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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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. -
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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
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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
. . . ... . ... - ...
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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.
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WANAMAKER & BROWS,
GAK HALL,
PHILADELPHIA
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