: OLD SERIES, XL. voL NEW SERIES XIX FRED. KURTZ, Eprror and Pror'r While old Edmunds is trying to block Cleveland's way in the removal of Re publican office holders, his own party up in Vermont is tryiug to block the way against the old codger's re-election to the Senale. ied hae: rican When the Republicans get through with their fight against the President in the matter of removals, they will be in the fix of the fellow who stuck his fi..ger in the water and pulled it out again to see the hole. .—_— John B. Alden is offering a 15 cent book for a $3.00 reading notive in first- class papers. The “first-c ass” gndyeons will ns doubt be proud to bite, we open our exchanges to see who the “first- class” chaps are . President Cleveland has informed the Senate, with Jacksonian firmness, that it has no right to call on him for reasous in removing Republican office holders. Will give his document in next weeks issue. It is very conclusive, The question resolves itsell down to this: If General Beaver is defeated for can the fellow who gets the nomination be ele ted ? and, If Gen. Beaver is nominated with cold shoulder from tCaweron and P. KB. R., can he be elected? and 1f deteated again, will it not be 4 the the end of ueneral Beaver Pneumonia has entered a large num- ber of families in Cass, Todd, Union aud Oneida townships, Huntingdon county, and is becoming such a vivlent epidemic that precautionary steps have been taken While the dis- persons of ages, el erly persons are nore generally cted, aud in a wajority of cases the New cases aud to prevent its spread. ease has taken hold of al affe sickuess proves fatal. deaths are daily reported. During George Washington's second term hie was requested to farnish the Senate with certain documents, and seul a reply of which the lullowing 1s the cou cluding paragraph : It is essential to the due administra tion of the Government that the boun- daries fixed by the Coustitutivn Detweel the different de; artipents should be pre served; a Just regard Ww Wie Lossiiiution an 1 the uubies Lo ly Olioe Bhder ali Gar cumustances ol this ca-v lurbids a Cows pilanve with your request Gr, WASHINGTON. But the opinivns of Wasbiugtun and Jawes Madison count for naught with the majority ol the present Senate. The Gazetle iutimates there is not enough of good Dewocratic waterial in our snug little borough to fill the uifices, hence a draft had tv be made upon K»- publican material. the “cowpliment” seems to be sustained by Dewnvcrat.c av- tion here which was an insult to life-long Democrats. Centre Hall has as good and competent Democratic uaterial as any other town of its size and enough ul it to fill the offices fur two buroughs. It is nut so very long ago when Lepubli- caus here openly declared they would sooner vote for a horse-thief than for the best Democrat. CONGRESSMAN CURTIN ISTRO- DUCES A MEASURE. Our member, Gov, Curtin, bas intro duced in the House “A bill for the en- couragemento f closer commercial rela ticusbip and in the interest aud perpet- uation of pesce between the United States und the Republics of Mexico and South America aud the empi e of Bra zil.” Precediog the bili is a long pre- amble, in which Mr. Curtin points out the advantages of a throug line of rail road (rom the southern boundary of the United States to the Argentine Kepublic aud Chili, a distance of 4,500 miles, and that such a great internationa: work, iu he imerest of peace and reciproval com: mercial relations, can be constru ted through the united ellorts of the Gov: ernments of the countries it traverses, guided by the advice and experience and ussistance by material aid from the comercial and ratirvad interests oi the United 8. ates. In the bill proper Mr. Curtin propuses to authorize and request the President of the United States w in vite ail the Goveruments of Mexico, Cen- tral America, South America aud Bazil to meet in convention in Washingtou gowe time this year. The conv. ntion to consider such questions as relate to the best mode of estabiishing on a firm and lastin ;. basis peaceful and reciprocal commercial relations, aud to adopt prac tical meusures to forward the construc tion of the great railway in the interests of peace, cammerce aud mutual prosper- ity. The Secretary of state is wo be a- lowed $50,000 to deiray the expenses ol the convention in 8 wanuer becowsing the dignity of the United States. T. ¢ pr position is a practicable one, and in beneficial results tw the comiuerce of the countries interested, particularly to that of the United States, would lar exceed those to be secured by the Nicaragusn ROBBING THE ORPHANS, One of the brightest honors that mark the executive career of our great “war Governor,” Andrew G. Curtin, and one that will be an enduring monument to his memory, 1s the conception and es schools of Pennsylvania. His devotion to the national cause and to theinterests of the brave men who periled and sacri- ficed beulth and life for that cause, prompted Governor Curtin to think of their orphan children and to advise a system for their maintenance and eda- cation, as wards of the State. On I'hanksgiving evening, 1863, two orphans of suldiers appeared at Gov. Curtin’s door begging for bread. His warm heart was moved and his generous nature sug- geste i the founding of schools for the maintainance and e tucation of children made orphans by the war; and no sub- The Philade:phia Kecord contains a tion that warks the management of the soldiers’ orphans’ ~chools for sume years past. With cruotions of sorrow and shame the state will read the' damning details and will dewand a full investigation and the condign punish. ment of the guilty. Four sowe time past the Department of | soldiers’ Urpusns’ Schioos bas been iraught with corruption, speculation, of! ficial Jiscriwination and criminal neglect ul the children; and well wight a Penn s» hvauian olusu with shawe to uote the voul indifference ut Superintendent Hig- bee, who, wien wld ui the sd and dis giracelul condition of the depar ment and uf thie greedy vauwpires who are sucking the life-bioud of the system, he Hev. Higbee) tured on bis heel and coully rewsarked thas he “guessed that the chit dren get wore tau they would have received st howe” Kev, H gbee is charged with retaining J. LL. Paul as Cue Clerk of the departioen. for years Knowing bau to De Duaucially interested in tue profits of the scoool at Mt. Joy, pute ithstadiog Guvernor Patuson ad- vised bis removal. Kev, Higbee still re- tained the robber of the orpnans, when hie wok control of the Chester Springs school and drew nearly $1000 every thiree to ptos from the Slate treasury, wiiile he continued as chief clerk of the departiuent. Nor c.n Hev, Higbee ex- plain vow an lpspector can hodestly told stock in a schioul as Pan did in ts Chester Springs schoul ur twelve Years, it 1s shown that the chilidren never get ware of lnstractiva ut oded by tue ; Every brauch of iustraclion re- quired by law 1s neglected, and every LOmaue provision is syswatically vie wied, tue schools at Mt. Joy, Chester; Springs, Mercer and McAllisterville, are conducted by a syndicate, the chief wewivers of wiich are ex-Senatur Geo. | W. Wright sud J. L. Paul. They receive irum the Stute $115 per annum for each scholar nuder ten years of age, aud $150, fur each scholar over that age. Lhe con sequence is that the diet 1s stinted, cun-| dewned fruits aod west that is tainted is given to the chiliren. They are crowded four iu a dirty bed, clutbed in| rugs and pinched in every way, iu order | to leave » large margin ul profit vn the aww at allowed per capita. lo addition | to thi-, they have nearly 100 wore than the ordinary capacity of the buildings. | At Mt Juy the buys are crowded nto] a furnace cellar at other schovis they | are pacaed into filthy beds like berning| i & box, Again, at Chester Springs sowe thirt, have been, on sowe pretext, debarred from school for three wonths,! aud where there 1s a show of school wore thay BU scholars are crowded int a swall room utder one teacher and that teacher never examined as to fithess us required by law. Ihe syndicate bas been kuuwn to otler $20 to agents fur each new scholar they bring Ww their schouls, tur the profit wade by robbing the schol ar. For this purpose too scholars are taken from comfurtable schools, clesu beds and whulesowe diet 30 be crowded i040 the 8 hoois in the bands of the syn- dicate. A careful estimate shows that Wright, Paul Pearson and Gordon, the syndicate, or the rubbers of the soldiers’ os phuns realize not less than ninety thousand dollars a year, which they draw from the State treasury. To thus end with au insatiable greed every cone sideration of honor, duty aud humanity is suburdinated to the one object of fi- nancial prout. There are at present ten schools in the state. Those under ‘he syndicate at Mt. Joy, Chester ~prings, sterver and McAllisterville costing thou- ~ands more and resder the very worst accommodations. The State furnishes to these grabbers $20 for each scholar's vlut hing, per cent. but they do not get it. I'hey get no undercluthes. Tue boys went the same suit winter and summer. The gris are without bats or any head covering. At McAllistervilie they got 12 hats to be divided awong 90 girls, so they cau only go to church in detach. weuts. We have not mentioned a tenth part of the satu alous abuses detailed in the Philwdeiphia Kecord, but enough Lo arouse the indigoation of every hon: st citizen aud Ww juin in persisten. demand that these horse-leechss shall be come pelied 10 louse their foul bold on the be. nevolent and patriotic system devised fur the b nelit of our solders’ orphans. CAUSES FOR CONTENT FOR LOW. ER DOWN, In the past year the richest American merchant, H, B. Claflin; the richest American railroad man, W. H. Vander bilt, and the richyst American planter, Edmond Richardson, have died. Tt is notable that nove of the three died 10 his bed, One dropped dead at his desk, the sleriid THE DEMOCRATIC POSITION. The Democratic Senators have about decided that it will be unnecessary to hold a caucus to hear the report of the minority of the committee on judiciary upon the Edmunds resolutions, full con- fidence being felt in the judgment of Senators Pugh, Jackson and Coke, who are charged with framing the report will be very voluminous. The Washington Post publishes a sumwary of the report | so far as prepared. The s nopsis calls at ention to the comparatively few sus- { pensions from office since the Adminis {tration assumed office. It is maintained | that the Senate called for papers in con- ‘nection with purely exe utive acts, {which is in violation of all precedents. | Despite this irrecularity it is held that THE STORM. The City of Bangor lsolated by the Storm— Heavy Snowfall in Chicago. Thursday noon. Streets are piled two to ten feet high in drifts and country roads twenty to thirty. Sime farm houses are suvd, Oue Bangor wen had to enter his h use by the second story windows and taone! out in the morning. There is al Al grenmers are de ww lgt B ston Chore | a gule vi The coast, laced. The train t day evening 8 d sould have besa her Friday moruing has vot you arrived, 1 ix gta k fuss mo toe suow wt M amon! eigh'y miles west of 11s i y, un yi vot be here fir twenty-loar hours yet | ithe Nenate received all the documents | 'the resolution called for from the Attor- | iney-Generasl | Probably the strongest point in the en- | tire report will be the vigoro.s at ity of the | tack | {made upon he unconstitntiona {tenure act. This is a valuable place ir ‘the Republica « record, as some of their most prominent men-Joha Sherman, | the ate Oliver P Morton indiana, | ‘and iu fuct most of the leaders, with the of made speeches bitterly assailing the constitu- tionallity of the act. The report will quote extracts from the speechesolthese | men. of exception Edmunds have i mem———— General Buel breaks his long silence about the battle of Shiloh in a paper in| the March Century, giving his of | that much-discussed battle, and the par | hjs army had in turning the fortunes of | the second day's fight. The Geuvera! by | the way dissents from the idea that | Providence takes a hand in a great bat- | tie in favor of the ju whichever | view L cause ~ that may be—and -ays: | Nowuere in history is the profane idea | that in a fair fie d fight, Providence ison | the side of the strongest battalions, more | uniformly sustaived than in our Civil War. It presents no triumph of 15000 or even It aff rds some such ia- stances where the strongest force surprised by and upespected move:nents, and still others where il was of skill chosen positions strengthened by theart of defegse; but weaker force is uniformly defeated or of the | LRN) example meu WAS rapid azains i b H nowhere else The compelled to retire. Huntingdon is crazy covery of a gold mine. meat prevails in Brady the discovery of a valuabe deposit closely resembling gold. Jacob Zillius, minervlogist, while prospecting for coal found evidence of a large deposit of the valuable mineral when but 75 feet below the surface. An analytical chemist of Philade phia reports that the is worth from $10,000 to $15,000 per ton. Mr. Zillins is now in consultation with capitalists of this city with the view of organizing a stock company ‘0 deveiop the land in which Lis valuable find has been made. In the pruspectiox for gold Mr. Zillius struck s 3-foot veinof anthra- cite coal, which is now being developed. The land in the neighborhood that here tofore would not bring any price what ever has now risen to fabulous sums. Prominent capitalists of Philadelphia and Pittsburg are buying vp land with the view of developing 118 recsources. i ————— or — A TRAIN JUMPS THE TRACK Tamaqas, Feb 28 —An accident oc cared this morn! zon the Penus) iva: win and Reading ralrvad at the western entrance of this town, The early traiu from Pottsville jumped the track at Dan ner's switch and three passes ger coa hes and the baggage car toppled ver an vm- bankmen: of about 15 feet, Tha care took fire from ‘he heaters under them aod the wiliest excitement jwrevai'ed (he peas-ugers were resued tor uxh the car wind ras aod through he doors, which hed 10 be vurst is by omit sens who rusned to the mene. About 25 passeu- gers were injored, John Getzinger, the engineer, proha. bly saved wany hives by increasin the speed of his train after the cars linc] lel track, fort prevented the cars from telescoping. The engine broke lowe from the traiu and crossed the ii ge across the Wabash river, with the wheels of the tender within two inches of the vdge of the brider, The cause of the ac ident was u defective saich, which, it 8 #aid, had been revorted geveral Liuies a8 beiuyg fu a bad condition, ——————— THE STORM. Huntingdon, Pa, Feb, 26. ~The wind- storm which has prevailed doring the past 24 hours was e'ctremely viol ent this morning io the vicinity of Alexan Iria, this county. It blew down and utterly demo ishe | the large barn on the S8woope farm between that flue and Barre Sta thom, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, now helonging to Dr. George D. Ballantine, of this city, The cro farming imple ments and stock of Thomas Yarnell, the tenant, were in it. Oue horse five steers and a cow were killed or so badly man. gled that they had to be shot. The other property was comgletely broken and de- stro; » dis | Intense ite- township Over over the ext ore Sevea ocom vives sud stuow-poooghs of iron a1@ sorking between here sind the snow -vontud trun. Travel 18 ot a sand-| still, Toe siigatic is nupar siielad ( hicago, Feb. 28 —U aum-nciog la'e last ng «L BuOwW has fal en coi tio ously ted] by enough the temperature 1e- zing point, LA tWer aid LU slg peniad tt Fie progress ul traius 1s uo! Yet iy impeded within a tuodie! Ch ; bat Capa Ws wil of 1 here, nocOm wb wind jn groaiuyg pe 1S tisides Of es from ao irgins ck Girtiside rat le furs hecoming bl ubiy be at a stavd-tul, - i - TUSSLE WITH A BEAR. Willlsmespor:, Feb, 20.—Peter Alwood| lives & few wiles out ui Bla e Kuu., Yes | i ierday he avd severzl old when il) struck benr racks aud followed thie mug Alwood, who sus 10 sdvaboe of the ol er memoirs of Lhe party, came up bo Loe Dear, sutl, Daviug Ba ale Over tis oot. er, hie sbietmipbed wu BUHIKe Lilie ofl Un fivnd wit ce sosip esd, His ail Aas tise Dear vecaped wi hott 8 sora ch, abd Larue ul Alwowd, = ho had «Tied fin bas kK LO nLifte LIB Cull pauions » ar Bruin vverieok (be well sid sn severe Aiwood drew In wuld Dot use iL, out ol Deilig pie ied fu the gro ind bY 1he Lear Several of the PANY Catu@ Up ui Lis mo weut aud vie of Lew, WLO Lad 1ille | i SLE Ae “ pis head, Ainvod Was removed hoi] Ur iises vid sratclies, oli€r Lue Lear hau beea kilied, »- _—- HORRIBLE FATE OF DREN. “9 py IWO () Reading, Feb * owns a aanll at skin Hill, His anghters, Kate aud Susie, aged six to 0 0 a 1k’: Was ing. While at lie Nhatn twin years, strayed an upsiair room where « shalt revoely i play the iitile ones ventured tou near) the machinery and their clothing caught] in the shalt sid they were drawa around | it sud were whirled with each revolu-} ton. Aller belug thrown arcund for ao hour they were found by an elder sister who Lad come to look for them. When) the machinery was stopped their budies| were found to be terribly lscerawed. Thel skull of Katie was badly fractured aud] Ler body in other ways was wuch muti-| ated, causing ber death, Susie stall lives) but hier chatoes fur recovery are sual. Her entire body was wore or less injured, | several bunes betog broken. : -— p—— ACCIDENT AT i HAVEN, i Lock Haven, Feb. 27.—W. L. Merwin | a young lawyer, who came from Connect-| «cut and married the daughter of Col] W. H Mowre, Pre<ident of the State bank, was thrown from a buggy at Flem-| ington, just west of the city, snd seri ously injured, The physiciaus fear in-| tecnal injuries and doubts are expr oad) of his recovery, | » i SIMON CAMERON'S DONEGALSALE,! SERIOUS | sales vver bed in Lancaster county was that of General Simon Cameron on his Donegal farm thie week. There were litterally acres of people in attendance. The General disposed «11 his personal propery at big prives, and w Il in future bave his farms conducted by tenants, - -— sh HISTORY IS AGAINST THEM. [ Bo-ton Globe. ] Forgotten incidents in the history of the executive and legislative branches of the government are cree:ing out of ob scurity to tea h the Edmunds par ty that they have undertaken & very foolish piece of work. Seustors tried to buliduze Presideet Madison, and made jost such a fai ure as President Cleveland will help them to. - HELLO! (Nashville Union.] The ol4 bandana patriot, ex-Senator Thurman, is retained by the government to 'nvestigate the Bell patent When he ge's ready and calls “Hello,” you'd bet ter listen, it lly — > ds MR. EDISON WEDDED. Oleveland, Oils, Feb, 24.—Thomas A Edi=on, the weil known electrician, w-8 married to-day to Mes Nioa Miller, daughter of a prominet mapulacturer, JOHN B. GOUGH BURRIED. Warce ter, Mass, Feb, 24 —The re mwine + f Joh B Gongh wers buried to- day at his home, * Hill Side,” in tue town ot Buyiestown. a The tronhle at the McOoarmic reaner factory at (Chicago tiresteor to boome serious Tue proprietor maintain: (he lockont sud does not swem disposed 10 cvroiliate the wwployees, and toe ister, thresien fo another in his hall and the other in the Be al hts yas "wo e time, of whom sighuy injured. “The loss is abont $5, - oe 1,800 in or, thn " war” - 3 4 BRUBQUENESS AND WANT OF TACT. The Trait Which Separates the man from His Americar Cousin The English. n fow pieal Roel bend Rev, Mark Pattison, who who was a by bie volatile Americar ba { Lad to girl, as to whether thought she could write a book her thing!” he told ber she was the most ignorant ever met.” disappoint Poor Another young woman Me Clever essays was as asked criticism to the offe sidored her conversation cxtre While be was dving hb ing wife with the “(3h ot my Tears dens! ROO TRAr: that you The prophe This roost widely his Arcri BEnsIL taught his learns 1 % Ha stuns fmt 1 wha i curd periments ott Fg ¢ aay be Undere n 1. AY Whi q DEACON MINGLE ARRESTED. | Mingle, of Wil | inst Nove { the arrest of F. B. Beaton and F Foster Smith. on the charge of swind * Dearen™ Sameon Q nher ing, was arressw | yesterd «oy in this di) by Depu y entl He charg«d with obtainieg wmouey under | Min | and 1 8 8 Ferguson AR of false pretenses, Fifteen years ole got an interest fa a tract xpoan as the Paterson tract, of 178000] acres in West Virgivia. This land | been purchase | under by the | Rev. Isaac P Siriker, who had married « | wealthy woman in Ogei la conaty, N.Y, | and bad paid several thonand dol are | lapse | ax | bind | Contract down, It was, hosever, allowed io tor some time and a lar #4 were due, when Mingle went to Ns striker, who bad wmoaey her own right, and ob aimed irom be $500 to | (ay trem. Samuel Ira Smith, Mra | torpey, says that al er getting : the mosey Minge approsnated 10 ww hing own use and 1 foxes relia ae Naps The above is frm te New Y World, of 26 uit, Inthe fall we vave the | acoonnt of the swindie a bem pted avin Ming e, and copy the above as beonging | to the case, i l i awoint of 14s Bo A —————_— Attention is called to the fact that Pro- | bh bition has a very serious «ff «t apon the health of communities in whi hit i procisimed. The town of Bac Me, has | a poputation of only about 6 000 and no | Jiquor can be sdd there except for medi eat uf mechanical parpres There is bul one app ¥ ageuey in Saco, and the san. isles show that 16000 persory tions were pot up at tuis shop ia abt wx montha, This argnes wretched healib op the part 01 8. 0, or 8 great ded of harnera Sicg—whiskey heing sometimes need 10 Maive in heavy mechauive transsotions, i — "Wo —————— 25000 MINERS THREATEN TO STRIKE ! | Paris, Feb. 28 ~All the miners in the Aveyron Ditne, nambering 26000, hitesten ts join the sirike of workioe Bete The weolect of the depa timeout ae relegrantiod ty M, Sornen, M ploer of the Lateriorn, for retuforcemen ~ Llroos a ot en ed TERRIBLE CRIME IN HUNGARY Vienna, Feb 25 A: Mexa Tor, Hun ory, yesterday, a Protestant school do — NO. 9 THE FRENCH PEOPLE.” | MANY AMERICANS DO MOT KNOW ABOUT THEM. i -- | Igroranes of Visitors and Foreign Cole~ WHAT nies and Its Causos~The Middle Classes ~False Pletares by Dumas, Daudet and Other Dramatists and Novelists, The great majority of American peopls who 1 y 1 been residents of Paris for yoars k je more about French society and its » than if they had re- wn native cities, They form Toe ving in foreign coun they do in their is the sans hotels and in the French y never air their keepers, Bome who into Freoch themselves to of n the sae lewsons they nsignt 5 wet raistress their poor specimens, + thing a French wep A pen iv » ail who can ny other way NT AME I who tins WO BI ANS, have met ¥i have made are even than the way who, in the not call the as wivantage their tea their soirees, and the IH, by them to ¥v Sender in- assured that OTe renresent « lea of Can But American oolony, them th meh you epiorable one, e not even Lhe ~» nt ihey give PORE Je ie HE ALLOWS thelr an interpre. § necessary with rican to read the Joan gossip, French are from ex mest Are 1 from fhe $ ip the Ghetlo ie classes, the 3 If they v they would 3 wt of ne in leisure, cupy their Jording items for arth iow the same gi i to vO 1 intellectual balls in present an gossip st 8 SCoEn. piced French novels, HE XATIOR. of the crusaders ng a good time They form the nation These do everywhere, of pro- and little mer. BrURts, Glo, ~-- of wome kind day lsborers tha: Americans of is bour- a good clear court the so ry exclusive; tin to its shell, itis ine jodness, and is apt to wid ends with the boundaries of iress, they ve Lie juestad pastimes, fg Fbetanos as a ¥ Te SVIng Work : : LES + fact rs glean their knowl {rom French writers, who would lack interest and t sell if they were not filled i debaucherios of people who ry small part of the is to be remarked thatthe portion of these novelists thumselves to the good and peaceful Lou rgecisie te the aboninable fscts and invent y the way of spices, asny of the Ameri. purity, sanctity and morality. For {+ ere is no family where itis sad, purer love dwells in all respects of honorableness and damestic happiness than that of A? nder Dumas fils. No chaste 3 swan oud be more sorupalous, more tuoially exacting than Mine. Dumas Trey ters. SLi] the author sees fit wo d un up the stenchy strata of Frencl Jay to write his books, Alphonse Daudet, who also delights in whys wo eems to be quantities w mary of his books i ached over wventy and eighty ort Sappbos, kings i: exile and goch slow ! qustionatie morality, is the lord and aster of a home which possess sos all the domestic virtues. He married a petite bourgeocise who is known to be the pink greater belong and » more abo in bomos that can vi cnn hearthe {or ple ones, “hinds AN wives and the most devoted of mothers. She was reared and sducated in an inteliectual home, Jd tsing of a literary turn of mind sho soon becamd her tusbands right hand in the writing of his books Indeed, the ques tion wiier discusaon at present in literary circles is which part of Alphonse Duudet's works are attributable to bis: and which to his wife, Their bone is made chesrful abd bappy by a family of sturdy boys, who are being most carefully reared and educated under the watchful ove of (ather and mother. «Paris Cor, Brooklyn Eagle. The Cuesta Caries’ red in Sugar, At & rownl dimer given at the Hotel Brunswick, in tab city, the saddle of mutton and the phessants wers brought from Eng: laid, the grouse from Scotland, and truffie: nud rare wines for each course from the continant, all especially fmaported for the occasion, © och cover was a statoetie wrving his likens 0 recognised at a glance. trated. gir Pay the Reeonran one verr in ad: Janes, and get the N: Y. World 6 months a
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