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NO. 42.
1 NEW SERIES. XVIIL
THE CENTRE REPORTER,
FRE.D KURTZ, Eprror and Pror'r
Domoeratie Ticket.
STATE.
STATE TREASURER.
CONRAD B. DAY.
COUNTY.
JURY COMMISSIONER,
JOHN ROAN.
CORONER.
H. K. HOY.
¢
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every Democrat goes to the polls on
next Tuesday, Pennsylvania will elect
Day, the only honest candidate running,
for state treasurer.
HIS i
Every honest farmer should vote for
Day, for stste treasurer, on Tuesday, No-
vember 3,—because he is a business man
of the highest integrity.
--
Bellefonte is about to open the season
with two new newspapers. Won't some-
body step in and read the riot act and
thus keep down the poor taxes ?
Last week a foot of snow was reported
from nearly all parts of the Northern
peninsula of Michigan, blockading the
railroads. There was a light fall at Ga-
lena and Monmouth, IIL
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Every honest mechanic and working
man should vote for Day, on Tuesday,
November 3, because he comes from the
business class and will make as honest
a state treasurer as he has been in busi-
ness {
ry
- $9
ransactions.
- o_o.
Gen. Beaver was in Philadelphia last
week speaking in favor of the election of
the worst kind of a ring ticket for city
office hen he gets the nomination
vernor he will claim purity and
T
to ¥
for g
litics as his platform.
———
Conrad B. Day hasan unassailable rec-
ord, and even his bitterest political ene-
mies have been unable to discover mate-
nN
anti-ring pe
ial from which they would forge weap-
He is a
man of large business capacity and expe-
rience, trained in the field of finance,
and in every way fitted for the position
to which he aspires,
ns of accusation or slander.
' Negroes the South are not
mitted to vote as they wish, the right
of negro suffrage should be suspended
and a proportionate percentage of South.
ern representation t off Can the
Democratic press point out any thing
wrong or illogical in this proposition?
~Tyrone Herald, rad.
Just like you, if the negro won't vote
with you you won't have him vote atall,
and your next step would be to enslave
him again
Ts
il bi
per
cu
for spire.
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The Salvation Army tramps ran against
Snag Williamsport one day last
when Mrs. Moore, wife of General
Moore, of Brooklyn, in command of the
army, was arrested for shouting and
singing in a street parade. Along with
three other enthusiasts, two of whom
were women, she was placed in jail
Last week General Moore was there stir-
ring up the so diers, and the army, in
defiance of the Mayor's orders, came out
in a street demonstration. It is announe-
ed that the army will employ a promi-
nent criming! lawyer and fight the mat-
ter through the courts,
er—————
The managers of the state fair report
that it failed to meet expenses, leaving
a debt of several thousand dollars to be
canceled by other parties, from other
sources than that which comes through
the gate leading to the different depart-
ments cf the association grounds. Al-
though the attendance was large, attrac
tions above the average and weather
fair, it seems as if some cause prevented
it proving a pecuniary success. Another
year it will be well for the managers to
avoid the mistake of appointing simul-
taneous dates for the state fair and the
Franklin institute. That the two exhi-
bitions injured one another this season
is not to be doubted. The admission
prices are too high, also. Half a dollar
is too much to ask for such exhibitions
~=the people say 80, if the managers do
not. Better have a steady throng at a
quarter a head than a sprinkling at
double the money.
A A ——
The World fittingly says when the Re-
publican party was formed it avowed its
intention to make war on the “twin rel
ies,” slavery and polygamy. It did its
duty well against slavery. But polyga-
my go rich, went to Washington with
money and influence and that way one
of the twins was saved, The war against
it was altogether fictitious, and it noton-
ly continued to live, but grew and flour
ished under Republican rule, Now De.
moeracy is at the helm and polygamy la
doomed. Many too-muchanarried Mor.
mons are already ia jail, snd the United
Biates jury bes brought im twenty-nine
other true bills against offenders for un-
lawful cohabitation. United States judge
Noyes, on charging and thanking the ju-
ry, predicted that the days of polygamy
were now numbered.
a
week,
at
JOBBERS TO THE FRONT.
The Delaware County Record, a Re-
publican paper printed at the home of
Chairman Cooper, opposes to the election
of the Pardon Board with
great vigor, It declares
“The nomination of Quay is a despe-
rate game to bring the jobbers to the
front in Pennsylvania by and through
the election of one of the chief jobbers
to the State Treasuryship.
of popular condemnation is upon Quay
and his ilk ; he is already defeated in
the public judgement, and it but remains
to swell the majority to emphasize the
rebuke of jobbers, The jobbers st
go!”
THE PEOPLE HAVE LONG
QUAY.
The Doylestown Democrat says Mr.
Matthew 8. Quay, the Republican Boss
candidate for State Treasurer, has made .
candidate
part he took in the pardon of noted cor
ruptionis!s should bar him from all po-
litical preferments, Do the people of
Pennsylvania wish to place a pardon
broker at the head of the treasury to
handle their money ? He was one of the
heroes of the infamous Recorder's law,
passed to fleece the people of Philadel-
phia. He accepted the office to put
money in his purse, and received thou-
sands of dollars, literally dragged from
the pockets of the boss ridden tax-pay-
ers. It was a scheme to pension a useful
political boss on the tax-payers, when
the party managers had no other way
just then of maintaining him. It succeed-
ed until the outraged people compelled
the repeal of the law. Mr. Quay’'s con-
nection with the swindling Pittsburg Ri-
ot bill in 1877 is one of the darkest blots
on his spotted political record. He was
Secretary of the Commonwealth, and
was notorious in his intrigues, lobbying,
log-rolling and active collusions to have
the bill passed. It appropriated $4,000
000 to pay the losses by the riots, the
money to come from the State Treasury,
Afterward the entire damage from the
riots was settled for about two millions.
In the legislative investigation in 1878
and 1879, Mr, Quay's connection with it
was clearly proved. He was in daily in-
tercourse with the go-betweens, for the
purpose of carrying on corrupt and un-
lawful solicitations of members of the
House, instigated by himself and others.
Although Mr. Quay's friends have de-
nied his connection with the disreputa.
ble transaction, he has never dared to
deny it. The part he took in the pardon
of legislative corruptionists is openly ad-| es more for “Lonest men
mitted ; and now we have evidence that| 1}, 0ds” in state affairs than for
convicts him of attempting to bribe the] partisan supremacy ;
Legislature to pass the four millions bill.| jin daful of the grave obligat
Should such a man be placed at the| ii anghip, will cast an adverse vo
head of the treasury ? |against the presumption and effrontery
Poor Mouat, who runs on the same|.r oh an
ticket ith Quo, ois waljl the ballot! these are some of the
WX 0 delfea 1e wi oO e people i. a -
Legislature to psss a dishonest bill. Il resents the view . of thousands of Repub-
Mouat deserves to go tothe penitentiary, |; oo could they be ‘reached
where should Quay be? Certainly not| 4. of Quay's perfidy.
State Treasurer, The Republican party! mel te tne
have come to a pretty pass when they | SHIPWRECKED IN THE
present two such men as Quay and| OCEAN.
Mouat for the suffrages of honest voters, The revenue cutter Corwin
- turned from Alaska with the snnual sto-
THE NEW STATE TAX LAW. | ry of disaster to the Arctic whaling fi
Under the new tax law approved the| Twenty-two of the crew of
But the seal
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MEMORIES
And in another article referring to the
resolutions of the Methodist Conference
at Scranton, and the Baptist Ministerial
Association at Philadelphia,
with the strong expressions of the reli
gious press of the State on the Quay-
Kemble pardon, the Record says:
The appeal of the thousands of earnest
Christian indigna-
tion when it became known that
don of these legislative
was meditated ; the outburstiof the con-
demnation from the from Lake
| Erie to Delaware, for the same reasons ;
he outrages upon law, justice and moral
ity—these, one and all, failed to p
any good effect upon the Pardon Board
jobbers, chief of whom was Mr,
who is now asking, in the name and
der Republican auspices, the voters
Pennsylvania to make him State T
urer. Bat will ! They
member he was a political jobber then
there is not a scintilla of evidence hel
repented of this and kindred infamies,
bringing the name and fame of Pennsyl-
Ey-
zen
together
men ; the universal
a par-
corruptionists
press
roduce
Quay,
un-
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vania into contumely and reproach.
ery decent. it
whether Republican or Democrat—
ho
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sell-respecting
who
and
every Chri
1ONK O
unrepentant jobber.
reasons
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ARCTI
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has re
eet.
of the whaler
30th of June last, it appears that the Napoleon, which sank in the Arctic
most stringent measures are going to be| Ocean, perished in their boats,
z {others were picked up 1
. a ; nearly dead of hunger and cold. Lieu
dividual a full return of everything he| pay, who spent two winters at Point
possesses that is in any way taxable] Barrow, believes the Government should
for State purposes, Every person liable| ngintain a permanent station at this
to pay tax will be furnished with ablank| lace, the most northern point of Alaska,
which gives extracts from the State laws|,4 4 refuge for shipwrecked sailors, who,
under which the tax is assessed. In this
he must within ten days after it is fui
nished by the assessor declare under
oath or affirmation all of his property li-
able to State taxation. In default of such
return, the assessor is required to make
out a statement of the property taxable,
estimating the amount from the best in-
formation at his command, To this es
timated return the County Commission-
ers will add fifty per centum and the ag
gregate will be the basis of taxation, un-
less such taxable person, on or before the
day fixed for appeals from assessments,
shall present reasons, under oath, satis
factory to the County Commissioners,
excusing the failure to make a return, as
should have been made to the assessor,
when the County Commissioners shall
substitute the taxable person's return for
that returned by the assessor, to have
like effect as if no failure had occurred.
It is further evident that the blank to be
filled in by the individual taxpayer is
for the purpose of comparison with th:
official record of the mortgages aud
judgments obtained by the revenue of
ficers appointed by the County Commis
sioners, It is fo be presumed that whese
there is a difference in the two estimates,
the returns of the revenue officers will
be taken as final, so that the return,
oath, ete, of the individual taxpayer will
go for naught. The new law seems to be
a savage application of a heroic remedy.
While its framers were about it, they
might have devised a plan to prevent
the iniquity of taxing encumbered land
both in the hands of the title owner and
in the possessor of the mortgage.
We have two cases in point: In the
one instance John Doe sold a farm to
Ri: hard Roe for $5,000 and latter paid
the former $3000 in cash and gave a
mortgage for $2000, Under this law the
farm is fully assessed and taxed up to
Roe. In another case a house and lot
was sold for $2,000, half of the purchase
money was paid and a judgement given
for the balance. The house aod lot is
assessed to the present occupant and the
judgment to the former owner. 1s it not
piling tax on too heavily, on the part ol
the State ?
and the
sv the Corwin
adopted in order to secure from the in-
he thinks, could almost invariably reach
Point Barrow in their boats or over the
pack ice. Supplies could annually be re-
newed at Point Barrow, and hardly a
year passes that some ill-fated crew d
not perish because there is no succor
within reach. The best whaling grounds
in this region are north of Behring
Straits, and the whalers push into the
Arctic Ocean in spite of the probability
that some of them will be caoght and
crushed in the polar ice pack,
Lieut. Cantwell announced as the most
important results of his explorations in
northern Alaska last year the discovery
of indications that there is an available
route by which sailors, icebound on the
north coast of Alaska, may retreat over-
land along the Colville River to the set-
tlements on the Yukon, He has just re-
turned from his second season's work in
the same region, and perhaps brings
further information on this question. As
long as there are commercial prizes to
win in the waters of Behring Sea and
the Arctic Ocean, our whalers will face
the peril and run their chances. It seems
reasonable that Congress should make a
modest extension of the life-saving ser
vices in this direction. It has been
shown that the costs would be compara.
tively small, and that such an enterprise
would probably give considerible value
to some parts of the coast and land wa-
ters of northwest Alaska that are now
worthless,
Our suggestions for 1886 :
For Governor, Democratic, Judge Or
vis, of Bellefonte,
For Governor, Republican, Gen, Bea
ver, of Bellefonte,
For speakers, on same stand and occa!
sion, both the above named.
No assessments. No Committees.
Let the people decide.
This program would elect Orvis, of
© urse,
(Ha
i Os Yi AI Al A RB
The Law and Order reformers are af
ter the Sunday liquor sellers in Bethle
hom. With the exjectation, we sup-
pose, the L. & O. will be invited to take
suthen, of course. ;
LINCOLN'S ASSASSIN,
Alive,
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Birmingham, Ala, Oct. A gentle-
man io this city will soon have publish
ed a book, which he has writteu, givinga
complete history of the life of John
Wilkes Booth, incidents of the killing of
Lincoln, and where Booth went after the
killing, together with positive proof that
he is alive to-day. The author is able to
produce letters with documents of differ-
ent kinds, bearing the postmark of Cairo,
Egypt, Japan and other foreign points,
besides photographs of Booth in differ.
ont costumes,
Producing a letter
postmark, he said :
“That letter is from J. Wilkes Dooth,
that proves beyond the shadow of a
doubt the fact that he is alive and well
this moment.
“The night of the shooting Booth had
hired an Irishman to impersonate him
for $1000. The man had a horse ontside
awaiting, and when Booth left the Opera
House he mounted the animal and was
taken across Einacosta Creek, There the
two men changed clothes, and Booth,
disguised as an Irishman, returned to
Washington, The statement that Booth
broke his leg when he jumped is
true, No man has ever seen the corpse
with a broken leg. The night after the
shooting Booth slipped into tne foundry
of the Senlptor Mills and slept, The next
morning be was on the street, disguised
as 8 common Irish laborer,
“He spent a week in the city, and was
posted all aocut the excitement and what
was done to catch him. When in the
barn Herold, who was on the ipside,
shouted to Boston Corbett that Booth
was not in the barn, and the man who
looked like him was only playing a part,
Stanton knew it was not Booth when he
paid over the $1,000 reward, for he se.
cured a portion of the money. The next
heard of Booth he was in Leavenworth,
Kan., where he got on a big spree. He
next turned up in Memphis, Tenn , where
he was arrested for being drunk,
in Memphis at the t
all printed the fact, le was alioned
escape. He went to New Orleans
i From there he went to Paris an
impersonated a Frenchman, He
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yearing an Egyptian
2 not
fo
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gluse, !
American legation, which
bard, minister there,
“Booth is pow in tl
%
in the service of
Khedive of Egyptand owns over
camels. In my book I
remarkable letter from Andrew Johnson,
showing
I will ziso show letters giving the ad-
ventures of Booth since he left the Uni:
ted States.”
In view of the not 18 Cor.
ruption connected with the Legislature
of Pennsylvania, we, the ministers of the
Wyoming conference, residing in the
State, pray jthe Board of Pardons, the
Judge of the Court, and the Governor of
the State, that the persons lately ocon-
victed of bribery and corruption be
brought to speedy punishment, that
their great crime be not condoned and
that the Board of Pardons, the Judge of
the Court, and the Governor be notified
of the action of this Conference.”
{ one of the
the Board of Pardons was notified of the
wishes of this Conference as expressed
in the resolution Did he heed
the appeal ? No. The Conference had
hardly adjourned until Quay, and his
coparceners, set aside the verdict of the
jury, and threw open the doors of the
prison to let Kemble out. Quay “co
doned” the “great crime.”
rious «
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Of
.
:
i. Quay as members of
giver,
§ 4
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bers,
scription, $2.00. Subscribers in arrears,
who pay up and also one year in ad
vance, will also get the “World” six
months as a premium. at
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M'CLAIN NOT TO HANG.
The Pardon Board held a special ses-
gion, on 27, to consider the McClain mur-
der case and determined to commute the
sentence to imprisonment for life. The
argument of Louis W, Hall before the
Board of Pardons in the case, it is said,
by those who heard it, to bave been une
commonly able and eloquent. He clear-
ly established that the crime was oi
above the grade of manslaughter and
that the sentence should be witbia the
timit of that crime,
SHE a w———
The Patriot says Gen. Beaver's effort
io Philadelphia the other evening in eu-
logizing he corrupt politician whom his
party has nominated for State Treasurer,
uid not round well coming from agentle-
man whoonly a few days ago took so
prominent a part in the Presbyterian
Synod at Bellefonte. Good Presbyteri-
a. are not in the habit of indorsing no
wrious corraptionists,
Wm, Hartman, uged 70 years, a promi-
nent citizen of Patterson, Juniata county,
committed suicide by hanging, on 27h,
Hw wife who has been in feetle
health it is feared cannot survive the
shock.
Wo
pen, For 82 in advance we will send
the HurorTeR One year the New
York Weekiy Wonip six months. The
two papers for the time named, for §2,
Tois offer we make to induce advance
payment, :
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THE VITALITY OF FROGS,
in the face of well establ
duet
That these creatures shoul
live
ages, appears contradictory to all reason
and common sense,
In some cases frogs
have been found
in cretaceous rocks.
in tertinry rocks.
found in
If, therefore, those
crotaceons rocks had been
could be ages and a
To
oe 1 would
absurdity.
If thor
it would probably be discovered that in
fossil relative.
declaration
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most people such
n be the height of
each ease there was a fissure in the rocks
or trees in which frogs have been found
large enough for the admission of water
and the en bryo fre
there, It 1
that the frog naturally contains an acid
which by ch
Hw hich has developed
ims been as
ssumed by some
emical action on the stone
i
provides that the sg
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| shall be as large as its body.
A second hypothesis is that not the egg,
but the primary frog,
falls into the rock
to prow,
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disposa
scarcely larger
than the eg
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g itself,
or tree and
air and
from tl
continnes deriving
f 3
00d In form of small in-
socts 1 3
Certs
rads ns a Jor =
artificially secured
at penetrates to
: 3
its abode, t frogs, when
1 aar-tight and water-
tight VEeRRe is, FIM
:
Experiments
French Aca-
Prove od this, Mil:
the present century
vessels imprevious to
gO pr 10
@
CH Speed
ily perished.
nelosed in a close
he end of
4
seemed well
When,
sd
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however,
rht vessel and
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ed i at the end of
d.
Dr. Buck-
periments w
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sh decave
hich are
He placed twelve
holes ent ix
iad
toads were holes cnt
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waif
“yy
23d
heart an and
Your others
{ Paris,
i
On Dec. 10
opening securely ph
| were also placed in plaster o
int if
covered wit
Ti 1 Tid
all the buried toads were examined.
All in the hard stone and in the tree and
two in the plaster of Pa
The remainder dy but
placed in a softer stone were in tole:
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we in BOING
ably pood health, and some were actually
fatter than when placed in the hol
From this would that
positions where
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frogs may live and even thrive, althongh
.
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ApPPear
water
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away from: the light and any visible
means of subsistence.
Ay
A GREEK BALL
A ball in a Greek house in Rhodes is
a thing forever to be remembered]
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The
dresses of the ladies wonld provoke a
gmile from
beholder.
appreciated, but what they really love
even the most indifferent
Round dances are not mueh
is a species of romping quadrilie with
most complicated figures, through which
a master of the ceremonies puts you in
vile French. On one occasion this
official insisted on directing us to dance
a variety of the lady's chain, which he
called chaine de chevaliers, and which
my partner naively remarked was ex
cusable in a place which is everywhere
haunted by reminisences of the Knights
of Rhodes. When the romp was over
we conducted our partners to the smok-.
ing room, where the chaperones were
sitting smoking cigarettes, and where
the air was dense with the fumes
of tobacco, I noticed that the young-
er ladies did not venture on the
entire control of a cigarette them.
selves, but pressed their partners to do
80, with a view to enjoying an occasional
pull. Supper was provided on the most
primitive principles. A large dish of
tinned lobster salad was put on a table
round which every one crowded ; those
who were not lucky enough to secure
a knife did not hesitate to plunge their
fingers into the tempting dish. Glasses of
wine circulated freely, and after the
repast was over the ball degenerated
into a scene worthy of a Parisian musio
hall.
Wa
Everything yieuds before the strong
and earnest will. It grows by exercise;
it excites confidence in others, while it
takes the lead to itsel’® Difoalties
before which mere cleverness fails, and
which leave the irresolute prostin’e and
helpless vanish before it They no
only do not impede its progres, tn i
| often makes of them stopping sone 4
¢ higher and more enduring triuuph.
— a ——
GEN, GRANT'S TESTIMONY,
oles it to Disprove a Part
of Mr, Depew’s Statement,
Louisville, October 22. —1n view of the
th
i
| President Jobnson, the
{will publish three coluu
iGrant’s testimony before
Committee, Ju
Courier-Journal
5 of General
the House
ly 13, 1847, jast
Johnson,
itorially :
| It is astonishing t} among all the
{wise men of the East, among all those go
tory, not one should re-
| member that Gen. Grant did appear be-
{fore the Judiciary Committee snd give
{his testimony, Gen, Grant gertainly
does pot sustain Mr. Depew, He says
hat President Johnson did pot
The same journal will say ed-
{
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IAL
ed of Bouthern members and Democrats
of the North. his
pubiic speeches, when swinging around
the circle, President Johnson did “sup-
and then asked which
He asserts that, in
pose a case”
would be the legal Congress, and he de-
nies that be gaid even this much to Gen,
Grant in private, This and no more is
the substance of Johnson's “treason.”
and it is plain that what is new in Mr.
Depew’s letter is n and what is
true is not new,
$ to
ies
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Eeports from Denver, Colorado, say
that Belford, the late member from that
{Btate, hus reformed. He signed the
‘pledge some two months sgo and has not
tasted a drop since. A number of the
liberal people of Denver got up a sub-
scription for him me and
paid all his debts. They have also given
him a little capitel to start in life sgain.
I wonder in what other community sach
generous people could be found. Belford
was, in the opinion of « Very one, oom-
pletely ruined at the close of his last
term in Congress. Daring the last ses-
sion he hardly saw a sober moment, His
mind becawe seriously effected. He did
all sort of eccentric things, One of the
most eccentric acts was the adoption of a
colored boy as one of his own children,
His wife has been devoted to him thro’
every sort of tr Doring the closing
days of hs term as a member she follow-
ed him everywhere, He never
went ont evenings she went with
im. It is said that the generosity of the
citizens of Denver was greatly stimulsted
7 the sight of the devotion of this good
nan. They say that himself
Enally became impressed by it and that
hie took the pledge solely on her socount
and not on socount of the remonstrances
of his friends
that
th
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about ti
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about
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PROGRESS OF THE SMALL-POX.
Essex, N, Y., Oct. 23.—~The authorities
to-day quarantined the county house at
Whalloosburg, in which are two cases of
small pox. Mary Lacey, a domestic, re-
eidivg in Keene, this county, who arrived
from Montreal, on Monday ill with the
disease, is now in a critical ¢ ondition.
Ottawa, Oct. 23.—A child residing in
St. Patrick street died a few days ago of
jsmali-pox. An examination was msde
of the rest of the family aod found that
two other children suffering from the
|disease were secreted in a cupboard.
Montreal, Oct, 23.—1t is reported that
small pox is on the increase at 8, Gabn-
jel, where three new cases were reported
to-day, and three yesterday. Yesterdsy
seventy new cases were reported in this
city, of which filty were verified. Eleven
cases were found in a honse on Notre
Dame street to-day, There were 38 deaths
from smallpox in this city vesterday,
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BATTLE WITH A THIEF.
Omaha, Oct. 23 —Yesterday morning
| Harrison Warner, in Sharp county, dis-
loovered two thieves attempling 10 steal
several horses from his = One thief
ran into the woods; the other, who had a
Winchester rifle, ran around the house,
{Old Mr, Warner, who had come to the
aid of bis sop, fired at the latter thief
who thereupon ran into an outhouse
from which be fired and shattered the
old man's arm near the wrist. Two of
his brothers now came to the assistance
of Harrison, and the three fired numer
ous shots into the outhouse, which were
promptly responded to by the thief
Finally, hy a stealthy manoevre, they
succeeded in setting the outhouse on fire
with a ball of cotton saturated with kero-
sene. The thief soon ran out, firing as
be ran, but Harrieon shot him down with
a musket, putting an ounce bullet in his
thigh, He has been turned over to the
authorities,
GEN. W. H. IRWIN INSANE.
A dispatch from Louisville, Ky., Oct,
14, says: General William Howard Ir
win, an officer in the Mexican war and
on General W. 8, Hancock's stafl duriog
the civil war, has become hopelessly in-
sane and was ordered to be incarcerated
in the Anchorage asylum that morning.
His mania is homicidal, and be has tried
to kill his wife and son. Daring bis lu-
cid intervals he has begged his wife to
have him confined. General Irwin is 65
years old. About ten years ago he mare
ried Miss Jolia Chambers, the daoghter
of a wealthy citizen and the reigning
belle of Louisville, He hss been con
pected with many local enterprises and
was highly esteemed, Genera! Irwin is
well known to many of the soldiers re
siding in Juniata valley. He was origin.
ally from Lewistown, Mifflin county, and
rom this county took out 8 company
which saw service in the Mexican war,
In the lake war ho wat calinet alitg 40h
men : neylvania
The announcement that he ha ears.
jnsane will be sad news to his friends in
this part of the country -—lew
Gazette.
istown
General Irwin was the whig candidate
for congress in this district about 35
years ago, but was defeated by Mr, Park-
er, we believe,
a MI SI I 3
THE DOGS OF WAR ARE LOOSE.
London, Oot. 25.~The that the
Bervians bave entered is con~
fimed, : or
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