EBN3BURC. PA . FRIDAY. - - - MARCH 27, 1885. In accordance with a resolution adopt ed by the Legislature Governor Patti od has appointed Thursday, April 10, A3 Arbor, or tree planting day. For the first time in over twenty four years the rittsburg rost a few -days ago received from the Secretary of the Treasury at Washington a brief Government advertisement. This Is Dot very important news, but it shows that new men are on deck and that a new departure has been made. The New York Sun referring to the action of Mr. Lamar, Secretary of the Interior, in ordering the pleasure car riages used by his predecessors in office, to be sold and the proceeds aid into the Treasury, says that "one such ex Confederate is worth a hundred plun derers that have always been loyal." And so says the country. General Grant's condition was better on Tuesday last than for some days preyious. Inability to sleep is his greatest trouble and his physicians do not look upon his recovery as possible. The Worll says General Grant's physi cian! yielding to the wishes of his fam ily, will use extract of red clover in treating the cancer, though they simply regard it as an "old woman's remedy." The doctors and the family are over whelmed with letters of advice in which every known remedy and nostrum are mentioned. President Cleveland has accept ed the invitation of the veteraus of the fi'st nnd other corps to visit the battle fi ' f Gettysburg when they make ' ': liistorical visit there on the 4th - : of May. The leading Generals o !i armies will be present to explain th- movements of their troops during the battle, and nearly all the war Gov ernors of the States which furnished troops for that battle have signified their intention of taking part in the cer emonies. It promises to be a notable evert. The Londou Echo, a paper that is be coming quite prominent by the boldness of its utterances, takes the position that the Dublin corporation was right in de cidhig Uion sn attitude of neutrality on the coming visit of the Trlnce cf Wales to Ireland. Of Irish loyalty the Echo truly remarks : Belter far that It should take no active part In the coming festivities than to assist and deceive tne future ruler of Ireland by hollow professions of loyalty. Ireland is not loyal. Give the Irish a fair chance of success and they would tx in rebellion to morrow. We hold Ireland as we hold Kgrypt and India, by the terror of our arms. Let England be in conflict with some great pow er and onu great defeat would be followed by an Irish rising. This is strong language, but not stronger than the circumstances war rant. The appropriation of $.x),000 asked for by the Geological Commission has been cut down by lh9 Committee in the House at Harrisburg to $42,000, and the Committee has specified the localities where the money must be expended by the survey. If this is to be the last time that the Commission will vex the Legislature for an appropriation, the people will consider themselves fortun ate that the ten year's job is at last ended. We predict, however, that at the meeting of the next Legislature a new demand for more money will be made, not so large perhaps as the am ount asked for at this session, but enough to keep the work afloat for two years longer and enable the men who are engaged in it to get along comforta bly. We would like to see a published list of Democratic ex-Congressmen who have been hangiug around Washington since Cleveland's inauguration in search of office. It would really seem that when a man, Democrat and Republican alike, has served one or two terms in Congress he is impiessed with the no tion that life is not worth living for un less it be at the expense of tho Govern ment. The practice heretofore bas been that when a man was defeated for re election to Congress, he instinctively sought a Presidential appoiutment to offi in one of the Territories. The Ci i'-;go platform, Lowever, insists, and n ry correctly, that the Territorial offi ( f ! sl .-iiM not be conferred on outsiders, I -.'p iii citizeus of tne Territories, and 2.1 r. ' ieveland says that such will be his poiicy. This source of preferment be ing no longer available to ex-Congressmen, they seek high positions in the De partments at Washington. They think they are entitled to a monopoly of the offices, but Mr. Cleveland has not thus far gratified them, acd we hope he will fight it out on that line hereafter. It may now be said, we think, that neither the Congressional nor the State apportionment bill will become a law during this s ?.sion of the Legislature. They will both, no doubt, puss the two liou-" in any shape the Republican ma jority may decide upon, but Miat Gov. Fattison will give them his sanction, no sane man believes. He at least will not consent lo see the Constitution de liberately violated, however willing the Republicans may be to engago in that kiud of Legislative amusement. There is a Congressional spportionment bill before the House and one before the Senate, and the latter, the most infa mous of the two, passed secoud reading on Tuesday la?t, and will eventnally pass the House. It deprives the 100, IX i0 I emocratic voters of Western Penn sylvania of any representation in Con gress whatever, and in the eastern part of the State it violates every featute of a fair and hotest apportionment. El bridge Gerry, the father of the odious apportionment plan that bears his name, was a political saint when compared with the an' hot of this Senate iniquity, which can never pass that lody over the Goverii'jt's vtto. I Somk of the members of the Fourth, I Eighth, Fourteenth and Eighteenth Regiments of the National Guard of this State, the first two from the eastern and the last two from the western part of the State, are ia a fair way of being severely dealt with on account of their disgraceful conduct after th5 inaugura tion and just before they left Washing ton for their hemes. The Commission ers of the District of Columbia basing their action on the report of the Super intendent of Folice of Washington, have addressed a letter on the subject to Governor Fattison enclosing a copy of the Superintendent's report, and the Governor proposes to act promptly in the matter. In the report members of the regiments referred to are charged in effect with breaking into a beer depot and carrying off several barrels of beer, robbing several huckster's wagons, com pletely gutting seveial stores, wantonly destroying private property, and in one instance entering a small shop kept by a widow and driving her daughters from the house by insults. Gen. Sherman and Gen. Sheridan have pronounced the Na tional Guard of this State to be the test military organization in the country outside of the regular army, and if up on investigation these charges are found to be true the guilty parties should be drummed out of their regiments after having been severely punished, and thus prevented from ever again disgrac ing the organization as well as dishon oring the State which supports it at such a liberal, and as many people be lieve, useless expense. TfiREE or four weeks ago we pub lished the High License Bill just then introduced into the House, at Ilarris burg, by Mr. Brown, of Erie. By the the terms of the bill the additional li cense to be paid in cities of the first and second classes was $500 ; in cities of the third, fourth and fifth classes, $250, and in all boroughs and townships, $150. The Committee of Ways and Means at the close of last week reported the bill back to the House with several important amendments, acd we publish in another part of our present number the full text of the proposed High Li cense law as it is now presented to he House. We need not enter into the de tails of the bill, but refer our readers to them. By the bill as first offered by Mr. Brown the additional license in Cambria county would be $150, and by the bill as reported by the Committee and as it will come before the House for its action, the additional license in all the boroughs and townships in this county, with the exception of Johns town and two or three of the surround ing boroughs, and a!so of Lbenaljurg, will be $25. In Johnstown the addi tional license will be $150, and in Ebens- bui $50. It is not likely that there will be much delay in taking up the biii and disposing of it, but what its shape will be au-r riinniriK tl,e gauntlet of the House no man can tell. No appoiutment of a IVnnsylvanian to an important office under the general government, has ever been so heartily endorsed as that of Malcolm Hay, of Pittsburg, by President Cleveland to be First Assistant Postmaster General. Mr. Hay was not an applicant for that or any other office, never having been a place hunter, but Mr. Cleveland knew enough about him to impress him with the fixed belief that if he could procure Mr. Hay's consent to take the responsi ble post of First Assistant Postmaster General, he would secure th services of an able, upright man, who would fearlessly and firmly discharge hi? du ties, even though the heavens should fall. All the Republican papers bear willing testimony to Mr. Hay's ability and purity of character. He will prac tically control the appointment of all postmasters whose salaries are under one thousand dollars, and thf.y amount tc gOua sized army, numbering we be lieve about forty-five thousand. He has a most weighty responsibility resting upon him, but he will prove himself equal to the task. The ouly fear is that the state of his health, which is by no means robust, will not be able to bear the strain that will be imposed upon it. On Friday last the President sent to the Senate the names of the following persons as United States Ministers to the governments respect iyely ment ion ed : Gov. Robert M. McLane, of Mary land, Minister to Erance ; Edward I. Phelps, of Vermont, to England ; Geo. II. Pendleton, of Ohio, to Germany and Henry R. Jackson, of Georgia, to Mex ico. These gentlemen are all admitted to be entirely competent for the posi tions assigned them, and what is a little singular is that none of them, except Mr. Pendleton, was an applicant. Hp 1 wanted the mission to England and s ; endorsed by every Democras i- member I of the Senate. He is wealthj and ac complished and would have cut a broad i swarth, as they say, in London socie- j ty. He is said to be fond of good liv- ! ing, and whether he can stand the beer, 1 bologna, pretzels and Sweitzer cheese of i Berlin, Germany's capital, to say noth- ing of Bismarck, for four years, remains ! to be seen. Phelps is a dist ing;iistied j lawyer and has ran two or three times for Governor of Vermont; McLane is j also a very able man, and Jackson was ! Minister to Austria under the ailuimis tration of President Pierce. i Mahone's plundering crew i . Vir ginia seem3 to be badlv demoralized h- .1 almost certain to Le broken w;i. T:i patronage of the general governnier.i in that State is no longer at his di-pc tl, as it was during Arthur's term, and as ,1 that of itself was not enoug'i t !ev i ,iy his political presiige, be is now con fronted with the opposition of Govern. rr Cameron, Lieutenant Goerii i Le is. and other leading Reailjusters, or It pu diationistf in the .State, whose mm i ;.n prevent Mahone from on! rolling tip nominations for G vernor an I other State officers to le made ' y the Repub licans of Virginia during th coming summer. It will lie a bitter factional fight and no matter which side wins, the Democrats in the ( -i Dominion" urn sure to be strengthened. Milium is about the most complete specim -n of a jHjIitical demagogue hat ny State in this Republic ha- eve produce and his downfall will be hailed wi h loud ac claim bv every honest man in the coun ti v. CALL A HALT. There are a good many people in and around Hanisburg at the present time who seem to think the State of Pennsyl vania is a vast depositoiy of treasure, which is held at the disposal of every body whe cares to ask tut it. They think that the only purpose of raising revenue ia to eive it out in vast sums to any so-called chanty that thinks it has need lor it. They would taxthe peo ple of the entire State in order that soniA local eoncern may gobble up the proceeds. It is quite as remarkable that the members of the Legislature seem anxious to second ths efforts of these despoilers as far as they possibly can. Through their Comitteeon Appro priations they have already recommend ed appropriations to the extent of $3. 600.000, and it is predicted that the sum will reach fully $5,000,000 before all the returns are in. This, be it remembered, is for charitable purooses only, and al together apart and distinct from the $7, 200.0U0 which are required for the ordi nary expense sof the State, such as the cost of the Legislative and Executive departments, the interest on the pub lic debt, the needs of the finking fund, acd the appropriations to the puolic schools. As the total revenue of the Commou wealth is only about $12,500, 000, it will be seen that if these schemes go through, the State treasury will be left empty. All this, be it remembered, is being done at a time when the reve nue of State is diminishing, and during a period when her great industries are staggering under a most serious busi ness depression. With these facts be fore them, the Appropriation Committee will recommend an increase of eleemo synary aid over last year amounting to from forty to fifty per cent. The people are not in favor of this ex travagance. If their voices could be heard nine out of every ten would be lifted in protest. Surely the members of the Legislature are not ignorant of this and will not dare to disiegard the wishes of their respective constituencies. "Every district where there is a charita ble institution located of course makes common cause with every other where like institution exist, and these, united ly, present a strong front. No other demands appeal so strongly to our sym pathy as those of charity ; none are so hard to resist, but surely all must see that these are not times for extravagant and indiscriminate giving. The Legis- lature owes a duty to the people as wei; as to the appeals of charity. For the Legislature to follow the lead of its Ap propriation Committee would literally be to run the State into deb out of sen timent. The money appropriated to this purpose two years ago was very large, so large, in fact, that there can be no excuse for almost doubling the sum thi year. The issue must be met squarely aud without shirking. Fair dealing with the taxpayers of the Com menwealjh demands that their hard earned money shall not be recklessly and lavishly thrown away without their consent or against their well known wishes. The members of the Legisla ture understand this question from first to last without being told. They know what is expected of them, and they can- iiot a i Lord lo run counter to the nest in terests of the Commonwealth and the will of their constituents. Lancaster Xetc Era. ' THE EM.niTTsni'RU FIRE. ST. JOSEPH S ACADEMY DAMAGED. LOSS $50,000 COVERED BY INSt'RANtjE TliS C'OMl'LETE DETAILS. At noon on Friday last fire was dis covered in the kitchen of the building occupied by the Sisters of Charity at St. Joseph's academy, Emmittsburg, Md., and in a very short time the entire building was in flames. The greatest consternation prevailed, but as the building where the children of the acad emy were kept was some distance off, and thrt wind set the flames in an oppo s te direction, all the children ard young 1 idles were removed tc a place of safe ty. All the male inhabitants of Era niittst)ing, including the seminarians and professors of Mount St. Maiy's college went to aid t tie Sisters of Chari ty, but the means for extinguishing the fire were so limited that little could be done. Tne fire started started in what is known as the northeastern wing and is supposed to have originated from a de fective line in that portion of the wing used as a ki'chen. The roof in flames was observed by persons in Emmilts bntg, a quarter of a mile distant, and the first knowledge of the fire the in mates of the academy had was given by residents of the town. The fire was raging fiercest alout 3 o'clock. At that time the kitchen and dining rooms, forming one huildit.g, the dormitory, another building close adjoining, and the stables were all ablaze. As a number of frame houses occupied bv laborers were situated next ti the s'abtes, the attention of the fire men was first colled to that quarter, and tho ilames were soon ext inguished. When the men returned to the other two bindings it wa3 found that a third was on fire, f lie infirmary having caught from t tie flames from the kitchen. Thirty invalids who were in thisdepart meiit were removed in safety to a remote building,, and the fire in the infirmary was soon extinguished. The men then began to work from the corridors and forced the flames outward to prevent them from communicating to other buildings. The Sisters and pupils in the academy bore the excitement, well and did not break down until all danger was past. While the f'ne was in progress a larpe number of peop'e whose children wen: inmates at the insntution arrived on ih" scene. A l wer as-nired that t lie girls were safe, and seemed satis (ltd. When the 7:10 train from Balti more arrived another crowd of anxions parents were assured that their childie-i were not only safe, but not in the least alarmed. Telegrams from all over i he country, anxiously inquiring about the pupils, were received. The building known as the kitchen and d-.ning room was built in 1S50. Ii was five siories high and covered a lot 60 by 00 feet. This building was burn ed to the ground. The building adjoin ing was the sisters' dormitorv, built in 1-7:5. It is 54 by lull, and like ttie kitchen, is five stories high. This buil ding is also con-ii'iied, the bare walls alone left standing. The roof of the corridor leading to the infirmary was burned, an I the furniture in the build ing was i i'n ged by water. The Sis ters in charge of the policies state that they amoiint to about. $50 000. one ot which is i ,il)t Protective companies, of Lmdi;ii. Ttie exact origin of the fire is un known, b'lt it is supps"d to have, been cniise I bv a defective flue. There were s-ve-i y pupi'a and twen' y Sisters in the. liijtid'rig where ttie tire originated. S mo ' the former were taken home by tr- tr parents. At one o'clock the fire was mi', m-d ha f. an hour later the Fr-det- ifk fir" dermnent, which had eiriveti in tim-- to render effective ser-vic-ij pro e- og th buildings not reached by th - , returned home on a special train. There are fifty thousand roller skat ing links in this coun'ry and about Ave hundred persons engaged in making skates, who turn ! every month not far from three hundred thousand pairs. The craze. w:ll, of course, die out, but even should it not the n.dustry will be overdone. ASOTHEK GOOD APPOISTMEXT. The office of first assistant postmaster general is one that is uext in importance to a cabinet place, if indeed in some re spects it does not transcend certain of the portfolios. It deals with the post office appointments below the rank of presidential postmasters, numbering some forty thousand, and thus reaches every cross roads in the exercise of the incumbent's discretion or favor. The president has given the country a com plete surprise in sending to the Senate for this office the name of Malcolm Hay, which has not been canvassed in connection with it or any other place under the administration. It needs no introduction nor commen dation to the Pennsylvania Democracy. Mr. Hay is one of the foremost, the ablest and most popular members of his party in the State. He is a lawyer wno has never abandoned hi9 profession for politics ; he is at all times and under all circumstances a gentleman ; he has ability, courage, a high sense of honor and elevated ideas of public service. He served with distinction as a member of the constitutional convention of 1S73. He has een a very frequent and always a prominent figure in State conventions. Twice he peremptorily declined any use of his name for high honors, which on ly waited some indication of his wil lingness, to come to him by the sponta neous offer of the entire convention. He declined appointment to the most lucrative office in the State for reasons which all self-respecting men apprecia ted, and with a foresight that few oth ers possessed at tb time. It goes with out saying that his present nomination was made without any seeking or solic itation on his part, and this circum stance gives it all the more significance and makes it. exemplary of the continu ing high purposes of the administration. It is needless to inquire or speculate what influences secured this appoint ment. No Tennsylvanian who has not held federal office, and few who have, is so well known to the party of the coun try at large a& Mr. Hay. He was a member of the State delegation to the St. Louis convention in 1876, and one of the gentlemen selected by Mr. Tilden to look after a fair count in Florida in that famous electoral struggle. He was chairman of the delegatiou in the Cin cinnati convention of 1S80, and his man agement on the floor excited the admir ation which it always commands in such positions. Again in 1S84 he was chosen by the delegation at Chicago its repre sentative on the resolutions committee ; when that body dead-locked between Converse and Morrison for chairman, Mr, Hay was by common consent called to preside over it ; and to bis admirable tact and unswerving fairness the party owes the clear, conservative, but unmis takable deliverance on the tariff which enabled it to win the presidential contest. Such a Democrat needed no introduc tion to the administration : and was no stranger to its chief or its cabinet. He will take with him into an office which mainly for cool, sagacious judgment of men, the independence, the courage, the Gdelity and the discretion which the position needs, and which distinguish a strong and safe executive and counsel lor. Lancaster ZnttUijcnccr. The Lay of The Land. The ap pointments made so far by the President and the circumstances sui rounding them, indicate a few poiuts of a partial ly developed policy : 1. The Government service is to be conducted on business principles, and not political prominence and activity, but solid qualifications for the duties of the place are the essentials for appoint ment. Democrats will be appointed, but they must be capable. Public office is a public trust. 2. Big petitions, a visit to Washing ton, haunting the corridors of the de partments, and a delegation of ex-Congressmen, are not potential, but rather the leverse, other things being equal. The President lias the "resisting tacul ty." Therefore stay at home unless you can afford the luxury of live dollars a day for djspeptic diet at a Washing ton hotel. Mail your papers. It an swers every puipose. 3. The President makes no exception that all appointments must take their ! regular course in the department. There is no pstition or chum Cabinet business. 4. Incompetency, inefficiency, or an irregular life, are fatal to those holding over, and will be a bai to appointment'1. The soft snaps," otherwise sinecures, are to be abolished as fast as they can le uncovered. There will be no such tine pickings for Democrats as there have been for Republicans the last twen ty years. Sad, but true. 5. The departments are to be thor oughly renovated and disinfected. When the administration gets done with this kind of work the country will have plain proof that it is not well that oi e party should remain too long in power, acd a change of party is necessary if for no other reason to discover and remedy mere administrative abuses. There will be other signboards and danger aignals iater. Pittsburg Post. English axd Russian Forces. Russia has more soldiers aud more war ships than any other country in the world. In her standing army there are 780, 000 men, and she has 3S5 ships in her navy. It cost s $ 125,000.000 a year to keep her military establishments on their peace footing, and her military authorities say they can place 2,300.000 trained men under anus in time, of war. Thi English standing army is 12. 0o0 men. This includes the British regular troops serving in India. The English War Ofiice authorities profess to re able to put 042.000 well drilled and effective British troops in Hie field if called on to do so. This does not include the Indian auxilary forces, which would swell the I total British forces at home and abroad to over 1.000,000 of men. It. costs Eng land 590.000,000 a year to keep up its In 1S53 there were 52,000 Irish soldiers in the English army ; now there are but 31.000. In 1353 a great number of Iiishmen from the Tipperary, Armagh, Kilkenny, and other Iiish militia regi ments volunteered for active service, and were sent to the Crimea. The English navy contains 283 ships. But while the Russian navy contains more vessels than the English navy, it mjst be rememtered that England spends three times & much on hei navy as Rus f ia apends on hers. Army Appointments for Cleve- land. The present Administration w ill be a very important one for the ar- I my, owing to the number of high-rank j vacancies which will occur within the ; next four years, ani which President , Cleveland will have to fill. Brigadier- : General Angur, who is now in command ; of the Department of the Missouri, will be retired in July, 18S5 ; and in July, ' 1886, he will be followed by Major- I General Pope and General John New- j ton. Chief of Engineers, and in August j by Surgeon General Murray. Two va- : cancies will occur in the list of Briga- ! dier Generals. When General Pope is i retired General Terry or General How- J ard will succeed hiai as Major General, ' and in February, 1S88, General Han- j cock will be retired, thus prompting an- t other Brigadier to be Major General, and making a second vacancy in the Brigadier list. General Terry is enti tled to the first Major Geueralsbip va cated by Geueral Pope's retirement, but General Hancock's successor will be come the hed of the army on the re tirement of General Sheridan, ten years from now. General Nelson A. Miles w ill stand the test chance of getting it. He married the niece ot General Sherman. WASHIXUTeX LETTER. From our regular Correspondent. Washington, March 23, 18S5. The political situation lo Washington was never more interesting than it is now, but the Interest Is entirely devoid of sensation. It will be the province of history with a ret rospection of fifty years or more to portray the great ad Important changes, tbe slow, but potent revolution that Is now taking place. The observer of to-day can catch only here and there a scene and a sign in tbe progress of events as they are evolved around him. Mr. Cleveland's administra tion may not be precisely what marjy of his supporters have hoped, but their disappoint ment caDnot equal that of the supporters of Mr. Blaine, who see in tbe wisdom, tbe cau tion, and the conservatism of the adminis tration, the refutation of their predictions and tbe ruin ot their hopes. With tbe ex ception of tbe appointment of the now cele brated Mr. Uiggins, malice itself bas been able to find no fault with those who have been placed in government offices. Tbe torrent of animadversion that poor Higgins has received must strike the average govern ment employe as very absurd, for even if the worst said of him is true, it follows that he is only as bad as the thousands of others whom the party of " moral ideas " has cher ished in Iti heart of hearts for at least six teen years. Illgglns gambles, be staffs bal lot boxes, he is smart and tricky, is tbe cry of the saintly rascals who supported a man like Blaine, and men like Robeson and Belk nap, and who stole the Presidency eight years ago. Why, a large number of th Re publican employes In office now are drunk ards and gamblers, men with salaries of from $1,000 to 2,5O0 a year, who would not be trusted with five dollars, and who would be dismissed to-morrow if it were Dot for the fact that they served In tbe Union army. Te bypocrlts. First east out the beam from your own eyes, and then will you see more clearly to pull out the mote that Is alleged to have been in your brother Biggins eye be fore he was appointed to a subordinate of. fice In the Treasury department. It Is cu rious, grotesque, and moraiesque to see what a high standard the Republicans have set up for those from whom, a few months ago, everything vile was vociferously pre dieted. A great change has come over the city of Washington, bas permeated all the Govern ment offices, has affected the homes, and even the shops of the people. That the new Administration will fulfill its contract to con duct the GoTernment on businees principles, in tbe interest of tbe people instead of the office-holder, is now believed by all. Gov ernment clerks no longer feel the sheltering arm of their Republican influence, aud are working in a way that is really surprising. Those who before the election were blat ant and abusive of Democrats, cannot now be hired to say a word against them, and some have even taught their lips to utter praise, the average dovernnient cleik Is very unhappy. He Is aware that he has very little to do, and that he is not qualified to do that little. He has heard that the new Administration will reorganize the De partments and discharge the useless, the in competent, the idle, the drunkard and the gambler. He knows this means him. He knows that outside the Government office he cannot make a living ; that better clerks are working in business houses all over the country at one-half and one-third what he is paid , working constantly for ten and twelve hours a day, while he is doing sham work for only seven hours a day. Shop keepers, especially those wl-o sell ci gars and tobacco, tell that times are very dull. Government clerks are ecoonmizing in preparation for the day of dismissal. In making r pnointraents, I unndcrstand that the Administration will be very careful to select only competent and sober men, and it is expected that the moral tone of the service and of the city will be Improved. Improvement is already discernible. Presi dent Arthur's administration was com paratively respectable, but It was at best, a succession of the Grant regime of vulgarity and dishonesty, and the Hayes regime of fraud and hvpocrify. I think President Arthur thought more of his distinction as a fine gentleman than of his fame as a states man. There is now promise of simpler manners, purer laws. Washington during the next four years mav not be tl.e Mecca of fashion and social ostentation, hut it will be more than ever the ideal capital of a decent Democracy, K. Monster Hogs. The rivalry among the raisers of heavy porkers in Burling ton county, N. J., has been greater t his year than ever before, and three of the leading farmers of New Hanover town ship have been contending fiercely for the championship, which entitles the winner to the gold medal offered by a Trenton firm of pork packers, the win ner to hold it for three years against all competitois. Joseph Carter kiiied his bogs on Saturday week, and twenty av eraged S43 pounds, the heaviest weigh ing 1,050 pounds. It was considered next to impossible to exceed this aver age. Rut Tav'.or Devinney, who lives near Wrighta'.ow n, on Tuesday achiev ed the honor ot having laised the heav iest lot on record. Four of the heaviest weighed 1.205, 1.035, 1.055 and 1,079 pounds respectively as they hung on the nhambles dressed, and with the re maining sixteen the average of the 20 was 872 pounds. The lightest hog in the lot weighed 730 pounds. These weighs are net, after deducting the gam brel and stretcher. The measurement of the large hog was 5 feet, 9 inches from the ear to the ham, and the giith was 6 feet 5 inches. They were of the Jersey Red variety, and were pigged in May, 1883, so they were not two years old. In addition lo these hogs Mr. De vinnev killed eight pigs, not yet a year old, that weighed from 395 to 520 Iunds. The Philadelphia Record says : A great deal of circumstantial falsehood is IwMng telegraphed from Washington every day, much of it stupid, much of it malignant. Its mannt'act uiers and utterers seem animated by a deli'serate and persistent purpose to embarrass and misrepresent Mr. Cleveland underneath an affectat ion of friendship and admira tion for him. It. would be just as well for sensible folks to judge Mr. Cleveland by what be does and ietrain I nun doing, rather than by these ohd wives' fables as to his intentions and motives, devised by people who can know nothing upon the subject. The Drram of Tonlh. The dreams- we so fondly loved in early life may just as quickly pass away and leave nothing but a seared and desolate path behind. The prood hopes which upring unbidden in the human heart, may din and fall as fell the plague of sinful man. The monuiiveiUs of beauty and art which have been reared by man's creative genius may crumble and turn dust. bt yet I'eru N. the great remedy, wilt still la acknowl edged to le Ihe greatest ot a II medicines, and will still receive tne praise which so right I v belongs to it. Thousands have re-Ci-ived benefits from It., and have shown their appreciation of it by their testimonials to that effect. Ask your druggist for this great remedy, and for the prruphlet called The -10s of Life." or address Dr. S. B. Hartman A Co., Columbus, Ohio, and they will send vou one free. A Positive Guarantee is given that every article sold at tbe Golden Eagle Cloth ing House, Altoona, Pa., is lower In price than tlie same quality and mane can be bought elsewhere. And remember, right hrre, that it makes no difference how low a pricis other clothiers may -k for their goods. or what inducements they may cScrfor your patronage tiie prices will always be lower at t th Ctoldkn Eaolk Clothing nouss, I i'ji r.if vptitn nypi'ue, A.utKjua, i'a. SEWS A5D OTHER 50T1SGS. A girl at Sharon, Pa., had the gap like a chicken one day last week. The City Council of Mansfield. O., has passed an ordinance requiring skating rinks to pay a tax of f 200 per year. The Wlnnna, Greenbay and St. Taul Railroad has been seized for debt. In a wagon load of scrap-iron and rub bish which a DeKalb, III., junkdealer bought for a song, was found a pocketbook contain ing $1,600 in bank notes. Clipped from Canada rresbyterian, un der signature of C. Blackett Robinson, pro prietor : I was cured of oft recurriDg bilious headaches by Burdock Blood Bitters. -Dominick McCaffrey, tbe Tittsburg pu gilist, and John L. Sullivan, the Boston slug ger, are under training for a sparring match to be held at Philadelphia on April 2. The largest; locomotive ever built has Just been finished bv the Baldwin Company of Philadelphia, and will be sent to Brazil next week. Its weight is 224 000 pounds. The shoe shop prisoners coofined In the Riverside penitentiary at Woods' Run sta tion, near Tittsburg, tried to escape from that institution last week by digging a tun nel 63 feet long. The plot was discovered by the wrden. At Clarion, O., Minnie Thompson ar ranged to elope with Arthur Simpson, and In attempting to leave a second story win dow of the house of a friend to meet her lover, fell and received injuries from which she died in the morning. Last Friday night the storm at ML Wash ington, N. n was terrific beyond descrip tion. A northwest wiDd prevailed, whicti had a velocity of from 100 to 140 miles an hour. The spirit thermometer fell to 48 be low zero on Saturday morning. Tbe death of Miss Mary Cieary of Brook lyn, on Friday afternoon is ttributed to roller-skating. Miss Cieary exercised in the rink and became overheated and exhausted. She got chilled on the way home only a few blocks distant, and was taken to bed. Harris Rodnisky and James Kaeper, Polish Jews, were arrested at 69 Essex St., Xew York, on Friday afternoon and coun terfeit one, three and ten-cent pieces to the Dumber of five thousand were found, to gether with many Implements used In coun terfeiting, which were constructed with sur prising ingenuity. William Sweeney was descending the steps at the bead or South Eighteenth street, Pittsburg, on Ia9t Friday morning, when a small dog ran between bis feet, tripping him, and causing him to fall to the foot of the steps. His lower jaw was broken by the fall and he was severely cut about the bead. He was removed to bis home on Brownsville avenue. Early on Thursday morning of last week some mischievous person, or persons, entered the lobby of tbe reporter's gallery of the United States Senate, and cut the wires of the United Tress, Associated Press, and Western Union, aad Baltimore and Onto Companies. The damage done was slight and soon repaired. The Capitol police are investigating the matter. While Mrs. Fielding Kay of Enterprise, Harrison county, W. Va., was filling a light ed kerosene lump from a can last Friday night, the can exploded and the woman was so badly burned that she died Saturday morning. This is the second death from burning that has taken place in Nay's fami ly tins year. A rew months since he lost a 16 year-old daughter, her clothes catching fire from the grate. Senator Bridges, Democrat, of Illinois, who suffered from a stroke of paralysis one month ago and whose condition has ever since been very critical, died at his home. near Carrollton, last Friday morning. This happening, following the death of Repre sentative Logan three weeks ago, leaves the Illinois Legislature once more a tie on joint ballot. The House and Senate both adjourn ed when the annoucemeni of the death was made. Mrs. John Mallins' boarding house in East Bridgeport, Conn., was burned on Fri day last and Mrs. Mallins and Jerome Bow en were burned to death. George Ruther ford, an old fireman, in endeavoring to save Mrs. Mallins, was horribly burned on the face and hands. Mrs. Mallins four children and several boarders barely escaped with their lives. NotMing was fayed but the night clothes they wore. The origin of the fire is a mystery. The brake bpam of a car of the east bound freight on the Pennsylvania railroad broke when the train was near Paoli, Fa., last Thursday morning, derailing, three cars and obstructing both tracks. A west-bound freight ran Into the wreck, upsetting the en? gine and damaging several more cars. The wreck caught fire and the tiack was blocked some hours. Fireman Lutz was killed and Engineer Schultz aud Conductor Keech were Injured. At an early hour on Suiday morning, Fritz Schneider, a German Hving in Alleghe ny City, was found by his wife lying on the floor of the kitchen in a pool of Mood with bis skull fractured, three ribs broken, and his face mashed to a pulp. In the yard evi dence ot a struggle was to be seen, and a bloody club was found in an outhouse. Schneider, who cannot recover stated that he was assaulted three blocks from his home by Patrick Rodgers, a fellow workman. His 6tory, however, is doubted by the police authorities. Rodgers has been arrested. lie strongly protests his innocence. A number of District of Columbia busi ness men have filed complaints with the Dis trict Commissioner for damages done by the Pennsylvania militia while In attendance at the Inauguration. These complaints aie that the soldiers not only stopprd carriages and turned out the horses from wagons, and tossed negroes In blankets, but that they broke in and robbed shop-windows and drove the small shopkeepers in terror from their stores, and committed many similar outrages. The facts have twen ascertained by investigation, aud the Commissioners will report the damages to the Governor of Penn sylvania, who will probably be able through his staff, to fix the responsibility where it belongs. News of a suicide and probably a mur der at Howard, Steuben eounty. New York, has been received. Dr. J. W. Rathbone, a graduate ot the Buffalo Medical University and one of the most promising physicians In that section, while unrfer the Influence of liquor Thursday of last week took an over dose of chloral and alc gave one to his crip pled sister, Dorlisky. Rathborx has died and n hopes of his sister's recovery are en tertained. Whether the poisou was taken by Rthbone and administered to his sieter with deadly intent w by mistake is not known. H became addicted todrink about a year ago, which resulted in a separatiM Trom his wife, she returning t her home in Rochester. Thousands of women and girls rushed to a dry goods store in Co hoes to buy silk whi;h It was advertised woul.J be sold "three yards for lfent.' No Ihss thai 5.000 people crowded the store and the street shortly after ltf o'clock. Pandemonium yrevailei inside the store, and counters weie pushed to one side, (.helves were broken, and several wo men actually jumped ajvoo a lace counter and trod upon the material in their endeavor to get a few yards of the silk. Two women fainted away, but no attention was paid to them by other females, who acted as if they were mad. Several hundred dollars worth of lace goods, etc., were destroyed by being walked upon, and the clerk) were obliged to stand upon the counters and shelves. Owe old lady fell down and several fell over her and the greatest xcitement prevailed. It is said that many artxl-s of value were sto I ,en- But few yards of tbe chep silk were sold. Albany Aryv. J royal MW! jk 4 mm Absolutely Pure, The powder nerer varies. A marvel of pnrttT, Ktrenth and wholeomene!". More economical thn the ordinary kind, and can not le old in competition with the multitude of low teit. short Welgol, aiura or juiorj'nai iiii,irr. .win vJiiy i n ran. KOT1L diiikh i owuih wl.iw r an jw NewTork rp: THE BEST TONIC. Thl medicine, combining; Iron with ynro Vegetable tonic, quickly and rcmt.letely 1'oree Dyipepwlit, I ndta-ratf on, W rnliirM, Impure lilood, .IaJarlm,l hllla and Fever, and cnrlirln. It i an unfailing remedy for DLcaes of the Kldneya and I.Tvrr. It it invaluable for Piseaw peculiar to Women, and all who lead sedentary lives. It does not injure the teeth, caue headache. or produce constipation othrr Irrm witdinnrt do. It enriches and purifies the blood, stimulates the appetite, aula the assimilation of food, re lieves Heartburn and Belching, and strength ens the muscles and nerves. For Intermittent Fevers. Lawitude, Ixck of Enerjry, Ac, it haa no equal. Tbe pennine has above trde mark and Crossed red lines on wrapper. Take no other. d. .irkT bbowi casaitAL CO, baltibokb, am. A UHF.AT PROHI.F..Vf. Take all the Kidney and Liver Medicines, Take all the Blood purifiers, Take all the Rheumatic remedies. Take all the Dyspepsia and Indigestion C ure , Take all the Ague., Fever, and Rillious Specifics, Take all tbe Brain and Nerve force Rpvirers, Take all the Great Health Restorers. In short, take all the best qualities of all these, and the Jirtt (qualities of all the best medicines in tbe world, and you will tind that Hop Hitters have the best curative qualities and powers of all Concentrated In them, and that they will cure when acy or all of these singly or Combined Fail. A thorough trial will give positive proof of this. Hardened Liver. Five years ago 1 broke down with kidney and liver complaint and rheumatism. Since then I have been unable to be about at all. My liver became hard like wood my limbs were puffed up and filled with water. All the best physicians agreed that noth ing could cure me. 1 resolved to try Hop Bitters: I have ueed seven bottles; the hardness has all gone from my liver, the swelling from my lirubs, and it has trorled a miracle in my cr.se ; otherwise I would have been now in my grave. J. . MOliET, tsuf falo, Oct. 1, lxxi. Poverty and KntTerlnsr. "I ws dragged down wi'li debt, poverty and suffering for years, caused by a sick family and large bills for dictorlng. I was completely discouraged, until one year ago, by the advice of mj pator, 1 torn menced using Hop Bitters, and in one month we were all well, and none of us have seen a sick day since, and I want to sav to all poor men. you can keep your fam ilies well a year with Hon Bitters for less than one doctor's visit will cost. 1 know it.' A WORKI5GMAN. -None trenntne without a bnnch of srree Hops on the white label. Shun all the vile, poi sonous stuff with Hop" or -'Hops'' in their name. ( Continued from latt tcetk.) How Watch Cases are Made. It ia a fart not generally known that the James lioits' dOid V.'airh Ceases really con tain more jure ytl than many "solid" g. l l cax The tieui.md fur these watch casa has led to the manufacture of a very jiix.r grade f solid pld watch cases low in quality, and deficient in quantity. Thee cases are r.iaJe from 4 to 10 karats and a o or 6 karat cae is often S"U f.r 12 or 14 karats. It is '-.'T economy to buy a watch ca'-e so j .or in quality that it will soon re its col t, or one so soft that it will lose its ullage and fail to shut ti'lit, thus letting it! dust and damaincr the works, or on? si t?:vn that a slight Mow will break the iTyctal, and perhaps the Movement. It IS economy to buy a Junes Jiovs' Gold Watch Oiffy in which kone of these thinsrs ever occur. This watch c;f-e is not an experi ment it Lsi been made nearly thirty yrars. HiZLKTON. I'A.. Oct. 34. isra. I fold tw-- Jsa-i-n B'-w' Oold Watch Caeca thirty ynara art, whf t they firt cam out. and they are m (r.od condition yet. One of then la emmed by a earj'enter. Mr. I W. I-rake, of HaxVt-Ti, aivl ri.:y nhfim the -wc-.r in one or two i-'.a-.-es; 'he ether ry Mr. liwnTi. cf Ci:Tii!iTir!tp.m. I'a ; arni I ca:i j 10 duoe c.ji or both of th"" rsw- at T:y C.'ne. STi.T7-.sj rn l o: k. .'e :r. Scarf S iit ,ttp t K,', K I ... Factor!.,. flwlpkta. I'a., fur tiait4.naar llta.la.fl pampbLl taaolag a Jaaaa Rom' aha ,,t,'oii. w.M.h t a., ara asada. LTo be Continued.) a L. F. DARNELL, V w e " fJ trat iQWiyn(a) i . TohnNtovn, Xoraia'a, Makei a Specialty ol FIXE FLO JUL WORK For BALLS, l'ARTIKS, WEDDINGS, FUNERALS, ETC.. ETC. ir" Flowers packed ! tance by Kxpre. lent fafely any dls ireb'."0.2m.J LORETTO HOUSE, (Formerly known the Myerg House) LORETTO, CAM R1UA COUNTY, TA. JOSEPH F.. CDRBIN, Proprietor. Sample Knom for Salesmen and good ita- bl!ri,r lor horses. at i iku Mcdkrate. Feb. 20.-3 ta. SUR SH&Y1HG Plfi LOR! Thr Doors l est of Postomop, HIGH STREET, EBENSBURG, PA J. II. CANT, l'ropriotor. rPHE Prmjltwlll nlway.nnd not our plaee a ol Fnismess in rnstnea lioura. r.v ervthina. kept neat and ey. l Lata PI TOWL A rt'lALTT. M. liUCKLEY, ATTORSi Ll-AT'I.AW, AI.TIKI A. PA. ir- Ofnee over the Firet TSmnmal Hunk En trance on lllh avenue, aeeond door from 1'Jth it. TT H. MYKKS. ATTORNEY- Ill A TTORN ET-AT-I. W, Lsiicsiria, Pa. w-Offlce lo (lollonade Row, on t'entre street. G EO. M. READE, ATTORNEY-AT-l.AW, Ksisniru, Pa, Office o Centre Jtreet. near Hiah iiffill - . B HOME INDUSTRY. e attention of biij'eri- n Tv-rcV.u'.j itir.tp.i to my larsce Mock cf ELEGANT FURNITURE, cossisnyo or - Parlor and Chamber Suits, WAKDKUHhb, bIDhJ'.OAKDS Centre, Extension ani Breakfast Talks CHAIRS, CUPBOARDS, SINKS. BED SPRING MATTRESSES, od In fact nearly everything pertaining to tb Kurnltare builneaa. AIo. any B-fra in that line manufsotared In the l'nit.-d Mate oll at th lowest catalogue i ri'-ef. Upholstering, Repairing and Painting ot all kind of Furniture. Cbalr. Iour,,;.,. 4, promptly and atislactortly attended to. vv a-e room on High street. ppci"te th 'onreTuua church. Plea? call and examine good het.Kr you wifh to purchase or not. Ebeonbu-g. April H, 18S4.-ly. K, L. JOHNS'.M, M. J. BICK. A. f . 115. " Johnston, Buck Sc Co.. Money Received on Deposit pa table oji nr.jt An. INTEREST ALLOWED ON TIME HEPOSITS. COLLECTIONS MADE T A LI AOCMS1BLB TOtT. DIZAF1S on the Frincipal Cities Bvngtit and Sold mntk a General Bartins Business TransacliJ. ACCOCJfTS SOLICITED. A. W. BUCK, Cashier. Ebensburir, April 4, ltM.-tf. lEIISASSS ff EaUUTIOK!! All ARUM 01 R DIG RETAIL STORES. Prices Away Down To-Day J Black Silks, Coloced Silks, Dress Goods, Ladles' and MUe.' Winter Wrap. Maeoue, .laclcet", iKiimans, IIh Ceati, at f-JO.OO aDd upwards. Seal Sum Sacqoea and lvltnans at reduced pri ces, and only in the bet quality. Lac I'urtatns. Table Linens, Towel, Holiday Handkerchiefs, by the Million. Fancy oods for tbe Holidays, now ready In great variety. Largest Retail Establishment IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. Sample, a&d Prif's Srat Proeptfr, en Jpj.3-it:i. JOS. IIORXE & CO S UKTAII. STORES. Penn Avenue, IXtORPORtTED I? 1V37. STRICTLY OX MUTUAL PLIX. PROTECTION MUTUAL flREIHHiHCOn OF EBENSBURC. PA. faaa a tat l '1 tat tlfa'ftl Only 7 Assessments in 2S Tars. ' Good FARM PROPERTIES ESPECIALLY DESIRED. NO STEAM FUSKS TAKEN. GEO. M. READE, President. T. Jr. DICK, Secretary. Ebensburg. Jrn. 81. HM.-lr. NOT DEAD YET VALLIE LUTTRINCER, Jt AKVFiCTCRKR OF TIN, COPPER AM) SHEET-IRON WARE axd tix noorixa, Respectfully Invites the attention ot M --r.-'" and the public in general to tbe fct thT 1 e fll carrying on buine at tbe old stand ci-pcie tfce Mountain Hou.e. Ehensburic, and i prparcl ta upply from n lante rocb. of manu frtn-'Ti t or der, any article in hl line, from ti e firai o ttie largest. ib the be? t manner and at tbe icvert liTtnt; t rices. fo penitentiary work eltber ma je er m at this es'.avtillKhment. TIN HO()HN( n SPECIALTY. tlre me a ea and tatts'v ooreie a tc icy work and prices. V. Ll'TTKlSiiLK, Ebensbunr. April 11. ISS-Vtl. PAI Obtained nd H rATEXT ' T.s 7-VT. 'at tended to for MOD ERA TE EEES. Our i fljee is tipiite ttie U. . Pstpnt Of fice, and we can obtain Palest1" in le free than thos rfrpnte from WAniXOTOS. Send MODEL OR DRAHIXG. Weal- vise as to patentability fre nf ctiarK : ana we make XO CHARGE I XLES I'A I r. . I IS Si ECU RED. We refer, here, to tbe lrcrr iii.-r. tre Supt, of Morev Order L;v.. 4n.i i ,.1'iiCia.S of the U. S. Patent Office. For circn'ai. aJ- vice, terms and refeif-uces to actual c'irr.'.s in your own State or County, write to C. x. HXOW cL CO., Op p. mtrnl Oflire, aarlna;tOTi, I. . ALL FOR NOTHING. WHY THE DOCTOR WS DISGUSTED. SD -T MIGHT HAVE DONE WITHOUT H VI. Well, wife." tali Ir. K . a b enTcre 1 t'l houe. which wa t itnaied In a co'T Tl!mre 1:1 cen tral Nt York. "I bare rn' baok imtr. a l'r art dreary ride away down anionic the mountain. ari all to n purpose whenever. The tneen'r 6 3 tne man would n t ns-e till mcrninp, whentr.e'a l he bad only an ordinarv attack of coi.e. 1' tt simpb e.oa,a had only bad sen enooch te j-ut a N'S OAHI INK I'OKI it s I'l.ASl IK5 hla etomach he wonld hare been all r'thl in n honr or two. Hut some tola" are low to icirn.'' aldei the old phy.ictan. swailowirn the cv.p cf stenmikat tea hl He had jot poured f r Ma:. lr. K wa Tigtii; vet ueaiple do 1-arn. ern thooiih alowly. The rapidly increasing neo! Hen lon's plaster pr.re this beyond queMmn. ard -h jrood oVvctcrti are certain to be saved ninch ot T-ier' neetjieas toll In all disease! capsb'e or ocn i te-t ef hf a iila.srr aom 'a at. a.fi.-int!v NO.I at. once. The aenmne he lhe word t'AI't iN 5 act In the centre. ITice to cents. Siiiritr at. J'B!o:, t'hemists. New o-. THE KEYSTONE ELECTRIC CO.. BOLk LICB!CKKe TO rjS5 C TBE BAXTER ELECTRIC LIGHT CfaFANF. are prepared to furnish entire electric plm'. .11 a I o arra nre with conn t ie. cities. rr'rp(ir,,''i. 9r Individual, for tl.e nitht to n-e the HVXllK LAMT, lhe mwt economical improv'irvnl in i-i''-trie liicht nif e-eer Invented savmp nee-rn-est ol lichtiDaT h? Arc Lamps, an l inak'ni: n Rea dier and purer litebt. The conumpt an s '1 Is le than one fourth ot what it t tbe nr-'f lamp. K'Rhteen inches .f caroous. 'arpitik I' dinary lamps but ha'.! anulit.wl.l l.i-t ..! lamp three ntith's, burnlnn all jisht Lta. Address KEYSTONE KI.FOTKH O .. 212 S. Third St.. I 'RiuLrtii. April 11, ls4.-ly. FOR SALE! 't-aV-sw1fc ' losaaalu. I low my Kalla. lie f. i America. Aii r.wiH in Sr--'- lajiJ. All rceia--- J a- 1 -e e-ee. fur-io. ' . ti l a lWi " Terma lair. A J-.:ra.. 4rkAT BROSBrookil4 Farm. Ft. Wayaa. tat. WANTED beaut itui electi-H oraeta. Sample Iree u tbso oe- eoinliia! aaents. rso risa. q sales. Territory "ven. sa'is-acHen cunrsuvw. A'tdres- VH. sriiTT, MS Broadway St., I. March 13. Im. I WILL PAY S2.50 PER DAY To all who work for me at home. To ir.any 1 ca atli rd to pay rnore. KTKADY K Fit). Ml ST. Ll(thl, Daasant Wflrki Send Pof,l ITard to W.W. KtnorT, Louttvillc Kr. March 13-lm. M. D. KITTELL ttorney-nt-jnv EBENSBt'KG, TA. Office In new Armory Hll. eppos'te Court Hoa" EMTB Fa