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fRIDAY, - - - - MAY 20, 1881.
Tn eke yet remain thirteen of the
l.V) days of ; ten dollars ier day session
of the Legislature, and if that body
knows itself, as it most certainly does,
it don't propose to curtail its limit a
single day.
It is significant as well as disgraceful
that while IJillingsley's infamous ap
portionment bill has not met with the
slightest disapproval of the Republican
papers of the State, they have been blub
bering and whining for seven weeks
about the supreme importance of a free
ballot and a fair count in Virginia.
At the caucus of Itepublican Senators
Held on Saturday last, when Conkling
fully lealized the fact that Garfield had
the upper hand of him in the fight over
Eobertson's confirmation, he ia reported
to have said in the speech he then made:
"Compromise is now impossible ; the die
is cast I accept the challenge and I am
teady for the conflict," and concluded
his philippic against Robertson by'warn
ing the members of the caucus, "If you
confirm "Robertson, New York becomes
a Democratic Stale."
Is the debate on the Land bill in the
House of Commons one night last week, :
the discontent of the Irish people and ;
their longing to escape from the terri- j
ble misgovernment of England, was .
strikingly set forth by John Bright, who j
in the course of a long speech said that j
if a great fleet, assembled at Cork or j
Galway, offered free passage to the ;
whole population of Ireland, it was pro-
bable that all certainly that one-half 1
would lind their way to the United
States, which opened their doors to )
everybody. He should be sorry to see j
them go, but though emigration would !
be a hardship to parents, it meant deliv- '
ery of the children from poverty and suf- ';
fering. ;
Hilly Mahonk's repudiating State j
debt convention, to nominate cand idates
for Governor and other State officers,
will be held at Richmond, Virginia, on
Thursday, June 1. Don Cameron is ex
pected to be present and make a speech
in which he will prove, first, the general
doctrine that the majority has a right
to rule ; second, that Mahone is a good
man and a statesman, because he is and
always has been, except at elections in
Petersburg, where he lives, in favor of
an honest ballot and a fair connt ; and,
third, that the Republicans in the V. S.
Senate supported Henry iiiddleberger
as an earnest that they were national and
lor Ser-
not sectional in nominating him
geant-at-Arms of that body.'
It is in accordance with the eternal :
fitness of things political that the Re
publican party, after having stolen the :
Presidential office for Hayes in 1S7;,
and corruptly bought it for Garfield in
lssO, with money filched from the public ,
treasury by the Star route thieves, to-
gether with money raised by Christian ,
statesmen like John Welch, of l'hiladel- j
phia, should die at the end of a little I
over two months after Garfield's inaug-
uration. of a factious fight over the New
York Custom House and an attempt to
foist George C. Gorham, all aiologist of ,
the Star route swindlers, and Henry J
Riddleberirer. an ex-rebel and a rei.udi-
ator of the public debt of his State, into 1
the two most important offices in the
United States Senate.
I'ostmastkk-Gf.xf.kai. Jamf.s is cai
rying on a most thorough investigation ;
into the fradulent operations of the Star i
route ring, and particularly into the
plundering operations of Stephen W. !
Dorsey, lately a carpet-bag U. S. Sena- j
tor from Arkansas, and during the late !
Presidential campaign Secretary of the !
Republican National Committee. The
New York Wvrll, in referring to the
work undertaken by Mr. James, says :
"Postmaster-General James, by simply j
doing his duty without fear or favor and
endeavoring to stop stealing in his de
partment, is doing more to break-up the
Itepublican party, 'as at present consti
tuted," than' the whole Democratic ma
jority was able to do in the last Congress
or than the whole Democratic majority
will be able to do in the coming Con
gress," Tun first contract for furnishing tlie
l'ostolTice Department with iostal aardi
was made in l-T-'l, at the rate of ?1,:5'.J j
per thousand cards. The number of j
cards issued during the contract, which
was for four years, running from July
1, is?:?, to June :5', 177, was 3-"r,00'.,-
Under tlie next four years' con- i
tract, ending June ., 11, the number J
is estimated at about ..0U0.0OJ, and i
under the new contract, which will ex-
pire June the estimated num
ber will be 2,h),m ),!. It would re
i Hire thnc men over sixty years to count
them singly, working ten bonis every
day in the year and counting at the
rate of 11 f ty ier minute; or, if the 'Z.'),
tMijiM) cards could le placed end to end
they would extern! a distance of 101,
miles, or more than six times the cir
cumference of the globe.
It is anything but pleasant to know
hat Stanlew Matthews, the guide, conn- j
sellor and friend of the notorious "red- .
Waded .!im Anderson," of Iouisiana, (
ha3 bueij continned as an Associate Jus- j
tice of the Supreme Court of the United j
Mates by a majority of one vote in the
Senate ; but it is still more unpleasant
to know that the responsibility of his
confirmation clearly rests on the should
ers of Democratic Senators like Lamar,
1'endleton and Beck. It is useless to
try over spilled milK, but when we re
member the close and intimate connec
tion of Matthews with the theft of the
l'residency in lTii-T we are amazed that
-any Democratic Senator outside of the
Southern States could or would ever
vote for him. Ve endorse fully the con
clusions of an indignant Ohio Democrat,
writing to the New Vork .Stoi on the
subject, when lie says :
Any Democratic Senator who could so far
forget himself as to aid in rewarding this
man for the dirty work he performed in 187S
will find that the honest Demttcrats of the
country the rank and file will never for
get the great crime, nor the Senators who
voted to endorse it.
A oExriNE surprise was created in
lhe Senate of the United States, when
met Monday last, by ice rreeuient
-n i i t : . . 1 . : f ;. . .f
I riiiui laying ueiuie it me icsigiitiiwuui
Roscoe Conkling and Thomas C. Flatt,
the two Senators from the state of New
York. The bitter contest between Conk
ling and Garfield over the confirmation
by the Senate of Judge Robertson as
collector of customs at the port of Xew
York, in which Conkling has been van
quished, is, of course, the controlling
reason for his unexpected action, as well
as for that of his colleague" Piatt ; and
in their letter to the Governor of New
York transmitting to him their resigna
tion they attempt to justify their course
because of Garfield's nomination of Ro
bertson in defiance of their protest
against it. The Legislature of New
York is now in session and it is suppos
ed that before Conkling decided to re
sign he had satisfactory assurances from
Albany that he and Piatt would both be
re-elected. Thi3 may turn out to be so,
provided the State Senate, which con
tains a majority of anti-Conkling Repub
licans, will consent to having the vacan
cies filled during the present session. If
Conkling, however, wants himself vin
dicated, and no rr.an.needs it more, and
' '
if he wants Garfield rebuked, as he most
assuredly does, he has made his appeal
to the wrong tribunal. The Robertson
fight was not an issue when the present
Legislature was elected, and if Conk
ling really desired to find out what the
Republicans of New York think of the
merits of the quarrel between him and
Garfield he would have made the issue
at the next fall election, when a new
Legislature is to be chosen. A re-election
by the present body, which adopted
resolutions strongly endorsing Robert -
son's appointment whenGarfield made j
it, would b a most lame and impotent .
vindication of Conkling, and would be
so regarded throughout the country.
So far as we can jude, the tone of the
leading Republican papers is distinctly
opposed to the entire course pursued by 1
Conkling, and just as emphatically sus
tains Garfield. "What effect this family
quarrel will have on the future politics
of New York is an easy thing to con
jecture. TrK editor of a Georgia paper, who
served under Stonewall Jackson, makes
. . . c a , , i ii .
a sioiruiciii iiiianmi.iv i....i.n.i. .
seem to relate to a very trilling incident
but which, as he says, accounts for the
wonderful celerity of some of Jackson's
marches, which so often took the enemy
by surprise .and enabled him to accom
plish his purpose. The writer states
that a single order of Jackson's, which
he never omitted to enforce, was that
whenever his men stopped on a march,
whether for the night or in the middle
of the Jay, the wagons had to be drawn
s!'le l',e 10art ani ""hitched
with ihctr torjuc$ imtiifj totrard trie
rnrul, so that if an emergency arose they
could be driven either up or down the
road. If a retrograde march became ne
cessary, and had to be executed without
the least delay, the importance of this
wagon-tongue order becomes very appar
ent. This same celerity of movement,
as any one who is familiar with the be
ginning of Napoleon's military career
will remember, was the great secret of
his uninterrupted success during his first
memorable., campaign in Italy, when he
was only about twenty-six years old, and
it so completely dumbfounded the old
Austrian Generals, whose forces were
surprised and cut up in detail, that some
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ul I'.e.ii aiu n.iueu to wm uieu -
fpat l charging the young French com
mander with having violated ail the
well-known rules of warfare. The Geor
gia editor thinks that Jackson did not
possess any great natural ability, and
says he could not talk well, but was sim
ply a stern, rigid military man that the
discipline of his troops was unequalled
and always enforced with despotic pow-
Sam Myeks is a Republican member
of the Legislature from Venango coun
ty, and is regarded in his legislative ac
complishments as a regular rural "roost
er." When Billingsley last week moved
1 to fix a special session to consider the
i aniwrtioimieiit bill, 51 vers s;iid lie was
1 in favor of pressing the bill to a vote, as
it was evident the Democrats were ro
I ing to make :'a partisan question of it,"
and that "it it has got to be put through
i as a party treasure, let us do it we
Lave the majority and
. . ; t 11
niigiiL as wen
carry it through, Can any fair and
honest apportionment ol t'ie tate be ex
pected by a body in which this Venan
go county demagogue assumes to be
and is recognized as one of the Itepubli
can leaders? When Democratic mem
bers protest against the iniquities of
the bill when they raise their voices
ag.iinst tlie passage ot a measure inai nas
not one redeeming feature and would
absolutely disfranchise one-third of the
Democratic voters in the State, they are
j ttLl ty this legislative highwayman that
they are making "a partisan question
of it." All the bluster and bravado of
Myers and others like him will not avail
in passing the bill through the House,
but it shows rvhat an utter disregard
Home of the men who are sent to Harris
burg have for theii oath of oflice, ami
that one might as well expect to gather
figs from thistles, or roses from thorns,
a to look for even an approach to jus
tice at their hands.
Mi:. James IlF.DPATir, who intends
sailing on his return to Ireland next
week, delivered a farewell lecture in
steinway Hall, New Vork, on last Sat
urday night on "Tho Irish Land War,"
stveakiug nearly three hours. He replied
fully to the charges that the Irish peo
ple are indolent and given to drink, and
concluded his lecture by saying : "This
is my last chance at you, I am going
back to Ireland in a week, and when a
man gets the reputation I've got he isn't
so dead sure of coming back in a hurry."
It is reported of Mahone that when
he came to the Senate on Monday and
was told that Conkling and Piatt had
resigned, he observed : "Well this places
me in a devil of fix ;" and when it was
suggested to him that the Democrats
would probably take advantage of the
occasion to re-organize the Committees,
he is said to have further remarked :
"Then, in the name of God, what is to
become of me
OUK T II I LA DKI.ni I A LETTER.
AN rxri.F.APAST STATK OFTHINOS Fi)VinM
IMi LEGISLATIVE ROOST EH ft THE END OF
THE WORIII-C'OI.. THOMAS A. SCOTT THE
INFAMY COSSl'M MATED.
Special Corre.;ond!'i)ce of the 1'p.eexax.
Philadelphia, May 17, 181.
Dkar McPikk The costs of the Reading
Railroad litigation, which will b? immense,
will all he taken out of the pockets of coal
consumers. There will be a general sense of
relief when a decision shall be reached in
this cost! v business.!
The death rate of the city still keeps its
pace;in:dvanee of the rate of isso, the win
ter's filth still remaining and rotting.
The City lionrd of Health, wants the Com
missioner of Highways to repair the streets
so that they can be properly cleaned, and
the Commissioner retorts that the streets I
will have to be cleaned before they can lie
repaired. There is an element of the absurd :
in this dead-lock between the Hoard of j
Health and the Commissioner of Highways. .
For the citizens this is an unpleasant state of i
things.
For public school teachers to wound some- j
body's sensibilities is not considered harmful I
by Philadelphia's Hoard of Education. The j
school mistress who got into trouble by giv- ;
in instructions in ecclesiastical history upon
insufficient knowledge, lias received final ;
exoneration from the Hoard of Education. ,
THE END OF THE WOULD. '
Rev. William IJ. Cuilis, pastor of the Ger- j
man street Presbyterian church in this city, j
has tor the last two Sundays been preaching
in solemn warning of what he believes to be,
from all the signs of the times, the approach
ing destruction ot the world. He thinks the
day is at hand, and calls upon his congrega
tion in eloquent anil beseeching tones to oe
prepared lor the second coming ot Christ.
ne attract.-, large congregations, not only
from the immediate vieini'v of the church,
; but from various parts of the city, and the
! exhortations of the preacher are listened to
with rapt and thoughtful attention,
i Several times during my sojourn in this
j vale of tears there have been sensational l'o
j ports concerning the winding up of the af
i fairs of earth, and once more I am told that
j the world is coming to an end. If it will be
' any consolation to those who fear the de
j struct ion of the world who fear that it will
i suddenly and nnwarnedly be hurled into a
' new and transformed state I predict that it
! will not occur during the pilgrimage of any
! one now in existence. It is to be hoped that
' these irrational delusions of Rev. Cuilis and
I all others may frum my remarks so far dispel
tioiial and consistent with Divine wisdom to
tti ia . l.i I i imic qs aiti 2jMiWt II 1 n T I'll-
be substituted in their stead.
COL. THOMAS A. SCOTT.
It will be gratifying to hosts of the Alle
gheny mountaineer readers of the Frkkman
to learn that Col. Thomas A. Scott, who has
been dangesously ill at his residence in this
city, is convalescent, and will during the
present week be sufficiently restored to re
move to his country residence near Darby.
This is an age of progress, especially of
progress in railroads, and p.s every decade
lias its Senders in the different fields of pro
gress, Thomas A. Scott has been the ruling
spirits in railroads in the United States for
the last two decades. On the first day of
May, isso. President Thomas A. Scott, the
chief architect of the giandest railroad
structure of the continent, alter giving to the
road thirty of I lie best years of his lite, ten-
m-ieii in
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resignation to t lie inreciors ot the
I eiins Ivaiua Wailioad Compamy liotu as
; President and Director. 1 hnty years ago
' Thomas A. Scott took charge of the Penn
sylvania hailroad Company's business over
the Portage Railroad across the Allegheny
; mountain. Six years afterward he became
: Uencrnl Snjierintendent, and two years
thereafter lie was elected Vice President, in
I which capacity he served for fourteen years,
when he was made President. JJy consum
j mate ability, ceaseless care, persevering ef
; fort and a .legree of fidelity that is single
' from the common standard of mm, lie gave
! the road credit both at home ami abroad on
i the iv.o- enduring basis. To Thomas A.
Scott is due lhe honor of giving faun.' and
i prosperity to the largest and in all respects
the greatest and grandest corporal ion of the
Xew World. Not until after the Pennsylva
- nia n.iilroad's battles had been fairly won,
1 and its safety and further prosperity assured,
did Thonius A. Scott, its chief arch itect and
; ruling spirit, retire from its management.
When, after many years of arduous duties,
President Scott took an extended Kuropean
j tour to invigorate himself, no American citi
, zen returning from a foreign shore ever re
, ceived heartier congratulation from sincere
. friends upon his return to this city. There
! was no toadyism to wealth and power, sueli
as that given to Minister Welsh by a eomiiiit
I tee of the Hoard of Trade, nor sickening
i hero-worshippings like unto those bestowed
j upon ex-President (Jrant, hut simple, unprc
i tent ions honors were paid by the yeomanry
; to President Scott. They received' him with
; heartfelt expressions of respect fur the indi
, vidual man. The greetings of Thomas A.
Scott's friends on his return were not bun
! combe, but genuine manifestations of regard
and respect for his tine worth. Col. Scott is
one of the finest specimens of a nobU-ni;,!!,
, and no man in a like position in this or any
other Spite in the Union has so many warm
friends. To vour correspondent, am
1 1. many j
en a kind
I others, Col. Thomas A. Scott has be
i benefactor, and in our grateful hearts his
' memory will ever be kejit green.
Hji'lliMixe. r.Tir.isi.ATiVE noosTl.ns.
t The corrupt, legislative scoundrels ot this
city who have insolently and corruptly mis
j represented their constituencies, and who
have brought reproach and disgrace Uoti
' the city, are struggling hard to break the
i force of indignation that is makiug them
writhe in their shame. Kverv corrmitionist
, and legislative thief and jobber from this j
, city has indulged in violent personal vituper-
at ion of the editor of the Times. He has
i aroused their implachble hostility by his just j
denunciation of their reckless crime against
the honest citizens of Philadelphia. Kven i
the Speaker of the House, who made such I
ostentatious pretentions t honesty and in- j
tegrity of character when elected to preside
over the delilM-ratinns of that body, aiul whe
said in his address that lie would "do what
, i :i I . u .
was lust and nclit. ratlier than to ndance
i political or iiulividual.interests,
lias bCOinie
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After pledin? iiiinself to donotliinir to
art-
vanee political or individual interests," he
with Ins eoinniittee virtunllv di'V odi w,l
J
i over one-nurd ot the Democracy of the tState
Speaker llewit and his country rooster, Uil-
imgsiy, ciKiiriiian ot tlie House committee to
apportion the State into Senatorial and liep
resentative districts, have been puiltv of the
worst niece of political scoundrelism ever
before attempted. 'flu; whole course of
Speaker llewit and the corrupt legislative
rooster seituiulrHs, whose abettor lit; is, has
been to force the (inventor to call an extra
session of the Legislature. Speaker llewit
has proved himself to be as characterless a
corruption ist as the rimrsteri l.illmrrH- s..n.
, der, naiet, Jtyers, and others, and, as the
editor of the Timet says, "If he (.McClure)
ever did attempt to lobby a bill through the
House when Speaker llewit was a member.
n iiccr was ueieateu lor want ot Speaker
llewit's vote." The personal vituperation
of Mr. llewit anl his rooster colleagues can
not break the force of popT.ar indignation.
They are a sc.mdal totheir constituents, and
it is highly creditable to Mr. MeClure that
; through the Times he has aroused the impla
cable hostility and is receiving the impotent
defamation of the political corruptionists and
I jobbers of the present Pennsylvania Legis
j lature. McClure has a.ade the legislative.
: roosters squirm and wriegle most fearfully.
; It would be well for Pennsylvania and its
taxpayers that there were more such journals
nsthe Tunes and such editors as McClure,
J neither of w hich can be silenced by threats
: of llliol suits. McClure invites them to try
i conclusions before any tribunal they may se
i lect, but true to their interests ns dunghill
I roosters, they only dare to flap tlitir wings
, and crow and scratch dirt in their own barn
1 yard.
1 THE IXTAMY CONSUMMATED.
j The confirmation of Stanley Matthews by
: the United Slates Senate as 'Associate Jus-
i tice of the Supreme Court of the I'nited
i States proves that the United States Senate
does not represent the honest sentiments of
I the people of the country. So far as said
sentiment was expressed it was almost unan
imously opposed to Mr. MatMiews' aspira
tions. His nomination was therefore dis
graceful, and his confirmation insulting. He
goes upon the Supreme Bench as a friend of
corporations and expressly to serve those
who menace the people. The corporations
! of the country labored with all the resources
I at their command to placo Mr. Matthews
j where he could do them the most good and
I do the people the most harm. He will enter
the highest judicial tribunal ot the land a
virulent partisan, corruptly pledged to the
great corporations for whoso interests he has
long and earnestly labored. Against such a
result a protest went up from every part of
the country. In times past the Supreme
Court of the Union was the fortrss of con
stitutional liberty and the rights of the peo
ple, but of lato years it has become the
means of oppression under the forms of law.
On different occasions besides its memorable
8 to 7 decisions of the Electoral Commission
It has been made a political factotum. The
confirmation of Matthews as an Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
i States is a disgrace to the couutry and au in -
-..i h th first lieAid or apropos of tl.e youne I still lives in tlin house in wliiel. he was born,
i no se t, afiT? T''StSOf, !!elll,'en ,,f Kit-land, 'vl.o was representel ' -Up in T'ike county District Attorncy
j ,01 f"ty years aCo"as consumed with ahopal Nyce and Miss MaCRie tuick have been
i?,o3 ir oo i h tlie sliai ef ul work of . pi1siont nt lor one ,lt for sev,,ra, A,neil- ' married-to each otlirr-and sueli is the de
1,IM La,h,!lel,Ia,,lfell.w cans-one of them stilt a ironiinei.t ridont ! coruni of the Milfor.l ItumUch that no mel-
sultto the people. The Democratic Senators
who voted for his confirmation, should now
vote for (iorham and Kiddlelerger. Sena
tors Pendleton and Reck especially have dis
graced themselves and dishonored their con
stituencies. The talents of some persons are
too high to get down to a comprehension of
their duties. In Mr. Matthews' confirmation
the malevolent influence of corporation in
terest finds its most dangerous expression
and wins its most emphatic victory. As
sowers of seeds, the Democratic Senators
who voted for Mr. Mattliews' confirmation
have sown tares, ant w hen the harvest comes
the sheaves will be full of thistles.
Roth Haves and Garfield basely violated
their pledges to the people of the country,
that the power of the Government should be
excr-ised to maintain law and justice, when
they nominated Mr. Matthews. In nomina
ting him, both of them violated their plighted
faiths in letter and spirit. His nomination
was infamous, and to the great discredit of
the Democratic party this Monstrous Repub
lican infamy was consummated through the
votes of Democratic United States Senatms.
G. N. S.
! The Yorktowh Celebration.
! On the 10th of next October the one hun
1 dredth anniversary of the surrender of Lord
' Cornwallis at Yorktown, Va.. will be cele
( brated with appropriate honors at that place,
, in the presence, as is confidently anticipated,
' of an immense concourse of people from all
! sections of the Union. A short time before
his term of office expired. Mr. Hayes, in pnr-
i snanee of a resolution of Congress, address
ed a letter to the President of the French
( Republic inviting the government and peo
; pie of France to participate in coinmemora
i ting an event in which the soldiers of France
! took so conspicuous a part, ami Mi. Outrey,
! the French Minister at Washington, accom- j
panied by Mr. P.laine, called upon the Presi-
: dent a few days ago and presented him with j
a letter of reply, of which the following is n
translation :
Jnle Creert;, President of the Frencii Republic, to the
Pmitltnt of the I'nited Statrt of America. j
'ikbat AsnUnoi) Fnion: I have jnt receive ! .;
the loiter whereby your honorable ireoeeior.
His Kxeellcnry Kutlierfonl H. Hayes, !tnniinreil
to me that, in pursuance of a resolution of 'nn- j
teres, lie inritcil the (Jovernment an.l people of
i ranee to unite witn me t tovcrnmeni una people
of the Vniteil State.-! on the Itith ol next October in
celebrating the hundredth nnni versary ol the hat
tie of Yorktown. I hnvc noccptetl this invitation
in the n:ime of the Government of lhe Kepubllc
and in ttintot the whole French people. This sol
emn testimony of the remembrance which ha" been
prcserveil by your te!low-oiti7ens ol the part taken
ny eminent individuals ol France i.i the trl.iri.nis
truirirlo which "eeure.l independence and liberty
to the I'nited States has called forth a fcelinx of
deep emotion in France, of which it has ath.rdcd
me pleasure to he the interpreter, by informing
treii'Tid Xoycs j-onr worthy representative, that,
"h;vini taken part in the toil, we would partici
pate in the honor."' The American nation, which
iias become so powerful and prosperous. lias, by
invifinir our Iraternnl eo-operntion on the occasion
ot thi- anniversary, forever consecrated the Vnion
which was created by noble and liberal aspimtions
and hy our alliance on the battle-field, and which
our institutions, which are now it the same char
acter, must draw closer and develop for the we Hare
cfboTi, nations.
Oflcrinir yon the assurance of my hish esteem
for your-ell personally, and my best wishes for the
irlory ol the I'nited States, 1 desire also to convey
my "sincere thanks to Mr. Hayes for the cordial
feelings which he expressed "to me anil lor his
iriwid wishes tor the prosperity of the French lie
public. Your tjood friend.
f Stoned), Jri.K iIrevv.
"ounterstonod. It. St. Hilaire.
Ione at 1'ans, March U.fi. li.
A Przzi.F t on the Dottoii. The case of
the young Hungarian whose name the tele- I
graph never spells twiv alike, and who, for ;
many consecutive weeks, has been sleeping .
the happy hours away among tlm Pennsyl- j
vania hitch, is strange enough, if true, hut j
it is common place beside ' perfectly well ;
authenticated case mentioned in the Louden ':
Journal of ifrutnl .Science. On A pril ;io, 1 S7!, '
the patient was admitted to a public hospital, j
having a few days previously, and without, ;
any sufficient or apparent reason, assumed
the attitude of a cotpse prepared for burial. (
It required all a. man's strength to flex his j
limbs, as, for instance, to stir either arm '
from his side, and the moment the force was '
removed the arm or other limb would fly
ba' k again as though impelled by a metallic ;
spring. He could ie laid across'a chair like ;
a log of wood, and if lie were lying down lie I
could lie raised by the head, resting his heels !
on the flior, as stiffly as though he were a
bar of iron. If unsiipport-'d in a standing j
position lie would fall over heavily. He !
used to eat soup when forced into his mouth,
bnt otherwise he has never stirred a muscle
of his face, even when a swarm of flies was
allowed to settle on it in the summer time.
He never spoke, tnd it is to be hoped ho.
never snored, for from the date mentioned
until February 4, lssl, being twenty one
months, he lav in a ward in the manner de
scribed, where he was surrounded by pa- j
tieots and under constant observation of the 1
attendants. On that fateful day in Febru- ;
ary he unwarily moved his head? Instantly
the attendantsV'took him on the hop," and
made him "stir his stumps," so to speak, i
I hey spoke to him, and set him on his feet,
and worked his arms, while lie, tnere can lie
no sort ol doubt, asked what they giving
that is to say inquired what sort of a practi
cal joke they were playing on him. At last,
to their astonishment, andeouallvto his own.
it is said he walked and talked, and now his
case is classed as simple dementia.
What the New York World calls a bril
liant lie has been invented to account for the
Princess Stephanie's very pretty and natural
display of emotion at her magnificent wed
ding in Vienna. It is to the effect that the
Princess was in love with an enterprising
American w hom she did not see, but who saw
j her, ami at a small expense, at the French
Kxposition of 17X for a minute and a half.
while the lovers' good angel, in the form oi
! a voluble Yankee, buttonholed her papa and
: explained to him at tremendous length the
! merits of a patent combined mower and rea
. per. As the Princess had then attained the
mature age of fourteen, nothing is more like
ly than that in a minute and a half she
should have received trom her unobserved
admirer an impression which will make the
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of the ((iiiTii's diary has not sufficed to con-
vinee I'liuarlelpliia that l.onl Melbourne did
not force the Oneen to the altar at the noint.
of the sword of state, or that the Archbishop
of Canterbury did not crv out, '-Strike up,
choristers 1" to drown her tearful "No,"
uttered in answer to his question whether
she, Victoria, would wed the man Albert.
The Body ofa ! i rdf.iied WnMt Iof.n -
timkd. It lias just been learned indirectly,
from (District iAttornev Mi-(;m of .1 er-cv
City, savs the New York Post of the istli.
that the body of the woman found murdered .
a few days ago in Cuttenburg woods has
lneii thoroughly identified. Her name is!
Mma Miller. She resided at No. 1511 Second
avenue. New York, with Loui Kit.tb rer. i
t who is being proven
lieyond question to bo
ner murderer, ."she is the same woman w he
v.sited Muck's saloon on the afternoon of
.May .i, in company with a man. The man
and woman had lived.together for some time,
and on the day of the murder went to Union
Hill to be married. Dr. Mayborn perform
ed the ceremony. Next they went to Finck's
salojn, and then on their way to New York
passed through the woods where she met
Her deatli. She had much money in her
purse, and fas j'.ioth monev and purse are
missing, robbery is supposed to have prompt
ed the murder. The murdered has sailed
for Europe. Kettlerer must have returned
directly to New York and horded the steam
ship Amerique, upon which he stayed until
she sailed May 4th. District Attorney Mc
Oill has telegraphed Attorney- General Mc
Veagh, asking him to cable the French au
thorities and cause the arrest of Kettlerer.
Wotith Kkmrmberimi.-Now that good
times are again upon us, before indulging in
extravagant show, it is worth remembering
that no one can enjoy the pleasantest sur
roundings if in bad health. There are hun
dreds of miserable people going about to-day
with disordered stomach, liver and kidnevs.
or a dry, hacking cough, and on foot in the
grave, when a 5oc. bottle of Parker's Ginger
Tonic would do them more good than all the
expensive quack medicines' they have ever
tried. It always makes the blood pure and
rich and will build you up at little cost.
Kead of it in another column, and buy it
from E. James, Druggist, Ebensburg, Pa.
' A Max Hangs His Nephew for a Pun
ishment. Near Slatesville, N. C, on Mon
day morning a roan named John Brown,
with a view oflbrea king a little nephew of
the habit of eating dirt, took him out to a
tree and told him of his purpose tojhanghim.
He accoreingly tied a rope around his neck
and swung him up to a limb. After letting
him hang a while, for the purpose of fright
ening him, he cut the child down. The ex
periment had been carried too far, however,
and the child died the .same evening from
the shock and injury.
I hat) great trouble with my lungs until I
used Pero'A. Am well. Mrs. A. Briske,
rutjbuig, Ta. Sold at the uew drug store.
! XT.WH AM) OTHER XOTINGS.
Seven members of a family near Totts
town are down witli the small-pox.
J. (Jordon Hennett is said to have lost
S'2-..OOO at cards in Nice, one night recently.
Nice Hennett.
A young lady liopelesslv insane In the
Middletown (N. Y.) AsylunTis worth M.OOO,
000 in her own name.
A white rabbit with only one ear, and
that located in the centre of his forehead, Is
! a Titusville curiosity.
i A Minneapolis thief stole the pans dls-
plaved in front of a tin shop and sold them
I to the proprietor inside.
' a horse Prized a little giri with its teeth
; at Dayton, 111., carried her several blocks,
i and then trampled her to death,
j Six members of the Hums family, num
! bering twelve, living at Hanover, Luzerne
county, died of smallpox recently,
j The New Vork World thinks it is now in
1 order to bet two dollars ami a quarter at
I least, that Don Cameron will not resign !
j Father Maloncy, the alleged miracle
worker of Erie, offers to wager $2,000 that
I he can perform miraculous cures publicly.
Annie Myrtle, a girl thirteen years of
I age, died at Kacine, Wis., Thursday, from
i the effects of jumping the rope" 10J times.
John Gynmber, the sleeping Hundarian,
I in the Lehigh county almsiioure, entered
; upon his ninety -fifth day of continnous sleep
; on Tuesday.
Captain Paul Hoy ton passed through
rittsburg on Sunday, honnd for St, Paul,
I where he will begin a "tloat" down the Mis
j sissippi to its mouth.
j A fatal ilisea.se has broken out among
j the cows at Springfield, Mass. Their lungs
j are found dark and honeycombed and water
i is found on the brain.
j The body of a child, partially decompos
j ed, was reeenUy found in a cupboard in
I Pittsburg, where it had been placed by pa-
rent too pour to miry 11.
lirush had a hard time to lrrow five
dollars when he was working at his electric
light. Now he canJHrush dull care away with
an income ot f I.omi per day.
An Iowa journal says that the traveler
across the State now sees the novel sight of
the old corn crop being gathered and the
new being planted on the same farm.
Robbers entered the room of Father Don
ohue, a priest at Plymouth, Luzerne county,
a few nights ago, and after drugging him
made off with a gold watch and $4o in money.
A colony of eighty-four persons at St.
Teter, Minn", is composed of one woman
and her children, grandchildren, and great
grandchildren, with their husbands and
wives.
A wire rope is being made by the Hazard
Manufacturing Company that "will measure
one mile in length ami weigh twenty-four
i tons. It will be used at Gordon Planes,
! Schuylkill county.
j Cyrus Chambers, of Kennett Imrough,
I Chester county, who is eighty-five years old,
I plowed and harrowed the ground and plant
ed his corn crop of several acres without any
I assistance whatever.
Mr. (iatchell, of the P.radford strir, has
insittiated a criminal libel suit against Mr.
j K. H. Hutler of the Sitn'lov Xeics, for caliing
him a "jaundiced bla.-ksmith," and other un-
I prepossessing epithets.
I Mrs. Garfield, wife of the Piesidont, who
j has been seriously ill of fever for several
days past, was greatly improved on Wednes-
. day morn ng last, with every prospect for an
i early and complete recovery.
' A horse in l;n-k Island, III., unused to
I the sight of a locomotive, slopped, trembled
I and fell down dead. This is an improve
, nient on the old plan of swinging around,
; smashing a wheel and running over the driv-
I Wong Tze Fung, an elderly Chinaman
! in San Francisco, who saw a turtle lying un
; comfortably on his back in front of a restau
j rant, purchased it for fifteen dollars and had
I it conveyed t'j the wharf and thrown over-
board.
Only ignorant people can commit crime,
according to the educated. They may, how
ever, tackle the statement that out of lti,"i
white men confined in the. Nebraska State
prison only five are unable to read and write
with facility.
A miscreant gave a little girl in Denni
son, Ohio, two railroad torjiedods. telling her
they contained candies and that she must
open them witli a stone. The;child tried one
of them, and the torpedo burst and destroy
ed her sight.
The nominations of Wm. H. Robertson
as Collector of Customs at the Port of New
York, and of Edward A. Merritt as Consul
General at London, were continued nci rocc
in the i'nited States Senate on Wednesday
morning last.
John Wray was struck by lightning and
instant ly killed while standing in a room at
his boarding house in Relitown, Decatur
township, Mifflin county, on Tuesday even
ing'of last week. He was l'2 years of age
and unmarried.
A boat containing a pleasure party cap
sized on Licking Lake, fifteen miles from
Newark, O., on Sunday evening. Price
! Stowe, Mrs. Harbara Losch and her two lit
i tie sons were drowned. They were resi
1 dents of Newark.
j Father McSwiggan, pastor of the Catho
j lie. church at Ilecksherville. Schuylkill coun-
ty, lias made an address to his jM-ople, im
' portuning them to assist in discovering the
i incendiary who set fire to the Methodist
church at that place.
The Norristowa Hrejixter tells of a lunar
rainbow that was seen "in t he heavens to the
northwest of Norristown about 10 o'clock on
Sunday night. All the primitive color
were vividly shown, t he picture being beau
tiful in the extreme."
A little ry fell through an open scuttle
into the room below, at Relleplain, Wis.
The fall would not have hurt him much if
he had not alighted in a tub of water; and
the water would not have killed him if it
had not been boiling hot.
The Ancient Order of Hiliernians, who I
were in session at St. Iouis during last week, j
adjourned on Saturday, to meet in Chicago, i
the second week of next May. They have a I
membership of 2o.ixhi in the United States i
and a fund of bait a million dollais.
The oldest postmaster in tl.e I nion is
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j nuptials, thone.li a nice one could have been
made ver5 tjuicK.
Lawver Snvder. of Cincinnati, took the
occasion of atrial in court to say that Nannie
Murray and Mary McKinney were "as bad
in character as they were in face," and when ;
he i;ot outdoors thev thrashed him soundly,
but whether for the attack on theii character i
or their looks is not explained. ;
Mrs. William lim. of lounpstown, .,
in order fofriiditeii her six-vear-old dauch
) ter, threw a knife at the child. Cue blaile '
i 'ctrit.-i.iiT li4r in tit linail ntirl i.lowili.r 9 .
I mutimuiuli lhe sen in niul cvnosino the
brain. Tlie mother is nearly wild w ith grief,
and it is leaieil the child will die.
(n account of unrequited love Miss Fan-
nie Ilennet, residing with her mothei, a wid-
; t li villa. n of Montoin-sville. Lvcomintr
county, attempted to commit suicide by tak-
ing a nose or arsenic, w nue trying to swai-
low fb poison she was detected bv her
brother who seie.1 an. I choked her to make
her desist. Antidotes alone saved her.
One of the youngest church edifices in
the United States has the oldest steeple. It
is the Episcopal church a; Tacumsa, ash- j
ington Territory. The building is of logs :
aiid the tower is a large fir tree which has ;
been cut off forty feet from the ground, on 1
the top of which' is a cross ami bell. The I
rings of the tree show it to be ioo years old.
Erhardt Khymer, forty-four years old,
committed suicide by hanging, in the cellar
of his home, r12 Diamond street, Philadel
phia, on Saturday morning. He had been in
ill health for several months and had used
expressions indicating intent to kill himself.
Ilis father hanged himself in the same ('.well
ing two years Rgo.
At the depot in West Cornwall, N. Y.,
recently, penplo were stupefied nt seeing a
young "woman attempt the difficult feat of
entering the car through the window. She
had never before seen a railroad train, having
lived in the inland country', and said she
thought that was the regular method of in
gress. She Is about twentv vears of age.
Kalph Mead and Nellie Mead, aged
about I t vears, in one dav, in the vicinity of
Catskill, S. Y., killed forty-five black water
snakes. The snakes were either caught
with a snare or shot with a gun. Many of
them were found on the limbs of trees,
where they had crawled to sun themselves.
They varied in length from eighteen inches
to four feet
An accurate estimate of the cost of car
rying the mails over one of the expedited Star
routes in New Mexico has been made at the
Postal Department. It was found that the
Government paid at the rate of $700 for
every letter expedited over that route. And
Garfield through Brady solicited a slice of
this to help the good cause iu Indiana. "Let
it go as a loan."
John Chinaman has learnen the trick of
his European brother to strike for higher
wages. Two thousand Chinese are on a
hiiki. niiaiiisi me rai:mnn couijiaiiyai l
: ; . . i -4 i .
Hie, i
isntisn uoiumoia, and have moblied and
wrecked the eonipany's warehouse at that
place. The almond-ejed son of the Flowery
Kinedoniis evidently losinc faith in "Chiu-
1 ee cheap labor. "
"A beautiful ami touching sight," says
the Sumter (S. C.) Southron, "occurred tin
Sunday before last at the Statcburg Episco
pal church. A gentleman who was there
and saw it says that while Governor Man
ning was kneeling at the chancel, receiving
the sacraaient of the lord's Supper, a little
bird flew from the loft and lit upon his back
and quietly remained there nntil the Gov
ernor arose, when it returned to its perch."
The death of a boy at; Decker, Indiana,
who was suffering from rheumatism, was not
caused by the intelligent drug clerk. His
parents had no faith in the doctor's prescrip
tions, arm gave the patient a home-made sul
phur bath. They seated him in a chair,
piled feather beds over him, and burned a
lot of brimstone underneath. When they
thought the disease was smoked out the cov
ering was removed, but it was too late : the
poor fellow bad been smothered to death.
Mrs. Jane Rurke was found at No M
West Sixteenth street, New Yoik, on Satur
day, suffering from Paris green poison. She.
stated that tier husband, Thomas I'.urke, had
given her poison ; that they were recently
married, and that lie had four wives before
their ;marriage. Burke was arrested, but
subsequently two women were found who
said they bad seen Mrs. IJurke mix the poi
son herself. The police held IJuike, but
place little reliance in the wife's story.
From Hertford, Ind., a report lias been .
received of the phenomenon of a cloud, as ;
t low as me iree-top, rushing over the town
on Friday, with the roar of a hurricane. ;
Only thirty-five seconds intervened from the i
time it was seen approaching until its disap- '
pearance. The sky was clear at the time and
the sun shining. A reduction of from 10 to i
15 degrees in the temperature followed the
passage of the cloud, and continued for
about ten minutes. The same phenomenon
occurred at Rloomfield.
It is hard to lwliove, and veU it was tele- ;
graphed to the New York World from
Worthington, Iowa, that a storm at that ,
place tn last Friday afternoon lifted the '
barn of John Pitman, containing six horses, :
and carried it a distance of half a mile with- ,
out injury to the horses ; and also that two ,
bams .belonging to R. IJaker were b.ow n I
a distance of two miles, but whether the lat- i
ter contained any horses or not is more than
we can say. it was certainly a stiff breeze,
though a very considerate one.
Several weeks ago, says a Washington i
correspondent, a remaikably lieautitul model
was posinglefore the "life class" of the Cor
coran Gallery of Art. She, as all the models
are, was provided with a mask to hide her
identity. She was posing as Psyche, when
suddenly she fell forward in a faint. Her
mask Hew off, and the students recognized
the features as those of the widow of tn ex
General in the Union army. She is possessed
of a large fortune, but her vanity about her
splendid figure induced her to apjear as a
model.
It is a pity to spoil a good paragraph,
says the New York World, but when one of
our esteemed contemporaries points a moral
with a tale of a Jesuit priest ot extraordina
ry eloquence and learning who was recently
sliot in Guatemala for venturing into that
republic, it is proper to remark that the
story of the execution of that priest ha been
formally contradicted, not only by tho Gua
temalan Government, which might perhaps
have, an interest in lying about the matter,
but by the priest himself, who certainly can
have no motive lor misrepresenting the
truth.
The New P.loomsfieM riif. tells of a
Thomas cat in that place which has taken a
special liking to a brood of young chickens.
For some '.time pa-t '.he cat has assumed
charge of them, mid will lie quiet with a look
of intense satisfaction as the chirks huddle
up to him. At other times lie will play with
them as though they were k ittens. taking
care not to hurt them. He will, w hen fed,
let them pick at a piece of meat while he
stands and looks on, and by many other acts
he shows his regard for his feathered family.
It is certainly a curious fr?ak of the cat, and
the chicks, now as large as quails, seem to
enjoy the peculiar friendship as much as he
docs.
Ida Kelly, of Itasca, Minn., sent a note
to her lover, Sol. Grci-mer, with whom she
bad quarrelled, asking hiui to come on a cer
tain night ami elope with her. Sol was flu
ted by the idea of marrying her, partly be
cause lie wished to triumph ovevjher parents,
who had opposed the match. He. was under
I her window Willi a ladder at midnight. She
j came down, dressed ns though for a journey,
and kissed him. Ther sat down, at a little
! distance from the house, and discussed the
i question which direction to take. Ida was
! in Sol's lap, with one aim thrown about his
' neck, when, with the disengaged hand, she
cut his throat wimarazor. Having murder
ed him. as she supposed, she ran back to her
led ; but lhe wound was not mortal, it is
conjectured that she intended Ids deatli to be
attributed to saicide, as she was careful to
regain the letter which had lured him.
Chahof.b with a Ilnt TAi, Cr.iMF.. C. F.
Gethinjrs, a retired merchant of l'ittston,
was ai rested in New Yoik city on Fridav
and brought back to I'itttou in charge of
Detectives O'Brien and Brown, (icthimrs
committed an indecent assault upon two lit
tle girls to years of age named Daisy Laza
rus and Kva (ireeji on tlie Monday previous,
and fled to New York, where he "was subse
quently arrested. It appears that (icthings
enticed the little girls into his room at the
Butler House, after tvhich he locked the door
and nailed down the windows ami then com
mitted the assault, making threats to the lit
tle girls if they exposed him. Intense ex
citemt nt prevailed at l'ittston on Friday
evening, and the pr;soner would have un
doubtedly been lynched by the indignant
; populace had not the detectives taken the
ptecantion to stop the train half a mile be
! low the town and have the prisoner escorted
j to a place of safety. He was then conveyed
; privately to the office of a justice of the
peace, who committed him to prison without
bail.
I am cvitF.n ok Catakkh ash Deafnkss,
after giving Ely's (.'ream Balm a thorough
trial. It lias on several occasions relieved
me of severe cold in the head. My aunt was
troubled with deafness so that she could not
hear at all in one ear. After using the balm
a few times her hearing was restored. F. D.
MonsF., Insurance Broker, Klizabeth, N. J.
See advertisement.
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in the Head, Catarrhal Deaf ness.and Hay
Fever we call your particular attention to
a new and valuable remedy, Kly's (.'ream
Balm. We are continually hearing the most
favorable reports of its curative effects. It
is easy and agreeable to apply. Ye would
strongly recommend this discovery to oi.r
pattons and every one suffering from Ca
tarrh, etc., leing fully convinced it will
please in every ease. Vanhii'F.w & Co.,
Druggist, FassW, N. J. Sold at James'
Drug Store, Lbensburg, Fa.
A most remarkable murder ease was set
last week for trial in St. Louis. The defend
ant is one Charles F. Krinc, who shot and
i killed a young woman with whom he was in
fatuated. for no other reason than that she
I declined to abandon her husband and marry
him. The remarkable phase of the case are
1 that this is its sixth trial. Kring was once
' found cuiltv of murder in the tirst degree,
' was once sentenced to iweiity-r.e years lin
, pi isonuu-oi, nun .. . nm-v n.s-.i
. In cv.ry instance he has managed to find
: some loophole of escape from his just dc
scrts. The inference is tha. something needs
fixing in tlie erhninai practice of Missouri.
''I DON'T WANT THAT STI FF!" is what ft j
lady of Boston said to her husband when he i
brought home some medicine to cure her of j
sick headache and neuralgia, which had made '
her miserable for fourteen years. At the i
first attack thereafter, it was administered :
to her with such good results that she con- ;
tinned its use until cured, and was so enthu
siastic in its praise, that she induced twenty- :
two of the best best families in her ?ircl" to ,
fidopt it as their regular familv medicine. '
That "stuff" is Hop Bitters Slmd,trd. Sold
ny M. L. Oatinan, authorized agefit, E'K'iis- !
burg. Pa. j
Is Springfield, Mo., a voiing man recent
ly visited the residence of Mrs. Thonia. a !
widow, and tried to persuade her daughter ;
to elope with him. The girl refused, where-
upon lie attempted to force her by threats to
gt. He threatened to kill the family unless
she complied, and went so far as to' point a i
pistol at her mother. The widow seized a
gun and shot him through the bead, killing i
nitn instantly. She was exonerated by the ;
examining court. " j
DvsrKrsix and Livkk Comft-aint. Is it
not worth the small price of V"i cents to free
yourself from every symptom of these dis
tressing compiaints? "If you think so, call at
E. James' Drug Store, Ebensburg, Fa., and
procure a bottle of Shiloh's Yitalizer. Every
bottle has a printed guarantee on it. I'se ac
cordingly and if it does you no good it will
cost you nothing. -i-8.-c.o.w.ly."
After thirty years' absence, F.ob't Thorn, i
of Haverhill, Mass., came home the other i
day, and his first business was to kick over !
a tombstone that had been erected to his
memory many years before. I
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A Mississippi Hurricane.
W1NI THAT 1 EVFI I.F.D FOItF-STS AND SH AT- j
TEHED DWF.I.MNOS AND B A TIN'S.
A correspondent of the Memphis .1.p, '
writing from Kudora, Miss., under date of j
May Mh, says : i
1 Iiavt ecn "onie rn.ticr ol tli t. rm that wpt I
through 1N Soto county. ttilnonrf tbnii ilc?rire
It I'nlly. About 3 o'clock In tl: afternoon ( tl:e .
day it occurred attention wa attracted to tl.e eat ,
liy'two or three Ion. I i-Jup-i ol ttmn.ler where a cloud
of peculiar hlnckncrs wa pcen rapidly pu-lnn
atMive the horizon, and In a tew minute appeared .
to he wrapped in plicet." of flame. It had the ap- .
pearance of a volcanic mountain ouriiii; forth t.r- j
rent ot hurninst lava, while Iretn the open crater
red flames Fhot liih r.hove the burning ma. !
Verv oon a henvv pound wns heard n ol a distant '
waterfall, and in twenty minute inerctied to the ;
roarof a hundred railroad trainp. Forked tonnne
ot electric tire now leaned mil from the !ouin of I
I th cloud, i; learning like the consuming tlah of I
i imnijKitcnce. and the rnpldly-puceeedmif peal" of
i thunder made it a pecne to ptfike the bihlet heart J
I with ten-'ir. When it. eroded the IVIiiiippl
I ldver at Commerce nd struck the tiinher on the j
ent pide it was likethecraph id a tailing mountain.
The lnre storehouse of Mr. Kry wsp unroofed in i
! an instant, and twentv-two other Ikiuj-h fiaphed to !
the frr-mml and broken Into friminctits. Then it ;
rebounded Trom the earth, risine hiich al-ove the ,
timber, and went on itp way, with its tirep and I
thonders. pmokintr. roarmtr. tmllin and flh(n:r,
until it became the very sublimity ol 'error. Sud
denly it ilerended to the ground a-ain in the vi- .
el nl ty of Hernando, and bciran anew the work of '
destruct ion. tearinif ibwn house, treep and fence f
In its destructive march. T he lane jnn house el '
Mr. lieilly wap nearly torn to piece-. Mr. (lore's
place was literally cleared of fences and all out- j
house?, and In attempt in to close the door ol her
dwelling lie was driven some distance, trom the t
house, and the door shivered to toeces. t'ontinu- .
inr enslward. It wrecked a number of houseg on j
JS'e-.Tsom's dace, killiuir ft neirro woman and two
children, t In Mr. Hanks' place the chimney stack
to his mill was thrown down, and buiblinir' crush
ed. At lr. Lauderdale's, si jc in iles n onhcast from '
Hernando, his storehouse was blown ilwn to the
foundations, and Its contents driven miles away. (
The IKtor's dwelling and all his other houses i
were hurled to destruction, and lie was so uiuch
bruised that his life was despaired ol for several I
days. His w ile had her thith broken, and. stranife j
hut true, his lauhter. In led wiih an intant eialit i
lays old, was rolled up in the IkmI and laid down I
auain without injury to either. An evewitnecs '
says he saw a fence "rail driven throuich an oak i
tree twenty Inches in diameter, splitting the tree i
open in it vassaire. A barrel of salt. :!"0 pound !
in weight, was lilted up by the wind and earned !
three miles, and put down without burstinu it.
Heyond I'nmp t're. k the dwelllnz of Mr. Ken
Harwell was torn to pieces ami he killed. Trees
were torn from the srround or twited oil like corn-
stalks, and driven awav. Kverv thine in it tra'-k
Is a wreck. Seven person? in all are said to have
been killed, und the destruction wa continued
pome distant e into Marshall county.
liT.poisM ask ( 'mvAi.nv. The Fhiladel- :
phia Ti'itex s;iys that the following inciitpiit j
1 of the hattle of I iciieri' -kshurg is well au
thenticated. It may prove that though the j
. Xoith and South were at war. a spirit of .
chivalry did rxist anion-j; the Southern sol- :
diers :
'(In the 1-Mh day of Iieecmbcr. I-,-.-, the Nix
, teenth Kci'imeM tio'l three eotnpnniep of the Sec- '
ond Kittaiion ot Keatlu-rstonc's Mississippi bri
aadc were po-tcd at the bot ol Marve s Heights to
the lelt ol .the -l:Tik road le'idmur Irotu tliecttyto
ward iraiiue I'otirl lioii-c. ween I i.ern ? n-l Tlie
j city was a tanyarl and man y ouM.ui Id r.s. Much
siiarp.-hooiuiir was indulged in on both -i lc, .p
' port unities bei hit afh -rd'-d ns by squab- ol I v.icrais,
' who in twos f.r three.- kept n.ovum rapid'y lr--m
I behind extemporized sheir. rs in the rea-. posted
! in the city lin.its proper. While a s piad ! these
were brav'inu shots, one of hem was s,.,.n t , drop,
. while all bis companions Put otic, takrhir mlvan
' tnire ot our empty rilles, o-,n ir -t t-t ruicr hehind
: the houses. 1 his brave b-!l -.w, feoinir his comrade
fall, deliberately laced afoot, and. dropping his
title, assisted his friend to ris . and tozetner they
i slowly sought the rear. As they moved i f! a score
r more of rMes. in the cxi-itemer,! rd the moment,
; were levelled with deadly intent, but b. I ore a sin
i iilc one could he li-cha:i:'-d our I'oloiii-l. t'unict
i I'osey. conimmidcd. 'Cease f.rin--' : that man Is po
i brav"' to be killed.' and then, with characteristic
j admiration lor the brave fellow, we tave him a
! hearty cheer, to which be replied hy a uraceiul
waveol hiscaoas he an. I M- color. ole pn--ei Pe
' hir.d the protection ol an oiitluiihlfnu-. I have of
ten thought ol this brave net and HoioP d il he
; ccacd apoblicr's death and lived to become an
: acknowledged leader anion:; tncn."
"I'l' IN A I? Al l "ON." The l'liilaileiphia
Timm of Sunday furnishes the lo!lwini;:
The balloon ase.-nsjoii from ak Hall, yesterday.
was witnessed hy a laite crowd, prominent
whom was the irre;.ress:ii!c sn.ail b
I-.
. ha i
leathered in n-itnl ers. cheri-hintr the I.
would be ei. aided to lol hov the eon re t
pe ti
hut be
bv t '!
I'at.d
k. r,
inflated bi'-T oil mu-i:u ba until :t '.e-ce
thus secure t he order lor a onth'- soit-
, e
! c!
I lies.
which was the rev.ard oileied t
hailo..n. 1 he excitement ;-. r.o n
ti.e tind-r of the
I he l"- n 1 at ve
t-t ercnrfni; the cl'llt- wa" t
t.io in l!n fity, I ti t in mi
similar folmtr iir'V;,il,"'i a,n
.ill were eqiifitiy tir-iru m tt:iMi
The n-:viioii t'k i:t- ;t u
lo:urii tin Kiii'vm hur awuy tn Tt
tie (Iir'-climi ot M intzin r ckiiti:
("bai-TO'l tU nti:r!- rirnl lirifTcl
Murk rninitv. Att;. hv to t tt- !
nly ! fiiH'.l T'
'tirl'.iu t"wns a
y f.-.iiiu-if r.
m; 111- !rir.
ti w ! t :i to-
f;r,r!i'A-t. in
y.lnit m:tT';irM
rnj'iiUy t"ff!.n!-'
:isk ( v:i m ir.i-
T7c, Iron. Tlitrnarol xh
of a in-v.
SI. ISlino Hotel.
Nor-. :1U .-in.l :1. Ai-t-H St root ,
I'HII.AIH.I.I'llI A.
It ate;- 1 1 eln.--tl t -J.t ) poi- Day.
The tr.trolIinif public will -till fin 1 nt t!.'? Ib tel
tlie fainr liit-r:i! pr'-. i-bri f-ir 1 bri r coin -r t . It i -bH-Htel
in tbi- liniiich:it' ri-n'ri--: ! I'lT-inr. ati-1
atniisi-iii-nf . nii-1 tbf lilb-rrrit ilinl lioiil .ft-p'-t.
It it ell as all part - of t hit city, nr
by tr'-'i c:rs -ciist:irit iy p.is-in j
ti-ri srpeci.'i iiiiliii-i-iiii-nts f .r lii"
..r 'u-iiu-s- i.r plensnrc.
o -n liv ii'-i-f-s.-t
tlie ib'.i.r?. I'
f A sj!:n the r;
1 nur !ntrori:ir.e i- resi-issttiM- -.iir
ids. m. l --: i 1:1;
I'bi!nlel'hi. N.iv. 1. ls-m -ti.
I'p-prirtor.
Sun wort ! tlif I
of '
.b.T
iivctfe.
In- ?;it.
An.l iirnr: n upon v nn
Anil t so -bittiu sbi- tl
The i.it'ii ail who r:i--
r.- cu t
No inipriiib-tit.
w -i n.iti... in tin- nrilii
"T.. l-itro H fobl-I 'M"-- vi:ii-o I AT..
Si. i-1if w.-iit to l! .lr.ik!t. nii.l tin-il ami tbf rr
lnvcrftc.1 v.tli a -inslc qiinrtiiir
In ll.c .trtiolr.
N.T II -ll olilv li:ivp no .'.is :n to s-p
H .w ca'rn -t nii.l v rh. -iiiclit -lir will be
Vhrn trllii.x licw .iinrkly anl rntirfly
Slici:iriiTii l tlie robl e.oiitlit on
' l'tft i?l Mirjiris. y..ti.
ctt.c.
IVt in.Hrt:in.l tlint all tlie f:rtn-r' 1 ..r-e? in
tins retioii Unit arc uivc-n M. H. lO'itKitTs' llmtsr.
' PowPK-tis nre n.1'1 c .winr to tlipir bix:itne, t-'i:u-nnj
purify lux qualilu-s. to plow from ..nr lbir l t
onr bulf i"iiT-- ,i. tl-s p.-r .lay t!.:in tl:.-p wln.-li nrr
itivcn any ctbt-r pr.-i.:u t i.'ii. We n.lvi-c all tlioe
wbn liavi not n-c.l tb.cm to ,b o. 'I'lii-y :iri n-t
tlnltiratcil with inn "r cnk.- ei.-:I nr. ! y. bt by
I tbr pounil. but an primr-l Ir-'iu pur.: .Ir'ii;. lit
i tin in mvit i.:u l,nir. . ami m.1.1 i..r -J". . nt by K.
Jatnr?. Kbcn"bi:r. I'l. :itil by nl. other ilr:i-B'sts.
. V tm sal iil d-ir.Tir ft.
flrt--lA.. Un i'M Tf.TirTi. f-.-m
( hlr-atr.t mr-1 l.i-i! rx'!'.r- t - CBN.
VER COLORADO SfRIN'OS. b'ixI
PL'IBLO. AND R ETUfiN, by .!
'6 i.inrr.itrvT m tt., t wvn l-r-fully
low rat.-. Th. . tl'-kr will tw
ffo,-i ironiir wot niihin flfion it.".,
lay f-?n dut of n.l to roturp
until .VToIt ?l. Iii'luvini'.
Viillmnn Pain..? ('an arr run l.
rlv fViTiipnn fr..m CKICAOO 1"
COUNCiL B1UFF3. TOPEK.A an.!
K ANSAS CITT. forming a lint, n'l,
tut...irrhniiL.f..f.ar. U DBNVER
nn.l trruiO. Innnir lai. ir. at
1n.-h.-.l to all tnr.mc-h Inim. in M-I.
nunLranhc nMnM.,-1 at llirrnM-n-abl
rrioe of w-rcnTT-flTc cnt.
Yvt rads. furthor mf-mintion
n 1 t-ipfmiit Map of I nit-.l
Statr frf, nl. tress,
J. ft. A. BEAN Oe n l Eattern .
:H7 I'r.-CT.Iwny.NewYoTk uml
nsliinti.:i St . Koot'in. Mass.
is mtiin 's prr-afTt - roim- u . It. ll. ninan
rr.5rrlli. It to .( imtl.-nt". nil rT v
WfiTfr.-l or r.rr- uni'-h l:uvro-.sl. 6y?sf5
I'K'ius v rm Lb ti)i -n I vrv.-ry . ;rc - I:
Tollli, t!l llil.l'!,'-:,-r I. t'rt t I. f.-..
airA tl.nii.tl!. r. KS-SS.9SS4rk
l'r::t: nnvvs art-os viui l i.i -.ii;. ni.
It rl -;'-i -os tlio tt-m of !1 1'? li:.imrlU.'i,
tonrs fie Ft..:n:i' h, r. p-.il.nt. tho lu-arl. tin
l.xrks til.; .. rt-tio:i-f.f t!il liver. Mrt-pc'hr-r-
tli?i'.vr.-i:iii'l l'iTijr'rn.c tlio br:.in.
. . 1.4 - 4 4. 41143 4 I I .4.-r. .. I I t 1 HT, III. .1.1 .1
M.i, ami to t'i wi-ary hthI nt.il frni-i tl.f
t..n :inl ir- .f t'ii '-.-e 1 r rivr sti 1
1'kiii- sv s-:i.ui.RSFT???i'
torn ficli i.i.-Hi, viu-n well,.i t.rrvf.t Vict
n45; wltrrt !-l tor nre. f!ioi'i r.i
(Ii-ns; r.H-h r.ue a trr .l ti'lv h i".-!f
11 IS puiK.ir.l t.- llio l.i-i,-, ,.,1 ,,,
8t..iiiii ii to tli.;.at iiy srtl- 'mil fi. rW5f
x n i.t. i n .lieu 1.1 1 ( ll:t!' Vt'-.l Ivj II . .
yotir-lf, .-i.l.ln-.j f;. ;. II AIM f A V .t o
Osnoiis. t'iii.i. Alw.ivsr- inilutotlie lui-
an.l rlvlp r.mna Ith
ee- s. !.i nt
en.-l.uri:, I'n.
.t-w I'ritkj Storr. I'.totli.T,
..:..l.-li .
OSKT11 Mi IKIXALII.
Al i MUNKV-A I I. A W .
1 .i.v:r.i
I
( i:s.
. 1-'.
in I'ol 'in: i.H- b 'i4, nt; ici:M
iifiiit
.-A c j f
til.-
EmraEnFORTiiir,iv-Finv,t.
1 a
MY BROTH! -
Ile
Manul axcttiiMMK
we
hr
WHOLESALE AND RETi
in;
TSis
OF-
r-ox
ttt)i
en
oriP
on i
up I
rtpx
it vi
i.vT
rut
Ihw
lee!
a bo
lue
r.'H
Ihn
Cle
Fii'
ridt
Bed
TtHp coma
-AND-
Sheet Iron War
AND DEALERS IN
HEATING, PARLOR salCSCl?
STOVES,
SHEET METAl
iny
deiv
lias
eve:
lesf
taru
whil
SU'
Sol.'
Dru
the
thai
cou
yea:
spri
ruo
toot
pec:
row
ing
no?,
the
kee
that
com'
now
Vff'1
wis!
Ieq
Din
nee
inst
Ien
acli
not
rest
Dru
tier
ns r
rior
old
per
loca
r..l
Vitir
trer
pen
euti
of
Con
that
on '
orll
the
can
fcrrt
or t
cr A
AND
1 nOUSE-RTiMSDlXG GOODS LEMj
wJoVling in
TIS, COPPER iSHEET-11
PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
Nos.278, 2S0 and 282 Waisr:
JOHNSTOWN. PA.
J.W.SHHGIi&l.
ii:ai.i:i;s in
Drv Good
Fancy Groods
CLOTHIXi
ISTOTIOsS,
GROCERIES, k:
CAHROLLTOWN. l'A.
HEW GOODS EECEIV'D HE
A I ALWAYS AT i III
VERY LOWEST PRKT
J--..!! I'AID I OR (OI TI!in
I1 ( I. m lien -otl arr not tlf ir.
J. n. SHAI.BU (!I V li
'rr Tit.'wn. Mar--!: 1.' ' -t:.
B. J. LYNCt
Mnnnfrtclnrrr ami Icnl r lr
HOME AND CITY MAC;
FURNITURI
iuukf. utM ltiitt't9i kirn
LOUXGES. BED8TEA.
TABLES, CHAIRS,
Miip
win
1ea:
liem
Vicli
"lat
and
Tent
Hot
will
by :
liavi
Mattresses,
larl
ha
m ELKVKNTH AVEM
- net ween K'.tli and i;th St-..
wor
WtHr.
Still
bail
A1 toona, npeiiii'i
iti7.'-n of fnn;bria ro.trtT 1 :
wibiD3 to purrba-c boin-?t I I'USITI i.
lionrt prico- rp rt-'j rrttully inviti-1 i
cull ln-lore buymir lewl't-re. ap 1
tb it 1 ran tneci v.-ry want ninl -!:. vv
l'ri. os the verv l"ot I H. .1. I.'
Altoons, April IS. lsi.-tt.
day
tern
wri:
All
Trie
- - jms
mt'ORPOR tf.i ix the
STRICTLY ON MUTUAL JlB
PROTECTION MlSTliiUna
HBllNSORlRCECOBr
OF EZBENSBURC, PA
the
aga
in li
ing
wiii'
-cou
sen
not
liwHillltt. I'
knit) t n im
Vll'
Only Siz Assessments in 24 Y-- J.
Good FARM PROPER!
Iret
EsPKCIAl.LY IK-lut: tisc
NO STEAM RISKS TAKi,
v.LU. 31. KLADh, ire.M.
T. II". DICK, Secretary.
son
for
rrio
th i
Ebccfl'urir
Jrn. El. lS-l.-ly.
Freidkoff'sBlocS!
man sruFM -
-: btT
t!en
and
-I'lac
has
CARL RIYINIUS,
Practical WatcMer and T
Dr.
f.ist
hors
on i
rov
vio(,
a hf
1- 4
' bur,
the"
lw t
Cla;
com
ed 1
. rp.i
Ki:i EBCNSDURC, PA
Tl AS always on T.a.-id
large.
1 i
1 1
Fnnl R..ilrTTn.nt nl WATl'HrS
'l
ii.ivti.HY sph Tmi.vii i v t i-
&.C.. which he otler for a!e at 1 r
any otlier tltnlcr in the county. I'cr- 'j
prvtbtntf in his line will .1.. well.t" tr!T -before
.ureTiasinr elsewhere.
J-rn.tnpt stieni inn jil l" r'!' 1
Wa;che. .lewrlry. .c. n l s.nt "
tccJ iu both a-.rk tu1 pri.c.
AGENTS WANTED WJ7l
n- "-vs. i:u HK.r.l. a:vl tor. r'""', .
f.tt-
ltimiltfi. It iiinoli::Uf"ln
Wink fiffwhl.-h thr- i a c , n - 31 "
....... ...-.. . . S.. Tra-nvi. 1,1
Hire hi ne to., ivJ Kaiui-tL s... i - fy-
NEW RICH BL0J1
too.
adit
I'nnraM 1'uranlirr I'M vr.V'- Jlar
r.l.axl. nn l will t-oini'ir'ti-iy !iiti.-- . .
tho entire Ystfm in thr.-e m. "!".
ln will t.-iUo 1 .H1 ea. li n.cht !
bun
tak,
tiia v restore. I M r.niol ii'-juhi. 'f "
lN. ,i.4.,io s'tit l'v tuail f -r s I"' '
1. S. .IOIISi A CO., i""f'
fnrmrrly Hangor, -Me.
bncf
. tht a
' nai
'. tlie i
174 ni cor.NTV Ti;i"A-r
JL? M.-iiAr. I.;.retto.-W re .
..un.-4- tV.at I'nir-.-k ,l"n-1"V;",.l
a.!1 U-n r:.ti!i.t:.to lor 'our! i" ,
n. m-m-H-r-itn- nil.- H " ' " "
.. . I.- I--.-- Inl.i-.'lT to i or- .-Mi .
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