The Huntingdon journil .1 R. DURBORROW, HUNTINGDON, PENN'A. Wednesday Morning, March 11, 1874 Circulation LARGER than any other Paper in the Juniata Valley. Laws Relating to Newspaper Subscrip tions and Arrearages. The following is the law relating to newspapers and 1. Subs ribers who do not give express notice to the con trary. are considered wishing to continue their sub scription 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their peri odicals. the publishers may continue to send thew until _ all atrearages are paid. 3. Its - abaci:a:era neglect or refuse to take their periodicals from the office to which they are directed, they are bold responsible until they nave settled their bills, and °niers .4 them discontinued. 6. If cub tcriben more to other places without informing the publisher., and the papers are sent to the former di rection, they are held rmponsibie. 6. The Courts have decided that -refusing to take periodi cals from Ole office, or removing nod leaving them un called for, is prism facie evidence of intentional fraud. 11. Any person who receives a ueu,paper and makes use of it, whether he has ordered it or not, is held in low to be a subscriber. 7. If subscribers pay in advance, they are bound to give notice to the publisher, at the end of their time, if they do not wish to continue taking it; otherwise the pub lisher is authorized to send it on, and the subscriber will be responsible until an express notice, with payment of all arrears, is sent to the publisher. THE ORPHAN SCHOOL SCANDAL The Committee to investigate the char ges of immorality against A. L. Guss, late Principal of the Cassville Soldiers' Orphan School, adjourned on Saturday afternoon last, to meet in Harrisburg, on Thursday, the 19th inst., to hear the argument of counsel. The Committee, at the last meet ing, examined a large number of witnesses on the part of the defence, principally as sailing the character of the four leading witnesses of the prosecution for truth and veracity. This was principally done by calling "sixteeners" to prove the character of the young girls for truth and veracity while at school, several years ago, and by calling others to assail George W. McEl downey, similarly, who had given dama ging testimony. A. L. Goss was, as a last resort, put on the stand and endeavored, in a three hours' effort, to explain away the chain of facts and circumstances which had been slowly and surely closing in upon him, and where this could not be done he made flat denials. He started out under very unfavorable circumstances, by having to admit that he had sworn to a material fact in the Guss-Wharton libel - suit, in which he had been flatly contradicted by three unimpeached witnesses. He made some very damaging admissions which of themselves ought to be sufficient to remove the school from under his control. At the close of his long and tedious ex planations, denials and admissions the pro secution began to rebut, and in a short time their leading witnesses, sustained by as good men and women as there are in Blair and Huntingdon counties, came out grandly. Every witness assailed was vin dicated and corroborated, and a mountain of additional evidence rolled -up that swept away the little screens set up by the de fense like chaff before the mighty whirl wind. Never, in the history of investiga tions, was a determined defense swept away so effectually. Not a foot of foun dation was left to cling to, besides this the testimony cf Albert Handcuff was corro borated by others. And yet the brute, who was so signally exposed, had the au dacity to insult his accusers, to join in disgusting levity and to parade his hide ous person in the presence of all respecta ble people, unabashed. These comments are not intended to be discourteous to the Committee, nor do we wish to anticipate their action, we simply give our impressions, and the impressions of others, of the case, believing that our readers expect as much from us who were instrumental in stirring the powers that be into action. We believe that the posi tion taken by the JOURNAL has been vin dicated an hundred fold, and we feel proud that we took the position in regard to the matter which we did. And we hope that the prurient prudes who thought our paper was indelicate, and denounced it, but who nev er lifted a finger to break up the vilest system of debauchery of this age, will have the manliness to accredit us with having done morality and religion a service. In doing what we did we knew that the task was a very delicate one. We felt that we could scarcely make a charge against the Reverend (?) brute without casting reflections upon some of the unfor tunate girls who had been placed under his tutorage. This grieved us much, but we thought that no honest person would question our motives, and that time would vindicate us. The beast was not slow to avail himself of our delicate position, and with all the energy which he could com mend, he set about endeavoring to create the impression that our article directed against him was a direct assault upon the Soldiers' Orphans, and that it was their fight. He instigated some of those whom he misled to attempt an assault upon us— be having paid for a couple of cowhides for this purpose, which are now in our possession—which failed. We attached little blame to the young men and young women who were- the instruments thrust forward to do his work, and, if they had asked us then, in a gentlemanly or lady like manner, unaccompanied by a threat, we could have satisfied them of our good intentions, and would at once have made all the necessary public explanation, thro' the columns of our paper, that they could have asked of us, but they pursued an un wise policy, and we became inflexible. A threat is a very bad weapon to use with us—it never succeeds. The matter is over now, and all the participants are heartily ashamed of it, and we most heartily forgive the innocent orphans concerned, and in vite all around to see us when next they, or any of them, visit Huntingdon. The Committee, of which Senator An dersen, of Allegheny, is Chairman, came here disinterested parties, in search of truth, and never did men give a more pa tient and impartial hearing than did these gentlemen. They gave the defensa every latitude. They allowed a hundred witness es, partizans and persons furnishing sup plies to the school, living in out-of-the-way places, to be called to swear to Guss' char acter for morality in the neighborhood in which has and they lived, but they would not hear one of the hundreds on the other side. They gave the whole subject such a patient investigation as is seldom accord ed by liegislatiTo Committees, and they deserve the respect and thanks of every good citizen of the Commonwealth. Sen ator Anderson especially deserves the thanks of the Soldiers for his efforts to protect the offspring of their deceased comrades from insult and reproach. We will lay the report of the Committee be fore our reader's as soon as received. . EDITOR PARTIZAN SUPPORT: WE DE- MAID IT In last week's issue of the JOURNAL we copied an article on "Party Patronage," from the Blair County Radical, which we fully endorsed. We now desire to put our. position upon this matter a little more pointedly, so " that the wayfaring man, though 4 fool," may comprehend it.. There has been, heretofore, the most lax system of political morals in Huntinedon county, as applied to the Republican party, that has ever come to our knowledge.— There has scarcely been any party organi zation, cave in name. Men claim to be Republicans, and ask the support of us and others, who vote as often the Demo cratic ticket as they do that of the party to which they profess to belong. Men support the Democratic ticket one year and ask the Republican party to nominate them for offices of importance the next.— They stand idly by and do nothing from one year to another, and yet when there are any fat offices to be filled they thruit men, who have been active workers, aside and push themselves in. They work like bea vers for themselves and do nothing for anybody else or the party. Such conduct is simply intolerable, and no party can sanction it and live. And as far as we are concerned, we will support no man of this character. W 0 care not wha he is. We insist upon it that no man has any claim upon the party, FOR ANY POSITION, who has not EARNED IT by hard work for the party. Men who push themselves for ward, without having earned what they aim to secure, arc mere frauds ! These be plain words, but we know that we are dealing with a gigantic evil that, if not checked, in a few years must ruin the tepublican party in this county, as it will ruin it wherever such a policy is counte nanced. Follow one of the characters above de— scribed into office. As soon as he is elected he thanks his stars that he has succe.sful ly run the gauntlet, forgets those who la bored and spent their money for him; for gets the party that was magnanimous enough to give him a nomination ; if he controls any patronage he ascertains wheth er he cannot get some Democratic friend to do it for less than those who spent their money, exhausted their stock of quibbles, and invoked the party machinery to secure his Election. In short, as soon as he is inducted into office he forgets every reciprocal obligation to his party and his friends. This, of course, is black ingrati tude. But it is an every day occurrence. We have labored, racked our brains, ex horted and entreated Republicans to vote for people, and thereby secured their elec tion, who, as soon as they were installed in office, would turn about and pay no more attention to the vital interests of the party, nor to our interests—to whom they owed their election—than if they were not of us or did not know that they were the mere creatures of circumstances. Of course we have never been caught a sec ond time, nor while we can command onr senses is it probable that we will be ! We say now, so that there may be no misun derstanding, that we will support no man for office that will not support us ! We are expected to keep up the party organization by means of the position we occupy, and so long as we continue to do this properly to the satisfaction of a majority of the party, any stroke levelled at us, by those •who ask favors at the hands of the party, is a stroke at the party. We shall so PC. gard it, and when an opportunity is afford ed we will resent it! We will sum up our position in a few words : A man, who has not labored for the party, should not receive - partizan re wards, and the converse. A man, who is elected to office, should never cease to la bor for the party nor to support its friends. These propositions are mere acts of justice and gratitude. If men who receive the rewards of the party do not keep up the party organization who in the world will ? Can men who receive no advantages from the party be expected to do it? Certainly not. The love of painoiple must be very strong, indeed, when such presumption can be indulged. We insist upon it that every 'rtepublican office-holder in Huntipgdon -unty, and every man expecting to receive a nomina tion at the hands of the party, must prove himself worthy of the party by doing such work as is to be done and by supporting those who do the largest share of the work. We dismiss this matter for the present. We may have occasion to allude to it again, and if we do, we may be extremely pointed. Is t , We publish the Legislative Appor tionment Bill, as reported by Senator ilu tan, in another column. The Senatorial district is the most unsatisfactory to the Republicans of Huntingdon county that could be framed, and we do hope that our member will be able to secure a more ac ceptable district. The true Republicans of this county have been laboring for years to get rid of the influence of the Woods League, which, with the aid of the same influence in Mifflin county, has been able to do so much mischietand now when we are about, to get rid of it in this county, we are to be tied up to Mifflin county to enable it to cut us to pieces.— Gentlemen of the Legislature, save us from such a fate. Any other county but. Mif flin, if you please. Better a Democratic district at once. Gen. Harry White aspires to Senator Scott's place in the United States Senate. We can't see it in that light. Tyrone Herald. Nor we. Hon. John Scott is an honor to the SW; an able Senator, and has ac quired a national reputation as one of our wisest and best lawmakers, and the great State of Pennsylraniu owes it to her citi zens, and the country, to return him to the pl a ce he now so Oily adorns.—Bolliclays burg Register. ICY' Ex-President Millard Fillmore died at Buffalo, New York, on the Bth, inst. SENATOR SCOTT'S APPEAL Seldom has the Senate of the United States been favored with so terse and forcible, eloquent and logical an argument as was that delivered on Friday last by the Hon. John Scott, of this State, on the subject of the Centennial. It is quite true that the Senator had for his theme a sub ject all aglow with the inspiration of pa triotism. Yet, he did not, as heexcusably might have done, launch into a sea of pop ular platitudes and indulge in what is gen erally known as a Fourth-of-July oration. Choosing, and very properly, too, to discuss the vital subject under discussion in a cold and logical manner, relying sole ly upon the facts and merits, and not upon the tempting patriotic surroundings of the great cause in baud, Senator Scott cannot have failed to have carried conviction to the minds and hearts of every one of his august hearers. In reply to the distinguished senior Sen ator from Massachusetts, _Mr. Scott forci bly, yet justly, remarked that If Roston had been agreml upon as the place for holding the exhibition theta would have been no adverse resolu tion in the 31assachusetts Legislature. If tlVai international exhibition failed it would be because Congress refused to comply with the obligations r eating upon it to make it a success. Ire had understood from the Board of Firinnee that if Congress would appropriate s3,aoo,ooo—balf of the amount payable this vear, and the remainder the year after—the exhibition 'would be made a success. Truthfully, too, our Senator observed that the people of Pennsylvania regarded the proper celebration of Jitly 4, 1876. as a grand national, not a State project. No words mare pertinent to the subject could have well been uttered, and Messrs. Sum ner and Thurman cannot do better than ponder well upon them. Massachusetts and Ohio, California and South Carolina have as much at stake as has the Keystone State. Nay, more, for Pennsylvanians and Philadelphians, the custodians of In dependence Hall, have already given freely of their means for the honor of the nation. In the language of Senator Scott Pennsylvania had done more than she promised, and be trusted now the mailer would receive the indorsement of Congress, and our great nation would stand up the admi ration of the whole world. The exhibition was not a Pennsylvania re oJect, but a grand na tonal project, and if it failed the skirts of Pennsylvania would be cleated from diegmce. The panic had prevented subscriptions to the enterprise. The people of Pennsylvania regarded it as a national enterprise, and had at heart the honor of the na tion as well as that of their own State. • Gracefully Senator Scott expressed the hope that the Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, would be ppresent in Phil adelphia during the progress of the Cen tennial celebration for the purpose of ad dressing the many thousands that would be assembled to hear him. Lastly, Mr. Scott asked that Congress should appoopriate a sum of money fur the national enterprise, an amount commen surate with the grandeur of the project— an appropriation worthy of the honor of the nation—pecuniary aid in quantity suf ficient not to be dwarfed by the liberal contributions already freely given by the people of Pennsylvania, not for the ad vancement of their own glory, but for the honor of the Union. Senator John Scott, for his masterly effort in behalf of the Centennial, deserves the thanks and applause, not only of his constituents, but every American and of friends of freedom the wide world over.— Philadefphia Inquirer. tie' Speaking of the debate on the Cen tennial question, the Philadelphia Ledger says : On Friday last the Senate of the United States, for the first time, listened, with close attention and interest, to a state ment of the history, condition, and pros pects of the work of preparation fur the Centennial Exhibition. This was present ed in the able and eloquent re.ponse of Senator Scott to a speech just delivered by Senator Sumner. The distinguished Sen ator from Massachusetts had undertaken to prove that the Exhibition was never in tended to be “International" in its charac ter, and that Congress should not be called upon to appropriate any money towards de fraying the expenses. This elicited from Mr. Scott a full his tory of the legislation on the subject, and never was refutation more complete, and it was as courteous as it was overwhelming. The eloquence of this masterly argument we have been obliged to pass with the merest incidental mention, but that, with its clear, complete, conclusive presentation of the whole subject to an attentive and evidently sympathizing Senate, made the pulses of the Pennsylvanians present quicken with pride and satisfaction. pm. When men are candidates for of fice, the newspaper is an important auxili ary to success, and the first thing an aspi rant for official honors looks after as , soon as he has made up his mind to be a candi dke, is the support of his party paper. If he fails, he thinks his chances of success are not encouraging, and in all probability withdraws from the field. The influence of the paper is too great to be successfully overcome. But marl; the differenee. As soon as a man has been elected and duly installed in office, by and through the in fluence and support of his party paper, it immediately falls into insignificance, is of no account, and is not regarded any more than if it had no existence at ail—until the man wants to be reelected, and then it suddenly occurs to him that a newspa per is of some importance and is not to be sneezed at. He at once goes to the editor, apologizes fur his neglect and indifference, promising great things in the future if the paper will only support hint again. The poor fool of an editor believes every word the man says, turns in again, gives him his support, re-elects him and—the editor may go to thunder.— Tyrone Feral& OW' The Beaver Angus and Radical thinks the newspapers of the State and the Grand Army of the Republic are not giv ing that high-toned gentleman, the "Rev," Prof. Guss, late principal of Cas.sville Sol dier's Orphans School, a "fair show." Perhaps not; hut nine out of ten of the people of the State, who know anything of the matter, think Goes could net be too severely dealt with. The people's heads are generally "level'? in such matters, too. —Pittsburgh Commercial. R. Bruce Petriken, Esq., of Huntindon is spoken of as likely to be the next Democratic candidate for Governor. He will do as well as anybody else for a candidate, as that all it amounts to.--isitSn Republican, "E. Bruce" is not "likely to be the next Democratic candidate for Governor" by a jog full. The Democratic party wants a man of dignity and withal a gentleman. Anythin less than this, we concede, might be favorable to Potrikon. The apprt•pri . ation to the Interna tional Centennial project was defeated in the United States Senate, on Friday last, by a decisive rote. Henceforward, it is thought. the Exhibition will becoine only a National affair, instead of being a World's Fair as was contemplated. 'We are sorry that the jealousies which characterize the leading States and cities were allowed to enter into the spirit of this affair and thereby dwarf the intentions of those who have been identified with the project from its inception. But we hope there will be no let up, and that the best will be done that can be done under the circumstances. as, The Beaver Radical and Argus, with its usual good nature, undertakes to lecture those who are disposed to believe the evidence taken in the Guss case, and intimates that the evidence may be a "set up job." We assure the liberal and cour teous gentlethan who controls that paper, that the peoplo who are prosecuting Guss know nothing about 'Set up jobs." Every thing of that kind is on the other side: Vier Our friend, Scull, of the Somerset Herold, is the sorest man over the adop tion of the New Constitution in the State. He gives his readers two articles, on an average, of each edition of his paper, "la menting in sorrow sore," over the new order of things. Don't take on so, friend, you will survive it. ts„, We call attention to the speech of Hon. Charles Albright, member of Con gress at-large, from this State, on free ex changes and the free circulation of county newspapers in the counties where they are printed. It takes a broad and unanswer able view of the question. Our New York Letter, NEW Yons, March 9, 1874. Female Bar hers—Two Pluckg Girls—A Young Man's Expenses—Distress—One Case—Dress Reform Business—A Conversation The Temperance Movement. FEMALE BARBERS. Two women, at least, have secured their rights, and have now all the privileges that men enjoy. Two very pretty young girls, aged respectfully 18 and 20, had a papa who was rich, and who lived in grand style on Fifth event', Papa got into the hands of the Phil istines last autumn, and busted. The girls were genuine girls, notwithstanding the fact that they had been fashionably educated, and they felt their poor father's distress keenly,— The old gentleman's trouble so weighed upon his mind that he sickened and took to bis bed, and got in a bad way generally. The house in which be lived was fortunately in his wife's name, so they could not be turned out of doors, but as the old gentleman bad sunk ev ery dollar he bad in the world, the question of bread and butter became an imminent one. One morning the old gentleman's ba7ber did not come around to shave him, and Ella, the eldest girl said she could do it. She took her father's implements and shaved him as nicely and neatly as any tonsorial artist could do it, and dressed his hair and trimmed his whiskers, and propped him up in bed as com fortable as you please. Au idea struck Mary, the younger. 4,11 a, if you can shave papa, you can shave any other man." ;•True," said Ella. "If you can shave a man I can shave a man." "True, once more. But what has that to do with us?" "Ella, do you want to starve?" "No, my child." "Papa can't get out—Mamma is selling off the plate to get what weeat each day. Let us stop all this by starting a barber-shop." Ella saw the point. The two girls rigged up an extempore chair—they took their coach. man, whom they had not yet dismissed, be cause he wouldn't go, and they shaved him for practice, and dressed his hair, and trim med his beard every day. To accommodate them he brought his friends in, and in a week's time the girls were accomplished and expert workmen, or rather work-women. Then they sold the horses and carriages, and taking the proceeds fitted up a modest, but very neat shop in Union Square and went at it, The first customers they had were youcg swells who had known them "in so ciety," and great was their astonishment. "Miss Diasvy," said one of them, "by Jove, what led you to this?" "Papa failed you know Charles, and we had to do this—or worse." "Worse I worse t Why, what could you do that would be worse?" "Marry a man like yoo ?" peplied Mary dab. bing her shaving brush in his mouth. It is an encouraging fact that the girls have all they can do, at good prices, and are not only supporting their parents in comfort, tot are laying up a handsome sum besides. Why should not women be barbers? •Imag ine the deft, soft, warm fingers of a pretty girl on your face l A man should submit willing ly to have his nose sliced off by one of them. I cannot say that it is in any way out of the way. If men are employed in lady's shoe stores, where they put on and take off lady's boots, why is it not just as proper for women to be employed as barbers and to shave men ? They do it better and more pleasantly than the men barbers, and customers would never be afraid that a drunken woman barber would cut their throats. WHY THE BOYS DON'T GET Oat. A great many young men who come from the country to New York, and get tolerably good salaries, find themselves at the end of the year in debt, and they wonder why it is. The young gentleman is, we will say, a book keeper on a salary of $2,000• He pays 12 per week for board, which leaves him about $1,400, and be calculates to lay by some thing of that. But he don't, and this is why : Board per year. $624.00 Clothe; Total Then comes his little expenses as follows: Blacking boots, 10 cents per day $ 30 50 Morning and afternoon papers O5 10 Three drinks per day, 16 cents each 164 25 Four cigars per day, at 10 cents each 146 00 Shaving twice per week 15 cents each l6 60 Attending theater twice a week, sea. son of 9 months 72 00 Four games of billiards per week 39 00 Street car fnre, 10 cents each day 36 50 Total ss7o 75 Se gets into "pciety." Society demands a dress suit, which costs $129, and society 4e mends that when be attends a party or a din ner that he put on white neck-ties, and light kid gloves, at $2.50 a pair. And society, in exorable mistress that she is, demands that he shall take Araminte to the opera *once in a while, which means gloves, neck-ties, borinets and carriage, which, with seats at $4.00 each, means $3O for the night's amusement. And so Augustus discovers at the end of the year that his $2,000 are all gone, that he has over drawn $5OO or $l,OOO and "ne commences pec ulation or speculation—the same thing so far as results go—and Augustus drinks to drawn his trouble, and finally he lands in the Toombs and comes . out a poor miserable wretch.— This is what happens to a great many Au gustuses. Society is what does it for them. DISTRESS. The distress among the sick unemployed people in New York at this time Is terrible.-- Much has been done by the charitable to re• licve It, but not one dollar has been given where ten should be. Young James Gordon Bennett, of the Herald, established soup hous es to the extent of $30,000, and others have done the same thing, which is good as far as it goes, but it does not go far enough. The people who can come to the soap houses ow generally, get on without it, for they are able to do something. But the worst cases are known only in the houses where they live.— Many prefer starvation to beggary and shriek from allowing their distresses to be made public. A case of this character was brought to my atteetien yesterday by a child who was beg ging for money with which to purchase food and fuel. Tn reply to questions he said that his mother had jest been confined; that his father had been Out of work since autumn, and that he was DYING FOR TOD FOOD which he was too proud to beg. I accompa nied him to the house in Canal street, where the family lived. The house was small, but was occupied by a number of families. The boy led the way up a night of rickety stairs, which threatened to give away at every step. The room presented the appearance of the ut most squalor and poverty. Every article of furniture which could be sold had been parted with, and nothing remained but a bed, a table, acd two chairs with broken backs. Upon the bed lay a woman whose face told the sad story of disease and hunger. The child, which was but three days old, was at the point of death. The husband-father sat with his face between his hands, and seemed entirely unconszious that any one was in the room. The boy said that he had been too sick to work—that he had had for a week just strength enough to drag himself out to beg, but that for two days past be had obtained nothing. The attention of charitable persons was called to the case, and measures were taken to provide for the needs of the starving family, and medical attendance was secured for the mother, whose child was too far gone with starvation to be saved. There are thousands upon thousands of such cases in the city. There is work enough for the strong and healthy to live upon, but not enough to enable them to help the unfor tosser, of whom they alone know. Thank Heaven ! the spring is near at hand. WHITE KIDS. Speaking of dress and things, the Brooklyn Woman's Club have made a discovery, no less than that the costliness of social life has been due to the wearing of kid gloves—men and women have felt that they must "dress up" to kids. Therefore the club have inaugurated a reform by banishing the mischievous kids from their re^eptions. This will last ts'o weeks. Dress will rule so long as the poor devotees can stand it. A movement has been made by crippled people in Boston, to simplify woman's dress. The dry goods dealers and modistes have not been consulted in connec tion with the movement, and they exclaim, as with one voice, "What a horrible ideal" And the rich will all echo, "What a horrible idea l" is not as brisk as it was. The season has ad vanced so far that the country merchants bade put off their buying till the spring, and our merchants languish. The crash, so pleas ant to their ears, is not. heard—their clerks and salesmen idle upon boxes and bales, for the country merchant, he, in whom they de light, cometh not. But he will be here in April with his plethoric purse, or what is the same thing, his A 1 credit, and the way they will sell him goods will be a caution. Money is tight, and there is a striugercy and close ness in everything that is exceedingly uncom forlahle. The Grangers have disturbed Rail road securities, stocks have changed values, and there is a general derangement, so that the average New Yorker hasn't any idea where he stands. Even goods in a store have no fix ed value, for, behold you, a man's next door neighbor may be in a position that compels him to raise money, and to raise money he must slaughter goods to the demoralization of the market for days. Oh, my bucolic friends, you don't know how well you are off. The man who has a farm of 160 acres of fat land, paid for and well stock ' ed, is in as good a shape as any man in the world can be. Such a man don't know what trouble is. Think of a man worth a million of dollars of dry goods in his store, on which he owes $600,000. Now the man is worth $400,000. But he can't sell his goods—nobody is buy ing anything and bis paper is maturing. To meet his paper he forces his goods on the market, he sells at a sacrifice, expenses are enormous, and when the thing pans out he finds his salable goods all gone, and he, poor fellow,.owes $250,000 and hasn't a dollar to bless himself with. But there is a bright side to it, sometimes. If the poor fellow ought honestly to fail for $250.000 he fails for $600,000, the odd $350,- 000 being invested in the purchase of real es tate in his wife's name, and out of the reach ~of his creditors. I heard yesterday a conver sation to this wise : Simpson—Brown has failed. Jones—Has Ile indeed? Well I'm glad of it. He's worked bard fora good many years and it's time he had begun to lay off and take things easy. I suppose he will set up a car riage now. Won't he ? This explains it all. One merchant who failed for a million has 600 acres of land up the Hudson in his wife's name, that is grow ing in value, so that it is now worth over a million. But this is not the case with all of them. The high-minded merchant, who fails because he cannot help it, and whe turns out everything be has, and who takes a clerkship, has a bard and bitter life of it. God help him! he never comes up again, but se grows old and grey-haired, in a hopeless, helpless way, and finally tumbles into his grave, un• wept, unhonored and unsung. His old clerk's even forget him. TEE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT in its western form, has not struck us here yet, but nevertheless, there is great activity among the temperance and religious people. Organizations are being perfected in every ward to make head against the monster, and the work that has been done has not been fruitless. The reformers here have not de monstrated against the rum seller, but they have confined their work to the rum drinker. They are establishing reading rooms, and pleasant resorts as substitutes for the saloon, and tea and coffee as substitutes for rum. And though they have but commenced, they have won thousands from their ruin, and in one neighborhood have compelled several rum mills to close for want of custom. Is not this a pretty good way 7 PIETRO. Letter from Harrisburg HARRISBURG, MARCH 7th, 1874. A MAN OF RESOLUTION. On Monday morning in the Elouse a gentle man who hails from Westmoreland, and the inquiring bent of whose disposition had man ifested itself during the preceding week in the failure of repeated attempts to offer a resolu tion, at length succeeded in offering one with five "whereases" and a "resolved," in order, as it stated, to throw light upon the gross Igno rance of the Legislature in regard to the nec essary number of its officers and employes, the nature of their services and the salary which each receive. The object was to stir up a "mare's nest," but the resolution was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and the nest has not been stirred, if it so be that one exist. THE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE. Mr. Young, from the Special Committee ap pointed to investigate the Gibbons-Saunders bank swindle, made a lengthy report, on last Wednesday, which was adopted by the House and the Committee discharged. This report finds Wm. 11. Diromick, the member from Wayne and Pike, the prime mover of the scheme, and exonorates all other members of Legislature. That lie admitted no one into his confidence except those who could serve him, and these he trusted onlypartially, That he had no Intention of o,ing the money for the passage of House bill No. 18, but solely for his own benefit, .and that his resignation only anticipated his expulsion. Parties by the name of It. 11. Gibbons and E. L. Saunders are known at Honesdale, where Dimmick lives. It. H. Gibbons was called as a witness, but knew nothing of the matter. E. L. Saun ders is a lady residing in New York, but who has frequently visited Honesdale sauce 1869, a portion of the time stopping at the house of Wm. H. Dimmick. The only instances of re mittances which came to the knowledge of the committee are the ftiflowing : Union Na tional Hank, of Philadelphia; Manufacturers' National Bank, of Philad'a. ; Drexel & Co. of Philad'a. ; Western National Bask, of Phila., and 2nd National Bank, of Titusville. These banks sent remittances to their corresponding banks in Harrisburg, to be paid over to Gib• bons and Saunders. The testimony in full will be published in a few days. The greater portion of Wednesday and Thursday were spent by the House, in the consideration, on first and second reading, of the voluminous pages of 200.00 .$824.00 THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION BILL, which has passed second reading, ameaded so as to exclude all appropriations for the salary of Judges and the officers and members of the Legislature, on the grounds that all such up. propriations are unconstitutional, .IDITURTISING TH. NEW CONSTITUTION. On Thursday the House resumed the consid eration of the bill providing for the payment of the newspapers which advertised the New Constitution. The question was on the follow ing amendment of Mr. Webb of Bradford : "Provided that the publication of the same in any weekly newspaper shall in no case exceed the sum of $250 and in uo daily paper the sum of $1,000." This was withdrawn and the following offered in lieu of it "Provided that no paper shall receive a greater sum than $l,OOO, and such papers as have a circulation not exceeding 10,000 and above 5,000 shall not receive a greater sum than $7OO, and such papers as halve a circulation not exceeding 5,000 and more than 2,000 shall not receive a greater sum than $5OO, and such papers as have a circulation not exceeding 2,000 shall not receive a greater sum than $3OO ; provid ed that such papers as have published the same in German or any other language sha.l be entitled to such sum as may he proper, not exceeding $lOO for trauslatin,g the same." Thls amendment was discussed at length and the bill was then consigned to the tender mer cies of a special committee of seven. Mr. Talley of Delaware chairman. By this com mitts a standard rate of payments by the square or column. It is thought the Philadel phia Ledger will be takep as an 'example of fair charging. THE JUDICIARY APPORTIONMENT ns:A. was considered in the [louse yesterday, and after an attempt to separate the counties of Lawrence and Butler and snake them single districts, the further cocsideration was post poned, and the bill made the special order for next Wednesday morning. The House com mittee made the following changes is the Senate bill, increasing the number of districts to 42.-sth district York ; Gth Cumberland ; 16th Franklin .k Fulton ; 7th Bucks; 41st Ju niata. and Perry; 42d Adams. THE CENTENNIAL BILL. Making an appropriation of one million dol lars was read the second time in the Senate on Tuesday night. Col. M'Clnre made a lengthy speech in its favors nd Senator MKinley equai ly as lengthy a one against it. On Wednes day night it passed finally, yeas-24, nays-7 ; the Senators opposing it being Chalfant,Ermen trout, 11l'1Cinley, Rowland, M'Sherry, Albright and Collins. All democrats except M'Kinley. LEGISLATIVE APPORTIONMENT. Senatorially the State is divided into fifty districts each entitled to one Senator by the bill which was reported to the Senate on Tuesday,after these districts orb fixed finally by the Senate we will lay them before your read ers. The Private Corporation Bill was consider cd on Thursday, a short session of an hour void of business of interest was held on Fri day when the Senate adjourned until Monday. To-day the House will consider petitions. memorials, kc. Local Option and Anti-Local Option will be well represented as usual. Among other 2500 citizens of old Berks will ask to-day for its repeal, and the other side will not be silent. MAT. News and Notes from Washington Congress—The Financial Question Still Under Consideration—Diversity of Views'on the Sub ject—The District Investigation—Facts in Relation to the Board of Public Works. WAsnisorox, D. C., March. 9, 1574. Some of the ablest speeches of the present smsion of Congress were made in the Senate, du-ing the past week, on the financial question. Yet, noth ing definite has been accomplished. Three months of the session have now passed away, and during that period there has been scarcely a week in which a considerable portion of the time has been occupied in considering and debating this ques tion in its different aspects and bearings. And after all this the problem as to what the country really needs seems to be as far from solution as it was in the first week in December last. One sec tion of the country, as the views of the people are reflected by their reprmentatives, demands an in crease of the currency, in order that business may again become prosperous; in another locality there is a strong opposition to any increase, as it would put farther away the day when a return to specie payments can be inaugurated. The representa tives from the east, the west and thesouth all seem to entertain different views as to what is required, and the result has '-een prolonged debate and oonflictinz views on the question, with, at the pres ent time, very little prospect of harmony or final action. After all, does not the difficulty of arriving at a solution of the financial problem lie in the fact that a basis of action, has been sought for in al most every direction but the right one ? Does not the diversity of sentiment expressed in Congress indicate that the cause of the recent crisis and the withdrawal of a large amount of the circulating medium has not been sought for in the right di_ rectiou ? Senator Boutwell is not far wrong when he advises against all changes in the financial pol icy of the country ; nor is Dawes of the House so much astray, as some might suppose, when he at tributes the cause of our present embarrassmodts to over-trading, reckless expenditures by individ uals, corpurated companies, town, city and State authorities and the federal government. Each in terest has been conducted on a system that made the expenditures larger than the receipts, and the result is seen and felt in the accumulation of in debtedness to an unusual extent. We bare gone beyond our means, and no regulation of the fi nances by Congressional Legislation will bring us back until a more economical system has been adopted by men in their individual, corporate and official capacities. The state indebt doses now, including the financial obligations of towns and cities in their corporate capacities, amounts to about $900,000,000 or nearly one-half of the entire National debt, and it is no stretch of the imagina tion to say that the public debt of some of the states cannot be paid, that even the interest can not now be met promptly; and that unless the Fe deral government assumes the financial obligations of those states repudiation will become the attempt ed mode of relief. This increased indebtedness has much to do with our present financial embar rassment, and the sooner public attention is di rected to this fact, with an earnest effort to remedy the evil, the earlier will the return of general pros perity be inaugurated and a return to specie pay ment be reached. Ever since the inauguration of the new form of government for the District of Columbia, three years ago the Board of Public Works have been extensively engaged in improving the streets, pub lic parks, avenues and government grounds in the cities of Washington and Georgetown. They com menced under authority, by congressional enact ment, to spend $4,000,000 on improvements; but they daubed in and opened up nearly all the prin cipal avenues and streets, without order. system or uniform surveys. The work of paving followed npon the completion of the sewers, and before the ground had become settled ; a proper supervision was not kept over the contractors, and nearly all the contracts were made without being advertised, without competition and at enormous prices. The debt of the city and county was run up to about $11,000,000, and the people whose property was held for every dollar of this vast debt became dis satisfied, and very justly complained, not against the improvements, but against the loose and ex travagant manner in which the affairs of the Board were managed. But all the newspapers in the District had already been bought over by an im mense amount of unnecessary advertising patron age, and the opponents of the Board were abused persontilly if anything was attempted to question the doings of the Board. Alexander B. Shepherd was the head-centre of operations and he and his organs bid defiance to all attempts on the part of the people to obtain protection against the out rages perpetrated upon them as property owners. One or two investigations were on different occa sions ordered by Congress, within the last two years, but they were merely surface affairs, and the real merits of the case were not laid open. Now however, the affair has assumed a different aspect. The charges bad bream° so n emne ,,, and grave, and from such responsible sources, that Congress could no longer, in justice to itself, deny the people a thorough investigation of the whole affair. A joint committee of members of the Senate and House was appointed, with Mr. Boutwell as their chairman. This committee is directed to go to the hottom of the matter. They commenced yesterday. Each side is allotted three lawyers, and they have engaged some of the ablest talent in the land. The investigation opened with an inquiry iota the cause of delay in paying the school teachers, who have been living on empty promises since August last. The property is taxed 60 cents on the $lOO for the support °four public schools, yet the teachers are more than six months without pay, Their motley, it is claimed has bean used in meeting the semi-annual interest on the city indebtedness. To show you how the city credit stands under the doings of the Board, it may be stated that when all other resources bad been exhausted, the Board was allowed by Con gressional enactment, to issue city bonds, secured on the city real estate. These bonds, when issued were sold at sixty, fifty-five, and in many cases, at fifty per cent. and less, by contractors who received them at their face in payment of their billsagainst toe Board. They are worth to-slay about CS to 70 cents en the dollar. The taxes are simply enormous, and eat up the income from rent on property not occupied by the owners, while many of the poor who hare had small houses hare been unable to save their prop erty from sacrifice to meet the taxes. Alex. A. Shephard, who in 1861 was a clerk in Thompson's gas-fitting store, new owns, it is said, about one hundred houses, many of tbem the finest mansions in the city, while many of the contrac tors who were in the ring hare also grown rich on the enormous profits of their contracts. Other out side contractors fared worse, and being paid in bonds and script worth 50 to 70 cents on the dot- tar, some of them hare gone into bankruptcy leaving their men unpaid. I have stated that few or no property !sliders in the city are opposed to legitimate improvement on the most extensive andgrande - t scale, and are ready and willing to pay a fair price by taxation, for the same; but they do not wish to pay two million dollars for one million dollars worth of work, and that is the basis of the quarrel, and upon which the investigation has been ,inaugura ted. The Board cannot escape exposure and cen sure, and the probability is that the committee, in their report, will recommend theirremoral if noth ing worse. Legislative Apportionment Senator Rutan has reported the legisla tive apportionment bill, and we give it be low. 1. The First, Second and Twenty-sixth wards, Philadelphia. 2. The Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eleventh wards, Philadelphia. 3. The Seventh, Eighth and Ninth wards, Philadelphia. 4. The Tentli, Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth wards, Philadelphia. 5. The Fifteenth and Twenty:ni nth wards, Philadelphia. 6. The Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Twentieth wards, Philadelphia. 7. The Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-seventh and Twen ty-eighth wards, Philadelphia. 8. The Nineteenth, Twenty-third and Twenty-firth wards, Philadelphia. 9. Delaware county. 10. Bucks. 11. Montgomery. 12. Berks. 13. The city of Lancaster and twenty one adjoining districts. 14. The rest of Lancaster county. 15. Dauphin. 16. Lehigh. 17. Lebanon. 18. Northampton. 19. Chester. 20. The cities of Scranton and Carbon dale and nineteen district adjoining. 21. The rest of Luzerne county. 22. Carbon, Monroe and Pike. 23. Bradford, Sullivan and Wyoming. 24. Lycoming., Montour and Columbia. 25. Tioga, Potter and McKean. 26. Susquehanna and Wayne. 27. Union, Snyder and Northumberland. 28. York. 29. Pottsville and twenty-five adjoining districts. 30. The rest of Schuylkill county. 31. Huntingdon, Mifflin and Juniata. 32. Cumberland and• Adams. 33. Franklin and Perry. 34. Clinton, Clearfield and Centre. 35. Blair and Cambria. 36. Somerset, Bedford and Fulton. 37. Indiana and Jefferson. 38. Cameron, Elk, Clarion and Forest. 39. Wettnoreland. 40. Fayette and Greene. 41. Beaver and Washington. 42. The City of Allegheny, Bellevue, Sewickly borough, Reserve, Kilbuek and Ohio townships. 43. The First to the Fourteenth and the Twenty-third wards of Pittsburgh. 44. The Fifteenth to Twenty-second and the Thirty-seventh wards, the bo roughs and townships between the rivers and north of rivers, except what are in the Forty-second district. 45. The Twenty-fourth to Thirty-sixth wards and the rest of South Side. 46. Armstrong and Butler. 47. Warren and Venango. 48. Mercer and Lawrence. 49. Erie. 50. Crawford. • The entire apportionment is as foil ws : Philadelphia, fourteen dirt 11. Rest of County.... - 4 trios: I. Ist and 26th wards and Forest_ 1 part of 2.1 4 Franklin.. 11. Rest of 2d ward.,..l Fulton 1 111. ad •nd 4th ward,: 'Greene IV. 6th and 7th wurils.2 Maul ingdon V. 6th, Bth, 9th, and Indiana leth ward. 4 iJefferso” Jefferson 11th and 12th Juniata 2 _ Lancaster 3 district wards. VII. 13th and 11th I. Lancaster City 1 ward* .2 11. lath district adjoin- VIII. 15th ward 3 ing 2 3lth ward III. Rest of C.ionty...3-- 8 T. lath and 20th 'mania i Lawrence XL 17th and 18th I Lebanon. I !.ehigln. warns Xll. 18th ward 3 Lycaining 21St, 22d, 23dand Lucerne, 8 diatricts 12. th I I. Wilkeibarre .1 XIV. 28th and 29th 11. 1.1 districts adjoin wards 2-38, tag 1 21111. 13 other diatricts 1 AMMO Allegheny, flive dis trictr: o o i th ho e r r I. City of Allegheny-3 VI. Scranton 2 11. Ist, 24, 3d. 4th, t;th, VII. Pittston and 9 dis ith and Bth wards, tricts 1 Pittsburgh ~ , VIII. Rest of cuunty 1— 9 111. 518, 9th, 10th and McKean 1 12th wards, Pitts- Mercer 3 burgh I sliffiin 1 IV. Rest of Pittsburgh{ Monroe 1 V. Rest of county 4-14 Montgomery 5 Armstrong. 2 Montour 1 Beaver. 2 Northampton S Bedford ' 2 North thumberland F Binh._ . 2lPerry .. 3 Pike Bradford 3 Pike Bucks 4 Porter Butler 3 Schuylkill, 4 districts: Berk. 2 Districts : Three single districts T. City of Reading 2 compriiilng the :loth II Rest of Becks 4 61 Senatorial district 3 Cambria 2 29rib Senatorialdistrict.3— Cameron I !Snyder Carbon 1 Sealer areal 2 2 Sullivan .... I 4 Susquehanna 2 2,Tioga 2 llVenango 3 2 Warren 1 Centre Che:ter Cation rlerfield Clinton Colombia Cntwford . Its). iugt on Cumberland 2Wayne Dauphin 2 districts: Westmoreland I. Ilarrisliurgh 1 Wyoming 11. Restof county 2-- 3 York Delaware .... 2 Erie, two districts: I. City of Erie ...... ....3 Totid Pimples, Eruptions, Rough Skin The system being put under the liffluenco of Dr. Pierce's Golden 3ledical Discovery for a few weeks, the skin Incomes smooth, clear, colt, and velvety, and being illuminated with the glow of perfect health from within. true beauty stands forth in ell its glory. Nothing ever presented to the public co a beautifier of the complexion ever gavo Koh oatisfactiou for this purpose as this Dis covery. The effects of all medicines which operate upon the system through the medium of the blood are neces sarily somewhat slow, no matter how good the remedy employed. While one to three buntea clear the skin of pimples, blotches, eruptions, yellow spots, comcdones, or "grubs," a dozen may possibly bo requited to cure come cases where the system is rotten with scrofulous or viru lent blood poisons. The cure of all these diseases, how ever, from the common pimple to the wont ocrofula with the use of this most potent agent, only a matter of time. Sold by all Druggists. CO VERED WM/ ERUPTIONS, CURED. CLAVEWCK, Columbia Co, N. Y. Dr. R. V. Sconce, Duffitlo, N. Y. Dear Sir—l am sixty yearn of age, and have been affict ed with Salt Rheum in the worst form for a great many yean, tutu!, secialeugly, .I. saw o , y,41- Watts, winch described my rase exactly. I bou, cku ht your Golden Medi cal Discovery and took two bottles and a half, and was entirely cured. From my shoulders to my hands Sivas entirely covered with eruptions, also on face and body. I was likewise afflicted with Rheumatism, so that I walked eeitq great difficulty, and tied is entirely cured. May God span. you a long life to remain a blessing to mankind. With untold gratitude. MRS. A. W. WILLIAMS. ilk For fifteen years I suffered from disordered Liver; but since I used one package of SIMMONS' LIVER. REGU LATOR to this day, which is now several years, I have been comparatively a sound man. MAJ. A. F. WOOLLEY, Kingston, Ga. New To-Day NOTICE TO SCHOOL TEACHERS. An examination of teachers for the Hun tingdon Borough Schools will take place March 21st inst., in the borough of Huntingdon, at the public School House, where all good teachers are invited to attend. Fifteen to eighteen teachers will be wanted, and high prices paid to first-cluss teachers to fill said schools. THOMAS BURCIIINELL, President. ALEXANDER PORT, Secretary, A DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. [E„ ! , ! re...f DAVID DEW( d eeem l et l.] . . . . Letters of Administration haring been granted to the undersigned, upon the estate of David Beck, late of Warriorsinark township, deceased, al! persons Indebted to said estate will make im mediate pa} ment, and those hay.ng elain, , will present them duly authenticated fur se , tlement. L , A.:11 I:EL RALSTON, _Administrator, SIMPSON & AOMITAOE, Attorney. Varclat-6t New To-Day, Music ! MUSIC ! ONLY TWO GRANDMILI,TARY CONCERTS, BY VIE LOYAL IMPERIAL BAND, Attached to the ELEVENTH RUSSIAN PIONEER BATTAL ION, from MAINZ on the RHINE IN FULL UNIFORM. on THURSDAY and FRIDAY, MARCH 12th and 13th, at WHARTON & bIAGUIRE'S HALL, Admission Reserved seats 75 " Unitary Concert at 8 o'clock, p. m., Doors opened at 7 o'clock, p. m. March 11, 1874-11. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. The undersigned Auditor, appointed by the Orphans' Court of Huntingdon count, to make distribution of the bacince in the hands of William Hall, Administrator of the estate of Dixon Hall. late of Brady township, deceased, will at tend for the purpose of hia appointment, at the office of Lovell A Musser, No. 3001 Penn Street, Huntingdon, Pa., on Wednesday, the 25th day of March 1574, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, and notice is hereby given to all parties having any interest, that thav are required to present their claims at said time and place or be debarred from coming in fur a share of the fund. J. HALL MUSSER, Auditor. Marchll-3t NEW ENGLAND MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. CHARTERED IS3S. STATEMENT, JANUARY lat, 1874, Premiums received in 1373 Interest received in 1373.... Total receipts Total Assets, Jan. 1, 1574 Reserve, or Re-insurance Fund as required by law $10,309,492 58 All other lia bilities .227,180 16 Total liabil i ties Surplus as regards policy holders...S 2,133,447 OT This would enable the Company—if such a course were desirable—to divide during this year Eighty-four per cent. Ratio of Expenses to Receipts. 10 per cent. For every $lOO of liabilities the Company has $l2l of meets. AN AGENT WANTED IN EVERY VICINITY, MARSTON & WAKELIN, GENERAL AGENTS. 143 SOUTH 4th STREET, PHILA. hlar.h 11-3 t. PIANO FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN A good Steinway Piano that cost $500.00; used very little; will be sold for $300.00 cash, or $325.00 part cash and indorsed note for balance. Call on Mrs. HARRIET REED, No. 218 Washington Street, or JAS. A. BROWN, 525 Penn St., Huntingdon, Pa. Marohll,lB74-Imo. HOUSE TO RENT. I. the borough of Huntingdon, by the Ist of April next. Two Story Frame, with six rooms and a good cellar, new and comfortable. Inquire at THIS OFFICE. [metal. New Advertisements. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. The undersigned appointed by the Orphans' Court of Huntingdon county, to ascertain Hens against the share of Peter Shafer, jr., of the fond, 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. FLEMMINO, Auditor. Bfarch4.3t, 1 03 105, 107 NORTH 21)SRTEET, 9 Philadelphia, February 18, 1874. We beg to inform you, that we are prepared to offer fur your inspection, our usual assortment of MILLINERY GOODS, consisting of the Newest Shapes in STRAW, SILK and FANCY HATS, BONNETS. Am. VEL VETS. FLOWERS, CRAPES, SILK GOODS, FEATHERS, BLON DES, RIBBONS, RUCHES, BRAIDS, ORNAMENTS, Ac., Ac., Ac. IVc shall be happy to wait on you at our Store. or receive your orders, Yours, very respectfully, March4 , 4t. 11. WARD- FOR SALE, A VALUABLE BRICK RESIDENCE. The undersigned will sell, at public sale, on the premises, On THURSDAY, March 26, 1874, at 2 o'clock. p. m., that valuable Brick Residence, late the property of Joseph C. Shoemaker, deed., situate ou Mifflin street in West Huntingdon containing six rooms and an attic. TERMS :—Twelvo hundred dollars on eosSr motion of the sale, ant the balance in two equal annual payments, with interest, to be secured by the judgment bonds of the purchaser. ELISHA SHOEMAKER, Administrator. Marett4,'72 3t. PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned wi:l expose to Public Sale, at her residence, in Ilare's Valley, Union town ship, two miles from Mapleton, on Thursday, March 10, 1874, The following personal property, to wit: Two Brood Mares, (good leaders,) 1 Three-year-old Colt, Stock Cattle, Milch Cows, (tn: fresh,) 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, Corn-Fodder, Short Straw, 1 set Black smith Tools, Grain Cradles, Mowing Scythes, Forks, Rakes, 1 Side Saddle, 1 Man's Saddle, t Fanning Mill, 1 LOOM, Spools do., 2 Wheel, I Big Whorl, a large Iron Rattle, Chains of all kinds, I Ten-Plate Stoves, Double:roes, Single trees. Spreaders, and a great variety of other ar ticles too numerous to mention. Sale to commence at 9 o'clock, a. in., on said day, when due attendance and a reasonable credit will be given. March4-ti. NOTICE IN PAItEITION. Notice in partition in the estate of John Gifford. Notice to Joseph B. Gifford, Hollidays burg, Blair county, Pa., Joseph C. Crownuree Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland county, Pa. Take Notice that an Inquest wiil he held on the Non iron Farm of John Gifford, dec., d, in the town ship of Shirley, in the county of Huntingdon, on the 31st day of March, A. D., 1874, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of that day,for thepurpose of ma king partition of the real t state of raid deceased, to and among the children and legal representatives, if the same can he done without prejudice to or spoiling of the whole, otherwise to value and op praise the same according to law • at which time and place you may attend if you think proper. AMON HOUCK, Sheriff, March4,lS74-4t. TO THE BUBLIC. The members of the A. M. E. Zion Church,. of this place, have concluded to build a now church on the site now occupied by the old one, on the South east corner of Sixth and Moore streets, and in. order to he successful they prayer fully ask the public to assist them in their under taking. Their present building is unfit for occu pancy, and it is absolutely necessary that they: have a new house of worship. Rev. J. W. TIREY, JAMES 11. GANT, LEVI CHAPLAIN, Sr. WESLEY M kit ELLS, Building Committee. [nichll-2t. Ifareh4;74-limos WANTED. A lady eanvasser to take charge of ai popular article. To one of experience, or willing to learn, and withal iodustriouo, a reasoLable sal ary will Do paid. This is an excellent opporturi for an active young lady. Apply, soon, to BOX. 12, Huntingdon, Yu, Jan.l4-tf $ 2,530,307 06 747,772 45 $ 3,28802 54 12,870,118 81 S 10,636,672 ra MARY A. WRIGHT.
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