IHl UHBRjHUL
EBENSBURC, PA.,
FRIDAY, MARCH 2S. 1879.
lr ii now stated as a fact, ebown to be
s by the. record of tLe U. S. Senate, that
Yiiiia;u Sharon, one of the members from
NeaJ.i, li.ischawn four yeais' pay. mile
age and r-ttttintiery, aULonsh duriuR all
lhx time l.-e !ias t,n!y spent tirfy-fir? diys
in t) e Senate cban.bcr. He ia reputed to !
I' 2 wcuth scvi-:al in;!iiuim of do'ilu, and it
1,'tnu bos j-iccrderit on hi side to Cover up
bis i.!iin.!eihi. The Democrats in the J
Stiiate ought to tee to it that such an out- !
raj cant.ut bo ei petitted in the future.
ra -- j
Tuk FVt.-burgli liot bill '.inderwent a '
oiuentKit louglby discussion ia the House i
Iat week, Mr. Long (the Sjieaknrl, from ;
Allegheny my, making the opening speech. j
Oti.er speeclies, both for and against the :
lii.l, f il )-.e'i. It again caino legulnriy be- t
fo e the House on Wednesday of this week, j
but a tet vote i.-t not likely to be i cached 1
befoie next Wednesday. Iu the meantime j
numerous remonstrances against the ji- j
sage of tin: bill, as wel; is some petition iu I
jt fuvoi. Lave been presented to the House. ;
A RKoi.LTii-'N was oflertd in the House
at lat Monday night's seaMon, and adopt- j
ed, for the appointment of a committee of
th-e fiom the llouie aud ico .fioi.i the )
S.Mate to inve&tigatc the ast niati.igement j
.f the aiVaiiK of tlu Str Le Agricultural
r .l:"ol iu ar Helief -ntc. There in a wide-
Si read be! "f throughout the Stat-, whether j
j'ift or n t we do not pietenJ to say, that ;
the iiw.itutioii is a fi iud, and, like the In- j
(liau'.-t cu:i, coslr a gri'at deal moie than it
comes to. The piopured investigation has ;
u-t eomo too soon, and wo tmst that Hie i
e "inmittee v i". 1 make it tlioroiib and com
!e'e.
'm m m
C I'l.o.NM. John (.' Hi Ian, of Tennesee, ;
the newly eh.cted Secielaiyof the U. S. .
Senate, who wl bo gratefully and pieas- '
iiit!y ieuii'inbeied by those of the cditoiiul
ecutne'tiils to the Mammoth Cave last ,
September who extended their n ip to Nash- j
viKc, heie tht-y weie so c )Uiteoii.-.iy 1C- j
teived and kindly treated by the gentleman j
named, ji uoon thestalYof General Til- ,
ri a poiltnii of tin: time dm lug tl.o war i
is propi istor of the Nashville .1 i..-nii;(, (
has hern Speaker of the Tennessee Senate, i
i-i lich, good hxiking, popular, Tir.d in the j
prime of life. He wi'l bring to the oflice
experience in l.tittiic aifair-t, as well as abil-
I
i'y a ul money to maintain a generous hos
pital. ty.
'I'll '. i-i'l lix;m; the salai ies of the Judges
; :s-.e! il.e Sena"'- to thiid leading oi: yrs
t r.' iv v. e; k. Ti.e sil.uy of the Judges of ;
(he ( -!l:t is fixed at :,.!', with
! evttt p. i mile f-r travel i:i dbebare of
i heir I ii s ; ".he riiiladel;hia, Allegheny
a: .! I1 .1; ; e.'.iUy .lutlges ;u to receive
f "".'", ,,,,d 3l ,,;!,,! .Tn,!., ,l!iti,
a:..; lil .i T'. e- i.t.-. inih-.i-e. hi tho fo'.'.ow-i-ig
(i.ij- t i.o'U on was made to r conMiler
ti.-. .!;: hj ahieh the bill was pissed, but
at this w 1 ii.'tij .: WediieMl.iy 1 we ate unabb:
t v i.v v. :., ;ot. r it lias been acted on : not.
The b.li i .ih it as fair a one as the c-u-o;c::o;
-. : -.s, 1 . tv.ii'ii lh city ai.d c ';r..'iy
IMe:i! .( s w i.i k 1 in it, and b tb !. '-Urt s :.iJ
bet: 1. ;'. lel'.iii , ;ucept i" a::d put an e::d
to tbe 1 !.,; ai.d t . a hi.' some c r er-y.
1 it". g-:
1 een 1 'i
lal appioj.:ii.t:.u Vol! wbleli has
td iu the lb use at 1 Ian isVi: 1 g
ccs.'iii'-s I!',
tic 1 1 r 1
Legis!.mi:e
nn i i.illrag.1
agf- - f c: : k
u:o 1 f ?! '.I co f..r pinj;
of the tv. bia:.ehc.-, of the
V-'-, niid ::.c!:j1 t!ic ay
i!.,.,. !b.- p.yai.ltMi,:-
d I'tiier cm
s. the pay
h:s ::j.p;o-
1
a' i
-! a i
Hps 1 ; j , etc. i
I
. -. rr. ai: a b .?.'.. u'.:
' y i .1 ', s , a : 1 1 i " v. i.i a' A'.tys
as the -a! aiy riu u.beis
:: -sat p: es.jnf . No n e
it all tlo- fc-c.snrv nial !t-
L 1
.1 ; .
i::c .: i ! :..it a .
is .-;i;.:-.i as
man l 1' t ;h
gitimate b-gisla' could be le.idny dis
posed of b! a bundled days. This would
be a . saving to ti e State, al the pietcnl sal
aiy, of $'.;!,.': '. The light to extend the
sessiou fifty diys boyoird one humlied, at
the tate of leu 11 'da:s ;u'r day. will jm
bo la.o 11 : dvr.:.!age of to the very utmoi-l
limi:. 1 he bid w!.ie!i pa. .-d t th.id
teadi r the l'ouso hist ".c-'.i n i:n
ptovn.i" ."it v h itevei. ir r.lb w. -0'. f r a
n -s; . .ii of o:;e h.r.i iit d days, nt.d e : i; o L hl-h-ii
f- r cveiy 'tay br-y-.iol t: tit. ; ' '. t.r.
eet-l ffty iy. Tho sting of thi. -called
reticiciin:e!,t and -foim bill -. i j-s tail.
The pay uoder it for one bundled a. id ft y
d-y- no il l be ttl,2J to which liiilst b.
ad '.1 d !!..: pot-tago stamp fieal of l-)!t,
stationery ?'", atid mileage f 7". ;it wii!
average m ue than thai', making in nil
As we said hist week, the only
true ref ' i'i is to iix the salary at a evitain
?um witl.ont legaid to the h-uglli f the
ppnion. an. I cutotTa'.l c x'ra allowances for
any p'irp ."i s v.hi'rvei. If that t.Miiciin
and the si'.-.'y fixed at ?1, ('', l':;e State 1
wen! 1 ;;avo i ! "J and no aieniber of the
I.Sgisl k? 111 e w 1 i'd be found in Hjlilis'jutg
afirr t he te:.' :i of A j r it.
An i:.u -it thr rumori so pirvalent hut
nunnr.er that Sitting liu'l and bis loaves
bad ei oss ('. or were preparing to ciosc, 1 Le
b. uudaiy line fun l!iith ( 'oiuii.ba to
eo:Mifc; I.ostihtiCH :gaiii.-t the white-,
pr ive 1 to bis u:if unded, there is g m ra
s :i now to ''fl'ive that he n e.iitates it lur
m :i ao
as She ;
: n . i :.:; : n ' ana as .,cn
n f ! d '' -n to si.b:st his
p. . his lie ived a week ago
i'i p.ii tn.ei.t in a!iington
i '.'.'aNh, who c I'limandB the
n ' .1 p ilcs f i CO 0:1 the fi' 11-
at the
f i o 11 -1'
"ar.a oa 1 11.
tier, st.-.' i g t
Si ting Uu'.l and bis war.
lift 1 are :i an t r
mibo. ilirn'" 1! -n
g a veiy irmily and in
tion, :i'i ! ,vs foon as
Sp: in' 1 e"" he (h Waih) appteheuds
iieiioiid tr tihi-. Ms estimates the stieugtli
of the Sto-ix t iT band at seven thousand,
including oie.i. w -mien and chihiien. of
whom two thousand live hnn-t-cd ai : war
riors vse'.l uti. d 11 0 npiipprd. Ci'!"in 1
Wal-h on se-. ei il o.cisions has sbo-.v h's
fi icmt!y f' -f -liiigf o wir ds fie I'n i ted States,
and as hi- p-.'i.-e (In'its embrace tie pec
ti on of c ai'i y n here Sitting Hull has been
encimp'id evfi since be esctped across the
border aft'-r tht: defeat of (.ener.il ( u-'er
and his tie. 1 he has su; eiior c fi-ttuni -ties
f r ft! 1 ii;ig it. ilhgent and tiitst
wortby pinion. The r.fws which he com
niuiic.s'cs will create a deep feeling of tei
ror and dismay among the m MIts along
the upper Misomi ar.d its ti ihutatics. In
order to g i.nd agaifs. this r.pp: 1 h tele J
said by the Ul known Indian f.g'itei in
the noithwes", the War Dr paitment h;s
Or.Iered the eigbtetntb tegiment of infant
ry, 110 j at A b"'a, to Dijitiaik. Da!:o'a, to
ba distributed at nidi points along tno bor
der as may be threatened, or are at present
inadequately defended.
Wallace ami HaiulaU.
A good deal hue been said by the Dem
ocratic newspapers of this State sioce the
meeting of the extra sessiou of Congress in
refereuce to the open and active opposition
of Senator William A. Wallace to the nomi
nation of Samuel J. Randall as Speaker of
the House of Representatives. It has been
very well known for several years tbat as
between Mr. Wallace and Mr. Randall iheir
political and personal lelatious have not
beeu altogether lovely and of good report.
We do not precisely know what was the
origin of the difficulty between the Senator
and the Congiessman, and even if wo did
we would not inflict upon our ireaders a
discussion oT its merits, for the reason tbat
we are Rick unto death of the personal ri
valries and contentions of the nieu who un
dertake to set themselves up as leaders cf
the Demociaey in this State. Wo respect
both of the gentlemen referred to in their
own proper spheres of action, but we re
fuse blindly to follow either of them by
espousing their personal quarrels.
It may be an unwarranted conclusion on
our part that the pobsession of a little brief
authority has induced each of them to be
lieve tbat "after us the delude," aud yet
the IVtnociattc patty of Pennsylvania
would continue to exist and to pursue the
even tenor of its ay if neither of them had
ever reached .1 high and honorable public
position. It is to bo regretted, however,
that a bitter feeling of hostility should ex
ist between two such prominent membeis
of the paity, because their quarrel will
most likely bo taken up by their respective
friends and be precipitated w ith all its an
imosittes upon the next Democratic State
C'ouveution, and tbat too just at a time
when, in view of the overwhelming import
ance of the Presidential election next year,
pei feet peace aud harmony should prevail
iu the Democratic household. The strife
has even gone so far already as to assign to
Mr. Wallace the championship in this State
of Judge Thuiman as the Democratic can
didate for Preiaideut, aud to Mr. Randall a
like position in favor of Governor Tildeu.
We do no not of course suppose for a mo
ment that either of them will attempt to
cany out any piar. of this programme.
Whatever heartburnings exist between
them, however, must be assuaged before
the meeting of the convention, or be buried
until the couteet of 1SS0 is over, for iu our
judgment I ho Democracy of the State will
not be in any humor to peimit themselves
to bo dirted with and the delibeiations of
their delegates distracted by side issues, 110
matter by wliom they may be started,
Pennsylvania is a large State sufficiently
so. one would suppose, for the political am
bition of Me'srs. Wallace and Randall to
spread itseif and for each to realize his
proudest aspirations. Thus far each has
succeeded in teaching the position be cov
o cd, an! now their paity will not only in
sist that tlieyl'O put on their good behavior,
but will ligidly enforce the demand.
In this connection wc lauiot refiaiu
from saying that expei ienced and blnewj
a politician as Mr. Wallace is admitted to
bo, yet in our view he committed a great
lnis'ake, no matter what tho provocation
w as, to array himself in opposition to Mr.
Randall's candidacy for the Speakership,
atid especially so when the Pennsylvania
delegation in tho IIouso weie standing at
Mr. Kandall's back. Thai was a power
which Mr. Wallace oueht to have known
that ho, solitary and aloi;o, Could not m:c
Cessfully resist, mueli less destroy. For
nta:;y leasons we legard Mr. RindaU's
election to ti e Speakership at this time as
a political nt cessity , a i d such we think its
the genera! feeling of the DemoJiacy of
the country.
TiiK editor of tho I ihnsto.vn Tfl'i 'rue i
detei mined upon being in iern b 1 and for
no other 1 canon than tLe pi e.-er,ce in tho
l'n i t d States Senate of quite a number of
ex-Rebel t
eneials atid the Momim-nt nosi-
tr.
ivcii thei.i on the standing comniit-
tees. '1 he Tri'. ui,f knows
c lri'.-.inr knows ns well as it
knows any o'her f,ic', that in the Southern
States, whoso people w ere of one heart and
one mind i'i favor of secession, it would be
next to impossible to elect a man to Con
Kress who bad not been cither aa active or
a pc ssi ve re lie I. The Sou t he 1 11 people have
simply conferred the highest political lion
o:s on the men who stood by them during
the bloody smuggle and biavcly fn.ght
their battles. When h ostilities commenced
Gordon, Rmsom, Hamptom. Withers. Gar
land .vul Maxey did not slan.l upon the
o.der of their going, but rushed St once to
te front a-id into the thickest of the fight.
They did u it, like Iilaiue, seek a pi ofitab'e
gun con'tae", nor, like Chan 1'er, stand on
tho sikewalk in Washington cheering the
boys in blue as they matched along, and
displaying bis pat 1 intir.m by vigorously
damning thorebels. How immensely su
peiior iu all the qualifications of a Senator
ate not there ex-rebels to the. brood td cai- ,
pet baggeis ha'ehed by reconstruction ,
I'a'.tei in, Coiiover, Doisey, Spencer, Kel
h'gg, and otheis. If theie aie only tieo
Union Cieueials in the Senate, Ruruside '
and I.orrnn. and only one, II aw ley, from 1
the New England Slates, tho Republicans '
must bear the responsibility. They could
have sent one fiom this ?'a!e, but they
piefened to elect a man who, while men
hko General Heaver were libtiug for tho
I'uion was tpeculating iu army mules at
Hariisburg. Could they not also have
found a Union soldier in Michigan in place
of el l Z ich. Chandler ? The Democrats,
too, elected Rev. Mr. Ilulloek, of Virginia,
m Chaplain to the Senate, and that is the
i'.st st: aw on the Tri'vr.e'a back, for the
reason that be happened to rr.arry John C.
Hi eckeni idge's sister. This is dreadful
r.ud not easy to he borno with in a fiee
coutitiy, but after awhile the Tribune will
get us.-ot to it aud console itself with the
rctleetiou that "whatever is, is right."'
Is" tin? editors of Republican newspapers
know what they aie talking about, Samuel
J. Tilden, paia'yzed, wind biokcn, and
physically wrecked though he be aceoiding
to tl.eti r -poi s pulicd the wires and is 1 1 -sponsible
for the elec'ion of Mr. Ilinda 1
as Speaker of the Hoaw. Standing thus,
iu Republican estimation, '.villi one foot in
the gtave and tho other on the ground, Mr.
Tilden displays T.oudei fill cnei gy and ac
tivity. and would make a very livtly and
business like Piesidcnt. It is not stated
whether the cunning o;d man used a cipnor
dispatch or a barrel of money iu seducing
tieaily all the leading Congiessmen from
the South into the support of a Northern
man for Speaker, thus silencing tho bloody
sh'ut howl of the Republican leaders that
the "coiifedei ate brigadiers" in the House
would organize it tofeuit their own tieasou
ablc pin pores.
TfJF. Democratic members of the United .
1
Stttes Senate on Monday last elected John j
C. Burch, of Tennessee, Pep. etary of that 1
body, aud R ahard J. Bright, of Indiana, j
Fergeatit t Arms.
Pennsylvania' Phenomenon.
WHAT THE BtPEKSTITIOLS THOUGHT OV
THK bVTPOsED SULPHUR SHOW ER.
A Reading special of the 28d to the New
York Sun says : The fall of a yellow sut
dtance on the eve of St. Patrick' day,
which was at first supposed to be sulphur,
is still the npipermost topic heie. The
shower extended over an ana of about two
hundred miles, including the counties of
Berks, Lehigh, Carbon, Schuyikill, and
Luei ce,and tliat the "yellow snow" came
to stay with us awhile is shown by the fact
that quantities of it can yet be seen stick
ing to the stones and bricks along the
principal streets. Many theories aie ad
vanced as to what the substance really is,
coo, .0. . - -
.Many persons still ciai.n tuat ic is geuumo
. suipuur, wnue omeis aver iimi il in mo j
pollen of piue trees, wafted on the wind :
from t be pine foiests of the S.'Uthei n couu - .
j try. Those of the former opinion are 1
; mostly of a superstitious turn, and brbtve .
that this sulphur is sent as a warning for 1
; r.s to turn fiom our wicked ways, and :
hereafter walk more circumspect ly . They
' say that t lie sulphur was found iu the
; greatest quantities in front of the doors of :
i the unrinhteous, especially keepers of sa
! loons. They scout tho idea that it is pol- )
' let), aud ask where so much of that article
: could come from. These people, with
: blanched faces, asked each other if this i
' was an omen that tho world was coining to
; an end in the near future.
, The savants of this region have been j
paying paiticular attention to this matter ;
; since it fell, aud many opinions aie ottered 1
as to what it really is. Dr. Traill Gieen,
, Professor of Chemeslry in Lafayette Col- j
j lege, Bothlehem, wiitesas follows in refer- j
; euce to tho shower of sulphur : "it is not :
; surprising that the yellow substauco oh- !
I seived on the snow on Mouday wassuppos- 1
. ed by many persons to be sulphur. It ,
i certainly resembled it veiy mue.i. Those
J w ho bad never observed it before, aud had ;
j never read a description of it, may be sur j
! prised when they aie infoimed that the '
j yellow which they saw was niado up of
I beautiful little plants well known to natur-
ahsts, belonging to a giei. t class of the
vegetable kingdom, A'.jf, some of which ;
j exceed in length our tallett tiees, while :
others are so small as to be invisible to the .
j naked eye except w hen collected;in masses, .'
' as is the case with the little plant which j
! came to us in our lale snow stoiui. Many
j were pleased to seo tho 'yellow snow' te- ;
. solved by the ruicroscopo into beautiful !
I oval bodies, to observe them enlarged mid
I way between tho terminal points, and then
' see them divide and become two, multiply- ;
ing by self division. This Jitllo plant car- I
I ries on the various functions which are ob- j
i sei ved iu higher plants, such as collecting
,1 t . . 1. . : . ; . 1.
j aud digesting its food, secreting a peculiar j
; ttuid with which the cell is tilled, and per- j
; ioiiii,ig mi 1110 1 acts wuicii ejiong to a nv
! '" organism. No one who sees it wilh
I the help of a microscope would ever iuiag
I i tr e that it is brimstone, or any other inor
j ganic substtance. It belongs to the botan
i leal genus 1'rotococrns, or 'simplest plants.'
I The J'roloroccus Jt'iruhi, or 'red snow,'
: was observed by Saussnreon tho Hravau in
j 1700, and ou St. I5erna-d ; in 177H by Capt.
; Ross in IJ a Hi u 's Hay. and by Pairy and
. Fiatiklin in their northern voyag-s.
' Pliny also speaks of it, and asciihes the
j led color to the ?e of tho snow, but ho
did not see the red color in tho microscopic
: field, and, it may be, had only beard of it.
! This species n ay lemain in a state of dor
I mailt vita.ity f r many yeais. It is in this
: state that the little plums are wafted about
1 iu atmospheric current, and beinnr brought
: down by tho rain into pools, cisterns, etc.,
I they may piesent themselves where none
j have been pieviously known to exist, and
' tle.e, under favoiablo cii sumstances,
they may undergo a veiy rapid nmltiplica
1 turn. So willi tho 'winter spores which
wo have just spen."
Dr. P. M Zeigler of this city. Dr. Ervinp
of Mauch Chunk, and other scientific men
her ah outs, aifiee on this stibjec, and give
the same explanation f the phenomenon.
; Many of our jeopli tried vni 'iis cxpeii
1 incuts on tho substance. They found ir to
i be without tnste or smell, and w hen lighted
j with a match would burn readily, and was
: of .1 sticky, greasy nature.
Tin: vot'Ni; J.uY who fell iu love with
her father's coachman has been heard from
again. This time she lives, or lived, in ilio
at istoeiT.t ic ci'y of Haitfoid, and her fath
er is a'i ai sitoerat io ex-Govei nor of ("on
tire' lent. Theie is reason to fear that tbi
yi'tinc lady has been uiievonsly misled by
t!:e exceptional expei ierce of dosepbine,
and that the VT,;e.g Mr. Sheppnid has i:n-
pose.! tipon licr with the idea tnaf. tie was
changed at miise. and that the Governor
really is the coachman aud the coachman
the Governor. Should this prove to be the
ra. Mr. Hubbard d eibih ss will bear ihe.
c'o.'i.'P willi h'Miniii 7 1 csi.-n.at ion : but
this eiitei prisinz young lady would have
('.me well to establish the birth of her lov
e; fust and many him afterward, if she
still felt inclined. Ever since the days of
Y.lhkins and his Dinah ti e il.iughteis of
rich papas have been failing in love in
baste with coachmen and gardeners and
repenting at their leisure. For while it is ;
true that love levels lanks to a consider- 1
ble extent, it does not, as Sir Joseph I '..fr
iar wise'y remarks, level them as much as
that, and if Miss linhbau! bad duly cor
.sidere.i that she was in all prohaility leav
ing her papa's luxurious homo, bung with
ancestral armor and old brasses, carved
o vk and tapestry from distant Koine, raie
blue and white, Venetian linger glasses,
tieh Oriental rugs, and so forth, for a daik
and dinirv room in some back street, with
stuffy ct il iren cryiic where organs ye l
and clacking housewives fum and c'otlics
aie hanging out all day a-riryiuif bad Miss
Hubbaid duly considered these things, the
god of season might have got tho better of
the god of love. Were bo nunc highly
boi n or she morn lowly, we might w ish the
enterprising couple nil good foitune, but
there is not. often much good fortune in
store for girls who aie so much wiser than
their fathers and their fiiends, and the
best we can hope for Miss Hubbaid is that
her Jack Sheppaid may tuiu out less of a
, lascal than present, appearances would in
dicate. PhVadelyhi.1 Time.
FoTioiNo FitNsii'N Pafkr'. A special
dispatch to the Philadelphia Timet, dated
Pittsburgh, Match 22d, says that Sheriff
' Geo. A . V iliiama.'of A run strong county, was
arrested at Kittanning tho night previous
. on an older fiom Washington and entered
bail in t'ittsbuigh for trial on the charge of
fraudulently received petiTion money from
' the United States government and commit- '
' tir.g forgery to procure the same. The
Sberill's father was killed in the war, in :
ls-'it, and j entioti papers were taken out
giantiug his wife a monthly pension of
eight dollais. The money was regulaily
sent to her at. Mauorsvilln P. f)., and the '
government received documents regularly
signed. In February, 177, Mis. Williams
: died, and her executors have since Earned
that- she never received the money and j
never signed the documents. The amount ;
involved is about ? 1,200. The defendant :
claims that bis mother authorized him to
draw and keep the money. Sheriff Wil- :
liains was cotivictod some months ago and :
1 sentenced to the penitentiary for fraudu-
lent I.v securing his election, but Ihe Su-
pretno Court granted a special Allocatur.
A Docui.r. Tltr.EDY. A Sedaha, Mo, ;
! dispatch savs a shocking hfTair was enact- ;
cd on Satuiday night in 'he neighboihood :
of lletblehern Chinch. 1'oone county. '
James Rowland, a well-to- Ho bachfilor
; farmer, bad a niece, Miss Julia Rowland .
, keeping bouse f ir him. On Sunday morn '
uig his brother came on a visit, and found ;
the doors bolted and the windows fastened
and bearing groans inside, l a foieed open !
the doors and found I, is bi other in a pool
of blood, a levolier by bis si'e and a bul-
I lot bole in his head. :
On the bed lay Miss Rowland, dead with ',
' a photograph by her side, on which was ;
written, "Ifear sis'er 1 tiavc fatten poison ;
and am coinc to my long and happy home. !
Pleaso foiaitve me for this." Rowland is 1
still alive, but iefuses to give a reason for 1
ihe ten il.le affair. A 1 umor is cm rent tbat j
M iss lb -i Ian o's lover w as not a rep pd able to j
her undo ; and rather than sutT-r scot- j
tioii, she tM'k poison nnd that Rowland, !
viewing the sa.l c-mserjuencts, atfentpted ;
to take his ow n ii:.:.
The famine In I pper Etryp.t stiil contin
ues and is causi'eg terrible snffecing.
Letter from Archbishop Pnrccfl.
HE TELL9 HOW HE GOT INTO TROUBLE, AND J
APPEALS TO THE PUBLIC FOR HELP. j
CixcisjfATi, March 20. The following '
letter from Archbishop Puicell is published ,
to day:
To Mr Friemis1 avp thb Public: I deem it i
my duty to make known to the very large num.
tier t persons 10 whom I happen to lie more or
less known in fcturope Hn1 In the Unili-d Sialos ,
tlml in the eightieth year of my sire nd tho ,
f oriy-ti: i li yejir ol my episcopate I m burdened :
wilh a heavy debt whicr. I tun unable to liqui- j
dnie. This di-bt. ai Hti whu know me are aware, i
was not eoutracri d by wHSte. hifh living or ex-
trnva;anee. it Is my only consolntioo that my j
eonsi ifinc bears me th.s testimony, and it is ire
kaow iei1f ed by Chi ho lie and Protestants as well i
as cil uteris of e ery and no reliif ion. Itisasaed ,
how I came to owe so much. 1 must nnywer :
I was born of poor parents, wha Imu
,,;, themselves to irive me hii education
ttie best their menus allowed or the uiwn in
which I was born afforded. To attain the posi
tion 111 lite f or whieh I wa consecrated, if God
so pit iised. liefore I was born, I felt that n:y
mill ehaiK'e w,is to come to Ameriea and stuiy
lor the priesthood. When I sneeeeiied 111 tins
rejmrd 1 neither (ouiral nor expected to be
rich. Km d ami raiaient was all I received. and
with tin S'-. if 1 nrny firesnme to say so, like fit.
l'aal. I wus perfectly consented. 1 was sent to
Pans by Hie vem.rable and saintly Duliois,
first Superior of Mount t. Mary Metniiiaiy and
alterward H.shop of New York. On my retuio
as ;i iest 1 cotinnued 10 teach as well as I eomd
in that time honored school oi the priesthood
until 1 was made bishop and seut to Cmeinnai r.
In :nis new sptiere, 11s in my earlier lite. I be
mi so poor that 1 bad to b.-trow $ kin tor my
traveling expenses to my see lor in.vsell ami
two or three students and domestics. Tht 11 I
bad soon to contract dents for the many wants
of anew diocese. r this debt I had to pay
Intel est. mid Itns interest growing yearly iicv
makes, accordina To the report it thetruteea
appointed to examine the accounts and liabili
l.osof the diocese, more than halt of the ln
dei leduess ot t lie dioctse. Of the debt contract-
d by the financial agent oT the diocese I
tionk it can be itciy paid that not more tnau
$. -l.e1J was money deposited with turn. The
rest is Itie result of compound inn rest. As a
prool of ibis I will stureoue of many lacts that
have come to liftit : Yesterday a creditor call
ed with a claim of f 1,11X1. In present mu il Iu
admitted thai V'JU ot tne amount wan interest,
and '.xtressed ins readirie'ss to accept for It
f.sNi, the oriaiiiul deposi:. The claiina of hun
d. eds of ot hers are 01 the same 11a tin e, 'i lit 111
dcblediiess of Hie diocese 111 equity does not
11 mount 10 more t ha 11 a 111 ill e n a. dmi s, to place
it at us highest figure. Ill aecotiiiini' lor tlo
money loaned or deposited with the tinaticial
airetit of the diocese tno trustees ami others
have overlooked our- very Inrire iiem ot xpeu
bes. Until lea-no Keuertil collection was ever
liiken up 111 Il.e diocese lur Un. rUf.pou of the
JOioccSall St'iumnry.
For twenty years, therefore, the loirdea of
educating priest leil upon my tlnaneial anent.
He supported the senniiaiy n iihoui akina aid
frnin the diocese. When it was located in
JJrown county, upon the larm now occupied
by the Ttrs-uline ctuiiinumty, he paid the sala
ries of the professors demur ninny years, and
fed, clothed and educated tho seminarians.
He paid all the expenses during the same lona
peiiudol ecclesiastical students at Mount St.
Mary, liiiinnttHtiiiiir. in Franco and in Home.
In twenty years all these expenses, which, in
justice, the whole diocese should have borne,
amounted to a vast sum. In my various Voy
uircs 10 Europe I had the iuteresia of religion
In miud. and particularly in tonkin? lor priests
tor our mission ocrman, insn and other nu-
jionuiiiies-iind
B,p"rrt',Us,'etc:!!
dclrnyiriir the ejepenses ot a
least 1U,(mj volumes, a philosophic
., an 01 wnien reiimred liirire ex-
pemtilures of the diocesun resources, wtiii'li.
exclusive of sums spent m the lujildinirof ttie
orphans" isy 1 11 111 at Cum minitsvil le, ot i liue.b 9
and t ne cai lit dial it rut other buiidirirs, lor lln;
suppori ot setiilnarians tor so many jenrs. tor
schools lor which I had to iro heavily lri debt,
finally swamped me. My bro.lier, the Very
te trend Kdward Purcell, ordHined 11 priest in
ls.tt, seeinir me overwhelmed by all these luiiors
and rct-po:!iobi;it!es, Keueroiisly helped mc to
tjear these burdens, lint they were loo l.euvy
for one w ho had po kind of mercantile or flmn
eial t rainina' to lit him lor the hard win k he n8
sumed and to whicti lor forty phis there waa
no one else to devote himself. His lire uasi ne
of immense labor end no reward but the con
sciousness of Servieir tiod. the Church nnd his
brethren to the extent of his aliiluj-. Lienor no
recreation, no rcspre from toil or any rest for
his sell -sacrilieii if spirit. 11s any one who knows
Ii 1 111 can ul!, and he never put one dollar of the
money of :he churcli or nt the p,.1;jiie to too
own pcr.-oi.a: account or credit. The 1 ilieirl
report of ihe trusiei s. while it shows an enor
mous debt of .i.ii0.t.y, has emphatically de
clined that 1101 the slightest stain rests upon
the honesty of my brother, who ii! t ntr u-ted
with the tinaneini atfafisof the diocese. Tbey
repeat 1 he c invn.t inn, which a 1 1 who knew him
hold, that kind-riearlcdii'-ss and an excessive
trust in the hor.esty of others who bomwed
lre.m bini. united with the pa virion I of com
pound iiocresr, have atone iieeii Itie cause of
n.y hriHiieiai eshimity. MnlJ I tiurit si!y owe my
three thousand creditors. The debt is larire;
ii lias criiiied me witu its weight, lit my torty
tive years in the t-mscopacy tins is the mukest,
inosi ji.iintii!, niosr sorrowlul tmur. Vii;-!i the
siortii broke up-'ii mc I .nilil t.ave sunk into
mviriate tind I not In en streny t iiened by ihe
1 eiin inteiince ot my d ityasa Ibshop of (nut's
t.'hurcii and had I not un n sustained bv Ihe
irctieroiix s mpadiy which thousands of Carbo
lics and I'roieMi nils e.like have tiown me in inj
distress. TiiK Catholic Itisbops ,-t thr c-xm try
have made me their d- btor forever by their of
fer of assistance. 'J liourti unworthy of so
much universal kindiies. stiii 1 rejotceovcr it.
t-et'lll-e It lives me hope ot' ine.'lll' :ti
canons. U chrers me thutine ch;ni
111. my has b.-en stirre-i tij ttie nosinr'une
Oel 111 : Molt a r b r-fn i ;i 11 IviSt r.it'i; is lle.i rl
All i this t.ul.'ilui aie! Iiiiiool ep
fio-is 1 jii.j-i'e.l to 'i l.aliiwi'e-, i.tli. r
itiii
.r mi
t an
run.
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I. 1
il Her-,
-. to to
le out ot my
ee.r and t-e
1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 y to t.
iOl l to pel t .
i-ei ore! ticrn
!:i 1 r i'ie e Ii-. !
ei ' it : o i s u ti.
elm re';- to
si. rl J 1 J wi ,r -1
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11. d
it in
vo-
I:
.euce, ii'rl in. tit ttc e-iraiice of .j!nivriity
(i.el tlntt siletl O'.il works nmj tlev. r tall. -tir.
iitiis the i-.eia s. a dollar tro. 11 every one
woui 1 c inc. I 11. I he chin if ticii t. is been so
rveni.y iiniriu'csted on ao si,i, s is now n.y
.-iroiia reliance to wipe out any lisnrice that
Ii'jy aitach to t!ie I ioncii or any inj .15 lost
iiiny ar'e to tie :a:tu tiiroiiifii the rni-irarei
mont oi the .1. -p.is, t- 01 p.n.r peoi,e. "io.l til ss
-i.od i..-.vi;r. n liundri .iroei Uie kind hearts '
that have console I a poor, iu..l ent debior.
an J (iod eninii v.oh ail H-,iip..rl bit ssinirs ail
t u se ho are re.tdy to v. i leonie him r bi rep-
iis. :U:u i-( Wltll jreliei oils luoe!-. I hey iinve
created lor men new net. t , (f rei t it Inn o even
my lai t e ii!it of .!.;!':ir- a de'.it ol rt it ude
l hat I can never pay. For this universal 43 111
patt.y. uuex.i et.d Hill unaieiiied, I k e ul!
liial I h.ivt the last prayers of my old aire and
the last Masaes of my ioi;r priest. y hie.
J. 11. rniiTi.t.,
A 1 c. his'inji o t ( 'mc 11 - in -. i .
It is gratifying to sta'e iu t b is connection
that several of the Aictibishop's creditois
have canceled a I! or a considerable poition
of their claims, thus teducing the debt by
1 hoiidands of dollars.
"Pa sfora I Kansas."
THE SHuKV HI I.I. COlt.NTUY THK MECCA. OK
SIOCK GKOWEItS.
From a recent letter to the Cincinnati
ComHierc,il Arfcerlircr we extract the fol
lowing :
eond 10 nn resource in
point of present or prospective value, are
1IIK .VAIIVH GHOSHS
which caver nil Hie Smoky Hill cotintrv rrom
ihe water lines in in,- hitrhesi divides. Kast o
S:,linu. ail the way to Kansiia Cirv, ihe iuxiiri
unt blue joint it rows on nil the uncultivated
lands in the richest proMison. West of this
point the buffalo and yriiiun Brasses cover the
country with their thick short carpet inir of
(rrccu or brown, mid limrriish (throturh all Ihe
year! t he tnveetest and most nutritious pustnr
aire known to the stock eroKlntr world. The
whole upper Smoky Hill country bares its lx
som of richest herlmce to the "herds of the
ranchman and tiives;a held ol (.(rjiffiwl piisinr
mre more vaiuanie than tno luiuous blue KrirS
raiiKes of Kentucky. 1 here are
ItANCHKS AM) I1ASI 11MEM
lv the hundred, scattered all the way from
Ktlsworth west to the table of Colorado aod
northward to the Republican riv r, whose
herds ol cattle and sheep are paying H net
proiit Dt 41) and 5ii per cent, per annum. The
wan rs. irase nnd climate of this region
come as near to perfecting animal life s any
this side of "kinirdoin eoine." It is a jo.y to
see bow the herds fallen upon these wild pas
tures 10 see them rariainir upon the hills and
valleys from January to January. Mow like
nuocc they make wealth tor tiieir lortunarc
owueist 'ihe cattle and sheep men of the
Smoky Hill count iv, who uiteiid Mjiiarely 10
irrazieir and i.reeditiir and (five tho-Vond by" to
speculation, are luakiiiv more money 011 the
money invested than any other livitiiiimi-
tui.-iness has ever returned to its luanairei a.
How rapidly these herds are inereasinv ; In
Kugst It county are superb herds ol hih irraae
cat He numberinir o'K) to 2,(iu0. Kuniier west,
sout h west and norl ii wi.-sl, 1 he herds increase in
number and exter.t. The sheep or Kussell
ee.unly nifirreirate l5.n"fi and arr 8teadiy in
ciciisica. These Snioky Hill runir'-s arc nt
Irm ni-H tlio attention of the old i'exas, Cali-Itirni-.i,
ledorado nnd Aus:ral;a herdsmen and -are
Inst tlilhur up with 1 tie hem herds 01 sheep
and cattle in the West, .still there are very
tine
orr.NiN;s Foit stock kxnciiks
in ail the m-i er couni ies from nalinc westward
I-i C dorado boi h ninii ihe line of the Kansas
Pacific road and in the m-iirhhorinK counties to
the north and south of the road. '1 hese coun
ties are watered with spring and runriintf
streams Iinve more nr less native timtier. snei
t.r. and many ol the roou-ti hilly sect ions
aboiiu l in iruiches and small cumins where
stock has ampic protect iou froin the storms of
Ketii'tiary and March. In a country where
there is not snow ir.omrh 10 interfere wilh win
ler pasturKe ana t he irr.isses boi I I heir nu ( 1 1
t on all Ihe year 1 hroiiifti, and where a trood
Si.'le-lv of stock ei.ttie "r sheep can tie piirohas
i ed dt reasoriKt-'e ni ici s ; h here the t: anporru-
li-in tie i.i'ir-i are cio'lu'i t arol wtieie ihe .
raiu 'eninn :s within twelve to strtren hnurs
lid" nt Kansas til y, 1 lie irreat stock market of
i t he se.ti t h west , and especially where tine araz
t leir laiuis cull be puretiased at $! .'u to 1..VI per
1 re: c. is cert uiniy a splendid operurnf turcaine
! and s'-e.-p ui n either ot lara-e nr sinall 110 ans.
i he Kausiis reilic lai d trrant covers lit least
: I :.0 t.'fui acres of the ver-5' best stock rane in
1 I he Wi si. and I understand I nat evt ry needed
and K-iisonalde lacilily Is uiveii bv this railway
i .uipsnv both t.i the piireliasersof ranches and
shippers: of live pioei;. At least TALI'S) caitle
and sheep are irriizcd within the limits ,f this
it.-m t I sod it ran t and 1 he dsy is not .iisra nt when
1 ti ai i.m head of cai tiv and sheep will he iiunu
ally u razed bet ween .1 11 net ion Coy nnd Ihe Col
or.oio. in the n vion k'town as the Stnoky Hit! :
eour ti y. Any of our readers who may d- sire
more detln.te aiiormaliori rejjar linz thisareut .
lend riant it re leterrcci to the band ( oitunis
sioner of the K ihsa I'aeifie Itai fiy, whose
ri.ad j-iartets are e : Salma.Siii l who will doubt- .
le-ss t c pleased to send m:-;si:nd clreMho-3 f ! Of
ot eh iar' t! ) ;'. o c rr-si'ei! ' -
ami other Xottnas. j
Iu the island of Cyprus boys of fifteen
marry girls of ten or twelve.
A six day woman walk is now in pro-
gress at Gilmore's Garden, New Yoik.
The boilerof Johnson & Co.'s distillery
at Cleburne, Texas, blew up on Friday, '
killing iivo men. i
The Lackawanna Iron bd Coal Com- !
pany at Scranton has doubled its steel mill
force to meet the increased demand for
steel rails. i
The New York TI'orM says that in the
Oliver Camerou suit the examination of
the plaintiff by General Butler may be de
scribed as aca.se of widow cut widow.
A Pittsburgh woman was arraigned as
a bigamist, but it was proved she married
the second time under a misapprehension
of facts, thinking a Utah divoice, which
she bad procured, was legal.
General Shields was given a banquet
in Jefferson City, Mo., on Friday night, iu
recognition of bis services iu seeming the
passage of the pension law. Both houses
of the Lacislalute adjourned to meet him
at the depot.
Sussex and Chester white pigs were
put in the same pen by J. B. Mover, of
I'pper Salford, Montgomery county, a few
days ago. A fieice battle followed and be
fore night fall t he pen was&trewu with dead
and wounded shoats.
The Boston Pilot is "glad to see that
while the majority of male athletes, in run
ning, walking, rowing, ball playing and
wresiline, are Irishmen, there are no'Irish
women to bo found among the absurd and
unsexed female pedestrians."
After thirty years' absence in Califor
nia Asa Howard returned to Taunton,
Massachusetts, and dug up two quart bot
tles of rum from a cellar where he bad
buried them forty-six years before. The
bottles and their contents were iu a perfect
stale of preservation.
Frank Miller, who until recently earn
ed his few dollars a week in the press room
of the Dallas (Texas) Herald, has fallen
heir, thiough his wife, to $3,000,000. lie
married AzHia Dore, granddaughter of
Jean Louis Champagne, a Texas million
aire, wl ose death occurred not lone ago.
Bishop ICeene, of the Roman Catholic
diosese of Richmond, was on Monday invi
ted by the clerk of the Virginia House of
Delegates to open that body with prayer
during the past week. This is the first
time that an invitation of the kind has been 1
extended by that body to a Catholic pie- :
late.
Finding a man behind his shop counter
in the small hours, Mr. Creed of Jamestown,
Ky., did not stop o ask any questions but ;
pioseeded foi th with to lodge fifteen buck- j
shot where he thought they would do the '
most good. Result one dead burglar, and
several living burglars warned of the risks
of their profession.
Mrs. William Ferguson of Kansas City,
Mo., cut her throat the other day with a
table knife iu the presence of her children.
Her husband had hardly left the loom w ith
a kiss upon his lips wheu the tragedy was
enacted, and the children were coverod
with blood. Mental troubles, occasicned
by her husbaud's iutemperauce, was the
cause.
The Oil City Derrick says that on Fri
day a young lady attempted to cross the
railroad track near tbat place, when ber
foot heel caught in a frog. A train was
npproaching and there was no one near,
but she did not. lose her ptesence of mind.
She unlaced the shoe and extricated her
foot just in time, for the next instant the
train went dashing by.
Boynton the amphibious has again
covered himself with gloiy, and secured
much valuable giat.uitotis advertising, by
shooting Louisville Falls. The spectatoi s
were duly thrilled and honor stricken when
they saw bim going over, and correspond
ingly overjoyed to see bim emerpe with
whole bones from tho "seething caldron"
and paddle on down stream.
Col. W. F. Reynolds, or Bellefoute,
claims 10 have acquiied a title on the mag
nificent sprang by which that borough is
supplied w ith water, and now insists that
all the water used in larger quantities than
can flow through a four inch pipe must bo
raid for by the inhabitants. The claim
w ill involve law suit. The spring is one
of tho largest and finest in 'he State.
I ho Reading Tim, which considers
the English sparrows a nuisance, proposes
tha', in imitation of a law of tho latter
pait of tho seventeenth century, an ordi
nance be passed making every unmarried
man kill a dozen spai rows or remain single;
or, what if thinks might bo better, com
pelling cvci y unmarried woman to do the
hatue under pain of a similar penalty.
Mis. Judith Beede, who has just died
at Tain .vol th, N. H., at the age ot 102
years, used to r:;1ate among the incidents
of her childhood an encounter with a
mountain eagle. The calo attacked an
animal lamer than it could 1 ise with, and
little Judith in turn attacked the eagle.
Her hands were severly torn, but she held
the monster bud until the arrival of assist
ance. A tornado struck Milledgeville, Ga. ,
on Satuiday afternoon. The bridge over
the Oconoc liver was totally demolished,
causing a loss of $D,000. A nepro who
was n the bridge ar. the time was killed,
With the mules be was driving. Man)
houses were unroofed and several small
bouses were blown down. The general
damage in Milledgeville amounts to about
$3,000.
The Philadelphia Tin's says that Un
cle Jake Zieg'cr's Washington experience
has been of great benefit to him, although
be did not get tlm position of Sergeant at
Arms of the Senate. He has found out,
among various other things, that Sena
tors will lie tho same as other men," and
when a man gets as far along as that be
generally begins to feel veiy proud of bis '
country.
An honest man is wanted for treasurer
of Brown county. Wis. Van Straclin was
elected by the Republicans, although his
record was bad, and he stole $30,000.
Buikhait. a Democrat, absconded next,
with $60,000. Then Republicans and
Democrats united to elect Ellis, whose
probity nobody doubted ; and an investi
gating committee now figures up his theft
at $0,000.
Auothcr terrible prairie fire occur
red last week iu Lincoln county, Kansas,
burning the bouso and all the property of
Mr. Montgomery living on Bitter Creek,
and doing much other damage. A little
son of Mr. Montgomery, 12 years old, per- '
ished in the flames, atid Mr. Montgomery
and Isaac Praff a neighbor who attempted
to save him were so badly buined that they
died in a few hours.
Mrs. Decker and Mrs. Kellerhouse ;
each aged about HO years who live near
Pine l'lains. Duchess county, N. Y., aie
said by the Newburg Journal to bo great
great-eiandmolhei8 of an infant recently
born to their great grandchildren, Mr. and
Mrs. Alexander Ilalloek. The child finds
woof its great grandparents and its grand
father also yet living. Here are live gen
eiatious in one village.
One day toward the close of last month
a remarkable wave of darkness obscured a
part of Loudon, arid for 20 minutes it was
as dai k as on a moonless night. The dark
ness diilured from that of an ordinary fog,
as distant lights oouhl bo cloar y seen, but
all above was veiled in impenetrable rjloom.
As the darkness abated a lurid glare caus
ed alarm, the idea prevailing that it arose
fiom a tremendous conflagration.
A special dispatch to the Philadelphia
Times says that the striking miners in
camp at Elizabeth, Allegheny county, were
augmented on Monday aud now tiumbet
(1119 thousand. Tbey have several brass
bauds with them to keep up the enthusi
asm. Provisions are furnished and they
declare that they will keep up the siege
until all tho digceis joiu in the strike for
three cents per bushel. Good order pre
vails and no fear is felt..
Somo practical jokers encased the car
cass of a horse iti led llannel, set it afloat
in the Ohio, just above Madison, Indcuia,
and passed the word by wire down both
hanks of I lie 1 iver that Boyt.ton was com
ing. Skills shot out for miles along the
1 iver as the dead steed di if ted dow n, and st
Madison the entire jMipulace crowded the
wharves. The "sell"' was a saccess.
A tit'teeu year old lad has been arrest
ed in Lenawee county, Mich., and brought
before an Adiian justice on a charge of aa-
sauliiug a woman. It is shown tbat be
has a tenibi'i antipathy for women and
cannot keep the peace when he is in bight
of one. Ilts case is a cations ooe, and
tbey have sent him to the Reform School,
irt hope of etiting !.l:n of L:s IcTosj-rtrra'ty.
A storm of the severest nature nwept '
over Memphis, Tenn., just after midnight ;
Friday. If came from the southwest and
continued three hours. During its progress
the liehtninjr struck the Memphis Cottou
rod Woolen Mills, situated in the southern I
prtof the city, which were eotirely des j
troyed. The mills, valued at f 90,000, em- !
ployed a force of P2o hands, -who bv this 1
disaster are thrown rv.tt of employment. :
A colored woman named Grace Fuller
died last week in Hanover township, Wash- j
ineton county, at the extraordinary ee of
110 years. The directors of the poor bad j
been contributing 1o her support during the ;
past two years, ihe had resided in Hano
ver township for an extended period, and
that she was of the ajje mentioned seems j
to rest on substantial data. She has a ,
daughter named Cassie Davis, aged be-
tween 70 and 80 years, living in the same
township. '
The Talbottom (0a.) J2';i-ter nays :
There is a curious cave near Thomaston. :
in this State, known as Wilmer's cave, j
which was discovered accidentally about ;
three months ago. Dr. W. II. Philpot is j
our informant and he says the cave is filled ;
with the most beautiful tock formations, ;
brilliant as diamonds and scintillating in 1
the sunlight countless iridescent hues.
When one of the rocks, which are all hex
agonal, ia broken, wafer will How out cold
and refreshing to the taste.
Mr. 1. N. Thomas, flour and feed
dealer, of West Chester, says that over
three weeks ago a cat belonging to him
was placed in the stable by some of the '
members of bis family, and nothing was
seen of her nntil Friday, when Mr. Thorn- '
as uncovered her in his bay mow, and
found her fcrawny and emac ated. Some I
three tons of bay had been placed on top .
of her in the mo on the same day she had
been put in the barn. During her impris- :
onment she had had a litter of kittens, and :
as there were none to be found, she had, :
no doubt, in her desperation eaten her lit ;
tie offsprings. ;
A Rideewood (X. J.) woman died the :
other day, and her husband, knowing that j
she had kept an account in a savings bank :
in New York, called at the btnk to draw :
out the deposit which he supposed amount
ed to about $ 10. To bis sn prise be learned
that it reached f 1,200. To his greater :
surprise he was informed that he could not :
draw it. as the money was deposited in the
name of bis wife's sister. lint the greatest I
fturprtae of all was when it was added that ;
the money was held by his sister-in law in j
trust for his deceased wife's son ! It ap- j
peared that she had an illegitimate son in !
Ciermany before coming to America, and in j
10 years of married life her husband never
heard a whisper of her secret. j
The r.altimore fjazrttr of Friday says: j
There was an unaccountable shrieking of 1
steam whistles down at the wharves yester- ;
day afternoon, all the tugs in the harbor j
saluting the steamship Havana. Onboard
the steamship passed the Rev. John Pollard ;
and stalked into the main salo.w, where j
stood a number of passengers with expect- :
ant, smiling faces. The reverened gentle- !
man"proceeded to tie the knot for a young
man named Allison, of Tappaboosie, Va.,
and Miss Ptubbs, a pre It y brunette, aged
19 years, of the same town. It was ex
plained that the parents of the young lady
had opposed the match and the couple had '
concluded to slip 01T from home on the Ha- :
van. After the marriage tbey drove to a
hotel.
Iiidgo I. M. F.lliott, of the Court of
Appeals, Frankfort, Ky., was assassinated
and instantly killed on the s'reet in front
of the Capitol Hotel, at 1 o'clock on Wed
nesday last, by Tlios. Buford, of Henty
county, against, whom F.lliott had rendered
an adverse opinion in Court. For snnw
time. Kuford had a loaded double-barrel
shot-gun and waited for F.lliott to come to
dinner,and walked up and shot bim thiough
the heart without a warning. Buford was
arrested, and is now in jail. There is great ;
excitement and strong feeling against bim.
Ruford, after he was arrested, acknowl
edged the oi her barrel of the gun was load
ed for Judge Pryor, and he a-ould have
killed bim also had not some children been !
in the way. He is a brother of Gctinat
Abe I'nford, of Woodford county.
Captain Norman Crane on bis death
bed at Myers" Hotel, in Washington, last
Sunday night, says the Philadelphia Ti7T
of the 2id, expressed bis willingness to be
married to a woman with whom be had
lived for five years and who bad all along
been known as Mrs. Ma:y Crane, bis wife.
The idea in going tlironth the marriage
ceremony was that Mrs. Crane Miould get
her pait of the $20,(0:) of earthly goods
about to be left by him. Tho Rev. Dr.
James f. Addison was sent for. Accord
ing to his own s'a'ement when bo asked
the tapid'y sinking Crane if be weie "will
ing to many this woman'' Celie Crane, the
Captain's sister, put her hand on the dy
ing man's month and thus prevented the
consummation of the maniago. Upon the
death of the man the isister seized the
p ropor'y.
The le'ters offered in evidence by Mrs.
Oliver against Hon, Simon Cameron, after
a careful examination, show that in the
letters containing the alleged promise of ;
marriage, claimed to be signed by Mr. ;
Cameiou, the g's bavo a loop, wbiio in Mr. :
Cameron's handwriting there is simply a
stroke at the end, and no loop. Also, tbat '
in commencing a letter Mr. C. capitalizes
the d in dear, and in tho alleged letters
the dear commences with a small letter,
and his y's have no loop, as appear in the
t wo letters relied on. Ben Butler made a ;
point tbat will be considered, at least byt he
fraternity, as well taken ; that is that
Cameron, having been a practical printer,
would never have split his words in this
manner. Willows have to be cuefnl in ;
their penmanship, if they want to set. up ;
jobs on us fellows.
According to the Angusta (Ga.) Xftr$ :
' a ben at the South Carolina Railroad yard, i
io that city, took a notion a few days since j
to lay her egss in the tender-box on Bob
Hubbard's switch engine, and notwith-i
standing that veteran's views to the con- !
trary she persisted in getting her work ao
far advanced that it was deemed prudent j
to let her "13V." After depositing, as n'ac ;
thought, the usual complement of fresh '
eegs in order to go into the spring chicken ;
business, she finally settled down to her :
woik and is now daily sitting on her nest.
Sho never leaves the engine only occasion- j
ally when it stops in the yard, and then ;
only for a few moments, to fly off, pick ,
around and stretch herself. The engine is
' in constant use and crossing and recrossing j
. the city daily, pulling long trains of cars. '
The encineer has fitted heYtip with a nice, 1
comfortable cotton nest and before long '
: expects to have a whole lot of steam-engine '
i chickens.
One of the boldest bank robberies ever j
known in Pittsburgh came to light on Sa'- j
urday, although the Irank officials were ,
trying to keep the matter quiet and would ;
not even describe the thieves to the police, j
About noon on Friday a man went to Mr. j
Smith, the President of the A rt isans' Bank
', and also the President of (he Artisans' In- i
suratice Company, which ha? an office ,
. above the bank, and asked about some in- i
sutanco matters, .lust then another man '
drove up in a bupgy and was introduced to
Mr. Smith as a friend of the first caller. ;
The latter said be would go tip to the in
surance office, and left Snsith talking to tho :
man in the buegy. Another man then en- 1
gaged the cashiei's attention about a diaft,
while the first rascal slipped into the Pies
ident1 room and carried off all the cur en- '
, ev be could get bold o-f and a lot of bonds, j
1 The thiee then drove off in the bugsy.
i The amount stoln cannot be learned, but
is at least $1,000 in currency and $1,000 or
$5,000 iu bonds.
The Boston dole says that the first
puzzle in the Lynn mysteiy is solved.
Thursday afternoon the body of the tin for-
t'inate girl found in a Hank iu the Sangus
river was identified by Mrs. Olive Jaue
CHik, of Boston Highlands, as that of her
daughter, Jennie P. Clai k. A mole, other
marks and the facial similarity clinched the
identity. Jennie was 20 yeais old on Feb-
ruary 2J, the day the body was found. She
was a sweet-faced, smiling little creature.
with Wifre, innocent eyes a meie child.
Her father was a soldier in the lale war.
Her mother, a w id ow, supposed that Jen
nie was at woik in the bouse of A. N. Ad
ams, nt 412 Dudley street, and Ibercfoie
bad not been alarmed until suddenly the
tboncbt occurred tbat the Lynn body
might he Jennie's. But now thai the iden
tity is established the second part of the
mystery is icachcd. How did Jennie
come to her death? It is known that she
was the victim of some man. There are
evc;! c'ttrs aud they ate bein vfoikeJ out.
tuk ;iu:at fositive cure
A- all Tim "
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THE ONLY TETTZ T-XTIZDT FOE COLDS.
Itltrmlrn to ipt!-.r npn y -nrtE c.r t.W i'iKT
tttil'l. IfJ ' rii. rr' -nojol !
II1I1T. liTIPTII. llliMV r riiwl M-.i-. .
r u dunr.vr n.i m from lrt e Itiimii, fi
ef 11.010 m4 tk It u .! rtler. uiv-n !;(...;.
In Tn -Hti, Brntin, t-nTt:tt n I r"i'li " ,,'
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f-M- ro 'n onn er t .ml u t u.ont r
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bu'l-ti jp. tlins cu
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Walker & Ruhrer Mfp. "., I'rop r",
UJobB MrMI.
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-F'er .ie tiy I.eiuin.in Murnty I'ent'iirir.
who are authorized to nuaranf" Vi.'KI-K to
prove as represented. (10-11. TS -ly .)
THE ORIGINAL & ONLY GENUIRE
"Vibrator" Threshers,
WTTTI imiOVKD
MOUNTED HORSE POWERS,
And Ittia Tliratltar I'.mglif,
Mftde onlr f.y
NICHOLS, SHEPARD & C0.f
BiTTI.E CIiri-.K, MICH.
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OR Particular call an awr Hralcra
rlt tu tt I". I . ti " r! rc;.r, ulcii Wm Di;. lrh
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EUilPH KEYS'
KGIIEOPATIIIO SPECIFICS
Tti In cfitrrtl vtLtr fir t-rmlj year.
l'niiifr ka mi.',! kil l,
kUMti.l l '.ft il ui I ! I K lIAT
rt' '"ni k iihi . 'Ii,ffrt)u! wiial
tiir w-B '' !njf tirue. ir.onrT,
tlrVo'M u tiii rlitf. l;irrf in$i?
3 ivf i Iwe trli triri yr cr iylioii ef
D tallfii klclZL.
v f'rre. Cent
V I vr, Coitt-;.:i:. Ir.7r.rrct:on, . .
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t. -.-, fcirli If ,irhi. Vertigo,
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tlii, nn-tnc l ate, .
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i. fe t' tul. (-crced pimi.d. S i-I'it.
.'.. I.'rirvl Dei'il ty, I'iivtlml Wahtfii,
Urjjv;- inti srviity liecreti(i:t. . . .
i ". tmtt it . irir.i'- frorjriiioc.
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Ker e Willi y, itl V, (in-tij,
.irv ticiii. 'riW"r,
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Fuliiltil Pfrltii. vruiib K:im. .
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Uirkf ifritrt. T-a:piTiititj, etc .
Tl". ty lej,t) , fcp,ni. r. Vitus' Dsncf,
! iitlt ti f rt a . nlrr'ril :rr thmat, .
i.-. IXirviiic t Liu5t iu and Erm.tloa, Z)
IfiSILI ilSLS.
Ctf, V orov r. wilh above SK larcc ant
Ka'iual of dircriioce, S10.C0
C'cir Morocco, cf U0'arU:t and rrt, 6.00
lliftf rrm dire are sent tv l fcr rn-e
atnyl kaa er Till, t mny part of the
raxtatrf, free f rlt mrr, cu receiptor
prirr. idrlrrii
liiimphFPja'tttfDirnraf fclrjf eteneCn.
Office and Iiepot. loi Fuitnti St. New iort.
For fcalr by ail lirurilttt.
fr"Htrniphrevs' Specific Manual on tha
care and treatment of disease and its cure,
sent TRELS on appUcation.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
VKI wkKtt or ffpra(lori : a
Trcn' cxliUsU-il tcelmj, ix enersry or oour-ao-i-;
the result of tucBtil vr.verk,
lrtdr!Ua r titsiit, or (nmg
drain upon the system, ia always cured fiT
ncurQKcu' hokeofat2ic tr-ir.mc . as
It tonos up and invii;r.ratcu nc ttrnt.
disrrr-l the ploom and dfsjitnitlcnrtv.triipartti
litri'nfrtli and oncr-y, Hops the dm.ti an l
wjtivftiatcs the t titirr! num. I. n tis' d
twenty years with rfect sucecss bv tinu
ttwids. Snld l.y tl';ali.-rs. I'r'n c. $lj'ii ptr
Kintrlc vial, or ?5.0O jht vat kaire of tivi- viala
and f 2.00 vial of powder. JSeui t.v ln.iil on
reeeipt of price. Adiln sJ Kl apHi;KTC
HOI KOP 4 1 IIIC- n t lH I K (ollPtW
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.StW'J ;:--,.Tr :ir' "ur by an," n.l,. , in the n, 1,1,00 a tt
lV-X IV-- t Tr-: -rl .-tvit--. ..s-. c.r- . we shall ifoni lime to time add rw
mi. ft . r t -r- I
T VIBRATOR Z I
BKill. j
Til F. ?I a tr . ra i --w-u Time
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F-r - ii. t, -iTi4 tl ! k t y V. Jn.
ffte't Clelutg , ftfi4 Ut Mir ii : f:
BK AIM KaUert wli! r to ttin
fi iim -ii M;4ft.'iit.i. i t - i - k
thts OIlir ill, v r.t - ; m't i ii .- i e 1 1 :
at iiul X V Vi
OR
ii $'
f
; LEVIS St BICKEL, Solicitors.
T)ATKNTS procured cn New Inrentlons In rrom
15 to Si days. send for circular containinir
! useful information. OtHce. HI tlCHi ItrniF,
j nlmve Smi'hfleld sireet, opi-osita M. K. I'hurcli,
j Phtstiunrh, l'a. 13 14. 11m. j
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rpo !lll.RTIst l!S.-Sen.l fori our Sleto
'
X Ijisi. ol laical rewspHpers. Sent l-ee on ap
i.ieation
Ad.lrfsc till). V. ROWIM, k
VX.
rK f ew ypr.
ATTENTION
EVERYBODY!
We Tclre tn inform-the jmKiic ,
general that tee Jiave
Established a Store
T
TUNNEL HILL.
And respectfullv InvPe attention n -..'
thai il enilirncts
Much More In Quantity ana Yrfe
than Is usually kept in stores or tl e k!r.
Jt is freryu-here rnticctlnl
who have given us a call fflf,f
qtj:b. STOCK
I NOT FQI'AI.I.rr)
lures snu new lima ol tr -wi?
phsll always l uy In larv-i-(jiirni
1 r ici Hiid ai
low no re
duction In ioeJi
we h'pe I'V !! lift Bdtir.
crrt to l.onO ;(i(ifis. ( l(-j
PHU tr A Nl SVI'A ia: KFAIIVi, Tr
MAKE Ul ii S idKi; Til EUhEAT
HEADQUARTERS FOR
! ALL KIND OF GOODSt
i '-'
More tiiBti that. wefliaH
the iutereft of a
-n.feavor t - t:
i ciarX" 1 1
i'k :
n r a iinriitie nrnu urii-, ..
utAL.fiinuortnrfiAntri Lr
I..- ...-.', itlv ialr.p:n fhi - , - . .
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wish lo ItpfrmtH In Mil rrt: r
o t? r jz ii
s
for M km'lfl of Kr' nri prfHiif'. tt,
ten fTT !h"m frlr tn H'tTar
of othr iu tlie buinf-.
CASH PAID-FOR GR.!N WHEN S3 EScj UIZK-
tW 7?r oirnc'tir aolieif tfc" rn'rnr- rf th
putdic and pled(fe our ter e!T irtf in tratu
actions.
B, M. JOHNSTON & CO.
STORES llc""B'
W ill j tre.Vftrr
Tinarl Hill."'
KI.Ol'KINO MI LL--VTii.ua us nr n
Janimry S4. It-TP. Cm.
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KANSAS FAIOIS
FREE HOMES!
Tie KANSAS PACIFIC HOMESTEAD
a'i" 4iCflr Kullw ir roTT.j'any.to iiit't t-r
n! iT:rrefi.Tiir jVrrtaT I f'-r Irf -Ttri i : b -t
KANSAS, nn I ii 1 j t tiihwt: : rl -
Ptruniun ot itfl r'ai. This irrar.t r.r::;T" t
Five trillion AC1? KS'
t'-wn-.Vp fr a 1!tfaii.-e rf twenty in t r.
ni-ic-i "t the roaa. (ir n LaM vt tl;f Ian-! i s ;
, fr.rty fr wi1r, ex;tn1:iitf to I'tcnTf-r ( ' . v. 1
'ra'lo. hu form 1 ntr a Mm mti aT t n of ;rc r v :
o-nitry whi'-li. fr-.m the A t ia nt '- ? Tat
' ( him I to Ne, in r i ;tdi p. il, unl ever v tn-rj..
j tlon I nature, the ra.tt farvre 1.
i The Kansas Pacific
Mllra tho SlKirlnl linnil
Httift lly fo Denver.
from
The faTcrt'e rutt . T t' e tf-ur!t ar
to the
1 t? K
!nn .Turin CJouiitiv
A r.-ipy ef Th H . .
to anv h.1-1- I.v
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p. n. iiKiivi,
M?7l'l I.1o,
yr?li 14. -etn
i':Tp w.H t-e cii'ltl '.:
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K. Land t-r,n-.r
- a .r a. I. ai..,i
nd Ticket A ir.-rit.
Kari'df i 't:v. .V '
THE GREAT ENGLISH KEMEDY.
Cray's Specific Mealcine.
TRADE tPK.I' cpri-i.ii!.v rc-
RUTS M'L
ci'mirii ii-l-'! r .in
nn fr 1 3 iritc nirt- f'-r
M' l n v a-
i:hk. Jmi-o-
TKM'V, llTl II
"V ,. slf .11. :. as - V
Before Taking-
i-B of M KMRY. I r, ,J T-1---
Af:
f iTrritf. Pain in J( a . 1 iimn khc nr V ::.-. I s
M a Tt" it k ' M r Aob. m l matiy or I'.-r (ti:'-.'i T '
loti'l t.i In-an't y. ( -.-n!! )-T i..n art'l ft Pr.-nitf '
(irnrc. all "I wtiih rs a mle arf firt rauc"l
it t-viar Inir ff-n I he ptf h (t r.iture An.l i-vcr in
ir'n.-o. Tl:r Sj'-i ti-- M e-1 ir m is t tie rccu ' t . -
srii'ly nnl mnny yetir. i 1 expend. re in tr.i'. :.
tfl.e cpf'ttil I'll;-:!.-".
Fnl 1 purr ii-ulnr? in cur prtr.phlpt s. irhl'li np '1
sir- to -n:l tree ty nt't-1 i., every one.
The Specirt's Mrrtirine Is nM'ty nil I'rvn.-. '"
at 1 per packMie. (.r cu paclfaa' ? f r 5 ; -
be cent lv uiun r--- tpt of the ni..n' v t.v :i 1 r-:
ln " I 51 K ; It IV M MM' "INK ("'!..
No. 10 Mhnriies- I'l.H-lt. Pktr.i: r. ' i ' f
I-SoM in Frter linrir fy It. T. lii'BBK-is. ir
by I iruririr! f e-.-ry where.
"lUmtis . Ewisii, Wholesale Anfi.". 1' i
nnrir. Pa. :y j
AGENTS-
H WANTEI
a
FOR or it
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N'iV IN rilKSS
THE INDUSTRIAL
HISTOKY OF THE UNITED ST ATES
lleinir a mtrplete Mmcry of all tl a imp r'.i-'. ji
(lnslriegof A nieriea. Jneluil inir Atcti tir.ur ' " '
ermnic!, .Iiiniitrtrturir.it. Minl-.ir. . tr -i-
ami oilier enterprise At-ut lxiu liriif " ' '
p;iKe nnd 3 0 fine ennravinus.
A() irnKA." IAKH IT KVKI Pfttf !!:i-
1'nr if run and trrrlt'.ry npply a: i n -r :
The Hearj Rill I'ahlishina t o. nrc I. ti. D"
GEO. WTO A T M A N .
ATTORNEY AT LAV.
lUliettsbnrff, Vambvtt Count;.
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DKTCSIONS. Hnrk Pav. ar.l
H -ui
J Pensions. I. gun iire.l Itc-n-ty
1 a.. Vi.-T
t- 'JKf.
ft-. (tn -r 1 I
t'latnis speedily co'.leete'l. Keal K
atid soM. and pnvnient ef tui'S
Honk AeiHiunts. .Notes. Iae Hili'. ja.-ua-'
lients, dr., colIeetd. Pfidj. MortK-nc--. A
mvnts. Letters if Attorr.y, lion s. a ' . :
written, and all If id b.'sints eaieta.ly
e.l toon reasonable terns. fr S"-''; '
1 1. in eiTen to a tl k iruls ol &us!nes In " hs
Court, and the settlemert of Ar"nunt "I r
tors. .4.iriitstrafori', Ovnr liiii j'..'"-"
Amiauet. f'i-H . L
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RUBBER BELTING
Hrnnru Hose; Ki-bheh
I'M'MRAriO, AHKST!.
IrM.iav AM'
lli.yp P araixn :
I.44.K l.i Tnri.
Uniiim: ''it--
And Mill Supplies Cencraliv-
U'AHI.HHI SK nnd (Hi ll i
Mo. JOS Water Sfrec. I'ittburyh
T1IOUP A:. CO.
Mroh 22. IsTS.-ly.
i PIRRE'S MARBLE Wis
139 Franklin Street, Johrstovk?.
M
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f T I
NKT SI, A B. M AX IH.v .V-., nine'
f net n ! t the very Italian Hii-tkj
Anieriean Marl'IfS. Kntire snt is' (-t
tii .n Imuran) ced i n pricv. destt'ii nnd ? . j
cWiirrti
ti'rr.l work.
tr llrdem resne.-tf nllv Pf'
and promptly filled at the very
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April S4. Is7,t.-tf. JOl'.N
DR. L. D. HOFFMAN,
Saryeon Dentist, JjjJ,-'
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remain one week. A! . will ' .' j-. -ti '-
tho sit"i.!(t Mlnoat i-r ti Month. -one
dar. AM work mairnieif.
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(Ifflce and resl'lenee (.n Kmirtertit li s.r a ,
Eleventh avenue, where tittit calls j - , 4
tltfice houra lrom to p.. a. " ,n'1 lf ,,'.
sn.lt to a. r. Special a'"'"',"'' f'
eases.il the Kve and far. ' .'".
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