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FK1DAT, - - NOVEMBER 12, 1886.
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I ' T'l-'T jf t he 0.1 It ' Mill 'Jliv,
' vmmon-rvit-un.
U" r.u.', 'uni it y to a tuiie-honufeJ an
ui.ai cu'tni, a Ha is stt apif', by r""''m
tioii, tor a gnrril noii.. w! Ikiii. -,.i, to God,
f rein !:m 3 . .s flow, for . 'e mercies
1 jnnnnri.u-slie t.-;. -:.'-d to : T:-i-.
f ire, I, K.nitrt cl. V0'"tt. G"ver-or f !)
si.1 Orar"iiv.- -.'.!th, do df ;
an.! tvart T:rvr-'Y, .,m v of
.NyvcMHKii, to be "tnerypd - 'v .f
thanpcuit an 1 pr iy.r. vVMIe we i . utui-bt-r
wli.b a sir.rerp anu jr cf!'"; sympntf y
our fei'o -cr. "!u:P's w?io hhyd been ;;&'.ied
to uiTnr tl.rouiiii nft!i'"t:vt? di-pt'E5atious of
rrovi.lcii'-e, within nur own State and
throustiout the Union, let tie stow our grat
itude t' Almii;h'i God for whatever eiemp
ion from tl.e sorrows r.f life wo have
f -;eed. An 1 for t!ie liberal yiel l of the
l ie ..us fruits 01 the etrlh, the inti'crity of
vir fire institution, ttie proijrets of t-diK-a-tion
a:id religion, the revival of buahiesd
interests, and the jjeneritl happiness of the
I'ct ple. let u r ruler thanksgiving unto Hlnj
a 1 pr.15 for the coniiouanee of the same.
'Tiioa shilt ktt p the feast which is in the
end of the year when thou hast gathered in
thy lat.r fro'o th finti ."
Uivrn unJ"r my hiii'l njn l the 11 rent :el o! the
-;te . Harrif urn, thi third day ol Novem
ber, in the r of ir Ior J, and of the
lJm:ri'.uw-;iltLJthe l't.h.
-.v. .s. NrFS.;rn. Secretary ol the 'ornmon-
Hy the iovicKsvR.
I'itKirr.N"r Cleveland accompa
ninl by Bevtral njmters of his Cabinet,
left Washington on Sunday lust for
I!orton, to attend iLe 2r.0ih anniversary
of the found inz of Harvard IJollege, on
Monday. They returned to Washington
on Tuesday.
Iiik ofTioiul returns of last week's
election in this State i pLow thai Beaver, a
majority over I?!nek is 42,505. The
Prohibition vote in the State has rot yet
been published, but when it is we will
publish the vote received by each of the
three candidates for Governor.
A Jtezrw preacher in South Carolina
thinks that the earthquake shocks in
1 hat Stnf e are to cause the colored people
to emigrate to Africa, where no shocks
hive ever been felt. He lelieves it is
thpfr duty to go and civilize the land of
.... . !
tVpir fathers, and that the earthquakes
will result in great disaster to them if
thf y refuse to go.
Wk are promised quite a number of
c jntfsted elct o ca.'ei for the Fif.ielh
Congress, if the utterances of defeated
candidates are a criterion. A skillful
politician can do we'l by contesting the
seat ot bis siftcessful opponent, as the
caie usually drajr? its slow !eric,tli along
through the entire session, and if the
contestant does mw, getting his seat, he
is awarded his expenses always a
i.p.rd'ouie ?um. Contested election
cases ought to be settled as speedily as
possible after th beginning of the ses
tiion, if such a thing le possible. Nor
is it just that two r.Uarieo should be
paid, as is too oftr the 'aso nt present.
Now is alwas r.n txlVD' time to be
gin reforms.
Ttie lollowing is ii
plexion of tiie next Lci
wil! meet at, Han ioimj,
January 4, 1 "7 : In :l
po' Meal com
ir'nre which
o Tuesday,
Srcate, which
cellists of nuaiVe r, t'1? KepublicaLS
will have 2 and the Lw-r "'ats 14. lu
the House, consisting of 2.1 members,
the .Republicans wil have 131 ; the
Democrats 03; the Greenback-Republi-
cans 5, all of whom are froto Schuylkill
county, and the Iudependent Democrats
2, from Northampton county. The fore
goius furej show that in the Senate
the Republicans will have fco over a
two-thirds majority, and that in the
House they will also have fvo over a
two thirds majority, assuming that the
Gre?cbick members vote with them,
as tfiey are pretty ceitaintodo. If they
do not thus vote the Republicans will
fall 0r( short or a two-thirds majority
in that body. Having the Governor and
both branches cf the Legis.ature, the
Republicans can mould legislation to
suit their own purposes. They will have
a giant's power at Harrisburg, and
whether they will use it remorselessly
and. like a giant, or discreetly and fairly,
and with a decent and non-partisan re
gard for the Constitutional rights of the
minority, their work during the session
will conclusively show.
The worst defeated candidate for
Congress In the State at the receat elec
tion was W. B. Roberts, of Crawford
county, familiarly known as "Torpedo"
Boberts, from the fact that he is the
patentee of a torpedo which is used in
exploding the lower strata of rock in oil
wells, thus enabling the greasy fluid to
rise to the surface. Out of this patent
he has amRSied a princely fortune, and
on. this account, and also because a seat
in Congress was the apple of Lis eye, he
tie entered the lists aa a candidate for
nomination before the confereace of his
district which is strongly Republican,
bo;ng composed of the counties of Craw
ford, Mereer and Batler. After vainly
attempting for six weeks to unite upon
a candidate fiom among the three aspi
rants, the conference referred the matter
to Thomas V. Cooper's State committee
for Bual adjustment. Cooper was short
of campaign funds at the time and Rob
ert? was the very man who could furnish
them. The committee met at Philadel
phia and nominated Roberts, just as it
wo believed all over the State it would
do. What consiJeration was paid for
the nomination is, of course, not known
to the public, bat it is fair to infer that
it was a valuable one. In the meantime
the Democrats, believing that their
time had come, nominated Norman
Hull, an iron manufacturer of Mercer
ounty, and a mao of high character.-
The three counties gave Braver a m -jorlty
of 2,373 and elected Hill over
Roberts by majority of lvtwe-n five j
and six bundr,L Oui n 'jo'Veii .n is j
that Roberts d.du't carrj ei'hei of the j
three counties, I 'it tb ITa'' bad a ma- .
jority in each of tnem. It v.- a mrsi ,
instructive and emphatic ponnisr prlest
againt the commonly accepted laeory
that money can buy a candidate's way
to a seat to Congress.
Trie return Judges for this Cotisrss-
met at HoIKdaysburfr. ou
' TlIFIK?f laaf
Tuesday last, each of the four counties
composing the district having one re
turning officer, and declared the result
to be a.s follows :
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A. Wilson Noams, Republican And
t.or General elect, and a fast friend of
M;:t!iew S, Quay, the acknowledged
i.. t.-: of the Republican party in ibis
S.ate, stated in an interview in Tbila
Hf!;.h:a a few days ago that Qua? will
be a candidate at the approaching session
of the Legislature for United States
Senator. Nonis is now simply revealing
as a fact what every intelligent politician
in th. State knew would transpire when
Quay was elected State Treasurer last
November. Quay is "sly, devliah sly,"
and although some of his political meth
ods in the past admit of no defense, he
is not a hypocrite, and is infinitely to be
preferred for a seat in the Senate to Ga
lusha A. Grow, Wharton, Barker, or
Thomas V. Cooper, all of whom have
Senatorial aspiiations to an alarming
extent. Quay is a henchman of corpo
rations and in the United States Senate,
as it is now constituted, he would be
among a congenial crowd.
All honor to the unterrified Democ
racy of the Third Pittsburg Legislative
district. It was the only green spot in
the desert of Democratic politics in Al
legheny couaty ac the recent election,
the Democrats having got the bulge on
their opponents by electing Jas Bulger,
their candidate for the legislature. He
is the solitary Democrat among the four
teen members elected from Allegheny
county, although tb county two years
ago polled nearly twenty thousand votes
for Cleveland. This one-sided result
has been brought about by the present
unholy apportionment bill. The picture
is almost as black io Philadelphia coun
ty, where, out of thirty-eight members,
the Democrats elected only fen, although
the county gave Cleveland 71.000 votes
to 100,000 for Blaine. In the face of
Ihia vhnlAAalfk iirinprtiumAnt nf Ham.
,. . . .
ocratic voters In the two counties refer-
! red to, without mentioning some others,
j is it any wonder that the Republicans
have a majority of 67 in the lower branch
: of the Legislature? The besetting sin
I of the Republican as well as of the Dem
ocratic party in every State in the Union
: in which it has a majority in both
branches of the Legislature, is that
when it acts upon an'apportionment bill
for Congressional or State purposes, it
throws conscience to the d 1, as Thad
deus Stevens on a memorable occasion
adfiaed a protesting Republican mem
ber of the Legislature to do, tramples
apon the rights of the minority and ap
propriates to itself every unfair advan
tage that its numerical power enables it
to seize. The apportionment bill to be
passed next winter may possibly do
even-handed ju3tice to the Dimocratic
minority in the Slate, hut, judging from
the psst, the prtsumption is violently
against any such lesuit.
J. W. M. Newlin, of Philadelphia,
who was a Republican member of the
Convention that framed the new Consti
tution, and who is now the Secretary of
the Convention Committee composed of
members of both parties, has addressed
a letter to Gov. Paitison in which he,
! rj " V 3 --pany m me
S, 13 d."l!y vl1-'if K the Article in
I M e n9tllut ch proh.oiis the
...u.mg ui in jjbmcb, anu request in?
; the Governor to cause an application to
bo made by the Attorney General in the
name of the Commonwealth to the
j Dauphin county court for an injunction
restraining all said companies from issu
; ing passes, except to officers oi employes
j thereof. What Mr. Newlm faya about
j the evils of free passes is an old story
j and it was entirely unnecessary for him
j to call the attention of Gov. Pattison to
i the subject. The Governor has done a
good deal of thinking and talking since
the day of his inauguration about the
non-enforcement by the Legislature of
Articles XVI and XVII of the Consti
tution, in the eighth section of the latter
of which It is declared that "no railroad,
railway or other transportation company
shall grant Tree passes, or passes at a
discount, to any person except officers or
employes of the company." The Legis
lature has made two or three attempts
to enforce this Article by appropriate
legislation, but always failed, the posses
sion of a free pass being regarded by a
member as a very handy thing in fact
a thing of beauty and a joy forever.
Mr. Newlin's intentions are good and to
be commended, but the next Legislature
is the body before which he should gel
in hla work. Gov. Pattison's skirts aie
clear. He has time and again urged
the Legislature to do its duty as com
manded by the Constitution," but bis
appeals bare fallen upon unwilling ears.
Whatb v ir other mistakes the voters
of this State may commit through the
ballot box. two results of the late election
conclusively demonstrate that they are
determined to preserve the high office of
President Judge free from all taint of
personal dishonor. In Philadelphia
Judge Gordon, who is acting as a Com
mon Pleas Judge, under a commission
from Gov. Pattison, and who, although
a young man, has so conducted himself
in bis office as to command the respect
and confidence of the members of the
bar and the public, was elected over
J odge Brlggs, the Republican candidate,
by a majority of eleven thousand, Bea
ver's majority lu the same city being
cn'y twenty-five thousand. In Allegheny
cormy Judge Magee, another of Gov.
Pattison's appointments, defeated John
S. Ro'.b, l:i RttcMjcan opponent, bv
i nearly two tt'ouRaLo votes, while the
county gv B. avei a majority of nearly
svmi thousand. Gordou and Magee !
re thiin clean men ai-d upright Judges,
ar d the people stood firmly by them' i
" ::? - sUS
"UIcn meir respective oppo- j
nti-. secured their nominations. There
13 an assuring hope for the future wen i
bein, of the people in a judicial district
when they cannot be swerved or driven
from tbe support of an tonts nd oapa- i
ble Judg?. y
ot so Mark ot a hbewcr.
The Republican always have the ad
vantage of Democrats in getting in their
after election jnbllalkin before the com
plete returns are received. It is now
plain that the Democratic gains at the
recent elections more than counterbal
anced their losses. We carried all the
Nothern States wh:cb voted for Cleve-
' land, with the single exception of Indi-
! ana, and !y majorities larger than were
given our candidate for President. New
Jersey nearly donb'es her President'al
Democratic majority; the Democratic
, candidate for Governor in Connecticut
has. an iucreased plurality, and New
! York laieely increased the Cleve'and
' majority, and for a distinct. Cleveland
; candidate. We have in addition carried
C olorado and Califorria; a majority of
; the Minnesota Cor.gre3sional delegation,
! and cut down H'nine's 4-2,000 majority in
the State to a matter of doubt whether
the Republicans have any majority on
Governor. We have reduced the Repub
lican majority in Massachusetts of 21,
000 last year to a beggarly 9,000, beside '
gaining three Congressmen, and have '
relatively done better than this in New i
Hampshire. 1c Pennsylvania, over
which the Republicans shouted them
selves hoarse, Beaver, on a larger vote,
gels a smaller plurality than Quay last
year, and falls 40.000 behind Blaine's
plurality. In Ohio, with all their gas
conading, the Republican majority is
one-third less thau that giveu Foraker
last year. Their Congressional gains
are the result of a new piece of gerry
nandering deviltry.
The figures or. the next House of Rep
resentatives now show the Denoocrts
have a majority ot 17 as against 43 in
the present House. This will answer
all purposes, although it is reduced.
There is safety in small majorities for
any party.
In the Senate as compared with the
present Senate, we have already gained
one Senator in Virginia, and the election
of last week has decreed that Democratic
Senators should take the place of Repub
lican Senators from New Jersey. Cali
fornia and Indiana. Our only loss has
been in the rotten-borough State of Ne
vada, where the Republican miKionire,
Mackej, seems to have outbid the Dem
ocratic millionaire. Fair. Ri the next
Senate will probably sUi.d 37 DmooraU i
to 39 Republicans, instead of 34 to 42 n '
at piesent. Then there are rumrs that i
Van Wyck, of Nebraska, who will profc- !
ably be elected as a "people's candidate,"
will act with the Democrats, and Riddle-
berger, ot Virginia, may do the game in j
his sober moments. In that case the !
Republicans of the Senate may be tid, j
or lose control of it altogether. The (
gain of four six year Senators is a matter j
of much greater importance ihm a
reduced majority in the House of Rp- i
rsenlatives.
On the whole, while the oemocrnts I
get pretty severe punishment in Ii.diniM
and Virginia, substantial gii a eixe- !
where take the sharp edge off their re j
verses, and give abundant reasons for I
congratulations. If it was not so late !
we'd iret a rooster out. Pituhura Pnxt. i
Is Human Life Growing Longer.
Within the past few months notices of
a dozen or more centenarians, male and
female, have been brought to public
notice, and in a way that Uaves no doubt
about the genu ineuess of the cases. To
what shall we attribute the unusual
frequency of these instances ot long
lived people? Either our race is becom
ing in reality more vigorous or we have
better facilities for becoming acquainted
with every instance of great longevity
that turns up. Most probably both of
these causes sre entitled to credit.
The opinioti prevails very geneially
smo!.;? hygieoists and others who have
caietully gathered and noted the results
or modern sanitary conditions, that the
surroundings of our race in all civilized
countries are of a chaiacter that is more
conducive to length of years than those
of two or three centuries 8go. Human
labor in almost every department of in
dustry has been lightened through tho
instrumentality of machinery and the
iuveutive faculty o our rce. But
above this stands the indisputable faci
that our sanitary surroundings have im
proved byotid all conception. The
home of the humblest laborer is sweeter
and healthier today than the home of
the wealthiest nobieman in Eogland
was several hundred years sgo. The
laws of health are belter understood and
better observed. Besides, medical soi
ence has come to our aid and the discov
eries in surgery and in the healing art
generally have contributed largely to our
length of years. We often rail against
the luxuries of modern life and their en
ervating tendencies, but after all it may
be questioned whether they do not bear
good gifts to mankind as well as some
admittedly harmful. Onr hoursof labor
have gradually grown shorter ; labor it
self less exhausting, our hours o' rest
and recreation longer, and these all have
their due effect on the longevity of our
rBce. These facts also encourage the
belief that the economic and sanitary
forces at work now, will, if continued,
produce equally satisfactory result t in
the time to come. Men and women may
never again attain the length of years
spokwn of in the morning age of the
world, but we may expect to see scores
of men living to the age of one hundred
years where we now - a single exam
ple. .Lancaster JV"etc Era.
Thkkb can be do better evidence of
growing pr isperity than the increasing
business of the railroads. When freights
increase to such an extent that well- j
equipped roads are no longer able to give !
shippers the facilities they demaud, but
must increase their rolling stock to ac
commodate the public, we may well
conclude that the general business of the :
couutry Is on the, incres.se. When i
therefor, we hear that during the same
week ' he Pennsylvania railroad gave an
order lor 2,000 new cars, the Pmsliurg ;
and Western road another order for'
2,000, aud the Baltimore & Ohio one for i
1 000, we may well cooolude that busi
ness is looking up. The building of 1
o.ouucara aione in ibis State is an Im
portant item in itielf aud cou ributes
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to me general prosperity.
Last year th wheat crop of Europe
fell short of supplying the home demand
by about 154 000.000 bushels. This year
the deficiency is considerably greater.
It is true when an uhusuhI scarcity oc
curs in the wheat crop of Ruaai and
Austria, and the price rises, the people
subsist more largely upon rye, and thus
avail themselves of the bigb prices they
can get for their wheat, and the short
supply elsewhere Is partlallv made up
But even with this probability confront
ing ns, it is very certain this country
will be called on for more wheat than
we sent abroad last year. We are the
only country thai increased its product
of this grain largely over the yield of
last year, and there is little doubt our
surplus will be largely drawn upon
Already our exports have been increas
ing rapidly, ahd there is little doubt but
that they will continue to do so. Even
though prices do not rise materially
this increase in our export trade wili
have a most beneficial effect upon the
business of the country.
11 ITveemVth2t'J Vp!te of h, name,.,
Sa
votes, 5000 more thon than the candi
dat,? of tht Party for Governor received
?Par- ln thirteen northeastern and
Slat? voj yf5,'3Iu SSfV
aggregate for tie 'same SlatS? Hi
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Crime and Culture.
In recent articles in the Andorer He
rtetc. Mr. Gea. R. S.eiaou has presented
some facts thai are well calculated to
shake the popular notioo that increased
education tends to lessen the tendency
to crime. Mr. Stetson, for his purpose,
has produced statist ics of population and
crime io Massachusetts, a State which
is confessedly in advance of all others in
thf excellence of her common school
system and ether educational facilities,
as well as io the thoroughness and care
with which her statistics are collated.
In 1850, the total ixipulation of Massa
chusetts was 904,514 and the number of
prison inmates was 1230, or a criminal
to every S04 inhabitants. In 1SS0, the
population was 1.783,085. and the num
ber of criminals was 359, or a propor
tion of one criminal to 487 inhabitants,
showing that in thirty years the criminal
class of Massachusetts bad doubled rela
tively to the growth of the whole popu
lation. The increase of criminality in Massa
chusetts has been rashly attributed to
th great influx of foreigners in tecenl
years, and this is urged b nativiste as a
strong reason wh7 Congress should put
a check to the increase of this foreign
population. Bui while it would be
pleasing to native American pride to lay
the blame of this growth of crime upon
the strangers who have sought homes on
these shores, the explanation is unfor
tunately not a true one. The statistics
gathered by Mr. Stetson prove that the
increase of criminal is proportionately
greater in the native born than in the
foreign population of Massachusetts. In
1850 the native population of Massachu
setts was 827.430. and the number of
native convicts was 653. or one in every
1257 of the native born inhabitants. In
1880 the census gives 1,339 549 native
born inhabitants, of whom 2175, or one
in every G15, of the native born popula
tion, were involuntary gnesta of the
State in its penal institntions. Thus it
is seen that the native born criminal
element of Massachusetts hxs more than
doubled since 1850 in proportion to the
total increase of population.
Another cause readiry assigned for the
increase of crime in Massachusetts Is in
the rapid accumulation of population ir
its industrial centree and the consequent
contagion of bad example. But the
year 1880. to whieh these statistics re
late, was above the average in industrial
prosperity. If this were the cause, later
or earlier years would make a worse
statistical exhibit. Working people fa
miliar with horest toll will ttetMk
ihrujSflves to many a shif; and m.lor
the las' extremes of privation in m-e
of si rik-s or i--kou's ra' her ; ha r son
to cr me Ttie Cause of this incn-ase.:
criminality lies deeper than in hard
linv-sor in the con agiou influence of
bad morals in busy centre of iuduatry.
While it would tie foolish to pu' the
blame of this social phenomenon upon
educion, jt is not disputable thai hiith
er grades f criminality are not incom
patible wiih higher intellectual culture.
In a highly cultivated state of society
many classes of crimes have been devel
oped of which ignorance would be inca
pable. But the fault of our common
educational system lies in its one-sided
character. Apart Irom its general neg
lect of moral training, it cultivates the
mind at the expense of the hand. Youths
are turned out of scboois and academies
with fine educations and swarm into all
the avenues of life, but without being
able to turn their band to any mechani
cal employment. This educational error
is now so well recognized that many
public schools have attached to them
woiksbopa in'whicb the various mechan
ical craftb are taught. By this system
habits of industry and respect for labor
are inculcated, and to the pupils are af
forded the means of earning a livelihood
when thrown upon the world. Education
of brain and hand thus progresses in
harmonious co operation. Louie Blanc
aud his associates of the Provisional
Government or the French Republic of
1848 established, for the unemployed of
Paris, national workshops, which proved
dismal failures. Educational workshops
to teach pupils in the common schools
useful trades would be of a different
character. They would be a protection
against idleness, aud they would check
the increase of forced labor in the pen 1
institutions of the State. Phila. Reor.
British Rule In India.
The report published by a Paris news
piper of an uprising of the people of
Northeastern India against Brit ish rnle
in favor of Russian invasion, may be
exaggerated, but there is undoubtedly a
deep-seated feeling in the Empire
against tbat rule, and one which is liable
at any moment to take the shape of open
hcstilllv. Independent of the agitation
among the Hindostanees of Brahmin'c
faith which has recently engaged the
attention of public men in England,
there is a more important factor of dis
content which has been largely over
looked in the discussion of theques'ion.
A number of years ago inquiry disclosed
the fact that among the Moslem Hindoos
there were secret organizations having
for their object the overthrow of British
rule. The Brabminic element has ever
offered less resistance and proved itself
much more amenable to civilizing tndu
ences than the Mohnmmedaa. The
non Mohammedan Hindoo represents
the primeval type of the Asiatic cast of
mind ; but the long oppression to which
he has been sutjcted tenders him more
manageable and docile than his Moham
medan cojntrymar., and Islam remains
the old and incorrigible representative
of Asiatic fanat icism, wh:ch will enter
into no compromises with the modern
march of the world, and will hasten to
ward sure and irretrievable ruin rathet
than yield to those idea which the ene
mUa of the Prophet are proclaiming and
propaira'ing. From Patna, a cny not
300 miles from Calcutta, there have for
y-ars gone out missionaries who bare
stealthily and quietly passed from towu
to town and from village to village
preaching the doctrine of irreconcilable
hatred tu English rule. The religicu
and socM leaders of Asia are those who
have suffered most by the planting of
new ldea, and as the people follow these
leaders it i easy to see what the tellng
is. The advantage of Russian suprem
acy is something that is often talked of
by the uatlve press, especially ihe Mos
lem. The argument is that the Russians
are more pliant in their intercourse,
while their character, their style of gov
ernment ad their ideas in general are
more Asiatic than those of the English.
If fate baa decreed a foreign rule ovr
India, the cultivated Hindostanee thinks
be is likely to make better arrangements
with the Russian t .n with the English.
England cannot boast of the power of
assimilation which Russia possesses and
which has benefitted her so often. The
Englishman mixes with foreign nations
but. does no bleod with them ; and the
fact that Russia has always shown a
greater respect ror the laws and rights
of conquered peoples than has England
is likely to go far iu helping her to ac
complish any 6cheme which aims at the
overthrow of British supremacy in
India. rhila. Record.
Rkv. James Brown, of Albany Tex
appeared before the Citizen's Relief
Gommitte, of New York, and asked for
relief in behalf of nearly 25,000 families
who are suffering from the drought in a
Section covering a radius of 600 miles.
Many of these people were compelled to
carry wafer during the summer for a
distant of thiity miles, and were aub
istinf Entirely 00 corn meal. It was
decidd toYcend $250 to the Chairman of
the Rlief Com. mitte at Albany.
VfVTBi a line fo luV' fhV ooIumh.
NEfV8 IJIII OT1IKK OTlH.
The fact that yon read the newparer i-.
evidence that you desire to keep pi:ert up
In what la sroing on. This praih is to
Inform you tbat DreydoppH'g Borax S p in
th best soap mad to America. Try it.
John Thl xton's distillery, near Owens
boro. Kentucky, was nurned on Monday
night. The warehouse, containing 2,100
barrels of wbistey. was also, burned. The
estimated los Is fTS.OOO. The fir was In
cendiary. There was a lrit but marked sh.ick o:
earthquake in Charleston at 12 : 26 last Fri
day afternoon. This was the first thoik in
a week, and was lighter than that f Octo
ber 22nd. Xo damage Is reported and no
Interruption of business.
The Supreme Court of Missouri on
Thursday Ust affirmed the decision or the
lower court In the case of Rooert A. Grayer,
colored, who murdered Win. Evans in St.
Louie, several years ago, and Grayer was
sentenced to be hangei on December 10,
This Is the fifth tune he has been sentenced
to death.
Th. greatest wild pigeon roost In the
United States is now Going Snake District.
Cherokee Nation. The trees covering a
mile square of timbered land are literally as
full as the limbs will bear at night with
lieso birds. Millions of pigeons are there,
and at nlaht when they come in to roost
they make noise like mlgbty tbar.der.
Samuel Tayton was discharged from the
trUon at Jackson. Mich., on Saturday, bis
sentence or five years for burglary having
expired. Special interest attaches to Paj ton
because he Is a graodcon of Commodore
Perry, aud Is raid during bis Incarceration
to have been left a rortune of $230,000. Ue
has been employed as the prtton physician's i
book keeper.
Silver has been discovered In the nelk'h er
hood or Caldwell. Kansas, and that pla.-e
now presents the appearance or a mining
town. Samples of the ore were sent to the
State Assayer at Denver and the Assayer of
the Mint at Philadelphia. The former re
ports an assay or three hundred and for
ty two ounces of sliver to the ton, the latter
ten hundred and ten onoees, each with a
trace of sold. The ore crops out In many
localities.
The convention of the International
Brotherhood or Locomotive Engineers, In
session at New York ror twelve days, ad
journed on Monday afternoon after voting
S 300 tor d arl.i ti i, among the willow
m.d r(.t.Hiaof , n Ineera. aon thanks a.,.t
ISO each, toeaeh of the tw. Ive Meniere ..I
the local com m i. tee of arrnem,-,.!,, who
hav oiai aed a rovai entertainment for the
visitor and their ladles.
Alexander Mitchell, Milwaukee'a Dem
ocratic millionaire railroad magnate, I
egtimated to O- worth sixteen to twentv
million dollars. He came to this country
from Scotland when a boy and Is Just as
Scotch to day as be was forty years ago. He
was a poor man then and when be went to
Milwaukee, he went Into a bank as clerk.
He owns the bank now. It has flOOOOO
capital and he personally has t3.000.000 or
$4 ooO.ooo depoalted there all tbe time.
A newspaper man In Minneapolis one
day cauaht a young woman as she was lall
Inn in the street. They wer Introduced a
few days later, and arter marriage, which
occurred In a rew months, be learned that
she was woith J75.000 In cash. It is said
that it Is now Impossible ror a young lady
to walk In the streets of Minneapolis with
out being followed by a dozen newspaper
men ; and some of them have been cauht
strewtng the sidewalk with banana sklos.
Henry Lakey of Crossroads Church.
Vadklns county N. C, endeavored to elr.pe
with the 18 year-old daughter of James
Cooley, Coolay pursued the couple and.
having the faster horsa, overtook the run
aways about a mile from the minister's
house Cooley called on youog Lakey to
give up the girl, whereupon the young man
arew a revolver and shot the old man. Cool
ey is dead, and a posse Is searching for the
murderer, who fled, leaving the young wo
man standing by the corpse of her father.
It is thought that Lakey has gone fo Vir-
Kinia.
A San Francisco paper publishes a letter
from Apia, dated Octobei 15, wblcb says
tbat authentic news has reached Samoa to
the effect tbat on the morning of September
10 over one hundred heavy shocks of earth
quake occurred on the Island Ninarou, one
or the Tonga group, and tbat from the bot
tom of the lake, which is two thousand feet
deep, a mountain has arisen to the height
or three hundred reet above its surface ; and
this mountain has burst out In flames and
thrown out hot atones and sand in such
quantities as to destroy two thirds of the co
coanut trees on the island-
The estimate as made by the principal
canners or vegetables of the tomato pack of
.New Jersey show tbat It wlii exceed the
heavy pack of 18S4. The number or cases
packed is 600.OC0 ; each case contains two
dozen cans; this makes the pack of 1886
represented by 13,400,000 cans. New Jersey
pack has uenerally been equal to the com
bined pack of Maryland, Virginia and
Pennsylvania, but this year It will be several
thousand cases short, owing to tbe fact
that the two former states have Increased
their facilities. Tomatoes were unusually
.;tw. aims tatter part or the
season the factories were so much filled
with tomatoes that thousands of baskets
were periahl.ig on their hands, when New
xork packers came to their rescue
shipped away many carloads a day.
and
Lawrence Donovan, of New York, who
tome time ago Jumped from tbe Brooklyn
bridue Into the East river, Jumped from the
new suspension bridge, a little past tbe
centre at five minutes before 7 on Sunday
morning. He came from Buffalo on Satur
day ulght and stajed at Suspension Bridge.
His Jump was witnessed by several persons.
He was acsoanpanled by Professor Daley
and Mr. Drew, a reporter, or Buffalo. He
made tbe jump successfully, a distance of
190 feet. He went straight down, feet first.
He came up somewhat daied, but struck
out for the boat, in which were Messrs. Diew
and naby. was taken In and stimulants
were given him. He la not seriously Injur
ed. One rib Is probably broken and his hip
Is bruised. He said before he got out of the
water tbat he would not Jump again for
l.OOa.ooo. Afterward be .aid he would
Jump next summer fortlOOO. He said he
wanted to Jnmp at Rochester and then cult
the business. H
Bweklea-a A rale Halve.
The beat salve In the world for Cuts
oruiss. sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum. Fever
Sores. Tetter. Chapptd Hands, Chillblalns
Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and positively
i cnr"8 r"M r no Py required. It is guar-
uieea to give perfect satisfaction, or monev
refunded Price 25 cents per box. For
Sale By E. James
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Mm. W. F. BlOWK. 7 Main 8t . Carina-ton Fjj
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toroblaj with paina in mi ba-k. Bruwn'a Iraa
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aa wrapper Take alkrr. Made ul by
BW CHEMICAL CO., BiLTlMOHK, MDt
FAULTLESS FAMILY MEDICINE
"I have used. Simmons l.iver
Regulator for many yeare, hav
ing made It my only Family
Medicine. My mother lrfore
me waa -rery partial to It.. It la
a safe, good and rellaMe medi
cine lor any disorder of the
system, and If uh1 In time la
a promt amwaMrr of etcJknraa.
I oftm reeoHimTi(l It to my
frlendn, and ehall continue to
do so.
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Taertor M. X. Church, o. Falrfleld.Va."
TIME AMD DOCTOR!' BILLS SAVED v
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Mr0ulatf in (He fcawae.
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Regulator the bet family med
icine I ewer tish1 for anything
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In Jftelipratte, Colir, JHmrrkmm,
SIHhiwmi, and found It to re
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ful, I never f-el the effecta of
the supper eaten.
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"Ex-Mayor Macon, Os."
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nary Arr-iion- i. Aich'i AI-iltKV
IT. if. i! vr . a ,n. ', j- i r--.-.-ni.-.l and
in iiia.: i;ioiisbimi- fMiiiiiri. for the
rm-t I'ni v var.i: ! 11 1 .-t:t .c an
llii :iltial.!f lioil-t lit. .; rsm-d. It 1 a
i.rr.iii.i!i !i liial lu: i r. iiiir Io h takrn
In v.rv unall u:fi. a:.' a fiirdosre
cf it !ihnliil-trr-l i:. l ! i-- c. - itairrs or a
roKl i iili wiii i fl-i t a kiMi-iiy cure,
il !i:h . . r ) i. :ive life. 'There
in mi d.'iil'l wlialt i-i- that
Ayar's Chsiry Pectoral
IIa pr.";.-rv .-.1 t Si.- livrs of frrvnt numbers
of MTfii. !.y hi tlirt Jrvr-lopmont ot
LjtrnHiH. I tronrli it i. I'neumonta,
ml Pulmonary 'oiiHiimptlon, and by
the rurr-of thoKc l:inp rous inaladlre. It
ahould bo kept ready for use ln every
raniilv whi-p thf-re ui v i liitJrcn, an It ! a
ni.'ilirinc f:ir superior to all others In tbe
trntnn-n1 of Croup, I lie alleviation of
Wliooplii-ottirh, on. I tlieeurc of Colda
and lnltiif-n;, ailini'iit .eculiarly taet
dpntul to rliiMli.KHl and youth. 1'rompuV
tudr in (Ir-nlin- with all iiraara of tkla
da t of thu iiHiiot Importance. Tbe
ks of a mncli; dar mm. In manv ca
entail fatal rniLwqucniTs. Io not wi
preriniM time in v x "Tiiucntlnz with
mrilli-inoi of doubtful rfllcaoy, while tbe
maludv U ronstantly K:i"ln2 a deeper
hold, Lut tskc at once the neediest and
Xnot ccr!:iiu to cure,
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral,
rr.rrRKD by
lr. 4. Ayrr X. "o., I x well, Mau
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Fertlllrr Drill In existence. -Send for
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