$aMi freeman.
EBENSDURC. PA.,
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1881.
Thk English Parliament rea.iib!ed af- J
ter the E:.ter hviti.ty- on Mond.iy last.
The Irish l.ard bill was t.ikcn upon second
reading the same diy, and will occupy its
exclusive lime until finally disposed of.
The name of Mr. Means, the new Mayor
f Cincinnati, has beeu mentioned in con
nection with tho Democratic nomination for
f'rovernor of Ohio this year, nnd we
hope if j
t Means
j
nominated, that he will by ail hones
be elected.
Forty-fovr Mormom missionaries passed
ver the Union Pacific railroad one day last
week on their way to Wales on a proselytiz
ing expedition. They will prosecute their
missionary work in tlie mining and iron dis
trict f Wales. M 'stof them when at home
In Utah live with from two to five woman
and cail them their "wlve9."
On Tuesday of last week six 6teamships
arrived at New York having on board
immigrants, the greatest total for any one
clay that the Commissioners of Emigration at
that port have any knowledge of, except tlie
2Pth of May, 187:;, wlin the arrival number
ed 7,950. About threc-f' uths of the num
ber that arrived last week were Germans,
with a huge sprinkling of Swedes and Poles.
As a genera! rule the Germans come well
supplied with money to be Invested in the
purchase of land in the western and north
western states.
Gen. Joseph Lane died at his home in
Ttosebnrg, Oregon, last week, In the 80th
year of his age. He ws a native of North
Carolina, and when only fifteen years old
went to Indiana when that State was com
paratively a wilderness. He participated iu
the Mexican war and was appointed a Brig
adier General by President Polk. In 184'J
be was appointed Governor of Oregon Ter
ritory, and when she became a State in 1S0
be was elected to the United States Senate
and served until 1 vl. In iy;o he was a can
didate for Vice President on the ticket with
John C. BreckenrMce. He was not a great
man, but he bore himself honestly and with
out reproach in all the publications he fill
ed, and was regarded as a fine type of the
rough and hardy pioneers who grow up
amidst the difficulties and trials of life on
the western frontier.
During the discussion in the House at
Uarrisburg last week of a nill to provide fur :
the education ami maintenance of destitute
and neglected children, a Lancaster couiity '
fctatesman, named Land!, run lea set speech '
In favor of compulsory education, rehashing
at length the great benefits tfv.it would result
from it. Westfall, the rough anti-ready Dem
ocratic representative from Pike county,
hadn't fallh as large as a grain of mustard
seed in i.andis' logic, and took the position
that if thtwe who were "educated" got what
they deserved there would he more of theui
than of the "uneducated" in jail, and clinch
ed his argument by the declaration that the
members of the lizard of Pardons wore all
educated men, but that every one of them
ught to be in the penitentiary. This was
drawing it pretty strong, but a fearful crowd :
of people in the Str;to who remember the of
fence of Ktmble ar.d 1:1s tools, and how it
was finally and thuintUfsUi condoned, will
endorse the sentiment.
Is a speech ia the U. S. Senate on the cor
rupt coalition between Mahone and tlie Be
publicans, Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, said he
knew nothing beyond the statements of gen
tlemen anil the acts which had been done
there in public : but he did know that on a
certain "Friday" the Senator from Virgin
ia (Mr. Mahone) by his vote had transferred
to the Ilepublii ans the control of the com
mittees of the Senate, and that on the fol
lowing "Tuesday" the Republican caucus had
nominated for Sergeant-at-Arms a man (Bid
dlebergcr) for the introduction of whom the
Senator from Virginia had announced that
lie alone was responsible. Having stated
these facts, Mr. Pendleton proceeded to im
pale the Republican Senators, oie and all,
by asking them whether if Mahone had not
voted with the Kepublieans, tlie Republican
caucus would have nominated Kiddlebcrger?
Thi9 was putting the whole tiling in a nut
shell, and of course no answer was made to
the question, for the plain reason that no an
swer could be made. Taking all the ante
cedent facts in the ease in connection with
the two mentioned by Mr. Pendleton, and
the existence of the bargain is as easily and
us conclusively demonstrated as the plainest
proposition in geometry.
Wolfe, of Union county, and Hewit,
(Speaker,) of Blair county, were the Damon
and Pythias of the House when the Legisla
ture tnet Inst January, but at the lively ses
sion of last Monday night they engaged in
a wrangle over fipparantly a very trifling
matter, and emerged from the disgraceful
euconr.tcr as sworn f'jes. Hewit denounc
ed Wolfe rs ti e wruld-be "Dictator from
Union," ar.d Wolfe gave Hewit a rfcland for
Ids Oliver by shouting that "the Chair is an
abettor of rincter." After this friendly
exchange ef mutual greetings, Hewit mado
a speech, and concluded It with tlie declara
Con that he had never allied himself with
my measure that was opposed to reform,
and whoever said such a thing uttered "an
Infamous lie." Wolfe, like a woman, got iu
the last word by vehemently protesting that
he could not withdraw what he had said in
regard to the Speaker, and if it severed their
personal friendship he "could not help it."
All this is sad nnd melancholy, een though
each of the V-lligeraiit members was telling
the truth about the other, which is not by
ny means a too violent presumption. This
Legislature has evidently lost its usefulness,
If it ever had any, notwithstanding the fact
th&t its ability to discharge its duties ciedit
ably, if It only would, which it will not, is
frecry conceded by all.
A CArcr of the Republican members cf
the United States Senate, was to have been
held on Tuesday last, for the purpose cf con-
..... . .
sideling whether they ought not to aree to
break the long continued deadlock m the
Senate, and proceed to the discharge of the
business for which the Senate was called to
gether. The caucus, however, was not held,
bnt would meet without fail some day dur
ing the present week. There are not now
at Washington more than about forty-five of
the seventy-six Senators, tho others having
"paired" nnd gone home, not intending to
return during the session. No', a day has
passed since Mahone by his vote gave the
Republicans tlw standing committees of the
Senate that some Democratic member has
not made a motion to proceed with execu
tive business that is to say, to act on the
nominations made by the President ni
the Republicans have uniformly voted down
every such attempt. This presents the sin
gular spectacle of the Democrats being ready
and willing to do what the proclamation of
the President called the Senate together for
the purpose of doing, while the Republican
Senators sav by their rotes that it shall'not
be done. If Garfield suffers from this pro
eess, as be most certainly will, he must charge
It to bis own political friends In the Senate.
'd' former administration ever bad guch a
jrrberable rrmuier.ceaieut.
Thh Secretary of Mate, Mr. Blaine, has a
good deal cf trouble on hia handi just now
iii procuring the release from prison of two
American, Messrs. Michael and Paul Boy
ton, who are brothers, the first named being
a tenant of Kiimainhaui jtiil, in Dublin, for
having too much to do with tlie Land League,
while'raul, the noted swimmer, l a prison-
er iu Peru fer some part he took in the late
i naval operations between that country and
j Chili. The ground upon which the covern
' went is asked to interfere in procuring the
i release of these two young men ia their
j American citizenship, which, like charity,
' is supposed to cover a multitude of sins, and
j that under its protecting wing a citizen of
the United states has an indefeasible right
in a torcpn country to do and say pretty j
nuich vvhat h Phases. This, however, is a
mistaken Mew of the matter, and if young
I Michael Boyton, whose Irish father was at
onetime a citizen of Pittsburg, had been pru
dent enough when he went over to Ireland,
to permic the Land Leaguers to manage
their own affairs in their own way without
himself attempting to play the part of "boss,"
his friends would not now be compelled to
invoke Mr. Blaine's interference iu his be
half. What Paul did in I'era to open the
doors of a prison to him we do not know.
Both brothers appear to be as fond of adven-
; turc as a knight errant, and as pugnacious i
; as the boys of Tipperary. We sympathize
i with them in their present condition, how-
ever, and trust that through Mr. Biaine's ef
i forts they may have a speedy deliverance.
Michael will then have learned the impor.
' tance of attending to his own business, and
i whenever he feels like denouncing England
j for her mountain of wrong and injustice to
I unfortunate Ireland, he can do so to his
j heart's content hete upon his native heath,
j with "i.one to molest or make him afraid ;"
j but if he undertakes to beard the British
j lion in Ids den, he must take all the risk of
so rash a proceeding. In connection with
this subject, we may here jtate that about
thirteen years ago Michael and Taul Bovton
j were both students at the College of St.
Francis, at Lore t to, in this county', where
! they are still pleasantly and kindly remem
bered by the faculty of that excellent Justi-
! tution, as well as by all others who knew
i them.
I Some timf. ago Mr. Aiuerman, a Deino-
cratic member of the House from Laekawau-
nu county, introduced a bill into that body
which provided that tlie Congressional dia
i tricls should remain es they now e.re until
; 1hj:i, and that any number exceeding twen-
ty-seven to which the State shall be declared
entitled by the Congressional apportionment
to be made by Congress next winter, shall
be elected at large. The purpose of this
bill was to avoid the necessity of an extra
session of the Legislature next year to make
a Congressional app-.n tioninent. Tho same
thing was done in this State in 1S72, when
four additional members to which she was
divlnred by Congress to be entitled were elec
ted nn a general ticket. The Republican ap
portionrnent committee, to whom Mr. Amei
man's bill was referred, reported it back last
week, however, with a negative recommen
dation, thus making it perfectly manifest
that 'the Republican members of the House
are determined to put the State to tlie ex
pense of an extra session for the purpose of
doing whit could be avoided by the passage
of the bill In question. The Republican
rr.emhers of Congress at the late session
stubbornly refused to co-operate with the
Democrats in passing a fair and equitable
apportionment hill, although they well knew
that their obstru "tive taeti would compel
eighteen or twenty States to call their Legis
latures together again next year. If the
number of members from tl is State i- not in
creased, there will be i:o such pressing rea
son for a new apportionment as to justify
the Governor in calling an extra session, but
if the number should be increased, as it pro
bably will be, then an extra ression will be
come necessary as the matter now stands,
and the responsibility for its expense to the
taxpayers of the State will belong entirely to
tlej present Republican Lecislat lire.
The plundering joint resolution for sup
plying the r.iemheifc of t lit? Legislature with
ft.i tho'.Kitn i extra copies of Snuill's Hand
Book, which had passed the House, was re
; poited to the Senate on yesterday week by
the committee on printing with a negative
recommendation, nnd thi would hae
; squelched tlie grab for the session had not a
Democratic Senator, Ro-s, of York county,
i from whom better things were expected,
1 moved on the following day that the report
be recommitted, which was carried. By
; hook or by crook, by fair means or foul, the
committee will yet le prevailed upon to re
. verse its action, or in other words to stultify
' itself, and report the resolution affirmatively,
which in all probability w ill secure its pas
i sage, and then the outrage will be complete.
I AVhen Ross' motion to send the adverse re
' port back to the committee was before the
j Senate, Dr. McKnight, of Brook'illo, who,
: in the revolutions of the political wheel was
, whirled to the top last fall as a Senator over
the head of a gallant Indiana county Demo
, cratic soldier, expressed his deliberate and
solemn conviction that a copy of the Hand
. Book ought to be in the possession of every
; family In the State, and we doubt not Mc"
i Knight would vote to bring about that grand
! result. We presume that Sinull's Hand
! Book possesses the same charms for Mc
j Knight now, especially if paid for by the
j State, that Robinson Crusoe's narrative did
when he was a boy. What a huge bur
j lesquc on legislation it is to send such men
; to Harrisburg and expect the commonwealth
' to be saved?
After all Dawes is only a plagiarist, not '
an inventor. During the Irish rebellion of
'V-i one Gahbit. a loyal Orangeman from Let- '
terkenny who throve by waving the. bloody i
shirt of the Boyne, testifier! before Lord :
' 'ornwailis, the Cominaiitler-in-chief, that he !
knew a man who knew another man who I
had heard from a third man who got it at i
second-hand from somebody else that the
"croppies" had burned down' Protestant tim- 1
ber and fruit warehouses near Movilie and '
killed all the bands. On inquiry it was found
that the "hands" consisted of two asses, the !
warehouse of one turf shed and the tie.iber ,
and fruit of a slender assortment of potatoes .
and Dirch besoms. But Gabbitt surpassed ,
Dawes. When Lord Cornwallis asked him :
if that was all, he said, "No. my lord, they '
think r.o more of shooting a loyal Protestant
than f f killing a pig. I have it on goti au- ,
thority that in the South he did not know '
whether it was in Cork or Tipperarv, Mis- j
sissippi cr Louisiana the Protestant land-
j lords aie becoming so accustomed to their
1 nwn manner thut u-hiln f !iiv ora .-ntntin.r
' n ,n l?srrr, lna.1. w"" .VK'y an co,,n,lm
four, five, (a shot heard) 'Tim, go and
sea who's murdered' six. seven, eiuht fen-
ier lire; -its tne new agent, sir nine,
ten 'God's will be done' eleven, twelve
'He w as a sound loyalist' thirteen, fourteen
'Bury him at night' fifteen, sixteen
(another shot) seventeen, eighteen'Therc
goes the new curate' nineteen 'I'm the.
only one left' twenty 'That'll take in out
of here one, two ' That's to wake yon, Tim'
(a third shot) the generous employer
falls." There is a completeness about this
original not to he found in Dawes's base im
itation. .V. . World.
The pious Mr. Dawes, who is known at
Washington as the "Truthful Jeems" of the
Senate, has been caught in a downright false,
bood.and In hi.-, efforts towrlrgle himself out
of it presents a most humiliating spectacle.
He asserted nometiiiie ago that the cotton mill
of a Massachusetts man in Mississippi was
burnrd by his Southern neighbors. This was
(mphatieally denied by the Senators from
Mississippi. Then he located the burning in
lyouisiana, but now Senator Jonas from that
Stat announces that he has information
which shows that the Massachusetts man
burned his property In order to get the insur
ance on It and that he dees not bear a good
reputation for truth and veracity. Mr. Ds wes
can only ay that his character passed all
rlaht in MassaehuHefts, of which there can b
no doubt if the Senators from that State ar
fM;- ;-r:Ii2ij of tl'-e j -'p! tc'v r4ir:3t
I
EAKIER frSDA Y AGAIN CRINSON SPRrNOS
A GREAT Lrl5B SANITARY RETREAT ITS
OIKTF.D FOCNT.ER A MOSFMEXT TO THE
MEMORY OF DOCTOR R. 6. M. J ACKeON, ETC.
fSpecial Ccrrccpoiiilf nee of the Fheema.
PHILADELPHIA, April 26, 1P?1.
Whether, in inv las; letter to the Freeman.
the words "after the first full moon" were j
omitted, and the Genres 22 instead of 21 iu- i
serted, or whether the "Ed." nkipped the i
words "aftet the firstfull moon, "and stuck in I
tne tigures 23 instead uf 21, your correspond
ent Is not positive, but of this he is positive, I
viz: That. Easter may come as early as the '
;2d of March and as late as the 2-'.th of April.
the assertion of the "Ed." to the contrary j
notwithstanding.
Our Saviour is railed bv St. Paul our Pass- i
over or Pasrh, and tho word Pasch, which is !
Greek, meaning Passover,
in many languages to
0 thnhi
tias come into use i
commemorate the !
The earliest custom !
nf the .Io n-ifh i
their Passover, making Good Friday the day,
and to change it from the day of the Jewish
Passover a Council decided that the Easter
feast should be kept on Sunday, and the d-tv
should be the first Sunday after the 14th of
March. At a later Council, that of Nice, it
was decided that Easter should be kept 'on I
r nit: nii. -iiii:i.iv iiiiei me inn uiuiiii ai-
j ter the 21st of March, which, except in rare
instances, cannot fall on the day of the Jew
ish Passover a thing which has happened
! but twice since the adoption of the calendar.
j So Easter Sunday can occur as early as the
22 d of March, and the "Ed," not the corres-
pondent, "will have to do better than that."
EASTF.R fM NDAY'S PROMENADE.
Our aristocratic thoroughfares, Chestnut i
and Walnut streets, on Easter Sunday were i
thronged witli society people making a pub
lic exhibition of their new and beit Spring j
attire. Stately names in gewgaws, younc !
ladies in costly robes, young gentlemen at- j
tired in frightfully tight trousers and short I
coats, twirling dainty canes in gloved fin- ,
gers, tripped haughtily, showing as tney
went what was new in sty'e and what fash- :
ion had dons for them. "The change from
' sack cloth and ashes to silks and pat ins was j
a little too much for the ordinary beau and ;
j belle to accept iinpertnrably, and the result i
j has been a butterfly display of gorgeous at- j
; tire. There was a'parade'of the finest fab-
rics spun from the world's looms. Those '
who fall down and worship at the shrine of ',
: the austere Goddess of Fashion deem it their i
. duty to promenade our aristocratic thorough- :
i faies on tlie occasion of the closing of the
' Lenten season. It is a well understood de- j
j cree of the Queen of Fashion, that it is a :
' proper thing tor society people to make a j
! public, exhibition of their new and best :
Spring attire on Easter Sunday.
t CRESSON SI'KtNC".
Learning through the Cambria county
press that the ncv liotel at Cresson will be 1
i ready for occupancy by tlie first of June
! that the grounds are being improved run- j
! Ring back to the Old Port aire Jiuilroad that '
a driving road is being made between Cresson t
and the South Fork of the Conemaugh leser- .
. voir that the mineral spring near the foot ,
of Plane No. 2 is being converted into a ,
more inviting spot that new boardwalks are j
being made ami the grounds generally beau- ,
tified leads me to suggest the propriety of '
l placing on the grounds, at some suitable ;
point, a statue of Ciesson's illustrious fouu- j
iter, Dr. Robert M. S. Jackson.
Ciesson is a place with ail the requisites of ,
a comfortable, curative summer residence j
a pleasant rural retreat for the infirm a ;
healthful spot, (:r removed from the delete- ;
rious agencies of heat and malaria, possess- '
ing more t.ve:.iiul elements of a perfect ;
suiiiiocr le.siii t t'::i:i ,:iiy other point on the
i continent, of Noith Ann-iica. Therefore let '
justiee be done to it.s beneficent founder. j
To Dr. Jackson beionirs tiie honor and is due
the credit ofjdi-ieoverirg this long sough', for ,
disidciatum, this great Alpine sanitary ie
sort, far above the nvahtiial plain, and pos- .
sessvd of ail the ,ies;iablc physical pierequi- :
sites and climi-.ticai elements lor the trans
formation and rejuvenation of the debilitated,
exhausted and weary laden.
But few of the thousands who enjoy the :
benefits of this delightful summer rciieat,
whose waters aud air refer superior advan
tages to thoee st ekii.g health nnd recreation,
know ortldnk of the desperate labors, strug
gles and trials of the unto'tune.le author of
this Mountain Sanitarium, the Cresson
i Springs, Dr. R. M. S. Jackson. It w;:s the
yearning desire of Dr. Jackson's heart the j
highest ambition of his life to get. the Alle
geuy Mountain made more generally known
to men to introduce some ot its metaphysi
cal elements and assert its sanitary claim's as '
powers to projuec health and happiness. '
As a rural rclrtut Irom the deleterious i
agencies of heat and malaria, Ciesson pos- i
sesses more, of the essential elements f a .
perfect summer resort than any other retreat '
of the kind on the continent, aiid while Ctcs- '
son is a favorite resort, and creditable to 1
Pennsy! vanians, it should not be forgotten i
that to Dr. R. S. M. Jackson are they indelit- !
ed for it. Through snufcrii-gs, distractions, !
agonies, heart scaldings end sorrows, he la-
, bored for his loved and grand scheme of be
nevolence a Mountain Sanitarium. It was .
a tinctorial project he had nursed in his. heart ,
and brain tor years. Your correspondent
was an intimate personal friend of the doc- !
i tor's, and knows that the eiite171ri.se involv-
, ed him in several personal rencounters and '.
: various financial troubles. He regarded it .
as his mission to found at Cresson a Moiin- '
tain Sanitarium, and although the establish- !
nient of such an institution on the summit of ;
the Allegheny Mountain is not yet a reality, (
full of blessings for suffering humanity, yet '
thr;ug!i his manipulations on the Apalach
ians, Cresson is not a delusion or a folly, but j
! a glorious substance of beauty and interest, i
: and where a monum'ent should be erected to
commemorate its noble founder. I
Dr. i:. M. S. Jackson, the founder of
Cresson, was a regular member of the Old i
School of Medicine, and I am surprised that
the sccrc. or more of Philadelphia's most dis- '
tingnbhed physicians while there last sum- '
; mer for th purpose of testing Cresson's
i Springs, did not, iu passing resolutions en- ;
dorsing Cresson as a mountain summer re- ;
1 treat and its waters as offering superior ad- '
! vantages to persons seeking health and recre- '
I ation, also pass a resolution favoring the '
erection of a monument in honor of the gift
; ed and distinguished originator of this now :
. noted summer resort. Could they have had .
; a knowledge of Dr. Jackson's long labors, !
; disappointments and suffering, in his efforts ;
I to set the claims of Cresson 'Springs to the 1
, "music, of silence and nature," they would !
' have at once declared for a monument. As j
: there are but few country sanitaria, or health 1
. establishments, under the jurisdiction of the :
, regular profc'ssion of medicine, and as the '
thought of establishing a sanitaiiumon the !
summit of the mountain took possession of ,
his whole mind and heart, the old school
J physicians should organize an association for
. the special purpose of erecting at Cresson a I
' monument to commemorate its founder, Dr.
: it. M. S. Jackson. (i. N. S. t
The Star KoHte Swindle.
(HVRCES AOAINST EX-SENATOR DOKSEY
CONNECTION THEREWITH.
The special Washington correspondent of
the New York Timet semis the following to
his journal :
Tl.. who claim toknnwall thP points of the in-
vo-tiiration whi--h 1- hem ma.le ln!o the methods
01 mo Mar mute my that hn:f hm not vet liecn
m'le pii'.lic nni'wi;i not be until menpiires are
taken t. tiring Hrn-!y to iiiJ'tire mid the ponlion
tlsrv If poll.o. Ttia whole ptoal wns praflialiy
tl.vitfe.t fprw,srn what t known the lor-cv irang
and the Criliner and Salisbury party, thf- latter fe
ln:r l y far the men ext-Misivo operators in tho
fwlndic. The Tifev itanir, is mm poed uf J V?
Iiorsey J. M. Peek and J. R. Miner, who have act
ed a M;mM for Stephen W. Ijtrev, ex Senator
from Arkansas and Secretary ft the Repntdiran
Natloual Committee, hiddinar tor ami rerivlni?
contract. J. W". Iiorsey i tin brother of Stephen
W. Ivrse.v. The amount known to have Veen
pi cketed by the Stephen A. lorpy iranr In excess
t theamcunt railed for by tbir original htdi i
l"f 'n round numbers than iwiiooo What
f ri-entajre of this wns tra nererred to Hrady as hi
Phnreorthe opolls. only Stephen W. Inri-vnd
his rartners can tell. The firm of llmT, Salis
bury & Vo., which did even a more extensive bu-
rem;.eff.l of .T. T. Gilmer, Munroe Siiiiil.iirv nnd
ine in the kindle than the Ilorev erowrf i
! tt-V. SsHs'nnry, tUe yetmer brother of .Munroe.
1 J. T. H,mer was formerly a ptsire e.rivrr vir th
! Holliitny ovrrla?id mite fr-m St. .l.icph to S:icra-
ment't. In is8 lis formed a partnership with the
i to Sa!ir,nryi ami tmuicht out the stairft line cf
V elie. Farir.i t"o., ortr r.htrh mot of the mail
r in the Territories wore at that time carried. Since
J then the firm has been enirnped in the star route
IxislneM and hss made l.irn- fortunes. T,e ex
, ce.s of pay reeetred bv the Gilmer nl Sillbnry
: combination over that cnl!d for bv their ortwlimi
: contract amnnnts to a neat little sum of $T7s fic8
; with more still to hear from. In addition to'the
i money jtiven to thec lurye contractor", who made
j their bids through strriw agents, small fortunes
J havo been divided between Uradv and smaller
1 r-intraotors who msde bids on their own arcou.it
: In Louisiana. Dr. U. H. Peterson secured an ex
I cfs of $4 -l.Kil on a route ot 23 1 miles. lir Peter
: eon was formerly a member of the Warmoth rlnz
In Ionlsiana, but now bvet In this city ni.on an
Income derived from hie dealings with Brady
I Charles K. Andrews, who received on two routes
each twenty miles Ionian excels of 12 2.'.7. Is a
! W ashiniiton man. He wns formerly a clerk In the
i rostofflee 3Lfiartmer.t. bnt was reiror.i h. r,..
I a,7:eral Jewell for malfeasance m office
John A. Walsh, who secured an ineretse of fll8 -4,5
on the route from I'rrecot: to Santa Fe, Ariio
na, for which he originally contracted for T 500
is a native of lyouisiana. When the war broke ont
he joined the rebel army, bnt after the reconstruc
tion ot Louisiana he joined the M'armoth rlnjr
He was indicted In New Orleans for makinir Illicit
whlskv and was saved hy Brady, who wa at that
time Supervisor of Internal .Revenue In New Or
leans, and refused to appear as witness against
Hbaia ae, Pyspepsla. HiltonsT ess and rnti
rtjonenre at once by Pit. METTAT'k'S HEAD
ACHE Traf efctia rii.i.5. Eric. :iceut..
OUR PHILADELPHIA. LETTER.
NEiS AM OTHER AOTINtfS.
A calf recently dropped at Lewistown, i
j Miftlin county, weighed 175 pound. i
Miss Theresa Anderson, of Haden, Bea- i
; ver county, has fcair eight feet in length. j
On the 18th of March, three years ago, i
! the peach trees in the eastern counties were :
t In bloom. I
! A hen belonging to Elias Field, in North
! neidelberg, IJerks county, hatched a chicken j
with lour legs the otner clay. :
James Neal was burned to death in bis !
house, near Putneyville. Armstrong county, j
on the night of the l'ith inst. ;
In Vieksburc, Frank Hughes, colored, ,
shot and killed Benjamin Byrd, colored, for :
criminal intimacy witli his wife.
John Kirk, of Upper Providence, Ches
ter countv, has a plough that was made by ;
Joel Lane, of the same county, in ISIS. t
The Shippensburg AVir says that "Mrs.
Jere Angle has four ducks which laid twenty j
fP3
in lour nays, r.ggs-ceiiem uucks, ,
UlOSt
William Barstoff, an old man who was
terribly beaten by burglars at his home near
Krie a tew nights since, will die of his in
juries The Christian Index, of Atlanta, is print
ed fiom type made principally out of bullets.
w'1"1 wll';-'1 t!le Z'owl about that city Irt
strewn for miles.
About a vear aco a young wife procured
a divorce at New Philadelphia, Ohio. Now
, she sues her former husband for breach of
promise of remarriage.
j Ex-Congressman Monroe, of Ohio, is to
' be Minister to P.razil. That be is an Ohio
I man is grat if y ing. That orphaned State was
I in danger of "being forgotten.
! A hen belonging to Mrs. Jonah Worrall,
j of Upper Providence, Chester county, lost
j her life in an attempt to swallow a garter
I snake eighteen inches in length,
j The rumor of tlie proposed disbandmcut
; of the United States army, in consequence
i of the resignation of Col. Fied. Grant, is au-
thorntively denied from Washington,
j Guyinphere, the Hungarian who had
I been iii a trance at the Allentown (Pa.)
! poorhor.e for seventy-two days, jumped out
j of the window on Saturday and fatally Injur
ed himself.
II. I. Fester, cf Oil City, hap a wonder
ful organ, twenty-one feet h'urh, fifteen feet
wide and thirteen and one-half feet deep. It
has 1,1. "irt pipes, and was manufactured by a
Iiotdon firm. i
Mr. Grier, who ''discovered" President
Garfield at the Chicago convention, is dissatis
fied with his appointment as Third-Asistant-Postmaster-General,
having expected to get
Hradv's idace. !
The Columbian town of Huenaventura.
on the Pacific coast, lias been destroyed by
tire. Three lives and $1,000,000 worth of
property were lost antl 1,.VK) inhabitants ren- .
tiered homeless.
Bishop Kavanauch, of Louisville, though
sevcnrv-niiie years old. appears to be undei ,
fiftv. There isn't a gray hair on hia head
and lie is physically and mentally as vigor
mis as he ever was. ;
A jewelry store and a dressmaking shop ;
adjoined, at London, Ontario. The jeweller
made disrespectful remarks about the dress
niakeis, and' they went iu a body with whips
and punished him severely.
Dennis E. Murphy, while robbing the
grocery store of George Irish, at IbifTalo, on
Saturday, was fatally shot by the proprietor. (
Two persons supposed to be accomplices in j
the burglary were arrested.
Five men and one woman were killed
and six passengers injured by a passenger
coach juinp.ini! the track and going over an !
embankment on the Denver and l;i Grande,
road near Lock Tunnel, Col., on Friday.
Queen Isabella, of Spain, is said to be a
property owner in Washington Her pos
sessions there are thirty acres on Capitol
Hill and a row of brb'k bou-e. The pur
chase was made through a Philadelphia firm.
A despatch from Lcinburg, Germany, :
April 23d, says t!t: a ferry boat crossing the
Dniester river upset, and. according to one
version, sixty-three persons were drowned. ;
Another account says thiity were drowned.
The plazing of a crock m which apple
butter hsid been kept seriously poisoned
Michael Hrt, wife and danglite'r. of Fair
view township, York county. son, who
had eaten none of the apn'e butter, was not
afflicted.
A. .1. Caesar-, Vice President of tie.
Pennsylvania lbiilroad, has contracted for
the erection of a magnificent bam on his
farm in Montgomerj county. It will he a
model in point of style and convenience, and
wiil cost f'Jl.ooo.
Near Danville, III., in a brothers' quar
rel Win. N ichols snatched up a double-barreled
shotgun ami tired at hN young brother
Thomas. The shot took effect in the vic
tioi's face, putting out both eyes and killing
iiini in a short time.
A correspondent writes from Petroleum
Centre that the MeCrcary farm is deserted.
In days gone by, w hen the land was studded
with oil derricks, iis owner, without invest
ing a dollar, received $.".000 a day lioni it in
royalties on the oil produced.
The residence of H. it. Hull, the Mayor
of Salims, Cat, was burned (di.Frida v niiibt.
Mr. Hall was absent at the time of tlie fire,
and when the flames were subdued tlie body
of Mrs. Ball and two daughters f Henrietta
and Mary) were found in the ruins.
As Albeit Davis ami wife, of Newark,
Del., were driving aeioss the railroad track
at Stanton, near Newark, on Thursday,
they were struck by a north-bound train on
the Philadelphia, Wilminston and Baltimore
Haih-oad, and both were instantly killed.
One day last week fifteen armed men
rode to Mr. Mi-Lauren's house in Frio. Ed
wards county, Texas, and murdered MeLau
rens, his wife and a young man named
Lease. Nnthing in the house was disturbed.
No explanation of tlie motives of the crime
is given.
William Brown went into James Ben
son's field near Kalinouth, Ky., to take out
some mules that were trespassing. Benson
appeared land threw rocks at Brown, who
ran. Benson pursued, still throwing stones,
when Brown drew a revolver and killed bis
pursuer.
The Hartford Cnrtm: avers that a
sturgeon was caught in the Connecticut riv
er, back or Dexter's mill, at Windsor Locks,
on Wednesday afternoon, which weighed
250 pounds. It. measured eight feet in
length, and furnished food for about twenty
families for two flays.
Major Beatty's organ factory at Wash
ington, Warren county, N. J., was stopped
the other day by a mammoth eel, which
wriggled its way into the suction pipe and
partly Mint off the supply of water for the
boilers. The eel was captured and placed on
exhibition in front of the factory.
One day lastweek. Miss Marrraret Buck
ley, feminine candidate for Begister and
Recorder of Armstrong county, was volun
tarily wheeled down Main street, Freeport.
on a wheelbarrow the considoration being
that Logan Weaver, tlie wheeler, would cast
bis vote for the fair candidate at the next
election.
A dispatch from Goshen, in Northeast
ern Indiana, reported heavy earthquake
shocks in that vicinity on Friday last, ac
companied by heavy rumblings, shaking the
bouses severely and causing considerable
alarm. No serious results are reported.
The manifestations occurred in a territory
of some twelve miles square.
In the House at llarrisbure nnVrid.iv
! , ""'""'" """"'"""cauoi wz
' n 1 l- Barnuni, stating that
a humorous communication was read, signed
on the ground
01 me siutivai 01 me nttest two circuses
ought not to exhibit in the same place on tho
same day and that therefore the house
should promptly adjourn and attend "I?ar
num's greatest show 011 earth."
The Reading Kfnle says lat fnll Prof
Peitrieh Wittich,of that city, had 32 hives
of bees in his yard. Now he' has only eight
hives. The winter was so severe that those
in 24 hives numbering probably 500 nno
bees all starved to death. Thev' were 'too
numb to eat, that is, to crawl around in the
hive and reach the honey to keep them from
starving.
--Samuel P. Iluhn, who was sentenced to
ten years' imprisonment in the eastern Pen
itentiary Dee. 17, 1R7S, with John S. Morton
late I resilient of the Market Street Railwav
j Company, for issning 11,000 fraudulent
shares of the stock of that eorporation, was
..u'Hueii un netinesnay, Morton, the Presi
dent (of the Company, was pardoned out
some time ago. Huhr. was Treasurer.
One day last week a horse owned by Dr.
Whitten, of Xokomis, 111., became detached
from the halter and ascended ths stairs lead
to the hay-loft. After searching for the ani
mal in various parts of the county, he was
discovered in the second story f.f the barn In
good condition. A block and tackle were
brought into requisition and the nag was
lowered to his accustomed sphere In life.
The winter has been fo severe at Ir
bania. 111., that thousands of stands of bees
in that section have been killed. It was
found early in March that colonies were
alive which could not escape from the hives
because so many dead bees had fallen over
the entrance, ami from this cause, apparent
ly, colonies died, all leaving plenty of honey.
In some instances entire apieries have per
ished. 1
The Very Rev. Wm. Byrne. Vicar-General
of the diocese of Boston, a distinguish
ed scholar and a gentleman of great finan
cial ability, has been elected by Cardinal
MeCloskey and other eminent prelates in
council iri New York during the past few
days to the Presidency of Mt. St. Mary's
College, and will enter "upon the discharge of
his duties npon the 1st of Mav. It is confi
dently believed now that a settlement of all
the difficulties of the college will be made by
or fceiote me. 1st of September next.
Patrick Flynn has had no training as an '.
oculist, and cannot even read or write, yet j
for fourteen year? he bus thriven in Iioatoa j
as an eye tio?tor, nis reputation resting on a
certain powder, which he uses in all cases
without discrimination. Iio has just suffer
ed a reverse, however, In ttie form of a ver
dict for f 500 damages, obtained by the par
ents of a boy whose eyesight his powder
destroyed.
1 1 The bensareprepnringfor Easter laying
for it, so to speak. iomersH Herald. The
only objevtlon we have to them is they do
not meet it squarely. They goat It in a kind
of round (about) "way; but we are of the
opinion that this could be remedied to a cer
tain extent by the use of M. IJ. Robert
rorLTRT Powders, which makes the hens
act "on the square" by laying double yolked
eg?. Sold by E. James.'and V. S. Barker
Sc Pro., r.bensburg, Pa.
The "sulphur shower" reported in Lou
isville laft week was a small matter compar
ed with the fall of "sulphur" In Gallatin
and several other Kentucky counties in 1 id I.
In that year it came down in the afternoon
on an April or March day, and some pieces
were a fourth of an inch long and as thick as
a small goose: quill. It tasted and smelt like
sulphur, prod need blue flames, and was gen
erally believed to be that article. The
ground was yellow with it for miles.
A tragic story Is reported from South
Australia. A colonist named McCarthy,
with his four sons, was out reaping, when a
fire, which had been burning in the brush
some twelve miles away, was suddenly driv
ed down upon them by the rising of aten-ific
wind. They had barely time to tlee to a
clearing, wtien the fire rushed past them iu
Uames fifty fret high. As norm as they
could they hastened homeward, to find only
the chimney of their house standing, nnd the
charred bodies of the wife and mother, the
five daughters and another son, lying about
it.
Over three huudred ratts crowd the river
at Lock Haven and they are still coining in.
Some of the lumbermen at Wiliiamsport are
apprehensive that the pocket at the boom
may give way and thus cause a great loss of
logs. It is said to be in a very precarious
condition. It is also feared that the- damage
done to the flam at Lock Haven may prove
to be a serious brake and thus leave the
canal without water. Both these booms are
crow ded w ith logs, and if a break should oc
cur it is expected that quite a number of logs
will sweep down the river.
Aleck Brown, a deformed colored boy
living near Mr. Good bread's, in this county,
fays the Hamilton (N. Y.) Times, was sit
ting in his mother's house some time since,
when a catamount crept stealthily in anj
pounced on a small child. Aleck seized a
hoe which was near and broke the handle
over the monster, which then jumped on the
cripple. I'imble to use his legs Aleck made
a desperate fight with his brawny arms and
the fight lasted some time, when boy antl cat
rolled our of the door together. "As luck
would have it. the heroic cripple fell on an
oh! axe and picking it up he brained his an
tagonist, thus saving his own life and that of
the little child.
In the hope of overtaking falsehood in
its seven leagued boots, some one signing
himself "Andover" ha sent a letter to the
Hartfoid Courant denying explicitly the as- I
sertion that ti e twin" brothers caught in a !
burglary nt Andover were in any sense, I
present or prospective, theological students. I
They were members of Phillips academy, j
the celebrated preparatory school for col- j
leges, and bad not the remotest connection I
witn the theological seminary hi the same
town. Furthermore they never professed j
piety or even a religious belief. Their creed I
was avowed, blatant infidelity, and they had
already begun t excite tlie suspicion of
their tenchers and the disapproval of their
schoolmates.
Mi. Edwin Cowies, of the Cleveland
(Ohio) IrodT, is the victim of a singular in
firmity of hearing. He says it partakes
somewhat of the nature of ci:lir-b!iinl!iesss
that effects the eye. he being in. able to hear
certain .sounds at all. For example, he has
never heard the sound of a bird's song in his
life. A whole room full of canaries might be
in full song ar.d yet he could not bear a note,
but tiie-ru.si 'ic.ii of their wings would be dis
tinctly heard by him. He can bear all the
vowels, but there pre ninny consonant
sound-i which he has never heard. He can
hear a man whisper, but could not hear him
whistle. The upper notes of a piano, violin,
or other musical instrument he never bears,
but the lower notes he bears without difficul
ty. At .'! o'clock on Sunday morning a fire
broke out in the rear of Owens' tobacco
store, corner of I nd ipendehce and Libery
streets, Shamokin. Pa., and. owing to in
adequate water facilities, the fire spread rap
idly, enveloping the adjoining business
house of W. 1;. Kntzuor A- Co . Bumherger's
marble works, the Herald printing office, and
three dwelling houses owned by C, Baker
and occupied by Baker, John Lewis and
Jesse Logan, p.ll of whieh were entirely con
sumed, their contents being generally saved.
TlieAciidemy.of Music, caught fire from the
excessive beat, "out wns saved through the
exertions ot citizens. Kut.ner A- Co.'s ware
house, under the store room, contained a
large quantity of oil and tar, but was pro
tected by a cemented vault. The fire was of
incendiary origin, the outside of the tobacco
store having been saturated with oil. Loss,
Sloo.oon ; partially insured.
Was a Contract Made with Mahone?
Contracts are made in various ways, antl
one method was just as binding as tlie other.
There are many modes of proving con
tracts. They can be proved by direct and
explicit, or by indirect aud circumstantial
evidence: or "the existence of the eontiact
may be inferred from circumstances.
Ly viiiue of well-established doctrines like
these, miniums of property change hands un
der judgments obtained in the courts every
month in the year. Tlie same general rules
of evidence prevail on the trial of indictments
for crime. In accordance with these old
fashioned lulcs, men are sent to nenitentia
ries and to the gallows in all tlie States.
Mahone entered the Senate as an indepen
dent Democrats. If, at the outset, he had
declared that to punish his opponents of the
dominant element of the Virginia Democracy
he should vote wiHi the Republicans, but
would take nothing from them in return,
the country would have understood him, antl
a certain ciass of politicians might have felt
some respect for him. Rut when he is seen
in the room adjoining that in which the Re
publican caucus nf Senators is sitting, and
when tne outcome is the nomination of his
man Riddleberger, a Confederate repudiator,
for Sergeant at-Anns ; and when thereafter
Mahone votes all the time witli the Republi
cans on every question that arises, the proof
of a contract between him and the Republi-
can leaders in the Senate is irresistible.
j ne neatetl debates in the Senate seem to
indicate that Mahone stands rendv to dial-
lenge and shoot, if be can, any Senator who
charges that a contract was made in pursu
ance of which he has cast in his lot with the
Republicans. If he could only contrive to
blow out f.f existence tlie circumstances
which tend to show that such a contract was
entered into, it would do more to satisfy
honest men than the killing of anv number
of Senators on tho so-called field of honor.
A 1". ,Sicn.
oor Advice. If you keep your stomach,
liver and kidneys in perfect working order,
yon will prevent antl cure by far the greater
part of the ills that afllict mankind in this or
any section. There is no medicine known
tnat v.ll do this as quickly or surely as Par
ker's C'inaer Tonic, which will secure a per
fectly natural action of these important ot
gans without interfering in tho least with
your daily duties. See advertisement, and
go to K. James, Druggist, Ebcnshnrg, pa-i
for the medicine. 4-21.-1 m.J
A house owned in Oswego, X. Y., was
terribly wounded not long since in a runaway i
accident. When a veterinary sure-eon threw i
the animal antl attempted to" perform an op- !
'ration a coach dog, which had been the j
horse's companion for nine years, sprang at ;
the doctor and it was necessary to beat him j
off with clubs. lie then lav tlown beside
his injured friend and refused to eo away, ;
whining and moaning piteouslyin sympathy i
with the horse while the operation was going '
on. i
Given l by Doctors. "Is it pos
sible
mt, .nr. vronirey is wp and at work,
and
tiiieu oy so sin-pie a remedy ?
"I assure you It is true that h is entirely
cured, and with nothing but Hop Iiit'ers ;
and only ten clays aeo his doctor, rave hint
up and said he must die !"
Uell-aday! That is remarkable!
win go inis day ami get some for niv poor
1 George I know hoosare pnnrl " v.i rv,.
j Sold by E. James, Druggist, Etensburg, Pa.
j An express train on tlie Rock Island di
vision of the Chieaeo, Milwaukee and St.
Taiil Railroad broke through a trestle bridge
J whieh had been weakened bv a flood near
j Albany, Illinois, about 5 o'clock on Thurs
day morning. Only the sleeping ear remaln-
ed on the bridae, the others plunging into
j the torrent. Two train hands and six pas
I scngers perished. Several nthet? were in
i jmed, but saved from the submerged cars.
Three tsars o St. Julian, the ureat Califor
nia trotter, was unknown. Ttie fame niny be aH
of Kendall's Spavin Cure. Now both hare a
world-wide reputation. V"hv? HecHuse they
both have merit, one as a great trotter, the other
Sf the most f in-cejsicl rrriejv erer dlreevere.l tj he
ucj on w.-tu or bca;i. tto aat cut. smtut.
J
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Our friends in Philadelphia get notice from the daily papers uf some of t
items of interest relating to the next few days, such as the arrival of new thin
changes in styles and prices, and any timely information upon topics of inters
to shoppers.
The most direct and useful news of the store we can dre to readpn,
I weekly papers is, perhaps,
omy transient interest.
DRESS GOODS.
What art and skill are doing in cotton dress
fabrics ! Two counters are gorgeous with
them. The lowest price is 5) cts. a yard
and the highest 62' ,' cts. ; but they are made
in soft aud delicate ways, and by texture,
print, or dye, to rival the stuff of luxury.
Here are familiar names :
Scotch Zephyrs,
Madias Ginghams,
Seersuckers,
Chintzes,
Oxford Cloths,
Toiles d'Alsace,
Trinted Shirtings,
Foulards,
Sateens,
Lawns,
Cretonnes,
Moniies,
Cheviots.
In almost every name are triumphs. You
are not often asked to admire such modest
works of art and skill ; but see if you can
pass these counters without a new estimate
of the times in which you live.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Fourth circle, northwest from centre.
DEBEICES,
Everybody knows, are staple goods. One
looks at novelties nnd buys staples. Staples
means something that almost everybody
buys.
What everybody buys is certain to be a
good thing somehow. "The way del.eiges are
good is this): ttie money goes all for use ami
none for tshow ; or rather for that kind of
show which 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 tie
beiges than you will look at, all browns and
grays: and nearly all new. The pi ices are
nil the wav from 25 cents for 22-inch to tl.io
for 4i'.-inefi. A particularly good quality is
00 cents for 43-lnt h.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Second circle, south from centre.
BLACK DRESS GOODS.
New things in black dress-good of almost
all sorts are ready.
Silk grenadines came S"mc time ago ; now
the wool and si.k-and-wool grenadines are
here ; and tlie variety is greater than we i
have had before, greater than anybody ever j
had, so-far as we know.
New armnres, plain and figured, nre no
table, especially the latter. Among them are
armnres, with small figures and plaids, that
can be seen only when looked at in certain
ways. The draping of a dres of theise wouM
appear to be partly plain and partly figured
j or plaid. The figures and plaids seem to
i have no existence at nil. You can't find
j them except by accident.
I JOHN WANAMAKER.
! Next outercircle, Chestnut-street entrance.
i
MEDIUM WOOLEN DRESS GOODS.
i There are
three notable woolen dress fab-
; rics at Si.
j Melange pin checks, of five colors. The
j warn 's a uniform litrht shade in each ;
j the wool is of alternate clusters of threads,
j three or four being licht, the next three or
I four having twisted with them a thread of
darker shade.
Woolen sateens of eight colors. mre or
less mixed in carding. The satecas eff-ct is
! produced by heavy 'warped threads thrown
j almost wholly on the surface : they jump
j three or four' of the fine warp threads, and
pass under only one. The warp scarcely
comes to the surface at all, as you can see
by the selvape.
I "Croise cashmere of fifteen plain colors :
! differs from ordinary cashmere in the twill,
i This is probably no better money's worth
than the others : but almost exactly the same
has just been offered us at wholesale for a
little more monev than we are selling it at
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Third circle, south of centre.
CGTT0N-and-1V00L DRESS GOODS.
Here are three cot ton-and-wool dress cloths
of single width in browns and grays :
lialerno cloth, like alpaca, but heavier, at
12S cents.
Cashmt-re beige, in appearance somewhat
like the 51 melange, described above : plain
15 cents, twilled is cents,
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Third circle, east from centre.
SILKS.
Heavy rich damasse silksf all colors, $2.
75 : last season's 5 and 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
1 with them,
j The following are just received from our
! leaver resident in Paris :
l'ontrees. riehlvembroidered by hand, with
1 spravs of flowers and with birds. The pri-
i ces of those ready to-day are to S:t" per
: piece of 4' yards. More are coming.
i New designs in French foulards
! Bayadere ombre stripes. Here's one, for
j example : garnet-ombre into-gold alternat-
I ingwitJigold-ombre-inttvbronze ; stripes half
j an Inch wide and no interval.between.
' Chequered damnses. (ieorgeous with
! color: variety of desisrns. the only feature
common to them all being the arrangement
in squares, not unlike a chequer board.
to $4.75.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Nextouter circle, Chestnut-street entrance.
I V
CLOAKS AND DRESSES.
We have just opened foreign black wraps,
dolmans, capes, etc., at to 75 ; light col
ored coats, wraps, and uMers, some foreign
and of our own make, at St to ?12.
Silk dresses in style not to be found else
where, nt ?l.r, SIT aiid ?18 : and cloth dresses
at fio to ?.;o.
Also misses' anl children's coats, ulsters
and dresses in great variety. A few misses'
coats of last spring will be sold at half-price,
viz., S3 and ft ; and misses' oebeige dresses
of last spring at less than half-prices, viz., f !
and $4.
JOHN WAN A MAKE K.
Southeast coiner of building.
FLANNELS.
French wrapper flannels. As you stand
before the counters ynu may see A row of
tnem oispiayen along the top of the shelves
a large collection of itself, but oniv a mrt '
I' Look at the shelves too. No two niece
: alike of all you see. Tbere'Hiin cnh vori..tv
nt nnnneis anywhere.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Next outer cirale, northeast from the centre.
Those ayIio have dealt
first, to understand their
nae not dealt witn us
rely on our well-known
thMbiBt, Thirteenth nnrt Market
(Street's muI tMj.HtUI .)ire.
snpiELiisra- aooDs
WAN A MA
to be found in these notices, avoiding such as are'
SATEENS, &.c.
Toiled' Alsace is a similar fabric to Scotch
gingham, but of softer finish, and printed ;
.Wets. Sateen is even finer, and the warp is
thrown upon the surface so successfully as
to leave It as smooth as satin, which Indeed
it much resembles. This also is printed in
exquisite designs, and the printing is the
more successful because the surface is so
smooth.
The bouquet squares (nobody else has
them yet. so far as we know) appear to have
been a Parisian forethought. They are of
sateen and are used as garnitnre ot 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, rlcl.lv
decorated with lace and embroidery, care
fully, finely and skillfully made. This we
have in greater variety than you will find
elsewhere : but there U no difficulty in get
ting this grade of work.
Underwear of a plainer sort is difficult to
get caiefully anil skillfully made: but we
have a really great collection of it. For
more than a year past we have been raising
the standard of manufact'iie and cultivating
simpler styles. We have work the l:ke of
which is in no other house, here or in New
York. The ideal of it is tlie best of home
made underwear at such prices as wiil cause
it to be preferred to home-made and stop
home-making as fast as the work becomes
known.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Southwest corner of building.
LACES.
Not every dav are our hue counters Cilcd
with buyers. They would be. if every lady
knew two facts, viz., fir-!, that we have the
newest and cii iKr.-t of 1 i -"s f evsrv grade :
second, that we sell thci.i below tbe'tnarket.
The difiieulty is that every merchant says
the same tw o I'hiiius : and you don't think' it
very saucy to doubt iut a "little, because ad-verti-ung
do paint tilings too ro y.on:e times.
We much desite you to lind out how care
ful we are t say exai t y what we mean,
neither more or H ss. I,r example, see to
day a tor' l-.on at 10 cents, which sells else
where at 20 cents about. How do we know ?
Why we sold it ourselves for 1.1 cents last
week. Not one in a hundred of our recular
customers knows how w e crowd prices down.
How can we expect others to believe 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 laor counters? Whv, there
is no such stock in Philadelphia. We have
thousands of dollars worth of fine laces shut
up in boxes. We have very poor facilities
for oxhioitiug them : but we shall surprise
you if you psk to see them.
JOHN WANAMAKEK.
Nine counter, southwest of centre.
HANDKERCHIEFS.
New fancy white handkerchief ; many.
New initials : new letters, a different letter
for each ju ice. New colored borders. Linen
centers with colored silk borders (nowhere
else, probably), require to be washed with
care ; but with care they wah perfectly :
colors fast. Woven color border? piaidsand
stripes of course. Not a mixed cotton-and-iinen
handkerchief inlhe store.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Third circle, southwest from centre.
LINENS.
We have visited every linen manufactory
of note in Europe, and gathered a stock
which for variety of fabric and finish is be
yond all precedent, comprising :
Mieeting-linen.
Eillow-case linen.
Diaper linen.
Star linen.
Ladies' underwear liner..
Gentlemen's underwear linen
Hutehers' linen.
Towels.
Toweling.
Table-cloths.
Table linen.
Napkins.
Doilies.
We have linens entirely unknown to Amer
ican markets : also every favorite here.
Noother house in Philadelphia buys abroa ti
ll enee no other house can have either our
gootls or our prices. This wc say without
knowing what other houses have," either in
goods or prices.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
City-IIall-Stjuare entrance.
MUSLINS.
Who wants to read about muslins? And
yet you had better know how, by a little
crookedness in dealing, thev are made to
brine an extra price, even in houses that
oiitrht to tc above crookedness of any sort
Take an example : Wamsutta is branded,
part of it Wamsutta. and part of it with the
1. .v Hunt i- ii.iiuc. x oat nrantien iy aiusutta 1
is sold at the earient market price, nnd the !
other is sold for an extra price and the sales
men are Instructed to sell as little as thev can
of the genuine, and as much as the can of the
other. j
The practice, we are sorry to sav, prevails !
in some large bouses here iii Philadelphia.
If you fi nil that a merchant considers such I
dealing fair, perhaps vou will look out for j
him in other goods as well as muslins.
We have everything in mniline that is '
I wanted here; everything is branded with the
name 01 the mm that made it ; ami every
thing is sold at the bottom of the market.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
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 unlike therlotsof American make,
at 10 cents. Is a great favorite.
Calicoes in general are 8 cent : bnt some
patterns are .v.j, simply because thev arc not
liked so well.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Fourth circle, noitheast from centr.
with lis by letter know a!
wauls; and, second, to
. neretoiore are cordially invited to do so uow, au
guarantee of ultimate satisfaction in every respect.
JOHN WANAMAKH
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HOSIERY.
These items in hosiery are everve.
but our prices are lower, probably, eVf c
of them. ' L-
LADIEs;'.
English, plain colors, SO. 20.
Oerman. fancy, .SI, .57.
English, fancy, .50.
English, lisle," bla- k, .C.",.
English, lis.-, black embroidered. .75
English, spun-silk, black, tl.r.
MINES'.
French, l.t avy-rib. grav, So.vi.
trerman, ribbed, lis'e, black, ,C4.
MEN'S.
Ene'isb, extra-stout, S0.17.
English, fancv, .2.'..
ieriuun, lisie black, .50.
German, lile. black, embroidered, tj
tiorman, ni;k. plain ctdors, .75.
tierman, silk, plain colors, embrolJere4 1
If you find el-ewbere a stocking ca. -the
same name as anv one of these, aedV
price no higher than eurs. look at thet
JOHN WANAMAKE-
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CARPETS.
" nk you to see our Vl:tou. AxtL
Our carpet-trade ii new :
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on. I ri.o .-!.- .11.
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thougLt to be fine indeed.
PHI
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large buyers for hotels, churctes etc
here, ierhaps, surprising advaniaeri.
JOHN
WANAMAKt
Market Mrect front
up stairs.
FURNITURE.
A clue to the character of our fr-..
I without seeing it. Take, foressmr.r i,
I room suite of three pieces.
j Lowest prices :
; Ab, wood tops y
I Another tyie, walnut or
j marble tops '
j h f.s are in c v. iy 1 uiniturVb"'".
1 iiion wood and common woik. . t
1 aiso a small assorttuf i.t of
; painted set.
j Lowest pilcee in first-clan wcik :
Valnut. wood top
Same ftvle in ir.ahocnnv y
! Of plain style, but ptojr b.r s.i"ii.'r u
I anv house, no inntr hr.w Hoi,
Lowest ptices in fcteg.-:;t w..;k :
Maple ot walnut, 'IVn:ic-iee-t.:ar-ble
tops :
Lowest prices in luxurious work :
W a! nut, Tennessee-marble t rs
Same style in nialionv
A very chaste ami nut !e
style, j
01 work :
Maple, woo l tops
Same in mahogor.v ...
We have very lai ee" as
rtui
nit :
io.vtioo, o,Mll between l.i and
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oig.ier puces there is 1.0 h
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on:y more cosily decoration.
JOHN WA NAM A Eli
The wetein gallery.
PARASOLS.
cure
and
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Twenty-five silk praso-cccr. eir.r
cred in China, w ith silver and cold in c
and rather characteristic, but not tx;-;:
(. hinese desiens. with wide borders a; ; "
ecated silk linings, have been imno-K,
put on neat frame, w ith variety of -i
Fitteen of the twenty-five have comer
I hev are in our collection of noveltie.
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styles as to baffle description.
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toilet perhaps 110 article is el ioen Tr;-
mucn care, n e shall
not tire f.f
ve it 1
CO-' p
yon. ladies, every one : and if we ;
by the interest shown yesterday, vo:. .
tire cither. " ' "
The opening continues to-dav.
JOHN WANAMAKE
Chestnut-street entrance.
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SILVER.
A fine collection of minor attic'" ?n
flat wsre, ice-cream service. chi:dru'
napkin wrings, etc., etc.
Silver plate. A comprehensive
everything that vou will ask for 1:
ware w e have three grades of plate : :. f
est grade we do not keep. jn 1.0'. c
we have the best grades only.
JOHN WANAMAK:
Outer-circle, northwest fiom the kz
ZEPHYRS.
Zephyr, embroidery- materials, be;-" . T
broideries, fancv boxes and inrn:..""' lows
articles which the-se suggest: tre ,n5 of
everything provided w ith rnre kro :- 'JL 0
care The t
JOHN WANAUASI k
ill the circle. win Ire
The centre cf a
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CLOCKS
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Wouldn't you like a clock '
JOHN WANAMA! - J.kWiy
City-Hail-Siimre entrance. Mid "t
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HATS FOR SPRINCrhehVe
' eat
Men's fur-felt stiff derbv hats, f ' t follow
styles ready, $1.75, S2.0O, $J.50. ." e ' the l
Oiir $1.75 style is a r.ew grade n-t dLticu
fore this season, just under our?; hat r MnfEn
vear : the others are ef the same pra.-r " j(1
have sold heretofore. All these s: 1 notice
be found elsewhere, for 5- certs to I issue,
Imitations of them abounJ tyt-ot;
scarcely need the caution to buy w f
have confidence that you will get
goods.
Children's and boys' haU. A ff
are now readv, from 60 cent to 51 vf
Men's silk "hats for spring ar
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crown, narrower brim, and of
bell-shane. A low crown is a
Wfi
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UP fts
lar. unless spoiled by the shape
readv: $1.00. ft.'-O, f5.H).
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