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rRID.YY, - - APRIL 12, 1S73,
Catcuino wild pigeons willi nets is an
irnmcn business in Forest county, and at
l.rat Ave hundred persons are engaged at
it in one township, most of ilicm clearing
t.m do'lirs a day. It. is stated that on cue
Tiik New Yeik TP, is !r.; a vi
oions ami wV.i-d'ii'ct.il waiT.ue against
the piesenf Tanimahy Hall miiiingcmfn;
of the aiT.iiis of that city. The complaint
of Ihc World is that the c ty is cursed with
Our
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initov, f). C, April
- 1 HE SENATE.
A r.etition favoring the enfranchisement
of women i'l the Di.-trict of Columbia was
a multiplicity of office holileis, many of presented by the only advocate of the fe-
whom have little to do lhat others aie
Absolutely useless, and that those who are
teally r.cce.-sary arc paid most exorbitant
salaries in propoitioti to the magnitude of
the work they are required to perform.
These aio grievances which ci.t in r.ll t!ia
,Uj last week three and a half tons of . great cities and large towns of the country,
pigeons veto sent over the river division j each one of which has its
of the Allegheny Valley railroad, consigned
to dealers in gair.e in New York city.
Tr wasa veijcooUiid refreshing display t lamy 01 lote years growing our. oi '.un -of
imm.dence in the Gieenback or National pacity and cat ruption of Some of its most
party of the T weitty-second Congressional,
distiicf f Pittsburgh) to tender last week to J
J imes P. P.arr. editor of the Pittsburgh ,
l"si, a nomination for Congress, provided ;
male suffragist in the ?enate, Mr. Horsey,
A number of petitions and meinoi ials up'.n
cli.Teiet.t subjects, such as the taiiff, life
saving service, etc., weie presented and
refnred to the propr committee. The
Committee on Iir il Roads reported a bill
ex ending the time for completing the
Northern Pacitic K. Ii. eight years longer.
A bill levying a tax, through the instin- '
mentality of the Mofiettbell punch, in the ;
District of Columbia, was offered by Mr. j
Ii:i!l. The Pacific 11. 11. rnnding bill :
discussion was aeain resumed, andspeecti- :
es by Messis. Peck and Christ iancy were
rfeliveted favoiing the bill introduced by j
the Judiciary Committee. The resolution i
tlie records of the late Elector-
prominent officials, but the Fame system' (jomrn jSsj,,n on the last Presidential!
well organized
rings, whose 6ole purpose seems to be to
rob and plunder the people. The city of
New Yoik Las acquired conspicuona in-
he would subscribe to its pl.it f or ru and
promi-e, if elected, to renounco his allegi
mceto the Democratic paity. In a well
wiitten rei.ly. Col. Pirr declined the prof-
of fraud and mismanagement which for
years held undisputed sway in nearly every
department of her government, exists,
though in lesa degrees, in Philadelphia,
Ciiicago and elsewhere. There are few
count to the vaultsof the State Department
fur safe kecrinz was agreed to, when ihe
Senate again resumed the Pacific It. K
funding bill, Mr. Mornll speaking in lavor
Pf.TTXTV.T BY a Skal Kin;. L;it niht,
says the j i.alia-. of a recent date, the
blieri'T of Dodge county, Neb., passed nn
t !i e Tex. is Central road, having ui chaise
a mm named M.ircus Wit hei sau. nci'iisrcl
of murder, Withersau was pa ing court to
a young lady named llradley, wiio i'es:dtd
in the Town of Fremont, N b and was
engaged ro be married to her when a stran
ger named Joel Lau ridge came to the town.
Lanridge succeetied in a J.hort time in
claiming a good part of the younj lady's
attention. 1 his greatly displeased With
rrsau, who is of a very jealous tetnpera-ment-,
and ho was not slow in niving his
spparent rival many evidences of .his ill-will,
openly ins-ilting hi in whenever an opportu
nity was afforded.
Yet young Laui idge, being received with
favor by the young lady, continued to visit
her. '1 he engagement between WitherRau
and his affianced was unbroken, however,
and the wedding day had been fixed upon.
One evening Withersao, while on his
way to the town to visit his affianced, met
her In company with Lauiidge out riding,
and, seized by a fit of jealousy, hn galloped
up to them and shot Ij.iiiridge, killing him
almost instant'y. He tied the country, and
it was thought that he had gone back to
'(tin'.'.
of the bill reported from the Judiciary j Canada, where he had formerly lived. He
Committee. The construction of a dry
cities to-day in th's country that are not on j d.ck at Fort Mcllenry. .lid., as reporter
irom ine cecruiaiy ii nm, va-i y
the verge rf bankruptcy, having been
( tr.A Imf ,i a ti Sennte. when th
f rd honor, and undortook to convince tlie brought to that condi ion by the reckless . djscllssion nf ti-l0 inevitabio Pacitic H. R
N'iona!" of the loliv oi iiieirorKi:u.iuvi ii.o..h.."v w..v , ; n,,,,, .....
that the proper thing for them to
wnld be to dsbnnJ, ami seek shelter in
the Democratic household, in wliiah he, ns
cditof of the rosi, had advocated many i f
their leading measures for years before the
National party was ever dreamed cf. Ma
1 oinct must come to the mountain Instead
tf the mouutaiu going to Mahomet.
do those who are civ rusted with the manage
ment of their af
organization i
fiirs. The Tammany Hall
a political anomaly, and
A resolution appointing a select committee
to take into consideration the necessity for
the taking of the tenth census of the Uni
ted Prates was adopted. Mr. Mat'hews
YVnAT a gloii&us spectacle it is to a eltl
7u of this model Republic, the fnet Pres
ident whereof was George Washington, to
Fie mill of the bad eminence of J. M.idi-
f on Wells, who is now at the nationa. cap
i?ol, vtsiti
tnniug .ilr. liayr
ciimo, Thomas C. Andei bou, who ha? Veen
It regards mittce s b:'l m preten-nce to that ot ttio
i .1 U'liCiary l ommui.ee in reunion u, me
i r.ii,t;nr I i 1 1 rvf t'i Vr Cif. Ti. Tt.. when.
. p. " - - - y -
ftnc ! after lemaiks from Messrs. Thurman and
the Democratic party in New York city is ! urged tlie adoption of the Rail Road Coin-
ruled by it with an iron hand.
it3 endorsement of a candidate for office aa
a condition precedent to his election,
strikes down erery Democratic aspirant ! others, the Senate ad jomned without com
who refuses to worship at its altar. It j ng to a vote on t.ie question,
would be strange indeed if its remorseless ,s TnE IIOT-'?E.
rule did not produce open rebellion in the I A bid sfTording relicr to the r.nances or ,
,v .. , . . , .. , . ; the country, ns well as facilitating specie
Democratic ranks. At the election last ,. ". iot ,i ,1 .t i
i resumption in a manner least calculated to
November a portion of tha Democracy in I disturb the commercial business of the j
ono of the strongest district.-! in the ciy (country, was offered by Mr. Stephens, of, into a f,.Pis,t train on the Lehigh Yailev
iting the Wliite House and impor- j bolted its candidate for State Senator, and j y.-
Mr. llayrs to appoint his partner in ; with the aid of Republican votes elected ; Feni(
I'homas C. Andei bou, who haVeeu ! John Morridsey. That game promises to be j
pronounced guilty of forgery in fuel, but ! repeated on a very extensive scale at the j debat
not tn hm, collector of th pott of New j next election, and the- World proposes to j jV'p
Orleans? Bnch a thing could only Happen
in a country in which Bob Ingersoll is lib
erally pnid for prearhing itifidelity and
John J. Patterson is tolerated in the U. S.
Henate. It may be that Mr. Hayes, for
good nnd substantial reasons, feels him
Belf constrained to listen to his evil coun
sels, but that Wells should ever be permit
led to cross the throshold of the executive
mansion on such a mission, and come out.
of it a9 sound in body as when he entered,
is enough to cause a blush of shame to
mautlo the client of every honebt man.
save the Democracy cf the c.ty fiom
threatened defeat by reforming tho ways
of tho Tammany Hall leaders reducing
tho number of ofTce-holders abolishing
rinecures cutting down extravagant sala
lies, and making every ofGeial earn his
pay. It is a praiseworthy object, and we
have no doubt that tho World, in the
course it has marked out for itself a-jd is
steadily pursuing, will be sustained by the
plundered taxpayers of thacity.
mi
Aftf.ti ii had been definitely ascertained
that Francis W. Hughes would not accept
tu; nomination for Governor from the
Clreeuback Stato convention, wo supposed
that tha next most available candidate
would have been Sanvjel Calvin, of Iloi'.i-
daysburg, who is conceded to be a gentle
A bill providing for a more efficient
service in our government was pre-
ntcd by Mr. Harrison, af'er which tho
House held an evening session solely for
debate, at which Mr. Butler gave notice of
iutention to offer a resolution requiring
j the Uank ana currency committee rore
i port a bill for the reissuing of the 50 and
25 cent fractional currency, and the with
! drawal of silver pieces of the same denom
l ination, as well as to issue legal tender
one, two and three dollar notes to the
amount of 520,000,000, to be paid out for
the f xpeuser of th" government, Mr. 8ay
A M.v ! i-town. N. J., hen has .Thieved
fame by hatching a tl.tee lu-i.d.?d oin: J-en.
A Wateifoid, Me., man make two
Lv.ndred cord' of pine into buckets yeatly.
An E-iglishmau ttanjed D;tv:d S'ntiton
recently won a wager on traveling a tnous
and miles in six days with a vch-ei j.ede.
Hunter, In jtil at Camden. N. J., for
murdering Armstrong. otTored a turnkey
?00 to poison Graham, the wiluess
against, him.
A man in Sheffield, England, has been
heavily fined for kissing the hand of a tnar
ried womau. Served him right. She bad
a mouth.
Clemens Lloyd killed his wife at Ches
ter, Pa., on Friday, and aftei -waul took
his own life. Jealousy is alleged to have
been the cause.
Miss Maitio Fiazure, oT Somerset,
Ky., was married the other day. She is
not quite thirteen. Her present address is
Mrs. L. A. WiUm.
One of the building of the Steuben
connty poor house, near Bath, N.Y., was
burned Sunday night and lifteen inmates
perished. The building was set ou fire by
an Insane pauner.
Henry Campbell killed himself in
Greene, N. Y., a few days ago, because he
bad been unsuccessful in his application
for a pension, and saw no other alternative
but the almshouse.
Cephas Jones, colored, was sentenced
on Saturday at Washington, D. ('.. to
thirty years imprisonment in tho Albany
Penitentiary for an outrageous assault
upon Miss Florence P. Smith.
The Sultan is evidently well posted.
About the first thing he did on the occa
sion of ex-President Grant's recent visit
at Constantinople was to make him a pres
ent of one of his best Aiab horses.
A negro born a slave, Wiiliam N. Ste
vens, is one of the most highly esteemed
members of the Virginia Senate. He
worked his way through college, and is a
graceful, fluent and logical speaken
F.dnard Malviu is alleged tobave bru-
.lln .i . A .a1 11 io iriTn u-IiiIa w O fi 111
! ATT.Tto at CoT.T.ismx, Firk AN'D Lo?3 j cofjnemerit on Wednesday night, twelve
miles from flouldsboro station. Ho was
arrested and lodged in Stroudsburg jail ou
Friday last.
There is a dog at Swift Falls, Minn.,
that keeps his master's family supplied
with fish. He has been known to take out
as many as thirty pickerel in a day. When
.or
ty. t
lapcr.
Mr. llnrrr. rvm
fiotu Westr:'u i ai-.'l
l...el.f t book to i ' k
ot'fthe Ho-ise, I n Fih'hiT mornii
(i his di'i-k "l.ilo he ie.".d
He tun ed to Fpe:ik to I is
Donnellv, for n few r
wore on his hand a seal ring of the young
ladv, which was mounted by a gold cross,
and it was this that led to his capture. A
young man named Swazey, a cousin of Miss
Bradley, had enlisted in the Unhed States
army, and was ordered along with his com
pany to Fort Duncan, on tlie Rio Grande.
He had never seen Withersau, but had fre
quently heard his cousin describe the ring
belonging to her which Withersau wore
when he killed Lauridge. Ono day he Paw
a strange man at the fort wearing the iden
tical ring, but, on inquiring the stranger's
iiama he gave it as Bill Poindexter. The
soldier wrote to the authorities of Fremont,
giving a description of the man and ring,
and the Sheriff, being satisfied that the
wearer of the ring was Withersau, came
after and captured him.
the
...k rv. hi
in the ball
i?, and h:id
tie paper.
cil'iigue, Mr.
uncut s, and during
i.of ;. !, ,u !:..'.- .i w;i i-t'MtMl Isoin
: bis desk. The pocket book contained
i about !?K10. and its mysterious disappear
ance cannot be accounted for.
i Ovvi;,g to ihe Illinois that ti c recent
suicide of Madame li.-ste'.i. the New Yoik
' abortionist, was a ins, the coi oner bad
the body exhumed and identified beyond
doubt. Since her death additional dvel
opnu-nts have been made of her career of
crime. Detectives fate that they are in
possession of evidence showing that several
wotnen mere pot ot of tho way while nn
; rier the madam's charge, r.od that finally
: she would have been brought to the gal
lows liad not a carving-knife performed
the work of death. j
j Twenty-two years ago an apparently ;
tinforUina-e young woman left n boy two
! vears of age with Mr. John O'Kane, of.
Corning, N. Y., and then departed. No
. one fiom that day to this knows whence ,
i she came or whither she went. The boy
grew to be a man under the name of John i
i O'Kane. He traveled and wandered, and ,
! in the coursfj of his travels accumulated a
: foitune. He is now sick with consumption j
j and probably past cure or hope, and is i
' anxious to know who and where his par- j
ents are, and also of rther relatives. Any
information will be thankfully received by i
' Ihe editor of the Allegany Jjf.norrut, Wells- I
i vil'e. N. Y. Kxchauges please copy
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world we liv in ! N im
t ur m iiio'i ii i, il its, jj
tfionsands i f riii-ars
!"sir no l '"i-r I
but, bow often on t!
feel likn giving it up
ag'-d and v.oni -l
tlx-re Is no oeeas'.iTi f
ssiflVrer an - is. ' v o!i
that lir-i-n's Augu-thf-m
as free fr. :u
Dysj'epsia and J.ivir ('
rcet causf of c.i .-:!
ma'adit's as I'.i";..!'-:!..
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tion, I):7zit sv , f i;
the llnnrt. ar 1 t'n-r
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wonderful ti'-rr.
Try it. For i-aie 1,
Khensburg.
of Like. Friday morning an oil train ran
Railroad, near Slatington, exploding the
engine of the oil train and burning several
cars and a small iron bridge on which the
cars were standing. Soon afterwards an ;
i iron tank exploded, scattering oil in all !
I directions, killing one man. burning three
i fatally and ten severely. The wind car
ried the flames to the depot and a wooden
bridge, which were also burned. Tlie
names of the killed and injured are as fol
lows : Wm. Shoemaker, killed; Daniel
Reber, Rdward Seibeit, Geo. Ives, Jno.
Kehner, Aaron Snyder, Win. Kayn, Jos.
Goldbcrrv, Jno. Rohrbach, David Hughes,
The telpt-hor.o has begun its pretty
I prattle in Persia. There arc no railroads
! in tho empire, but the wires of the Indo- ;
! K-.iroi.ean Telegraph Company run from !
; end to end. Soon after tidings of Prof, j
! Bell's invention weie received iu Tabreez, I
; one of the officers, a Welshman, set to
j work to make the instrument, and so well
: did he succeed that he has conversed satis- '
faotoiilv with another officer nearly four1
hundred rules awav. The experiments i oii, an t wo ;
l c t. i.A .uMl nf tl.A nitrht.wheii ' thirteen years.
all was quiet and traffic had ceased, and
his friend at Titlis beard his voice and an
swered all bis questions. They not only
talked, but sang, the music beiDg beard
very dist inctiy .
A sensation as produced in society
circles of Baltimore, on Saturday, by the
airest of Mrs. Alice Asimld. of Annapolis,
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Mr. Y.. K. Tiiion-s
ly iliireasing his ln;n,
prii-tary meii;, ;:;f--, v, ;
and ruts up at l:;s loi
It is a ph'asurt to i . I i::j,e f. r '
-ak f.-.i;a an -r;
11 is I, ,w a ! i-..
large rr.imt r of i p ..., r. a
sav to cur breth-. n .,f r,-.4.
Pimple eontra-I is cer. lin t i .r
w Lau the. w i k is ,i. n..i. 7". ,.,t ;
An oti-nest l.er. is '.!." i.--1
la v-mn.
Ii" wr .
he espies a fish he. will make a divo and is on a charge of stealing two diamond rings.
ler piesented a bi'i picvpiinng neratiit oi , c,amuol JIarsliall and Arthur Williams,
interest on the District ol t oiurcoia d-tj.j j burned and wounded. Four or five of the
bonds. The bill allowing those in charge I i,,jni-efi ai0 not expected to recover. Two
of the Washington monument to expend j ot,er oiJ tanks subsequently exploded.
?,0,000, to better secure the foundation , t,i0 Mauch Chunk fire department worked
iiirieiji, ki passeu. i ne ii'jj'iii m me i lifilfl to save property.
It used to be said that the meanest act
of which a man could be guil'y wrs to
steal tho coppers from the eyes of a dafcd
negro, and although Francis W. Engle, a
bagg.iga maste;- on tho Philadelphia and
Reading railroad, has not exactly distin-, ninn cf ability and most unexceptionable
guished himself in that wny, he has done j character. There would be a peculiar fit
the next meanest thing to it. He attended ness in his nomiuation for the reason, to
the recent execution of the three Mollie t rise the political slang of the day, that what
Maguires at Bloomsbmg. Columbia coun
ty, and while assisting to cut down their
deud bodies Lis eye resteJ upon a gold
l ing on the finger of Pat. Hester, ono of
tho men exec ited, wherrup n he ildiiber
ntelv, but not unseen, ppropi iuted it to
1 iaown use. The ling had been bequeath
ed by Hester to his daughter, and its Hid
den disappearance created, as was to be
rxneclrd. a strong fueling of indignation
i ' '
he don't know about greenbacks and their
virtues as a curroncy for tho pcoplo isn't
worth trying to find out, or knowing at all.
fir. Calvin, however, bko his friend and
co laborer in the Greenback causo, Frank
Hughes, declines to permit his name to be
I used in connection wilh the nomination.
We get this information Irom the proceed
ing of the county committee of the Green
back party of Blah cou;.it v. which recently
commit'ee in charge of Doorkeeper Polk's
caso was then called up, Mr. Harrison ad
vocating Iho majority report, declaring the
position vacant, when, upon a vote of 122
yeas to 113 nays, the majoiity report was
adopted and tho duties of the Doorkeeper
are now devolved upon the Sergonnt-ftt
Arms, until the elertkm of a Dooi keeper in
the place of Mr. Polk, retired. Mr. Butler
introduced his bill, above referred to, in
relation to fractional currency, and the
House edj urned.
TIIF. TiLAIIl nr.SOLUTIO,
passed by the Maryland Legislature, call
ing upon Congress to institute proceedings
in the L. S. Supreme Court to oust Mr.
Hayes and place Mr. T'lden in ti e White
House, has kept our city all agog during
the past w e a. Mr. Blair seems very
hopeful that his eff rls will triumph within
the next six'y d.tys, claiming to have the
assistance of Congressman Hewitt, of N.
Y., and tha everj thing is moving smoothly
along to the acco'Tiglishment of the object
in view. The subject has been pretty well
ventilated, both pro r.tid con, by Republi
cans and Democrat, ai;d tlie rosr.lt of rmr
The jar threw several cars from the j
trnk, nnd precipitated some fifteen oil
tanks into Trout creek. The tanks caught !
fire, and illuminated the neighborhood for j
miles around, and had it not been for the
presence of mind of Chas. Ruth, of Read- I
ing, who suggested that the ca of the j
rear portion of the train be uncoupled and
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pusned back one by one, the entire train j f;J s;,!f?ay Ven ing. Tin
would have beer, destroyed. 1 l,e machine nani0 pf ,,)e , Lott icMaloy
shops and foundry of Brown , & U h.anis t wer.tv-thrcc years old. Her
are a total loss, estimated at $30,000. No
insurance. A portion of the engine from
the explosion was thrown through the roof
.of a house occupied by Jacob 1 1 am me!,
I situated about one hundred yards from the
j explosion, striking near a bed occupied by
! Hammol and wife. They weie not injured.
; Several buildings were shatteied and glass
' bioken. Poitions of the engino and cars
: were thrown over thinv vaids.
sure to bring it out.
Thirty frame houses in trie lower part
of Harrisburg, Pa., owned by the Lochiel
Iron Company, were totally destroyed by
fire on Saturday evening. Loss, l2.o.
Insurance unknown. About one-half of
the houses were unoccupied.
A. B. Robeson has probably the larg
est poultry yaids in the State of New York..
He keeps"(V00 ducks, 4.0)0 turkeys, and
1,200 bens. They consume sixty bushels
of crn, two barrels of potatoes, and other
food daily. His fowl house cost ?7,(K0:
The Commissioners of Lehigh county
have received infntmation that will prob
ably lead to the arrest and conviction of
tlie murderers of a telegraph operator j
named McKinney, who mysteriously dis-
appeaieil Irom Albums aoout nine yeais
ago.
Mile. olante, who was fatally sunt on
the Opera House s'age at Pawtneket, R.
le real
She
sister
valued at 1.2iO, from Canfield Bros, oc
Co., jeweleis. Tlie lady came fiom An
napolis Friday on tlie train, intending to
join her father, William Taylor, of the
Naval Academy. She entered Canfield' s
store and asked to be show n some diamond
rings, but left without purchasing. Sub
sequently tho cifik found two valuable
rings missing from tlie tray, and their
places supplied by two smaller ones of
comparatively trifling value. Mrs. Aspoid
was arrested, and aTtejward released on
?:l,OtHl. There is no proof yet that she
took the rings.
Karly on Tuesday morning list a fish
erman rowing down the rivei at Biddeford,
Me., discovered the body of a woman near
the shore, w ith no clot hing ave a chemise,
and wi'.h a tr-po around otie ankle. The
body was taken in charge by the authori
ties, The gi fa test excitement prevailed
all day in the city. Latein the afternoon
a sis'er of Fredeiick Savage identified tlie
woman as Rose Vincent, of Metheun,
Mass., and gave a c'tt', which upon being
was tho only one of the family who knew j followed up, led tc the arrest or .avage.
she was on the stage. The same evening be confessed the crime.
:!Tor.T Cnrr?Tenii The
amoiw lli-stei'a fiieiuls. A fow days af- ! met at llollidaysburg and urged the r.omi- '"'e'ews among n c B.,!ovs at the capitol
terwaids Engle was arrested for the hir
ceuy on Ihe oath of Mis. Hester, nnd en
tered bad for bis appearance at Court.
As THE champion DKMAr.of.rE of Con
gress, Beu Butler Is entitled to wear the
nation of J. R. Mason, of Mercer, as its
choice for Governor. The committee, while
regretting that Mr. Calviu will not allow it
to piesont hisnauio for Governor, earnestly
implores him to consent to become the Na
tional candidate forConcress in this di-U i int
belt. Ou Friday last, after the Democrats jt iemail)8 to be Peen wiietLer Mr. Calvin
bad :.emoved Dooi Keeper Polk for the of- J Bgrp0 ,0 be offere(J ,lp ag a p;lCl.iriC0
fense of Laving appointed more subordi- j upon l!)0 groei,back al, in a djstrict in
nates than the law allowed him to do, But- . w,)icIl t,Jfi yo,e tm ,,)e pute tjckct a ho
lor jumped to his feet and nominated Gen- ciec.ion ast November stood as follows :
eral Shield for the vacant position. Gen. . Democratic, 9,0; Republican, 9 OU
Shield was not then in Washington, and Gre.,nl,;xc'irj 2,12-). This certainly does not
of course Butler used his name without; r,escnt a very ioviting flo:d f()r a grfm.
nulho.ity. The Democrats, however, were ' backer wbo -9 ambitio(18 of occn;)vi? a
not to be cntrapiicd by Ben'? btl'.o game, Reat in Con?rcsg an( kneciiKat .j,e ftelof
pud the Bleetion was postponed until Mn- t, roni,,ck Gamaliel. (lei,P.a1Tom r.
Omaha
(Neb.) JlrpK'J. ;?-i n ('f a recent date says :
"Bertiaid Voik is a well-to-to f irmer, living
in Addison connty. Iowa. He is a native
of Germany and is twenty-five years of age.
He visited Omaha on Tuesday a. single man,
with no intention of committing matrimony.
has ben thaf such Democrats as Thurman.
i Bayard pnd Reman po.h ! pooh 1 tlie
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LS ,""l'in' WIll,f -lr- ' i lady whom he had never before seen. It
ihisuiai inese very genuemcn wi.i ei 0 ; bn med m t h is wis : Ho imbibed
t lUII no ILr IIUJL ltlCIit. Mlj'J'iM LITIS. 1 lie '
I Ifnni as nee t. of tlie ease coin i els ua t n st nf o I
! for the enlightenment of your readeis.tliat
the itupvetne Court hasniKu-r thecanstitu-
tion t:o original jr.i isdieti in in tho case, no '
matter how many acts giving them such
jurisdiction Congress may see fit to pass. ';
Congress itself having no constitutional '
right to pass such an act, orijinal juris- J
diction can only be conferred upon the Su- '
preme Court by an amendment to the !
Constitution, which requires tlie approval j
of a majoiity of the present number of;
States. On the other hand, the matter I
ran be brought before the Supiemc Court
in this wr.y and no other, to w-it : Proceed- !
diy.
ing, of Ohio. It is a mere matter of taste,
Ilu'Jer's brazen hypocrisy iu this
matter is most amaz.ng irom u.e .u . l0wev,ri am, Mr Calvin may yield to the
a few years ago, when General Shields was F(ijcit:llion, ,)f bis cr(venback friends thro'
eUcted to congress oy an oTcri.ue.:iiing motivc of purJ pa)rioti,mi
majority from one of t be jmsouri aistnc.s,
this same BuMer led the ridicals in the
House in sustaining the report of the cm
tn't'.ee oi ePc ionn in throwing out tho
entire vote cast for General Shields in tiro
counti, and awarding his seat to his op
ponent. S ich was Beu Butler'a treatment
On Monday last, in tho lower branch of
Congress, Mr. Clark, of Missouri, introdu
ced a bill, for present consideration, au-
3 . thorizing the President to appoint General
Cl - T , - , f . . . - .
then of an old Deirnxtrat Ic soldier whose
friend be row piofesses lo bo when he
thinks Le can make p litieal capital out of
I'. Hyp 'Ciisy, thy name is Butler !
c-
Tits proceedings of the House at Harris
burg, on Friday hist, cleaily demonstrated
that tho members of that branch of the
Lgislatuie are determined to insult the
people by continuing the session f.fty days
j ,...-. l.nc roif Ii'h.t I i f ti r ? r 1 1 n r l." '
,m-.u J"-,.,,, m - subordinate position of Doorkeeper, as was
.S T...7.1.1...-.nn.l.l.l....lxll.n T
Jl" rtUJt JreU UUllltin 111 dU'lilU'll l-' Kll j
1 1.000 allowed them for the first one bun-
died days. It has been the unifomi prac
tice to adjou-n over. from Friday at noou
until tho following Monday evening, and
wheu a leaolutiou was offered to hold ses
siona on Fiiday afiemoou for the purpose
of brinKing tho Bession :o a cleso as soon
IIOHSIlliC, a (C8I1B l' """"" -
Shielfs a Brigadier General of tho United
States army ou the retired list, his pay to
commence from the date of the passage of
the b'H. That eminent Rltteiman, Harry
White, objected to its introduction, but
was overruled by the Speaker, and Ihe
bill passed by a vote of 22S yeas to 0 nays,
among the latter being of course the windy
White. This prompt action of tho House
was doing substantial justice to the veteran
and gallant Shields, and was infinitely
more creditable than electing him to the
i"gs qiio warranto (which means by what
authoi ity do you hold the office) to bo orig
inated inour District of Columbia Supremo
Court, a bearing speedily given, and a
decision remitted either for or against Mr.
Hayes; then an immediate appeal taken
to the U. S. Supreme Court, with an im
mediate hearing thero, upon what the
Constitution allows the U. S. Supreme
Court to wit : an appellate jurisdiction
with a decision by said U. S. Supreme
Court, ousting Mr. Have, and awarding
ti e White House to Mr"Tilden, or not, as
j your readers must conjecture for them
j selves. This, without going into details,
j is the sum and substance of the manner in
which Mr. Blair's object can be accom
plished. F.X-SECr.ETAltT KOBT-POX
was before the llouso committee, twisting
and squirming as the searching questions
put by the investigating committee caused
him ever and anon to wince. Of course
the Granidit Radical swore hard to relieve
himself of any wrong-doing on his part, or
that of his associates in tlie many contracts
ho gave out only the day before he vacated
the Navy Department.
THE LOr.HT,
whose conduct of late has become so open
The oldest man now living, without
doubt, is a citizen of New Grenada, South ;
America. lie is ono hundred and eighty
years old, never was intoxicated, never !
eats more than one meal a clay, and, more
wonderful than all. never was Gen. Wash
ington's boily servant.
Parts of the body rf a woman who
had suddenly rlisippcarcd from her home
r.t Apollo, Aimstiong county, about a year
ago, under mysterious cii -co instances, were
found by some boys while fishing in the
Kiskiminitis i iver the other day. It is be
lieved Mie was murdered.
About five o'clock Saturday evening
a fifty horse-power boiler in the engine
and before night he was married to a young ; room of the Boston st amping manufactory
! or s,evcy a; ( o., 1 Jure street, Cambridge,
quite i Mass., exploded. Throe men were killed.
freely of liquor, and in this happy condition another was fatally injured, and six othci s
ho made up his mind to hunt up a wife, more or less severely wounded.
In walking along Tenth street he saw a. As r freight train whs passing arrur.d
young gill washing in a room between the foot of Lookout Mountain in Chatr.a
Farnam street and No. 2 Enginehouse, I nooga, one of the brakemen discovered a
and, walking up to her as she was, he asked tramp in a car load of mules. The tramp
her if she was mariied, and, if not, would I was astride one of the animals, and was
she marry him ? She saw that ho meant i asked what lie was doing tbeie. "Driving
business, and, calling in the other women 1 mules to Chatf anoogo," was tho laconic
in the house, they made an immediate in- ! response, as he yelled out 'whoa" to the
animal.
Two young ryen, twins, of Hart coun
ty, Ga., worked out their father's debts, in
compliance with bis death-bed request.
They were thirteen years of age when they
hogan, and attained their majority before
finishing. Although frequently told that
they were neither legally nor morally
bound to do so, they peisisted until tho
last cent was pnid.
Tlie body of George Richards, coloied,
The Srn.-rTNr, of a WattaabYot-no ' !'s keen missing since Match 2. and
Gnn.'s Liff.. Amelia Guilford, sixteen 1 "'"' ",e murder of whom John Redheff.'r, a
years old, whose disappearance from Lock vrhite. is now under arret at Pottstown,
Haven was noticed in the Fhi:i:man a con- ' Ra-. ,,;s been found in a creek tiearShan
pleof weeks ago, a,d whose mother wanted ; ronvil'.e. Richards w as last seen on March
information of her, came to a sad end in a j 2 in company with Redheffer, whose con
house of ill-fame on Virgin alley, in Eden- ( trad'etory statements in regard to their
burg, Clarion county, Amelia, it was i parting led to his arrest,
known, had started for Edenburg, and as i The Michigan lumber crop is likely to
she bore a bad reputation in Lock Haven ! bo a light one this year. The cut of logs
it is fair to presume that her family knew which are banked on the rivers ready to
He is a Frenchman, manied, and ha
children. When atked why he did it. he
said '. "Oh. I loved her tvi much.'' Next
day the murderer had to be hnriied otT to
prison to save him from being lynched.
The discovery of the ct imes of a man
named Joseph V.". Bitgbee has. fays the
New Yoik ':'i, come like n thunder clap
upon two ci ies Boston and Indianapolis.
Bugbce w is connocted with the large Bos
ton fitm of Holt v"i: P.r.gbee. and w as prom
inent in business and political rit cles in
Indianapolis, He invested extensively in
real estate, and becoming embarrassed,
forged notes in oider toobtain money. He
kept tip his criminal course fur years, re
tiring one forged note with another, until
concealment was no longer possible.
Then, last Sunday, be called his wife, his
father and mother, and a business asso
ciate to him. and confessed. His forgeries
aggregate $132. (, and the exposure has
been followed by the suspension of the
Boston firm. Bugbce was a leading
churchman, son in law of a minister, and
an active member of the City Council.
A special PoflPville dispatch to the
Philadelphia Hemru. da'ed Api il 7th, says:
An entrance was forced into thr German
into I. is ability to enrport a!
wife. He showed them that ho bad con- I
sideiable ready cash with him, and a good
farm in Iowa. She gave her consent, and, ;
proceeding to the office of lion. W. O. !
Bailholomcw, County Judge, a license was :
obtained, and Bernard Yolk and Annie '
Fisher wero made man and wife. The '
bride was nineteen years of age, and was :
bom in Sioux City, Iowa." j
here
!at n
igl.t bv means
capit
il.
p
and exci fn-.ent followed. All iiauti scorn
ed to have been let loose, aud bo great was
the tumult that the Speaker, powerless to
tiieserve order, was compelled to call the
... H. .r tl.A IT.. nca
Pergoant-at Aims io n.c ... otu.r Kieat Krfpean J(0wers not only the
and diiect him to see that its dignity and en,in, ,rpa,yf bt ,,,at 8,)0 wj also yieli
dee-rum weie preserved. In such a strng- t Knoland's and Aut, ia's essential ob-
Rle of course the adj ut nment ring was jecti(ll,s ,,, it f, sucll a slcllder tll,til(1
t.iiiinnbant. and it was neciucu luav me
proposed by Bon Butler and advocated by
Republican members, meiely for the sake I and brazen as to bo utterly indecent and
of making a voiy small amount of political i overbearing, caused Senate Edmunds, in
open nenaie, 10 oenver mem tne most se
vere and deserved castigation, in the pres
ence of Jay Gould and many other satel
lites, that perhaps was ever visited upon
them, which will evidently teach them to
use more discretion hereafter in their ne-
r : . . . . , . . , . .
treaty of peace between the latter country ' , n incite are t ne
J i nAr lit i!triir'il ftilo and nun mncf ,kf 1 .
- . x.- 'iiw 111 M 'll 4J V Vi I 'V
lor what purpose she went to Edenburg
She died about four o'clock on Fiiday '
morning. Tho young girl had an over- ;
whelming passion for liquor, it being said
that she coulJ drink as much as a pint of i
whisky at one time. This fault, morphia
and other drugs which dissolute women i
use, combined with the awful life she had j
been leading, did the business for her.
The immediate cause of her death, however,
is supposed to have been an overdose of
sulphate of morphia, a bottle of which was ,
drift to the lake is 300.000,000 feot less this
year than in 177. Tho season has been
very unfavorable for getting the logs out of
tho woods. This news will give some en
couragement to the prostrate lumber inter
est in Central Pennsylvania.
The Roman adage, that ' Cardinals al
ways die in threes," has been again forci
bly illustrated, the death of Cardinal Gui
seppe Berardi. announced by cable, being
that of the third P rince of tho Churcli
since the accession of Pope Loo XIII, on
the Cnth of February. Cardinal P.rossais
Thf.re is reason to hope that the ques
tions in dispute between England and
Russia, growing out of the terms of the
found in her bed. Before she died she ex
pressed a desiro to see Ler mother. The Mail; died on the 27th of February and
n on i Cardinal Amet on the 30th ultimo.
body of the poor girl ws sent home on
Friday evening, iu answer to a telegram
from her mother.
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...... ...iim-j, m;,y ,ei uo wiiini wiinout surprised at, their many rascalities. We
war. The belief that peace may be pre- can expect no better until our Democratic
served rests soloiy on tho expectation that ( "icnds take charge of the old ship of State,
Russia will finally consent to submit to the
Anderson.
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old custom shoulo tie auueieo iuuumK mo
present month. When legislators will Fo
fat forget the contract into which they en
toted with their ens! ituenf s when they
were elevted as to devote only three days, 1
or. a- the utmost, three and a half, out of
six to the business confided to them, a ses
of one hundred and fifty days is the
blMoUte irsnb. f" ,l
Ti,:lV h hie.! atr.med that untliing m
j. i,f n so v-'uo.u-i i. y vi K U 1:-1
a, j ..uruiiu.tt;
now hangs the peace of Europe, but what
ever may be the final issue, England is
still busy at woik making the most exten
sive preparations for war.
HriNKY Ghokmfr. who resided near
P.liker City, went to the woods (not he of
the Altoona Mirror, on Thursday last,
and stripping the bark otr a sapling which
bung over a ravine down to the centre,
twisted it into a rope without detaching it
fiom tlie tree, tied theeiu! about his l;eck,
and tr- tv.iiug pile of !t g jumped iuto
tL3 gulch.
A young woman in Illinois, having no-
f iced on a dead letter that was returned to
: her the remai kable signature of tlie Third
Assistant Postmaster-General, Mr. A. D.
j Ilazon. wrote to "Mr. Adstazen, at the
! Dead Let er Office," to say that she and
, her sister "would like to find some Good
i Christian man to marry. I thought, " the
j letter goes on, "perhaps; you would Get A
couple Of Good Christian young men to
' correspond with ns. Pleas excuso me for
writing this to Yon, but, I felt more Ac
quiinted with yon (ban others Liveing f.ir
off. Being tired of living A Single life, we
now wihh to settle down."
Postage Stamps kok Chinese Bathe.
The Boston Journal of Satuiday prints
this queer story : A current note in Tues
day's Journal contained a query concern
ing the use made of the millions of old
postage stamps which are collected. A
correspondent is prompted by the question
to inform the public of a practice which
prevails in convents and other t'a holic in
stitutions in this country, and is almost
unknown to those outsido their walls. All
canceled stamps are saved and sent to mis
sionaries of the faith in China, who buy
with those worthless scraps of paper infants
who -would otherwise be destroyed in ac
cordance with the custom of the more de-
Seven of those who were injured by
the oil explosion caused by the collision of
trains at Slatington, in this State, on Fri
day, have died, namely: Wm. Shoemaker,
John Koher, Irvine Beers, Daniel Rebor,
Arthur Williams, Irvine Clark and John
Rohbacb. Several are still in a critical
condition. The bridge has been rebuilt,
and trains run vegulaily. Tho loss cf pro
perty amounts to about $70,000.
The Earl of Leitrim, who was shot tho
other day by some of his exasperated ten
ants, was one of the largest land-holders in
Ireland. He owned ofi.184 acres in Done
gal, 1M.203 in Galway, 53 in Kildare (pro
perty on which he was murdered) and 21.
170 in Leitram, making in all P..,19 acres.
Of the two Irish dukes, Fitz -Gerald. Duke
of L:nster, owns 70.402 acres in Kildare
and 1,119 in Meath, and Hamilton, Duke
graded Chinese. The many-colored stamps
are used for the decoration of walls, etc., i of Abercorn, 51,SG0 iu Donegal and 15,010
by the ingenious Orientials, and are valued ; in Tyrone.
so highly that one bundled of them will ; A Middletown (Conn.) game cock,
buy a baby whoso parents have doomed it ! accompanied by two of his family of hens,
to death. The lit tie ones thus puulrisod ' recently followed a line of corn which had
are gathered into asylums, and rcaied in been scattered on the road by a team load
accordance with tho laws and custom of ed with corn on its way to the ferry boat.
Christian civilization. ' cmbai ked aboard the boat, disembarked
; in pottland, whipped three Portland roos- entii ely under the influence of Iit husband.
At Emporia, Kansas, on Wednesday tets, and returned to his home in Middle- j also refused ioeat anything. The children
morning of this week Rev. .A . J. Shannon, t.-wn, bringing his two hens triumphantly ; were clothed and made to take nourish
a Congregational minister, was accidental- back with him. A Portland man wants to mcnt, and tho woman aasat lemMh roused
Dubu pie, Iowa, city and couuty, are Irish-. ly killed by the premature discharge of a give ten d V.lars for tb3t rooster, but he from her apathy by so!ne Veiy vigor-ma
iueu. guu iu the hand of a militia niati. ' cait be bougt. t.aJk.
-Thirty eight of the forty six officials of
Catholic church
of a chisel, at.d propeitvto the value of
! six hundred dollsis was stolen, viz : One
j golden eihorium, containing the blessed
i host for the communion, three chalices
j and golden plates on whili Hip chalices
stand. The blessed host was scatter d all
' over the sanctuary. The thieves went into
j the basement, where school is held, after
j some of the money which is kept there,
j but, did not succeed in getting it. The
j only cine to the perpetrators is t In ch;el
j they hTr. The case is being woiked up by
local detect ives. One of the chalices was
the private property of Father Long inn a,
the pastor, having been brongnt from Eu
rope by Father Manns, of St. Clair, and
presented to him. The other ai tides w-ere
the prope rty of the congregation.
A special from Washington says : The
dispatch from the V'est announcing the
flight, of ex Congressman Vance, tf Ohio,
with a woman not his wife and with large
sums of nimey borrowed from o-hers. does
not Furpnse a few persons in Washington ;
who have been aware cf tlie fact that Mr. ;
Vance has been wanted here during the
past few days on a charge of ciime alleged
to have been comm'tterl while ho was a
member of the House and Chairman of tlie .
Committee on Punting. This was nothing 1
more nor less. than the theft, of books, con
muted at various establishments in the ;
District of Columbia, to which may be ndd- '
ed another crime of an indictable cbarae- )
ter. Son.c of his friends here, loth to be- j
lievc that be was guilty, have been on-1
deavoring to get him to Washington to!
present bis explanation and defense, and
he promises to come, and left home saying
be was coming hero, but instead of that be
fled to parts unknown.
Henry II. Tub, of Lancaster, recently
closed up his store and his house and w ith
drew with bis family from all intercourse
with the world, 'i he neighbors became
suspicions that something was wrong, as
Erb'N children could be beard crying bit- I
teily, and Erb himself was not known to
buy any food. Twoofiiccrs effected an cn-
trance into the premises by crawling
through a back window. Thehouo was
found to be m a most wretched condition, j
All tho furniture had been sold, there was ;
no fire, and the three girls and two boys j
were crying with hunger and shivering "in j
rags, while the mother crouched in a cor- '
iit. Tub explained that n spirit bad an- ';
poured to him and directed him and his J
family to fast for fivo days, at tho end of j
w hich peiiod a most wondei fnl event would j
occur in his house, at which the wholo
world would be present. He ordered his
children not to accept the ftuvl offered
them, and the mother, who seemed to ho
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