VOL. 41.
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Ally one or more of these books will be sent post-paid to
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Alien's (R. L. 64 L. F.) New American Farm Book 12 50
Allen's (L. F.) American Cattle.* 2 50
Allen's (R. L.) American Farm Book 1 50
Allen's (1.. F.) Rural Architecture 1 50
Allen's (K. I • Diseases of Domestic Animals 1 00
American Bird Fancier 3O
American Geutleman'iStable ..... 1 00
American Rose Guitarist so
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A tWoOd'S Country and Suburban I 00
Atwoal's Modern American 'lomesteude*.-.....—..-. 3 ft&
Baker's Practical and Scientific Fruit Culture....._ 2 50
Barber's Crack Shut*
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iteles Carpentry Made Ea5y*......—......... ........... 5 00
Bement's Rabbit Fancier 3O
Bicknell's Village Builder and Supplement. 1 Vol 12 eu
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Bommer's Method of Making Manures 25
Boussingault's Rural Economy.._ 1 00
Brackett's Farm Talk-* paper, tOcts.; c10th.... 75
Breck's New Book of Flowers 1 75
Brill's Farm-Gardening tad Seed-Growing 1 00
Broom . ..Corn and Brooms paper, 50cts.; cloth 75
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Bruckder's American Manures* 1 50
Buchanan's Culture of the Grapeand Wine making* 75
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BMA's Flower-Garden Directory
Duist's Family Kitchen Gardener 1 00
Surges' American Kennel and Sporting Field*
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Burn's Architectural Drawing Book*,
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Chorltou's Grape-Grower's Guide ...... 75
Cleveland's Landscape Achitecture* 1 50
Cluk's Diseases of Sheep* 1 25
C,obbett's American Gaidener 75
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Election Proclamation
J. A. NASH,
ELECTION PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, by an act of the General Aszem
bly of the commonwealth of Penuqylvania, entitled "An
Act to regulate the General Elections within sa 4 d Com
monwealth," it is made the duty of the Sheriff of each
county to give public notice of the officers to be elected,
and the time and place of holding said elections in the
election districts, and the laws governing the holding
thereof:
Now therefore, I, Tnowss K. lIENDERSON, High Sher
iff of Huntingdon county, do hereby made known that
the General Election will be hold in and for said county
On Tuesday, November 6th, 1877,
it being the Tuesday following the first Monday of No
vember' (the polls to be opened at seven o'clock a. in., mid
closed at seven o'clock p. in.) at which time the Freemen
of Huntindon county will vote by ballot fur following of=
Seers, namely:
One person for Supreme Judge of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
One person for State Treasurer of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
One person for Auditor General of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
One person for High Sheriff of Huntingdon county.
Two persons for Director of the Pour of Huntingdon
county.
One person for County Surveyor of Huntingdon county.
One person for Coroner of Huntingdon county.
The Election Polls in all the wards, townships, boroughs,
and districts of the county shall be opened at 7 o'clock
A. sc. and closed at 7 o'clock P. M.
In pursuance of said act, I also hereby make known and
give notice, that the places of holding the aforesaid general
election in the several election districts within the
county of Huntingdon, are as lollows, to wit:
let district, composed of the township of Henderson, at
the Union School House. _ _
2d district, composed of Dublin township, at Pleasant
Hill School House, near Joseph Nelson's in said township.
3d district, composed of so much of Warriorsmark town
ship, as is not included in tlae 19th district, at the school
house adjoining the town o, - Warriorsmark.
4th district composed of the township of Hopewell, at
the house of^Levi Houpt.
sth district, composed of the township cf Barree, at the
house of James Livingston, in the town of Sanlsburg, in
said township.
6th district composed of the borough of Shirloysburg,
and all that part of the township of Shirley not included
within the limits of District No. 24, as hereinafter men
tioned and described, at the house of David Fraker, deed,
in Shirleysburg.
7th district, composed of Porter and part of Walker
township, and so much of West township as is included in
the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at the south
westcorner of Tobias Caufman's Farm on the busk of the
Little Juniata river, to the lower end of Jackson's nar
rows, thence in a northwesterly direction to the most
southernly part of the farm owned by Michael Maguire,
thence north 40 degrees west to the top of Tussey's moun
tain to intersect the line of Franklin township, thence
along the said line to the Little Juniata river, thence
down the same to place of beginning, at the public school
house opposite the German Reformed Church, in the bor
ough of Alexandria.
ilth district, composed of the township of Franklin, at
the public School House, in the village of Frankhnville,
in said township. . . . . .
9th district, composed of Tell township, at the Union
•ehool house, near the Union meeting house in said twp.
idth district, composed of Springfield township, at the
school house, near liugh Madden's, in said township.
11th district, composed of Union township, at the
Railroad school house, in said township.
12th district, composed of Brady township, at the Centre
school house, in said township.
13th district, composed of Morris township, at public
school house No. 2, in said township.
14th district composed of that part of West township_
not included in 7th and 26th districts, at the public school
house on the iiirm now owned by Miles Lewis (formerly
owned by James Bunts,) in said township.
13th district, composed of Walker township, at the
house of Benjamin Magahy, in 31cConnelstown.
16th district, composed of the township of Ted, at the .
Green school house. in said township.
17th district, composed of Oneida township, at Centre
Union School House.
18th district, composed of Cromwell township, at the
Bock Hill School House.
19th district, composed of the borough of Birmingham
with the several tracts of land near to and attached to the
same, now owned and occupied by Thomas M. Owens,
John K. McCahan, Andrew Rohmm, John Gensimer and
Wm. Gensimer, and the tract of land now owned by
George and John Shoenberger„ known as the Porter tract,
situate in the township of Warriorsmark, at the public
school house in said borough.
20th district, composed of the township of Casa, at the
public school house in Casstille, in said township.
21st district, composed of the township of Jackson at the
public house of Edward Littles, at McAleavy'e Fort, in
said township.
22d district, composed of the township of Clay, at the
public school house in Scottsville.
23d district, composed of the township of Penn, at the
public school house in Grafton, in said township.
24th district, composed and created as follows, to wit :
That all that part of Shirley township, Huntingdon coun
ty, lying and being within the following described boun
daries, (except the borough of Mount Union,) namely:—
Beginning at the intersection of Union and Shirley town
ship lines with the Juniata river, on the south side there
of; thence along said Union township line for the distance
of three miles from said river; thence eastwardly, by a
straight line, to the point where the main road from
Eby's mill to Germany valley, crosses the summit of
Santly.ridge; thence northwardly along the siunmit of
Sandy ridge to the river Juniata, and thence up said river
to the place of beginning, shall hereafter form a separate
elettion district; that the cinalified voteriof said election
district shall hereafter hold their general and township
elections in the public school house in Mount Union, in
said district.
25th district, composed of all that territory lying north
eastward of a line beginning at the Juniata riverand run
ning-thence in a.direct line along the centre of 4th Street
lathe borough of Huntingdon, to the line of Oneida town
ship, constituting the First Ward of said borough, at the
-south east window of the Court House.
2tith district, composed of all that territory lying west
of the First Ward and east of the centre of 7th street
composing the second Ward at the Engine House in the
borough aforesaid.
27th district, composed of all that territory lying north
and west of the Second Ward and south of a hue begin
ning at the Juniata river, and running thence eastward
in a direct line along the centre of 11th street to the Hue
of Oneida township constituting the Third Ward, and also
those portions of Walker and Porter townships formerly
attached to the east ward, at the othce of James Simpson,
No. 831 Washington street, in said borough.
28th district, composed of all that territory north of the
third ward of said borongli.constituting the Fourth Ward,
at the public School House near Cherry Alley, in said
borough.
29th district, composed of the borough of Petersburg
and that part of West township, west and north of a line
between lienderscn and West townships, at or near the
Warm Springs, to the Franklin township line on the top
of Tussey's mountain, so as to include in the now district
the houses of David Waildsmith, Jacob Longenecker, Thos.
Hamer, James Porter, and John Wall, at the school house
in the borough of Petersburg.
30th district, composed of Juniata township at Hawn's
school house, in said township.
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list distria, composed of - Carbon township, recent"y
erected out as part of the territory of Tod township to wit:
commencing at a chestnut oak, on the summit of Terrace
mountain, at the Hopewell township line opposite the
dividing ridge, in the Little Valley '
• thence south fitly
two degrees, oast three hundred and sixty perches to a
stone heap on the Western Summit of Broad Top moun
tain; thence north sixty seven degrees, east three hun
dred and twelve perches, to a yellow pine • thence south
fifty-two degrees, east seven hundred and seventy-two
perches to a Chestnut Oak; thence south fourteen degrees,
east three hundred and fifty one perches, to a Chestnut at
the east end of H - nry S Green's land; thence south thirty
one and a half degrees, east two hundred and ninety-four
perches to s Chesty :t Oat - on the summit of a spur of
Broad Tot on the sisters' side of John Terrel's farm :
south, sixty-five degrees, east nine hundred and thirty
four perches, to astene heap on the Clay township line,
at the Public School House, in the village of Dudley.
32d district, composed of the borough of Coalmont, at
'be public school house in said borough.
33d district, composed of Lincoln township, beginning
at a pine on the summit of Tussey mountain on the hue
between Blair and Huntingdon counties, thence by the
division line south, fifty-eight degrees east seven hund
red and ninety-eight porches to a Clack oak in middle of
township; thence forty-two and one half degrees east
eight hundred and two perches to a pine on summit of
Terrace ;.thence by line of Tod township to corner of
Penn township; thence by the lines of the township of
Penn to the summit of Tussey mountain ; thence along
said summit with line of Blair county to place of begin
ning at Coffee Bun School House.
34th aistr 4 ct, composed of the borough ofMapleton,at the
public Nita,: house in said borough.
35th *is: C.. 4, composed of the borough of Mount Union,
at the public school house in said borough.
36th district, composed of the borough of Broad Top
City, at the' üblic school house in said borough
37th district, composed of the borough of Three Springs
at the public school house in said borough.
38th district, composed of the borough of Shade Gap,
at the public school house in said borough.
39th district, the borough of Orhisonia, at the pubiic
school house.
40th district, composed of the borough of Marklesburg,
at the main public school house in said borough.
41st district, composed of the borough of Saltillo, at the
public school house In said borough.
The 15th Section of,Art. 8, of the Constitution, provides:
SscrioN 15. No person shall be qualified to serve as an
election officer who shall hold or shall within two months
have held au office, appointment or employment in or
undet the government of the United States or of this
State, or of any city, or county, or of any municipal
board; commission or trust in any city, save only
Justices of the peace, and alderman, notaries public and
persons in military services of the State ; nor shltll any
election officer be eligible to ary civil office to be filled
at au election at which he shall serve, save only to such
subordinate municipal or local officers, below the grade
of city or county officers as shall be designated by general
law. . .
An act of Assembly entitled "an act relating to
the elections of this Commonwealth," passed July 2, 1819,
provides as follows, viz
"That the Inspectors and Judges shall meet the res
pective places appointed for holding the election in the
district at which they respectively belong; before 7 o'clock
in the morning of the let Tuesday of November, and each
said inspector shall appoint one clerk, who shall be gnat
iaed voter of such district
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In case •hp person who shall have received the second
highest number of votes for inspector shall not attend on
the day of the election, then the person who shall have
received the second highest number of votes for Judge at
the next preceding election shall act as inspector in his
place. And in case the person who shall have received
the highest number of votes for inspector shall not attend,
the person elected Judge shall appoint an inspector in
his place, and in case the person elected Judge shall not
attend, then the inspector who received the highest num
ber of votes shall appoint a Judge in his place; and if any
vacancy shall continue in the board for the space of one
hour after the time fixed by law fur the opening of the
election, the qualified voters of the township, ward or dis
trict for which such officer shall have been elected, present
at such election shall elect one, of their number to
fill the vacancy. •
It shall be the duty of the several assessors of each dis
trict to attend at the place of holding every general,
special or township election, during the whole time said
election is kept open, for the purpose of givinginfortuation
to the inspectors and judges, when called on, in relation
to the right of any person assessed by them to vote at such
election, or such other matters in relation to the assess
ment of voters as the said inspectors or either of them
shall-from time to time require.
SPECIAL ATTENTION is hereby directed to the Bth
Article of the New Constitution.
SzorioN 1. Every male citizen twenty—one years of age,
possessing the following imalifications, shall be entitled
to vote at all elections.
First.-11e shall have been a citizen of the United States
at leant one month.
Seeond.-11e shall have resided in the State one year,
(or if baring previously been a qualified elector or native
born citizen of the State, he shall have removal from and
returned, then six tri,niths,) immediately preceding the
election.
Third.—lle shall have resided iu the election district
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Election Proclamation
where Le shall offer to vote at least two months immedi
ately preceding the election.
Fun rth.—lf twenty-two years ofage and upwards, he shall
have paid within two years a State or county tax, which
shall have been assessed at least two months and paid at
least one mouth before the election.
By Section 1 of act of 30th of Mardi, 1860, it la provided
as follows
That the qualified voters of the several counties of this
Commonwealth, at all general, township, borough and
special elections, are hereby hereafter authorized and re
quired to vote, by tickets, printed or written, or partly
printed or partly written, severally classified as follows :
One ticket shall embrace the names of alt judges of courts
voted for, and to be labeled outside "judiciary ;" one tick
et shall embrace the names of all county officers voted for
including office of Senator and members of Assembly, if
voted Mr, and members of Congress, if voted for, and be
labeled, "county," one ticket shall embrace the name of
all township officers voted for, and be labeled,"township;"
one ticket shall embrace the names of all borough officers
voted for, and shall be labeled "borough;" and each class
shall be deposited in separate ballot boxes.
Srevms 13. For the purpose of voting no person shall
be deemed to have gained a residence by reason of his
presence or lost it by reason of his absence, while em
ployed in the service, either civil or military, of this
State or of the United States, nor while engaged in
the navigation of the waters of this State or of the
United States, or on the high seas, nor while a stu
lent of any institution of learning, nor while kept in any
poor house or other asylum at public expense, nor while
confined in public prison.
SECTION 4. All elections by the citizens shall be by bal
lot. Every ballot shall be numbered in the order in
which it shall be received, and number recorded by the
election officers on the list of voters, opposite the name of
the elector who presents the ballot. Any elector may
write his Rance upon his ticket or cause the same to be
written *hereon and attested by a citizen of the district.
The election officers shall be sworn or affirmed not to dis
close how any elector shall have voted unless required to
do so as witnesses in a judicial proceeding.
SECTION 6. Whenever any of the qualified electors of
this Commonwealth shall be in actual military service,
under a requisition from the President of the United
States or by the authority of this CAmmouwealth, such
electors may exercise the right of suffrage in all elections
by citizens, under such regulations as are or shall be pre
scribed by law, as fully as if they were present at their
usual place of election,
SECTION 7. All laws regulating the holding of elections
by the citizens or for the registration of electors shall be
unificrm throughout tee State but no elector shall be de
ter visi of the privilege of voting by reason of his name
not being registered.
SECTION e. Any person who shall, while a candidate for
office, be guilty of bribery, fraud, or willful violation of
ally election law, shall be forever disqualified from hold
ing ate office of trust or profit in this Commonwealth, and
any person con-icted of willful violation of the election
laws shall, in addition to any penalties provided by law,
be deprived of the right of suffrage absolutely for a term
of fear years.
And also to the following Acts of Assembly now in
force in this State, viz :
SscllON S. At the opening of the polls at all elections
it shall be the duty of the judges of election for
their respective districts to designate one of the inspectors,
whose duty it shall be to have in custody the registery of
voters, and to make the entries therein required by law;
and it shall be the duty of the other said inspectors to re
ceive and number the ballots presented at said election.
SECTION 9. All elections by the citizens shall be by bal
lot ; every ballot voted shall be numbered in the order in
which it shall be received, and the number recorded by
the clerks on the list of voters opposite the name of the
elector from whom received. And any voter voting two or
more tickets, the several tickets so voted shall each be
numbered with the number corresponding with the num
ber to the name of the voter. Any elector may write hie
name upon the ticket, or cause the same to be written
thereon, anti attested by a citizen of the district. In ad
dition to the oath now prescribed by law to be taken and
subscribed by election officers, they shall severally be
sworn or affirmed not to disclose how any elector shall
have voted, unless required to do so as witnesses in ajm
dicta] proceeding. All judges, inspectors, clerics, and over
seers of any election held under this act, shall, before en
tering upon their duties, be duly sworn or affirmed in the
presence of each other. The judge shalt be sworn by the
minority inspector, if there shall be such minority inspec
tor, and its ease there be DO minority inspector,
then by a justice of the peace or alderman, and
the inspectors, overseers, and clerks shall be sworn
by the judge. Certificates of such swearing or af
firming' shall be duly made ou,t and 84404 by:the officers
so sworn. a n d attested by the officer who atilinngsferad the
oath. It any judge or minority inspector refuses or fails
to swear the officers of election in the manner required
by this ;iet, or if any officer of election shall act without
being first duly sworn, or if any officer of election shall
sign the firm of oath without being duly sworn, or if any
judge or minority inspector shall certify that any offteer
was sworn Whelk he was not, it shall be deemed a Mb/de
meaner, and upon conviction, the officer or officers so of
fending shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars,
or imprisoned not to exceed ono year, or both, in the dis
cretion of the court.
I also give official notice to the electors of finntingdon
County, that by an act entitled "An Act further suppli
menial to the act relative to the election of this Common
wealth, approved Jan. 30, A. D. 1874.
That it is provided in Section 10, that on theday of elec
tion any person whose name is not on the said list, and
claiming the right to vote at the said election, shall pro
dueeat least oae qualified voter of the district as a Wit
uses to the residence of the claimant in the district in
which lie claims to be a voter,for a period ofat least two
months next preceding said election, which witness shall
be sworn or affired and subscribe a written or partly writ
ten an.) partly printed affidavit to the facts stated by him,
which affidavits Atilt define clearly Where the residence is,
of the person so ciaireiug to be a voter ; end the person so
claiming the right to vote shall also take atql seleicrihe
a written or partly written and partly printed affidavit,
.stain, to the best of his knowledge and belief, where and
when lie was born; that he has been a eitisen of the Uni
ted States for one month, and of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania; that.he has resided in the Commonwealth
one year., of formerly a qualified elector or a native born
citizen thereof, and has removed therefrom and returned ;
that he has resided thereat six months next preceeding said
election ; that lie has resided in the district In which he
claims to be a voter for the period of at leant two months
immediately preceeding said election; that be has not
moved into the district fur the purpose of voting therein ;
that he has if 22 years of age and upwards, paid a State
or County tax within two yeare, which was assessed at
least two menthe and paid at least pap mouth, before said
election ; and if a natnialieed eitieee shall also state
when, where amid by,w hat court he was naturalized, and
shall also preduce ids certificate of naturalization for ex
amination ; that said affidavit shall also state when and
where the tax claimed to be paid by the affiant was as
sessed, and when, where and to whom paid ; and the tax
receipt therefor shall be produced for examination, un
less the atliant shall elate in his affidavit tlta►tit bus been
lost or destroyed, or that he never received any : but if
the person so claiming the right to vote shall take and
sulerribe au affidavit, that he is a native-born citizen of
the United States, (or if horn elsewhere shall state the fact
in his affidavit, and shall produce evideuoe that be has
boot naturalized, or that he is entitled to citizenship by
reason of his father's naturalization;) and shall further
true in his Affidavit that he is, at the time of making the
affidavit, between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-two
years ; that lie has been a citizen of the United Statesone
mouth, and has resided in the state one year, or, if a na
tive-born citizen of the State and removed therefrom and
returned, that he has resided therein six months next
preceding said election, and in the election district hums
mediately two months preceding such election, he shall
be entitled to vote, although he shall not have paid taxes !
the said affidavits of all persons making such claims, and
the affidavit of the witnesses to their residence shall be
preserved by the election board, and at the close of the
election they shall be enclosed with the list of voters,
tally list and other papers required by law to Le filed by
the Return Judges with the Prothonotary and shall remain
on file within the Prothonotary's office, subject to exami
nation, as other election papers are ; if the election officers
shall find that the applicant possesses all the legal
qualifications of a voter he shall be permitted to vote, and
his name shall be added to the list of taxables by the
election officers, the word "tax" being added where the
clainiant claims to vote on tax, and the word "age" where
he claims to vote on age; the same words being added
by the clerk in each case respectfully onthe lists of persons
voting at such election.
A 1.., that in Section 11th of said Act, it is provided that
it shall be lawful for any qualified citizen of the district,
notwithstanding the name of the proposed voter is con
tained on the list of the resident taxables, to challenge the
vote of such person ; whereupon the same proof of the
right of suffrage as is now required by law shall be pub
licly made and acted on by the election board, and the
vote admitted or rejected, according to the evidence; ev
ery person claimiug to be a naturalized citizen shall be
required to produce his naturalization certificate at the
election before voting, except where he has been for five
years, consecutively, a voter in the district in which he
offers his vote ; and on the vote of such person being re
ceived, it shall be the duty of the election officers to write
or stamp on such certfficate the Word "voted," with the
day, mouth and year '
• and if any electioe officer:Or officers
shall receive a second vote on the same day, by virtue of
the same certificate, excepting where sous are entited to
vote by virtue of the naturalization of their fathers, they
and the person who shall offer such second vote, upon so
offending shall be guilty of high misdemeanor and
on conviction thereof, be fired or imprisoned, or bolt,
at the discretion of the Court; but the tine shall not ex
ceed live hundred dollars in each case, nor the • impron*
meat more titan one year ; the like punishment shall be
inflicted on conviction on the officers of election. who
shall neglect or refuse to make, or cause to be made, the
endorsement required as aforesaid on said naturalization
certificate.
Also that in Section 12 of said Act, it is provided that if
any election officer shall refuse or neglect to require such
proof of the right of suffrage as is prescribed by this law
or the laws to which this is a supplement, from any person
offering to vote whose name is net on the list of assessed
voters, or whose right to vote is challenged by any qual
ified voter present, and shall admit such person to vote
without requiring such proof, every person so offending
shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and shall be sentenced for every such offense, to pay a
fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to undergo an
naprisonment not more than one year, or either or both,
at the discretion of the Court.
SECTION 13. As soon as the polls shall close, the officers
of election shall proceed to count all the votes cast for
each candidate voted for, and make a full return of the
Kline in triplicate, with a return sheet in addition, in all
of which the votes received by each candidate shall be
given alter his or her name, first in words and again in
lig - iares, and shall be signed by all of said officers and cer
tified by overseers, if any, or an at so certified, theover
seers and any officer refusing to sign or certify, or either
of them, shall write upon each of the returns his or their
reasons for not signing or certifying them. The vote, as
soup as counted, shall also be publicly and fully declared
from the N( 111110 W to the citizens present, and slider state
ment showing tie votes received by each candidate shall
be made and signed by the election officers as soon as the
vote is counted, and the same shall he immediately posted
upon the doer of the election house for information of the
public. The triplicate returns shall be enclosed in envel
opes and he sealed in presence of the officers, and one en
vel with the unsealed return sheet, given to the judge,
which shall contain one list of voters, tally-paper, and oaths
of o ffi cers, and another of said envelopes shall be given to
the minority iaspi-cter. All judges living within twelve
miles of the prothonotary'e office, or within twenty-four
miles, if their residence be in a town, village or city upon
the line of railroad leadinz to the county seat, shall, be.
fore two o'clock post meridan of the day after the election,
and all other judges shall, before twelve o'clockmeildan
of the second day after the election, deliver said return,
together with return sheet, to the prothonotary of the
court of eoinnion pleas of the county, which said return
sheet shall be filed, and the day and hour of tiling mark
ed thereon, and shall be preserved fly the prothonotary for
public itispection. At twelve o'clock on the said second
they following any election, the prothonotary of the court
of common pleas shall present the said returns to the said
court. ln counties where there is no resident president
President judge, the associate judges shall perform the
duties imposed upon the court of common pleas, which
shall convene for said purpose; the returns presented by
the prothonotary shall be opened by said court and com
puted by such of its officers and such sworn assistants as
the court shall appoint, in the presence of the judge or
judges of said court, and the returns certified and certifi
cates of election issued under the seal of the court as is
DOW required to he done by return judges ; and the vote as
:4,, computed and certified, shall bemade a matter of record
in said court. The sessions of the said court shall be open
to the public. And in case the return of any election die-
Inlet shall be missing when the returns are presented, or
HUNTINGDON, PA , FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1877.
Election Proclamation.
in case of complaint of a qualified elector under oath,
charging palpable fraud or mistake, and particularly spec
ifying the alleged fraud or mistake, of where fraud or
mistake is apparent on the return, the court shall examine
the return, and if in the judgment of the court it shall
be necessary to ajust return, said court shall issue sum
mary process against the election officers and overseers,
if any, of the election district complained of, to bring
them forthwith into court, with all election papers in their
possession ; and if palpable mistake or fraud shall be dis
covered, it shall, upon such hearing as may be deemed ne
cessary to enlighten the court, be corrected by the court
and so certified; but all allegations of palpable fraud or
mistake shall be decided by the said court within three
days after the day the returns are brought into court fur
computation ; and the said inquiry shall be directed only
to palpable fraud or mistake, and shall not be deemed a
judicial adjudication to conclude any contest now or here
after to be provided by law; and the other of the of said
triplicate returns shall be placed in the box and sealed up
with the ballots.
Also in Section 17 of said Act, it is provided that the re
spective assessors, inspectors and judges of the election
shall each have the power to administer oaths to any
person claiming the right to be assessed or the right of
suffrage, or in regard to any other matter or thing requi
red to be done or inquired into by any one of said officers
under this act ; and any wilful false swearing by any per
son in relation to any matter and thing concerning
which they shall be lawfully interrogated by any of said
officers or overseers shall be punished as perjury.
Secitott 5. electors shall in all cases except treason,
felony and breach or surety of the peace, be privilleged
from arrest during their attendance on elections and in
going to and returning therefrom.
SECTION 8. Any person who shall give, or promise or
offer to give, to an elector, any . money, reward, or other
valuable consideration for his vote at an election, or for
withholding the same, or who shall give or promise to
give such consideration to any other person or party for
such elector's vote or for the withholding thereof, and any
elector who shall receive or agree to receive, for himself or
for another, any money, reward or other valuable con
sideration fur his vote at an election, or for withholding
the same shall thereby forfeit the right to vote at such
election, and any elector whose right to vote shall be chal
lenged for such cause before the election officers, shall be
required to swear or affirm that the matter of the dial
lenge is untrue before his vote shall be received.
SECTION 19. Any assessor, election officer or person ap
pointed as an overseer, who shall neglect or refuse to per
form any duty enjoined by this act, without reasonable or
legal cause, shall be subject to a penaltyof one hundred
dollars; and if any assessor shall knowingly assess any
person as a veter who is not qualified, or shall wilfully
refuse to assess any one who is qualified, he shall be guil
ty of a misdemeanor in office and on conviction be punish
ed by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or im
prisonment not exceeding two years, or both, at the dis
cretion of the court, and also be subject to an action for
damages by the party aggrieved ; and if any person shall
fraudulently alter, add to, deface or destroy any list of
voters made out as directed by this act, or tear down or
remove the same from the place where it has been fixed,
with fraudulent or mischievous intent, or for any improp
er purpose, the person so offending shall be guilty of a '
misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a
fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment
net exceeding two years, or both, at the discretion of the
court; and if any person shall, by violence and intimida
tion, drive, or attempt to drive from the polls, any person
or persons appointed by the court to act as overseers of an
election, in any way wilfully prevent said overseers
from performing the duties enjoined upon them by this
act, such persons shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be pnnished by a tine not
exceeding one thousand dollars, or by iniprisoureent
not exceeding two years, or both at the discretion of the
court. Any person who shall ou the day of any election,
visit a polling place in any election district at which he is
not entitled to vote, and shall use intimidation or violence
for the purpose of preventing any officer of election from
performing the duties required of him by law, or for
the purpose of preventing any qualifled'voter of the dis
trict exercising his right to vote, or from exercising his
right to challenge any tsetse,' offering to vete, such per
son shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof, shall be punished by a line not ex
ceeding one tbonsand dollars, or by imprisonment not
exceeding two years, or both, Who discretion of the
court. Any clerk, overseer or election officer, wbo shall
disclose how any elector shall have voted, unless required
to dose in a judicial proceeding, shall be guilty of a mis
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished
by a fine not exceeding ono thousand dollars, or by im
prisonment not exceeding two years, or both, in the
discretion of the court.
SEC. 4. On the petition of fiveor more citizens of any
election district, setting forth that the appointment of
overseers is a reasonable precaution to secure the purity
and fairness of the election in said district ; it shall be the
duty of the court of common pleas of the proper county,
all the law judges of the said court able to act at the time
concurring, to appoint two judicious,soberand intelligent
citizens of the said district belonging to different political
parties, overseers of election to supervise the proceedings
of the election officers thereof, and to malce report of the
same as they may be required by such court. Said otter,
seers shall be persons qualified to serve upon election
boards and shall have the right to be present with the of
ficers of such election during the whole time the same is
held, the vows counted, and the returns Made out and
signed by the election officers; to keeps list of the voters,
if they see proper; to challenge any person offering to
vote, and interrogate him and his witnesses under oath,
in regard to his right of suffrage at said election, and to
examine hie papers produced; and the officers of said
election are required to alfurd to snit! ov e rseers,
so selected
and appointed every convenience and facility for the dis
charge of their duties; and if said election officers shall
refuse to permit said overseers to be present, and perform
their duties as aforesaid, such officer or officers shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall
be fined not exeeeeing one thousand dollars, or imprison
ment not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of
the court: or if the oseFscars shall be Oven away from
the pale by violence or intimidation, all ttjo votes polled
in such elegtion district may be rejected by tht proper
tribunal trying a contest under said election, or a part or
portion of audit Vat,: UfOr , 'St!iil may be counted, as such
tribunal may deem necessary so a just awl propzr 4ispo,
sition of the case.
If any person shall prevent or attempt to prevent any
officer of an election under this act from holding such
election, or use or threaten any violence to any such offi
cer, MA 4ligi interrupt or improperly interfere with him
in the execution of Ida duty, shall block up or attempt to
block up the window or avenue to any window where the
same may be holden, or shall riotously disturb the peace
of such election, or shall use or practice intimidation,
threats, force or violence, with the design to influence un
duly or overawe any elector, or prevent him from voting,
or to restrain the freedom of choice, such persons on con
viction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hun
dred dollars, to be imprisoned for any time not less than
one nor more than twelve months, and if it shall be shown
to the court where the trial of such offense shall be had,
that the person so offinding was not a resident of the
city, ward or district where the said offense was committed ,
and not entitled to vote therein, on conviction, he shall
be sentenced to pay a fine not less than one hundred net
more then one thowsand dollars, and be imprisoned not
less than six months nor more than two years.
any person or persons shall make any bet or wager
upon the result of au election within the Commonwealth,
or shall offer to melte any such bet or wager, either by
verbal proclamation thereof or by any written or printed
advertisement, or invite any person or persons to wake
such bet or wager, upon conviction thereof heor they shall
forfeit and pay three times the amount so bet or offered to
be bet.
Election officers will take notice that the act entitled
t•A Further Supplement to the Election Laws of this Com
monwealth," disqualifying deserters front the army of the
United States from voting, has recently been declared un
constitutional by the Suprexue Court of Pennsylvania, is now
null and void, and that all perilous formerly disqualified
thereunder are now lawful voters, if otherwise qualified.
Sec, 111. It shall be the duty of every mayor, sheriff,
deputy sheriff, alderman, justice of the peace, and constable
or deputy constable of every city, county and township or
district within this Commonwealth, whenever called upon
by any officer of an election, or by any three qualified
electors thereof, to clear any window, or avenue to any
window, at the place of the general election, which shall
be obstructed in such a way as to prevent voters from
approaching the same, and en neglect or refusal to do on
such requisition, said officer shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor in office, and on conviction, shall be fined
in any sum not less than one hundred nor more than one
thousand dollars; and it shall be the duty of the respect
ive constables of each ward, district or township within
this Commonwealth, tote present in person or by deputy,
at the place of holding such elections in said ward, district
or township, for the purpose of preserving the peace, as
aforesaid.
SEC. 112. It shall be the duty of every peace officer, as
aforesaid, who shall be present at any such disturbance at
an election as is described In this act, to report the same to
the next court of quarter sessions, and also the names of the
witnesses w ho can prove the same; and it shall be the duty
of said court to cause indictments to be preferred before the
gran i jury against the persons so ofuudiag.
SEC. 113. If it shall be made to appear to any court of
quarter sessions of this Commonwealth that any riot or dis
turbance occurred at the time and place of holding any elec
tion under this act, and the constables who are enjoined by
law to attend at such elections have not given information
thereof; according to the provisions of this act, it shall be
the duty of said court to cause tile officer or officers, so ne
glecting the duty aforesaid, to be proceeded against by in
dictment for a misdemeanor in office, and on conviction
thereof, the said officer shall be tined in any sum not ex
ceeding one hundred dollars.
Ssc. 114. It shall ho the duty of the several courts of
quarter sessions of this Commonwealth, at the next term of
said court after any election shall have been held under the
act, to cause the respective constables in said county to be
examined on oath, as to whether any breaches of the peace
took place at the election within their respective town
ships, wards or districts, and it shall be the duty of said
constables respectively to make return thereof as part of
their official return at said court.
Given under my hand at Huntingdon, the 28th day of
September, Anno Domitli ono thousand eight hundred
slid seventy sevon and of tbo independence of the United
States the one hundred and firm.
Elliman's °Mon, 1 THOMAS K. HENDERSON.
Sept, 2S, 1877. f SHERIFF.
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Autumn.
BY CHARLES B. MACLAY
By the laggard sun I greet,
By the orispen leaves so fleet,
Hither, thither 'nea.th my feet,
Whirling, whirling.
By the purpling of yon hill.
By the swelling of the rill,
Gliding on to village mill,
Purling, purling
By the jay's metallic note,
By the spider-wobs that float
From the tree-tops to the moat,
Shining, shining,
By the dim, mysterious haze,
By the forest all ablaze,
Crimson leaves with golden rays
Entwining .
By the soughing of the air,
Note of joy or moan of care,
Fairy laugh or spirit prayer
Interweaving
All are now the waning power
Of the sunny summer hour
Over tree and shrub and flower
Perceiving.
Nature, prodigal of treasure,
O'er the vantage ground of pleasure,
Pours her harvest without measure,
In golden light.
The fulfillment, 0 how grand !
But, as falls into the hand
Luscious fruit with autumn brand,
Burning bright.
Memories of the days gone by
Will awake a bitter sigh,
And we turn a tearful eye
At that call.
In our hearts sad retrogression
Bursts upon us the confession:
Pursuit is sweeter than possession
After all.
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Hiram Boudonot, the little detective, was
of French extraction. lie was wont to listen
to a narrative of crime, nod his bead at the
close, and proceed to put himself upon the
trail of the criminal. He rarely failed to
bring down the man. Once he followed a
murderer to Naples, thence to Berlin where
he found him cold and dead in the morgue.—
Bat death could not cheat the little French
man out of his game ; he arrested the corpse,
reading his warrant to it by the sickly lights
of the dead house lamps, and brought his
prise back to America. Upon another occa
siou—but why particularize when his thrill
ing adventures are legion? If his memoirs
are ever published, the general world will
know where to assign him among the indomit
able men of the present century.
It is our present purpose to tell the story of
one of the episodes of his eventful
4.1 n the month of March, 180—, news of the
assassination of Sir gdward Dykes, the great
English horse breeder, reached New York.—
It had been cabled from London. If the an
no:moment had been accompanied by the in
telligence of the assassin's arrest, it would
have created no excitement in detective cir
cles; but on the contrary it said that the mur
derer was still at large, and that two thousand
pounds bad been offered for his apprehension.
The British authorities, moreover, feared that
he Tonld espape to the United States.
"This fear ekpressed in the cablegram, was,
with the liberal reward, enough to put the de
tective bureau qui dive. A. second dispatch
not only confirmed the report, but said that
the assassin, John Anderson by name,
had sailed on the Liberia bound for New York.
The Paglieb t 4 ete9tlyas were so confident of
this that they were able tcp telegraph a thor
ough description of the man as well as to make
known the name under which he was sailing
to our shores. The British consul at New
York at once prepared to secure the , accused
upon the arrival of the Liberia in quarantine,
and the proper papers were made out.
"The vessel's arrival was eagerly looked
for, and at last the officers of the law boarded
her in quarantine.
"Gentlemen, I anticipate your demands,"
said the captain, a short, bald-headed sea dog,
whose urbanity was ludicrous In the extreme.
"Yon seek a man whose body, I regret to say,
became food for the fishes several days ago."
The authorities exchanged looks of discom
fiture.
"Dead!" exclaimed one. "Why, sir, that
man was John Anderson, the murderer of Sir
iidward Dykes."
"I couldn't have helped it if he had killed
Abel," Captain Fletcher replied. "Night be
fore last we were rolling in a gale that blew
good-sized guns until twelve o'clock. Now,
sirs, I got a certain idea into my head when
that man entered passage at Liverpool. You
see I had heard of the murder of the horse
breeder, an 4 as it was hinted that the rascal
would try to leave the kingdom, I was on the
lookout. But; sirs, I did not dare to inform
on this passenger, for I feared that I might be
mistaken, and thus get into serious trouble.
Time proved that my conviction was well
grounded, George March—that is the name
on the ship's registry—grew moody and fear
ful. He avoided me—avoided everybody—
until I was not the only suspicious man on
shipboard.
"Night before last as I was saying," con
tinued the tedious salt, getting back to the
gist of the subject, "we were in a gale, Barn
acle was at the wheel, and he is a man whose
veracity cannot be doubted. I had just been
consulting him—it was about eleven o'clock
—and was going aft, when I spied a figure
leaning over the taffrail.
"That man," said Ito Barnacle, "is March."
'The helmsman nodded and said, "watch
him,' the which, gentlemen, I resolved to do.
"Straight to his side I walked, and tapped
him on the shoulder. We had not been mis
taken ; the man was the suspected passenger.
I could barely see his face, but it was pale,
and he started when he saw that I was the
captain of the Liberia. Then he stepped back
and put out his hand as if to keep me off.
"Captain," he said, "where you ever haunt
ed ? My life has been a bell ever since I com
mitted that deed for which the officers of the
law are hunting me. They will catch me in
the quarantine—if I get there. But there is a
way to elude the dogs of the law—the sea can
wrench me from their grip. Better the waves
than the gallows.
"He did not say another word, but before I
could detain him leaped over the vessel's side
into the sea. I gave the alarm, and, despite
the storm, sent a boat out to hunt for him,
but in vain. We lay by till dawn, hoping to
find him aboard one of the coops or boxes
which we had thrown over for his rescue;
but when the day broke not a living thing
greeted us, and the waves had torn our boxes
into slivers. Thus I parted with the man for
whom you are looking, gentlemen. But the
secret parts of the Liberia are.open for inspec
tiod, You are welcome to his valise and con
tents. I shall be glad when the last vestige
of the rascal is removed from my vessel."
Captain Fletcher's story, told with the
bluntness for which he was noted, impressed
the authorities, and they left the vessel much
chagrined. They carried with them the small
amount of baggage left by the suicidal pas
senger, and the cable sent the unfortunate re
sult to London. But the matter was not per
mitted to rest here. Several American de
tectives stirred by the handsome reward,
boarded the Liberia and searched her thor
oughly, but without throwing any additional
light upon Anderson's disappearance.
The man called Barnacle, who was at the
wheel on the eventful night, corroborated the
captain's story, and the two continents settled
down to the belief that the sea had cheated
the gallows.
But there was one man in New York who
was incredulous. His name was Hiram Bou
donot.
lie refused to express an opinion on the
"Dykes•Anderson affair," but listened to those
of the frequenters of his bachelor retreat, f. ho
as they discussed his cigars, mourned the loss
of the chance for making £2,000.
"Well, Boudonot, what do you think about
it? Here three days have passed away since
we searched the Liberia, and you have listened
dumb as the Sphinx to our opinions. Come,
give us yours."
The little Frenchman permitted a merry
twinkle to brighten his eye as he replied :
_ _
"It is the universal belief that the man is
in the sea. Wouldn't I be foolish to stand
out against it? But," he added, with a smile,
"sometimes the gallows draws its victims from
the waves."
Boudonot's companions exchanged signifi
cant glances. They seemed to read hope in
the detective's cunning smiles and words.
"Hiram is always most sanguine when be
talks and smiles in that manner," said one,
and so the subject dropped.
The little Frenchman did not believe that
the waves had swallowed up the assassin of
Sir Edward Dykes. He heard from the lips of
Captain Fletcher and Barnacle the story which
we have already stated, and his menoranda
filled several pages.
A fortnight after the unsuccessful search, a
man—who answered the description of John
Anderson—entered a sailor's groggery in
Cherry street. He appeared to be under the
influence of liquor, but did not stagger or
quarrel with the tenants of the place, who,
glancing at him a moment, turned to their
carousal again.
It m ight have been eleven o'clock at night
when the man entered the place, for the revel
was at its height. Be leaned against the wall
and surveyed the crowd as if he sought a par
ticular individual.
Ali at once he heard an exclamation at his
side, and be turned his head as a great sea
browned hand dropped upon his arm.
"Great God what are you doing here ?
Don't you know—"
The speaker hesitated.
"Yes, I know," interrupted the newcomer.
"You are Barnacle. I did not expect. to find
you here. Come over into the corner. I war.:
a few words with you."
_
The twain withdrew to one corner of the
room, and the man who looked like the mur
derer of Sir Edward Dykes continued ;
"I am going to leave the city," be said ;
going away to-night. What do they think of
me. Barnacle ?"
"Why, that you're in the sea, of course,"
the sailor answered, with a grin. "When the
paddy fell into the water, I laughed in my
sleeve, and said that the hen-coops wouldn't
save him, for didn't I tell the Captain that a
little lead would send it to the bottom!"
"It did."
"Certainly. Are they after you?"
"No. They don't hunt dead men in Ameri
ca. But I want to get out of this city, anyhow.
Where is the captain now ?"
4At the theatre, probably. 'Merchant of
Venice,' his favorite, yon know. But look
here, we had better not talk too long here.
Some of the boys are not very drunk, and they
might recognize you. Lucky that I 'am the
only tar of the Liberia here. Ara% you a lee
tle bold coming here like your old self?"
"Perhaps. But, Barnacle, I shall leave some
thing for you. Go to my boarding house to
morrow afternoon, and ask for the package
which I have left there. Do you know the
place ?"
"Yes," io a low tone,
"lJe certain of it."
"I am certain ; it is-Bleeker street."
"That is right. Don't forget tomorrow af
ternoon; a red handkerchief is wrapped
around the package. "Good-by, Flarnaole,
know that the ot)crot ago tq your .keep
ing.ii
"f wool(' die before it shonld•fall from coy
lips."
"Good Suppose I treat the boys
"No treat, for Heaven's sake exclaimed
the helmsman. "Don't get into the bright
light. It is hardly dark enough here. Give
me the money; I'll set 'em up. Good-by."
A greenback dropped into the sailor's hand,
and the man who looked like the Enlislituan's
assassin went out.
We'll see about this," he said,*as he hailed
an empty hack.
"Can't take you, sir," the driver said, as he
drew rein a moment in the thoroughfare. "I
am on business now."
"But empty 1"..
"Can't help it s "
" 4 00 , 0" 4nd the speaker, standing on the
hqb of the foremost wheel, was looking
straight into the hackman's eyes. "Drive me
to--.• Bleeker street, and keep your mouth
shut. Boudonot l"
The mention of that name was enough.
"Get in, sir," said the Jehu, and a moment
later the hack was moving again.
When it stopped before what appeared to be
a well to-do boarding Wise, the man who
alighted did not resemble the person who had
confronted Barnacle in the grogery.
startling metamorphosis had taken place
in the vehicle. The person who left it wore a
flowing bead, and bore a slight resemblance
to Captain Fletcher, though he was a little
taller than the redoubtable tar.
The hack left him on the pavement before
the house, the door of which was opened by it
rather haa4scirae young girl in response to his
kaoek:
4 'ls the last boarder in—l mean the one who
has not been here long," said Boudonot.
The portress looked puzzled.
"I am his friend. Tell him that Fletcher is
here. Important business."
"Oh—yes. He is in."
"That's a good girl," smiled the detective.
"Tell him that j am here."
A moment later the girl disappeared up a
flight of steps, leaving our hero in the dimly
lighted-hall.
Presently she stood before him amazed.
"He's up there. I know yon now ; you have
been here before and know his room. First
door to the , right."
With a triumphant look in his eye the so i
disant Fletcher went up the steps at the top of
which he came to a sudden bait.
Some one had knocked again and the little
portress had answered the knock,
But be heard time than this. A wild shriek
bad pealed from the girl's throat, and the
sound of a body falling to the floor succeeded
the startling cry of , da ghost !"
"Ghost be hanged l" answered a voice which
the detective instantly recognized. "Well I
swear if the thing hasn't fainted. What is the
matter ?"
Matters were getting serious. The true Cap
tain Fletcher was below I
Boudonot bad not it nionlent to lose.
Ile started forward again and flung wide the
"first door to the right." A man stood in
the middle of the room in an attitude of de
fense, for the voice below, loud and harsh as
it was, had evidently reached his ears.
"Captain he cried, starting toward
the little Frenchman but a revolver thrust
into his face, broke his sentence.
"Stand ! throw your weapon on the bed 1"
said Boudonot. "I want you,Jolin Anderson.
I am Boudonot."
The man whom he addressee. dropped his
pistol and gasped
"And Boudonot must be the devil! Sir, you
are the only man whom I have feared."
"Good I stand where you are. I am going
to talk to the fellow coming up the steps. I
don't want him now."
Then without moving he threw his voice
over his right shoulder.
"Captain Fletcher, if you come up here I'll
drop you dead down the steps. I have caught
my man. Leave this house instantly for lan
coming down stairs."
There was no reply to the detective's words,
but there were sounds of a hasty retreat, and
the shutting of the door told thAt the captain
had left the house,
It was with a merry twinkle in his dark eye
that the Frenchman greeted the several broth
er detectives who had taken possession of his
room, anticipating his arrival.
"Look at Boudonot ?" exclaimed one.—
"What has happened ? One would suppose
that lie had solved the mystery of the iron
mask,"
"Not quite so lucky ; but meeker street,
and not the sea, has given up John Anderson.
Have cigars, gentlemen ?"
The guests were astonished ; but Boudonot
quietly assured them that the Englishman's
murderer had actually been caged.
He told them how he had traced the cap
tain of the Liberia into the vicinity of the
boarding house but to lose him ; how he had
palmed himself off to Barnacle as the murderer;
bow lie learned Anderson's whereabouts from
the helmsman ; and bow he had secured the
prey.
Captain Fletcher told bow he and Barnacle
bad thrown and effigy overboard, and after
ward effectually concealed the assassin in the
bold until the Liberia had been searched,
when they assisted in his escape to and con
cealment in the city.
44 Ab, you suspected then ?" one of the list
eners said to Boudonot.
"From the first. When I heard Fletcher's
story I laughed to myself. I knew him in
Lyons, and he knew me. Here is my estimate
of him."
Boadonot passed his memoraedum around.
On one leaf was written these words :
"Fletcher is a liar."
Anderson was hung, and Boudonot got the
two thousand pounds.
cstiert isallanß.
A Fearful Risk for Girls.
The pastor of a church in one of our large cities
said to me, not long ago : "I have officiated at
forty weddings since I came here, and in every
case, save one, I felt that the bride was running
an awful risk. Young men of bad habits and fast
tendencies never marry girls of their own sort, but
demand a wife above suspicion. So, pure, sweet
women, kept from the touch of evil through the
years f their girlhood, give themselves, with all
their costly dower of womanhood, into the keeping
of men who, in base associations, have learned to
under-vain, all that belongs to them, and then
find repentance in the sad after years. There is
but one way out of this that I can see, and that is
for you—the young women of the country—to re
quire in associations and mtrriage, purity for pur
ity, sobriety fur sobriety, and honor for honor.
There is no reason why the. young men of this
Christian land should not be just as virtuous as
its women, and if the loss of society and love be
the price t hey are forced to pay for vice, they will
not pay it. I admit with sadness, that not all our
young women are capable of this high standard
for themselves or others, but I believe there are
enough earnest, thoughtful girls in the society of
our country to work wonders if faithfully aroused.
Dear girls will you help us, in the name of Christ?
Will you, first of all, be true to yourselves and
God; so pure in your inner and outer life that you
shall have a right to ask that the young man with
whom you marry shall be the same ? The awful
gulf of dishonor is close beside your feet, and in it,
fathers, brothers, lovers, and sons are going down.
Will you help us in our great work ? '
Waiting for the Golden Robes.
One night when the earth was so silent that the
footfalls of the guardian angels who passed to and
fro could almost be heard, and when the grand
canopy of Heaven blazed with bright stars, au old
man, who had made his bed on the grass under a
Iota) tree on the commons, awoke with a shiver.
The chill night air had crept through his faded
and worn garments and pinched his flesh. lie
sat up and looked about him with that longing ex.
pres.,ion in his eyes which comes only when men
feel that the earth is fast passing away from them
forever. He had no friends. Even the wander
ing dog which passed near him growled angrily
as it caught the flutter of the old man's rags in
the gentle breeze.
When a tree becomes oft ar.•l withered, and
ready to die, men despise it. They forget the
beauty it held for years, and they give it no praise
for the grateful shade it offered to thousands.—
They would have its shade and strength and beauty
endure forever, forgettin. , that everything must
grow older day by day an at lasi die.
Men had forgotten all the good words ever spo
ken by this old man. If he bad stuoothed the
rough paths of the poor—.if he had turned the
wicsed into better paths—if his kind words had
filled despairing hearts with new hopes he had no
credit for it—in the hearts of men. They had
sneered and scoffed at his slow step and many
tatters, and they bad laughed in derision as he
fell upon the hard earth. 100 sailor east upon a
lone isle in the groat ocean, seeing ships sailing
to and fro, but none ever turning toward him,
could have felt such isolation as this old man fe:t.
With his long, gray locks—with his rags and
tatters—with his wounded and aching heart—with
his knowledge that his hours were numbered, he
turned hispale face to the bright stars and mused :
"When the leaves clutter down I shall the, and
like them I shall be forgotten by all wen. They
will bury me, bat they will not mark my grave.
They may write my name down in a book, but no
one will ever turn to it. Let me die to-night—let
me be no more when the golden loaves flutter down
to the chilly earth t"
Shiveripi ip the keen air of midnight, he held
his face in his hands and pondered, and prayed.
Few hearts had sinned less, even when smarting
under the sense of the world's ridicule and neglect
—few hearts had deeper longing fur the blessed
7est of Heaven. By and by the air no longer
chilled him. lie grew warmer, and his old heart
grew larger, and as sleep came back to his eye
lids he whispered :
"If I ever wronged one human being in God's
great world may the angels forgive me?"
. .
The frost was creeping onwards from the North
—creeping over bill top and orchard and meadow
so softly that the blades of grass hardly quivered.
It crept to the tree and lingered for a moment in
its branches. The green leaves shivered, then the
green faded away, little by little, and lo! each leaf
was robed in gold ! They quivered in their joy
and gladness as the breeze whispered :
"The old man below you is dead ! Ile was
waiting for these golden robes to come to you. I
will waft you down, and you shall cover his gray
head with such a crown as no king e‘er wore."
And while the leaves were floating down to
glorify what men had despised,an angel in Heaven
turned the golden pages of a book and wrote:—
"Earth has sent another soul to dwell with and
find eternal joy and peace !"—Detroit Free Press.
Mysteries of of a Lump of COOL
For years no one supposed that a piece of soft
coal, dug from its mine or bed in the earth, pos
sessed any other quality than being combustible,
or was valuable Tor any other purpose than as fuel.
It was next found that it woulu afford a gas which
is also combustible. Chemical analysis proved it
to be made of hydrogen. In process of time me
chanical and chemical ingenuity devised a mode
of manufacturing this gas and applying it to the
lighting of buildings and cities on a large scale.
In doing this, other products of distillation were
developed, until, step by step, the following ingre
dients or materials are extracted from it:-1. An
excellent oil to supply light-houses, equal to the
best sperm oil, at lower cost. 2. 13,m2zulc—a light
sort of ethereal fluid, which evapora.tes easily, and
combined with vapor or moist air, is used for the
purpose of portalije gas lamps, so called. 3. Nap
tha—a heavy fluid, useful to dissol.*e gutta, per
cha, India rubber, etc. 4. An oil excellent for
lubricating purposes. 5. Asphaltum, which is a
black, solid substance, used in inakii.g Tarnishes,
covering roofs and covering over vaults. ti. Par
rafine—a white, crystalline substance, rusembling
white wax, which can he made into beautiful wax
candles; it melts at a temperature of 110 degrees,
and affords an excellent light. Ali these substau
ces are now made from soft coal.
Adventures of a Bogus Count,
Many will remember the then notorious case,
several years ago, of PaulSchoeppe, who was tried
in Pennsylvania for poisoning a Miss lleinecke,
who was very wealthy. He was twice found guil
ty of murder in the first degree, and on the third
trial was convicted in the third degree. Through
the influence of friends he was soon pardoned out
of prison. Subsequesily he came to Cincinnati,
and under the name and title of Count Schulen
burg, figured in an engagement of marriage with
a well-known German actress. On the day the
marriage was set for, he encountered a former
Eastern acquaintance, who recognised him, where
upon he immediately lied. Under the same n-sme
he was convicted of forgery in Chicago and served
two years in the Juliet Penitentiary. Afterwards
he obtained a position as a German writer on the
Courier newspaper in St. Louis, but was soon iden
tified and dismissed. Thence he went to New
York city, where he was known as Count Schmet
tow. As Count Sehruettow he reo ntly applied for
by letter and obtained a position on the editorial
staff of one of the Cincinnati morning dailies.
Yesterday ho arrived here, lie was not long in
the city before he met an old St. Louis acquaint
ance, who threatened to expose him. The last
known of the Count was his taking an afternoon
train for the West—Cincitinati Commercial.
Facts About Man.
If a well-made man be extended on the ground,
his arms at right angles with the body, a circle,
making the navel its centre, will just take iu the
head, the finger ends and feet.
The distance from toe to toe is precisely the
same as that between the•tips of the fingers when
the arms are extended.
The length of the body is just six times that of
the foot ; while the distance from the edge of the
hair un the forehead to the end of the chin is just
one tenth the length of the whole stature.
Of the sixty-two primary elements known in
nature, only eighteen are found in tho human
body, and of these, seven are metallic. Iron is
found in the blood, phosphorous in the brain,
limestone in the bile, lime in the bone, dust and
ashes in all. Not only these eighteen human ele
ments, but the whole sixty-two, which the uni
verse ie made, have their esset...ial basis in the
four substances, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and
carbon, representing the more familiar names of
fire, water, saltpetre and charcoal; and such is
man, the lord of earth ! a spark of fire, a drop of
water, a grain of gunpowder, an atom of (than
coal !
WHOEVER is afraid of submitting any question,
whether civil or religious to the test of free discus
sion, is more in love with his own opinion than he
is with truth.
A Strange Baker.
How a Riek Maseaanseteir Man Spends Ilu 3funey
—Hie Wonderful Estate—Pigs and Horses in
Palaces—An Animal Graveyard—Electric Door
knob* and Magic Benekee—A Cow tiring Mi/k
Punek—Demons in Caves, &c.—Practical ,Thker
on Vieitorz.
'1 Condensed fro= the New York Sim.]
Mr. Emerson Baker of Boston, made a fortune
with the Grover eh Baker sewing machines, and is
now living at Wellesley, Massachusetts, ten or
twelve miles from Boston, spending his money
after his own peculiar fashion. He has an estate
enclosed, 820 acres. In business he is smart and
shrewd; socially, he only cares to please. Ile is
a pattern father and husband. A scenic artist
has decorated the outside and inside of his im
mense stable with huge and extraordinary pictures.
He has a tall tower, whose successive floors con
stitute a sort of combined music, geological cabi
net, and kindergarten, containing a queerly
jumbled collection of chromos, curiosities, surgical
instruments, doll babies, mediaeval armor and
stuffed ducks. Scattered all through his grounds
are grotesque edifices all gaudily painted. He has
there some of the pavilions from the Cententi it
Grounds. He has a chapel. The interior is de
orated with mottoes of an instructive and moral
character. The presiding diety is a big bronco
Buddha, cross-legged and ugly. At one corner of
the edifice is a hail buried piece of ordinance, with
a tin sign bearing one of Mr. Baker's most no, et
and striking puns, "One of the canons of the
Church?" And he is much giver: to puns. There
is the Union Monument, not yet completed, de
signed to symbolise reconciliation. The roof will
bristle with 1,000 bayonets, used by Federals and
Confederates, and over the bayonets will be perched
a stuffed white dove, holding an olive branch
The interior is adorned with an allegorical paint
ing of grand size. It represents the nuptial cere
mony betwoen a uniformed boy in blue and the
daughter of a Confederate officer, the "best mail"
being a soldier in gray and the leading brides
maid the daughter of a Massachusetts General.—
Suspended in shadowy form are the ghosts of
Robert E. Lee and of Ulysses S. Grant, their faces
smiling approval and blessings. Over again t
this painting is to hang another representing a
black sow standing on the steps of the state House
and surrounded by the Governors of Maseacilu•
setts, from 1610 to the beginning of the present
century. Ile delights in pigs, and has any num
ber of them living in luxury. When they die they
are buried with pump and ceremeny. The civet
piggery is a palatial affair. It was dedieated two
years ago, in the presence of 3,000 guests, at ari
expense of many thousand dollars Its exterior
walls are covered with large oil paintings, illus
trating various phases of porcine life. Vie in
terior is fitted up elaborately, the peas being iq .
polished hard wood handsomely carved, and ear it
for by numerous attendants. Here and there iii:
the grounds may be seen the mausoleums of do•
parted hogs of extraordinary size or merit, the,
stuffed skins erected on costly pedestals, and t hi, •
forming their own monuments. Mr. (latter has
excavated an artificial lake, and placed upon it a
queer steamboat, which travels with equal facility
upon water or land. He has tunnelled the ledges
for fully A quarter of a utile, forming a euhterra
nettle labyrinth that ends in a bear pit. Thu en
trance of the grotto is a freestone arch that once
formed the portal of a Presbyterian church par
tially destroyed in the second great Boston fire of
1873. The sacred stones are guarded by two
wooden figures, formerly in the employ of some
tobacconist. Wandering along the shores of the
lake, the visitor eneounters stuffed mules set up
1 among the shrubbery; a monument 30 feet high,
made entirely of empty champagne bottles, and
itself constituting a gigantic bottle; grotesque
wooden effigies of men and animals; stuffed alli
gators as it' crawling up from the water; a cottage.
shingled with old spades and shovels; a cemetery,
containing all that was mortal of deceased pets,
j hears, swans, monkeys, dogs, ducks, fawns, cat',
cows,
canary birds, and pigs—each having been
accorded funeral honors. Here and there tin algae
are suspended on trees or tacked against ledges
for no other apparent purpose than to wave:,
some of the choicest puns of the eocentrie pro
prietor. There are log holm, built of a thousand
worn out railroad sleepers ; piles of burnt-out lo
comotive smoke stacks; a monument of defaced
stow columns from the Boston Postoffiee, injured
lin the tire ; a boat housiarptetorially salerueeout
side; dolls' play houses, crockery monstrosities.
rusty oannous, wooden snakes in the grass, and
thousands of other objects appropriate to museum.
or junks shops, but not usually found as features
of landscape gardening. Whenever Mr. Baker
come across anything extravagant, odd, or non
descript, from atilt - ye-legged hear to a queer-shap
ed clam shell, he forwith purchases it, and adds it
to the bizarre attractions of Ridge Hill farm, If
you grasp a brass knob you are pretty sure to re
calve an electrio shock. If you attempt to whistle,
through a speaking tube, in or to gain admission
to this building or that, as directed by . printed
notice, you are reasonably certain of Wowing your
self white with flour. If you step on an apparent
ly solid floor, it is very likely to tilt and let you
down, with the uncomfortable feeling of tumbling
from somewhere into nowhere. If you are tired,
and seat yearself upon one of the garden stools,
the chances are that it will sink with your weight,
leaving you on the grass, while a painted wooden
devil springs up out of the ground directly is front.
of you, and grins at your discomfiture.
Every day, except Sunday, his grounds are
thronged with curious visitors. Each visitor ie
obliged to register his name and to pay a small
fee for attendance. He is warned to keep away
from the dwelling Imam of the proprietor and
from the graperies and hot houses, but is at liber
ty to enjoy all other parts of the establishment.
Strangers were formerly admitted to the hot hous
es, but there were thieves among them who stole
fruit, and Mr. Baker caused to be printed and
prominently displayed the following characteristic
notice i
"Seven of those who, by special permission, were
allowed to pass through the grapery on August 26,
were reported as having stolen Hamburg grapes.
The lady in black, about fifty years of age, who
divided her spoils just outside, did oJt give her
son a very moral maternal lerson. Those who
used the Norino Tower as a spittoon on August
29 must remember that those who expectorate in,
private houses cannot expect-to-rate as gentle
men."
Ile has gathered together Senators and Govern
ors, Congressmen and college presidents, to joia
him in raising a monument to the memory of
hog. He has entertained two or three hundred
ministers of the Gospel, and set them all aeting
like so many harlequins, When tiie Charlestown
and Savannah militia companies came North to
attend the Bunker Hill centennial, Mr. Baker cap
tured them, carried them off to his place at Well
esley, and leasted them for a furtnight in the in
terests of reconciliation. Ile hag organised t-e
-mendous pillow fights among his guests. Ile has
collected half of the prominent men in Massachu
setts to celebrate the birthday of a heifer calf or
to attend the funeral of a black bear. On these
festal occasions his wretched depend,nts are forc
ed to rig themselves up fantastioally,and perform
all sorts of grotesque mummery. His caverns and
grottoes are inhabited by retainers dressed as de,
mons, serving claret punch. The bears are petti
coated, and the monkeys painted blue. Probably
ao other man ever dreamed of making a cow yield
milk punch. Mr. Baker accomplished the mira
e by attaching to the cow's udder a fifth teat,
made of rubber. A small tube, painted to cor
respond with the color of the beast, ran down her
hind leg and thence across the floor and into
another room, where the beverage was pumped in
as fast as needed. Hundreds of visitors drank the
milk punch, and wondered at the marvel. Mr.
Baker's trust renowned ambition is to lead a great
anti-dyspeptic movement.
He believes that the most practicable methed of
accomplishing this is to establish a college IX
cookery. For this purpose he is ready to gieM
land worth from $50,000 to $75,000, in addition to
a handsome cash endowment. The foundations
of his college or Trepho-Phagian Institute, aa.ho
calls it, are already laid on his estate. To inter
est the entire country in the scheme he planned a
"Governor's fete" for the hying of the corner-stone,
and invited all the Governors of the states, all the
presidents and professors of Massachusetts colleges,
and a host of distinguished persona inclnding.Mr.
Hayes. It happened that neither Mr. Hayes nor
any of the Governors could find it convenient to
attend. He captured a lieutenant govenor, how
ever, an es-mayor or two, several eminent diviner,
and almost the entire Board of Aldermen of Boston,
together with a couple of thousand of citizens..
With so many guests Mr. Baker's "Governors *
fete" passed off with eclat. The corner-stone• of.
the Trepho-Phagian Institute was laid, and as it
swung into place at the sound of a cannon, each'
of the two thousand guests let loose a toy baloon.
Two country attorneys overtaking a wagoner
on the road thinking to break a joke with him,
asked him why his fore horse was so fat, an4l the
rest so lean. The wagoner, knowing them to be'
limbs of the law, replied, "That the fore horse was
a lawyer, and the rest were his clients."
How often do we contradict th- right rules 'of;
reason in the whole course of our lives ! Rei4o3
itself is true and just ; bet the reason of every
particular maiiis weak and wavering, perpetually
swaying and turning with his interests, his pas
sions and his vices.
•
WHEN the coachman of Frederick the Great up- .
set his coach, Frederick swore like a trooper, but.
the coachman cooly asked • "And you, did yen
never lose a battle?" The King smiled graciously.
Is a discussion in a board of aldermen, while
they were debating a proposition to supply a new
style of lamp posts, one member got up and in
nocently remarked that he, for one, had always
found the old ones "good enough to stand by."
NO. 41.