VOL. 41.
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Allen's (L. F.) American Cattle.. • 2 60
Allen's (ILL.) American Farm 1 66
.Alten's - ( L. F.) Rural Architecture • .1 50' 1
Allen's (IL. L.) Diseases, of Boma* Animals--.-.-.. 1,05
American Bird Fancier.. . . sa l
American. Gentleman's Stable dsl6e 1 00
American Rose Caltarist.
American Weeds and Useful 'Plants
Atwood's Country and Suburban 110it5e5.............- l.fret
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Baker's Practical and Scientific Fruit 2 50
Barber's Crack Shots . .
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Cleveland's Landscape A.chitecture* , . 150
Clok's Diseases of Sheep* 1 25
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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. N.
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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
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° 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
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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. It shall be 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 he
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 Domini oue thousand eight hundred
and seventy-seven and of the independence of the United
States the one hundred and first.
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A Railroad Detective's Story.
"Yes it was a mysterious affair," said de
tective ; "but I had little trouble in
working up the cass,
although I was some
time in finding the chain to which belonged
the broken link that I had discovered. It all
came about in such a queer way that if I
should live a thousand years I should not for
get it."
"Well, that's no way, Dick," cried Uncle
Billy Franklin, the genial Master of Transpor
tation, after waiting a long time for Rollins
to continue—"that's no way of getting over
the road. 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."
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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.