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EBENSBURC. PA.,
FRIDAY, - - - - APRIL 15, 1831.
CHABl.KfC'r.NXINliHAM UoVCOTT.of Lotlgh
Ma.sk, Ulster county, Ireland, whose treat
ment by the Land Leaguers gave rise to the
now familiar term, "Hoyeottinp," airved in
New York one day last week. His object in
coming to America is merely to see the coun
try and to visit oolite friends in the State of
Virginia.
i
The trial of the six Nihilists for the mur
der of the late Emperor of Russia occupied
three days, and ended on last Sunday morn
ing with a verdict of guilty asainstall and
their sentence to death by hanging. One of
the prisoners, Sophie Pieoff sky, a woman of
noble birth, asked the Court that she be
dealt with regardless of her sex.
The Ilarri.-burt; correspondent of the
Pittsburg l)iiit'h, in speaking of the per
formances in the House of ISUIingsley, of
Washington county, styles him "a superser
viceable tool of the Kin;; who of late has dis
played a remarkable faculty for making an
exhibition of himself," and the Dispatch adds
editorially: "The statesman from Washing
ton county, Mr. !5iiliii2sley, will have to be
suppressed. He is getting entirely too fresh."
Is the I". S. Senate, one day last week J
Kollins, of New Hampshire, asked Vance,
of North Carolina, "how long it was neces
sary for a man to live in a Southern State be- '
fore he would be recognized as anything but
a carpet-larger." Mr. Vance replied that
if lit; came "with a trunk," twenty-four i
hours would do, but if he came with a carpet-
bag, and hunted around the purlieus of the ,
cities looking for a colored man toco-operate i
with him in cheating the people, twenty-four j
years would not suffice, i
A Hariusih ug correspondent of the !
Pittsburg referring to the passage by 1
the House of the Prohibitory amendment to ,'
the constitution, confirms the general and !
well founded belief that in legislation all is j
not gold that glitters, and that what is known
as "buncombe" had much to do with the vote j
cast in its favor. He says : ;
Oneot the members of the House last niht. af
ter recording very loudly his vote in lvor o! the
Mll.prir:ttely remarked that the act was lanaticisin.
an.l If the thimr ever came before the people he
wc.uld n t vote for it. He is an aspirant lor 'on-vre-sional
honors In the sweet bye-and-bye. an.l is
ittmon the topmost crest ot the reform wave,
yelling !. r reform with all his miirht and a strung
pair ol Umir,
A p,i 1.1. has been introduced into the House
nt Hanisburg to regulate the salaries of
County Commissioners all over the State up
on the basis of population. In counties hav
ing a population of one hundred thousand ,
and le.-sth in one hundred anil fifty thousand, 1
the salary is to be ? 1,000 per annum; in i
counties liaing seventy-five thousand and 1
less than one hundred thousand, '"io'i, and in
counties having less than fifty thousand,
?too. There is not much of a chance that '
this bill will pass at the present session, and
even if it did it would not make any change j
in the pay ff the Commissioners of this
county.
The lower brunch of the Legislature of
the State contains 122 Republicans, 7S Dem
ocrats, and I Greenbacker; and yet, on hist .
Monday, only a little over a month after
Garfield's inauguration, this Republican ma
jority of 4 S in the House rent'd on a call of
the yeas and nays to pass a resolution endors
ing Gat field's administration and re'iue-ting :
the two Senators from this State to do all in
their power to have the President's appoint- '
meiits confirmed without unnecessary delay- ;
If a Republican House thus n ithhol.K its con- .
fidencc from Garlic Id be fore he is fairly warm
in the executive chair, it i not doubtful what
the verdict vvili be at the end of his term. ,
On yesterday week Mr, Glad-done, in a
three hours' sit-t-i h in the House of (J0111
nuiis, introduced the Irish Land bill. He
reviewed the whole 'pies! ion of land tenure
in Ireland, and said Cue cardinal principle of
the measure was the . staMis.hmeiit of a court
to regulate rents and other matters likely to
form the subject of dispute between larTd
lord and tenant, lie concluded his speech
with the emphatic declaration that '"justice
is to be the principle to guide England in re
gard to Ireland." These are fair words cer
tainly, and it oniy r.-nuins now to be seen
whether Mr. Gladstone possesses strength
enough in the Rritinh Parliament to make
his promise good.
Mr. Wolfe, of I'nion county, is chairman
cf the House Committee on the Judicial Ap- 1
portionment, and although one hundred days :
of the session expired yesterday, Mr. W. has
not yet made any report from the committee.
We are at a t .tal loss to understand why this
matter, which is one of constitutional re- '
fjuireineni, should have been so long post- '
posted. We believe there are eight counties i
in the State, Cambria being one of them,
that are entitled to separate judges under i
the census of last year, and they would like !
to hear from Mr. Wolfe's committee, wh'.lc I
the counties of less than forty thousand in-
habitants would also like to know how the i
pre to be disposed cf. (
"We denonr.ee repudiation of the public
debt ia.anj form or disguise as a national
crime," said.the Republicans in their nation
al convention of 1572; and John Sherman
while lie was Secretary of the Treasury
threatened in a kttcr to remove certain Fed
eral officers in Virginia for operating with
the Mahone and Riddlelx rgcr readjusters.
And yet in l.l the Iiepublican Senators en
ter into a corrupt bargain w ith Mahone, who
would w-ver have been heard i f as a Senator
had he not rolled the repudiation of more
than one-third of the public debt of Virginia
under Lis tongue as a sweet morsel, and
John .Sherman stands up in tiie Senate and
not only endorses the shaniclessjcoaiition, but
welcomes Mahone, with all his dark and
damning record, into the Republican camp
as the friend of "411 honest ballot and a fair
count" in the South, Could hyprceiisy wear
a more biazen front?
To CsE a vulgar phrase, Mahone Ins the
Republicans in the Senate "where the hair is
hort." He fust enabled them by his vote to
control the standing committees, in consid
eration of w hich they agreed to vote for Ids
man Riddlebergr for Sergeant-at-Arms,yvho
would be elected by the casting vote of Ar
thur, the Vice President. The Democrats,
numbering just one haif of Ihe Senate, re
fuse to permit the Senate to go into an elec
tion, but insist that it shall proceed to the
businessfor which Garfield called it together
the confirmation of his nominees to office. :
The Republicans, or at least enough of them I
with the Democrats to make a majority, i
would like to vote to go into executive ses- !
sion to consider the President's most impor-
tant nominations, and just here is Mahone's
"hold." He says to the Republican Senators: i
"I complied with my part of the bargain by j
voting to give you the committees. Y'ou j
agreed to make Riddleberger Sergeant-at- j
Arms, ami if you now help the' Democrats j
by your Totes to go into executhe session, '
which might in the' end endanger Riddleber-
per's success, I give you fair notice, that as
jjy my vote you hold the committee
so by I
my vote I can take them from you: and don't
you" forget it." This threat prevents the
Democrats from cany ing motions to go into
exectit've spssion, and compels them to sus
pend hi.tdieiK-rger, like Mahomet's coftiu.
Let ween heaven and earth.
It is a great mistake to suppose that the. j
debt of Virginia, more than one-third of
which Mahone and his dishonest crew at
tempted to repudiate, was created by carpet
bacgers, like the debts of so many other
Southern States. The debt, which was hon
estly contracted, amounted to nearly thirty
three millions of dollars, and when H. II
Iiiddleberger, now the Iiepublican nominee
of the Republican caucus for Sergeant-at-Arms
of tlie V. S. Senate, was a member of
the Virginia Legislature, where he was rec
ognized as Mahone's mout?ipieee, lie put
through a bill that would have become a law
but for the veto o? a Democratic Governor,
"readjusting" the debt down to about nine
teen millions and reducing the interest thereon
from six to three per cent. On this issue
Mahone was elected to the Senate by a com
bination between the repudiating scoundrels
of lKth parties. When this repudiation ones- j
tion was before the Legislature, a colored
member named Moss delivered a speech, the !
following reference to which was made in J
Mahone's organ, the Richmond Whig : j
"Mr. Mus? (colored) had net le.irned from the i
jpec'lirs th;it hnd hecn made whether Virginia i
uii the ilelit at nil. If'hedid she should act ns ,
an individual would act in her situation. Wa tor j
paying every dollar the-State owe. 1, yet hail not
t irsfottea he wa. a Mave when the deft was eon- j
traded : nor did he forget that the destiny of Vir- i
ciniawas hi? deslinv. His property was'iis jrood j
tor taxes a, ;iriy other nianV property. Some ."aid i
the Slate was bankrupt, others that" the delit was '
contracted on the faith ol slave property, and
that property liml been svrept away, the "debt w.n j
no longer hindiirz. He thu? summed up : 'If it is:
a just de'.f. we owe anil wo must pay it.' Hcinur 1
a.-ked hy .'Mr. (rood ma n (colored) whether lie was i
for or iiijain-'t the resolution, he replied he was i
auamit anything like repudiation." '
This was the speech of a colored man who, :
if lie was uneducated, was at least honest.
While Moss was speaking Riddleberger re- j
quested him to give way for a resolution, j
Moss politely did so, and the proceedings as
published in the same paper, the Wit 'uj, read
thus :
"Mr. Mop? tinaily iiave way for Mr. Kiddlihonrer
to oilr a resolution, which turned out to !e to ex
pel the member from liuckinidiam (Mr. Moss) an a
nuisance."
Riddleberger couldn't stand the sight of
an nonesc negro upholding the good faith
and fair name of Virginia, but meanly and
basely tried to expel him from Lis seat in the
Legislature "as a nuisance." Mos wasn't
expelled, however, and if he io yjt living he
is a better man to-day than either Riddleber
ger or his master, William Mahone.
A writer in a recent number of the rhil-
, adelphia Times says that he happened into
j an old book store in that city the other day,
j where he noticed a large supply of the Sec
1 ond Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, and
i upon counting them found nineteen sets, of
1 iorty-one volumes each, making in all 779
; volumes, and wonders where such a large j
j number of the works were purchased outside 1
I of the Survey offices. There is no mystery j
at alt about these 77;) volumes of the Sur- !
vey Reports finding their way into ."an old !
1 book store" in Philadelphia. The publiea- j
i cation of the Geological Survey has been !
; enormously expensive to the State up to
, this time, and no man can tell where it will j
j stop. There have now been published forty-
! three volumes of an averaue thickness of over
an inch. . The law authorizes the publication
, r .... . . , , ' ,
of ..,000 copies of each volume yeaily, and
when the work is finished, if that is to hap
pen during the present century, the whole
mimber of volumes is estimated at sistj. At
every session some member, of the Uiliiugsley j
stripe, offers a resolution and sees that it pass- j
es, authorising the Commissioner.? of Survey 1
to furnish the Senate and House with enor- j
nious numbers of each volume of the reports, ,'
which of course is a gxjil thing for the piin-
ter. Sam Josephs was a member of the
House stiaight along fur about twelve ses- ,
sions, and as regularly as the session met, j
Sam offered and had passed a resolution di
recting the clerk to furnish each member j
with a copy of Purdon's Digest, and it was .
alleged against Sam that he sold his Pur- I
don at the end of every session to some "old
book store," knowing that he was sure of a
fresh one when he went back the next year.
We have a well grounded belief that a large
proportion of the hooks authorized by the
Legislature to be printed and distributed,
eventually find their way into old book
stores in Philadelphia, to the clear profit of
Ml
lie
h members as will stoop to trallie in pub-
ons paid for ny the State.
It appears from the testimony of State i
Treasurer Iiutler, taken last, week by the j
House committee appointed to investigate ;
the motives which prompted Attorney Gen- j
eral Palmer to publish his resent opinion on !
tne subject of the members' salaries, that the :
Governor was acting in concert with that of- j
ficcr in relation to the matter. The Treas- j
urer stated to the committee that previous to
the lime tin? opinion was published, the Gov- j
ernor sent for him and asked him whether ,
he had paid any of the members more than
a thousand dollars, the compensation allow-
cd fur one hundred days. I Li replied that
he had not, and the Governor expressed his !
satisfaction in as much as the Attorney Gen- S
eral was about to issue an opinion that the j
memoers were not entitred to more than a
thousand dollars a session. Mr. Schell, the
Auditor General, also testified to having had
a conversation with the Governor and At
torney General about the matter before the
opinion was published. If the true "in
j wardness" of Henry W. Palmer was to dis
; perse the Legislature and thereby prevent
! certain bills from passing, as lias been alleged
: against him, Henry M. Hoyt was engaged
j with him in the business. What motives
I actuated Palmer 110 man can tell, for the rea
I son that the committee refused to permit
him to appear before it to testify, although
I he had addressed a letter to the chairman ex
; pressing his anxiety to do so. If the ques
! tion of motive is so all important, why not
i examine Palmer and Hoyt, who talked the
: matter over before tht
opinion was prepared
and could therefore tell what nurnose thev
o .... ..
I had in view. Without their testimony the
the report of the committee, so far as it in-
voives the motives of the Attorney General,
the unearthing of which was the very object
of 4ts appointment, will not bo worth the
paper on which it is written.
At a banquet given to Mr. Parnell at Cork,
Ireland, on last Sunday evening, that gentle
man delivered a speech in reply to a toast
to the prosperity of Ireland, the substance of
which in its reference to Mr. Gladstone'
land bill
is condensed as follows :
' He il'noiin.-ol tlie rleertion of the jfventcen
mcmtierf from the Irlh party as the cause or the
oeroior. hill. The first portion of the land hill
h- MM. w.i full of douhtliil points nl pitfnll-i'
i lie uennii anyt.o,ly to tell areiirntely how it would
Bur, ii tv,
: would he the duty of the Irish members
th hill as m.r as possible in its pas.nre
II. ... ... . 1 ' r1 I
t to inii-rov
, Itiroiiifli the House, and pee that Its workinfr he
. a. ailT.intioti-ons a. pi.ihlo to tenniitji. The
second portion of the le.ii w;is hy far the nio't Im
portant. He looked thereto for rerv Important r-
ul!. hut hehflieve.l the compulsory expropriation
! of Inndlorrta would he a fur en?ier and more effect
ive method of r.-,te-tln tenant. He tronzly
denounce, emigration, which lie declared was a
I scheme lor ele irimr out small tenants, whose eour
an nn-l sacrifice had hronht Ihe ouostion to a
I point that no British Mini.-trv enuhl any hmijer
, overlook. Any hill that did "not lankly reduce
I rents woil l and oiujht to fail to satisfy tenants
i Mr. I'arneil. addressing the people afterward from
the hotel, warned them :isratnt thinking that the
j hattle was won and said It had onlyjns t commenced
Y ANE OF TIIE A DMINISTR ATOX. N'o mail
thinking well of General Garfield, mindful
of his ability, his ambition and hishih in
tent, can fail to be painfully struck by the
sudden hiss of popular respect in the general
newspaper discussion of tiie past fortnight
To be hated land disliked is one thing : but
to be talked of as Maine' man, to be pitied
for his blunders and charged, on too good
proof, with using offices, which are a trust
to payoff campaign debts, build up a person
al party and promote a personal ambition,
this must be harder to bear, and there are
fit her harrierthincs in store t ir PiciilAiit 4i,.l
Proniier who shirk a reform which the net.
i pie want in the Interest of decent adminis-
tration. Plot and plan a thev may, reform
1 will have its revenges in the simple outcome
! of events. The tide is on its side swayed bv
j moral forces a President can neither alter m.r
1 avoid. Spriii'e,'i li'pitbUccn.
OIK PHILADELPHIA LETTER.
r.M M PVSDAT EASTEtt S VXD AT "WAITING
FOR warm WEATHER I'OI.ITE rOI.ICEMF.N
A DISCORDANT ASSOCIATION RELIGION
TN THE iaiVLIC SCHOOLS A. VERDICT OK
POrVLAR INDIGNATION. ETC.
rSpecial Correspondence of the Fricmax.
Philadelphia, April 12, 1S81.
Dear McFike The religious ceremonies
of "Passion Week" are the most deeply in
teresting of any in the history of onr Lord.
Every day of the week is a sacred one. On
Sunday last (Palm Sunday), the first day of !
Holy Week, which is "consecrated to the i
commemoration of our flivine Saviour's suf i
ferings, I heard in St. Mary's church, this
city, the singing of the same music that, was
sung on the sam-? day in St. Peter's church j
at Rome. A full male choir, composed of !
members of the Sodalitv Society, trained
especially for that solemnity, were led bv i
their trainer. Professor Edward MeGonigie. '
The Passion of our Saviour was chanted by j
St. Mary's rector. Rev. Dr. Horstman and I
Revs. .John R. Dillon and Joseph '. Kelly, j
The part of the Evancelist was sung bv the
Rev. rector: the part of our Saviour bv "Rev. :
Dillon, and the solo puts of the synagogue
by Rev. -Iwdly. The singing of the choir
and the chanting of the clergymen were
sublime Indeed. It. was a solemnly thrilling
commemoration of our Divine Saviour's suf
ferings and death.
EASTER SUNDAY, THE SVNDATOF ALL SUN
DAYS. In commemoration of our Saviour's forty
days' fastinz, society has for the last live
weeks, figuratively speaking, been in "sack
cloth and ashes." " Iiefore writing again, and
before the issuing of another Freeman, the
penitential season of Lent will have ended.
Sunday next will be Easter Sunday, which
of all the Sundays in the year is the most j
memoraoie. it is I lie day on wlncli the pen
itential season of Lent gives way to triumph
ant rejoicing the dayon which "fastine gives
way to festivity the day on which the robes
of mourning are changed for the emblems of
everlasting life. Easter Sunday is not a
mere Sabbath simply a day of rest but a
day of light and joy." With a flood of sun
shine from t he Throne of tlod it marks the
world's progress out of darkness into light.
Tt is the day 011 which our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ arose from the sepulchre in
which he had been laid after the crucifixion.
Four hundred vears In-fore the f'hrist'rin era,
in the age when men walked in
the dim ;
twilight, w ith no conception of the full sun
I shine of religious liberty now enjoyed by the
Christian world, the list prophet of the old
dispensation spoke of t tie rising of the Sun
of Righteousness and piomiscd there should
be a healing in the wings of this Sun to all
who believed. That Sunrise came, the Sun
of righteousness throwing world-wide light,
scattering the darkness of the graves and
shedding the fullness of illumination on the
lietter days that are yet to come. It is the
day of the Sun of Righteousness, and all
should rejoice that it shines upon n.
"COME, GENTLE SPRING '."
."Come, gentle Spring; etherial mildness,
come!" The continuance of cold weather
has very much effected the business of the
I city. I t has had a depressing influence upon
the retail trade, and especially on that por
tion which makes a specialty of goods ap
propriate to Spring. All have been waiting
and hinging for the advent of more propi
tious weather. Openings are being post
poned by both retail and wholesale business
houses, all of which are looking forward
anxiously to the advent of beautiful Spring,
t'ntil the weather becomes more promising
buyers will not come to the city in any great
number.
POLITE mi.lfEMF.X.
There is enough uncertainty just now in
their tenure of ofliee to make' Philadelphia,
I policemen altogether
ovclv in their disposi-
! tio"s an(l nm'- ? 's
i verv scrupulously polite at
. policemen of Philadelphia h
astopishing how
and decorous the
1 policemen of Philadelphia have grown since
the inauguration of a Democratic Mayor.
For some time past the Committee 0! One
Hundred have been seeking evidence against
police officers who overstepped the bounds
of duty. So far about one hundred have
been found who were guilty of overt acts.
For some inscrutable reason most of the
wide-awake cities are choosing Democratic
Mayors in this year of grace. What does
this portend '.'
1cl.LP;iON IX THE IT III. IC SCHOOLS.
The action of the committee on the con
duct of Miss Scull, principal of the Girls'
Grammar School, was o openly defiant of
justice that steps will probably be taken to-
jiirin r 01.11 u-' lllii it: lA.il
wards withdrawing all 'atliolic pupils
the public schools of this city. Fresh
from
level-
1 opiiicnts are being promised growing out of
j allegations that the Catholic faith is villified
j in the public schools, from which Catholic
' childien are now absenting themselves.
i Over two hundred scholars have left the
j schools in the Nineteenth ward alone. If
I public school teachers are at liberty to villify
' and abuse the Catholic faith and 'impair fs
doctrines, steps wiil oe taken to lav the mat-
ter before the courts in the form of a bili of
; equity to restrain the collection of school
, taxes from persons aggrieved, on the ground
! that, under the action of the School Hoard,
I they are refused the rights which are guar
j anteed to them by the laws of Pennsylvania.
I The matter is occasioning considerable ex-
citement throughout the city and the end is
not yet.
A DISCORDANT ASSOCIATION.
For a Ping lime there has been a want of
cordiality in the Young Men's Christian As
sociation" of this city. The bad health of
Mr. John Wanamaker, and the pressure of
other duties, have prevented him from watch
ing closely the workings of the Association,
and the consequence is that it is going to the
"bow wows." It is dying of t if) many boss
es. There are now less tli.i.n M.n00 members,
and it requires 20,000 to keep the Association
on a sound basis. There has licen great dis
cord at the rooms of said organization in
this city, and many who have hitherto active
ly participated in the work are withdrawing
from the Association. It is rieep'y to be re
gretted that the Christian young men of
Philadelphia cannot dwell in peace and har
mony, instead of indulging in bitter feeling,
their meetings, meantime being conducted in
scenes of disorder and indecency, where a!!
should be order and decency. "Rut some
small potatoes will ln.il that way." Let us
pray that John Wanamaker's health may be
restored so as to enable him to watch the in
terests of the organization with that com
mendable care he bar, heretofore exercised.
A VERDICT OF POrVLAR INDIGNATION.
The people w ill not accept the Attorney
General as a scapegoat for our legislators"'
shortcomings. The attempt to impute im
proper motives to the Attorney General
seems to meet with a verdict of popular con
demnation. Our legislators cannot Five
good account of their stewardship, it was !
their evident intention to extend the session j
until the expiration of one hundred and fifty
days. Not one in fifty of them can earn !
one-fourth as much at home as they receive
at Harrisburg, and for that reason' the ses- '
sion was to be protracted. The public is j
scanning the record of the Legislature close- '
lv, and a popular verdict of indignation is j
the result. It was high time that, them :
joooi'iuc an tmiciai interpretation or the
suoui'i oe an ornciai
i law. 1 lie r.er diem allowance of ?10 for fittv
additional davs is forbidden bv tne constitu
tion, yet our worthy, pat vltriotic legislators.
i wlm swore to obey the constitution, wanted
to take money they had no light to receive
miner its provisions. Attorney General Pal
mer therefore deserves the lasting remem
brance of the people of Pennsylvania for
bringing up their derelict representatives
with a round turn. G. N. S.
A Sf.t of Teeth Tn avei.s Am. OvF.n a
I.apy's Root. From Middletown, Orange
county, N. Y., coinesa most remarkable story"-
On the 6th of January. lSijs, a maiden
lady at that place swallowed a new set or
false teeth, which became separated from the
rubber mould in which they had been set
while masticating her food. Before she
could eject the food from her mouth the
teeth had pone down into her stomach.
ii i i.i " " "as summoned, nut
a" fnorts were unavailing. The teeth
Hanc.l 1 '. r. a. r n .11..,.. . , ... .1 . .
. i-.i.i... in i no o.iM;oiuiori ami in a snort, lime
the matter was entirely forgotton. A few
days ago Miss Cole, the'iadv in question, felt
a sharp pain near her left shoulder, and
upon examining thenot found what. appear
ed to be a wen under the skin. With the aid
of a penknife she extracted a hard substance
wr.icn proveti to he a tooth. She was at a
loss to know how the tooth came to lie in !
such an unusual spot till site suddently re
collected that she had, twelve vears ago,
swallowed her set of teeth. During the past
four days the ladv has been cutting teeth all i
over her body ami had at last accounts reeov-
ered twelve of the fourteen teeth that had
formerly constituted her full set. She is 1
anxiously awaiting the arrival of the other '
two. She has placed the teeth in a glass
case and will keep them as momentoes.
rp,RY Doctors. -"Is it possible
that Mr. Godfrey is up and at work, and
cured by so simple a remedy?"
"I assure you it is true that he is entirely
cured, and with nothing but Hop Litters ;
and only ten days ago his doctors gave hitrt
up and said he must die ."
Well-a-day ! That is remarkable ! I
will go this day and get some for my poor
George-. I know hops are good. "Salem Post.
Sold hy E. James, Druggist, Ebensburg, Pa.
STILSON HCTCTMNS. of the VCnehmrrV.,,
7V.f, says he is not the author of the Morev
letter that tho mnu r,r i, s. ir r
i w, says ne is not the author of the Morev 1
letter-that the name of the writer isMor? I
NEWS AND OTHER SOTIMiS.
Iowa's butter and cheese products last
year were worth $1.,ih0,(KK.
The President has accepted an invitation
to visit Gettysburg on Decoration day.
The butter, cheese, egg and milk pro
ducts of this country are estimated to be
worth $S40. 000,000.
Mrs. Elizabeth Quinn, native of Ireland,
and for Gti years a resident of Philadelphia,
died on the tith inst., aged I'M years.
Earthquakes stilIcontinue atScio: forty
five villages have been destroyed and only
twenty houses on the island are habitable.
A heavy shock of earthquake was felt
early on Sunday morning in the central part
I of California. No serious damage is report
i ed.
I Colonel W. W. Brown died at Milesburg,
j Centre county, last week, of starvation. He
' was unable" to ictain anj thing on his
I stomach.
' Miss Eliza Warner, a highly respected
young lady ot -Montrose, ilieil there a lew
davs aco of malpractice. Several arrests
1 have been made.
The West Chester Village Record says
' that Maria Raymond, colored, died inPocop
i son township, Chester county, on Tuesday
last, aged lo.r years.
j The lawsuit brought by the self-styled
i danahterof the late Cardinal Antonelli to get
possession of his property has been finally
; dismissed bv the courts.
j The Wilkes-Rarre I'nion-Lender wonders
! what under heaven deft Davis is thinking
! about? Why don't he join the Republican
paitv and get something rice.
I The Methodist. Church has grown from
j 200 members to 4,000,000. This growth took
! 14i) years, and is considered both healthy for
i the present and encouraging for the future.
Col. Thomas A. Scott lately bought, at a
sale in Northumberland county, a clock made
1 bv his uncle in 1
:. It still keens good time.
I and every three
1 chime of bells.
hours plays .a tune on a
! Near Staunton, Va., on Friday, the ;
' house of Edwin Reeves was totally destroy- :
1 ed by fire. Two of his children perished in
the flames and Mr. Reeves himself was pro- :
I bablv fatally rmrned. j
1 Of eight marriages that took place in the i
I vicinity of Coatesville, Chester county, this j
: winter" none of the contacting parties was ;
1 under sixty-five and one of the bridegrooms j
: was seventy -five years of age. i
I A wedding party got so drunk at Wau- 1
paca. Wis., that the object of the gratheritig
was forgotten hy all, including ihe hrnle,
bridegroom and minister, and tne marriage i
did not take place until next day. i
When Samuel J. Tilden read the names 1
of the members of Garfield's cabinet be is
said to have remarked that this a.lininistra- I
tion would be the stormiest on record. Our j
I.'ncle Sammy seems to have stuck a pin 1
there. j
Harriet Lane Johnston, who as Harriet '
Lane was the charming hostess of the i
i White House during the Ruchanan adniinis
j tratioti, has met with a great affliction In the !
1 recent death of her eldest son in the lMh year
j of his age.
John Conyers, born in 17S4, and now
! past ninety-seven, was married in Shelby
I ville, Ind., a few days ago, to Martha Mat
j times, aged fortv-tive. The old gentleman
' is quite spry and lias lived a widower for the
: last thirty years.
j Miss' Hat tie Duel!, of Iowa City, Iowa,
' died at noon on Monday last, after fasting
I forty-seven days. A post mortem examina
tion made immediately after death revealed
the fact that she hadn't a drop of blood in
her body, which weighed only forty-five
I pounds.
The circus manager who advertised for
j the handsomest woman in the United States
j has chosen from among the applicants a girl
; named Louise Montague. She is a sinuer in
1 variety shows, a lieauty tif the brunette type, !
ami a iavorite oi ttue liowery voutlis. Site
w ill represent Lalla Rookh in the street pa-
! geants. ;
i In Vinton county, )., is a family, named '
Reynolds, whose combined ages amount to i
; t7'. years. The father is ninety-one, the
! mother eighty-eight. They have had four- i
. teen children, all of whom are living, the :
j oldest being sixty-nine and the youngest !
( forty-three. There are more than fifty grand- i
; children, many gieat grandchildren, and sev-
! eral great great grandchildren. I
I Mr. Edward Schetilein, fine of the min- !
ing millionaires-, wasouce a 'mule-puncher"
at Tough-Nut, I'rescott and other camps.
' One flay while at Camp Hiiaehuea he an-
nounecd his purpose of starting out to make '
j a fortune. - Oh, es," replied a bystander, )
: "you'll find a tombstone." SchelVlein soon
af'erwards "struck it rich" and named the :
now thriving camp Tombstone. His first
act after making the strike was to settle ?Ut),- :
ooo upon his mother. '
An attempt wa- made last week to black !
j mail Mr. Louis Strasberger, a wealthy citi- '
i zen of New York, threatening in case of re- :
j fusal to pay f'i.oOO that his daughter, a little i
' girl of eleven years, should be ahdueted. A
j decoy letter caused the arrest tif the parties, ,:
' one oi whom when arrested showed some
i signs fif resistenee and was shot and instant- I
: ly killed by the officer. The annoyance to 1
Mr. Strasberger's family began last Decern- '
1 her by letters to Mrs. S." " j
! At Railtowi:, Forest county, near Fox- i
burg, Clarion coui.ty, is a welt which has re- ',
cently began to produce a black oil hearin"
a close resemblance to coal tar. In its nat" ,
' nral state this oil when burned emits a flense
; black smoke, from which a thick soot is de- j
i posited. No other well in the vicinity pro-
j duces anything like it, though the driil pass, i
; es through the same kind of slate at equal i
distances in all of them. The people of the i
vicinity ar greatly puzzled.
A 1. T ..'..1- . i
I .u i.ih-k, u Rumanian, whose name
; seems to have been a misnomer, was hanged
I at Nevada City, Cal.,on Friday, for the mur
: der of a fellow-countryman on May is, ih-'j
I He was baptized on Thursday night by a
; Catholic clergyman. Heseemed resigned to
' to his fate, Put afhmred to the last that he
did not commit the murder. On the gallows
i he spoke for a few moments calmly, but
i broke dov.-n completely when the straps were
! being adjusted to his limbs.
A Reading pi inter, who is r.O years of
1 age, has never been tint of Herkscountv over
nigni, except upon lour occasions. Hespent
hands in the ofiice. He says he never likes
to get so far away from home that he can't
see the smoke of his own chimney. There
, is no nanger mat lie will ever elope.
: There is a lady living in Calhoun ronntv,
' HI., who. although seventy-years old, has
j recently married her sixth husl.and. Her
I last deceased husband w as named Race, and
, the man she has just married is named Far
J ris. A romantic feature of her last matri
j monial venture is the fact that Mr. Farris
I was her first love, but cruel fate intervened
! nnd prevented their union. All of her dead
j hushands are buried in the family grave
; yard upon tlie farm on wlji'di jd)e resides.
I The Washington (D. C.) Presbytery was
-ri . n e me .orcn i resovte-
mn ynurcn ior a severance of its pastoral i
relations with Rev. Cbni-ioi! ti r-,to.in
the ground tnat his wife, a Catholic, attends '
Mass. to the great detriment of her husband's
! influence. Judge Drake, of the Court of j
I Chums, offered a resolution for his expulsion. '
j inasmuch it was a mortal sin for a Presby- !
i "-nan clergyman to take a Roman Catholic !
! wife- The resolution provoked an anima- I
( ted discussion, but a decision was deferred f
1 oo i.P:ulin.1 Time says that among the j
j 1. .0,000 of infantile trout hatched in the trout !
i rM,Js ',f,r- ,;ei'''n Troxell, in the western !
I part of Salisbury, Lehigh county, are a num. !
Cel. i 1 , """V"5 ,IS" ,s. vountr
iisii joined at the sides as if one body, vet I
, f at 11 naving two heads and two tails "Thev I
i are queer looking specimens and in their '
way finite as big a curiosity as were the late I
. irtiiiBMi twins, iney are ou to he.irtv nod
dart about the bright. Waft.ro rf tdA
sery" in a manner just as lively as the rest
of the small fry.
In the spring of the year, the season for
all kind of weather within twenty-four hours
ram, snow, sleet, wind, sunshine, etc.
some persons are alwavs more or less addict
ed to neuralgic headaches, which, to say the
i least, is eeeelingly bad company, anil
I those so afflicted will be pleased to learn that
the juice of a lemon squeezed into a cup of
! black coffee will afford immediate relief. It
j is stated that tea should be avoided by all
persons subject to neuralgia. The above
! ?life ,s simple and cheap, and if it holds out
is invaluable and well worth trying.
I a special from Jiranchville, S. C, tolls !
of a fearful case of drowninc which occurred i
in Ashley river on Wednesday mornino- of
last week, by which seven out of nine per- '
sons in a row-boat lost their live Ai.,,f !
seven o'clock the boat left l$ennetfs wharf !
for Mr. Jarvey's plantation and Johns Is- j
land. There were nine persons in all on the
boat, including two ladies and two children
I he boat was suddenly capsized, and two '
of the men w ho climbed on the keel were 1
saved. All the others wi.0 drowned before j
assistance from the shore could reach them
Information is wanted as to;the where
abouts Of Mrs. Man- .Tanr- V.ll
name Ubel) wife of William Jl. Keller of i
nnie Mill Imvncliin T.. ' ,
" ' i i " u,"i couuiy, w no
left home on Thursday morning, Mirch .11
, . njJn?'ltn npr a by ba,' eighteen months
old. The mother is about :w3 yfr3 old
stout, about 5 feet, 4 inches in height has
brown eyes, and dark hair tinged with gray
When she left home she was dressed in a
wrapper nnd wore a black shawl with a
brown nubia wiiii i j . . n
KboU s& cTf a red sunbonner M f tLp
un.e uorcter. un her hum bf
one infill m lifiianon count v and threenights ' mnrom complete.
1 in Scbuvlkill. He entered the Ilerfcs and i ";,1lerl'i"' have o
1 ":rr?'' - appre'ii.ice I X' K
1K.18, and is to-day one of the most reliable ; mm mime ton diiia. Tin-
Smith Ransom, an old farmer, living
; alone on the Hall Hill road, in East Long
i Meadow, says a Springfield (Mass.) despatch
j of the 10th, was found dead this morning in
i his bed with his skull broken in two places.
' He cannot live. He was seen about five
o'clock last night in front of Ids own house,
and soon after Henry Uridge, a man who had
been sufTering with delirium tremens for
two or three days, was seen in the vicinity
I acting in a strange manner. Later in the
evening Uridge was brought to tins city lor
drunkenness and this morning when told
that Ransom had been killed he confessed
that he had done the deed.
The Perry (Ga.) Home Journal says that
several weeks ago, during an excessively wet
season, a gentleman was on the way to Ma
con via the wagon road. At j-.cneconnec
creek he saw a sow and five pigs in the
swamp on a place that was dry land before
the recent rams. 1 lie water 01 tne creeH
had risen so rapidly that the sow was cover
ft
ed within tnree inches ot the top 01 tne nacK
The pigs, to escape the water, had climbot
upon the back of the sow, and there they
I were across the sow. their hind legs dangling
! in the water 011 one side and their nosesocca
; sionnllydippingonthe other. Our informant
I vouches for the truth of this statement.
i Martin Shannon, of Laekawaxan, Pa.,
' has received a letter from a man named
Springstead, in which the latter confesses 1
i that he drowned a boy named Samuel Asher j
I at Laekawaxan on June 12,177. The ;
' drowning was supposed at the time to have !
i been accidental, but Springstead states that
; he upset the boat and kept the boy's head j
j under water until he was drowned, and that 1
' l,u rfli, I it liiinaiKi, lui liototl tliA l'lrl'4 futbor ?
I The self-confessed murderer is at present '
. f.iffiorwl 111 tin, T-iJ'lie I'nnnli- X .1 ,'tiltn
; await the action of the grand jury on the
' charge of planning to murder and fob a eitl
; zen of Passaic. He had been in the employ
j of the I'assaic postmaster,
j "Minersville's beauty," Mis Ida G.
Reed, M. D., declares that she wasndjudg
! ed to be the beauty sought for and went to
; Philadelphia at the request of Forepaugh's
agent. While negotiations were endingat
j the Colonnade hotel, both Forepaugh and
i the manager confessed that the f 10, ooo offer
! was alia sham, but that they won 11 give her
a salary of o per week and pay expenses of
! herself and a companion. Tliis offer Miss
i Reed refused to accept, and the money com
j pensation was raised from S.ro to $7h : but
; she would not agree and so the arrangement
fell through and she came home. The lady
i who has been selected to fill the position
has agreed to do so for ?.!0 per week for a
term of thirty weeks.
I The Americus (Ga.) Iiepublican says:
; There is a young man living a few miles
from Americus who, we are informed, is ter
ribly frightened whenever the wind blows
hard. A neighbor of his tells ns that fre-
I iuently when plowing and a heavy breeze
I springs up he has seen him leave the plow,
j and running to a stump throw his arms
j around it ami hide his head as near the earth
1 as possible until the wind subsides. One
j night last week the young man jumped from
! his bed while asleep, ran out on to the ver
andah of his house, und grabbing one of the
posts .stayed there for an hour or two, when
some one having to go out found him fast
asleep and nearly frozen. He said when
awakened that he was dreaming that a ter
rible storm was sweeping awa'v trees, fen
ces, etc., and was greatly frightened. His
people cannot account for his strange fear
of w ind.
JScioN Great Loss by rarlh quake.
HPNniJKPS ok Horsi-.s compi.ktki.y demol
ish ki AND SEVLN THOfS VXD LIVES LOST.
The London Timet' correspondent at Scio,
the scene of the recent terrible rarthouake.
telegraphs as follows under date of the
th
nisi.
1 have just arrived her 3 from Constantinople and
find a picture of desol.-ition such lis is r.in-lv wit
nessed. The town looks as it it hud been terribly
homrnrdod. Hundred ot houses are transformed
into a shapeless mass of ruins, under which lie
nurien an unknown liumtwr ol victims. A major
ity of the remaining houses are aireadv emcked ;
and roollc.-e nnd may fall at any moment". Nearly 1
very loiddimr in the town bus suiiercd more or '
less. The inhabitants wander about anxious to j
search for luissinir relatives or lost property, but ,
are afraid to risk their ilvrs in the pinions work 1
of clearing away the rubbish. .Many who are will- S
ing to expose thciiisi-jves to the il.mirer are pre- ;
, i-iiicu oy ir.cuiis or 03 u:e ponce. J-orir, krr:el 11 nd 1
despair are d'-picted on nearly overv lace. All 1
have some s ol or trauic t ile "to t-.-ll". The first
shock was felt on Sunday aficni.'on at about l.:j'i !
i o'clo'-k. I ii.iiiediati ly houcs heaar tofall. Wild
shrieks were heard on every side. Then billowed
an awiul silence of some minutes. The terrified 1
survivors irraduallv ventured into the narrow lanes I
nud reached tlie open spaces. Shortly atterwards :
another terrible s(i..ck completed the "devastation. !
Then It remained quiet until sunset, when it nvain t
1 bciran to s!, ike the isiainl throughout a' severely
! as l.eiore. All iduht the shocks succeeded each 1
j ol her at short interi a Is. and each one was preceded j
bv dull son nils 1 1 ke subterranean explosion. Since I
; that leiient shocks have been lelt. A few min- J
j utes airo. while wrl'iutr the present despatch. 1
eistinctly heard an e,.bi-ion like sound nod lelt j
I the earth tremble, hot as 1 r.iu undcrcanvas 1 have
rcthin"; to b ar. The old renocc f rtre.-. oin
t iininir about four hi: 11 ore I houses inhabited by
?.tusseimans and .les, sulb-red more than the
, rest of the town. The ground there sank about
1 h ill a rn'trc. and nearly nil the houses were im-
, mediately destroyed and several hundred persons
' must have perished. It is known that about thfrtv 1
! M -sselman women were assembled in one of the ;
, houses, not one ol whom escaped.
A medical commission is n-.w siftina: to consider ,
I the expediency of covering the rul'bis, in t he fort-
' res.s with earth, as there is no Pnpe of savins; any ;
live, and the disinterment of the dead tniirht pro. ,
i i ice an epidemic. It lJ now believed that through- ;
; out the whole island, which eonta ined 70,0 si inhao- :
. lants, six or seven lhousnnd were Willed, and 2o
; per cent, of the survivors were wounded. The j
j French, Hritish, T'nited States nnd Austrian war
vessels in the harbor are dolnir all in their power
! to assist the authorities in their work nl relief.
i inly ten of the inhabitants of 'hesme werft killed,
I but many houses are in ruins, nnd :o.osi people J
j are without shelter. The southern part of the island !
i said to have suffered more than this town. I I
I visited I'hcsme this afternoon, i inly about ten
j inhabitants, were killed, but nianv houses are In
i ruins, nnd very many more are dilapidated. The, '
1 Mayor nssurcd me that three-fourth of the houses '
are in a danircroi.s rendition. The inhabitants are j
afraij to live even in those which aro uninjured. '
lor every niirht since Sun. lv Ireqnent shocks have ;
j been felt. Nearly all uretef to camp out. As the
! weather is rine. the hardship in this re.pect is not i
1 "Teat. In Kastro the work of extricating bodies i
I and attending the wounded is proirressinir s-ti- '
; faetorily, but the slillini; odor in tho vicinity of ;
many of the ruins prove. that the former onera- '
n the other hand some I
occurred, fine woman
lor rllty-two hours. and I
inn given birth in the ;
child is dt.fi.l l.n, I
mother is doinz well." ' !
ASOTHEtt TEP.nir.I.K SHAKINfl.
I'lO. Afirilll. X Violent Kl'Ocfe nf Mrtl,nnl.n
latinir four seeond" and irraduallv increasing in
ftrcnuth. has just passed over the islund, followed
by
j.-toiiig 01 nouses on all siues.
Wokth RKMKMnF.niNc Now that good j
, times are again iiion'us, before indultring in j
1 extravagant M10V, it is worth remembering j
; that no one can enjoy the pleasantest sur- ;
, rouudinjs if in bad health. There are bun- 1
: d reds of miserable people going about to-day J
j with disordered stomael), liver' or kidneys, or
J a dry, hacking cough, and one foot in the 1
: prave, when a o0 ct. bottle of rarkcr's Gin- i
1 o, 1 i i i 1 4i i
I o'nii. nuuin uo intfiu utoie fitm man Hii
me
exnensive doctors nnd onaek nitolioinps
they have ever tried. It always makes the
blood pure and rich, Sid will build you tin
, - . . ... . - x.
anu cive you cioi neaiin at little cost. Kead
of it in another column, and buy it at James'
,- f . -,-!. .1 ,
.uiiiu oiore, roensourg, ra,
A WoxnKnFvi, Discovery. A dispatch
from I,os Angeles (Cal.) says :
"A great discovery has been made on the Moiave
desert, which sems"destined to revolutionize Viti
culture in Southern California. It has been found
that grape euttinics Inserted into the trunks of tho
cactus on the desert trrow and thrive as vigorously
ns In cultivated land. This fact is or reat im-
Prtanee to the people. Bvthe use of a chisel a
n,a can I'li,nt a lnrKf vineyard in a dsv. and the
i'" '" l,:"n,ed wlil cb.niii the cactus "and prow
d -'v
luxuriously without cultivation or Irrigation. The
dry, hot sands ol the desert wiil aflord a line t.lacn
f u-dryinif raisins. In addition to irrapes, it has
been pro red that melons, cueunil r and tomatoes
"will srow from cactus stock, so that the de'ettmny
soon bloom as the rose."
A Foolish Mistake. Don't make amis
take fif confounding a remedy of acknow
ledged merit with the numerous quack med
icines that are now so common. We speak
from experience when we say that Parker's
Ginger Tonic is a sterling health restorative
and will do all that is claimed for it. We
have used it ourselves with the happiest re
sults for rheumatism, and when worn out
by overwork. See adv. Times. Sold by E.
James, Ebensburg, Pa. 3-21. -lni.
Miss. C'HAin.rs Roi.ton- of.Snranac, Mich.,
known as the "Mammoth Queen," died on
Friday. Her weight when with shows was
stated to be .575 pounds.! She has been living
at her home for some time past. Her weigh!
before death w as 4on pounds.
Nf.hvous Hkadachk. Periodica! Head
ache, Neuralgia Headache, nre'eu'-ed bv Drt
METTAITK'S HEADACHE and DYSPEP
SIA PILLS. Price 2.-1 cts. 3-21. -Im.
FARMERH arn MtKIXl u IVVIVP'C
ifoOpnr wk fellinsr M Al dLXr O
ILLUSTRATKI) STOCK BOOK!
Kecau.oeTry ( firmer i-t nnl ly nrriM It.
It is tho Latest ami most t omplete work rver Is
sued In America treating of Horses, Cattle, Shrcp
S.o. their hrecdf, breeding, traininar. causes of dm'
easp. rymitoni!t. and remedies. lOOO naire?. 400
illnstrntioiis. Hlfthlj endorsed hy nuch emlnfnt
aiithorltif n.i tho rre?bient. Vice Pres't and Sec'y
of F'rnn'a t'olloire of Vctcrinnry Surirnr-. Hon J.
W. irudxden, and other?. If yon rieiro pptitahl
T"iiic, cnil at onco f..r H'l.L particular. HI'H
I3AHl) fmiS.,T:'arhennut i-t., Fblladf li.hu. l a.
ApuJ lb, l81.-4t.
............
JOHN jlWA!NjjAfMil
- - - -
Our friends in Philadelphia iret notice from (lie
I items of interest relating to
changes in styles and prices, and any timely information upon topics of iut're-
10 Miuppers.
The most direct and useful news of the store we can dve to readers
weekly papers is, perhaps, to be found in these notices, avoiding such as are f
only transient interest.
DRESS GOODS.
What art and skill are doing in cotton dress
fabrics!
l wo counters are poiireoiw with
llll-lll
The lowest price is .v : cts n vnr.i
I and the highest f',2' cts. ; but thev are made
, in soft and delicate ways, and bv texture,
i print, or dye, to rival the stuff of luxury.
Here are familiar names :
' S.-otch Zephyrs, Fou'.ards,
J Madras Ginghams, Sateens,
Seersuckers, Lawns,'
Chintzes, Cretonnes,
Oxford Cloths, Momips,
, Toiles d'Alsace, Cheviots.
Printed Shirtings.
j In almost every name are triumphs. Yon
! axe not often as"ked to admire such modest
I works of art and skill; but see if you can
j pass thes.? counters without a new estimate
I of the times in which you live.
JOnX WANAMAKER.
j Fourth circle, northwest from centre.
DEBEIGES,
Everyliody knows, are staple goods. One
looks at novelties and buys staples. Staples
means something tiiat almost everybody
buys.
What, everybody buys is certain to lie a
good thing somehow. "The way debeiges are
gfod is this": the money goes all for use and
none for show : fir rather for that kind of
show w hich limits use.
Why, last spring we brought in one lot of
debeiges and have been buying in debeiges
ever since. And now we have more de
beiges than you will look at, all browns and
grays; and nearly all new. The prices are
all the way from 25 cents for 22-inch to $1.10
for 4-incii. A particularly good quality is
00 cents for 4.''.-ineh.
" JOHN WANAMAKER.
Second circle, south from centre.
BLACK DRESS GOODS.
ow things in black dress good of almost
all sorts are ready.
Silk crenadines came some time aco ; now
the wool and silk-and-wool grenadines are
here : and the variety is creator than we
have had before, greater than anybody ever
had, so far as we know.
New armures, ilain and figured, nre no
table, especially the latter. Among them are
armures, with small figures and plaids, that
can be seen only when looked at in certain
ways. The draping of a tires?, of these would
appear to be partly plain and partly figured
or plaid. The figures and plaids seem to
have no existence at all. You can't find
them except by accident.-
JOHN" W.VN'AMAKF.R.
Next outer circle, Chest nut-street ent ranee.
MEDIUM WOOLEN DRESS GOODS.
There are three notable woolen dress fab
rics at Si.
Melange pin checks, of five colors. The
warp is of a uniform liht shade in each :
the wool is of alternate clusters of threads,
three or four being light, tiie next three or
four having twisttd with them a thread of
darker shade.
Woolen sateens of eight colors, more or
less mixed in carding. The sateens effect is
produced by heavy 'warped threads thrown
almost wholly on the surface : they jump
three or four' of the fine warp threads, and
pass tinder CI1I3" one. The warp scarcely
comes to the surface at all, as you can see
by the selvage.
Croise cashmere of fifteen plain colors :
differs from ordinary cashmere in the twill.
This is probably 110 better money's worth
than the others ; but almost exact iy the same
has just been offered us at wholesale for a
little more money than we are selling it at.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Third circle, south of centre.
COTTOX-and-WOOL DRESS GOODS.
Here are three cofton-and-wool dress cloths
of single width in browns and grays :
P.alerno cloth, like alpaca, but heavier, at
12 cents.
Cashmere beige, in appearance somewhat
like the SI melange, described above; plain
lo cents, twilled 1H cents,
JOHN" WANAMAKER.
Third circle, cast from centre.
SILKS.
Heavy rich damnsse silks of all colors, ?2.
7.1: last season's S."i ami fti goods; are now
selling in preference to the latest novelties,
of course on account of richness and price.
Plain silks of the same colors to combine
with them.
The following are just received from our
buyer resident in Paris :
Pongees, richlyembroidered by hand, with
sprays of flowers and witti birds. The pri
ces of those ready to-day arc $2$ to ? 6 per
piece of 4', yards. More are coming.
New designs in French foulards $2.
Hayadere ombre stripes. Here's one, for
example: garnet-ombre into-gold alternat-
I InE withgold-ombre-into-bronze ; stripes half
an inch wide and no interval,btween.
' 1 . 1 , 1 ...
1 i iieiiuercu tiatnasses. weorgeous will!
color: variety of designs, the on!v feature
! common to them all being the arrangement
! in squares, not unlike a chequer board. 82
I to ?4.75.
i JOHN WANAMAKER.
Next outer circle, Chestnut-street entrance.
j CLOAKS AND DRESSES.
j We have just opened foreign black wraps,
dolmans, capes, etc., at fo to $73 ; light col-
j ored coats, wraps, and ulsters, some foreign
and of our own make, at ft to $12.
Sill dresses in styles not to be found else-
I where, at ?1."., $17 and f 18 : and cloth dresses
at f 10 to .;o.
Also misses' and children's coats, ulsters
and dresses in great variety. A few misses'
1 coats of last spring w ill be "sold at half-price
o'..,'j iuinici; miu misses a eueigc dresses
of last spring at less than half-prices, viz., ?3
and 4. '
JOHN WANAMAKER,
Soutiieast coiner of building.
FLANNELS.
French wrapper flannels. As you stand
before the counters vou mav see mi f
I them displayed along' the top "of the shelves
I n lni,. , 1 1 . : r . . '
u mi iviirtuuii in useir, our oniy a part.
Look at the shelves too. No two pieces
alike of all you see. There's no such variety
of flannels anywhere.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Next outer c'ule, northeast from the centre.
TfiOSP. wlin Tin va ln:iH
jnoij i vj iiiivit,! oittuu ljiuii
liavA nnf HP'ilr vtitli no li
uu i j xx u t u iu iiiiiL yio Jiuivioiui v tlx vi y. v. i imij u
rely on our yvell-known guarantee of ultimate satisfiiction iu "every respect.
Chrstnnt, Til Irl ff-nl H nmi Markrt
Mri'e(. nnd lltj-'llall sqiiurr.
AT
the next few davs. such as
SATEENS, 8lc.
Toiled' Alsace is a similar fabric to Scotch
gingham, but of softer finish, and printed:
to cts. Sateen is even finer, and the warp is
thrown upon the surface o snccessf ullv ns
to leave it as smooth as satin, which indeed
it much resembles. 1 his also is printed in
exquisite de-iens, and the printing is th.
more successful because the surface is so
smooth.
The bouquet squares fnoliodv else has
them yet, so far as we know) app"ear to have
been a Parisian forethought. Thev are of
sateen and are used as garniture of sateen
dresses. Nothing in cotton printing, proba
bly, was ever anything like so rich before.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Fourth circle, Thirteenth-street entrance.
UNDERWEAR.
Fine muslin cambric underwear, ricl.lv
decorated with lace and embroidery, care"
fully, finely and skillfully made. This we
have in greater variety than vou will find
elewhf-re : but there is" 11 difficulty in get
ting this grade of work.
I'mlerwear of a plainer sort is dimeult to
get carefully and ikiilfullv made: but we
have a really great collection of it. For
more than a year pa--t we have been raiding
the standard of manufacture and cultivating
simpler styles. We have work the like of
which is 'in 110 other house, here fir in New
i "oi. I i'C in ill Ul II n Hie OCSLOl inline-
1 r i 1. I . 4 : . . i ... 1 . r 1.
nunc Limnni ai ;u suen prices as will cause
lb I'J UC I'iririH-ll lO llOIllO-lIlillie UI1U MOO
home-making as fast as the work becomes
known.
J.TOHX WANAMAKER.
Southwest corner of building.
LACES.
Not every day are our lace counters filled
with liuyers. They would be, if every lady
knew tvvo fact-, viz., f rt, that we have the
neyvest and choicest of lac s of every crrade :
second, that we sell them below th'market.
The difficulty is that every merchant savs
the same two tliiiijs : find you don't think it
very saucy to doubt just a "little, bec.m-e ad
vertising does paint thinirs too roy sometimes.
We much desire you to fiu! out how care
ful we are to --ay exact iy wh.it yve mean,
neither more or less. For example, s-e to
day a torchon at in cents, which sells else
where at 2" cents about. How do yve know '.'
Why we sold it ourselves fur l. cents last
week. Not one in a hundred of our regular
customers knows hoyy yve eroyvd prices down.
How crm yve expect others to helieve that
our policy is low prices, when almost every
merchant studies how to keep them up '.'
As to assortments, what do you suppose
we do with nine lacr counters' Whv, there
is no sii'-li stock in l'l.ilnddphia. Ve have
thousands of dollars wonli of line laces d,ut
up in be.vi's. We have very poor facilities
for exhibiting them : but yye shall surprise
you if you ask to see them.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Nine counters, southwest c f centre.
HANDKERCHIEFS.
New fancy white handkerchief : many.
New initials : pew letters, a different letter
for each price. New colored borders. Linen
centers wit U colored silk borders ( noyy here
else, probably), requite to be washed with
care; hut yyitli care they wash perfectly:
colors fast. Woven color borders, plaids and
stripes of course. Not a mixed cotton-aml-lir.en
handkerchief in the store.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Third circle, southwest from centre.
LINENS.
We have
of note in
visited every linen manufactory i
l-.orope, and gathered a stock
which for variety of fabric and finish is be
yond all precedent, comprising :
Sheeting-linen.
Pillow-case linen.
Diaper linen.
Star linen.
Ladies' underwear iinen.
Gentlemen's underwear linen.
Hutchers' linen.
Toyvels.
Toweling.
Table-cloths.
Table linen.
Napkins.
Doilies.
We have linens entirely unknown fo Amer
ican markets: also every favorite here.
Nootiier house in Philadelphia buys abroad
Hence no other bouse can have cither our
goods or our prices. This yve sriy w ithout
knowing what other houses have," either in
goods or prices.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
City-IIall-Square entrance.
MUSLINS.
Who wants to read about muslins? And
yet you had better know hoyy, by a little
crookedness in dealing, they are made to
brine an extra price, even in houses that
ought to te above crookedness of any sort.
Take an example : Wamsutta is branded,
part of it Wamsutta, and part of it w ith the
merchant's name. That branded Wamsutta
is sold at the CHrront market price, and the
other is sold for an extra price, and the sales
men are instructed to selfas little as thev can
of the genuine, and as much as the can of the
other.
The practice, we are sorry to say, prevails
in some large houses here iii Philadelphia.
If you find that a merchant considers such
dealing fair, perhaps you will look out for
him in other goods as yvcll as muslins.
We have everything in muslins that is
wanted here : everything is branded w ith the
name of the mill that liiade it ; and every
thing is sold at the bottom of the market.
JOHN WAN A MAKER.
Outer circle, northeast from the centre.
DOMESTIC CALICOES.
Chintz of indigo-blue ground with white
polka dots of various sizes, and other little
figures not utdike thedotsof Ameriearrmake.
at 10 cents, is a great favorite.
Calicoes in ceneral are S cents ; but some
patterns are 5 1 2' , simply because they are not
liked so well.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Fourth circle, noitheast from centre.
witli ns liv li.ffnr lrnnw alrp.fldv what Care VC
uauio, .im.ij iMtuuu, tv oujjhj
nroinfnr ora pnrilllv invitpH fo (Id SO T10W . aiHl
JOHN
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daily
the arrival of
HOSIERY.
These
items in hrsi.-rv t-o t-r.-T.-.
but our prices aie lower, probably, t'vtrv ;:
of them
LADIEV.
Englih, plain colors, f 1.20.
German, fancy, .Mi, ..17.
English, fan-v, .r,o.
English, lisle," Mark. .nr..
English, lii-ie, black embroider 75
English, spun-.-ilk, black, f :..V.
MIssfN'.
French, heavv-rib, rrav, S".40
German, ribbed, li-'le, 'black, .64.
MENS.
Enclish, extra-stout, VU7.
English, fancy, .L'.r.
German, li-de," black, ..V.
German, lile, black, embroidered, c
German, silk, plain colors, .7,',.
German, silk, plain colors, embroider.' 1 ,
If you find eis-ewhere a stckinc cal.es '..
the same name as anv one fif - ,V .:
price no high. t than ours, look attiiV '.:..
JOHN WANAMAKT?.
Outer circle, Chestnut-street entrar e.
CARPETS.
We ask you to see our Wilton,
Moquette, Rruss'-is and Taprsirv ck
Our carpet-trade is new ; eursli'k ;i
1 r, . 1 . ' 1 .. . i -
j aim inii.i nil urw VWllHllPIlOlrif-wig
i nmumi ) - nun many ot ti.e ,-. .
j wow;fcii IU ItK lllt illUOeCl.
Large buyers fi r hotels, ehu
rxhes. etc..
here, perliap"
surprising ad rantae.
JOHN WANAMAKE7
Maifcet street front, up itairs.
FURNITURE.
A
cluu to the character r.f r.nr
; wuiioiii -cii'o; it. lake, for eiamr e t
: r'-oni suite r.f three pieces. '
j Lowest price ;
Ash, wood tops t -r
I Another style, v.aiuut or nh
; marble tops '
I StK-ti as are in every f urt
! nton wood and eemmnn
' also a small assortment
painted sets.
it ure Mora
work, w
ot "cu
le'vyest pnee? m fit
!s wei k
u ainut. wood t
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$4
aiii
:e m tiij.!,. ny...
Of plain style, Put pi .-r f r s.ni:
ar.v hou-e, tin matt-r 1. -w- iich.
Ioyvest 1'iiees in elecTr.t work ;
Maple oi walnut. 1 1 ihk ,ec-i.,
ble tops
Loyve.U prices in luxurious v. oi
Walnut, Ten nessop-ijin i,,.p ,
Same style in mahoL'ajiv
A very chaste and iio!.;v Vt e
of work :
Maple, wood tc ps...
Same in mahogonv
We have very- lar r-" as,rt ajt-n;
low tlO'', and between 5
) i p. i fi
h"-' r
in'-ruer juices there is rn
tdiiy more i visiiy decoration
JOHN WAN AM AKt?. w'hicli f
The western gallery.
PARASOLS.
Twenty-five silk parasnl-coy ers err
ered in China, w ith siiv.-r.rul gold i-i r
andrathei characteristic, but "not ex:
v iiiiie-e oesigns. with w;.!e borders ar.d vr Ua
v.ue,, siik .nunc-, nave been impoited a" rushes
put on neat frames, with variety of stick' oreebr
I lUeen of the twei.tv-f.ve hay e come f nil bru
Tl f y are in our cr llection of novelties at t t the th
We l.ave Hbout three hundred sty les of rf.' Tr
.. .... .... .. , a. ui'.ersiiv in t
styles as to baf.ie description.
For a mere accessary r t a scr jpniovis ia.-.
toilet pcihaps no atticle is die sen wit1-'
much care. We sliail net tire ot st- v
you. ladies, every one ; nnd if we mav
by the interest shown yesterday, vr j" r
tire cither.
The opening continues to-dav.
JOHN WAN AMAKFF
Chetnut-street entrance.
SILVER.
A fine collection of minor anicV ir
flat ware, ice-cream service, cliildrc ::'? f'i
nankin w-rincr te r.tc
silver plate. A comprehensive f-l t '
everything that vou will nk f.r. Iu ,
ware we have three evade, of plate : th- " i'il'Z
est crade we d.y not L-pun In hc' .cv ;- .'
we have the best grades on'v.
JOHN WANAMAKI K
Outer-circle, northwest fiom the ccr.tr?
ZEPHYRS.
Zephyrs, embroidery material?, hec .r ' f. Th
hroideries, fancy boxes and wou"'-"" ' stri- ;
article: which the sucuest: tl'e tt r'te. .
everything providetl with nire know IeC.?i'"--The t
care. "voua I
JOHN WANAMAKIK
The rentrc of all the circle-;. :? n'
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CLOCKS.
Woul
dn't vou like a clock ? 1 1 to '0.
JOHN WANAMAKER
City-Hall-s-iuare entrance.
HATS FOR SPRINC.
Men's fur-felt stiff derby hats, five ?
stvlns rc.,lr 1.7.Y f 2 fnl. S '..Hl S:t O l. J
Oiir l . 7 " tvle is a new trrade not Trac
fore this easnn, just under our f.' hat c
year ; the others are of the same crn.le a 1 f
have sold heretofore. All these style a-fJ " -
be found elsewhere, for 50 cents t'i ft
Imitations of them abound S-v ' ,,J
scarcely need the caution buy where y
have couridtHice that you wiil ct pe-ui.
crofxls
Children's nnd hovs' hats. A few '
are now ready, from O i cents tof 1..-0.
Men's silk "hats for sprinc are of l'1;
crown, narrovyer brim, and of !es aerw-.-liell-shnpe.
A low crown is alway?
lar unless spoiled bv the shape. A few
ready ; ?1.0". J4.."A f Loo.
JOHN WANAMAKER-
Northeast corner of the store.
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