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l),;,ooi;aEKs,ofImhana,thebnnlant
Pen viatic orator, well s.ys t the
K.p,,imc.uisnavingsio.eneve.yi.....;;t.v ,
r ...1.1 lay their hands on, have no st-leu ,
IT.e Pi-esidency" the last and biggest
6al of all.
The election for Mayor in Ph.l tdelp'iui,
oil Tuesilay, resulted in the re-elect ijii of
StoMy by a m.ijoiity ..f 2.800. Cavcn, his
opponent, is, like Stikly, a W .p folic in,
hut an enemy of the city rijg, and as a
c. nxrqjtsncc was enl vl by the !)jhi
c.ais. In Pittsburgh, LiJde'.l, Dem., was
elected Mayor over Humphreys, liep., by
1.200, a3 were also Kilgore, Iud. liep., for
I ity.Trer..-mer, .vid McCaithy, Indepen
dent, for Controller, by lare majorities.
All this means the pcifcct crushing out
of the corrupt Pitt.sbiirjrh.injt.
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i
The present Kcpublican Loiislature of
this State has been in sessiou over seven
werlts, and o far as heard from has not
passed and sent to the (tovernor a single bill
for hiit approval. This is uot the legislative
.r.Urtaiiiment to which the people of the
brate were invited by thai party during
th campaign of last fall, but, on the con
trary, looks like anything else than re
trenchment in the annually increasing ex
penses of the Legislature; and yet it pro
poses to return to Ilau isburg next January
arid go through tho same process of doing
just nothing at all, after an iulitiiteamoilnt
of talking. A great Swedish chancellor
said to his ton, who was about lo enter
ujon a tour through Europe, "(Jo forth, my
ton, and see with what little wisdom the
world is governed."
Duncan F. Ken nek, one of tho most
ptominent ai:d highly respected citizens of
New Orleans, was examined last week be
Sure the Congressional committee at Wash
ington, in reference to an t'flVr made to
him last November by Wells, of the Lou
1sh.ua I'etuining Doa.d, to sell the vote of
lhat State to the Democrats. Wo present
the following extract from Mr. Kenne.'s
testimony relative to the base nnd corrupt
proposition made to him by that notorious
booundrel, .T. Madison Wells :
About November 30th another meeting
took place, and Wells asked what I expect
ed l.im to do. I replied that all that w as
wauled was a fair count of all ihe votes
cat. Wells answered that he could not
do that ; that lie must throw out some par
ishes ; but that he could leave enough
votes in to elect Nicholls. He said ho
would that if I would place in his hands
$200,0()t) in greenbacks. I replied that I
had not the money. This ended tho inter
view, and did not see Wells again until
ikf'cr the iioiiiu!gation of the vote. Some
four or tivo days after the promulgation I
uirt Wells ami some other gentlemen at
lied liver steamboat lauding, and asked
Wells w hether he was going home. Wells
implied that ho was going the following
week. In talking I expressed astonishment
i.nd regret at Wells' course. Wells turned,
and lookiiiif me full in the face, said.
"What con hi I uo? You had na niouey."
I s.tid I hoped that Wells had not trusted
sny pi onuses fioin Keliugg or Packard,
hut had uivle himself safe. To which
Wells replied, "You bet," or woidstothat
effect.
-e.i.
If President Hayes, for by that title w
rnny now style hin.. has any gratitude in
1 is brtas:. Tie w illseo to it as one of his very
flist oliicial acts that the four immortal
mm be re of the Louisiana Ilctui ning Board
ure amniy rewarded for the great and une
qua!cd S'i'vietf they have ler.deicd inelova
tni2 him to the chief executive of!ico of the
Unioij by the most infamous frauds ever
f ipt tratc l in thiscountiy. Wells deserves
tiftpeciat and prominent recognition, ami as
it is 8,i id lhat the opjnu tunilies for plunder
nre 'in-.ch greater in the Interior Depart
riifnt th.ui in any other at Washington,
Hayes ought to appoint him tho successor
of that p.'.it and unselfish statesman, Zach
Chaudt'.-r. Anderson, who was a rebel
tleneral, would make an admirable Secre
tary of War of the radical st ripe, and in
tin'. jKs:tiii he co. Id successfully run all
th (toit-tiadurhhips in the manner ieccliar
to 1-S.itx.V'Ck. "assanave should ba appoint
ed Collet-; r of Ihe Port of New Orleans,
wt,i',s t'e fast that o.iglit to be done for
lv.-i.nur would L to confer upon him the
tM-.iti n. Ho i held !y WelN, that of Sur-vt-vt
i-! ih.'s;tii;e port. Iiy all means let
i :. I" i v, thi. s hu fully rewarded, for
it'io-it t'neii "aid and comfort" Hayes
-cuid never have stMint-d to the unenvia-
; p-ni'ioi;of the fust Ft and uleut President
of the Un: ted States.
It was tine, as we stated in our paper
ist Friday, that the annual joint resolution
swoid'e providing for the purchase of a
ropy t.f Purdoit Digest for each member
t" the two branches of the Legislature had
U-toi defeated in the House on the previous
Ti.fi.d-iy, but it is equally true that on tho j
ve y next day a mot ion was rnade to recon
sider tho vote, which was agreed to, and on
th. final jiassage of the bill the yeas were
IIS an. I the nays 61). This shows that in
riie matter of legislation at Ilarrisburg,
"some things can be done as well as oth
ers," to use Sni. Patch's hon.ely saying.
Vhe j.roposed steal is at. outrage and to
tV.ly inexcusable, and ought to be sternly
K-:iied by thn constituents of every mem
Itf. w ho voted for it. Of course we cannot
L-vf.i uess what was t he inspiring cause of
this oud Jen and most astonishing change
i flout on the part of the House. If it
r.u the right thing, and who will gainsay
it, to defeat the plundering scheme on
Tuesdtv. it was nire than a crime to
resurrect it on Wednesday and sanction it
by a vote of almost two to one. If thig ! ulbuIent' "awlesa and anarchical, as it
Die.t is to be furnished to each member, I " e" ZTJ' " lU D""-
... wi i ! "C'3' " tmgresR, who are now sore un
it will cost the btate over 3,000 by no j iler their disappointment, sl.itll do.any
neaiiA an ineonsideiable item. It is not t lie j thing as a party to induce factious opposi
hus'iiess of the Stale to make a present of , lion to the decisions of the commission
this or any other book to members of the ' tbey will make a dire mistake. The or
LeUlalure, but it is their business, if they tier, antj peace, and exemption from fac
vyt the Digest, to buy it and pay for it li"us proceedings expected from the con
oot tff their amj-lo alaiy. We hopo Ihe sfitutioii T ihe commission should be
fwiate w ill promptly defeat the measure n.aintained in good failh, even though the
heu it ti.mes before , iiid thus earu the nisjoiifv of the COijiii,iou have abdicated
gNititud f rl Jyk' their duty."
27e Crowning Infamy.
The unparalleled fiaud of Wells and his
tlnce confederates ou the Louisiana lie-
tun. ins Board, iu disfranchising nine
thotisnwl legal 1 uuen voie.s .oc r
l', .vi.IinM:iI eleciioli ill mat riair. w
ratified on Friday iast by ;the packed ElecJ
ConmiissHn of t,cted or
c, M wfts MiplKMCtIf to ascertam the
f . , fc t,,e ,
-lection. On that day M.o
I Commission fminally decided that the
' tijht votes of Louisiana should be enst for
Htycsni.d Wheeler. This conclusion was
' reached by the same pinty vote of tight to
cren which consigned the vote of Florida
to the P:publican column. But this de
cision of the Commission in the Louisiana
case is even more sweejung than that ren
dered in the Florida contest, for it not
only excludes all evidence of the villainies
of the Returning Roaid, and refuses to go
behind them, but declares that the Board
was legally constituted under tho law of
that State, and even decided not to allow
evidence or inquiry into the eligibility of
any of the Haves' electors. To say that
this decision has shocked MiC whole coun
try and utteily astounded the best men of
both parlies is only to express what has
been made manifest in every quarter.
When the Florida case was before the
CVmmlsMon, Judge Biadley, one of the
three Republican JusMcosof the Supreme
Court, voted, ami by his casting vote de
cided, that the tribunal would receive evi
dence as to the eligibility of Humphreys,
one of tho Hayes electors in that State.
After an investigation into the matter, it
was ruled, correctly as we believe, that
Humphreys was not disqualified- But
when it w as offered before the Commission
last Friday, by the counsel of the Demo
crats, to show by clear and convincing
testimony that tco of the Louisiana
Ilayos electors, Brewster and Levisce, weie
not eligible under the well known provision
of the constitution, this same Judge Brad
ley went back on his record in tho case of
Humphreys and by his vote decided that
no evidence whatever should be received in
regard to the Louisiana electors. This
decision makes Hayes the next President
of tho United States in bold and unblush
ing defiance of tho overwhelming vote of
the American people. We will not speak
of Oregon, as Bradley will fully meet the
case of Watts, the admitted ineligible
elector from that State and will be true to
his partisan and baok-handed vote, by
which he sanctified the Louisiana fraud.
If Bradley could swallow, as he did, the
Louisiana Returning Hoard, his judicial
stomach will not gulp at Watts of Oiegon.
The count of the electoral vote after dis
posing of Louisiana will, as wo havo said,
cheat the people out of Tildcn, their choice
for President, ami inaugurate Hayes.
Is there no remedy for this flagrant
wrong? W6 say there is none, and that
the decision is final and conclusive of the
whole question. Such is the action of the
commission viitually appointed by Demo
cratic votes in both branches of Congress,
honestly as they thought .at tho time, but
which baR proven to be vain, mcreiy keep
ing the promise to the ear only to bicak it
to the hope. This is the end, and all that
we need say on the subject for the present
at least. It is enougli, as our readers,
without expecting us to go into further
de'ails, w ill to theii sorrow aud amazement
fully understand.
The Phil.ulelphia Ledjcr, an independ
ent paper of Ihe stiictest sect and most
unquestionable reputation for ability and
fairness, gives expression to its sentiments
in a long editorial in tegaid to the action
of the electoral tribunal which cannot fail
to strike every honest mind as a true pic
tuie that is sad indeed to contemplate. We
are only sorry that want of space forbids
the reproduction of the entire article, but
the follow ing extract, which is the conclud
ing Million of the editorial, will serve to
sliow the flint of the Ledger sound reas
oning on tlm most stupendous iniquity :
"This tribunal was, from the outset,
trusted with the patriotic hopes and hon
ored with the fullest confidence of three-
fourths of the people of tho United States,
iu the belief that the solemn circumstances
attending the necessity and the act that
brought it into being, would cause all its
memheis (with possibly three exceptions)
to rise above all party considerations iu
the discharge of their momentous duty.
In the light of this antecedent hopi and
confidence, and in view-of the votes writ
ten on tho record of the commission, it is
pit iablo lo observe that every impoitant
question thus far submitted to ihe commis
sion has divided the commissioners, eight
to seven, on strict party lines, accordingly
as the decision would help the cascf
Governor Hayes, or hurt the case of Gov
ernor Tilden. It was not believed bv fuii-
minded, intelligent men that such a divis
ion could come about. The outside' adher
ents of each party mutually charge this as
a discredit on t he opposing members of the
commission. The zealous Democrats re
proach the Republican commissioners, and
the zealous Republicans retort by pointing
to the partisan votes of the seven Demo
crats on the commission. This is about
what might be expected from that kind of
discussion. But that which will livo n
history and in the minds of the vast ma
jority of the public is this : that the seven
voted to look into the evidence, voted to
take testimony, and voted to let in light,
so as to get at the truth; and lhat the
eight voted all the time to turn away from
evidence, to shut out tiie light, and so to
close the door upon all efforts to rind the
tiuth. Tho seven voted in a way to pro
mote the irreat object for w hich the com
mission w as created ; the eight voted in a
way to make the commission utterly use
less for the principal purpose for which it
has any reason fur heinir in existence at all.
The senator, the judge, the presidential
aspirant, the party that supposes the eves
of t he Ametican )eople can be flossed to
this vital aspect of tho matter is makiur a
signal and, jierjltius mistake. The Ameri
can people know what is honorable, fair,
manly and just ; and their tilt imate decis
ions always show that they not only know
but lhat they act upon their knowledge. '
"The single good influence resultir.g
from the act creating Ihe commission, is
that the process of counting the vote and
arriving at a rrsnlt lias lieen ordetly and
in pursuance of statute law ; instead cf
Our Washington letter.
Wabuixotos, D.C., Feb. 19, 1877.
THE NATIONAL H ETUKXISO BOARD.
On all sides is heard the expression of
.;.,i,t..,n indignation at the action of
rim Flectoral Tiibunal which animates the
iid which animates tiie i cupje(j at j,s afternoon session thedsy pre
ded by partisan biKot- ; iuua jn ,,,e consideration of another stay
breasts of all not blii
Even the extreme men of the Ilicical
ry
oavty
wliiln cloaiinr ovei uieir wicseti
ti iiunt.h. evince some shame for t he manner
in which it was won, and while they are !
w illi iiff to accept me iruna in
.i... 'iViLonal. tliev do not undertake on any
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iii --f rf , .
inciple of justice or equity to detenu rue ,
action or motives ui me men uj ........
. f . l,M ...l.i.t lliar
work was wrought. Hours betore ttie vote
was taken in the Tribunal, the devil-daic-faced
.Morton bad telegraphed to his pimps
at home that the vote would be 8 to
Tho most bitter disappointment at the ac
tion or the Tribunal is exhibited by those
who supported the electoral bill in gtod
faith and who builJed, blindly as it is now
vpii. iii the suoDosed nou partisan attri
butes of the Snpieme Com t Justices, more
particulaily liratfiey. norn ...e uu ;
and Senate, on Saturday, little else was dis-
cussed, and whilst there were unsparing
.ur roiidenitiatiou tho majority were ,
of the opinion that nothing in the way of
dilatory measures to d-ifoat the conspiracy
should be resorted to.
tiie demochatic caccus.
It was agreed that the understanding as
to the true intent and meaning of the elec
toral bill had been most shamefully violated,
and it was concluded that the country
should be made acquainted with all the
facts bearing on that point. The almost
unanimous sentiment was that the decision
of tho Tribunal should be acquiesced in,
but at the same time its enormity should '
be held up and exposed to tho public gaze
without ceasing, day aTter day, and that
the conduct of the Supreme Court Judges j
shouM bo made most prominent. The
joint Democratic caucus was not largely at
tended, at least seventy-five Senators aud
Members not beiug present. Among those
who stayed away were a number who aie
disposed to exert the power possessed by
the Democrats to prevent any declaration
as to Hayes's election, and who averred in
advance that they did not intend to be
bound by any caucus decision. Some of
them have prepared strong denunciatory I
resolutions on the action of the Tribunal
which they are determined to otter. A mo- j
lion made to break up summarily the fur
ther count of the electotal vote icceived a
strong support. There was enliie unan
imity at the damning treachery aud decep
tion which had been practiced. The Dem
ocratic Senators and Members think now
that the lime has come for the members of
tho committee which framed the electoral
bill to state publicly the assurances as to
the recept ion of testimony which were given
by the Republican members oi tiie commit
tee, aud which assurances have been so
audaciously violated. Had it not been for
these assurances the electoral bill never
could have passed the House.
THE OREGON CASE
will bring the proceedings of the joint con
vention to another stop and will give the
majority of the Electoral Tiibunal another
chance for a partisan decision, which of
course will be heartily embraced by the
Judas Iscariots of the Tribunal. Tho
Democratic counsel intend to bring all
their ability to bear iu tho argument of tho
Oregon case, although now perfectly aware
of the fact that they might as well scream
themselves hoarse at th chairs on which
the imaginary embodiments of justice sit.
Tho Republican counsel will of course go
square back on their position iu the Florida
and Louisiaua cases, but such a little mat
ter as that cannot be expected to trouble
th?m or to have any effect o-i their partisan
friends who constitute the majority of the
Tribunal.
south ca nor. is a .
It is not improbable that when the vote'of
this Stale is called in the joint convention
an objection will be made, and it will also
Iks referred to the Electoral Tribunal, as
tin ro are two sets of returns, which will
afford a basis of an objection to counting
the Hayes vote, but it will evidently meet
the fate of its unfortunate predecessors.
' GRANT.
It is somewhat reported that the Presi
dent will shortly issuo his proclamation
recognizing the Packard government in
Louisiana, basing his action on the decision
of the Tribunal awarding the vote of that
State to H.iyes. It is very certain, should
he do so, his decision will not be acquiesced
in. The potle of Louisiana are determin
ed to have no more carpet-bag government.
If ttiey en n not have that which a large ma
jority of the people elected they prefer ami
will have a militaiy government. Pack
ard's authority will be resisted by force,
"come weal or come woe."
DIVIDED ON TIIE TRACE QCF.STON.
The vote by which the Democratic cau
cus passed tho resolution to go on with the
electoral count is considerably less than a
majority of that party, and the fact is ad
verted to by the Democrats who opjiosed
the resolution as one reason "Jvhy the de
cision of the caucus should not bo respected.
PHO-TSM FERRY
says he has no alternative under the elec
toral bill but to submit to the Tiibunal the
cases of both the South Carolina aud 0:e
gou votes, whether objections are made to
them or uot.
MR. HEWITT
will attack Mr. Hoar for voting in the Tri
bunal iu direct opposition to the views he
expressed as a member of the committee
which framed tho electoral bill. He and
others who have heretofore been considered
as the moderate men are now among the
most violent. Mr. Hewitt also applied some
very forcible language to Mr. Baker, of
Indiana. It is said that before ihe final
actio the Hayes conspiracy is consumated,
the Democrats will issue an address to the
country setting forth in scathing review all
the details by which the people aro lo be
cheated of their choice.
BISUOP WII.MAX,
in his recent interview with the President,
assured Grant that the recognition of the
Nicholls' government by him was the only
way possible to secure future peace in Lou
isiana, and that the people could not be
bi ought to stand the carpet-bag govern
ment of Packard. The President informed
the Bishop that he did not. feel called upon
to do any! lung as yet, that the public mind
was at present in too great a state of ex
citement, ami he.should wait future devel
opments. He gave the Bishop a personal
letter to Mr. Hayes, whereupon the Bishop
immediately left for Columbus to consult
with Hayes upon the situation it. Louisi
ana. This looks as if Giant intended to
leave the settlement of affairs in the South
ern States to his successor, notwithstand
ing the rumor alluded to above.
Anderson.
At Minneapolis, Minn., last Friday
evening, about 6:30 o'clock, Wm. H. Sidle,
assistant cashier of the Fiist National
Bank of that citv, was shot in the head
and mo.-tally wounded by a young woman i
named Kate Nooimu. Sidle was a vounir !
man highly connected, and the affair cre
ates a greaft deal of excitement. Miss
Noon an says that Sidle had seduced and
then deserted her. The shooting occurred
on the street in front of Nicollett's hotel,
and was witnessed by several persons.
The woman was immediately arrested and
betrays no remorse for the deed. Sidle
died soon after 12 o'clock next nnruing.
Another Stay Law.
IT PASSES SECOND KEADINO IN THE nOCSE.
The lTarrisbnrg correspondent' of the
Philadelphia Bulletin, willing under date
of Fell. 10th. says that the House was nc-
bill, which has passed second reading alter
a thorough discussion of its essential pro- .
- ,:: v formidable opposition
wasde-
Teope(j to the n.easnre, but its principal
supporters have a fear that it may share
ti.o Kamn f.iffl as us iireuecesw r, l..u
i n; iiiv - - i -
paf.sod ReCond reading by a huge mejonty,
but was signally defeated w hen it came to
be finally considered. Following is a sy
nopsis of the bill as repoi ted :
'1-1. u a-r. nroriiles that in all caes where
lands, tenements, or hereditaments have j
lieen or hereafter shall le lvied on by viT- i
tne of any w rits,, audsrn iuqneK of twelve j
men Ktinimnne l bv the Sheriff or Corotior of
any county shall find that th suits, i?suos,
i and profits of swell properly are not sutTi-
eient
leyoiitl all exjenses wiuoii seven
vparn in na lstv tne tiamnires ami rosot on
the debt i'lterest and costs in smh writ,
Ir shall tie the dulyof the Sheriff to summon
six men cf his bailiwick to go on the prem
ises, valurt and appraise tho said property,
and ir. all eases w here the defendant shall
consent to a condemnation agreeably to the
art of l.S.'MJ; ani in aiy ease whereat, inqui
sition and condemnation of such estate shall
not be deemed necessary in law, it shall Ik)
I thn duty of the Sheriff or Coronor to sum
mon rtll liupiesft Di j;v.n rtiivi ivnitii ii ti,
who shall go on the premises ami value and
appraise them, and etuh valuation or ap
praisement shall lie conclusive in any future
execution wliu-li may be levied on saino
; projterty ; ami in ease any writ shall issue
i for the sale of tuich lamls. etc., afltl the same
cannot liesnld at public vendue for tw o-thirds .
or more of the valuation or
appriisemtMit. J
the Sheritl or Coronor shall not make saiu
of the premises, hu- shall make return to
tli court from which thejexecutiou issued,
and all further proceedings for the sale of
such lands, etc., shall l-e stayed lor one year
from and after The return-day of the writ for
the sale of the premises. In case tho projt
erty is not sold, the Sheriff or Coronor is uot
entitled to privilege.
An almost similar procedure is prescribed
lit all cases where lands, etc., have lieen
heretofore levied on and condemned or ex
tended or that hereafter may le extended
in virtue ot a writ, and in all cases where
estates for life or for a term of years in any
lauds, etc., have been or shall be seized and
levied on by virtue of any writ or execution.
In cases where personal jtroperty shall le
taken in execution by virtues of any writ,
it shall le the duty of the officer to whom
such suit shall be directed, when requested
by the debtor, to summon three reputable
freeholders, who shall value a:id aprai
the personal projterty. In case the property
cannot be Sold for two-thirds of the amount
of the valuation or appraisement, the sale
shall lie stayed for twelve mouths. The de
fendant is required to execute a bond with
i :
one or more mirticieiit sureties, to be entered
vimi ill lui'ic rumi ii-ih iiii'i mn( ,
on record, and shall be a lien of said period j
of time, in a penalty double the amount of
.he valuation or appraisement, coutiitiouetl
for the delivery of the property, on the ex
piration of the stay of cxecutiou, to the pro
per office. Ou the execution and delivery
of the bond tLe property shall be returned
and re-delivered into the positessioii of the
defendant. Nothing in the act shall lie con
strued to prevent any judgment creditor
from having ihe property of auy debtor ex
posed to sale at any time.
Titree Children Mcideredbt Their
Mother. A large degree of excitement
has been caused in Penrith for the past
eight days by the discovery of the doad
bodies of two newly-born children in a box
left in the Griffith Inn there by a woman
named Elizabeth Kirkbride, a person who
for several years kept a school at the vil
lage of Langwathy, in Cumberland. She
was residing at Tuebrook, near Liverpool,
and on Sunday night she was transferred
to Penrith, a startling discovery was made
regarding her at Tuebrook. Her eldest
son, a young man of nineteen, having be
come annoyed at some remarks of the peo
plo will, whom he and his mother lodged
regarding a coat which they alleged had
gone amissing, proceeded to search her
boxes on Monday night in their presence
and in one of these a japanned tin case,
which wan strongly padlocked and had to
bo broken open -a sickening spectacle pre
sented itself. Its contents wero three (or
the remains of three) newly-born children,
wrapped iu several folds of sheeting and
pieces of carpet. One of the bodies was
pe feet, the flesh being shrivelled only, and
none of the joints dismembered; tho sec
ond one had the head and tho leg bones
separated at the joints; whilst the third
was merely a skeleton. They bad evident
ly been in the box for a long time. One
of I he bodies had a piece of string attached
to the neck, round w hich it hat! evidently
been tightly fastened. The authorities
were at once apprised of the affair, and the
box aud its conteuts were removed to the
police station to await the inquest. Tho
people with whom Mrs. Kirkbride hwlged
had not the slightest suspicion of anything
being wrong. On the police searching her
apartments several letters wore found,
which reveal the name of tho person who
is the father of the childen, a well-to-do
tradesman iu the neighbordood of Penrith.
The unfortunate woman has four living
children, the eldest' of whom is the young
man above mentioned. Edinburgh Vour
anU Friohtfci. Fam. of Four IIcwdred
Feet Down a Shaft. John Hartland, a
very prominent resident of Wilkesbarre,
met with a horrible death Thursday morn
ing in the Diamond shaft qf the Lehigh
and Wilkesbarre coal company's mines,
located in the suburbs of Wilkesbarre.
Mr. Hartland was the foreman of the ma
sonry work for the company, and had re
cently been superintending the construc
tion of a foundation for an engine in tho
Diamond mine. Yesterday morning, as he
was at the t:p of tjie shaft waiting to de
scend, he heard the engineer's bell ling,
which is the usual warning given before
t he carriage descended into the mine below.
He at onco stepped out to go down with'
the carriage. In some mysterious manner,
and with none to see him, he missed his
foot ing at the mouth of the pit, and falling
between the carriage aud the shaft he was
hurled downward a distance of over 400
feet to the bottom. A miner crossing the
foot of the shaft a short time afterward
discovered the remains of Mr. Hartland
ami gave the alarm. The body was man
gled into a horrible mass, and was subse
quently taken in chargo and conveyed to
his residence in that city. He was a na
tive of Staffordshire, England, but has
been a citizen of Wilkesbarre for the last
twenty years. He leaves a wife and one
child.
The Tidioute JWr says : Last Satur
day the wife of a Swede named Anderson,
living at New London, was seriousy burned
by a singular explosion. She was engaged
in cleaning the wood work in her kitchen
with benzine, the room was shut tip close
with a fire in the stove. It is supposed
that the evaporation of the benzine filled
the room will, gas, which took fire from
the stove, causing an explosion, demolish
ing the house and blowing the woman into
the open air. Her clothing took fire and
she was seriously burned on the body,
arms and face. A neighbor, whoj lives
close by, heard the explosion, stepped to
the door and saw the unfortunate woman
riving through the air with her clothes all
on fire, followed by tables, chair and othj !
er household ntensils. Of course the house
was totally ruiued an.1 taking Hre burned
up. .
Xeicf and Other Votings.
A latly was baptised at arreu last
Tuesday, in the Presbytei ian church, with
water from the river Jordan. j
In the fruit house of Nathan Hellings,
near Bristol, are stored over 62,000 battels
of apples, in addition toother fruit.
At Port Dodge (Iowa) rat skins have
become an important article of commerce.
One leaier, it is reponea, hks pnrcusseu j
'65,Wni peus witnin a lew inonins.
A sveamore tree, measuring twelve
feet iu girth, was felled the other day in
Berks county, from which thirty-two
splendid butcher blocks were cut.
A bullet fired by a hunter in Texas
struck the surface of a lake at considerable
distance, glanced upwaid, and wounded a
girl who was walking on a lull beyond
pride. Earl township, in Berks county, is ;
now boasting of a ve:y young grandfather, j
viz., ISathan Rae, who is not yet 6o years i
ofs.ge. J
Madison Macon, who died in Orange
county, Va., recently, was the last of J
PiTHiie.it Madison's nephews. He was !
eighty-six yeais of age, and has been blind j
lor many years. i
A loving coujde at Sharon, Pa., recent- I
ly presented their fourteenth heir for bap- j
tism and named him William Centennial, j
The oldest child of this industrious pair is j
but eighteen years old.
Father Keenan, one of the oldest ,
j Ca'holic priests in the country, died at his
home in .Lancaster, on Minday morning
last, in the 98th year of his age. His fun
eral took place yesterday.
A blacksmith is g.catly excil ing the
region around Fresno, Cal., by curing dis
eases in a wav that, according to the belief
0f the superstitious, proves him to be pos-
gse, of supernatural powers.
Mr. Andrew Stephens, the inventor of
the steam whistle, died on Chii-tmas day
iu England, at the age of 81 . It is a pity
his ability hadn t cut him off before lie in
vented such an infernal nuisance.
The San Francisco Alto 6ays that,
from causes not easily explained, Califor
nia, and perhaps San Francisco in particu
lar, furnishes more cases of paralysis than
any other section of the country, if not of
the world.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is inpidly substituting a metal known as
t lie "phosphor bronze" for brass iu the
construction of bearings. Tiie metal Is
said to be from twenty to Unity percent,
more serviceable than brass.
A colored statesman iuNoith Carolina
offered a resolution asking the Legislature
to atuggesl some plan upon which Cotigicsa
could be memoralized to set apart a terri
tory west of the Missouri river for the col
onization of coloied people of the South.
Edith Lysle, a book agent, who bad
been canvassing for Custer's Life, died
niiiiiiruij uvuim uil ITJIlt? HVOUllll)
Pittsburgh, Thursday afternoon. She
snaneii ly ar a nouse on wyiie aveune,
positively refused to send for a doctor, and
the cor. aier's jury reudered a verdict of
death from poisoning.
The town of Harrison, Maine, contains
among many other natural curiosities, a
mineral spring in which the temperature
of the water never varies. Upon the hot
test day of summer, or the coldest day of
wiuter, a thermometer lowered iu its wa
ters will indicate exactly 4G above zero.
A negro man aud a white woman
traveled all over Macou City, Missouri, re
cently, trying to get some magistrate or
minister to marry them. veiy where
their request was denied, aud at the house
of the last person to whom they applied
the refusal threw the wouiau iuo violent
spasms.
Rutland, Vt., expects to become anl
important mining centre. One man there
thinks he has found coal ; another knows
where there is iron, and a third has a gold
mine on Bald mountain which he stealth
ily visits at night, carefully concealing his
t lacks. Specimens of the gold ore sent to
Boston for assay are said to be very rich.
A man named Wm. H. Weldou at
tempted to kill Gov. Packard at New Or
leans on Thursday last. The Governor
was in his room when the would-be asaas
siu leveled his pistol at him. Packard
struck tho weapon down, when it exploded
and shot Packard iu the knee. Weldou
was wounded by a bystauder, aud has been
committed to prison.
Jeanette M. Robinson, of Chicago, as
serted that for seven years paralysis pre
vented her from uttering a word, and that
iu an instaut, in answer to prayer, she was
cured. A reporter recognized her as a
woman who under the name of Mary Da
vis, had only a year ago been a remarkably
glib witness in a lawsuit. The exposure
of the fraud seems to be complete.
Theus, the Albany butcher who re
cently killed a loy by throwing a knife at
him, pleaded guilty to manslaughter on
Wednesday, and was sentenced to the pen
itentiary for three years. He said he threw
the knife in anger, without intending to
kill the boy, and that the white face of the
boy . constantly before him, turn which
way he may, both day ami night.
A student named Talford, on return
ing to his home in Missouri recently from
college iu Indiana, became insane on the
cars, and leaving his satchel of btx.ks iu
his seat, leaped from a train on the North
Missouri Railroad, as it was going at full
speed. He wascaptu.ed near Uenick, Mis
souri, in a denso thicket, and was taken
to be a wild man. He is held in jail for
identification.
In Cincinnati on Saturday a young
man named Abel Rothschild attempted to
commit suicide by shooting. It has trans,
pired that he murdered his mistress, nam
ed Bessie Moore, in Jefferson Texas, some
time ago, where they had been stopping at
a hotel. Rothschild was a commercial
traveler for a house in Cincinnati. His
wound is not fatal, and he will be takeu to
Texas for trial.
Mary Paul, of Cincinnati, had an ap
petite for alcohol that she could not mas
ter. She tried hard to reform, but her
husband told her, finally, that if she ever
got drunk again he would separate from
her. She kept sober for awhile, but at
length, finding that she could not resist
any longer, she drank a glass of brandy.
But she put arsenic in the brandy, and
died of the poison.
The wife of J. Marzenius, was fatally
shof.stabbcd and kicked by her father, Anto
nio Leon, at her residence, No. 48 President
street, Brooklyn during the absence of her
hnsband on Friday last. Her father-in-law,
aged 65, attempted to shield her from
the infuriated father, and was dangerously
stabbed. John Leon, brother of the wo
man, and present at the attack, has been
arrested, but the father is still at large.
A bank book was presented at the
Springfield (Mass.) Institution for Savings,
one day lately which had not been seen by
the bank officials since the original deposit
was made, thirty-two years aeo. The
amount of the deposit was f !100, while the
interest alone has amounted to $1,649.
During all this time the owner of the book
had never entered the bank or asked a
question as to her property, which she now
comes to claim.
Gov. Hayes spent Saturday in receiving
tbe congratulations of his friends upon an
unexpeeted triumph. Among other con
gratulatory despatches he received one
from Barn urn, the showman, who wants
no favors, but thanks God for his elect ion.
The pious Barnum 1 hanks Gtd amiss. Mr.
Hayes was not elected. He wss counted
in. Mr, Bamum's thanks shnuld be ren
dered to the parties in the capitol bne-
i
rneivr, who are suffering for doing
thing which he thanks God for.
that
1 At Oregon, Holt count-. Mo., on Tri
! day morning, John F. Simers shot his wife
and then shot himself. He wrs accustom
ed to abusing his wife, nnd made home so
intoletable that seve.al grown children
were compelled to leave. The evidence
blions he docidedseveral days ago to cm
n.it the deed, Sinters left a letter charging
the blame on his wife, because she wanted
a divorce and had applied for one on ac-
cuuih m c...r.ijr.
i ne inmii, jvrm
rff Aeic emms to
have information of a scheme to put Zach.
Chandler once tnoi-e in the national Senate.
The plan is that npon the resignation of
senator-elect Judge David Dvis from the
supreme court. Senator l.i.r.stiancy, of
! Michigan, is to be ajqtointcd to fill ihe va
j cancy upon the bench. This will leave a
l vacancy in the Senate from Michigan,
which Is lo be filled by the present Leg!
lature by the election of Mr. Chandler.
The Catholic Chinch has missions at
about forty Indian agencies iu the United
States, only eight of which, however, are
assigned to Catholic missionaries by the
Government, the rest being assigned to the
va.ious Protestant denominations. A
Catholic commissioner. General Charles
Fwing, has been established at. Washing
ton by the Aichbishop of Baltimore, act
ing in concert with the bishops t.f the Uni
ted States. His duty is to proUct Ihe
rights of Catholic Indians.
Seven spans of ihn Lewistown and
Sunbnry railroad bridge crossing the Sus
quehanna river at Selinsgrove, Snyder
county, were destroyed by fire on Sunday
night. On the Selinsgrove side the flames
were prevented from spreading further by
sawing through the timbers of the eighth
span, which fell iuto Ihe water. When
first discovered the biidge was burning at
two places, having evidently been et on
fiie by an incendiary. The loss is about
tSo.OOO, all of which is covered by insur
ance. The New York Tterald published Sat
urday a fac simile of a letter received from
an anonymous person claiming to be the ; " , : "i!iurtr-''
wife of the real murderer of oCicer Brock, j soerlff .....
at Newark, New Joey, a crime for which j Tsiesmen
two men suffered death 01. Thursday, one I ll,,',Ll'n,
by poison and the other by hanging, both wte,-n r. nio-ti'i ,r
protesting their niiitK-ence to tte list. M l.-eis luUmbnat
The letter declares the w.iter can no long
er keep back her guil'y secret. 9'no de
sires the f-ieudsof the victims of circum
stantial evidence to kuow that they aro uot
guilty.
Martin " indie, a native of Germany,
aged 22 years, about 3 feet 5 inches tall,
light biown bair, smooth face, light com
plexion, h;i& been missing from bis late
home at Chick ies, since December 10,
1876. He peddled uotious about the couu
try, carrying them in a red box. swung on
bis back. Any information as to his
whereabouts will be thankfully received
by Joseph Lip, Chickies. Pa., to which ad
dress information should be sent. Papers
copying this will confer a great favor ou
the family and friends.
Announcement was made in the Col
umbia churches on Sunday morning that
John Dellinger, Jr., a boy of ten years, wa-
missing since V ednesday. the 14th inst.
He left school on that day and has uot
been seen or beard of since. He is large
for his age, of light complexion, auburn
bair, and had ou a new daik blue vest,
black overcoat aud daik brown skatmg
cap, blue pants well worn, and botts. In
formation addressed to John Dellinger,
Columbia. Pa., or any of our exchauges
copying this notice, will be greatly appre
ciated by his heart-broken parents.
Iu Sharuokiu the other d iy a party of
three young men played a trick on a young
girl, with whom it is alleged oue of them
had become too intimate, by going through
a "sham" marriage ceremony, oue of the
soouudrels persouatiug the ''squire'' and
perforroiug the monk reromouy, which the
girl thought made her lover and herself
husband aud wife. After the ceremony
they returned to their several homes. But
in a few days she learuod to her sorrow
that her supposed husband had no thought
of supporting her, when a liUle inve6tiga
tion convinced her that she bad beeu mvJe
the dupe of throe meau men, who tricked
her iuto the belief that she was a wife
Tbe trio of worthless have fled the town.
Hon. Henry W. Williams, one of the
Judges of the Supreme Court of this State,
died at his residence in Pittsburgh, ou
Monday last, after an illness of many
months. He was bom iu Connecticut and
and when a youug lawyer went to Pitts
burgh where he was afterwards elected
Judge of the D. strict Court of Allegheny
county, and in 18C3 was honored with a seat
in the Supreme Couit of ttis Slate. Mr.
Williams was a geutlemcu of excellent
character, and as a Jutlt;e was considered
pure and without reproach. His successor
will be appointed by Gov. Hoi t ran ft, to
continue iu office until the first Monday of
January next, an election for his successor
to take place at the gcueral election iu
November of thus year.
Governor Grover, telegraphing from
Oregon, denies in the plainest and rcoet
peremptory way, that be ever received any
despatches from Governor Tildeti signed
Gobble" or "Governor ;"' and proneunces
all such pretended telegrams to be fabri
cations. It is hardly neoessary to sav.
remarks the World, that it. all human
probability, not one of the many Radical
editors who Dave ncen beating the tom-tom
over this alleged wickeduesa of the Demo
cratic candidate believes a wDrd of the
story. A charge levelled at Grameiey
Park by way of Salem, on the Pacific coast,
is, however, a convenient weapon at this
stage of the proceedings lu Washington,
and this consideration may, perhaps, ro
lievo its authors from an else inevitable
imputation of sheer fly gobbling idiocy.
-The Mifflin town btntinel says : Last
Friday a bird hawk, in passing over town,
swooped down at a bevy of English spar
rows that were feeding in the street at the
corner of Main and Bridge streets. The
nimble little biras were too quick for the
hawk and scattered, Oue little fellow
neatest the hawk curved arouud the glass
corner of the Belford building. The pur
suing bird not being acquainted in that lo
cality, and knowing uothing of the glass
corner, which to his eye seemed like an
open space, concluded to tako the short
cut on the little bird that was describing
so nice a curve in front of his hawkship.
The hawk directed bis course straight
across the corner and encountered tbe out
side glass with such force that it passed
through to the inside by a bole of its own
making, only several times larger than its
own body, and then dropped dead to tbe
mnsic of quivering window and falling
glass.
A Crawfordsville. Ind., special to the
Cincinuati Gazette says : Yesterday morn
ing the remains of a young woman were
found lying near a stump in a field, about
1 two miles east of Maceville, in this county
The body was terribly mutilated, beinir
half caton by dogs. A Coroner's jury was
at once convened, but an examination of
tbe body failed to give any clue to bow she
came to her death. Suspicions of foul play
were freely entertained, but were not jus
tified by the examination. She was well
dressed and seemed to be about twenty
five years old. The name "Ferdica Bo
dine" wss written with indelible ink in
several places on her clothes. She seems
to have been an entire stranger in that v..
cinity. Several employes of the I., 11. &
W. It. K. met a woman walking on tho
railroad track about s weeks ago, the
description of whose c-MhH corresponds
with those of the VcMed Tbe most
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