rowan.
EBENSBURC. PA.,
FRIDAY, - - - SEPT. 16. 18S1.
Tin: Fre.-kh r.t'.s condition took a de
cided hnnge fur the worse early on .Sun
day morning, and grave fears were en
tertained of t lie result, but towards
evenir . the danger rapidly disappeared
and he pasel a comfortable night.
Since Monday he has continued to im
prove, and on both Tuesday and Wed
nesday he was lifted out of be 1, at his
own reriur?t, into a reclining chair, and
remained in i'. the last named day for
one hour and a half. The physicians
regard his condition now as better than
at any time during the last three weeks,
and entertain very strong hopes of his
recovery. They refuse, however, to
say that the "danger line" has been
passed.
Titk rittsburg Dispatch, which, tho'
opposed to Moss rule, was not carried
away with enthusiasm over the candi
dacy of Davies for State Treasurer, be
cause he did not assert his independence
when he ought to have done so, admits
that it was slightly led astray la3t winter
when Mitchell was elected U. S. Senator
and the result was claimed as a triumph
by the independent Republicans. It re
gards his election as in a certain sense a
defeat of the bosse', because they were
forced to abandon their own candidate,
hut it seriously doubts if Hairy Oliver
himself would have been "so miserably,
meanly, cringingly subservient to the
superior Senator (Cameron) as this lazy,
good-looking and apparently good-for-nothing
Mitchell, who lias proved him
self to be C micron's henchman, even in
the very short time he has been allotted
for furnishing such, proof."'
William T. Davies, who was the
candidate of the anti-Cameron men in
the Republican State Convention for
State Treasurer, is a Welshman by birth,
having been born in "ancient Cambria''
in 1?31 and brought to Bradford county,
in this State, when he was only eighteen
months old. lie is a lawyer by profes
sion a member of the State Senate, and
up until within three weeks of the meet
ing of the convention his nomination was
regarded as a fixed fact. lie took that
happy view of his nomination himself,
but as the sequel proved lie was in the
unfortunate josition of his over-sanguine
countryman, Owen Olendower, on
a memorable occasion, when he boasted
that lie "couM call spirits from the vast
deep.' They did not, however, come at
his bidding, and so Dnvies could ca'l
spirits in the shape of delegates from the
Republican depths, but, as the outcome
in the convention showed, they did not
answer his summons to any a'.arming ex
tent. Isn't it a little singular that
whenever the machine undertakes to
elect delegates to a State convention by
county committees, as it did in must of
the counties to the late convention, they
invariably turn up with the Cameron
collar around their necks. It was nota
bly so in this county of Cambiia. where
at a fair test of strength in the Repub
lican ranks Canieronism wouldn't stand
the ghost of a chance.
IIox. fiEOK'JE JjAM'on, once a State
Senator and now an old man. was a del
egate from Bradford county to DonCatu
ron"s late convention at Ilarrisburg,
and judging from the speech he made
when he had "the honor to name for the
position of State Treasurer Hon. Wm.
J. Davies,"' his sufferings under all the
surroundings must have been intoler
able. He said it was the first State con
vention he had ever attended, an 1 in
our opinion it will also be the hist. I.an
drui in his speech exclaimed : "Why do
I nominate him (Davies)? Because lie
is qualified for the place For weeks
and months he has been suggested as
the biggest man for the place in the
.State. The thing grew and grew until
a few months ago, when things sudden
ly took a turn. And here we are to-day,
and instead of having upwards of 200
votes, we will have only about $:. What
has become of the balance of them no
man seems to know, but, for God's sake,
gentlemen, don't place us in the posi
tion of voting against James A. Gar
field.' If old Mr. Landon, before he
made his speech, had interviewed Mat
thew S. Quay, the king of the Pardon
Board, be nrght perhaps have learned
why "the thing"' stopped growing sever
al weeks ago, and also what had become
of all the 2' JO Davies delegates except the
paltry number 83.
O.ve of the resolutions adopted by the
late Republican State Convention de
clares that "the administration of Gov.
Iloyt meets with our warmest approv
al." This is, of course, an endorsement
by the Repub lican party in the State of
the pardon of Kemb'e ami his confeder
ates, which was peculiaily an "admin
istration" measure, although it was de
nounced by every decent Republican pa
lr in the State. Quay was a delegate to
the convention, and as Kemble had car
ried on the greater part of his corrupt
solicitation of memlers in Quay's own
office, he (Quay) determined that the j
"Grand Old Republican Party" of!
Pennsylvania, in convention assembled, j
should stand the approval of even that '
infamous exercise of power by a board
of which he is a member. Another part
of the same resolution refei3 to "the
credit of the State raised o its highest
point and its finances placed on a proper
ba.sis without increasing the burdens of
the pcop!e,'Tall as the work of lloyt's ad
ministration. What ha3 Iloyt cr his
Iarty don to raie the credit of the
State, or to inn rove its financial condi
tion ? No man can answer. Gov. Iloyt
has been very literal iu tho use of his
Teto power, and in nearly every instance
properly so ; and if he had refused his
srent to several bills passed by the Leg
islature last winter and at the previous
session requiring large disbursements by
the treasury for questionable or entire
ly unnecessary purposes, the "finances"
of the State would be in a much more
healthy condition than they are at pre
sent, and a select committee of the Leg
islature would not now be devising ways
and mean3 by a revision of the tax laws.
for the purpose of meeting reckless and
improvident appropriation which he
1 y-7"
The Crawford couuty system of mak
ing nominations for county offices, will
be tried for the first time in this county j
at the Democratic primary election one j
week from to-morrow. The experiment
can be made a success or a disastrous j
failure, just as the system is fairly or un- 1
fairly carried out by the election officers j
in the different districts. Ihe rules
i anvpininff the system are brief and eas-
; ilv understood, ana tne great ana onij
ends to tie acomplished,are an tones vote
and a fair count. An honest vote means
that no man shall he permitted to cast a.
ballot unless h voted the Democratic tick
it vt the rn-f(h'ng ttrrerrt election, and a
fair count means that thi vote shall be
returned by the election board precisely
as it was cast. These two requirements
are very plain and rest for their faithful
performance upon the election officers,
who, in the discharge of their duties,
can render it acceptable to the great mass
of the Democracy of the county, or make
it more objectionable than the old dele
gate system We have heard it intimi
dated that it is the intention of Demo
crats in some of the northern districts
to cast their votes for two candidates
for County Commissioner from this end
of the county, and that in some of the
Southern districts two candidates from
that section of the county will be voted
for. We can hardly believe that such
folly is seriously contemplated, and will
only say that any two candidates nomi
nated in that way will he thoroughly de
feated, as they ought to be. Dong cus-
i torn has made it the unwritten Demn
j cratic law that each end of the county i3
I entitled to one of the nominees, and un-
1 der the new system that custom must be
t
maintained,
i We will only add, in conclusion, that
i this being the first test of the Crawford
i county system, it behooves the Demo
! cracy to make no mistakes in naming
: their candidates. Let every voter feel
j as if upon his ballot the nomination for
i inch office may depend, and then let him
1 vote for the very best and most deserv
I ing candidate. 7'he Republicans, elated
I with their partial success last November,
j achieved through Democratic defection
I in the northern portion of the county
' and a coalition with the Greenback paity
j in the southern section, will nominate
: their strongest and most available men,
! ami the Democrats must do likewise if
they expect to come out of the contest
! victorious.
It didn't require much political fore
sight to predict, as we did in our paper
two weeks ago. that Gen. Bailey, of
Fayette county, would be the nominee
of the Republican State Convention for
State Treasurer. The vote on the first
ballot stood 157 for Bailey and 84 for
Davies. This result shows beyond all
ca"il that although the great mass of
the Republican voters in the State are
undoubtedly opposed to the bossism of
Cameron, 'no is still able, through the
active but quiet operations of his adher
ents, to be found in all portions of the
State, to maintain his supremacy in the
councils of the Republican party. His
failure at HanisburK last winter to elect
his candidate, Oliver, to the U. S. Sen
ate, don't seem to have materially crip
pled him, speaking in a political sense,
ps it was supposed to have done ; but.
on th contrary, his control of the polit
ical machine appears to be as potent as
it ever was. Quay is Cameron's light
hand man, and has more ability in get
ting up a State convention, and in run
ning it to suit Cameron's as well as his
own personal purposes, than all the men
combined who undertake to lead the anti-Cameron
wing of the party, which
has the numbeis, but Siidly lacks in
adroit and skilful management. The
nomination of Bahey, who was one of
Cameron's packed delegates to the Chi
cago convention and voted every time
for Grant, was as bitter a dose as could
possibly have been administered to the
friends of, Garfield, and was doubtless
so intended by Cameron and his friends.
It will be seen elsewhere in oui paper
' that Charles S. Wolfe, of Union coun
ty, the head and front of the anti-Cameron
faction, lias unfurled the flag of re-
1 hellion and proposes to do soma valiant
lighting throughout the State against
Cameron and his hated clan.
M. S. Qi ay as temporary chairman
of Cameron's State Convention at Ilar
isburg on yesterday week, followed as it
was by the nomination for State Treas
nrer of Gen. Bailey, one of Cameron's
third term delegates to the Chicago con
vention, was the last straw that broke
down the patience of Chailes S. Wolfe
with the rugged rule of the Republican
bosses, and turning his back on the con- :
vent ion he hastened to his home in
! Lewisburg, Union county, where, on the
; following day he issued the following
j card, which speaks for itself : i
i 7o the Editor of the Pres.', Philadelphia : !
! LFwisnvRO," Pa., Sa ptember 0 Ti e black j
: flag has hren raised against the Independent
Bepublican of Pennsylvania. rieae an
nounce that on inv own responsibility 1 am
; an Independent Republican candidate for
' state treasurer, in full sympathy with the. ad
ministration sind against the rule of the boss- '.
es. I will stump the state and give my rea
sons for this action. Charles S, Wolfe.
! Wolfe evidently means business, but
: it is too soon yet even to guess at the ef
i feet likely be produced on the Rppubli.
j can party in the State by the boUi and
! aggressive stnnd hehas taken. He does
' not, of course, expect to be elected, and
i his main object in tightiug the Cameron
I machine is, as he himself says, to find
I out how much "sincerity and practibil
; ity there is in the Independent Reform
i movement in Pennsylvania." Wolfe
I has a good deal of "sand" in his politi
i cal composition, and his candidacy bodes
: infinite trouble to Gen. Railey, the nom
j inee of the bosses.
i Gciteac had a remarkably narrow
' escape from a violent death on the after
' noon of Sunday la-t. Sergeant Mason,
I of Battery R, second artillerv, when in ;
! the act of relieving tho guard at the jail
in Washington, shot at Into through the
window of his cell, the ball gra.ing his
head and imbedding itself in the wall
of his cell. Mason was promptly anest
ed. Guiteau will suffer the penalty of
the law when he is tried and convicted
of murder, if the President dies, or of
an attempt to commit murder if he
should recover, and Mason in assuming
to anticipate the judgment of the law by
becoming a murderer himself, oucht to
be punished to the full extent of the pen-
alty prescribed for his offence. Xo sol-
j dier or citizen in this country can te
I permitted to take the law into his own
:mjs ani v!o!ate it -.vith
TERRIBLE FIRES IN MICHIGAN.
immense thcts of i.AXD MfKNED over
and hundreds of lives i.oT. t
n !
Detkoit. Mich, Sept. 7. Kenortg from I
the northern and northeastern part of the i
State, show a terrible condition of affair
The long-continued drought has rendered
everything as dry as tinder, and numerous
"slashings" or partly cleared tracts of land
covered with brush, decayed timber, and
other inflammable material, afford the best
possible medium for the rapid spread of the
flames, carried by the high winds which hvA
! been prevailing. Sanilac and Iliiron rmm.
I ties, lying on the shore of Lake Huron, he- ! i
' tween Port Huron and Saginaw brty, are the 1
i mearre oi me iiiom, uesiruciion, which is I
i growing positively appalling in character.
j Hundreds of farms are already reduced to !
! blackened deserts stock, crops, fences, and
; all farm huildinirs sweiit away absolutely
nothing left. Noi is this a'l. Several lives
' are known to be lost. Men, women and '
' children, overtaken by the flames, were suf- !
foeated by the stifling heat. It is feared, ;
J hen full accounts are raceived, the loss of I
, life mny prove terrible. The little hamlets i
, of Anderson, Klchmondville, and Charleston, '
; Sanilac county, were ail reported wiped out, 1
while Port Hope, Verona Mills, and Badax, !
Huron county, are reported wholly or partlv i
! bnrned up. People are flocking to the shore ;
i of Lake Huron from the interior of these j
! counties as the only refuge from the devour-
! ing flames, and sometimes are overtaken by I
: the spreading fire. Not le.-s than twenty :
i deaths are now reported, but it is hoped that !
! some of these statements may yet prove in-
correct, while it is feared they d not begin !
! to approximate with the facts, so unprece- j
; dented is the condition of things. In Tus- j
: cola county, the next tier of counties back ;
j from Lake Huron and south of Saginaw, j
' fires are also raging, but with not so great se- i
; verity. Still, the losses here are simply over- i
l shadowed b the more terrible state ot things !
j in the adjoining counties. Tin same state of j
j facts exists in Laper bounty, next south of j
; Tuscola. The whole country around Sagt- j
i naw and Hay City is also ablaze, from marsh-
i es taking lire, and reports of many losses to j
j farmers are begiuning to raeh us. The '
' weather continues excessively hot. with no ;
' signs of rain. Where the present fearful .
i condition of things will end nobody can fore- j
i tell.
j H IITHF.R DETAILS OF THE PlSAtTF.K. 1
j Detroit, Mich., Sept 8. The horrors of j
: the situation in Sanilac and Huron counties, j
j on the shores of Lake Huron, are deepening
; every hour. An appeal was issued at Port
' Huron, signed by Senator Conger and Hon.
W. L. Bancroft, calling for money, clothing, I
! and provisions to be sent forthwith to Hon. i
: E. (,'. Carlton, mayor of Port Huron. The ;
' distress is unparalleled It is believed :U)0 j
i people have perished, and fearer! many more
! have, while thousands are stripped of every
thing tood, shelter, crops, stock, all swept
clean from the face of the earth. Accounts
; continue to come in of a most harrowing des
cription. George McDonald, of Mindem,
: S:mil;ic county, tells a harrowing tale. Over
: 20n families are homeless in that section, and
suffering from want of food anil clothing.
' John Ballentine, of Verona Mills, says that
j fifty-three lives were known to have been
i lost in the neighborhood of Sand Beach.
: The tire suddenly reached Verona Mills on
j Monday, and the town was soon wiped out.
i The wind was so strong that Balientine and
! wife were picked up anil blown fit teen or
j twentv yards. A woman and her husband
were found lying against a tree, dead, the
woman being partly delivered of a child.
The devastation caused by the fires of 1871 is
nothing in comparison to the fires of the last
few days. In the vicinity of Bichmondville, '
Western, Forester and Mercer townships re :
liable information leads one to sav that up- i
wards of :iM persons perished in the flames,
There was no escape for the.m. The woods
am! ground were so dry that no warning of
danger was given. Faster than a race-horse
came the fire. It would embrace a house or
a barn with its contents anil away to thy
next. Persons who have been through the
terrible ordeal sav that in ten minutes from
tne time the fire" struck there would bo 110
vestige of a house left.
A 'correspondent says: "I have iust re
turned from a trip through the burned dis
trict, and a description of theasights would
make the readers' blood turn cold. In many
instances men, women and children were
found lving on their fa.'es in the road, where
they hiid fallen when th-y were overtaken
by the fire Children were lying on logs,
where they had clambered for safety. There
was no finding each other when onee separ
ated, Many took refuge in wells and root-hou-es,
but in altno-t every instance were
suffocated. Details of the disaster in Huron
;ue as had ns Here. 1 beiieve that when the
returns are in l.oon person; will be found to
have perished in the 11 inies. Forester town
ship "will turn out Thursday to bury the
dt'ad eat tie. sheep and horses, the stench of
which is unbearable. Kev. W. T. Allington
found sixtei 11 dead bodies near lleckerville.
Only five buildings were b-tt between this
place and Minden. John Flytewager's fam
ily, seven children and wile, were ail burnt
together in Paris township with fifteen oth
ers. The Day family were burned, with
Morris (JiiiToi 'I. wife and child. A man anil
woman are lyingdead between D inner's mill
ami Tyre. Fifteen families wre burned in
Areyie and Moore. Five hundred families
are reported alMinden as having been burned
out. A woman and seven head of cattle
were, burned at Smith's Mill, half a mile
from Tyre. Wherever a house is left peo
ple flock to it like sheep to a fold. In some
places as many as six families oeing in a log
shanty. They must have relief irom the
blow or great sulTering will Vie the result I
saw many families to-day who had not one
meal sine Monday, and who do not know
, when they will get one. Their teams are
all gone, and their cows and other stock
burned. Desolation stares them in the face.
They talk about the;r misfortunes, and many
of them say, bad as it is, it might have been
a great ileal worse. They are glad to get
away with their lives. Many of the men are
Canadians, who have been over but a short
time and have just begun to get things in
comfortable shape. Many need medicine
and medical attendance."
Merchants and capitalists at noon to-dav
pledged themselves for ?l"0,ooo for the suf
ferers in the Michigan burned districts, and
' also put their hands in their pockets and
pulled out fil.O'.Hi, to lie immediately exoend-
1 ed for flour and meat, w hich leave here be-
:. fore dark to night on a fast steamer for aid
I to the sufferers in Sanilac, Huron and other ,
1 counties. This latter is for immediate use,
and if neecssaij froO,ooo will be raised. A i
report from one of the best men in Sanilac is ;
receivei, saying that fiOO are known to be
killed aud over $3,ooo burned out. !
! STII.L LATER. j
Detroit, Mich., Sept. t. Details contin- ;
ne to come in relative to the destruction by
the f.irest fires in Huron and Sanilac conn- j
ties, the principal theatre of the greatest des-
truction and suffering. An eye witness
states that preceding the approach of the
i fire there was darkness and copper colored ;
i appearance in the skv. Later it changed to ,
' a dark red and by the middle of the alter-
; noon on Monday it became so dark that lan- '
terns became a necessity, in order tnat peo
ple might find their way out of doors. This
condition of affairs continued until about
eight o'clock Wednesday morning, when the
' wind shifted from west to north, which
cooled the air and brought a slight, relief.
! In the woods were many dead of every age
; and presenting a revolting appearance of the
bodies, which are scorched and charred by
. the fire. The high winds which prevailed
i cut off nearly every avenue of escape, and
large burning masses would lie bodily lifted
up and borne great distances away, and in
' many instances started fires in fresh places.
; The skill and courage of man seemed impo
i tent to combat with such flames, and the
: fleeing people were caught in fire traps
i and roasted, as were their live stock. One
farmer who was plowing with his team of
j oxen a few miles from Sand Beash, perceiv
ing the approaching darkness started for his
' home. Keaching there, he found that his
wife had gone to neigfilors. He took two
children, and gave three others in charge of
his eldest daughter Hef ore traveling many
rods they found themselves cut oft by the
flames. He turned in another direction and
I escaped with two children. The three
! children and the daughter were found next
j day all in a heap, charted beyond recogni
j tion.
' A dispatch from Port Austin, at the top of
j the burned peninsula, sums up the general
; destruction as follows : The loss of lives by
the forest fires on Monday and Tuesday is
: estimated at from two hundred to three
! hundred. The following villages were
: burned : Rad Axe. Verona, Forest Bay,
I Ricbmondville, Charleston, Anderson, Deck
: ersville, Harrisonville, Sandusky. The fol
j lowing were partly burned : Linden, Port
' Hope. Elby. The great loss in the villages
; is nothing "to that in the country, where the
. losses are to numeious too he named.
Rains have fallen in probably sufficient
quantities to quench the fires, but not
; enough to soak the ground and revive the
, drooping vegetation. The lowest estimates
' indicate that two hundred and fifteen faroi
! lies have been burned out in Sanduskyicoun-
tv and thirty-two persons are known to be
; dead.
I WORSE AND WOKSF..
I Detroit, Mich.. Sept. 11. The very latest
nws from the firf whicji swept Huron Pe
ninsula aiifi adjacent regions, indicates that
the work of destruction is done, but the
, M'-ken'ng details arriving every hour 6how
. t.k.a: ::. ucra;i;oj ".vi crea iore wlie-
spread and awful than previous reports Dave
shown. In the counties of IIcro'T, Sanilac
and Tuscola, thirty-one rownMiii
eleven vil laws were utterly aesrrn eu. mi
the townships burned over as close, as sum-
mer fallow. In many cases bridge", .fences,
houses and ;arr.s, cattle, sheep and Initnnn
beings went down before the flames iik
grain before the reaper stroke,
LOSS OF LIFE.
The Cro'eao Time makes the following
estimate of the loss of life up to last friday :
Burned nt Saml He"h
On the iirontvt near Sand Beach -
At Richmnnfivtlle
14
.. 63
.. 16
.. 80
M
..20
20
In Custea, Township..
Isolated eae in rannne rounij
Ilea.! niar Minden -
Near Marictte
Pari" -
WcM of Tvre
AtCiato
In the mini at Watertown
IVear Vlley
.. 6 I
.. 6 :
.. 25 !
Total. 4,5
Late returns Indicate that, the loss of life
has not been overstated. The n timber who !
have pprished is at least 600. and may run ,
up to l.WO as soon as te back country can
be reached. The number of homeless per- I
sons will not fall short of l.r.,000. j
STIRRING APrEAL FOR AID.
Tout HrnoN, Sept. 11. The following
was Issued to-day : j
To the Amrrirrn Projilr : We hare to-nijrht re j
turned from the hurnt district or Huron and Sinl- ,
Inc counties. We tiare seen the luirned. di'fnrnr- j
cd and writhlngr fiViire' ot men. women and chil
dren : rough board .ioffln containing the dead lol- I
lowed to the rave hv a few Minded anil depftir
Inir relatives: n-nwitl of half-starved people at !
some of the stations ii'VImc tor hread tor their
families or neighbor. We hear of more than two .
hundred v'rtlms alreadv nurid and more charred ;
and Moated hodies dnilv discovered. Already i
more than fifteen thousand families are found to
be utter! v destitute and homeless. Tiley hnddle
in harns.' in school houses, in their nelifhhors' !
lionses. scorched. hlitered. homeler-s. Some still j
wander half craned around the ruins of their hald- ;
tations. vainly geeklnif their dead, some in speech- ;
les airony wrine inn their hands nd refusing to j
he c.o:n fofted . More Than ten thousand pc iple who
on'v one weefc airo occupied happy, comfortatile t
homes are to dav houseless, homeless sufferers.
Thcv are hunirrv and almost naked when found. 1
and in such uvea t numbers and so widely scattered (
that our let efforts and irreatcgt resonrer tail to
supply their Immediate wants. Without seedy i
aid manv will perish, and many more will sutler ;
and become exiles. Our poople will do their nt- i
most for their relief, but all our resources would '
tail to meet their necessities. We appeal to the i
charitv and irenerositv of tlio American people to i
send relief without delav.
Sinned v .. '. "arlton. Mavor of I'ort Huron,
and 'tiairman of the Kelicf -ommittee: Peter
Jlartsnll. t 'has. J, Peck. John V. Sanborn. I'eter
B. SanlK.rn, Clias. A. Ward, Omar I. Conifer.
i A Prizf. F.fsat. 7V the Public: In Janu- 1
i ary last 1 offered a prize of ?oo in gold for
I each discovery, during the year, in the L'ni- ,
i ted States and Canada, of a telescopic, n- j
! expected comet. Dr. Lewis Swift, director :
of the Warner Observatory, discovered 1
! Comet A, Mav 1st, ami Prof. Schaoherle, of j
; Ann Arbor. Mich., Observatory, Comet C, ;
, July 14, each thus winning the prize. Comet l
H, or the Great Comet, burst suddenly on the j
i sight in this country in June, though it was
j first seen in South 'Africa May 21st, anil its
appearance was predicted near Ma Aur't'jrr j
I for .Tune 2".d last, this prediction being ex- j
! actiy fulfilled. Comet It wis neither tHe
; sconio nor unexpected, and yet I was anx-
j ions, could the first discoverer be found, to '
; make a special award or1 J'joo. Nearly .t,0"0 :
' letters claiming priority have been received j
i and examined, but Director Swift reports
; that no conclusion can be reached that would
be scientific and satisfactory. This was a
! disappointment to myself and the claimants,
" oer to encm.rag , ,r as v
popular astronomical study, I tcg t
?? P of f" to the person ,
I nited States or Canada who shall pr
but in order to encourage, so far as possioie,
to an-
in the
prepare
the bet essay on "Comets : thir C'omposi
tiou. Purpose, and Effect upon the Earth. " on
the following
conditions :
1. The essay inutbe written in plain lan
guage, each technical term to be defined in
brackets immediately following, and must
not exceed 3,000 words.
2. Erich essay must be signed with a now
de f.lvme and a sealed enve'ope must ac
company the essay superscribed with the
now o plume and containing the real name
of the author.
:t. All the essays must be filed with Dr.
Lewis Swift, Director of the Warner Obser
vatory, Rochester. N. Y., by November 1,
lHSl.and he will submit theni to the judges.
With the hopo that this prize will produce
valuable additions to popular astronomical
literature. II. II. Warnf.k.
Rochester, X. Y., Sept. T, isxi.
The Mich ic as Calamity. Saturday 1
night in the fire-swept district of Michigan
was the most horrible since the flames broko
otit. To the sufferings of the homeless pen- I
pie were added the tortures of cold and rain.
Until then the days bad been hot and the j
nights wi.rm, and those of the homeless j
thousands who could find no covering but I
the sky were rot compelled to bear up i
acainst the depressing influences of cold. !
Saturday night the sun went down envelop- 1
ed in clouds and a cold w ind began blowing. I
Uefnre nine o'clock it began to rain, and for ,
several hours the water came down in tor-
rents which would have checked the de- I
srruction had the rain come five days sinuiei i
and saved many lives, but which "now only
wet the sufferers to the skin and left therii
.shivering in the raw night air. i
The scarcity of food may be imagined :
when it is stated that the representatives of :
the Ifrraid who have been sent to the burn- !
ed district have had tc. rely entirely on what
they could take with them. Almost the
only staple crop there is wheat, and now is I
the seeding time. Fifty thousand bushels j
of grain must be scattered over the burned
district in ten days or next year no crop can '
be id lained. Every steamer which can be i
obtained has been pressed into the service to '
carry supplies, and tvery train over the lit- ;
tie narrow guage railroad through the conn-
try has been loaded in the same way.
In reviewing the losses the welcome word
"insured" is found to be modified to an ex- !
tent which makes it worthless by the fact
that such insurance is in mutual companies, !
the stock in which is owned to a large extent
by the sufferers themselves. :
A Fiert Otuvr..-The Westphalia papers
give an account of a terrible catastrophe
which occurred in the northwestern part of
that province on the ISth ult. '1 here has
been for some time, in operation in the
neighborhood of Solingen, not far from liar
men, a strange phenomenon. A part of the
soil of a hilly heath became excessively hot,
so much so that some people living close by
availed themselves of 'the heat for domestic
purposes. The explanation suggested was
that some inflammable subterranean gas, or
perhaps petroleum, had ben accidentally
set on fire. Some water had been brought
to the spot by an artificial channel: but its
contact with the burning soil had only pro
duced violent explosions, which seemed to
i shatter nil the ground around. Yesterday
; week some persons drove out in a carriage
; from Remseheid to inspect the spot. When
i arrived at a distance of a quarter of an Eng
: rish mile, they heard a strange, rumbling
noise, which so terrified the horses that they
1 had to alight, and send the carriage back
1 some distance. They walked on, discussing
the likelihood of any danger, when suddenly
a space of the hiflside, about 100 metres
. square, opened, disclosing a gulf of liquid
! hre, and throwing up flames. The house
! where the family mentioned above lived was
at once surrounded by the flames, and was,
i before tjieir eyes, swallowed up in the liquid
j fiery caldron at their feet, apparently feed
j ing the flames. It is known that several
I persons were in the house ; none were saved,
j but it has not been ascertained how many
I peiished. Andon Times.
GooD Advick from a Leaping Medi
cal Professor. The learned doctor says :
"Keep some kind of a tonic medicine always
In the ho.ise, and if anyone feels unwell,
make free use of it. Rut first be sure that, it
is both harmless as well as meritorious.
us wilI ' VmpT neiti,e; i
partial to any remedy that pro,I, ces a severe
, .hartic (Ji ' i i,r..V
rut no trust in alcoholic preparations ; their
i cathartic effect, for prostration of the ner
! vous system and digestive orcrans is sure to
follow, l he mildest and best medicine ever
invented for strengthening every part of the
body and restoring impaired or lost orcranie
functions to their normal condition, and one
which is havin.e an unparalleled and rapidly
Increasing snle in the Eastern States, is
Brown's Iron Hitters. Any draeeist will
nwmnra if frr iwiii if rnn ruciiiofit him si
so, especially when he finds that you cannot
lwi Tr 11 fi 1 tsrl ti tu Ira onma en Ticfir nra If
It
does not. contain alcohol, and is the only
preparation of Iron that cures headache nnd
eeies not blacken the teoth. It is a sure re
viver, a true strenirthener, nnd the very best
medicine ever invented for permanently
strenctheninR the pulmonary, urinary nnd
dip;e;stiv orcans, and preventing consump
tion, kidney diseases and chronic dyspepsia,
often curing these diseases when all other
remedies have failed ; for it is truly nature's
best assistant." Gazette.
Mrs. Mary Sanders and her son John
were arrested at Waupun, on the Erie and
Pittsburg Railroad, on Thnrsday night,
charged with the murder of Thomas San
ders, the husband and father, in a family
quarrel. Thomas was struck on the head by
either the wife or bod, the blow causlcij
def.tu iu t'?u uiicutes.
NEWS AND OTHER NOTING!.
lamfnll Is the name of a Colorado town.
Lightning completely stripped a hoj; of
its skin in Richmond, Mich.
To sick, colicky, crying babies give P
ri sa; never any other medicine whatsoever.
Two hundred soldiers lately took the
pledge at Alder-shot after an eloquent ad
dress from Cardinal Manning.
The wreck of a vessel at Frankfort, on
Lake Michigan, with a los of 150 lives, was
reported at Cnicaco on Monday.
George noover, aged 11, who shot and
killed his sister Lottie, near Sunbnry. last
May. has leen convicted of manslaughter.
Three sisters were married in one wed
ding in St. Louis. There were eighteen
bridesmaids, and the guests fil.ee1 a large
nail.
Sergeant Mason, who fired at (iiiiteau
on Sunday, will not be tried by court-martial
and the ciyil authorities have taken no
action ns ret.
Kentucky is to have a mushroom farm
in its Mammoth Cave. It is safd there is
room enough to produce a million pounds of
musrooms dnilv.
A girl received a reward of $10 from her
father for climbing a church steeple at Sara
nac. Mich., standing on the knob, and cheer
ing lor Cot. Ingersoll.
A Connecticut maniac's belief is that he
is divine, and therefore has a right to ride
free on railroads. lie tries to kill conduc
tors who deny his claim.
Nothing so good for Headache and Dys
pepsia ns Dr. M ETTA PIPS HEADACHE
AM) DYSPEPSI A PILLS. Price 26 cents.
All Progirists sell them
Wm. It. Mann, the widely-known sta
tioner, died at his country residence in nd
donfield, X. J., on Wednesday evening of
last week, aged sixty-seven years.
Lightning killed Thomas M. Donctass,
near Agate, Col., recently, tearing his
clothes into narrow strips, " destroying his
boots, and melting his watch and chRin.
Frederick Schuman, aged 12 years, and
another boy about the same age were in
stantly killed by a train on the Pennsylvania
, uaiironn, at jersey City, on Monday even
( ing.
The owner of a large cranberry farm at
1 Berlin. Wis., employ a hundrd girls, and
j he promises to marry the one who picks the
' most berTies;this season, providing she wants
j him.
The Ilarrisburg correspondent of the
I Xew York .s'iiu having charged Orange Xo
ble with being a stockholder in the Standard
j Oil Company, the Erie Dispatch refutes the
j charge.
; Matt Chapman, one of the men arrested
on suspicion of being connected with the
Chicago and Alton train robbery, has made
a confession ami given the names of his ac
complices. Iloyt Brothers, of Equinunk, Wayne
county, have just completed a tannery at
Morris with a capacity of a thousand sides
of leather a day and employing three hun
dred men.
A traveller was lately killed on an English
railroad bv his own portmanteau, which he
had placed on the rack above and opposite,
and which in the collision struck him with
fatal force.
The Xew York Titn fP.en.1 thinks
"the committee which drafted the platform
of the Republican State Convention .f I'enn-
sy lvania seems to have been sorely puzzled '
to find anything to say." " '
Lightning struck a calf, at Newport,
Me., that was covered with black and white i
spots. Every white spot was singed, even I
to the taking off of the skin, while not a Pair f
of the black spots was injured. !
A ten mile riding race at Des Moines. I
; la., Thursday, between Miss Pinneo, of
! Colorado, and Miss Curtis, of Kansas, was ;
J won by the latter in 2im. lis. Thirty thou-
t sand people witnessed the race. j
j A lamp exploded in Wm. Carley's house j
j in West Middletown, Washington county, j
, on last, Friday night, throwing the nil over :
I Mrs. Carley, and burning her to death. Her
; husband was also burned severely. ,
Daniel Watson, colored, beat hi" wife's i
i niece in a shocking manner at Tallahassee, !
: Fla., on Thursday, and then cut the girl's '
i mother's breast open. He was pursued by j
; a party, who shot him. killing him instantly. t
j Mrs. Ren ton Hammond, r.f Evansbure. !
Crawford county, was crszed by the death of J
, her husband and fired the house and attempt- i
ed to kill herself and four children with an i
, axe. She was discovered and her attempt j
: frustrated. j
Five women and three men, snhl to be 1
connected with a band of robbers who have
j blown open over fifty sifes within the las': I
I two years, have been arrested in Denver, 1
j Col. "Over f.l.ooo worth of plunder has been !
' recovered. !
The parties who robbed the old man '
Connors of several thousand dollars in gov- t
; erment londs at Catfish, Clarion county, j
f some months ago, were recently convicted I
and sentenced to seven years each in the I
: penitentiary. 1
A train on the She i:y vine branch of the j
Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Short- '
Lin? Railroad was precipitated into Floyd's
i Fork Creek, near Anchorage, Kv., on Pri- :
; day, and eight persons were killed and many
; others injured.
j Senator Sawver ha presented his son
j with two hundred ane fifty square miles of
j land in the St. Croix Valley, north of Hnd-
son, Wisconsin The price paid by Mr.
Sawver was one dollar per Acre, or $iuo,ooo
for the whole var tract.
Helena Fargns. acred eight years, nt-
tempted to rescue a younger child from the
' wheel of an ice cait at Providence, R. I., on
! Saturday morning. She succeeded in doing
j so, but lost her own life, falling under the
j wheels, which crushed her head.
At a colored dance at Esperanza. Miss.,
on Thursday night, Hester .Femes became
Jealous, mid. drawing a razor from her pock
et, catved Martha Price and Susan Wilson to
death anel seriously wounded Patrick Crow
der. Threats to lynch Jones were rife.
Ten thousand homeless persons in Mich
igan in cemsequence of fires, appeal to the
charitable wit b lrre.sista.ble force. Short, of
the bettlefield Jin such sickening sight has
ever met the eve as witnessed over the deso
lateet thousand square miles in Michigan.
Dr. C.eo. W. Book waiter, "f Ansonia,
has been arrested by agents of the secret
service at Union City, Ind., with about f 5,
roo ;n counterfeit two and a-half and five
elollar gold pieces in his possession. The
coins hre a very good counterfeit, and well
calculated to deceive.
Malachi White, of Middletown, Bucks
county, has recently sold a walnut tree
standing in his garden which Is supposed to
have bean planted bv John Woolston in 1728.
Tlie tree was twenty feet in girth and nine
teen feet, to the first limb, which was nearly
three feet in diameter.
Edward Cole, of Xew York, was shot
by Emanuel (iundaker. of Lansaster, Pa. in
the bar-room of the City Hotel, on Sunday
evening. The ball tooic effect in the neck.
Inflicting a probably fatal wound. Cole had
caused trouble between (iundaker and his
wife, (lundakor was arrested. 1
Dennis Shaw was shot and killed on I
Saturday night bv Jeremiah Ilarrigan nt !
Hockessin, about nine miles from Wit ruin at-
ton, Del. Harrigan, who keeps an unlicens- j
ed'groggery, in the hitter place, is in custody !
and ac'mits the shooting. There was jeai-
ousy between the men on account of Harri
gan's wife.
The Democratic State Committee of
Massachusetts issued a call or, Mondiv for
the State con"ontion at Worcester. October
5 th. A committee was appointed to nre-
pare and forward to Mrs. Garfield resolutions
j of sympathy from the Democratic! party of
I Massachusetts with her wounded and suffer
ing husband
An Illinois farmer declared that his
daughter didn't earn her salt. She retorted
that; she would he glad to stand on the same
footing as tier hired help. He consented,
signed an agreement, and soon forgot nil
about it. That happened five years ago.
Xow the girl sues for wages, and gets a ver
dict Of $rKK.
Two more of thesnspeeted Missouri train
robbers were taken into Independence on
Friday night. They cave the names of
Charles Fisk and William Stillwell. and
loudly asserted that they were innocent.
It is expected that all the rest of the robbers
will be captured, as their names have been
disclosed by Chapman one of the first arrest
ed. Andrew Plagnor, of Iouisville, was 4.
His practice for many years was to read hK
Bible two hours every Sunoay morning, and
work hard all the rest of the day making
wooden spoons, which he peddled during the
week. He lately became convinced that be
was a Sabhath breaker. His offence see-m-
! ef1.' nim enormous, and iie drowned hirn
1 v
It. is said that startllne facts have been
discovered in settling np the. estate of the
late A. A. Stewart, of Greensburg. It was
! supposed be left a fortune of fc.TO.ono to
! f 100,000. It is now reported the estate is in-
! solvent, and that the money of clients hns
I not been accounted for. It is believed Mr
j Stewait committed suicide to escape the dis-
P. ' '- ' . ' . .i -ii . .
Gen. Ambrose K. Bnrnslde died at his
home in Bristol, R. I., on Tuesday Inst., after
a very brief illness, in the fiftv-seventh year
of his age. He is best remembered ns the
successor of Gen. McCle-llan in command of
the Army of the Potomac in the autumn of
1862, and by the defeat he suffered in Decem
ber of that year nt tu hlewiy battle of Fied
erickshurg. At the time of his death he was
a member of the U. S. Senate from Rhode
Island, of v.b'cu StaVs h? Jjd formerly beeu
Goveruor.
Fere mlah Mahany died at Lis home, em
the road leading from Peittsville to Frack
ville. on Saturday night, at the repafi age
of 11 1 years. A lthough he had heen n resi
dent of Ametiea lor an ordinary lifetime,
Jerry never spoke r.r.v language hut Irish,
nis wife, who claims "to be l'"3, also speaks
Irish and not nlng else The old couple ha ve
raised a large family. The oldest boy is 75.
An incident of recent occurrence at El
mlra, X. Y., furnishes a fine opportunity
for moralizing. There is & ftirl in that city
who competed in an exhibition of female
loveliness, and won the first ptiz- by per good
looks. The triumph hns proved more than
she could bear. It has turned lirr Fiend, and
now she Is a enndidnte for adiriiton torn
insane nyylurn. All is vanity, saith the
preacher.
The Grand Jury ef Payette county on
Friday last retnrned true bills against the
sever Molly Magnlres charged with the mur
der of Maurice nealy on the 20th ef Jnne
last. The principals in the murder are al
leged to have teon John Kune, who was
committed withont bail. Pat Dolan, Mike
Dolan and James McFarland, while three
others were necessaries. It is net yet deter
mined when the trial will take place.
A report was received In Sedaha, Mo.,
on Sunday last, that two heavily armed and
masked men entered the town of Rates City,
on the Chicago and Alton Railroad, about
seven miles east of the Blue Cut, the scene
of the late train robbery, and drawing pis
tols and firing, began an indiscriminate pil
lage of the town. The people offered no re
sistance anel the reibbers seen, to have taken
what they wanted. The amonnt of booty eb
tained is"not stated.
A gang of tramps, numbering about
seventy-five, boarded a freight trsin on the
j Pennsyivnnla Railroad, below Middletown,
I on Sunday morning, and threatened the crew
with violence' if they did not allow them to
i ride. A special train nnd posse of eflicers
! wers dispatched to tho scene from Harrii
! burg. Twentv-one r.f the tramps were ar
' rested and taken there the same evening.
I They are suppesed to be a portion of the
1 gang who have noeii robbing nnd burning
i houses and barns in Lancaster county.
The steamer Cedumbia. of the North
Eastern line, foundered off Franklin, Mich.,
j at TI o'clock Saturday night and fifteen per-
j sons were drowned. 1 he nonies eT ine c.p-
fain, first and second engineers. Miss Fitz-
perald, and a voting man unknown have
I come ashore. The steamer was heund from
j Chicago to Ca!lmrwoed, Canada, grain-la-!
den. She sliifteel her cargo aliout 10:45, and
! sank fifteen minutes after. The passengers
j and crew got away from t'e vessel in small
'. boars, but the one containing the captain,
j engineers and others capsized.
William Brown, George W. Padgett and
Patrick McGowan. whites, nnd Abel and
j Amos Manley, Creek Indians, were hanged
! at Fort Smith, Ark., on Friday morning for
i murder. The execution, which was private,
' took place in the oM military fori. While
i on the way to the scaffold Brown fainted,
but was speedily revived. Eich prisoner
; acknowledged his cni.f. As the cap was
; placed over Padgett ' head he cried "We
I five die e.n the scaffold this m.-iriing, but
! we'll meet again in henvon this evening. "
! The signal was then given and the trap was
i sprung. The white men tlieet instant 'y, but
! the Indians writhed convulsively and a
: stream etf blood pushed fiern Amos Mauley's
; mouth.
j A passenger train on the Chicago nnd
j Altem Railroad was steipped and re.l.hed by
, masked highwaymen, f uir miles east of In
I dependence, Mo., on Wednesday night ef
j last week. The express safe was rifled and
j the pas$cngers robbed of money and watch
; es to the amount of several thonsand dollars.
1 It is lelieved the express safe did not con
, tain more than f.;no. Trie express messen
! ger. Fox, was hadlv beaten by the ruffians,
t After securing their plnnder. the whole job
i e-cupying about a quarter eif an hour, the
! roblw-rs rede e(T to the woexts. It is believed
! their leader was the leafier in the rf.hlwry of
i the Chicago and itnek Island train at Wins.
I tern, on July 17th. The train was stopped
! by eibstrnctions and a reef lartem on the
j track. As soon as the alarm was given by
i the train at Kansas City, posses of men went
1 In pursuit of the highwaymen, and it is re
I ported that six of theni have been captured,
j The Governor of Missouri has issued a pro
j clamation calling on the people "to rise en
masse and exterminate the robbers.
j II Kevkti. Messrs. White A Burdi. k,
i Pruccists, Ithaca. X. V : I can recommend
' Klv's Cream Balm to relieve all persons snf-
ferine with Hose Cold and Hiv Kever. I
: have been a creat sufferer front the same
j coniT'laints: have had ereat relief by usinc
: the Balm. I ha ve recomaiended it to man
) of my friends for Catarrh, nnd in nil cases
' where they have n--ed the T.altn freeiy have
i been cored T. Kknnev, Drv irevs Mcr
; chant, Ithaca, N. V., Sept. t, l$t.
j fit. A. I.. Atkrt. rharmacit. Vewnrk,
' S.J.: Ilavine been severely af!ifed for elev
j en years with Ifay Fever, Jtfter trying al
' most every thine withont. avail, I cave nr ail
; hopes f beitm enreil. when I purchased of
I yon n hex of F.'v'x Cream Halm. To mv
! surprise, after a few app'tciitions. I nn en-
tirelv relioved II. W.usov MHP.IS. Letter
; Carrier. No. 14, New H. (., Newark, N. J.
. Trice .r.n cents. For sale at the new druc,
store, Ebensburii.
I ItoRFTiT Wilt iam and his wife, who live
' near Whitmill, in this eonnty, says a Dan
' ville (Vs.) despatch of Friday, had a quar
rel yesterday and the wife went to a masis- ;
trate and obtained a warrant for her hns- j
i hand's arrest. The maci-trate appointed j
; Williams's own son as n special eonstab'e to ,
1 execute the warrant. On his arrival at Wil- i
' Harris's house with the warrant. Williams's
dead body was found lyine in the yard. His
j head had liecn nearly severed from the body
i with an axe, which was tvinn beside it.
i Williams had been killed bv his daughters,
. who had fled after committing the murder, ;
nnd have not yet been arrested. Williams
j was an educated man, ef goenl family, but
', was aeidieted to drink-.
A Hkntfickst Action The worn look
and miserable feelines of those closely con
fined in milis or at desks or work tables, are
caused by weak stomach, kidneys or bowels,
and show the necessity foi some mild tonic to
build them up- N"o one need suffer thns who
will use Parker's Gineer Tonic : for without
intoxicatine it has such n beceficient action
on these sluirtriih ortrani and so cleanses the
poisonous matters from the system, that rosy
cheeks and pood health and spirits are soon
broucht back acsto. Erpress. See adver
tisement, and bnv the n.edicine at the new
drugstore, Eiensburs;. -22.-lm.J
I A new pncT has arisen in Chicaso, whose
; members call themselves Overcomeis. They
assume Ui have a peculiar inheritance in the
i promises which were made to the seven
j churches of Asia, claim to work miracles,
! nnd believe in the salvation of all, even the
', devil ; but many will first have to pass thro'
; purcatorv. Their leader and some of their
most advaneeel saints nre said to be em tbir
j wa to Jerusalem to inaugurate the new dis
j pensatieui.
Chotcb Kxtkacts rnoM Druggist?.
"We know the value of malt, hops, calisays
and iron composins "Malt Hitters." "
"Our lady customers hiirhly praise them."
"riiysiciaos prescribe them in this town."
"The larcest bottle nnd best medicine."
"Hest blood purifier on our shelves."
"Our best people taUe Malt Hitters "
"Sure cure for chills and liver diseases."
A Tot-so man employed at the Palo Alto
car shops, who was told to carry a piece of
an iron enr bumper down stairs, rn Friday,
thought to save himself some hard work bv
throwine it out of a second-storv window,
ratriok Casey, an ehi man restdine in the
Orctiard, was passjne at the instant nnd was
struck on the hip hy the falling irem and
seriously, if not fatally, injured.
Anhwfr This QrEsneN.-Why elo so
many people we see around us seem to pre
fer to suffer nnd be made miserable by indi
pestton, constipation, diz2tnes. loss of appe
tite, eominjr np of food, yellow skin. etc..
when for 75 ets. K. James." Tlrnegist. F.bejrs
bure. Ta., will sell them Shiloh's Vi'aliter
whieh is guaranteed to cure In every in,
stance? 4-l.-e.o w.'lv.
Tekhence Connki.i t, the sick faster nt
Newton, N, J., has entered upon the. seven-ty-thir
1 day of his fast, th first 4? rtnvs of
which not a spoonful of foed in unv form.
liquid or solid, was taken. Since-then, for
tlie last thirty day, hp hns taken from two
to three teasooonruUof linniil fwwl nunomL
j
I
ly heef tea daily, but nothingolsfl except w
ter.
Silver Creek, N. Y., Feh. 6, ism.
Genu : I hv been very low, nd liavw tried
everytMnj; to no ndvantae. I heard vour
IIop Bitters recommenced bv ao many, I
poncludtd to elve them a trial. I did. 'and
now am around, and constantly 1 in pro vine,
and am nearly as strong as ever. W. II.
Weller.
'
Tjftflten, fur thone flitreiij mm
plalnfn tn trilrh joti are mttbfect,
ii Dr. raust'8 German Aromatic
Wiite l-T:'M.-:r.j
u (Tinn.plnn.
Th followitiff extract from J.:.lg t.v k
reply to Rob lngerv.il 'ir' that h" Hi
vigorous n .IcfcT.tier f the Christian ie:igi.ji
i os he is of the DnoTiti' party :
i ' lrt w,nt k :t..l r,: a irr-r'. t !!: . n '.t
Hcip!cs cf e iirlt nrj'lert-.-- to r:'-ru It, r, 1
i c.tnp..ro It with :h ".nditK-n in whfh tl:tr
' tra'lif-ri Jure j ct !t. In lt n..'nhir ire-'--ro'! ,
; the ccrtrc of V Intellect nsl tJ!l p MM? 1 iwr.
the lrt ten wrrc i.-. Mel's! to i-f? po (Wi.-'.r;.;
that 1 coil. I fK-t rim liutio tu thctft l!;iu.'.t ? :i-
Inif tt- t'' J 'r 1 ;lc nj.'.n. All Tr.::cri'T ct
principle;! !'!:'' tpc wa p:it .'-cii 1 1. 'l:r ;.ri . ji n
file of lliff wij'ile iiuiiit )! itliout c T)-citnnt
rr Pheine, nr.d tbo nmTl--trt-i wrr l.VTonjjl.lr
nd nnlvcrn!.T ewrcpt. H'ref"i"Os In erf
nLftpe wis K'jr'tr ur.knc.wn. I be cipi-
! nnu the vokIc v t r-iti cr j'i:co rcr f.fv
i Tricre . nt' r:tl f . r tl r.'-ir, . urs-r P-r tho
I t:ck, bo rtluK" fur trie uof.rt,!nnt;. Jn nil .i?in
! ilum Iheto wa n-.t io-ital. .'uir.. l'.u,s-h-niso.
or criranlr.-J ch-irttT of r.y kin 1. 1 re la
' Iiflrnco t- hnran l.fe a per e'-ny fr.aliOil.
: The urjor of a auc'.'sJol !eil..r to (aiojte t
; opK)t!mt5 i iilV) cbyeJ by Ml lul owtn
' with the ctrnon a".a:rUT t:l i.ieieure. It wn
a fp(y:l amu-cment of "the pcuuincc to flltni?s
the fl ow at which wcr. wr ct'OiprileJ 'o kl'l or;
another, to he P rn to plef-s I x wild !.e:t. it
otherwise "butchered to make a l:nino lif.Hnny."
In every province j.acanijm er.nctcl the ame
r.l1i.l"iiJc.i crucin..; rpiirei'O n.l robherr
ruled supreme ; timr It wed rumpnfc-in ni. l r l
over ell the earth. Ihe (Tmrrh cnm. at:d ht-r
lifrtit penclrute I this moral dnrkne." likt-a rcw
uu. .She ccvircd the Kion wirh iiiM:nit!.'nr.
rvcrcy, fcnd tl.oTjutid upon thfl-aii'tf ot her !
ciple (levt.'i'il t!icni.elvc cxWueiv.-!- t workf i.f
I charity at the nr: ( nl every esr'hly latrreft.
! Her earliest aliicretila wire k:ilf 1 without re
! mor?e beheaded, crucified, totn o--order. thr-jwn
; to wild hen.-ts. or covered with p'tcti. piled tip In
s treat heap?, hi..! liowly hnrned .ienth. Jtut
. her faith w node perh-ot thrn'itrh HT'!crina and
j the laws of love roe in triumph Irom Th r.al.ei of
her irartvrn. Thii" rtllirtun has come down to tin
throu-irh the asret, amended all the woy t y ritfht-
eotinr. instice. temperance, mercy, tr.npnrertt
truthiiltie!n, exuPinir hope, nnd whirr winded
charitv. Never itst It" lnf!unde 'or ir ! more
plainly percept tile than ti. It In ret convert
ed. puriTied, atiri reformed n!i men, for i. fir-t
principle ! the frcrdotn of the human wl:I, ard
there ice thoe who rl.oo-e te r-j-t it. K :t to the
ruanfl of tcai.kind. dir-c:!y and lroiirctly.lt hai
t.roui;ht nneonr.trd h'r:nir. Atu'.lh it fake
! away the r?trnius which It Itnpo'cg or.-r'lpa?-:
lion silence the adnionit'onp of it preacher?
' let a 1 Christian ceac their la.or ot chary
I I. lot out front hi.'t .ry the re vrJ of iti heroic t
i nevolence repeal tl-e l,.w It I; a enn"ted an t trre
I ititut.,r. u
: lx"' JV"j'
Ima runt up let it irv.rai prin.-i-
rr. and all it nilraclei of lltht !
niEUi-hed what w.m::! we cy?ne to? 1 reed
not answer thi. qyc.-'km : The experiment he.?
been piirtniKy tnej. The I'r-'ti. h ration f .rmsl'iy
renounced e " f in -t ia n ity, drnf 1 tr.e exitnre o
the Supreti e iicinir. and o nti?fi"d the hunger f
The iiito'.'i tifri lor a time. What (ol'owr.t .
I'rilverpl !rprr.i-ity, u.irn.p'itl r- lied in bloc-'l.
fantastic crlno nu: nmu !nc 1 t.efor". which Hart
led the rath witb th-ir uh lrne tiiry -ity. TLe
American pe jve have nnd 'ijlit to have no peo
lal deire to foilow the terrible example o! i :i'.t
and misers.
A SiNcri.AK Cei KSTiAi. Phenomenon.
The sky, viewed frm this place to-tiicht,
i cays a !Iat;ove-r fS. II.) fli-patch e.f tin- 12U;
! prcs-'nt-ed a Jbiziilar appcarnnce. of hi h
ttie foPeiwinn descripi'ron is furnished by C.
: F. Ktneron. Professor of Asttonomy" at
j Dartmouth Cctlei: :
I "A hand of yellow Jurht from . tn lf decree in
1 width and j:iiT- uwr.rm tl.r iiihoit m-fi Im
! fr' iu a:.- at -'o d ;r-ee iirrh of wert To d-L-e"S
! fhicli ( I i:!sr. i!,vM.k.- ij- ,. -ven .no. o ir'.'ifra
i and pou'hein t -d !.. it !':rt l.f l. and
two-f.lths re-p.-ct i vly. I: !ret.on wt a'mott
at riaht mi:!'" ::ii ti.e ?1 Iky Wit. A vy
! distinctive J. a t u r w:i t ' e r- a i :.i r un l d'd;n;e:V
Biarkrd n..ritirn 'oin.'ary. 1 rai r. uc'il 15
t P. V. it i.'in.itm -1 eoT.-iprtr.jt ve'y I xed At 5 wi
i ocl-ck if we t oT i ,trnr h oiith . jf i :o,uslly
, di:ip;-e:,r'tiir. .!u-T r..i;:h -,d eni ot t o.. rr-.--. t.
: ot T iie st re:i mer irtli TV Ml!;v Wjy W"r.' t.-Ti.-r
i twelvo hr.e- of lieht . 1 nt r nl.t me.-i". w :t h ' he
' atreaioer. hit .-"i-srt. 1 thr-e or lour d-irr.-e
1 front it and ueariv pam hl i e:e-ii orb'-r. 1 i-ee
j liateN wre live o;-. ix e"ree. i r, p-Oiii. loir.c
' thl? tin. e thc-r were la.i t ir-ohorn iiaht ftratn-
fn up at rlalit snte te the lu.d ""
The sunn wotidcrf.vl phenomenon, as will
be jfcn by the fiitrw ;nt! destintehe?. wa
w itnessed at Jrarat-iua rii.d I'ti' a X. V.
Sapatmo, S'-t'tf'!,.,"-r ,r. -tier ?,L'i,ii,e at-
; mipph.-ri.- l ire-n-.n -a .is v.:r...-, 1 it t
o'clo.-k to-ii :k h t . A ltiT!,i:i-o: cio i l !-vinr.ft'l the
tent ih trein the p-aMrrn ' " wr-t-m I . ri.' u-
It ffiii al.oiit it., d e-r. , .i w , . I ; 1 1 . s r. ! u' no : ine
J ma fo d.-rf1 l.it t I; ; r tflr- could e s'-f-n
I through IT. The : mil : .'il ffiea l.t'tcd ti. rtv
; or f. T' y tu : t uTeQ . .a r. .1 w .a w ; : 'o r s-d I y riiriin ii
i of people fr-. in the icc.trc i-f t",e ttrc?: aud Irorn
j the lioti'c to
. Itica. N . V.. Setdenfee 1 1 A c-lc.tia! lie
j notjieoon wes w:i..-rj u .-r to-n-.ht at-
tracted tr-H attention. A tnlc-l i t'll tit-....
1 in the no-th :iu l ot iv-l to Th.- Z'.n-tli. v.ien !t
J (.panned t'-e bv fr"ri the tasfcTTo ih" r- .' -rn
; horiron. 1 he :-aterti n l thn u-v-l-d in" j or.
j tionn l:kt ii t ci-oi.!. ni-iviiv rnpidly mwar lf
: the hps! until the who!.. ,:.snpi-r.tred n I.-i.il ili-
ret'on. Ti.c b-i:.d d rteit.l m : n aie-crnld-.
phay in thjt the i tt, re i.:ir--ly -Itr: ned. a nd
th.it when M e i, ind brike up 1 1. 1 'fi in 'tic form
-f whiir loiniTi..u clou.it. Zt w .a toiiiiht Ly
1 porre fhnt n r .-i.u:o:i h-lt .Ka I !".ihcd 11. e ur'.'i s
an io-p::e-o.
iuAvi v vrD Lift: ; yv- r .ve r '' ' e
lowing dNp.itch from cra"- ,.i tie
lnt., 'ells i't o'.vii eixerac-tf n! ste.ry :
A nu'MiuTol aivt.ipri Ineiiinrrp a.3'ii ter-
f 1.
a I: l
detective- tr-ni d;t:int part of fie
bftcn her,, for the p ist iw day, isn-s
eral c.ace-i ifdcah v hieli have rece-i
ceiitly r;'pyrte l from the MiMir1-? h.r
: Staoj have
; a a : i r. if p c v -".v
lj..-e:i rc-
t'te p-.irro-e
of rC'-cvt-ri u th" i.moonr . f the p:ilu-e I
.1 l.y
?-.e-"ul it r-i. T hey have .-i.-rt-i !-i th-it a .
ppiraev w.a f f-o:c.l in (liyi hunt, five rni'.-it
m
th : "ity. to cri the iri-Tr-m-e c4. .fi.. :fe.f a nt.
leet wh i : ;1 i.rve. ci;d who-o- ,.-aih w:i- xtu
larlv repor-rfi nt :e nouie
;: e :
number
: .. o.
wer i:im
e v-l! .C U
I'.eaie i f !
o i:i tl o
rift
r 1 ne purti
had fhc!.
1 ti
o rn.f:
h w.- -!
n -j r.
. r-iril
held niid the ct:
hv a phv. --an v. ;
lator. " A f;aw ti
pr-
Mivpi.'ioi.s o! the "ui.-iil. an t
likely to r-.'i:li in trie aTre-st
: n v
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A a
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en1, when ,-oin- .-j i -y :l:--.-l s ir
concern t:.r :l-e uietl.t-i ef I1
hliris; in l-i.itnn 1 1 1 .. A r
afcrent ci ti. ip: city di-T'-i-d .-!
to $iK.Kj.tK.s in t'lil.-.Tu-. h'St wc
nil reeil nt- .-.I t'hi'-oro, nnd
daily expect' d.
p. , y 1" r ;n-"t ed
sp h" are ctm
... e .a ri ii: .-: "ir.. i ce
i - a Hi-.': n 1 1 c
I fie iito.-.-t nre
th-.7 u-a-!;? ere
Hi- lilmo Iloti'l,
N
and Hill Ai-oli Street,
PlllhADl.I.HHIA.
Hates 1 1lu'oil t JrvJ.oe -ppv 1 h v.
The tra veil nir pi-.t-dse will f till hud at thl H'-tel
the au e liberal provi-i-.n t-..r their cotn..rt.
located in the i n. n'.e.i i.' t r. of bn-in-P!
1; is
and
fimuemrnt. an I the d'ftTft Kail Hosd rtepoif.
m" wel! nil parts ..I the .-ity. are .-.! a. c-ti
liv triet e:ir eonM :i lit 1 p.L.-,l:i: the .lo-T.. It o.
fers special iti.laee:ncr.t t r tt-.-e virltin Tj.e city
f r u.-ine-- or pleHurr.
1 our patronnire
i re;e:
t ol " V iJol i r it -l .
Kt'.iEU, Proprietor,
i.-ll.
Tl IS. M
l'hiladrlphia. Nov. Ll
1HL blllbl PUPULAK
O F ALL- v
3 SEWING MAEHINESvt
V
if LIFET1 ME
- SURPASSES OTHERS
ofnsoitfapK&Bo.
33 UNION 6 3. NEW YORK
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ireit tho A-a.ieru ol Mr. !ulnn C. Sl'ort
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rutin a rcfrre-nce M v' hn s wi ! n tttm io ou
(inr f.utrtli vein utter tt.e:r"vacnti u "
Fcr new 1 lef 'ri:i irrnlnr a 1.1 rc "iWITII.
IX MIOnn.llKil , .. M.. harTaril til
veraity trrailnate. Media, I'a , 1- ltnlcf from I'M, a.
IJ At I Idea In Oac
Ml'ilunt in ufe eccrvNxi'.'a
choice it Vise cHtl-mue
of ci ripr ! -n : t ifiH".
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SIFTERS.
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