EBfNSBURC, PA.. FRIDAY, - - FE1..2I, 1SS8. heetiu or itcHfH RiTir cot x wy cowMirTrr.. Th members of the Democratic County Committee are refiuMred to meet In Armory ITnil GulMiuii. opposite the Court House at Ktwnburjj. Pa., on Monday, March 12th I.hsh, at half past 1 o.clock r. m. for the pur pose of electing five Delegates to the State Convention, to be held at Marrlsbnrg, Fa., on May ;tut liW8, ami transacting audi other Ouslnt'sa an may b necarj James M. Walteus; Chairman. Johnst wn, Ta.. Feb. 22, issa. The fart that Governor lieaTfr and his Attorney General, says the llepub licaa Pittsburg i.i;ifei do not consider it necessary to make any very strong lTjrts for forcing railioad and tele graphic corporations to obey the Con stitution, is beginning to provoke the iiKjtiiry with regard to the Governor's ruotto in his inaugural address, "Yours for servie," whose service he referred to. The outrageous prosecutions and foreordained conviction and imprison mnent of the Irish leaders, including many priests, go on with redoubled vig or, with loager sentences end the prison treatment more brutal. How the Irish people with such provocation bare been able to restrain their fighting proclivi ties instead of rushing iLto oiganized rebellion. Is one of the wonders of the age. Surely a brighter and a better day will soon dawn upon her. It is best that her brave and geDerous sons should patiently Lear their present ills than fly to others that they know not of. TitK account of the havoc wrought by the terrible clyclone that visited Mount Vernon. Ill, on last Sunday af ternoon, which is published in another part of our paper, will be retd with a feeling of iTeep and profound sonow. The town, which is situate about seven ty miles east of St Louis, contained about three thousand inhabitants and almost, in an instant 3(H) residences and places of business were destroyed, from 3 HJ to 1VH) people rendered houseless, about 30 killed and over l.V) wounded. Seldom, if ever, has there been so sud den and swift an exhibition of the Irre sistible forces o nature against which man Is utterly powerless. The striking miners of the Heading I'oal and Iron Compiny resumed work on Monday last under an agreement made by l'resldeut Corbin and Master Wort-man Lewis, the latter represent ing the strikers. It was feared on Mind;iy evening that the strike wouM be renewed. owing to a belief among sums of the miner that tlieCitupny was violatingthe agree nienbr retming to take back at some or the colile ei certain men h . bad gone on the strike, but all difficulty on that score has since been removed. In pur suance of the agreement a conference between the Superintendent of tl.e C'oai puny and the miuera will ba hald on next Thursday, to settle the question of wages. With that -ideation settled all the trouble will be finally ecded. "Joe" M vnley, Chairman of the Re publican Committee in Maine and lvalue's mouthpiece in that State, Las no difllculty in interpreting his letter of declination to mean that he (IJIaine) is jutit as much a candidate as be was be fore it was written. In an interview with a Worll correspondent after the letter was published, he said : "Mr. U aire's Irtt.T," he sa d, with dellt. nation , It" Is not to be considered final He does not d-e!ine thr norr.ln tion cr say that hi will refuse to head tlo ticket. It n eans that Mr. Kliane will not have b o name presented to the convention as an as pirant for the honor. If the convention . It up and demand that he take it he will du so. Mr I'.lalne lias mi.de himself a public man, and as'purti owes the public something. He has no rUht to say that he will not assume a trust that the party de mands lilui to take. If it is thought that Mr. Blaine is the man needed to win the fight he will have to take it, and he will win." Chairman "Tom" Cooper, of this tatc, saja ditto to Mauley. When these two political trimmers take the same view of the letter and the bulk of the Republicans if gard it in an entire ly different lighr, there seems to be a vast, auiuunt of truth iu the saying or a celebrated Fiench diplomatist that "language was given to man to enable him to conceal his thjughts." Sim k the publication last wetk of lllaino'a letter withdrawing from the residential contest two other candi dates have taken themselves out or the race, and the emphatic way in which they have don so leaves no doubt about their sincerity, which cannot yet be said of H'.aine's manifesto. George W. Cailds, of the l'Mic Luljcr, who bad a very decided following among the leading Republicans of Philadelphia, declared in his paper of Friday last that be "would De compelled to decline the clllw-e, honorable and exalted as it is, if by any chance in the chapter of unfore seen accidents, he MiouM happen to be electrd." Genera! hendac, whose Presidential boom was becoming some what formidable, declared in Washing ton a few days ho triat he would not onder any circumstances accept a nom ination for the Presidency, should it be tendered him. "Nothing," he said, "could induce me to leave the profes sion in which nearly Jorty years or my life have been sieit, to entei ut-oj a civil career." In this connection it may also be stated tht'. Dr. Mcf'.lynn, the business member of the late firm of George A: McGlvnn, engaged in the anti-Poverty business in New York, stated the other day to a reporter of the Jl'.i that it was the sheerest nonsense to talk about him as the anti Poverty candidate for I'resident-that be didn't want it and wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. This is not iniiortant, however, as the MiGljuri boom was "uch a little one." The rt suit of the special election In Michigan on last Tuesday week to till the vacancy caused by the dea h of Con gressman, S. C. Moffat, Republican, has fallen upon that party with the same surprise that is caused by a clap of thun der out of a clear ek. The district has been one of the Rpub!iean strong holds In the S:ate and four years ago when the Republicans at the Chicago Conven tion declared themselves in favor of a revision of the tariff and reducing the surplus in the treasury. Moffat was elected by a majority of 7,475. At tbe next election in 1SS. the Republicans in Cougress having in the meantime practically abandoned all pretext in fa vor of tariff revision, Moffatt's major ity was reduced to iY-213. At the re cent special election Seymour was the Republican candidate and Dreen was his Democratic opponent. Uoth parties and their respective candidates made an active and thorough canvass anu al though the ctlicial result has not, yet been declared, it ia admitted on ail hands tbat if Seymour is elected at al. which l'.reen's friends do not admit, it ia by so small a majority as to render it merely nominal. Ureen planted him self Fiuarely ou the views of Mr. Cleve land as set forth in his message in oppo sition to tbe taxation of the necessaries of lire and in favor of tbe fiee admis sion or the raw materials of our varied industries, and on that issue be has wiped out more than seven thousand of the Republican majority in the district a little over three years ago. It is sim ply the forerunner of what will take place next November all through the NortL-west if tbe Republicans continue to denounce a moderate and judicious re-adjustment of the present high tariff rates as "Democratic free trade." The number of Republican candi dates for President in the field up to a few days ago was eighteen, without any "favorite son" of Pennsylvania on the list, when a nineteenth aspirant appear ed in the person of that emint nt Chris tian statesmiu. Governor James A. Reaver. We had been anticipating the advent of 1 1 art ran ft who through the management of Don Cameron at the Cincinnati Convention in 17i defeated Blaine. But neither II irtranrt nor bis rriends have mane any sian, thus leav ing Reaver withon; a competitor. A cor respondent from the central part of this State writing to the New York World outlines the Governor's plan of cam paign as follows : Tbe present program Is that JuIr Kirk patrlck. the attorney general. Is to be select ed a delegate from the Northampton district. Ilerson, the governor's private secretary, is to be a delegatj from the Mercer district ; Adjutant General Hastings is to report from the Centre restrict, and Stone, of Warren, promises to take care of that section. Gov ernor Reaver expects to be made one of the delegates at-lare through the aid of his friends, lie also experts to be made chair bi in of the Pennsylvania delegation. Ha believes there will come a crisis in the Chicago convention when may be men tioned with a hurrah, as General Garfield was eight years ago. In the event of his nomination, Senetor Cooper i to be made chairman of the National committee and to be provided for nnder the National Admin istration If the ticket should be elected. In the event of the election of General leaver to the Presidency, Lieutenant Governor Pa vies will become Governor for tbe re mainder of the term. Reaver is a great man in his own esti mation, and if he is nominated and elected it will go bard with tbe old Kejs'one State to part with him. Tin: attitude of both political parties in Congress in regard to the admission of the Territories of Dtkota. Montam, Washington and New Mexico as S:aies in time to vote for President this year, is accurately and Intelligently set forth in the following article from the Phila delphia 7i?iif. of Monday last. Tbat paper Siys : The House committee on Territories has decided to recommend the Remis sion of Dikota, Montana. New Mexico and Washington Terrirories as Svates. which rceans, in plain Koglisn. that no new States will admt'ed by the present ( o:igres3 in time to vote tor I President t'lio year. The Republicans want D.kota ad mitted, chiefly bee us-) it :s s'rongy Republican, nnd thev wantita Elector ial vole for IVettidenr. 1 he D.-micrats don't want Dakota admitted, and in stead or voting it down, they couple it with the two Democratic Territories or Montana and New Mexico and the doubtrul Territory or Washington. The Republicans don't want Montana, New Mexico or Washington admitted any more than the Democrats want Da kota, and as the Democrats are likely to stand for all or none, the Republicans will accept none. Doth sides are so nervous about tbe national battle of 1SS.S, that they won't take any new chances and that settles the que it ion of new States for tbe preeer.t. Common sense would say that we ought to have a higher Mr.ndard of statesmanship to decide the question of the creation of a sovereign Common wealth, but we haven't, and that ends it ; and that's about all that need be said about the admission of new States this jear. The Blair Educational Rill passed the Senate near the close of last week by a vote of 30 ror to 20 against. The majority for the bill row Is few, whereas at the last session it was ticrnty-firt. The bill was supported by 23 Republi cans and lt Democrats, while 12 Repub licans and 17 Democrats voted against it. Blair made the closiug speech in favor of the bill, being about the fif tenth time he addressed tbe Senate on his fa vorita hobby, And as to the attitude of the Catholic Church toward it, he con tended that the followers of that faith in the main favored it, although the Jesuits were opposed to it. He called certain newspapers which had opposed the bill "Jesuitical organs," aud worked himself up to a hiirh degree of excite ment. We don't suppose that a crar.k l:ke R'air knows anything about what, if any hiug. tue Jesuits have been doing iu reg nd to the passage of bis inisj'nev ous lull, tut be could not have rud them a higher or more enduring cm pl;inetil than bis dclar-tllou tin: they were f pp sed to i. in all its sha;ies and form. Vlienth. hill ws taken ovei to tr j House it was referred to the Commit tee on Iviucalini whe.e. it is believed, it wi'I quietly sleep during the remainder ot the session. If. however, i. bhould erchauce pass that boJv Cleveland will atrai gle be lire out of it with his veto, and the friends of tbe common school tystem everywhere will a; p'uuJ h:iu fjr the act. DEATH AND IiESTElLTlO-N Sweep Through an Illinois Town, Leaving Many Mourners. Mt. Vekxox, III.. February 19. This city was visitd by a terrible cy clone to-day about 4:45 o'clock. It had been thundering and raining for some time, when suddenly a low rumbling noise was L?ard. and a black, dene cloud tbat seemed to touch the earth swept over the city, and it became very dark. As soon as the cloud passed tbe sky brightened and people realized the shock and loss they had sustained. Hundreds of bouses were blown down and many people weie crushed in the ruinr. It is impossible to estimate the loss, at this time. At least half of the town is in ruins. The south and east pattsof the square are completely destroyed. The large building known as the Crows block, now owned by J. C. Murray, was entirely demolished and caught fire in a short time, and is now rapidly burnirg. The M. K. Church :s almost a mass of rock, the roof being entirely gone, while the lower part is badly damaged. Tbe Raptist Church Is also a wreck, and be yond all hope of repair. The east end of the public school house is a sad sight. The once mammoth building is now razed to the ground, and a heap of bricks and stones are all that remains to tell the story. Hundreds of houses are heaps of ruins. atd the city in the cyclone-visited district presents a sctne of the most horrible devastation and ruin. Tbe town is about two miles long, east and west, and the course of the cy clone took iu MlKtut two thirds of the east end, tha western portion of the town escaping. It is impossible to be gin to estimate the number of houses destroyed, but the u umber will run away up ir.to tbe hundreds. The larger portion of the businf 83part of the town, knonw as The Square,is totally destroy ed. Out of a row of bui'. lings about 200 yards long there are none that are not mere or Ies9 injured, while most of thein are eotireiv consumed, cr v. ill be. for the fire is raging now in that street, and unless help soon arrives all will be lost. These are all business houses, and the goods are entirely destroyed. The eaaiside f th square presents even a more ghastly appearance, for nothing is left hre. Thissile is also occupied as business houses, and noth ing is sjved here, not a single buildirg being left on this row. The northsids is badly damaged, but the wieck here is very liglit compared to that on he east aud southsides. The O ld Fellows j building is the worst damaged on this side, but none of the buildings escaped, all being more or less irjured. Tbe west escaped more lightly than anv. but the buildings here are also in a sad state, being considerably shaken up. The damage to the business pait of the town is so great that it is complete ly ruined. The general appearance or the town Is horribie, and it looks as if an earthquake had visited it. It is Im possible to convey any idea of how it really looks, and people who have not seen it can form no Idea of its horror. The County Court House is one of the most complete wrecks in th6 city. It is a two story building, and stood ic the center or the fquare, but being directly in the path of the cyclone, is now utter ly demolished. Ic was a very expen sive building, and was an ornament to the city. It will have to be entirely rebuilt. There is no alarm felt in re card to the records, as they are easily accessible, and unless a fire should spring- up in the ruins, they ar perr-ct-ly safe. At this writing tbe fire is dy ing ou aPer a stubborn conflict with men who Lave risked their lives to extinguish it. All of the latest and best buildlrgs seem to have suffered the most. The Commercial hotel is almost complete ly ruined, but none ot tbe guests or others were Injured, as far as known. The damage to iroperty is varlons'y es timated from $ 7).00t) to cl.X0.vx. It is 'iot k'.own what damage has been sustained in the country, as do news I as teen brought in. It will be sever al days before it vri'.I be possible to tell what the damage re!!y is, but Est Man street. fVr a quarter of a mile, hardly a hous Is lert standing, and as near as can be ascertained this is the cae all over the city, from near the center to the east en;!. Or all sid-s ruin stares one m the face. Tbe lews of life Is appalling, ard is variously estimated at from 1.1 to 3 ). In the destruction of the Crows' building, it ia surprising many were no': killed, as the npper story is occupied as a boarding bouse. J. C. Murray, the owner of the buildiDg pt rished n the ruins, and although dil igent efforts weie mde to save birn, it was impossible. Sherman vs. Sherman. The withdrawal of Mr. Rlaine no doubt encourages the supporters of Sen ator Sherman tor thw Presidential nom ination. Rut it is not very likely that the Republican party will nominate a man with so much of a record, and so Inconsistent and twisted a record, as John 'ierman has made during his long public career. Take tbe revenue question for ex amp'e. The sufficient answer to Sena tor Sherman's arguments against tariff reform, and his roundabout advocacy of a repeal of the internal taxes on whis key and tobacco, was cited by Senator Kenna from Mr. Sherman's own speech es made les than six years ago. Of the internal taxes Senator Sher man thf n said : There taxes ought to be left as part of our permanent system of taxation as long as any other taxes, internol or external, more oppressive, remain on the statue books. Of the 8ecial tax which the high tariff men would alolish to save their bounties Mr. Sherman then said : This tobacco tax, of all others, i the easiest collected, the most certain. Increas ing constantly from year to year, dependent upon an appetite that will be, Indulged, no matter what may be the tax a t3x that has neen more sta'e thn any other. No amount of tax likely to be put upon tobacco will prevent it being chewed and smoked and sr.uQVd. In all other countries where taxation prevails thi Is a favorite subject of taxation. tiy the tar on toia(ro dor nt-t diininith the prire io the farmer who raivxit. Ami 1 $ay ice are throwing off n tax which fc, th' jurirement of all nations, i- the het irre of taxation. Referring to the necessity or tax re duction, which was Ipss imperative in liS2 than it now is. Senator Sherman declared : There i no sentiment i i thin rountrv utromi er uuw thitn that t.'onre him Ufjlrrtni its il'ity thutj'ir in not rr-alini t-ir't that tire oliuoriou to the. p'-ople anil ut.nfrrtwni for )ti,!tc jc ; and if w hnuld still neglect triat du'y we should be properly held re sponsible by our own constituents. Now I sir. for one. I am determined that this bio 5u-.ii not lay at my door. Anticipating the raising of the "Free Trade" cry, in which he now joins, the ; Ohio Senator trulv said : j It I, therefore. ui.).ly an ahmrdi'p tttulk now 'i;t a frre-trnde tarif and to talk j atMiut a protective tariff is uniereary, be-ifau-the wit of mar. could not peslbly ' frame a tariff tht wonld prodoe- tun ooo. - 0K in sold without oiojAy prattling our da tiit'tic imiutry. The present tariff produced last year $'17.um ikh) in gold S77.000.000 more than S 'Dtor Sherman said six years ago was amp'e for protection, and an rqua. amount ni'irethan tbe Government now needs as revenue. The appeal from Sherman bedevilled by the buzzing of the Presidential bee to Soermau the clar beaded legislator leaves no o'tif tep'y necessary to his p'ejent catci-vote utterances. A". Y. World. Thk lately 1.. fiibl woman dot tor in Mexico bai id a bull CL; K'veu in ter honor. The Mrike Investigation. As a rule. Congressional investiga tions do not bring in such a profitable return of Information as to encourage their promoters. The flagrant mlscoD duct of the Reading corporation is much more a Slate than a Federal af fair. For years tha authority of the State has been set at caught and its laws have been systematically defied. The injury indicted upon tte consumer of coal by the late unnecessary strikes baa been mainly borne by Pennsylvania consumers, and there is bo douot that the State authority should bs exerted for the protection of the public interest. Congressional investigation should have been confined to tbe disturbance cf in ter state traffic. The Federal law pro hibits unreasonable charges. Tbe Reading charges are unreasonable. The Federal law prohibits ditcrimiuations for like service and discrimination In favor of a particular traffic. Tha Read ing Company diicriminates between its Philadelphia and its coastwise trade for a lik service and between New Jersey a'jd N'ew England. The Congressional Committee investigating the strikes would have done well to have kept these particular offenses in view, because Congress is armed with power to cor rect them. But we cannot join our esteemed con temporaries in this city and New York in the furious onslaught made against the investigating committee because of the manner of its dealing with Mr. President Corbin. To tbe great major ity of the people of the United States the abject condition of the- State of Pennsylvania in its relation to its great carrying corporations is a matter of profound surprise. They cannot com prehend how the creature should so far dominate its creator. They are as tounded tbat corporations chartered to subserve ends of public benefit should be turned into engines of oppression for the many and ot benefit for the few. A millionaire railroad President is Dot generally esteemed iu all parts of tt e country as anything more than the ser vant of a public servant, with one vote, who owes proper respect to constituted authority, and whose management of a great railroad is deemed a public and not a private affair. This condition of the outside public mind may be pleaded io bahair or the members or the commit tee, who have leen anxious to inquire into Reading affairs. Our z-alom con temixiraries should not deal too harshly with Mr. Corbin's inquisitors. That suffering gentleman, considennsr his oVsrrts. got off very easily. VhiVa Record. Over Three and a half Million dollars. It is estimated that tbe strike cost the lailroad men miners, iron-workers, con bumers aud Reading Company together over three aud a half million dollars, which is a dead loss. There is cot a feature tbat affurds tbe slightest com pensation, without it is the value of tbe experience. Considering bow strike after strike has begun and ended in about tKe same way, it if to be question ed whether this kind of expeiience amounts to anything. Apparently it is only a question of time when another strike, perhaps of equal magnitude, will te proclaimed under, similar circumstances. Strikes, like epidemics, that carry off their vic tims by tbe score, are liable to t ome and go regardless of consequences. Asa rule strikes fail, tbe exceptions b-ing just sufficient to p'ove tbe rile. The cost of the one we are considering was tot out of proportion to other strikvs. Twelve or fifteen millions of dollars, it is estimated, would cot more than cover tbe cost of strikes with in as many months. Why an abate ment of this kind of experience may cot be reasonably looked tor is about the stranges; thing in tbe world. lVihaps the change w:ll be without premoni tion, and after all is near at band. Let us hope so at least. Piitehurrj Timin. The parliamentary election in South wark, one of the London boroughs which resuIteJ so gloriously for the (ladstonians, is accepted as the most important electoral result since the gen eral election of l-0. Southward is onr. or the poorest and mcst densely crowded quarters of Lcndon on the Surrey side or tbe Thames, and in lSC it was only held from the Tory landslide which swept away the most of the South Lon don boroughs by the slender majority of I 113. The Tories gain this year nine votes. The Liberals gain 1,072. It is by long odds tbe most impoitant of the by-elections, chief! v because it shows the working of ths leaven in the very heart of tbe metropolis, which has been the central stronghold o. opposition to Gladstone, Its effects will b9 felt in many ways, and especially in booming radicalism inside the Liberal party. Southwark's victory is really tbe tri umph of the Democratic wing of the party, and as much a protest against police dictation in London as police ty ranny in Ireland. rULshurg rout. Tue Philadelphia Record of Tuesday last says : It was reported from the Schuylkill coal region last evening tbat thd 1'hiladelphia and Tteading Railroad Company's officials had discharged and suspended a large number of returning I emnloves. in violation of Mr. Corbin's j pledge not to discriminate against the I men oecauss or their connection with I the strike. Possibly these reports were unrounded or partial, lne company f.hnuld keep its contracts It cannot ; afford to trifle with its own interests 1 Bat. above and beyond the interests of either the company or its employes, the vast interests of the industries of East ern Pennsylvania must not be ignored. The consuming classes will not much longer allow themselves to be made tbe pjKrt of designing speculators or hot headed agitators. Mr. Corbie must not seeK to wreak bis vengeance at tbe pub lic expense. 1 he farmers of Minnesota, without aistincton of party, understa nd wba huits them. Among the resolutions adopted at the recent meeting of the State Farmers'- Alliance in St. Paul was the following, which we commend to the attention of all whom it may con cern : We demand '.lie revision of the present in Iquitom tariff and ask our Minnesota dele gates in Washington to nse their utmost en deavors to have placed upon tbe free list lumber. Iron. salt. wool, coal, and all arti cles lor which "trusts" have been or mav hereafter he formed. s tha producers of the Nortnwest are forced to sell tl.elr products In competition with the producers of the Old World. They ask also to be allowed to purchase ia the cheapest markets without paing tMs no longer necessary tribute to our owd Government. Worth Kww lac-Mr- W. II. Morgan, merchant. Lake City, Fla., was taken with a severe Cold, attend ed with a distressing Couth and ronDlng Into Consumption in its first Btages. He tried mnv so-called popular rougb remedies and steadily grew worse. Was reduced in flesh, had difficulty in breathing and was unable to sleep. Finally tried Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption and found Immediate relief, and after using about a half dozen bottles found himself well and has bad no return of the disease. No other remedy can ehow so grand a record of cares, as Dr. King's New Discovery ror Consump tion. Guaranteed to do just what is claim ed for it. Trial bottles free at E. Jame drugstore, Eoeosburg. or W. W. UcAteer'a atoie, Lortlto. SEWS AXI OTHER XOTISUS. Tbe difference In time between London and New York is five hours, London being ahead. During the year 1987 eleven and a balf tons of postage stamps nearly one hundred and seventy million were sold at tbe New York post office. Tbe losses by fire in the United States during the year 1887 are estimated at f 130. 000,000, being about f IS.OOO.OOO more than during the previous year. Several illicit stills In Clay and Ran dolph counties, Alabama, with about 20.000 gallons of beer and mash, have, been cao tured and destroyed by revenue officers within a few days. Six of tbe distillers were arrested. Frank Fallon, cf Fond da Lac, Wis., saved his life during tbe recent blizzard in Dakota by takiog refuge Iu a pigpen. He passed the night with a fat porker resting on bis feet and one on each side of him and escaped without a frost bite. Miss Nina Van Zandt, the bride by proxy of the Anarchist Spies, it Is said, will shortly appear in a tragedy written by her self, which skakee up capital and Anarchy, winding up by the heroine taking poison and dylog In tbe court room. Petroleum statistics show that 53.000 wells have been drilled In Pennsylvania and New York since tbe discovery of petro leum, at a cost of ? 200,000.000, Those wells have produced 310,000,000 barrels of oil, which were sold at the wells for $.V)0.000.- 000. Montana coyotes are pretty smart, If reports be true. It Is said that they drive cattle onto the track of the Montana Un ion Railroad just ahead of a train, and wben the locomotive has done Its deadly work the coy6tes send up a thankful bowl and proceed to dine. Miss Georgia Troup, aged between 1 2 and 13 years, residing with her parents In West Brldgewater, Beaver county, this State, cn Saturday evening ate about three pints of peanuts and grew deathly sick shortly after. Her condition has been very critical since and her recovery is considered doubtful. During the late snow storm in Maine. me uuuae auu uaro or josnua Allen were buried in the drifts up to the eaves. For two days be melted snow for his horse and cow, and then dug through a 15 root snow drift to reach bis well. Mr. Allen is a cousin of the late "Camomeetln John " Allen, and is 88 years old. There Is a dog in Cambridge. Mass., which has been taught to count It is said that when ordered by his master to pick up any number or sticks less than 10 the dog never fails to select the exact number and lay them before tbe owner. A bet of f50 has been made that tbe Intelligent animal ill not make a single mistake In 50 trials. Two termers who live near Tuscola, 111.. went to law three years ago over the owner ship of a pig worth ?... The case went from the County Court to the Circuit Court, and It has just been decided that one or the litigants should pay for the pig and the other pay costs. Altogether, In costs, attor neys' fees, etc., the pig cost the two men 1 1,250. An unusually large amount of snow ha fallen in the noita of England. Railroad trsffic is seriously delayed. A number of trains are snowed up, and much discomfort has been experienced bv passengers. Farm steads and thousands of eh eep ate burled In tbe snow. A few persons have died from exposure. The storm is general throughout tbe country. A Maryland farmer was driven to sui cide on last Friday in consequence of hav ing been swindled by some grain sharpers. who sold him wheat at ten dollars per bush el, agreeing to buy hU crop in return at a higher price. So often and eo thoroughly has this swiodle been ventilated that it seems almost Incredible that any new vic tims should be found at this late day. Horace Greeley's birthplace is to be old for taxes. It is a little, lew studded farm bouse, with small windows and low- pitcned roof, situated In the town of Am herst, N. H. There Greeley was born Feb ruary 3. 1811. With tbe 129 acres of land about it, the bouse cow belong to Fred Col ton. Next Saturday the farm will be sold at public auction for taxes amounting to f 2.052. Ale was the sole title of malt li quor until the reign of nenry VIII, up to which time the emplcyment of hops as an ingredient in tbe beverage was unknown in England. In the year 1521. or there abouts, tbe nse of hops was introdued from Germany, and to distinguish the new kind of malt liquor f rom . the old the German name bier was adopted, and. with an in finitesimal change of spelling, became part of our language. liiaex Cornet, better known as Captain Dick, tbe desperado and leader of the notor ious Texas train robbers, was fchot and killed last week while resisting arrest by Sheriff Allee, of Trio pouaty, Texas, eighteen miles west of Tearsall station. This baud of robbers has stolen about sixty five thousand dollars cash from trains, be sides other property. Other members of tbe gang are being f erretted out by tte offi cers and no doabt all will be secured or killed. A correspondent from Omaha -wants to know how it Is that the great flocks of crows that pass over tbat place do not freeze dur ing the severe weather. He says here and there one comes upon a frozen bird,' a black toft in tbe white snow. In the track or the blizzard, like a mourning badge, but count less flocks of cawing crows still oome with tbe day from tbe east, and sweep away at night in black columns as if Nebraska win ters had no terrors for them. The question is, how do thet.e birds manage to keep alive at all ? Joel Wilcox, an eccentric pioneer resi dent of Milwaukee, who dlrd recently, was very fond of animals, and was especially attacned to his horses. At tbe approach of the winter be said to a nephew, who owns a farm near Milwaukee: "Jim, take my horses out to your place and take good care of them over winter. If I die, shoot them wbeu spring comes aud give them decent burial. I don't want to have them abused." He died before spring, and, in accordance with his wUh, bis pet steeds were shot and buiied. Deaf Ball, a sub chief among tbe Crow Indians, wbo was captured with seven others by Gen. Ituger last fall, made an attack on his fellow captives with a big knife yester day week In tbe garrison prison. Sentinels, bearing the yells of the Indians, entered and overpowered the vicious chief, but sev eral of tbe braves bad then received slashes from the knife and two of them, Crazy Head and Man whoJooks wttb-bts-ears, will probably die from their wounds. Their throats were cut and they also received other severe stab wounds. An old Plymouth Rock hen that bad been for ten years the pet ot a lady iu Nor wich, Conn., died recently. She weighed fourteen pounds, but was appreciated chiefly on account of her intelligence. She j knew wben it was meal time as well as a J regular boarder, and came regularly for ber food, calling for ber meat once a day. Of a I brood of forty she was the ben altogether ' lovely. She always wanted a chat with her mistre-s drily, and wben the was not feel ing well woul J tease to be held in ber lap and rocktd by pulling her mistress apron. Go to GEIS, FOSTER & QUIXX'S, Clinton St., Johnstown, Pa., fCr Carpets, Mattings, Rugs, Stair Tads, Stair Rods, Stair Buttons, Oilcloths, Linoleum, Lace Curtains, Feathers, Turcoman Curtains, Madras Curtain Goods, etc., etc. Quality of Goods unequaled and prices the lowest. The Appellate Court in Chicago on Thursday of last week handed down its decision in the "boodle" cases. Both cases were affirmed. One was tbe case of Edward S. McDonald, formerly engineer of the County Hospital, and the other what is known as tbe omnibus case. In which twelve defendants, eleven of whom were County or ex-County Commissioners, were put on trial. Tbe jury convicted and fixed the punishment of four at a fine of f l.ooo each, and for those remaining two years' Impris onment. Counsel obtained a stay of exe cution until March 9th for all the defend ants. A convict In Stillwater, Minnesota, known as Dr. August Towsky, has tuen Identified as John A. G. FawtosM. who, it Is said, tlx years ago, while a resident of Chicago, took out policies upon his life to the amount of 3,500. and saddenly disap peared, his wire showing a note from him stating that he was about to drown himself. Fart of his clothes were found upon one of the Lake piers. His wife brought a suc cessful action to recover a Judgment for tbe amount of his life lnsurar.ee. After leav ing Chicago be married another woman, and was sent to the penitentiary foratterapt ing to murder her because she refused to act In collnslofl with hltn to defraud an Insur ance company. Bravery Worthy m Noldler. Fisdlat.'O., February 16. There died in this city, this morning, a man wbo in his life displayed in a more eminent degree tbat peculiar heroism of which poets sing, than was ever attained by the immortal Enoch Arden. His name was Dr. D. May and prior to tbe War or tbe Rebellion he was a resident of Fairfield county, this State, where be liyed happily with bis wife and two children until Lincoln called for men to put down the rebellion, when be re sponded to his country's call and went to the front. At the battle of Stone river be was taken prisoner and was sant to Andersonville. from where reports soon afterward came, announcing his death from exposure and starvation, and bis family mourned him as dead. His wife, believing these reports, and bearing nothing from bits, married again, and to all concerned, May was but a blessed memory, ne was not dead, how ever, and at the close of the war was ex changed, and at once started for the North to rejoin his family. When he reached Columbus he accident ally beard that he was considered dead, and tbat his wife was livirjg pleaEaMly with a second husband, wbo was treating her and the children well, nere is where May dis played true heroism. Without proceeding further on bis way. or making himself known, he bought a ticket for the far West, where he remarned for 15 years, his wife, la tbe meantime, dying without knowing tbat ber first busband bad not died at An dersonville, but still survived her. Upon the death of his wife May returned to Ohio and made himself known to bis children, one of whom, a daughter, now liyii-g near Tifiin, wae with bim throughout his last illness. Dr. May was well known throughout Oblo, aa a vender of Indian medicines, and had many ft lends, to whom this story of. bis life will be a great sur prise. Trade la Jinenar. Ginseng is altogether an article of export. There is a small amount consumed in tbls country, it is true, and nearly every drag fctore has it ia 6tock, bat the demand fron abroad regulates the high price. Green ginseng briugs from 49 cents per pound spring dug to 00 cents per pound fall dug. It is gathered up by buyers, wbo sell it to i tbe large exporters. Tbe biggest ginseng houses are In Cincinnati and Baltimore. Tbe wholesale drug houses of Chicago handle some ginseng '.hat they receive from the country drug stores of the North west with which thay trade. The whole sale price of the dry root is from f 1.75 to t2 23 per pound, ac?3rding to the quality. Tbe annual production of the United States Is about four hundred thousand pounds and amounts to $1,000,000. In China the profits roust be enormous. Beside the high price paid for it ordinarily a root in which a fanciful imagination can trace a man's shape will sell for $300 or $500 easily for Its weight in gold. In the Celestial Empire ginseng has been in use for hundreds perhaps thousands of years. Its value, wholly fictitious, is clear ly, firmly established. The demand is firm, steady and increasing. The supply of the wild plant cannot bold out long. The spring diggleg or ginseng, practiced for years. Is rapidly depleting ginseng in tbe United States. Ultimately and soon tt wllL be exhausted. Its cultivation will doubtless be speedily undertaken. The cultivated root, it is said, la not as valuable as that which grows wild. Nevertheless, men who have bandied, it are agreed tbat it Is worth trying to raise here as It is abroad. Our present annual production U about four hundred thousand pounds, which is obtained from a great number of States. Much comes from tbe mountains ot West Virginia and Pennsylvania, a little from North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, and tbe States of the Northwest furnish the rest. Remarkable Btwan by tit. Bernard It is only within the last few days that I particulars have been published la tbe Swiss papers of a brave rescue effected on Mont St. Barnard on the night of the last Sunday In November. While a violent snow storm was In progress. Grand, the man&ger of the hospice, noticed that his own special dog that was alone with him in Lis room became very restless, and made signs to hltn to go out. He took the lantern and for born and went out on the mountain, the dog leading bim. In a very abort time he beard a call and groaning, and, helped by the dog, dug out of the snow an Italian, whom he carried on his back Into the hospice. Tbe rescued man stated that his father, two brothers, and another Italian, all journeying home with him ovei the pass, lay buried in the snow. He had pushed on to obtain help, but had been overpowered by tbe storai. Grand made ready and went out again. This second search was more tedious and led bim further away, but at last tba barking of the dog announced a discovery. It was tbe Italian stranger who was now saved and carried up to the bospice. A third time Grand and his dog sallied oat into the tempest, and after a quarter of an boar's search found tbe others, near where tbe second man bad been dis covered. They were quite burled under tbe snow and almost Insensible. He took the roost feeble on bis own shoulders, and with difficulty conducted the others to the bospice. It was now past midnlsbt, and bis toilsome task bad occupied Grand over four boom, iu a bliLdlBg snow storm. London Tiut. CARL !RrVi:NTTJS, PRACTICAL AND DEALER IN . , ; Sf :'! Best l?T.T"-'"l J-"-"-"- - - For larpeor tmall game S2 raUbre.M rraloi powder: SS vt 6o r. : is col . 70 and U sr. 1 be ttroDK'ot boUnc rrt-l accuracy guarantee and the on) abeoloteir r reduce. BOLLARD SId'tSTT ror ta-rnt U(hiUii(. uunllne. and euoollnc tca;ierie. A 11 eailbr from luurmn ainereni t;la. price from lMARLIN FIRE ARMS Crj., I 1 wo tarrta made wlLh on of oor r ftr fif xr allots La 4 ready Omen Bttsi WuU. The un.rrTy off o-rlr ail r .waa accurate aid nliic aTT 1, 1 ' rr T -Ti Trim r-' 'In of wnotnatMtl at f aJJ Lroa Kecmt and r rmori uoxtasiUUi 7 omoi wsft. sEMiKAi pastilles: A KuiclCur f or irroaa loiJity. OrjrtkDio WMknmii ar.dPiii ra! I cit ia Yoanff or Mi l Aead Men. TAbHl for KitLt Yfaar io xnaftv rxnnM.nA eaaM 4jrw a.rMk nL ) V Ma4Ar ftWaCl&DajrSjT ri and brcfcfm dovn men Vn tha fall njoymeBt of jrfWaud fail Manir Ptronjtth e4 Vifformu HiaJtii. lot hoe whoouflftr from tb mftor otwwccrw d 1 wanw tSronjiht abtrat hj 1 n d 1 crCi on. ikx-pomr, Owr- ki rat a Vork, ortoof nm IndnlirancA, we ak that yoa wad u yonx name wiio tovnt or toot utkiu. auia trcarv RUPTURED PER SO ITS can Have FREE B, L. JOHNSTON, 1. J. BICK, A. f . Bl'CK. Johnston, Buck & Co., o Money Received on Depsit, FA TABLE ON It EH AND. INTEREST ALLOWED ON TIME DEPOSITS COLLECTIONS MADE DRAFTS on the JTrinclpal Cities Boaartit mud Mold mm m General Banting Business Transacted. A.CCOVSTS SOLICITED, A. W. BUCK. Cashier. Ebensburn. April 4. lS4.-tf. SALESMEN WANTED to oanrasa lor the tale ol Nirserr Stock ! Steady err plt'Vinent truaranleed. SA1.AKV AND tX KKNS'KS t'Alli. Appl at once, dating ajje. CiiASK BKurHEUS COMPANY. (Keler to thl paper" ltoctiestcr, ft'. V. Penn'a Agri'l Works. Steatn Engine?, Saw Mill". Hay Prapes. Stump I'ullera and Standard Acrirullural ImplluienU Keuerallv. Stnl fur I'atAloue A.'B.yABtllAU'l SUN "i'ork.I'a. t. Important to Canvassers. W A JiTEI Ilv Canva'ern fn every conntj In the Untted States to pell t'OX S PATENT KE VEKSIHL.E SAD IKON, noico combine two Sad Iron!, I'olieuer, Kluter, 4cc. one iron dolnn the work ol An entire fet of ordinary iron. In elf-heatinic by gag "T alcohol lamp. lXkF.M AWAIT Mlfll HOT Kill IIINS. Price moderate. A larite aud lasting Income Insured to irwod Cnva?cr8. Addre, lor circulars, kc, EUX SAU IKON CO..U& Keade St.. ft'. Y. AGENTS WA To canvars for one of the larxept. oldest ejtab. Imbed. UKST KNOWN M'KSEUIES In the country. Most liberal terms. I nequall d laclli. tie. HEN EV A ft l li-tKY. Established W. fcT. S.HITH, OENEYA. N. Y. lec. 9. 4t. Policies writ tea at thort notlrte In tha OLD RELIABLE "ETNA" And other Fltst I'laaa t'oiupaolri. CENT I OK THE OLD HARTFORD F1RB INSURANCE C0MT. COMMENCED BUSINESS 1794:. Ebenshurn, Joiy 1382. ESSENTIAL OILS. WIXTERUKEEX, PEPPER" EXT. PES KY KOTAMI'EARNIXT, at. ol prime quality, bouxht In any quantity lor rash on deliyerly, Irea of broke rage, oummlarlon, sler ajre, fee., by DODGFi & OLCOTT. Importers and exporters. t William St.. New York KTI.NOIU AltVERTlM.KS should ad L dress UF.ORGE P. HOWELL A CO., IO Sprars Mrrel, New 1' stria Vltj. Yon Ski.iht LibtokI, 000 Nnwsririiu Will be sent free on i'i'llcUin. Jan. II S7 mTED Watches, Clocks, J E WE LRY, SflmareHiisicaiiliistrMeMs Optical Goods. o Sole Agent FOK THE Celebrated Rockford WATCHK8. Columbia and ?tet3onia Watches. In Key and Stem Winders. AltGE SELECTION op ALL KIND of JEWELKT always on hand. 13?" My line of Jewelry is unsurpal. Come and see for yourself before purchas ing elswhere. l-4f ALL WOKS OCAR1NTEED CARL RIVINIUS . bensburg, Nov. 11, 1885 tf. Tt-i Tlio Woi'ia n. line aale rifle outne .4 tm ..Ij. flandard S4s.eu ap. ScU fur Illustrate catalog-n. - New Haven, Conn. amMbrc rfifc-ai fwant ei.a.;.t...,.. .mi ni ciffaotuc Ourlug thr otlrr acTnt tt d:!kxl a tarct-t mLrbf h ix-ct tLi. void U lna for tAa crou .and auj Vnatfita, oaiv aum u to tiwd taaoLrnat uus. la a hX KxmejjT ui 0u) HM-D I ortnomtvetuene fi any wavy OR I arteoUAC medtraj prLnanpiaa. Bra tvtrplinanofi to Uie arsA ot dnim iU fatcJL; l4aarn i fc t Without WiT- TtaC BtLUEKl ittArunai of tha bnman oxiratiywn rrmorvd T tvawauxl ammatma; -raent of I it are g jvaa taea , tat pXirt Uaroaraca caccrlui aad rapidly ftaina both auwhfla al aA TtEATKEJfT. m Ktoth, 3. atetSS. Tbe,C HARRIS REMEDY CO.. Hire Cn?r .TaotH BlJOaH.eT.IOTTIS. iro. Trial of our Appliance. Aofc for Termer DONALD E. DUFTOX, ATTUKSET-AT-I.A W, EbkmbBCKU. Pawe'i AaT" Office In "olonnado How. H. II. MYERS. ATTOK ft' EY-AT-LAW, KiiintrM, Pa. r-Office In Collonade Kow, oa Centre itreei. GEO. M. READE, ATTOKN EY-AT-LAW, Ebbhbbbk, Pa. aT-OrHc on Centre street, near M. D. KITTELL. Atto l-ney-o i - i a w EBENSBUKO, PA. oace Armory Baildlng, opp. Court Uovue, T"W. DICK. Attornkt-at-jaw. EtensburK, P. Office In buUdlnir ol T J. Lloyd, dee'd, (first floor,) Centre street Al manner ot leral business attended te sailsraf uj rll aad celletlon a specialty. (10-U -tl. i FOR NAI.E-STr.AM ENOlNtS. CLAY i Ore Pans, Kuilcr and Sheet-Iron Wnrs.-Second-hand engines cJ boilers on band. Hirt Ins: engines and maohinerr a specialty. TUUM A C A KLIN. ALeirheny, i'a. (Jan. .-ly.) VIsVEKtTIKERM by addressing ;. 1 Kow r 1 1 A to.. loSpruee at.. New Yorlt can learn the exact cost of any proposal 1K ADVEKTIsin In American Newspapers. IOC Face Pamphlrt lOe. JR. OLItliHOE, Ml GRANT STREET. riTTSBl'RaH, TA. ROBERT EVANS, UNDERTAKER, AND MANITACTI'EEK (If and dealer In all kinds ot FVKNITl'KE, i-A lull line ol Caskets always on banJ.- Bodies Embalmed WHEN KEQ.VIKBD. Apt S3 89 Etaliiii Fire Insurance Aw T. AV. DICK, General Insurance Agent, EBEXSBUIIG. rA. ST. FRANCIS' COLLEGE, LORinTO.l'A, IS CHAlifiE or FRANCISCAN MOTHERS. Hoard and Tuition for the Scholastic Year, $200. March 'ifllh. lSbfi. tf. KENTUCKY EV1ULES Tbe nlr firm la I'eDDi wbo nutlet) a M'eiuhlT of k.a. turkf S4iiie and 1kf.vli.er II a r s a Warn; lit ud I'H rottstaut.r In Uiir stnMtw one hnndrvd hl Mule-, all niK'fl. irooi lotir iKt to tbe tarr ujuj" wciL'tnn MtHJ 11m., Br 1. Arnlifim A. 4 A 1ShiiiI Avrnu, l'ittatttlirgh, J. W ukf i-Wip-iN-d ion pnrta of thts Siu on on!r. N"i iSo. 1 ffsckni ttUM-k Ui tie r'uiiri iu their tLk-a.
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