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.
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The Winter Term of 24 weeks will open on
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1877.
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ROOFING PAINT.
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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
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agents wanted.
AMERICAN VERMTT,TON WORKS,-
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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.
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