EBNSDURC. PA..
PR I DAY, - - - DEC.23, 1SS1.
'TrtESimple and plain auty which we
owe the people is to reduce taxation to
th necessary expenses of ma economical
operation of the Government, and to re
store to the business of the country the
money which hi! J in the treasury
through the perversion of governmental
powers." UcnvER Cleveland.
Josrrn 1. Knkhit, who hai hen
stealing from the Manufacturers' Na
tional Bank of Philadelphia for over
twenty years, bas just been detecud
The vigilance of the bank officials in
thus putting an end to his speculations
within a comparatively short space of
time after he began them deserve all
praise. Such promptness is rarely
characteristic of bank directors.
Forty otlkdals and clerks of the
Pittshurg md Like Erie Uilroal have
been suspended pending an .investiga
tion into the ticket accounts of the road
at the office at Pittsburg. It is hinted
that bogus tickets have been issued,
that many employees knew of and abet
ted the iraud, and that the company is
the loser by thousands of dollars. The
company ns yet. however, makes no ac
agalnst, cuaation anv employee.
Iti'KiNr. the last Presidential cam
paign K. I Harper, of the lately
wrecked Fidelity Hank, of Cincinnati,
swore that if Cleveland was elected he
would go out of business. Harper has
recently not only gone out of business,
bat bas also gone tc the Ohio peniten
tiary for ten years for stealing the de
posits of the bank and sinking them in
wheat speculations. Harper can now
look bAck upon his career and regard
his remaik as literally prophetical.
Tue usual holiday recess was taken
by both houses of Congress yesterday to
meet again on Wednesday, January 4th.
As congress met on Monday, Jecember
-."lb, and as no business worth mention
ing has yet been transacted, it will be
seen that when it reassembles a full
month will have been wasted. This
custom has lasted so long and its in
jurious effects have become so apparent,
that it s wonderfully strange that no
successful effort has been made to
change the time for the meeting of
Congress.
There is one thirg li regard to the
Message of President Cleveland says the
Philadelphia J.Vror.l, which has not
failed to make a great impression on
the public mind. Xone can pretend
that this message was dictated or in
inspired in the slightest respect by a
spirit of subserviency to Monoply and
Special Privilege. It is an appeal from
the greed of monoply and Government
favoritism to the public judgment and
conscience. It is. in short, the confi
dent and trustful invocation of a man
of the people themselves. Therein con
sists the mighty intlueuce which it is
destined to exercise.
Uktw EEN lSf,s and the adoption of
the new Constitution of this State In
IsTlJ, the limit of damages which could
be recovered from a railroad company
for the loss of a life on its tracks was
S",hm. The new Constitution abolished
thi limit, leaving the sum to the dis
cretion of the jury and the court. In the
trial of a recent case in Philadelphia
against the lVnnsvl vania Kailroad
Company, in which JVl.tmO was claimed
for the !oi ot a husband, the Company
set up the plea, that in as much as it had
accepted the Act of
Asseiub'y of
Vut had not accepted the Railroad
provisions of ihe Constitution, a greater
amount than ? ,0M) could not be recov
ered against it. The point was over
ruled by the Court.
Rr.Aiu, of New Hampshire, the irre
pressible crank of the I'm ted States
Senate, has reported favorably from the
Committee on Education his favorite
hobby known as the "Blair Educational
bill," which appropriates fie)ty-nine
mllliiof dollars for educational pur
poses among the several States. This
vicious measure passed the Senate at its
last Session, not because a majority of
that body was honestly in favor of it,
but simply because it was desirable to
get rid cf it and throw the responsibility
for its defeat either on the House or the
President. It was not acted on by the
Ho ise and inutt therefore go through
the process of resurrection iu the Senate.
If this Biair scheme ever reaches Cleve
land it is as certain as fate that he has
a veto rod in pickle for it.
The Republic!! National Executive
Committee met at WasMngton week
before last and decided that the Repub
lican National Convention to nominate
candidates for President nnd Vice
President. s':ouIti meet at Cbioago on
the 19 h of June next. It has heretofore
been tha custom of the Democratic
National Executive Committee to meet
at Washington on the Jo. cf February
and fix upon th place and time for
holding the National Convention, and
-we presume that the custom will be
adhered to iu regard to the Convention
to be held soma time next summer.
Samuel Dickie, Chairman of the
National Prohibition Committee, issued
call on Monday last for the National
Convention of tbat party to be held ai
Indianapolis, on Wednesday, the ' li
lay of June next, to nominate a Na-
t.Vnal ticket.
.The Republican paperi of the North
wet t insist that there should be nodi
visii n on the question of internal reve
nue h nd customs tax re luctioc on party
liues. The St. Paul J'ioneer 7Vra.. a
well-k nown Republican organ, lo it
issue oi Saturday Ust says:
"To make Ira party qu-ation is im
possible. If Mr. C eveland had suggest
ed meaau res lojking in any way toward
free trade, then his messigw would have
beeD rejected by a great mjoritj of our
people. But expressing a it dos,
views n. mote radical than those f.uni
In recomo.endations of Republic;, fli-
ciais and explicitly contained in both
local and national platforms of the Re
publican porty. there can re no division
on the part7 Kre. Unwise atteojp.
to befog this ik'sue of tariff reform are
doomed to failure, since they can arise
only from murOvre-wotation of the
fACtS.
TllE frrrattR 'T.iu" Marshall, f
TTnf nrfVr xr i-it-ia nff thm mm! fdnnuent
men who was ever sent to Coogm irora
that or any other State. He serve I in
the House with John Quincy Adams
fifty years ago, and those who are old
enough well recollect the memorable
debate which took place between the
'Nestor" from Massachusetts and the
"Hotspur" from Kentucky, on the ab
stract right of petition asking Congress
to abolish slavery in the District of Col
umbia. It was admitted that Adams had
the best of the argument, but he ac
knowledged that he never before met a
ma'j so worthy of bis steel as Marshall.
Marshall's besetting infirmity was an
ever crating thirst for whisky. Soon
after he entered Congress he determined
to reform and joined a Martha Wash
ington Society, the name then given to
temperance organizations at Washing
ton and elsewhere. In one of his
speeches before the society in which be
described the gradual, but sure steps by
which he became a confirmed drunkard.
he soared to tha highest pinnacle of
elooneuce and concluded as follows :
Sir : I would not change the physical
Bfnsations the conscious sense or ammai
being, which belong to a man who
totally refrains from all that can intoxi
cate his brain or derange bis nervous
structure, the elasticity with which he
bounds from his couch in the morning,
the sweet repose it yields him at night,
the fueling with which be drinks to,
through his c'ear eyes, the beauty and
the grandeur of surrounding nature ; I
ay, rir, I would not exchange my con
scious being as a sti icily temperate man,
the sense of renovated youth, the glad
play with which my pulses now beat
healthful music, the bounding vivacity
with which the life blood courses its
way thorugh every fibre of my frame,
the communion high which my health
ful ear and eye now bold with all the
gorgeous univeise of God, the splendais
of the morning, the softness of the even
ing sky, the bloom, the beauty, the
verdure of the earth, the music of the
air, and of the waters ; with all the
grand associations of external nature
re-opened to the tine avenues of sense ;
no, sir, though poverty dog me. though
scoru pointed its slow linger at me as I
passed, though want and destitution and
every element of earth!y misery, save
only crime, met mv waking eye from
day to day ; not fox the brightest and
the noblest wreath that ever encircled
a statesman's brow ; not if some angel
commissioned by heaven or some demon
sent fresh from hell to test the resisting
strength of virtuous resolution, should
tempt me back, wirb all the wealth and
all the honors which a world can be
stow ; not for all that time and earth
can giye would I cast from me this
precious pledge of a liberated mind,
this talisman against temptation, aud
plunge again into the dangers and Vr
rors which once beset my path. So
help me heaven, as I would spurn te
neath my very fuet all the gifts the uri
verse could offer and live and die as I
am, poor but sober.
A Cox;nEssioxAL contest of more
than nsual import. nee li that of Jud. e
Robert Lowry, Dtftnocra'., against
James R. White, Republican, from the
Twelfth Indiana District. The Ii?pub
licans havin a majority of one in the
delegation from that S:ate hve control
of Tirmlij States in the House, just the
necessary number to elect a President
in case the election should be thrown
Into the House. Should 13 wry be given
White's seat it would turn the Indiana
delegation over to the Democrats, and
although it would not give them sntTi-
cient States to elect, it would reduce
m3 HrjiuuiiMU.TlHBJ lO VinflfCTl, WniCQ
is one lets than the necessary numt?r. i
) The result would be that the House J
could not elect a President at the next
session should the people tail to do so. !
Eowry does ne t claim to have tx en I
counted oat, or that fraudulent votes
were cast for White. He bases his claim
for the seat to the fact, as he alleges,
that Whiie was born !n Scotland. It
seems that this objection to White's
eligibility was urged against him dur
ing the campaign in ls-iti nd that on
tha day before (he election he made ap
plication before the court and was ad
mitted to fu'l citizenship. I-jwry meets
this with the statement that While's
naturalmtion on the day befote
the
at
cuu oi.it i leaves mm lnenitjit a
the law requires a Congressman to have
been seyeu years a citizen prior to his
election. If that old political sinner
Thaddeus Stevens, was now in Congress
with a Uepublicau majority behind him
he would settle the question in favor o f
White, as he settled so many similar
disputes during the dark uay3 of re
construction, by asking the sirxp'e
question, "What is our man's name ?"
and then bulldoze thecommit'.ee oa elec
tions to report accor diugly. Stevens is
uot now in the Hous4, however, aud
contested seats are dispobed of in quite
a different manner.
At the funeral of the Chicago assas
sins, which took place unaliy on Sunday,
Captain Black, who was their chief
counsel, delivered a remarkable funeral
oration. In which he had the auda:ity
to compare his murderoui client t,-v I
, , . . - ... ! puun. niu luitisru io uo ii oy "correct-
Jesus Christ. Ha drew a pathetic and ,c the inequalities of the tariff."
generally truthful picture of the life and I The lime has come when the fu:fi'
deatb of Christ, and uudertook to show m ot theB Ied?F9 cn no longer be
1" rrr ,s . r !
martyrs die. J is amazing that an in- j "ders no of her qui stion in his Message
telligent man should Df rill it hinicAtf tx i Secretary Fairchild renorta thai
indulge in such nonsense. Th an.r !
chists were innM-u t... k ... Jl. " '
tnr ' . " ul!C 1 :
.... society aud lus ig a
u me murder ot the policemen slru-
ply because thev were the I
lives of the law. Thev were .,., !
llW .n.l itr.la. . .. -
- r r .
....ci, vu. udu no substitute lo
offer for existing government. They
drew their inspiration froa the beer
keg and the whl,ky bottle. S ..me of
them were convicts across the tea. and
all were men of violence and blood.
The man who compares these murder
ous acouadrels to the Man of Naz ,retb
"i" counseiec obodieuce to
authority. wh. when he .
existing
reviled.
i .. .
i reviiea not azain. who
never res.irt-
fit lo force, who died
with a prater
for his enemies
or a knave.
upon his lips. U a fool
Til K Republicans are still in search of
candidate wl.o can Let t
New York text year.
- - a .
The 31 en The Issue.
It is conceded on all sides that Grover
Cleveland and James G. limine will be
their respective party leaders in the con
test ot next year, and each bas selected
his line of battle. The men and the
reue ar practically accepted.
Mr. Cleveland would be more than
human if, after nerving a term in the
Presidency, he did not accept a prof
fered nomination for re-election, and
Mr. Blaine would be mor than human
if be did not accept a proffered renoroi
nation that travq a chance to retrieve
his defeat of 1SS4. The K-public bas
never yet produced a man who preferred
to retue from the nite House at the
end of one term, or whose apjxrtite for
Presidential honors was not whettled
r y a defeat. Greater men than either
Cleveland or IJiaine hive fretted their
lives away over the disappointments of
Presidential ambition.
The men are, therefore, decided upon
for l'sS-S and both have presented their
respective causes to the people, and
thereby framed the issue on which the
tutttle is to be fought between the po
litical gladiators of When Cleve
land piesenUd his platform of revenue
redaction to Congress and the country,
Mr. Blaine promptly responded from
beyond the seas, defining the issue as
he interpreted it and virtually challeng
ing Cleveland to the combat. Whether
he wou d have said just what he did
say, hud he been in Washington or in
Maine during the last six months may
be doubted ; but be has flung his glove
into the ring and he is there to stay.
Could Mr. Dlaine persuade the
country to accept bis interpretation of
Mr. Cleveland's message on the tar:ff,
be would have an easy victory ; but he
either bad not read the message or
chose not to understand its plain teach
ing when he assumed that be was ac
cepting a battle against free trade.
There is not an important paragraph
of the President's message that does
not emphasize the necessity of reducing
tariff duties in harmony with the posi
tive protection of American labor, and
how can that be bar.nonized with free
trade ? Will Mr. Ula-ne propose to
carry the protection piincip'e beyond
the protection or labor? If so, be
plunges headlong into monoply just
when the country is exceptionally sen
sitive about the growth and oppression
of monoply ; if not, wherein wiil Mr.
I.laine and Mr. Cleveland differ ?
ltoth agree to reduce revenots; both
8gree to protect labor, and how is
the issue to serve Mr. Iilaine unless he
demands the continuance cf a measure
ofsocailed protrctioa that grievously
oppresses labor ?
Mr- Blaine was the forerunner of Mr.
Cleveland in demanding that, coal, salt
and other raw materials should be put
03 the free list, and will be now oppose
the enlargement of the free list in deti
ance of his own teaching ? He has
also preceded Mr. Cleveland in de
manding reduced duties on the necessa
ries of life, and will he now arraign Mr.
Cleaeland for teaching the same theory
to the country ? If he had a free trade
issue to combat, he could j consistent
with himself in antagonizing the Presi
dent ; but 'S the messigeisas distinct
in its antl-fiee trade ideas as any utter
ance that ever came from Mr. Blaine,
he will be in danger of both ll ink and'
rear attacks when he moves upon Mr.
Cleveland's works.
The particular phase of the revenue
issu to be considered by the people,
will largely depend upon ths attitude
and actions of both parties in the pres
ent Co-igres:;, and either party may
easi'y blunder itself to death. The
D.-rnorrats, being the majority, aie
more lik!y to i'av the iic? ures.iuelv
idiotic role than is the Republican min-
only, nut mere is a fair chance for
either to defeat itself. If Congress shall
even up on both sides in wisdom or
folly. Cleveland nn Blaine will have a
fairfiht on the issue that they have
jointly pressed upon the country, with
hopeful leaders and followers on both
sides and tit odds apparently in favor
of Cleveland's hi'tu-rto undimmed star
of fortune. I'hil t. 7i:es.
ortliweleru Tariff Sentiment.
Senator Sabin. of Minnesota, not !onz
ago chairman of the R.-publlcan national
committee, is in accord with the lecom
mendations of the President's message
ii4 fta f VSa raviainn tt (Ka ..-;T 11 .
i , INKsbnr on Ntnr,aV:H
ed hims-lf. In this view the Af
Senator Is a'so in accord with tne R.
publican si;tiinent of his own State
T"1 .... - 1 . . 7 vt . .
aui i .'," r j-res laKs a pos-
j itveeround in approval or the Piesident's
f message, and it may be safely ranked as
; the moat influential journal west of
, C'ucHi?.. and in Chicago, the R-pub'i-I
can Tribune is even more emphatic in
i support of Mr. Cleveland than the St.
; Paul paper. Senator Sibin gets this
j brkine from the Utter paper :
j There is no reason why the reeommendv
I Hons sent to ennuress should not. In the
j niain, te c-tup;ieil with at an early day.
As we have ceen. both pirties are explicitly
roruroitted in favor of tariff reduction
There Is no proposition frnui anv source to
abandon t!ie protective principle. 'Jut the
! tlf"e r-" crme wi.en our luinnracturers
: should hamlt that all tht thev can a-x and
I all that is reeesshry for ff-etive protection
Is such a rfntv as will mi.iii7 ti. ... ..
production here and abroad. They wllUhen
1,8 ",? to h,ll't tl market against mil
comer, while the fompetition that would be
come tttective the moment tht prices were
advanced wiil protect Ihe consumer azaiot
th. exactions of roonopnlis'tic combinations.
To a-.lt more than this i-4 to endanuer the
whole pr,t-cl ve ystem when the Inevitable
reaction ti.all come.
The president's messaee. instead of
makirg a formidable division in the
Democratic lrly. as our lYnnsrlvar.i
protectionists have maintained that it
j wou'd. seems to have consolidated the
Democracy of all sections, and its most
j notic-ahle political effect, asid from
that, hxs been to separate the North-
T.r.-iiriu i.riiiincar.S or four rr
lin 1
S'ates very broadly from their partv of
Pennsylvania and otbr Eastern states, i
Nom is The Time.
Both political parties have been for
seven years promising to stop the collec
tion of a surplus revenue.
TLe Demncra's pledged thrmselves to
do it bv "revising the tariff in a spirit
.,.i j . . ' . -"r
iiiMiri vii an interests.7- Tti i?a.
T"ar for twenty-two years there has !
iTTI "rp1us"an aggregate ,,f si . I
iv1 s, the 8rpu w;.
iur, (KiO.OdO. Thisjear it will be SllO- !
- The ouMet that has relieved 1
Ireasury in the past is clcsd Th-
T'Xm. ib,e .,H,.nd3 -11 P'- 'n July.
ii luiarit r n
. -'ik nui(:ua IS IO
h unite ai luriio- rr.t arA
i. nirtugurate anotner decade of extrav
, aganc-e.
I As the vai tariff cannot stand for
, ever, why not. reduce it now? It can
j be rednced 20 jr cent. nd still leave
I the average duty at S5 per cent as
miTh as it was under the Morrill Tariff
J ft 1'2. It can t reduced :10 per cent
, and leave the averace duty a fraction
i more than It tvas in 1-W. when the war
, aaat its -height and our "infant in
dustries" were a quarter of a century
I yoiiuger than they are now.
j The Preaidant has shown equal sagac
ity and eonrace in forcicg the issue.
He has given to his Administration a
.cv and to his party a rally iUfr cry
The supert jous war taxes on the necess
.... - -i- ib ta
gj
Impending Split in the Republican
Party.
The esteemed Gazette does not alto
gether shot its eyes to the revolution
that is going on in its party at the
West. It cannot well do so. for the
fact is indisputable that President
Cleveland's presentation of the tariff
and surplus questions, instead of divid
ing the Democatic party, as Republi
cans predicted, eeems to have driven a
wedge in the Republican party in the
States west of Ohio. The Gazette savs :
Even at the wors. two or three doubt
ful States of Nonhwest could well be
spared if New York, New Jersey, Indi
ana and Connecticut could be carried
on the protection issue." there
must be something, after all, in the
Western revolt, that invites reconoiter
tng elsewhere. Still the Cuz-ttc avers
there is r.o occasion to fear -the loss of
a Fingle Republican State."
Well that depends When we see
Republicans of Western States in con
vention and through their most inflnen
tial journa's in accord with rresoder.t
Cleveland and we are assured the fight
ing is to be forced on this very isue it
is not extravagant to look for something
in the nature of a political revolution.
The leading Republican ppprs of
Illinois. Minnesota and Nebraska in
dorse the messaee, as we bav hithro
shown by extracts. The Intra State
JUflter the leading Republican paper
in its State, savs that "Mr. Cleveland
will find that the Republican members
of Congress will meet bim half way in
all fair and reasonable measures for the
reduction of the surplus." and that
'tbey are for reducing the tariff to
some extent." The Indianapolis Jour
nal, the chief Republican organ in
Indiana, expresses the hope that the
Rapup'.lcans will prepare and present a
revenue reform measure, and bluntly
declares that "the party cannot content
itself or the country simply with opposi
tion." The Journal quotes Congress
man Browne, the oldest and shrewdest
Republican Congressman from Indiana,
as saying that '"the Republicans will
very generally support; a bill placing
sugar, salt, lumber, and in fact all of
the plain neccessaries of life on the free
list." The Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette is constrained to admit that the
President's course will "perhaps turn
out a cunningstratagem." It says that
"it will not divide the democratic par
ty" that "it is not certain to hurt him
in New York," and most significant rf
all, that "it Las a streak-of help in thH
fact that many Republicans thiuk it
time that the war tariff wa reformed."
Coming east we find the independent
Rpubli'au press of New York and
New England, and even some of the
regulation organs such as the provi
dence Journal and the B jston Adver
tiser if not in entire accord, as the
most of them are. heartily indorsing
essentia' parts of the pdicy laid down
in the message as to avoiding a surplus
by reducing taxation, anj reducing it
on something else than whiiky or to
bacco. We should say the indications are
strong for a split in the R-publicau par
ty of a far greater magnitude than any
prior feud or division Mr. Blaine wiil
be the candidate, and the revenue re
form and tax reduction revolt against
him is likely to b) ba far more poten
tial in ls-vs than the mugwump diver
sion in 1S4. Pitt.-ihnr'j iVf.
A Deluge In China.
Thonsands of People Drowned and .Mill
ious Homeless and Harviuz.
San Fi:.ncico, December l.j,
Chinese papers, jus: received here, cive
details of a disaster occasioned bv the
lewow river ovei u jtvmg lis l-tlikS Hi
the province o) Ilonu. and describe it
as one of the most appalling occurrences
in loss of life and property rtcorded in
recent times. The river broke its banks
on th3 eveninz of S -ptember 2. south
west of the city of Cning Chow, and not
only comnleteiy inundated that riy.
but also 1J other populous cities. The
I whoto area is now a raging sea. 10 to
j : t feet deep, where it was a densely
P - puia eti ana rich pUui. The former
hfd of the Yellow rier is now dry, at-d
the present lake was the ted of theriver
centuries ago. The loss of life is in
calculable, and the sta'ement is marie
by missionaries that millions of Chin-.se
are homeless and starving.
The country was covered with a fine
winter braid, which is gone, and im
plies complete destruction to next year's
crop. "Bread I bread !" is the cry of
thousands, who are on the river iank.
Benevolent people eo in boa's ami throw
bread among the masses here and there,
but it is nothing compared with the
requiremn. The mass of people is
still being iucreased bv continual arriv
als. They sit stunned, hungry and de
jected, without a rag to wear or a morsel
of rood.
aiie governor in IIonsMu rpmrts tn
; the throne that
'nearly all the pop!
; nave imen drowned in tha ,ii.t,,,f
reached by the water, the sirvivrs be
mg thos who escaped to the hith
ground oi took refuge in trees where
; they remained till thev weie rescued "
This gives but little impression as to
j w ha the extent of the disaster really is.
i rT-u"4 C,,i",i!C Timessiys in the province
orChilh., where disastrous inundation
havealsj occurred, there are 270 000
people homeless, representing those
whose l.ves were destroyed, and adds
that the misery in that province is
! trifling as compared with that cansd
j by the Huacgo Ho or the Yellow river.
The extent of ground swept over by the
overwnelming fl K,d given in JlDgllsti
iisureM ii over ..out) square milts. The
land thus submerged formed a part of
one of the richest and most densely
populated plains of Northern China
The necessity for liberal aid may
therefore be imafrinpl A irjn
bijDi'i nave teen
t i . i . . -
p- "?' or offerer-. The
f?."1 2.000.UU0
ion ircmpiu r ixa o. .1
subscr'ption lists in Snanghi, to which
oreiguer3 have liberally subscribed.
A wealthy land owner in the State
rTNewlork has tendered Mr. Henry
.ei.rea tract of eight thousaud acres
. i?-JJan1 in th1 S'ate on which to
establish a colony and carry out hie
peculiar land theories. It may be this
wealthy owner of real estate, like a eood
many more persons similarly situated
hnds it cheaper to give away someof his
superfluous acres than to retain them
uu t'y me raxes. However this
ma v
e. uerrt IS AM ,irvnrt nn it
'PDortunif v
(jeorge and McGlynn to put iu practice
their peculiar views. Thcs
ile3ars.
. -A111' Vews- These eight thous-
.. "" "ujjnt l. !''"Vi le homes for
;:."u"uu. no accord,Ug
to Mr.
, . ' uu?'-1 lo Income
Irosper-
1 y' , ln:s !""" i3 'oode. and
"rr"'""'ru taps Mr.
fillet II. . . . . : J
;-"- "-"j i:ot want that kind,
but may profr improved real estate,
rentf d out at a handsome figure. "We
car. only wait and watch what comes
out of a1! this If these tendered lands
are not quickly seizfd upon by a land
hungry people, we shall Fuspect the
followers of the new gosi so fiin.
cere as thev profess to be.
The Vrrdirl I nanhunn t.
W.I). Suit, druacisr, Iiirpu. Ind, testi
fies .- ! can recommend K rtric Bitters as
li e very be.-t reined v . Eeiy tH.:tle sold
has jjiven relier in everv c o.-,e man
MoSf.:K hottJes. and was cured of rheun a
ti.ni of H years Maiidin." Ahrham Hare.
drUMirt. Uelleville. (lino, aiamis: "The
''J'i"1 p''1''f!e I have ever handled In
rV ?0 vrs'eaperience. is Flectric Hitters
Thousands of other l.av ad Jed their test'i
no..v. s.i tiat the verdii-t is unanimous that
tl-ctr.c Dittos do cura all diseases of the
liver, kiduexs or blood. Only a half dyllar
a bottle at K Jauies" dru' s're
F.WS AD OTHER
In Lebanon couutv, Ta., last week a
big hawk caugtit a young siunk and carried
it for some distance, finally dropping it in
di?gn?t.
The Great Eistern, which originally
cost f3.500,000, and waa sold avearaeofor
125.000, bas again neen told at auction In
Liverpool for 1 100.000.
Miss Rose Munson. of Birmingham,
Mich., is a pretty good-sized girl of her age.
She is only 13, but she tips the beam at 209
pounds and Is growing.
Tbe owl Is retarded by many of the
Congo tribes as a bird of ill omen. It Is be
lieved to hear an evil spirit, capable of in
citiug au enemy to do luiacbief.
The Chester, S. C, local paper an
nounces the marriage of William Aiken, a
colored man claiming to be 103 years old, to
a young widow of .": years named Susan
Vatson, both of Chester county.
The orange tree and tbe lemon are both
descended f rem tbe citron. The history of
tbe or an lie tree is said to date back to tbe
crusades, the returning Pilcriins carrying it
Into Europe TOO or tvjo years ago.
John Owen Snvder, tbe famous "walk
ine man" of Mill (irove, Ind., is dead, lie
had walked almost constantly, nititt and
day, for three years, and his path around
his bouse was worn to a deep furrow.
The bodifs of tbe four Anarchists who
were hanged November 11th in Cbicago, as
well as that of Lincg, were p aced in their
final re-tini? place in Waldheini Cemetery
on last Sunday. There was no disorder.
I.ightniDg struck a basket of eggs in a
farmyard Jiear Meriden, Miss., not h-.ngaeo,
and a man who witnessed the descent of
the electric fluid solemnly declares that it
hatched out chickens from several of the
eggs.
Charles Whitsett. a half-witted boy,
aged 13 years, went out waiklng one day
last week at Columbus. Ark., with bis
brother, aced 9 years, and his sister. azd 6
years, and cut off the heads of both Tvith a
teree knife, which he showed his mother on
bis return.
While a lady at Xnia, )., was prepar
ing feed for her chickens recently the dia
mond in her enjaeement ring drorped into
the mixture, and tbe loss was not noticed
until the feed bad been eaten by tbe fowls.
It became necessary to massacre 10ch:eltens
before the stone was found, but it was
found at last.
Mrs. Hogarth, of First avenue. New
York, was visited tbe other day by a woman
who is one of her neichors. They creeted
each other cordially, embracing and kiscing.
While the visitor had one of her arms
around Mrs. Hogarth's neck she put her
hand in that lady's pocket and totk a pock
etbook containing
In many portions of Idaho, Nevada and
Wycoiuing tbe rabbits are so numerous lliat
they are becoming almost as great a placue
as in Australia. The proprietors of a large
ranch are giving boys 5 ceiits a piece for
killing them, and some of ttie boys earn as
much as ?3 each per day. The dead rabbits
are fed to hogs to fatten them.
A gentleman writing frcm riivir-pe,
Mexico, the scene of tho earth-quakes, says
tbe entire town has been destroved and
many persons killed. The provisions and
supplies provided by tha State and fiorn
j private sources ate exhausted and tbe entire
j vicinity is destitute of provisions and clotb
j ing, and unless aid is furnished soon tliey
J mas starve.
At Chicago, on Saturday last, Ji.t.n,
j Samuel and James Littlejohn, farmers from
D'k-jta, advanced six bundled dollars teu
poran! to a sopposfd stockman, whose
acquaintance tbey made on the train. He
gave them as security a thousand dollar
government bond. In the evening, when
he failed to keep his appointment to returu
to them, they learned tbat tbe bond was a
counterfeit.
Kangtroo leather bas became so decid
edly popular for t-boes that fJ.Ot'O s-kins are
received and tanned in Newark alone each
week. Hut tbat means most of tbe skins
used . for tt.ey are t-ent all over the world
from the Jersey tanneries. One result is
that kangaroo hunters in Australia are mak
ing money. They get 70 cents a pound or
hkin-, and some of them clear from f J.ono to
?l.0oo a year.
A Jl hi!! was received at the redemption
bureau, in Washington, the other day, with
j a statement attached tbat it had been px
I posed to contagious disease, and, although
j fumigated, had better receive careful hand
I ling. When the young woman who re
j ceiyed it read tbe warning. It Is told, she
I dropped tbe bill with a scream, which
brought nfty other yonng women in the
division crowding around her desk.
A telegram from Kansas City. Mo., says
that W. II. Orinfer, a well-known stock
man, of Mnnice, Kansas, and W. II. liiq'ja.
j a wealthy citizen of Kort Scott, were hunt
I Ing in the wilds of Ozirk cmnty on S.itur-
day of last week. H'.qua mistook (Jrinler's
j head for a wild turkey and s3nt a load of
! buckshot Into him. Orinter, supposing it
had been done purposely, became enraged
i anl returned the fire, killing Uaqua instant
ly. Grinter died half an hour afterward.
The sudden appearance of water in
many wells in southern Wisconsin that hve
been perfectly dry since the drouth of last
sumrm r has caused no little wonder among
the people. Wells are filled abuost to tbe
top; streams run In abundance from side
hills and from springs that have long bopn
dry, and tbe creeks ard small rivers, whoso
beds bave b.'eu dry for months, are gradu
ally rising and bid Tair to become formida
ble streams. Tha phenomenon occurred
during the night.
James Itankin. a young farmer, living
i near broken Row, Nebraska, started out
j for a hunt on December 10:t., in a sleigh
ben he reached the woods his double
barrelled shotgun slipped off the seat, and
in attempting to draw it towards bim the
hammer caught and both loads were dis
cbaiged into his heart. Tbe remains were
I discovered on Wednesday. His rluht band
still he'd the reins firmly, and the horses
were standing at the edge of a deep ravine.
They had been without food since tbe
accident occurred, and had gnawed the
sleigh-tongue nearly through.
Pretroleum was known to the ancient
(Ireeks and Unmans. On the island of
Znte is a spring, referred to by Herodotus,
which must have been flowing over 2.0rX)
years. The Indians, and ntterward tbe
pioneer white settlers, found this oil in New
York and Pennsylvania, and it was long
i known as Seneca oil, from tha Seneca In
I dians, who gathered it from the surface of
j the springs and sold it as a medicine. Tbe
j first important oil "strike." however, was
J made by Colonel E L. Drake on Oil creek,
near Titusviiie, August tMth, 1S.-.9. The
j development of Pennsylvania's oil fields
j dates from that time.
! A wKd animal piesumably one which
escaped fr.mi Da mum's big show during tbe
recent Bridgeport fire bas done much
damage to domestic animals during the past
few day s in Putnam and upper Westchester
counties. N" Y. In Putnam countv tbe
! beast has killed a score of pigs and several
j dos. eaten a number of eheep and frightened
J a good many hr.rses. On Monday night oT
j last wefk it killed a large ox belonging to
i Daniel II. Ouitin and devoured nearly half
01 11. 1 lie ex was in the pasture when it
was attacked. The people io tbe vicinity
are con-'r'eraqly excited, and s.13 e of the
more dsrinc hunters are preparing to go
out ia starch ot the depicJator.
Go to GEIS, FOSTER
Carpets, Mattings, Rugs,
Oilcloths, Linoleum, Lace Curtains, Featht
Turcoman Curtains, Madras Curtain Goods, etc.,
unequaled and prices the lowest.
A telegram from San Francisco says
L-e Way, the Chinaman killed In a fac
tiutial fjuanel Detween the 15o Sin Seer and
(iie Sin Ser-r Societies, was buried on
Thursday of last week. TLe fac!in to
wblch he belonged mad-j a great demon
stration and invited an attack from tbe
enemy, but th-j poiioa were out in force ard
had a (iatling gun iu readiness to quell a
strdet battle. All white persons were warn
ed to keep out ot Chinatown. Tbe grave of
Lee Way was covered with offrrings of
roast duck and pork and baskets of rice,
while handsful of money were thrown in
the huge fire by the grave to give the
slaughtered partisan a good start in the
other world.
One day last wcik while William Mc
Coimnck was wandering on the beach at
St. Martin's New Drunswiek, 1)9 stumbled
over some object. The ringing sound that j
followed prompted hiiu to ma clo3 ex
amination, when he was astonished to fine
tbat it was a piecs of luetal resembling a
pot, which the action of the f-ea had re
moved tbe f tones fiom. On digging down
his eyes were greeted with tbn sparkle of
gold. He carried bis prize home and called
in his friends to share Lis good luck It is
alleged tbat the total value of the 2nd was
M'.i.OoO. Only two persorjs are acquainted
with tbe location of the treasr.re. One of
these said it was in the shape of spade
guinras, beaiiLg dite ITGj.
Ida Sinedley and Jim Phiilips, the noto
rious counterfeiter, were taken to Scranlon
on Saturday by United S'ates Marshal Her
ring and lodged in jail their to await trial
at tbe March term of the United S;a-es
Court in that city. They were arrested at
Sunburry for complicity in counterteitini;
operations which have been going 011 for
some months past in Ilarr'bvirg, Iti-ading,
Pottsville. Erie and otl er towns in ibis;
State. Judson Walcott and .!-. llrlon, nf
Dunkirk. X. Y.. and (iarrett Van Antwerp, j
of U;ica. X. Y., members ot the same gang, '
who were captured xecently, ae In j :l at j
Wi:ke-L5.ir:e. "an Antwerp claims that tie 1
was not corrected with the others in tbt ir ;
operations. He was caukbt in the act of '.
dealing ir. and pajitig out spuiiutis five-,
cent p:eces. i
Ileal tl of t lie i hirst Cow in I tie World.
The Jersey cow Kuiotas, registered in tbu j
herd book the American Jersey (V.ile
Club as No. ' 4"t, bas foi years made D.irl- ;
ington the Mecca of all lovers of tha cow j
who desired to set) her in her highest per-
lection. Her rtcoid of 77s pounds and a j
few ouuees of butter made within twelve j
months was for years the highest record j
made, and the en y of all who were eavrerly j
striving to pos-ers tile best en iu the I
world. Hundreds of people i:nv visit -d
this place to look at the iu..,eri oi the bu tt-r j
tut), who bas lately died, ller worth not .
only consisted of berown wonderful aebieve -
merit, but as well ia her puwcis tj transmit 1
her good 'jualdies to her progeny, which j
have sold at fabulcus prices. One calf at j
fourteen week old scld for 12,roo, ard the I
owner of her oldest son is currently reported 1
to have ret used f J" 000 for bir.i. 'Vi 'n san;e
onir.ial cailed tha iJair) of DrHn.'ton. is the
sire of a lotig hat of faujor.s butter j rod ucei s. I
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Winter rrnrniiottratiani. I
Turtles have been di-covered ltvibadded ;
only nine inches in the 111 ml. hence the win
ter will be a iigt:t one. An old res.;det:t.T
down in Cumberland county has found the
discolored bead of a larg. s;ik iu the giz- .
zr 1 of a her. ; therefore the w inter will tie
a hard one- When nails, horse-shoes. Hat i
irons, etc., are found at this season of the j
vear in the gizzird of the well regulated
hen, it is an unfailing sign that the winter '
w ll be a hard one. The man who gts rjt
j his f auare and compass and takes the lati-
luiid ;tu;i iniiiiu'ie 01 uie men. 111 i'ie uuicu- 1
cred hosr lias not hen so scientifically in
dustrious as usual this season, hut enouih
has been cleaneii to show that the melt this
ear is situate one decree due north of the
; call, piiintirid thence three degrees westerly
' to a rib. Hencei the winds will b? tiortli-
I wes'nriv. stroni? Rnd crilil tit hrUU if::e,
to northwesterly and from thence !o noith,
ai d t'leiice down over tfii? fence nn l out.
n the other hand it r-as ha show n that the
I cucumber seeds have been more oblonij than
! usual this year, that the hickory-nut shucks
have been thin and the covering of the on
ions loofi and batBV and cut low in tile
neck. The winds, therefore, will be liuht
1 and low and the winter as open as a barn.
j Very little oil is observed to slick to tha
j feathers or the ducks that bathe in Oil
j Creek this month ; hence the ice gorge at
1 the Ttynd farm next si ring will be ereater
j or less, as the case may be. Oilier indiea
I tions equally rehablu u.'iuht be) tiwd, but
these will tufiico for the piescnt, Oi '.''
Liii-.zard .
ALMOST TOII IIKi Hilt TI'E ('Alt.
How Hie I.atevl liine liinriiiu Atlrar
1 1 oil finally Uraelirl Ihe ily.
rHii.Aiu.i'HiA, December IS. Macaie
Ilizelton, tha bitcebt woman Trenton ever
produced, lias arrived iu this city. For
many years Miss Haz?lton had but two
wishes. The fir-it was a desire to tie her
own shoes, an incident of her toilet she
could not accomplish, owing to the fact
that she measured inches around the
place where tne wait ouyht to be. The
second was a desire to visit the Centenniaj
city, which was also fru-trated in its ac
complishment, owning to her weighing '.tOO
pounds. Yesterday, through ti e ingeMjjry
f .Mannuer Ilradenbure aud tlie eneigy of
many i'ei'nsylyariM Itiilroad emplojees,
the 'Memey Lily," as Miss llszeitou has
beer, rhristt'-ned, was brought to this city.
At Trenton a t-pteia! baugag: car was In
waiting and, accoiupauied by her mother
and sister, both p;easant-ijoking w.imen,
the Jersey I.Hy was assisted to th.j top of
a baggage truck, floored with thick planks.
The accommodations being extremelv prim
itive, the young woman refused to triVi 1 in
it ard was accordingly, after much r juet z
ing and hysterical tditit-ks, pushed itito a
regular passenger car of tlie new K:istuke
model, having a door three feet wide. The
crowd at the depot caz-d upon this free ex
hibition of the departing 'freak" witj un
frtenily mirth atul ironical cLiers.
At thU end of the line a storage van. with
a padded Int. rior, wa t. n for tha "Lily,"
who an ived tu ttn 4 1 train at,d was re
ceived by an immense crowd. She was
dropped down the bagcace eievator to the
dark lecetis where ttui.ki are stored and
Irotu thence led to tha Muragw wagon.
Around the dor (several pol.ceuien stood
beatu.jj jack the crowd, who were ns curi
.)is a- a tii.-oi'.- an.uiti a p:il:ce van wait
ing tj bee a c .idem:i: d criminal j;j !u exe
cution. jIish lit Hon is ' i years oil
necr 1lh on cxhioitivu bru u-,
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