EDNSBURC, PA..
FRIDAY, - - NOV. 10, 1S8S.
A snow atJtm struck Kansas City,
Missouri, lust Friday. The storm waa
accompanied by a high wind which
prostrated telegraph wires in Missouri,
Kansas and Colorado. KailroaJ travel
Is also impeded on most of the roads
ceotreiDg in Kansas City.
The political situation in West
Virginia Is unchanged. Both parties
claim a small plurality in the State. It
will require th official count to decide
the result. A canvass of the Tote in
the State commfccced on Tuesday. It
will require ten days to determine the
result.
David IIostetter, of Tittsburg,
proprietor of Hosteller's stomach bit
ters and concerned In the building of the
South Penn railroad, died last week.
Accounts say his estate is worth 51"',
000,000. IIU death will likely put -quietus
of the project of building the South
Penn Railroad for sowe tirae te come.
When Governor Hill, of New York,
completes the terra to which he has
just been elected be will have done
something that no-oae ever accomplish
ed in that State, served three terms as
Governor. Tie was flrst elected Lieu
tenant Governor ami reached the office
of Governor by the resignation of
Grover Cleveland, on his election to tbs
the presidency and he has twice been
re-elected.
Tiie Philadelphia Daily Evening
Herald on election day completed its
first year under its present management.
During the past excitic. political cam
paign the Democracy bad no stronger
or more faithful champion than the
Jlcmli and we Lope it may long continue
to do its share in educating the politi
cally bt-nighted people of the (Quaker
city. The JA,M is a bright, spicy
paper aud deserves to be well supported.
According to a recent decision of
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
great many men have been hanged
oncoustitutionally In this State. The
Court decides that a disagreement of
the jury in murder trials is equivalent to
an acquitai and the accused person can
not ti'.riAl twice on the same charge.
This ruling has created consideiable
talk among the legal fraturnity, and it
Is said It will have the effect of releasing
several men who are now awaiting trial
after juries had disagreed on the occas
f the first trial.
The d feat of President Cleveland,
says the Philadelphia Timet, delays but
does not overthrow tariff rtform. Ouly
a man of his inugrity and courage could
have presented the vital issue of tax and
revenue leductton and submitted it
honestly to the supreme tribunal of the
people. lie could have s'.udied exped
iency by cunning evasiou of the ibsue
and posaibly won a second term by cowardice-;
but he was thoroughly con
vinced the time had come for the eman
cipation of American industry from
needless taxes aud the greed of monopo
ly, and he accepted honesty and defeat
as preferable to dishonest success. Lin
coln's patriotic and courageous emanci
pation of slaves lose him the support of
the gieat Middle States of the north in
1SG2, Justus Cleveland's patriotic and
eouageous effort for the emancipation
of industry from the bondage of classes
has lost him the same Slates in lbSS
but Lincoln's emancipation is now en
shrined in the refulgence of our most
lustrous achievement, and Cleveland's
emancipation of labor will as surely
triumph, despite temporary disaster, as
did the shackling of the bondmen a
bi.arter of a century ago.
The Whitechapel, Loadon, England,
murder fiend has added another to his
list of victims. On last Friday morn
niog the body of a woman cut into
pieces, was discovered in a house on
Dot set street, SpitalCelds. As hitherto,
the crime was committed in the heart
of the Whitechapel region, and this
rourdes has many of the characieiistics
that has lent horror to the others in
that region. The last victim was rather
more prosperous than the eight otter
victims that have fallen from time to
time. They were homeless ; while this
murder was committed in the wretched
apartment which the woman inhabited.
"Whltecbape! women shudder and re
call the rudely inscribed legend, "Fif
teen before I . surrender," written on a
wall, beside which the body of the
fourth victim lay. The arpearance of
the remains of the last victim was
frightful and the mutilation was even
greater than la any previous cases.
The bead had beea severed and put
i inder one of the arms. The ears and
i lose had been cut off. The body had
I en dievmtawled, and the flesh was
torn from the thighs. Several other
oirgnns were missing. The skia had
tx sen torn off the forehead and cheeks.
One hand had been pushed in the
stomach. There appears to be ro clue
as yet to the murderer.
A casual study of the returns is
sufficient, says the Philadelphia Time,
to show which way "free Wiol" d'd
It.
The great Industrial centres did not
aeare at the cry of "free trade.' The
Democratic vote of Philadelphia Is
greater by twenty rer cent, than was
ever cast before, and Cleveland's gains
In the wards especially devoted to man
ufactures is very significant. Labor
jreeognlzes its own interests.
On the other hand, the agricultural
bounties roll up larger R-publican ma- i
jorlu'es than usual. The farmer, for
whora the tariff is really a tax on
verytfcing that be ones, would rather
get fifty eents more for his few pounds
of wool Uaso save fifty dollars in wool
ens. This earn contrast will be found all
over the country. Agricultural com.
touoiiies everywhere are proverbially I
iow to receive new ideas and Lb far- j
mers have actually sustained the '
monopoly tariff against the votes of j
of the manufacturing centres. J
Mu. Oiaumey defew is out in an
interview, says the Pittsburg Poat
pleading that the great expense of the
presidential elections and the distnrb
bance of business consequent on them
should te alleviated by extending the
term to six years, so that in 12 years,
there wou'.d be out two elections in"
stead of three. It does seem a3 if
something should be dona It Is be
coming wo great a tax on the resources
of the protected millionaries, trusts and
monopolies. Of course they must fur
nish the boodle as the price of continued
"protection," and to prevent American
labor being reduced to the "pauper'
level o. Europe, over which they Bhed
eumerous tears, grunts and groans. It
must also be admitted too bad that Mr.
Carnegie and five other manufacturers
should have been compelled to contrib
ute 52."0,000 apiece, and that Mr. Wan
amaker carried to New Yorx 5500,000
from Philadelphia philanthropists to
Mr. Quay and Mr. Dudley, with their
"blocks of five," to secure an honest
Tote and protect Americau labor. It is
too expensive. If eternal vigilance is
the price of liberty, many millions is
the tribute exacted for such a political
victory as we have lately seen, Mr.
Depew, as the- representative of the
Vanderbilts, Carnegies, Jay Goulds,
and other devoted friends of labor, is
too modest by half. If auctioning off
the presidency comes too high once
every four years, for the successful
bic ders, why instead of six Tears not
m ke the term 10 or 20 ? Bribery when
it gets too common becomes vulgar. It
would be a great saving to have the bat
passed around and the fat fried out only
once in 10 years.
But In the interest of honest industry
and American lator we protest. Money
should be kept in circulation. The
channels of trade need regular irrigation
at frequent intervals. Instead of a pres
idential once every six or tan years, as
Depew proposes, by all means change
the constitution and let ns have annual
elections, so that our people may have
the fullest opportunity to study no max
ims but the markets. If would put
money in circulation, and cause a great
er distribution of wealth, making more
general the solid benefits of protection.
The first echoes of the Republican
victory says the Philadelphia Times.
bring unmistakable expressions Ik favor
of prompt tariff and tax reform by the
Republicans. "N"e give in another
column the declaration of the Chicago
Tribune And of Governor Alger, with
with the apparently credible report from
"Washington that President Harrison
will call an extra session of Congrtss in
Apirl to revise the tariff, reduce taxes
and relieve industry of the exaction of
unneeded revenues.
It can be only a question of very
brief time when our industries will be
given free riw materials. It not
granted by the Congress just elected, it
will be done by the Congress to be
elected in 1S00, and Republican power
can avert defeat two years hence by
giving our mills aud labor the free raw
materials which are given in every other
protection country of the world.
If President Harrison is wise, he will
call aa extra session of Congress and
specially charge it with the duty of re
ducing taxes of the necessaries of life
and ending surplus revenues. If be
shall delay tariff revision and tax and
revenue reduction until December of
next year, the banded profligates and
jobbers of the land will end tax and
revenue reduction by profligacy aud in
vite defeat and dishonor upon the ad
ministration. The country wants a wise and settled
tariff policy based on the generous pro
tection of the wages or labor, the lowest
taxes on the oecestaries f life and the
reduction of the revenues to the actual
needs of the government. I? the Re
publican administration shall honestly
meet the issue by such legislation, the
vocation of the profligate will be ended,
and the country will beaitily sustain
the new President. If the issue sha:i
not be squarely met by jndicious tax
reduction, Republican defeat will be
iuevitable.
The suit brought by the Attorney
General of New Yrk, in behalf of the
people cf that State against the North
River Sugar Reuniug Company, to dis
solve that corporation on the ground
that it bad exceeded the privileges
granted it by its charter in becoming
one of the members of the great Sugar
Trnst on the first of October, 1SS7, and
otter sugar companies, was brought to
trial on Wednesday in the Supreme
Court. The action is one of the results
of the Senate Investigating Committee
of last winter, which for the first time
brought to lignt the deed of trust under
which the different sugar companies
have formed a combination.
It was substantially agreed at the
outset by counsel that there would be
no controverted question of fact for the
court to pass upon, but it would merely
be a question of law. The formality of
drawing a jury was then gone through
with. The jury were told that as the
enly question at issue was one of law
for the court to pass upon, their services
would not be needed at the trial. They
were only required to be present at the
end of the case to go through the for
mality of returning a verdict, as direct
ed by the court. Counsel agreed that
the testimony to be offered would not
cake any vtry great length of time, and
that they would afk to have the case
adjourned until Wednesday next. In
order to argue the questions of law.
With this understanding the jurors
were dismissed until next Wednesday.
The wheat crrp of the United .States
is unquestionably short as compared
with former years, but there is sill
enough to supply the home demand aud
leave a considerable quar;!fv for ex
port. If there is any decided increase
In the price of fljnr it will be the work
of unscrupulous speculators and nor
because there is an actual scarcity of
breadstuffs. The men who make for
tunes off the ceceesifies of the people
are criminals and skould be treated as
such by the law.
Governor JIeavfr has issued a
warrant for the exeenfion of James II.
Jacobs, the Lancaster county rsurderer,
who will be hanged on January 0.
The Electoral College.
A New York dispatch quotes Gen.
Roger A. Pryor, ex Governor lloadly of
Ohio, Calvin S. Brice. Chairman of the
Democratic National Executive Com
mittee, and Col. B. C. Che t wood of
New Jersey on the question of that
piece of antique constitutional brio a
brae, the Electoral College. All the
gentlemen named but Colonel Brice fa
vor rd its abolition.
The Electoral College Is absolutely
useless, quite costly and involves Eome
danger of a defeat of the popular will.
As originally contemplated by the
framers of the constitution it was In
ti uded as a sort of advisory committee,
appointed in each State to be voted for
by the people thereof as individuals,
these individuals to vote for any candi
date for President that they saw fit.
That at least was its intention, the
idea seeming to be that this unpreju
diced. Impartial body of men would
exercise gieater care in selecting a cans
didate than would be observed it the
matter were left to the popular will.
The statesmen of the early constitution
al period must have had a very imper
fect idea of the Americau character,
however. If they supposed that any
such device would prevent the people
from indicating very directly and posi
tively the intention of their ballots.
That the original purpose of tho Electo
ral College has been evaded, whilst the
constitutional form is still preserved,
shows bow little any artificial scheme
of legislation will stand when It is en
tirely without popular approval.
A peculiar complication some times
accompanies the practical working of
this altogether useless system. As is
well known, no citizen of any State
votes direct for any Presidential candi
date, casting his ballots instead for a
list of State Electors, who in turn meet
at their respective State capitals and
cast the Electoral vote for Riven nom
inees. Now, there is nothing in law,
morals or practice to prevent any citi
zen from voting for half of the Demo
cratic and half the Republican Electors,
nor from voticg the straight ticket of
one party and scratching off one or two
particular Electors. This has indeed
been frequently done, bnt it Is very
often done fraudulently, and might in
a c'ose contest defeat the will of the
people.
A case is ia band in the verv last
election in New York State. By the
terms of an alleged "deal" between the
United Labor and Republican manage
ments, the former gave out Electoral
tickets leading off with the names of
the first two Labor Electors, the other
thirty-four being copied from the Re
publican Electoral ticket. This of
course resulted in a great loss to the
Labor people which all went to swell
the vote of the thirty-four Republican
Electors, the Crst two names on that
ticket apparently running behind. It
is said to be not impossible that these
two Republican Electors have not
a majority of votes cast as the remain
der of the ticket has, and that in con
sequence the vote of the Empire State
may be given to both nominees, two to
Cleveland and thirty-four to Harrison.
Fortunately this w 11 result in no trou
ble this time, but its mischievous posai
biiitiea can readily be imagined in the
ease of a close contest like that of 1S7G.
All this chicanery and all the non
sense and expense of an electoral Col
lege that don't elect could be spared by
either voting States on their popular
vote direct for the nominees, or by ad
ding together the popular vote of all the
States for each nominee. The former
of these plans is decidedly the better
for two reasons ; flrst it would still
preserve the individuality of the States
in the national contest, for each would
vote as a unit ; and, second, the temp
tation to the fraudulent piling up of
huge majorities in the States would be
largely removed when a majority of one
would serve as well as majority of
100.000 to give any candidate the vote
of a State.
Let's have a popular vote for Presi
dent by States. iVii t. Herald.
Sctteled-But For How Long I
The presidency is settled for four
years and the composition of congress
for two years, but beyond that who can
tell ? In no other country is party su
premacy so much a matter of uncer
tainty and doubt. We would suggest
this fact to Republicans who are con
gratulatirg themselves on a 23 years'
lease of power or to Democrats who in
their despondency feel inclined to give
up the ship for a generation. There is
nothing certain in politics but the un
expected. The grasdrather of the president
elect swept the country in 1840, having
been defeated in 1SCG. but his party
met a Waterloo in 1844 under the lead
of Harry of the West, the chivalric,
magnetic and honest Henry Clay.
Honesty doesn't always run with mag
netism as the American people have
discovered at a later day. In 1S43 the
Whigs were again successful, but in
1332 the Democrats with Pierce as their
candidate, carried every State but Ver
mont and Massachusetts In the North
and Tennessee and Kentucky In the
South. Pierce had 254 electoral votes
to 42 for that grand old soldier, Win
field Scott. The politicians of the dav
set it down the Democratic party bad
come to stay, especially as the Whig
partv was falling to pieces. But In two
Tears a tidal warn aar.nt that fnr
J - - ' - .... w VVU U. I J ,
and in 1854 the Democrats were beaten
out of sight. There was hardly a
grease spot Ml Passing by the war
period. In 1S72 Grantrbarried the Union
bv nearly 800.000 popular majority and
2SC of the 3GG electoral votes. Two!
years afterward. In 1S74. bis party was
overwhelmingly defeated. North and
South, and since that year the Repub
lican parly, when it has Succeeded, has
wou by a scratch or the lavish use of
money contributed by jobbers in politics
ana contracts aau n e subsidized pro
tected interests.
It is not at all prudent to prophesy
political results farther aliead than the
next election, and you can't always hit
It even then. The probabilities are that
the difference is rediculous'y small in
the popular vote of the conntry. The
majority ir congress is meager. The
gravest problem of onr history, except
that of slaverr. is before the people for
settlement. The coming administration
must act. The Republican party is no
longer an opposition party, but must
face the music and shoulder responsi
bility. The Democratic party takes its
place as the opposition. Pittsburg Post.
Ia Consumption Incurable T
Hed the following i Mr. C. H Morria, New
ark. Ark lift : "Wag down with Abwtn of
Loot;', and friend! and pbyaidana pronounced
ma am Incurable Conaomptiva. Began taxing
Itr. Klng'i Near IVleccvery for Coaaumption, am
bow on my third bottle, and able to oreraea toe
work on my laxou It U the finer t medicine, eyer
made."
Je-Ue MU Jlewart. Peeatur. Ohio, layi : MHad
t not been lor Iw. Ktns'a New Dlacorerj lor Con
eon, ption I would bare died or Lane Trunblea.
Waa riren np by doctor. Am now in beat or
health." Try it. Sample bottle free at the
dm tore ol C Jimu, Ebcnabnrg, and W. SIo
A leer, Lorelto.
Elex-lrle Bittern.
Tbii remedy it becoming eo well known and to
popular ai to need no special mention. All who
cava uaed Eleclns Hitters airur the tame eontj ot
praise. A purer medicine doj not exiat and It If
ruara ateed te do all that is claimed. Cleetrie
Bitters will care all dUeaaesof the LI rer and
Kidneys, will remoTe Timpleg. Bolls. Salt Roeura
and other arTrcliont caused by impure blood.
Will drive Malaria from the rratetn and prevent
aa well as core all Malarial "leiera. For core of
Headache. ConfMpatton and Indiaaction try
Fietrlc Klttra entire aatfstaction c-uaranteed,
or un ner refunded. Price &Q cents and l.oo per
bottle at B. James, ttensbunt. and W. W. l
Atser, Loret'o.
lrohibition la Pennsylvania.
The long movement to subject the
inhabitants of 1'ennsvivania to a pro
hibitory liquor law will soon be brought
to an end. Upon the meeting of the
Legislature in January the first mea
sure to be considered probably will be
the resolution to submit a prohibitory
amendment to a vote of the people.
With an overwhelming majority la
each branch, the Republicans will en
counter no difficulty or delay in redeem
ing their p!edes in this respect. It
will be for the Legislature to determine
whether the proposed amendment shall
be submitted to the popular decision of
the next regular State election In No
vember, 1889. or whether a special elec
tion at an earlier date shall be held for
the purpose. Whatever the prohibitory
element in the majority shall deem ad
visable will be done.
The next question is : What would
be the fate of a prohibitory amendment
at the hands of the people of Pennsyl
vania V A Repuolican majority of 60,
000 in the State outside of Philadelphia
may well give concern to all those who
regard this species of legislation as
mischievous and violative of the per
sonal rights of the citizen. It is not
pretended that a majority of the people
of Pennsylvania are favorable to this
policy, but experience has repeatedly
demonstrated that prohibitory amend
ments are carried by other persons than
Prohibitionists. There are many voters
in the State to whom the present High
License laws are as obnoxious aa ouU
right Prohibition, and they would vote
for a prohibitory amendment, trusting
that it would be treated by the Legisla
ture with the same neglect that has be
fallen other amendments to the Consti
tution of Pennsylvania.
With the brief experience of tbell'gh
License system of Pennsylvania there is
no doubt that it ha the strong appioval
of the great majority of the people.
This Is shown by the fact that in many
of the close counties candidates suspect
ed of hostility to High License have
been defeated. In other counties mem
bers who voted for the law have been
re-elected by increased majorities.
While the law may be susceptible of
amendment, especially in those features
which harshly Interfere with the inno
cent social customs and enjoyment of a
large portion of onr citizens, as a system
it is s'rongly fortified in public opinion.
In this situation the obtrusion of a
prohibitory amendment is to be much
regretted by all who regard Illffh Li
sense as a practicable and effective
means of suppressing the evils of the
liquor traffic. Should the prohibitory
amendment be adopted by a vote of the
people cnaos might come again. The
Iligh License system would fall to the
ground and would be supplanted bv im
practicable and abortive enactments to
enforce Prohibition. As results, the
reign of free but surreptitious whisky
would soon follow, and the Legislature
would be without the constitutional
power to suppress the evil by a High
License law.
In the LTIgh License law there is the
strongest bulwark against the introduc
tion of a prohibitory amendment la
Pennsylvania. The people who have
testified their approval of this policy
will not abandon it for the sake of a
doubtful experiment that can only be
pttrtially enforced by trampling upon
the personal liberties or one portion of
the citizens of the State, and by making
arieaks. hypocrites and law breakers
of another portion. But the experi
ment will be attempted in spite of the
mischievous consequences that would
attend its success. The next Legisla
ture will pass the amendment according
to programme, and the voters of Penn
sylvania will go through the turmoil
and excitement of a prohibitory liquor
campaign. Yet they are no more than
30,000 distinctive Prohibitionists in the
State, and for so insignificant a faction
it is proposed to get np this electoral
performance. There is just one pleas
ant consideration about the matter
that when once over it would not again
trouble the people of Pennsylvania for
a long time to come. I'hila. Jiecord.
Female Physicians.
Nine years ago the Legislature of
this State recognized the manifest pro
priety of the employment of competent
female physicians to have the care of
female patients In the State hospitals
for the insane by authorizing the mana
gers and trustees of State hospitals to
employ them. Under the authority of
this act this has been done in the bos
pitais at Harrisburg Norristown and at
the Biock ley Ilospiial, with advanta
geous results. There are reasons why
competent women should have the care
of women patients that are so sugges
tive as to preclude the necessity of
statement. The late gratifying ad
vance made in the instruciion of women
at the medical colleges, their admitted
proficiency In their profession, and the
number of graduates, make it impossi
ble to excuse the retention of male
physioiaua for this particular work on
any other ground than a rooted prefer
ence which bars the way to a proper and
needful change. The cure of insane
patlunts Is cot so much a matter of
medicine as of care. Women have al
ways been the most tender, watchful
and trust-worthy caretakers. They are
nurses by natural gift ; and when such
capacity is supplemented by proper
medical training, their care and skill
combined is precisely adapted to euc-
o. ui uoapnai woci:. The prof eseion
a. female assistance in the hospitals
which have taken advantage of legisla
tive permission is now so cumulative
aud satiafactoiy as to warrant such an
amendment to the act of 1879 as would
compel the authorities having charge
of the Dixmont, Danville and
Uarren hospitals to secure the services
of skillful resident female physicians.
The hospitals are StaU institutions and
tLe prejudices of their trnsteea should
no longer be allowed to stand in the
way of a change which would be an
amelioration and a benefleence fully in
accord with the popular desire and with
the opinion of experts in the treatment
of lunacy. Phila. Record.
Brick the Best Building MaterlaL
Insurance men, as a role, generally
claim that a building which la largely
constructed of iron is not necessarily
fireproof. This may be true to a great
extent. Iron when heated, bends very
readily under weight, and therefore of
itself cannot be called fireproof. There
is much, however, to be said of Iron
construction. . It prevents fire from
spreading, and unless there is a large
amount of ioflmmable material within
reach of the flames, there is little dan
ger that fire will make much headway
Stone and granite are very little better
than iron to withstand the ravages of
TDere is no material that can be
nsed for conctruction equal to brick
Every brick bears its own weight!
Jbricks have already passed the the
fiery ordeal before they are nsed
in buildings, and are tempered. Cast
iron is not substantial enough, and
wrought iron, which is an improvement,
stands fire but little better. Tor a flre-I
proof building we would construct one
of firebrick. Then glazs them and
give them a good arpearance, which is
rather ornamental than otherwise
Amtncan Bxcilder.
The wife o a New York banker has
Invented a machine for making wire
rope the patent of which she has sold
to a San Francisivi firm tnr c-t: w
and a royalty. The way she came to hit
upun luia was rrom a device she used to
twist her wois.'ed.
SEWS A.D OTHER .OTIS.
The Sheriff at Shippensburg will be al
lowed only 9 cents per day for each tramp
after January, 1880.
A watermelon weighing 80 was emong
a consignment of fruit received io Sao Fran
cisco from San Diego for exhibition pur
poses. An onion sent from San Luis Oois
po weighed almost four and half ponDds. '
A Florence young woman is to have a
wheelbarrow ride through tbe streets one
nlgbt this week. SLe will carry a torch, and
a gentleman friend will do the wheeling be
cause he believed Cleveland would ha re
elected. ,
Rev. C. Felts, a light scnlatto, the pre
siding eldVr of the African M. K church of
EeasUrn rennsylvauia, lias been ordered to
move from hi9 bouse In Lancaster because
the neighbors object to a negro living
anions them. lie dares them to attempt to !
oust him.
Irrigation is making Nevala very pro
ductive. A Nevada man raised a potato
this season so large that when be sent It to
a friend by mall, be had to pay 50 cents
postage on It. Another Nevada man shows
three potatoes which respectively weigh 9
6 and 0 pounds.
Levi Overcast) and Levi Bergenstock,
of Charobergburff, were driving Dome io a
buggy late on Saturday night, when the ve
hicle was run down by a train on the Wes
tern Maryland railroad. Overcasn was al- '
most Instantly kiiled and Bergenstock ser
iously Injured.
In a bhtbday part at Chicago Albert
Lawson. the host, who Is an American,
tasted In to chastise bis wife, a French
woman, for offending an Irish guest. Tte
wife's brother wcrpped tbe husband, a
peneral row ensued, and the birtnday fes
tivities were at an end.
Tho London police are confident that
they are on tbe right track in their search
for tbe Wbltecbapel murderer. The per
sons have been found who saw the man
that accompanied the last victim to tar
room on tbe nigh I she waa murdered. Their
descriptions of the man tally In every re
re pee t.
Mr. William McLaughlin of Albany,
Ore., has been bragging about his big toma
to vine. It was planted on May 10, and un
less froet has cut it down ia growing now.
At last accounts it was thirteen feet higb,
the branches covered an area of twenty feet,
and the mala stalk was three inches In cir
cumference. Tbe Secretary of the Treasury has au
thorized tbe expenditure of tlO from tbe
emigrant fund for the return to England of
Henry Robinson, who arrived In Philadel
phia In Jnly last In good health, but who
subsequently met with an accident which
renders him incapable of work and makes
him a public charge.
Monday night, near Coal Valley, W.
Va.. Dick Thomas shot and killed Nora
mil. whom he had betrayed. Sbe asked
him to pay a doctor bill, and in response be
shot her five times, death resulting immedi
ately, lie killed John Masey one year ago.
Thomas Is in jaii at Charleston. Fears are
entertained that be will be lynched.
The Pope has appointed tbe 31st day of
December, 1888, for a special service In
Catholic churches throughout tbe world, at
which thanks are to be offered to the sacred
heart of Jesus for graces received during the
year of the Papal Jubilee. The Iloly fa
ther Is io receipt of a preseot of Sl.000.000
from the Catholics of India and Australia.
There is an Immense tree In front of tbe
bouse of Judga Montgomery, of Americus.
Ga., which has been inhabited for eome
time by a gieat flock of English eparrows
An army of black birds covet tbe place tor
a roost, and appear on the scene every eve
ning, when a pitched battle takes place, the
noise of wbich can be heard for a loog dis
tance. The wine-cellar of the late Samu&l J
Tilden In New York was vandalized by an
auctioneer and crowds of purchasers on
Wedaeeday. Five buodred and twenty
bottles of Stelnberger brought from J 3.50 to
ZO per bottle ; some double O Maderiat
brought 3 50, and Mime bluegrass whisky
forty years old. brought fll. 50 per gallon.
In all 440 bottles were sold.
Charles Bensen, a Swede, who had
charge ot the dynamite used in blasting
rocks on tbe new lumber road near Ketner.
McKaan county, was thawing out tbe 6tuff
at tbe fire on Tuesday, wben it exploded
and bis bead was blown off. Two Italians,
named Anthony Rendordie and Nicoll Beth.
were badly injured. Both men were found
several hundred feet away.
John McCandlees, a freight brakeman
on the Ft- Wayne Railroad, was Instantly
killed at tbe Outer Depot, Pittsburg, on
Tuesday evening. lie was cutting cars
noar the engine, wben he slipped and fell
and the wheels passed over bis head. Mc-
Candless was thirty years of age and bad
been at work bnt three days. Nothing was
known of his borne or friends.
Great excitement exists at Paris, Ky.,
over the Cod of a large amount of money,
some say as high as J16.000 in a book in
Long's second-hand book store, by some
colored men who were sorting rags for him.
It is known that one man had as high as
5), all of which were old greenbacks. Is
sued In 1862. Mr. Long does not know
where tbe book with the money came from.
Three Mormon elders who bad been in
Marlon county, in the western part of Al
abama, about ten days ago, were tarred and
feathered and warned to leave within
twenty-fonr hours. It Is said tbe starring
and feathering was done by about fifty ot
the beat citizens of the county, who were In
noway disguised. The Mormons .begged
tortbeir lives and promised to leave at
once, never to return.
Near tbe soda springs of Ashland, Ore.,
there Is a spring which emits a gas so pois
onous at to kill whatever Kay breath It
and It is said that there ia almost constantly
a ring ot birds, snakes, lizards and small
deer lying dead about It. The same dead II
neas Is claimed for a spring somewhere In
Idaho, and in both it Is thought that a con
centrated form of carbon io acid gas Is tbe
actlye agent of destruction.
All tbe people of Sharon, Ta., were
aroused at 6 o'clock on Monday evening by
a terrif c explosion at tbe Sharon Gas and
Water fVorks. Tbe cause of the explosion
was tbe bursting of a refining tank. About
one-half of tbe works Is now in rnlns.
Charles Smith, the gas-maker, was fatally
burned. Tbe affair cause great exeltemtnt
and the whole town turned out to view tbe
wreck. The loss will reach about $1,500.
A novel watch Is being manufactured
by the Waltham Watch company. The
case plates are of Brazilian pebble, or rock
crystal. Holes are drilled in tbe crystal
plates Tor tbe various screws and fittings,
the pivots are set In rubies and sapphires!
and the platoa are held apart by sapphire
pillars. The dial Is a skeleton of i
Diamonds mark tbe hours and rubles tbe
minutes. The watch Is of course transpar
ent. Patrick Packlcgham, who murdered his
wife last April, was condemned at New
York on last Monday to be hanged on next
January 4th. Tbe courtroom was crowded
to suffocation when the white-haired, plac!d
old man was led to tbe bar to receive his
sentence. When the last words of tbe sens
tenee were uttered, Packingbam sighed and
stooped slightly. Then he rallied with a
heavy sigh, exclaiming : "Well, I'm glad
it has been aettied at Ust"
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A dispatch from Streator, III., says :
Miss Belle Brldwell, a teacher employed in
tbe Grammar Department of tbe Sickerman
School, near this city, died very suddenly
on Tuesday of hemorrhage of tbe lungs. It
It is stated that she was endeavoring to
punish a boy for insubordination when be
knocked her down and kicked ber in the
breast, causing her death. Aid was sum
moned Immediately by tbe other teachers,
but she died in five minutes.
A citizen of Roselle, N. J., is the owner
of a wonderful Tabby cat. He bas devoted
a great deal of time to tbe education of the
animal, and pussy shows a degree of IntellL
gence that astonishes tbe natives. Tbe cat
will wink with its right or left eye, as com
manded by her master, beat time with one
of ber paws wben be sings selections from
tbe German opera and pick out tbe queen
in a pack of cards. lie is now trying to
teach Tabby to mew "Ilome, Sweet Home,"
be plays the accompaniment on his violin.
but be fears his efforts in this direction will
not be successful.
For some time past J. C. Sbaeffer. a
well-known traveling man. who represents
a firm in Columbus, O., has been paving his
addresses to Miss Annette Blame, of Fayette
Station, daughter of G. M. Blame, a promi
nent stockholder in the Fayette Coal and
Coke Company of that place. Mr. Sbaeffer
had been forbidden the house by Mr.
Blame, and It was supposed that the affair
bad been " broken off, but on last Sucday
morning the young lady boarded a train and
was joined at Elmo by Mr. Sfcaeffer. They
went west and it is supposed are married
before this.
On Tuesday night, as the Omaha train
from Dulu th was crossing tbe bridge at
West Superior, Wis., a quarrel arose among
several occupants of the smoking-car. A
fist fight ensued and then one of the com
batants drew a revolver and commenced
firing. The 6hootlng became general. Oue
man rushed into tbe ladies' car and fired
several shots, one of wbich hit Frank Bcg
gert, of Superior, in tbe leg. In the excite
ment tbe man who did tbe first shooting
jumped off and escaped, although three
shots were fired at biua. Four men were ail
wounded, but none fatally.
The religious meeting of the modern
Quacer do not differ materially from those
of other denominations. Tbey bave aban
doned the most of their old customs. A
BrunswICK, Me, gentleman remembers at
tending a Quaker meeting in that town 00
years ago, and thus describes tbe service :
Tbe preacher arose and said : "There is a
balm in Gilead," repeating tbe same three
times, and soon after &at down, keeping si
lence for aoout half an hour, wben be de
clared the meeting closed and tbe audience
dispersed. There was more pith In this
discourse than there is in many longer ser
moDB, nowadays.
As a party of girls were going from tho
Convent of St. Joseph to the Cathedral, at
St. Augustine, Fla., in care of several Sis
ters, latt Sunday morning, a yourg man
Jumped from acarrage, seized one of tbe
girls and tried to carry ber off. The Sisters
rescued the girl aod the young man drove
off. He Is tbe Auditor of tbe new Sugar
Belt railroad, and tbe girl Is tbe daughter of
a jeweler at Kissime. Tbey were lovers,
but tbe glri's parents objected to tbe match
and sent her to the convent. Tbe young
man, determined to marry her, passed tbe
yellow fever quarantine, secured a marriage
license and attempted the abduction, but
without success.
Fbineas Rogers, of Mecbanicsburg, this
State, waa arrested on Monday and placed
in Cumberland county prison charged with
setting fire to Hauck A Comstock's agri
cultural aud spika works, Cluebart's net
factory and other buildings, involving a to
tal loss of over 100,000. He made a con
fession. Implicating several other young
men In tbe crime. Itodgers was tbe leader
of the gang. Jacob Evans, one of tbe Me
cbanicsburg firebug gang, was arrested tbe
same evening and committed to jail charged
with a wising Rogers in burning over $100,
000 worth of valuable property in that place.
Information was also made against Rogers
by a Government detective for manufactur
ing and dealing in counterfeit money. The
evidence is strong.
Cptaln T. H. Logan, commanding tbe
United States troops at Fort nancock, on
tbe Rio Grande, coma seventy miles below
El Paso, bas been forcibly reminded that
Mexico will not permit ber territory to be
Invaded by troops of a foreign country. He
thought there was good hunting on tbe
Mexican side of the nyer, and took with
blm on Sunday some members of bis com
pany, all good hunters, and one civilian, L.
W. Evans. Tbey were armed with rifles
and shotguns. Aftar enjoying some fine
sport they came across a force of Mexican
frontier guards, who took them into custody
as soldiers of a foreign Power found on
Mexican territory under arms. The clviliaa
Evans was released, but the Captain with
bis soldiers, Is ttill In custody.
Two farmers carried a small satchel
Into the Pennsylvania Railway station at
Pittsburg on Wednesday morning. The
appearance of the satchel suggested a sus
picion of green goods to a detective. He
took the two farmers to a station house.
When aaked what they had In their satchel
they answered : "Five thousand dollars in
good greenbacks." The satchel was open
ed. It was full of newspapers. Tbe farm
ers wera so astonished that they let the cat
Mgnt out of tbe bag. They confessed that
they paid f 173 for the newspapers, tblnking
they were getting f3,000 In counterfeit bills.
The farmers were John Wakeman and
lienry repper, and they came all tbe wav
from Winchester, Va., to make their bar
gain with the green goods men.
Gertie Blake, IS years old. has been
missing from ber home at Newburyport,
Mas6., since last Friday, and in a letter to a
bosom friend a lie confessed that she has
eloped with a well known business man
more than 40 years of age. He Is also miss
ing, but tbare is such a wide difference in
their ages that he is given the benefit of the
doubt and bis name is withheld until tbe
girl's story can be verified. The girl stated
that she joined her loyer in Boston, donned
boy's clothing and cut off her bair In order
to conceal her sex. Sbe is rather large for
ber age, Is decidedly pretty and weli devel
oped, and bas been just wild enough to
maks ber attractive to tbe gay lotuarios f
the town. She has been Hying with ber
grandmother, wbom she has constantly de
ceived by pretending to go to prayer meet
ing when in reality bhe had been on larks
with the boj a.
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