VOL. 48.
The Huntingdon, Journal
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Election Proclamation
[GOD SAVE ISIE COI(3IO,!WEALTH.]
PROCLAMATION.
I, AMON HOUCK, High Sheriff of Hun
tingdon coanty. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
tie hereby make known and give notice to the
ELECTORS of the eount ,, aforesaid, that an elec
tion will be held in the said county of Huntingdon.
on TUESDAY, the I lth DAy of OCTOBER, 1873,
for the purpose of electing the several persons
hereinafter canted, viz:
CloC person fer the. office of Judge of the Supreme
Curt of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
One person for the office of State Treasurer of the
State of Pen nsy
One person to represent tiib oounties of Hunting
don, Mifflin, Juniata and Centre in the Senate of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
One person to represent the county of Hunting-
Jon in the House of Representatives of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania.
floc person for the office of County Treasurer for
said county.
One person for the office of Commissioner for
said county.
One person for the office of Poor Director- COr
Said county.
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Two persona for Jury Commissioner fur the
county of Huntingdon. _ . .
One person for tororner for the county Hunting •
don.
4ne person for 'County Auditor for said county.
lu pursuance of said Act . , I also hereby wake
known and give notice, that the places of holding
the aforesaid general election in the several elec
tion district within the said county of Huntingdon,
are as follows, to -a it :
h.t district, composed of the tuwnship of Hen•
dersun, at the Union School ]louse.
2.1 district composed of Dublin township, at
Pleasant -Hill Sehool HOUELI, near Jukeph Nelson's
in ,aid townehip.
3.ldistriet, composed of-so much of Warriors
nntrk township, ou is Hut included in the lUth dis
trict, at the School Douse, adjoining the town of
We rriorsmark.
4ta district, composed of the towarhip of Hope
well, at the house of Levi Uoupt, in suid town
ship.
h disttict, composed of the township of for
ret, at the house of James Livingston, in the town
of Saulsburg, in said township.
Gth district, composed of the borough of SW,
lcysburg and all that part of the township of Shir
!ey not included within the limits of district No.
21, as hereioafte• mentioned and described, at the
house of David ' , raker, deo'd., in Shirleysbarg,
Ilk district, composed of Porter and part of Wal
ker tp. and so much of West township as is inclu
ded in the following boundarits, to wit : Begin
ning et the southwest corner of Tobias Kaufftuan's
farm on the bank of the Little - Juniata River. to
the lower end of Jackson's Narrows, thence in o
northwesterly direction to the most southerly port
of the farm owned by Michael Maguire, thence
north forty degrees west to the top of Tussey's
Mountain to intersect the line of Franklin town
ship. thence along the said line to the Little Juni
ata River, thence down the same to the place of
beginning, at the Public School Rouse opposite
the Gentian Reformed Church, in the borough of
Alexandria.
Sth district, composed of thetownship of Frank
lin, at the house of George W. Mattern, in said
township.
sth district, composed of Tell township, at the
Union School House, near the Union Meetnig
Moose,
in raid township.
10th distriot, composed of Springfield township,
the school bens's, near Hugh Madden's, in said
township.
I Isla district. composed of Union township, at
Grant house, in the borough of Mapleton,
in said township.
12th district, composed of Brady township, at
the Centro School Housc,in said township.
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13th district, composed of Morris township, at
public school house No. 2, is said township.
14th district, composed of that part of West tp.
not included in 7th and 26th districts, at the pub
lic school Lunge on tho firm now owned by Miles
Lewis, (formerly owned by James Susie,) in said
township.
15th district, composed of Walker township, at
the house of Benjamin Megahy, in McConnellstown.
16th district, composed of the township of Tod,
at Green school house, in said township.
17th district, composed of Oneida township, at
the bouts of William Long, Warm . Springs.
ISth district, composed of Cromwell township,
at the Rock Hill School House, in said township.
19th district, composed of the borough of ilir
mbgham, with the several tracts of lanh rear to
.tnd attached to the same, now owned and occupied
by Thomas M. Owens, Jno. K. M'Caban, Andrew
Robeson, John Gensimer, and William Gensitner,
and the tract of land now owned by George and
John 6.hoenberger, known as the Porter tract, sit
uate in the township of Warriorsinark. at the pub
lic school house in said borough.
20 , 1 i district, composed of the township of Case,
at the public school house in Cassville, in said
township.
21st district, composed of the township of Jack
son, at the public school house of Edward Little.,
at M'Alcvy's Fort, in said township.
'221 district composed,pf the township of Clay,
at the public school house inSiottville..
23d district. composed of the township of Penn,
at the public •school house in Marklesburg, in
said tow us hip.
211 h district, composed and created as follows,
to wit:—That all that part of Shirley township,
Huntingdon county, lying and being within the
following described boundaries, (except the her
neigh of Mt. Union.) namely: Beginning at the
intersection of Union and Shirley township line
with the Juniata river, on the south side thereof;
thence along said Union township line for the dis
tance M 3 miles from said river; thence eastward-
Iv, by a straight lino. to the point where the main
road from Eby's mill toGermany t alley, crosses the
summit of Sandy Ridge to the Juniata river, and
thence up said ricer to the place of beginning,
shall hereafter form a separate election district;
that the qualified voters of said election district
shall hereafter hold theirgeneral and township
, e'ectiors in the public school house in Mt. Union,
In said township.
25th district, composed of all that tesritory lying
northeastward of a line beginning at the Juniata
river and running thence in a direct line along the
centre of Fourth street, in the Borough of Hunting
don, to the lino of Oneida township, constituting;
the First Ward of said borough, at the southeast
window of the Court House.
2t;th district, nompossd of.all that territory lying
west of the First Ward, and east of the center of
Seventh street, composing the second Ward,
.t the southwest window of the Court nouse, in
the ',Orem : 7h aforesaid.
27th district, composing all that territory lying
north and west of the second Ward, and south of a
line beginning at the Juniata river and running
thence eastward in a direct line along the centre
of Eleventh street to the line of Oneida township,
constituting the Third Word, and also those por
iions of Walker and Porter townships formerly at
melted to the East Ward, at the Council louse, in
said borough.
28th district, composed of all that territory lying
north of the Third Ward of said borough constitu
ting the Fourth Ward, at the public school house
near Cherry Alley, in said borough.
29th district, composed of the borough of Peters
burg and that part of West township, west and
north of a line between Henderson and Weattown
ship, at and near the Warm Spring., tothe Frank
lin township line on the top of Tnssey's Mountain,
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so as to include in the new district the houses of
David Waldsmitb, Jacob Longnecker, Thomas
Hamer, James Porter, and John Wall, at the
school house in the borough of Petersburg.
30th district, composed of the township of Juni
ata, at the house of John Peightal, on the land of
Henry Isenberg.
31st district, composed of Carbon tewnship, re
cently erected out of a part of the territory of Tod
township, to wit : commencing at a chestnut oak,
on the summit of Terrace mountain, at the llope
well township line opposite the dividing ridge, in
the Little Valley, thence south 52 deg. east 364
perches, to a stone heap on the weetern summit of
Broad Top Mountain; thence north 67 deg., east
312 perches to a yellow pine; thence south 52deg.,
east 772 perches to & chestnut oak; then south 14
deg., cast 351 perches to a chestnut at the east end
of Henry S. Green's land; thence south 31i deg.,
east 294 perches to a chestnut oak, on the summit
of a spur on Broad Top. onthe western side ofJohn
Terral's farm; south, 65 deg., east 934 perches to
a stone heap on the Clay township line, at the
public school house in the village of Dudley.
324 district, composed of the borough of Coal
mont, at the public school house, in said.borough.
33d district, composed of Lincoln tp., beginning
at a pine on the summit of Tussey mountain on the
line between Blair and Huntingdon counties,
thence by the division line south, 58 deg., east 798
perches to a black oak in middle of township ;
thence 42i deg., cast 802 perches to a pine on
summit of TerraN; thence by the line of Ted tp.
to corner of Penn tp.; shence by the lines of the
township of Penn to the summit of Tussey moun
tain ; thence along said summit with line of Blair
county to place of beginning, at Coffee Run School
House.
J. A. NASD,
district, composed of the borough of Maple
ton, at the Grant School House, in said borough.
nth district, composed of the borough of Mount
Union in the fchool house, in said borough.
36th district. composed of the borough of Broad
Top City, at the public' school house, in said bor
ough.
37th district, composed of the borough of Three
Springs, at the public school house, in said bor
ough.
3Stla district, composed of Shade (ap borough
at the public school house, in said borough.
39th district, composed of the borough of Orbi
sonia, at the public school house in Orbisonia.
The general election in all the Wards, Town
ships, Districts anti Boroughs of the county, is to
be opened between the hours of six and seven
o'clock in the forenoon, and shall continue with
out interruption oradjourument until seven o'clock
in the evening, when all poles Anil be closed.
Every person, excepting justices of the peace,
who shall hold any office or appointment of profit
or trust under the government of the United
States, or of this State; or of any city or incorpor
ated district, whether a commissioned officer or
otherwise., a subordinate officer or agent, who is or
shall be employed under the legislative, executive
or judiciary departments of the state or the Uni
ted States, or of any city or incorporated dis
tiet, and also every member of congress or
of tl e state legislature, and of the select and
common councils of any city, or cointiiissioner of
any in orporated district, is by law incapable of
holding or exercising at the same time the office
or appointment of judge, inspector or clerk of any
election of this commonwealth, and no inspector,
judge or other officer of any such °testiun shall be
eligible there to be voted fur.
The inspectors and judge of the election shall
meet at the respective places appointed for hold
ing the election in the district, to which they res
?eetively belong, before seven o'clock in the morn
ing, and each of said inspectors shall appoint one
clerk, who shall be'a qualified voter of such dis
trict.
In cave the person who shall have received the
second highest number of v. tes for inspector shall
not attend on the day of any election, then the
person who shalLhave received the second highest
number of votes for judge at the next prcceeding
election shell act us inspector iu Lis place. And
iu ease the person who shall hare received the
highest number of r otes for inspector shall not'at
tend, the person elected judge shall appoint an in
spector in his place. And in ease the person elec
ted judge shall not attend, then the inspector who
received the highest number of votes shall np"oint
°judge in his place—or if any vacancy shall con
tinue in the board for the space of one hour aft%
the time fixed by law for the opening of the elec
tion, the qualified voters of the township, ward or
district to ethic!) such officers shall have been
elected, present as etch election, shall elect°ne of
ther number to fill such cocotte} .
It shall be the duty of the several assessors of
each district to attend at the place of holding every
general, special or township election, daring the
whole time said election is kept open, for the pur
pose of giving information to the inspectors and
judges, when called on, in relation to the right of
any person assessed by them to vole at each elec
tion, or such other matters in relation to the as
sessments of voters as the said inspectors or either
of them shall from time to time require.
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No person ehallk permitted to vote at any elec
tion, as aforesaid, air er than a freeman of the age
of twenty-one yeses or more, who shall have re
sided in the State at least ens year, and at the
election district where he ofiers Lis Tote at least
ten days immediately preceding each election and
within two years paid a state or county tax, which
ellen have been :teemed at least ten days before
the election. But a citizen of the United State.
who has previously been a• qualified voter of this
state and removed therefrom and returned, and
who shall have resided in the eleetion district and
paid taxes, as aforesaid, shall be entitled to vote
after residing in this state six months: Provided,
That the freemen, citizens of the United States,
between twenty-one and twenty-two years, who
have resided in an election district as aforesaid,
shall be entitled to vote although they shall not
have paid taxce.
No pereon shall be permitted to veto whose name
is not uontained in the list of taxable inhabitants
furnished by the commiesioners, unless, First, he
produces a receipt for the payment within two
years of a state and county tax asseesed agreeably
to the constitution, and give satisfactory evidence
either on hie oath or affirmation or the oath or
affirmation of another, that he has paid such a
tax, or on failure to prod.• a receipt shall make
oath to the payment thereof. Fccond, if he claim
the right to vote by being as elector between the
nge of twenty-one and twenty-two year., he shall
depose on oath or affirmation that he has resided
in this state at least one year next before his ap
plication,.and make such proof of residence in the
district as is required by this act, and that he does
verily believe, tram the account given him, that
he is of age aforesaid, and such other evidence as
is required by this act, whereupon the name a the
person thus admitted to vote shall he inserted
in the alphabetical list by the inspectors,
and a. note made opposite thereto by writing the
word "tax" if he shall be admitted to vote by
reason of having paid tax; or the word "age" if
he shall be admitted to vote by reason of such age
shall be called out to the clerk, who Atoll make
the like notes on the list of voters kept by him.
In all cases. where the name of the person claim
ing to vote is not found on the list furnished by
the commissioners and avessort, or hie right to
vote, whether found thereon or not, is objected to
by any qualified citizen, it Anil be the duty of
the inspectors to examine each person on oath as
to his qualifications, and if ho claims to have re
sided within the state for one year or more, his
oath shall he sufficient proof thereof, bolt shall
make proof by at least one competent witness, who
shall ho a qualified voter, that he has resided
in the district for more than ten days next imme
diately preceding such election, and shall also
himself swear that his bona fide residence, in pur
suance of his lawful calling, is in said distriet,
and that, he did not remove into said district for
the purpose of voting therein.
Every person qualified as aforesaid, and who
shall make due proof, if required, of the residence
and payment of taxes as aforesaid, shall be ad
mitted to vote in the township, ward or district in
which he shall reside.
If any person shall prevent or attempt to pre
vent any officer of this election under this net from
holding such election, or use or threaten any or
any such officer, or shall interrupt or improperly
interfere with him in the execution of his dnty, or
shall block up the window, or avenue to any win
dow where the keine may be holding, or shall riot
ously disturb the peace at such election, or shall
use any intimidating threats, force or violence,
with design to influence unduly or overawe any
elector, or to prevent him from voting or to res
train the freedom of choice, such persons on con
viction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding
five hundred dollars, and imprisoned for any time
not less than three nor more than twelve months,
.d it shall he shown to the court, where the trial
of such offense shall be had, that the person so of
fending was sot a resident of the .eity, ward, dis
trict or township where the offense was committed
and not entitled to vote therein, then on convic
tion he shall he sentenced to pay a fine of act less
than one hundred nor more than one thousand
dollars, and be imprisoned not less than six months
nor more than tno years.
If seTty person, not by law qualified, 'hall fraud
ulently vote at any election of this commonwealth,
or being otherwise qualified shall vo'e out of his
proper district, if nny person knowing the west of
such qualification shall nid or procure such per
son to vote, the person offending shall, on convic
tion, be fined in any sum not exceeding two hun
dred dollars, and be imprisoned in any term not
exceeding three months.
If any person shall vote at more than one elec
tion district, or otherwise fraudulently vote more
than onco on the same day, or shall fraudulently
fold and deliver to the inspector two tickets to
gether, with the intent illegally to vote, or shall
procure another to do so, he or they so offending
shall, on conviction, be fined in any sum not less
than fifty nor-more than five hundred dollars, anti
be imprisoned for n term not lees than three nor
more than twelve months.
If any person not qualified to vote in this Com
monwealth agreeably to law (except the sons of
qualified citizens), shall Appear at any plane of
election fer the purpose of influencing the citizens
qualified to vote, be shall on conviction forfeit and
pal any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars
for every suck offense, and be imprisoned for any
term not exceeding three months.
If any person or persona shall snake any bet or
wager upon the result of the election, within the
Commonwealth, or shall offer to snake any such
bet or wager, either by verbal proclamation there
of, or by any written or printed advertisement,
or invite any person or persons to make such bet
or wager, and upon conviction, thereof he or they
shall forfeit and pay three times the amount so
bet sr offered to bet.
And the election laws of the Commonwealth
further provides that "The Inspectors,Judges and
clerks shall before entering on the duties of their
offiees, severally take and subscribe the oath or
affirmation hereinafter directed, which shall ho
administered to them by any judge, alderman or
justice of the peace, but if no such magistrate be
present, one of the inspectors of the election shall
administer the oath or affirmation to the other
judge and inspector, and then the inspector so
qualified shall administer the oath or affirmation
to him.
"The inspectors, judges and clerks required by
law to hold township and general elections shall
take and subscribe the several oaths and affirma
tions required by the 19th, 20th and 21st sections
of the act of 2d day of July, 1839,! 4n act relating
to the elections of this Commonwealth,' which
oaths or affirmations shall be prepared and ad
ministered in the manner prescribed in the 18th
and 22d sections of raid act, and in addition to the
power conferred by the 18th section of raid act,
the judge or either of the inspectors shall have
the power to administer the oaths prescribed by
said act to any clerk of general, special or town
ship election."
••The following, shall be the form of omit or af
firmation to he taken by each inepefitur, viz : 'l,
[A. B.] do - that I will duly attend to the
ensuing eleotion during the continuance thereof as
an inspector, and that I will not receive any tick
et or vote from any person, other than such as I
firmly believe to be, according to the provisions of
the constitution and the laws of this common
wealth, entitled to a vote at such election. without
requiring eueh evidence of the right to cote ne is
directeu by law, nor will 1 vexatiously delay or
reface to receive any vote from any person who
I shall believe to bp entitled to vots,Cas aforesaid, but
that I will in all things truly sat Impartially and faith
fully perform my duties therein, to the beet of coy judg
meat and abilities, and that 1 am not, directly or indi
rectly, interested in any bet or wager on the result of this
election."
The foliosin slutij he the oath or affirmation of each
judge, viz: "1, ]A. ll.] do - that I will, as judge, du
ly attend the ensuing election during the continuance
thereof, and faithfully assist -tho Inspectors in carrying
ant the same ; that I will not 0 . 0 my consent that any
vote or ticket shall be received from any person other
than such os•I firmly believe to be, according to the pro
visions of the consitution and laws of this commonwealth,
entitled to vote at such election, without r guiring such
evidence of the right to vote as directed by law, and that I
will use my best endeavors to prevent any fraud, deceit or
abuse in carrying on the same by citizens qualified to vote,
or others, and I will make a true and perfect return of the
said election, and will in all things truly, iinparthilly and
faithfully perform my duty respecting thp tame, to the
best of my judgment and abilities, and that 1 11111 not di
directly or indirectly interested in any bet . or wager on the
result of this election,"
The following shall be the form of with or affirmation to
be taken by each deck, Tin: "I [A B.] do - that I
will impartially and truly write down the name of each
elector who shall vote at the ensuing election, which shall
be given me iu charge, and also the name of the township,
ward or district wherein such elector resides, or carefully
and truly writedown the-number of votes that 4hall be
given fee each candidate at the election, as often as his
name shall lot read to me by the inspectors thereof, and in
all things truly and fitithfully perform my duty respecting
the nine to the best of my judgment and abilities, and
that lam not directly or indirectly interested in any bet
or wager on the result of this election::
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On the day of election any person whose name is not on
the mid list, and claiming the right to vote at eaid elec
tion, shall produce at least one qualified voter of the die
trict as a witness to the resident of the claimant in the
district of which be claims to be a voter fonthe period of at
least ten days next preeedingsaid election; winch witness
shall take and subscribe a written or partly written and
tartly printed affidavit to the fact stated by him, which
affidavit shall define clearly where the residence is of the
person eo claiming to be a voter, and the person so claim
ing the right to vote shall also take and subscribe a writ
ten or partly written and partly printed affidavit, stating
to the beet of his knowledge and belief, where and when
be was born ; that he is a citizen of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania and of the United States; that he has
resided in the commonwealth one year, or if formerly
a citizen therein, and Las moved therefrom, that
he km resided therein six monde. next preceding
timid election; that he has not moved into the
district for the purpose of voting therein; that he has
paid a State or County tax within two years, which was
assumed at least ten days before said election ; and, if a
naturalized eitizen, shall also elate when, where and by
what court he Wee oatitrulized, and also produce this
certificate of naturalization for examination; the said affi
davit shall also state when and where the tax claimed to
be paid by the affidavit was assessed, and when, where,
and to whom paid, and the tax receipt therefor shall be
produced for examination, uuleeit the affiant shall state on
hie affidavit that it has been lost or destroyed, or that he
never received any, but if the person so claiming the right
to vote shall take and eubscribe an affidavit, that he is a
native torn citizen of the United States, or if born else
where, shall state the fact in hie affidavit, and shall pro
duce evidence that he has been naturalized, sr that he is
entitled to citizenship by reason of Ins futher'e naturaliza
tion : and shall farther state in his affidavit that he is at
the time of taking the affidavit between the ages of twen
ty-one and twenty-two years; that he has resided in the
State one year and in the electien district ton day. next
preceding such election, he shall be allowed to vote, al
though he shall not have paid taxes ; the said affidavits ttf
all persona making such claim., and the affidavits of the
witnesses to their residence shall be preserved by the elec
tion board, and at the close of the eleciton they shall be
enclosed with the list of voter., tally list and other papers
required by law to be filed by the return judge with the
prothonotary, and shall remain on file therewith in the
prothonotary'e office, subject to examtnation,asother elec
tion papers are; if the election officers shall find that the
applicant or applicants possess all the legal qualifications
of voter., he or they shall be permitted to vote, and the
name or names Anil be added to the list of taxablee by the
election officers, the word "tax" being added where the
claimant votes on age, the sumo words being added by the
clerks in each rase respectively on the list of perstme
voting at such election.
It [Mall be lawful for any qualified citizen (tithe district,
notwithstanding the name of the proposed voter ie con
tained on the lint of resident taxables to challenge the vote
of such person ; whereupon the same proof orlheright at
suffrage as in now required by law shall be publicly made
and acted on by the election board and the vote admitted
or rejected, according to the evidence ; every parson clean
ing to be a nattnalized citizen shall be nquired to produce
hie naturalization certificate at the election before voting,
except where he Las been for ton years consecutively a
voter in the district in which bearers hisavote; and on
the vote of auch person being received, it shall be the duty
of the election officer to write or stamp on such certificate
the word "voted," with the month and year:' and if any
election officer or officers shall receive a second vote on
the same day, by virtue of the same certificate, excepting
where sone are entitled to vote by virtue of the naturaliza
tion of their fathers, they and the 'mason who shall offer
each second vote, elfin so offending shall be guilty of a
high misdemeanor, Ind on conviction thereof, be fined or
imprisoned, or both, at the discretion of the court ; but
the fine shall not exceed one hundred dollars in each case,
nor the imprthonntent ono year: the like puniehment than
be inflicted on conviction, on the officers of election who
shall neglect or refnee to make, or cause to be made, the
endorsement required as aforesaid on said naturalization
certificate.
if any election officer shall refuse or neglect to
require ouch proof of the right of suffrage us is
prescribed by this law or the laws to which this is
a suppleMent, from any person offering to vote
whose name is nut on the list of assessed voters,
or whose right to vote is challenged by any qual
ified voter present, and shall admit such person to
vote without requiring ouch proof, every pers.onso
offending shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a
high misdemeanor, and shall be sentenced, for
every such offense, to pay a fine not cxcevtlicg one
hundred dollars, or to undergo an imprisonment
not more than one year, or either, or both at the
discretion of the court.
fen days preceding every election for electors
for President and Vice President of the United
States, it. shall be the duty of the assessor to at
tend at the place fixed by law ft, holding the
election in each election district, end then and
there hear all applications of persons whose names
have been omitted from the list of assessed voters,
and who claim the right to vote, or whose rights
have originated since the same was made out, and
shall add the names of such persons thereto, as
shall :how that they are entitled to the right of
suffrage in such district, on the personal applica
tion er the claimant only, and forthwith assess
them with the proper tax. After completing the
list a copy thereof shall be placed on the door of,
or on the house where the election is to be held, at
least eighteen days before the election ; and at the
election the same course shall be pursued in all re
spects, as is required by this act and the acts to
which it is a supplement, at the general elections
in October. The assessor shall also make the
the same returns to the county commissioners of
all assessments made by virtue of this section; and
the county commissioners shall furnish copies
thereof to the election officers in each district, in
like manner in all respects, as is required at the
general election in October.
The same rules and regulations shall apply at
every special election, and every separate city,
borough or ward election, in all respects as at the
general election in October.
The respective assessors ' inspectors and judges
of the elections shall each have the power to ad
minister oaths to any person claiming the right
to be assessed or the right of suffrage, or in re
gard to any other matter or thing required to be
done or inquired into by any of said officers under
this act; any any willful falseswearing by any
person in relation to and matter or thing concern
ing which they shall be lawfully interrogated by
any of void officers shall be punished as perjury.
The assessors shall each receive the . saine
com
pensation for the time necessarily spent in perform
ing the duties hereby enjoined, as is provided by
law for the performance of their other ditties, to
be paid by the county commissioners as in other
cases; and it shall not be lawful for any assessor
-Se lose. , a tax against any person whatever with
in ten days next preceding the election to be held
on the second Tuesday of October in any year, or
within ten days next before any election for elec
tors of President and Vice President of the United
States; any violation of this provision shall be a
misdemeanor, and subject the officers so elfendiag
to a fine, on conviction, not exceeding onehundred
dollars, or to imprisonment not exceeding three
months, or both at the discretion of the court.
Oktflo petition of five or more citizens of the
county, atating under oath that they verily be
lieve fraud. will be practiced at the election about
to he hold in any diatrict, it shall be the duty of
the court of common pleas of .aid county, if in
session, or if not, a judge thereof in vacation, to
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1873.
appoint two judicious, sober and intelligent citi
zens of the county to net as overseers, who shall
be selected from different political parties,
where the inspectors belong to different parties,
and where both inspectors belong to the Eil Me po
litical party, both of the overseers shall be taken
from the opposite political party; said overseers
shall have the right to be present with the officer
of the election during the whole time the come is
held, the votes counted and the returns made out
and signed by the election officers; to keep a list
of voters, if they see proper; to challenge any per
son offering to vote, and interrogate him and his
witness under oath, in regard to his right of suf
frage at said elections, and to examine his papers
produced ; nod the officer of said election are re
quired to afford to said es erscers so selected and
appointed every convenience and facility for the
discharge of their duties; and if said election of
ficers shall refuse to permit said overseers to be
present, and perform their duties as aforesaid, or
if they shall be driven away from the polls by vi
olence and intimidation, all the votes polled at
such election district may be rejected by any tri
bunal trying a contest under said election : Pro
vided, That no person signing the peliton shall be
appointed an overseer.
That the citizens of this rtate temporarily in the
service of the state or of the United States gevern
ment, on clerical or other duty, and who do not
veto where thus employed, shall not be thereby
deprived of the right to vote in their several elec
tion districts if otherwise duly qualified.
XV AMEND3IENT CONSTITUTION U. S.
"Srcrtos 1. The right of citizens of the I7nited States
to vote shall not be denied or abniged by the Cnitcd
States, or by any State, on account of eeoc, color nr previ
ous condition of senitode.
The congress shall have power to enforce ibis
article by ay.yropitate legislation:.
The full •gyring. instructions from Ills Excellency Gover
nor Geary explain the (halts of asseesors, registers and
election officers, in regard to all freedmen of this common
wealth
Ex xerrivz CITAMISER,
limunsrarac, Pa., August 1,11b70.
To the Sheriff of the Comfy of Huntingdon :
Wee..., The Fifteenth Amendment of the Constit
Lion of the United Staten it :w followo:
"keno,: 1, The right of the citizens of tho United States
to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United
States or by any state, on account of race, colozorprevious
condition of servitude.
“Sse. 2. The congress shell !ewe power to cut.co this
artielebyupprepriate legislation.
And tifici4i - nt,The conger:. of the United States, on the
:11st day of March, 187 d, pawed an net entitled "An net to
enforce the right of citizens of the linitel Stater to et* in
the sererut states of the Unto+, andfoe other purposes." the
Brat and second sections of which are ns follows :
germs 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of lie
presentatiers of th United Stoles of Amerien is Stmgress
assembled, That till citizens of the rnited States, who Are
or shall L 8 otherwise qualified by Into to vote at any elec
tion by tlrlfpeople, in any state, territory, district, county,
city, parish, township, ochtiol district, municipality or oth
er territorial sub division shall Le entitled and allowed to
vote at all ouch elections without distinction of race, color,
cuotomo, condition of servitude, tongs or regulation of any
state or territory, or any constitution, or law under its au
thority, to the contrary netwithstedhig.._
Sec. . And be it further emoted, That if by or under
the authority of the constitui ion or law of may ttate,or the
laws of may territory, any act M or shall be required to to
done as a perquirito or qualification for voting, and by such
constitution or law persons or officers are or shall beehar,
od with the performance of duales in furnishing to citizens
an opportunity to pgrform emelt perquisite and to become
qualified to vote, it shall to the duty of such person and
officer to give to all citizens of the United Mates the same
and equal:opportunity to perform mach pa:Nadeite, and to
come qualified to vote, without distinction of race, celor
or previous condition of servitude: and if any such person
or officer shall reform or knowingly omit to. give effect to
this section, he shall, for every such offense, forfeit and pay
the sum of five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved
thereby, to be recovered on an Faction on the ooeo, with full
costs and allowance for counsel feet an the court shall
deem just, and shall also for every such offense to deemed
guilty of at misdemeanor, and shall on conviction thereof be
fined not less than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned
not less than ono month and not more than one year, or
Loth, at the discretion of the court.
And whereas, It is declared by the second section of the
TI article of the Constitution of the United Stites, that
"This Constitution, and the laws of the rn ited States which
shall be made in pursuance thereof, shall be the supreme
law of the lamd • anything in the thosti
haion or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstand-
And whereas, The Legislature of this Commonwealth,
on the loth day of April, A. D. 1870, passed an act entitled
"A further supplement to the act relating to the elections
in this Commonwealth, the tenth section of which provides
as follows :
--r Bit . ;tt4 10. That so much of every act of Assembly 31:
provides that only white freemen shall be entitled to rote
or be registered as voters, or as claiming the vote at any
generxd or special election of the Commonwealth, be and
the same it hereby repealed; and that hereafter all free
men, without distinction of color, shall be enrolled and
registered according to the provisions of the first section of
the act approved 17th of April, 1869, entitled "An act fur
ther supplemental to the act relating to the elections of
this Commonwealth," and when otherwise qualified under
existing laws, be entitled to vote at all general and special
elections in this Commonwealth."
And whereas, It is my constitutional awl official duty
to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed," and it
luta tome to my knowledge that sundry assessors and reg
isters of voter. have refused, and are refusing to assess and
register divers colored male citizens of lawful age, and.
otherwise qualifitsl no electors;
Note, therefore, in consideration of the premises, the
county commissioner. of said county am hereby notified
and directed to instruct the several assessors and register.
of voters therein to obey and conform to the requirements
of mid constitutional amendment and laws; and the
sheriff of said county is hereby authorized and required to
publish in hie election proclamation for the next ensuing
election the het ein recited constitutional amendment, act
of congress, and act of the legislature, to the end that the
MM. may be known, executed and obeyed by all assessor.,
registers etcetera, erection officers and others, and thatthe
rights and privileges guaranteed thereby may be secured
to all the citizens of thin commonwealth entitled to the
tame.
Isxml (been under my hand and the great real of the
state at Harrisburg, the day and year fitlit above written.
JNO. W. GEARY.
Attest: F. JORDAN, Secretary Of the Commonwealth.
The qualified electors will take notice of the ((Mowing
act of Assembly, approved the 12th day of March, 1866:
"An act regulating the mode of voting at all elections in
the several counties In this commonwealth:
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the &Yid to and House of Re
yresentativu of the Commonwealth of reansylvania in
Genera/ Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the au
thority of the same, That the qualified voters of the several
counties of ibis commonwealth, at all general, township,
borough and special election., are hereby hereafter author
toed and required to vote, by tickets, printed or written or
partly printed or partly written, severally classified a.
follows : One ticket Omit embrace the names of all judge.
of courts voted for, and to be labeled outside, "judiciary;"
one ticket shall embrace the names of all state officers
noted for, and be labeled, "state.," one ticket shall embrace
the names of all officers voted for, including officer of we
ldor, and member of Assembly, if voted fur, and be labeled,
"county ;" one ticket shall enthuses the names of all town
ship officers voted fur, and be labeled, "towrship ;" one
ticket shall embrace the names of all borough officers vot
ed for, and shall be labeled, "borough ;" and each class
shall be pepeelted in separate ballot boxes.
See. 2. That it shall be the duty of the sheriff of the
several counties of this commonwealth to Insert in their
election proelanuttion hereafter leaned the first section of
this act.
JAMES R. KELLEY,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
DAVID FLEMING,
Speaker of the Senate.
Approved the thirteenth day of March, C. D. one then
mud eight hundred and sixty-lax.
A. G. CURTIN.
Pursuant to the provisions contained in the 76th section
of the act And aforesaid, the judges of the aforesaid dis
tricts shall respectively take charge of the certificates of
return of the elmtion of their respective districts and pro
duce them at a meeting of one judge for each district at
the Court House, in the Borough of Huntingdon, on the
third dey after the election, being ON FRIDAY, 111 E 17th
DAY OF OCTOBER, 1873, at 10 o'clock a. m., then and
there perform the dutles required by law of said judges.
Also, that where a judge ' by sicknese or unavoidable ac
cident, is unable to attend the meeting of judges, then the
certificate or return Shall be taken charge of by one of the
inspectors or clerks of the election of the district, who
!hall do and perform the duties required of mid judges un
able to attend.
The return judges for the counties of Huntingdon, Mif
flin, Juniata and Centre are required to meet at the Court
House in the County of Huntingdon on the eighteenth day
of October, t.. D. 1073 for the parpoeeof adding tip the votes
coot for Senator of the Commonu cal tit of Pennsylvania.
Given under my hand, et my office In Huntingdon, thie
sth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thoutond
eight hundred and seventy-three,and In the nineytneventh
year of the independence of the United
ANON MUCK, Ellerin'.
Siniurrl OPFICM, September 17, 1873.
TEACHERS' EXAMINATIONS.
The annual examinations of Teachers for
the present school year will be held as follows
Jackson, Wednesday, September 17, M'Alevey's Fort.
Oneida, Thursday, September 19, Donation S. IL
Henderson, Friday. September 19, Union S. 11.
Mount Union, Monday, September 22, Mount Union.
Mapleton, Tuesday, September 23, Mapleton.
Brady, Wednesday, September 24, Mill Creek.
Union, Thursday, September 25, Plne Grove S. IT.
Caw and Otseville, Friday, September 24, Cassville.
Tod, Saturday, September 27, Newberg.
Walker, Tuesday, September to, M'Connellstown
Juniata, Wednesday, October 1, Bell Crown S. 11.
Penn, Thursday, October 2, Marklesburg.
Hopewell, Friday, October 3, Coffee Run.
Carbon, Coalmont and Broad Top City, Saturday, October
4, Dudley,
Three Springs and Clay, Monday, October 6, Three Springs.
Springfield, Tuesday, October 7, Maddensville.
Orbisonia and Cromwell, Wednesday October 8, Orbisonia.
Shirley and Shirleysburg, Thursday, October 9, Shirley'.
burg.
Shade Gap and Dublin, Saturday, October 11, Shade Gap.
Tell, Monday, October 13, Bolingertown.
Examinations will commence at 9 o'clock, a. ni.
Teachers will not be admitted into the class unless pres
ent at the opening of the examination.
No certificate can be granted to an applicant found en
tirely deficient in any of the branches named on the pre
visional certificate. The examination on Theory of Teach
ing and U.S. ilistory will be more rigid thanllatit year.
Examination on Theory will be chiefly on School Economy.
Teachers will bo examined where they are applicants for
school., All persona expecting to teach must be examin
ed at the public examinations. I will gram no permit',
and will examine no one privately amass he brings a
written request signed by at least three member of a
board of Directors giving satisfactory reasons for hie non
attendance at the public examination.. Directors should
be present and select their t.tiebers on the day of exam
ination.
R. M. MCXE%L,
County Superintendent.
Aug.27,1872t.
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THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Superintendent MeNeiPs Resort.
In the remarks accompanying my sta
tistical report, I shall aim to mention the
improvements that haye been made in
the schools of our county for the encour
agement of those who have been instru
mental in advancing the cause of common
school education, and to call special at
tention to existing evils that measurers
may be taken for their corection.
Although the school year that has just
closed is the only one during which I have
sustained an official relation to the schools
of the county, my observation during this
time and while teaching in the county;
together with an examination of previous
reports, qualifies me t 3 say that we are
making progress. Teachers as a class
make more effort to prepare themselves
for their work and consequently are paid
higher salaries than they formerly receiv
ed; directors build better houses and fur
nish them more suitably; the people take
a more general interest in the education
al questions of the day, and the schbols
are attaining more satisfactory results
than they did a few,ears ago.
Whilethere is mach room for congrat
ulation, there are many reforms to be
wrought and changes to be effected be
fore even approximate perfection is reach
ed.
Following strictly the spirit of the di
rections given in the visitation book, I
am able to report only five first class
school houses. While only this number
IA entitled to rank as first class houses, it
is fair to state that we have a respectable
number that may be considered, for the
most part, good country school houses.
Some are not suitably furnished; others
are deficient in black-board surface, with
out means of ventilation; have not suita
ble sites, or lack some minor requirement.
Mount Union has a very go6d house, but
it is almost entirely without black-board
surface. Thirty-nine houses are reported
absolutely unfit for use, and many oth
ers ought to be vacated,were the districts
able Wreplace them by better ones.
It is earnestly hoped that directors will
erect new buildings, where they are need
ed, as rapidly as the circumstances of the
several districts will justify, until the
thirty-nine worn out houses and the fifty
or more indifferent ones shall have given
place to edifices that will be ornaments
to the communit'es in which they are lo
cated, and testimonials of an advanced
healthy school sentiment. Let suitable
sites be selected and good houses built.
Cheapness in school architecture is not
economy. • . .
A. cheap house is in the end a dear one.
Were it possible to estimate the amount
ormoney that has been wasted in this
county during the last ten years in the
erection of school buildings the sum
would be surprisingly large.
Not enough care has been exeipised or
interest manifested by directors in secur
ing the erection of good suitable school
buildings.
Many of our houses wear out with less
than five years use, and while they do
last, very imperfectly answer-the purpose
for which they were erected. Frequently
houses are put under contract as late as
July or August, and required to be com-
PleLed by the meningof the schools in the
fall.
The work mat necessarily be hurried
and consequently is often slighted. The
Plan is not adopted in accordance with
improved methods of school architecture
or with referrence to the comfort and
convenience of teacher or pupils, but is
mostly left to the choice of the contrac
tor.
When a house is to be built, directors
should fix upon a suitable modern plan
for its erection. The specifications should
embrace everything that is necessary to a
good, substantial, comfortable, conven
ient house, and the contractor be requir
ed to execute the work according to the
strict letter of the plan and specifica
tions.
During the past.sehool year, eight new
houses were built, one in Barree, one in
Cromwell; one in Franklin; one in Penn;
one in blifingfield; one in Tod; one in
Walker; and one in Warriors Mark.
The houses built in Cromwell,Springfield
and Tod are wilier inferior ones, being
poorly constructed, without ante-rooms
or clothes rooms and not having necessa
ry provisions for ventilation. Those
built in Barree, Franklin and Warriors
Mark are good houses, but, with the ex
ception of the one in Warriors Mark,
they are without proper means of ventila
tion.
Penn built a very good brick house,
but I am sorry to report it without ves
tibule, clothes rooms and any provision
for ventilation, except the raising and
lowering of the windows. With a very
little greater cost it could have been
made a first class house.
The best house built during the year
and the best country school house in the
county—is the one erected in Walker.—
It is a brick structure, thirty-two feet
long, twenty-four feet wide nod fourteen
feet from floor to ceiling; has a large ves
tibule and clothes rooms; is provided with
transoms in the ceiling and:overlthe door
to ventilate the room, and lies one hun
dred and twenty square feet of black
board surface.
Walker has yet two won► out houses
that should give place to such buildings
as the one described above, and knowning
the spirit and enterprise of the people in
the district,we feel safe in predicting that
they will in the future erect none but
first class houses. _ _ _
At least five of the houses built during
the year should have been supplied with
patent furniture. It would have been
done at a cost very little exceeding what
was paid by some districts for a home
made article.
We need better furniture than is found
in a majority of the schools in our county
and I trust that directors building in the
future will supply their houses with good
furniture, suitably adapted to the size of
pupils. Of the one hundred and ninty
two houses in the county, one hundred
and fifty five are without suitable privy.
The mere statement of this fact should
be sufficient to insure the speedy correc
tion of so great an evil. Directors and
parents should propelly estimate the re
sponsibility connected with this sad neg
lect of duty. Something should be done
at once to remove this degenerating and
demoralizing influence to which so many
of the children in our public schools are
exposed by this failure to supply suitable
out-buildings.
Another crying demand is apparatus.
One hundred and twenty-five (125)
schools are without apparatus worth
mentioning.
•
The arg — umetit that teachers do not'
know how to use it, is unfortunately ap
plicable in some cases, but it is not suffi
cient to exclude it from so many of our
schools.
Teachers can not teach successfully
without apparatus, and directors should
supply their schools with the necessary
apparatus and require teachers to take
proper care of it. If a teacher through
ignorance or negligence, makes no use of
the apparatus placed in his hands, lie
should at least be required to take care
of it for a successor more worthy of the
position, and, on his failure to do so,
should be fined for such neglect of dutir.
A teacher who allows his pupils to play
foot-ball with "Perce's Magnetic Globe"
should be discharged without delay.
There are this year two hundred and
nine schools in opgration in the county,
twenty-one of which are graded. I have
reported eleven graded schools needed;
these are all needed in the villages and
boroughs. In addition there should be a
graded school in nearly every township in
the county. It can not be questioned
that properly graded schdols increase the
efficiency of our system of public instruc
tion, and hence this subject demands
greater attention from directors and oth
er interested in the success of the
cause than it has previously received.—
The graded schools already established
need correction in at least one particular.
The schools of Huntingdon borough
are the only graded schools in the county
subject to special supervision.
The graded schools of a district should
not be two, three or half a dozen separate
and independent schools.; but one school
embracing different departments.
Where such schools are independent of
one another without any general man
agement, the pupils for the most part al
lowed to exercise their choice in the se
lection of the school they attend, and the
teachers scarcely exchangin ,, friendly
greetings, the result can not but be dis
astrous to the interests of the schools.—
The teacher selected for the higher de
partment should be competent to take
charge of and act as principal of all the
schools. Ile in conjunction with the
proper authorities, should do the grading
prescribe the course of study for each de
partment and should have general con
trol over all of the schools. The most
amicable relations should exist between
him and his assistant teachers, with whom
he should frequently and statedly confer
concerning the condition of the schools
and the means to be employed for their
improvement. _ _
We may then look to our graded schools
for more satisfactory results.
_ _ _
The Bible is rend in one hundred and
sixty-five schools; vocal music taught in
seventeen, and higher branches in only
eight. Singing is practiced as an inciden
tal exercise in quite a large number of our
schools.
A great hindrance to the success of the
schools in the county is the limited
number of the studies pursued.
Many of them Are without Geography,
Grammar and U. S. History. Refusal
to purchase the necessary text-books
seems to be the cause. I have strongly
urged teachers to give oral instructions
in these branches when they could not by
any means secure text-books. If these
were done and teachers were successful
in cultivating in the minds of their pu
pils a taste for these studies the books
would in most cases be purchased. Oral
teaching should precede the text-book in
nearly every branch of study in impart
ing instruction to primary pupils.
I held twenty-nine public examinations
during the year; granted two hundred
and fifty-eight provisional certificates, the
average grade of wftich was 2.33.
In the discharge of my official duties
examining teachers, visiting schools &c.
I traveled one thousand nine hundred
and ninety one miles. In consequence of
sickness about the opening of the school
term, I lost two weeks that would other
wise have been employed in visiting
schools.
.Allthe schools except seven, were vis
ited once and some were visited twice.
Six of those not visited, were, owing to
different causes, not in, session when I
visited the districts in which they are lo
cated. It is impossible for the Supt. to
visit the Schools of this county more than
once during the year, or remain long at
each school if ho wishes to reach them all
while in session. It is claimed by many
of those who have never taken the pains
to make a calculation of the number of
'schools in the county, the extent of teri.
tory to be traveled over in reaching them
and the limited length of the school term
that the Supt. ought to visit the schools
three or four times and remain half a day
at each visit. - His visits are necessarily
too short to permit him to enter into an
examination of the various classes in each
school but this we do not understand to
be the object for which he visits the
schools.
He should carefully observe the teach
er's method of presenting the branches of
study he teaches, notice his manner of
unfolding and disciplining the minds of
his pupils, ascertain his skill in organiz
ing and controlling his school and learn
as far as possible his practical ability as a
teacher. If he only remains one hour,
and is vigilant during that time, he can
judge pretty correctly wherein a. teacher
is successful or inefficient, and should in
all cases give such advice and make such
suggestions as in his judgement will prove
enelicial to the school.
The County Institute was held at
Huntingdon during the last week of De
cember. It was attended by a larger
number of teachers than any previous one
held in the county—a fact chiefly attrib
uted to the recent act of Legislature com
pelling dtrectors to grant teachers time
and wages while - atkending the annual in
stitute. The instructors anti lecturers
were: Prof. J. W. Shoemaker , ' of Phila
delphia, A. N. Raub, of Lock Haven and
Deputy Supt. Henry Houck. The in
struction imparted by those employed for
that purpose, embraced subjects and top
ics most needing attention, and was given
in connected lessons, adapted to the ca
pacities and practical wants of those re
ceiving it. The teachers of the county
took au active part in the exercises and
added much to the interest and success
of the institute. District Institutes were
opened in six districts. They were emi
nently successful where they were propei
ly sustained and supported, and exercised
a potent influence on the cause of educa
tion, in the way of increasing the profes
sional qualifications of teachers and cre
ating a better public sentiment. The one
in Porter held day and evening sessions
and was well sustained, the evening ses
sions especially were largely attended" by
the public.
In closing the present report, I desire
to call special attention to the most
prominent obstacle in the way of more
rapid progress in our schools, and re
spectfully suggest some plans for remov
ing these hindrances.
The first of these draw-hacks °I shall
mention is irregularity of attendance. I
venture the assertion that one fourth of
the time and money devoted to school
purposes are wasted because of the fail
ure of parents to keep their children
regularly in school. Why they are so
criminally negligent concerning the wel:
fare of their children, is as strange as it
is true. In their business relations they
are careful to get au equivalent for their
money; why not show an equal interest
in that paid for tte education of their
children. As one of the means of reme
dying this serious evil, we favor a change
in the method 'of disbursing the State ap
propriation fund. Were it apportioned
according to the percentage of attend
ance in each district, instead of the num
ber of taxables, it would operate as an
incentive to secure not only regular at
tendance but to bring in children that
are not sent to school at all. There are
persons incapable of being influenced by
any higher motives to send their children
to school, who would do so, if it were so
much money in their pockets. Besides
there are other reasons which, if space
permitted, we would give in favor of this
method of distributing the State appro
priation.
But, with 'regular attendanc3 secured
and all the preceeding suggestiOns carried
out to the letter, many of our schools
must remain failures until better qualifi
ed teachers are secured. Unless the
schools are supplied with competent
teachers, the money expended for their
support is wasted and the time of the
children worse than squandered. We
are from forcebof circumstances compell
ed to grant certificates to some who are
tot fit to teach. Some of our best teach
ers every year go to the neighboring coun
ties where they receive better wages, and
we must fill our schools with what re•
mains. The present mode of grading
salaries offers every little inducement to
teachers to make special preparation for
their work.
The careless indifferent "school keep
er" is paid as much as the live, active,
progressive teacher. A part of our teach
ers, by attending school or by private
study, every year add to their intellectual
and professional• qualifications and be
come more efficient workers in the pro
fession. Others spend the summer vaca
tion in idleness, lounging about country
stores, making no effort to improve them
selves and yet, if they manage to get a
certificate at all, receive as much salary
as if they had a first class certificate.—
Then there are those in the profession
who aro earnestly laboring for its eleva
tion, they encourage and support teach
ers institutes and cducational meetings;
are in the van-guard leading public sen
timent, and establish their titles to es
teem and support by their personal
worth.
Opposed to them, and in a great meas
ure paralyzing their efforts, is another
class distinguished for their hostility to
teachers institutes, their lack of profes
sional zeal and their opposition to prog
ress and advancement. No difference is
recognized between these two classes of
teachers by the salaries paid to. them.—
Such a state of affairs ought not to exist.
Until successful effort and professional
zeal are properly rewarded, justice will
not be done to the teachers nor the
schools materially improved.
Let directors pay teachers according
to their qualifications and success in
teaching, and in a short time we will
have better qualified theachers and
better schools. When teaching is esti
mated at what it is worth, we will see
more teachers advancing toward the front
ranks of the profession. I sincerely trust
that directors may be awakened to the
importance and the justice of paying
teachers in proportion to the work they
do, and hereafter grade salaries according
to the grade of certificate and success in
teaching.
Practical experience is worth much in
teaching, but it is a fact that many in
making their first attempt, achieve more
satisfactory results than others do after
having years of experience. The success
of our young teachers will not come with
out earnest effort which should in all
cases be rewarded. I therefore suggest
that when a teacher is employed who has
never taught, or one whose experience is
not known to the directors, a fixed and a
conditional salary be agreed upon; the
conditional to be paid at the end of the
term, provided general satisfaction has
been rendered. A reward will thus be
offered for good teaching which can not
but result in the improvement of the
schools. Although an unfounded prej
udice against female teachers still exist
to a limited extent in some districts, I
am glad to note that it is vanishing be
fore the increasing light of knowledge.—
Our female teachers are proving their
worth wherever they have a fair oppor
tunity. In a few districts the average
salary of females, this year,tis higher than
of males.
We suffer from another injustice.
While portion s of the county can build
good school houses, keep their schools
open six mouths and pay their teachers
reasonably good salaries, there are many
districts that are unable to build first
class houses or even keep their schools
open live months, by paying low salaries.
We look hopefully to the time when the
school tax shall be a state fund, and the
poor districts placed on the same footing
with the rich ones in regard to educa
tional advantages.
_ _
Thankful fur the kindness shown to
me, and for the . promptness with which
my official efforts during the past year
were seconded, I trust that in the future
I may have the hearty co-operation and
support of teachers, school officers, pat
rens and all interested in the cause of
education.
Let us labor unitedly and zealously for
the elevation of the teachers profession,
the improvement of the condition of our
schools and the progress of popular edu
cation, trusting that the dispenser of all
good will crown our efforts with success.
What is Thought of It.
31 APLETON,
Sept. 12th, 1873.
Mat. EDITOR a—Being prompted by a
respect for justice in all things, and be
lieving that truth is the only way to pros
perity, is my reason for just now laying
down the Globe and taking up the pen.
I commenoed to read a comment headed
"The Republican County Convention."
As I have never voted anything but the
Republican ticket in all my life, I thought
I would like to read of Republican Con
ventions, but I had not read half of that
"hallowed" statement until I found that it
contained falsehoods of the blackest grade.
Now, Mr. Editor, Ido respect all honest
ministers of the gospel and all true lovers
of religion, and I can take sugar in tea or
salt on potatoes, but Ido not approve of
salt in tea nor sugar on potatoes, and per
haps that is. why I do not approve of a
lying preacher. Does some one say, "who
is a liar ?" I say the man who writes that
the members of that convention fully ex
hibited the wishes and feelings of the Re
publican party in Huntingdon county,"
when I know of at least one district named
in that list called delegates in which there
was no delegate election held and no dele
gates elected, but on that list we see the
names o? two persona living in the district
referred to who may have been in Hun
tingdon on that day, and they may
have been in that "respectable looking
convention," but if that is a sample of
what he calls fully representingthe county,
then we must admit that old things have
passed away. We who composed the old
Whig party, and successfully conducted
the same in years gone by, are not to be
blind-folded by any man who has lately
come, or been driven, from some other
county, and is no* trying, by means of his
editorial pen, to work such wonders as in
ducing old line Whigs to gather around
him and sing, "Crown him Lord of all !"
DEMO.
Fire in Baltimore.
BALTIMORE, September 10.—At half
past two this morning an alarm of fire was
sounded, and in a few minutes a volume
of flame burst forth from the Hohday
street theater, enveloping the building in
a mass of fire. The flames passed out
simultaneously from the roof and upper
windows, and before the steamers got to
work it was evident the theater would be
destroyed. Blazing cinders were carried a 1
distance of five and six blocks, and many
awnings on Baltimore and South streets
were ignited, threatening a disastrous con
flagation. In the meantime the flames
from the theater had commnicated to the
roof of the St. Nicholas Hotel', adjoining
on the north, and to a large brick building
on the south, and also to the factory of
Frey, Walpert k Co., in the rear.
ga• There were leas votes oast for dele
gates to tho late "Potato Bug" affair
than there were delegates in attendanw.
NO. 38.
Our Camp Meetings.--No. I.
MR. EDITOR :—I. was at the Juniata
Valley Camp Meetin. It was well attend
ed. Camp meeting generally are. People
go to camp meetin for different resins.—
Some go to see the fokes there. Others
go to be seen. Some go for a holiday ez
curshun. Some go becoz they sell Incur
shun tickets. Some go to seek the Lord.
It is a mitt' poor place to go to seek the
Lord. I don't think He often attends
camp meetin.
Canip meeting are of very anshtent ori
jin. The first camp meetin of which we
have any account wuz held in a big gar
den. A fellow named Adam—l forget his
other name—wuz the principel tent-holder.
Him and hiz wife eat some apples that
dident belong to them and they weer put
out of that garden. They dident "tent on
the old camp ground" any more much.
When Noer preached to the Antegoln
vians, it is not sertain whether he had a
camp meetin or not. It is thot by good
skollers that he had though. The peeple
paid about az much attention to hiz sur
mons then az they do now at camp meet
ins.
The time the Elebruse went away from
Egypt they wur going out into the wilder
n( SS to have a big camp meetin and a good
time. Pharer dident beleeve in camp
meetins, and it took a pktay lot of cocain
to get him to agree to let them go. He
knowed they woodent know how to behave
themselves at camp meetin ; and he was
right. They acted so badly out there that
thq,y got leave to attend camp meetin for
forty years, until they all took the con
sumpshun and died from exposure.,
What wuz left of • their desendeuts was
so well satisfied with camp,meetins that
they dident want any more of them for
several hundred years. Then ten tribes
of them repaired to their tents for another
grand camp meetin. It was their last one.
They have never been hard from since.
Of late, camp meetins are held different
to whot they yused to be.. They get up a
camp somewhot in this wise : A lot of
men form a kumpany and get a charter.
Then they are a corper.ahun. It is alwaze
better to be a oorperashun becoz corpora.
shuns have no soles, and they don't appear
to be accountable to either God or man for
anything they do.
If a common man kills another they ar
rest him, and put him in jail. Then they
impannel a jury of men who can't reed nor
rite, they bring up twenty or a hundred
witnesses, and they declare the prisoner as
the bar to be insane and not accountable
for his ants. Then they let him go; and
the county pays the costs. If a corpera
shun kills a man, or a dozen men, it makes
a good item for the newspapers, and there
is nothing more said about it. On the
whole it iz better to have corperashuns do
the killing—becoz then the county don't
have any costs to pay.
When a lot of men get a charter for a
camp meetin, they call themselves a "Camp
Meeting Association." They f;11 stock at
$25 a share. 'They bye a piece of land in
a quiet, secluded place contiguous to a rail
rode. On that land, in the woods, of
course, they build board tents and they
rent them out at so much a tent, with
prayin, preachin and singin thrown in.
iirniiCe a pier they hold a eamp meetin
of ten days' jurashnn. Those dezirin to
get snuff religin in ten days to last a hole
yeer shood take take, four seets. They
will get it. I was there.
Tlie corperashun advertises their meetin
beforehand ; and, rezonin that all fools are
not ded yet, they know that there *ill be
a grate many people there, But they
don't have erangementz made to accommo
date very many of them. And they re.
quest the railrode cumpenny to not run
any tranes on Sunday and to do just az
little az it can to acoommodate the peeple
who will be comin to that meetin. As a
konsequence, many peeple who come there
are put to grate inconvenience. They can
sometimes hardly get ennff to eat; the
tranes don't run so that they can get away
at like; and they have no place to stay.—
They sleep on the benches in the tabber
nickel or walk through the woods the nite
long, coiling down imprekashuns upon the
peeple who brat them there, while the au
them of their misery are trying to sweetly
sleep and kamly rest in reserved tents.
At reglar camp meetins they have a
hording tent, resembling a horse stable,
where you can get meals by paying for
them. They have a grossery tent, where
you can buy (wine and) milk—not with
out price—and beef and such like. They
have reglar hours for selling, at a time
when preachin izzent in operaihun. It
wood probebly be wicked to sell beef when
there is preachin.
There they have a store where they sell
various &skies, watermellens, cigars, lem
menade, cheese, bread, and allsuch things.
They keep a resterant there too. Soma
things are not priced according to quanti
ty. The price is owing to how badly you
need them. For instense, if you are hun
gry and want a slice of bred you pay ten
cents for it. If yon arrent so hungry and
take the whole loafe you only pay ten
cents for it Some artikles loose by cut
ting up; and when a loaf. of bred most be
cut into six or ate pieces they ott to be
sold proporshunately higher.
At this store they keep open and sell
goods all day on Sunday. It wood be
wicked to run cars on Sunday to take the
peeple home—but then sellipg goods is a
different matter. The grater the profits
the bigger the dividends, and the more
camp meetin stock will be worth.
They are conshiensbus about one thing,
however. They won't sell cigars on Sun
day. On that holy day they take the
supply of cigars to the office and lock them
up. Bat the preachers can get cigars and
smoke at any time on Sunday that they
wish. Preechers are better than other
people. I wanted to smoke on Sunday
after supper. I went to the office and of
fered any amount of money for a cigar.—
They woodcut sell me won. Then I im
plored them to give me won for nothing—
on tick—any way at all. Half-a-duzen
young preechers wuz Pettin around on
camp-stoles smoking. Not one of them
wuz man snuff to offer me a cigar. I wuz
mad. If ever Igo to camp meetio agen
I will be a preecher.
SOLON SNAFFLE.
wt. John Irwin, of Bellefonte, is the
nominee of the Republican Senatorial con
ference of the 22nd district, composed of
Centre, Juniata, Mifflin and Huntingdon
counties. He is not only entirely fitted
by ability for the position, but is one of the
most reliable men in the State, and a Re
publican who has never unshed in the
support of the measures and men of his par
ty. He will poll a vote in Centre county
which only the usual frauds of the Demos
racy can prevent from being a majority of
its legal voters.—State Journal.