The Huntingdon Journal,
.1. R. DURBORROW,
HUNTINGDON, PENN'A.
Wednesday Morning, March 4, 1874
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PARTY PATRONAGE
The following article, from the Blair
County Radical, con'ains sentiments, so
frequently expressed by us upon this sub
ject, that we copy it to show our Republican
readers that others think as we do upon
this matter. We endorse every word of
it :
Party organization is the only way of
upholding political principles, and party
erganizatioi is only rightly and efficiently
maintained when everything pertaining to
a party is kept within the party. AEdrew
Jackson meant this when he declared that
"to the victors belong the spoils." By
the "victors," he meant the successful
party, and by the "spoils," the offices and
patronage secured to the party by its suc
cess. Earnest, fair-minded politicians
everywhere so regard a distribution of the
honors, emoluments and patronage of their
party.
In this county we have politicians who
assume by their acts that the party to
which they belong and with which they
vote, is a mere matter of personal conve
nience to them; that they can use their
party for their own suecess, and assume
no corresponding obligation to render it or
those who labor to preserve its organiza
tion intact, any return. They assume that
when they are upon their party ticket, all
that is necessary is to cry "Regular Nomi
nation," "Stick to the Party" and other
similar party rallying words, ana it be
comes the duty of all belonging to their
party to support them. There is a refine
ment of cruelty in demanding such exac
tions from some party men in this county.
Seething a kid in its mother's milk is as
nothing compared with it.
Party obligations are reciprocal. The
same that is due from a voter is dae from
an officer—aye, even more from an officer,
for to his equally binding party obligations
is added the common duty of gratitude, at
least when its acknowledgement can b 3
made out of the official favors of his posi
tion and without involving the officer-hot
der in any personal expenditure. We
hold that it is the Inty of every man cho
sen to office by his party, to do what he
can at all times and in every way to sup
port his party and advance its interests ;
that the official patronage of an officer cho
sen by a political party belongs, by party
right and common fairness, to his party
and its party press, and that no man was
ever chosen to official position in this coun
ty or elsewhere solely because of his pecu
liar fitness, personal popularity or supe
riority over his opponent. Every office
holder is the creation of his party. He
secures his nomination by the preference
of his more immediate friends and his
election through the discipline of his party
organization. He is theirs—the represen
tative of his party for the time being, and
the obligation of party fealty is not can
celled by his induction intooffice. Instead,
his debt of gratitude begins.
But that party obligation can be broken
by officer as well as by voter, and when
broken by an officer, and he again sub
mits himself for election, the voter is ab
solved from his obligation to assist in'again
placing in position a man who once viola
ted faith with his party. And it is reason
able and right that it should be so. Par
ties are not made for officers; but officers
are made by parties. And when an officer,
like the viper in the fable, stabs at the
heart of the party which warmed him into
position and influence, he should be taught,
when the first opportunity occurs at the
polls, that if there is to be nothing in the
office for his party and the contest is mere
ly between two men, that the other man is
the decenter.
j The conduct of A. L. Guss, Prin
cipal of the Cassville Soldiers' Orphans'
School, now under investigation by a Leg
islative committee, is eliciting a great deal
of severe, but just, criticism from the
press, of all parties, throughout the State.
The evidence produced by the prosecution
is of the most horrible character, and
shows a depth of depravity seldom reach
ed by the most depraved of the human
family. No punishment is too severe for
this wretch, if a tithe of the testimony
sworn to is true, and we have no cause to
doubt a single statement. In this conned
tion, the Pittsburgh Gazettee says: "The
investigations in progress at Cassville, have
disclosed fully that Guss, the Superin
tendent of the Orphans' school, is one of
the most outrageous brutes that we have
any knowledge of. He should not be per
mitted to escape the punishment he de
-serves. If the law will not reach him,—
the statute of limitations being pleaded in
his behalf,—there are other means avail
able. Sometimes the punishment of a
criminal without the usual forms of law
may be justified on the basis of the higher
law."—Tyrone Herald.
giak. Hon. John Scott administered a
fitting rebuke to thb applicants for the
position made vacant by the death of Hon.
H. 13. Swoope. He advised them to wait
until after the funeral. Many had made
application for the appointment before it
was positively known that Mr. Swoope
was dead.—Clarion Republican.
SENATOR SCOTT AND FORNEY'S
PRESS
EDITOR
We have frequently noticed that their
is a studied effort on the part of the Phila
delphia Press, to misrepresent Senator
Scott. Heretofore Mr. Scott has taken no
notice of the uncalled for efforts of Col.
Forney to misrepresent him, but on Friday
last, he rose in his place in the Senate, as
we learn from the Press, and made the
following personal explanation in regard to
the ungenerous conduct to that paper :
Mr. Scott, of Pennsylvania, rose to a
personal explanation, and sent to the
clerk's desk a copy of the Lebanon Courier,
of Pennsylvania, from which was read a
statement that he [Mr. Scott] took sides
with the contractionists on the financial
question, giving as a reason that he be
lieved it to be the only means of bringing
about specie payments, and that it would
tend to reduce wages, so as to enable our
manufacturers to compete successfully with
those of foreign countries. He said the
article was founded upon one in the Phila
delphia Press of February 21,- which he
also had read. He said both these ex
tracts reached him this morning from var
ious portions of Pennsylvania, from those
whom he considered his friends, and he be
lieved it to be his duty to correct what
ever may be false in these extracts. The
paper given as the original authority, the
Philadelphia Press, claimed to be respect
able, and the Lebanon Courier, so far as
he knew, was a respectable newspaper.—
The tone of the articles was such as to
carry the idea that they spoke for him
and stated his opinions and theories by
authority. So far as attacks were confined
to misrepresenation and fabrication chiefly
of a personal character, he had declined to
notice them. So frequently had that been
the case, that he had come to the conclu
sion that the reporter of the Philadelphia
Press was under orders from his sup3riors
systematically to misrepresent him [Scott.]
When he had striven for and secured ap
propriations, in which the city of Phila
delphia was largely interested, he had been
represented as neglecting her interests.—
When he advocated the expulsion of the
Senator from Kansas [Mr. Caldwell] he
was represented as defending him. When
the books of the Secretary of the Senate
showed that he had not drawn the back
pay, the despatches represented that he
bad. When falsehoods were published as
his opinions upon public questions in
which the people of his State were largely
interested he felt it to be his duty to avail
himself.of the only means left him of meet
ing and repelling such assumptiOns. He
had not hesitated to announce that specie
payments, in his belief, could not be re
sumed and could not be maintained under
all circumstances. He favored free bank
ing upon United States notes issued
through the banks or upon a bond bearing
a lower rate of interest than those upon
which the present national-bank currency
is issued, redeemable by the banks and ul
timately by the Government, either in coin
or interest-bearing bonds. If he could not
secure that be would favor the best freg
banking that could be secured by a modifi
cation of the present national bank law.—
To a paper currency, unlimited in amount,
irredeemable in anything more valuable in
itself when itTell below par, he was oppos
ed, believino• e it to be injurious to the per
manent and best interests of all classes of
society. lie had never entertained or ut
tered such a sentiment about the wages of
labor as that reported in The Press and
quoted in the Courier, It was a fabrication
and a falsehood. With the proprietor of
the paper which first gave currency to the
falsehood, with the instrument lie used to
furnish such material for his columns, he
could have no controversy, and it was in
response to the demands of his constituents
that he noticed these unauthorized fabric
cations of his opinions. He was not likely
to be either correctly or fairly reported in
the despatches of a paper represented here,
with the knowledge of its proprietor, by
one who, when speaking of him [Mr.
Scott], has been more freqoently an eaves
dropper and a libeller than an impartial
journalist.
De,.. "Why is not Guss arrested ?" A
correspondent of the Pottsville Standard
furnishes the following answer to this in
terrogatory :
"The Committee of the Grand Army only
very lately became aware of what the tes
timony of the leading witnesses would be
in the case. They knew that some of the
parties spreading the reports against Guss
were undoubtedly actuated by partizan
feeling, therefore it was necessary to es
stablish every fact beyond a question. They
find that prosecution for most of the offen
ces charged is barred by the statutes of
limitation, and, since, points have been de
veloped upon which a prosecution may be
based, the Legislative Committee Have
had the matter in charge, and are taking
the testimony presented by Mr. Guss fur
his defense. The Grand Army of the
Republic Committee has felt that it must
not make any mistake by commencing a
prosecution on the unsupported word of
those who know nothing, and they there
fore will wait until all the testimony is in;
then you can depend on their acting
promptly and decisively."
DM. The members of the Grand Army
of the Republic, says the Johnstown Tri
bune, have been requested by the officers
of the State Comthandery to give expres,
sion to their sentiments regarding the
Cassville Soldiers' Orphans School scandal,
which is now undergoing investigation by
the Legislature. Wherever meetings have
been held, the indignation expressed was
intensely bitter. On Monday evening,
posts 1,3, 151, and 88 of Pittsburgh, met
and unanimously adopted the subjoined
resolution :
flee°lced, That we fully approve and endorse
the action of Past Deputy Commander R. B.
Beath in the investigation of the charges against
Prof. Gyps, of the Danville School, and that we
pledge ourselves to stand by him in any measures
that will secure the conviction of the said Cuss.
sm. The large city daily paws are al
-1 most unanimious in their efforts to defeat
the Franking Bill authorizing the free ex
change of newspapers and the free circu
lation of county papers in the counties in
which they are published. This is extreme
ly small business. If thee gentlemen,
persist in arraying themselves against the
interests of the country press we want to
know it. We are willing to give them a
monopoly of the general news, but we shall
see that our readers patronize those that
are not selfish enough to strike at their
local interests.
Da., We have heretofore entertained
rather a favorable opinion of Mr. Webb,
member of the House from Bradford, but
his proposition to pay weekly newspapers
not to exceed $2.50, and daily papers not
to exceed 81,000, far advertising the New
Constitution, knocks u$ into the middle of
next week. What sublime statesmanship!
How Webb-sterinn ! Ain't he a hb2ral
dog? Ilurrah for Webb ! We will wa.
ger a bucketful of saur-kraut that he is a
York Yankee.
News and Notes from Washington
The Centennial—Shalt it be a Success or a Fail
ure, a National Celebration or an Internation
al Exposition 7—The. Boston Collectorship—
An Animated Contest—Congressional Energy.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 2, 1874.
THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION IN THE 11. S. SENATE.
The House bill in reference to the Centen
nial Exposition was debated in the Senate on
Thursday and Friday, and on each occasion
there appeared to be a lack of patriotic spirit
in reference to the matter. Another cause of
opposition or indifference to the success of the
Centennial comes from jealousy in reference to
the City selected for the celebration, while
others are always ready to oppose any meas
ure certain that individuals have advocated.
The President is strongly in favor of making
the Exposition a success. Then of course
Charles Sumner is opposed to it. When the
House bill came up in the Senate Mr. Sumner
moved a substitute, providing that the cele
bration of the one hundredth anniversary of
American independence shall be national in
its character, and the arrangements shall be
left in the hands of theorigival commissioners.
He spoke nearly an hour in opposition to the
international feature of the exhibition, and
held that it would be improper to make it a
world's fair, or to invite the Monarchs and
potentates of Europe to join in the Centenni
al Anniversary of American independence—
the birth, in fact, of republicanism. When
the scheme was proposed Congress heard
nothing in regard to making an international
exhibition of the commemoration. The corn
missioners had departed from the original
idea and taken the liberty of making an effort
to make it a world's fair. "A national cele
btation," said the Senator, "is much ; an in
ternational exhibition is much ; but both corn
bined are too much." Mr. Thurman said but
one first-rate power had accepted the invita
tion to participate in the exhibition—Germany.
Mr. Ramsey said another first-class power—
Sweden—had accepted, and sent up to the
clerk's desk a dispatch, which was read, stat
ing that the Diet of Sweden had passed ap
propriations to defray the expenses of commis
sioners to the
Forney's Press has made the introduction
of this subject in the Senate the occasion for
an attack on the Pennsylvania Senators, one
of whom called the attention to the course the
Press was pursuing in reference to the State
Senators. The Press says that "a bold, young,
vigorous Senator would have forced the Cen
tennial bill upon the Ignited Senate yesterday;
but Pennsylvania was represented by Simon
Camm on, chairman of the Committee on Foreign
Relations, and it passed over 1 If Senator
Scott is afraid to interpose to save us, will not
a Senator from another State, who cares for
the Centennial, step in and rescue Pennsylva
nia and the nation from this utter shame ?
Our Washington correspondent telegraphs a
humiliating picture."
On former occasions the Press had misrep
resented Senator Scott, and its articles, under
the impression that the statements of that
paper were correct, were copied into other
journals in Pennsylvania. On Friday Mr.
Scott sent to the desk to be read an extract
from the Lebanon (Pa) Courier commenting
on his position on the finances as a contrac
tionist, which the article said would result in
reducing the wages of the laboring classes of
Pennsylvania to that of the paupers of Europe.
He also sent to the desk to be read an extract
from a Washington dispatch to the Philadel
phia Press of February 21, also commenting on
his financial position, and which, he said, was
the authority for the article in the Lebanon
Courier. Mr, S. then cold ih3 dispatch in ques
tion misrepresented his position. The Courier
he believed to be a respectable paper ; and the
other paper professed to be respectable. He
then said that the Press had repeatedly mis
represented him, and that he could come to
no other conclusion than that its reporter
here was under instructions from home to
make these misrepsentations. He then said
that he was not in favor of immediate specie
resumption, or of naming a day of resumption,
although he favored no more issues of sure
deemable paper currency. He had taken such
position which he thought would retain the
wages of labor at their present rate with no
decrease in the value of the currency. He
(Mr. S.) departed for this once from the rule
of his life which was to passnnnoticed slander
and live it down. In reference to the corre
spondent of this paper his conducttoward him
(Mr. S.) had proved that he was more frequent
ly an eavesdropper and a libeller than an im
partial journalist.
Now it is well known that the Pennsylvania
Senators are as true as steel in reference to
the success of the Centennial Exposition, and
it is unfair to attack them for the mere pur
pose of gratifying personal feelings.
The Centennial will be a success, beyond
doubt. The President, on Wednesday, in
transmitting the report of the Centennial
Commission to Congress, for warded a brief
message, in which he says it seems fitting that
the one hundreth anniversary of our indepen
dence should be marked by an event that will
display to the world the groth and progress of
a nation devoted to freedom and to the pur
suit of fame, fortune and honors by the lowest
citizens as well as the highest. A failure in
this enterprise would be deplorablb. Success
can be assured by rousing public opinion to
the importance of the .occasion. To secure
this end, in his judgment, Congressional leg
islation is necessary to make the exposition
both national and international.
Congress and the country will respond, in
the proper spirit to this sentiment, and the
Centennial will be a success.
FIGHT OVER THE BOSTON COLLECTORSHIP.
There has been a most annimated contest
over the appointment of a Collector of Cus
toms for the port of Boston. Judge Russell
has sent in his resignation, whether volunta
rily or otherwise it does not appear, and a
young politician, who has engineered Gen.
Butler's elections for a year or two past was
nominated by the Pesident for the place
through the influence of Mr. Butler and
Mr. Hooper, Members of the House from Mas
sachusetts, and Mr. Boutwell of the Senate.
The nomination was no sooner announced.
than a fierce opposition sprung up, and a vi
olent war has been waged between Ben. But
ler and those who oppose the.nomination.
There are no charges against Mr. Simmons,
either in reference to his private character or
his official integrity. But he is a friend of
Butler and runs Butler's elections, and if not
checked, will ran him into-the gubernatorial
chair, thence into the Senate, and possibly up
to the White House, and "that's what's the
matter."
On Thursday after the House adjourned and
Mr. Butler hurried home and took his din
ner in baste, after while he ordered his car
riage, and starting at 7 o'clock drove till 10
o'clock next morning, during which time he
called upon each Senator in succession at their
rooms and urged their votes for Simmons.
Those whom he did not find at home were in
terviewed next day in the Senate Chamber. At
the close of the debate on the Centennial,
the Senate, on Friday evening, went into
Executive Session and took up the Simmons
nomination. A number of animated speeches
tverc made, after which a vote was taken,
resulting in 30 yeas, and 16 nays.
The contest has been one of the sharpest
that ever occurred among officials here over
an appointment. Butler and his friends are
elated, and the opposition are somewhat de
moralized over the result.
CONGRESSIONAL ENERGY.
Congress has put through a large amount of
business during the week. The naval and
some other appropriation bills have passed
both branches and received the President's
signature. The spirit of economy and re
trenchment shows no abatement, and the pru
ning knife is applied wherever necessary in
the interests of a rigid economy. The Indian
appropriation will be reduced about $2,000,-
000 and the Committee recommend a reduc
tion of the Indian Agencies The army will
be reduced to 25,000. a. H. P.
Our New York Letter.
Adulterations—Whiskey—Crain— The Canals
—The Literary Emporium—The Latest Swin-
NEW Vans, March 2, 1874,
ADULTERATIONS,
There is trouble in the minds of the people,
for adulteration in its worst form has been
discovered. The father of the family, as he
poured the rich syrup over his buckwheats at
breakfast, and gave of the same to the wife of
litz bosom and the child of his heart, little
dreamed that he was giving them poison and
a most disgusting poises at that. For behold
you, it has been discOvered that the elegant,
beautiful, delicious-looking syrup, known as
the "Golden Drip," is made of what? Why,
of rags, and muriatic acid 1 The rags of com
merce, the common rags from the paper mills,
are taken by the skillful chemist and treated
with muriatic acid, and from the result this
golden drip syrup is made. Imagine the hor
ror which attended this discovery 1 Rags
from Turkey, from the backs of the leprosy
stricken people of the Bosporus—rags from
the backs of the Althy lazzaroni of Italy, and
rag seven from ,the mummies of ligi•gt, swelter
efl through a chemical process, and coming ou
Our tables as Golden Drip I Half the stom,
aches iu New yo r k tamed as they saw the
syrup cup ou their tables, aud is the restau
rants the orders buckwheats and syrup were
lessened a half.
The fact is adulterations and frauds cuter
more or less into everything that is used
in the great cities, particularly in this.
Our butter is larded, our genuine Havana ci
gars are made of the vilest Connecticut tobac
co, our milk is watered and chalked, and when
we die the plate on our coffin is plated. This
world is given to shame—let us hope the next
world will be genuine. It is that thought
that sustains me.
With the revival of religious interest in the
city, comes, naturally, a revival of feeling in
favor of temperance. The drinking saloons
continue to multiply, and they are now report
ed by the Excise Commissioners at 1,322, be
ing nearly one for 136 of the population.
There is no street, no square, without them.
In the upper part of the city they are fitted
up in the most costly style, to attract the at
tention of the wealth guzzlers, whose pat
ronage they desire, while in the lower part of
the city the saloons are stripped of everything
except what is absolutely necessary to handle
the liquid damnation. Down in Water street,
and in fact all the streets on the lower end of
the Island, there will be a dozen bucket-shops
in every square. Bucket-shops are stores
where the bulk of the trade is by the pint,
quart, or half gallon. You will see in any one
of them long precessions of the little boys and
girls, half-clad, barefooted, and with scarcely
clothing enough on them to hide their naked
ness, and half starved, going up to the coun
ters with tin buckets for liquor, for their
drunken fathers and mothers. The temper
ance movement now being inaugurated pro
poses to
DEAL WITH THE POOH
The temperance organization will appoint
Committees, who will labor with poor men
who are addicted to the use of liquor. They
intend to take these men by the hand, to fur
nish warm and well lighted rooms to which
they may resort, and where they will be fur
nished coffee, tea, and plenty of good reading
matter. It is expected that each man once
weaned from the use of liquors will see such
a difference in the way of living, that he will
become a postle of temperance among his fel
lows. They expect in this way to organize a
working temperance army, taken from the
liquor shops, and compel the closing of the
bars by withdrawing their trade. The move
ment has been inaugurated, and
SUCCESS HAS ATTENDED IT.
The workers have discovered that the labor
ing man, living in a close, cheerless, cold
room, goes to the bar room because it is light
and warm, and of course once there he drinks.
The reformers give him a . lighter, better,
warmer, cosier place of resort, and he his glad
to avail himself of it. And he brings his wife
and children, and they have a good time.
Music is furnished, pipes, tobacco, coffee and
tea, free to all, with a sandwich or such smat
ter to eat. The movement is telling, and has
made a positive impression. Let it go on.
THE GRALV TRADE
continues to excite atteption. The fact is the
facilities for handling grain at this point, are
ludicrously deficient, and the cost is absurd
ly great, which zest is borne of course by the
producer in the interior. But additional ter
minal facilities will not relieve the overbur
dened farmer. The country wants cheaper
freights, and cheaper freights can only be had
by increasing the efficiency of the canal sys
tem. Let me impress it upon every farmer
who reads these lines that to him the canal
is his only protection against the rapacity of
the railroad. So long as canals are operated
the railroads cannot combine to extort. But
to make them effective, they must, every one
of them, be enlarged. The Erie Canal ought
to be enlarged so as to pass a lake vessel, and
all tolls should be taken off. The great Wa
bash Canal should be enlarged and extended
to St. Louis, and the entire canal system re
vived and strengthened. Oh, ye Grangers .
take hold of this matter. You have power to
do it, and not only for your sake but for the
sake of the feeding millions of the east who
want cheap bread, give us the relief.
NEW YORK AS A LITERARY EMPORIUM.
Several years since the prediction was made
that New York was destined eventually to be
come the literary emporium of America, in
stead of Boston, as Edinburg instead of Lon.
don is that of Great Britain. And already the
partial fulfillmect of this prediction is claimed,
a large amount of the literary • capital of Bos
ton having been shifted to New York, and
more being expected speedily to follow its
course, according to the gossip of literary cir
cles. The absorption of Our Young Folks
by a New Yoi k magazine, and the recent trans.
fer of the Atlantic, give evidence to these be
liefs and predictions. The truth of the matter
is, New York has always shown greater liber
ality to the literary talent than Boston, and
hence it naturally seeks a market there. New
York magazines employ the pens of almost
all the leading authors of the present era. Her
dailies, weeklies and monthlies have the lar
gest circulation of any in America, and prob
ably in the world. Writers with established
reputations send their contributions thither,
knowing that they will there bring the high
est price, and they who have reputations to
establish follow their example in the gratify
ing belief that a too rigid criticism will not
annihilate their crude efforts, but view them
with cheering encouragement. Literary cap
ital, too, will eventually gravitate towards the
centre, where its advantages are greitest for
investment and Increase, and hence all indi
cationi tioint towards the future New York as
the leading cosmopolitan emporium of liters •
ture of the elightened world.
A NEW VILLAINY
Is there any limit to human credulity? The
mock auctions in this city have been so ef
fectually exposed that the rogues were com
pelled to resort to new dodges. The dodge
was forthcoming as soon as it was needed.—
Here is the way they work it :
.
SCENE-A small room on Nassau or Ann
streets. Auctioneer with case of jewelry—
crowd of persons, consisting of honest inno
cents and confederates. Enter, old man, in a
dirty suit of clothes, with a woeful face, that
looks as though no food had entered it for a
week.
"What do you want ?" queries the auction
eer of old poverty.
Slowly the. wretched old man pulls from his
pocket a watch and says he wants it sold.
"How did you get this watch 7" demands the
auctioneer.
"I am from Wisconsin," answers the old
man, humbly. "I am here in New York pro
secuting a suit for the recovery of some pro
perty, and am out of funds and want to raise
enough to get home. I have seen better days."
Auctioneer—Are you aware of the fact that
this is a first class, double-cased, English-le
ver, chronometer balance, jeweled in top and
bottom, gold watch, worth at least $l5O ?
Old Man—l paid $175 for it in Montreal,
four years ago, when I could afford such a
watch.
Auctioneer—Don't let me sell your watch,
old man. Don't do it. Take it to some pawn
broker, and pawn it ; any of them will advance
you $2OO upon it, and you can send for it
when you get home. It will be sacrificed here
—it will indeed.
Old man—lt don't matter. All I want is to
get home—and—die. It doesn't matter to me
whether get what It is worth or not.
"Very good. I will sell it, but it is a shatne.
How much do I hear for this watch 7"
A capper starts it at $25, and up it goes to
$3O, $4O, $5O, or SGO, when it is struck off.—
The money is paid to the auctioneer, who
gives it, less his commission, 10 per cent., to
the old man, who thanks hint tearfully, and
goes slowly and sadly out. Then the auction
eer closes the sale for the day, that he may
got rid of the people, so as to open in an hour
with a new lot of victims in whose, presence
the aged Wisconsin man and the auctioneer
go through the old farce again. It is needless
to say that the purchaser of the gold English
lever, jeweled watch, finds himself stuck with
an oriode bogus ticker that would be dear at
three dollars a bushel. In one den in Ann
street the thing is played twenty times a day.
There are other things in the way of eute
villainy which I will show up in my next.
Letter from Harrisburg
Ileßßissuftc, Feb. 28, 1874,
On Monday a communication was received from
Wm. 11. Dimmick, who, we stated in our last, was
arrested on Saturday, for complicity in the Dank
swindle, offering his resignation as a member.
Objections were made to the acceptance, of the
resignation inasmuch as it would forestall the ac
tion of an investigating committee, the Speaker,
however, decided that the House had no power to
refuse to accept the resignation of any member
who saw fit to resign, and ordered tho issuing of
the writ for a new election in the district compos
ed of the counties of Wayne and I'ike. The writ
issued to-day and the election will be held on the
2ith of March. If Mr. Dimmick had not taken
this action the report of the Committee would ip
all probability ha., - e had embodied in it a resolu
tion of expu'sion. It is thought this Committee
will report on Tuesday neat, when all questions
propounded by the public will be fully answered,
about one hundred and sixty witnesses have been
examined up to the present time, among them all
14e members of the House.
A Lill regulating the manner of paying the ex
penses of advertising the New Constitution is
pending in the House. The bill provides that the
papers which advertised by the direction of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth, shall present
their bills verified by affidavit, and shall be at
their regular rate of advertising and no payment
shall be made for more than four insertions. And
the claims of the papers which published without
the order and direction of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth, but in acceptanceof the terms offer
ed by the Constitutional Convention, when verified
by affidavit shallalbobe paid, but no more shall be
allowed in any such case than the amount of two
cents for each copy of the said Constitution pub
lished in the largest edition of the respective pa
pers. An amendment is also pending to the effect
that no weekly paper shall receive more than ;250
and no daily paper more than 51000 fur publish
ing this instrument.
Mr. Creseer, of Luzern°, has introduced into
the House, a bill providing for the decrease of the
Social Evil, and the licensing of Houses of Pros
titution in this Commonwealth. It provides for a
hospital for the diseased, which is to be supported
by a tax levied on all houses of Prostitution, and
individual prostitutes having a license, etc., sub
stantially embodying the law now in vogue in St.
Louis. The bill was reported from the Committee
to• day, without amendment. Mr. Cressler, it is
said, has in preparation a big speech on the sub
ject.
Senator Albright has introduced a supplement
to the legal holiday act as follows: That nothing
in the act shall prevent the making, demanding,
or protesting of any promissory note, draft, check
or bill of exchange falling due on the Monday
observed as a holiday, on the day upon which such
bill of exchange, draft, check or promissory note
shall be due. The bill fixing the salaries of mem
bers at $lOOO for a session of one hundred days
and SlO per day for an extra session not exceed
ing fifty days has passed the Senate. Mr. Ratan
offered an amendment whioh was agreed to, that
this bill do not go into effect until the 31st of De
cember 1874. This leaves the salary of the pres
ent Legislature to be fixed in the general appro
priation bill. Next week the Senate will consider
the corporation bill.
The following bills have passed the Ifonse on
first reading: An act to provide for submitting
questions of fact to the court in the trial of civil
cases. This bill provides for the dispensing with
juries in the trial of certain civil cases. The
judgment rendered by the court, however, to be
subject to appeal on a writ of error as in other
cases.
An act fixing the standard weight for bark. This
bill was introduced in the interest of Tanners and
fixes the weight for a cord of chestnut oak, white
oak, and hemlock at 2,000 pounds, and red oak
at 2,500 pounds.
An act compelling railroad officials to place
watchmen at crossings, and fixing the penalty for
non-complianee with this act at imprisonment not
less than two years and a fine not less thans2,ooo,
or both, said fine to be paid to the family of the
person killed or injured. The following reached
second reading:
An aet requiring Judges of the Courts to file
written opinions and the Judges of the Supreme
Court to designate such of their opinions as they
may deem necessary for publication.
An act to provide for the collection of debts
against non-resident debtors.
An act relating to the payment of costs in cases
of felony, and an act regulating the collection of
taxes. When these acts become laws we will in
form your readers as to their provisions.
DECISION OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
In some portions of the State, Justices of the
Peace have neglected or refused to take the oath
prescribed by New Constitution within 30 days after
the adoption of that instrument, and elections are be
ing held to supply the presumed vacancies, caused .
by that neglect. The law does not recognize a
vacancy in such eases and the incumbent holds
office until his term expires. The Governor and
Secretary of the Commonwealth will refuse to issue
'commissions to persons elected under the mistaken
idea that they are to fill such presumed vacancies.
'On Thursday, the surviving members of the
Legislature prior to 1850 held their re-union in
the Hall of Representatives. A reception took
place at the Kirkwood Hotel in the evening. Only
three invited guests were present, Governors Pol
lock, Curtin and Ilartranit. The whole affair was
quite a success. The nest re-union will be held
in 1876. MAT.
Miscellaneous News Items
New Hampshire is tapping her maples.
The confering of new bats is said to be
the Cardinal idea in Rome just now.
"Ladies, please shut the door," is the
legend which Indianapolis saloon front
doors now bear.
Cincinnati is short just '42,629 hogs.
She killed and cut up that many more last
year than this.
Out West it is getting to be elute com
mon for husbands to seek divorces by rea
son of cruel treatment.
Over a million and a half more money
is required to complete the Boston burnt
district improvements.
The foreshadowed strike of the locomo
tive engineers is no reassuring prospectfor
spring tourists and peripatetics.
The great question in England at pres
ent is, Why didn't Tennyson write an ode
for the late royal wedding at St. Peters
burg ?
A Chicago clergyman has just delivered
a lecture on "The True Gentleman." That
is dealing with the subject at long range.
Chicago having refused a hall to the
Woodhull, now regards itself as the most
fastidious and sternly puritanical city in
the country.
An Illinois paper speaks of one "William
Yeager, nee conductor on the Northwest
ern Railway." Now, was William born a
conductor ?
All the Fall River factories are running
on fullest time, and business matters in
general in that city are regaining their
anti panic condition.
An enterprising New Yorker has re
cently undertaken to supply daily rations
to the pet cats of that city, and is driving
a thriving bushiess.
That the amount asked of the country
by the federal administration to cover de
ficiencies is less than $3,000,000, is much
better than was expected.
In a section of Wetzel county, West
Virginia, about thirty miles square, a news
paper of any kind never appears. There's
hope for that section.
The spirit of reform almost invariably
carries with it a dash of bigotry, and some
times the dash of bigotry becomes the
most conspicuous of the two.
The all-absorbing issue at Hartford,
Conn., just now—the capital question hav
ing been happily solved—is: Who first
said, "Poeta nascitur, non fit ?"
PIETRO.
The American consul at Marseilles is
engaged about the preliminaries to the es
tablishment of a line of steamers direct
between New York and that port.
A citizen of Mississippi has laid claim
to the ownership of nearly one-half of the
city of Richmond, Va. If he gains the
suit he will be worth more than $10,000,-
00.
A movement is on foot in New York
city for organizing a social company with
a view to living in tents somewhere on
Long Island neat summer. The intent is
good.
No nse in drinking yourself of death in
Wisconsin now. The Graham law is to be
repealed and your heirs can't recover a
cent from the map who sells you the whis
key.
Clippings from State Exchanges
The shoemakers of Philadelphia are oo
a strike.
The Duncansville nail factory has resu
med operations.
South Bethlehem's opera house will be
rebuilt at once.
They talk of having a woman's war
against whisky in Reading.
Several .new slate quarries - are to be
opened in Franklin county.
A Montgomery county farmer sowed
wheat as early as the 7th ult.
Rev. Rudolph Kunzer, a Catholic cler
gyman, died'at Bridesburg on the sth ult.
Coatesville expects to give employment
to one hundred and fifty hands in her shoe
factory.
Cerebra-spinal meningitis is epidemio
among children at Midway, Washington
county.
Eight persons were fined $lOO each in
Mercer county, for violating the local op
tion law.
Most likely the furnace of the Warwick
Iron Company, of Pottstown, will be built
in the spring.
The measles having gene the rounds in
Conneautville, have now taken to the sur
rounding country.
Across the river Schuylkill, at Pheenix
ville, in Mount Clare, a fire brick manu
factory is talked off.
The new Presbyterian church at Pen
field, Clearfield county, will be dedicated on
Sunday the llth inst.
The Smith brothers, late or the Leba
non News, will soon start a new daily af
ternoon paper in Reading.
In the local option town of Hazleton,
Luzerne county, liquor is said to be di.:
pensed from seventy bars.
A new fourth-sand well, the Bennett,
was struck near Petrolia on the 25th, and
is yielding sixty barrels per day.
Miss Jennie Petty is endeavoring to in
cite the women of Scranton to rise in their
might and put down the whiky traiffic.
This in the first time since 1860 that
only thirty wells have been in process of
drilling through the entire oil region.
Lawrence Piper, alias John Baker, nine
years old, has bad his trial in the Mercer
court, for horse theft, and been acquitted.
Henry Foyle was foiled in an attempt
at burglary at Garden.ville, Bucks county,
the other night, by being shot and.cap
tured.
Mr. Geerge Knorr has been marine ed
itor of the Philadelphia North American
for sixty years. He is in his eighty-first
year.
A West Chester lady has a piece of the
flag which Washington carried on the
memorable event of his crossing the Dela
ware at Trenton.
It. is over thirty years since this celebrated
remedy was introduced to the American Public.
During this time it has performed hundreds and
thousands of the most astonishing cures, and its
reputation and sale have now reached a point that
far surpasses any remedy of the present orpast
ages. It has required this great reputation, not
by a system of puffing, but by the actual merit of
the article itself. If you are afflicted with any of
the diseases for which it is recommended, sucti as
Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Nervous Debility, or
disorder of the Digestive Organs, it will not fail
to sustain its reputation in your case. It is not an
alcoholic drink, but a puro Medicinal Bitters tha
will do you good. For sale by all Druggists. B,
sure you get "Hootland's German Bitters." John
stun, Holloway lc Co., Proprietors, 602 Arch St.
Philadelphia.
HARRISBURG, Feb. 27, 1874. I Sold by JOHN READ .t SONS.
A man was choked to death in Erie
c flinty, last Sunday, by trying to swallow
a piece of beef three inches long and one
and a half inches broad.
The Cassville Soldiers' Orphans' In-
vestigation.
One. Hundred and Fifty Witnesses Exam
ined in Three Days—Testimony of the
Defense Alai* of a Negaticjaarac.
ter.
[Special dispatch to the Evening Telegraph.]
The Special Committee, of which Sena
tor Anderson, of Allegheny, is chairman,
appointed to investigate the charges of li
centiousness, preferred against A. L. Guss,
of the Cassville Soldiers' Orphans' School,
have returned from Huntingdon county,
where the Committee held meetings at
Cassville and elsewhere on Tuesday, Wed
nesday and Thursday of this week. They
adjourned last night to meet again in
Huntingdon on Friday of next week, when
the evidence will be closed, and,the Com
mittee will make their report.
At this week's meeting of the Commit
tee upwards of one hundred and fifty wit
nesses were examined on behalf of the de
fendant, Guss. The testimony was entirely
of a negative character, and was aimed to
exculpate Guss by the evidence of persons
who had never seen him commit the acts
complained of. The general impression is
that the evidence produced for the prose-
Lion was not shaken in the least.
There are rumors at Huntingdon that
extraordinary efforts are being put forth
to induce some of the witnesses who testi
fied against Guss at the past meetings of
the Committee, to put in retractions at the
meeting next week, and that money is be
ing freely used to accomplish this purpose.
One pretty straight story is that a g irl,
whose testimony seriously eriminated G uss,
has been offered four hundred dollars to
go on the stand again and contradict her
self. There is rather strong evidence of
this.
The closing meetings of the Committee
are expected to be very exciting. The
people of the county are intensely interest
ed, and feeling runs high. The majority
believe Guys guilty, while he has a few
friends who stand by him, and say he is a
persecuted taint.
Cures all Kinds of Catarrh.
So successful has Dr. Pierce's Golden MedicalDiecovery
proven, as a constitutional treatment for Catarrh, when
coupled with the use of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, ap
plied locally by the use of Dr. Pierce's Nasal Douche (the
only method of reaching the upper and back cavities of
the head,) that the proprietors of these medicines has long
offered a standing reward of $5OO for a case of Catarrh
which he can not cure. The two medicines, with instru
ment, for $2 by druggists.
A SPECIMEN OUT OF THOUSANDS.
CORTLAND, M., April 28, 1873.
Da. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y.
Dear Sir—lt is with pleasure I make thie statement to
you that after taking medicine for twenty years for the
Catarrh, I tried your Catarrh Remedy and effected a cure,
so that it has not troubled me for two years.
STEALING OUR THUNDER.
People should beware of those impostors who copy Dr.
Pierce's original style of advertising, by offering various
Weed rewards for resat of Catarrh and other diseased which
they cannot core. Those who do not pontes sufficient in
telligence to write en original advortiaement are not
likely to have made great and valuable discoveries in
Medicines.
se. Take Simmons' Liver Regulator;
it will remove all unpleasant feelings and
make you well. Prepared only by J. H,
Zeilin & Co., Macon, Ga.
as. Parson's Purgative Pills—Best
family physic; Sheridan's Cavalry Condi
tion Powders, for horses.
Special Notices.
GREAT DISCOVERY! K. F. Kutszai.'s Brrratt Wtxs
of IRON. For the cure of weak stomach, general debility,
indigestion, disease of the nervous system, constipation,
acidity of the stomach, and all cases requiring a tonic.
The . wine includes the most agreeable aneefficient salt
of Iron we posses.; Citrate of Magnetic Oxide, combined
with the moat energetic of vegetable tonics—Yellow Pe
ruvian Bark..
The effect in many eases of debility, loss of appetite, and
general prostration, of an efficient Salt of Iron combir ed
with our valuable Nerve, is most happy. It augments the
appetite, raises the pulse, takes off tquesqler Ilabbinese,
remover the pallor of debility, and given a Soria vigor to
theiconntenanCe.
. — DolMlatiiiltiqmething to strengthen you? Do yen want
a good appetite? Do you want to build up your constitu
uon ? Do you want to feel weh? Do you want to get rid
of nervousness? Do you want energy t Do you want to
sleep well ? Do you want brisk and vigorous feelings? Tf
yep do, try Kunkel's Wine of Iron.
This truly valuable tonic has been so thoroughly tested
by all classes of the community, that it is now deemed in
dispqnsible es a Tonic medicine. It costs but little, purifies
the bluOd and gives tone to the stomach, renovates the
system and prolongs life.
I poly only se
lF a trial of this valuable Tonle. Price $1
psi bottle. E. F. ICENKLE, Sole Proprieter, Philadelphia,
Sold by Druggios gad dealers everywhere.
ii1734:4t
!WHY WILL YOU SUF.
FER.
HOUSEHOLD
To all persons suffer-
PANACEA l in g from Rheumatism
Neural g ia, Cramps in the
limbs orstomach, Billioui
Colic, Pain in the bowels
or side, we would say
i wen Ito usseoLD PAN,
ICEA and FAMILY Mal
onuT is Of all others the
-AND
remedy you Want for in•
FAMILY l i e t ru s l and
( Ix external :boos:4
'complaints in thousands
oreases. There is no milt-
LINIMENT. take about it. Try it
Sold by all Druggists.
Ju1y16,1873-Iy.
THE MOST WONDERFUL DISCOY
ERY OF THE 19th CENTURY.
Dr. S. D. Howe's Arabian Milk-Cure for Con
sumption, and all diseases of the Throat, Chest
and Lungs. (The only medicine of the kind in
the world.) A substitute for Cod Liver Oil. Per
manently cures Astbina, Bronchitis, Incipient
Consumption. Loss of Voice, Shortness of Breath,
Catarrh. Croup. Coughs, Cold., &c., in a few days,
like magic. Price $1 per bottle. Also, Dr. S. D.
Howe's Arabian Tonic Blood Purifier, which dif
fers from all other preparations in its immediate
action upon the Liver, Kidneys and Blood. It is
purely vegetable, and cleanses the system of all
impurities, builds it right up, and makes Pure,
Rich Blood. It cures Scrofulous Diseases of all
kinds. removes Constipation, and regulates the
Bowels. For "General Debility," "Lost Vitality,"
and "Broken-down Constitutions," I "challenge
the 19th Century" to find ite equal. Every bottle
is worth its weight in gold. Price St per bottle.
Sold by S. S. SMITH & SON, Druggist,
Sole Agents No. 616 Penn street, Huntingdon, Pa.
Du. S. D. HOWE, Sole Proprietor,
161 Chambers St., New York.
N0v.5,1373-limos.
CENTAUR LINIMENT.
There is no pain, which the Centaur Liniments will not
relieve, no swelling they will not subdue, and no lameness
which they will not cure. This is strong language, but it
its true. They kare produced more cures of rheumatism,
neuralgia, lock jaw, palsy. sprains, swelling, caked breasts,
scalds, bums, salt-rheum, ear-ache, .tc., upon the human
frame, and of stmins, spavin, galls, dm, upon the animals
in one year than hare all other pretended remedies since
the world began. They are counter,rritant, all healiag
pain relievers. Cripples throw away their crotch., the
lame walk - , pesionons bites are rendered harmless and the
wounded are healed without a scar. The recipe is pub-
Hebed around each bottle They sell as uo article ever be
fore sold, and they sell because they do jest what they pre
tend to do. Those who now suffer from rhumatism, pain
or swelling deserve to suffer if they will not use Centaur
Liniment, white wrapper. More than 1000 certificates of
remarkable cures, including frozen limbs, chronic rheu
matism, gout, running tumors, Or., hare been ruceived.
We will send a circular containing certitleates, the recipe
At., gmtis, to any one requesting it. One bottle of the
yellow• wrapper Centaur Liniment is worth ene hundred
dollars for spavined or sweenied horses mid mules, or for
ecrow-worm ID sheep. Stock-owners—theee liniments are
worth your attention. No family should be without them.
'White wrapper for family Use;' Yellow wrapper for an.
limnle. Sold by all Drugglets. 10 coots per bottle; large
bottled, $l.OO. J. B. !tone & Co., 63 Broadway, New York.
CASTORIA is more than a substitute for Castor Oil. It
Is the only safe article in existence which i certain to as.
eimilate the food, regulate the bowels, enre wind-colic
and produce natural sleep. It contains neither mineral.
morphine or alcohol, and is pleasant to take. Children
need not ery and mothers may rest.
Far sale by JOAN READ & SONS.
0ct.15,1873-Iy.
HOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTFRS,
Ju1y16,1873.w7m.N0.4
THIRTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE
of an old Nurse. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
is the prescription of one of the beet Female
Physicians and Nurses in the United States, and
has been used for thirty years with never fail
ing safety and success by millions of mothers and
children, from the feeble infant of one week old to
the adult. It corrects acidity of the stomach, re
lieves wind colic, regulates the bowels, and gives
rest, health and comfort to mother and child. We
believe it to be the Best and Surest Remedy in
World in all cases of Dysentery and_ Diarrhoea in
Children, whether it arises from Teething or from
any other cause. Full directions for using will
accompany each bottle. None Genuine unless the
fac-simile of CURTIS & PERKINS is on the out
side wrapper. Solt! by all Medicine Dealers.
Ju1y16,1873-Iy.
CUT THIS OUT.
IT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE.
There is no person living but what suffers more
or less with Lung Diseases, Coughs, Colds or Con
sumption, yet some would die rather than pay 75
cents for a bottle of medicine that would
cure them. Dr. A. Boschee's German Syrup
has lately been introduced in this country from
Germany, and its wonderous cures astonishes every
one that try it. If you doubt what we say in
print, cut this out and take it to your Druggist
and get a sample bottle free of charge, or a regu
lar sirs for 75 cents.
G. G. GREEN, Woodbury, N. J.
Aug.20,1873-Iy.
CHILDREN OFTEN LOOK PALE
and Sick from no other cause than having
worms in the stomach. BROWN'S VERMIFUHE
COMFITS will destroy Worms without injury to
the child, being perfectly WHITE, and free from
all coloring or other injurious ingredients usually
used in worm preparations.
CURTIS tk BROWN, Proprietors,
_ . .
N. 245 Fulton Street, New York.
Sold by Druggists and Chemists, and dealers in
Medicines at 25 cents a box.
Sold brJOHN READ SONS.
Ju1y16,1873-Iy.
New To-Day
AITDITOR'S NOTICE.
The undersigned appointed by the Orphans'
Court of Huntingdon county, to ascertain liens
against the share of Peter Shafer, jr., of the fund
arising from the sale of the real estate of Samuel
Shafer, late of Shirley township, deceased, and to
report distribution of the said share, will meet
all parties interested, at his office, in Huntingdon,
on Wednesday, March 25, 1874, at 1 o'clock, p.m.,
to attend to the duties of his appointment.
W. A. FLEMMING,
Auditor.
Mareb4-3t.
103105, lO7 NORTH 2D SRTEET,
9 Philadelphia, February 18, 1874.
We beg to inform you, that we are prepared to
offer for your insuction, our annul assortment of
MILLINERY GOODS,
consisting of the Newest Shapes in STRAW,
SILK and FANCY HATS, BONNETS, &c.,VEL
VETS, FLOWERP„ CRAPES, SILK GOODS,
FEATHERS, BLONDES, RIBBONS, RUCHES,
BRAIDS, ORNAMENTS, Ac., Ac.,
We shall be happy to wait on you at our Store,
or receive your orders, Yours, very respectfully,
March4-4t. H. WARD.
FOR SALE,
A VALUABLE BRICK RESIDENCE
The undersigned will sell, at public sale, on the
premises,
On THURSDAY, March 26, 1874,
at 2 &cloak, p. m„ that valuable Brick Residence,
late the property of Joseph C. Shoemaker, deed.,
situate on Mifflin street, in West Huntingdon
containing Aix rooms and an attic.
TERMS :—Twelve hundred dollars on confir
mation of the sale, and the balance in two equal
annual payments, with interest, to be secured by
the judgment bonds of the purchaser.
ELISHA SHOEMAKER,
Administrator.
March4,'72-3t,
PUBLIC SALE.
The undersigned will expose to Public Sale,
at her residence, in Hare's Valley, Union town
ship, two miles from Mapleton, on
Thursday, Afrch 19, 1874,
The following personal property, to wit: Two
Brood Mares, (good leaders,) 1 Three-year-old
Cult, Stock Cattle, Mitch Cows, (one freak,) A Lot
of Sheep, 1 New Top Buggy, one good Two-Horse
Wagon, Three Sleds (one new, with cast Soles),
1 new Sleigh, Plows, Harrows, Gears, Collars
Bridles, 2 sets Buggy Harness, (1 set new and
silver mounted,) Hay by the Ton, Straw by the
bundle, Corp-Fodder, Short Straw, I set black
smith Tools, Grain Cradles, *owing Scythes,
Forks, Rakes, 1 Side Saddle, 1 Man's Saddle, 1
Fanning Mill, 1 LOOM, Spools ac., 2 Wheel-, I
Big Wheel, a large Iron Kettle, Chains of all
kinds, 2 Ten-Plate Stoves, Doublytrees, Single
trees, Spreaders, and a great variety of other ar
ticles too numerous to mention.
Sale to commence at 9 o'clock, a. m., of said
day, when dpe alien lance asd a reasonable credit
will be given.
.
MART A. WRIGHT.
garch+,to,
New To-Day
NOTICE IN PAREITION.
Notice in partition in the estate of John
Gifford. Notice to Joseph B. Gifford, Hollidays
burg, Blair county, Pa., Joseph C. Crownovcr
Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland county, Pa. Tak•
Notice that an Inquest will be held on the Morri
son Farm of John Clifford, deceased, in the town
ship of Shirley, in the county of lluntingdon, on
the 31st day of March, .1. D., 1874, at 10 o'clock
in the forenoon of th.,t day,for thepurpose of ma
king partition of the real estate of said deceased, to
and among the children and legal representatives,
if the same can be done without prejudice to or
spoiling of the whole, otherwise to value and ap
praise the same according to law. at which time
and place you may attend if you think proper.
AMON HOUCK,
Sheriff,
March4,1874.4t.
TO THE HUBLIC.
The members of the A. M. E. Zion Church,
of this place, have concluded to build a new
church on the site now occupied by the old one,
on the South east corner of Sixth and Moore
streets, and in order to be successful they prayer
fully ask the public to :mist them in their under
taking. Their present building is unfit for occu
pancy, and it is absolutely neeessary that they
have a new house of worship.
Rev. J. W. TIRE]',
JAMES H. GANT,
LEVI CHAPLAIN, Sr.
WESLEY MURRELLS,
Building Committee.
March4,74-81nos,
lOWA AND NEBRASKA !
MILLIONS OF ACRES OF THE BEST LAND
in the West, for sale on Ten Year.' Credit, at II
per Cent. interest, by the Burlington & Missouri
River Railroad Company.
NO PAYMENTS REQUIRED
except interest, till fifth year. Rich Soil, warm
Climate, long Seasons, low Taxes, and free Educa
tion, Free Fare and low Freights on household
goods to those who
BUY THIS YEAR.
For Circular. and Map., with full particulsre, ad
dress GEO. S. HARRIS,
Land Caner, Burlington, lowa.
March4-4t.
B UCKEYE POULTRY YARDS,
OFFER FOR SALE,
EGGS FOR HATCHING,
Prom ;be following varieties of Pare-Bred Land
and Water Fowls, at $2.50 per dozen
Dark and Light Brehm. ; Buff. Black, White
and Partridge Cochlea; Brown and White Leg
horns; White and Silver-Grey Dorkings; Ply
mouth Rocks; Holidays; Black Red, Earl Derby,
and Pile Games • -Rouen and Aylesbury Ducks;
Toulouse and Bremen Geese.
I warrant one-half of each dozen Eggs to batch;
if they do not I will replace them at 50 cents per
dozen. Send Stamp for circular. Eggs sent C.
0. D., if desired. Address,
ISAAC LYNDE,
Marlboro, Stark Co. 0.
March4-2mos
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
[Estate of JOHN RICHARDS, deceatol.]
Letters of Administration having been granted
to the undersigned, on the estate of John Richards,
late of Coalmont borough, deceased,
: all persons
knowing themselves indeotel to said estate will
make immediate payment, and those having
claims will present them duly authenticated for
settlement.
RICHARD OWENS,
THOS. J. RICHARHS,
Coalmont, P. 0.
Narch4
Real Estate
K. ALLEN LOVELL, J. HALL 2/1171111102
MNTINGDON LAND AGENCY . .
ersons having Real Estate to sell, as well an
those who wish to purchase, will find it greatly to
their advantage to consult the undersigned, who,
in connection with their practice as Atiorneys-at
Law, in the settlement of Estates, &e., are able to
effect speedy and satisfactory purchases and sales
of farms, town properties, timber lands, he.
LOVELL & MUSSER,
Huntingdon, Pa.
PUBLIC SALE OF A VALUABLE
TOWN PROPERTY IN SHIRLEYSBURO,
PA. The undersigned will offer, at Public Sale,
on the premises, on
SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1874,
at one o'clock in the afternoon, all that valuable
lot of ground, situate in the borough of Shirley,-
burg, Huntingdon county, Pa., being 60 feet in
front on Main street, and extending in depth 140
feet and having thereon erected a good FRAME
DWELLING HOUSE, two and a half stories
high, 35 feet front by 20 feet in depth with &good
cellar underneath ; first story having four rooms
end second story having five seems, .
kitchen 14x18 feet; also a Wagonmaker Shop
24z28 feet two stories high which, with little cost
can be converted into a Dwelling-House or made
to suit any other business. A good well of water
at the door, Stable and other necessary outbuild
ings. There is choice fruit on this lot, such as
Apples, Pears, Peaches, Grapes, dm. This is a
full lot of ground according to the plot of said
town and is located in the principal business por
tion of the Main street. This property is one of
the most desirable in the place for a private reel
dence or for business purposes—being within one
fourth of a mile of the depot on the East Broad
Top Railroad—which railroad has lately been
completed as far as Orbisonia, four miles South of
Shirleysburg. Any information desired in regard
to the property can be had by addressing the un
dersigned at Huntingdon Pa., or WILLIAM
HARVEY, Shirleysburg,
TERMS OF SALE.—One hundred dollies to be
paid by purchaser when property in knocked
down; six hundred dollars on the first of April
next, when deed will be delivered and possession
given; and the balance on the first day of April
1875, with interest from April 1, 1574, to be se
cured by the judgment note of the purchaser.
LOVELL it MUSSER,
March4.lB74-ts: Attorney for Wm. Harvey.
New Advertisements
SEEDS AND PLANTS.
C. C. True Cape Cod Cranberry, best sort for
C. Upland, Lowland, or Garden, by mail, pre
paid, $l.OO per 100, 55.00 per 1,000. A priced
Catalogue, of this and all Fruits, Ornamental
Trees, Evergreens. Shrubs. Bulbs, Roses, Plants,
.ic., and FRESH FLOWER AND GARDEN
SEEDS, the choicest collection in the country,
with all novelties, will be sent gratis to any plain
address. 25 sorts of either Flower, Garden, Tree,
Fruit, Evergreen, or Herb Seeds, for $l.OO, sent
by mail, prepaid. WHOLESALE CATALOGUE
TO THE TRADE.
B. M. WATSON, Old Colony Nurseries and
Seed Warehouse, Plymoth, Mass. Establish.
1842. [Feb.25,'74-
ASSIGNEE'S NOTICE.
All persons indebted to J. Clark Walkbe
of Petersburg, are required to settle and pay t
same, and all persons having claims against him
are requested to present them to the undersigned,
A small stock of store goods are offered for sale
and a good business etand for rent, on favorable
terms.
H. ORLADY,
Anignee.
Petersburg, Feb. 9, 1874
WANTED.
A lady canvasser to take charge of •
popular article. To one of experience, or willing
to learn, and withal industrious, a reaee•.able sal
ary will he paid. This is an excellent opportunity
fer an active young lady. Apply, a ton, to BOX
12, Huntingdon, Pa. Jan.l4-tf
FOR SALE.
A few shares of Stook (from one to twenty)
in the Juniata Valley Camp- Meeting Association
at par and paid 10 per cent. last year'. Inquire
of M. M. LOGAN.
Feb.4-4t.
F OR SALE.
A BARGAIN
The Stock end Fixtures of a Drug Store, Cor
ner Third end Allegheny streets. The store-room
has recently been fitted up new, and can be rented
for $lO per month, $l4OO will buy the stock and
fixtures, satisfactory reasons given for selling.
Terms to suit purchaeer. Apply to or address
A. P. W. JOHNSTON,
Huntingdon, Pa.
Jan.2l-tf.
FOR RENT.
Three or tour rooms in a first-class brick
building, adjoining a well kept Boarding House,
on the business part of Penn street. These rooms
arc suitable for Store, Office, Society or Lodging
rooms. Will be rented separately or together.
Apply soon at JAMBS A. BROWN'S
CARPET STORE, 525} Penn street,
Dec.30873-3m05.1 Huntingdon, Pa.
60 CHOICE BUILDING LOTS !
60 c4oig. pi:4l4:4Na LOTS in Taylor's
dition to West fluntingdon," for sal,
Apply tp
JOHN F. MILLER