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voLuME { RE} SERIES, XL.
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
By FRED KURTZ.
The whipping post bill, for wife-beat-
ers, will be negatived by the House com-
mittee at Harrisburg.
Higbee now says he is sorry for what
he did to obstruct the investigating com-
mittee. Higbee should Itave known bet-
ter, but puts the blame on his lawyer.
Pshaw !
The House has put its foot on Dukes,
and voted to declare his seat vacant.
Right.
Mt. Etna is'on a spree again —spitting
out hot lava and causing an earthquake.
M. de Lesseps has arrived at his des-
tination, on his job to flood the Desert of
Sahara.
Hon. 8, J. Randall has our thanks for
Comp. Census, 1880, 2 Vol's.
Dr. Higbee, State Superintendent of
Schools, has placed himself in a bad po-
gition by trying to interfere with the
senate committee appointed to investi-
gate the State Orphan Schools, there be-
ing charges of fraud connected with these
establishments. Dr. Higbee evidently
did not seem toknow that the Constitution
gave the legislature power to look into
the m of these institutions,
creatures of the State, and see whether
there is crookedness there ; more, the
Constitution even citizen the
right to examine into them if he believes
there is fraud practiced. Why should
Dr. Higbee try to block an investigation ?
This looks bad for Higbee : if all is right
he need not fear an investigation, and if
there is wrong the people have a right to
know it.
Dr. Higbee is only siservant and very
far from a boss. The senate, however,
very properly, has ordered the i
A
anagement
gives a
Miit-
RXR
investigate
hE
Dr. Higbee
tee to go ahead and
thinks proper,
please stand aside.
The attitude Dr. Hig!
iu this matter is an unfortunate «
demands his removal from the
Dep't.
as it
now will
e has assumed
ne and
School
The Clearfield Republican speaking of
the B.C, C. & 8. W. railroad, says: On
Friday, the 16th instant, the stock-hold-
ers of the Susquehanna & South Western
tailroad Company, the name of
has been changed to the Beech Creek,
Clearfield and South Railroad,
met at their office in Clearfield, and by
action of its stockholders, increased the
capital stock from $4,000,000 to $5,000,
0000. This was necessary, owing to the
branch lines required for its use and the
large cost of mountain work.
Gen. George J. Magee, Gen. C.J. Lang-
don, 8. D. F. Slee, Daniel Beach, Senator
Peale, J. Harrison, Chief Engineer Near-
ing, Messrs. Platt, Kelley, Senator Wal
lace, and others, were present as stock-
holders and took part in the proceedings’
A hearing was given to a delegation o
business men from Philipsburg, who
seek the building of a branch road to
that borough. We understand that the
chanches for their success are favorable.
Some of the delegation seem to be far
more interested in another railroad
coming to their town than they are in
a new county,
The main line of the road, from
Jersey Shore—where it connects with the
Reading and Pine Creek roads—to the
Moshannon Creek is now under contract,
and about 800 men are at work thereon,
and within the next sixty days more
than 5,000 men will be digging on the
new line that will cross our county, The
jine from Jergey Shore to Beech Creek
has been let to Messrs, Hunter & Bros,
of New York, and the mountain sections
to the Messrs, Collins and Morrison, To
show that things are lively, over eighty
bids were put in for the work.
The Coal Company lately organized is
actively at work on their lands in Morris
township, getting ready to open their
mines and build coke ovens, so as to be
ready to ship as soon as the road is open:
The locating engineers, who pilot the
road, are busy at work running prelim-
inary lines to Clearfield Creek.
i att
The Democratic legislative apportion.
ment bill was favorably reported in the
house. Under it, taking the vote of 1880
as a basis, the Republicans would elect 23
senators and 112 members to the house,
and the Democrats 23 senators and 98
members, The representation in Alle-
gheny county is increased 2, Philadel-
phia, Northumberland and Delaware
gain one each, and decrease 1 in Luzerne,
making the house comsist of 205 members
instead of 201 as now.
This bill is fair, yet the republicans are
doing all in their power to prevent the
passage of an apportionment bill as the
Copstitution requires, unless it is so
framed as to insure them two-thirds of
senatorial and assembly districts,
Western
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Judge Black was interviewed on the
Dukes case, and said, relative to his tak-
ing his seat in the House:
“There is, however, a precedent for de-
claring Dukes’ seat vacant.”
“When was that?”
“Stevens, after he lied, he tried to get
up the war that is known in the history
of this state as the ‘Buckshot war,’ and
the enterprise collapsed. He jumped out
of a back window of the senate and ran
off to Gettysburg, where he remained,
without claiming his seat, for about a
month. When he came in and offered to
take the oath the house resolved, with
great solemnity, that his seat was vacant.
I do not believe this judgement of the
house was founded upon the pure failure
of Stevens to claim his seat, for others
had been out nearly as long and were ad-
mitted without hesitation. The door wa
shut upon Stevens by a sentiment of in-
dignation like that now felt against
Dukes. He tried to perpetrate a gross
fraud by the introduction of eleven mem-
bers from Philadelphia, who were known
not to be elected, and brought troops to
Harrisburg with intent to force the bogus
members upon the house that knew they
had no right there. If the troops could
have been used as he intended it would
have produced a civil war and the whole
state might have been covered with
blood and ashes,
If that was the reason
it
for a similar judgment
Stevens’ seat vacant,
against
but I doubt if it was right. Congress, i
several have turned
$ +1
laces on the ground that
CASES, out «
men
their 1
I they were
unproper persons, morally unfit
$43
with
them.
tO asso
y voted
I think congress was wrong every
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$e
ciate members whe against
2
time it did this, as the British parliament
was wrong in refusing, for a similar rea-
7, $0 seat Wilks, But what is to be
in a case like this? It is utterly
11 bs oni
Unts
take
of taking some re nary measure to
keep him out » th
lessly I would rather see it done outs
the house
members.”
“And what method
Mr. Black, as the
than
by
J
“It would be better, I think,
«dy meet him at the d
out of town |
“hilt
up to the “hill
fore he has time
" 4 bond}
Probabl
will have too much regard for his health
y cOonne
y, however, he
to make his appearance there at all.”
elm sion
An interview held with one of the ju-
rors in the Dukes case by a reporter of a
Philadelphia newspaper sets in a strong
and lurid light not only the mental and
moral outfit of this particular juror but
the actual working of the palladium of
our liberties. It is probable that the ver-
dicts in very many if not in most crimi-
nal trials are arrived at by very much the
same process of reasoning that actuated
the jury which acquitted Dukes, only the
verdicts are not in cases which have at-
tracted so much attention, and they are
not in so glaring defiance of common jus-
tice and common sense. Mr. George
Washington Breakiron, the juror in ques-
tion, relates that although there was no
evidence that Nutt was armed with a pis-
tol, and although the evidence which the
jury accepted was that Dukes had posses-
sion of Nutt's cane, so that the man
killed was unarmed, yet “the shooting
was done pretty much in self-defense.”
The reporter having inquired how a man
with a cane and a pistol could be requir-
ed in self-defense to kill another who
had neither, the candid Breakiron an-
swered, “I don’t remember just how we
did fix up that point.” And in an answer
to a further inquiry what he would have
done if the rest had agreed upon a verdict
of murder in the first degree, this candid
juror makes answer, “Well, then I would
have done that too.”
smi MoI MAb AA
An important decision relative to the
sale of tobacco was rendered the other
day at Pittsburg. Judge Acheson, of the
United States district court filed an opin”
ion in the case of the United States vs.
Win. Jenkinson, which is of great im-
portance to the tobacco trade. The de-
fendant was indicted for selling tobaceo
contrary to section 3,303 of the revised
statutes. His offense consisted in selling
five pounds of plug tobaceo from a broken
package to a smaller dealer. The court
says the government has no right to in-
quire whether or not Jenkinson sold the
tobacco to be sold again, and the defend.
ant is consequently discharged. This
opinion is contrary to all recent ruling of
the internal revenue department,
A dMatist in New York had to pay a
while extracting a tooth. It w
less risky to pull stumps in a field than
out of a lady's jaw at that rate.
A
Dukes will not go to Harrisburg,
Queen Victoria has a swollen
from her late fall—this goes to
that queens are human.
knee
prove
The Democrats and Independents, of
Rhode Island, last week nominated Wm.
Sprague for Governor.
The Harrisburg Morning Patriot, since
its improvement, fills the bill of a first-
class daily at the state capital—all the
latest telegraphic intelligence and
reaches this section at noon on day of is
sue.
By direction of Major General Hart
ranft orders will be issued this week
regarding the summer encampment of
the National Guards. The troops will go
into camp between the 11th and 13th of
August next. The commander of each
brigade will select such place as he deems
best suited to the purpose, as the vari-
ous brigades will encamp separately
militias
The old contention between the Dan-
ville, Hazelton and Wilkesbarre Railroad
Company and the Pennsylvania Railroad
2 4
Compahy, growing out of the lease of the
:
former company to the latter in Februa-
ry, 1882, resulted in the filing of a decla-
0}
rd
ration of suit on The declaration, af-
ter reciting the terms of the lease, alle
ges that the Pennsylvania company
ed to conduct the road properly, and on
the contrary managed it in so careless
and negligent a manner that it became
ruinous and anproductive ;
per
mnt was ¢l
that seventy-
cent. more than the
Aarged against the
KeCOt
taken in Lhe shinpe
of giving «
even beet
LRG O
against our
certainly a
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DIVORCE ETATISTICS.
The Rev. 8B. W. Dike,
New England
League, in a recent address on
who is secreta
of he IHive ree
made
ject, in New Haven, Conn, some
startling statements in regard to the i
crease of divorces in the New
The whole number
in Connecticut were in 15849 only ninety-
one, and now the average is about four
hundred and forty in each year, showing
that, while the increase of population in
that state in the last thirty years is less
than seventy per cent, the increase of
divorces is almost five hundred per cent.
The ratio of divorces to marriages in
Connecticut is at the rate of one divorce
to about ten marriages ; and the same ra-
tio is found to exist in Rhode Island. In
New Hampshire the ratio is one divorce
for every nine marriages, and in Maine
nearly the same proportion of divorces
exists. Vermont presents better figures,
where the ratio is one to thirteen; and
Massachusetts is still better, where the
ratio is that of one divorce to every
twenty-one marriages, These are facts,
according to the statement of the Rev,
8. W. Dike, as they exist in New Eng-
land ; and New England is especially
that part of the country to which we
have been in the habit of looking for the
best exhibit of good social order.
similis i w—
Bince Dr. Higbee finds himself in a
vice, he says he is very sorry. We look
at his case thus: Since he can’t prevent
an investigation into frauds at the or
phan schools, he will no longer interfere,
i. ¢., if he could prevent it, he would. Let
Dr. Higbee resign.
A Mp
In the star-route matter damaging
statements have beensmade against Bra-
day. Mail contractor Joseph B. Price
made an affidavit, now in possession of
the government, wherein he alleges that
he gave on one occasion to ex-Postmast-
er General Brady the sam of $2,000 in
postal drafls, together with $5,600 in cash
to corruptly influence Brady's official ac
tion. He also alleges, it is said, that on
another occasion he gave the sum of $15,
000 in postal drafts drawn against his
(Price's) pay as mail contractor on the
mail route from San Antonio to Corpus
Christi, and that in addition to the afore
mentioned $15,000 of drafts he also gave
to Senator Kellogg a note for $5,000, all
of which paper he deposes was paid at
maturity.
States, of divorces
There is a dead-letter law which pro-
vides that there shall be deducted from
the salaries of Congressmen their pay
for every day they are absent from leg-
islative duties, unless such absence is
caused by illness of themselves or their
families, This law has unheeded
and neglected, but its existence is recall-
ed by the fact that Roswell P. Flower, a
House from New
city —the gentleman who defeated young
been
member of the York
Aston in a memorable contest—seems to
have discovered it, and as soon as he did
so sat down and reckoned up the dura-
House on
for-
United
We believe
only case of the kind on record.
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SOLDIERS ORPHANS BCHOOLS.
Harrisburg, March 20.—Senator Coxe
made disclosures to the Benate to-day
concerning the Rev. Dr, E, E. Higbee,
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
that caused a stirring discassion, Obwin-
ing permission to make a personal state
ment, Coxe proceeded to read an ac
ount of efforts made by him to get from
the Educational Departmenc information
needed by the committee, of which he is
chairman, investigate tho alleged
fraud in the admission of children to the
soldiers’ orphans’ school. On the 8th in-
stant Coxe wrote to Dr. Higbee inform.
ing hom of the passage by Coxe's investi-
“That
thie Superintendent of Public Instraction
be asked to furnish the committee at
once a hist of all the pupils that have
been admitted to the soidiers’ orphans’
schools during the lifestime of their fa-
ther since the law permiting such ad-
missions went into force.” lun acvordance
therewith Coxe asked Dr. Higbee to fur-
nish the information, and the reply re.
oes ved was that it would require the
tention of the whole force for six mo
y pet at it. Dr. Higbee added i
iniormation was on file and tuat the com-
nittes eonld have a
After other atiem pls ts get the
mation Senator Coxe hig
vate secretary and assistant
it. bout on Friday they Weare
ser © y Dr. Higbee, On Lhe
hey were “irresponsible
Coxe said tha }
SrOawen, lag
of his absence from the
And he forwith
warded to the Treasurer of the
States his check for $458.80,
this isthe
Lak
tion
private business,
to
gRiion commitiee of a resolution :
Cons 10 the files,
infor.
sent own pri
0 complie
ordered
ground that
i ierks’ Mr
Mr. James E.
advised Lim that
anghtiom
aware that be had done
bad not been
he fullest inves
fist ied,
any eit
Zen had
. the examination
tHe sas 1
shy
proper and he
igation into lus
einvesiigation
started a debate whicn 100k a
range. Biddis, Democrat,
ieee Of Ve De appoluled
f Coxe had anyt
This was opposed by Keune
id not beueve that it would resul
thorough exposure of Higbee's
y ie the |
asion
Be,
nection with ¢
Goue
arrogant atiemy
cand afi Bid
wirew his motion, Satton offered
im authorizing Cuxe to go
ahead. Greer hoped this would not pass,
would show a desire by the Demo-
) Lm ped
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“This is done,” he declared, “to burt
Wallace ended the dispute by defend
xe's action, criticising Dr. Highee's
ourse and offered as an amendment to
B:ution's motion a resciution to refer the
matter to Coxe's investigation
commitiee, with instructions to proceed
with the investigation. This passed with
out opposition aud Coxe is satistied. He
says be will get what he wants,
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THE FLOOD'S STRANGE
A Farmer Looses Forty Acres of Land
and a Neighbor Gaine Ten Acres.
One of the strangest freaks of the flood
is reported from Whitewater river, a lew
miles above Lawrenceburg, where Farm-
er Huot lost forty acres of laud aud his
neighbor, Fred Newhouse, had a barren
and rocky mill-site converted into ten
geres of as rich land as the fertile valley
affords, The land along the Whitewa-
ter is as rich as any in the West, and has
only to be tickled with a hoe to make it
jungh with a harvest. An acre ol ground
bere is an independence for a gardoer,
and ten acres ure a little less than a bho
naoza. During the flood the Whitewa-
ter bottoms were overflown for miles
along the stream, and toe extraordinary
height of water created currents that had
pever been known before. Since the
subsidence of the flood it has been found
that forty acres of Farmer Hunt'srichest
soil has been carried away, leaviog that
portion of his farm practically worthless
until restored by a system of tillage and
fertilizing. Fred Newhouse, who recent.
ly moved to the Whitewater bottoms
from Aurora, owned a mill-site just be-
low Hunt's farm, Newhouse's property
consisted of ten acres of rocky and bar-
ren land, unfit for farmiog purposes. A
portion of this was a large mill pond.
This mid pond is now filled to the level
ol the breast of the dam with the richest
soil in the valley, and Mr. Newhouse's
remaining acres of nonproductive rocks
are nowhere to be seen, but are covered to
the depth of several feet with the same
rich deposit, Instead of being a looser
by the flood he is ahead the value of ten
acres of Water Valley land, which, when
tBere 18 any of it in the market, com-
mands from $200 to $600 an acre. Mr,
Newhouse is a fine practical miler, and
thie whole neighborhood just now is put
to great inconvenience by the temporary
shutting down of his mil, “If iv were
pot for the annoyance and delay of
changing my mill from water power to
steam power—for 1 am left without a
dam.” suid Mr. Newhouse, “1 would
laugh atmy loss.”
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DEATH AND DESTRUCTION,
London, Mgreh 26 <A dispatch to the
Daily Telegraph from Vienna says thst
woveral looniiies st the foot of Mount Ara
oy have duu Juttoyud oa show Avaisp.
aliee, IL #! persons have
beoa killed and 100 injured.
whole
FREAKS,
INNOCENT PUNISHED.
Pardon of a Convict After Twenty
Seven Years’ Imprisonment.
One of the most remarkable cases ever
recorded-—that of a pardon of a man on
the ground of his innocence after an im-
prisonmeunt for more than a quarter of »
century —ig now reported from Michi
gan.
In November, 1853, an elder! y bachelor,
froma Vermont named Estabrook arrived
at Burr Oak, Michigan, on his way to St
Joseph county, where he was to be mar
ried 10 a Miss Wood, Before leaving the
East he bad sold his property, aud Le
took the money with him. The next day
the stranger drove to Leonidas, a tows
within a few wiles of the residence of bis
intended bride, There he took dinner
and was to go on in the afternoon, but
for some reason dismissed the vebicle
The next morning the tavern-keeper
paid a teamsier to carry Estabrook's
trunk to Miss Wood, with a message tha
the Vermonter would follow in a few
days,
Estabrook, however, did not appear
and nothing was heard about him until
a long time after, when a man named
Giles Harding, who was iu jail Br sieal-
ing, made a pretended confession to the
eflect that kstabrook bad been murder.
ed, and that he was privy to the crime,
He said that he saw the stranger at the
tavern ot Leonidas, but did not speak to
Lim. Afterward, when Estabrook was
on the road two miles fromm Leonidas, a
wagon in which were two men named
Uinm and White approached the Ver
monter, aud they offered to give him a
lift to Miss Wood's house, which they
said they would pass, He
got into the vehicle, and
wiles further on the
phe
O33
accordiug!y
two or three
wagoou was turned
trom the proper road aod driven int
Odls, w stranger was mur
Harding, wtio had followed, thew
d into the wagon wiith Ulm aud
W Lite,
fi W
dered,
Jin pe
ere Lh
was the story told by Giles Hard-
of it, Harding,
OT (lie
fha
ing, aud ino
LUium aud Wi
wurder of )
course was the prinoip Fitiiess ¥
Juelice
ii
the
and lhe tavern keeper
thas Estabrook left tue ho
ull foot, with astranger
Bim the way. Hurging was proved to b
Als lar, aud 18 thal
Qa grudge a ust Ulloa and Waite
ther the DOUY nor the civthing of Es-
tsbrook could be and none of th
stimnony except Hardiog's really ba pli
ated the a0 used,
y el Harding, White
GLUYICied aud all
testified
Use about Gar
WHO Was Lo show
Was siOWH
tag,
Ulum were
sed for life,
i, White pro-
and
three se
e ret two died
AE AIS June ioe ie CTithie «
death ved; aud Hardiog made au sffidsa.
befure tue agout of prison thst
ther White nor had anything
that Ls pretend.
eutire faischood,
i Lie
.
v0
ium
wi
Un Jus death bed Haraiug
White
He died several years ago,
but nothiog was done in benalf of the on-
iy survivor of tue three, Ulum, vutil the
tith of March, when be was pardoned by
Governor Begole, of Michigan. :
Samuel Ulan now leaves prison after
a confinewent of twenty seven years, a
brokeudown man. The inference from
tue Governor's pardou is that he never
again declared the
aud Ulam,
ingudence ol
ice and the carelessness of the jury wuich
fouad him guiity on evideuce wuich, so
tar as it is wow recalled, was not eatitied
to creceuce, or ai least ought to have
dohe more than raise a suspucion in the
minds of an iatelligent and fair-minded
Jury.
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NOVEL RATTING MATCH.
A Negro Failsto Pick up a Hundred
Rats with His Naked Hands in
One Hour,
Philadelphia, March 18.—The feat of
pickiug up a hundred live rats with the
oaked wands in an hour's time was at-
tempted jast night by a negro named
Wm, H. Lewis. The attempt was made
for a wager of $200, and tue scene of the
coutest was in a saloon in Frankiord, a
suburb of tus city. It was stipulated
ties 10 win Lewis would have to transfer
the rats from a pit 10 a barrel. In tue
centre of the room where the contest
took place a space eight feet square was
surrounded by a light board ence four
feet high, Toe floor was covered aw
inch deep with sawdust, and in the oen-
tre of tue pen stood an empty whiskey
Darrel, the upper head of which was
covered with a piece of canvass with a
hole in its centre. When Lewis appear
ed in the pit a little under the inflasnce
of liquor he wore asleeveless undersuirt,
check pantaloons and brogane. The legs
of hus trousers were tied around his an-
kies 80 as to prevent raw from taking refs
uge therein, and his hauds and arns
were covered with musk, which he be
Lieves will preveat rats trom biting him.
Foriy ras were then dumped from the
cage into tue pit. Toe rats dared wildiy
around through the sawdast and made
vain endeavors to scale the tence. Finai-
ly they haddied io a wriggling mass in
one corner and the jodges give Lewis
tie word to begin. He moved over to the
pile of rats, and without an instant’s hes
tation thrust his naked hands and arms
in wmong them. He canght five tut fel
lows and dropped them 10t0 the barrel.
He next picked up three, thea four, then
two, and so on nat six ming es had ex-
pired, when he had placed tweaty-une of
the rodeats in the barrel, The rats that
remained in the pit were wild, and be
was Sompeiied to catoh them one at a
tine, ¢ first single rat he picked up
bit one of his fiu gers throngh the nail to
the bone aud hung there ual Lewis
Jurked his band and sent the
which was wounde: was then dipped
whiskey and the chase resumed, Seven
ruts were picked vp and deftly tossed in
to the barrel, and Lewis was bitten twice
on the right arm, He received tour more
wounds before the fortieth rat was ime
prisoned, which was done in 23 minutes.
Lewis worked with great agility, and rat
alter rat was picked up and dropped in-
0 the barrel with ameziog rapidity, The
fity-seventh rat he ay to touch
spraog at his face as he stooped and bit
through the man’s lower lip. Without
flinclir g he grabbed the little brute and
osged iv throogh the canvas cover. He
lost five minutes stanching the blood
hat flowed from hie lip In picking up
the other twenty-three rats he was bitten
slightly five times, Eighty rats were in
the barrel and Lewis had bu: twesty
minutes to pick up the remaining twen-
ty. The time was too limited, so Lewis
gave up the job and got out of the pit.
I'he spectators were satisfied with his ef-
forts, and a collection amounting to $22
was taken up for his benefit,
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STORM IN NOVA SCOTIA.
Halifax, March 21 —The thaw of the
past few days was followed by a severe
rain-storm last night and to-day. Rivers
have overflowed, bridges have been
washed away, the lowlands have been
flooded and much property hes been de-
stroyed. Railway communication is in-
errupted.,
Quebec, March 21. —The train on the
North Shore road which left Montreal at
3 p. m, on Monday arrived here this
morning. The spow is packed solidly
over the track to a depth of five feet,
. tends cscs
AN IMPENDING BTRIKE.
The Clearfield County Laborers Object
to the Importation cf Labor.
Or
Altoona, March 25 —No little
ment bas been caused by the imporia-
tion of colored laborers to operate the
coal mines and iron works in the Broad
Pop and Hauotingdon cual and iron dis-
ricis, They were brought from Virgin-
is by Robert Hare Powell, eoliery op-
vrator aud rou maesier, at Saxton, 10
wurk in that region. There are the same
kind of complaints smong the miners
and iron workers that there were on the
Pac fic coast against the Chivese, It is
maintained that extensive arrangements
have been made to supply the labor mar-
ket from Virgioia, and the white ool-
ers and laborers sre terribly excited
ver the matter. The mipers at Osceola
nave determined to strike, and as the
miners throughout the enure coal coun-
try are risiog 10 rebellion against the
wovement, there i8 a fair prospect of se~
rivus and sanguioary trouble st no dis-
tant date. The operators originating the
o.ored importation slate that they are
determined to run their works as they
ease, aud will call up the authorities to
protect the negroes, collieries, iron works
and furnace buildings. The coal snd iron
police are prepariog themselves for any
vinergency that may arise. — Patriot,
excite-
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HOME, SWEET HOME.
Reception of John Howard Payne's
Remains tn New York,
New York, March 22 —The steamship
Burgundia, frotu Marsailles, with the
vody ot Jobn Howard Payne oa board,
was signaled off the Nevesiuk highlands
at ten o'clock his morning. Arrange
wents have been periecied for the recep-
tioa of the remains. Toe body will he
1a state iu the Governor's room in City
Hail to-day aud to-morrow, Tue hall wilt
ve draped in mourning. The body will
be placed ou a catatalgue, so that visitors
way readily view the remains as they
puss Lthroogh the room. Oa Saturday the
remains will be taken to Washington on
a special car furnished by the Peausyls
vauia Railroad and delivered to the ao-
thorities of ibe Qukuill Cemetery, to be
veid vatd the 8th of Jase, ihe 9th aanis
versary of the poet's birin, when the
fival funeral ceremonies wiil take place.
oma I MP MASS
A dispatch from Muskogee, I. T., says :
—La the border of the territory of the
Seminole Nation, Brady Brewpey, El
Perryman, Billy Grimmitt and an indian
were engaged in a gawe of cards, which
sfterwards ended ina free fignt, daring
which the Indian killed Bretuey and Per-
rysoan, Grimmiit, who took no active
part ia the fight, was accidentally Killed
daring the shooting of one of the others,
Lhe next morning two brothers, who
were friends of the dead men, followed
the Indian and coming op wita him rid
died bis body with ballets,
hs A SII MP ADA
—Lewins & Co. intend to take Cen-
tre county by storm with their new
stock of clothing. Their room has been
refitted and much improved, and ar
ranged for the better convenience of
customers. They have purchased the
largest, finest and best assortment of
clothing ever before brought to this sec.
tion of the state. They intend also to of
fer better bargains than ever before in
men’s and boys’ clothing, underwear and
other gentlemen's goods. Call and see
their new stock by all means before pur
chasing elsewhere,
LS NL
Byer's Station, Ohio, Mareh 21.~The
house of Duncan Doles, & mile north of
here, was burned on Monday night. Mr,
Doles, who was ninety-eight years old,
oon the house alone. When the fire
had subsided the neighbors found
the dead of Doles ander a bed wi
a rope around the veck. This
his usual bed room, it is thought
strangled hy robbers and
bed and the houre then set
isi
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