VOL. 41. The Huntingdon Journal. J. R. DURBORROW, PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS Office in new JOURNAL Building, Fifth Street. THE MINTING DON JOURNAL is published every Friday by J. It. Duanciazow and J. A. NASH, under do' firtn name of .1. It. DUEBOILHOW 3 Co., at $2,00 per ntinum IN ADVANCE, or $9.14 if not paid for in six months from date of subscription, and $3 if not paid within the year. No paper discontinued, unless at the option of the pub lishers, until all arrearages are paid. No paper, however, will be sent out of the State nnless absolutely paid for in advance. Transient advertisements will be inseescl at TWSLYE AND A-HALF CENTS per line for the first insertion, METEN AND A-HALF CENTS for the second and viva civics per line for all subsequent insertions. 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By nine experienced cultivators 3O How to get a Farm and Where to find One 1 25 How to Make Candy. 5O How to Use the Pistol. 6O Hunter and Trapper 1 00 THE JOURNAL STORE Is the place to buy all kinds of i • 1,1 ‘- 1.11 11.* r „ 0 t I - - .‘• - a AT HARD PAN PRICES Election Proclamation. [GOD BAVZ THI COMMONV7IALTH.] J. A. NASH, ELECTION PROCLAMATION. Whereas, by an act of the General Assem bly of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An Act to regulate the General Elections within Bald 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, THOMAS K. HENDERSON, High Sher iff of Huntingdon county, do hereby made known that the General Election will be held 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. an., vnd closed at seven o'clock p. m.) it which time the Freemen of Huntindon county will vote by ballot for following of ficers, uame!y: One person for Supreme Judge of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvau is. 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 Poor of liuntiti6nlod 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 ehall be opened at 7 o'clock a. x. and closed at 7 o'clock P. 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In pursuance of said act, I also hereby make known and g've notice, that the places of holding the aforesaid general election in the several election districts within tho county of Huntingdon. arc as follows, 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. 3.1 district, composed of so much of Warriorsmark town ship, as is not included in the 19th district, ut the school house adjoining the town of Warriorsmark. 4th district composed of the township of Hopewell, at the house of Levi HoPpt. fah district, composed of the township of Barree, at the house of James Livingston, in the town of Saulsburg, in said township. 6th oistrict composed of the borough of Shirleysburg, 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, dec'd, in Shirleyeburg. 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 west corner of Tobias Canfman's Farm on the bank 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 lime to the Little Juniata river, thence down the same to place of beginning, at the public school Souse opposite the German Reformed Church, in the bor ough of Alexandria. Bth district, composed of the township of Franklin, at the public School House, in the village of Frankluaville, in said township. 9th district, composed of Tell township, at the Union chool house, near the Union meeting house in said twp. iOth district, composed of Springfield township, at the school house, near Hugh Madden's, in said township. Mb, *strict, composed of Union township, at the Railtatuilichool house, in said township, 12thrict, composed of )3rady township, at the Centre school hone, fa said township. 13pigiistrict, composed of Morris township, at public . snood' lonic No. '2, in said township. 1 1014 aittriet composed of that part of West township • Itetinefw&d in 7i.li and 26th districts, at the public school itotograti the fisrtn now owned by Miles Lewis (formerly °wilted by Judas Ennis,)_in said township. I.liii" t, composed of Walker township, at the house of g amin Magahy, in MoConuelstown. 16th di n , composed of the township of Tod, at the Gioia school house, in said township. Irth district, composed of Oneida township, at Centre Union School douse. - nth district, composed of Cromwell township, at the Rock Hill School House. 10th 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. Meashen, Andrew Robeson, John Gensimer and Wm. Gensimer, and the tract of land now owned by .Geocips and John Shoenberger, known as the Porter tract, Situate in the township of Warriorsroark, at the public school house in said borough. -lat h atria.; composed of the township of Cana, at the t k ° X uir lle ! nsat°w j shi ilitt,torpoSel of ttetlwnsepofaclln at the It hciuse of 2dward Littles, at McAleavy's Fort, in said township. ~22d district, composed of the township of Clay, at the piiiitic school house in Scottsville. Zki district, composed of the township of Penn, at the ... .. . .. school hous; in Grafton, in said'toiraship, - 24th district, composed and created as follows, to wit . That all that part of Sitirley township, Huntingdon coun ty, lying and being within the following described boun daries, (except the borough of Mount Union,) namely : Breginnfag at the intersection of Union and Shirley town ship linen with the Juniata ri‘ or, on the south side there of; thence along Said Union township line for thedistance of three miles from said river; thence eastwardly, by a _straight line, to the point where the main road front 'Eby's mill to Germany valley, crosses the summit of Sandy ridge; thence northwardly along the summit of 13nody, ridge to the river Juniata, and thence up said river to the place of beginning, shall hereafter form a separate t= " tr:llrttei:ahfatetrti,iiec;iqdu their' iti e d general voter oof said election ov, nbi p ,e}ectidne in the public school house in Mount Union, iu diettiot. 25th district, composed of all that territory lying north ; sult)tfard of a Itne beginning at the Juniata riverand run ning thence in a direct line along the centre of 4th Street in-the borough of Huntingdon, to the line of Oneida town constituting the First Ward of said borough, at the ‘Ji•Ual last windoer of the Court Ilona, . . 26th clistrict,.composed of all that territory lying vest - nf tise_Pirst Ward and east of the centre of 7th street l'coroposing the second Ward at the Engine House in the borough aforesaid. Wik district, composed of all that territory lying north aid west of the Second Ward and south of a line begin •niag at the ! Juniata river, and running thence eastward in a direct line along the centre of 11th street to the Nile Vf Oneida township constituting the Third Ward, and also those portions of Walker and Porter townships. formerly attached to the east ward, at the office of J ames Simpson, No, lin Washington street, in said borough. Vith di Strict, composed of all that territory north of the third ward of said borough , constituting the Fourth Ward, lit the e uhlic School House near Cherry Alley, iu said 29iie district, composed of the borough of Petersburg and fhat part of West township, west and north of a line between liesderstm and West towuehips, at or near the WsritlSptings, to the Franklin township line on the top .of Tussey's mountain, so as to include iu the new district the houses of David Waldsmith, Jacob Longenecker, Thus. Hamer, James Porter, and John Wall, at the school house in the borough of Petersburg. 3uth district, composed of Juniata township at Ilawn's school house, in said township. 31et district, composed of Carbon township, receney erected out of e. part of the territory of Tod township to wit: commencing at a chestunt oak, on the summit of Terrace mountain, at the Hopewell township line opposite the dividing ridge, in the Little Valley ' • thence south fitty two degrees, east 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 huu dred and twelve perched, 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 Henry S Green's land; thence south thirty one and a half degrees, east two hundred and ninety-four perches to a Chestnut Ouk on the summit of a spur of Broad Top, on the western side of John Terrel's farm : south, sixty-five degrees, east nine hundred and thirty four perches, to anew, 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 the public echo"! house in said borough. 33d district, composed of Lincoln township, beginning at a pine on the summit of Tussey mountain on the line between Blair and Huntingdon counties, thence by the division line south, fifty-eight degrees east seven hund red and ninaty-eight perches to a black oak in middle of iownshlp; thepes forty-two and one half degrees cut eight hundred and two perches to a pine oil summit of Terrace ; thence by line of Tod townehip, 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. 14th district, composed of the borough:oflilitpleton,at the public school house in said borough. 35th district, composed of the borough of Mount Union, at the public school house in maid borough. 36th district, composed of the borough of Broad Top City, at the public school house in said borough 3 ; itle district, composed of the borough of Three Springs at the public school house in said borough. 118th district, composed of the borough of Shade Gap, at the public school house in said borough. 39th district, the borough of Drbisonla, at the public school house. 4ssth district, compmed of the borough of Mark lesburg, at the main public schoolhouse in said borough. 41st diMrict, composed of the borough of.Saltillo, at the public retiotil house In said borough. The 15th Section of Art. 8, of the Constitution, provides Samos 15. Iklo person shall be qualified to serve as an election officer who shall bold or shall within two months have held an office, appointment or employment in or under 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 illBSiCed of the peace, and alderman, notaries public and persons in military services of the State ; nor shall any election officer be eligible to any civil office to be filled at an election at which be shall serve, save only to such subordinate municipal or local officers, below the grade of city or county officer. as shall be deetemetted 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 at the res pective.plates appointed for bolding the election in the district at which they respectively belong ; before 7 o'clock in the morning of the let Tuesday of November, andeach said inspector shall appoint one clerk, woo shall he qual ified voter of such district. . . . In case the person who shall have received the second highest number of votes for inspector shall nut attend on the clay of the election, then the person who shall have received the second highest number of votes for Judge at the neat 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 centime in the board for the space of one hour after the time fixed by Law for 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 giving information 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. Srtnion 1. Every male citizen twenty—one years of age, poesessing.tha following qualifications, shall he entitled to vote at all elections. First.—He shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. Seeond.—He shall have resided in the State one year, (or if having previously been a qualified elector or native born citizen of the State, he shall have removed front and returned, then six months,) immediately preceding the election. Third.—He shall have resided in the election district he uittinge ournal. Election Proclamation where he shall offer to vote at least two months immedi ately preceding the election. Fourth.—if twenty-two years of age 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 month before the election. By Section 1 of act of 30th of March, 1866, it is 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 all 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 for, 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 laheled,"township;" oue 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. SzerioN 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 dent of any institutioi of learning, nor while kept in any poor house or other asylum at public expense, nor while confined in public prison. Sacrum 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, oppoeite the name of the elector who presents the ballot. Any elector may write his same upon his ticket or cause the same to be written thereon 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. . . _ SscfroN 6. Whenever any of the quii'lified 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 Commonwealth, such electors may exercise the right of suffrage in all elections by citizens, under ouch 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 uniform throughout the State but no elector shall be de prived of the privilege of voting by reason of his name nut being registered. SECTION ii. Any person who shall, while a candidate for office, L•e guilty of bribery, fraud, or willful violation of any election law, shall be forever disqualified from hold ing an office of trust or profit in this Commonwealth, and any person convicted 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 four years. And also to the following Acts of Assembly now in force in this State, viz : _ _ . St.criott 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 rogietery 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 ;ball be received, and the number recorded by the clerks on the list of voters opposite the name of the elector front Whom received, And any voter voting two or more tickets, the several tickets eo voted shall each be numbered with the number corresponding with the num ber to the name of the voter. Any elector may vi rite his name upon the ticket, or canoe the mine to be written thereon, and attested by a citizen of the district. In ad dition to the oath now prescribed by law :;o be taken and subscribed by election officers, they shall severally be sworn or affirmed not to disclose how say elector shall have voted, sinless required to do so as witnesses in a ju dicial proceeding. All Judges, inspectors, clerks, and over seers of any election held under this act, shall, before en tering upon their duties, be dub, sworn or affirmed in the pri'sence of each other. The judge shall be sworn by the minority inspector, if there shall be such minority inspec tor, and in case there be no mi rity Inspector, then by a joeticis of the peace or alderman, and the inspectors, overseers, and clerks shall be sworn by the judge. Certificate 3 of such swearing or af firming shall be duly made out tied eiried by the officers so sworn, and attested by the officer who admitijetered the oath. If any judge or minority inspector refused or tails to swear the officers of election in the mariner required by this act, ur if soy officer of election shall act without being first duly sworn, or if any officer of election shall sign the form of oath without Wang duly sworn, or if any judge or minority inspector shall certify that any officer was sworn when he was not, it shall be deemed a. 4 istie mea nor, and upon conviction, the officer or officers so of fending shall be Ailed uut exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not to exceed one pito, or both, in the dis cretion of the court. I also give official notice to the electors of Huntingdon County, that by an act entitled "An Act further suppli mensal 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 the day 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 duceat least one qualified voter of the district as a wit fleas to the residence of the claimant in the district in which he claims to he a voter, for a period of at least two months next preceding said electidn, which witness shall be sworn or affired and subscribe a written or partly writ ten and partly printed affidavit to the facto stated by him, which affidavits shall define clearly where the residence is, of the person so claiming to be a voter ; and the pet son so claiming the right to vote shall also take and subscribe a written or partly written and partly printed affidavit, stating to the best of his knowledge and belief, where and when he was born; that ha has been a citizen of the Uni ted States for one month, and of the ComMonWealth of Pennsylvania; that he has resided in the Commonwealth one year, or of formerly a qualified elector or a native born citizen thereof, and has removed therefrom and returned ; that lie has resided therein six months next proceeding said election ; that he has resided in the district in which he claims to be a voter for the period of at least two months immediately proceeding said election ; that he has not moved into the district for the purpose of voting therein ; that he has if 22 years of age and upwards, paid a State or County tax within two years, which was assessed at least two months and paid at least one month, before said election ; and if a naturalized citizen shall also state when, where and by,what court he was naturalized, and shall also produce hits 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 lie produced for examination, un less the afliant shall state in his affidavit that it has been lost or destroyed, or that he never received any : but if the person so claiming the right to vote shall take and subscribe an affidavit, that ho is e native-born citizen of the United States, (or if born elsewhere shall state the fact in his affidavit, and shall produce evidence that he has been naturalized, or that he is entitled to citizenship by reason of his father's naturalization ;) and shall further state iu his affidavit that tie is, at the time of making the affidavit, between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-two years ; that he has been a citizen of the United Statesone month, and has resided in the state one year, or, if a na tive-horn citizen of the State and removed therefrom and returned, that be has resided therein six montlia next preceding said election, and in the electiou district imme mediately two months precodjng such election, he shall be entitled to vote. although be Omit not have paid taxes ; the avid 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 be filed by the Return Judges with the Prothonotary and shall remain on file within the Prothonotary', office, subject to exarui nation ,11.4 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 taxablee by the election officers, the word "tax" being added where the claimant 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 on the lists of persons voting at such election. Also, 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 taxabl., 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 claiming 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 hie vote ; arid ou the vote of such person being re ceived, it shall be the duty of the election officers to write or stamp on such certificate the word "voted," with the day, mouth and year ' • motif any election efficer!or officers shall receive a second vote on the same day, by virtue of the same certificate, excepting where eons are entited to vote by virtne of the naturalization of their fathers, they and the person who shall offer roach second vote, upon se offending shall be guilty of high misdemeanor and on conviction thereof, be feed or imprisoned, or both, at the discretion of the Court; brit the fine shall not ex ceed five hundredj dollars in each case, nor the imprison ment more than one year ; the like punishMent shall be inflicted on conviction ou 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 proscribed by any law or the laws to which this Is a supplement, front any person offering to vote whose name is not 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 offmme, to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to undergo an imprisonment not more than one year, or either or both, at the discretion of the Court. Seaton' 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 same in triplicate, with a returnsheet in addition, in all of which the votes received by each candidate shall be given after his or her name, first in words and again in figures, and shall be signed by all of said officers and cer tified by overseers, If any, or if mit so certified, the over seers and any officer refusing to sign or certify, or either of them, shall write upon each of the returns his or their reasons fur not signing or certifying them. The vote, as soon as counted, shall also be publicly and fully declared from the window to the citizens present, and a brief state ment showing the 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 be immediately posted up en the door of the election house fur information of the public. The triplicate returns shall be enclosed in envel opes and be sealed in presence of the officers, and one en voi pe, with the unsealed return sheet, given to the judge, which shall contain one list of voters, tally-paper, and oaths of officers, and snottier of said envelopes shall be given to the miuority iuspector. All judges living within twelve miles of the prothonotary's office, or within twenty+ur miles, if their residence be in a town, village or city upon the line of railroad leadins 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'clock mei idan of the second day after the election, deliver said return, together with return sheet, to the prothonotary of tie court of common pleas of the county, which said return sheet shall be filed, and the day and hour of filing mark ed thereon, and shall be preserved by the prothonotary fur public inspection. At twelve o'clock on the said second day following any election, the prothonotary of the court of common plena shall present the said returns to the said court. In counties where there is no resident president Presidentjudge, the associate judges shall perform the duties imposed upon the court of common pleas, which shall convene fir 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 ofsaid court, and the returns certified and certifi cates of election issued under the seal of the court as is now required to be done by return judges; and the vote as SO computed and certified, shall bemade a matter of record in said court. The semitone of the said court shall be open to the public. And in case the return of any election dis trict shall be missing when the returns are presented, or HUNTINGDON, PA , FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 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 for 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 amid 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 es perjury. SECTION 5. Etcetera shall in all cases except treason, felony and breach or surety of the peace, be privilleged from arrest during t•' it attendance on elections and in going to and returning therefrom. Szeriox 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 saute, 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 for 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 chal 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 penalty of one hundred dollars; and if any assessor shall knowingly assess any person as a voter who is not qualified, or shall wilfully refuse to assess any ono 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, dehisce 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 imnrieonment not 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 punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both at thediscretion of the court. Any person who shall on the day of any election, -visit a polling place in any election district at which he is net 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 qualified voter of the dis trict exercising his right to vote, or from exorcising his right to challenge any person °tiering to vete, such per son shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not ex• ceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both, at the discretion of the court. Any clerk, overseer or election officer, who 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 shell 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 ffreor more citizens of any election district, setting forth that the appointment of overseers is a reasonable precaution to secure the purity .►o4 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 make report of the same as they may 110 required by inich court. Said over 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 votes counted, and the returns made out and signed by the election officers; to keep a 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 his papers produced ; and the officers of said election are required to afford to said overseer., so selected and appointed every convenience and facility fur 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 t,e guilty of a misdemeanor, and ou conviction thereof shall be tined not exceeeing one thousand dollars, or imprison ment not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court or if the overseers shall be striven away from the polls by violence or intimidation, all the votes polled in such election district may be rejected by the proper tribunal trying a contest under said election, or a part or portion of cools votes aforesaid may bet Limited, SA such tribunal may deem necessary to a just and proper diva rais' of the MO._ . 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, and shall interrupt or improperly interfere with him in the execution of his 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, foree or violence, with the design to influence un duly or overawe any elector, or prevent him front 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 nut less than one nor more than twelve months, and if:ltalian bo shown to the court where the trial of such offense shall be had, that the person so offending 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 lees than one hundred net more then one thousand dollars, and be imprisoned not less than six months nor more than two years. "If any person or persons shall make any bet or wager upon the result of an election within the Commonwealth, or shall offer to make any sn:h bet or wager, either by verbal proclamation thereof or by any written or printed advertisement, or invite any person or persons to make such Let or wager, upon conviction thereof he or 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 `lt Further Supplement to the Election Laws of this Com monwealth," disqualifying deserters from the army of the Uniati States from voting, has recently been declared un constitutional by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, is now null and void, and that all persons 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, arid 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, to be 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 who can prove the same; and it shall be the duty of said eourt to cause indictments to be preferred before the grant jury against the persons so offending. 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 the 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 fined in any sum not ex ceeding one hundred dollars. Sac. 114. 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But it's just like men in your busi ness ; stirring up one's dormant curiosity, and exciting one's expectations, so that they settle themselves back for something good or not, as the case may be, only to be placed on net tles by long pauses, like that in which you are now indulging. Come, drop a little sand, pull her wide open, and take a run at the hill of your story." "Aye, aye, Dick I" exclaimed Jack Sprague, "you're bulletined for that yarn, so pull out, my boy." "You should be the last man to hurry an engineer, Jack," replied Rollins ; "either of one of the company's kettles" or a story. In either case one is compelled—if be does not wish to run the risk of breaking down, or "sticking" on some hard pull—to examine his machinery, dropping a little oil here and there, where there is danger of wear or rust, and after: satisfying himself that his guides, cross-heads and eccentrics are all! 0. K., pull ahead, as I now propose doing, with a clear track, a good fire, plenty of water and fuel, and a good train behind. "On the morning of the 10th ,of December, DM, I was sitting in the telegraph office at the depot in U—, congratulating myself on the dearth of business on the line, on account of the terrible weather we were then experienc ing, and "chinning" the operator, as we sat back in our comfortable arm chairs, testing the merits of some 'Lone Jack" in which I bad been investing, when click, click, went the call over the line for the headquarter's office. Now, among other things, useful and otherwise, that I have picked up in many years service with the railroad, is the art—if such it may be called—of telegraphy. I cannot manipulate the lightning myself to any great extent, but I have no difficulty in understand. ing the strange language, as spoken by the many mouths of the telegraph line. So when Rob and I heard the call for the headquarter's office, we involuntarily suspended our talking and smoking, and listened for what was to follow. "Headquarters answered, and then his mes sage—as near as I can recollect—was sent flying over the wires : "Agent Pancoast of this station (Attica.) was found dead in his office at 9.30 this a. M. That he committed suicide, is evident from the fact that all the doors were securely locked and it was nec3ssary to force an entranee to his office. The body was lying about the centre of the floor, and near by a large pocket knife—supposed to be his own—covered with blood. He bad stabbed himself in several places near the heart, and failing thus to reach the seat of life, cut his throat almost from ear to ear. Safe key found on his person, and the contents of safe supposed to be 0. N•" l'ln a minute after this message had been turned in, there came one from headquarters, falling D--. Then followed : "Is Rollins there ? Answer quick !" "Of course, Bob told them I was:" "Proceed to Attica on No. 2. aud investigate death of Agent Pancoast," was the order, and as the trr.in was due in five minutes, I had little time for preparation. "I was ready, however, when No. 2 pulled out, and was driving along through snow and sleet, on my way to the tragic scene " "I now bad an opportunity •to study over the affair, and the causes which must have led poor Pancoast to commit the rash act. As my custom, I drove my thoughts from the present, and, as the saying is, "went to the root of the matter," "He had been agent at Attica for s ime five years ; he was also agent for the U. S. Express Co., doing the railroad and express business in the same office. He was a single man and slept at the depot office. He kept good com pany- -in fact, was a consistent Christian— one's attention is attracted when one of the true metal is found. As he did not drink, gamble, drive fast horses or speculate, and consequently was not iu financial troubles, why did he commit suicide? But did he commit suicide? "That question I mentally answered most decidedly in the negative, when an hour later I stood in the office and viewed the body and surroundings. It was still lying in the same position as when found, it not having been disturbed further than for unauthorized ex amination of the pockets, in which were found his watch, a small amount of money, and the key to the safe. I took the latter and open ing the safe examined its contents. "I found but a few small express packages, of small value, according to the figures marked on them, with the receipt book belonging to the agent. It showed no other entries than the packages mentioned, and if, as I supposed, be had received any valuable packages from the messenger on the express the night be fore, or•for railroad freight, he had neglected to make an entry of them, or had been mur• dered ere he had the opportunity ; you see by that last doubt how my thoughts were drift ing. _ . . "But how to account for the office being securely locked—as well as the outer door— and no possible signs of forcible entrance on the doors or windows? "What easier than for the murderer to slip into the freight room unperceived, after Pan coast had hurried out to the train, conceal himself behind the freight, and when the agent locked the outer door follow him to the inner office and perpetrate the deed ? "I procured a light, and went prowling round in the dark corners behind the freight, scanning everything carefully; and just as was on the point of going elsewhere fora clue, my eye caught something deeply imprinted on the top of a box, which, on examination, I found to be the impress of a boot-heel. "Now you may say there was nothing strange in that ; but when I tell you that a man stand ing on the top of this box could just see over the pile of freight and watch the inner office, you will know that I picked up a broken link —that imprirt was to me what a broken twig, or taint imprint of a foot, is to the scout on the trail. "Dere, then, the murderer had stood and watched with baleful eyes his victim. From this lookout he had planned the manner and time for attack. Then, stepping carefully down, he approached the unconscious agent, with open knife in readiness for the fatal stroke, grasped him, drew him quickly back ward, and with one lightning flash of the blade across the throat the deed was done. "But to make sure of the work he had used the knife in giving several stabs in the region of the heart, and the arrangingof the body,and dropping the knife near, to give the appear ance of suicide, he had opened the safe, ab stracted only the valuable packages, locked the doors of the office and freight-room with duplicate-keys, and fled, leaving, as he thought ao trace. "But as I studied the heel-mark in the soft pine I knew that he had loft a trace—a link that I determined should be fitted to a chain that should bind him hand and foot. As I have said the exact imprint of the heel was deeply impressed into the yielding pine. The maker of the boot to which that heel belonged must have had leisure, and a fanciful turn of mind, when engaging in its manufacture, for he bad made in the centre a perfect star, and there it was, every nail distinct. It was use less to think of tracing his course without, for it had been snowing all night—and in fact all day--and of course every mark was long since obliterated. "As I expected, the county coroner and jury returned a verdict of death by suicide. I immediately held a consultation with the rail road express officials, to whom I imparted my belief of murder, but cautioned them to let the impression go forth that they were satisfied with the verdict, and then the chances were that the murderer would not take alarm and fly. My idea was that he was no stranger to that section, and that he would, unless startled by the fact being made known that Pancoast had not committed suicide, remain for fear that his going away would create suspicion. "I visited all the boot and shoe stores in that part of the country, ostensibly to buy a pair of boots, but I was hard to snit. I man aged to discover, however, that none had made or sold a pair of boots with a star on the heel. I fell to inspecting every shodded foot, and the marks they might make, with indefatiga ble perseverance. It grew to such a mania with me, that I greatly surprised Mrs. Rollins by mechanically raising her boots, as she laid them aside to don her slippers one even. ing, and examining the heels thereof; and she fell to expatiating on the beauty of the fit and their cheapness, fearing, the dear little wo man, that I was growing parsimoniously in clined. "I had boots and shoes. from number noth ing to of unheard of sizes, mixed up in my dreams; and when one night I missed the Ex press, and took the Fast Freight for D and threw myself down on the seat in the ca boose and fell asleep, it was not surprising that I fell to dreaming of the perplexing solu tion to the mystery attached to the murder of Agent Pancoast. "I seemed to be in an invisible shape,wand ering around fro-i place to place in search of a pair of boots with a star in the heel with nails. At last I stepped into a store, which I recognized as being the one next door to the headquarters in C —. Great "broad-treads," with strange devices worked in the heel with huge nails,flitted before roe, and ranged them selves on the long counter by the side of little shoes with no heels at all. Dainty ladies' shoes' and gent's boots seemed of their own volition to leave the shelves and boxes, and come down for inspection. "At last came the pair I had looked for so long—a pair with a perfect star worked in the centre of the heel. I bad already reached out my hand to take them up, when before me stepped a man I had known by sight as a sort of ne'er-do-well, who had been breaking on the road for a few weeks, who, taking posses sion of them with an air of ownership, stalked out. "As he slaMmed the door, I awoke, and, starting to my feet, with the exclamation : "At last I have found him 1 .. found myself face to face with the man of my dream. His slamming the door, coming in had awakened me, and now, with pale face he stood before me and asked me what I meant; and then, before I had recovered from my bewilderment he laughed nervously, and with a remark that I was dreaming, picked up his lamp and stsrted out. But before he reached the door I was myself again and in an instant had my hand on his shoulder. "Not so fast, my friend," said I. "Sit down here and let me see your boot heels." "What the deuce is that for ?" he asked with much surprise. "Do as I tell you," I anzwered, pushing him into a seat. By this time the other brakeman and the conductor had crowded up and stood lost in wonder at my proceedings. "I now raised his foot, and a thrill ran through me as I saw that I had found the chain. There it was, as plain as nails could make it—a star in the centre of the heel. "Who made you those boots?" I asked. "Watson next door to headquarters, in C " he replied. "lly dream to a dot I" I was now sure of my man ; and pulling out the knife with which the murder had been committed, and which I had carried for just such an occasion, I opened it and holding it up before his eyes, demanded iu au abrupt tone ; "John Peters, is not this your knife ?" "Bravado instantly deserted him, and turn: ing as pale as a corpse he stammered out that it was. "You never saw a fellow weaken so quick, and when I put the bracelets on him, he "squealed" the whole thing. "It was a sorry New Year to him, for it was on New Year's morning that I stepped from the train at Attica with my prisoner and hur ried him to jail. His trial came off in due course, and as he had conressed the murder, uo defense other than the insanity dodge was set up by his counsel. "tie had goue over from C on the train that reached Attica at 10.30. He had slipped into the freight-room while Agent Pancoast was at the train, and concealed him- self behind the freight ; and he had stood on the box and looked over the pile of freight watching his chance to slip out. He had seiz ed his victim from behind, cut his throat, and then, after stabbing him, arranged the body and knife to give the appearance of suicide. After possessing himself of two valuable pack ages in the safe, and taking a large roll of money from the wallet of the mu*deree man, he locked the doors with duplicate keys, walk ed to the next station, concealed himself a box •car on the night freight, and reached C— without being seen by any one. tte had been breaking extra on the road for s ife time, and the very next day was offered and accepted a permanent position, knowing that this would keep suspicion from attaching to him. "lie deserved hanging, it any murderer ever did, but he got off with imprisonment for life." eittt The Population of the Globe. The most trustworthy estimate of the num ber of people on the earth for the year 1876, as furnished by the German statisticians, is 1,423,917,000. This is an increase of over 27 . . . millions on the estimate of 1875, but the aug mentation is not due entirely to the excess of births over deaths, but largely to the obtain ing of more accurate information regarding the population of regions hithereto little known, and to more perfect census returns from other countries. Asia is still the home of a majority of the human race, after having supplied shoots from which have sprung great Western peoples. About four.sevenths of the earth's population is Asiatic, or 825,548,590 ; Europe comes next with over a fifth, or 309,178,300 ' • Africa with about a seventh, or 199,921,600 ; America with less than a sixteenth, or 85,519,800; and, fi nally, Australia and Polynesia, with the very small fraction of 4,748,600 people. Europe is the most densely populated, having 82 persons to the square mile; Asia with 48 ; Africa with 17i ; and America and Australia with only 5} and respectively. There are 215 cities on the earth with a pop ulation of over 100,000,29 with half a million or more, and nine cities containing a million or more inhabitants. Of these last, four are in China. Including Brooklyn with New York, as we may rightfully do for purposes of com parison, the greatest cities of the world stand in this order : London has 3,489,428 ; Paris, 1,851,792 ; New York, 1,535,622 ; Vienna, 1,- 091,999; Berlin, 1,044,000; Canton and three other Chinese cities, , one million each. New York therefore takes its place third in the list of great cities without counting our New Jer sey overflow. Though there is not at hand statistics upon which to base an accurate statement of the fact, yet it is the opinion of all observers of the condition of civilized people that the av erage longevity of the human race has increas ed within a hundred years. Such reports of the death rate as we have go to support that conclusion, and it is thoroughly proved that the devastations of epidemic diseases are not so great now as formerly ; while the medical art steadily advances in its mastery of the dis orders of the human system and in its ability to ward off and check maladies which threaten human life. In England. for instance, the death rate has declined considerably during a quar ter of a century. There and elsewhere in Eu rope, as also in this country, the subject of public hygiene has received great attention of late years, and its difficulties are being stead ily overcome.—N. F. Sun. Directing Letters. It was a very pertinent remark made by an attendant who was conducting a party over the Dead-letter Office. He said it was a pity the school-children of the land could not be per mitted to look into the Dead-letter Office in a body, to impress upon them the necessity of always directing letters in full to the name of the person addressed, the town, county, and State, and signing the writer's name, with his address, in the inside, instead of "Your affec tionate Thomas" or "Susan." If this very use ful suggestion could be tacked to the multipli cation table, and drilled into the children with as much vigor, it would save a vast deal of annoyance and trouble in after-life. Summer's Going. MRS. L. C. WHITON, Leaves are shrinking on the treel. Where the nests are hidden ; There's a hush among the bees, As to roam forbidden; There's the silk of corn that shows Faded tangles blowing; So that everybody knows Darling summer's going. There's the mist that haunts the night, Into morning sailing, Leaving filmy webs of light On the grasses trailing; There's the fieree, red sun that glows, Through the vapor showing, So that everybody knows Darling summer's going. There are insect's wings that gleam ; Locusts shrilly calling ; There are silences that seem Into sadness falling ; There is not another ruse But the sweetbrier blowing - , So that everybody knows Darling summer's going. Breathe but softest little sigh, Child, for vanished roses, For each season going by Something sweet discloses ; And if in your heart has grown Truth to fairer blowing, Summer then will be your own, Spite of summer's going. Fat or Wind. The N. Y. Times reveals some curious facts —if facts they be—relative to the supposed obese females who have been filling the peo ple with a special wonder, in different parts of the country, by public exhibitions, showing bow liberal nature has been with them in the way of flesh and fat. The Times states that at a recent show of the kind in that city the fe male suddenly collapsed into a scrawny skel eton that the spectators were at first disposed to attribute to some supernatural power, but a little investigation showed that the fear ful contraction was caused by a small boy who resembled the prodigal son during the period of his porcine experience, and who had thought to make the fat woman jump by sticking her with a pin ; but instead of jumping she simp ly began to grow small by degrees and beau tifully less until she was the scrawny female above referred to. It seems that some of these fat women are prepared for exhibition by be ing enLAsed in India-rubber and inflated with a bellows, and the fat woman under consider ation was one of them ; and w hen the bad boy thought he was penetrating her flesh with a pin he was only making an opening in the rubber for the escape or the inffiting air, and the result was as we have recorded. But it is not only fat women for exhibition who take advantage of this airy substance for the improvement of their proportions. In the last issue of the London Court Circular is nar rated a social tragedy, to the meaningof which it is impossible to shut our eyes. Ainong the guests who were assetnitled at a dinner party was a lady of exquisite form, whose delicate plumpness was the theme of unusual mascu line admiration. To her was presented 4 small bunch of Hewers by an admirer whose duty it was to escort. her to dinner. She grace fully accepted the gift, and in a thoughtless Moment ftis4eniNl it to her bosom, not wisely, but too well, and that boson, wits merely a psrt of the -outer India-rubber woman which concealed the real bony res;due from the gaze of deceived society. Of course, there was nothing left for her to do but to faint, and she promptly did so. Her friends gathered her once exhuberaut charms into a narrow but compact bundle, and removed her to her car— riage. And this, we are left to infer, is the way in which the beauty and fashion of Eng land is constructed] Coming so closely upon the collapse of fat women in c•ir own country, this susiden ex posure of the airy unsubstantial nature Lithe ladies of the English aristocracy a terrible blow to our faith in womanhood. The doubts that have already been mentioned as to the growing plumpness of American girls will now gather too much force to be lightly set aside. To what extent are our women mad of India rubber and blown up with bellows is a ques tion tl at will henceforth harrass our miuds,and inexorably demand an answer. About Babies. The _following paragraph will be read with pleastke by all who own and love babies. It is no less admirable as a description of a baby than as an example of a keen sense of the proper place at which to put a full stop : "Did you ever watch a dear little t..,,by waking from its morning nap? It is one of the prettiest sights in the world. There is the crib with its small proportions and snor white drapery that covers something, outlined, round and plump. There is nothing to reveal what it is; not the slighest movement of tb _ pillowed whiteness that is visible —no sound to indicete keenest actual life, until the hour hand of the clock that stands sentinel, like yourself, has twice made its circuit. Then there is a slight pulsing in t!'e white drapery, a small, pink, tremulous hand, fair as a rose bud, is thrust out, and from the nest thus broken into appears a round diminutive face, with wide open eyes that have not much spec ulation in them yet. Soon however, they cease to stare, and become questioning, serious as if wondering what kind of a world it is they open upon ; and the head lifts itself just a little, and two snow white feet stand up spasmodi cally, with simultaneous movement, each toe of which has an attendant dimple. But the head is too heavy—it falls back on the pillow with its own sweet weight, the hair all damp and golden—the cheeks peechy—the mouth pouted, as if the angels kissed it in dreams. A first lingering co-o-o comes from its rosy depths, sweeter than any bird's song for it has a spirit tone and yet retains a thrill of its native skies. The chubby hands are lifted imploringly, persuasively—the baby is awake and ceases to be an angel." A Beautiful Allegory. Mr. Crittenden of Kentucky, was once en gaged in defending a man who had been in dicted for a capital offence. After a powerful and elaborate argument, he closed his effort with the following : When God in his eternal council conceived the thought of man's creation, he called to him three ministers who wait constantly upon the throne—Justice, Truth and Mercy—and thus addressed them : "Shall we make man ?" Then said Justice, "Oh God, make him not, for he will trample upon the law." Truth made answer also, "Oh God, make him not, for be will pollute thy sanctuaries." But Mercy dropped on her knees, and looking up through tears, exclaimed, "Oh God, make him. I will watch over hint through al: the dark paths which he may have to tread." Then God made man, and said to him, "Oh man, thou art the child of Mercy, go and deal with thy brother." Suggestive Fact as to Music. Music impresses itself almost indelibly upon the memory. Two children were once stolen by the Indians. Years after a number of white children were recaptured from the In dians, and the mother of these two was re quested to come and see if she could identify thorn from among all this number. She found two of whom she thought were her long lost children. She talked to them about old times, relating incident after incident of their early childhood, but they remembered none of these things. About to (save in despair, she sung one of the sweet songs that she. used to sing to them in the evening hours, and their faces immediately kindled with vague remembrances ofchildhood's hours, and they cried, "mother." The song was remember ?..c1 when all else was forgotten. Some of the early legislators wrote their laws in verse and the people learned to sing them. Tau latest Prussian census shows a popula tion of 25,742,404. Of this number 16,636,990 are Protestants, 8,625,840 are Roman Catholic, and 339,790 Jewish. All other sects and creeds, including Greek Catholics, Reformed Lutherans, Anglicans, Baptists, Methodists, Quakers and Mennonites, number about 125,- 000. The Free Thinkers are estimated at 17,- 000. A vinegar-hearted oid bachelor says he al ways looked under the bead of "marriages" for the news of the weak. Boys, Take a Pattern. Some four years ago two boys of Toledo, Ohio, who were then about twele years of age, were playmates and firm friends. They were both great readers, and took especial delight. in anything relating to telegraphy and elec tricity. They commenced the study of that science, and as they both lived oa Baron street, near each other, a wire was run from one house to the other, some old batteries and instruments were rigged up and the boys con • versed with each other over the wire. Soon after this experiment proved a success, one of the boys moved to another street, some two miles away, and this put a stop to their owe* Lions for a while. Bat the young scientists were not to be thwarted in the pursolt of (heir favorite science. They went to work, and unaided and 'lone, stretched a wire from house to house, bought new instruments, and soon became proficient operators. The work of ad justing the instruments, making the batteries and stretching the wires had kll been 'teem: ' plished by these two boys alone, aad is lug this there was developed in.one of thinkeiv taste for mechanics, which, as he greW constantly increased, and that bqy, at the age of sixteen, le now& cadet engiueet at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, where lie is pursu;tig. his studies with that energy and ardor whit. It characterized his efforts iu Toledo, and his name is Leo Nfiner. The other boy made a study of electricity and has completely mastered it. Last spring he invented an improved 'repeater' for use on telegraph instruments, upon which be received letters patent. The improvement was tried in Chicago by the Manager of the Gold and Stock Telegraph Company, who was so pleased with the young patentee's invention and big knowledge of all branches of telegraphy, that he offered him then and there a lucrative amid responsible position. He was so young. only sixteen, and withal so modest, that he hardly felt like accepting the position, and turned to his home in Toledo to pursue his studies.— The manager in Chicago kept up a constant correspondence with the young electrician, and at last persuaded hits to accept the place. He will have the entire care of the instruments of the company in Chicago, and as ouly thoroughly competent person is entrusted with this duty, it will be seen that he ,has a posi tion of no little importance and responsibility. On the last day of November, 1876, Charles Scribner left Toledo for his Chicago position. These two boys might be called self-made, and are on the road to success by their own tireless energy and indomitable will, an ex ample worthy the imitation of the rising gen eration. A Revolutionary Incident. The Charlottesville (Va.) Chro:iiete says:— It is a fact well known that during the Revo lutionary war the British Colonel Tarlean' came very near capturin;- the Virginia Legis lature, then in session at Charlottesville.— Tradition has it that the members wee in debted for their escape to the thieving pro pensities of Tarltton's own soldiers. It is re lated that the dashing cavalry leader ,:alled on Dr. Walker at "Castle hill," mid ordered breakfast. After waiting some time he com plained that the cook N. as not as brisk as she might be, and the doctor went to the kitcben to "hurry up the cakes." He was informed th , .t breakfast had been cooked twice, and as often consumed by the soldiers, who, as hungry as wolves, had made a rush for the smoking viands. Tarleton at once placed a guard at the entrance of the kitchen, and in due time sat down to a comfortable meal. Rut in the tpantime, Jack Dwelt saw the soldiers at the place, mounted a fine horse and reached Char lottesville two hours before Tarleton. The members of the Legislature, availing them selves of this timely information, adjourned unanimously and made tracks for Staunton. Colonel John Archer bad a few mounted , men in town, and was the last who attempted to escape. He was cut down near the Stone tavern, then the residence of Dr. George Gil mer whose wife went to Tarleton at the head of his troops, and asked that the gallant Colonel Archer, the friend of her husband, might be brought into her house. Rer request was cheerfully complied with, and a guard placed a: the door. Colonel Archer was care- fully nursed and recovered. Un his death bed he called Lion. 'William S. Archer and Dr. Stanch Archer to his side, and charged the& ever to regard Dr. Gilmer and his family Trite the same affection bestowed on those of their own blood. The_gentlentaa who relatts thfs incident travelled with Dr. Archer iu 132, and had the stnt.:ment from him. How to Place the Bed. l'aron Reichettheeb, who has devoted many years of toep study to the art of bedmaking, maintains that yt.t) must not always lie on your ben as it is made, under penalty of abridging your life by &great number of years. If, says,the baron, a mere magnet exercises an influence_ on sensitive persons, the earth's magnetism must certainly make itself felt on the nervous life of man. Hence he dwells on the salutary effects of the inhabitants of the Northern hemisphere lying with their heads to the north. and those of the Southern with their heads to the south. For travellers with short memories we may put the rule in general terms : In whatever hemisphere you may be, always sleep with your feet to the equator, and let your body lie "true as a needle to the pole." In giving this rule the baron has sim ply told us how to live long; for the polar di rection of the body is, it appears, of the ut most importance for the proper circulation of the blood, and we have Baron Reichenbacb's authority for stating that many disturbances in the human organisms have been cared Jay simply placing the bolster at a different point of the compass from that it had occupied be fore. Let such as have hitherto been in the habit of sleepir.g with their heads were their feet ought to be, take to heart the example ,of the late Dr. Fiscbweiter, Magdeburg, who died recently at the age of 109 years, and always &Wit - lilted his long life to his faiLbful obaer vance of the pole to pole position of sleeping. The most unhealthy position, we are told, is when the body lies due east and west. Some observers-Assure us that to sleep in such a posture is tantamount to committing slow suicide, and that diseases are often aggravated by devialions from the polar posture. The Uses of the Lemon. As a writer in the London Lancet remasks, few people know the value of lemon juice. A piece of lemon bound upon a corn will cure it iu a few dap ; is should be renewed night and morning. A free use of lemon juice and sugar will always relieve a cough. Most. people feel poorly in the spring, but if they would eat a lemon before breakfast every day for a week—with or without sugar, as they like—they would find it better than any med icine. Lemon juice used according to this recipe will sometimes cure consumption: Put a dozen lemons into cold water and slowly bring to a boil ; boil slowly until the leasbns are soft, then squeeze until all the juine is extracted` -add sugar to your taste and drink. In this way use one dozen lemons a day. If they cause pain, or loosen the bowels too much, lessen the quantity and use obly fin or six a day until you are better, aad.thea *win again with a dozen a day. After using five or six dozen the patient will begin to gain flesh and enjoy food. Hold on to the lemons, and still use them freely fur several Weeks more. Another ase for lemons is for a raftwebing drink in summer, or in sickness at ang,,Sime. Prepare as directed above, and add water and sugar. But in order to have fir% keep *ell, after boiling the lemons, squeeze an 4 strain carefully; then to every half-pint of juice add one pound of loaf or crushed erupt, boil and stir a few minutes more until the sugar is dis solved, skim carefully and bottle. Tau Ns it l gat more juice from the lemons by boiling them, and the preparation keep 3 better. • "Tux SUN CHOLERA Ifirruag."--Take equal parts of tincture of opium, tincture ef capsicum, rhubarb, peppermint, and cauapbor, and mix. Dose from fifteen to twenty drops in four , table spoonful of water. Repeat the dose every ball hour till relieved. This is also an excellent remedy for any ordinary laxity of the bowels, or summer complaint. in that case one dose, as above prescribed, twice in every twenty four hours, will suffice for a cure, if taken in time. NO. 42.
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