fwcrititrf CARLISLE, PA. Thursday! April 4,187 S. THE MEWS IN BRIEF. Qem. Sickx.es does not intend to re turn to Spain. Since the Illinois Legislature con vened six of its members have died. Minister Curtin has obtained leave to .return home, and it la probable that he will resign. There have been eighty days of continuous sleighing this season In West Norflled, Mass. The- Governor of Ohio is to have a mansion built at the expense of the State. , The Labor. Reformers have estab lished their headquarters, at Washing ton. Twenty- thousand women gain a living in Switzerland by working In the watch factories. In the State prison at Jackson, Michigan, 11,000 cigars are now made daily. The Illinois sages are puzzled. They have found a hen’s egg within which a brass button has been found. Late accounts represent the internal slave trade of Africa to he conducted on an extensive and moat cruel scale. The English Government in India is taking, precaution* to prevent the ex termination of elephants by sportsmen. The Pennsylvania Labor, Reformers expect to nominate a State ticket on the 7th of May, at Williamsport. Gen. Wit. Trousdale, formerly Governor of Tennessee, died at' his res idence lit Gallatin, on the 27th nit. Many of our state exchanges recite tharavages of mad dogs in their re spective localities. Wh. Jackson; of New Buflhlo, Per ry County, died of small pox a faw days ago'. He had been occupying the posi tion of postmaster for many years. The Senate of Pennsylvania is com posed of 22 lawyers, 1 tanner, ! sur veyor, 8 farmers, 1 physician, 2 gentle men, 1 piano maker and 1 puddlor. Cumberland, York and Adams counties will send a colony of 800 far mers to Kansas next week. So says report. The New York Mail states ss one of “ the advantages of being Intoxicated,” the ability to jump, from railroad trains without being killed. A gbamd industrial exposition of manufacturles, products, and arts will be held in New Orleans, commencing on the Ist of May. . * . Edwin Fobbest met with unprece dented success in his recent Southern tour. In Texas he drew immense audiences ht $5 a ticket. James C. Davis shot and killed bis wife, last Friday morning, in Cincin nati, at the Metropolitan hotel. Mrs. Davis was a circus performer and was known as “ Rosa.” Geo. N, Knapp, postmaster of Or leans, Ind., has disappeared. He is charged with having defrauded the government out of $4,000 through fraudulent money orders. Next I The Governor has re-appointed Prof, Wickersham to be State Superinten dent of Common Schools for another term of three years from June next, and the Senate has confirmed the appoint mont. Connecticut*—An election for «tato officers and members of Congress took ■place in Connecticut on Monday, At the time of going to press we bad but few returns, but as far as received the Indications. are that the Radical or thieves ticket has carried tbs state by three or four hundred. The ladies of Alaska a> e said to wear a body dress of equal proportion of furs and dirt, arranged to suit> the taste of the wearers. The married ladies all wear silver rings in their noses and nee dles through their lower lips, while el derly ladles add to their irrepressible charms a “ stopper,” whatever that may bo, In the upper lip. Dr. Joseph Kitted, of Liverpool, Perry county, was arrested on Monday of last week, for- forging certificates to pension papers. He is charged with, having forged the name of a justice of the peace to certificates In order osten sibly to draw a pension for a mother in-law, who had been dead about'two years. .... Our distinguished visitors from Ja pan at private as well as at public receptions, invariably speak in a low tone. This custom is followed by all connected with the Embassy. To speak in a loud tone, under any circumstan ces, la a breach of etiquette and gross vulgarity among Japanese, to be. in dulged in by no person- of high rank and good breeding. A Chicago contemporary thus de scribes the deliberate manner in which that city is - being rebuilt: “ Let me see,” said a Chicago boss mason reflect ively, to a burned-out merchant, "have got to put up a block for Brown this morning, and a dwelling honse tbis af ternoon for Smith, ryes, I guess we can Jerk npyour:store this noon bytakin' only half an hour’s noonin’.” The Washington Star thus describes a “Dolly-Varden A “Dolly Var den” la a mode antique dress pattern, and It is made of some material, and is cut biased at the top and bottom and trlmmcdyplth Honiton polanaisiea and tubs roses, with a peplum running two chains and: throe links to the south west from tho; starting' point;' around the skirts of; civilization, 1 and pinned together, wlth a self-acting safety pin.— The figures are so large that It takes eight dress patterns to show them off to advantage. Some months ago a citizen of New Jersey, while searching for mineral, in, the mountains of Warren county, Pa., stumbled into a wood chuck hole and fell to the ground. He found around the mouth of ths hole 'what, upon.in - veatigatlon, proved to be mica, and having found the owner, purchased the lot at a venture. Tlie deposit of mica is found in one solid mass, fourteen feet wide, in continuous layers, like roofing ’slate, and is’.dug out in, large square blocks, which may be split up into innumerable pieces. The only other mica known to exist in the Unit ed Btates ls ln North Carolina, REAL ESTATE IN DOVTII CAROLINA. ; A list of sales of real estate recently inode in South Carolina, which we And In the Charleston Jiepublican, IS some-. What instructive. The first a plantation;: of 060 acres in Christ Church,parish,■ sold for sloo—one-third cadi, the bal- , ance in one and two years. .The next Is the Moreland or Bates Hill plantation of 2,006 acres, on the Pee Dee river, to-' gether with an appurtenaht tract on the east of the river, sold for $1,600. The Gilmore plantation, 801 acres, with an appurtenance of 1,039 acres: on ,the opposite, side of the Pee Dee'rlvbri sold fOr t 1,500. The Holly Grave plantation,. 800 acres,-.with an appurtenance of 1.036 acres, sold forsl,- 270. The 1 Litchfield plantation, 1,691 acres 'on Wacoamaw river, together With a-house and lot-on PaWley’s is land, sold for $l,OOO.- The Millbrook plantation,. 766 acres on the \yaccamaw, sold for $9OO. Millgrove plantation on Goose creek", 1,765 acres, sold for $3,000. These prices seem absurd; yet the sales are reported by. real estate agents’as private, bona, fide transactions. They aggregate 11,000 acres of,plantation, sold for less than $lO,OOO, or. less than,sl per acre.—' Exchange. ' '' : '.Read the above, everybody. Could, anything more strikingly illustrate the desolating tendencies, of, the infamous government which the powers at Wash ington have imposed on the property? holders of the. unhappy State ef South Carolina? Think of it. Seven of the most valuable plantations in the State, embracing 11,000 acres, sold for less than a dollar an acre I. Before this.cor-. riipt, and villainous Grant administra tion took the management of the South Into its own hands, these same proper ties could have been sold at an average 1 price of $75 per acre. That this depre ’ elation in the value of lands in the • South is owing altogether to the policy i of the administration and the bigoted ! and often bought-up members of Con gress who support it, Is patent to every. discriminating mind; and that this policy was adopted with malice afore thought, and for the express purpose of effecting just what it has effected, is equally clear to all. The grand aim ofi Grant and his supporters has been the utter ruin and prostration of the South. The disfranchisement of its white citizens—the turning over, the affairs of the States to the keep ing of ignorant negroes and New England carpet-baggers—the bayo net rule—the imposition of a sys tem of taxation at once outrageous and beyond endurance—the encouragement given to negroes to steal, burn and destroy—martial law—these were the combined and enforced agencies, con cocted by Grant and his supporters to, effect the prostration and ruin otthe South. Oh, how completely have these agencies answered the object in view. They were well planned, well consider ed, and their diabolical results have caused their authors and originators to grin and chuckle over their damnable work. • . Let reflecting -men stop and think.— Let Northern men, especially, consider und calculate how much additional tax ation is saddled upon them on account of the ruin and desolation visited upon the South. Had we statesmen Instead ot pigmies at the head of affairs, wo would have nothing of this.. The Grant policy of reducing the South to bank; ruptcy is ah injury to the whole people, North anh South. A few New England carpet-baggers may be enabled to pick up fortunes by the depreciation of Southern property, but their gain is loss to the country at large. How these United States are suffering for want a proper administration of public affairs I Grant’s policy is the policy of a fool, a bigot and ass. Had he his whole coun try' at heart, It would be his effort to make that'whole country prosperous and happy. Then all could contribute their pr iportlon to swell the receipts of the treasury, and thus lessen the taxes of the people. No man who is not an idiot can advocate a policy cal- ciliated to destroy One section of a coun try, without first coming to the oonclu sion that the other section will be seri ously injured. The country can be compared to a man’s body. Lop off one member—an arm or a leg—and the whole body suffers and becomes for the time being helpless. Let this wretched idea of Grant’s, then—this vindictive, suicidal, devilish policy—be repudiated by men of all parties who desire the welfare of the whole people and the whole country. A strong influence having been brought to bear upon Governor Palmer of Illinois to Induce him to extend a pardon to one of the Chicago Alderman who had been convicted of receiving bribes, the upright Governor rather astonished the Alderman’s friends by informing them that the very circum stances urged to procure a pardon for the offender afforded, the strongest rea sons; why the greatest penalty allowed by the law should be carried out in his case. In a government like ours, he said, a man elected to a public-station who so acts as to destroy the confidence of the people Is a far more dangerous criminal than the one who takes a suit of clothes to cover his nakedness, or a loaf of byead to satisfy his hunger.— He could hot understand why the Al derman, who was a man of means, with uninteresting family, should have improperly taken money; but ho be lieved that an intelligent man, with the strong motive of a lovfng wife and innocent children to restrain him, who is convicted of such an offenco is pre eminently a suitable object for punish ment. The State Auditor of Mississippi has informed the Legislature now in ses sion that the taxation in that -State must be taised to more than double its res ent rate to carry on tho govern ment. In the face of this warning, every measure of retrenchment which is proposed in the Legislature Is promptly voted down by the carpet baggers aqd freedmen, who lorm the majority of that body. But it must not be forgotten that tho Southern ne groes, who ignorantly vote for all manner of extravagant measures as a class, cannot under any circumstances be brought ,to see the propriety of any taxation .which affects themselves. — Consequently when the question of repudiation comes up,in Mississippi, as it is certain to do, it will be found that a great majority of the freedmen will vote for that method of cancelling their debts. The Labor, Beformers, Liberal Dem ocrats and independent Republicans held a conferenced Washington recent ly, to agree upon a line of policy to be pursued during the Presidential cam paign. ReoklOM fln Local Affair*. Reading ia now suffering to a foarflil degree, and a sickness prevails there Caused: by the direct carelessness on" thepnrtiof the local authorities, to whose ! lnck«f vigilance in looking after :pubUpaffaira is,directly owing the fact of the diabase now carrying off large numbers of people. It appears that the contents of a cess pool wore delib erately deposited on the surfeae of on out-lot, by which a low type of typhoid fever has been created in the neighbor hood, and thus a fearful disease has been spread oyer the, better portion of Reading. Now, th’e question is, where were the police when this deposit was made ? Surely a portion of such offi cers wore cognizant of tho fact; why did they not interfere to stop the pro ceeding,? In Harrisburg the engineer of the water house pumped from a well or cistern, into which the contents'of the city’s sewage had been pouring for months. He used such water a consid erable time, and when it was discover ed no official censure was visited on his head, but the man is allowed to retain his place, the same as if no wrong had .been done. If a similar offence; pi one .of less magnitude, had been committed lin a private concern, the offender would not have been retained in place an hour. Here are two cities, both fearfully afflicted by the direct neglect of .duty on tho part of liberally paid officials— death entering into the families of careful, citizens, simply because tho guardians of a city are unmindful of, or incapable of performing their duty. The thought is full of horror. , The consumption of opium-in this country is increasing enormously, and well informed persons say that the druggists of this city, says the N. Y. Slin, sail enough of the article to keep 10,000 confirmed opium eaters constant ly supplied. There are but few Chinese here, and dealers In the drug say that its consumption is confined almost ex clusively to Americans, as foreigners other than Chinese rarely use it. A great deal of it Is sold to.servant girls, who are supposed, however, to procure it for their mistresses. That the vice of. opium eating is, becoming common in other parts of the country is rendered probable from the fact that a bill has just passed both Houses of the Ken tucky Legislature providing that, on the affidavit of two respectable citizens, any. person who through the excessive use of opium, arsenic, hasheesh, or any drug has becoine incompetent to raan agb himself or his estate with ordinary prudence and discretion, may bo brought before a jury, and on proof of such a state of facts may be committed to j the custody of one or more persons to Ibe appointed by the court, with power to confine suqh person in any private asylum or in one of the lunatic asylums of the State. French Defaulters. General Grant might well take a lesson from the alacrity with which the French Government punishes its defaulters.— Victor La Place, the late Consul here, has already been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for taking a small percentage on those arms which Robe son, our Secretary of the Navy, sold to him wholesale ; and Monsieur Jan vier De La Motte is just being subjected to trial for defalcations not exceeding a tenth of,the amount which some of onr President’s friends have been guilty of. In most cases the robbery was the same, and perpetrated chiefly by means of double entries and false books. Speculation on the Bourse, too, was the means by which the ili-aequir gains were generally got rid of, though Janvier was as dissipated in private as Grant or Murphy or Leet can be.— Thiers, however, had no complicity with him, and hence he has resolutely handed him over to justice, a course on which our President would not likely venture, lest they should turn round and “peach” upon him as an accomplice. It is evident that the bait of a nomi nation for the second place on the Presidential ticket is to be used freely by the friends of the Administration to induce prominent Republicans, espe? dally those who are regarded as doubt ful, to commit themselves In Its favor. While Mr. Colfax is led to believe that it is the President’s wish that he should be the nominee for Vice-Presi dent, the special friends of Grant are suggesting various names for that po sition as likely to add strength to the Philadelphia ticket, such as that of Gen. Wilson of lowa, and others.— And now it appears that an attempt is to be made to capture Hon. Andy Cur tin by the use of this inducement. It has for some time been rumored that Gov. Curtin would shortly return to this country, and it is said that the President informed a Pennsylvania Senator two weeks ago that he had obtained a leave of absence, and would probably resign his commission and remain at home. The Washington correspondent of Fornoy’s Press, com menting on this, says that Gov. Curtin is likely to be a candidate for the Vice-Presidency, and that he proposes to take an active part in the coming Presidential campaign. This may bo taken as an indication that the Admin istration is very desirous of securing Gqv. Curtin’s support. How much credit is to be given to the Press cor respondent’s information regarding the intentions of tho Minister to Russia is altogether another question. Gov. Warmotii, of Louisiana, has arrived in New York, Ho is under stood to have pronounced against the administration''and in favor of Judge Davis, if Gen. Grant is re-nominated.— A New Orleans gentleman, accompany ing the Governor, reports that General Longstreet has resigned the position of survoyorship at New Orleans, on the ground that he cannot approve the adndinistration policy in Louisiana. . Returns from all parts but eight towns of New Hampshire give Straw, Republi can 1,230 majority, which will probably bo slightly ino/eased by the full returns. The State Senate will aland 8 Republi cans to 4 Damodraia. The Hat o( Repre sentatives is uncomplete, but so far as returned, a Republican majority of about 60 lu the House is indicated. Prof. J. P. Wickersham, Superinten dent of Common Schools in this State, is mentioned os the Republican candh date for Governor. Murderess; op Reputation.— About a week ngo- a youg woman at tempted to extort money from a prom inent Episcopal;.clergyman of New* York by threatening to bring against him.a charge of seduction. The minis ter refused to pay,and the filthy accu sation was made in court and in the' public press. A good deal of courage was required to face such a hideous charge, but .the clergyman persisted, and now the woman admits that the statement is wholly false. Her counsel asks that she may be permitted to escape prosecution ; but we hope that' she will be tried and punished with the utmost severity. Such women are criminals of the worst and most dan gerous class. The charges that they make are exceedingly hard to disprove, and many men are weak enough to pay blackmail rather than to endure the publicity of a trial, and to run the risk of conviction from the perjurers who are nearly always at the command of such persons. The business of women of this kind is to destroy reputation, and it is necessary that they should be deprived of the power to pursue their iniquitous avocation as that the hand of the murderer should be paralyzed. Clergymen seem to be the favorite victims of these wretches. .Baltimore has been agitated for a month past with a case in which a young girl brought a similar charge : against a prominent Methodist minister. At first everybody believed the story, and one newspaper troubled itself to present the accused to the public every day as a villain of the blackest type. Recent developments, however, indicate that the minister is an Innocent and deeply injured man, and if such is the case, he has already endured torture, the agonizing charac ter of which can hardly bo imagined.— If criminals wild do such deeds as this are suffered to escape every penalty, we might as well neglect to punish crime of all kinds, for there is a devilish ma lignity about such accusations which make most other offenses upon the calendar appear of small importance by comparison. The Proposed Removal of the State Capital." The following from the Lancaster InteUigenaer, expresses the opinion of the people of the whole Commonwealth on the removal of the capital to Phila delphia : ; • • The Philadelphia papers are talking of the removal of the State Capital to that city as if there really, were some possibility of such change being made. We have had several excitements of this kind before, but they have proved to be mere flurries. That the present I.luster will amount to anything we do not belieye. Harrisburg is much more of a railroad centre than Philadelphia, and in all respects a suitable and con venient location. There is no weight in any of the arguments which have been advanced in favor of the removal of the Capital to Philadelphia. The idea that the morals of members of the Legislature would be improved by the change is simply ridiculous. Those who are not proof against the seduc tions of Harrisburg would only find themselves surrounded by temptations ol a more alluring character in the City of Brotherly Love. We have no jealousy of Philadelphia, and would not oppose any movement which might be alike condusive to her inter ests and to the general good of the State; but this talk about removing the State Capital to that city is all idle. The people of the State will not coun tenance the propoeilion and it can not be adopted. Is The List Exhausted? -Ha* Grant run out of brothers in-law ? We strive to keep down the beating of our heart a* wo ask the question, but we cannot. We infer as much from the fact that he has commenced on Butler'* brother in law, which nothing could induce him to do unless his home sup ply waS entirely exhausted. Parker, of Lowell, Massachusetts, is to be sent all the way to New Orleans to take the place of Lohgstreet as Surveyor of the Port. His only recommendation is that he is Butler’s brother in law. and if the tribe of Butler is as numerous a* that of Grant, we shall hear of nothing during the remainder of the present dynasty but Butler’s relatives. Grant never takes up a new family until the old is completely exhausted. .Straw, for Governor of New Hamp shire has a majority of only 1,137. — This is the grand result of tne last des peate struggle of the Radicals to recover one of their own States: the buying of vote* j the sending of $75,000 into the State from Washington alone; the Ail ing of the United,States Navy-yard with voters ; the visits of Wilson and a score of members of Congress. The majority for Grant was seven times that of Straw. The total vote exceeds that of 1871 by 6,610; the Republican vote is increased 4,849; Weston’s la Increased 1,888; the Labor Reform vote is diminished 228; the Temperance is increased 139. The Democrats polled 26,583 votes against all these discour agements, and in, deAance of the pat ronage of the Fedora 1 Government. Schuyler Colfax is as crafty as he is retiring. Though common decency forbids his taking the stump in his own behalf, after having repeatedly declar ed his intention to decline a renomina tion for the Vice-Presidency, ho yet manages, to keep himself before the public. Ho recently delivered an ad dress before the Young Men’s Christian Association of Brooklyn, where, after declaring bis intention not to dissuss politics, he endeavored to ruin : the memory of Washington by an insidious comparison between him and Grant.— His latest character is that of a temper ance advocate. He appeared in Llm coin Hall, Washington, on Sunday la»t, and delivered an earnest address in favor of total abstinence, but on this occasion he failed to say anything about Grant. The New York Sun says the people of Pennsylvania may thank II foi the bold ness It displayed in taking up their flght when the Pennsylvania press was silen ced by threats of libel suits. What do yon think of that Messrs Senators—those of you whose votes are recorded in favor of shielding Radical scoundrels and thieves? Senator Wilson Is mo much grieved at the political conduct of Senator Sumner that he no longer speaks to his erring colleague. The case Is really very hard. ' Carpetbagger Abbot still impu dently insists on admission to a seat in the Senate from North Carolina. Bo shameless a claim could have been born only of the deviltries of reconstruction. CANNIBALISM IN CANADA, Tno Obltlsrliro . -Indians Entlnjr' Tlielr own Families. i Ottawa, March 21,—The most as tonishing stories of .cannibalism at the head waters of the Ottawa were-related to me this afternoon by a man whose respectability and voracity are un doubted. This winter, Mr. Wright, a lumber man living near Ottawa, had a lumber shanty on one of the tributaries of the Obltteebee lake, within a days’s travel of Fort Tim'acomanque,oneof the Hud son Bay trading posts, and while on a visit to his limits, from which he has returned, he ascertained the following facts : A camp of Obltteebee Indians was established- about ten miles from Mr. Wright’s shanty early in the win ter, and the squaw, with her children— the Oldest boy about fourteen years of age—came occasionally to . the shanty to trade off fur with the fore man for grease and 'flour. Provis-, ions wore scarce at the shanty, as sup plies had to be brought such a long distance, and he had to forbid the Indians from coming around the place. As the winter advanced ;the snow be becaine deep, 1 the game was so scarce that the Indian camp was without food for two or three days at a time. Hares, that had been plentiful other years, had been decimated by a disease that had attacked them during the summer, and the Indians were reduced to a state of starvation. PARENTS EATING THEIR CHILDREN, The owner of the wigwam returned one evening in January, after an unsuc cessful hunt of two days, and found that one of his children had been killed by the squaw, and the family were then satisfying their hunger with part of the flesh, which had been half cook ed in a kettle. The old Indian, without asking any questions, Joined with the rest in the horrid repast, and satisfied his appetite also,. The family lived for three days on the body of the child, and when it was totally consumed the In dian again started out to hunt, but was unsuccessful. On returning to the camp he drove his tomahawk through the skull of another child himself, and, without ceremony, the squaw proceed ed to boil a sufficient quantity of the flesh for a meal. THE WIFE SACRIFICED' TO HUNGER. The weather grew colder, with more snow, and it was impossible for the In dian to go on another bunt. He singed the hair off some dry beaver skins, and they managed to keep alive until this supply failed. Then, one day, when savage with hunger, without warning, he tomahawked the squaw, and he and the boy fed off the carcass for several days. In. the meantime the weather cleared up, and the Indian started in the direction of a moose park, several miles from camp, to try and secure some game ; but the snow though deep was light, and he could not get within rifle shot of the deer. A TERRIBLE ALTERNATIVE. After a three days’ hunt he returned to the camp, and the boy, who saw that his father had no provisions with him, at once made up his mind that he or the old man must die. Without wait ing to discuss the question with his pa rent he sent a rifle ball through his heart, and before the blood had time to cool he was assuaging his terrible hun ger with pieces of his father’s flesh. He remained in the camp as long as the provisions lasted, aud then made his way to the shanty, where he related, in a mixture of broken French and Indian, the facts which we have given above.— The men could not believe the horrible tale until the young Indian had con fessed it to the priest, who resided at a station several miles down the river. He also confessed that on one other occasion his sister, a year younger than himself, had been killed and eaten two years previous, when they had not any game for several days, the only survivor op a family. A half breed fur trader named Simp son, who resides at Fort Tlmiscom anque, often asserted that on one occa sion, while buying fur at an Indian camp, he asked for something to eat, and was told to help himself from an iron pot that was on the Are. He stirred up the mess which it contained, and nearly fainted with horror when ho Ashed up a human band from the bottom. An Indian, with an unpronounceable name, who camps by himself near the head of the Ohitteebee Lake, is known and spoken of as the only surviving member of a family of cannibals, and he is shunned and feared by other members of the tribe. The above is the substance of what Mr. Wright has heard from his men and from Hudson’s Bay fur traders who have been dealing with this extraordinary tribe of Indians, and os incredible as the statement appears to be, he says there are dozens of shanty men at the head, waters of the Ottaway who are willing to testify to the truth of it. THE WIcCIURE-GRAV WEST, Koport of the Investigating Com- inlttce. Decision In Favor of Col. IHoClnrc. HE IS SWORN IN AS A SENATOR. Harrisburg, March 27.— I The great battle between Reform and the ‘Rings,’ in the Fourth Senatorial District, end ed this evening by qualifying Colonel McClure as Senator in the place of Col. Gray- Four of the committee join in the report—Messrs. Buckalew, Dill, Davis and Brodhead. No minority ef fort was made. It is understood that the committee were unanimous in re jecting the whole vote of Ave precincts, via-—The Eighth and Twentieth of the Nineteenth Ward, and the Fourth Seventh and Fifteenth of the Twentieth Ward, but a majority of the committee discarded the roturfls of several other divisions, including'the third andAfth of the Twenty-second Ward which dis sipated over one hundred of Col. Gray’s majority. Col. McClure’s majority is made but a little over two hundred, but the committee denounce the man agement of the election generally in the interest of Col. Gray as conspicuous for violence and fraud. As soon as Col. McClure was sworn in he earnestly commenced work, present ing several important bills relating to Philadelphia. Harrisburg, March 27.—The prom inent feature,of the evening session of the Senate was the matter of the con-, test in the Fourth Senatorial District. Mr. 1 uckalew, from the committee of investigation, presented the follow ing: ■ The committee selected to try thd matter of petition contesting the elec tion of, Henry W. Gray as Senator from the'Fourth District, make report that having heard the parties in the case and taken testimony upon the points in controversy between them, the committee have this day adopted the following resolution as their judg ment and determination in the case: Itetolved, That the return of Henry W. Gray, a Senator from the Fourth Senatorial District is false and fradu lent, and that at the special election in said district, on the 80th day of Janu ary last, Alexander XC. McClure did receive a majority of the legal votes cast therein, and is entitled to his seat in the Senate, to fill the vacancy occa sioned by the death of the Hon. George Connell, late Senator elect from said district. C. It. Buckalew, J. D. Davis, a. H. Bill, ' A. G. Brodhead, Jr. aubectlßcments. gA lH OF TH E' MOUNT FLORENCE ESTATE WITH A CASH FUND. TOTAL VALUATION, $350,00000 IN SHAKES OF One Dollar Each! A magnificent properly on tho HUDSON RIVER, near New York City, overlooking “ HIGHLAND BEST,” the celebrated country seat of tno ,Rov. Henry Ward Beeoher. Large and Elegant MANSION, Fully and 'Fichly Tarnished, and containing all modern Improvements. Eighty Acres of Superior Land, highly improved and ornamented with Shade Trees, Fountains, ’ Statuary, Hedges. Lawns, Avenues, Graveled Walks, 40. Twenty Buildings, Fifty Building Lots. Hot House, Bowling Alley, Billiard Boom, supplied with water, heated by eteam. lighted With gas. BLOODED HORSES, ALDERNEY CATTLE, CARRIAGES, SLEIGHS, and HARNESSES, CARTS, WAGONS, FARMING and HARDENING IMPLEMENTS. aud everything desirable either for a gentle man's Crst-class residence, or modern farm. ALL 'TO BE BIS2SIB UTED AMONG SHAREHOLDERS, AS A MAJORITY MAY DETERMINE, at a meeting to be held In the city of Neff York, On the 16th Day of May, 1872. The hour and place of meeting' will be given through the Public Prest, at loastTEN DAYS in advance. Thus affording ample time lor all to be present In person or by proxy. The “Real and Personal Property,” with the Cash Fund, Is divided into 350,000 SHARES, which are elaborately embellished, sold at ONE DOLLAR EACH, and are numbered and Regis* tored from I to 550,000, inclusive, in the style of United States Bondi, to guard against loss or fraud. Special -Attention Is called to the fact that this is not a “Gift En» terprlse, “Charity Concert,” nor any mere scheme for disposing of tickets, but an absolute. bonaflde and PEREMPTORY SALE OF VALTJA- BLE PROPERTY, full description of which is given In Circulars, and the exact truth of which every Subscriber is earnestly requested to verify for himself, to which end the undersigned will afford all rea sonable facilities, It has been proposed that the Property and Cash Fund should be divided into 2,457 Prizes ! But this matter moat be decided by the Share- holders themselves. * Wears, by special permission, allowed to re fer to the following gentlemen, whose names are in themselves a sufficient guarantee that the most scrupulous care will be exercised in conducting the affairs of the Bale. They have also consented to act as an ADVISORY BOARD. H. OLAY PRESTON, Now York oily. ZENAB C. PRIEST, Utl oa, N. Y. GEO. PRANK GOULEY, St. Louis, Mo. ORRIN WE LCH. Syracuse, N. Y. THOMAS J. CORSON, Trenton, N. J, F. L. STOW ELL, Clean, N. Y. GEN. M. N. WIBEWELL, N. Y. City. P. H. PALMER, N. Y. City. DANIEL SICKLES, N. Y. City. ROBT. 9. BRUNS, Charleston, 8. C. LIBERAL INDUCEMENTS OFFER ED TO AGENTS AND CANVASSERS. Special Terms made with Clubs. For full pa rtlculars, Shares, References, De sorlptlve Circulars, Illuminated Views, Ac., Ac. Address JOHN A. LEF^KRTS, General Manager, 635 Broadway, N. Y,, Box WM. • JOHN IV. SIMONS, Secretary* JOHN 0. SMITH, Treasurer, Mew York Mer chant’s Exchange, 60 and 63 Fine Street. - Ap4-91. jfldn abherttomenta. * NNUAL'BTNANCLAL STATE /V WENT of theßorough oTCatlisle. for the ificai year ehdlng March 21, 1573. by B. H. GOULD, Treasurer. To amt received from JO3.W. Ogllby. former treasurer, * 3j4 8y To Interest received from Mrs. Thorn'H legacy. w w To dividend received .from Carlisle Gas * Water Co., 1,405 00 To amount received from James McCarter, Street Commissioner, for wood and stone sold. M ’ l To amount received from Carlisle Deposit Bank,on 'tnanan note discounted; . - , - 1,000 00 To amount received from w. Blair,for setting curb and filling up side-walk on Boutifstreet. IBi To amount received from A. 8. Lyne, market master, t a To amount received from ,•_««» u refit of market stalls, 1,623 14 To amount received from John 8. Low* chief bur gess, for ezhlolllon llcon- •, m , sen, „ - /t w To amount received from JoshuaFagan.colleotor for 187"„ on account of his da plicate. 695 89 Amount of duplicate of Bor ongh tax for 1871, $6,294 65 Amount of, exonerations al lowed collector, $ 97 68 .Collector’s foes on $3,083 12, 164 15 Amtoutstand’gln duplicate,2,9s9 70 8,311 43 Amount received from G. H* Rinehart, collector,. Balancoduo and overpaid by . Treasurer, 18.85504 DISBURSEMENTS AND EXPENDITURES —OUTSTANDING! ORDERS OF PBE VIOUS YEARS. ■ By amount paid Ellas Donnelly. Street Commissioner for 1870, and. em- ’ ployees for that year, ... By. amount paid R. McCartney, JA, ' clerk to Council _ 35 0J By amount paid Cumberland Fire Co., opproprlatlon of 1870, 323 00 By amount paid Union Fire Company, appropriation of 1870, , „ 75 00 By amount paid Good Will Fire Co., - appropriation of 1870. , *OO 00 By amount paid Leonard Heckendon, . s curator of grave-yard. ... 10 " By amount paid John Humer, coal ojl, • 40., . iu 77 By amount paid John Weaver, inapec- . ' tor of election, !i , w By amount paid Samnel Cornmin, on . rator of grave yard for 1860, • 34 2A By oraount psild Samuel Brown, for services as police, . IW uo By amount paid Geo. Taylor, janitor to council chamber, . . 4S ia By amount paid George P. Myere,police • jservlce ... w By amount paid Wra. B. Gregg, clerk to - market, extra appropriation, 25 00 By amountpald Jesse Humor, high con stable, 2000 By amount paid C. P. Humrlch,,att’y. ’ to Council, . *Q OO '81,644 73 PAYMENTS AND .DISBURSEMENTS FOR THE PRESENT, YEAR. By cash paid Wm. Corblt, lamplighter, ISO 03 By cash paid Campbell * Henwood, re pairing flro pings, Ac. 29 60 By cosh paid Jofm Nickel, "work ’on ■ streets and grave yard, 20 13 By cash paid Patrick Fahey, work on . ■ streets and cleaning spring, 139 61 By cash paid John Hays, "work on streets, - imol By cash paid Oliver Mlnnlch, work on streets. ■. 74 08 By cash paid John Laly,work on streets,. 73 88 By cash paid James 6lcCarter. work on ‘ . streets as street commissioner, - 423 08 By cash paid. Isaac Jones, work on streets, JIS 3® By cash paid Andrew Prltsch, work on streets, - ■ ' 10 60 By cosh paid Robert Glass, cleaning grave yard, 1» 50 By cosh paid Wm. Bowers, nse of horse and cart, 3 50 By cash paid Godfrey ’Bender, nse of horse and cart, - 3 00 By cash paid Wm. McElwee, use of horse and cart, 3 50 By cash ; paid Robert McCartney, Br., . ! Beijing market stalls, . 760 By cash paid John S. Low. extra police, 81 85 By cash paid J. P. Bnndle, for stone, -40 20 By cash paid Mrs. E. D. Potts, for stone, 117 00 By cash paid Lewis Masonholmer, clerk to Council, • W 76 By cash paid Lewis Masonhelmer, for stamp on bond, 100 By cash paid Thomas Baird, street reg ulator, - 6 00 By cosh paid Daniel Armstrong, for services ns police, • 3 25 By cash paid William Corblt, cleaning spring and work on streets, Ac., 08 63 By co4i paid E. McMlllec., Interest on Warden Judgment, #0 00 By cash paid UrattOn a Kennedy, pi lut ing; 58 60 By cash paid George Taylor, salary as janitor, 40 00 By cash paid Carlisle Gas A Water Co., 359 SO By cash paid J. H. Bosler, coal for mar ket house, 8 00 By cash paid William E. Gregg, market . master. 4 13 By cash paid Casper Ehrle.lampllghter, 23 04 By cash paid Sara'l Stout, lamplighter, 66 63 By cash paid J. Wareham, lamplighter, 16 07 By cosh paid Carlisle Deposit . Bank, noteT 1.600 00 By cash paid CarlisleDeposltßank.dU- . counton note, 24 25 By cash paid Carlisle Deposit Bank, coupons on borough bonds, 3,553 00 By cash paid Carlisle Deposit Bank, In terest on coupons, 27 48- By cash paid Lewis Faber, on acconnt of salary as high constable, 323 00 By cash paid R, McCartnoyJr., services , os clerk to Connell, 6 00 By cosh paid Joseph Ebright, repairing pump. 4 60 By cosh paid Wm. K. Piper; stationary, 3 #5 By cash paid George L. Gougber, post ing bills and ordnances, 75 By cosh paid David. Smith, qualifying • * Council. 300 By cash paid Wm. B. Parker, profes sional services, 60 00 By cash paid A. 8, Lyne, clerk to mar ket; 176 95 By cash paid A. 8. Lyne, for glass, 1 40 By cash paid John Faber, Br., laying crossings, 34 76 By cash paid 8. H. Gould, salary as bor ough treasurer, v 175 00 By cash paid Wm. Stoner, work on o crossings, 13 13 By cash paid John Kabor. selling curb for wra. Blair and repairing cul verts,' 72 61 By cash paid George B. Hoffman, coal oil, wick. Ac., W 40 By cash paid Wmi Fenlclo, repairing tools. 3 60 J3y cash paid Jonathan Zelgler, forstep ping stones, , . 8145 By cash paid Wm, Barnltt, for curbing, Ac,, 64 30 By cash paid State Treasurer, on ac count of State,tax and costa, 11165 By cash paid A, Heckor,curator to grave yard. 0 25 By cash paid Jas. McCarter, salary os 0 street commissioner, 40 00 88J133 94 Chid Grapery, BOUNTY STATEMENT. To amount received' from J, Wi Ogllby, former treasurer, 31,710 08 To amount received from , Joshua Fagan, colleo tor for 1870, on account • of duplicate. 132 13 To amount received from Carlisle Deposit Bank, on note discounted, 600 00 To amount Bounty tax assessed for. 1871, 83,027.73 Amount of exonerations, 8120 14. Collect’rs fees on $1,397 89, 84 94 Amount outstanding, 2,074 76 2,220 84 Amount received from C. H. itlnoliarl, collector of bounty tax for 1871, 1,897 89 Total amt. received for bountypurposes, 84,040 05 PAYMENTS MADE OUT OP THE BOUNTY FUND AS FOLLOWS, vl*; To cash paid Carlisle Deposit Bank,cou pons, . 8510 00 By cash paid Carlisle Deposit Bank, bond No. S 3 and Interest,' 1,030 00 By cash paid Abm. Claudy, bond No. 35 ana Interest. . > 200 00 By cash paid John S. Munro, bonds No. 28 and 29 and interest. 1,030 00 By cash paid Carlisle Deposit Bank, note, - 600 00 By cash paid 8. H, Gould, discount and stamps, 10 55 By treasurer’s commission, \A per cent. on $4,0i1) 05. 20 20 Amount In bauds of treosurer, 733 SO STATEMENT OP THE INDEBTEDNESS OF THE BOROUGH OF CARLISLE, ON MARCH 23, 1872. Carlisle Gas & Water Loan, $35,000 00 Carlisle borough loan pro per, 28,400 00 Warden judgment, 500 00 Overdue coupons at Carlisle Deposit Bank, 1,053 00 Oatstanding orders ol 1870, 1,269 47 do do 1871, 8.880 20 ASSETS. 1101 shares of Carlisle Gas 1 <fe Water loan par value, $28,100 00 Legacy of Mrs. Thorn, 1000 00 Outstanding borough tax, 2.050 70 Natohor'a lion, ’ 20 SO Bwlgortjudgment, 80 00 182,119 00 Amount or excess of Indebtedness, $28,880 60 STATEMENT OP BOUNTY INDEBTEDNESS. Amount of bonds duo Jan. 1, 1873, ... $B.OOO 00 Amount'd bonds duo Jan. 1,1874, 8,000 00 - - Amount of bonds due Jan, 1, 1875, 11 9,000 00 sB,ooo 00 Balance In bands of Trea- surer, $ 733 SO Outstanding taxes for 1870, estimated, ff 77 25 Outstanding taxes for 1671, 2,074 76 $8,465 SI Excess of indebtedness, We. the Auditors of the borough of Carlisle, do certify that we have, examined the foregoing borough and bounty account of Sam’l H. Gould, borough treasurer, together with the 1 vouchers connected therewith, and And a bulaqoodne said treasurer on the borough account of eighty nine dollars and fifty-one cents, and also a balance duo the said bounty account by said treasurer of seven bnndred and' thirty-three dollars and thirty rents; and we also certify that the foregoing statement of the financial condition of is correct to the best RECEIPTS. 8,083 13 89 61 14.040 05 $60,508 69 ASSETS. $5,414 60 Rbbertiscments. of our knowledge and belief. Witness our hands this 37th.day oXM arch; A. D. 1873. • , , w. G. WOODS, 1 1 jpri/« EB -[ Aua “o ra - JIIBST IN SEASON I The old firm have Just returned from the oltv • with a very large assortment of J Fancy & Staple DRY GOODS! among which may bo found all kinds of DRESS GOODS, composed of the finest material of silk woolen, linen and cotton manufacture; nice as sortment of Casslmeres, and 6-4 Scotch Casal meres for gent’s suits. We have the best as sorlmentof BLACK BILKS In this county, and they are cheaper than eon be found elsewhere MOURNING GOODS. of all the most desirable and popular kinds, such as French Merinos, Cashmeres, Repps, Poplins Wool DoLalns.Tamise, Alpaccas, Chin Ires, and every thins else in this line, and at prices that moke some of our competitors feel badly, in deed. A very extensive Stock of MILLINERY GOODS, snob as Ribbons, Laces, Hats and Sundowns Crapes, Illusions, Linings, all In large verities of the latest styles. Also Table-linens, Hand kerchiefs, Gloves, Hosiery; all kinds of DOMES TIC GOODS, Flannels, CLOTHS ICASSIIERES, Trimmings, Ac., In groat variety. The popular styles of Dolly Varden stuffs in Various materi als. In a'word. we have the Jargest-and finest admitted by all unbiased minds—stock of goods in -the whole length ,of this Cumberland Valley. Come and see ns, and we know you will say .that it was good for yon to be here.” A. W. BENTZ &.CO. April 4,1872- ESTABLISHED 1840. Isaac Livingston, - Clothier -AND IVLercliant TAILOR! 22 NORTH HANOVER STREET, Cablisle, Pa I have on bancl a luigo and superior stock of READY-MADE CLOTHING, and'ploce goods, which I will dispose of at pri ces much lower than they can now be bought. Receiving dally all the latest styles of Spring Goods for custom trade. Our GENT’S FURNISHING GOODS Department is complete. A large assortment of TRUNKS!, Valelsos and Traveling Bags, constantly on hand at very-low figures, April 4,1873. HOTIOB.—Th© County Commission ers have appointed the following days lot ring appeals, on all changes made by the assessors foi; the year 1873, also for reviewing the enrollment ot the militia: Monroe and Upper Allen, the 23d day of April. Meobanicsburg' borough and Lower Allen, 23d day of April. East Pennsborough,Hampden and Now Cum berland, 24th day of April. Silver Spring and Middlesex. 25th day of April. South Middleton, 26th day of April. North Middleton and Frankford, 27th day of April. • Mifflin, Hopewell and Newbarg, 29th day of April. - Ship|>enaburg borough and township; 80th. day Southampton and Newville borough, Ist day of May; Newton and Penn, 2nd day of May,. Dickinson and West Pennsborough, 8d day of May. Carlisle, 4th day of May. Appeals to be held at the Commissioners* Of fice, in Carlisle, on the days above stated. JACOB RHOADS, ) DAVID DIKTZ, J-Com'rs, JOHN C. SAMPLE.) April 4.1873—fit Attest; J. B. Floyd, Clerk, OWE N ’ S 3VXARBLE -^7-ORKS Is removed from West Main'street to 73 South Hanover street, where anything obtainable at a first-class MARBLE «fe BROWNSTONE SHOP may bo had at raies which cannot be undersold In city orcou-itry. Having a heavy and carefully selected- stock on hand; l will sell it at rates which cannot be undersold, or excelled in workmanship.. N. o.—Marble and M irbleized, Mantles and. encaustic tile, at city rates: April 4, 1872-€ m. . . . , RIHHARD OWEN*' TVAVID SMITH, formerly Justice of My the' Peace, would announce to his numerous mends throughout the county and vicinity, that his special attention will be given to the col lection and settlement of all claims, book ac counts, undue notes, Ac., and to the selling and renting of real estate. Office In the court-house. April 4, lff72-Om. .pXJBLIC SALE OP VALUABLE PAEM AND MOUNTAIN LAND. On Saturday, April 20,1072;; Will be sold, at public sale, on tbe above day, on the premises, situated'ln Penn township, 1 mile south of. Centrevillo, and three-fourths of a mile south of the .Miramar rail-road, that valuable farm, containing SIXTY ACRES AND THIRTY-THREE PERCHES of good pine land, forty-five acres'ol which Is cleared and in a high state of cultivation, and the remainder is. covered with good timber. The Improvements are a good Log House and Log Barn, .Was oll, Shed. Corn Cribs, and all other necessary out* buildings. A well of good water and a fine young Orchard on ,tbe premises. , Also foarlolaol MOUNTAIN LAND covered with thriving young chestnut, oak and pine timber, vis—No. 1, containing nine acres and ninety perches; No. 3 containing elghi acres and sixty perches; No, 3, containing eight acres and fifty perches; No. 4, containing bight acres and forty perches. TERMS.—Ten per cent, of the purchase motley to be paid cash, or secured by note bearing In terest and payable In six months; and one-half the remainder on Ist of April, 1873, when-deed will be made and possession given; and the bal ance on Ist of. April, 1874, with Interest from April, 1873. . Sale to commence at ten o'clock A. M. Persons wisulng to view the farm, can call on the undersigned, residing on the premises. , , . . WILKINSON THRUSH,, Executor of John Thrash, deo'd. Feb 23—Ot • • 1 LOW CASH BATES I .THE.- : i.. . Charier Oak Life Instance Co., OF HAKTFORD, CONN. Organized 183<fc $10,000,000 Assets. , Mll ■ Issues policies of Life Insurance on all the or dinary plans at lower, rates than other mutual companies, and pays annual dividends increas ing yearly. The plan called - DEPOSIT INSURANCE, • lately introduced by this Company. Is superior to any short term Endowment ,qr Jontine p»»“* as It fixes a large surrender value for the policy at the end of any of Its current years. *• . J. C. STOCK, Agent, ... Carlisle, P». Fob 151872—Sm.eow A DMINISTRATOB’S NOTICE.-No J\ . tlco la hereby given that letters of aaroin luirullon on the estate of James Wi Coro®™** lute of New Kingston, deceased, have granted to the undersigned' administrators, residing- In Silver Spring. All persons Know ing themselves Indebted to said estate are re quested to make settlement immediately. those having claims to present them for settle ment JAMES D. BELL, WM. SBNSBMAIf, MtiroU 7,1872—fit . Administrator** FOR RENT.-Several rooms in VOLUHTBKB Building,
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