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.1 R. DURBORROW,
HUNTINGDON, PENN'A.
Wednesday Morning, March 11, 1874
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.