.itstit nt i.'ii t,. important j-flri- ,.. . ...... j i.iseas.-s, n l. i i, l,v- ..., , , : , coiii:n:. it inu-t i -.--.i- -, ;. fo remove. lr. Kt Yn; It will tio this by a !.. ,''.'!:. X solveul pro. a..,! i,. , : , r blond Willi p!av. im'. ; :i , . . lo make at.ew . i ser's I.uejr I "nrc i r t :: enables III ln:!i,:iM - . t it. hurtful ainl v. r:i i ;:t ;r r. ; . ; tnte new i t; i-- i !;'.;,. ... .. is thf-reby r-v.,r. ,i . .j work in iii ; M :, . K.-yser's tr':i-- i In .u. hai fr.-e nt r -:ti Price of I. ;ng ('.!-. :l h per half .I- z--m. T Vt i r ! I. il.orat ry. L'l p. v - . - ! His private cui'itm j ft-, t .' avenue. - -MM III. XiTilE. tint Kfilire Stock ,il V.'lM.r At crear r-'.l'i "h"i oi enlargement of ! Fiflh Ave. an.l Maik'iS: Is this aj!"f ,-.? ' t iniire c-'i.t'.u'-: ' ii. le ; but. wi'li J I :'i-l ing to tes iimv .:r''i 1' ' ! i":: merit. Tl pr . : ;-. t'. Sicilian II lir U- e-w. r r illflorseinellt ot '!:- tl:'l ' -: for tl.f-ir prejiii -ai :.m. hv i -Cliri-tian A Ivih-jv;" j. ' have so of-!! t--M 1 . i T worthless pr--;. iv:'!' n f ' '' article of this kii:4. ' - Secure tlieir plH-m.lt: " 1 tnrit. We a re g'a-1 '" that Mall's Vr. -.'. S i r: is meet ins wi: h ?'; s -"' so justly de. .-rve : .i..l 'v' 1 ' tlerx-.', Ili.it it wi.. j" n ' 1 ' 1 for it in r.-s'orii i; g-.-iy !' ' color, and, a a !: i i..i '. ti : surpassed. . o svr i t. r Otir I nllrr Slork f At great rediu-t ieti i" fri-r. r"' enlargement of prenif ' Mr- Fifth Ave. a;n'. Muk" - o floor AnvifK. N" ' for Pneumonia. L n: 1 family should hav- f u .' (iF.KMAX SYR!"!'. P " ' '' men! that o.iijjli 1 " ' vour family r v -u '- Asthma. Pitentti.'fia. ( r ;r,. and oilier fa' V though it is ti..e ! Y: thousands of iln-e it: ,: much better " i' " " ', doses w ill c ure yell. ' 'v your whole family 'r' safe from dant'-r. 11 do not rest nt.'i! vi Ii'"-" ! Sample Pottles 1" r'i--mils. S 1.1 hv v I;, " MariHV, Kli-ni.'iV. a: ': ' l! " & Son, lluior.-. ...... r .. 1, I'l Ti ' '.Mill H"" - ' ..,r ALL OVER THi : TllKONM ' ,,rl MEDAL AND p Dr. luinv For finest .peritiuM" ' Silver, ristirntn. .'....;. f Pearl, Kl'-ny H"-. ;.?..!'. Mineral K-. "n VT".!- '' , Also, fertile 1 n- it , ;r .' taming Artitietsl l fc In a.l.litieti ! "'J'.n (? - . Scott'. Or-at luntnl ; k ; l.v I he lfa.Umr I "'.'v; ,r Attorneys, srel I'"-' ' .rvi Vt. Scott enntti.u- ( fllilnrs at from ! , relsul teeth for 1- : 1 n Perfect tit sn.l g.,losof "rk. t' 'VtHKM THE HKSl' ALK,., rliV T.t enlv lr. " '. . ... " n:u mte na-stl.etio f-; ,,!,, rcj f mfe na-sthrti. "p. painless nllitiL'"! IS I"' i. I ,e...- in u.vr 'l'lr". ,1,ir- Tnent. and y.'u . , ft of !"' bnrirh ena day to el operation perl. rJ'-..,n,,r Thetvntenniai "I tionat-T-Puu Au''' n i
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