gzs ran tehs ca.n:.a t It, 1- THE C A N! 8 R I i FREE HI A H . EBENSBURC, PA., FRIDAY, - - - MARM 1, 1S73. Thk amendment made by the Senate to fie silver bill were concuirrd in by the House on vent? rd.iy week ly an average vu',e of 20J jeits to 71 nays, which 'i mure than two third. The lending belief at Washington is that Mr. Hayes, will veto it. which would not prevent its becoming a Law by a two' thirds vote of each House, miles a change of opinion has come over two member of the Senate, as is alleged, bat which in uot very probible. ins teat of James H. Heilly, the Dcmo ciatic member of Congress from Schuylkill county, in this State, is contested by James B. Nuttinsr, Itpublicaii. A Washington dispatch states that the printed testimony in the case covers 1,331 pages, and that the disposition of 1,630 witnesses have been taken. Several maps of Mahonoy and (i lirr Niti ns of the distiict where it is al- j legtd fi ami u tent votes were cast accoin- J pan the evidence. The cost of piinting the testimony will amount to f.'i.OOO and $1,01)0 copies will be furnifched to the two 1 Unices as ruptiied bylaw, and about 5,000 copies bound in ca!f. It is thought that it will irqniie .he entiie session of Congirss to enable the K'ectiou Committee to ex amine the case. We should think so. Out- ' side of I'hiladelphia there is moic corrupt, illegal and crooked voting done iu the t.vo counties of Schuylkill and Luzeine than in all the balanoe of the sixty bix counties of the State. j ()sMotiday last Judge Whitaker.of New , Orleans, before whom Thomas C. Ander- , roil was tiied for forging and altciing tho election returns of; Vemon parish, over- , luled the motion for anew trial made by Anderson's counsel, and sentenced him to two years' imprisonment in the penitentia ry. It is confidently asserted that (Jover- . iior NicholU will pardon him, and that the Slate Senate will confirm the act. Tho reason assigned for Gov. Nicho'la intei Ter ence is that a positvo agreement was mado between him and the five gentlemen, of whom Wayne Mac Veagh, of this State, was the active spiiit, who were sent by Hayes to New Orleans last spring, that if tho troops were removed fioin the State House , not only past political offences bliould bo forgiven, but even tho Ket inning Hoard should not bo molested. Governor Nich ol!s is an honorable man, ami if ho mado such a bargain, which seems to bo very jmprjbable, be will stand by it. His prompt action or his refusal to interfere w ill settle tho disputed tincst'ion, Dr. St. Ci.aih, of Indiana, who is a member of the State Senate, occupies a high rank in his own profession, but is not likely to achieve distinguished honor as a legislator. Some time ago he introduced a bill into the Senate imposing a lax of one cent per gallon on petroleum oil, to bo paid by tho producer. This tax would ting into the State treasury about f.r million nt dollars annually. Tho tax be ing paid by tho producer would ofcouise be added by him on bis sales, and thus the peoplo tLemselvrs "souM eventually pay it. liut what does Dr. St. Clair pro pose to do with his five millions after he siloed ls in getting them into tho tieasury ? They are not wanted there just now, as the piesent revenues of the State are amply riifuVieut to meet the annual demands on the tieasury and to pay the inteiest on I lie State debt. In any possible aspect a large iui plus iu tho treasury is not desirable, fur the reason that the State Tteasuicr, and iut the State, derives the interest arising from its loan to banks and similar institu tions a practice that Colonel Noyes will change when he takes charge of the office. "We do not imagine fur one moment that Dr. St. Claii's bill w ill pass, and the only difficulty we have had about it was to even guess what good purpose be expected to accomplish by it. If the bill ever comes be fore the Senate the consumers uf petroleum w ill call upon the doctor to give some good reasons for his proposed tax on light. At the election on last Tuesday week the voters in six wards in Philadelphia, iu which they have a special local option law, passed on the question whether or not license should bo granted iu their respec tive wards, and here is the result : For. Thirteenth ward lo-'tl Fourteenth ward IH'J Fifteenth war.l 2"iJ Tve!iti"th ward Wi Twenty-first ward ll Twenty. uiuih ward 1KJ Affstngt. 61 80 SO 1 440 This result is certainly not calculated to i.isptro tho advocates of the local option project with any confidence; in their future success. It w 111 be obsctvtd that the total v .tc did not .each 7,000, whereas the ag gregate vote in the same wards at the Presidential election in 18TC was over 32, (00. It is apparent, therefore, that only about one man out of every fre felt enough interest in the importaut question of tcm perauco to induce him either to vo'e for or against license. It was once the habit of Republican editors and stump spcakeis to denounce the Democratic party as the "rthiskev paity," and if these six Phila delphia wards were Democratic in their politics the overwhelming vote in favor of license, us published above, would be pro claimed as conclusive evidenco that the Democracy are opposed to temperance. It Mould be no argument, but still Republi can demagogues would resoit to it. It is proper, theiefore, to say that in these wards Hayes received 18,693 votes and Tilden 13,406. giving Hayes a majority of 5 197. T,ie vo,e on 'k Ucenso question simply proves that tho people in Ihe six wards alluded to have become so disgusted with the" practical operation of the local option law that they have ceased to feel tbe lighte! interest in its continuance, and jitrmitted it to die without makiug the Uast tUSoit to feave ts ilifr. i The mcmbeis of the investigating com 1 mittce appointed last year by the South Cai olinn Legislature, to nscertain what frauds bad been committed on the tieasury, and ; to what extent the money of the Stnte bad been mishapplied, made a report last week which reveals a mass of coriup'.ion and ex poses an amount of systematic fraud on the pait of the officials of that State which even in these degenerate days is without a parallel. The system of robbery practised was not confined to any one branch of the ' government, .but included evtiy official from the Governor down through both' houses of the Legislature, '1 he evidence upon which this repoit is based all comes from Republican witnesses, aud was taken befoie a committee whose chairman is a j Republican. The investigation covered the period from 18tiStol87G. Perhaps tho most interesting portion of the repoit is that which relates to the thieving opeia tions cf the members of the Legislature, who adopted the convenient doctrine that the State was bound to pay for everything they ate, drank, or wore ; or, as it was well expressed by a col. -red Senator in his tes timony, "TluState had no light to bo a State unless she could take care of her statesmen." Costly Willi's, high-priced liquors aud the very best cigars were fur nished to mcmbeis, under the -head of "supplies," without limit, and during one shoit svssion fc:30,000 were spent for re- , fiCftlnuents alone. It is estimated that tho Slate paid for cnoHgh liquor to furnish one gallon per day to each of the 100 members. The cleik of the House, Jones by name and black by natuie, testified that sup- ( plies were furnished to members under tho . head of "legislative expenses" and "sta tionery," and that, they included lefresh ments, groceiies, dry goods, clocks, Li nisei, 1 furniture, carriages and merchandise of neailjf every description ; ami that at one tessiou these amounts leached the cnor- j inous sum of $?T 0,000, as appears fiom tho j vouchers in the Rate Treasurer's office. I In a single session the State was charged with 4,058 yaids of the most expensive liurssels carpet, when it was shown that 1,300 yaids would cover every room in the Siate llouso. Cosily jewelry was furnished the mcmbeis, and kid gloves, corsets, gar ters, chemises, parasols, bustles, and o.her articles for their wives and mistresses, were liberally supplied. Such is a sample of the manner in w hich the intelligent and property-holding white citizens of South Carolina, who paid all tho taxes, were robbed and plundered by successive negro Legislatures. And yet when Hampton oe came Governor and undertook to inaugur ate an era of honesty and responsibility in State affairs, iu which be has fully succeed ed, IJlaino and the rest of the Republican leaders proclaimed that the colored peoplo of tho South had been betrayed into the ! hands of their enemies. The delusion under which for years thousands of honest Republicans labored as to tho true charac ter of negro govei urnent in the South is I tapidly disappearing in the light of facts, I and they aie beginning to comprehend it in all the length and breadth of its great enormity. The national convention of the Green back Labor party met at Toledo last Fri day, and was presided over by Francis W. Hughes, of this State. Twenty-three out i of the tli i 1 1 y nine States were lepresented. ! An extreme greenback platfoim was ad op- ' ted, the first lesolution of which declares ' H at the party shall hereafter be known as the "National Party." Tho word "Bank" j ought to bo inserted after "National," so ! that the paity might have its tiue name, j because greenbacks, and plenty of them, j constitute its alpha and omega the begin- t ning and the end of its creed. The Presi- j dent of the convention, Frank Hughes. ! was its ablest but not its best known mem- ber, for it contained that political mounte bank, Sam Caiey, of Ohio, Uiatiton, or more appropi ia ely, Blataxt Duncan, of Kentucky, and the notorious "Brick" Poineroy a trij whose presence is well calculated effectually to damn any conven tion, no matter by what namo it may bo called. After the resolutions, which wo publish in another column, weieadoj Ud and an executive committee appointed, the convention adjourned tine die. On the return trip from Toledo and while passing through Ohio, a novel performance took place in one of the cars, w hich was filled with delegates from Pennsylvania and from States further cast. A meet ing was oiganized, offlceis elected and speeches made, the cars running meantime at the rate of twenty-live miles au hour. Samuel I Calvin, the greenback oracle of BUir 1 couuty, mado the first speech, and tho ; telegraph reported that "his powerful voico was raised far above tho rattlo of the car wheels in eloquent defence of tho doc trines of the National party." It must have been a glorious spectacle to see Cal vin standing iu a railroad car running at the rate of twenty five miles an hour, and, w ith stentorian voice, heard far above the din and clatter of tho swiftly revolving car wheels, pleading eloquently for an unlimi ted issue of greenbacks. They are his present panacea for All the business ills which aftlict the country, though there was a lime, not very remote, when be rolled a high protective tariff, which is simply le galized lobbety, under his tongue as a sweet morsel without which tho best in terest of the country would surely perish. But limes chango aud men change with j them, IIOW PlUS IX. AltOl.ISIIED THE TAX ON pAf.T. Among the stoiios toll about Pio .'ono since his death the follow ing deserves place : "Shortly after his elect!. m to tne Papacy, and when Cardinal Antotielli held his tirst of fice under him, that of Finance Minister, the Koniaus. meeting their I'outilT In the street, complained to him of the tax on salt. The tax was a monopoly farmed by one rf the specula tors, who thrived In earlier davs. IMo Nono sent Tor the speculator. I suppose that unit tar is very valuable to you, 'said he. The spec ulator trembled, fearing the price the mon opoly was about to be raised ; protested that it was a dead loss. IIow much would eompensnre you for hemir relieved of your loss?' asked His Holiness. The salt-tax fmimr named a ridicu lously low sum. Then, said the IVpe, 'vou shall have the money;' and calling lor Ant'o.i elll, ordered him to pyit. The rogue of n speculator refused : but on being Informed by the Pop that he would publish the fact that he hao offered him his own price Tor the mon opoly at last took the money, and went nw iy a an Jder, a wiser, and. rirosrieet i vl v iiinil. J ne udj All fterwards tbe salt-tux was auuUbfied." The Republican Legislature at llarris burg, after having been in session almost two months, has succeeded in sending three bills to the Governor for bis action. It is well that such should be the meagre harvest of legislation, for the fewer laws that are enacted the less likely are the in terests of the people to suffer. One of these bills, which provided for the election of an additional law judge in Northumber land county, was promptly vetoed, for the reason, as stated by the Governor, that the business of the courts in that county did ' not lequire the services of anoth. r judge. At the last census the county contained a population of a fraction over 41,000, and by itself constitutes a separate judicial dis trict. Theie are a large number of coun ties in the State with a much greater pop ulation and having more judicial business than Noithiimberland, in which one judge has been found amply sufficient to preside over the coui ts. Judge Dean in our own district succeeds admirably, although the task is a severe one, in keeping the judicial machine in good runuing order iu three counties, each one of which is nearly as populous as Northumberland. It is a pleas ant thing to be a Presiding Judge with a consciousness of fituess for the office, and this vetoed bill was simply intended for some lawyer who thinks himself compe tent, although otheis may not, for the bench, tho question of necessity, as it seems, not having any connect ion with it whatever. Tho Governor has nosy opened the way for a veto, upon the same grounds, of the Philadelphia Recorder's bill, and the Rank Commissioner' bill, intended for tho respective benefit of his fiieuds Quay and Halt, when they pass both houses, as they undoubtedly will. That be will prove equal to the occasion and sustain the outspoken opinion of the press aud people of I'hiladelphia in opposition to both projects, is, however, not to be hoped for. Six and Shame. "I tell you the girl is all l i o 1 1 1 , and I am not bound to answer any questions about liei." So said "Miss Maud Stanley," the proprict i ess of one of the abodes of fallen women on First avenue to a reporter of the Pittsburg Dispatch on j Sunday night last. Yet at that time a 1 young girl, the subject of the repot tor's in- j quiiies, was laving in the wildest delirium j in Madame Stanley's house, and it is not I unlikely tha: she is dying now. There aie I but few visitors admitted initted to see the poor I dest.oyea child, hello , 111 ia ins, w ho ,s Biovwyoving occausu oi me iniamy prac- t iced upon her tiy a wretch called a man. The doctor who goes twice every dav to visit her is the only individual, aside from those personages of doubtful vi-.tue among whom her lot is cast, who is admitted. Professional man that he is, he has no -secrets to tell now, but it is not a secret that the child (Tor she is less than fifteen yeais old) is sick almost unto death. It is said that it is only because she, being a child, has been treated shamelessly by bru tal men that she is lying as related. But there are reports abioad deports that it is to be feared thero will be an opportunity for a Coroner's jury to investigate) that the case in some of its features is not un like that of poor Maiy Kavanaugh. It is but just to $ay that these repot ts do not have reference to the proprietress of the house where the girl now is. It appears, from all the stories, that really tho child bas met only with kindness in this place. The poor dying child in herdeliiium has j repeated timeafeit time a coherent story, j It is brietly that her brutal, drunken fat ti ler, with whom sho lived in Sharon, sold ! her for $100 to tho equally brutal though ! not equally besotted son of a hotel keeper ; there, who accomplished her ruin and in jured so that she is near death's door. He , sent her to this city and to the house men , tioned. It is stated that the woman, Stau j ley, would not receive her as an inmate, j but gave her work in the kitchen. There ' she took sick a few hours after her arrival, i and iu that house of shame si.o is now dy- ; " Faster Than a Mu.e a Minutk. Eveiy one acquainted with the Dunkirk, Wan en and Pittsburgh Il.iiliond knows ,,ow mp'd is the descent fiom Laona into Fredonia. Last Satin day even'mir. about 11 o'clock, an accident happened at that placo. The night . was intensely c ld. and when tho regular freight train pulled out of Cassadtiga all the brake men but one wero iu the caboose warming up, prepara : tory to standing guard over the long train i f tw eiily-nine cars when the heavy grade I should bo leached. Just after leaving the , stati.ni tho train broke in two, tho last five cars being left behind, the others, with only one brakeman, going on, unaware of I the accident. The top of the hill was j reached and the descent begun. The cn I gineer, iinding himself impelled along at a ! terrible rate, ic versed his engine, thouh ; lio says ho expected to sec the cylinder beads blown out and his locomotive a j wreck and whistled for brakes. The cars i were covered with ice and snow, and the solitary brakeman took his life in his hand I when, in the darkness, and the train thuu- deling along at the rate of about a milo a j minute down a grade that incteased the I speed eveiy second, he sprang from one 1 car to another aud set every brake on the i whole twenty-three cars. The run from the top of the hill to Fredonia was made ! U1 an incredibly short space of time, and j to tho btavery of the biakemau, the quick i discovery of the impending danger by the j engineer, and the good woik of tho loco- motive and every brake, is due the fact I that the train was kept from a plunge into the utiukirk depot and total annihilation. Jamestoicn Democrat. A Thrilling Akventuki: and Won derful Escape. The. Crude Local, onb- I lished at it. Petersburg, Clarion couuty, i is responsible for the following: I A strange occurrence, indeed we might say a 1 miracle almost, was related to us the other day ( by a gentleman from Clarion. As told to us : the story runs: n Tuesday afternoon a drum I mer for a Pittsburgh boot and shoe house hired j a livery riglrom Messrs. Lo-vry& Montgomery, of Clarion, for the purpose of going to Fry burg. He went tc his destination all right, but having imbibed pretty freely, fell asleep in his wagon, while on the journey back that even ing, ami when coming down the hill which leads to the bridge across i ue Clarion river, the horses left the road and traveled along the railroad. Keaehipjr the trestle which crosses the ravine just before getting to the railroad bridge, the horses went boldly forward, dragging behind them the wagon and its unconscious freight, and reaching the opposite side in safety, when they were discovered by the people living in a house close to the track and both horses and man were rescued from the dangers inevitable upon a further pursuit of the dangerous path, as the river bridge was only a few short rods ahead and there could be no chance of passing that in safety. Thf danger of the trip and al most miraculous preservation from an instan taneous and awful death vouchsafed to the drowsy drummer can be better appreciated when it is understood thar the trestie passed over was ISO feet long, sixty feet high in the middle, and only five feci wide on top, while the wagon tracked four feet eight inches, leav ing only four inches, two on each side, between safely and death. The only hypothesis upon which the wonder can be explained is that the horses both traveled inside the rails which are only three feet apart and, consequently, crowd ing close together, went exactly strain lit ahead. The space between the ties on the trestle being hilt three inches, no great difficulty would be experienced on that score. We must acknowl edge the story savors a great deal of romance, hut coming to us from the source it did we havt uo rt&sou to duubi lib truth. The 2feu' Vvpe. On the second day after entering upon its work, the Conclave iu the Vatican has giveu to the Catholic world a new Pope, w ho, there is every reason to believe, com bines in himself alHhe qualities that are Mm position at this nei iod of ! the Church's history. To the place of the ! A silver mine is reported to have been highest imjKirtance and the. greatest power discovered recently near Myerstown, Leba among the sonsof men, Cardinal Pecci has ; non county. ascended as Leo XIII. But yesterday an j Godfrey Brossais Saint Maria,Cardinal unobtrusive and austere member of the j .A rchbisbop of llenues, France, died on Sacred College, to-day he stands in the j Wednesday last. Vatican as the Vicar of Christ, the sue- j A special from Rome says an explosion cessor of St. Peter, the visible head of of dynamite at Parma, Italy, on Saturday, the Catholic Church wearing the crown ! k:lled six and wounded sixty-three peisons. ' of Catholicity, wielding the sceptre of in I fallibility, and carrying in bis girdle the ' keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, i The new Pope is worthy to take the j place of Pius IX. Those who lest know i liis mind, liis life, his talents, and his pow 1 ers, and who are best capable of judging bis fitness to fill the pontifical throne, have ; so decided, All accounts agiee in praising j him. He is described as a man who in i many respects resembles the late Pope j full of piety and zeal, of elevated mind, of ; great dignity, sociable, vivacious, and wit : ty. Of his learning, liis familiarity with ecclesiastical affairs, his comprehension of i the relations of the Church to the Govern j ments of Europe, and of the policy to be ! persuaded by the Vatican, there is, of course, abundant assurance in the fact of i his election. He has been in the Cardinal- a-e for a quarter of a cent ury, and he has ; all the experience acquired in that posi ! tion. He has had other pub'ic expeiien , ces, having been Nuncio at Rrussels, and having at anoiher time, as Papal delegate, been active in suppressing brigandage in several parts of the States of the Church. He is spoken of as a practical and politic man, with great knowledge of men and great sk ill in dealing w ith them. In short, in whatever way he is regarded, the Cath olic woi Id will feel assured that Joachim Pecci is qualified to sustain the grandeur of the Popedom ami tho authority of tho Church. More beloved than the last Pope he cannot be. Politically, the new Pope belongs to what is called the moderate branch of the Caidinals though it is not easy to tell what this means or implies under present circumstances. He has been spoken of since the death of Pius IX. as one of tho two candidates upon whom the moderate ! pa ity rested their hopes of peace in the ad I jiistment of the relations between the Vat j ican and the Italian Government and the j other Governments of Europe. Hut we i can sec no ground for believing that he , will turn his back on tho policy of bis piedecessor, or enter into any compromise respecting the authoritative claims of the chair of St. Peter. Whether or not he has any hope of tho restoration of the temporal t, r ,i. i i. ; nu, lmycutlci. an i()Ux of its n Rome, lie will ancient power. The quickness with which tho election of the Pope followed the assemblage of the j Conclave, pu:s an end to the accounts that liive been onlt ivttfwl nf nii-lu mtnniniicma j'-. ij .......j, j and divisions among its members. He was 1 elected upon the morning of the second day of the Conclave, and by the third bal- j lot, winch gave him the requisite majority of two-thirds. This gives satisfactory evi dence that the great body of the Conclave regarded him, from the first, as the man designated by Heaven tolillthe position to which he has been chosen, and in which he will henceforth be known as Leo XIII. yew York un. rtatforni of the "National rat ty." Following are the resolutions, boiled down, of the so-called "National Party," as adopted at a convention hold iu Toledo, Ohio, on Friday last. They declare First -That nil ripht to make and issue money of nil kinds is vested in the lio "eminent. Second - Declares ajrainsl privileged clashes of creditors nnd in favor of l0(ral tender 1101 es for detits of every kind. Third That the coinntre of silver be placed upon the game looting with tfold. Fourth That buyers shall provide such mon ey in sufficient quantities for the full employ ment of labor and so that the rate or interest shall tie low. Fifth That no class r,f property should he exempt from its just share of taxation. SMxih--AifHinst ilunatii.K the public lands to railroad and other corporations. Seventh In favor of the (iovernment encour aging all industrial pursuits, but leg-ali.injf no monopolies. Kitf nth In favor of abolishing- all useless of fices and exerei-inu-economy and severe pun ishment for unlaithfnl officials. Nimh Trat hours of labor bo reduced, that the workinir classes may have more time for mental improvement. Tenth The adoption of an American mone tary system, as proposed herein, will harmonize all differences in reirari to tariff and Federal taxation, reduce and equalize the cost of trans portation by laud and water, distribute equita bly the joint earnings of capital and labor, se cure to the producers of wealth the results of their labor and skill, muster out of the; service the vast army of ii'lcrs who, under t heexistiuif system, irrow rich upon the earniutrs of others, that every man and woman may by their own efforts scour a competence, so that overgrown fortunes and extreme poverty will be seldom found within the limits oT our Republic. Klevetith- lioth National ami Mate (lovern ments should establish Koreans of Labor and Industrial Statistics, cloth' d with the powor Of KHtheriutr and publishing ihe same. Twelfth That Ihe contract system of em ploying labor in our prisons and reformatory inst.t-utn.tn works great injustice to; our mechanics and artisans, and should be prohib ited. Thirteenth Tho importation of servile labor into the I'ni'ed States from China is t problem of the most Serious importance, and we recom mend legislation locking to its suppression. Each lesolution was received with ap plause. Both vociferous and long-continued cheering greeted the first plank, which bears more directly on the financial ques tion. The whole platform was immediately adopted without debate, aud by a unani mous vote. A Wonderful Inventor. A New York Sun repot ter visited Menlo Park, N. J., the o-her day, to chat with Prof. Thomas A. Edison, tho inventor of an au tomatic telegraph, qtiadruplex aud sextu plex dispatches, carbon telephone, stock indicator, electric pen, afrapbone, marvel lous speaking phonograph, and a score or more of similar machines.- He is also dis coverer of the electro-motograpb, by which dispatches may be telegraphed without .. .. . i magnetism. Scientific men regard it as j his greatest discovery, and predict that it j will some day prove of immense vaiuo. I Mr. Edison is a man of thirty one. The ; reporter gives two columns of closely 1 piinted matter on the great inventor's marvellous discoveries. That portion of j the at tide relating to the untold wonders of the speaking phonograph is intensely in teresting. It appears that Edison will be able to make the Bedloes Island statue ; talk and whistle so as to bo heard for miles around. The tSun says, editorially, if the : owners of materialized spirits could have got hold of Prof. Edison's speaking pbono ' graph and kept it from the public thero I would undoubtedly have beeu a great re vival of spiritualism throughout tbe coun try. AVit It this machine a materialized spirit could have talked in the voice and tone of the dead poison it was supposed to represent, and it is reasonable to iufer that nate skeptics, recognizing . f , -,, . "" ' the most obstinate the voices of their friends, would have been willing to acknowledge that the me- t diums held communication with tbe shad- 1 owy residents of another world. Thf. treaty of peace between Russia and Turkey basiot yet been signed, tbe delay j a11 tne way, assisted by two well-trained being occasioned by the efforts of Turkey doRS' T.U? 8,,eeP have increased in mini, to secure a change of some of the severe TtZTy terms demanded by Russia, which she intended for slaughter in the Eastern mar may potsibly succeed iu doing. keta. A'eicp ami lircr JS'otlitgs. A Maine woman has a bead of natural bair over eight feet long. All the families of Dauby, Vt., are now related through cousins Intermarrying. Mollie Dai ling teaches a w riting school in Devereux. Herkimer county, N. Y. j A Michigan woman of wealth and I strong convictions has hired a man to I preach a literal bell throughout the ooun i try. j James Cook, a married man of John ; son county, Indiana, has been indicted for i assault for paroxysmally kissing Miss Alice Pitcher. A Cincinnati landlord is holding a wo ! man's baby as security for four dollars ; boaid. Seems to us we'd rather lose the four dollars. i The house of David Oikle. near Bridge- ; water, N, S., was burned on Friday night. His on perished in the llames, and Mis. i Oikle was badly burned. The long-continued blindness of a woman in Klizabethtown, Ky., was recent ly broken by an hour of sight, after w hich she became totally blind again. When a mail bag was oiencd at An napolis, N. S., on Wednesday last, a cat jumped out, and is now duly established in the good graces of the postmaster. The boiler of the Chinese coasting vessel Yesso exploded recently, killing about eighty natives. The engineer has been imprisoned for manslaughter. On Saturday evening an infant child of Mrs. Margaret Dewitt, a widow, living j one mile west of Forest, Ohio, choked to daath, caused by a"wo;ni in its throat. The elevator in the Orand Hotel, Paris, lost its balance on Sunday last, and was carried to the roof with great force, killing a Russian lady, a French gentleman, and a servant. Graves county, Kentucky, claims a woman who has giveu biith to live children in thirteen months. The distracted hus- band has not been beard from since the j oflicial count. 1 The boiler of the Mound City Hom ing mills, situated about two and a ball miles east of Bigalow, Mo., ex ploded with tei rific force, entirely demolishing everything aud instantly killing four men. A Dubuque man, Some four years ago, buried $4,000 in a fiekl, and soon after left the State, lie returned and only fcund his treasure afier many months of search, the old landmarks having been removed. The Brooklyn (N. V.) Court House had its Hags at half-mast for one week in reverence to the memory of Pius IX. This mark of respect was tendered by vote of the Kings County Board of Supervisors. The Presbyterian, Catholic and Epis copal churches at llazelwood, in the 23d Ward, Pittsburgh, were broken into a few nights ago and robbed of Sunday school books, religious cards, candles, vesttneuts, etc. Captain Hitchcock, principal of the German-own (O. ) public schools, is under an est for an abominable outrage. TI10 Warrant was procured bv the mother of the i young lady. Hitchcock's wifo bas taken ' steps towatd a divorce, ! An eccentiic and useful sheep is kept ! on a steamer plying bet ween San Francisco j aud S.ockton. lie is trained to go out on ! gang piaiiK ar a lAuntng wt.en a Hack ;s to be loaded, to show that the approach is safe, and to act as a pilot. The New York Observer says that the Baptist church at Binghamton, which in vited Col. Bob Ir.gcisoll to lecture before it for the benefit of tbe funds of the church, "reminds one of the mode bv which Judas I earned his thirty pieces of silver." Governor llartranft bas issued war rants for the execution of Patrick Hester. Peter McIIugh, and Patrick Tully, of Col umbia county, on the 23th of March next, and Jack Kehoe and Dennis Donnelly, of Scuylkill counfy on the 18th of April." New Yorkers have commenced eating horseflesh, and a Chambers-street restaur ant bangs out a sign oHeruig this diet to its cusioinors. There now seems to bo a way to dispose of the street-car mules as the old vehicles are replaced by steam. Some months ago Joseph Brown, of Carmi, 111., committed suicide, and twenty days after his father, Elijah Brown, follow ed suit with a shot gun, after having dug his own grave. On Friday night Mrs. Brown took laudanum and finished up the Brown family. In York, Pa., Friday night, Mr. Albert Fold, aged about forty-five years, made a number of desperate attempts to take his own life. Six times be tiiculhe rope or suspenders, and once was well banged to the lock-up cell door, but each time was discovered and released. A Chester county boy baby, one year old, weighs sixty pound. His height is J2 inches ; around the chest he measures 29 inches, and a measurement taken around the head in a line with his ears and nose showed 21 inches. At the time of bis birth he weighed 14 pounds. A private letter of the 21st announces the death from old age of Margaret Logan, , a colored woman, at Freehold, N. J, Her relatives claim she was one hundred and fourteen years old, having been born in 1TCI. They say it was her boast that she had often, w hen a girl, seeu "Massa Wash ington." A promineut financier of Ilarrisburg, who now holds two city bonds of the de nomination of 1, 000 each, states that the bonds were purchased by the accumulation of interest of a if 100 note which came into his possession w hen be first set out to Phil adelphia as a journeyman printer fifty years ago. General Toombs says that if the "peo ple would only learn the process of curing the leaf, as good tea can be produced in Georgia as in China. Tea has been plar.t- 1 ed and P'?wn 1,1 Georgia for the last forty !vnro Will..,, nT.. :, f .., . jv...... m ituiu a njw in 1 ics 01 Quanta, 11 somebody hasn't cut them down, are tea trees thirty feet high, planted in 1842. Thirty-odd years ago a child w as born in a ""A elsh poor bouse. A few days ago tho charity-boy, since the hero of many strange adventures and vicissitudes, dined with the Prince of Wales and received an ovation from the Koyal Geographical So ciety. Was there ever any wilder romance than the life of Stanley ? A man iu Dansville, N. Y., while cut ting into a straw stack, drew forth his knife stained with blood. A thrill of hor ror shot through him as bo thought that be had killed some unfortunate tramp who bad burrowed into the stack to sleep. An examination revealed the fact that be bad cut a wotwichuck in two. In personal appearance and in bis cul tured manner Pope Leo XIII somewhat i rmbl4- Csudinal McCloskey, archbishop i of orlc- Jle uas a keen, penetrating I PVC IB verv iron I la n .wl . . .. ... , " n'li.iru.is 111 I11S QO- portment, exceedingly amiable, quiet and self-possessed, and has a very clear, quick acting aud penetrating mind. Two years ago a drover started from California with A OOO ct.oen it. 1 ... . arrived iu Texas, bavintf driven n. riLii, i A San Francisco dispatch of the 26:b I says that news bas been received er the Oceanic of a terrible disaster at Tuftsin, i China. The refuge bouse in which the , famine-stricken refugees from the Xoi them ' provinces bad assembled took fire, and of ' nearly three thousand people in the build i ing, but one bundled escaped, j Cardinal McCloskey did not reach Rome until last Saturday three days after i tho election of the new Pontiff, Ieo the : Thirteenth. He presented bis homage to the Pope on Monday, wheu be took occa j sion to say that be bad no reason to regret the lateness of his arrival in Rome, inas j much as the conclave bad made so excellent ' a choice. . j Three Welsh pilots, by whose foie : thought, skill, and arduous exertions nine t men were rescued from the masthead of) ! tho steamer Pioneer, on the coast of Wales, j in January last, on being asked by .one of j Lloyd's agents what they wanted or ex- j : pected for their services, immediately re- I plied : ''We have bad what we wanted ' ! the lives of the men." j The marriage of Miss Eldena F.lden, i of Biddeford, Maine, to A. J. Packard, of: Youngstowu, Ohio, was celebrated on ' Wednesday, This is the result of the ro- J mantic match made between the parlies from the gentlemans reading an extract ! from the young lady s giaduating tssaj", wherein she expiessed a determination to make her own way in the world. A Minneapolis boy was sent by bis ; teacher, a woman, to the superintendent ' to be whipped. The lad suspected the i contents of the note, and biied a boy be met on the street to deliver it, giving him j ten cents. The superintendent didn't dis- , cover until after he castigatioti was over; that the boy he bad flogged had not seen ' the inside of a school bouse for a month. i At Maucb Chuuk recently a child died under painful circumstances. In cauteriz- j ing the throat or month of the child a piece of caustic dropped into its throat and was swallowed, hi a moment it was in great agny which continued about thirty-six hours, wheu death relieved it. Duringtbe whole of :his time the child screamed and cried for water, of which a large quantity was given it. The Poitsmouth (Maine) Time says that at the trial of a criminal case in the bu- pieme Court iu Saco recently, the prisoner entered a plea of "not guil'y," when one of the jurymen tut on bis bat and started for the door. The Judge called him back and informed bim that he could not leave until tho case was tiied. "Tried?" quer ied the juror. "Why, be acknowledges that be is not guilty." The trustees of the Dexter Savings Bank, of Dexter, Maine, offer a reward of $10,000 for the apprehension of the murder er or mu.tderers of the late treasuier of the institution, J, W. Barron, who was found on Friday evening locked in the vault of the bank, handcuffed, gagged, a rope about his neck and in a senseless cond it ion and died on Sa urday morning. It is prob able the murderers killed the ofUcial be cause be refused to open the safe. It has beea said that fewer children are born of American paientago in New Yoik than in any other city of the conti nent. The New York Times says that the reason is that begetters of childten aie frowned upon by landlords, boarding house keepers, and maids of all-work, until one of the first laws of nature appears to be a social crime. The possession of small children seems to be esteemed an audacity or an indecency, if uot a mixture of both. Messrs. Coilins. contractors of tho Ma deria & Maniore Railway, Brazil, have a dispatch from St. Thomas, announcing the arrival there, alter as otiny passage, of the steamer Richmond, hence for San Antonie, Brazil, with supplies and laboiers for the construction of the railroad, all well. The schooner Paul S. Evoy, arrived at New York, reports seeing on January 29th, at the mouth of the Amazon, an American steamer supposed to be the Mercedita, the first vessiil dispatched. Fredeiick Wahlen, the murderer of Max Hugo Hoehne, near the Centennial grounds, in the fall of 1871, hung himself in bis cell at Norrestown, on Sa tirday af ternoon. When the night watchman went on duty at six o'clock be found him bang ing with his bead cut. It is supposed that be stood on a chair and tied himself. pounded himself with the grate out of the 1 register, p.nd then pushed tho chair awav. j His head is cut across the forehead, aud tbe i grate bas blood and hair on it. j One of the most novel election con- ! tests in Western Pennsylvania was that between Uncle Jake Ziegler, of the Butler . Herald, and ex Burgess Keck, of the same '. borough, for burgess. Neither wanted the , office, and each went to work diligently, : like beavers, to elect bis opponent. The ' result was both men were beaten by a ! "handsome majority," in their respective wards, but Uncle Jake failed to get in his ' wf.ik as well rf Mr. K., for be was elected by three votes. He says its the worst beat be ever got in bis life. j The Lafayette (Ind.) Courier records a i curious case of a man rendered insane from romorse. About two years ago 'Squiie ' Brow n, of Eugene, Vermillion county, lost a pocket-book containing $21C. No clue ; to it was found until a few days ago, when j a man named Norman showed uun.istak able signs of mental derangement, andj iaiti uiai ne nad found the money. He also said that, he bad found !C0 belonging to a bible agent, who bad cauvassed the town a few months ago. Later discovet ies have proved his statements in the main to be true, and it bas also been proven that bo lias gone crazy from no other cause than remorse. Tho thought that be bad never returned it to its owner, bas so preyed upon his mind that be is now an inmate of an insane asylum. It was the duty of Brown, the man who lost the money being-a justice of the peace to send him to the asylum. A horrible case of seduction and in fanticide was discovered on Friday last at Glover's Gap, a small station ou tbe Balti more and Ohio road, about twenty miles from Wheeling, W. Ya. Tho body of au infant was dragged out from under a pig pen by some dogs, w ho mangled it consid- oiuiy oeiore id was discovered. It bad evidently been born about two weeks and bore traces of having been smothered to death A coroner's jury was at once called, and tho following facts cam a nut youiiR man named l'orry Hall, about 2G vuAin ot ace. Uas been attentive . t;.D I'm l io. T,, 1 , . . . . It,i 1 t. ' , 'K"vu. a. IV 1 UtlVr.. H Ufa .1 nil- (IT nin..lA... , , . - ' u,.ner promiso of marriage, and she bid tbe still living child under the lloor of tho l.nn-.tieo to ...,t 1 :. . tl ; n 1" v. vk.iii.vii. tier CI line. ! fcbe continued to woik about tho house; until a few days apo, when she broke down and is now sick in bed, but under arrest for infanticide, which she coufesses. Hall not, yet oceu arrested. The wonderfnl convenient r ....i: an t receiving packages by mail tidexpres is just lieginiung to lio appreciated. Packages weighing four rnis or loss can be sent to the most distant States ami rerntories for the trivial cost of one cent per ounce, and express charges are corres pondingly low. Perceiving the Terv crreat ., t ...t.:u these low rates of carriage could put bv r ei,?p ! Mr""'"- Strawbridge & O.othier. - ,V,,a,.,ft'fhla. "Oe time ago, established a Mail Order Department, thereby giving to 1 consumers all over the land the advantage ! of procu ri ng d ry goods at 1 he sa me low prices that have always characterized their im- ' uiense retail establishment in Philadelphia. tins enterprising firm desires ns to Inform our readers lhat all orders for good and re quests for samples intrusted to their care . will receive careful and immediate atteutiou ' A Cheeky Trami. The following polar, not to say doubtful, story cmes from ' Richmond, Va. : The latest tramp enton here is t,i-;,i. and tbe -est. On Church 11,11. which i ,1st lofty and picturffiiie loeaiitv r.f thuciiv V M wide fashionable avenue, "nl thj. -v..'1 stands, aninnir othpr ttvliah r. .;.).. 1 "'e erini- brown slope front, occiif ii-) t,T ir i.'w" T. Smiih and rarnily. I,t uifht t latch . Mrs. Smith, as is her custom. w-nt into ts" i chain her occupied by her two dam ht.. ''' Mary and ll. riha. to we ir the pic-i,,,,. ., were covered up and tucked in. The M. I''1 carried a taper in her hand. n he M . 1 the half open door that the irn O. .k.. "'"fa ladies room had been jrlinimerof the larht ladies" room had been nut out. Wf... ,,. ''"'if nt did fihA I IK hoc.H. t 'f-i . ' hut UTPit'i iik nitrr over, in between ttij iV.i t,r,r" P' -Is, lay a strange, be-.rded ma-, tLj 1Trr??L".w"!. Mary..,,,, n,. rnntillHt. tin hnvp rtcontlv hlnnrnpri linn I. . ...,' "rtl- Vnry rijrhtern nnd Itrrth in vnw)-n Their fa or are flnHv cliilf, thtir com,. ions are fair, and thi-ir skins ar H , ,', marble. The t rana-o beari,-, nian ftt and much blonted. J - - irs ui When Mr iiii'iiim. s. Smith behelj the seeno ho tr'- i jk to her own .chamber n 1 w X d. In hurried whi-.iors (.),..,,, 1 ul situation. Mr. S-mtl, r-n n !," ratld!v buck to hr own .-l, ... .. ' . r J her hnsliKni of the awful neneio ine s;rantrer nni Ma tw nsleep. "three in a row." H ru-h ),, ,. , , j street for a policeman. Mlt.r T.,,it,u, , ! pened to be paimr. and lh two , ,,,t ' ' to the Indies chamber. All thi tun.. ... . ' ftl.-I.t Olliel V. llffiirTalim.n ...... ... '"'fi tr i . 1 - : j r'f i oi oea. i ne uauirhicr arU.-i . one shrieked and then the oilier .. I mother shri ked. and finnlly thev aii ac -. . : l ir.r'il . ..... "" j ' ' n.'-n-, tn- tn 'a'liri daughters fainted. 1 he stranger wa ... in his eups. and rrenry emmrrn. t fh' r..li("-lll.ltt niuiln him . . . . . , . in ; marc-hed him to the first police tn:i..n J ; be was looked up. i-r.i for.- I M.i This morning the prisoner appeared . Jiiptloo White, on a c miv of n-,.,.,' iHilaw fully trospa--sln?. He ext.! , 1 1 1 inor I hn t bia ri rt f nr. a L ... i .. . . i . . wh.-n at home, near fimrinK Ko.-k. ,1,1 . v i.., ; in a few miles tn-low Ironlon. on t he itni nv tut that he was now a retrnlur tr.orip- tt,..- ,.'r: niirht, while a little t K.it. he ws pH, . ' .V fine house deseri bed. and. t l.iukii.ir it h 1 .... .-.,..u-r, nr I I li'ij IO IT"! II. he wu successful, the door t intr iiiifn-t th'it n - i mm ni'lTl'.n lli-.rt:rs ai). ro-.lll't h. me cnainocr or the y.jii:iif In li i" tar t t '-' -tt ti njfni neinir mrtien low he took the f t-r to be men, and. vrishintr a w.inn 1.1 -"'M OUT OUT 1.,. I'u-l.t ..... ....1 J : k in.iivKiu.ils whn. -.-nilor h ha I I v ir tak-u. Justice White said n no har.n - ..'"i months in jail for nrikinir the mi-take. h. 1 - iniiru 111 -1 1 , WHS I'M era Wfil ij r and locked like be hud ecvii better ila; s. A Famii.t Becomes Insane The D.i- buque Ttlegraph tells tho foil inai kable siory : ie- One of the strangest occurrr iu- r n r'-ivrl took place, a few davs ago. .,:,. ,ii. ,.r . ..... .... . 1:1 -rinill r'lUl.TJ, l J. -1 farmer named Mat. .loh n.- m. togi-thi'r wife and brother. John J..,nt.,n. ,i I insane at the same time. J..(i-i Jul, is aiso a married man. rev J.-d ,.t rU-tance from his brother Mj. T.i- !..! showed dargero.is evmprims at n-wt both he nnd his wire arcs-, dre--d t in their best clothing, and went into ti to pray. 1 hey continued this for a i iv ' neglecting their s;ock and tt.eir five 1 r dren. Finally their condition u;is bv neighbors, who tried to ij ii. t t' .'i Mat. armed hnnseir wiih anaxeand Mir. to kill any one who came t.enr. Ii,s , -tr. ti.s --a 01 --t I t w. v..-r-l :n. .'.: lll'i-'liT H l.'-u Him younger oroiners m-l in uiti toi 1.. ne nuir. uriu permit them t ic..-'- f.irhs children and fan.it-liing ni!na;. H - w'i though less vliiicnt. wH also a r tvi-:n in u' and paid not the slightest attenti o:i 1., h-r ev. drcn. who were cryiiig with col i hi. ! hu-g.ir A large number of the neighbors .; ..4-,... j John-ton. took 1he children to tri-ti-.'s'Ws , would care for them, and at t tended t'i t'i- h.i'ii that had been s'abied for davs without fo-.-l u' water. Johnston. "when at ill.. rt, m-ili.-j v-i keeping nil the u indowi in the hoij-v up, n. hii i on having a lamp boriiimr at the sarin- tin,. -i rs. .Mniusoii nas t.ecn taken to t n.- ti her f .it tier. Mr. Plug", who res: - m-ur I' eyvilie. Wisconsin. Ht-r husban 1 s , vi ., that It is ti'-cssarv to keep bi:n ti-d ; ....... If .. 1. 1 Tit. , r f rk- ni th- in'". 11 mi .ii.t,. n;.u ..-inn a ilri i-i u tvi- t" pronounced in-.tnc, and wi.l be st :il a linn at Madts.m. xi: jr .1 vi:n tisi:mi:m s. iu A wirtie- n:.il E-'.i tar r re n -ti m-'y u cKr j. T'j b-i-t v. t-tca V ai J f -. t eett .vjio an et iari-i trrr r:a'I. cur L!ue sir:p iumnu-J en rvt-y t.inir. t.M ty ul cV V-e, to . A. Jacxscm & Co., V li 4.1 B Citi4l YOUR OWN. V Only- IMA i: Hollars FOR APJ ACHE f the best I.nnd In Ainerloa. 5ij..i-i A ? la Kastern Nebraska, on t lie line of t In- T'tii.-r. I'm- r Kallrnad. now f..r sale, lo rears' rre1it t'.t'ti: Interest only It wr cent. Thee are I l-eenlv i t ' fok sale on tlje line of tins iIklai Kmik -'.!. the '.VoKi.r"s H ioh w a v. Send ! r IntNt-i T; oNKKa." the bct patter bir tfn.se fvt kit g t r hoiiies ever published. Fnl! itilvrmul ! !.. :-.h maps, sent Free. o. F. IAI. I .and Al. 1. I It. K., Omafct, rl. In their own localities. entivnitig T..r t.? I'lre nUlv ivilnr (enlarge I). Wi-ckiv sn.t M tt!.:v. l.nrSet Hper In t lie ..rid . ' .V:ii ttt'ith I'hrotnos Free, llix I'i'nimifs' --rf ' .Ah-.:. Terms atiL1 Outfit Free. Address P. O. II H .KY. AiiKUMn. .Malnv. 15 A IJ I S luc.. er 20 I'HIiOMUl'AIil' s tt'lll . Y. name c. SrKM-ER & t'u., Nattsii. 1 r FTtr Ilefl Crrt. with ratre. 1! r't.. kt post-paid. I.. JON ti Ct.. Nsin. N. V- OC Fash tontiMr Cards. Sn'.wflnke.Msrt Tf ."n L'O name Uc.C.Walfccrk.ro.,riia:tiiiniVt! K -'- (tRACE'S JriVI.vl Josbsti I. I B. Mich.. Ipc 1'. T-'T. Messrs. Fowi.es: 1 tend vett Ki rei.i f- r r boxes of Orapo's Salve. 1 have had t and l:sv used them on an ulcer en mv f L. .t . an I !t is n'.ai st well. Kespectfully Yours." t'..l. Vi Ni-" Price 25 cents a box at all druggist. r s- r.t f J mail on receipt of as cts. Prepared ( vSktbW. Fowlk &.SO.NS, s8 Harrison Ave. Huft' -n. CHARLES J. STAHL," PiCTICil BCOKBiNDLB, . No. I10'.t Kleventii Ave.mh, IS prepared to do all work In his line, ftr'ti ' biuding ledgers. I.okets, Iav-H 'dis. I ''"' Huoils. other lilnnk Hooks Matiannes. Ma:c" . Hooks. Pamphlets, t.'onst it u: inn?. Itvp-Lo": I fco , at the shortest notice, in the best .mautie'i J and on the most kkasox ablk n.uvs. ; Old Books Kebound to Look Like New, i And satisfaction fullv guaranteed In ..!-;:? ! as new work. Having been in the li ...kVn-lu'.ic Imsiness fur over t hirty vears. dut ing f-ur: '-n '' -Ahich I have resided inAlto,.na. 1 li xV :er tt'J that 1 can do more ilifiereit kinds and better h' "k than anv man t.ut.-tde of New Y.-rk r 1 H- -k ! "eipma. -rartleat a distance desiring - i dona can send or hrinir tt t.i iiih w it h every a snr. . . . . , ance that it will be attended tn prmip; tn pr itnj'tiy. .It's-1MI-:rol. I factorily and at the lowest possible rttos 1 ter ,,,?l"er common orianev bind. ng ai I A large assortment of binder s S ies. 11 are d ti- K ki p constantly on hand. Irom which the kbe- t ' ' lug wished tor run be selected. Orders jiii"f J Altoona, Feb. !, lS73.-tf. HOTEL 1.1c PnOT'F.RTY AT ITH- .IC tSAI.K. Tbe un.lersipne.t will 'f Dublic sale on the premises, at 10 e .-.". ter at public sale on the premises, at weil known TAVKRN STANI at tiutmnit vii!. ; Pa, recently o cupieil bv Mr. I.uke burn-" j The house ia a new one. well finished threuebeui, 1 and the cellar Is properlv drained, while the ! : attached is large and In a gixnl state of ' , tlun. I'ossession will be given to the pur..'litr i on the first of April net. , Terms op Salk. Oae fourth In hand s""1 balance in three eqnal annual pavtnents. " "' j terest, secured by bond or mortgage 'f the pur- chaser. llEMi I Johnsti.wn, Feb. 21, 1?:8.-St. AD M I X I ST 11 ATO 11 S XOT1C K. Estate of ChriMtopr Kckenro.le, dtu 'd Letters ir adminiat ration on the csiate ef I'hr topher Kekenrode. late of Alb gheny tewnsnd. I'amhria coun' v, teres sed. having t.een grar.te-i to the nndersignesl. all ja-rsona indeh'ed to siu estate are requested to make pavment. and ,no having claims against the sauje w 111 presen: properly aathentirated for sAtlement, to the uu ders.gne.1. JOSEPH KCKFNROIIF., Adrntrnftli'-T-Al:cuhcny Twp., Feb. 15, li'TS.-vt. 1 !A FAR I of NOW i! Ik t i tec e Vt ri 1 I tt i n
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