afliiia xcsmm. EBNSBURC. PA.. FRITH Y VVV 111 CIUIAI," " I Lb, looo. Tue great coal companies hare Im ported twenty thousand uniiecessary laborers into the anthracite region within the last twelve years. They are now reaping their harvest. Tubs New York Tribune publishes a carefully prepared estimate of the proba ble population of the United States at th present time, and puta it at sixty two and a half millions, an increase of orer tea millions since the census of lSvSO. The Tope has requested Cardinal Simeoni to advise the Irish Bishops to preach to the people of Ireland respect for the law aud to maintain a calmn and piudent line of conduct. The I'ope has also announced bis intention of sending to Ireland a permanent Apos tolic Legate. The English Parliament re-asjembled on yesterday. Its proceedings will be watched with more than usual interest and nowhere will the manifestation of Jtiat Interest be so intense as in unbap Iy, but always hopeful Ireland. Justice to Ireland is the la3t thing that a Tory administration, such as the present one of Lord Salisbury, will ever consent to. Let us hope, however, that seme method may be discovered by which Salisbury and his Tory henchmen may be sup pressed. The weight of opiuion among the Democratic members of Congress is that the National Democratic Convention will be held two weeks earlier than that of the Uepubllcaus. As the Republican Convention will be held at Chicago on the l'.Cb of June the Democrats will therefore meet on June 5th. and Chica go will most likely be fixed upon as the place to bold the Convention. Both inestions will be settled when the Na tional Committee meets at Washington on the 2 1 of the present month, a week from next Wednesday. The employes in the Uochester N. Y, shots factories have just concluded a three months strike at an estimated loss in wages and savings of JToO.OOO. It will take two yars of saving to re pair damages. The loss of the manu facturers in rejected orders and custom turned away has also been very heavy. Their trade has been permanently injured. The strikers will return to work at tha wages they might have earned all the time they have been idle. Was there ever conceived a more bung ling and costly method of arguing the wages question ? Ix pursuance of a resolution adopted by the House at Washington, the Speak er has appointed a committee of live members to investigate the rteadioff Kilroad strike and also the strike of tha miners of the Reading Iron and Coal Company. Governor Curtin at the head of a Congressional Committee under took to icvestigate the troubles on Jay Gould's SoutL-Wfstern Railroad a lit tle less than two years a?o, but it didn't amount to anything .Ve do not thiDk that this new Committee will accom plish anytbicg more satisfactory than resulted from Curtin's investigation. The Committee of the Knights of Labor, consisting of three representa tive member? of the organization, again appeared before Attorney Genera! Kiikpatrick at Harrisburg on yesterday week, and presented to him a petition containing facts to the effect that the Reading Railroad Company is violating the Constitution of the State by engag ing in the business of mining coal. The Attorney General read the paper and then referred to the legal points involv ed, strongly hinting that the Railroad Company had acquired the right to mir.e and transport coal by an Act of the Legislature passed prior to the adoption of the new Constitution. He promised the Committee to carefully inquire into tne matter and then render h's decision The romantic friendship, something akin to tl at of Damon and Pythias, which existed between Henry George and Dr.McGlynn ever sinco they pooled their issues and inaugurated the Anti Poverty crusade, has been suddenly brought to an end. The cause of the rupture seems to be in the first place, that McGlync is convinced that George is not a statefman but a mere politician and a mighty poor one at that. It la not stated what opinion Geortre eater tains of McGlynn, but it my be assum ed that it is ditto to that of MiG'ynn about George. Ic U definitely sated in the second place, and this we thick is the true cause of the dissolution of the firm, that George is opposed to an Anti-Poveity candidate being nomin ated for the Presidency, while Mc Glynn is resolutely in favor of it. This question of a candidate will be settled at a Convention of the United Libor party to be held in New York sometime iu April. 'The War of the Rebellion," said General Daniel E. Sickles the other evening in New York, "was really a whisVy ar. Yes, whisky caused tho rebellion. I was in the congress preceding the war. It was whisky in the morning the morning cocktail a congress of whisky drinkers. Then whiaky all day ; whisky and gatcbliag all night. Drinks befora congress opeiied Us morning ses sion, uriuks before it adjourned. Scarcely a committee room without its demijohn of whisky, at.d the clink ct the glasses could Le beard in the capitol corridors. The fights the angry speeches were whisky. The atmos phere was tedoleot with whisky nerv ous excitement seeking relief in wnieky, and whisky adding to nervous ex-iite-rncut. Yts, the rebellion was launched iu whisky. It the French assembly were to drink some morning one-half the whisky consumed in any one day that eotigrews. Franca would de ctre war ;iga:tst Germany iu JO miu tr.es. " The contested election case of Lowe ry. Democrat, against White, liepubH can, from the Twelfth Indiana district, was finally disposed of by the House at Washington on Monday las, by adopt- I - . . . m m . . . i "K "wiuujo 10 laroroi nue, ine , sitting member, retaining his sat, by a vote of 1ST yeas to 10 nays, over forty Democrats voting in the affirmative. The otfy s;urabling block in White's otherwise clear path was the fact that being a Scotchman by birth he failed to produce the record of his naturalization. which be alleged took place in the All en county court in Indiana in For a similar failure Albert Gallatin, a native of Switzerland, in Ibr, early days of the Republic, and General Shields, au Irishman, at a much more recent period were both refused their seats in Congress. If White was naturalized in 1808, as he alleged, it was a most sineu lar proceeding on his part to go into a court in Indiana on the day before his election last November a year and take out his final papers. This last net is wholly inconsistent with his claim that he bad been naturalized in ISoS. As White has been awarded bis sea. any further discussion of the matter now is useless and a mere waste of time. The precedent is a dangerous one and may in some future case lead to serious trou ble. Apart from this consideration suppose.for a momenr,thac White was a Democrat aad the Ittpublcans bad a majority in the House with Thaddeus Stevens, who never had a political con science, as their leader. What chance would be have had of retaining his seal ? None at all, as a score of irstan ces during the days that Stevens lorded it over the House, and many since then incontestibly prove. The Democrats in the House, however, preferred to give White the benetit of a doubt in regard to nis citizenship rather than score a victory by turning him out of his seat. The Washington l'vxt charges that Republican senators are introducing pensioQ bills that no Republican senator would vote for if he believed bis vote would make them laws. "Ie happens," says the rw'that there is a Democratic majority in the house of representatives and a Democratic President in the Whita House ; and there is, also, a a presidential campaign on the bills for thib year. Under these circumstances it occurs to some of the Republican lead ers in and out or the Senate that it will be a good thing to compel Democrats to defeat pension bills. These leaders have gotten the consent of their able minds to tne theory that there is politi cal capital for their party in such a course. Hence we see all kinds of wild and reckless pension schemes brought forward in the senate. Such measures ought not to pass the Democritic house, and c.rtsinly cannot pass the White House while a Democratic President holds the fort." The sponsors of thisj bills forget that, like other citizens, th ex-soldiers have a fair share of coramou sense. They see through this pn ject and appreciate its true inwarduess. They are manly euough to have a ! wLo,MU(ne contempt for the arts of demagogues, and to respect the faithful performance of duty such a duty as that of defeating r iJs on the treasury. The benevolent effjrts of William E. Chandler, the New Hampshire dema gogue in the United Scales Senate, to protect the negroes iu certain Southern States m their right or suff age which he assumes they don't now erjor, are not meeting with the enthusiastic in dorsement by the colored people of that section which he anticipated. Florida is one of the states which Chandler pro poses to take under his protecting wing through Federal interference in her elections for the ostensible beuefit of the black voters. It is the same State in which he acquired such an immortality of infamy in stealing her three electoral votes in ITiJ and foisting Hays into the White House. The S-mthern Ltu-lrr, a Republican piper, published by colored men at Jacksonville, Florida, seems to have taken the proper measure cf Chandler and to estimate him at his proper worth. Speaking of his election bill that piper says : The rsce has enemies In all parties, and we are alwavs ready to Are at them, wheth er they be found among Democrat. Repub licans or Knight of Labor. We are oppos ed to political tricksters like Bill ChaLdler. because that class of Republic? n leaders would wink at the slaughter or five hundred negroes In the South in order to Ineute a solid It-publican North, ir this political pigmy becomes the chief boss of the Repub lican party, the re election of Cleveland Is a foregone conclusion. The mission of the party ends Just where Chandler begins. Henry C. Bowes, editor of the J)hhj,ni,hnt, published in Brooklyn, N. Y. the organ of the Congregational Church in this country, gives notice to the Republican managers that if Blaine is again nominated that paper will op pose him as !t did in the last Presiden tial contes Mr. Boweo ictim ites that although he and those who acted with him voted for Cleveland in lv4. they do not feel like doing so again if some acceptable Republican is nominated, but that they prefer Clevetaod to B'aine all the time. The only conclusion to be drawu from this manifeito in B owen's paper, and it is only one of scores of similar instances all over the North, is that Blaine will encounter the same elements of opposition In his own prty In 1S that ht did in .M. It is for this reason that ihe Democrats want to ate him nominated so that ther may be given another oppcrtuUty to consign him so deep to his political grave that there can be lo resurrec tion. NeauDow, the apostle of Prohibi tion in Maine, supported Blaine when be was a candidate in K-M, but he says he won't do so this year if Blaine is nominated. In an interview with hira last week he said : "Mr. Blaine is per sonally a temperanco man and a Prohi bitionist. I voted for him in vu t hi,.t. ing that if be were elected ths Republi- , can party would recover the contldence and respect of the country. I shall not vote for bim in the cominir election win in the Hie time o' t' e R-rnVi ... party." " Im?1 UJ'JtJU Labor liiut In Pittsburg. riTTaiiun;,Feb. 0. There was blood shed Saturday evening as the result of the non-unionizing of the Solar Iron Works of Clarke Co., on Penn avenue. The mill bad been idle for two months because the firm and employes differed on the question Df allowing William Simms, a roller, to retain two jobs. The woikmen wanted Simms to divide the work with another man. Simms still holds the fort and savs be has been admitted to the firm. Friday morning the mil! was- filled with non-union ne groes, tne ruiaaces ngnieu, ana me machinery set iu motion. Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock work ceased for the week, and eighty of the cegroes, escorted by a score of police men, started for their homes. They were followed by a crowd of about three hundred men and boys. A rhort dis tance away from the mill one of a crowd of boys threw a brick, which bit a po liceman. Nearly all the negroes drew revolvers and fired at the boys. A po licemen also tired one shot, and the boys scattered in all directions. Joseph Kenna, aged seventeen, was found un concious in the street. He was shot in the face. Two other boys are said to have been wounded and spirited away by their companions. One of the escort ing policemen grappled with the negro who shot Kenna, and, after -a severe tussle, took his weapon from bim. He did not arrest him, and afterwaid told his Lieutenant, who censured him, that be had forgotten to do so. There has been no further troabie at the Solar Iron Works, the scene of the serious outbreak, on Saturday. The mill was closed yesterday, but started up this morning with an increased force of non-union men. Over one hundred men, all colored, are now at work, aud the firm expects to have every depzrt ment in operation within the next few days. The mills and yards are closely guarded by sentinels and policemen, and no persoc, not even a boy. is allowed upon the premises unless be can prove he has business there. The strikers are very bitter, and another collision is feared when the non-union men leave the mill this evening. Those in author ity and those who bave the coolest heads advise the workiegmen to not molest nor interfere with the colored men, but otbeis cry for revenge. They threaten death to the nou nulon men and hint of the firing of the mill. Young Kenna. who was shot on Sa:ur day, is believed to be out of danger. In compliance with a request from the proprietors of tn Solar Iran Works for protection. Sheriff McCandless issued a proclamation to-day ordering the riot ers to disperse and keep the peace under peualty of arrest and imprisonment. The strikers, however, continued lo loiter about the mil uulil noon, when they were ordered away by a 6quad of police. Somebody iu the Woodpile. Tlio talk about the negro exodus to South America is increasing. It is to be noted that, while all the misery and oppression which, it is said, give rise to the movement prevail at the South, the planning is done in the North. An al leged "wealthy colored philanthropist" residing in Tojwk, Ku.. has been to the Argentine Republic, and reports it ready lo receive with open arms the col ored population ot the United States generally. "Thousa&ds upDti thousands" of cegroes at the Sou'h are Hacking to the standard of emigration, he says, and arrangements have b-en "about com pleted' w ilh a Boton line of steamstmts to transport them from that cityto their destination at $14 r passenger. Tne sagacity which collects multitudes of colored people in the South and takes them to Bvtsiou o eo to Brazil and the ArgrntiLe Republic speaks for itself. There will iw about three hundred thousand n-ady to srart in the spring, adds t'je Kansas Moses. As it will take somewhere between Gve hundred and one thousand steamship loads to ac commodate this number, we are suffi ciently interested in America shippiuz to be curious us to the name ot the Bos ton Hue that can undertake this con tract. There is a pjssibility that there is a swindling scheme on foot which will, if unchecked, result in the t Miction of many ignorant people, not to mention the humbugging of wealthy donors de siring to do good in the world. There would be real philanthropy in investi gating th matter. A scheme of colonizition on a large scale is utterly impracticable, and there must be either follv or knavery at the bottom of it. A", i". Worhl. Dr. John Murray of the Cfmllrnmr contributes to the, Scottish. Geographical Maijttzinc for January an instructive paper "On the Height of the land and . Depth of the Ocean. " After a careful ' comparison of the most recent surveys, he concludes that the mean height of the land Is 2,2.10 feet, or more than t twiee the height given by Humboldt in . the b-ginning of the century. The lat '. ter's error probably consisted mainly in ; underestimating the height and extent of the great Central-Asian plateau, of ' which nearly a million square miles arn at an elevation of over i2 000 feet, 7.S0 0 milts being above 21.000 feet. The t mean depth of the sea. on the other . hand, is 12.4S0 feet, the deepest seas as well as the highest land being I is the torthern hemisphere. It is a curious fact that while !0 pr cent, of the land is lower than 0 000 feet, only 17 pr cent, of the eea is shallower than this. 6o that if tho surface of the whole buuu iauu euouia - De reauc?a to one level under the ocean, then the surface or the earth would be covered by an ocean with a uniform depth of about two miles." Congressman Hayes, of Iowa, some time ago refus-d to present a peti tion asking that a prohibitory law be passed in the D.str'ct of Columbia and was sutsequently confronted with the nonsensical charge of having "denud the right of petition." Now no'.e Con gressman Hayes' straightforward an swer to this charge. ! repeat," he writes with reraarkall vigor, -'that for the peop'e of Iowa to petition Con gress as to local concerns in the District of Columbia is t-fficious meddling of the most offensive character, whether it applies to the conduct of particular classes of busicess or other local mat ters, and that tio person combining in telligence with discrimination, delicacy and a fair amount of that finer feeling that prompts true men and women to attend to thir own affairs. will ever right of indulge In it." As for the petit iou which Mr. ilayis is charged with having denied, he goes on to show that it is a right guaranteed "for a re dress of grievaaces." which cannot "by any just process rf reasoning be made t cover busy bodyism or meddling." Congressman Hsyes. of Iowa, bas a level bead. 1'hila. Tn.ia. Rhode Islami Las i'ist iti.i 1 of its decennial census of which ! irives the s-.te a population of 304 24. ! lthiMlf Tlr it tev.Md .... - - ! in the Union in the density or its ,u! J lation-211 to ihe sonar- mil-' I mere are oniy live, countries in the wrl 1 ! . , rA ... .rl" S"m,?r.?' .. I " . . I " ----- v uii v axilla I J Kt7 Hj nil. 1 lotion to the square mile for the whole I l'DilJ States would give It a popula- : iu. ueig.um has 4S1 I lion of S40.0O0.CW0. 7 Japan I hese itie the only couutnes that exceed little Rbody's The Hard Condition vf the Men ow on a Strike i0 Cents a Day. The condition of things is of course laigely due to the present strike, but even when the men are at work thej live miserable hand-to-mouth Iires. Something like OBe-third of the strikers are outside men that is, they do pot work Inside of the mines and help to load coal at the breakers. These men bave been getting for years only 90 cents a day, and not even steady work at that. Most of them bave supported wives and childreu upon 00 cents a day. Now. if a political orator should de clare in Cooper Institute or the Acad emy of Music mat the pauper laborers of Europe were paid but IU cents for working in midwinter ten bouis at the hardest and most disagreeable kind of work, there would be a terrific roar of applause at the excellent point which the speaker had made in favor of a high tariff. But this is not in Europe. I bave gone from shanty to shanty all the afternoon and bave seen with my own eyes magnificent specimens of manhood who for years and years have been get ting 00 cents a day at the minss. This is uot a local affair ; it is the same all through the vast Lehigh coal region, where the soil is supposed to be peculiar ly blessed by custom-house protec tion. . . . Within a stone's throw of the Hazle ton mines I entered a sbauty and found an outside man sitting in a oare little room with his wife, bis gray hailed mother and bis children. For two years I bave received only 10 cents a day from A. Pardee & Co.," he said. "How bave I lived ? God only knows. What bave I bad to eat ? Flour and coffee. Just what the Knights of La bor are giving me. I get more to eat now than I did when I was at work. That's God's truth. Meat? Why, Sir, there bas been no meat in this bouse for many a long month. The men at the mines cannot afford meat only once in a wbtle. When I used to bave meat once a week I was a proud man. Out of my 00 cents a day I bad to pay almobt every cent back to the company for rent and coal and flour and so on. These operators own everything you can see about the country. They own our homes, they own the land we walk on, the tools we buy. the cloth and everything but one. They doD't own our souls. No, by God, they don't. They may starve us aud cheat us, bnt we are still men." llazhton (Pa.) httcr in Atf York Jltrald, Jan. 2U. THE 1'KOi'LE WAXT VISION. TAK1FF KE- The Sober Words of au Iowa Republican Protection Organ. It cannot be too strongly urged by the Republicans of ih country upon the Republicans in Congress that an aggres sive Republican policy in regard to the surplus and reduction of taxation and tariff should be adopted atouce and vig orously pushed. It is not enough in the minds of the R?puolicau people simply to antagonize the Democratic policy and party negatively. They want an affir mative and aggressive Republican par ty The people want reduction in taxa tion and all public burdens wherever it is possible aid practicable reduction in internal revenue taxes wherever it can be done safely and reduction in tariff whenever it is practicable and the American policy protecting American industries will permit. They want positive, direct and mate rial reductions, both in taxes and taiiff. They do not want a policy of defense of the surplus and a policy to project legis lation, which will require appropriations large enough to prevent the accumula tion of surplus ;n the Treasury hereaf ter. They want a new system of inter nal revenue taxation or decided reduc tions under the present system, and they j want such reduction in tariff and the placing rf enough articles on the free list to make a lower system of taxation, and one which will prevent a surplus, not one which will deviss means to spend it after it has accumulated. The people, in other words, waut reduction, uot any new policy to spend more money. They are willing to pay all that the gov ernment needs for its expenses and willing to pay it freely. But they do not want to pay a cent of tax not needed by the government or for the protection of honest American interests. We hop to see some of ur Iowa men id Con gress very soon take up this work and press it forward on the line of reduction. Reduction is the first thing. How to makeitmo3tsafely to all American inter ests is the next thing. The Republican party is pledged to this programme. Its last National platform pledged it direct ly and explicitly. The pledge bas r.ot yet beeu redeemed. There are only a few mouths left in which to redeem it bifore the election of another Presi dent. If it is going iuto the Presiden tial campaign expecting to win it most go in with its promises of reduction of tax and the removal of inequalities in the tariff honestly and frankly redeem ed. I-j'ca Stale llejislcr Hep. The Burning Question. There is one thing uion which Dem ocrats and Republicans, Free-traders and Protectionists, Labor men and Pro hibitionists ought to be agreed : The revenues of the Government nhould be lim ited to its tictttal need. Th Government has no right to col lect S103 OOO.OuO as it did last year, or S140,lu,000 as it wil! do this year, be! yond tts necessities. "Unnecessary taxation is unjust taxa tion." A Treasury surplus is the parent of extravagance. Had the Government's revenues uot been In excess of its needs does anybody suppose that Congress would bave pro posed to double the already enormous pension list, to scatter S"0 000, WW in aiding schools which the States are abundantly able to support, or to apply S10.OtO,tKX in "Improving" sucker brooks aud flat boat bayous Tf It was tho "overflowing Treasury" that invited the charge ot the legisla tive looters. It is the surplus now in the Treasury that will incite Coneress to institute jobs and schemes that would perpetu ate the war taxes for another genera tion. Mr. Holmin is right in calling for such a condition of the Treaiury "that Congress and the officials in asking for appropriations will have to consider where the money is to come from." The extravagance breeding surplus must stop. This is not a political cry i it is a business cecessi'y. U is not a I dogma : it is simple just ice to taxnavnm i airiotic men or an parties should unite to stop insiirp!ua by reducing the tax- es. a. iiwrio. The Verdlrt n..in,. W. D. Suit, druectst, Binpus. ind., testi fies : -I can recooicend Electric Bitters as the very best remedy. Every bottle sold ha given relief in every cs. One man took six bottles, and was eared of Kheuma- j tismor 10 years' standing." Abraham Hare, , diuitclst, Btllvtli. Ohio, affirms: The ",n 1 ver handled In n,r years experience, is Electric Bitters." I nousaads of others have added their tes timony, so that the verdict is unanimous that Electric Bitters do cure all diseases of the Liver. Kidneys or 15 loot. Only a h)f dollar a bottle at E- James' drug More, Ebensburg, or W. W. McAteer.s store, Lt retto. Axothek bank gone to smash in Cincinnati. That city is as rotten in Cuauceas it is in politics. Sews a.i other jtoTisa. At Madison, Ga.. the winter has been so mild that flowers are blooming la the car dens all over the city. Mrs. Franklin, the wife of a piisoner in the Walhalla. S. C. Jail, smuggled an auger to him In her bustle with which he and four others effected their escape Tuesday night of last week. II. II. Singleton, a blind man who lives near Toccoa, Ga., is able to tell ths denom ination of a bank note or check by feeling It, and ean count money almost as rapidly as a Dank clerk. A small matrimonial transaction has just taken place In Kansas. The groom Is In height 40 Inches and weighs 90 pounds, while the bride measures 33 Inches and weighs 70 pounds. Ell Bnggs and Miss Rboda Smith and Marion Greenhlli and Miss Kate Chandler walked from Carter county, Kentucky, to Maysvllle, a distance of 100 miles, to be married last week. A mule over sixty years old Is owned by Annt Nancy Honaker. of Laynesville. Ky. It came from Virginia over sixty years ago, and still earns Its living nnder the saddle and before a buggy. Large importations of potatoes arrive In Chicago every few days from Rotterdam. A single consignment of 2..V)0 sacks wes recorded last Friday. These potatoes are for the local market, not for seeding. W. G. Sterling, of Greeley. Col , recent ly shot in North Park a magnificent specl men or the golden eagle, one of the largest I seen in the Stale for years. It measured seven feel from tip to tip, and was evident ly or great age. Near Iberville, La., a bear was seen In a turnip pitch helping Itself to vegetables. On being driven out It took to the railroad 1 track and met an approaching locomotive, to which It would not yield the right or way. The result was what i: might have expected if it had had more sense. The other day some of the servants In one of the richest families in Grand Rapids. Michigan, were quite surprised to discover Sslhe Wilson, the new nurse plrl, shaving. Sallie proved to be Fred Warden, a genuine man. who had been doing duty as a girl for some ten wetkj or mors. Our Consul at Stockholm Informs the State Departmant that the Swedish Gov ernment has declared against the Importa tiou of pork from the United States unless it is well salted. The Consul says that the order was founded on a report that a boa pestilence Is raging in the United States. Farmers living near Bakersvllle, Cal., built jack rabbit corral, shaped like the letter V, recently, and then scourned the fields on horseback, driving the animals be fore them into the trap. Then for two hours a general massacre of the pests took place, tn which 5075 of them were killed. A citizen of Salina. Kan., saw a big Jack rabit sitting by the side of the road. He ran home, a quarter of a mile, got his gun. ran back aud fired a charge of fehot in to the rabbit, which was still sitting there. Even then it did not move, and further in vestigation showed that it was frozen stiff. All vehicles In the Highlands of Scot land are provided witii brakes, to be used in the descents, the pony chaise hsving one as well as the four-horse coach. The na tivea trot their horses up bill and walk them down, and are amazed at Americans who always reverse the orJer In the matter of up and down hill travel. A trainer of animals in Paris gives the following account or the way in which he trains cats and rats to live on friendly terms Taking a cat and a rat each by the back or the necV. be brings their beads nearer and nearer, together, accustoming them siadoally to each other until finally their noses meet. This practice at length seems to please them. John Ek came Into a grocery at Rip I.ak. Wis., one day week before last with the tips of bis ringers frozen, and the propri etor advised him to thaw out the fiosthv holding his hands in an open barrel of ker osene which stood Just outside the door. Ek did so, and when be withdrew his bands a few moments later found that they were iroren soua. nen a tnermoroeter was p'aced in the oil the mercury marked 20 de grees below zero. The trial of Mrs. Sarah J. Robinson, of Somerville, on a charge or causing the death ot Prince A. Freeman, her brother-lr-law, by poison, in June. 1885. began on Monday last. Last December Mrs. Robinson was tried no the charge of fatally poisoning her son. William J., but the Jury disagreed, and it is likely that she will not be tried on tbst case again. There are several additional Indictments against ber. The morning was spent la sejectiog a jury. Captain Smith Ckxilc, of Shelby county, Ky.. Is the tallest native born American. His height is 7 feet 8 inches. There are only three men in the world whose height is known to exceed bis. One is an English man, another an Arabian and the third a Chinaman. Captain Cook is 29 years of age and stopped growirg when he was 22. lie wears a No. 13' ; shoe. lie is now a candidate for doorkeeper of the Kentucky bouse of repreeentatiyes. An authority on pigs says that he never thinks of cutting off the tails ot bis pigs. The tails are the Indicators or a porker's condition. It piggy doesn't feet well, ir his rood doesn't agre with bim, bis tail be gins to straighten. The eicker the pig the straighter the tail; and the healthier the pig the tighter the curl. The old theory that it takes a bushel or corn to fatten an inch flail this ttig-raiser scorns. The pig's tail Is his pulse ; therefore never cut it off. The construction of a railioad through the mountains of Kentucky bas been stopp ed by a man with a rifle. As Is noted by a paper of that State, there is probably no place on the American Continent where this could occur, but In the mountains of Ken tucky. A man namd Asber didn't want the road built through his land, and when the workmen begau grading on his land he appeared with a cocked rifle and threatened death to the man that lifted a shovelful of eaitb. A despatch from St. Joseph, Missouri, says the women living in the southwestern part of that city are circulatina a petit.on to have Hoooeck and Duelling, wife murder ers, lynched. The petition already has sev eral hundred signatures. Mr. Augustine, the man tn whose bouse Hooneck commit ted tbe murder, says the women have grown weary of the delay and are trying to work op a feeling among the sterner sex that will induce tnem to take the law Into tbeir own bands. Tbe recent capture of the robbers who bave been pillaging trains in Texas, Mii 60'irl, Arkansas and Colorado was brought about by a "slicker," or oil-cloth coat. It was diopped by one or tbe thieves at the attempted robbery near Genoa, Ark. Tbe garment was made In St. Louis, and Inves tigation there elicited the names of store keepers in Arkansas and Texas wi,o were purchasers of such goods. Each of the lat ter weie visited in turn without result, un til a dealer in Waco. Texas, not only recog nized tbe coat, but accurately described tbe man to whom It bad been sold. This clue, coupled with other circumstances, lea to the at reft iu tbe interior of Texas of a man named Brock, wbo was brought to Texark ana. and there fully Identified by the engi neer of the "held up" train as the man who held a revolver to his head while going to I led to tne capture of the gang. Go to GEIS, FOSTER ct QUIXX'S, Clinton St., Johnstown, Pa., for Carpets, Mattings, Hugs, Stair Pads, Stair Rods, Stair Buttons, Oilcloths, Linoleum, Lace Curtains, Feathers, Turcoman Curtains, Madras Curtain Goods, etc., etc. Quality of Goods unequaled and prices the lowest. In a country court the other day the ownership of a (tog was the question at Issue. The judge couldn't make oat from tbe evidence which claimant was tbe real owner, so he made ono stand on each side while an officer held the dog In the middle or the room. Then fce told them both to whistle and tbe officer to release tbe dog at the 6ame moment. When this was done the dog bolted through the open door. "Call the next case." was the only comment of the Judge. Six months ago William Kelly, of Xew ITaven, Conn., advertised iu one of tbe New York papers for a wife. A young lady, liv ing in Pennsylvania answered, and a corre spondence was tbe result.. Kelly went to Pennsylvania about three weeks go and found ber to be a very pretty girl of seven- enteen years. Notwithstanding that Kelly is deaf and dumb, he succeeded in making love to tbe girl with such good effect that when be proposed an elopement she con sented, and tbe couple were married aud came to live with Kelly's parents in Bir mingham, ten miles from New Haven. j One day in 18C2 Sidney Shivers, of Web ster, Ga., then 18 years of age. entered his father's bouse, and divesting himself of bis bat and clothes, dressed himself in the uni form of a Confederate soldier iu order to enter the Southern army, in tbe meantime banting tbe bat and chothes that be once wore upou a peg in bis room. From that day to this the hat and clothes have hung in that same place, not a band having been allowed to touch them iu all that time, for they bave been held sacred to the memory of the young Confederate soldier who placed them there. The life of Sydney Shivers went out soon after he entered the army, but these mute memorials of tbe boy who once wore the gray still bang where they were placed by bim 20 years ago un touched In all that time. Mike Dennin. a lad of 17, killed a mink near Wbeelertown, N. Y., under unusual circumstances. He was bunting for rabbits near Little Black creek. Tbe dog chased a rabbit to the ice on the creek near where a spring-fed brock ran Into the creek, keep ing tbe water open. As tbe rabbit passed tbe accumulation of old rubbitb near tbe mouth of tbe brook a mink sprang out after it. As it was about to catch the rabbit the dog came out of the brush on to the Ice. At this the mink fled, with tbe dog In pursuit. Inetead of trying to return to tde rubbish tbe mink ran across tbe creek, and, finding tbe dog almost on it, it rapidly climbed a spruce tree about six inches in diameter. When Dennin came along lie recognized the tracks, but could scarcely believe that the mink bad climbed tbe tree. He eventually saw it on a limb nearly 49 feel from tbe ground, aud shot it. Old banters say tbey never before heard of a mink climbing a tree. 1'roilDK flla AMertloata. PoitTLasn, Me.. January 25. The start ling reTelatioDs of the Hev. Mr. IJayley. In his prohibition sermon a week ago, have created great interest here, where for years efforts have been moJe te rhow that there is as little drnnknness as there ts in any city lithe country. Mr. Bayley 6aid tuat tbe records showed more drunkenness here than e Ter. and gave plenty of instances and fig ares to confirm his allegations. The principal authorities at once began to make an Investigation, and Mayor Chap man spent two or three days In gathering material to refute tbe charges. Mr. Rayley said that there was drunkenness in the pri mary and kindergarten schools, and tbe au thorities visited all of them, giving tho re sults of tbelr investigations to the news papers. Leading temperance men wrote communications to the paper, and T. C. Woodbury, a prominent advocate, said that after a long trial prohibition was a failure, and that people here bad better be about something else than trying to make it suc cessful. Interest was renewed yesterday whet, the police were called upon to remove Johnny DeDongh, a drunken 12 year old toy, from the Center street primary school. Ha was so drunk that when he reached the station be sank into a deep, rum sleep. On awak ening he was stupefied and did not know what day it was. The previous night tbe Tortlaod school committee had passed reso lutions that there was no drunkenness in the public schools. In Late Wilk Her Hump. Little Falls. N. V., January 31. On December 13 last a grand ballelnjah wed ding took place in this village, tbe couple married being Captain Tolly Bryan, or tbe Salvation Army. Since then tbe fair and buxom Tolly has offended tbe army and has been expelled. Tbe trouble arose from tbe fact that she persisted In wearing a bustle. Captain T. E. Moore recently wrote the following letter to Captain Von Alexson : Dear Captain Your letter hts reached me. I bave been compelled to change my mind as to your going to Kansas in tbe Army of America.. I do not thiak your wife Is at all in a condition to lead others away from tb world and sin, and mnst say I am astonished to think you could uphold an officer, though she be your wife, in dress ing in the manner Mrs. Alexson does. She was kindly reproved and shown tl e wrong, but persisted in wearing a bustle on ber back that disgusted every decent person. Until I see her sincere Godliness I cannot rend ber to another station. Hoping yon both may see tUe wrong of tTis. I am. with sorrow yours, as ever, for Jesus' sake, T. E. Moons. Entombed la au Ox. MiSKEaroLis, February 1. When tbe recent great storm swept over Aurora county. Dak., Erie Johnson, a farmer Dear PUnklnlo, was watering bis cattle some distance from his buildings- lie became exhausted in bis attempt to drive bis cattle borne. Among tbe rattle was a very large ox, which lay down to die near where John son was making bis last 6trnggle for lire in tbe snow. John6un, in a moment of inspl jation. killed tbe ox, disembowelled it, and crawled inside. lis was completely sheltered from the storm, and passed the night In safety. When morning dawned, however, and be endeavored to crawl out, be was horrified to find that he was completely frozen in. lie had left bis knife sticking In the carcass outside. He cried tor assistance, i aud it was not until 2:C0 r. si., that his cries ! were answered by a party wbo were seaich - ing for him. He wan none the worse for bis experience, except that be was cramped and fcoie. CARL R,IVINriXJS, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER & -AND DEALER IN- Best ' -L too gr. ; 43 cal. 7U and . .r. 'i &r-urirta ihnalll rVrjrrt accurwv faaranlrra oi Ue od t uto)uieiy ' i . ruin jt M mm -. , . jtjr ta-ret fcao.tinK. Ijuuuok. tud uoiirur ealtene. Iou;u.'Mj uiflt-rrcL btyic. fir Re trvm f , EflARLIri FIRE ARMS CO., I Two tarrrtff mail witA ot our II j aftr lift r shots hail already bifP fired ahuta. IbcM i'dih carry uS nrarljr aU w aiwaya ac.u;ajr aad svlli, M flv ni, (ntrlea Xboiuatuid Iruai It u 9 V-4 rw?lm." m&aind W I-- h arris" SE W ! KM. PASTILLES. Ala Ap1 Miil TMbd for Ficht Ymfi in nui iQoauaa rase .rT aosoi nveiy rwmn prwrnatonuj and brokn don men to the tn d mnjorrrnmt of f erfftct and foil MajaJy Strength and Vvjcoroaa HmJUi. TuthovA who sailer tram tho many obaof d ltmttmm rroiuot about by In differed oil, pomxra, 1 sr-Brmia "Worfc, or too freo IndaUreno. w mm vKt you nad na your name witttfdaLamarit or your troabla, and atrar UitLaJUPAriLAOE U1, with lllosf d aaipiaJt An. RUPTURID PERSONS can bare FREB R, L JQHXSM. 1. 1. BICk, A. 1. BUCK. JoliDston, Buck & Co., Ebensburg, 3?a. Money Received on Depsit, PA TABLE OJf DEMAKD. INTEREST ALLOWED ON TIME DEPOSITS COLLECTIONS MADE AT AZX AOCX8SIBI.B POIKTS. DRAFl'S o the rrincijal Cities Boocht and bold General Banting Business Transacted ACCOUNTS SOLICITED. A. W. BUCK. Cashier. Ebensbanr. April 4. lSSJ.-tf. SALESMEN WANTED to ngviM lor the ala ot Nnrscry Stock r staady etr ploTiuent ruaranteed. SAI.AKY AND fci TKNSKS HAII. Anply at once, atatiug a0. CHASE BKOl'HEKS COMPANY, (tteier to inn jmuBt-., liochetcr. !i. '. i Penn'a Agri'l Works. Steam Engines. Saw MI1U, Hay Pre'fff, Stump Fuller ana Standard Asrfallural luplimenla KGnerulIy. Sen1 for Catalogue A. U. KAHilUHAK- SON York.I'a. 4t. Important to Canvassers. WAN'TF.D-LI Canvaieer in eTery pontitj in the Cnlte.l Stated to fell FOX'S PATENT HE VEKS1HLK SAD IKON, whlen romMnei two Sail Iron, Polisher, Ftuter, fee., one iron dolna; the work ol an entire set of ordinary lronr. la lelr-beatini; hv gal or alcohol lamp. IUFJ4 A WAV WITII HOT KITCHK.NS. Price moderate. A lanre aud lafUntc income Insured to irod canv&Ftrra. Address, lor circular, ate., FOiL SAU IKON CO.. Vi Keade St.. N. Y. AGENTS WAITED To canvasg Tor one or ttie lartjeFt, oldest eitab. llfhed. UKST KNOWN M'HSEHIES (n the country. Most liberal term. l'rcjUHtl d facili ties. OKNKVA NI KMEIiY. Established -81o. W.AT. S311TH, UEN EVA. N. Y. 1C. . 4U Policies written at short notice 1b the OLD RELIABLE "ETNA" Aad elhsr First 4,'Ims) Companies). T. W. DICK, UCKT FOR Tlir OLB HARTFORD FIRE COMMENCED BUSINESS EbecsDarK, Joiy "1. 1882. ESSENTIAL OILS. WI KTF.RU KF.F.5T, PF.PFFRM EXT. FES' ST KUYAMHEARni.liT, Ar. ol prime quality, bought In any quantity lor rash on dcliTcrly, ireo ol broke rait, oommisslon, iter, aice, c, by DODGE fc OLCOIT. 1 m porters and exporters. 88 William st.Ncw Tor a DTESllISU ADVERTISERS should ad- if.OB(E I'. ROWFI.I. A CO., lO Kprnse Wrfrl, Xew York City. Fug StLiciT ListoM. 000 Nkwsi'AI'uiu Will be cent free Q ai'l'l'cdtiun. JaO.!ll '87 reduced. HHJ.l.M M IJ """1"".! " L! an Watches, Clocks, JEWELRY, Silverws'g.'Miisicalteniats -AN I Optical Goods. 0 Sole Agent ynit THE Celebrated Rockford WATCHES. Columbia and Fredoaia Watches. In Key and Stem Winders. 4 AltGE SELECTION o ALL KINDS of J3tVELRY alweytoo hand. JhtT" My line of Jewelry Is unsurpassed. Come and soe tor yourself before purchas ing elswhere. CARLRIVINIUS. Ebensburg, N'ov. II, issc--tf. In THo World. rttl ttiaUs JL lafc rtlle outaem?- . . Ail calibres from 22 to in Mauie tn ui.OU up. bead fur l!iurLaa uicgac. - New Haven, Conn, rmllbr Ti!V twnv m.wJti. ...c and Da cltafilnr durmt: th;nar?aTuty li.e yrtua at target uiaUL (mum Utr .void ta Umj iwni at praanu&oa m &m mtt mi cruuDia. ana au (jnaofca, baaoniraim.itobiai U&irna- iia u iiinniii, m a tateraxa Au a mini a,, ar -mrr pan MVtlurw rtuMMl ifiwn fr faniral urtneroea BrtTra- anp4tcaCKflit& anal of dtacav uxapec mnaaea la liUaaul deiav. Thaair tlituiauieaearfttl d raaaiyia botnatt fl 11 f.nl TEtATMHJfT. Cru MaUnar. fnto S. Tint, K HARRIS REMEDY CO., Nre CMeuot Sons . Tor.Vb BlTaBT.lyeCTH jfQ. Trial ot our Appllanoa. Aak (er Ttrmi ! DONALD E. DUFTGN, AT10U.NET-AT-I.AW, KUKMaUL'ttU. Psss'a Office la Colon naj how. H. II. MY Ell. AriUkStY-AT-LAW. ExNU'aa, Pa. Office In Collonada Huw, on Ceiiiro stream. GEO. M. READE, ATTOHNJaY- AT-LAW, SsuaaH, Fa. M-UDcs on Centre street. te.r m,u M. D. KITTELL. A. ttorney-o t - sx w EBEN'SBUKO, PA. Office Armory Baildiag, opp. I'ourt Httw. TW. DICK, Attorset-at-lat. e Ebensbnrr, Pa. Offles In bulUllns; et T J. Lloyd, dee'd, (first 3oor.) Centre street. Al manner oi legal busiaveea attended te satlsiactcy ril aad collections a specialty. ( 10-14. -if.) FOR SAI.F STRA.T E0 Lti fcS. CLA Y .si Ore i'ans, riuiter and Sheet-iron WurH.-Second-hnnd englnea-and boilers 00 aaaJ. Hn.it Intt etiifines ind mai-U inerT a specialty. THUil As CAliLlN, Allegheny, Pa. (Ja. i!.-ly ) A llVFKTIKFKSi. tv aoireltH( 4io. F" V HoarllACa., 10 Spruce St New Yur can If urn the xxact aun ot any irotaal lis o A lVKKT.lNt loAiurrlcan itewayauers, 100 I' (tare iamiblrt X. JIl. OE.DMIOE, 534 GKiOJT STRHET. PlTTSUVlSGH, Fa. ROBERT EVANS, UNDERTAKER, AUD MANVFACTVKEK OF and dealer lo all kinds et Fl'K.MTl'KE, llleiTsslvaig-, !.. A lull line el Catkets always on baud. "V Bodies Embalmed W HEN KECIUIKED. Apt S3 89 Etatini Fire Insurance Apcj T. AV. DICK, General Insurance Agenti E HEX SB URO, I A. ST. FRANCIS' COLLEGE, LOKETTO.PA, IN CHA1MF. OK FRANCISCAN BROTHERS. Board and Tuition for the Scholastic Year, $200. March Mth. lSt. tf. KENTUCKY IV1ULES. The enly firm la Peun'a who make a eialiiT of Ken. turkv Sft(4lle aud L'riTinfr lloraea, Taught and lit XI ii 1-. a n H kn roni-lnntlv in their slahl one bniidred hanl Mules, ail sizes, t'rolu fenr iw U the laryr nml' wfilntii 1 loo Ilia, are I. Arnli.nm A' . StM-oiut Avniuc, l'lLtHburgli. M ult- "liis" to nil ':irtot the Slntv on ortlrr. Nwll'ii'tJ S o. I ivWi-i M k lo be louml iu tiici-T sutblva. fdaUs3sSS8 .- 11 t wiswraff?gMgggp
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