DtIKa ZEH2 M UIBRU JIEHML ESENSBURC, PA., Friday Morning - - April 27, 1877, OK our firtt page will be found the linger j portion of an address recently deliverer! in ! - - - j . . . . - Boston by Renjtniin F. Butler, for the benefit of the widow and children of a de ceased Irish soldier of the late civil war. It. is boili interesting and eioquont and will amply repay perusal. Aftfii all, as the Pittsburgh Pott very peitiuently remaiks, it wan the Democratic party that ordered the troop away from Columbia and New Oi leans. That little notice nerved on Mr. Hayes by the House I of lpresenfatives in the Aimy Appropria- j tion bill, did the business. Thin should j conole Den Wade and Jim Blaine. --.i Wade Hamttos visited Charleston last week and made a speech to a delegation of colored men who culled on him. Among oilier things hesaid : "I stand uow precise ly where I stood twelve years ago. J teas the flrtt man in America certainly the first in the South who advocated the granting of the right to tote to the colored iti." Ei'Kope will soon shake fiom centre to ciicnmferi iice with the tiend of armed le gions and the shock of battle. How the map may be changed or history re written l.y the result of the struggle is, aa the Lan caster Intelligenctr remarks, beyond the power of prophetic ken to discover, but as events are now shaping themselves it looks as though the skill and diplomacyjof Russia bad effectually guarded against foreign in tervention in behalf of the Turk. Oin next door neighbor must certainly be impressed with the idea that the Ebens bnrg post-ojlice has gone glimmering, so far hI least as he is personally concerned. 121se why the following editorial exct rpt (copied, of course,) in last week's isbue of bis paper ? Senator HI. line still ndher? t the opinion, Fhiireri ty h iiih j ri I i t lie piiMieims. that Gov. I'ackurd holds the tint ernoiship ol I.tiitisntnii ty a I it le as s 1 1 ' I its t hut hit!i seated Kutlier lord It. Hayes in the I'resi'lciiii.il chair. Ir seems to be conceded in New Orleans that Wayne MacVj-agh, of this Ftate, was the controlling spiiit of Mr. Hayes Louisi ana Commission. The best evidence of this is the fact that Packard and his adherents assail him as the nuthor of all their woes. From the beginning to the end of the ne gotiations, he distinctly assured Packard and his supporters, in answer to all their thieateuiug and bluster, that let the con clusion of the labors of the commission be what it might, the withdrawal of the troops was a foregone conclusion. Mr. MacYeagh bad the authority of Hayes himself for ex plici'ly saying so, and the result was the complete demoralization of the Packaid Lrgi.-latuie and therefore the downfall of bis bogus government. i . . The trtetnlie r of the lmoitti: State Co ra tlin ire are reiim-Med to no-el lit 1 1 a n istm t g . Tuesday, May 1st. at 12 M.. to rleler-nine upon u time anil a piaoe for the meeting or ttie next Mate. Con v-ni ion. Wh i.i vw M 'i.ki.i.am. Chairman. Pltut.urirh, April 17. I".. It. will be seen fiom the above notice that the Democratic State Committee will meet at Ilartisburg on next Tuesday, May 1st, for the purposes therein specified. We understand that at the hist session of the I.egisla'nie the Honse adopted a resolution granting the use of its hall for holding the convention. We have always believed, for several good and sufficient leasons, that llanisbiiig is the projer place for the meeting of State conventions, and tiust. 1hit the Committee, will decide that the coming convention shall be held in that citv. b Only four weeks ago, the editor of the Philadelphia 'reus was twtjibly shocked because Mr. Hayes had invited that red hamled traitor, Wade Hampton, to visit, the While House for the putpo.se of talk- ig over the difficulties in South Carolina. At that time Forney was ready to head a revolt against Hayes and his Southern policy, but believing, with Falstaft', that "discretion is the better pait of valor," he is now enthusiastic in his admiration of Mr. Hayes and the good effects anticipated from bin treatment of Sitth Carolina and Jj-niisian.i. Iiten to him : I Alri'itily tlio cIoikIs nre lirf.ikirifi-. nd the h-i i. -n in cil'lfd wiili bright hope i,f rimu future. The Mtiuel of em-e hoveriii over the lii-lil of -trite. iml Hie iMt eciioes of pmslnn te w Mr Tu re ire il iair ui thee.tr. The .eo le if t he north it. 'Hire tiothirur better tlr.n Inn. Fit ilieir Hoiirherii brethren in the work tit re (! i netioii in whieh they Hre ensured. They K re ren-ly o con I nbii te on I'll a I. Inhor hikI every ttvitiiahe iiieius toi vo rt ner imp -tin to donth ern eit.pinen'. In the iintieip ttiu" of a liloriott rut lire oT reunited leminveft .iikJ hopes, l hey fonret t-verythinir ele but that they ro Amei ic m. l:i ttnit t!iit, shouhler tosh. nil. tier, they lire renly to tiiiirch with their fellow eoiifurynet! umler the fi.iv of the I'tiimi to new icliieveiiient in every t1el1 of effort atul to share with them the flory ot success. ( HAICI.KS I-KAN-CIS ADAMS, of .M.lSsa rhiiMjtts, although he voted for Samuel J. Tilden for President, has never been a ! Democrat. On Ihe ?ih of March, the day 1 ou which Mr. Tihlcn should have been in augurated, .Mr. Adams wrote a letter to hint, which has just been published, to ex- ; press his earnest approbation of his (Til-! den'rj diuitied aud patriotic conduct while tho paitisan woik of the electoral com mission was going on, as well as since the consummation of the great fraud. Mr. Ail nits' letter express' s the honest con victions of all fair-minded men in the coun try, and is a withering rebuke lo Hayes and every member of his cabinet. Tbe letfe;' is as follows : II.ioto. Mnrth 5. is:;. Thn. S J. Tilrfrv, l'litl-JlT Dcaic iu: On thin duy when voti ouiiht o rave l een President of the United 8tate . I seize the opportunity to bear my te tl.uouy lo ihe calm mid dignified niaiintr la which you have pncd ihtotiph thlngrent trial. It is niHiiy venrs since I eea.-el to be party Tit.tn. ht nee I Imve emit a voted lo Juiljie tf put,, lie? affiiir ioel men, ru titer by their merits than the nnuie tiny lake. It l.t a sou tee ot irratitlen. lion In me t think that I itMrle the right choice in the I tt election. enuhl n'rrr Antv re ro iriliiireil tit Ihe tlreatum y the nnnllet aid ;f mine f a '! hnuinr reiitahle in private li'e ivhn mutt fiiicrer miry tpnn hit hrow th itctMfl "f n.unl tifrt triumphant In American lllMti.ru No M'MSrQI'KNT actio, hiiwitik MKItlTOKIol S. AM W.idH AWAT THE I BT1BRS Or THAT HKIIHIt S'vif Id jpt tft'lly Vnnra. ctiAii i jt iai i Adams. A wkek aco to-day, it was decided by Mr. Hayes and his cabinet that the troops, the only prop of Packard's rapidly dis solving government, should be withdrawn from New Orleans. On the same day the Secretary of War issued an order directing I the withdrawal to take place on last Tncs- day, at carried j J t;iivn ill., uo iii? uiupi i .-. into effect at the hour ipecified. No demonstration was made by the peo ple, and perfect quiet and order prevailed throughout the city. When the decision of Hayes and his cabinet was flashed over the wires to New Orleans, Packard and his followers saw in it the fatal "handwriting on the wall," and the wildest consternation prevailed in his Legislature. Gen. McMil lan, one of the ablest members of the Pack ard House, stood not on the order of his leaving, but wentstraightway to the Nich- olls House, and, after making a brief con ciliatory speech, was sworn In as a mem ber. Packaid called a caucus of his Leg islature the same night and implored its members not to desert him, but to "hold the fort." II is appeal fell upon listless eats, and on the next day (Saturday last) ex-Gov. Warmouth, the leader of Packard" House, together with more than twenty other members, nearly all colored, deserted Ihe sinking ship and marched to the Nich- j oils Legisiatuie, whete they were received with tumultuous applause. Thus in about twenty-four bouts afier the action of Mr. Hayes and his cabinet, Packard's Legisla ture ceased to exist, and Francis T. Nich olls became the acknowledged Governor of Louisiana, with a Democratic Logislatuie in full sympathy and accord with him. The people of South Carolina and Louisia na have now each a State government which will command their respect and sup port. No longer will the blighting effects of carper-bag i ule impoveiish and oppress them, but under their changed condition of affairs peace aud prosperity w ill prevail throughout their borders. We are willing to give Mr. Hayes all the cicdit he deserves for his Southern policy, although Mr. Til den would have disposed of South Carolina and Louisiana in less than a week after hi3 inauguration. The only wonder is that under a Republican administration the idea of nii'ilaiy rule has been abandoned at all, The final settlement of the Louisiana question proves one of two things, either that Hayes was not elected President or that Packard is a deeply injured aud per secuted man. It never has been and never can be explained bow Hayes was entitled to the electoral vote of the State while Packaid, who received several hundred more votes than Hayes did, was defeated j for Govenr.r, and no human ingenuity cau cut the Gordian knot. The entire course of the Louisiana Commission in reference to the pretended claim of Packard not on ly discredits the title of Rutherford B. Hayes to the Presidency, but sUmps it with indelible fraud. A. Matter of Fact. In a sermon preached in Brooklyn on Sunday, a clergyman named Justus D. Fulton lead a letter which he said was fiom a doctor of divinity in Louisana, whose name, "for the doctor's own jiersoii al safety," lie did not dare to mention. This letter, says I he InteUiacnrcr, sets forth the horrois of the South in the most ap palling colors, contains account of the assassination of negroes and while Repub licans by the hundreds, and closes as fol lows: "tiod only knows what is to become ol us if the Nicholls government is recog nized, for there is a firm alliance of the Democrat und llomanitts to clear us all out." This is a most remai kable declara tion for one Christian minister to make and another to give circulation to. The charges of the hostility of the DemociaVic party to the negro, though exploded, are so often reiterated by those w ho are in a position to know belter, that we might pardon a fanatical preacher for believing them when his bigotry w ill not allow him to inquire into their truth or falsity. But that the Catholic Church has any purpose to clear out' the negroes or any interest in so doing is such an outiageous misrep resentation that no one in a position to mis lead. the public is justified in uttering it. We have the authority of the secretary of the general conference of the colored Methodist Church of this country, that the only two denominations in which the col ored man is fully made to feel himself the equal of his brethein in Christ, aie the Catholic and the 'Jnitaiian. The Catholic treatment of the negio, the energy of that Church among thisclass, South, the kindness of its tie.itineut cf tlieni and the zeal of its mission efforts among them is sogieat that our informant states that the great body of the freed men men will be gathered into the Catholic Church. Some 280,000 color ed children in the South are now Wing cared for and educated in Catholic schools and many of the "best girls," to use our informant' language, ot the Protestant families, schools and churches are attract ed by the superior advantages of Catholic instruction to enter their institutions and associate themselves with the charitable orders of that Church. The gortreousness of the Catholic ritual, the energy of its missions, the absence of a constant demand upon the negroes for money to carry out the Church objects, and the absence of anv j color line in its membership, says the an I thority whom we have quoted, are inrln- lapioiy drawing me colored people of the South into the Catholic Church. In this state of things how silly to speak of a "Democratic and Ibnnan" alliance to clear the negrties out ! How much better if the Iter. Fulton and his kind would emulate the Christian energy of the Catholics! Bellefonte Watchman, 20A. A correspondent of the Bellefoute Watchman, writing from Beech Creek, in foims that paper that a family quarrel, which may vet result in tl. neat I. of a daughter at the hands of her mother, oc- cnried in "The Bidges." a few miles up Marsh creek, Sunday. Mrs. Jacob Walker is known among her neighbors as a 'devlish kind of a woman " and seems to he r.i.u. sessed of a decidedly turbulent temper, hav ing frequent unpleasantnesses with the members of her family, but devoting the greater share of her splenetic atlentions to Jacob, w ho is her second husband, frequent ly driving him from the house. Yesteiday, in one of her rageful humors, she attacked him, and made such threatening demon strations with a botcher-knife as to cause the iutei Terence of two of her daughters, onfc aged about thirteen years and the other a full-grown woman. Upon this the enraged woman turned upon the girls and, being barlied in her murderous attempts by the older one. seized the younger and attempted to cut her throat, inflicting severe gashes, which nuy yet cause death. The giil succeeded in gelling away from Lmf however, and is m ill living. A. Strange Case. HANGED BY THE NECK TILL DEAD WAS HE tit'IhTY? In the vicinity of Youngstown, Mahon ing county, Ohio, on tho 15th of Jauua.y, 1876, Lizzie Grombacher, a young .girl, was most foully outraged and murdered, and hei body loft in a thicket at the road side. She was at the time living with her mother, a widow, in the village of Powers town, near Youngstown, but had previous ly been at service aa a domestic in the family of Mrs. Heasley, residing on the Poland roud, a short distance from the vil lage. About nine o'clock in the forenoon of the day stated, she left her mother's house for Mis. Ileasley's, to get some clothing, and in about two hours afterward Richard Stevens, a neighbor, who was passing along the road, went into the thicket for the puriose of cutting a walk ing stick. In the thick brush, distant from the road about one hundred and tifty yards, he discovered the bruised aud bleed ing body of the girl. The desperate strug gle she had made was plainly shown by the displacement of the leaves, broken and bent bushes, twigs, etc. By these signs she was traced to the fence at the road side, where blood was seen, and here, doubtless, 6he was overcome, end ceased to struggle, as from this point to the place where her body lay appearances indicated that she had been dragged. A veil she had worn was twisted about her neck so tightly that it was imbedded in the llesh, her distorted features proving how terribly she had died from strangulation. The discovery, soon noised about, crea ted the most intense excitement, and the people at once began looking about for the perpetrator of the fiendish deed. The only person known to have seen the girl alive after she left her mother's home, aside from her murderer, was a Mr. Cover, who met her on the road, about two hun dred yards from where her body was found. This man also remembered having observ ed an ill looking individual, a "tramp" on the road in advance of the girl, aud an other citizen also recollected having seen the "tramp." Late in the afternoon a man answering Ihe description of the one seen, and giving his name as Chailes Steilmg, was arrested a few miles from the scene of the murder, lie was fully identi fied, and an examination of his clothing revealed several blood stains. The inquest held upon the body of the girl confirmed the worst suspicion as to the motive or purpose of the murderer. The girl had sacrificed her life in defenco of her honor. The accused, Charles Sterling, was tried at the full term of the court, convicted of murder in the first degree, and Wednesday, March 28, fixed as the time for the execu tion of the death sentence. Two days pievions, however, executive clemency in tervened, and at the tearful request of Mis. Sterling, who believed the condemned man to bs her son, a reprieve was granted until April 21. Subsequently.Mrs. Sterling visited the p'ace where the prisoner was confined, when to the surprise of all, the man reprieved from death denied that the woman was his mother. She withdrew from tliA to'lKfio. aurt Klim-tlv nfler Itotnmn convinced, though td.e had previously af- In men to the contrary, that tho man for whom she had appealed so successfully was an unknown stranger. Since, ell'oits hare been made by counsel to nave the prisoner from the gallows, but without ef fect. Arrangements for the execution were completed, a scaffold being secured from Cuyahoga county for tho sad occa sion. The preparations for the scaffold were made within the sound of Sterling in his cell, and his quick ear has often caught i the sound of the hammer, but he baa re- j tnained stolid. He persisted in denying that bin name was Sterling and snid uoth- ' ing would tempt hnn to reveal his identity, j "If I could walk out of here a free man, j with a million doliars in my pocket, I j would not l ell, " he said. The general im pression is that he is Sterling and that his mother is now a consenting party to his! denial. When she entered his cell after the reprieve was granted by Governor Young, last month, it was without the in tention of recognizing him, but the mater nal instinct was too strong, and the plan to save the family reputation waa tempo rarily defeated. Friday morning lie become desperate, and made a savage cffoit to escape by knocking down n keeper and breaking through the wioden corridor door with ponderous blows. When threatened with a revolver he exclaimed : 'Killme; that's just what I want." After being rttnrned to the cell be re mained stubborn, refusing to either speak or eat until night, when he took same light refreshment. The histnightof the prisoner was spent in solitary communion with himself; the ministers even deserting him. Four keepers sat in the corridor, looking through the iron grating at Sterling, who lay silent and gloomy on the narrow bed. He tot-Red restlessly about until ten o'clock, not a word escaping his bps. From that hour until six o'clock in the morning he slept. On awakening, he said a minister and his counsel, Mr. Anderson, mtyht be admitted and then relapsed into silence. His last hours were without a sympathetic word from any one. The vow of silence which the doomed man made has been strictly maintained. He at times communicated with his guards by means of a pencil a:d paper, aud at nine o'clock when his counsel entered the con idor a rote a few sentences to him. Sterling was sentenced to be hanged between the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock Satniday. At, It) a. m. Ucv. E. T. iSich olson, pastor of the liapl ist church, called on Sterling. They had a long talk, in which the prisoner still claimed that he was an innocent man. He said that vimlica j tion must be at a higher tribunal, lie ex- pressed no preference in regard to religious faith, but ti listed only in the future. The last hour of the prisoner was spent in con versation and prayer with his minister. The crowd in t he halls was surging for ad mittance to the enclosure, but uutil within a few minutes before the hour none were admitted. The anxiety of the moment was extreme. Sterling made a request to be taken up on top of the jail, where he could once before death see out upon the world. His request was granted. A strong guard led him up. At 12:15 p. m., after be came down, be was once more led into his cell, aud the death warrant was read to him. A few minutes afterward he was led to the scaffold. Just prior to his c oming out the crowd of ticket holding visitors were ad- j milted into the end 1 placed in readiness. j At 12:o0 o'clock S enclosure, and everything Sterling was led to the scaffold and after prayer was handcuffed, placed on the closed trap, and asked wheth er he had anything to say. He made a few remarks, insisting that lie was inno cent, and bid his attorney, who was great ly affected, farewell. He also asked for the brother of the muidered girl and shook bands with liim. At exactly 12:45 p. m. the trap was sprung. The noose slipped tinder his chi:i and failed to break his neck. After a few minutes of silence he began to clap bis bands, kick bis feet aud moan most pitifully. The spectacle waa sicken ing in the extreme. For at least two minutes these motions and groans were kept uis and it was thirteen minutes be fore lie was pronounced dead. While this scene of horror was transpiring on the scaffold bis attorney whs being carried into the jail, where ho fell upon a bed and wept in the most piteous manner. It took three men to control him. livery few moments be exclaimed, "He's dead ! he's dead 1" The body was taken down and buried in the potter's field :n the afternoon. After the man had been declared dend, Mr. Anderson, his attorney, stated that at the last moment, in the cell, the prisoner said, "My name is Charles Theodore Ster ling. That was my mot her w ho was here." The current of popular opinion has changed, And the geneial opinion is that the man who suffered was innocent. yvble and Heroic Hoy. An incident connected with the West Pittston disaster deserves mention and re membrance. A boy of twelve years, named Martin Craghan, stood with a young com- J pan ion on the carriage, waiting to be hoisted up from the mine out of the im pending danger, when it flashed upon his mind that a number of workmen had not been warned of the terrible peril they were in. With a noble impulse he resolved to rescue them, if possible, and asked the other boy to go with him. This boy refused and was safely drawn up and the lust who was brought up unseat lied. Martin rushed through the chamber and galler ies of the mine alone, to carry the startling news to the imperilled miueis. We may guess bow he hurried on his er rand of mercy, and in what frightened tones he told his story. Then he hurried back to the shaft again, hoping to escape with his life. He waited for the carriage todescend ; but the wire rope had melted and the the was now burning so fiercely above him that all hope of escape in that way (the only out let) was cut off. He then fled back to the miners again ; but experience bad taught them the utter hopelessness of escape by the ordinary way, and they had built a bar ricade in Martin's absence which afforded them a temporary protection fiom the nox ious gases and smoke that were tilling the mine. The barrier was solidly built, but upon the defence it afforded them against the smoke and gas depended the only chance that they had to iive until the burn ing shaft was extinguished. Martin stood at the barrier and begged piteously to be admitted. The few survi vors who heard him say the little fellow cried. But to have made a passage way for him would have been death to all. So they were obliged to refuse hiir. After a little lie went quietly awny to the .stable. He had been promoted to the position of a I mule driver only the day before ; and now he W'cnt to his mule, ami there wrote with ' chalk upon a piece of board the names-of those who were dear to him, and then lay ; down beside his mule to die. Hi body was j found close to that of the pe-or animal, j which, in its death agony, had rolled ujion ; h:tn and wounded his breast with a por- j tion of the harness. So died this little hero ! in the daik. j It is written, "There is'nolh'n covered : that shall not be revealed ;" and the story i of this brave, tendered-bearted bov in stiiv- kliiv. ' ing to save others from death, alone in the solitude and iarkuesa of his underground prison, finishing his earthly com se with the evcrr firesm.. in Ainerira. Tl.n seerpt f the hard, laboiious lives such cl.ildiene.ul in the daik places of (he earth shall be re vealod, and Ihe iniquity that risks such lives for the sake of "keeping down ex penses," shall be exposed and execrated. The boy and the men who peiished with him have been sacrificed in the daik to a cruel extortion. The light which flamed at Avondale shed a glare upon these death holes that should have comiielled a refor mation. Rut a further sacriiice was needed and has been made: and it i evei v man's business t.. kpo H.;.t il. a f.tlv K:.e. ifW w not in vain. Scientist. Emigration from Pennsylvania. The departuie on Thursday last of ti fly four families fioin Scrantou for the far West was the occasion for a demonstra tion such as has not been witnessed in that city since the stirring scenes characteristic of the civil war, aIipii the "boys" were go ing to the front. The adieus at the depot were of the most affect ing character. No fewer than 5(H) persons were picsent to bid the emigrants good-bye, and the scene was a most sorrowful one. Every wot kingman in the valley who can muster together enough funds to carry him away to the dis tant farms of the wild West is preparing to leave, and it is expected that befoic the 1st of May no fewer than live hundred families will have left the Lackawanna and Wyom ing valleys. Those who left on this oc casion were of a sober, industrious class, who cannot bear idleness and who are eager to face privation and poverty in order to win a little home for themselves. Toil has no terrors Tor them, and they are just the rery ones that a community regrets to lo?e. It was a touching sight to see the pain ful partings of the young husband and w ife in many cases. One instance in particular was most affecting. A woman with a babe ac her bieast bade her husband good-bye, and in an agony of grief she leaned her head against the cars and wept bitterly, forgetting the danger to which she was exposed. The train began to move, and but for the timely assistance of a by-stand-er she and her baby would doubtless have been dragged under the wheels. The emigrants intend to take up claims of government land in central Nebraska, where Ueneral John O'Xiell, of Fenian fame, is forming colonies of his country men. O'Niell has stirred up a strong feel ing in favor of western emigration, and should the members of the colony report satisfactorily thousands of discontented miners will seek their future home on western farms. They arc w illing to face all tlie terrors or the west to llee from their present poverty. The Lancaster Intelligencer of Tuesday evening last notices editorially what it calls an honest confession alleged to have been made by Mi. Wayne MacVeigh, a cit izen of this State and a member of Mr. Hayes' Louisiana Commission. The paper quoted says : A letter received In Wnehinirtnr. rrnm New Orleans says that Wayne MHcVchrh. one or the Louisiana commissioner and n Republican, has ox pro ?ed the opinion there that he has be come satisfied, a the result of bis investiga tions, that Tihien and Hendricks carried Lou isiana In November lat hy a fair and decided majority. Yr. MaeVeiirh, as a Southern paper remarked upon his advent into that section 'thoujrh a R )n-in law of Simon Cameron is gen erally aecounteJ a very respectable man," and we should no. a; all wonder ir he has expressed Just such an opinion as he is credited with. To be sure It would tie rather a irratuitous opinion for one of Mr. Hayes' commissioners to irive it, tent nee to. but Mr. MacVenrh has been known to tell the truth at the expense of some of his party friends : and it fs dilticult to see how anv intelligent man enuhl make the I n vest iira tion with which hvand his associates were ciiarired without arriving t this conclusion. Of course Mr. Evans' letter bade them beware of in veti ItHtititf the condition of the actual vote east but every other question involved depended so Immediately upon that one that it was bound to meet them at every step. Willingly or un willingly. Mr. MacVeiu-h iim is so wen "saiiAtted" that h " nCTiHtiei to express the ontnlon th n ih.i lilrten and Heniricks carried the State. It is only upon this conviction that Mr. MacVeiu-h'a commission csn claim any credit for Ihe result of their labors, and we do not wonder that Ihev reel enll.-1 upon thus to Justify It. It remains to hewn whether they will have the eonraire to publicly express I his opinion. I r t hev ahou Id have too much regard for Hayes' tender sensi bilities or Tor Ihe strict letter of their Instruc tions to embody It in their official report, ihey should atleait not withhold their conclusions in.in ine puiiiio. j neir evidenoe cannot add welo-ht to IhA nirmirhlmin. n-nr- . .-. in ne ive rwnciminir proofs I'eiiMHjrauc culminate Tor President .M-riwi . , . . I'll...!, luril I rie Louisiana, hut it may lead some bitter partisans to inquire into thost, proofs, and that nnn- ac complished, tho conviction of the Republicans that Hayes was counted In will be far more un iversal than their acquiescence in his plicy. 2fewf and Otiier Ts'uting. Five children of Percival Faust, of Le high county, died of scarlet fever within a week. Three young ladies were drowned on the 19th in St. Francis river, at Shei brooke, Province of Quebec. Peter Goelet, the millionaire, keeps his cow in a fine pasture in the heart of New York city, and his milk costs him $S a gallon. A tramp convicted of outraging a ten-year-old girl, has just been sentenced to nine years' imprisonment by Judge Hard- ; me, of ilkesbaire. A great snow storrr. prevailed in Lom bardy and other parts of Italy, on Friday, seriously injuring the silk crop. The loss i will reach several millions of dollars, The editorial and composing rooms of the N. Y. Journal of Commerce were ruined by fire ou Monday morning; also the files of the paper extending back to , 1828, and a valuable library. The Globe Hotel, near the Centennial Exhibition grounds, and which cost over $200,000, having 1,000 rooms for guests. , was sold last Thursday for $3,47'i. It must 1 be removed before the first of May. I A New Hampshire man has not given bis wife a new dress for seventeen years, and he has been formally declared by a ' commission to be an irresponsible person, whose miserly habits have become a ma- , nia. Two strange negroes enferrd the store of James B. Nichols at Murray Hill, N. C, on Sunday, and murdered the clerk and j robbed t he store. The negroes were soon : afterwards arrested, and it w as feared they ' would be lynched, j Two steamboats, each 210 feet long, ; are on their way across the continent, by rail. They were completed in allimpott nnt particulars, and then taken apart for j transportation to San Francisco, where j they will be finished. Some time ago in Reading, on a dark ; night mhen the street lamps weio not burn : ing, Mr. Decheit walked intD the river and j was drowned. His widow now sues the city for $3,000, which is cheap enough for ! almost any kind of a husband. While widow Campbell, of Carliondale, ; was absent upon a visit tr her son, tinder j sentence of death in the Wilkesbarre jail, i her bouse was set on fire and burned by some of the enemies of her son. 'l his in a j most delegable and mean revenge, j Members of Parliament j;m'o no .salary and hence the Irish Catholics of I Kugland have taken up special collections ; to give a testimonial to Isaac Butt. M. P., ! who abandoned a vast, legal practice to j lead the home rule party in Parliament. ! This time a medal is wanted for the j editor of the Winchester (Ky.) Democrat, who tells a story about plowing tip a coin, j 544 years old, in Madison county. A I brother editor suggests the shipment of numerous little hatchets to the offender. An explosion wid inundation at the ; Trodyrhiw colliery, at Ponty Pridd, Wales, ( on April 11th, imprisoned nine men behind t a column of coal forty yards thick. Five men were found alive, four had wander- fd "U'er parts of tho mine and it 13 be- lieved peiished A court in Dcs Moinr was occupied, a couple of days ago, with a suit between Mrs. Anna liird aud Mis. Harriet Crow, Mr. Crow and Johnny Crow. The defense was conducted by Mr. Fox, and lie and the liird proved more than a match for the three Crows. Mis. Ilariict Tatton, sister of Col. Thomas A. Scott, died at Dixon, Illinois, on Tuesday night. She had been with a ! IV" 1 exas ana was ,K' w;ly home. ' " ,ll,e theie she took cold which developed into pneumonia, ner rema.ns were inter red on Friday at Loudon, Franklin county, Pa. Crawford comity has its little story. Last week the saw in Mr. Luper's mill came in contact with two horse shoes in two different saw logs, demolishing the saw and smashing things generally. A Mr. Sitter renien teis of nailing two horse shoes to tiees when he was a boy, 22 years ago, and these ate supted tobe the ones. Ihfoi niatittn has been received in New moiiv,!! me iiiumcr oi itev. . jsalte, an aged Moravian missionary, his son and two daughteis, at the settlement of Lance, on the coast of Labrador. A large sum of money belonging to the missionai ies was stolen. Four Esquimaux, who had been refused nun at th mission, are suspected of the crime. Hiram Gulic and wife, residing a? New Oftmantown, Hunterdon county, N. J., celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of their wedding on Sunday last. The coupl are aged ninety-seven and ninety four re spectively. They entertained a large number ef friem s, among whom were many of their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Mr. William J. Heed, who bad charge of the Corliss engine in Machinery Hall at the late Centennial Exposition, and who also superintended the erection or the Khode Island State Building on the Cen tennial grounds, died at Providence. U. I., one Jay last week, from the effects of mor phine, which was given him for quinine through the mistake or a druggist. Kicbaid S. Conk 1 in, of Brooklyn, fol lowed his wife one day and received un mistakable proofs of her infidelity. Joy ous in his disoovriy. for be wanted to get '-I-Al 1 . . " V.m-1. I . r l i ... . no oi ner, ne Drought a suit Tor a divorc when, to his dismay, the court decided against him, as it was in his power to stop tho act of which he Comi.lainen.nnH l.iu failure to slop it was connivance at it. Colonel Ingersol! recently advertised in Chicago that he would deliver a lecture ou "t; hosts," The people who foolishly went to the led me heard a diatribe against God, the Bible and Christianity, the low vulgarity and daring blasphemy of which were unrelieved by even an attempt at ar gument. This is the man to whom it said Hayes will give a foreign appointment. A frightful accident occulted at the Scrantou coal mine Wednesday evening. Levi Thomas, a young English median ic endeavored to step aboard the carriage of the elevator, which be evidently thought was in waiting to descend, when ho was j two voung ladies and t wo young men were 1 preen. dated into the shaft, atiilino. !.!........ a i ..... , .... .r precipitated into tl.e shaft, striking the bottom 900 feet below. His remains -a ere so mangled as almost to preclude recogni tion. b A little girl was abandoned by her re latives in Chicago, after the death of hPr father, and she was sent to a charitable institution. Within a few days, two aunts grandfather, and a cousin applied foi cus tody of her, and were so strenuous that they quarrelled vioicnfly. They had learned that an insurance policy for $5,000 on the father's life was payable to'tbe child. A boy in Cumberland count. Pa., forty years ago lost a shilling that bis father bad given him to pay his teacher for a school book. Last month the ho. now nearly 50 years old. leained where bis oia teacher i living .,,! - ! tt . t r lr,t detailing all the circumstances connected win. uie unpaut-ror book, and inclosing the amount of the little debt with forty years' interest. Two ladies from Tndtanaru.lta . I r spectiyely about S3 and 10 years, and fj" ,,e,R,8te.l; tbe,r "me as Saiah and i.. -i o- -- - "t--", -k f ., i '. ale,"Ptd suicide at the Farmers' Hotel. Cincinnati o.. t...-- niaht Inst aiil. ...i r . i " . . Ulgni IBSt, W it 11 SUCh fatal nreeision II. . . ' - "o aj ' m ., ... ...v ii... i nu m r . v r. i ..r ., ,. . - - . ........ ,, niier ueiug caned upon to get up, as per request, at 11 o'clock next morning and the other was so far gnn u,at no hopes whatever were cuter- taiued foi bet recovery. - K A WANAMAKER & BROWN, IN THE OLD PLACE AT THE OLD TRADE. All the best tslont, experience r.i ndrtr-, n, on eommnnd , continue. J etOAK HALL, to roo-jce .r-, BEST and CHEAPEST C LO IMinL. for man end bey SIXTH arfi MARKET, and the busings don- thsial been so Btiefactory to tho public ond ouwlvfi, tin vo decided not to chanfte or move ihs ..' ., . businea vvay. The people liitetVie plce i.n.J -.ei.K. pleafee the people, nd we believe ihot we en io better than ever t th old p The sale of the past yenr far furrow'! fny we ever a reamea o:,ona tiii pu' u in our r etart the Spring of 18T7 witii a STILL LOWER OF PRICES, and a class of goodi sofXcolL-nt ihe. not afraid to follow each sale with our wb!Ti.ri'.ec, receive back the goods unworn and ImriJ over to ; customer the money paid. The store has been Itrriely refi'Ied, srni :i r. r was such a. plendid stock of Men's, Toys' snJ C:.i: v clothing underthe roof, nor were we ever r.t '.e to cheaply. Our word for it, and we are your frien.j sixteen year. THE OLD PLACE, l? 6lh & Marktt. A- o Thaddeus Stevens, though not a pro- lessor of religion, was virtually the founder j oT the Baptist c-hntch m Lancaster, Pa. i Out or respect Tor his mother, who mas a j Baptist, he left f 1.000 for a Baptist n.eet I ing house, provided it was built within a certain time. 'Ihe stimulus thus given ; has resulted in a neat and substantial lit. use and a prosperous chuich, with an eneigetic j aud successful pastor. 1 The Coiigiegati'Ttial chnrch in iiecn i land, N. H.. is 170 years old. Its first pas j tor served 53 years, the second 4S their i united pastorate running through nnie j than a century. In all the church had j seven pastors, only two of whom were dis j missed, and those at their own urgent re- quest. Four died in ofhec, and their re J mains lie in the btitying ground net far j from tbe bouse ft v. o; ship, j A swa'ni of bees were disloiTircil fnm under the cl.i pboai ds of an old house at Greenfield, Mass., last week after they had been three years there. The lemovalof . the clapboards disclosed a solid mass of J honey extending up tint ween the stmltlitt ' seven feet ami five inches high, two inches i wide and four inches thick. The honey, i which was of the very best q;i.li!y, tvcigli- ed one bun died and tifty pounds. Theie is on Sixth stieet, Philadelphia, a cellar lunch and lodging room, kept by an aged African, whose years are uncer tain and whose weight is eiiot-mmi. He ; Kays he has not been out of the cellar for ; six:een years. His lunch eou:iicr is snj ! plied with broken victuals begged about J the cily, and those who engage lodinijs at a cost of ten cents f r the night aie fnr- nished cacli with an empty n:ii keg to bit J on, no lying down lieing permitted. A Brooklyn lady was awakened the ' other night by a movement under her In-d. j She thought of thieves immediately, but ; her husband, upon being awakened, said I be guessed the noise must be made by the j family dog. He reached his hand down j to the ilixu- and in a moment felt a waim ' tongue latpi"g it. Then he went to sleep ', and awoke in the morning to find the i apartment gem-rally "cleaned out." The lapping was the clever do vie of a thit f. I Wiidiild Davidson, school-hoy, ae;p 1 sixteen, fell violently in love with a scl.tv.l- girl, alto sweet sixteen ; both, it is scarcely :iecessyto siy,s-f Brooklyn. He wrote love notes which she refuse. 1 to answer. Then Master Win'ield took poison in scbtvl and was sick at bis stomach, lie recover ed with the aid of a doctor, but lapsing once more into melanclmlv, again attempt- I ei sutcioe, i uougti without success. e ! submii that V infield should not thus be foiccd to drag otit. miserable existence. Carson, wh shot and killed Mikes-11 in Oil City, week before last, snriendeied himself and is now in j.iil at. Franklin, awaiting tnal for niuidet. He expects to be acquitted, as no man can well be coii victcd by an Atueiican jury for kii'.ing a libei tine who usurps the place of a bus band. And Carson expects lo prove that Mikescll not only went to Franklin a:. ! other places wiili Mis. Carson mid regis tered at the hotel as man and wife, but at the time he shot him he bad me; the wo man to plan an elopement w ith her. The disadvantages of wearing; false hair were painfully illustrated at Miileis- ville, Pa., the other day. A boat, in which passengers, capsized suddenly, and one of t the ladies sank out. of siirht. As she rein. 1 pea red one oT th men grasped her hat, which came off. The lady sank, and on her second appearance fared no bel'.er. for this time the frightened youth caught her i by her hair, w hich, being false, came o;T j in bis bands, aud down she went again. , A, last, however, she was caught bv her I real hair aud dragged aboard the Wat, af-1 Hih street. ;o. a . . .-;, ter having bad what may properly be call- nStio.Ti" ' 1 ' ' -j ed a bairbreath escape. meet with pron , . n","! " " Dining a thunder storm in the oil re gions Friday lightning struck a tank on the Trontman farm, containing 22,000 bairels of oil. The burning oil set fire to two oth er tanks, ami one containing 25,000 barrels was desfmyed. The other was extinguish ed by steam. Tbe burning oil ran down the creek a mile, destroying everything in its conise. It was checked by Halston's dam, which was large enough to bold it and stop further damage. Twelve oil wells with tanks at the wells, were des troyed. The town of Trontman, consist ing of a hotel, two livery-stables, a billiard i room and dwelling bouses, were destroyed. j A pipe line pump station and a nm 1. i. . j..... j J ' """"i"'- i . . .a ... r tis' " or ' AT OTW I.. ,1.. . r :1 I l,.l...l i. (I.. t...t V.notert Oflu'e. L t r nt-i vuiiiiuiga wtriB meo ut:r.i,niy eti . . . ... . ... - ... - . v-v'v. .Fmiri.1 .'I .II utll (IV iiv-i"i.tr"l ...v . i.v..--- - tinted fie lJne, and will te paid bv a pio rata assessment b that line. The loss in the town of Tmut man is estimated at :!0.000. The loss ou tbe twelve oil-wells is Uut kmjwu. AT OAK HALL I 0 4 I L-.Arra MARKET STILL TO BE HEADQUARTERS FOB CLOTHIHG. 0 C 0 8 For sixteen years we luve li ve1 Rt tb.e r.M c n..r J et-v. s 0 :t iace. r-3 iCALE v.e fir ..e WANAMAKER & BROWS, GAK HALL, PHILADELPHIA i C4 The ILi'fli--fi oin 'annda the Cathedtii m-rnifi. e h I i mm .;. o i: ., in N.-i -it ;l !'V C-i key. The c1.uk ti p; many srietiis tv if h i u Conclusion of tie (Jtli'in dehvetf d ;i : Mcv'loskt y then In scribed for p'lji i-i 1 1 ve. ; ii : , i il.-it , ! ;...' l-oi. I journev. lie -S,l the congt r i. i iS next as.sf-nil l d on (5: ussvls. vi I. v' s.i W HS g.'ii'y l'i'Cr'1 t!'e :!(! i. ck .T t .,r- ' :l.'-f. i .. !' A "I' s'on. Among ! ., at New V..i k a e t eer of the I've., (ate f.ini". and ex A tnni 1 r n : cii cvnst avres s:n i t.'.v v vi nth T tl, on Ho1o'k.- s'ree!. 1 The tirnticier wis Pmh.-y yeais oiil. and the vtc! im. lwoyeaishts senior, t i ,. to famM'.es of It S.t ' ;!;'! that 'l e b.vs. n:'!i a .t" wete at pl.iy together, ar.i 1 1 it l:ll t asoM l liey rll l( T. i ball lv sai-1 he ..ii'.l i Cox, In;; no tioii'ih of :i --i: Ctlt led lint il ti met and icne.' ii'g out v oii"g af'el! 1 thr Kellil 1. l'.i nr. to I ox, a; 1 '. " '2 ! Cox .- head, fire- lie foiehead a bote lhp ru'' ! temple, and l.wigi- g ir tie -' ' tie fi '.low diet! in p. f ti wiil le done ah m' the:!?1, rt : at present An in-;-:-st . 1 ivi: and ri'. u- 1 II ho ; Th or: , Wh'h! It . ' t. tiT i t: 1 a:.-. u . i- : tion : rf-S H 'iil.iv h F t ti.H i : 4 w tV if . i,- .-. -1 1 rsiTfc ' ' r ' t, a $ c" :r; : ! M r 1. U . r:. t'er ; ritj. Aj.r.i is.; ; OUKTTO IMIoi'iT I h t-l Tf nn.h ':er M ill h'T."-!''! a (nil 1'' tii.-ii 'ii" ; ins H ''.i"e. n 1 1 m iii !. ( i '!i I' : 1 tie t.er cf cti"i ' ii'1 ' " rprriy 11 m s "v '"' lo a roi.i-ih tr,i i' ' ''' ti.rr i'riii-u!nrs si ; ' I...rcu...r MAR' April P. ISTT.-ini. u." rp UK MAINS ! M It J- ti:k ct 'Ma; r Ovpsiim. and i h- v- -' :' A Nil BKSI FI K1 11 t7t li ! 1 ' ' laritelv. as it .lo. s. tie .r I This plaster w ill I f .:. .: r ..; . ltSir coiiniv. Pa., in w ' 1 7, . iiollian I I wen f- 'ts. - cash in il t aeeii'l';,".v will be paid to thei't t dert.r resi-'ered U 'Vj. n-i.,--, 1,1.- so I here "' '" - I bo Plaslcr hen uoe.K-i- r. r.: 4 ?l.-3t. Ar. l: : HOMES in tbe Wfc AND HOW TO RFAHH ; ... i: JlHVKSTKMo;l,,IV, - - 1 I' Me ini'Ttn fi'Ti trTPl tO all v!t!! call on er a.i'ir w i'iiirr A irrnt I ' I.. ' ' 1 1 1 NS' l- I ii lion that can he u- io.I ul' e a' "": '. . .... R SEI 1 - I KellV.hHSlO' H Wka Liw I'.. !.. ',,.. 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