EIKNSBl'IW, CAMBttlA CO., PA.
FRIDAY. SBITEMBKR It,
Dcniwralie Tlkt.
For Auditor f Sonernl.
llOHKKT K. WKKiHT, of Lehigh.
For Stat.; Tri'iimir-r,
A. I.. TII.DKX, of Krie.
For Constitutional Convention lX-lc-gates
at Ijrce,
Charfcs U. Buckalew, Cnhuiihi-i.
Chauncy F. Uhu k, York.
t-oorgeM. Dallas, rhilad-lphia.
4orge A. Jenks, Jtfferson.
Samael (i. Thompson, Philadelphia.
Iavid V. Sellers, Philadelphia.
Henry V. Scott, Northampton.
Kolwrt E. Monahan, Chester.
William S. McLean, Luzerne.
Frank M. Vandlinr, Lai-lca wanna.
John Latta, Westmoreland.
Rodger Sherman, Crawford.
William Weihe, Allegheny.
T. C. Iaziii, Alllegheny.
Samuel B. iirittith, Mercer.
Grant Weidman, I'hiladelphia.
!eorgo W. Zoiler, Bucks.
R. M. Root, Montgomery.
Democratic Co only Ticket.
For lVesident Judge,
JOHN P. LINTON, of Johnstown.
For Delegates to Constitutional Conven
tion. JOSEPH M'DONALI), of Ebenshurg.
AUGUSTUS V. DIVELY, of Alteon.
For Sheriff,
JOSEPH A. GRAY, of Carrolltown.
For PMr I)ire-tor,
JOHN F. LONG, of Ebenshurg.
For Jury Commissioner,
E. J. 13 LOUGH, of Johnstown.
The difficulty between Hayti's legisla
tive ami executive branches of the gov
ernment ha ltH'n harmoniously settled.
I.v a battle between rangers and train
robU'rs, along the Rio Grande, in Texas,
13 of the ro..l)rs and two of the rangers
were killed.
Ik "Honest John Ilardsley was out of
the penitentiary he would vote for Gregg
and Morrison. So will Cashier Iivsey if
he gete home in time. Why not?
The New York Republican State con
vention on Wednesday nominated J.
Sloat Fasset, for Governor, and John W.
Vrooman, for Lieutenant Governor.
A ntmiiku of women at Sydenham
Canada, stimulated by a religious reviv
al, built a fire and threw their corsets on
the blaze, saying: "We will die as God,
made us." The Almighty cannot call
then i to soon.
The Senate of Georgia Thursday
parsed the House bill disqualifying phy
sicians addicted to drink from the prac
tice of their profession. It will be signed
by Governor Northern as soon as it is
engross il.
We arraign and condemn the Repult
lican legi.-lature for the enactment of
vexatious, oppressive and vicious legisla
tion, against whic h the Executive veto
was int.rpos.il for the protection of the
people. lifmiH-mtic Platform .
Mks. O'Neill, wife of General O'Neill,
claiming to have been an officer in the
United States army, who, in a fit of jeal
ousy, shot at and dangerously wounded
her husband at Weisbaden, May 20 last,
and who was imprisoned for that crime,
has been pardoned by Emperor William
and released from imprisonment.
We arraign and condemn the Repub
lican Auditor General for having iernut
ted John Bardsley, the Republican Treas
urer of Philadelphia city and county, to
fnlc;ule more that 2D,000 of State li
fcense moneys collected by him, which
he wao rvfirriHttoU to rutain for a long
period after the fiame wan due and twiya
ble. Dr nun-rat ie Platform .
Ox Monday, after a long consultation
with City Treasurer Wright, of PhiladeU
phia, Auditor General McCamant sus
pehded the five Philadelphia Mercantile
Appraisers pending an investigation of
their manner of .doing business. City
Treasurer Wright insisted on their sum
mary dismissal but the Auditor General
did not wish to sro further than he could
be pushed in turning the rascals out.
We arraign and condemn the Repub
lican Auditor General for having con
spired with John Bardsley, the Republi
can Treasurer of Philadelphia city and
county, to appoint and retain corrupt
mercantile appraisers, who abused their
office for their own private pecuniary ad
vantage, robbed the State of its just reve
nues, and imposed upon the Common
wealth hundreds of thousands of dollars
of needless cost and we demand the dis
missal of themercantile appraisers of
Philadelphia. Imji-ratic Platform.
A conservative manufacturer of tin
ware estimates that up to June 30 Ameri
can consumers had already paid at least
$7,000,000 extra for their tin plates since
last Fall by reason of the rise in prices
caused by the McKinley duty. This
was the expensive result of the tin plate
duty during the six or eight months le
f ore it took effect. What will the con
sumers think of the added cost, which
began witW the application of the . new
dnty itself on July 1? Are We not pay
ing rather dearly for our tin plate ex
periments and for protecting our roof
ing iron business?
We arraign and condemn the Repub
lican Iegislatnre for having refused to
enforce the Constitution by appropriate
legislation; for having failed to pass
honest and equitable apportionment
bills as required by the Constitution; for
having ignored the demands of labor
for relief by law; for having denied the
righteous opular demand for such laws
as would distribute the burden of public
taxation equally upon all classes of prop
erty, and for having refused to reform
long existing abuses in the mercantile
appraisement laws as recommended by
the DciiHM-iatic Executive of ISSo.
J)enn-rativ Platform.
Thk IVnuK-ratic Stale Convention met
at Harrisbnrg, on Tliursday of last week
at 10 o'clock a. m., and after being
calWtl to order bv Chairman Kerr, elect-
ed H. Willis Wand, of Reading, iu tern- .
' A. '
porary chairman. After the appoint-
mi nt of conimittees the couventin ad- . worjj consider him solvent? Not much,
joitmcd until 2 o'clock r. M. when it . Well tliat is precisely the present condi
againmet ami elected Hon. (Jeorge W. tion of the United States Treasury.
?.: ! Tliere are more than 27,000,0t0 of the
chairman.
After the adoption of a platform the
nomination of candidates followed:
For Auditor General, Rolert E. Wright,
of Allentown, received 372 votes, and G.
McSparran, of Ijuieaster, 0 votes. Mr.
Wright's nomination was made unani
mous. For State Treasurer, A. L. Tilden, of
Erie, received 3'J4 votes, and Charles
Raymond, of Middletown, 5 votes. The
nomination of Tilden was made unani
mous. The following delegates at large to the
proposed Constitutional convention were
chosen: Chas. R. Buckalew, Columbia;
Chauncey F. Black, York; Geo. A.
Jenks, Jefferson; George M. Dallas,
Philadelphia; O. Guthrie Thompson,
David W. Sellers, Philadelphia; Henry
N. Scott, Northampton; Rolart E. Mon
ahan, Chester; Win. S. McLean, Lu
cerne; Frank M. Vandling, Iacka wanna;
John V. I-atta, Westmoreland; Rodger
Sherman, Crawford; Wm. Weill ; Thos.
Lazare, Allegheu-; Samuel Griffith,
Mercer; Grant Wiedman, Iebanon;
George B. Zeigler, Bucks; R. Morgan
Root, Montgomery.
We, the representatives of the Democ
racy of Pennsylvania, in convention as
sembled, renew our pledges of devotion
to the principles of our party in the
country at large, as declared in the plat
forms of the National Conventions of
1SS4 add 1SSS and approved in the
elections of those years by a majority of
the American people. We are, as we
have always been in favor of honest and
economical administration of public af
fairs; of limited expenses and reduced
taxation to meet the actual necessities of
government of a sound and stable cur
rency based on gold and silver, coined
and circulated in such proportions as
will keep them on a parity; of reform
and revision of the tariff, of liberal but
just ension laws, and of all well con
sidered legislation tending to increase the
rewards and lighten the burdens of la
bor. Dt iiUK-ratic J'Liturnt .
Is the political struggle of Pennsyl
vania this Fall, says the Philadelphia
Herald, there arc but two sides. The
Republicans, while protesting against
U'ing held responsible for corruption and
the crimes of Republican officials, prom
ise no reforms and make no effort to
bring the rascals of their party to pun
ishment. All that they care for, all that
they ask for, is to retain control of two
very important offices, both of which
they have shamefully abused.
The Democratic party promises the
people that with the possession of the
offices of State Treasurer and Auditor
General, corruption ami the use of the
people's money for arsonal gain shall
cease. It promises that not only should
the recently disclosed frauds le thorough
ly ventilated, but that light shall be
thrown uion the crooked transactions
dating luick for many years. The Dem
ocracy promises new and honest meth
ods and the sweeping away of the foul
ness and corruption which has plunder
ed the ieople and disgraced the State.
Tliere arc but two sides now in Penn
sylvania iiolitics the path of honesty
and the support of corruption.
We realize and affirm that the State
election of 1. . 1 in Pennsylvania in
volves no issue of Federal johtics, we ap
Ieal to honest and patriotic citizens re
gardless of past party affiliations, to
Unite In vindicating the honor of this
Commonwealth and redeeming the fis
cal and auditing departments of its gov
ernment from official abuses and cor
rupt practices. lhmocrutic Platform.
This seems to be a bad year for Re
publican officials. William Iivsey, who
served one term as State Treasurer and
several as chief clerk or cashier in the State
Treasurer's office, holding that position
at present under State Treasurer Boyer,
at Harriscurg, finds it unhealthy to stay
in the State. A legislative investigating
committee would like to interview Mr.
Iivsey about the way things have been
run in the State Treasurers office, at
Harrisburg, but present indications go to
show that Mr. Iivsey's interests lie in
oilier states, out of the reach of a Penn
sylvania subpoena. With "Honest
John" Bardsley, Philadelphia's late
City Treasurer in the Penitentiary,
Cashier Iivsey, chased out of the State,
Auditor General McCamant, forced to
suspend tl, .:;-e mercantile appraisers
of Philadelphia, and a strong probabili
ty of their being sent to join Bardsley,
it looks as if the Republican vote at the
coming election would le short.
We'arraign and condemn the Repub-'
lican Auditor General for having per
mitted John Bardsley. the Republican
Treasurer of Philadelphia city and coun
ty, to embezzle 1,500,000 of State tax
colhrted by him, which he was rerniit-
ted to retain for a long period after the
same was due and payable. Democratic
Platfunn.
Livsky, says the Harrisburg Patriot,
was treasurer three times. He served
his own term, was succeeded by Quay,
served his unexpired term, was followed
by Hart, finished his term, was succeed
ed by Boyer and served under him. He
knew a great deal about the "system,"
in fact too much of a great deal for the
comfort of many officials. Hence his
henceness.
We arraign and condemn the Repub
lican party of Pennsylvania for electing
men to State and municipal offices, by
whose neglect of duty, ' complicity in
fraud and plunder of the public treasury,
a milliou and a half dollars of the Ko
be's money have liecu stolen and squan
dered. M,i,;?c Platform-
tafthingtan Letter.
Washington. I. C. Sept. 5th, IS. 1.
If business man was known to have
T ... 1 . . 1
outstanding par, payable on ueniauu.
?nt,inF .WO.WO and onl
lS,57y,5. of available cash on liand t
M wnimwi,
to f::7,Wl,WO ana only
to
rvirwr wouiti tne commercial
I four-and-a-half ler cent louds which
were not presented for extension, and
which now simply stand for noti-s paya
on demand, and there is, leaving out
the fractional silver coin and other
funds that cannot legally le paid out,
only tl3,57!,5W on hund to iay tliem
with. Secretary Foster is said to-have
a scheme by which heexjat ts to bulldoze
certain of the larger national luinks in
to buying all of these liouds and present
ing them for extension, and it is for
that purjHise that lie lias announced an
indefinite extension of the time within
which they may be extended at 2 jer
cent. But it is by no means certain that
he can succeed, anil already since Wed
nesday on which day the interest ceased
nearly 8,0X,000 worth of these bonds
have been presented for redemption, and
the most of them came from National
banks. That made a big hole in the
available funds, and besides these bonds
there are big jension payments to be
made this month. On pajer Secretary
Foster figures out a cash Intlance of more
than $;o,000,000, but he knows, as
well as every other business man famil
iar with the affair of the Treasury, that
the amount mentioned above represents
every dollar which he can legally pay
out.
Candidates for the vacancy on the
loan! of Interstate Commerce Commis
sioners, made by the death of Hon. W.
L. Bragg, of Alabama, are liecoming ex
tremely plentiful around town, anil Sec
retary Noble under whose province it is,
is a much sought man.
Col. L. L. Polk president of the Na
tional Farmers Alliance, who is now
here, is being somewhat harshly criti
cised by loth friends and foes among
Southerners for the light and airy man
ner in which he disioses of the many
Iersonal charges made against him by
the Jiakiijh AY ami Oluvrcer,
and of the report that he contemplated
challenging the author of the charges to
tijiht a duel. This is the way he speaks
of it: "If anyone wants to fight a duel
with me I have not been informed of it.
The thing is a lot of nonsense." Col.
Polk may think it a lot of "nonsense"
to le called a "poltroon and coward"
but that isn't the way others regard it,
and according to the Southern idea it is
he that should want to fight a duel with
the man who is so oienly abusing him,
instead of waiting to ascertain whether
onyone wants to fight a duel with him.
Men opposed to the code under any cir
cumstances say that Col. Polk should
have his assailant arrested for criminal
liliel, but the enemies of Col. Polk say
that he dare not take that course le
canse if he did the charges against him
would le proven in . court. Thus the
matter stands, but there can be but lit
tle doubt that it is injuring Col. Polk's
standing, and many are predicting that
it will result in his U-ing dejiosed from
the Alliance presidency.
It is considered certain that Congress
will onler an investigation of the last
census, and it is equally certain that
some very queer things will le brought
out by the investigation. It is Said by
thor who have familiarized themselves
with the subject that all of the recent
census Millet ins, purporting to give the
assessed valuation of projierty by States,
are wrong, and that most of them can
readily le show n to be erroneous, w heth
er intentional or through incompetence
cr carelessness does not matter, they are
wrong. For instance, the assessed valu
ation of all proierty in South Carolina
is given as nearly a million and a half
less than in iss.il, while the report of
the Comptroller General of that State
shows an increace of seventeen millions,
and conservative estimates are that the
new State assessment to be made this
year will add at least thirty millions to
the total assessed value of proerty in
the State. That is a specimen of Por
ter's work; there are other States almost
as bad.
A gentleman . just from Cape Mav
Point is authority for the statement that
Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt
has not yet resigned, although he thinks
it extremely prolmble that Mr. Harrison
may ask him to do so wry shortly. He
says that Roosevelt went to Mr. Harri
son and demanded io a dictatorial man
ner to know w hat action had been taken
on the report lie made recently recom
mending the dismissal of some twenty
five Federal officials a Baltimore, and
upon, being informed that the report had
not been examined he flew into a rage
and told Mr. Harrison that he wanted
him to understand that if these men
were not dismissed he (Roosevelt) would
resign. That ended the interview and
Roosevelt has gone out to his western
ranch. This may or may not be true,
but certain it is that Roosevelt has brow
loat Mr. Harrison more than once, and
his culling Mr. Wanamaker a liar is a
matter of public record, but for some
reason Mr. Harrison has lacked the
nerve to demand his resignation, m.
A Threshing Machine Blown Up.
Fixdlay, O., Sept. 5. By the act of
some unknown villian William Mull was
killed and several others weie injured
this afternoon at the farm of Daniel
Browneller, near this city. A nuinlier
of men were engaged in threshing wheat
when the machine exploded with terri
ble force, wrecking the place and blow
ing piei of iron through the roof and
a great distance in the air. Mull was
terribly lruised and torn by the Hying
pieces of the machine, and four other
men working alout the place were in
jured, though not fatally. It was at
first thought the boiler of the the thresh
ing machine had exploded, but an in
vestigation showed that to le intact.
It was then famd upon close examin
ation that some fiend had placed a dy
namite cartridge in a sheaf of wheat,
which caused the explosion when it was
fed through the machine. - Tliere is
great excitement in the vicinity, lait as
yet all efforts to learn the identity of the
miscreant who placed dynamite in the
wheat have been fruitless.
Wholesale Swindlers Arrested.
Chicago, Sept. 5. President Abrani
P. T. Elder and Vice President and Sec
retary H. 13arber, of the Eider publish
ing company, are under arrest charged
with using the mails for fradulent pur
poses. Both prisoners were taken before
Commissionhr Heme and held in $2,400
Iwil each. The prisoners placed adver
tisements in hundreds of country news
iicrs asking for agents to represent
them in the sale of their books. If they
considered the would-be agent promising
enough, they sent him a lot of cheap
liooks, costing from seventeen to sixty
nine cents each and charged eighty-three
cents a piece for them. Those who were
innocent were induced to deposit JoO as
security for the books and that would be
the last the victim heard of them. The
company received from IJOOto 100 letters
a day. They have swindled thousands.
Wright aaa Tildra.
RoUrt E. Wright, the nominee f
Auditor General, was born in Allentown
in 1847, and as ayiamg man entered the
olliee of civil engineer, receiving a
thorough training in that jrofession.
He then went to Schuylkill county,
where he held for Sometime a responsi
ble iiosition in the service of the lliila
delphia and Rending Railroad Company
under Chief Enginer Charles Byers.
Eventually, however, he entered upon
the study of the law, and was admimitt
ed to the Bar in 1S. He associated
with his father in practice until the
death of the latter, and soon lieeame one
of the leading lawyers of Eastern Penn
sylvania. In lSHii he succeeded to the
Presidency of the Allentown National
Bank of which he had previously been
the attorney. - - .
Mr. Wright has taken a prominent
and active part in the jiolitical affairs for
more than a decade past. .Frequently
urged to tiecnme a candidate for' local
offices, be always declined, notably in
1880, when he was nominated for
state Senate by an almost unanimous
vote, but he has served as chairman of
the llemocratic county committee, and
as a delegate to many state conventions,
lieing the presiding officer of that of
1SK3. In the state convention of his
name was presented for the Gulrnatorial
nomination, and he received seventeen
votes on the first ballot, the nomination
ultimately going to Lieutenant-Governor
Chauncey F. Black. His name was
again presented for the first place on the
ticket at the state convention last year,
but he received only eleven votes, Patti
son leing nominated on the first ballot
by an overwhelming majority. He was
then urged for second place on the
ticket and received 157 votes for lieu
tenant Governor, to lil for Chauncy F.
Black and three for H. K. Sloan.
A. L. Tilden, nominee for State Treas
urer, was born in Garrettsville, Portage
county, O., on August 21, 1834. He at
tended the public schools of his native
town and the Nelson Academy. He
started in business for himself at the
early age of eighteen as a lumberman in
the pine regions of Michigan. Inl8o3
Mr. Tilden removed to Erie county. Pa,,
and engaged in the lumber business un
til 1S."7, when he lost all he had accu
mulated by the panic of that year. He
then went into the oil trade, and from
that into the employ of the Atlantic and
Great Western railroad as General agent,
in which jiosition he continued until
1SI;, when he purchased a farm on the
flats of French Creek, in lje I3eouff town
ship, Erie county, where he made his
home ever since.
Since living in Krie county Mr. Tilden
has taken a prominent part -in politics,
leing a frequent delegate to Democratic
countv and State Conventions. He whs
elected County Commissioner in 1S7M
ami re-eiecie.1 m ii. lie is one or
tlie leaders in tne tirangeranu toe runn
ers' Alliance. Last vear the latter or
ganization selected him as their choice i
among the lcmocrats for Congress, and
lie was unanimously muorseu nv ine
fore the district had Ixt-n carried bv the
Republican candidate by over :300 plu
rality. In January lat, on the inaugur
ation of Governor Fattison, Mr. Tilden
was appointed IXputy Secretary of the
Commonwealth, a imitation for which he
was urged by leading Democra ts thro ugu
out the state.
W hipped by a Girl.
New Haven. Conn.. Sept. 7. At the
little tow n of North Haven on Saturday
Miss Mary Jacolis, the jirettiest girl in
in the virlage, horsewhijied Win. Yan
doran, ag-d i'0, a wealthy fanner, and
when she tired her father gave the old
man another drubbing. A neighbor
interfered, or the whipping might still
be continued.
Muss Jacols is a dressmaker and lives
with her jmrents almtit two miles from
the center of the village. One of her
friends is Henry Brackett, who is marri
ed. Vandoran has moralized ami gos
sijied to some extent about the girl's
friendship for Brackett, perhaps on ac
count of a keen sense of propriety, tait
at any rate to the dissatisfaction of the
girl and her parents.
Saturday Miss Jacobs and. her father
appeared at Vandoran's barn shortly af
ter sunrise. When Vandoran emerged
from the barn Miss Jacols asked wheth
er he had made the remarks about her
which had been attributed to him. The
old man said that it was strange for a
girl to be geen with a married man so
much, but his explanation was not al
lowed to proceed. Miss Jacobs sudden
ly produced a big horsewhip and began
to apply it vigorously to the aged man.
Jbvery blow cut a furrow in his face, and
her rage increased with each
blow,
while old Vandoran yelled pitifully with I w
pain and before the enraged fema
le was
exhausted his face waa raw.
Then Mr Jacol threw Vandoran on
his back and severely pummeled him
until stopped by a neighlior. Vandoran
talks about having Jacobs arrested.
Miss Jacobs friends defy anyone to
point to a single impropriety in her be
havior. The Holy See.
Rome, Sept. 5. The Capitan Fracassa
announces that the Pojie on Wednesday
last was attacked by an acute visceral
derangement. The newspaiier referred
to adds that the physicians in attend
ance upon his holiness insist that he
mast take the most absolute rest. The
condition of tlie poie, according to the
same authority, is causing his pyhsicians
and attendants considerable apprehen
sion. It will be'remembered that on July 16
last the world was startled to learn that
Pope Leo .XIII had been suddenly at
tacked by illness so severe that a panic
had been created in the Vatican, and the
Italian specialist, Dr. Carcarclli, was
hurriedly summoned to the bedside of
tlie aged Pontiff. On that occasion the
most strenuous efforts were made by the
representative in Roine of the United
Press to obtain some authoritative state
ment as to the actual condition of his
holiness. AH information was then, as
to-day, courteously refused, and tlie only
satisfaction which can now, as was the
case then, be obtained is the statement
that, if it proves necessary, bulletins re
porti ng the condition of the Holy Fath
er's health will be issued by; authority.
BrTMAKCii's physician warns him
against an unnecessary intellectual ex
ercise. Highest of all in Leavening Power.
t i . - 1 , r .1 r,. .
. , ... . ( clal , as Company s works, and can, it Is
sixth distnet, embracing Krie and I raw- ) .. . . j
, . ... ' said, prod uee a temperature of SO degrees
ford counties, but he was defeated bv K " . v i
... ,, ,,- lielow zero. No chemicals arc usd; sim-
Matthew Gnswold, the Republican can- i. A
-1 . i A i 1 1"T w ater and gas.
lid:ite l.v SSH ithirahtv. Two vars lie- I
AFrffaULTgEiy F3JRE
ktRI AS D OTH IK SOI ISUI.
Tliere are CiiM'oiMleiiiu-d buildings in
New York, ih which tli,iiMintirt of -rsoii
do business daily.
The Baltimore market Is trliitt.nl with
pearlies, and Urns of fruit are licing dtiinji
ed Into the river.
It i estimated that thvre arc
tramp in the coke oven district ln-tween
lilairsville and Grcensburg.
A mahogany tree lately rut in Hondu
ras made three which, it Is renrud,
were sold in Europeand brought fll,.
When the National Const Union was
adopted t'harh s Carroll, of Carrollton. w as
the richest man iu America. Jle was
worth .". t.
T.Meredhli, 7S years old. of Monticello,
III., isdyingof dropsy. He has la-en tapicd
271 times and 3.011 pounds of water taken
from him. M , '
At Independence, Iowa, on Friday, Al-
lcrtoii trolled mile in ':lo, crow iiiifr him
self kin? of stallions. Direct, the little
pi -m .void-..-, c iva e I a m'le in 2:Oi,
breaking the world's pacing record.
The remains of a man were found in
the woods at Lofty, Schuylkill county, on
Tuesday of last w eek. A bullet hole in the
back of his head show s bow he came to his
death. Nothing but the skeleton was left.
It bad possibly been lying In the woods a
year.
The sheriff of Montgomery county,
who isatteinpting todispossess Mrs. Mark
land, proprietress of of the Beresford Inn,
Jeiikintown, carried off the dinner the oth
er day just as it had licen set before the
guest. Mrs. Markland threatens to shoot
if he comes again.
Belgian railway officials, after three
years of investigation; report that under
ordinary circumstances the average rail
way train In passing over one mile of track
wears 2 1-5 iiounds. This natural de
struction of track amounts for the whole
world to aU.ut l,3.i,oui ounds daily.
A British bark consumed over six
mouths in her trip from Australia to San
Francisco. During the trip fever and scur
vy broke out. from the effects of which the
captain and first mate died. All hands
were 111 at one time or another, and their
apiiearanoe when they landed was fright
ful. Mrs. Philip Bahl. of Allentown, Pa.,
w ho died last Saturday and was buried
lat Sunday, pure hast-d her burial gar
ment and selt-ted the text for her funeral
sermon, and the hyninn to be sung at the
service, when she was informed several
months ago that she would die sudden'y of
heart disease.
Gotlicb Craft, treasurer of the borough
of Sharpsburg. Allcgliciiy county, confessed
judgment on Monday to W. P. Potter, bor
ough solicitor, lor SS.OuO. The extent of
Craft's indebtedness is not known, but he
admits a deficiency iu his borough accounts
! of from 10,()tol-'.(iu. He i under liouds
to . u.niugh iu the sum of ,).
S. I. Stiker. mechanical engineer of
Buffalo, has, it is claimed, discovered a
method of making ice with gas and return-
jn)f Jt tQ tht
main unimpaired. He has an
experimental plant at work in the Provin-
A heavy rain stoi m fhmded the streets
of New Castle last Saturday evening, and
several buildings in the town and vicinity
were st nick by lightning. The bar us of
ex-County Commissioner George Gibson
and of Lafayette Keno, liotk in Shenango
tow n-hip, were desitrtiyed. wiiii respective
losses of fS.Om and 1. ". Itoth were par
tially insured.
The greatest engineering feat iu the
history of anthra-jte coal mining iu Penn
sylvania is about to begin. It is the com
mencement of what is called the Jeddo
tunnel, which will lie driven for the pur
pose of draining the flooded mines of
Jeddo and Harleigh. It w ill becoustruct
ed from Bntlcr Valley to the bottom of Eb
ervale maiiimolh vein, a distance of thrcJ
miles, through solid ro-k, to be eight feet
square in the clear.
Charles Welsh, a lineman of the Edi
son Electric Light Company, of Lancaster,
received a terrible lnK-k sue day last
wek. He was working on a pole at a height
of thirty feet when he attempted to cut a
w ire that w as grounded and a shock of
volts passed through his body. Welsh
dropped unconscious from the cross bar on
w hicli he was standing, tint across several
other wires, where he hung for several
minutes until n-scned. His Ixidy was con
siderbly burned, but his Injuries are not
fatal.
A sensation was caused at Wilkesharre
last Friday by the circulation of a nmor
that J. B. Shearn, a coal operator, and
ill?9 Mary Jane Williams, an accomplish
ed young lady, had eloped. The relatives
of the families made every attempt to keep
the matter quiet, but on Friday evening
J. B. Leyshon, father of Mis. Shearn, ad
mitted that the rumors were true. Shearn
and Miss Williams
in the
j church choir, and tliere la-came infatuated
ith each other.
He Is forty and she is
ui
nineteen.
It costs something to live and a good
deal to die; in facteverything costs, says a
bright exchange. Someone estimates that
getting born costs the jM-ople of the United
States fiV).0t)0,0ti0 annually: getting mar
ried, fSXi.OOO.OOO. and getting buried, 7i,
0m,(K. It might be. added that getting
drunk costs the people of the United Stales
more than no0.ouo,0i0 annually, or over
one and one-half times as much as getting
born, married and buried put together, and
more than all the bread and meat consum
ed lu the nation.
A dispatch from San Francisco states
that by building thirteeu miles of track in
Nevada the railroad men could furnish to
all the irou furnaces in the United States
all the iron they could use at the mere cost
of transjiortation and 25 cents a ton for
mining. Thirteen miles from the Central
Pacific line there is a mountain of ore that
is W per cent, print iron, and it can be
mn into pig iron in au ordinary furnace.
Some of the ore has been smelted iu the
railroad shops at Sacramento and found to
be of the best quality of Iron.
Jacob B. Talbot, brother of State Rep
resentative D. Smith Talbot, and and a
wealthy farmer of Honey Brook, Chester
county, this state, has becu missing for ov
er two weeks. .Mr. Talbot left hi home
on August 22ud to attend the funeral of a
cousin in Reading. When he alighted
from his carriage after the funeral he bade
his relatives good-bye, and walked down
the street toward the railroad station. He
did not take the train for home, however,
and his failure to reach his farm within a
a reasonable time so alarmed his family
that they communicated with their rela
tives in Reading, from whom they learned
that he had last been seen on his way to
take the train. He is still missing.
Latest U. S. Gov't Report.
Pittfebarg Letter.
Srecial Correspondence.
PiTTsucaa, Sep. 3, 1891.
All d.- lonjj hammers rang; and
Raws coarsclj- prowled preparing for
the opening of the third season of
the greaf Pittsburg Exjxisition.
Twenti- thousand visitors attested
their interest in the popular institu
tion, and expressed their admiration
in words of commendation and praise
at the brilliant sucees which at
tended the ojieninjr of the third and
finest Exposition of the series. The
Exposition is a great place to study
human nature, and it is not to be
wondered at that exhibitors and
manager alike, were gratified that
their efforts to please were heartily
appreciated 03- the throngs of eo
ple who completely filled the massive
Imildingw.
It letjiiires half's dozen visits and
much genuine work to get out of the
F.Xxs.tioii the value there is in it
for l every visitor. The displaj-s
should lie visited serial um and in a
methodical way. As au enthusiastic
individual said last evening : " If it
!i-iuld hi 1 pii . to-nighi that the
whole civilized world, wuh all itsex
ploits and achicvciucntsshould perish
by some cosmic catastrophe, like that
which engulfed Atlantis, and Out of
all the work done in the world
nothing should remain but the Ex
Msition buildings and their con
tents, it would la,- possible for future
science to reconstruct the whole of
our civilization. Out of that collec
tion the antiquarian of the fiftieth
century could reconstruct the citizen
of tint nineteenth, as though he had
lived among us. lie could describe
the shoes we wore and the hats where
with we were covered ; the food we
itcand the couches we slept in; the
carpets upon which we trod and the
kind of houses we built; the pic
tures'we looked at and the books we
read. He could rebuild the writing
machine and the steam pump; the
telephone and the cash register.
Tho.-e mammoth structures contain
the Iicst expression of what the
American people are and what they
ran do. It is an ojn liook and
every visitor should read it from
;over to cover." . The gentleman
Hated the facts correctly and we cor
:lially agree with him.
Every department of the Exposi.
tion is full to overflowing with costly
nd attractive displays. It is diUicult
to suggest how the exhibits could be
i in pro ved, either as to thei.-character
Dr arrangement, and we do not won
ier that the public was more than
atisfled and delighted at w hat it saw
uid heard last night.
The magnificent band of the fa
mous New York Seventh Uejiment
K-emed to play as players never played
before, and the musicians and their
accomplished leader quickly ingrati
ited themselves into public favor.
They could not help hut do &o, for
certainlj' the music was enchanting,
nd encore after encore 6howed how
highly it was appreciated by the vast
concourse of ieoplc. Col. Cappa and
his band have evidently laid them
selves out to please, and his immense
reertoire of music enables him to
meet the wishes of all.
Then the tine Art Department
loan collect-ion. Words ire powerless
to describe its wondrous beaut.
Nothing like it has ever been seen in
Western Pennsylvania; it is indeed
a rare collection of gems, carefully
selected by men of taste and culture
for the embelishmcnt of their homes.
Its value is represented by hundreds
of thousands of dollars; the rooms
are handsomelj' draped and every
thing which good taste could suggest
has lieen done to properly display the
magnificent canvases. We have not
space nor time in this letter to go
into details, but will reserve that for
a future time. We urge our readers
to personally visit the supurb gal
leries and see for themselves what
has been prepared for them. We
are informed that the railroads cen
teringin Pittsburg have made liberal
concessions so as to enable oui
readers to take in the Exppsitionj
and we feel sure that they will im
prove the opportunity to do so.
PUBLIC SALE
OF VALABI1
REAL ESTATE !
rpHE nnierilcoed will expose to pnMic sale t
L theAlplne Hotel at Fly na City. Keade town
ship. Cambria county, P, on
SATURDAY, OCT. 3, 1891,
at om o'clock, r. m.. the -following deacrtbed
Keal Kctate. Tlx:
All that certain pleea or vareel ot land nttuate
la Kearie township. Cambria con city. Pa., d) -into
lands ol Nancy Snat, Samuel W, Turner.
P. at A. i'lynn, John Clara and others, containing
100 ACRES,
more or lesi. which is heavily eorered with tim
ber, and underlaid with valuable seams of ooaL
TERMM or HALE s
Ten per cent ol purchase money tc be paid at
the time of tale ; the balance oi one third on de
livery ol deed; one third in six months trom the
time ol tale; and the remaimnic one-third in
twelve months Irom the time ol sale. Deterred
payments to bear interest and to b secured by
judgment bond sad mortvaite ol vurehaer.
CHKISTIAK WALTtKS.
Executor of (teotte Walters, deceased,
fllntoa. I'a-, iept. 4, leUl.U
SOW MS THE TIME
To buy a Shot Oun or Klfle. and we have the
stock to select from. We have Uiem In
Double Barrel , BREECH LOADERS,
raox t-3o it.
SINGLE BREECH LOADERS,
FBOM 4.00 fP.
Breech I-oadinjr Rifles. fi.OO and up ; also com
plete line ol i-belis. Tools, etc. Laret assort
ment ol Uiamonds. Watches Jewelry, Sll7erware,
and Clocks la Pennsylvania.
K SMIT.
Five stores la one 33 and S84 Libert . street,
and 70S, u5 and 707 SmlLhfield street, Pittsburg,
Pa .
- N. B. Send for our new annual Oun Cata
logue. Ma. 18, tree of chance. sepa.vi.3m
TaloaH. Real Estate
FOE SALE !
AlAJT ol rronnd In the West ward of the bor
ough of fenslonr. I'mhrli county. Pa,
fronting an Sample street havlon-thereon erect-
""frame house
and outbuildings, alt In rood repair, i'or terms
r particular call en or address
I JOHN NKAI.AN. Nloktowa. Pa., of
M. 1. K1ITH.I.. Ebensburit. Pa.
1T the voters of Cambria county.
1 hereby anoouooe myself as an In
dependent candidate tor the othce of Poor Direct
or on the platlura of the People's party. 11 elect
ed. I pledice mysell to perform the duties ol the
office with honesty and to the best of my ablliti .
KLUHtiNCE WIIXEHKAKll.
Aug. 38, 1SBL. Allenheny town.blp.
! "TVJN'T t all to seethe immense stock of Kail
XJ and Winter Cloth Ion and Overcoats at C
A- bltarbaugti's, Carrulltvwa.
WILLIAM M'KILLIP & CO,
CASSANDRA, CAMBRIACO., PA. ''
We are aprents for tlie PENN MANUFACTU "INC Cn..
PANY. OF YORK, PA., manufacturer, of U
ENGINES, HAY BAILERs
Threshers, Saw Mills,
anil oil Virtila of frminrr Imnlpnipnf a "Pnrftoa ilnc'.:
chinerv of the above description
'
us.
I. P. Thomas & Son Co.
For the same reason you don't tie your hor. to an empty u,.
gvr for months at a tim yon don't w ant to jmt in your w I
this fall without an ample quantity of fKl eiioiijrli in fi.,u
full crop of w hi-at and . uccdintf nrnss.
To .iipply this plant-food in the proper sliaM- is our lm-in,
We .ay ccr M.aiie lx-cause most any ImhI v ran mix a lit - s. ,
Carolina Kock and Paint together and call it fertilizer; lni. v,-,
ty-lhrce years' en-rienc' at the Im-iness, with our comi! t.
cilities lias enaliled us to make fei tiTixeis that will prodin-i- i.
.ir.-d results. There isn't any question alxmt it. You vi'.l
too, if you have usetl our (;o:m1s. and if yoi; haven't, you c.ui
them and all desired information from our agents. The Tim.iii
Phosphates are standard and t h.irousilily suuratne. d.
FoK
W. 1. ANSTEAD,
JOS. A. NOEL,
CLOTHING! CLOTHING!
Overcoats! Overcoats!
We are now prepared to show you the largest and best H-le.v
stock of FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING AND OVeJ
COATS in the county and give you the lowest prices. My lie-'
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS
is always complete. Am now prepared to show you a murhb
ger assortment than ever before. Call and see me as I will hIIvj.
nice goods and save you money. Very Respectfully,
C. .1. SILlRILlUGll
ct3-i-l.y
Read the
tummx
$1.50
Ecteurode
-DEALEP-S IX-
General.". Merchandise,
CT.OTIff. YG, FLO I'll, FEED,
Lumber and Shingles.
Full and Complete. Give us a Call.
CAItlJOI.l.TOAVN,
Our Enormous Sorins stock: of
Pncfpr's nro nnw fnllv Tironfirpd to meet the demands 1 S'J
of their houseWner friends as
g -
merits in their homes that Snrinir
connection let the fact be recorded that they show as Grand, a
ied and Excellent a Stock of
Carpets of Every Kiml
. i ,vv
and description as can be seen in the larger cities. AnJ ,
this very desirable state of affairs stands the even more m'
particular. THE PRICE.
Also, BEAUTIFUL VARIETY OF CURTAINS AM'
PERIES. New Spring Styles of Dress Goods and Tnnimin
ready. ANDREW F0STH;.ri
247 & S4'J MAIN STKEKT, .M . 1 1 N J
GREATEST BARGAINS EVER 0F'
FERED IN EBENSBURG IN (
Men's, Boys', Ladies', Miss
and Children's Shoes, Oxford Ties and Slippy-
Also, a full line of Hats and Caps, Ties and Scarfs, lTnr
Hosiery, Gloves and Shirts of all descriptions.
J. D. LUCAJ.
Opposite Cambria House. edENSDUR
will do well to call on nr ..V
a:
WILLIAM M'KILLIP &, CO
CASS AND R a p. j
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JohnstowD, Pa.
Ebcasbur", I'a.
CARROLL T OWN, PI
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9 !Wn
per Year.
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We keep our StoekalM.
contemplate makiii'' the iuipw
& .
alwfiVS SUirircsts. And in
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