The Huntingdon Journal. J. a. DURBORROW, :HUNTINGDON, PENN' A FRIDAY, - - SEPTEMBER 7, 1877. Circulation LARGER than any other Paper in the Juniata Valley. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. SUPREME JUDGE : Hon. James P. Sterritt, of Allegheny. STATE TREASURER: CA. Wm. B. Hart. of Montgomery. AUDITOR GENERAL : John A M. Passmore, of Schuylkill. Republican County Ticket. SHERIFF : SAMUEL H. IRVIN, of Franklin twp. DIRECTORS OF THE POOR : JAKE HARPER, (3y -s.) of Shirley, RICHARD WILLS ; (2yrs.)Warriorsmark. COUNTY PURVEYOR : WK. H. BOOTH, of Springfield. CORONER : Di A. B. BRUKBAUaII, Huntingdon. RAPHAEL SxmmEs, the confederate pirate, is dead. MK report that Postmaster General Key is to retire from the cabinet, is denied by that officiAl. BRIGHAM Yoir io, whose death is ou ticed on the first page of to-day's issue, left $7,000,000 and seventee wives . THx 008 t or paying and maintaining the troop , . in this State. e1..11e4 out by reason of the recent riots, is ~stimated at between $700,000 and 51,801,,000. Tim office of Director of the Poor is one of tie most important in the county. Elect Wilk armi Harper, and the tax-payers will have no cause to somplain of the &pan deriog of large sums of money in maintain. log that institution. THS Cambria county Republicans met in convention at EbeLsburg, on Monday last, and placed in nomination the follow ing ticket : Prothonotary, Col. Wm. Mc- Dermott; Director of the Poor, William Glass ;- Coroner, J. S. Strayer ; Chair man of County Committee, P. H. Lever good. THB future of'Mormonism excites much interest and speculation. The prevailing belief is that John W. Young will be cho &In First President in his father's place. If Brigham has made a will, or in any way named him for his successor, it is gener ally believed that he will succeed him with out difficulty, and with the consent of the Mormons. If he has not named him, it will be a free fight, with the chances still in his favor. LAST week was remarkable, in the his tory of the International Exhibition, for the visits of Governors of some dosen or so of States and Territories. Large crowds attended the show during their stay, and replenished the depleted exchequer of the Association. We think if the management turned its attention to advertisiig in the *pantry press convenient to Philadelphia it would be productive of good results, but then it is idle to make a suggestion. THZ debt statement issued on Saturday shows a decrease of $3,869,538.75 during last mouth. Currency, $11,828,537.96 ; special fund for the redemption of fraction. al currency, $8 ; 265,412 ; special deposit of legal tenders for redemption of certificates of deposits, $50,430,000 ; coin, $106,904,- 936.09 ; coin certificates, $38,525,400 ; outstanding legal tenders, $357,976,164 ; the amount withheld for the payment of the military establishments (not eppropri ated by Congress) is $4,500,000. THZ fight made against the "old Quar ter Sessions Ring" by Col. Fitzgerald, of the City item, still goes on. The Colonel is dealing vigorous blows,and if the merest tithe of what he utters be true the people of Philadelphia shocli sustain him. We have no sympathy for Rings of ary kind, nor for the nen who participate in them. Philadelphia has been a badly Ring ridden city, and it is time that the people disposed of the'Ringsters. This thing of gorging one set of men fore'ier is a stupid business. The longer they serve the more profligate they become. TH- M. .lERS, the French RepAblican leader, died at St. Germain, o^ Monday latt, at the advanced age of 80 years. The deceased was horn in 1797, at Marseilles, where his father was a working locksmith. He studied for the law profession, but fail ing to succeed turned his attention to lit erature, and by great perseverenoe got a footing in literary society it Paris. • The first volume of his "History of the French R.volutinn" appeared in 1823, and has teamed through twenty editions. He wrote also for a number of journals. He was IT_ pointed Minister of the Interior in 1832, and filled various offices until his elevation to the Presidency, which was the last of. Ice he filled. GRK. Davis, of the Doylestown Demo crat, who was defeated for the nomination for And".tor General in the late Democrat ic convention, in speaking of the action of that body has this to say "In the near future the politicians of Pennsylvani!. will have to recognise the claims of the press, a pretty formidable body of men when their strength is tested. They have been engaged, almost from time immemorial, in making [vat statesmen out of small material, and the fraternity begin to think they should have some re ward for their services—that is if making great men out of nothing ought to be re warded. But as this view of the question involves political ethics we will leave its settlement to others. Now as a pretty full State ticket is to be nominated next fall, let a representative man of the country press be placed upon the ticket." This leads the Philadelphia Times to suggest the following ticket for next year : Gener al Davis, of the Doylestown Democrat, for Governor, Colonel Nieman, of the Easton Sentinel, for Lieutenant Governor, and Captain Brockway, of the Bloomsburg Co lismhian, for. Secretary of Internal Affairs. SAMUEL H. IRVIN, THE VETERAN. The two political parties of Huntingdon county live held their conventions and made their nominations. The people have now before them the respective candidates for comparisqn, each with his opponent, and, finally, for choice at the election. En comiums have already been pissed upon the Democratic nominees, and all that has been said of them by their friends is but meagre praise. We spoke a good word for them ourselves in our last issue, not with any idea at the time that we were exhaust ing the subject, but we must have done so, as nothing stronger, and but little ad ditional, has come from any other source. As to our own candidates, we scarcely know how to do them justice. Their mer its are such that they will scarcely become familiar to the public until they have been developed in the official conduct of the men themselves, after the latter have been elected to and have assumed the duties of office. How can we in a single article, or even during the balance of this political campaign, fully acquaint the people of this county with the debt of gratitude they already owe to SAMUEL H. IttviN, our candidate for Sheriff ! We can only relate a few of the facts of his past life, and leave each voter to draw his own inferences and conclusions, believing that a grateful pub lic will appreciate what he is and what be has done. At the expiration of his term of office as Sheriff, Irvin will be entering closely upon what we term middle age. He has, therefore, arrived at a period in life when past experience begins to be valuable, and the experience he has had has been such as to impress itself in hib conscience and intellect, making the one scrupulously cor rect, strengthening and quickening the other, and fitting him pre-eminently for places of trust and responsibility: We present him as the laboring-man's candidate. At a very early age, so early, indeed, that it is among the first of his recollections, he worked with his father at wood-chopping and charcoaling, thus con necting himself with the iron manufacture, at that time the most important industry of the Juniata Valley and central Penn sylvania, but one to which he could not have adhered until the present day, as the making of charcoal iron in this State has nearly passed away, and young Irvin's "occupation's gone." But the mere fact that he has been a laborer may not be sufficient—he is an in telligent working man. The industrial classes have the strongest claims that a portion of the public offices shall be filled from among their own number, for many of them are well fitted by culture and no .quirements for positions requiring the highest abilities. Irvin is the an they should support. The Republican party of this county has nominated as its candi dates for Sheriff, without exception, for many years past, men of this class, and in continuing the rule, it is entitled to the recognition of those who are sometimes disposed to complain that they are over looked. The workingman who votes against Irvin should never again pretend to be a supporter of the cause. While there yet was constant employ ment for Irvin in the "chopping," and on the "coal hearth," he was called to a new field of duty, called with many thousands more, ana responded with a promptness unsurpassed by any. We cannot go into the details of his military history. It em braces four years of his life, four years of the history of war, involving a participa tion in fourteen of the greatest battles and many smaller engagements. If any ques tion his patriotism, his daring, his courage, we will give from time to time until his election, such portions of his record as will answer every doubt. His comrades, mem bers of his own regiment, are to be found in every portion of the county, and they bear but one testimony to his character as a soldier, and we dare say that every one of them will vote for him. The principal facts connected with his service in the army are that he enlisted in Company B, 49th P. V., August 17th, 1861 ; that he was appoilted Sergeant and in that rapacity served at the battles of Yorktown, Williamsburg, Golding's Farm and White Oak Swamp; that he was then made color-bearer and carried the standard of the regiment at Antietam, Fredericks burg, Marye's Heights, &tem Heights, Get tysburg and Rappahannock Station ; that ho was promoted to First Sergeant, March 4, 1864; to Second Lieutenant, July 1, 1864; to First Lieutenant, October 18th, 1864 ; that while in these offices he fought at the Wilderness, Cold Harbor and Ope quan ; and that he was mustered out as a veteran, July 15th, 1865. There were seven of the Irvin brothers in the army. Of these, Martin L. was kill ed Spottsylvania, May 12th, 1864 ; Lieut. John Irvin was twice wounded, lo sing a leg at Snottsylvania,and dying from disease caused by the wound. The others, with. the exec. }ion of Samuel 11., were all wounded, James and David on the day that Martin L. was killed, James again at Petersburg in 1865, Jared at Petersburg, June 18th, 364, and Miles May 10, 1864. Surely the family met its full share of suffering from the casualties of the war The Republican party has nominated a soldier. Hsd it failed to do so, the Dem ocrats would have charged it with a want of fidelity to our pledges, with a forgetful ness of those who fought our battles, with making vain and empty pretensions of love fur the soldier, and with giving the pref erence to one whose success had been in the paths of polities rather than those of patriotism. However insincere these charges would have been, they cannot now be made. Will the Democrats give us credit for what we have done and vote for our candidate ? Irvin is again employed at the iron works. He is one of the managers at Pennsylvania furnace. The experience he gained, during his early days of labor, are valuable to himself and to the owners of that important establishment They will lose his services, but the people will gain a conscieneions, honest, and intelligent of ficer,and private considerations must yield to the public good. Want of space prevents us from noticing the other nominees in this issue, They are all worthy the support of the masses. SOMETHING ABOUT ADVERTISING. It is pretty generally known that about the Ist of August last, the editor of this papbr embarked in a Newspaper Adver tising Agency, in Philadelphia, and that he has devoted the greater portion of his time to this enterprise since. The few weeks' close attention which he has direct ed to the subject has changed some of his views and confirmed others, while some things that were not clear to his mind be fore have become less obscured. One difficulty with us was to account for the miserable driblets which are al most daily offered the country press for publishing great lots of stuff. We gener ally attributed it to the dishonesty of the agent. We supposed that he obtained fair prices from the advertiser and then offered the driblet to the publisher, knowing, or believing, that he would take any sum of fered on the principle that a half, or even a third a loaf, is better than no bread. This conclusion, in many instances, we have no doubt, was correct. But the real cause lies deeper down. It is to be fotind in the cut-throat policy of many of the agencies. This policy could not be maintained, how ever, for a single week, were it not for the fearful demoralization of the newspaper press behind it. It gives us pain to assert this, but such is the fact. There is no wiping it out. It all comes down to the newspaper men in the end. They aro re sponsible for the wretched advertising sys tem which prevails, and they have them selves to blame for the frequent losses at the hands of rascally agents. The system, as it now prevails is, in a great measure, a failure. There are a few honorable, up right and competent agencies, and with the difficulties and demoralizations which sur round them, we can hardly see how they have maintained their integrity. But they have done it, and all honor to them for it. If the system is to be improved the press must bring it about. It must turn in and do an honorable and square business. It must quit charging Mr. Jones one price and Mr. Evans, both living in the same neighborhood, another price for the same artiele. It must fix upon a scale of rates and adhere to them. They should be mod ei:ate, especially for foreign advertisers, for they cannot receive the benefit from an advertisement that those living in the im mediate neighborhood can. The better plan perhaps would be to deduct a certain percentage from the regular scale of rates for foreign advertisements. But whatever plan is adopted, in all fairness and hones. ty, , adhere to the established rates without deviation, unless it be in a case of abso lute charity. No special rates should be given to one Advertising Agent and not to another, because this must redound to the disadvantage of the paper. Every man of the same class, should be placed upon the same footing. If an advertiser is unrelia ble and untrustworthy the sooner he is cast overboard the better. If newspapers will adhere to prices the Advertising Agency becomes a very use ful and highly advantageous institution. The Agent is the middle man between the publisher and the advertiser. He occupies the position of the lawyer to his client, or the commission merchant to the producer. He takes charge of the advertiser's business and conducts it for him. He watches over his advertising with attention, and sees that each publisher fulfills his contract to the letter. Each paper is ex amined and filed, and at the end of the contract he is able to report every omission or improper insertion. All this is done without one single farthing of expense to the advertiser, save the payment of certain fixed rates to the publisher. The business man who desires to advertise, iniany num ber of papers, not exceeding half a dozen or ten, who does not patroniz3 an honest agency, is, to say the least, not very wide awake. Of course there are advertisers, who advertise very largely, whom it pays to conduct an advertising bureau of their own, but these are few in number compar atively. The impression appears to prevail among merchants and others, that publishers would sooner do their advertising direct than through an agency. This is all stuff. The publisher would prefer adver tising to the extent of five hundred dollars, or even a hundred, for an Advertising Agent, rather than taking six, eight, ten or perhaps twenty advertisements aggrega ting an equal amount from individuals, half of whom he may not know, because he prefers the aggregate in the hands of those who do business for him, and whom he knows to be prompt and reliable. He knows too. full well, that by supporting the agencies his advertising receipts will be much increased if the agent has the interest of the publisher in view. Here is just where the trouble has come in here. tofore : Generally the agent has not been interested in the publisher. He is simply in the business to make money out of the publisher, and this is all he cares for. This state of things could not produce good re sults. The fruits would be bitter and dwarfed. This is the general testimony. It is to remedy these defects and there by further the interests of the country press that we have locat‘il an agency in Philadelphia. Whether we will be able to accomFlish anything definite remains to be seen. The field is pretty well covered, - but with energy, perseverance and honesty of purpose, we think there is abundance of work for us. Many people will have to be educated up to the idea of advertising in the country press, and this will take time, but it can be done. We believe there is already a better feeling in regard to this matter. Heretofore the attention of the business men has not been directed to the importance of it and it will take time to reach all. It gives us great pleasure to speak a good word for the business men of Philadelphia. In the last; three or four weeks we have directly approached hundreds of them, and in every instance we were treated gentle. manly and courteously, and only with one single exception, curtly. They heard us with deference and respect and signified their willingness to give our suggestions careful consideration. When we take in to consideration the frequent boring and importuning to which business tpen are subjected, the manner in which they aFe harrassed by all manner of importunates, we could scarcely expect such kind and gracious treatment. But the truth of it is the Philadelphia merchant is a gentleman, and he never forgets it, POLITICAL CHQW-CHOW. lion. George A. Jenks, of this State, is going to stump Ohio in the interest of the Democrats. Frank Hughes, one of the shining lights of the Democracy, repudiates the Harris burg platform. The Philadelphia Times thinks "labor reform is not so much needed as a reform of those who won't labor when they get a chance." They are making a great Noyes over finding the Democracy's long lost Trunk ey, but it is doubtful if opened it would Schell out worth a cent. The Monitor says that Mr. Wright, its candidate for Sheriff, "is a Democrat who has ever proved true to his party," which is the best argument in the world why no Republican should vote for him. M. Edgar King, esq., editor of the Blair County Radical, is named in connec tion with the nomination for assembly, in Blair county, to fill the unexpired term of Col. Jones, dec'd. He would fill the bill to a t. The bogus circulars asking delegates to vote for Barr for Ste Treasurer because he was a Catholic, were sent to Pittsburgh from Huntingdon to be mailed as from Pittsburgh. Mr. Barr's friends are very indignant at the forgery.—Altoona Mirror. At the late Republican convention of Huntingdon county, Dr. A. B. Brum baugh was nomina'ed for coroner. He will make an efficient officer. His oppo nent, the Democratic nominee, is also a physician, Dr. Gallagher.—Millersburg Herald . The election of Thomas 11. Greevey, esq , to the city B.ecordership of Altoona, is to be contested, and to this end a peti tion was presented in the argument court held last week, and Judge Dean ordered the filing of the petition and fixed the 20th inst., for the hearing of the same. It is claimed that 183 fradulent votes were cast for G-reevey, which, if proven, will elect Mr. Sl - -ew, the Republican candidate, by a handsome majority. This is a trying year for the "Com mittee on Re.olutions '• Tiiere i. the La bor vote, the C ,rp)ration vete, the Beer vote, the Temperance vote, the Concilia tion vote, the Blooly shirt vote, the Green back vote, the ancestral Silver Dollar vote, the Mono metallic vote, the Sibsidy vote, and the Anti-Subsidy vote, and the votes of various other asiertments of citizens with bees in their bonnets, and the com• mittee is agonizing over a plan for spread ing its net in the sight of all these birds so as to ensnare the entire lot. Softening of the brain will be more prevalent in Ohio and Pennsylvania than elsewhere, but a high death-rate among coumittee men way be expected throughout the country.— Bellefonte Republican. Our New York Letter. Politics in the State—Conklin and Fenton—The Labor Question—Telegraphs, Railroads and the Express 81i4i14,81. Naw YORK, Sept, 5, 1877, POLITICAL. Don't take any stook in the rumors that have been set afloat here as to the intentions of Senator Conklin. Senator Conklin did not come home to organise a raid upon the administration, he is not in opposition to President Hayes, nor will he be. Of cGurse Senator Conklin would have liked it better had he been allowed to control the patron age of the State as he has done for so many years, but he recognizes the propriety and justice of the President's action, and acquieFc' heartily in the new order of things, and neat winter he will be the most effective supporter the President will have in the Senate. And, by the way, the Republican party of the State of New York was never in so comfortable a condition as now, and the Presi dent's civil service reform is what has done it. The spoils question out of the nay, there is no longer any difference. Gov. Fenton is back in the ranks in full accord with the party of the State, and all are working together as amiably as could be wished. The people of the state, of both par ties, believe in the President, and they will show it at the polls. Only the disappointed are growl ing, and as everybody knows the impelling motive of their growls, they can do no harm. The best capital the President has is the fact that within two weeks over a hundred useless officialsbave walked the plank in this city alone, and there are more being led to the slaughter. Ti e fact is, the Pres ident is gaining ground daily, and whoever oppo ses him will be ground to powder by the people for whom he has instituted reforms that are actu ally reforms. H 8 has smashed machine politics, and all honest men, Democrats as well as Repub licans, have faith in him, and are having more every day. TUE LABOR QUESTION. Robert B. Roosevelt, an old citizen, and . very good man, has addressed sn open letter to the mayor, asking that the city begin public works in order to give work to the stars ing unemployed. It is true that there are a vast number of men in the city who would work if they could get work to do, and it is also true that unless they get work the city will have to support them. Roosevelt argues that the city might as well get the value of the assistance it will have to reader, as to give it in the shape of 111013. The newspapers are criti cising his letter severely, but I can't say but that he is right, and that all other cities and towns that have unemployed labor should not do l;kewise• Roosevelt's proposition does not go far enough. The thousands of professional mendicants, the beggars, organ-grinders, thieves and tramps should be arrested and compelled to work. Every man and woman who cannot show visible means of support, should be compelled to work, even if cor poral punishment should be found necessary, and that would reduce the burden imposed upon the people about a half. Then, why not set the honest poor at work on public improvements which have got to be made sometime ? Should not the muni cipalities of the country take advantage of the cheapness of labor to build their new railroads, their public buildings, and their streets, and their everything that they have got to build sooner or later? This is the precise time in which to do it. If they do not set the unemployed at work of this kind, the public will have to support them any how, and why not get the worth of their support out of them ? In short, why not get the value, in permanent improvements, for what we have got to pay ? I believe in a strong paternal government, which will act as a regulator. When private en terprise is active, the government can be quiet. But when from any cause private enterprise be come! stagnant, and thousands upon thousands of men, who would work if they could get work to do, are thrown out of employment, why should not the government step in, and, taking advan tage of the cheapness of labor, give them employ ment on its work ? nip is the time that custom housea,post-otfiees, and other public buildings that the government will have to have within ten years should be built, and everything else of a public nature should be done. If a city or town has a railroad to build, a school-house to erect, or any thing else of the kind to de, it cannot do a wiser thing than to commence it now. By this means it will get its improvements done at half the cost of four years from now, and it will give employ went to that portion of the poor who will work. The tramps should then be compelled to earn their living, and the labor question would be set tled, Donahue, the leader of the railroad strikes at Hornellsv:lle, was released from Ludlow street jai!, listviag served his time out, but was arrested immediately by the Sheriff of Steuben county, and was taken to Bath, and put into the common jail. Donahue don't like this, for it interferred materi ally with his puLposes. Ile had made so much notoriety by his connectien ttilb the strikes, that heihad made his arrangements to utilize it, by starting a paper in New York, devoted to com munism and all sorts of wild labor vaagaries. llis sheet was to have been named "The Striker," and he confidently expected that every laboring man who had a dollar to spare, would rend in his money, and that he would at once be elevated to the place of a leader of the laboring people, and possibly get to Congress oa the strength of that bobby. For b 3 it known that Mr. Donahue, like all the leaders of great movements, is the most consummate demagogue that ever breathed, and there is nothing that he will not do to advance himself. He is still languishing in the jail of Steuben county, and as the workingmen are too smart to advance anything to let him out, he is likely to stay there some time. The labor move ment in the city is hanging fire. The managers are anxious to have a strike, but the operatives are waiting. Those who have work are averse to letting go their hold, and those who have not, have no money to pat up to put the thing through. And Swinton, Schwab and Thompson, the orators of the communists, have nothing to contribute but talk, and that won't buy bread and butter for hungry men and women. The probability now is, that there will be no general strike here, this fall. The season is too far advanced, and the would-be strikers have not the money to do it with. THE TELEGRAPH. Did I urge last week that the government should take hold of the telegraph ? If I did not I want to do it now. While the Atlantic and Pacific and the Western Union were competing, we had de cent rates, and a man could afford to usa the tele graph. You could send ten words from New York to Chicago, or any intermediate point, for twenty five cents, and everybody used the telegraph in stead of the mails. But now that Jay Gould, the worst man in America, has consolidated the two companies, and they have gone under ono man agement, the rates will go back to the old figure, one dollar, and the people will be swindled just that amount. It is a shame that so great an in terest as the telegraph has got to be, should be placed solely in the hands of one man, and that forty millions of people should be turned over to him to be taxed as ho sees fit. It is an outrage that a communication just as important as the mail should be made the property of one man, who can raise or lower the tariff to suit his con venience. There is no reason under heaven why the government should not control the telegraph the same as it does the mails, and fix the rates on dispatches as it does on letters. There ought to be, this fall, petitions go to Congress signed by every man and woman in the country, demanding that the governmont take the telegraph, which it has a perfect right to do. There is no reason why a dis patch of ten words should not be sent for ten cents, instead of a dollar or two dollars, which Mr. Jay Gould will charge. And then dear people, take a shy at the express business. Is there any earthly reason why goods fit to be sent through the mails should not go through them, at a rate of postage that will pay the government for doing it? Is there any reason why two express com panies s'aould monopolize the carrying trade of the country, and compel the people to pay what ever they choose to exact ? The post-office is the remedy for this extortion. The law of three years ago should be re-enacted, and all matter that can be safely carried through the malls should be so carried. It was repealed by the efforts of the ex press companies, who had altogether too much in fluence in Congress. See to it that Congress this winter allows you to use the mails for everything that is legitimately mailable. As this is the time for reforms see that you have all that you are en titled to. Flood Congress with petitions for cheap telegraphing and express business, and thus get yourself in shape for a movement on the railroads and other swindles that burden you. The Fire Fiend ! A TERRIBLE CALAMITY IN NEW YORK SCARCITY OF WATER ALLOWS THE DE STRUCTION OF MILLIONS OF PROPERTY AND SCORES OF LIVES NEW YORK, Sept., 4 —J. P. Hale's piano factory, on West 35th street, was entirely destroyed by fire yesterday morn ing. The flames extended to the south side of the street, destroying the eutire block between 10th. and 11th avenues ; al so M. Connell's barrel factory, J. Graham & Co.'s silk factory, and several houses ad- joining, south ; J. Walker's charcoal fac tory, north of 35th street, and a block of frame houses on Tenth avenue, between 35th and 36th streets. The factories and other buildings named, in 35th street, were reduced to ruins in about three-quarters of an hour. Water was so scarce that tenants were unable to obtain water except by damming up in the gutter the water which came Ifroin the fire hose. The firemen made ev ery effort possible, but lack of water con stantly hampered their efforts. They suc ceeded before neon, however, in getting the fire under control, although it was then still burning fiercely in some of the buildings. The walls of the brick build ings fell from time to time. The fire is believed to have broken out in the fifth story of the building, and it is known that some workmen in the upper stories had some difficulty in escaping. One workman, named Edward Packmaster, jumped from an upper window and was taken up iu a terrible condition, his skull fractured and many bones broken. He was removed to a station house and died in a few moments. A few other workmen, whose names were not ascertained, were severely injured. A woman is known to have died during the fire. Three alarms were sent out in rapid suc cession, and . a large force of firemen, en gines and trucks responded to calls. The heat produced by the fire was intense, and the firemen were obliged to keep at a con siderable distance from the burning build ings. It is probable. however, they could have prevented the fire from spreading if they had had a sufficient supply of water. The conviction is growing that the loss of life will be serious, and several ambu lances were in the neighborhood. One au thority says there must be from seventy five to one hundred bodies buried in the ruins. Another statement is that some twenty five or thirty girls employed in the upper stories of Male's factory have per ished. The ambulances have removed some 18 or 20 wounded, who jumped from the burning factory. Still another state ment is that of the 150 to 200 men in the factory at the time of the fire comparative ly few escaped death or fatal wounds. The occupants of the house on Thirty sixth street could distinctly see workmen in the piano factory making futile efforts to escape from the roof and upper stories, and could hear their shrieks for assistance. August Varrath, a varnisher in the fac tory, one of the twenty six men at work in the top story, said the alarm was given to them by a workman who put his head out of the windows below. ThQ foreman urg ed the men to keep cool, saying there was probably plenty of time for escape. irar rat,b says the men scattered in various di rections, but the fire and smoke drove them back from the stairways. There was a fire ladder at each end of the building, and also a chain fire escape. Varrath got down by one of the ladders. He said that since his escape he had not seen any of his fel low workmen. Ilalf of the surgeons of Bellevue ' Hospital, police surgeons, and coroners are on duty at the fire. About 300 families are rendered homeless, and most cf their furniture destroyed: While the fire was at its height a number of peo ple on the sheds in Phelan's yard were thrown to the ground and badly injured. A woman jumped from the window of a tenement house in Thirty-seventh street and was instantly killed. The Valley of Death. 'TIE TURKISH LOSS IN SIIIPKA PASS 7,- 000-THE NUMBER OE DIA - D AND WOUNDED IN TIIE LAST BATTLE ON BOTH SIDES. LONDON, September 3.—Further ac counts from Shuml.L do not confirm the re port that Baker Pasha is missing. On the contrary, the re/iv/yr/des Ilassanla special says he has been decorated with the order of the Osmanli. It is stated that the Grand Duke Mich ael. commander-in chief Of the Russian forces in Asia Minor, has assumed com mand of General Melikoff's corps in per son, that officer having been removed for exceeding his orders. CONSTANTINOPLE, via Syra, Sept. 2. The Turks acknowledged the oss of 7,000 men in the Shipka Pass. Two thousand wounded reached Adrianople yesterday. GORNEY STUDEN, Sept. 2.—The fol lowing official statement has been issued : "The Russian loss on the 31st of August was—at Kadikoi, 7 killed and 30 wound ed ; at Pelisat. 30 officers and 1,020 sol diers killed and wounded. The Turkish loss is enormous. Near the village of Pe lisat alone 300 dead bodies were counted on the 31st ult. "The cannonade between Rustchuk and Glurgevo is continued. "No loss or damage on our side is re ported." ADRINOPLE, Sept 3.—lntelligence re ceived from the Shipka pass states that Suleiman Pasha has gained a more advan tageous position for his batteries on the heights surrounding Fort Nicholas. Rus sian reinforcements arrived during the night, the road to Gabrova being bom barded by Turkish batteries. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 3—The com mandant of Rustchuk has made a sortie with seven battalions, defeating the Rus sians. Osman Pasha, alter inspecting the bat tle field of Pelisat, reports that the Rus sian losses were greater than at first sup posed. Not Charlie Ross. A CHILD THAT RESEMBLES HIM, BUT THE ROSS FAMILY SAY HE IS NOT THE GEN- DINE CHARLIE. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2.—This morn ing sheriff Coffer, of Clark county, Ohio, and Perry Bechtel, who found a boy known as Gus Levering, whom be claims to be the lost Charlie Ross, visited Mr. Ross in Germantown. Immense crowds assembled at the depot and in Germantown. People came in from the country in all di rections. The child was taken into the presence of Mrs. Ross and her children, all of whom failed to recognize him. Mrs. Ross said he is not her boy, although ho resembles Charlie. The little fellow was very much vexed by such curious atten tion of the crowd, and became so stubborn that the Sheriff was obliged to carry him away and plead with him for nearly an hour before be would move. Numbers who knew Charlie say he resembles him, and some even express the opinion that he is Charlie. The Labor Agitation. A GENERAL STRIKE OF RAILWAY EM PLOYES THREATENED - ENGINEERS, TRAINMEN AND CONDUCTORS' UNIONS MAKING PREPARATIONS. DANVILLE, PA., Sept., 3, 1877.—The movement among the railroad operatives in this State for a general strike on the 15th inst., appears to be spreading. All railroaders belonging to '.he Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. the Trainmen's Union, and Conductors' Union have been engaged in holding secret meetings during the past few days, and it is learned, from those high in authority in the different Unions, that the preliminary arrangements for a contest with the railroad corporations are about complete. A member of the En gineers' Brotherhood states that the trou ble has been precipitated by the operation on the leased., lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago men may possibly inau gurate the strike. PIETRO. Peter Kessler, eighty-five years old. Find one of the survivors of the war of 1812, died in Perry county recently. As Patrick Keatity , b vias demolishing a building at Kennett Square, he found a stocking containing $7OO in greenbacks. Sir Stafford Northcot.e recently inform ed the House of Commons that it had "a place and position to maintain in the eyes of the world and of foreign countries." Israel Daub, near Jonestown, Lebanon county, was caught in the revolving arms of the cylinder of a threshing machine and received injuries which termined fatally in two hours. Mr. John M'Calwont, father of S. P. M'Calmont, esq., of Franklin, died on Sunday afternoon. He was in his ninetieth year, and had held many responsible offices in Venango county, among which was that of prothonotary and treasurer. The New York Mail says that Tweed's daughter, who married Maginnis in 1870, and whose wedding presents cost $69,000, is now living in absolute poverty, the bri dal presents and finery having all been sent to the pawn shops. Abraham Lincoln Nimmey, a colored boy aged 15 years, was convicted of mur der in the first degree, at Greensbuigh, Pa., on Thursday, for poisoning three members of the family. He was sentenced twenty years in the Western Penitentiary. Judah P. Benjamin writes from London to an inquirer in Virginia, "I know noth ing whatever of the so called Jennings estate, nor do I believe in its existence. I would not give a penny postage stamp for the free gift of all the rights of all the claimants." Rev. 0. L. Ashenfelter, formerly o: Lancaster, now of Carlisle, and who now stands charged in the Reformed church with heresy, has published a card announc ing that he has made application for ad. mission to the ministry of the Universalist church. Many years ago, a Yankee ran away from his wife ;n Vermont. lie hLypened to turn up at the Benn:ngtou celebration, and, being somewhat reminded by the ora tory, guns and enthusiasm of his youth and love's young drtam, sprang into the arms of his wife in Pawlet. Dr. Francis Wharton, reviewi - _g the trial of Queen Caroline, recalls the fact that the judges, including on the one side Lord Erskine and on the other . Lord Uldon and Lord Redesdale. divided on all ques tions on strict party lines, as in the Elec toral Commission case. Mr. Joseph Jefferson, while picknicing on the Thames recently, encountered a gentleman who appeared to regard him with the reverential curiosity of a Eck wick. He rushed up breathlessly to ask if he really had the pleasure of seeinc , e' Mr. Jefferson. On its being annour ced that he had that delight, he said : "I beg pr don, the Mr. Jefferson ?" and again, "The great Mr. Jefferson ?" It was dome what confusing to see this person stand bare headed, bowing like a Chinese man darin, and subsequently waving his hat and handkerchief as long as the boat re mained in sight. Personal. Industrial Items. The Beaver Falls Axe WorkF, are ILlA king axe3 to go to Brazil. Paxton Furnace, at Harrisburg'', which had stopped for a week, again in full bla . There is a gun barrel manuraetory iu Lebanon County. The barrels are all hand made, and command a ready sale. Burlington, lowa, is raising a "rolling mill fund." Over $30,000 have been sub scribed. and only $9,300 more are needed. The rolling mill at Greenville, Mercer county, was sold at Sheriff's sale recently for 815,430. Mr. Benninghoff wai the purchaser. The coopers of Pittsburgh are ou a strike for au advance from 14 to 16 cents a barrel. The strikers number between three and four hundred. Half the puddling furnaces in the North of England are idle, and manufacturers find the greatest difficulty in getting orders to keep the remainder going. The Tennessee Iron and Steel Company, Chattanooga, are adding thirty feet to ac commodate rail, fish plates, punch, mer chant shears and other small machinery. Twenty two thousand two hundred and twenty-three pounds of cotton ties were made by two rollers at the Youngstown, Ohio, Rolling Mill, one night recently. Lewis, Oliver & Phillips, Pittsburgh, have bought 1,000 tons of scrap iron from the Pennsylvania Railroad, part of the ruins of the fire in that city. They bid for the whole pile. Over one hundred car-loads of iron have been received in the Altoona shops from the ruins of the recent riots in Pittsburgh. The Railroad Company is having it all weighed and piled up for future disposition . The Pennsylvania Coal Company paid $70,000 in silver to their employees in the vicinity of Pittston the other day. Silver in large quantities can be purchased at two per cent. discount, which would amount to a profit of $1,400 to the company. During the first six months of the pres ent year the exports of gold from Great Britain exceeded the imports of the same by $17,250,000. One very potent cause of this is the fact that the United States is sending that country more merchandise and less gold than formetly. Henry Disston & Son's,Keystone Works, Philadelphia, is employing a full force fifty hours per week, in the saw department. In the steel mill and file department they are exceedingly busy, having orders ahead for their full capacity for over a month, and there is every prospect for its continu ance. State News., There are twenty-eight colleges in the State. There are 105 prisoners in the Schuyl kill county jail. The Pannel murder case cost Lancaster county $2,835,11. There are about 145,000 dwelling houses in Philadelphia. A Washington county justice of the peace has married 1,209 couples. There are 113 oil wells in Warren coun ty, whose daily proceds is G 57 barrels. Nearly $4,000 worth of huckleberries have been consumed in Wilkesbarree this season. A half million of bricks were used in the construction of the new Union depot at Pittsburgh. A Clarion county minister is said to have been relieved of $lOO by a three card monte man. The prohibitionists of Luzerne and Law rence counties have nominated a full ticket. The prohibitionists of Warren and other counties will follow. Frederick Hoehne, the fathet of Max Hugo Hoehne, the Elm Station victim, is in Philadelphia. He will remain in this country until after the trial of Walden, the supposed murderer. On Tuesday evening Henry Clark went to a small benzine tank in Titusville to wash his hands. He was seen leaning over the tank, and the next morning he was found dead in the same position, the in halation of the gas caused his death. Mrs. Frederick Witman, of Tulpehocken township, Berks county, who thirteen years ago, was tied and robbed with the rest of the family, died the other day at an advance age. The old lady was the first to identify the robbefs at the hearing in the mayor's office, in Reading, and through her evidence the whole gang was commit ted, and afterwards tried, convicted and sentenced. A Tower City correspondent of the itiner's Journal says : "The Levithan col iery at Brookside made an average daily shipment ofsBB3 railroad cars, for the last week, making a grand total of 2,298 cars for the six working days, an amount, we believe, never equaled by a single colliery in Pennsylvania, or we might say in the world." HUNT'S REMEDY IS NOT a new compound ; it has been before the public 25 years, and extensively used by all classes, with and without the advice of Physicians. HUNT'S REMEDY has saved from a lingering disease and death hundreds of uur citizens. HUNT'S REMEDY never fails to cure Dropsy and all Diseases of the Kidneys, Bladder and Urinary Organs. CLARdE'S TOOTH ACHE DROPS cure instantly New To-Day TO WHOM IT MAY CON CERN. Notice is hereby given that the Rocky Ridge Bank wi , l pay in fu.i on presentation at the cos: bank of John Dougherty, on Rocky Ridge, Hunt ingdon county, Pa., all claims and demands dul•- authenti.,:tted. Orders for coal respectfully soiic ited. Address, JOSEPH P. M'KELVEY, Sept.7-3t) Coal Summit, E. B T. R. R. j // .13 oldest and best appointed Institution for ob ining a Business Education. I or circulars address, P. DUFF dc SONS, Sept.7,"7. Pittsburgh, Pa. NOTICE TO BRIDGE BUILDERS. The Commissioners of Huntingdon county will let, at public outcry, to the lowest bidder, th , contract of re-building the WOOD WORK and one STONE ABUTMENT, of the bridge across Aughwick Creek, in Shirley township, near the farm of Isaac Rorers, and the mouth of said Creek, at 1 o'clock, p. In., on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1577. Plans and specifications can be seen at said bridge, on said day, where the letting will take place. Also, plans and specifications can be seen at Commissioners' office. By order of the board of Commissioners. T. 1). NEWELL, Commissioners' Clerk. Huntingdon, Pa , Sept. 7,1577.-2 t. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. [ Estate of HENRY WAL HE A 7'E R, dee'd.] Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, an Auditor appointed by the Orphans' Court of Hun tingdon County, to wake distribution of the bal ance in the hands of W. W. Stryker,Administrator of Henry Walhcater,late of Porter township,dec'd., will attend to the duties of his appointment at his office, in Huntingdon ' on WEDNESDAY, Septem ber 2fith , 1477, at 10 o'clock, A. Af., when and where all parties interested can attend if they see • proper. W. W. DORRIS; Aug. 31-3 t. Auditor. New Advertisements. E ACIIMIS' EXAMINATIONS. Ea: mina:ion3 of Tea,hers, for the present seLoul year, Will ho hel.l in the several districts of llgr.tingdon county as folios's: Mount Union, Sept. Alexandri:l Sept. II ; Shaffer:will., Sept. 12; Warriors' Mark, Sept. ; Franklin, ille, Sept. 11 ; Shaver's Creek Br:dge, Sept. 15 ; Saulsburg, Sept. 17: McAlevy's Fort. Sept. IS ; Centre Union, Sept. 19; McConnelstown, Sept. 20 ; 801 l Crown, Sept. 21 : Three Springs, Sept. 24; Dudley, Sept. 2J: C•4lTee Run. Sept. N ; Marklesburg, Sept. 27: Mill Creek, Sept. 2S; Mapleton, Sept. 29 ; Pine Grove, Oct. I ; Cass ville, Oct. 2 ; Newburg, Oct. :i; Orliisonia, Oct. •1 ; Shirleysburg, Oct. 5 ; Afaildenovillo, Oct. 0 ; Bolingertowo, Oct. 9; Shade (lap, Oct. 10. Examinations will be oral and written, and will commence at A. N. Should persons of immoral character apply fur certificates, directors are expected to acquaint the Superintend:fit of the.fact. Special Examinations will be hall at Three Springs, Oct. 13, and at Iluntingdon, Oct. 20. Certificates from other counties will not be in dorsed. R. M. McNEAL, Co. Supt. Three Springs, Pa., Aug. 21, 15.,77. Aug. 21-3 t. STONE WATER PIPE WOAKS, SHIBLEYSBITRG, PA. The undersigned manufactures and contracts for laying Stone Water Pipes which he warrants for any reasonable time provided his directions are strictly followed. Ho offers to the public the strongest and best pipe made, as low as three cents per foot. After practical experience of twenty years at the business he flatters himself that he can give entire satisfaction. lloodreference given if desired. P. KABIS, :Lug:ll77-1)1 Shirleysburg, Hunt. Co., Ps. THE RUSSO-WAR TURKISH AGENTS WANTED! For this Comprehensive, Superbly Illustrated Hi6tory of the present momentous struggle in the East. Its accurate Maps, Plans and many elegant Engravings are a special feature. It gives a Graph ic History of each country, with Historic and De scriptive Sketches of the primitive manners, pic turesque customs and domestic life of the Contest ants_ Describes the DREADFUL MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS in Bulgaria; the frightful Turkish atrocities in o , hcr places ; the uprising of the masses in Herze govina. It gives the stirring battles and thrilling incidents of the war, and is the most fascinating and exciting work of the age. Agents are sure of prompt and ready sales. Prospectus Books now ready. Agents wanted on our GRAND COM BINATION PROSPECTUS representing 150 DISTINCT BOOKS of Universal Interest. It inclu,les Agricultural, Biographical, Historical. Religious and Miscella neous Works, with Size, Title and Description of emit Book, Specimen Pages and Specimen Illus trations. Sales made from this Frospectus when all single books fail. Also on our TUNE 12 IDLES ENamsn AMILT GERMAN, PROTESTANT AND CATHOLIC. With Invaluable Illustrated Aids and Superb Bind ings. Nearly 100 Styles. Superior to all others and indispensable to every Family. 2 7,0-Particulars free. Address JOHN E. POTTER ts CO., Publisher?, Aug3l] INDIANA NORMAL SCHOOL OF PA. The Winter Term of 24 weeks will open on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1877. The Summer Term of 18 weeks will open, MONDAY, MARCIE 23, 1878. TERMS, $5.00 PER WEEK, Including Tuition, Boarding, Room, Heat, Light, and Washing. Best Normal School Building in the State. Facil ities in every respect equal to any Normal - School in the United States. Students may enter at any time during the term. For particulars, send for Catalogue to D. M. SENSENItI, Principal, s ug24-4t I Indiana, Pa. . ROOFING PAINT. The ILOCKY OUNTAIN VERMILION PAINT (mixed ready for use) is the beet in the world for Tin, Iron, Felt, Shingles, or anything exposed to the weather. TRY IT. Price, $4 a case, cottaining three two-gallon cans. Local agents wanted. AMERICAN VERMTT,TON WORKS,- 49 SOUTH FRONT STREET, PIMA Aug24-3w. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. [EBtate of E SIG HT WISE, deed.] Letters of Adashsittration having been granted to the undersigned on the estate of Eve Night wine, late of the borough of Huntingdon, deed., all persons knowing themselves indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment, and those having claims to present them duly au thenticated for settlement. JOHN NIGHTWINE, Administrator. aug2l• JOHN HAGEYI Dealer in PIZ - Y . C OODS, NOTIONS, TRIMMINGS, llosiEhy, Millinery and Fancy Goods, GROCERIES, BOOTS AND SHOES, 421 Washington St., Huntingdon, Pa Expenses being light, we can sell as low as the lowest. [aug.l7-Iy. $25004F-17F.717: WANTED. 10,000 CORDS • OF TANNERS' BARK , For which we will pay the highest market price IN CASH Delivered on our Wharf. mll9-3m] HENRY & CO. N EW OPENING. The undersigned having opened out a Green Grocery Store, in the room formerly occupied by Robert S. Westbrook, next door to the Post Office, in Huntingdon, ho would respectfully assure the public that he has °Amid', at all times a line of Fancy Groceries, consisting of coffees, teas, spices, eanned fruits, ,kc., also a full line of confections, segars and tobacco, and all kinds ,of foreign and domestic fruits. In season, ha also runs a merket car to Philadelphia anti return. leaving on Moriday and returning on Thursday with fresh fish and vegetables, he., from the East. He hauls all kinds of produce East and on return trip he hauls all kinds of freight. Shippers and dealers will find it to their advantage to give him a trial. The high est cash price paidt, at his store for all kinds of country produce. Either in a wholesale or retail way will buy butter ; eggs, dry fruit, sides, hams, live stork, gra t in, seeds, and wool, isc., for ship ping. All goods bought on Friday and Saturday of each week. Having car facilities and being in the city c -cry week he flatters himself to be able to sell cheaper than the cheapest. All orders or goods entrust-A to his care will be carefully at tendeu to. Terms strictly cash. Jun/3—dmo.] A. J. HFRTZLER."" KAY-LYE. KAY-LYE. the Key-lye manufactured by the Pittebnrgh Chemical Works, is an improvement on Concentrated Lye, dr., te $ first-class soap maker and used extensively fur general house cleaning. Sold everywhere. Pittsburgh Chemical Work.. 258 Liberty Street. Ph tsbergh, Pa. 22-3 m. AvAsnINGTON HOUSE, lIIINTTNGDON, PA. J. W. _HOUGH, PROPRIETOR Cot. Penn an;l7th Sts. Large, clean' xell-ventilated and comfortably furni , bcd rooms, good table, and excellent bar. Stabling attached. Prices to snit the stringency of the money market. [aug.lo-6m. FRANKLIN HOUSE, HUNTINGDON, PA. JOHN G. BOYER, PROPRIETOR, 4.30 Penn St., in the Diamond. This is a nice quiet home, with good accommo dations, reasonable rates, and the only etrict tem perantelu)tel in tow,. GOOD STABLING. Aug.3,1877-6m. JOHN G. CEIAPLIN, BARBER AND HAIR DRESSER, Fifth street, Huntingdon, Three doors above Pustaliee. . - 4/ O E.O r a il s r C., 4 t Xi Mk Q E-1 :,-_-. ci -.) At 105 Fourth St.. Huntingdon, Pa. Y-L YE. ting.3-6m.
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