EBENSQURC, PA..
FRIDAY. - - - - JULY 30, 18S0.
I)P.)I1HR.VTH' NATIONAL TICKET.
fVR PHESIHENT:
Gks. WINFIKLD S. HANCOCK,
OF rEXSSTLVASIA.
KOK VICE TKIISinENT:
IIox. WILLIAM II. ENGLISH,
OF INDIANA.
I)i:.nt It ATIf STATE IK Iil T.
von srrnnuK Jin;n:
iiox. ;eo. a. jexks,
1f J'jTenoi County.
FOR AI'MTOfl r.ENKlHL:
, HOB EI IT P. DECIIF.UT.
Of Philadelphia.
coi.
nCXOCRATIC OI'NTY TI li FT.
Kor. CON(;-,F.-Ss :
A. IT. COFFP.OTIl, of Somerset.
nhjrrt to rfTi'sioT of ftfrnorratir Confrrrnrr.
FOR FVATE SKSATOn:
II K P.MAN r.AI'MEK, of Conemaush J5oro
Subject to decision of ftrmorratic Conference.
Folt assem r.t.v :
.TOHN FKXLON. of T.heniditirir.
I.. i. WOODHI'KK, i.f J'lhnsti.wn.
Foil rr.OTiiosoT.inv:
AllAKI.IiS A. 1iA.M1HF.IS, il t'hest Towntdiip.
rent IMHTKIIT attohsby:
AVILI.IAM II. SKCIILEK, of Khen.-djurLt.
ro:t rooK noes,: jukk. roit-s :
FK AM-1S.I. It KK.i:. (a vears.) orSii.iiieliannri. '
WlKiK W. KASI.Y, li year.) .f Johnstown. !
I
Iiif.i.ani) contains twenty millions of j
neros of laml. Of this, one landlord i
owns 170.I.") acres ; own one-third
of tlio island; 741 one-half, and l,'.i 12 j
over two-thirds. Of the 1,042, 1,727 are j
absentees men who reside in London j
and other places in England and are
rarely seen in Ireland.
"I DON'T Itl.AME VOt', I)AX," is the
way Conkling responded to the declara
tion of Gen. Daniel Rutterfield, of Ro-
rhester, New Vork, always an unyield-
ing Republican, th;-.t lie couldn't get over
voting for Hancock. The woods all over
me country appear to be full of just such t
men as Dan. Rutterfield.
'
The sum and substance of the defense
yet up by the Republican papers against
the testimony of Oakes Ames implica
ting Garfield in the crookedness and cor
ruption of the Credit Mobilier business,
is that although he was bribed by his
fellow Congressman, Amos, he was of
sucli an unsuspecting nature, and of such
a purely literary turn of mind, that he
didn't know it. This conclusion, which
is a sony compliment to Garfield, is ar
rived at on the familiar theory that ''he
who is robbed, not knowing it, is not rob-
bed at all.'
At a met tiiig of. John Kelly's Tarn
many Democratic Slate Committee held
at Saratoga, New York, on Friday last,
the Slate electors placed in the field last
April by that branch of the Democratic
party was withdrawn, and a resolution
atlopted pledging the hearty support of
the Tammany organization to the regu
lar, or Tilden. electoral ticket headed "by
Abram S. Hewitt. The union of the
twj factions of the party in New Y
M Yf.ir v,..
h -xcw oik
is now complete, and assures her vote in
xoeiui r in iavor ol Hancock bevond
Jill shadow of doubo.
The latest and most singular phase
in the Democratic politics of R'air coun
ty is the fact that at a meeting of the
Democratic County Committee, held on
Saturday last, a resolution was adopted
pressing confidence in the Chairman
of the Committee, John A. Doyle, Fsq.,
of Altuona.and requesting the Chairman
of the state Committee "in all matters
appertaining to the conduct of the cani
Itiign in this (l'i.iiri county, to consult
him (the chairman of the county com
mittee) regardless of the wishes or opin
ions of outside parties."
The Republican press is just now
raising a great outcry liecause an ex
confederate soldier has filed a claim for
a iK.-n.sion at W ashirgton on account of
wounds received while in the rebel army.
It has Inn ascertained that he is a poor,
half-witted fellow who was induced by
some enterprising Republicans to make
bis claim, and told that it would W. paid.
The papers were prepared by a Republi
can ckM agent at Washington, nnd it. i
In lieve 1, at the suggestion of the Re- !
publican Campaign Committea. It is I
the rase of a drowning man grasping at
a straw.
A National Convention was held ;
in Indianapolis some days ago whose
proceedings seem to have fallen still- '
ltorn u n the country. It was railed a
convention cf "Irish-Americans," and
the few i!;tical adventurers who com- !
loosed it had a great d al to say about the ,
Kt'iicn-sity of the Republican parly in '
iipiointing to the office of Postmaster at .
2"'ew Vork a prominent and representa- ' citizens do not like to see worn by cau
tive Irish American, General Patrick H. I tlidates for the I'residency of the United
Tones. Two or three davs after the con- ' states, it would seem to be more to the
ventioti, adjourned, General Jones the Purpose for our Republican friends to i discussion of the various theories of "spnn
7,: . . . ' ' ' , -r.i .ii..- , , , taneous combustion." It is very widely-
Irisu-Ainencan in question, publishrd a , show, if they can, that this cap does not nnion farmersand just as earnestly dc-
Mrong letter avowing ins determination !
to vote for Hancock and I'liglish. ;
I r is surprising how suddenly a Union
-
cohliei who votes the Ie:n icratic ticket,
fall, from grace in the estimation of the ,
Jiep-jpiican ptirty ; and it is no less as- '
toiiislnng ilOW ,;iti-iotio an ex-relx l le- i
comes the moment h joins this same '
Republican organization. It is a vital I
doctrine of that party, that a rebel who j
votes its ticket outranks in patriotism j
ami loyalty a Democratic I'nion soldier, j
-md hence the Republican press; to-day j
regards Loiigstrect, w ho was repulsed by
Hancock at Gettysburg, as a better man
than Gji. A. I.. Pearson, of Pill.sburg,
nuo iongia inrougn tne war and lias al-
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"v uiiii .i i.epuoiican, out m no on a ;
ie. uet.(..p;n pi:i....ciy uttlartU hua-
Tits death of John G. Lak?, Esi.,
Register and Recorder of this county,
more than three months prior to the
next general election, creates a vacancy
in the office which must be filled in No
vember by the election of his successor,
for the full term of three years from the
first Monday of January next. How
shall the Democratic candidate be nom
inated ? The Crawford county system
of making nominations was adopted by
a majority of the votea polled at the del
egate elections on the l'Jth of June last,
but as this system cannot enforce itself
without the aid of certain rules and reg
ulations, and as they have not yet been
established, and we presume will not be
until some time during the coming win"
ter. it is manifest that a nomination :n
the present instance under that system is
entirely out of the question. Nor would
it be satisfactory to reassemble the coun
ty convention for the purpose, even if
that course could be legitimately adopt
ed. The only mode, therefore, of mak
ing a nomination is by the County Com
mittee, a method only to be permitted in
an exceptional case like tlie present one.
The Committee consists of fifty-two mem
bers, one from each election district, and
is consequently just half as large a body
as a f ml county convention. It.is a very
difficult thing, although it ought not to
be so, to get a fall attendance of a coun
ty committee except through snhstitutrs,
who are invariably manufactured by
parties interested in the action of the
committee,
We Imp on former occi-
e ime on lormer occa-
sions protested against packing the conn-
ty committee With substitutes for a spe-
J
ciiic purpose, and we here renew ourob-
jections to the practice, which is uncall-
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ed for and sure to produce unsatisfactory
results. The committee is composed of
intelligent men, who are fully competent
. i. r-i r i-...
j 10 uiscuss uie ninos Vi ramiui-uw, .u-.
I well as their claims upon the party, and
to make a satisfactory nomin.it ion, ns we
liave no doubt they will do for the ollice
of Register and Recorder, as well as for
, . , ., .
Coroner and Surveyor, which the county
convention failel to provide for, when
1 they meet in this place on next Monday
week, in pursuance of the call of the
chairman, printed elsewhere.
Li kk P. Poland, of Vermont, who
was chairman of the Credit Mobilier in
vestigating committee, is now trying to
hedge on his report, which declared that
( 'en. Garfield took ten shares of stock
j from Oakes Ames that he received div
idends on the stock suflicient to pay for
I it and t-IJU besides, which sum he paid
; to Garfield, and says that he never
doubted Garfield's personal integrity.
This is purely an afterthought, and as
; Poland, w hen he made hisreiort in ls7:i,
1 never dreamed that Garliel.l, would be
' the Republican candidate for President
in 18Si), he is only now stretching his
conscience somewhat violently to get
Garfield out of a very tight place. Rut
Poland does not pretend to say that the
sworn statement of Ames lie lore the I
comuiittee was not true, and on which u.,;,r cavalry during the war, and priorto th-.it
tune was private secretary t the Hon. Y al
the committee reported Mr. Garfield ter Forward when he was minister to Den
guilty of perjury. If Poland thinks that mark. The Colonel will be followed to the
is partisan opinion in ls'iean wipe out !
the official record of the committee of
! w hih he was chairman
in 173 he is
not as shrewd as Vermont politicians
generally are. He cannot now alter the
rtcoid or fritter away its plain moaning.
There it is and there it will remain, be
yond his or any other man's reach to
change it or set it aside. He signed the
report in ls7" recommending the expul
sion of Ames for bribery. Rribing
whom ' Why, Colfax, Garfield, Patter
son and others. If that was true in 17.1
is it not equally true in Insi) ? an,i jf jt
is, then Luke P. Poland and his Repub
i ,. ... .. 1,1
i hcan committee were liars and slander-
ers in ls7:. There can Ik? no other con- i
: Mnvim. n..,- .v.. .l.t .
course, and Poland can take whichever
horn of the dilemma he prefers.
While boarding at the St. Cloud Ho
tel, in New York, in 171, a quantity of
valuable jewelry lielonging to Gen. Han
cock's wife and daughter w as stolen from
their bureau drawer. General Hancock
brought suit against tlie proprietor of
the hotel to recover its value, but owing
to that ancient and vexatious impedi
ment known as "the law's delay,"' the
case has never yet been finally disjKised
of by the Court. This trilling circum
stance, however, does not shield General
Hancock: from Republican abuse and de
nunciation for having instituted legal
proceedings to recover the value of his
l'"'" op J' .. iuiiuii.-ii. n mis
iewelrv loss it is inn do a mi ter n f lwvist '
Jf weilj PVsS, 11 IS innUC am.literOI OO.lSt, ;
that Garfield was never able to own anv-
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thing of the kind, hut if he wasn't he
was hoth able and willing to own ten
sh ires of stock v liicb bp received ns n '
Mi.UL.s oi mwk A. Ji IL ll lie rtCClel as a .
wader from Oakes Ames, and from
which lie derived some enormous divi
t dends.
The jmsition of Iiopnbliean con to in -Ioraries
in the matter of Judge Swayne
and General Garfield, as described, by the
New Vork World, seems to be that as
Judge Swayne did not make for tl.e head
of General Garfield a cup w hich lie un
doubtedly made, and which happens to ,
fit the head of General Garfield exactly, I
it is a proof of jKilitieal depravity to state
that the cap tits General Garfield. This
may le. J5ut as t!:e cap which Judge
vaync made and which fits Gen. G;ir- !
I"-''1 is il kind of cap which American
"t tienerai tiartieid
It is becomin
mfire evident every
dav frmn the tone of llu Renublie.m .
-
press, that the hopelessness of electing !
Garfield is now so perfectly apparent to
the Republican leaders, that they will i
concentrate
all their energies to carrv
close Congressional districts, hoping j
thereby to cripple llai.coek's acminis
t rat ion in the work of reform.
Y. If. Ui.lis telegraphs from Mont
gomery, Alabama, July -JJd, to the
Chairman of the Democratic National
Committee as follows: "Our colored
Hancock and English club on it.s third
meeting last night numbered 010. The
meeting last night numbered 010 The
"... . . ' !
colored voters area unit for the cause."' j
This pa.ifp" accounts for the uAU: in tic I
joh-l ooulh"' toLoai.ut.
The Congressional Committee ap
pointed to investigate the Credit Mobi
lier scandal made its report to the House
on the 19th of February, 173, the three
members composing the majority being
Poland, Banks and M'Crary, all well
known and prominent Republicans.
How was that report received and view
ed by the leading Republican papers of
the country ? Did tliey repudiate it or
cast a doubt upon the truthfulness of the
statements made by the committee ?
Did they then come to the rescue of Col
fax, Garfield and others who were impli
cated by the report, and attempt to pal
liate or excuse their conduct ? When a
Democratic paper now repeats the very
language of the report in reference to
Garfield, the Republican press cries out
that it is false and libellous, although
three Republican members of Congress
said over their own signatures that every
word of it was true. The New York
Timr$ and the New York Trihune w ere
the two leading Republican organs in
1S7.5, and the following extracts from
their columns immediately after the Ro
land report was made, affords mighty
interesting reading :
From lite Aetr York Times, Fb. -0, 1".'!.
The character of the Credit Mobilier was
no secret. The source of its profits was very
well known at the time Congressmen bought
it. Timugh Oakes Ames may have succeed
ed in concealing his own motive, which was
to bribe Congressmen, their acceptance of the
stock was not on that account innocent. The
dishonor of the act, as a participation in an
obvious fraud, still remains.
Some of them have indulged in testimony
I uu icieicuce 10 un- iu.iu.-i iuv.ii o,.s
contradicted. The Committee distinctly re-
.jrrt.t the lestimomi of ttveral of the members.
! Thjtcan onlybe ilone on the .jround that itis
untrue. JJ'it untrue testimony gicca v mleroaui
is morally if not iciaiiv rjiny.
j ns tlie clear duty of Congress to visit with
punishment all who took Credit Mobilier
; stock from Oakes Ames.
j From the Xew York- Tribune., Ftb. is?3.
i James A. Oarfield, of Ohio, had ten shares;
i never paid a dollar : received f'..i, which,
, af u.r tfie investjRat began, he was anxious
! to have considered ns a loan from -Mr. Oakes
! AV1.toJ,ln,1'if4,(1,1( f n ()f is i:it
those men betrayed the trust of the people,
j deceived their constituents ami by evasions
and falsehoods confessed the transactions to
! uc disgraceful.
From the A'tir York Tri'jnne, Ftb. 2i, 187.1.
Mr. Ames established very clearly the jint
that he was not alone in this otl'ence. If he.
is rsjirllett for bribery the men who tecrc bribed
should qo irith him.
Another Convert. The Pittsburg
Criiie gives the particulars of a straw
vote taken on a train near Pittsburgh,
the other da3T, during which those en
gaged in it met w ith a surprise. The
Critic tells the story as follows :
Among the passengers was Col. Henry I.
Hys. pud when the self-constituted commit
tee approached him, he in answer to llieir in
quiry said, "I am for General Hancock."
Considerably surprised, one of them said,
"Colonel, are you in earnest'."' "I never,"
replied the Colonel, "put my name to paper
unless I mean to stand by it. I am for Han
cock and don't care who knows it." It is
well known that Col. Hays has been one of
the stalwart Kepublicans'nf this end of the
State, has been for many years a member of
the county Republican committee, and has
represented his district in every Republican
convention for twenty years. The Colonel
lias long been known as a "Coal Kins," as
well as the fact that he has always been lib
eral to his men in every way, and ns a natu
ral result his influence among them is very
great. The Colonel was an otlicer in the reg-
i A Tf.ukii'.i.y Fatw. Diskvsk. Comino
East. For two months or more a form of
disease lias prevailed among children in Cin
j einnali resembling diphtheria in some of its
,- forms. It seems to differ from diphtheria
; mainly in its virulence, many of the cases re
I suiting fatally in two or three (lays after tiie
developmc-nt'of the firt symptoms. While
the disease resembles diphtheria in many of
j the types of that disease, yet it does not yield
j to diphtheritic treatment. It shows entirely
! new features, witii which the medical pro
: fession are not familiar. The symptoms are
an cxtraoidinary swelling of the glands, ac
, companied by high fever. The disease seems
to be confined to childien between two and
t ten years of age. In families of three m four
i children under ten years of age where the
: disease broke out, an average of two were
attached, wnue tiie oliiers remained exempt.
ti... .i-... h i.,. ;.. ,
attached, while the others remained exempt.
and vicinity about six weeks, hut is now hap-
puy waning. It seemed to be epidemic for a
lime. ome deaths occurred from sunocation
alone. The disease seems to have come from
j the West, and appears to tie tiaveliing erist
i ward. About two months ago it attracted
' attention in Chicago, where it then ba tiled
! the skill of the physicians.
j Twins Font Months Atakt. Tn our
genera! news department mention is made
of two children being born of the same mot 1:
! er in Montgomery county within four months
j of each other, and here is a similar case re
1 ported by Mr. Coleman, a correspondent of
; the Philadelphia lsthnr, who writes to that
paper from Pluen ixville, Pa., under date of
! July 21st:
Ir. Il:iwlry, ot tlii t"vn, lins now under lii?
care a yonnn inrrieil woman, airnl 'JJ y-ars. who
U.ivc lurtii on S.itiinlav la-a to a mnle rlillil, just
; lour month? alter tlie hirlliol n loiiinlc child. It
f ai'i'cars that the woman refilled in I'hil.iih-lpMa.
i when lier rift child was tmrn. prematurely, in
j Mnrrh l:it, tht; inlant lieinir an ejitht months'
I child. It was so puny at birth that tears were en
. tertatned for ir lite, l.ut it rallied, though the
; mother was only aide to nnr it tor ahont two
. week.. The mother did not regain her Ftrentr'li,
and exhihited aeeurdimr. to her 1'hvsirinir. .t:ife-
--i- -.' ' -a'-.. ii ii- .i .11
meiii. ?yii:iitoiii. 01 uroii-v, wnn pweninir of
iinit.s nmi K-ft. Mit) rfin.ivf.l to this vicinity, ami
,V:"' i,,,e X" ""''! ' hous.Pol.l -I'lairs niit"il' la-t
sviinlav. when ?Ue ifivehirth to n hciilthy i.ialo
child-.,-'ust """tt'-- in ti;f i-irth .t tie.- nrst
j en--. i no iiiotaii-r m iii.m 11 f! 1 , n nn IS 1101T utile
; to niu-sf- In.th rliildrcn. Tli is case, tliona h cnnsiit
, ercil a very curious one. ami ?o far not Mecoiuito.I
I l..r icatlsluctnrily. Is nut tlie tirsi ol the kiml n-en
ln "eK,ri"- A pnjmr upon the .u.).rt
will he preiuiri-il l.y lr. Ilnwley to bo read ticli.ro
the County Mcuicai Society.
PENNSYLVANIA K A! I.T.O t I'.rSINKss.
The monthly statement of t he business of all
lines of the iVnnsylvania nailroad.Conipnny
east of Pittsburgh and Krie for Jniie, ls.so, a"s
compared with the same month in 187H,
shows t
An increa-c in (rros? e.imini:.- of :m.fji6
Au iiiereti!. in expenyes ot 4e.i.'4i3
An increase tn net earnihei" of -o.l,UMi
The six nionlhs of Iskii, as compared with
the same period in tsT'.i, show :
An increase In iiTo3 enrnin. of. ?l.or-o.ota
An increase In cxprti.es ul l,T."t4'Si
An increase in net eamiicrs of $2.24S,.STa
AH lines west of Pittsburgh si ml Krie for
tlie six months of fssn show a surplus fiver
liabilities of f I, .11 l.l.w;. being a gain over the
same period in l7'.i of (1,7:'.4T3.
. r.cn-inc. Barns aftkk IImivf.st. The
i annual recuriance of numerous barn burn
i iligs, immediately after harvest and at the
time when such a disaster entails the great
est loss to tiie farmer, gives rise anew to the
nieii by many :f them, that damp oas or bay
will give rise to a degree that heat will cause
a conflagration, and that a piece of iron or a
steel fork, left in the body of the grain, will
PZ tWLJx!."
uncus;! v i tie danger. It, IS a mooted ones-
ii-oi vi j.ii in inn u,;i iti.H inn rn'iij ir. rt" i -
tied by scientific investigation. The farmers
MM .Idcii is byS
blainr, barns.
"
wiVV;,
complication of ailments that no doctor
coiiid tell what was I he mat ter or cure her.and
I used up a small foitune in humbug stuff.
Six months ago I saw a I'. S. flag with Hop
Hitters on it, and I thought I would be a fool
once more. I tried it, nut my folly proved
to be wisdom. Two bottles cured her ; she
is now as well and strong as any man's wife,
and it cost mc only two dollars. .Such lolly
pays. 11. W., Detroit, Mich.
1 -,, U, T' 'S i.t v.o., ..larsnan, .Me in
Kan, will send their celebrated Llectro-Vol
laic ll.-ILs to the atliicted upon :;o days trial, j
l'w!y tm"-s g-wramewi. They mean wk.it
the-
V i i'.t to tiii.iji w it
ciili.
.-I.
:.iy.
OCR mi LA DELPHI LETTER.
PENNSYLVANIA A DEBATABLE STATK
OKOAM.KU FOR Til E BATTLE THE
DEMOCRACY NEVER DIES LET l"S
HAVE PEACE.
Fh i la deltii i A. July "25, 1880.
To the Editor ot the Cambria Freeman :
The Democrats will give the Republi
cans in this city trouble this e'.ection.
Pennsylvania is fairly a debatable state, i
and the Democrats will make a great ef
fort to win it. This city is chuck full of
the Hancock lioom and is unusually live
ly in fornvng Democratic clubs. Penn
sylvania is to-day a debatable State.
ORGANIZED FOR RATTLE.
The Democratic masses are fully or
ganized for the battle in November, and
active work has bep-un. At a meeting
at which all the leading representatives
Thomas Mav Pierce and Richard J. J.en
non ; Treasurer, George R. Rerrill. Tiie
chairman was empowered to apjxiint two
solicitors to attend to the legal business
of the committee. Also, a committee on
election officers, supervisors and over
seers ; a committee on printing and ad
vertising; a committee on town meet
ings : a committee on assessments of
candidates, and an executive committee,
to have control of tax receipts and elec
tion matters in general. Mr. Cassiday
gave the cue for the conflict in a short
speech, which drew forth immense ap
plause. He said the campaign would be
an aggressive one a determined effort
to bring to the polls every citizen who
desires to procure for the people .an hon
est and economical government in local.
State nnd national affairs, and whose
he-art beats with hope that the savior of
Pennsylvania at Gettysburg may receive
his reward from the. people. Ryery vote
polled in the city, he declared, should 1?
honestly counted. Each committeeman
pledged himself to work unceasingly un
til November to place Pennsylvania, as '
of yore, in the Democratic line, vu i
sides ami shades will rally under the j
Hancock flag. Viewed from every stand- i
point, the various elements of the party !
in Philadelphia will take their stand at
points w here they will do the most good, j
"With Lewis (.'. Cassiday as a director j
of the forces, with such aids :us George i
McGowan, Thomas J. Rarger. George R. j
Rerrill, Edward Ii. Flood, John Sheven,
Wm.'D. Hendrick, Thomas J. McDon- '
ingh, John Rolibins, Isaac Leech and a
host of others, and with a score of such j
gallant veteran Democratic soldiers and i
able and eloquent orators as Major Moses
Veale, the Democrats of the rural dis- j
tricts mav safely relv upon the assertion
of the Philadelphia 77i. that "there is 1
now certain to be a poll of nearly or quite j
r-r ntij tlumx'iii'l votes for Hancock in (
Philadelphia in November; and the Re- ;
publican leaders may as well look the :
fact square in the face now as to figure '
out a different remit o:i paier, only to
be sadly awakened when the returns j
come along.'1 j
Chairman Dill has not yet made his i
apiear,ince as manager of the State cam- !
paign, but the machine is being put in the
best running condition by an o.-,oriene.'d ;
political engineer. Captain William Mc-
Clelland, who is now temporarily occu- j
pying chamber 1-T of the Girard House, j
The Captain is putting the machine in I
capital running order, and knows well j
how" to run it.
the democracy never dies. j
Although the Democratic party re- !
reives many uncalled for ami cruel slabs '
from supposed friendly hands, it always :
recovers from the wounds. It is as im- !
mortal as anything human can be. It :
- .. . a i
may be betrayed and misled by selfish ;
'and cowardly h aders, and apparently
' succumb, but the disaster is al ways tein-
porary. It may be apparently over- I
; thiown, but it sinks only to rise again,
i It is founded on the evei-enduritig plat
i form of human rights, and will live as j
long as man, to whom human rights be- '
long, exists. j
I ' LET TS HAVE PEACE.' j
i The New York IfVr'i is trying its j
best to kick up a dust and bring about '
: another "oiipleasantness"1 by censuring j
i its Republican contemjioraries for not I
' paying proper respect to tlie laws of lan- !
i guage. It accuses Rejuiblican journals :
1 of the crime of using bad grammar in :
: saying : "The United States is a r.a- '
, tion.'' It.s strictures on their disregard '
j for the rules of grammar, by using a i
; plural nominative with a singular ra-h,
! are very insinuating and well calculated i
j to arouse tl eir ire. It fears that if they i
j are suffered to continue offending in'
I grammar that they will rontinm; to get
j from bad to worse until finally they will
, say "Garfield are a weak candidate." ;
j Tiie World should cease its unkind '
j strictures. It should remember that
j some twenty years ago the country was '
precipitated into a deluge of blood and
tears by a difficulty between the schools !
I of South Carolina and the schools of
, "Massachusetts, about how many "g's" j
' should be employed in tlie generic do- 1
cnriiii; o...f . . i i i i
script ion of t Iit cieature which has since !
become known in history and politics as :
the eminent colored patriot. The Mas- !
j sachnsetts school contended that there
j was but one "g"' in "nigger"' and the
j South Carolina school contended that
there were two "g's" in it. The World.
should remember the disastrous result of
that "spelling boo."'
Later too, the World should remeniVr
how the spelling of the word "bigger"
with iie "g"' come near causing another
"onpleasar.tness," and how very un
pleasant it made things for dooikoeier
ritzhug'i. It should lemember that Ke
pn'oiicans offend ipj more through bail
grammar than 1 emocrats offend through
bad orthography. A Democratic House
seeing how very near the question of
selling "bigger" with one "ir" became
leing adopted as an issue in a Presiden-
I tial campaign, grasped the situation with j
i great firnuiess. and forced l-'itzlnifb in i
i
ii.. a. s.r i .n .... ,- i ,;-..- i .,,t..i. i... ., .... ti...... .... c...,..io,- i..,i ;.. trier or k a ns.-s coin mi s nil 1:11 v wesiei n coun-
ted i resolution was offered by Mr. ', a victory for the Hancock bovs. ties, gives a population of over . .f...o, an
! .1V: ""0I-...:J 'I.,.' -According to the KansasCitv Tlmr. the increase of JT.-..0..0 s.r.ce lS,o. 'I he. census
i -eovi '..mwim, ...... . ..m.w..o.j , Kiuits an entir. failure in the of the entire State will probably .how a pop- ,
i adopted, giving to the Commutee an en- ; tion ,lf twenty counties, and twen- , ulatinn of i..h.,.,o,,. ah the counties m th:s j
t tire set. nf (ifhcers. the Chairman Of WlllCh i ...?,.' , i ' it. ,.;,. I 1 i,t rid as tar west, ns I'awiiee have uained '
- . - IVIOflllSaiMl IH'OIM' iUf 11111.111-1 Ml .-l.U liri,. - -
i is Mr. Lewis C-. ( assidav : Secretaries. . . ' . '..,..1 , i i,r h:.iv from loo to -2, (ion each since the State census
spell "resignation" correctly, thereby i I hihp Stevens shot John Green at Meri
deprivin" the Republican ivu-tv nf ivln't ' 1on' ( ,,n ' 111 1Mil- 1 lie wound healed
1, il Vntr tJ, Vi J i i i 1 : 1 V quickly, though the bullet was left in tl.e
Ii1 1 f'lT. f 1 0 Us Shibboleth Of Victory, j i'(ly. ,i,een aece,,ted ?l:M in settlement of
lhe II orni should remember a still later j fie affair, on condition that Stevens should
instance of "unpleasantness'" arising ' enlist in the army. Now, after nineteen
from a case of bail spelling. Polk, who ) years, the long imbedded bullet lias caused
succeeded the unfortunate Fithtigh as ' !,;:,ti',' , ,s -,, , , , - ,
doorkeeper, and whose orthography i AfMrs' A'"anV .''.' hi)".cli of, I 'ing Creek
eiiAtiiuL.i,. -i i .."'.,' Mills, on the toumbia and Port Deposit
should have been beyond suspicion, while ; Railroad, is the owner of three sows, eachof
be did not spell "bigger" w ith one "g," which has, within a few weeks past, given
spelled "negro"' with two "g's" "Not birth to a litter of Pigs, and even- nin of the
only was Polk's orthography outrageous
but his enunciation of "nigger" was
more offensive to Xew I'ngland ears than
Fitzhugh's phonetics. The case of Fit;:-
liugli and I'olk both teach ns that or-
thography is a primordial requisite in a
doorkeeper.
The fall of Fitzhugh was very melan
choly in some respects, extremely Judic
ious in others, but exceedingly comfort
ing and consoling in its moral effect. It
taught us that the doorkeeper of the
House of Represenlativcs.shoiild not only
be a man of grammatical attainments",
but of high culture. Fitzlmgh was held
up In-fore an indignant country as an il
lustration of the instinctive hatred of
the Democratic hosts for common
schools. Fitzhugh's bad orthography
and 1 "oik's still worse enunciathju were
most offensive to Tew England's sensi
tiveness. For the peace and happiness of the
Ieople, and the good and prosperity of
the country, let the World, therefore,
possess its soul in peace, and suffer Re
publican journals to oilcnd in grammar
by saying the "I'nited states is a na
tion,"" or to say that "Gaifield are a
weak candidate," and Democratic door
keepers spell bigger with one "g" and
negro with two
's." Dot ter far to
f ntler tinder hoth bad graimiuir and v '
Oiilio-Tiapliy than create anolher on '
nL-asa; tiir s " 1 it ' v- V ; i, . , , i
' r ,.i 'tir.:: ,, - ' ''' '. fi;1."1 J-'" .
NEWS AM) OTHER OTIM"S.
There is a four-legged chicken at Fr
port. There is a thirteen month old calf in
Catasaqua that Rives a Iartre amount of milk
regularly.
A widow woman in Macon, ia., sells an
nually ff.nO worth of vegetables of her own
raising from half an acre of pronnd.
A pleavnre steamer capsized in a sqnall
on Lake Hrienz, Switzerland, on Sunday
i night, and sixteen persons were drowned.
T,e story that Dr. Tanner is an Ohio
man exploded itself. No Ohio man is al
lowed to starve under this administration. j
Dr. Charles F.lam says that one pair of
herrinps if unchecked would in a few years i
stock the Atlantic Ocean so that there would j
not lc room to mow. i
Samuel Scritchiicld, Kscj., recently elect- ,
ed Hurt's of Irwin Station by the Kepubli- j
cans, has publicly announced himself for i
Hancock and Knirhsh. j
In I 'ending there are rival base ball !
luhs named for Hancock ami Garfield. A
in a box at a grist mill, forgot all about it,
and went home. The miller filled the box
with meal, and unknowingly smothered the
child.
rhe New Cat!e Cnnrant says that TVil-
. .
1 liam l'.est. of Merccrcountv. this year thresh
j ed Hon bushels of wheat from JO acres of
I ground. This is the Jiest heard from this
j season.
j While Constable Tower, of Winnipeg,
j Manitoba, was crossing I Jed River, on J-'ri-
day, with Ii!;e Carroll, an escaped prisoner,
i the latter upset the boat and both were
; drow ned.
j Watkins'Clcn is said to he infested with
; pickpockets. Strange they weren't on hand
I when the rich editor weie there. Would
l.nve c:.i.tm-ol i-i..M.rli r.-fire iiPr.nnliCMtlv
from business. j term of comt
-On Slate creek, in Washington territory, J Ppe I.e.. NI II., as described by a Mr
a few davs ago, a tree fell on the cabin of j respondent of the j;,toii J-lc-rtner, n a man
Andrew Krekin, and a cross-cut saw, hang- 1 ,f imposing presence. "His manner, says
inf on -., iM.!,.n in Hie fvii.in fn on KreL-in i writer, "is thoiouglv regal, free, easy
cutting him in two.
A Jersej inan ninety years old is cutting
his third set of teeth. A man who has suc
cessfully coinbatteil the climate and mos
quitoes of New .Jersey for ninety years is
capame oi any queer freak
-Hannan McCoy, living four miles from
Areola, Illinois, was stabbed and killed by
l. ?-.n xi,. r..i-..t. i
Eliza McCabc. aided bv J'tel Ensile, during
a quarrel on Sunday iiilit. Miss McCabe
escaped, but Engle was arrested.
A man named I!lunk living at Matt-unk,
Montgomery county, attempted to commit
suicide the other day but was prevented. In
a statement prepared to leave behind, he
stated that he was going to hunt le-ll.
Thomas Delano, proprietor of a livery
stable on Sherman street, Chicago, was fa
tally stabbed about midnight on Monday
by his wife, whom he was endeavoring to
persuade to accompanpany him home.
Some of H;. wi'ii It lii 'St cit i7Ti; of XT i I? on
have put in their claims for a share of the i
clinrit'- flout fur tli oiffrrrr liv tlm fin. in i
that place, and distribution will probably be
made under me direction or tiie court.
Cenera! Hancock is expected to be ptes
ent at the raising of a hickory pole ot Mont
gonieryville, Montgomery county, at a time
to be fixed upon. The pole is to lie cut from
the farm where General Hancock was born.
John King, an Irish laborer, ordered
Paul Smith, colored, away from an unfre
quented street in the subiubs of Cincinnati
on Sunday aiteinoon, w hen a light occurred,
in which Smith actually choked King to
death.
A negro limber at St. Louis studied law
at i.igiit lor sevei.il i .as, and was finally
admit ted to the bar. He now works in thu
shop o:i Saturdays and Sundays, and prac
tices with ( onsiiieiaule success in the courts
on other days.
The hambershurg lpus'tury says that
a new potato enemy has appeared in that
vicinity, more damaging to the plant than
the potato bug. It is a small worm res enib
ling the snail in shape and color, and is from
a lourth to a half inch in length.
Among the curious communicaf io-ts Dr.
Tanner has been receiving during the pro
gress of his long fast in New York was a
proposal of marriage from a Philadelphia
lady who has taken advantage of leap year.
She is probably : hoarding louse keeper.
A. W. Scott, Ksq., Ihe best known ite
pubiican leader in the southern end ot" l ay
ette county, has come out for Hancock, lie
is a writer and speaker of laii'-h local cele
brity, and intends to devote h"n time and tal
ents to promote the electei! of Hancock.
T. Finnel is a California farmer who
has ;,('.'i'i acres in wheat, lie began thresh
ing on the i'lM ol .(tine, and will not be thro'
with his work until the lt of September.
Ho employs L'4'l horses and mules in the woi k
and in plowing, which he will commence at
once.
Two eggs of the (ire.it Auk. declared to
be genuine and to have been "discovered in
an old private collection in Kdiaburgh, were
recently auk-tioned oil', if we may be;ex
cuscd the pun, by a London auctioneer, nnd
strange as it may M-em the auk-waid things
sold tor about s.",of each.
A two-story well is a curiosity In the
tow n of la in, Chemung cou.dy, N. V. The
two parts are one above the other, and sepa
rated by ten or twelve feet of hard pan.
Water can be pumped from either well, and
the lower well pumped dry while the upper
has an inexhaustible sujijily.
I lay I'eyer has already seized its victims.
Like the crops, it ripem-il earlier than usual
this sedson. The number efrlieted with this
disease is so huge and formidable that Jhey
have a regular organization and an annual
convention, which will be held this year al
Rrthl. hem, N. II., August :?tst.
Carl'icld must have sent Crant a plug of
tobacco and a bottle ol liquor, lie is recon
ciled and calls on the boys in blue to rally
around the Republican ticket. Gen. Grant
forgets that one of the boys in blue, and one '
ot rather huge proportions, is miming for
rresident t his year against (oilfield.
Ca.pt. James II. Mauley, ol Middietown,
was bitten bv his dog about live weeks! ago
i ai. a . . t .. i.. .a. i.i . i . . .
" oieo oi 1 1 o i oi i looia on i nesnav i em
,:1t. JIis sniTeriiigl. were intce.s,., ni.,1 on the
njeht preceding his d.-atli heesca-d from the
house and was found in the suburbs of the
town biting at c- cri thing within reach.
W hile mowing on a farm in Saratoga
county, N. V., on Friday, William t'razer
.'.tumbled oyer a vine and fell upon the blade,
of his scythe with such force that fine of bis
legs was nearly severed at the knee. The
leg was subsequently pmpntated above the
knee, but he filed on Saturday morning.
A gas well in Kast Franklin township,
Armstrong county, discharges a volume of
gas which is thrown up in i column thirty
feet before combustion takes place. It is
proposed to utilize this gas by conducting it
through pipes three and one-hall miles to
Kittaiming to fm ni.sli fuel for a rolling mill.
About three months ago a child was liorn
near Mount Clare, Montgomery county, just
across the Schuylkill from l'lui-nixviHe, ami
on Saturday last, the mother gave birth to a
second child. One of the babies is a bov and
the other a girl. Iiotli are healthy, but the
mother is very ill, and is not expected to
live.
three litters is stone blind, several of them
having not the semblance of tin eye in the
eye-socket.
Charles Vesi-ilius, a young sport, was
stopped on the street in trie and publicly
thrashed by Miss Minnie Uitchie, a young
lady whom Vescilius is said to have slander
ed. Miss Ititchio gave him a blow in the
lnce With her ungloved hand that brought
SiliKid gusliing from liisnose. The threshing i
was supplemented by one from the lady's
brother.
The highest percentage of inuncipnl
growth shown ly tho census is that of Den
ver, which has increased H.io per cent, since
the. national census. For the second place
Minneapolis shows an incicase of 4-mi per
cent., and Oakland, Ca) comes third, with
an increase (.f g.t.i per ti nt. St. Paul, nnd
Camden, N. J., share the fourth place, with
an increase of 107 per cent.
A swindler has been selling to residents
cf the lower IVnnsylvania counties boxes of
w hat he called electric light. They contain
ed simply colored borax, w hich he declared
was extract of electric and would la.st a hun
dred yen is. The stent of how to use it was
to be impaited when ten purchasers, at 510
each, had been obtained in a town.
The campaign headquarters of the Detn
rcratic. .National Committee were opened in
New Voik on Friday at 1.J3 Fifth avenue,
lhe entire building will be used for docu
ment, consultation and reception rooms.
Ih-y are tilted up w ith P legraph, telephone
- - -r-.---.--i - - - - 1 -..v. i
UHI Iliess.'imer lilies. Till? COI lesllomlelico '
of the committee is already very larire. and
'"l".,r. '"K ,"ews comes lrom every t-Uite ii: ,
."'tf "R,"-1 '"e letters te'.l of the formation ',
ot I,!a,,,'",'k tlu,JS everywlieie, and of a pen-
----, t-i it!U;ti"Htiu!h;U. join
Dr. bevcniiood, of Chester comity, has
quite a curiosity in the shape of a four-letrxed
duck. It has two Icl's frown together and
one which is united with the ImkIv i't the
! same place ns the double leg, turned up over
its back. 1 lie leg on me outer sioe m us
body is all right. It is now over two weeks
old, and as lively as anv one of the brood.
Fannie Rom, a pretty but thievish young
woman, was dischaiged from custody at l'a
ducah, K'v. Within a block of the jail she
met John' Mathias, a respectable farmer, who
was visiting the citv. Their acquaintance
began on the spot, and before night they were
married. In addition to the usual ceremony,
the bride took a solemn oath of reformation.
August Ludeke was so enraged by ;i
blow from a r.eighlwr at Morrow, Ohio, that
he swore to kill him. Having no available
weapon at hand, he drove to n store five
miles awav, bought powder and shot, re
turned home, loaded a gun heavily, walked
across the street to his enemy's house, nnd
fired nt liini through a window, wounding
him seriously.
The official census of the Second DU-
of last March.
Mr. David Piferof Henderson township,
Jefferson county, has In his Possession a
cherry tree which was brought by his father
! fror Westmoreland county forty-nine years
! .. nl,.i.i-.n In mi mint f uroriiui 1 f I l
atro. it is e even lcet in cncnmiernce, nn
one feet in height, and the branches extend
over an area of .sixty-five feet in diameter.
This year it yielded' eight bushels of large
juicy cherries.
Siibpo-nas have been issued in Hariis
burg for witnesses in thi cases of (reorLTt S.
Smith, of Philadelphia, and Christian Long
and E. J. Met 'ime, of t-hippensinirg, charged
with corrupt solicitation of members of th.;
Legislature. The District Attorney is deter
mined, it is said, t' have their cas -s tried in
-ClOOer, and .lie TCIlia liner III Uie-oeni:Hr
i nnd Confident. He speaks with great . digni-
ty and fluency, and with long, :lino-t hexa
i metric cadence. He gives the impression of
! being a man of tiemendous will, coupled
with gentlemanly prudence."
i Mrs, Spa its, of Ma'iit.i, :!!. 1 ec: re.
r-'rded f r ten years as a h
elniess cri
!e, un
able to wove. Her husband, from whom mic
had obtained a devorce, wjs compelled to
pay her alimony in propi rtioo to her appar
ent hel!esnes. Recoiuing incredulous he
indue.-l a paity of neighbors t i burst into
her house unexpectedly, f!;,.! they found Mrs.
Spaif-. v aiking about w iihoiit even limping.
'1 he crow :i of William IVim's hat, which
is t) a:!oin the thirty-six joot statute sur
mounting t!.e lofiy tower of the new Phila
delphia pubiie buildings, will be just five
hundred an I thirty-live feet from the pave
ment. The !iig!rt towers which h.;ve yet
been constructed are tli ise of the Cologne
cathedral, which have at. present a h ;ig'.i! of
ve. lutndred and t -.venty-foui
inches.
feet eleven
1". G. Tibbeu and .1. Ii. Martin were
, suitors for the hand of the same girl, neailv
1 fifty years ago. Maifiti was the victor. He
went to Milwaukee with 1. is wire, prospered,
J and left Imhi.iioo when he died. His dying
request was that his widow should marry
I Tibb'-ts, who had remained a baciu i.ir, and
1 'ccame a banker in I'lnladelphia. Thewed
1 ding is to take pi, ice in Sept -rnb.-r. Ti'jhets
is To vears old. and Mrs. Mirtin lis.
j lr. Tanner entered on the f hlity-tii.-t
day of his f ;st. in Now York, on Wednesday
; last, and ws ;!pp..re.,;:v bright and in gnojl
j spirits. In the last twe'lve hours of the thir
tieth day hi- consumed less than a gill of wa
( ter. 'a nd on Wednesday ni'.inii.g. after rest
ing from his us;::;! drive, le- m an lied around
i the cnolostiio in the b:'ll t went v-live !im-s.
a distan.-c of nearly half a mile. His gait
v. as firm and his st.-ji cl.istii-.
; Mr. Wm. H. "Swift, of the firm'of Swift,
1 Courtney A lleecher, extensive mat -h manu
facturers of Wilmington, Iel.. his been
.r,;'f to offer a reward of f-j.rreo for any in
; form Uio i that will lea l to the return to her
home of his daughter Laura, who went into
the match business the other day on her own
hook bv cloning with a younc'man named
. Matt. H iv.lc'n, a farm haitd employed in the
I vicinity of her father's palatial residen.-e.
; The 'm:ilii'.-t lover -n earth were united
( at the altar at Odessa, about a month ago.
The "Marquis," a native of Kid, is Unity
years old, .;r,d wt-iglis only nineteen pounds,
whiie his fairy-like consort, a young lady
born in Xeiimunster some twenty years ag ,
1 just turns the scale at thirb-en pounds. .t
, first glance this tiny pr.ir, it is said, might
be taken for a couple of scarcely weaned ha
: hies, dies-el up as j..ke in the g:-.r! adulls.
I On last Friday Miss Ada Wellington, of
Krie, when about to make a bed in tin; sec
ond story of the house, saw a bird dog K ing
in her v, ay. Mie c'.dTe.l liini r.wav,' w'heii
he sprang at her nnd fastened his 'teeth in
her clic -k, taking in tli entire side of her
face, throwing her to the ft. or ami sh is.ii-g
her a- !e-:vou!,l !( nt. H,r ci i--s brought
other nienibers of the famhv, who rescued
her from the animal. The dog had always
before been quiP- docile.
! Andrew Wilson of Hillsb.iro, Mo., took
no pains to conceal from Pis wife nnd neigh- :
bors 'lis intention to elotie with Mut'ii
. Shu'tz. I le announced a day for his depart- .
ure, and tiie girl as openly made Ik r prep ura-
: at ions. At the appointed time, the pair pu?
titer br. nn.'.'jo. into a w a iron and siatti-d for a
railroad station. In t!'- ;nic-, t.tiiae, however,
Mrs. 'Wilson's father and' brother had deej,.-.i
what to !o. 'I'hey !.;y in ambush until the
runaways came along," and. fired upon t'a-. n:,
killing in th.
The Sisters of Ciimity who have charge
of St. Vincent's Hospital in this c.tv, nys
the 1'ortl.iiid, Oreg.,n,C.,V.o-, ?,', have
again been awarded t he contract for keeping
the I'nited States Marine patients who vs-iit i
this port. Phis Is t -e third renewal ot tlie
contract with the. Medical 1 epai tiuent at
i asiiingion, umi M.av.s tt.attl'" erv:ees or
the Sisters in caring for the sick sailors is
duly appreciated. Tla' new wing of the hos
pital is well under way, and will be comple
ted in a few weeks.
The I'liinn-Js-wU r, of "Wilkesbarre. has
learned t'.at Dr. .1. c. ou.thr. of tint ritv
contemplates undertaking the feat of fasting '
forty flays, and states that it will be done j
publicly in C.ihooti Hall. "The doctor," it 1
says, "isol the opinion that he can outdo'Dr.
Tanner, as he has gone without food for" the
length of time designated upon several oc
casions within the last fifteen years. A com
mittee of eight physicians will serve as watch
ers during tiie last, md will also lix the date
upon which the la-t is to begin." j
The Ouir.lia Herald says that an er.or- ;
inotw piece of rock recently fell in an nar- 1
row canon between Pock Creek and Chain- '
berlain flats, in Clicikit.it county, V". T. It 1
came from a ledge above a road", and nearlv
criishcd a traveler and his horse. It tlieii ,
went over a precipice, flying through the i
air a distance of some l.Tmi feet, went thro
a band of stray sleep below, numbering :
about seventy-live, killing outright about ,
lorty-five of t'nem, while the rest were hurl
ed through tne air against the surrounding I
rocks and niained or injured.
At 11 o'clock Monday ni-ht Jonathan i
iVastcry, superintendent, "Frank Williams, j
inside boss, anil .lohu lteese, district super- i
ii.tcndent of the l'ike and Keading Coat and
Iron Company, descended the Kel'v Kim col- '
liery, in Schuylkill county, and were found I
at 1 o'clock a. m. next day, fiend ftoni black I
damp. Itcscuing parties" went to work at j
dawn, ami many of these were subsequently (
taken from tlie mines overcome by fmi! air. !
The most intense excitement pitvailed, and
all work in the neighborhood was suspended, i
The three dead men leave familie?.
A Yineland, New Jersey, special savs a 1
young woman named Jessie A. Moore "was i
tried there for attempting to poison her '
three-j car old son. She was driven to tie- J
spe.ir by poveity, and the hopeless outlook '
her husband's desertion presented. She had
to make shirts for twenty cents a dozen, and
coukt not remember ever having enough to
eat. She hoped to win a certain vouii-i nhv- '.
sician's love and thought her child objection-
slde. She wsts judged to he half insane at
the time nf the poisoning of Iter child and
! has just been sent to the Insane Asylum.
Misslirace Hancock Co.s(.lij ti.e .ro.
, ine ot the J'assiac river boating accident
, near Ilutiterlord Park, an account ot which
appealed nearly three weeks ago, was mar
i tied on Saturday at Tassige to Mr. Iler.ir.iing,
: one of the parties whose life was imperilliai
( by the disaster. Among the many wedding
I presents was a silver row boat with golden
j oars, and bearing the inscription, "To our
' saviour, ;od bless her, Crace Ilancix k Good-
sell." Then followed on the boat's sides the
, names of the seven ladies, the preservation
of w hose, lives was mainly due to MissGood
f sell's selt'-possession.
The New Vork Commrr'-ial Ad,risrr
i snys ttittt Mi. James M. V an Va'.eii of Hack
j ensuck, X. J., has a remarkably line Mul-
tese eat which has a liking for green vegeta
I bles, but it was not until this season that the
passion assumed so pronounced a turn as to
j inconvenience the lamily. Mr. Van Valen
( for some days wondered what became of the
i cucumbers on his vines and caretul waP h-
--" - ' ' ...III . flHllll ...11.11-
illr rlevi'lm.e.l tlu Cliriimc fuel 1 1. ( i, .......... ..
nfiproniiated bv the cat. -which has 'a '.lis-
criniinatii:;? eve and delicate tast,-, allowing
the vegetables to crow about an inch ami a
half in length before it disturbs them : hut it
searches the viv.s , d eats them all l-r. re
A Law suit with a Romance.
i A WOMAN Kit TINT) A ST'.CJiKT FIlTTYKUi"
MM. I. IONS OK Wll.l.lllj IXYOI. 1 I)
1-HOVIXKNT 1'KItsfiNS (ONXWT
L.I Wit if THK CASl
The Rait fmore Sun says there is now pend
ing in the courts of )hio a suit involving m-v-
eral tiiillions of !o!!ars in teal estate, and
j which, besides bringing some of the most
j prominent men in the country, including
I President Hayes, Chief .lustice Wnite, Judge
j Tilden, and others, forward as contestants,
has an intensely romantic history connected
i with it, in which a Maryland family con-ti-
t ute the principal characters. The story goes
that some time in tin: year 112 a Captain
Ford, of this city, was niirricl f.- one Lovcv
F.uskirt, a widow, formerly Miss Lovey Want,
I of Somerset' county. Md. Mi.ut'.v tiiter bis
' marriage Capt. Ford is said to have left I'.al
! timore in command of a privateer, which was
' captured by the Hritish. Captain Ford was
taken captive and phi'-cd in I a it moor prison,
j where h" remained for some time, but final-
ly escaped by tunneling his way out. II"
i went to Sweden, and after the close of the
war returned to this citv, having been gone
about three years. On his return he found
his wife living in good styi". He r.Iso fnun 1
that there was an addition to th,- household
in the person of p lovely little gill, whom his
, neighbors said was the captain'.- and Mr.
I Ford's child, but whom tome of tin ir most
int imate acquaintances, it is alleged, declared
: was an illegitimate chiid. The captain and
, his wife, however, claimed the ehi'd n their
t own offspring. Capt. Ford did not beig re
' main inactive, but soon after his return Ti. t
I ted out a slaver and made several trips m ;
Africa, landing his living cargoes m this '
I country, at Charleston. Savarm lU, and Cuba. 1
Returning home again, his wife is said to
have liecome jealous ,f him. dpt. Ford
then left the hnuse again, and went West,
w here he locnted a number of land warrants,
among which was one at the Indian block t
house, or fort, at the mouth of the Maiitnee ,
liver, then ClsiT) a wilderness, now the site
oftheci'vof Toledo. It is over the owner
ship of this property that the suits are pend
ing. Opt tin Ford, after an absence f
three eais, came to Riltimoie once mote,
I I ut finding his wife determined not to have
! anything to do with him, h- left, going to
; Mexico, where he enteied the navy of that
; country, and served as a lieutcna'nt until
, l-'-', when ia- died intestite. Hisonly kins
, people, so f iraskn iwn. were his wife, Lov
ey, his mother and sisters, living in ope of
the New l.ttelmd S?.tesi pt. bis so-called
child, the l t'le gill, whose panic was F.tne-
!i:!--
I In I s.;:; i-r 1 s;-,j pppinn, from t he West raiiie '
here e.ji I coTlime'. ccd a e: ch for theh. u-s.
f Cajit, Fotd. To t i:--c persons it was al
lece.l tbrit Mrs. Vci-ktrt, -r Ford, represent
ed that Ftiie in" was tl.-e legitimate an-l e-tily
' child of C.M.t Fold, ittd selling her dow ery
il.tPfCs li tiie Toledo l.Ul'l totitctll. she CP. I's
ed I.tiie!in' to convex the fee receiving for
it n sun 11 situi of inov.cv. There wis !iing
, with Mis. Ruskirt a --i-t.-r named Fliai-etii
Ward, w no it is clnlmed, begg.-d Mr. Ruskirt
to undeceive Kmeline and to tell her whose
child she really was, so that a fraud upon
the piircha-rs of the property might be pre
vented. Me.inwhlie. another pai t , observing the
growing importaneo of Toledo, inquired as .
to the title to Ford's property, then vacant
and unen'-h-se.!. After in ves;g sting to some
extent Capt Ford's life, this second pirty
came to th- conclusion that the captain Led
left no legitimate children, an 1 so purchased
tlie title of t he property f 1 0111 ( 'ant ain Ford s
mother and sisters. In the course .f time It
happened that F n Wade g..t -,:u it:P r st in
the propertv and sen? somi- of his agents
, there to see that the title was cN-tr. Those
ngeids found tin- marii ige record of l apt
, Ford nnd Lovey Mitskiit in o'd St. Raul's .
i parish recoril. Afi-. r a great ih al -f figj t.
ing in the Ohio courts between the owners
i of the two titles, 1 he cae was fiiirtiiv decic.-d ;
in favor of th F.altitnore title, deposjtiot:s ;
hiving been ret nrned to 1 he c. mi t tiiicin"
that F.lizabcth Waid had sv iru that Kin.--li'ie
was tlie legitimate daughter of Ca'it.
I Ford and his wife Lovey.
I Abi ut a year afterwards, however, Eliza
beth Ward, who was then married to a man
named Johnson, and was living near Marion,
a fw miles from Cri-fieM. Senior- e.utnty, i
Md.. sp.w an account of the decision in "a
. Raltimore paper, r.nd was heard to declare ;
that a irrc.it wrong Jiad been committ-d, ;:Td
.' that she rind she alone o:;!.I right it. T
Mr. .Tohn H. Handy, of this city, and Mr.
Hymnn, a western lawyer, who called to
her. she refused to disclose anything as to
who the real parents were, butYersi-p-.l in
sa ing that she reversaid she was the da'agii- .
ter cf he: si-ter, w -hereupon Mr. H ni in til
ed a petition t- Set aside t ii- decree on the
cr.i'.ini! tint it was obtained by forge t :uid ;
fraudulent testimony.
Judge Tilden. a eotis;n of S inni -I .1. Til
den, a::d t'if principal p-r-o-i coneertte-1, 1
tlien hr.usght suit t-t reeover posei..n .f F'-e
property lost by the decree; after whi.-n
Judge Irving, of this State, by special com- i
mission, to ik testimony to sustain tiie case.
Aft..r n great deal of hard an 1 skillful work i
Mr. Handy succeeded at last, in ls7T, in get
ting Mrs. Johnson, iw L.izalict'i Ward, ti
l lake a statement in w hi. h sp acknowledges 1
Kmeline was Per own d a:gi.p r, the c'm'ifof ;
an Irish sea-cap'ain who frequented (ait.
Ford's wife. To coyer her si-tcr's ilisgtace
Cant. Ford's wife Iiad declared to the world
that Kmeline was her own chiid, an 1 as such !
she lived for many enrs.
And so at last" the secret was disclosed.
Knielinc was inanie.i to a former captain of
an oyster .i.ntrv, v.hnis now living it: this 1
city. Her moth-r, Klizabeth Ward, died at
her house, in Soiners-r c.e.intv, 1 as year. '
Mrs. Raskirt has been dead nsanv ve.os.
A gnat railway depot has bc'eii hi -. ,,,,
the Toledo property under the Rltintote
title, nnd, it is said, nearly ':o dwellings, it
comprises almost nil of tlie fifth ward ol tint '
city. A large number of persons are dirc.t-
13" or ind,rec;ty concerned in the case.
Mor.K Ai'.ovtthe UriiKFrrAnnrrTiox.
A Greensbitrg despatch of Monday last
gives the follow ing additional particulars of
the recent nb!ue:i..n and repeated outrages
committed on Miss S.iloam llurkclt..ged 14
years, ,,f Somerset county, ami of the dispo
sition made of the several patties ;m sted
on suspicion of being participants in the ter
rible c: into :
At ir'.a ,.. m . tlie tlil.-tv-f.nr nd titional men cf
It.a.l k I'et. r-' .J...U-. -jrl;,! tai.l l. vr. urn-ee l nt
la-e.-hlmra. vre ma tcli.-l lat i ttie vr.nv p- 1 .;
lliii-a- tern lieinnn Let. ire .1 iiliip 11 iiT.tcr ii tiie
llnrki'tt nlxlni'tii.n else freTii S.-tai rseT rutin' v. It
was n ill! ilin'tcttltv tlnit tin' l.'putiF.s atiii ti: -"'ai
kept the anxi. ti crw. from pnsliina tta'-:r i
ever the rail it.'., ttu: liar, wh-ri- the ac.-i:i.i were
.-roll iruar.! 1. Tie y v.i ro a i.mt'.rv en n,. ,-j nr.!
little, e I, I ;i;i. yi.iiarr. I l-e-k nn.l Wi.itc v. ll .Tres.
cl nrel in tut t-r-. nii i Iiar.-lc.-t . lietirral fiainah
.lol.n P':I nrel .lehn Sr. ,'t. liit-:i-t A-f.rnev -ill ,t
Settlor?. t;--eai,ty. T-.pp.l I vl-aal 11. ilai'ther el
I.-itr..!.r. nin! II. I'. T.ai'.l nu t I'PTirt Atturrcv
Kliti". ef llroori-tatrit. nit Bpecarp.l ler ta
Ii!..nwf.i)th. whil.. A. A. St. wart. Hen. 1 ali; ar I '.
n nn.l .1 ai k- " t. ( 't;..iia Ii wore r-tnino l. r t!-. .le
fciisc. Alivr five er si t witnissef t..r tli v.t.eii..n
wealth Im.l l.ton hennl. t lit- cirl Sariili Iturk.t:
tc-tiMe. that sin- lei.l hoen outrage. 1 nca-rni , i i ;t .-r-cr.t
ti!i-iii! .y I mm ntiotntuciitviivc nifn nt Saatik
vi'la. She w.ii tt.pn h-i-ip.,! if, the ta k. t nni-.ai t i
JeniifT 'n- If. ml-, where ' In- wk train mt-iei-t
tn their l.e-.sfv ens.-ii.ti? nt w,U, nllvr vhieh .-hp
nie.-T. iieiMiTi waatevcr. net fvi-n hew n.
l.iifiiim-r (Iht hc wa .fen l v tncti.!)
t to
sutacr-i l. SliO tins not vi I riJCTie.l l er
or t.
entirely n I i iinn'.K- f.i nn-wrr ititrlli'-.-nov nnv
Hrii..n put by Iit conn?"!, ln all. I oil t t ) ,'e
f nine rvi.irni-c wa? n t.pn c.1 ns Hint uiv.-n e.i i (,, .
.ay la.-t auninst the pr.. rl-n.r. s. f. Peter- th-nii-mii'tcr.
nn l two l the nttaehi i.. 1 w. tiv-two
wa-T-a ..is -hnr-.-e-l ta-.l.iy nn.l tweUo reamtMc! t..
tail tn I t taken to S..nier.,-t lor trial Pi Aev-a-t nil
I wle.iii were l.tcnt iiii-,1 ,v al. Hurkett j he
Fljrt.-on j.ri.onT!. wilt he taken p Seuier-i t tins
work.
Steamer Spnk and Srvr.itu,
T.osT.a Detroit (Mich.) despatcli
23d hist, savs :
I.I VI s
of tl.e
A trrrit te nori.lcnt 'vrTirrr.l nl ont halt pat ten '
ti K.k last ni!, t on (he Ivtreit river, feme cne 1
nit, on i.elewthis city. The r vursiun Mr-iimm Jar
laii l. w.th l.-.-e.) ,.. r..i: on Pear !, iiial.-r the nu- ,
?pi -cs ct the lVtr..t moulders" m.ii.n. while i'oin
di.wn the river eellnle.1 with the ft.-nm . tn i,t I
.Mamie, rnttins her in two. fo that she alm..'t in. '
Urtntly sank. " " :
The litter rtti'l en Pear.l twontr-fonr ircn i
c' ns;st:n-' mainly et latter HIevci.'t.erch i y' .,,','
lnnity Kntnan Cath-lic rhnrrli. ..( this citv' i.,l
a ntimticr of n-i.tyte :i; ti;,..iI. t iUv.n
f.us e..i:i. ,t, .-s in the feiviee ei thf clntreh. Tiiev
hail "inn nil their iinr.iial exenrsianto Mt ree.iiel !
were n titnc.ii li..,e. T!,.- ,,la?,t was l.r-Jht with
rieon.."l.t. nn.t t here w.nil.l ff,., t,j have .,.,-n na
ren-nti, fare that ,.r criminal witlwl. why the ac
ci.iPtit flotihl have e-, tirre,l "
I t these on l.,.ar.l the Mamie th". f..!Pwina were ;
drewne.l : 3lrs. I re.l. Martin, wiie .! the T-na.u- '
-diir-ihy. h.-ii-ekeria-r ot V.,-!,. t- ,
l.loyent.rrirh : Mis .Vary Hnhn. ! the m..et,o
I iiriH'hiiil 5.-h,,i , Tri,lity . hureli : im.l lrnnk i
-eliin .l itin IPnve. Iv,,,,el It irry. .T,.hn 1 luticvn.,
iliief tnl.ly. li.miel Cii.J.Iv. .I0j,n t'osrove la- .
1 iienioy ati-l Jo.-.-eh M..nalmn. nil np ir l-.V oi .
tho el.nr.-h. nue.l Inn., eleven t.. Inirt.-et, v.'-ar. .
liienia. Kellev. srt..n of the el.e.rch : .Iim K-pev' .
raii .tower: and AnIrew lK-r.it, n l-.v who wa-i '
Inviteil to itecmp anv t lie atetirsion " ' I
1 homny M'lyiie. ant.er itH mis.ina nn.l '
I- .l.i.tnties, i , -.,,, I,,:,,,,.,,,, Kn 7; !
Martin I att.er lncye,,,.. r,;!.. M:$ 1.11.,..'
et ..lonr .e. a-el four oth-r-. wore r.vr.' a--' -" -eh ;
f-;. tin? city al.-,ut -.- o'cl-K-k tins morion- " Xnc cf i
tao hoJitiot llioilnc,,,.,- i,ave vet Ik en rtcuvtrt.l. !
oTsrxiTior fritKt.. An rl 1 phr.-rtin uti'e l
trotn rraeti -.-. hvlna: ha,! ,.liUe,l in" 1,,? ,i,D.,., f,v
J;4 KT'"' uYf-'-"ir'.v ttie lenauln i t a ftm: le
leiretal, reme ly l .r the s; ee lv ai i.e-i-.ii.ent
nn.l all Tt.roat an.l I. ib.,.,, .. ,' '
live nn.l ri.lie.il cure for Nervous 1 'et.'iiit v an
;f"" com,. 1 1 i it t . alter hiivii.ti teste i its
.1 a I
... "ri',lll" powers la tlmtiKauils ol o:i.-c. Iia
ic.t it iilr ,iity to make it known Id I,! miifc-riiii
iciiow- Actuate! hy thi metoean.l a de-,re to
ruieve luininn ftittcrin-. 1 wilt scml (tec ot i-luia-t
to Ml wh.Mles.re it. this re-ire. in Herman, l'renvl,,
ur Kn.r-h. with Inli direct ion? lar iireniirnvr K.i
- . -r ii o. iuhii iiv n i ire-sin- wot,
faiiiin tht? i-i. i. tr. V.. . .s,i, ...n- -. i
st.iim., i
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w ii ii 1'oi.nn . I. Pa i;2.:
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