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EBENSBURC. PA..
FRIDAY, - - - MARCH 9, 18S8.
UTISrU OF nCMOt'KATIC COI HTT
lOSHITTCE.
The members of the Democratic County
Committee are requested to meet la Armory
Hall Building, opposite tbe Court House at
Ebonsbarg. ra., oa Monday. March 12 CD
IMS, at balf past 1 o.clock r. M. for tbe pur
oe of electing fire Delegates to tbe State
Convention, to be bold at llarrlabnrg, ra.,
on May 23 J lww, and transacting such
other business as may be necessary.
James M. Walters:
Chairman.
Johojitiwn. ra., Feb. 22. 133.
The tariff bill as framed by the Dem
ocratic majority of the Ways and Means
Committee is now ready to be reported
to the House. The Republicans will
offer a bill and so will Mr. Randall.
It will be a mighty ctrange thine if, out
of these three conflicting measures, the
two IlousfS can't construct ac honest
and acceptable revenue bill.
The Rt. Justin D. Fulton, who has
been lecturing against the Catholic
Church in New York and Boston, but
who failed to atouie any interest la bis
lectures in Philadelphia. Is having a
lively time of it in Chicago. He baa
bad two or three scenes In bis audien
ce lit that city closely aprroaching
riots was at last locked out of a church
and has been denounced by nearly every
body, by Protestants mote rounily thin
by any other class.
AnitAHAM Lincoln has been gener
ally credited with being the author of
the saying: "Government of the peo
ple, by the people and for the people."
It has also been attributed to Theodore
Tarker, a distinguished clergyman cf
Boston. Tbe phrase, however, was
first used in substance by Daniel Web
ster in one of his memorable speeches
when he said : "It Is, sir. the people's
Constitution, the people's Government,
made for the people, mado by the peo
ple, and answerable to the people."
The Crst State election o? this year
wil! be that in Rhode Island on April 4.
The State gave Blaine a plurality of
over fl.noo at the last Presidential elec
tion, but the Democrats elected their
candidate for Governor last year by a
plurality of near 3,ou The question
of Prohibition, which is an acknowl
edged failure in the State, will largely
control the result. Tbe Democratic
State Convention to nominate Sttte
candidates wi'l be hMon D-xl Monday
wk and the liveliest kind of a cam
paign la promised.
The magnitude of the ojerations or
the Pennsl? aula Railroad Company on
all Its lines east and west of Pittsburg
during the past year. Is shown by its
annual report to the stockholders which
has just been published. The gross
earnings on the entire system amount
to f ll.",U),OnO, in round numbers, and
the gross expenoes to fT7,000.0K. show
ing net earnings of over 5.W,000,000.
Oa the main line and branches between
Philadelphia and l'ittsburg the net re
reipts over the expenditures amounted
to over ti n millions of dol'urs.
M. Wilson, the srn-in law of ex
President Grevy. of France, who bus
been ou trial for complicity in the sale
of the LKion cf Honor decorations,
has been convicted. He was sentenced
to two years imprisonmeut to pay a
fine of three thousand francs, and I e
deprived of his civil rights for live
years. There will be no sympathy for
tbe scape grace Wilson, but there will
be universal sorrow for the aired and
honored ex-President of France, who
has paid the penalty of Wilson's scan
dalous cenduct by the compulsory re
signation of his hijrh office.
The tragic romance surrounding the
life of Robert Faucet the anniversary
of whose birth occurs to-day- says the
Philadelphia J.'oord of Sunday las',
will not be likely to die out s litrg as
there shall exist a love of peace an 1
unselfish patriotism aid of ucrt.nching
devotloc to ttutr. The time has .
yet come t- wr:te the yourg martrr'a
ep'.taih ; tut Iielat.J is gradually turn
leg r.er fic to the l;bt of f teed m. and
if the bl.K-d of tartrat the e4 of I
the Church, ao t'.e sorrows add suffer-
tr.s f au 'j rerd rr.ay yt ,
bring atu trie f a'.l fruition of cnsti-I
tut'.oi.al l.trty.
Wnrr ri: the tub Treasurer rf the
Totted v.ates at New York is succeed
ed tv a new aiointmect. It is brcei-aa-ry
13 count the suonry In the vaults.
The late sub-Tieaturer having resigned
the President appointed Ju 1,; McCu,
of Rrookltn, as hie successor, and the
tnoeev Is now being counted ty sixteen
employee of the Treasury Department
at Washington who have ben aelectrd
for that special duty. It la estimated
that It will take them three weeks to
complete the job. There is one hundred
and fifty-eight millions in the vaults,
made up of nicety millions in gold coin,
forty millions in silver, and the remain
der Is in gold and silver certificates and
greenbacks.
Some of Mr. Blaine's enthusiastic
admirers still cherish tbe notion that lie
will be nominated tor I'resident "in a
whirlwind of enthusiasm," notwith
standing his recent re-iterated declina
tion in the Interview at Florence, Italy,
with a correspondent of the New York
World. Chaunct-y M. Depew, of New
York, who is President of the New York
and Krie lUilroad Company, is a Blaine
man of that kind. Ia talking recently
about the outcome or the Chicago Con
vention, he said :
No one will be nominated on tbe first bal
lot and if. In the weariness of repeated
ballots, and trie anlruoH'tles tint alwaja
arise among the frleuds or different candi
dates, one of thine) sudd n Impulses that
come upon eonvntiuns, and which are al
ways unconscious but real expression of tbe
aixuaiulatetl wisdom of ibe tlelegAU'S, should
arise, am Mr. i;.ain be nominated in a
wlii:lwind of t nlt.um.v.m, I tbltik trat
whilo he would sincerely regret that the con
vention i:-4 made suoti a dtvi.ion h would
.'cil lUt he was uct it libetty u dccliue.
It is a notorious fact that in no coun
ty in the State is fraud so flagrant and
unblushing at the primary elections, as
at those of the Republican party ia tbe
county of Lancaster. Their repeated
occurrence of lato years in that Repub
lican stronghold has become a stench in
tbe nostrils of her people. Only a lew
weeks ago the officers of an election
board in one of the districts of that
county were convicted of the clearest
kind of fraud ia their official conduct
at the primaries held in May last. This
was followed by the indictment and
conviction last Sunday morning, arter
the jury had been out thirty-seven
hours, of the election officers of the
Sixth Ward in Lancaster City who were
indicted for fraud and with adding bal
lots to the poll at the same election.
The trial occupied an entire week and
nearly five hundred witnesses were in
attendance. The defendants are all
well-known citizens of Lancaster, and
have always borne good characters. A
few more convictions for the same of
fense will perhaps purify the political
atmosphere ia the "O'.d Guard" and
enable her Republican TOters to hold
honest primaries.
The strike of the loca motive engi
neers and Creman, I. COO in number, on
the Chicago, Burlington and JuiLcy
Railroad, which began on last MoLday
week, still continues with no apparent
proepect of settlement. Mr. Arthur,
who is Chief of the Brotherhood of loco
motive engineers. Is in Chicago person
ally superintending the strike. The
organization is well prepared to carry it
on having a balf a million of dollars in
its treasury. The cause of the strike
as stated by an officer of the road is
this : "At present we have one rate of
pay for engineers just promoted from
fireman, which continues for oce jear.
In the second year of fervice as an en
gineer an advance of pay is given. On
the expiration of the second year a
further advance to fall engineer's pay
is given. The schedule proposed ty
the engineers does away with this clas
sification and insists upon full pay for
every man as soon as he begins to run
an engine." The Brotherhood, we be
lieve, have never yet lost a strike and
say they feel very confldent cf success
in the present one. Both sides express
a settled determination uot to yield.
The President has appointed John R.
Read, a well-knowu Democratic lawyer
or Philadelphia, to be United States
District Attorney for the Eastern dis
trict of Pennsylvania, to succeed John
K. Valentine, Republican, whose com
mission will expire oa the 11th instant.
Valentine was in tlice when Cleveland
was inaugurated three years ago
and he has permitted him to serve
out his term in accordance with
his views of civil service reform. If a
Republican President should be elected
next November Mr. Read will not like
ly hold bis cGiec three years from and
after the 4,h of next March, as Mr.
Valentine did under a Democratic
administration. Mr. Read was a warm
friend of Siniuel J. Tilden and often
visited him at his borne on tbe Hudson
River, and it Is now said that after tbe
last Presidential election Mr. Tilden
wrote to Cleveland asking him as a
personal favor to appoint bis friend
R?ad to the office for which the Presi
dent has now nominated him to the
Sanate.
The Home committee on the judici
ary have uxreed to a comprumist con
stitutional amendment, combining the
Senate bill for the inaugeration of the
President on April 3). 1SS9, the cenen
cial anniversary or the Crst Inauera
lion or President Washington, and the
House bill changing the constitutional
date for the mating or C-ongress fiom
the Crst Monday in December to the
first Monday in January, to hold in ses-
sion the entire two years ir necsiary. j
It is claimed that this joint preposition J
wi'l receive the required tw-tbirdj. '
An ff jrt will be mad-) to have it c i in
t ) fTct in the coming yer. Should :
theam-ndment b adapted. Ires.drt ;
Cleveland would C:i the IVu Jmtial '
o.tl:e nearly two months bynd the
rrewnt constitutional term. Tii Tif
tieth Congress would expire two nvviths
In a Ivance f its preser.t limit, r.d the
Pifty-Crst Congress wouM aemb
eleven ruoitts before its rejjolar dar,
as low est abashed. Th CongreM cm !
a'eo then sit lurg as public business i
will le-juire. '
A t iva r l A it issued on Toeadav lat '
ty Jvhn K. Mraser and It. Claik of '
rf the Duly Morning AW, a new '
Democratic laper. the publication of.
which was begun la Johnstown a little
over two werks ago, brought us the I
un welcome intelligence that its jubli-j
cation was susjierded. Mr. S raver,
who was the prcjectcr of the enterprise, j
statfs that he had not the financial
t acking when he begun that he should
have bad. tut took the chances of his
friends Lelping him along aa they re
peatedly promised, but failed to do.
Mr. S;rayer, whose brightest hopes
seem to have been wrapped up in his
new undertaking, expresses bis firm be
hef that a new daily paper can be estab
lished in Johnstown on a paying basis.
We think so too, and perhaps Mr.
Strayer under more auspicious circum
stances, will renew the experiment and
make it a success. He has the brains
and enerpy for tbe tafk.
No newsp iper in the country is better
entitled to speak for the woolen manu
facturers than the Providence Jutrnal.
It has been a starch advocate of a pro
tective tariff and an unwavering sup
porter of the Republican parry. Hear
what It says for free wool :
The more we look Into the desirability of
free raw materials the tcore. we ohall find to
support the claim. New England certainly
should be a unit on this isue, for it in ow
ing to free cottcn and hides that two great
branches of manufacturing are fc-n active,
ana free wool would start up the third ureal
industiy In a way that would be felt at
once in Rhode island and Massachusetts.
To he able to manufacture a smale llr.e of I
iuoi.'s wear wh cli Is now Impoited would
d.iub'e the stz of the city of ?roldence and i
Klve eo, plot nei.t to 5) COO people.
Horn tranchia of the New Jersey
L 'gijlaturebave passed the high license
't Cil option bill over the Governor's
vpto. It will now be fought out la tbe I
t;.u:t3. j
Son for the Candidates !
Since the dates and p'aces of the Na
tional Conventions of the two great par
tie have been fixed upon, the current
speculation is with refpect to the two
Presidential candidates. Ia one im
portant particular the Democratic party
has an advantage over its opponent the
choice of its caudidate for the Presiden
cy has already been unalttrablv deter
mined by popular decree. No Republi
can, unless he abould be gifted with
"second night," would venture to name
from the crowd of Presidential aspirants
the man upon whom tbe choice of tbe
Chicago Convention will fall. No Dem
ocrat would seriously dispute that Gro
ver Cleveland is predestined to be the
norainetre of the S:. Louis Convention.
There are Republicans, with whom
the wish is the lather of the thought,
who exprrss the beiief that Mr. 15. nine
will U) nominated l-cau?eof an inabili
ty of the National Convention to agree
upon any other candidate ; likewise
there are Democrats who amuse them
selves l'.h tne fancy that in the chapter
of political accidents Cleve'aud may
fait of a nom-nation. As for Mr.
Blaine, the R-pubiicans have evidently
determined to hold him to his woid. and
tney will be much more likely to select
a CioctiJate ia Chicago whoso uomina
tiou wiil still tbe voice of fac'iou than
to invi ke the very spirit of faction by
falling tack upon the Maine statesman.
It is much easier to foretell w nom the
Republicans will cot nominate than CD
predict whom they will select out of a
li-t of candidates that will grow rather
than diminish from this time till tbe
meetiBg of the National Convention.
For example, they will bardly be suilty
of so ex'.reme an act of political folly as
to nominate Cbauoeey M. Depew, the
Pres:deat nf the New York Central
Railroad Company, upon a platform of
"Protection to American Labor."
While tne corporations, "Trusts" and
"Combines" of eveiy description wl.l
have a most potent influence upon the
choice of tbe Republican candidate, tbe
party leaders are altogether too saga
cious to make such a nomination. They
may not have in their hearts very etiong
hope of success, -even with the most
popu'ar cacdidare whom they may be
ubie to put in the G -Id sgainst Clea
lar.d : but the Democrats need not ex
pect that they wiil recklessly fl.ng away
all their jrosprc'.s in the coming cam
paign by making the chiropion and
rtpr- Srntative of the Vanderbi'.t Rail
road MoLOply their candidate for Presi
dent of 'h t'ni'ed Stat-?.
M. reovtr, the rilro-d corporation?
ard Trm's have too great a stake in the
succfs of the 'tepublican party to in
vite It to deliberatelyly commit this
foMy. While they will pour out their
money lavishly to defeat the people'
choice, as ther did in :SSO, and again
in 1SS4, they are no more disposed to
waste it in desperate political advent
ures than are other people. Phil, lie
cortt. The Sew Tariff Bill.
The new tariff bill, which is given to
he public this morning, relates to the
duties on imports only, and contains no
re.erence to internal revenue taxation.
There was soma expectation that it
would include a provision repealing the
tobacco tax at least, tut it is intimated
that this will be provided for iu a separ
ate till, the oSject of the majority of the
ways arid means committee being to
consider the tariff reductions npart and
separate from any other uuestiunc.
With a tew exceptions the changes pro
posed in the tariff do not appear to be
radical, and they are nia-nly in the line
recommended in the President's mes
sage, to facilitate the importation of the
materials used in manufactures while
miintaining a protective duty up-n
manufactured good. A great many
articles are placed upon the free list,
but of these woo! and lumber ouly are
important in tbe amount of tevenue
produced. It is claimed by those who
have hem instrumental in prepati lg
the bill that the reduction wiil aggre
gate about ."o.Oi,.WO. of which the
free lis: will iurniti $22 .VXt.OUO ; the
reduction in woolens and iron and steel.
?17,2.0,UUO ; on sugar. 11 OOO OKJ ; or.
china and glassware, .l.VN).fj(sj ; on cot
ton goods. J.'iOO.fMsj; ua U,x, hemn and
jute, ;i.5iX),Oivj, and on chemical. ?7o".
UUO. Ic is very doubtful whether the
best informed persons can judge intelli
gently in regard to this mattei. as a re
duction in duties metitues stimulates
importation, thus faillrg to reJuce t.e
reveriM in pr. portion to the reduction
in the rate of ducy.
TLat the bill will besharp'v rr!t!cied
and strenuously opposed by the IpuMi
cans my be tiken for granted. The
changes in the wool and iron and steel
schedules will ra'! forth the grratest
o;ix;sitino, chiefly U cause of the mag
nitude of the interests affected. The
s'ror gev. np;v$j:i--)Q w 1 com-, rf coure,
from the Ohio woot-growrM. aud the
discussion of th's eut j-ct elicitel by the
President's mra.e will be threshed
over again Hdt fintely. Pennsylvania
Interests have less reas n for outcry,
Jh duy oa p g Iron being reduced only
72 cents ir tun and the du'v on Inm
t.d steel raila from f 14 and 17 per ton
respectively n I 1. tnough doubtless
the redaction in each case will be de
dared to l ruirous.
The introduction cf ihis bill will mirk
the beglnnjru of tbe real fiht of the
eioi. 'Vhile it is in no sense a free
trade measure the advocates of a high
protective tariff will louliy maintain
thUitlsar.d will employ all their re
sources to array the business and work
ing cUsses of the country against it oa
that score. This Is the Presidential
yeai and the revenue question will be
considered more with reference to its
effect upou partisan chances than with
a view to reducing the revenues with
the least ir.jurv to tbe business of the
ountry. 7.i7i. Titnta.
The Tension Floodgates.
Itftween their desire to cater to the
"soldier vote" and to get rid of the sur
plus without abating the war tariff, the
Republican Sinators are ready to open
the floodgates for another deluge of
pension claims.
The grand Army prepared a bill,
with the able assistance of the cUtni
agents, proposing to pension all Union
soldiers who are "totally incapacitated"
for self-support. This bill, jf passed
and approved, .would add uoknown
millions to a pension list that already
costs nearly as much as the standing
army of Germany. Rut, not content
with this. Senator Plumb moved to
strike out the word "totally." The
number of former soldiers who conld
le persuaded by the offer of Govern
ment support to consider themselves
-incapacitated" for any work cannot
be accurately estimated. It Is safe to
say, however, that such an offer would
double the uension list and make it cost
?1.-0,J (0,000 a year.
In that case not only would the war
taxes go on forever, and the monopo
lists and taxeaters be happy, but there
would be a standing premium upon
pauperism that would prove more de
moralizing to the country than did the
war itself.
President Cleveland performed one of
the best and most courageous acts of
his public life in vetoing such a meas
ure last yer. lie was sustained by
the lest public sentiment ot the countiy
and ty the voters of his own S;ate in
the election. He can undoubtedly h
relied on to do it again. y. y. 'CrW.
Time will be called soon if some Republi
can don't write a letter decliutti: to be a
1'icoidcbtial cauuidate. I
The Prohibition Experiment In Rhode-
Island.
The latest figures from Rhode Island
on the wotting ot the prohibitory law
there are more startling than any which
have gone before. It has been previous
ly shown that there are. more liquor
saloons under Prohibition .than there
were under license, and now it is shown
that there bas beeu a great increase in
drunkenness and crime during the past
year as compared with tbe first year un
dar Prohibition. The official figures
upon the latter points were presented to
the Legislature last week. They show
that during the last six months under
license ia 1SSJ the number of arreste
wa ; during the last six months
of lS-O the number was 22'2, but duiing
the last six mouths of 1S7 it reached
nearly its former dimensions, being
30tt0. During the !asi six rionlhs of
1SS0 there were 252U casts of drunken
ness and reveliLg ; during the same
period for 1SS5 there were 1475 eusee.
and during the same teriod for ISsT
there were 210 ca'set.. Upon casea of
common drunkards the ehowiug ia worst
of all. There were during tbe last b i
months of lS"v. t0 of these ; during the
same period iu l-'I. 23. and during the
same period in 1SS7.71X
It is evident from these figures that
the State is suffering all the evils which
flow from the uuresi ricted sale of liquor.
No attempt is made lurger to enforce
the law. Liquor is sold more freely in
the city of Providence than it was un
der license, the number of saloons to
population being one for eveiy 200 per
sons. The average under High License
is about one toevery 4'0. But this free
sale s not all the harm that the law is
responsible for. During the first year
that the law was in existence there
sprang up in all the cities of tbe State a
host of so-called private "club rooms,"
which were merely secret driuking
places. The inevitable i ffect or these
was to make drunkards of men who
would never have become so under otlier
conditions. The figares now given
etow the results in the increase of com
mon drunkard. We do rot efk to
underef timite in any way the evils of
bars and saloons. We regard them as
a curse everywhere, and won'd rejoice
to see them all swept from existence;
but great as their evils are, tl.oee of se
cret drinking and of unresliic'i d drink
ing -are greater. Prohibition is worse
t ban a fo'Iy wb-u if. leads to ri3u"ls like
thes. .Y. 1'. Eitnig It.
ill in One Ll retime.
The change3 thai luve t.k-u p'ace in
this country in the active lifetime of
men who are still tu tbe stage, especi
ally in the development and progress of
the great West, are brought strongly to
mind by occasional reminiscences ; but
the story told to the Washington ri ft,
by Colonel F. D. Taylor, of Chicago, a
quaint and vigorous character of ninety
years, low visiting the National Capi
tal, is eepeically noteworthy. Colonel
Taj lor, like Judge Patton. recently tn
tertaiued by the bar of P.ttshurgh,
before which he deliveied an address
on the career of FJwin M. Stanton, Las
the distinction of being one of the few
men living appointed to office by I'resi
dent JicKson. Colonel Taylor began
bis political life iu 1S32 as a member of
the Illinois legislature. A bill passed
congress at that time creating a land
office a; Chicago, and he was appointed
receiver by General Jackson. lie says :
I was then In the I.linols senate at Sprint;
field, but 1 went tul.t up to Chicago. The
towu bad only about 35o people then, and
its moitt prominent feature wm a fort to pro
tect the citizens from the Indians. Oa the
15th of Jane, 1 ben an a sale of public
lands. Except fr one little strip ot land
atone the rapid- of the Illinois river which
sold at frora 10 to $12 an acre because it
was expected that the water power could be
developed, there was no competition what
ever. All the rest of the laud on wbich
Chicago is new situated I sold at fl 25 per
acre. Nowadays trie property in tba center
of the city Is worth J 0"0 to H.Ooo per lront
foot. My district was a ver large one. ai.d
In 40 days my receipts aygreeated f 493.000.
more than has ever been sold at any land
cfhe in the I'nited States, before or since.
In a whole yar. I remember that i carried
tne money through a wilderness to Detroit
in constant fear of beiug attacked by In
dians. The town of "about 3V people" has
grown to vnl,fssj. is one of the lepdirg
cities, not only of the United States tut
of the world, for Chicago- is recocnized
everywhere as the typical American
city. I'itt.-burj 7Vsf.
Hannibal Hamlin.
That old b!aiher.klte and fossil, Han
nibal Hdtniin, cf Maine, Las been mak
irigaspeech recently, in which lie begged
the joung men present "to t.hun the
Dem.-cratic prty as they would a T:per.
The Democratic party," be continued
"is not one whit more patriotic or mote
honest today than In the closing days
of Bjchar.aii's adminis'ration. I do
not know t ut the Denxwratio party of
to-day is worse than the Democratic
party of
There is aa o'.d saying that "one rene
gde is worse than ten Tuiks." This
mau Hamlio was a Democrat as long as
it paid him to te a Democrat, and only
became a Itepublican when be saw the
drift of public feeling in that not bed of
alolit'ooim. fr-urierism and all other
Isms, bis own native Yankee New Eng
land. Ic his old age, when Le ' should
be thinking of Ms rapidly approaching
end and miking bis peace with his Cre
ator, he becomes garrulous and Indulges
In ail the spleen and venom of his ugly
disposition ajrainst the party which fos
tered and ptted and fed him up until
far past tbe meridian of bis life. His
ravings against better men than himself
do not injure them, but only add to the
many sins he will be called upou to an
swer for in the great hereafter. 7ir
ribur'j Patriot.
A iiilly Cry.
Could anything Le sillier than the
outcry of the over-coddled industries
and their partisan organs that any re
daction in tbe war tariff will bting blue
iuin upon the country ?
Thi3 country never had a 47 per cent,
tariff until 1S'5. Did it not grow and
prosper up to that date ? Have not
wages always been higher here than in
the Old World alike under low
tarriffs and high tariffs? Are they
not relatively higher to day in
the non-protected industries? What
sense is there in the cry that it will be
a calamity to maka sugar and clothing
cheaper and to relieve salt, lumber and
fibres and chemicals u&ed In manufact
urers from needless taxaf ion ?
The enactment of the Mills Bill
would leave the average duty higher
than it was under the Morrill Tariff in
103. It would leave it higher than
was proposed by the Republican Tariff
Commissioners in 1SS2. It will add no
more to the free list, with the exception
of wool, ttan was recommended by
President Arthur end Secretary Folger.
The idea of ruining a country by
abolishing its needless taxes was never
before heard of in the history of the
world. y. y. Worhl.
Bon't Experiment.
You cannot afford to waste time in exper
imenting when your lungs are in d&nger.
Consumption always seems, at first, only a
cold. Do not permit any dealer to Impose
upon you with mhi cheap imitation of Dr.
King's New D.sCovery for Consumption,
Couclu aud Cold, but n sure you get tbe
genuine. ISecauee be can make mote proSt
he may tell jnu he has something just as
good, nr just the same. Don't rn deceived,
but insist upon getting Dr. Kmj.'s N;w
Discovery, huh Is guaranteed to give
relief In a 1 Throat, hung and Chest affec
tions. Trll bottles free at the drug store of
K. James, Kuensburg, or VY. W. ilcAteer,
Loretto. Large bottles fl.
XEWH ASD OTHER XOTIXGN.
A. Connecticut man wbo has traded
horses 2.120 times, now hai au animal wortb
50 for his cuteness.
-There are more people of foreign birth
In Milwaukee and fewer In Atlanta, lo pro
portion to the sizes or tbe' places, than In
any other cities in tbe country.
More than $10,000. OCO wortb of oysters
were ebipped from Maryland to all parts of
the world tbi season. Over 40.000 persons
are employed in tbe industry In the State.
The unusual Phenomenon of snow fall
ing from a clear aky was witnessed recently
at Livingston, Montana. Tbe nearest
clouds overhung tne mountain, five miles
distant.
A New York merchant estimates that
3.000,000 bushels of peanuts were consumed
In this country last year. The cost to the
consumers was tio.ooo.ooo, fully half of
wblcb was Dtofit.
A lady of New York City recently ex
tracted from ber thumb a needle supposed
to hT entered her heel seven years pre
viously. A few aays after Its extraction
tbe needle fell to dust.
While fishint: from a boat the other day
a cltlzn of Orange City. Fla., fell aleepand
when he awoke found that be bad been
towed three miles by a twenty-pound cat
fish that bad belzed Ms hook.
Mrs. Hutt. of Canton. O., goes raving
mad at the coming of each new moon, when
the fit passes eft uutll the next change.
She is tbe widow of Gottlieb Ilutt, who
hung himself several years ago.
Blocks of ice that were cut in the lake
at Memphis, Mo., for storage In tbe ice
houses, were found Iu many Instaaces to
contain large catfish that bad been frozen
solid. Some of the fish were over a foot lo
length.
A farmer in Accomack county, Virginia,
a few days ago while digging a post-bole
came upon a pot full of gold and silver coin.
It le supposed to have been burled by a
Tory who went to England at the outbreak
of the Revolution.
At the trial of a Wooster O., man for
murder, it was brought out in the course of
tbe testimony that at the outbreak or the
war he had himseir convicted or sheep steal
ing In order that he might avoid military
service by going to the penitentiary.
The town or Bel lev ue. I1U Is entirely
Tree or docs. Since the terrific nltio-giycer-Ine
expioblon there, a few days ago, not a
canine hai bet n seen on the streets. At tbe
first report every one started on a dead run
for the wood, and not one has returned
yet.
During the gieat blizzard In the West
223 sheep were burled in the 6now at Hard
iDg's ranch, near Atkinson, Neb., and were
given up as dead. When they were dog out
a few days a,o 13 were found to be fctill
alive. They bad eaten the wool from each
other's back.
About 80.000 traveling salesmen are on
the road in this country, whose expense ac
count averages S1.G25 a year each, and
whose average annual salary is 71,000 thus
representing an outlay by and on this go
ahead and wide-awake fraternity of about
J2l0.0oo.ooo every twelve months.
The greatest elevation which has been
attained by man Is 37,000 feet -about
seven miles this height having been reach
ed durirg a balloon accent made by Glaish
er. At this tremendous distance above the
earth's surface pbyelcal exertion Ia found to
be almost impossible, owing to tbe great
rarefaction of tbe atmosphere.
Miss Sadie Ray, of Chicago, is the own
er of a dog that saved the Uvea of ber mis
tress and another lady one night last week.
The bouse got on fire and the room was full
of smoke wbeo Mlsa Ray was awakened by
the intelligent animal, which jumped upon
her bed and began pawing at ber.
Tbe River Amazon at its narrowest
pert Is nearly a mile wide during the period
of high water, with an average depth of 225
feet, running with a velocity of nearly five
mill's an hour, and discharging 215.875 cubic
5ardsor water per second, or eight times
the quanti'y discharged by the Mississippi
in a second during high water.
A Milwaukee man who has just return
ed from a trip to California, where he went
to eee what the boom was like, says that he
was offered a "bargain" in Los Angeles in
a lot that was held at fl.eoO front foot.
Land In the open country 12 miles from
town was finding ready sale at (100 a foet,
and money was being It-aned at 12 per cnt.
James D. I-eary. builder of the big raft
which was !o-.t at sea last December, is to
build a timber ship at Port Joggins, N. S., f50
feet long. 110 feet longer than the raft, to
hare six mats and to be bulkbeaded at each
end to keep off the waves. The largest
timbers ever shipped from Nova Scotia are
being chainej together, and tbe monster
wll! he ready to launch In July or August.
The smallest baby In the world was
born Feb. loth to Mrs. Miller, or Rice Lake.
Fairbao.lt county. Minnesota. It Is a speck
ot humanity that barely tipped tbe beam at
one and a balf pounds. Its foot is not over
an Inch In length, and an ordinary finger
ring will go over tbe foot and upon tbe an
kle. A small child's teacup will cover its
head. Tbe father is a large, heavy man,
and the mother very little under tbe ordi
nary size. The child Is perfectly formed
and healthy.
"The crop of alligators Is decidedly
slim In the South this year." said a man
wbo had just returned from Florida. "In
fact, the supply is giving out, and the alli
gator seems on the road toward extinction
as rapidly as tbe buffalo. The slaughter
for their hides bas been waged so fiercely
that it is no wonder tbe stock has been de
pleted. It is only a matter of a few years
until the last survivor of a mlghty-moutbed
race will be dodging tbe bullets of the ban
ter in some lonely lagoon and wearily wait
ing for tbe end to come."
John S. Ellis, a well-to-do farmer liv
ing only a few miles from Cai ronton, Mo.,
has Dot visited that town for 25 years. Ue
Is no way infirm, but on the contrary Is pos
sessed of a good constitution and more than
ordinary intelligence. Ills eccentricity Is
accounted for in this way. During the war
la 1SC2 Mr. Ellis, while in town, was
met by a well known Kansas Jaybawker
and at tbe point of a murderous-looking re
volver was told to say his prayers. Mr.
El Ms told him that if be would spare hie lire
he would go borne and never come back to
tbe town. He bas kept bis word, and his
relatives say be bas not been off his farm for
a quarter of a century, though be reads tbe
papers and keeps posted on the affairs of
tbe day.
Much interest is centered at present la
Mrs Hooker, a well-known lady of Elkhart,
Ind., wbo bas appealed before tbe Pension
Board and made formal claim to a pension.
based on tbe fact that she was an enlisted
soldier of the late war, served three years
and was twice wounded. At tbe breaking
out of the war Mr. Hooker was appointed
First Lieutenant and his wire accompanied
him to the front- She was enabled to do
this by a clever piece of strategy. A young
ms.n wbo bore some resemblance to ber waa
Induced to submit himself to tbe necessary
examination, and when an opportunity pre
sented itself the young woman, properly
uniformed, exchanged places with him
With her husband she has lived In Elkhart
several years, and is familiarly known as
"Colonel" Hooker. Tbe outcome'of her
claim is looked forward to with much
I curiosity.
75V Te5?5?oTo)To o7V?5
Go to GEIS, FOSTER Sc QUIXX'S, Clinton St.. Johnstown, Pa.. for
Carpets, Mattings, Rugs, Stair Pads, Stair Rods, Stair Buttons,
Oilcloths, Linoleum, Lace Curtains, Feathers,
Turcoman Curtains, Madras Curtain Goods, etc., etc. Qnality of Goods
unequaled and prices the lowest.
A correspondent writing fiom St. Peter
burg says : "I saw more drunken men In
Petersburg on the day of my arrival than I
had seen in all tbe rest or Europe during a
foar months' stay. The peasants of Belgi
um have a poor reputation for temperance,
put 1 saw more drunken men in Petersburg
on my way from the station to tbe hotel the
day of my arrival than I saw in all Belgium."
An umbrella that was brought to this
country from Holland in 1630 Is on exhibi
tion Id Albany. It bears the name of an
Italian maker. It has been asserted that
umbrellas are a later invention than 1030.
and that an Englishman first appeared in
the streets of London in the last century
with one to protect hiua from the rain. The
fact is, however, that umbrellas were In use
by the Egyptians 4.000 years ago. The um
brellas seen sometimes attached to a vtthlcle
io the streets are seen pictured upon the
wall raintiugs or ancient Egypt.
An unusual commotion was witnessed
in Chinatown, San Franclsso, a few days
ago. A crowd or excited Chinamen 6tood
berore a house and a medley or discordant
sounds arose, amoung them tbe notes or tbe
fife, the drumming on tin pans and a mono
tonous chant from hundreds of throats.
Within the bouse aa altar bad been erected
on which an immense number or punk
sticks were burning. A number or whole
roasted fowls bedecked with artificial flow
ers and bespangled with gold lear also
graced the Impromptu altar, surrounded by
tiny cups or tea and mounds or strangely
made conrectioDery. Grouped about this
table were four pagan prie&ts habited In
flowing gowns of red silk, from whose noses
the chanting above referred to proceeded.
Behind them was a complete Chinese or
chestra, who appeared to be bent upon see
ing bow much noise could be gotten from
their cymbals, fiddles, drums, tomtoms, and
above all, tbeir ear splitting fifes. Tbe
company was engaged In banishing devils
frou the bouse, the owner or which stated
that be bad been so annoyed that be could
not steep nights. It is said that a belief In
evil spirits is universal among the Chinese,
and among the pig-talled priests or San
Francisco are several wbo are famous for
their proficiency in exorcising them.
Three Bold Men.
St. Louis, February 20. Officials or tbe
Cotton Belt Railroad were notified this
morning that a robbery had been committed
on passenger train Xo. 2. at Kicgsland,
Cleveland county, Aik. at 1 o'clock this
morning, and that considerable money and
uunegotiabie papers bad beeu taken from
tbe express car. In charge of Messenger
Calvin, cr tbe Southern Express Company.
Calvin also bad In charge packages of mon
ey collected at stations along the routes in
tended for tbe central offices of tbe com
pany. Thi6. with some of tbe funds ot tbe
express company, made tbe cash lost about
S1.000.
M. II. G. Allla. Auditor or the road, re
ceived the above from Superintendent Flem
ing, located at Texarkana. and later came a
meager description of the robbers, giving
their height at about 5 feet 10 Inches, 5 feet
7 inches and 5 feet C inches, and weigtin;
1G0, 150 and 140 pounds respectively.
Bob Rew, engineer of the train, tells of I
the robbery as follows : "I had just put on
the airbrake for Kmgsland. when a fellow
came crawling over the tender toward me.
and In an Instant had his revolver prelDg
against the side of my head, lie i-aid :
Tullout, quick,' end I did it. you bet.
After we had run about a mile and a halt
he told me to stiut her off, and as soon as
we stopped two other fellows showed up
from behind the tender, and ordered me
and my firemen to 'come out of that"
Market, my firemen, crawled down, but I
told them I wouldn't leate my machine.
In about a second there were six revolvers
pointing at me, and I concluded It was too
warm In my engine, so I got down, too.
"Then tbey tuld us to uncouple the mail
and expiess car from the rest of the trrin.
but we pretended not to be able to do it,
and as Me&:engr Calvin refused to open up
they commenced shooting la lively shape.
Then tbey got a cau of oil from the engine
and a lot of waste and piled It on tbe car
door and set fire to it. Calvin began to beg,
tben, and told them If tbey would agree not
to hurt him be would open up. They told
bim to come ahead, and he threw open the
door and Jumped to the ground. The rob
bers tben helped themselves. I don't be
lieve they got a great deal. We staved there
for 40 minutes, and not a single man show
ed up out of the cars except a nero, who
stood on the platform and cursed the rob
bers all tbe time tbey were at work. They
just laughed at htm, tbougb, and kept rigut
on."
A reward aggregating (1,950 Is offered for
the arrest of the robbers."
KmMr Wllhoal Slllera.
A Washington correspondent of the Indi
anapolis Journal writes : "There is one
thing that surprises rue about America and
especially about Washington." said an
English gentleman, "and that Is the feeling
of absolute safety wblcb aeema to prevade
the atmosphere iu all directions. I refer
more particularly to the condition of your
Treasury. By the courtesy or the officials
I was shown through tbe vaults, wbere
almost countless millions of silver are stored,
and I was allowed the privilege even of
entering the inner mont recesses of tbe
strong rooms where your public funds are
etored, and there were no guards but tbe
clerks employed (here.
"Tben. too, I noticed in passing the
Treasury building, at night, that all was as
quiet as a grave. A tew glimmering lights
in some of the windows showed me tbat
there was an occasional watchman inside of
tbe building, but there was no sign on tbe
outride to show that any precaution had
been made to prevent a wholesale robbery.
The bank of England, which Is tbe great
depository of the city or London, and is,
perhaps, tbe financial Institution or tbe
world, Is conducted on far different princi
ples. Every night a visitor mho happens to
be In tbe neighborhood of Threadneedle
street will find a pquad of soldiers from the
barracks in the West End filing down to
take tbetr positions as the night watch.
Tbee men are kept on duty from the time
tbe bank closes until it reopens on tbe fol
lowing day. Tbey are posted at all sections,
and pace the streets surrounding tbe bank
witb a regularity of sentries around a camp.
I do not know but that your system 19 far
more attractive to a foreigner, although th
absence of everything military here Is ex
tremely 6trange to one familiar with what
your politicians terra the effete monarchies
of Eurore."
carl hi "vusnxis,
-PRACTICAL
-AND DEALER IN-
f f Ill
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2$ ' ft
tmr-.r i-TTrr
M A TR7VTTT magtAzikte hjojjth
-
Put Urre or tmall pam S2 grains powder: S.S
4t . Al CO cr. : 45 t-Al. Til nrl 'r '1 hi fctr.-iTirfefcl nhrwitlnir
I'criretaccu.'ary yoaraiiterd Zw the cc' abaoluulr
,r:. .7 Tt A T.T. Pi T Tl C'LrT
Af AAJJiJZ;i.Jll art Itiflr.
for ta'et aio.it;t!i:. liununc. aud tuootinic na.ierics.
lourievD Uiriereal Btviea, prtcea from
BIARLIN FIRE ARMS CO.,
'fevo LktTfr-ta ma'ie witu on of our
aJirliriy aht,tii Lu4 alrea-Ir Len flrcJ
feliot. Tlie (.'uribr&Ty t ST nearly ul
feic ii.uj 6 acLUttie xnJ rc.lib.e.
ilt I L 4 wore rtLoml to tir II tl Vr Dw UI
hSS?,''.' sekihal pastilles
A Tl -rt i. Huwl fAP Kaiwnsii I kal 1CT,4 rjSn
WAaauMaadllJvlcal iNvcarin V'cnff or Mid
k A -....,. i .rianlnlf - riM mainraj T
wd and broti dotn man Votb In '1 auyiDit of
ffotaad fuU Mafiiyft'-roajn.hA4 ioroa n.tiv
To thoM wiUoufltr from U-a star Otrx ra d l 1
froualitaboct fc Jadiwavetxaa. fjKif,tw brja
ttvxn w La aU'mrni ci ymr mnm mwi www
BUPTURE3 PERSON? can nave FRE.fi
LL1'A AAliC r fc-r r- 'tn 1 uatt a 1 acijuie..ir.
t, L. JOHSS'.O. I. J. Eld. i. 1. Bid.
Johnston, Buck it Co.,
uvrs 1 visits,
JCb e 1 1 "b u rg,
Woncy Received on Depsit,
p r a hi.k ii:hi.
INTEREST ALLOWED ON MELEIUW
COLLECTIONS MADE
IT A-i . umLi roiT.
DRAFTS oh the rtinciixil Citie
Bohc Wl mm Nlt mm m
Geieral Bsrtinz Easiness Trdsictci.
JlCCOrSTS BOLiCITKU.
A. W. BUCK. CaLier.
tnenbarg. April 4. l4.-tJ.
SALESMEN WANTED
to raovan lor the tale ol M'ir'enr Ntooa '. Sit-H.iy
eTrrlTOient rMarante!. SAI.AKV ANIJ L-l-KNSKS
PAUL Aw1t at oni-e. ftatinn ago.
t'HAL BKUllltKS COMPANY.
( Keler to thif patr ",
Ku'.'Lealer. JN . Y.
Penn'a Agnl forks.
Steam KnKtnes.Saw Mill, liar Treves, Stump
Puller ami Stauilard Aicnrnltural 1 injjltuienta
generally. Spn l fr I'aia litue
A. is. t aki 11 AU' a run lora.t a. i.
Important to Cani'assers.
VlSTrn-Mre Canrsf?r In every eountj
In the r nlte Stated to Fell FOX S PATENT UE-
VEKS1HLE SAD IKON, whien combines two
Sad Irwnii, Poliaber, Elmer, kc. one Iron doing
the worn ol an entire set of ordinarv Iron. Is
self-heatlnic hv u:is or al"vrul lamp. IMK
AWAY HIT1I HOT It IT 11 K3 ai. Price
moderate. A larire au J lasuui; Income Insured
to arnod canvaspors. Addrem, lor circulars, ..,
o syx
'UI
SAU IKON CO.. Vb Keade St.. N. Y.
AGENTS
To canvass for one of the Iaruet, olilest estah
llfhed. UEST KNOWN M lKlilKS Ib the
country. Aloft liberal terms. Tneciuall, d facili
ties. OENEVA N1KSKKY. E?lauliri6j '840.
W. fcT. SMITH. U EN EVA. X. Y. lc. V. 4t.
Policial written at short notice In tfea
OLD RELIABLE "ETNA"
And other Firat C'taaa Companies.
T. W. DICK,
ivjent run THE
FfflBlKSDRANCSGOMT.
COMMENCED BVSINESS
1794:.
EbecsburK. July vUlSSa.
ESSENTIAL OILS.
Wl XTrHGREF.X, PrPl'rREXT,l'E-
XV KUTAL,NPEABHI T, f.
ot prime quality, boutitit In any quantity lor cash
on ueiiveriy , tree 01 iruaa ram, cwtninisf ion, sier
axe, ac, by
DODGR t OLCo rr.
Importers and exporters. Hi William St. .New York
STE.VUIKU AI)Vi:K11t RS should ad-
dreiss
HFOIUiE I'. KV r.I.l. A CO.,
IO Niirnr Klrert, Xw York City.
Eon SaLavT ListofI, 000 NKWKPiPKiLS
Will be tent free bu amplication.
Jan..H '7
WAIWTE
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Watches, Clocks,
JEWKLHY,.
SilverwareMnslcal Tnstrmijents
AND
Optical Gccd:.
Sole Agent
-X'K nil
Celebrated Rockford
WATCHKS.
folumlla and FreJonia Watch
CLtri.
In Key and Stem Winders.
i-.AP.OE SELECTION' or ALL KIS'Ji
of JEvVELKl" always on hauj.
tif My line of Jewelry is urwurpa-l.
Couie and see for yourself before purrtAil
ing elfwhere.
I5?ALL WOhK CCAR1STEED j-J
CARL RIVINIUS
Ebensburg, Nov. 11, lSSj--tf.
J r, - ., S
cal. 56 pr. ;
rtC ULAde
ante rlUe on toe mar
- PrlinC and Tar.
Wulld r-i,c,wu.l. The clanriard
All calibres trom ! to S. WaUetn
f lc.wj up. becu fur l.lu6tral." catalogue.
- New Haven, Conn.
Tl ra.lbre rtft-. twniy roivrutive Ftiote
anj no cleaiunx dunne the ontl-- a.-vfrly
tne pzlza at target 1cl.auc tut 7
Arvjit! a tin j at pwl i wu
an, liirfBra u-ucm. ana uj V '
rriMCi oaljr airn If loLlma uinir
.1 ttl luwu'i., amm out a-v-tca
roOM meOjral prine.p hj
UV.011 u S awtU o f an- :a r. -;V
uracr v tf 'r without ifc-lay. TLxJ
tKiti,(.f Un fcgn tvfi.ii WW -o ti
tnoart uxiiki awl aiilir imitulliainu. aa -ca&
TtUtTY. IM1. CiTa'aO 13 . r7lU. tZ. Tint, K
HARRIS REMEDY CO., Mn ftT.-
Trial of our Appllanow. Ask. tor Term'
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! lurs a ti.l t' . i-r n i i; ! 1' ,:
Hit euK'ne nd maofcinerv as;'ekaii -Tl" 'Si
A. I'AKLl.V. AlicLei.y. l a. :.tan 1
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learn the 'tul cot of any f - ,.rd !
A liVEK n-IN in AmericaB e .-yagers . lo
fair rainiiblrl lor.
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534 tlRANT STKEET.
riTTfiuuaaH, Ta.
liOBElt T EVANS,
UNDBRTAKEB,
A."V1 M ANt'FACTl'fi EK t.'F
and dealer In all kinds ol KVK.MTl'E.
lHeiiliiiTf,
-A full line ol Oatkets alwsjj on liauJ "
Bodies Embalmed
WHEN i;o.l"lKEU.
Apr S3 Si
EteEslnn Fire lnsnrance ACT
T. AV. DICK,
General Insurance Agenti
7 FRANCIS COLLEGE,
I.OlUriTO.l'A.
IN CHAIKIE OK
FRANCISCAN BKOTHKIiS.
Boanl anil Tuition
for the Scholastic Year, $200.
March Sfth. is f.
KENTUCKY
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Tcnn'a who tuako
a .cei.ilny ef aen-
turav Saddle and
l'rivin llorf s, .
I rHiKtit and Pit CfV
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lonsiiiuilv iu tiitir sial.ltn one tuialred n
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