xs-r jas-a. "se: ron5 raj ! gzi ris BHSS cc n OL HI. in -'ill EQENSBURC, PA., Fri lay Morning, - - April 20, 1877. .Ti nor: Lono .vkku lias deckled tli.it I lie bid constables li"'d over until April I, 'TO. - - - - " Hon. Sami ki. Calvin, ofllollidaysbiiig, who piefers a greenback currency to gold and silver, lias addressed two letters to the New Y-.ik lrih Worhl xw which lie attacks Hayes policy of coin as a basis of onr cur icnev, and denounces it ns "it fraud, it rtfue of n htm r y iniquity and the pv-.ifW of earth's ittitibu:,'" and concludes l.v l.t.i.imr f.,i- thi dav when it "tliall be j - t -. - swept into tbe dust bin of tlie past." mn i it r r - i tJovKitxou Pii.r.sm-KY, of Minnesota, l as issued a proclamation a ppoint ing . Tiuusd y, the 21t.li of this mouth as a day I of fasting, humiliation and prayer, in view f the thieateiied continuation of the grass h;.pi r scourge, and requests the people t iiiounti.iiit the State to withdraw on the d i named from their ordinary woildly pursuits. If this grasshopper calamity s ...n'd continue annually to visit Minneso ta. NebiaKka, Kansas, and other neighbor ing St itcs, its ravages will be fearful to coutetnplato, and emigration in that diiec t.on will be greatly discouraged if it is not i i i . i ; . . e iluciy au.iutioiieo in consequence. ('oi.. John A. I.k.mon, State Senator from this district, has been prominently named b various Republican papers in connection with the nomination for Auditor Iioieral. Mr. L. although a confirmed p-utisan is a very clever gentleman and personally very popular in the State of Iilair ; but he and 1 iss friends must not, from that fact, rashly conclude that he is destined to step out of the Senate into the AuditortJenerarsoflice. ! The Democracy of the State intend to ear ly the election next November, and Mr. L- m n will not as a consequet.cn find it i ecessary to resign his position of Senator, unless indeed he should conclude to re verse the old maxim about "a bird in the hand being woith two in the bush." "The Ki-puVJc.m party in the South tea crea ted an net of fiiiiyrrxn .ill' t'-ie. army." This was the language, of Johu J. Patter son in Washington on the day that Cham berlain quietly sun endered the Governor ship of South Carolina. Patterson speaks by the card, and his woids aro literally true. Wherever the carcass is there the buzzards will be. Patterson, scenting plunder from af.ir, carpet-bagged from Juniata county, in thU State, at the close of the rebellion, and became one of the most shameless and corrupt pltmdereis of the taxpayers of South Carolina. F.ventu silly he purchased from a negro Legislature a seat in the United States Senate, where lie has been the obsequeous tool of Cameron us he always had been in Pennsylvania be fore he left it for her own good. Truth w as in ver more completely compressed in a nutshell than in the brief sentence uttered iy Patterson and printed at the head of this article. The Louisiana Commission has spent two weeks in New Oi leans and expects to finish its wosk to-day (Thursday), or at least before the close of the week. It may bw stated in general trims, that the settle ment tf the vexed question will b a Leg islature with a Democratic majority on j.iint ballot, whose duty it will bo to count the. vote for Governor as returned by the- lection officers in the dillierent p:u ishes. mid which will uudotlie fraud of the Wells' Roturnint; Board and elect Niiholls Gov ernor. When this result is declared the troops will at. one be withdrawn and Packard's career will terminate just as Chambei Iain's did in S-mth Carolina, P. S. The latest dipatch from New Orleans is that Packard's Legislature has i'-jected the compromise. The troops will therefore be withdrawn forthwith and Packaid left, to "hoe his own row." The gieat sensation of tho week in tho city of New Yoik and thioughout tho State is the"confcssion" of Wm. M. Tweed. It. was made pttblio'oii Tuesday last Jand con tains a history, commencing in 1807, of the operat ions of the corrupt Ring, of which Le was the and also the names of the members of the Legislature, as well as others whe were not membeis to whom he coritiptly paid laigo sums of money for their ollicial intliience in procuring certain legislation at Albany, whereby he and his confederates were enabled to rob the tax- payeis of New Yoik city out or several millions of dollars. It seems that Republi cans as Aell as Democrats were bribed by i him to do his nefarious work, and some of them ate at the present time members of the State Sen.ve. This confession was , forced fiom Tweed as one of the conditions upon which he is to be released from pi ison, ! but whether all his disclosmes aie tiue re- : mains as yet to be developed. j Govf.ukok Ha HTit a n kt visited Wash- ingtou last week, and of course called at 1 the White House, which he did not quit until he had assured Mr. Hayes lhat he fully and coidiaily endorsed his adminis tration, including its civil service reform anil its Southern policy. On the other, hand, Robe it W. Maekey, ex-State Treas urer, and a much shrewder politician than Haiti ault, was in Pit tburgh a few days ago and said to a newspaper teporter that "Klitics was very uuceitain, and paiticu l.i i ly so this yea:-" that Hayes' civil ser vce reform would give but poor encour agement to the woikcis of the party, and that at the meeting of tlie extra session of Cong i ess iu June next it would be seen whether Mr. Hayes would dare "refuse to reward those who had faithfully labored to secure his election." Mackey went to Florida and assisted the Returning Board of that ttate in cheating Tildcn out of its electoi.il vole, and as a matter of course Robert exjitciH go.,d fat office as a i e ward for his Mil ic.e. i hi'tigh he x ems willing to wait till l'"i gien n.et to see what Mr. Hay es s g'-iny to do about it. I THE UiflBRU FBEHR "To Ihr. E'lit .r of the it.t"H it' rail : "Your O.liitiinin correspondent is In error )m , bis Maii-no-nt thiit I Irs.l n conference wit l ;ov. . I' Hiiiiif-rlnin in Xew Vork. I have seen ,nv. ; ('liiimter:..in MM oi.ee for H yeiir, mid Unit whs , in tlie t.ilvtiTt cabinet ro.-tn of Prosiloiit Il:iyes intlH-Kih nf March. Nor d ive I written or t .Ifirrnpheil htm or heard t roin liim in any way. The same is trne respect ii.jr Jov. Piickunl ' x cit in the matter of one trleriit received I run linn, which I rend publicly in the ( ..-ni'ed Mtr Senate, r I am sure thf Got. ham-tu-rlHin knowsthat he has tlie prolotindest sym pathy in the heroic t Imiiji h unsuccessful siruir le lie has mnile in IS .ii'li L'lirolina Tor civil iih erlv ninl constitutional ifovernment. I am cniially sure that (Jov. l'ttckard Ire's that my in hi t an. I jinUiiiieut are boih with him in the : contest he is still watrinif K(rainit mint tx'.ils lor the tJovornorship. that he hold ny a title 11s valid ns th-.l which justly ai.d lawfully seat- ' cd liuthci ford H. Hne in the Presidential clmir. I trust, nlso, tlmt liotli tiovernors know that the llostmi p res no more represents th Malum t it.-publiean feehnir of New Kntrland on tin-pi-n..iiir issues than the s-nmo press did : win n it d niniided t ho t-uloi cement of the I- 11- ( .rit i(-n Suav-i. hi vv ill lS-M- I "Vn respoci I uilv, .1. G. HLAIN E. 'Aici si'a, Me.. April 10. IS;;." Blaine is a disappointed man and lias ! been nursing his w rath ever since his un- ! expecltu aim crusning lauuie io ooi.nn i oc Iepublican nominal ion for the Presidency at the Cincmnat i Convention. Ilis defeat even yet lies heavy on his soul and whis- , , i ' r.:i A..,.l.n:..1. peis in his willing ear, "If you have nature in you hear it not." The bold and defi.in. tone of his letter is a public declaration of , hostility against the Southern policy of Mr. Hayes, and is eagerly accepted as such by the "bloody shirt" element of the Repub lican party, of whose malignant purposes Blaine is the ablest and most dngerbus rep resentative. Mr. Blaine's letter has not ere-i . i r .i .,..,.. .1 ... ; ated any stui io, foi the icpsoii thata man- ; J ' ' i ifestoof the kind has been expected from j him. (n the second day after lie entered i th Senate he t(Mk occasion to refer in very plain language to the rumor that Stanley Matthews and Charles Foster had pledged Hayes to certain Southern Congressman to withdraw the troops from the Stale Houses of Louisiana and South Carolina, denounc ing Hayes' promise to that effect in the strongest language, and proclaiming in his own bullying style and manner that if he (Blaine) ever deserted tlie carpel-baggers then "may my right arm forget its cunning and may my tongue cleavo to the loof of my mouth." What a blatant demagogue he is when he talks about Chamberlain's heroic struggle in South Carolina for civil and constitutional government, and of the claims of a pretender like Packard to the Governorship OI" Louisiana? He stabs Hayes under the fifth rib by the declaration that Packard's title to the office of Govern or is as valid as that of Hayes to the Presi dency. This is all true, but that is aques tiou which Mr. Hayes neither wishes to be investigated nor discussed. All present indications foreshadow a mutiny of fear ful propoitions in the Republican party, headed by Blaine and others of his school, which Hayes w ill find it difficult, if not en tirely impossible, to quell. Whkn President Johxso'b impeach ment trial was in progress, old Be Wade, of Ohio, worked actively for his convict ion, in the event of which Wade, then Presi dent pro tern of the Senate, would have become- Mr. Johnson's successor. But lie was acquitted, and Wade at the expiration of his Senatoiial term retired to the Western Reserve. Against the while people of the Smith Wsde has always shown as much venom as Wendell Phillips, though not possessed of n tithe of the letter's ability. Of course he is opposed to peace and local i-elf government in tlie South and is the advocate of storn military rule, lie regards Mr. Hayes' Southern policy as rank treason to the Republican party and lias -written a letter to a friend in Washington bitterly denouncing Hayes and all his woiks. The style and temper of his letter can be judged of from its conclusion, in which he says that some persons attempt to excuse Hayes on 'lie gioutid of pure motives, and then niod cMly adds that "hell is paved with good inlcntions." Wade has a fellow feeling for Blaine Hiid will light under the bloody shirt banner of the latter iu the threatened Re publican revolt against Hayes. Verily the ways of a Iiaudultnt President ate haul. Incidents of the Sr. Lons Firk. The following incidents of the burning of tho Southern hotel, which occurred on j Wednesday morning of last week, are I furnished by the papers : A tnort pathetic ; j scene was witnessed by many of the ispec- J tators on the Fourth stieet side just as tho j j danger appeared most imminent. In tho t i: i i i. : . . i . . . . . i . . -1 . , f . un u S1.-M y v union, llllll n nuCKglOUIIU OI , j lurid llames, might be seen the piofiles of a I man and worn. in shaking hands and tak ing a last larewe.l of each oilier. They had stood at the window and appealed for I aid until hope gave out, and just when they felt the volumes of smoke overcoming ( them ami saw the flames appaiently stretch j ing towaid them with rapid strides they I Ml into each other's arms, prepared for ) the worst. The body of n child, supposed to be a I little girl, was found in the ruins oil Thurs day evening just under the Walnut street 1 entrance to the hotel. It lay on a small j mutt res, and had evidently fallen fiom ; one of the upper stoi ies. It was disfigured beyond recognition. 51 r. Morrow, who ro i covered a small part of his jewelry, ba had four barrels filled with ashes taken from the locally where hi trunk was found, and has sent it to New York to bo smelted. Of the two hundred employees of the hotel one hundred and fifty-nine have ro polled and others were expected to report , Friday. It is not believed that many of I I hem are lost. Sot.oman said that them was notliincr new under the sun, but Solomon lived before John W. Forney, and that a3counts for the proverb. Who would ever have bolieved that Forney, who for years has ferociously waved the bloody shirt, would return to common sense and speak in his I'rent of last Saturday iu the following patriotic terms : The nrmy nf the United Stntes cannot Icgnlly be used to sustnin one politienl hi-- nvninst another, ln-ati only he exiled into service in t xlraordinnry enaes. when the Heeurity of life and properly Is threatened, mid wnvn Stnie author! y is inadeitiHfe t.i proteet un American eit ixen in hid constitutional rights. lis perma nent use ns n police loiee is contrary .to nil no tions of propriety and law. A correspondent informs the N.Y.I.c that it was in error in saying that at the recent election, New Hampshire voted i down an amendment to the Constitution j intended lo remove the disqualification of' Catholics from holding office. That ' amendment was adopted by a small major- , ity over the requisite two thirds. i -u Uliun. I lie amendment that was lost provided for striking the word "Protestant" from that quaint clause in the Bill of Right em Dow eling the LegisUtuie to authorize towns and religious societies to make piovisi-m at I heir own exiense fer the uport and lii;inieii!'in:e of public I'roU'ia Ht teachers piety, uligioii and morality. Our Washington Letter. "Washington-, D. C, April 1G, 1S77. j THE SITUATION. Politcal circles bave for the past few days been unusually quiet, and but few dispatches have been received from Xcw Orleans. '1 here was a report in cir culation that Packard had decided to chant! his policy ami try and maintain himself without the assistance ot the Gov ernment, but no imjortance was attached to it, nor is it believed he would date at : tempt such an attitude. The carpet-baggers are extremely blue about the condition ' of nflaiis in Lousiana, and aie evidently preparing for the worst by packing "me satchel'1 with paper collars and tooth picks, and "vamoosing the ranchc." One of their ; number said to-day that he had no longer ! hope for justice from the administration, j and that Packard might as well give up ' now as a month hence, it being only a I question of time, and that a very short time. A full settlement of the Louisiana question is couiuieuiiy iwkcu .' nna -. v-- in administration circles. uiei uunv Cuter, of our local bupreme Court, a very strong supporter of Hayes' Southern policy, is very sniieuine that an administration Speaker will be chosen at the extra session of Congress, Out being no Yankee he is a mull o iimspi.." 1 1 is oimosed t3 an extra KeKKit,ls i,Vvever, and says the army might J u he disbanded without the slightest injury , to the country. i here is without uout a very stiong grooving opinion among the , masses of the people, s well as among a ; goodly number of membeisof both Houses ' of Congress, to iluaway with the army en- t tiiely, except merely a nominal force of j civil-militaiy engineers to keep Hie ioiiui-; i u n,,ti.i. cation in good ordinary repair, together wilI lSje heeping up of West Point, leav- ; juir the baiance to take care of itself. We ' predicted this idea in a former letter and . feel somewhat Mattered to see thai our sug gestion is not only received favorably, but is actually cropping out, in such sei.timents as Judge Carter's, among the big politi cians of both parties. We may yet 6ee ourself the father of an amendment. PACKARD ATTEMPTS BRIBERY. Packard has made a raise and oftered to four members of his Legislature who went j over to Nicholls $5,000 if they would come back, and he actually showed them the : money, but they didn't take the bait and declined the offer, which redounds certainly to the good sense of the better class of i colored men. Dispatches received hereto- day av report the Nicholls' Legislature still in j ?ssion. and it is expected that a point will '; session soon be reached where they and "f com- mission" can meet on common ground. SOUTH CAROLINA. Hampton's peremptory demand on the carpet-baggers for the surrender of their seveial offices seems to have taken them by surprise. They were resting quietly under the impression that they would uot be dis turbed until the decision of the Supreme Court of that Slate should be made known. 1 Their conclusion and reply will be made j public ere this goes to press. Some of; them profess to be very much pleased with ! this action of the Hampton administration, as they say that the broken pledges will , Krii.ir; Ti, ;.,. l.-rk i..t. . ti, siaia ll-,.isP ' bring the troops back into the State House. The majority, however, are very sore over it. j SENATOR LAMAR. The impression that Senator Lamar w s j concerned iu the negotiations involving the j inaugui alion cf Mr. Hayes as President ifc ' incorrect. He was too ill at the time to be seen even by his most intimate friends, be ; sides he is not only a man of high courage, I but one possessed of that statesmanship which restrains impulse in tua lace of a doubtful good. SUNSTROKE BLAISE'S dislike of Hayes' Southern policy is owing to the fact if it is successful, as it bids fair i to be, then his political stock iu trade is ( gone. He cares a great deal more about his chances of becoming the Piesideutial . candidate iu 180 than he does about his country or the welfare ot those whose wel- j fare he pretends to have so much at heart. ; Until his recent letter we had supKed his ' exploits in that direction had been mainly j confined to the larceny and suppression of : epistles he had pieviously written relating ! to Little Rock and Fort Smith bouds, which killed his nomination last year and. will ) most assuredly do iu all time to come. His i friend (?; Mulligan put a quieting veto on -Jim's aspirations in that direction when he ! exposed those letters of Jimmie's. He ' probably smells the bad odor and mistakes ; it for his own political bteatu of life. turkey. The members of the Turkish legation here do not believe war between their gov ernment and Russia can be averted. For some months they have entei tamed the opinion that Russia would forco a contest justas soon as the cold weather disai.peaied and the roads became passable fur the matching of troops. orrosiso hates. It is intimated here that a call will be ISSUPll 111 a few dnys in New York for a mass meeliiur of all who are "in favor of maintaining the integrity and indivisibility ol the Itepublican party." V endell Phillips and Jim Blaine are understood to he leaders in the movement, and the object of the ' meeting is open waifare upon Hayes' ' Southern policy. j MRS. HAYES , has had her picture "took-nn" and it shows j a mingled sweetness and strength of char : acter approaching perfection. If appear ! ances go for anything in matters of this I Foit, Mrs. Hayes is an honor both to her . sex and station, evidently possessing in i the highest degree refinement and good breeding. decoration day. The approach of this day is leading mauy to expect that this year it. will maik the end of sectionalism, ami that wc shall have a genuine mingling of patriotic fttliug over both the blue, and the gray. miss aliunde. Senator Gordon having been blessed with a baby daughter cannot call her South Carolina, as he wishes, for he has a sweet little Miss w ho answers to tho name of Caroline, so he waits for the liberation of', Ixiuisiana. As this wailing is awkward, and ! may be a disappointment after all, we sug- j gest. tli at the little Uot don be named Ali unde, that being the source from whonco all blessings How to our Democratic South- ein brethren. centennial. It was only a few jears ago, tiro hundred or o, that the workmen at an iron forge at Havre de Grace struck because they weie fed upon canvass-back ducks instead of bacon. What geese they were 1 the k ads. Sixteen years of success has blown the Radical politicians up like bladders. It is amusing to hear them boast glibly about capturing the Speakership while in the next breath ihey are sweat ing because the Dem ocrats have captured the Presidency. TKLEPHONIC. Wo would suggest that tho newspaper "organ" of both parties have a telephone , so that tJheil. . I Tlilial t in. A In l.a c,.r, .-.!. J l thus be saved much editorial floundering ' j " I - ------ - - - - - ' ' ' . mij, a 1 1 1 1 in the siottgu or uncertainty. "Anon, anon, sir." Democuites. Reynoldsville, Jefferson county, had twenty-six stores last year, but only thir teeu have survived. Terrible Suff ering. THE WOV.eT SNOW STOHM KVKR KNOWN IN DAKOTA II TEKltrrOKY. Tho fiercest snow storm that Dakotah Territory ever experienced, says a letter J from Fort Smerton, A pril 6, ended yester day moniing. ' It began Saturday last, and never once ceased its fury during six days. ; The thermometer fell to thirty degrees be ' low zero, and remained there throughout , the storm. The biiow is about six feet ' deep on the level. Cuts and ravines are i filled by the cirift snow. The roads are i impassible. At the same date the ice on j ,' the Missouri river broke up and began j ! lloaling down at a tremenduous rate. t ! Early Sunday morning it formed a gorge ! at the head of Sibley Island, and the hot- ; i tonis in front of Bismarck and for many J miles up the river overflowed to the depth j i of several fewt in some instances. Cuba, a : point opposite to our little fort, had to be j ; abandoned. The he houses and dram shops were destroyed. The flood extended ; I below Sibley Island. N. P. Clark h?d a number of men en- i t gaged at Burnt Creek Bottoms as wood- I , choppers, to supply the contract for wood j i at our pout. The rapid rise of the water ! forced them to seek refuge m an old liay- stack, and they remained perched on their lofty seat until Monday mointng, when were happily rescued. I he water around the stack reached within seven or eight feet of the top, ami the prospect of their rescue was atone time gloomy indeed. Thiiteen men were chopping wood on Sibley Island, seven of whom were wise enough to cross the river before the ice threatened to come down. The others, with foolhardy daring, remained. The water rose steadily around them, until they weie forced to abandon their cabins ami climb trees to save themselves from d,.owlljnc but they only saved themselves j to freeze and starve. One old man was i : too weak to climb a tree, and his comrades j j cut- notches and helped him aloft. About ! half way up he fell and caught himself ! I wiih his left arm on a limb, and before he could be rescued he had frozen to death. Two of them fell from their seats, afler having been frozen, and fell into the rush ing current. One was found still seated on the limb, but frozen stiff. The other two were alive when rescued, but were badly frozen, and are now at our post hos pital. Their ifcovery Is doubtful. Theie were scores of other like casualties. A large party is laying over in Bismarck awaiting an opportunity to cross the river, en route for the Land of Gold. They are j about 150 strong, and seem to be in good J humor, though Bismarck is short of hotel If :i:i:..i r l. . facilities because of the recent fiie. Matrimost Extraoudixart. Wm. Smith, residing and doing business at No. 3,5)1)0 Lancaster avenue, West Philadelphia, cannot exist in single blessedness. Fifty three years ago, being then twenty years of age, betook unto himself hi fir&t helpmeet, who sickened and died. He mourned deeply, but at the end of four weeks hail Mrs. Smith No. 2 to comfort him Life is uncertain, pud again was Willmm a wid- - . i r t , wer,i '"ur 7ec"s ''everj ?ul '' Mr. Smith the third jincd ; predeces.Hois. Poor William ; just four I weeks from I he t iine ha wept over t he grave j of No. 3 he led No. 4 to the altar. There j seems, however, to have been a fatality , attached to Mr. Smith's matrimonial alli- ances, for again he had to wear crape on his hat. Tlie sister of No. 4 tried as only ! a warm-hearted woman can to comfort her i disconsolate brother-in law until his heart ; was deeply touched. But with his past sad experience he hesitated. Yes, he waited this time till six weeks had elapsed I before he was by law entitled to call her sister wife. At the leception, Mr. William ; Smith received the congratulations of his i forty-six children and grandchildren, be sides a host of friends. The bride last j Monday celebrated her 55th birthday. . She also ban had some matrimonial expe rience, Wil!iam being her third liege lord. 1 Thir combined ajfes are just one bundled and twenty-eight year. Sunday evening a startling event took place in South Baltimore. James Abbott, residing at No. 1(50 Lee street, accompanied oy ins wiie, icii in uweinng about eight 'clock for the purpose of taking a walk. They left in the house their daughter, An na Bell, aged eighteen years, who bad been in ill health from her birth. A sis ter of Mrs. Abbott remained in charge of the dwelling. Mr. and Mrs. Abbott had not proceeded very far when they were overtaken by a messenger, who informed j them that their daughter was very ill and requesting them to let urn home, which they did at once. On entering the front they discovered that their daughter had . jllst expired. The unfortunale mother , uilzed ., ,)e binlv of her child, whom room without any preliminary warning gazed upon the bdy of her child, whom she had left but a fhort while before, and throwing her arms above her head she also fell lifeless upon the floor. Dr. Bell was immediately summoned, but on his arrival he pionouuccd both mother and daughter dead. 1 lie shock haa been too gieat for j t,,e former, and her death had boen instan- ta neons. Tho tidings of the sad affair spread rapidly, and friends and neighbois soon gathered around the scene, and did all in their power to console Mr. Abbott, who whs almost distracted by the double calamity that had so suddenly befallen him. Quite an excitement was created on Chestnut stieet, Philadelphia, on Saturday at noon by the attempted whipping of Col. A. hi. M'Clure, of the Philadelphia Timts, by Mr. Nat M'Kay, government contractor. Col. M'Clure was in the company of ex- I ' r . 1 -Xt.T- . vuv. iii mi, w ueu .u nay approacneu with a dog whip and struck liim. M'Clure caii2ht M'Kay by the throat, and while holding hint some one from behind dealt M'Clure a blow, while another in front of him struck him over the left eye. The men are supposed to be friends of M'Ky'. Oue of them got away and the other was arrested along with M'Kay- Tho prisoners were given a hearmt; before a noli magistrate and were held to bail in $500 . each to answer. It is said that M'Kav mde '-u remark as lie approached M'Clure, "If I can't get satisfaction in court I can Cet uc'e." One more body, supposed to be that of a colored girl, was taken from (he ruins of the Southern hotel, in St. Louis, on Satur day. Search was continued on Sunday, but no more bodies were found, although it was thought that two or three still re mained iu the ruins. All tho help of the hotel except the head waiter and the gitls known to have been killed, and all the guests except one, have been heard from. Mayor Welsh, of Topeka, says the fire was smouldering in the hotel all evening and he could not sleep on account of the smoke. He called the attention of the em ployees to it, but they thought it came from a grate and pawl little attention to it. The Albany hveiunq Journal sava tnat Jamea Morrison's wife eloped a year mother. This week the truant wife, with her child and paramour, returned toCohoea destitute, and applied to her mother for ... I 1 'l'1..t. s. a relief. The mother refused to have anv. thing to do with her unless she would re turn to her lawful husband. This she would not do. On the eoutra.iy, he desir ed to bave the husband ejected. Her de sire not. being accorded, herself, lover, and child are uow destitute iu the city. Jicivs ami Other Xotings. An Alabama negro has been sent to prison for two years for stealing a bushel of corn. A San Francisco man told his wife that he w as lirrd of her, and i-be obligingly j poieoneo neiseu. . McKean county has ji new curiosity j a gas well that emits immense volumes oi water and lire alternately. Diphtheria at Lionvilie, Chester coun ts, has become almost epidemic, and only five pupils are left in school. Grasshoppers have begun to make their appear a nee in the vicinity of Ou.aha during the warm weather of the past few days. j (Jen. O'Neill, whoever lie is, started , for Nebraska the other day w ith a colnny I of three hundred emigrants from Luzerne j county. By a cave in at the Blue Point Graham mine in California, on Thursday, seven j men were instantly killed. Six otheis were more or less injured. j An old man engaged in hauling coal '. in Ashland fell heir to $110,000 some time ago. and on Saturday last he died, leaving , the fortune to an only son. The jury in the case of Patrick O'Doii nell, tried for killing Morgan Powell, at Mauch Chunk, Pa., has rendeied a veicict of murder in the first degiee. The squirrel pest is a aonrce of no lit tle worriment to the California farmers, who consider the lit lie animals as destruc tive to their crops as the grasshoppers. The Scranton Time has a conundrum. I It says : "Chamberlain insists that lie : leaves South Carolina penniless. Would j it be impertinent to inquire which way he ' means that ?" j James Baxter of Baltimore would be a cood man to send to the Black Hills. A i pistol was fired at him in a recent fight, and the bail flattened on bis forehead with out injuring him. Some of the organs have a new cause of alarm. They see Governor Hampton looming upas a Piesidential candidate in 1880. and he is not the kind ef man to be swindled out of an election. A Harrisburg dispatch States that it has hern ascertained that Charles Duffy and John D. Mull wee weie drow ned some weeks ago in the Susquehanna river while in a boat with stolen pioperty. A man named Potter killed Lis wife and then committed suicide, in Geneva, Ohio, on Friday evening. Tlie couple had quari elled, and she wjis packing her trunk for the purpose of leaving him. A prey eagle, nie.isuiing eight feet ; from tip to tip, was killed about five miles : south of Santa Rosa, California, recently. tit . i; ii. He and his mate ate believed to have car ried off 100 lambs during the last measou. The Mt. Union Time gives curicncy to a rumor that the Cambria Iron Company- has leased Matilda Furnace, in Mirtlin t county, and will put the same in blast as ( soon as some necessaiy repairs are made, i Old Simon was asked 6omc time ago if he was related to Senator Angus Came- j ron. of VV iscotisin. "I have no doubt," he : ) answered, "that my father and his were j stealing cattle together on the Scotltsh bor der." The new law for compulsory education : in Ohio is said to have been passed in order to fit her people for the responsibilities of all the Federal offices, there being still a t few that are now held by citizeus of olher ; States. j Near Harrisburg, on Thursday evening i last, two small children of Jacob Pi ice, liv- ' ing below the city, were burned in the j absence of their parents by one of them ' pouring coal-oil mi the stove. One ie dea.l , and the other will die. ! A gentleman at Abingdon, Ya., hns a pet fish. He has kept it it: a spring for ; five years and can go and call it up at any time. It eats from his baud ami shows a raaiked liking for its keeper. It is a black perch twenty iuohes-long. i Lewistown had a $40,000 fire on Tues- day of last week. Messrs. Willis it Shock, I boiler and axle manufacturers, in whose es ! lablisbmeut the i.e originated, were the principal sufferers, their loss being put ' down at $30,000, with no insurance. I A great excitement exists iu the iron ' district of Ohio over the discovery of a J vein of very peculiar and hiili-Mto un- j known ore on the land of a Mr. Clark, 1 nearStraitsville. It is said to be the gieat- ; est find" ever known iu that region. ' Gov. Hampton has issued a proclama- ! tion calling an extra session of the South 1 Carolina Legislature to meet on the 24lh ! of April. He will press on its attention ; measure of retrenchment and refoim to j relieve the over-burdened taxpayers of the , State. The Miller murder near Shaefferstown, Lebanon county, is the third ono commit ted in that locality, within a radius of about twelve miles, during the past year. I The other two were in Lancaster county, j ami the scene of this one is within tno miles of the county line. I A Williamsport firm, of which Peter Ilerdic, the boom bill man, is a paitner, ' was lately fleeced by an adventurer from , Sptingfield, Mass., who represented him- j self as a man of means, purchased an in-I terest in the firm, and at the end of a week skipped with the cash receipts. An immense African lion escaped from its cage in a menagerie at Augusta, Ga., I into a crowd of people a few days ago. j The animal made a snap at the leg of a i man and then attacked a Tartary yak and j killed it. A rope was thrown about i;s , neck and it was led back into the cage. I Tho Lancaster Exprett says that Mrs. William McGingen. aged C3. of Georue- I town, Bart township, Lancaster county, is the fond and devoted mother to a dear little baby girl only a few days old 1 . 1 , , - ... The neiiIi- ! brs called and found the mother and child i doing well. The father is an industrious ' man, aged 70. j A small boy died in Bennington, Vt., i from swallowing a screw, which, becoming ! lodged in his throat, caused his death by j suffocation. The samo boy but a week ! before his death swallowed a two-cent ! t piece, and the day preceding was caught in the act of endeavoring to get a nail down his throat. Louis S. Burkbardt, who died a short time since in Reading, had an eveutful life. On one occasion, after a shipwreck, he sustained life by eating hoi sellesh. He spent eight years in South America, and fought under Bolivar. Wheu a youth he had seen Napoleon's army cross the river Rhine to Moscow. The Scientific American says that an artificial light approaching remarkably near, in agreeableness, to daylight is pro duced by a petroleum lamp with a round wick and light blue chimney of twice the usual length, the latter causing so great a draught that the petroleum burns with a nearly white flame. A prominent gambler who boarded at the Southern Hotel, St. Louis," was dealing faro in a bouse some distance away from the hotel when tbe fire was announ.! lie closed the bank and iut its "roll." ! about $?.n0O. ill Ilia nrwlrnt n.l n-Ar. I I ' the hotel to trv and lift v a knma f liia j erty. He was lost in the flames. ! Ur. fc. Donnelly, of Pittsburgh, is in J possession of a natural curiosity a chick en with four legs aud four wing. The lunus naturm was hatched in Ohio, but did not long survive its exit from the shell. The extra legs are attached to the body at the breast, and are quite perfect in form. The double wings are clearly marked, and tbe whob body is feathered in the natural way. The doctor will prcsci vo the curiosity. fc7 AHA . R . WANAMAKER & BROW. IN THE OLD PLACE AT THE OLD TRADE. All the tjest talnt, experience and advantag., eon command , continued at OAK HALL, to prod uc ti a BEST nd CHEAPEST CLOTHING for mart and boy. For sixteen year we have lived at the old corner ,f SIXTH and MARKET, and the business dons there h, been eo satisfactory to the public and ourselve, that v , liavs decided not to change or move the Clothing business away. The people like Ue place an-j wel:ke;0 please the people, and we believe lhat we can da it better than ever at the old place. The sales of the past year far surpassed anything we ever dreamed oT, and this puts it in cur power tj ttart the Spring of 18T7 with a STILL LOWER SCALE OF PRICES, and a class of goods t-oexceilen'.tlit'. v.-enrv not afraid to follow each.ssle with our warranVe, or receive back the goods unworn and hand over to ti.e customer the money paid. The store has been largely refitted, eiri there n-.---was such a splendid stockof Men's, Boys" and Ci.il irn clothing under the roof, nor were we ever b;e to e!i so cheaply. Our word for it, and we are your frieuj, t; sixteen years. WAflAliiAKER & BHGWH, THE OLD PLACE, QAK. HALL, 6th & Market. PHILADELPHIA. No less than twenty-six couples ate to be joined in matiimony in Sharpsburg, Al egheny county, in the couiseof a few days. The banns were published for all of them at the German Catholic church in that place on Sunday last. All the young peo ple who are to be united aie members of that congregation. Good enough. Gov. Hamptcu is fifty years old ; has been manied twice and is a widower. He hail three childieu two sous and a daugh ter. His oldest son, Preston Hampton, was killed at Gettysburg, and the second, Wade, jr., lives in Washington count y, Miss. His daughter, Margaret, is the wife of Col. John 1 Insert II, of South Carolina. Birds killed on tbe Western prairie, packed closely with paper in barrels, and without any freezing or othe- aititicial pro cess of preservation, niw go regularly to Leadenhall, and are sold and eaten in the dining rooms of London and the West side bv sidewith the much more expensive par tridges and fowls w hich aie leand in Kug- I 1:..,H I The jury in the Mary Kavatngh abor tion esse, in which that unfortunate and misguided gill paid the f.ufeit with bel li fe, have found Samuel McMasters, a well known Pittsburgh aldeiman, guilty as ati accessory to the ci ime before and after the fact. This on Saturday last, when n mo tion for a new trial and iu arrest of judg ment was made. Judge Black says that the golden fields of the Black Hills ami the commencement of the gieat Kurojean war. is the m uin.i from Heaven for this country, and es pecially for Pennsylvania, for the reason that thousands of the idle men will go west, and tha lemainder w ill get woik on our railroads, that will be busy bringing grain and provisions to the seaboard for shipment to Euroje. Theie is a c-irious case of suspended animation in Hoosick, N. Y. About two weeks ago Dr. U. II. Green ipparently diet! and was placed in a vault. Last Sat urday his wife visted the snpjx.sod c-rps, and was sui prised to s e signs of life, the body being waim. Physicians bad the body removed from the vault, and have hpes of bi inging the I).ctor back to active life and usefulness. Johu Smith, of Crooked Hill, Mont gomery county, aged 70 and blind, cut his throat with a butcher knife. The wound was sewed np, when he could conveise freely. When asked for the reasons for committii.g the rash act, he stated that owing to his blindness and disease life had became so great a burden to liim that he wished to be relieved of it, and had taken this method to end his troubles. David Davis, a prominent Welsh citi zen of HydePaik, Luzerne county, iccent ly met with severe pecuniary losses. A man to whom he had lent $2,500 failed and couldn't it; ay it, and several speoul it ions turned out badly. These losses preyed on his mind and he became morbid. Monday he went to work as usual, but shortly after returning home he first cut his throat aud then shot himself through the bead. The verdict of the coroner's jury in the case of the death of Oiville D. Jcwett and George W. Jewett, in New Yo:k, was that George W. Jewett came to his death, April 5, 1877, from the shock caused by the explosion of a hand grenade brought into the t-ffice, at No. 182 Front street, by Orville 1). Jewett ; thatOrville D. Jewett, came to his death at the Chambers stieet hospital from pistol shot wounds inflicted by himself at the tinia and place befoie mentioned. The Columbus (WiO Republican says that a four year old child of Deacon D. J. Evans, of Elba, fell into an open cistern a few days sr.ice, and an elder brother leaped in after him ; but the latter found it im possible to reach the lloor above, while supporting the child. A large Newfound land dog, comprehending tbe situation at a glance, ran off to a neighboiiiig field, bringing back w ith him a number of men, attracted by the strange actions of the dog ; a ladder was put down tbe cistern, and the young man and his charge, half drowned, w eie rescued. Gov. F. T. Nicholls, of Iouisiaua, lot a leg and an arm on the samo side of the body in the late civil war. His arm was shot away while lie was serving on tlie staff of Stonewall Jackson iu one of the Virginia campaigns. His father and grandfather were distinguished lawyer of Louisiana, and each in tuin was chief justice of the supreme court of the State. Young Nich olls, who was alo bred to the bar, often said that his highest ambition was to suc ceed them. But when he lost his arm be looked ruefully at the stump and exclaim ed that that put an end to Ins aspirations for judicial honois, since be cm Id not t minister '"even handed jubtice." J7sv. j 5. AT OAK HALL. AND MARKS? t STILL TO EE HEADQUARTERS FOR The f.iltini.'i r if-.;. tniusmciiculai of Airl.W:...;- r. Easter Mmd.iv, Iv?7. a; d ri clergy and Uiry.-f theme!).!; h-. ' more, in regard t.ilrsdq;i'''i tf .. '; The Aichbishop says : .f;cr:, tied against tuy sickness tie without much impr-ivr-m.":-, I mined, by ihe an vice if ti-y try a voyage across tlie I'i-i i. V much against toy own il F. w ho leaves home iliats a li-i.i-'. . after him ; but tli.s i c;-i-r a: ' with a Bishop when c m-:; or.I : -diocese, where lie has inn dr rrsionsihtlit ies. 1 need n--T iy " bow gieat a tii.il it is M me ! I to abstain fiom acme (i.i'v. If ' ; God to respite tut l; a".T !i I c as SOon a pos-jliie : ii(C:ir.l.-- 1 myself tot lie praveis of the te.e ' the religii ms Ci mnuiti .ties ai.ii ' people of n y diote-e." IB77. SPRING 167 oii:?i(i- X 15 AV fiOUDS. We have t'.iw open it! a" 1 !"" full lint .f SPIMNti N"V! ". eall particular v-i.t-.-.n t iort!iint of Si'lMMi WI.'Al ' DOLMANS. t'IKi I ?A' SHAWLS, wl.i. h w- ! ; a. materials ar.' shaj- ' "'' ' nifi. ent Mo. k ot M-'-V I'lii-'-' eonsistii g of !:;:. k a;.. I " - ' Haskets, t'ioth-. t :l ii-H i ' V ? bargains in H a-k ai .i t' i " " opened. KUCU3 & HACKE, Fifth Ave.Oaikd Siwt. It:-'-" Good Ahvii t N rt " for Pneumonia. L i-C l' w faini'.v sliouM hw a GllKMAN Svut l'. l' n : a mrnt that cough to tk.- l.-M your faini'y or y ir-. i "s-.l l....nm.il in I'll' IT H- .AS ' lllll... - and otln-r iVal ,': i - " y though it is tru.- ti! KM a ; ' thousand of th ' .io-a-i'-d ;; much better to ..iv i' at !:'' dose will mre yoi. " h your whole family a w".t. r safe from il anger. L" J""'1 a" , do not res' nun! y.m haM Sample 1 ttl. l'V i. i ' eent. Sold by your l'-'H-Mnrray. Ktubi;r, a:. a 1 & Sou, Wihnere. ,: k-' VA STATEMENT or : ;,i. sCuivrvi-or? and T.r .'I'll .... v.- ' - - . - - Carroil Townlup. Apn.3- Jacob Yt-in tv. Su;- To amount of rtnpll-nTc -. cmsta coi.eclf - - Total . IB rtr exonerations " cBh j.aiJ cut " services as Supw c work done I lail -'- rnil-'r HiHivrr.. T amount of iIu;!ioa;e cash eull'-eteJ talance of orOer v. o '-fT -!UC TV'' Total.. m. ttr T,inertkDS " pervlcrs as ufrv .r, 'j -;. -: " work d.ne t .axl : caen coileoied in orJ'r J acob YtAot rv. 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