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FRIDAY. " - - MARCH 2. 1SSS. !
Tit w PMIi.l-tnhta TVn rolhrat t t
Us fourteenth anniversary on Tuesday
of last week. Col. McClure has a right
to be rroud of the Hints aa a fearlessly
Independent, able and successful news
paper. A JCDiciors revision of the present i
tariff is a better bulwark for its preser
vation than the unceasing cry that it
must not be touched at all, for fear that
if ii is amended In any essential partic
ular it will be destroyed.
The National Committee of the Pro
hibition party has changed the date of
the meeting of its National Convention
at Indianapolis to May 30: h Decora
tion iHy Instead of June, G the date
which was origionally set for Us meet
ing. The celebration of Ht. Patrick's day
in Ireland was exceptionally quiet and
oraerly. The Irish people are deter
mined nit to be betrayed into doing
anything which will give the Tory
demagoeues a chance to excite English
prejudices by representing the Irifh as
rebellious.
Judge Arnold, of Philadelphia, in
an elaborate opinion delivertd on Mon
day last in a slated cue, declared that
the attempt to collect taxes on f uniture,
watches and pleasure carriages was
clearly illegal, the a i of Assembly of
May 13, ISS7, having abolished the tax
and all means of collecting it.
Predext Cleveland was fifty
one years old on Sunday last, and i. one
of only six Presidents who have passed
that date of their lived when uoU ing
their high office. Toe others ere
Polk, Fillmore, Pierce, Grant and Ar
thur. When Cleveland was inaugurat
ed be was the youDest whoever took
the oath of olllce of President, being
buttwj weeks over forty eight jeraa of
Will the timo ever arrive during the
present ceutury when (Jdluaha A. Crow
will nut be found askicg for some po'.it
cal preferment ? He now wants to be
a delegateit-large to the Republican
National Convention. The men who
will compose the Republican State Con
vention in the yeur 1D00 will be called
upon to vote for (ialusha for some pub
lic posi'.iiii, provided he is then in the
flesh.
One of the latest and most signiti
caut incidents in the political world is
that the colored voters of Washington,
in this State, organized a Cleveland and
TarllT Inform Club Ust week and took
steps to wa?e ai aggressive campaign.
About fifty names were enrolled and
the list is expected to reach tlnee
times that number. Many of them are
men of means and induence They de
clare that the time has come for their
emancipation from political bondage to
the Republican party.
The ftiends of Central Hancock, the
gallant Pennsylvania soldier who was
recently traduced on the flor of the
Uuited States .Senate by Jjhn J. Iugalis,
the Kansas waj, as "an ally of the
C'onl'ednacy," who have been active in
their efforts to raiso sulicient tmney to
purchase a home in Washington for
Mrs. Hancock, have met with complete
success. The bouse which is a large
three itory browu ami white stote
structure, will be formally resented to
.Mrs. HancocK about the tirst of April.
General Stewact L. Woodfokd,
late the Republican Lieutenant Govern
or of Xsw Yjrk, in an interview last
wwk said : 'I know that President
Cleve'and is strong with the bus:ne3
meu of New York, thj men with whom
I am particularly thrown. Many Re
publicans, like myself, while differing
from him on political srounds, admire
him for his honesiy, his ia'egrity aud
the faithfulness with wliich he perforins
his duty as he conceive it. Tne oppj
sition to him at the coming election
will not be of a persmal nature at all.
It will be pure.y political."
In the opiuion of the Chicago J) ulj
-Vrtrs, "a railroad President as a resi
dential candidate would lose to the
Republicans the Slates of Michigan,
"Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illi
nois." This has reference, of course,
to Chauncey M. I). pew. President of
the New York Central Riilroad Com
pany, who, in the estimation of cer
tain Republican leadeis who are tiylng
to discover a man who can defeat Cleve
land, would make a formidable candi
date. The politics of the States named
by the AVn-. are just now very shaky,
and if Depew, who is Vanderbilt'a re
presentative, should b nominated, it
wouldn't rntke any dift-rence how New
York voted, as the great Norlh west
would make mincemeat out cf such a
candidate of the monopolist.
In the lower branch of Congress on
Monday last Mr. Wilkins, of ()!,!,
under instructions from the committee
ou banking and curr.-ncy, moved to
ruspend the rules and pass the bill
authorizing the issueof fractional silver
certificates. After a long debate the
bill was passed yeas, ITS, nays, 07.
The bill is as follows :
That the Secretary of the Treasury
be, and he hereby is, authorized and
directed to issue silver certificates of
the denominations of 25, 15 aud 10 cents
in such form and desiijn as he may de
termine, such certificates to be received,
to be redeemed, paid and reiaaued in the
same manner as siler certificates of
larger denominations, and to be ex
changeable for silver certificates of
other denominations, and the Secretary
of the Treasury i authorized an 1
directed t make such regulations as
may sera to him proper for distributing
and redeeming the denominations of
allver certificates terelc authnriv.i
The amount of currency to Le issued
under the bill la limited to 15,lM,OJu.
That veteran Pfrcocrat an-1 pure
public man, Judge Ttiurn.n, of Oliio,
Is always aa Interesting figure whether
as in former wbea he was in the
LoKea&;ws3.n;e or iasu wt, wueu
k nn Mi counsel fur the Drosecntion
he addressed the jury in the Columbus,
I Ohio, couit house, in what i widely
known ss "The tally sheet forgery
cases," the defendants being Pemocra'a
and some of them active and prominent
members of their party. Judge Thur
man, who knows ail about Ohio politics
and Ohio politicians, believes that the
defendants are guilty of the offonse
with which they stand charged, and so
believing, be lent bis powertul au in
assisting to convict them and thereby
punish a ring of desperate and unscrup
ulous politicians who subordinated the
purity of an election to the attainment
of their own j-ersonal aims. At an
early stage In the case Judge Thunnan
said : "I should be ashamed to call
myself a Democrat, as you all know I
am. if I let my politics shield a crime
like this." His closing appeal to the
jury on Wednesday of last week is said
to have been one of the moet powerful
and eloquent efforts cf his life, and was
delivered to an immense audience that
filled every foot of space In the court
room. Iu bis conclusion and In defense
of bis Democracy the "Old Raman"
said :
"But I do honor this party to which
I bave belonged more then GO years for
I began when I was a child ; this party
which has duue so much for me and
which I have conscientiously believed
in ; which has Its faults, as all parties
have bad ; which bas been wrong some
times, as all parlies have been wrong,
but iu which I have believed, to which
my faith bas been pledged, and bas
beeu kept. I do want that partv in the
going down of the sun of my life, when
I shall look for the last time abroad on
the earth I do want to see that party
still standing, still honored, and still
deserving tbt good will and kindness
and support of alt honest men." Up
to Wednesday morning the jury had
not agaeed upon a verdict. The trial
has occupied seven v.eeks.
The Republican majority in the New
Jersey Legislature about two weeks ago
passed a b!gh license-local option law
over Governor Green's veto. They sup
posed at the time they went through
this performance that the Prohibition
ists would be so delighted with the
meisuie that enough of them would
vote the Republican ticket next No
vember to defeat the Democrats in the
State. General C.intou li. Fisk. of
that State, who was the late Prohibi
tion candidate for Governor, was in
Philadelphia near the close of last week,
and when asked what effect the high
license-local option bill would have on
the Prohibition vote in the State, he
said : "I do cot think it will bave any
effect on tha Prohibition vote. While
the Prohibition party is willing and
anxious to work side by side with any
party which will advance its cause, it
will not be satisfied with anything short
of Constitutional Prohibition. The
partv which will m;kethat its platform
can get the Prohibition vote. Our par
ty is not for license, high or low, and I
regard high license as a rurely Republi
can measure There is no doubt the
New Jersey Legislature was forced
into the measure by the strength de
veloped by the Prohibitionists ; but so
far as in il-iencing the Prohibition vote
ia concerned it cannot and will not bave
the least effect upon it." "The Prohi
bition party iu New Jersey," continued
the Genera!, "will poll anywhere from
2".,r.ua to Cu,0k) votes at the next Gen
eral eltetiou. Of this vote about sixty
percent, will ome from tho Republi
can party. The Prohibitionists of New
J -rs:-y are united to a man and have a
well equipped and powerful organizi
Uou." The license court of Philadelphia
which is composed of four of lh-j Judgts
of that city, aauounced their decisions
upon license applications iu the seven
lower wards on Mjuday last. In these
soven wards there are r.ow 1311 licensed
houses aa 1 ths cumber of applicants
this year und.r the Brook's law was
7:27. Of this number 335 were granted,
3ti3 refused, 0 withdrawn aal 13 held
over. In other wjrdj the nuxit?r of
licenses granted Is U.n thin the num'j r
rejectfd. and the number licensed for
IS-SS 0 is ouly a fraction m ;ie than
fjnt-f'ntrtk the cumber now licensed
under the old law. If tha ra.io of rc
fuuls in time, svea wardi bj'Js sj.l
in the remaialas wards it is believed
that the number of saloons lathe city
will be reduced from between 5.0X) and
G.000 to between 1.200 and l.ttjO. The
action of the Judge's in refusing to
license scores of the bm known houses,
has produced a tremendous excitement
throughout tho c.ly and aay amount of
speculation is indulged in as to its
future political effect, many predictions
being made that it will completely rey
o!utknZf th larg majority which is
always ro.Ied up io that Republican
stronghold.
The dishonesty of the Republican
newspaper comments upon the Tariff
bill now before the Committee on Ways
and Meaus, says the Pailadelphla lie
onl, is only equaled by the insincerity
or their assertion that any revisiou of
the tariff would be disastrous to Amer
ican msnufacturers and Americin
workman, hi w-l! as fatal to a coa
tinuanceof Democratic administration
of the government. If they had t!ie
slightest belief in the truth of their own
asieitioa th-y would welcome such au
opportunity to legiin R-publictn s-cend-ucy.
and would penlv a lvocnte
the pissage of th proposed pill ; for if
their theory l correct their promised
disasters would immediately b visited
upn the whole conutry aud tl:e Demo
cratic prty would soon be t.uried in
ob'ivion. JUh ! They bleaM:ke beli
vethrra, to flocks of sheep.
TlIK
eegthy ulitorial rej'v o'ttol .
McCinre, cf the 1'inUdelpbia 7W. to a
letter addrtsseJ f.l.i u by Congressman
Ui liam l). Kdjj, Wlli found iQ
t, 0;lr llaer atlJ HIJ
re-
exact
raci
t ft r A t .
" uu a-iagnn.eit or the ob-
' strnih . .. .....
, lames o: Kellry and h
s M
iow joua mouthed declaime-s
against
what they cli 'Fre9 trade."
Jndge kelley Rises to Explain.
As everything relating to tariff re
vision that comes from thoss presuma
bly well informed and responsibly
charged with legislation ou the sub
ject Is of special interest at this time,
we willingly give Juice KoKey the space
h uses to furnish the best explanation
that can be given of the do nothing or
obstructive attitude taken by bit party
and himself on the Issue. Had there
been a clear and satisfactory answer to
the general complaiut of the dno'hing
policy of the Republicans on tbe ques
tion of tariff revision. Judge Kelley's
letter would not bave required one
tenth the space to explain ; but with
himself and his party obviously in con
flt with their own s.Vema pledges to
KA wtinn mn.l a fthviftuslv Willing tO
sacrifice great businesa and industrial
interests to a Bourbon partv policy,
tner is of necessity so much of confes-
inn in the explanation that elaborate
rnii1iiilA lfificallV follOWS.
The following is the solemn pledge
given to the nation by the Republican
party and Judge Kelley in the National
platform adopted by the Chicago Con
vention in 1SS4 :
6. T&e Itepnolican partv pledges Itself to
correct the inequalities of tba tariff and to
reduce the surplus, not by the viciou ana
iin.iinmin&iiair process of horizontal re-
i notion, but bv such methods f.M will relieve
tbe tas-payer without injuring the laborer
or rh i?reat productive interests of the
Aonntrv.
How has that pledge been respected ?
It is a proper oueslioa to address to
Judge Kelley. He is the father of the
House: he is the most experienced of
all the present members of the body
ha is famed throughout the country as
among the best informed of our puolic
men on the intricacies of the tariff ; he
saw the war taxes, both tariff and inter
nal, imposed upon the people to save
the government in its gravest peril ; he
aided in the enactment of the distinctly
protective tariff of lGl : he knows
better than any others that the present
tariff duties on many articles in excess
of the protective standard of 1S61 are
unwarranted and oppressive, and be Is
the one man who should be to the fore
in the tariff revision and revenue reduc
tion to which be and bis party are bo
positively pledged. This is the fourth
session of Congress in which Judge
Kelley has served since be and his party
gave that pledge, but as yet no measure
of relief for the overtaxed industries of
the country bas ben presented by him
nor bas any been suggested outside of a
House speech for the , galleries or the
party, or a stump speech charging back
opon his political opponents his own
persistent neglect ot the plainest public
duty.
Judge Kelley was right In opposing
tarirr revision ry "the vicious ana un-
discriminaticn horizontal reduction"
proposed by Morrison, and the Times
heartily sustained him in that action
He was right in opposing the second
Morrison bill, and was as heartily sup
ported in doing so by this journal.
Morrison's tariff revision was "vlcirms"
beeause "undiscilminating" and even
Mori son himself could not tell whether
revenues would ba increased or dimin
ished by many features of the measure.
It was a napriaztrd attempt at mere
political expediency, and Judge Kelley
did well to oppose it, but did his plain
duty to the country as the leader of
protection in the House end with de-
leating unintelligible or otherwise ob
jectionable bills ? Certainly not. II
is proclaimed as an expert in tariff
statesmanship, and why has he eontin
utd as a studied do-nothing or obstruc
tionist during four sessions of Congress
after the pledg- of the party aud of
hims-lf was given for tariff revision and
revenue reduction ?
"Unt," answers Judee Kellev sub-
stanrial'y, "the Democratic members of
the Committee of Ways and Means are
revolutionary in tueir action ; they ex
cude rxi9 from their deliberations and
withhold from me knowledge of their
purposes and methods of procedure,
w en, aamttin g tre train or tb ans
wer, how iloes that hindar Judge Kelley
or Mr. R"ed cr any other or all the U
publicau members
of the committee,
from promising a tariff and internal
tax bill ? Mr. Kinla.l is not a mem
ber of the Ways and Means Committee
ne nas no.. o-en aviviat-d the jurposes
or methods or the rnj rity, but be has
taken the mauly way of meeting his
duty by framing and presenting to the
House the tariff and internal tax revi
sion that he beli-ves should be made,
hydoejnot Judg Kelley. or Judze
! Kelley and Mr. R-red, who are to lead
iq the do nothing or obstructivo policy
dotheame? They say that the Mills
bill is wrong ; they are ia favor of the
Randall bill only so far as it miy serve
to distract the Democrats; they will
not vote to pau either, and thus, with
their solemnly plighted faith to the
country to aid in tariff revisiou and
revenue reduction, they complain of all
that others do to correct an admittedly
unequal aud op;;rrss!ve revenue system
and have neither the courage nor the
honesty to propose anything better.
The Tnucs is sincerely devoted to the
positive protection of our general pro
ductive industries, aud Judge Klley
professes to ba tLe special champion of
proiectd labor. He kuows, as all in
telligent business men know, that
tarill revision is an imparious necessity
in the interest of our manufacturers as
well as Id the interest of tLe people
generally. H knows that tbe necessa
ries of life and the necessaries of our
productive industries, require tariff re
visiou to incrcasa our labor acd give
increased pro?p?rity to both labor aud
capital ; and he certainly kno'vs tbat
any pretended protective duties which
are now higher than Judge Kslley made
them Iu 101, must be excessive and
oppressive; but every proposition to
return from war taxes to Judg Kelley's
osn protective standard of lS'H, when
tie nted for high protection bas been
greatly lessened bv a quarter of a cen
tury of mechanical advancement, is
answered only ty tbe cry of a free trade
revolution. That cry answered a good
partisan purpose when Judgn Kelley and
tha world were a decade or a score of
years youuger ; but only statesman who
close th.ir eyes to the progress of tbe
age and the changed conditioa of com
merce, industry and trade, tow confess
their inability to give reasons for their
political faith or action, bf denouncing
tariff revision as free trade.
If Judge Keliy understands the tariff
question as be ever assumes to under
stand it. aud if nobody has presented
tariff revision that meets the approval
of his judmeLt. let him 6tcp hpeech
making, personal explanations and letter-
wming until be presents a tariff and
revenue bill that be can defend. He
and his party are pledged to it ; let that
pledge he honestly fu.lll.ed. It ia prac
tically unimpjrlact what Judge Kelley
said or believed about internal tax or
tariff revisiou in CoDgress in 1872 or in
the Cooper Institute in 18-1. but it u f
i vital iojportauce what be has to say on
J the subjret now. and of specially vital
i imooriuce that be shall first say it in a
ill presented to Congress. PAifi.
liHtS.
A Wmaua I)lcverj .
Another woad-rful discovery bas been
made aud tbat too by a lady la tbis county.
Uiteaae fastened Iti clu-chrs upon ber aud
lor seven years she wi;h-tood Its severest
testa but ber vital oralis were uodermmed
and death seemed Imminent. For three
months she couRbed Incessantly and could
nt s-eep. .Sue boueht of us a bottle or Dr.
Kitms ew D.scovery tor Consumption
- . 'uca sieved oa ukin first
nosa toot sta slet.t all ii.ht .r. -m.
lv. III. .. . " - - u VTIIU WHO
oollle b is been miraculou-tly rured Her
?v i? ,hM- Luther Luiz." Thus write
C. Himriclt A Co.. of Shelbv, X. (J.
'J, free !rU hottle tt tf:e drr,s-re or
L oretto63' Ebiusbui' w w- W. McAteer.
In Defense of Hancock's Memory.
ryl. Fin'.ev Anderson, who wa on UD.
Hancock's tff during the Civil ar. Das
addressed the following open letter to Sen
ator Ingalls, at Washington:
(ir iorK, iurcu ii.
"Jon. Jhn J. Iaijalls PrenidtnX firo teni
United St(Ui Senate, atnngion jj.
. - I hum iuat received a copy of
ih. aarrxsiunal lteoord containing the
official report of your recent speech, in
which yon not only insult the Chief
Magistrate of the Nation, but aitempi to
duhonorthe memory of both liancocK
and McClellan by naming e&cn or ineui
as hawing been an 'ally of the Confeder
acy. As a fiurvtving mem wr ui uturin
Hancock's staff, who aharea w:io iiirn
the toils and the triumpus oi iu v.in
War, and as a friend whom ce nonorea
with his confidence and affection to the
end of his blameless life. I cannot bear
silence your brutal blows at my oia
cotnmaudc-r. I must, therefore, as a
so'di'. and a citizen protest against any
utterance that implies an Impeachment
of his loyalty to his country.
"When the summer flowers Tjloom
again on the graves of the heroic dead
a quarter or a century win nave passea
siuce the battlefield of Gettysburg be
came the arena where the valor of the
North and South alike Illustrated the
greatness of the Americau people and
commanded the aamiration or tne
world. The name of tbtt peaceful
Pennsylvania village, baptized anew
with their mingled blood, was thus
made immorcal as the symbol of a Na
tional power equal to any on the earth.
The crowning victory of that combat
has proved, under Providence, as clear
ly as though we bad beard the voice of
God himself, that those principles of
liberty and law and fraternity and un
ion, in earnest devotion to which
Hancock lived and died, are essential
to the welfare of mankind. To this re
sult, the highest human achievement of
this century, Hancock contributed
more than any other soldier in the field.
Whin Reynolds fell on the morning of
the first aay it was Hancock whom
Meade selected to take supreme com
mand in front, with power to choose
the ground where the great battle of tbe
war eliould be fought out. It was
Hancock who planted his colors on
Cemetery Ridge, where be rallied our
disordered troops and formed tbe lines
of those historic heights, beyond which
the rising tide of the rebellion never
passed. It was Hancock who turned
impending disaster into victory by tbe
countercharge which saved the honor of
the army on the evening of the second
day. It was Hancock who repulsed
that grand assault, the most brilliant
in the annals of the war, when the 11 jw
er of tLe Army of Northern Virginia
withered and died before the fortitude
of the Army of tbe Potomac io the final
struggle ot the third day. It was thus
that Hancock won at Gettysburg
triple crown of glory.
"Naturally enough both Houses of
Congress adopted a joint resolution to
the effect that in ad Jitioc to the thanks
which had been voted to tbe officers and
soldiers of the Army of the Potomac
'for the skill and heroic valor which at
Gettysburg repulsed, defeated and drove
back, broken and dispirted, the veteran
army of the Rebellion, the gratitude of
tbe American people and the thanks of
their representative in Congress are
likewise due, and are hereby tendered,
toMaj.-Geo. W. S. Hancock for his
gallant, meritorious aud conspicuous
share in that great and decisive victo
ry.' In view of Haucock's constant
and conspicuous service to his country
for more than forty years, staled as
that service was by bis own blood, and
id view of bis proverbial purity of char
acter, it is amazing how any man could
rue in the Senate chamber to defame
his memory. But having tbe audacity
to do so, the least that you now cau do
in reparation of this wrong alike to
Hancock's memory and the patriotic
sentiment or the country, is to rise
again in tbe Senate chamber and make
a full retraction and apology.
Respectfully yours,
' FlNLEY ANDEIiSON."
Ire They Free Traders. I
The Einiiy Ttl"jrtj.h, one of the
ablest Republican jc uruals of this city
nnd one of the most consistent and earn
est of the Pennsylvania advocates of
protection, demands the fulfilment of
the pledge of the Republican party to
give the country tariff revision and
revenue reduction.
The J-Jcening Cull, another positive
and aggresiive Republican and protec
tion journal, reminds Republicans ia
Congress that "the people are think
ing" oa tbe question of tariff revision.
and that "no jursfery with the tariff !
will be tolerated." It plainly blurts
out the tra'h whan it says that "the
tariff as now constituted, is for the
oanefit of the monopolists acd the pro
tection of trusts."
The llarrislurg Tilt graph. Senator
Cameron.s home orean, and one of the
Republican journals that have hereto
fore howled free trade at every demand
for tariff tevision, now declares that tbe
Republicans must present a bill, because
'there are inequalities and crudities in
the present tariff which ought to be
corrected.'
Th?sa ara on!y a few of the many ut
terances which come Troto the protec
tion organs in Pennsylvania against the
do-nothing or obstructive policy sppar
en.ly accepted by Judge Kellev and his
fellow-partisans. Are these Itpubli
can ar.d hitb-rlo pronounced protec
tiou j jurnls now free traders ? If so,
why ho ? ir not. why not ? Judge
Kelly Las the fl jor. rhilu. Ti,,us.
A Lesson in Wool.
Our esteemed contemporary the In
qnirer has undertaken to explain to the
lUrord "why the fact that manufactur
ers cannot make from American woo!
fine, woolens qual to tbe Cnest French
or German is not an argument in favor
of free wool." We shall be delighted
with instruction at tbe hands of our
contemp. rary. Lut when it begins its
teacbiug by siying.
Ir our neighbor will study tbe records or
make it q j.ry of the principal woolen mer
chant ot this city and country it will learn
tbat less than one-tenth or the woolen
Roods gold aie or foreign mannracture or
manufactured rrom roreign-growu wool,
we are much troubled. Oa cons altation
with the authorities referred to we find
that tbe larger part of our woolen goods
are made from foreign wool. For ex
ample, last yaar our manufacturers
us?dof homegrown wool 20.1.000 0)0
PDunds. and iropr el 115 OilO.OuO
pounds of foreign em wn wno". Daring
the same time SO CCW OK) pounds of
woolen goods were als j imported in a
Gcishsd or partly finished condition
equal to 32 J.OUO.UOO pounds of raw wool.
Sj we ar. using -l:..", ,000.000 pounds of
domestic woo!?. We had it impossible,
much as we desire to truCi by the In
struction of our contemporary, to re
concile Its facts with our facts. Be
fore we tro any further it may be as well
to unravel the matfr. If the Record
be wrong, the whole statistics of tbe
wool trade will have to be revised.
Phil, liecord.
Ob, Whal a t'ougti.
Will you need the warning. The sUnal
perhap of the sure approach or tbat more
terrible disease. Consumption. Ask your
selves ir you can afford for the sake or sav
ing 50 ceuu. u ruu the risk and do nothing
i'lT vh W kDO Iron experience that
bbilob s Cure will Cure jour Couah. It
never rails. This explains why more tban
a Milliou Bottles were sold the past year
It relieves Croup aud Whooping Cough at
onee. Mothers do not be without it For
Kama Sack, Side or Chest, use JShiloh's
1 orous Master, buld by Dr. T. J. Davison.
SEWS ASD OTHER XOTIXUM.
Several teeth of a mastodon were lately
found near the Alalia River. In Florida.
One of them weighs over seven pounds.
Tbe cost of tbe congratulatory mes
sages sent to tbe Tope by cable is estimated
to bave been not less than (23.000. a little
matter or jubilation for the cable compa
nies. Slaveholders in Brazil are opposing tbe
final extinction of slavery on tbe ground
tbat it will be impossible to carry on cof
fee planting on a large scale if slavery is
abolished.
The official report that the number of
persons drowned In tbe Yellow River Inun
dations in China was more than 100,000. be
sides 1.800,040 made homeless and destitute,
establishes the appalling extent of this hor
ror.
From four to twelve inches of snow fell
Tuesday morning at Sherman and Gaines
ville, Texas, "and buried the sprlog flowers
ana rrnit tree blossoms. Tbe tempera
ture, which was 74 decrees on Monday, fell
to 34
A Syracuse burglar bad been all through
tne house, and tben sat down to rest a bit
before going off with the swag. There was
a carpet tack in tbe chair, and tbe yell be
uttered awoke tbe people and be had to
clear out.
some one bas calculated that It takes
2.1C0 bees to fill a pint cup. Whoever said
so is perfectly safe from contradiction. One
bealtby active bee alone has, on more than
one occasion, been found sufficient to en
gage the whole attention of a numerous pic
nic party.
The steamer Oceanic arrived from Dong
Kong and Yokohama, at San Francisco, on
last Saturday. The Chinese papers confirm
the reports of a disastrous earthquake In tbe
Provinces of Yunnan and Syecnuen, but
give few additional details. Several cities
were destroyed and about 20.000 lives lost.
Mr. C. O. D. Kelley, now living in San
Francisco, is tbe sole survivor of Sam
Houston's famous spy company in tbe Tex
an War of 1S35. lie carried tbe tidings of
the massacre of tbe Alamo In 1830 to New
Orleans, and from thence to New York.
He wa9 born in 1802, and is now in bis 86th
year.
A Chattanooga cabinet maker happen
ed to leave the door of bis pbop open for a
few minutes, and a pugnacious Plymouth
Rock rooster walked In. The fowl stepped
up to a 150 mirror and began to fight with
his own shadow. A clatter of breaking
glass followed and the mirror was a com
plete wreck.
George L. Came, of Alfred. Me., recent
ly sold the largest pair of oxen that were
ever owned in bis town. Tbey were very
rat, handsomely matched, girth 8 feet 5
Inches, and weighed 5000 pounds. Mr
Came owned them seventeen months. In
which time they gained a foot each in meas
ure and over 1300 pounds In weigLt.
A dispatch from Winchester, O., says
tbat last Thursday night a week an angry
mob of farmers tarred and feathered two
Mormon elders near Brier Ridge School
House, where the elders bave been tor some
time trylDg to bold proselytiDg meetings.
Atter the ceremony the elders were chased
to tbe Obio river, wbicn they crossed for
safety.
Tbis Is tbe tallest story that came from
the West by tbe last mail. A Missouri man
says Le recently went into the woods, paint
ed a black circle on the end of a log, and
when be went back to the log an hour later
he round 300 dead rabDits there, the ani
mals bavirjg mistaken tbe circle for a hole
In the log aud da&Led themselves to death
against it.
During tbe pa?? a en of a merchant ves -s?l
rroru I'ljmcutb, England, tofJroeningen,
Zealand, recently, a pigeon fell exhausted
on tbe bridge of tbe vessel. Tbe Captain
caretully red aod tended tbe bird, and it be
came quite at home. When the Captain
landed on reaching port tbe bird flew near
him wherever he went, and even entered a
coffee-house with him. Nor did its grati
tude wane, ror it is still the Captain's con
stant companion.
Pre-ident Johnson was abused for the
purchase of A!a-ka as much as Jefferson
was when he bought Louisiana. Tbe price
paid was f7.OO0.0u0. Tbe Alaeka Commer
cial Company bas already paid about $5.
000,000 iu seal rents for the islands of St.
Paul and St. George, and the products cf
the Territory last year are officially stated,
to bave been : In furs, 2,500,000 : gold
, liaio ooo; nsti. S3.000.000; lumber, etc.
ClOO.OOO: total. 56.50.000.
Wind-rolled snow-balls are often seen
on the Dakota and Wycoming prairies.
Sometimes millions upon millions of the
balls are in sight at one time. Many are ot
the size ot an orange, some as big as a cannon-ball,
vrfcile others reach the proportions
of the prize pumpkin or the county Fair.
Tbese freaks or the storm leave a person
ULder tbe fanciful impression that creat
armies of scoool boys have been bat tllng
over tbe snowy spaces.
One day last week A. J. Welsh and
Harry Richards, of Xorth Bend. Pa., kill ed
two beats and captured three alive. They
were bunting on Younastown creek when
their dog discovered tbe bears in the butt or
a fallen tree. When the buoters approach
ed the place the old mother bear had ber
bead protruded from the entrance or the
tree, when one or tbe hunters fired bis rill a,
tbe ball killing both tlis mother bear and
one of bur cubs. Three cubs were captured
alive. Tbey were taken down to North
Bend and sold.
Kev. Father Accnrslns Beine, a member
of the Order of St. Francis, and assistant
priest at St Boniface Church, Louisville.Ky..
died Tuesday evening of last week at tbe
Franciscan convent. About halt au bour
before bis death be called bis associates aod
desired the last sacrament to be adminis
tered. He would not accept it in bed.
"No." said be. "let me kneel by the altar."
Rising with difficulty from the death-bed
be proceeded across the room, where bend
ing oerore the cross, be was given tbe last
spiritual comfort.
Mr. Pridglns, an old peracuer of High
Shoals. Oa., has deeded to preach his own
funeral soroioa, and has it sat for the day,
tbe second Sunday in April, and the place a
little church a few miles this side of High
Shoals. Mr. Pridgins bas ordered his son to
makeblm a coffin, which be directs inuat
be perfectly plain and locked with a pad
lock. Tbe coffiin will be placed by his side
in tbe churcb and tuere. in tbe presence of
bis rrlendj and family, who are requested
to wear mourning, be will tell of his life aud
pay suitable tribute to bis own memory.
Tbe flowsr farms of the country around
Nice yield as an average yearly crop 2.000
I tons of orange flowers, 1.000 toua or roses.
100 tons or violets, as many or jessamine
flowers and lesser quantities of other blos
soms. The larger portion of the oil or attar
of rose comes from tbe rose farms of Rou
mello, In Turkey, and from Ghazipur, In In
dia. It is reckoned ttat 200,000 rose blos
soms are required to produce an amount or
the attar equal in weight to a silver rupee
about 50 cents or our money and worth f.Vl
an ounce. Large quantities or the oil or
orange peel and the oil or orange flowers,
known as nerolL are made in Sicily. Much
of the oils of peppermint, thyme, rosemary
and lavender comes from Surrey, England,
while in North Carolina large quantities of
oil or sassafras are distilled, tbe business
rising to the proportions of a considerable
industry.
GO TO GEIS, FOSTER & QITINFS,
No. 113 Clinton St., Johnstown, Pa.,
FOR BRUSSELS, VELVET, WOOL AEMD RAC
CARPET, LINOLEUM, LACE CURTAINS
RUGS AND STAIR PADS. HEADQUARTERS
FOR DRY GOODS AND MILLINERY.
At Mount Ilolley. S. C, Dr. Byrd and a
party of hands were at woik iu the woods.
While some of the men were chopping a log
It suddenly began to move toward a creek,
and tbe negroes fled In terror. As tbe log
reached tbe creek and tell into It the source
or Its power or locomotion was revealed In a
moet astounding manner. Hundreds of
hissing serpents leaped rorth from their
biding place in tbe log, and darted forth in
different directions In the water. The
snakes were of the genuine water moccasin
species, varying in length from that of a
buggy spoke to a hoe handle. Dr. Byrd
and others stood by watching tbe snakes
depart, and their going consumed fully 30
minutes. Three of the negroes who fled
when tbe log began to move bave not since
been heard from.
Tbe famous Stack O'llara easel at
length settled after seventeen years of liti
gation. Father M. T. Stack, who was pas
tor or tbe Church of tbe Annunciation In
Williamsport, was removed from his posi
tion in 1871 by Bishop O'llara. of Scranton.
Claiming that tbe removal was illegal and in
opposition to the canons of the Church,
Father Stack carried the matter Into the
Civil Courts. He was successful in tbe
lower Courts, but on Bishop O'Hara's ap
peal the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania re
versed the judgment. Father Stack recent
ly made a three month's retreat at St. Bona
venture's College, Allegheny. N.Y.,and
then sent in to his Bishop an humble letter
of submission and regret for his contumacy.
Bishop O'llara accepted the submission, re
stored tbe priest's faculties and then gave
him letters dimmlssorlal, or an erect, recom
mending him to the kind consideration ot
any right revereDd Bishop who might be
pleased to receive hitn Into bis diocese. It
is understood that Bishop O'Connor, of
Omaha. Net)., will accept the services of
Father Stack in the event ot certain requir
ed conditions being fulfilled.
rirklug l pi liter ty tlie k.
I once saw three yonng tigers, larger than
Newfoundland doss, loose on the deck or a
British India steamer crowded with several
hundred Mecca pilgrims. Tbe cage In
which they were confined was large and
barred on each side, witb a partition run
ning aloog iu middle, which had a drop
door. The man who had charge or tbe ani
mals would drive tbem over to one side of
tbe cage, close the partition, and clean out
tbe other side at bis leisure : then, barring
up the clean side, be would open the parti
tion and drive tbe timers back, while be
went through the sacue performance on tbe
otbOr side. One morning he neglected to
pnt up the bars on the aide be had finished,
and so drove the tigers cut ot the cpoosite
side or the opeu cage. The animals on ob
taining their hbeity took different direc
tions, and, crouclacg in the ccartst corners,
lay snarling and exposing their teeth,
showing oumlstakable signs of a most daD
fcerous fear. Tbat side or the deck was
deserted, and the crowd gazed in Interest
at a respectful distauce. Mr. Fieuse, tbe
third officer, the second cSi?er ar.d tlie
keeper each placed himself before a tiger,
barring their exit should they attempt to
move away. Fieuse inquired if the timers
had beeu red that day. They had not ; they
badalway been red on living fowls. Fieuse
called for three chickens from the hen coop. I
Taking these he threw one in the face of i
each tiger. Tbe chickens, seemed simply j
motionless, glued to the spot, so instanta
neous was tbe fixing of tf.e teeth and claws.
Fleus-e then went deliberately up to a tiger,
coolly took the loose skin of the back of tbe
neck with one baud and the loot of the tail
witb tbe other, aud, putting out bis full
strength, dragged the heavy brute along
tbe deck to the cag, and forced It through
the open bars. The chicken diversicn acted
perfectly. The brute hsd no object but
thai of retaining Us prey. It growled fear
fully ; its eyes blazvd ; its teeth crashed
through the chicken ; its unsheathed claws
clasped and pierced its quivering body,
Red hjt Irons would hardly have made
loosen its grip of tho bird. Then the keep
erand the others helped Fieuse in carrying
tbe remaining tigers into the cage.
A Wildcat' Jump.
"Thirty feet at a bound is no uncommon
jump rur a wildcat." says i-ueriH Jobn W.
IIoSTiuau, one of Tike county's greatest
woodsmen and huntrrs, to a Milfoil (Ta).
cvrrespondent of the New York A'un. "I
bave measured a wildcat's jump tbat
sbowed a clear space of thirty three feet
between stait aud rlaUh. and it was a
standing jump at thkt ; or, rather, it was a
Hitting jump, for the animal was crouching
is the snow when it m.de the leap. I was
bunting ia tbe woojs aear Little Log Tav
ern Tond. and came on the track of this
wildcat, whicii I followed a long distar.ee in
the boow. Suddenly the track euded iu a
srwit where the auimal bad crouchej. I
Itxked around to see wtat had become of
tbe trail, and two rods ahead of nie saw a
bunch of pheasant's feathers where the
snow bad been scattered about, aod from
tLat gpet the track led on again. I under
stood at once that the wildcat had been
Lusting for bis dinner and had discovered
a pheasant wandering in lue snow. The
cat crert to within two rod of tbe unsus
pecting bird, and, that being near enough to
euit tiiui, shot himself through the air and
lanJed on top of the pheasant before the
bird, as quick as pheasauls are, could net
out of bis way.
"The track and blood rrerks of the pheas
ant on the snow were sa fresh that 1
thought I tni'ut overtake ths wildcat be
fore be got in the swamp, and get a chance
to put a ball througn the marauder. I hur
ried ahead on the trail, and round that I was
closer to tho wildcat than I bad suspected,
ror I ovtrtoofc him before be bad devoured
bis rrer. Not more than half of the beas-
j ant. which was a magnificent old cock, bad
passed down the catamount's gullet. The
other Lalf never passed down. I sent a
rifle ball through tbe wildcat's heart, and
be niaae auoibtr big bound. Tbat one was
right straight up Io the air, and he fell back
dead almost in bis tracks. From tbe great
lecgtU of the leap tbe animal had made
when be captured bis prey, I bad expected
to find bim a young and healthy cat. I was,
consequently, greatly surprised when I ex
amined my game to discover that it was a
very old wildcat, poor and lank, and almost
toothless. The animal's hunger bad un
doubtedly spurred him to the Immense two
rod leap. If not, and tbe jump was an evi
dence of what euperanuated wildcat
could naturally do, it wouldn't surprise me
to know that a young and active catamount
could clear a hundred feet at a bjuud with
tbe citatcst cast)."
carl Rivinsriijs,
PRACTICAL
AND DEALER IN
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For Inrre or email rTce 12 calibre. 40 fining powder; 3S
4') j cr. ; ical. 7" anl t. 'ihu f'.roDut-tf iLoctlo?
rt. meet
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MARLIN FIRE ARKS CO.,
wo lart ts ma'ie w.V.i ori ot our
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a-'c fc.wajs ftucuiale md rc.iainu.
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INTEREST ALLOWED OX WI MF0S1TS
COLLECTIONS MADE
T At.'. ACCESSIBLK TOI3TTS.
DRAFTS on the rrincipal Cities
Bouarht and Sold mu a m
General Eantinz Easiness Transacted
JL CCO ZnfTS SOLICITED.
A. W. BUCK, Cashier.
Ebenshorjc, April 4. l4.-t:.
i I SALESMEN IfANTED
to rannci lor tt.e ot Is'nrcery Stock ! Sten lv
en pin) tnent KHaranlcaii. SALAIU AM) K.S.
hKNSKN PAID. Aviilv st rncf. t.itltiif age.
CUA?E UKJ i li t-l.S r I .MP AN V .
(Kefer to ttiie paper.,
llocliefitr. M. Y.
Penn'a Agtfl Works.
Steam Kntflnee. sw I:ll,llj Pree, Stump
Pullers mij Ststu l;ir1 Aitri.-silural linjillweul
generally. Sen 1 for I'aialt.Kue
A. B.KAUalHAK- a, SON York. Pa. 4t.
Import a nt to Ca n va ssers.
WAMI'Il-Live Cnvaier In evi-rv wmnt?
13 the I'mted Strnes to rll FOX'S PA1 hN I' Kt-
KKS1BLK SAI IIION. whicn roiut.in.-s two
St,l lroDri, Pi.liner, 'luter, a.c, one iron dolnK
the worn ot an entire set ot ordinary iron. 1
wlf-heatinir as or aleohol lanp. IF.S
awav virii nor kirt hi ns. it-.i--
Oioderate. A larire au 1 laMirnc inc. mi e Insured
to irvod cnT:igers. Adilres. lt.r cireulars, avC,
FLX SAD IKON CO.. & Keade St.. N. Y.
AGENTS
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llfhed. HKNT KNOWN M HsKKIlS la I tic
country. Mot l teral t-tn. t 'ueiuu il d laetli
ties. (1KM.VA m-ifi;v. i:nu.lnirhed s;r,.
kl. S.11II U. UENhVA, X. Y. lc. y. 4U
171)4.
Tollcle wrlt'en at short notice In tte
OLD RELIABLE "ETNA11
And olhr Firat Claa Compule.
WOT I OII THE
OLD HAllTFOUil
PIBB1WNCEC0MT.
t;oaiMENCKt m siXLss
Etensliurx. July "1.12.
ESSENTIAL OILS.
WIXTEltUltlXV, lTIMTItirXT. ff.S
XV UtHAUSl'lAIOIIM. Ac.
ol prime qaallty. bounlit in any quantity Jor o.-h
un uciitt-riy . ire oi Iroke ruve, t;wUllul:otl, rlf-
aije, b.c, ny
DODOI? tSr OLCOTT,
lmiorters an J eiiorter. s i 'Ham ft .New York
1
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dn-ri
ur.oKur: p. o u F.i.i. a o..
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Will be aciit lr"a ou atii'liculion.
Watches, Clocks
JKWKI.RY.
SilverwareMnsical Instr
AMj
Wii'-'lii
Optical azzdz
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Sole Agent
FOK THE
Celebrated Rockford
WATCHES.
Coluniola And FreJonia V.'hUIjk
In Key and Stem Wi'i'l-r-.
uARGE SELF.CTION' 07 ALL KIN .
of JEWELItY always on la:. 1."
Z-? My line of Jewelry is uiv:-pi-;-CV.iiie
and see for youreir U f.Tc j.ar;,
iOk elswhere.
lif ALL WOUK C.rATlANTKF!)
CARL RIVINIT;
Ebensburg. Nov. 11, iS35--tf.
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t. 1
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Trial cloar Appliance Ae tor Term.
DONALD V.. DUFTON.
ATIUii.N fcY-A 1 -LAW,
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M. D. KITTELL,
ttorney-o t - a "v,
EBE.NMBUKH, PA.
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micner ot Ieal burlnesi attenlc.l te sr.; ,
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rn ii;ci nr..) 1, oilers on r.BL.l. i'
in eiiifiiit-K 4 mauliineTT a piiecinuv 'r.i,
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and deiiiT In all klmli oi H 'KNil! i -
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Bodies Embalmed
WHEN KEUCIKl U.
Aw 21 o?
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Fire taaEs kirn
General Insurance AgenU
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KilANCI?CANl!i;OTI!Ii.
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for the cholatic Year,
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