v 1 1 the tmw mm. EBENSBURC, PA., Friday Morning, Jnly 6, 1877. Jl'DoE IIii.tox, manager jf the Stewart estate, lias created a sensation by his order excluding Israelites from the big hotel at Saratoga owned by said estate, the first victim of the older, aud the oniy one it will ever have a chance to reach, being Mr. Jos. j Seligman, a prominent and wealthy Hebrew J of New York city. This wholesale pro- , scriptioti of an entire race is, as the Frank- , lit. .Us ienilr. ' .... . uc uiii.1 .ii.ij iti.., ,.u mo ,....,ufi as the head of a conspiracy to prevent the. liant to the very spit it of the times in all man though a fool, cannot err therein." w)ll of the people being carried out. Judge countiiets, that to name the act is to con- ' rt )jas produced widespread consternation ; Black then says : deiuu it. I in the camp of the office holders, as well as ' "Hut how was the object of the conspiracy to r j beaccomplishetl? J he house ol represeiitam cs j among the leaders of the Republican party, was democrat ic, ami without its consent, ex- John W. Fokney is engaged through ' and yet it is pe.fec.ly consistent with Mr. ! y. the columns of his paper, the Philadelphia Haves' Jet er of acceptance and his inaug- The tirst intention was the claim that the presi . , .. . J . i dent of the senate Imd power to determine no- Vre, in rending all bepublicnnsoutol the uraj address. Although they may de- soluteiy and nrhitrariiy what electoral votes party who refuse to endorse Hayes' South- 1Klnce aml cnr8e it, they areestopped from ; lnn? uum'jf ""imkhtklt crn policy, and is socially severe on the setting up the plea of surprise, because "P. and in a speech of surpassing ability, mter , ,. . ... . nil ' , ly demolished and reduced it to niviBihlc Mtotns. recent Kepublicau conveuiioti ot Scmiyik.u , when thev voted for Hayes they endorsed It became settled, therefore, that, tho two county for having ..(Tended in that particu- ! ,lis vievvs'as 8t)t ftM,h in his ktter. That S'the l XMne what 'we're' lar. Only two months ago, whuu Wade this circular order is based on the solid i votes. It couui not be denied that the voice of , . r T IT ' ! tho house ':f representatives was at least as po- Jlamptou, at the request ol mv. nnys, ground wjik of correct civil service ltform, tential as that of the senators; and it was not visited Wshinpton to consult with him about the policy to te pur.sued towards; - - - rr - South Caroliua, tliis same man P'orney be came fearfully and wondei fully iudignant at the d.eadful thought of "the tiaitor, Hamilton," as lie styled him, being per mitted to enter the White House. Forney can adjust his sails to the veering of the political breeze with all the ready skill of a practical trimmer. His only rival in thai line is Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Inte rior. ... j la' no office- 1 hen we icad the late oi Hayes, in which he declares that holder of the general government will be "permitted to take part in the management ; of political organizations, caucusses, con- j ventions, or election campaigns," we felt a profound sympathy for a certain govern- j ment official in this county, who cannot in ! the future, as in the past, coti'ribute his valuable peisonal and public aid in manijw. ulatiug Republican county conventions and : . . ,.r 1 1 . li .. XllCCWIlgS Ol U1U Jfct'l'UUllilll lolllll colli- i rr, . . e i ... 'it ! inittee. That part of his unofficial busi- ! liAca litro fllliiklTiid nrn t ifi t ion ivil) tin ' , , - , . . . . ! irorie, and hereafter he will, or at least ; iuicrlit.tr lie. ax cm r fill tint to steit neriisR .. , ,, t.i i l . , the "danoer ttne as It. behooved au Ander- 1 I .,, . . II 1 .1.1 sotivillo prisoner to be, well knowing that n l I the punishment would be instant death, j The pen of Hayes is mightier than th? word of Giant. The Russian aimy in effect ing a passage over the Danube did not meet with as stubborn a resistance by the Turks as was anticipated, and although no general battle lias been fought since the crossing a few revere and bloody engagements have taken jilncc between portions of the two armies, the advantage being on the sitlo of the Russians. All that can now be said is that ! activo war exists tenth of the Danube, and if the Turks are compelled to retreat to the dl ml dSteK, a Moines to nom lialkan range it Trill then be seen whether j m!l,c a candidate for Governor and other tfce Russians can force their way through n or more of the mountain passes leading to (Vmr.antinopl.. This is their most dif ficult task, find as It must bo attemptedt the result will soon bo ascertained. Thus far England and Austria havti maintained their neutrality. Genfiiai. W. O. Lr Drc, of Minnesota, lias been appoit.ted Commissioner of Agri culture in place of Frederick Watts, of Pennsylvania, removed. Le Due's qualifi cations are the following: Fiist, lie for merly lived in Ohio and grnduatcd at the (..inin rnll.'tn ( K"i iiii"i in lli.it Stntp at , , -v. i Mbich Hayes did : second, ho was au officer in the army during the late war ; thiid, i, . ,i i i since the close of the war lie has been en- trafred in lin in ft ra ii ron.l a in M i n necoi !i t .i i r i ! ' fourth, he is a warm personal friend of i Itodgers, the private Secretary of Hayes, j Vho will say that Le Due is not the right ruan in the right place, or that he is not fit to tread in the footsteps of John Newton, ' I - , . .., . . - , ouo of his illustrious preuecessors, who! boasted that the exjenses of bis Depart ment "far exceeded his most sanguine ex pectations?" The Department of Agri culture is more for orii.iir.ent than use a nuisance, in fact, that ought to be prompt ly abated by Congress having since it was first established cost the government about four millions of dollars, w hile nil the bene fit derived from it has uot been worth a row of pins. CoKTRAitT to all well grounded Lopes, tbe?goveitimcnt finds itself involved in an other Indian war. This time it is a por- m : - r . i. -x- ti -i-,... ""' "iB terces tiioe, liuiaoiiing the ex'iemo northern porlion of the Tesrr j Inrv .'if Tilnlin that lias Klir'nil on llio uir i Iatu. The Nez Forces have always been at peace with the whites, and are regarded as the roost civilized and intelligent of all the Indian tribes. , Tho cause of tho pies- i eut outbreak is the same old, old story. ...t,.t. :. ..i i -i. Joseph and White Bird, the chiefs of one 1......1. .. r t. i i i... .i - I ji ftoju vi iuq ii iuu, ntriu uiuuruii oy me ,. . . 1 .1 . a ' I" 'UaVe ,UB C"U""J : they lived Mid which they had never ceded j to the government, and settle on a distant 1 ; leservatiou, and were told tliat if they and the Indians under them refused to do so ! , ., ... peaceably, they would be compe led toem- . '" ' ' grate uy .oice. osepu ana nue iM.o, ; A K F - .. I . . J t ' T-k- knowing that this threat would be carried i out, commenced the war by murdering a ' n ! number of white settlers near Mt. Idaho. A company of troops under Col. Perry, wblcli was sent ou. to subdue them, were ! defeated with serious loss. The Indians ' are encamdon Salmon nver in a strong position, and that Christian warrior. Gen. O. O. Howard, at the head of a body of troops, is marching against them. Great consternation aud alarm prevail among the white settler, who have fled from their homes and sought refuge at a distant mili tary post. Owing to the peculiar nature of zbe country and the advantages possessed by the Indians, the most serious trouble is jutieioaled. K.XF.crTivE Mansion, I V."asiiin;ti., I). :.. Jm.o 22. 1 PlR I ilesiro to i'ti 1 1 your attention totht-fnl-iowinir iiriirrnn!i hi the letter mliireseed by me , to th: Secretary of the Treasury on the conduct j to be observeil nv oinecisni tite ireneim k' "' I nient n relation Co flections: "No officer ' phould be required or permitted totakepart in ' the inanmreiiiciilnr potitieal oiKHnizjitioii,-au-ciisses, fim vcntioiis or election Ciinipiiiirns. Ttioir i iirht to vote aii'l to exjiress their views nn utlic questions, either orally or throuirh the press, is not denied, provided it does not in terlt r with the discharge of their ollicial tin -ties. Mo assessment tor political purposes on olhcers or smbor lirnitcs Simula he allowed. This is upplicahle to every department of the civil service without distinction, an.j this noli- oti its req linemen ts. Very respectfully. K. II. Hates. Such is the sweeping interdict issued by the commander-in-chief to his office-hold- n army. It is so plain and concise that ...... ....... J r.,.;.,., ,t.. ;it i. i;.i .... Ltinuvi. in imt iivu t . wi vuv who is familiar with the manner in which ' the Republican machine lias been inn bv . , . . , , i. i scurvy and corrupt party leadeis. It re- ; quired a great dca! of courage on the part . o of Mr. Hayes t issue Such an order, and if j ie fearlessly executes it and shows that he is determined to "hold the fort," he will have performed a task which was never at tempted by any former President. It re quired courage to pionmlgate it, because it raises the strong arm of the executive branch of the goveinmeut against the very 1 m0" U W,,(,S aCtiVC eff0, t8' """' i .money from Pennsylvania, Mr. Hayes was ! indebted for the vote of his owo State, without which he would now be Governor of Ohio and Tilden would be I'resideut be- ynd the interposition of an electoral com- mission or any other iniquitous tribunal. While the Piesideiitial edict closes the mouth of the office holder, it souuds the death-knell of the Republican party dur- ! ing Hayen' term of office at least. It will , cripiile, if not destroy, the compact organ . . ' . . , i iz'iiiou oi inai party in me iortnern nines and in the South, where its only strength is the colored vote, it will fall to pieces, for and in the South, where its onlv strength . . . . . the reason that to the active working of r.iAn .OT I 1 t 1 ..... .. ,1 Kn - iiiiuiiii UUlLlilinil niuiiciriicu llJIclLCVCI . - T . 1 : i . . J ll'i 1 ' l vi'.amy u posiscssco. nen ue issued lr, Hnyes placed the last straw on the Repub lican camel's back, and deliberately knock ed from under him the ladder by which he himself had climbed into power. Only eight months ago the Republican party of Iowa ratified the nomination of Rutherford Ii. Hayes for President by a majority of ovei Jifty-nin. thovmnd votes, and was hailed as the banner Republican State, of the Union. On last Wednesday week tho Ilejriblican convention of that '""".'-' ni.no man e.gnt nnn- 1 r .1 . ,. . : State officers. In the platform which was adapted the name of R. H. Hayes is con spicuously wauting, -and instead of an en dorsement of himself and his administra tion both are contemptuously ignored. It is very evident from the proceedings that the friends of Mr. Hayes in the convention were few aud far between, and when one of them threw himself into II. e breach and offered a resolution declaring that the Southern policy, as inaugurated and pur sued by Hayes and his administration, is in accord with the principles of tho Repub lican party, it was greeted with a storm of jeers and hisses and was laid on tlie table by a three-fourth vote. Such is Iowa Re- ... . .'uunu.misii:. us voice is still i or war anu iii opposition to peace and good will be tween the Notth aud South. It would still advance the bloidy shirt to the front, and . . J noni. n follow it wi h all the fanaticism and hate of Wendell Phillips. Hayes rewarded the j Iowa Republicans for the unequalled ma . j rity they had given him by conferring on f tits,:.. f . xr ir.fi vuv ju loud m i ii'l- , ouuiiit' iiicrarv. K lv-l"J' , -ue Minn; m oeci t iai j-oi ar, ana upon j another, John A. Kasson, the mission to j Austria, and now the Republicans of the ! ! t.,. ,,. .t, i . ., j j ruate tuin upon the man who has thus j honored her, and in tones of thunder re i pudiaio and disown him. The only cause I for regret is the renewed evidence it af j fords of the existence in the Republican '. party of Iowa of the same old iutense fuel ing of hatred towards tlie white people of tho South ujvn. which it has fed and nour ished ever sinco the close of tho civil war. Will TV.. ., t: ... c. . n 1.1 ,Uie Kepuolican State convention of 1 1 onnsylvania follow in tho footsteps of Iowa ? That question can only be answer- . - . ..,...,...1 0d by Simon Cameron and the clan that trains under Liin obedient to his inijieiious Will. T.. . t- , IHE 1 lesliytsi lan Ecumenical Council i met in Fdinburg, Scotland, on Tuesday, i for sl iseccinti nf bavah A ii t. i a r-t i .i . " i..... n "in.iigimiii me U'm-lrl ! 1,,1.4;.... t,. i. t.. i. ... i . . ......x. V . 1 ... au to , the doctrines of Galviuism are represented i S.. l, to o-.,i.t.. ...j -ii ... . . . . , in in aviiiuiy, gnu an tlie I'reROy tciian Churches in America. xnt tl. n.' i j,, w,jCn is not Galvinistic iu doctrine . . . "-... u..cn,ue, have sent delegates. The object of the r, . . .. J I i "Vimil id ti ftnucino. ni.n..i:..... . r . : ,,;" " " p " . fe ! interest to Presbytei latnsm, church woik . . r . . ' traminer of ministers. iitor.iro.,n ot. i ! training of ministers, intemperance Sab-i : K-ti. .,t.... . . '. . 7 t"n-iniiWiiii,Cl 7 I ( . . . Mmnm nMM ' . ..... "a"v' . ',,,,le"ry. 5 it it ; P?W" r to """ e, fe,e wil1' Hieexist- 1110 creed nr nmctil nllm, ..T n ( -i ' ing creed or constitution of any Church in j the alliance, or with its internal order nr ' cxfernal telations." . " . - v-"""c" ,s com rri . ... T .?Ut representing ! llicant8 and a Presbyterian pMlon of ' not less than twenty millions. The United ; States and Canada sent 120 delegates. Tkis page of the Freeman whs ft SO lar advanced when our Washington letter , reached us that we could not possibly make room for it, and the list of patents accom- panviiiff it was so inHiKiiitt panying it was so .nd.stmcHy written for , the most part that we did not have the heart to wrestle with it. Better luck next tl,ue- Eight to Seven, JUDGE J. S. BLACK ItEVIEWS THE ACTION UK THE KI.ECTOKAI, COMMISSION. The North American Review for July contains the promised article by Judge Jer emiah S. Black on Ihe character and acts of the Electoral Commission. The article is entitled The Electoral Vontpiraey, and the title is the key-note to the eutire tone and scope of the production. To say that it is ably and eloquently written is to say wiiat does not need announcement. Among the prominent points in the earlier noi l ions of the article, are the description f . Caruet Bairtrer." his descent upon Louisiana, and the condition of things lie brought about. The .Returning board is analyzed, us scope una ...c.uoeo, , , . .1 ......I 1.. -T SCIIUecl, HIIU I IWIUSUI VTtnov .. supposed that the house would nutrer a irau.i ai ir 1 1 1'l I so irlnrinu- ns this to 1 thrust down the throat "f eountry 'against the stomach of its consistent results or the count, and proclaim ffense. Itut if the two bodies would declare in the election of diff- ri iit I'rcSideiits, a elate of ,iiiirs mifht come which would subject our 'llfl,lll,!V,,s to strain severe enouKi. to en- dttiier Miem trr'ntlv. It wns lit llit.e illtlli-lllt circumstances that a mixed commission of lit- I ... .. . .w-.; t 1 - ic i ti i.l frl.'ji a.at.i t,ra nvc representatives, and five ju.lKcs of the su- preme court. J he mode ol uppoint uijr them tiuide it certain that fourteen would be equally divided tietween the patties; and as tile tiltii juiliiv woulil be named by the consent of his brethren on both sides, he iniirhl tie expected to stand between them like a daysman, with a hand as heavy on one head us on the other. The democrats consented to this in the liclieT that no seven republicans could be taken from the con it or from f ra'!" IVVuXn ' versai ies' hunt ety, t coiikicss wlio would swear und then uphold a known in that opinion ot their ad- thcy fell sure, at all evcins. that the umpire would be a fair minded man. ' They were bitterly disappointed ; the comtins ! sion went elrht to seven for tlie great fraud ; and all its branches ; for fraud in I lie detail and ; in the ajrrcKate ; lor every item of fraud tout emlit to seven ail the time. e luust look at the slate or the c.ise n it went belorc the commission. Tilden and Hen dricks had ltvl electoral voles clear auu lr-e of all dispute, one less than a majority of the whole number. They also had in iooisiuna eiKht, and in Floi iJa four, appointed by tho people, but falt-eiy ccrtiiied to Hnycs and Wheeler by the tfovertior, but ug:iinsl whom a popular uiujoi ity had been cast tor an ineligible candidate. To elect Jlnjts it was necessary that each and everyone ol these thirteen votes should be taken irotn Tilden nd jfiven to Hayes. As this iejuiic; until y uir-Unct rulings based upon contradictory grounds, the path of till commission was uot only steep but crooked. "The rreMt and important duty cast upon the commission by a special law and by a special on th ot each member was to dccid-, in tin- case of contested votes from a state, "whet her any and what von 8 Irom such state are tlie votes provided for by the constitution of the I nitcd Slates, and how many and what persons were duly appointed electors in such siale.- It Is not denied that the sole power ol appointing electors for the states of Louisiana au.i i-'loridu Is in the people. It was t hen and si i II i an ad mitted tact that the people had exercised tha power ot appointment in the presci-.neu and proper way; they did duly make an appoint ment of electors, and their act urn- only re corded, and so made a perpetual tucmoi y . This thiiiir was not lone in n corner:' it was "seen and known of nil men. That each ol itietwo states named tiad diilyappointed '1 ildt n elec tors at a regular election held lor that purpose ontheTthof November, in pursuance of law, was a part of their history as much as the fact that they were states of the L'uioii. All the members ot the commission kuew it as well as they khew the geographical position oT Talla hassee or New Oiieuus. It needed no proof; but it specincevidence had been required, tnei e was the record, Irom which the truth rl.red upoi. them as clear as thesun. They cliiiiltheir eyes upon the record, and refused to see 'how many and what persons were duly appointed electors' by the people, tint listened eagerly to the evidence (aliunde thoutrb it whs) which showed "how many and what persons' had been designated by the rctoriiinif officers. It was ultimately held (eirht to seven) that the ap pointees of the ieturiiio- board were duly ap pointed, and the appointees ol the people were unduly appointed. Did the eiKht suppose that the h ftal power to make such an appointment whs vested by Jaw In the returning board ? Hut they think it was not vested in the people? No, that Is impossible. Hut they may have conscientiously believed that tne ltitcrM of their fncliou ould be well served by Hayes' election. Tin j may have been prompted by a virtuous ad m ir.i lion of carpet bag jro vcrn ment, and were sincereiy anxious to save It from Tilden 's rcloi in." The action of the Commission in the case ofthe disputed States is then dealt with in detail, and the article concludes as follows: "Af!erRll, there was but one question before the commission. ' Hadihe American people a tijfht to elect their own chief maxim rate if They had the riifht. Their ancestors slrutrult d tor it lontr, fought for it often, and won It fair ly, Itel.iK ciniteddcd in their constitution, it cannot be destroyed except bj a force strong enough to overthrow tho orirauie structure of the Koveriiment itself. Legislative enact ments or judicial decisions are powerless either to strengthen or impair it. '1 he leerdemaiii of lnw-cratt, the inches of speeim pleading, the suapparadoes ot practice do not help us to decidea matter like litis. A rrt at nation must not be impaled upon a pin's point. Precedents which tn it: lit bind n court of cjuai ter sessions dclermliiiiiir the settlement ol a pauper cannot tie up the handsof tho supreme legislature dc 1 end in a t tindameiitai right of the people. When Green ville, in KUi, cited the authority f liitcrs cases to show that Americans miiriit be tnxcri without riitt.cni..ii.t. M .. l.;. nnsw red : I come not here armed "at all Points, with the stalute book doubled down in do 8 ear?, to dettnd the ' of libertv. i ! can acknowledge no veneration for mi i i. ,.,.... dure, law, or ordinance, tli.it is repugnant to reason and the tirst principles of our constitu tion. I rejoice that America has resisted.' So spoke the Reliant friend of our race in ihe pres ence of a hostile parliament ten years beloie the declaration on independence. And now, altir this loiiif Interval of time, we behold our Ifieatest nlit the nKht on which all other i ijrhts depend s u cccssl u 1 1 y assailed in our ow n t-uiiKrcss with the same small weapons that (jiccuville used, ir brute force had crushed it out we in in lit have borne the cahiriiitv with iiiaime; out in see it circumvented by knavery und bcttilORKed lo dea tli. is too much to be endured with anv show ol n inet-. o "IT the majority of that commission could rut have realized their responsibility to tiod and man. if they could only have understood Unit in a free country liberty and law are in separable, they would have been enrolled among- our Rieatest benefactors, for they would have added strength and Krandeur to iMiigiHiii. uiu nicy com i not come uo o the height of the reat subject. Party pns- hV'secmed.S cattiti in c:onf!irt with roho. n . vn m,..,., c. ed by artiticiul reasoniiiK, and drawn from the Slllmosr-fl Annloiriea rit tf.i.linii.ul . .... , s ue constitution was. lu men Judgment, out- ...... .- - .......... .n.vum ,-. weighed by a void statute and the 'action of Co'r"tt returning board i"a oe rememiieret ny our cmuircn scnihlrcu ; and II the Iriendsot free -er aain have such a eon- test, let thenj take eare how thev 1 eavn ih i oih,, of it to a tribunal like that which be- t rayed the nation by eutbromutr tdu Ureal trved tho n( i'ruud of JS70. by euthroiiinjf tho Great , , A ew l ork letter says : Selimi ni tb i.ini.. : ,i " tngmaii, the banker, is the Mr. .TtisAnli St'li"n,a"' the U!nker l'on ofthe bour, even that of the tribe of Judah. He . ')...-, even that of the tribe of Judah. He i8 a mAH nr great wealth, great liberality ente. tains with marked hospitality ; is a m.iii nf niiniiiniiinliiiil l..;. ...... .i... j ,mul of dis ingnished business talent and of g,r.at P1"'- He is one of the syudi- j cate, director in many banks, Vice Pres.- et of the Union League, aud in religion i a rudical, being a leading member of 8 told by them Ivho know him well, JU B" 1ees'iu' one. He came from Ger many and landed on our docks all unknown and peuniless. His first job was to cat rv a Valise till tliA wharf. Uo inuaci n. a ... " .... ..w ..... "IH.VI 11117 '111 eilied in shitia t,?itw. . a... ..r ii.. of his papers he purchased a small stock of C,MKlst which he carried around in a tray. iIe "sfJb,ihed rimte, Rold articles at a fa,r pnco' aud ,bose wbo tMJed with him once traded with him again. The spirit of thrift, industry, integrity, which marked ni earlier tradings, Las followed him through life. Destructive Storms. HEAVY RAIN FALL ASP DAMAGE FHOM THE LIGHTNINO. There 'was a prevalence of terrible storms along the A lanlic coast and throughout the Eastern Slates on Sunday. In wes-ero and central New York they raged with great fury. A despatch from Utica says : "At intervals since Saturday night we have had the heaviest fall of rain which has occurred here for years. The canal has ovei Mowed all along'ihe line. Lightning struck Wil liams V Owens' diy goods store and the Western Union telegraph office at 2 o'clock this morning. The stock, valued at $9,n(Ot is almost a total loss. It is insured for $3, (XX). The Mohawk river overllowed the Hats more rapidly than ever before, and heavy damage to crops is anticipated." HAII.STOXES IS CONNECTICUT. A dispatch from Wraterbury, Conn., says: "The most terrible hailstorm that ever oc curred in this vicinity struck Wateibury at seven o'clock last evening and did great damage. The gaiden creps are almost ruined. Greenhouses and conservatories s ii He rod severely, hardly a pane of glass escaping. There is not a whole skylight in the city. The hailstones were as large as butternuts ; the ground was white with them and strewed with leaves and twigs. The rainfall was heavy and the streets and roads weie badly washed. The glass in nearly everjr stieet lamp was. shivered. The streets are filled with people viewing the devastation. Il has not yet been learn ed how extensive the storm was, but noth ing like it was ever seen here." HUKRICANK THROUGH CESTI1AL OHIO. Another terrific hurricane swept through cential Ohio on Satutd.Ty night, doing con siderable damage to crops, fences and out buildings and in some instances causing more sei ions losses. Near Richmond, Ind., a large tree was blown upon a bridge while two men were crossing in a buggy. Chas. Brown was struck by a limb and instantly killed and W. .T. HiaM dangerously injured. A number of dwellings in the course of the storm were damaged, but no other casual ties are repotted. Springfield, Mount Ver non, Zanesville, Canal Dover and other smaller towns suHered considerably from the violence of the wind. Oil. WOKKS STHCCK I1T I.TOnT.- INO. I)u ring the pievalencu of a heavy storm early Saturday morning lightning struck the agitator and cooper shops of the Liber ty oil works in Lawieucevillc, Pa., and set them ou fire. The cooerage machinery and about two thousand empty barrels were consumed. The lire communicated w iih the oil in two large iron tanks close lo the cooper shop and they with their con teuis, about three thousand ban els of crude oil, were totally destroyed. Tho loss is estimated at $U0,0()0, and is fully insured, principally in foreign companies. The woiks are owned by .J . A. McKee & Sons, who were only carrying a small stock. The fire in the two tanks burned fiercely all tlay, and the scene was visited by thousands of people. At Laconia, N. II., lightning struck the Catholic church, burning it to the ground. Loss ifG.000 ; fully insuied. In Biddefoid, Me., there were heavy thunder storms Saturday, eight inches of rain falling in three hours. Many of the streets are impassible and are damaged to the extent of over $2,000. A house belong ing to a Mr. Towusend, at Kennebunkpoi t, was struck by lightning and two ladies se verely hurt. At Waverly, Johnson county, Indiana, about 9 o'clock Saturday night, the storm struck the residence of George Dressier, blowing it entirely awiy, and leaving fruit cans in the cellar undis' urbed. Dressier was found near by, with his feet larcerated and bis chest badly injnred. His wife and two children weie killed. Another child, aged twelve years, died on Sunday, while a fourth child, nine years old. received a bad scalp wound and had its ankle disloca ted, and is not expected to rocover. The residence of James Armstrong was nearly blown down. One child ws killed and another has since died. Near St. Paul, Tnd., barns, dwellings, a church and school house were entirely destroyed. Michael Mebeslich was killed ; Mrs. Richer "vas fatally injured ; C. Juppenlatz internally injured ; and John Lewis had his collar bone broken. At Jolly, Lid., a new church was completely torn to pieces. The farm ers loss lose very bea.ily, in the vicinity of Columbus, Ind., the lowest estimate of the damage is $30,000. The house of Mr. Brummer, near Frank lin, Ind., was demolished, killing the en tire family of five persons, and the honse of Ocorga Fleshier was also torn to pieces, killing the eutii family of six persons. The cattle, standing crops, barns, forests and orchards suffered severely. In Morgan county several houses are reported blown down and many persons injured, two ot them children who have sinco died. A school-house w as carried fifty yards down hill. Another school-house was carried across a field and the school furniture scat tered for half a mile. One house was be spattered with mud, supposed to have come from a stream half a mile away, as no rain accompanied the storm which was half a mile in width. Great damage to houses and crops was done, as in o; her counties. A train east ward bound on the Pan-Handle road was overtaken by the tornado near Knitfhtstown and a tree, fell across the for ward end ofthe postal car, crushing it,but doing no other danimago, as the train was moving slowly. Death of a Centexaiuan. A ppecial dispatch from Williamsport to tho Phila. Tirne, dated July 1st, says : The funeral of Joseph Mishow, who died Friday night, took place this afternoon and was largely attended. The deceased had reached the extraordinary, age of 10:1 years. 3 months and 23 days, and at the time of his death was, without doubt, the oldest man in northern Pennsylvania, ifjnot in the State. He was of French origin, and was born in the village of Madawuska. now embraced in the State of Maine, in March, 1774, where he resided for a period of ninety-one years. Mr. Mishow was married in 1794, and his wife die?! in 18f4, after they had lived together for seventy years. In 1875 he removed to Williamsport. He was the father of fifteen children, only four of whom attained to manhood. ' The youngest of the family died in this city about two years ago, aged r0 years. The oldest of the three sni vivois is about 77 years of ago and they all reside in one of the Western Sta es. Mishow enjoyed remarkably good health for about a hundred and one years when the Infirmities of age gradually be gan to show themselves, and from that time forth his decline was steady. He was not afllicted with any disease, but died purely of old age, beinp reduced to a mere skeleton, iind resembling an Egyptian mummy more than a living being months before death came to claim him. He died a devout Catholic, and was buried with the forms and ceremonies of that Church Kev. Father Gai vey officiating. ' Seven miners, while engaged a few days sgo in drawing a bucket filled with zinc ore from a mine in the mountains be tween Wateilooand Newton, Sussex coun ty, X. J., accidentally caught the iope on a sharp stone, and cut it in two. Five of the meu were thrown into a washed-out mine, and four of them Baxter Jones, Wm. Carvejr, Henry Peters, and Richard Apgar were so badly injured that they died next .noruiug. yews ami Offier Jsotlngs. The Jubilee gifts received by the Tope foot up $l,y42,000. President-elect Tilden has postponed bis contemplated trip to Ktirntie. A thirty-two acre field of wheat in Lancaster comity is expec'.ed to produce nearly 1,000 bushels. Johaun Gartner shot and killed his wife at Cincinnati on Thursday evening. Cause, jealousy. Ga"ti"er hi rested. Mr. J. K. Sharple.ss, of Cttawissa, Columbia county, has rWr, a new variety of strawberries, nineteen ts.' which weighed one pound. Frank Kelly, acquitted of two charges of murder in Philadelphia, is to be tried soon for another, alleged to have been com mitted by him in 1871. ISaiulolph township, Crawford county, boasts of a bottomless spiltigof pure wa ter, about SO feet squate. It is situated ou the farm of Walter Holmes. Father Curtis, Secretary to Archbishop Bay ley, denies that the lat'er is sufleiing from Softening of the brain. His trouble arises principally from gout. Dennis Canning, cx-county delegate of the Mollie Maguites, of Xort hutnbe: land county, is visited daily in the Pottsville piison by his pretty young wife. Johann Gartner, who murdered his wife, Thursday, at Cincinnati, in a fit of jealousy, hung himself next day in the county jail, where he was confined. George L. Crosby, his wife and I wo children were drowned while crossing a bridge over a creek swollen by the. heavy rains near Hannibal, Mo., on Wednesday. One cf the attendants in the British Museum was recently frightened into con vulsions because he thought an Fgpytian mummy, four thousand years old, spoke to bin). While a compositor on the Montreal THnc was selt'tig up an advertisement f a lost canary a few days ago. the bird flew in at the office window. This shows the value of advei Using. Harry Mabia, while haulincr logs into rho creek at the month of Lanieniation, Forest county, on Saturday week, found, it is said, one which was imbedded in over a foot of solid ice. Mabia so. Near Ply mouth, Mass.. the steamer "Lady of the Lake," exploded her boiler at Silver Lake, Thursday afternoon. Six persons were severely and perhaps fatally scalded and twelve less dangerously. Father McGovern, of Minersville, Schuylkill county, on Sunday preached against the Mollie Magnires and declared that he would break up the organization if hcjweie diagged from the nlfai fo so do. ie. The poiaro field at Mulhema, nesr Cologne, on which the Colorndo beetle made its appearance, has been covered with petroleum and tanbrttk, and set on fire, the Government indemnifying the proprietor. At Vienna, Mich., a few days ao, at a golden wedding, Mr. Louis Jacobs, who was one hundred and six years old, the father ofthe bridegrom, opened the dance, leading out as his paituc. a young lady of seventeen. Maud Oswald tried last week at Chi cago to ride 300 miles in twenty-six hours, but was wit hd: awn after going 105 miles, through her doctor's orders and against her will. She was wietchedly mounted for the feat. George L. Crosby, wife and two chil dren, were drowned in a creek, near Han nibal, Missouri, Wednesday, w Lile crossing a bridge over a small stream swolleu by the recent rains. The bodies have all been recovered. Henry D. Newton, cashier of the Standard oil woiks, while on his way fo pay off employes, in New York city, Sat urday, was waylaid by two men in a wagon and robbed of two thousand dollars. The robbers escaped. There is au old colored lady in the Berks county poot house who in aged 102. She was mat lied three times, and bad twenty children. She is active, enjoys perfect health, and hxjks as if she might live twenty years longer. All of the seventy-two puddling fur naces in the American iroti works, Alle gheny county, were fired up tin Thursday for the first time in several months. The works are now running in all departments, and the double turn has been resumed. In Harrisburg, on Wednesday last, there was a shower of toads, and myriads of small ones, black and blown in color, came down with the rain. Scientists of that city are somewhat divided as to the cause of such a wonderful phenomenon. A farm house neai Sterlingville, N. T., occupied by a family named Patterson, to which a tramp was refused admittance, was burned tho same night, and a child perished in the (lames. The remaining members ofthe family nairowly escaped. Saturday, during a light thunder storm, Frank I lawn, accompanied by a boy named William Kelly, drove a tea?n of horses under a large tree, near Younts town, Ohio, fr shelter. The tree was struck, killing Ilawu, Kelly aud tho horses. A wild cat, weighing thirty-five pounds and measuring three feet in length, invaded Titusville on Thursday night.' It entered a grocery store and killed some kittens. The proprietor then set a steel trap for the animal and it walked into it, when it was dispatched by means of a revolver. The statue of Charles Carroll of Car rollton, which has been erected nn the Cen tennial grounds by the Philadelphia Cath olic societies, was publicly.unveiled on tho 4th of July with appropriate ceremonies, including an address by Hon. John Lee Carroll, the Governor of Maryland. A farm laborer near Seilhac, in France, while plowing somewhatdeeper than usual, found his plow arrested by w hat he thought to be a stump. It proved to bo an ox hide filled with gold pieces of the reign of Fran cis I, worth $00,000 for their weight alone, without .eckoiiiug their special value as rare coin. A man arrived in Buffalo, recently, who had come a long distance to plce his mother in an asylum for lunatics, lie went to bed in a hotel, saying that be bad beeu so nervous about his mother that he could not sleep for many nights, and in the morning was found to have becomo a rav ing maniac. A fire broke on! in the flue of the plan ing mill of H. II. Keller, at Lewistown, on Saturday.which lasted ftfrlv mlmit.ee l.n ru ing the planing mill and destroving a largo portion of the machinery. Loss about 3,- i o00 ; no insurance. The fire originated from a piece of pine wood put in the boiler to got up steam. Near Williamsburg, Ky., on Tuesday evening, during an altercation between Thomas Redd and William Little, brothers-in-law, the former shot the latter, in flicting a mortal wound, when Little re turned the shot killing Hedd. A feud bad existed for many years between tho fami lies of Hedd and Little. In Chesterfield county, Va., live two bachelor brothers, twins over seventy years of age. who look so much alike that Vfcpy caunot be distinguished from each other easily. One never asks or answers a question that the other does not echo him and any action of the one is immediately repeated by the other. The Philadelphia Timet, of Saturday denies the .cport of any murders having occurred in the coal regions since the hang ing of the Mollie Maguiies. The reports which have beeu so iudustriotisly circulated through the public press have all Inen manufactured from a railroad accident w hich happened there some Iao weeks be fore the hanging. m 1 ImttlwIltiX t I I Vu LJ I f KJ f 1)1 All the best talent, experience and ndvap.tiw., v,.. pun command, continued ot OAK HALL, to prcd j,. BEST and CHEAPEST CLOTHING for man and boy. For sixteen year we have liver! nttheoH crrr.erc' SIXTH and MARKET, and the business done therein, been so satisfactory to the public and oume'ves, U.s; havs decided not to change or mova the C'.o;..Cj business away. "Tae people iikethepiacennj 'C.kt-o please the people, and we believe that v.-e can ca ;t better than ever at the od place. The sales of the past year far surpassed anything we ever dreamed of.and this puts it in our power t3 start the Spring of 1877 with a STILL LOWER SCALE OF" PRICES, and a class of goo3s oc eiint tha; wear not afraid to follow each ale with our wt.rrantts.cr receive back the goods unworn end hand cvtr to t.,e customer the money paid. The etore has been largely refitted, nnd th r.ve was such a splendid stock of Men's, Boys' and Ci.i'.i r. n s clothing under the roof, nor were we ever tLie : ; Foli 6? cheaply. Our word, for it, and we aro your fr.enii, t,i ixtoeri years. THE OLD PLACE, 6th & Warkfti. Mrs. ( icncral Mict man in tn rect-ivc the "Golden Hose" from Ihe Pite. Thi is ciuiMtlered a high honor, aoniy thire j-er-Mns have icceivvd it dnrlng the thirty years f the teijzn of the present pontiff, namely : Maria Teitsa, (Jueen f Naples, the Krrpress Kupenie. of Fiance, and the Km press Klizahcth. f Austria. V. Mari-hal Ponplas, of South C'arn lir a, son of the l.i e Stephen A. Pmiglas. is beiiig inves. ifjated for crookedness. I)oc umentaty evidence has been introduced t j show that fi pudr.lem pay-vouchers wetc common in Pou;l;is" t fT.ce, nnd th.tt vari ous sorts of fi ,nid.s ere wanted to for the pit i pose of robbing ihn piivernmi-nt. j A queer ca-e of action on contract has been iiictilimd at C'at.ai auus, N. Y. A young woman, the plaintiff, sets forth that her father, the defendant, in tti:sed her 5O0 commission if she would proem e him a vife. She did it, and lie man ied :he wo man, hut now refuses to pay up, declaring indignantly that he did his own couitiui;. A Jesuit missionary, who h.id just ic t timed from among t tie Indians in (begun, told a Cincinnati ( ?f rci-il rwrter that for ten years of his life anioi.g the s:ivages ' he did not see a white man or a newspaper. Dining thieo mouths he lived ou horse flesh. Ilread was unknown by ihe tr;bes in rhich he labored, and their chief f.od was a root called cttnas. j Heaver hunters in California live in aiks or lloating houses, in which they move from pJaon to place on the streams and ponds. The one small room on each critft contains benches for several meu, cooking utensils, hunting ai tick's, and a stock of provisions. The bun'e.s are a l.tzy. card-playing and careles lot. but live com fortably and ni:ike the business pay. j A London manager, Felix lingers. Ins ' boa ten Cleopatra with her lcgeudaiy ' swans, lie has pci formed the feat of. sailing in a tub draw n by four geese, bar- : nt ssed to the pole, front Battet.-ea to Wtr.-t- i minister Riidge, the time occupied being one hour aud twenty minutes, lie w .is dressed in a naval captain's uniform, aud received a salute of four gnus, one for each goose. Wednesday mnrntng four men, named Marks Coveit, Webster Fetter, Cjtus Ihin- ; kloberg aud Kichclber. fKhing from a boat fastened to the dam in the Susquehanna river at Claik's Ft t ty. were upset over the i dam on account of 'the stake which held the boat giving way, nnd all weie drowned except Kichclber. The bodies were reov- j eied. Covert, Fetter and Puukelberg ; were telegraph repairmen from Sunbnry. t A special, from Meadsvil'.e, Fa., to the j Pittsburgh Comvttrei'il Gtizttte, says that ' railroad engineers and other train men from the east Friday night and Saturday . morning, report a snow storm at Kennedy, j X. Y., abou4 nine miles northeast of James- town, on tho A. & . V. lla.lrotd. Tl e j snow was eight inches deep on a level, and ' covered a licit about 0110 mile wide. Tho ! cold wave was felt for many miles this side ' of the storm's path. The pota-ocs, includ- t ing the bugs, and the fields of grain are ! entirely destroyed. There was intense excitement at Kel ly's Island, Ohio, on Friday, over thp mys terious disappearance of Mis. Sol To, a widow, who has resided for a number of 1 years on the island. It was at fust sup- J posed sho had left home while laboring ; under temporary aberration of mind. There j is now very little doubt that she was ' waylaid, outraged, niuidered peihrtps, aud j throw n into the lake. Some clothes were ! found on the beach. The people of the is- ! land are out en masse searching for her. j Suspicion attaches to a certain Tnau, whoj has leen arrested. f The Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette says that a pigeon lit on the minute hand ! ofthe clock in the tower of Trinitv church, I at a quarter before eleven o'clock, Friday V . . .... ' . ' loienoon, ana seemed so delighted with its perch, and the little hoist it got at every tick that it kept its place until its body was securely fastened between the two hands. When it attempted to fly it could not stretch its wings and in a few seconds was squeezed to death. The ponderous machinery was stopped by the .sex ton, but thn dead bird could not be taken out uutil the hands were unshipped. Albert Day, of Helleville, Mo., quar relled with his wife and son. and became so incensed against them that he de-vised a novel method of revenge, -ahich was to blow them up with gunpowder. One night Mis. Day and her son sat in second-story room, afraid to go to bed, lecause Day had made vague threats of killing them. A terrific explosion below shattered thehouse, and set it on fire, but they were not harmed. The explosiou injured only the man w ho naa Ciiusv.l it, ror he used short fuse, and ; the powder w as imited before he could irtt i way. iy. lie was very seiiousl? buiucd. 1 AT OAK HALL. c c STILL TO EE HEADQUARTERS FOR f WANAMAKFR & RPnWM i IN THE OLD PLACE AT THE OLD TRADE. i ft WAHAMfiKER EROVH, OAK HALL, nun inn rtt:i rriiLAJLurr.A n 11k- N. V. mare (;i i'e i,;n l'aik. M.i- i- .:.; on the Oi ' ;' T A five (I 1 vs. by a .i:'t brousrbt o ili" f ins nnd Cap', ii .1. - r..- feet, shorl w I I sixteen l an U ad;uk eh '! ivjt : S .". be a nty. exc p!i:. i,t.''.". ir f -;. mt. 1. it tit ati'i rr mare is to nin ten tniits. our ; " J . 1 t-a'.d liat slif is v'tv f ;vt A n; air..i::i hi ii' t F ;.. part ntetit of b ri ine daj s prei"U i:.t:.fi!. ' Ot I JiO n.oi;,J;t'.l r t ie habltanis f l e i' : had t ime t" r tit t phice. desit.-yinj "v A fie 1 the iii -t il.-' -':' a se; i-s uf In. butviiitr sere; a'. i t:..-i number of .;i'ii!i t !, i!i ! in 1 nips is n'!...ut It !i. u i'i iH'iM' i; h !;ii !i t ; i i ii ! ; cotnprni.-d :- l' i'1' .i ' miles. The i':l..i'uii.ii t I..' t-scape uiili theii I.o-. ( piopi'i ! j is ( :;', 11: . A fie.il i'lL"' "'i iT bit! il :t:i;l I 'I. ;! ' miles. e:inu' 'X. " lei". E '': r i'ii H'e.'. ! i cxci'ed cM.-iih-i.i!'.'' t fiiiieiers. There wei-:w 'I he lt.st 'A -is w..:i !.v l bitd tti:u!e tlie -i a m quick titni' ef tv" in tit 11: t s. Ar l.vr ('!' p: iz" : I tnie. t 1. mis- ' and thiity si r ll.llloti. t;iee h-i'tts The fouith I r vl : -.u: i hours .I'.'l t , !n' it tlie lif;ii biid ;..i i'- If il hi t ! l". s: that I?ish"p 1 - 1 . -1 1' ' ' nyi" in! e l as U t f- !-. :" ' Closkev ill the A e! i- ; - Yoik iii.' Ca. !..:- congtatn'.i'ed. 1 l'r ' ' the l"n:t u ?::ites :. i- 'r. ' heltis fn.tii the ihij 1 ' ' aftei vv;u!s Catilit .;.l A 1 deaiiN. d v!i t.' "i' '' " lia& li i;l no i."1 m 1 t.l i than 1; l.v, :. 1 the satisfaot i.'.i "I h 1 'he protiioti"" 1 f !': S ,'' timt !-.e is an .n;i".." fli'sreudatit of A :'e: ; '' du'y nit'ifu'.ly t" tli-':r c y' das of the greit ' We hope the st ... ..-1 ' prove to be w-di f 1 ,!' . r . The oldest h-.ii. - 5. is Senoia lVras OU-u. a,-'', w ho lives in :in " r . ; tiia. Slie is 14." years ,;;.. clared to be a n-attei , f : , ;'(': ( She w as born i" I. a , moved to San V '!: 1 ; was then ieciste"il ''' ': ,.t old missi .ti. I" i" '' ' Gabriel Mission, wl't-ie , ' since in an a.l. l'e l:"'i-('. ; ' i Ulht. She eatsotM -'tpi . has iK-en a tob.v-co y.r ' til l. vears n". L'U ":f new leaf, sii'neu tho k . and unit di inkieg She w as tua: 1 nM I'". r. n.tiJMi she is t) ,rt fniini'wt a h;i5v ef v,- A in llochestei. N. "V . ancient dame, !.ml i." -graphic ami steie.-'-'T1'' is a singular fact 1ll'l,.;-';r! :4.ii"i as snow, is now tut'i'''- ' If she lives another ba-t . ; . w ill, at ibis 1 ate. l' ":" "l , A NFwsr Ari u n.ati y ing .lack Keh.v. the ".it ' the Mollies, lie l-:' ...w of parlies about l"wr c' ; Paidonsat dtheb.vef He said to the conS"4ml P' Thev htinir three i -" slr-fsrroil. I! "iri'y it";".,.,, - aiui wtien 1 or ,ma t,l I'll or hiiv frtii-imu le i ue"1 .Int.- ..f tli.- I rVI'l" " - t.rleve mtueh "i """T . f his roefcet. win-" h"'"', I' ment on the trull''""-fh(I, ' I'm sorti-r 1-t t 'r"' , knew. He ms A !l,V ..t '1 to ttecenov "! ""'''' 1 stiolt tuell's evel' nee. Col. S-fno'el A frten.b'tit of ' ' '" ' "' , - i . ' 1 1 il st 1 v .1 in 1 rrt? .!. , x ... of iitwrititi" 1,,-l-t Ml II" " Westeru iailrnail in
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