Jfcmnm f aluatw. CARLISLE, PA ■Barmana r, majccii so, ist.i. NEWS IN BRIEF, Tick Mon. James it. Doolittle has resumed the practice of law in Chi cago. Wolves ate causing much trouble' to the farmers in the region of Roan ike county, Va. Kx King Amadeus, of Spain, is ap pointed Lieutenant-General of the Dalian army. Mns. Anna A. Pomeroy, the di vorced wife of “ Brick,’l of Ba Crosse, Wls., has taken another husband.,. .Mrs. Jonathan Watson, a spiritu alist female preacher and “ medium,” has married several couples at Titus ville, Pa. Gladstone has offered his resigna tion as British Prime Minister, on ac i-minl of the defqal of the Irish Univer -oy hill. A noth mi counterfeiter. Man. C. iigel, has been captured in Philadel i,lo i, with dies, pres- and materials for c.i.iniiTfeiling. It is thought that the . number of Representatives will be fixed by the Constitutional Convention at 175, and (be .Senate at 0-». Thu. United States has become the leading cheese producing country of the world. (10,000,000 pounds of Ameri can cheese were exported in 1872. Pennsylvania has an area of 46,- 000 square miles ; population of 8,521,- 791; assessed valuation of $1,319,235,- 012 ; number of miles of railroad, 6,113. The New York Herald predicts the “total dissolution” of the Radical par ty, which is all well enough, but would lie much better if it would fix the day. George W. Hall, who shot Miss Shockley at Salisbury, Md., threw himself under a railroad train and was mangled to death, Saturday afternoon. Two boys were killed ami many other persons injured by the large tent ..f th ß Great Eastern circus being blown down by a tornado, at Louisville, Ky., Alks. Mkrc-y Worth imsu m u»j vllle, Ocean county, N. J., last week, at the age of 103 years. She had nine ty-one grandchildren and twenty great grand children. The legislature has got down to work, and until the adjournment the .mem bers will be kept well employed. The session will, probably be ended in four weeks. .1 A.wtr D. Page, of Vallejo, Califor nia, on bail on a charge of illegally opening a letter, yesterday visited his wife, from whom-he had been separated -.hot her fatally, and then shot himself dead. The U. ri. Senate has dropped the vase of ex-Senator Patterson, ol New Hampshire, accused of Credit Mobilier frauds, as he is no longer a member of that body. Of course; there is uo punishment for Radical rogues. legalized marriages between whites and blacks. Now let the Radicals of Rhode Island, and each man secure n Dinah mr his wife. A voi;.M. lady at Greenville, Ten ues.-ce, recently presented her lover with an elaborately constructed pen wiper, and was astonished,the follow ing Sunday to see him enter church wearing it as a cravat. A i' Charlotte, Clinton county, lowa, n. party of five, in trying to ford the AL’.quoketic river with a team, were -w. pi under Ihe Ice. But one woman was saved and but one body of the drowned recovered. lar. House at Harrisburg has passed «u amendment to the General Appro priation bill fixing the salaries of the members at si.,obO a year, being an in crease of $.600 a session oyer their present pay. Bo it Radicals; rob as "’“'Jiikft'NWJß [ample appear it. in-. tV. R. Kanhu-is. Democratic Congressman from New York, has written to Secretary Routweli, doclin ing to receive his extra salary. He viys he voted against the bill ... increase salaries, from principle, and ..<• cannot conscientiously accept the decrease, K ashas seems to be unfortunate in her self'ctkins of public officials. Both of her United States Senators are under indictment for bribery to obtain seals in the .Senate; her members of the legislature are Inisy proving eacli other to be rascals, convicts, dec.; and (he late United States House of Repre sentatives passed a resolution to im peach Judge Deiahay, of the United .States Court in that State. Bleeding Kansas is a good Republican State. IIKV. O. S. VALLAN dig ham, pastor of the Protestant Episcopal Church, of New Lisbon,, Ohio, died of consutnp-- lion suddenly in Cincinnati, Thursday morning, Cth insf. He was fifty-six .years old and leaves a widow and a large family He had been in Cincin nati for three weeks on business, arranging agencies for the sale of the biography of his brother, the fata Hon. Clement L. Vultandigham. Death • ame unexpectedly, with no relative at his bedside. I’opnr.ATJON.—The population of the glohe is 1,288,000,000. There are 360,- 000,000 of tlie Caneasion race, 190,000,- uDO of the Ethiopian race, 170,000,001) of the Malay race, and t,000,000 of the Indo-American race. There 3.012 lan guages ' spoken, and J ,000 different religions. The yearly mortality of the glohe is 333,333,383 persons or at the rate of 91, 50 l per day, 3,730 per hour, Each pulsation of the heart marks the ‘tenth of some human creature. I Uamekon Defending Cai.dwkli,. ■ A. Washington correspondent says mat Senator Cameron takes a deep interest in the ease of Caldwell, of Kansas, and is doing all lie ran to secure votes against Morton’s resolu tion declaring Caldwell’s election as illegal. Ills understood Cameron will in the course of debate make a speech defending Caldwell. The latter halls from Pennsylvania, and was formerly under Hie employ of Cameron. Patter sen, of South Carolina, will also find a arm friend In Cameron. OOLFAX AT HOME. Ex- Vico President Colfax arrived at Ids home at South Bend, Indiana, on Saturday week last, and, as wo are in formed by the papers, was escorted to the court-house by a largo body of his political friends, where the Mayor delivered an address of welcome. Mr. Colfax replied in .a long speech, which was but a repetition of his many ex planations. This was a bad business, ami very discreditable to the Mayor and other Radicals of South Bend. Of the many men engaged in the Credit Mobilier business, Colfax was (lie most guilty, and his guilt was made so manifest that his best friends did not dare defend him. His was a double crime, for he not only received the bribes tendered by Oakes Ames, but also those of Nes bitt, another government contractor. More than this, before bis villainy bad been,unearthed, ami when he hoped aiid believed that it never could be, he lied most outrageously and backed those lies by an oath. So positive was his guilt, so plain was it that he had re sorted to perjury to save himself, that when the resolution .offered in the House looking to his impeachment was voted upon, it was defeated by a meagre majority. Had il not been that so many members of the House were almost if not quite as guilty of robbery as Coitus himselt, the resolu tion would have been adopted by a triumphant majority, and impeach ment of the Vice President would have followed. Colfax escaped the disgrace due to his crimes, then, by the “ skin pf bis teeth,” and because .of the guilt of a number of members who voted “uo” when the resolution was called up. He was saved Jront impeachment by /hi" confederates in crime Aud yet after all this—after his nar row escape from a just punishment— Colfax is honored by the Radicals of South Bend ; aye, he was-cheered and tendered n welcome 1 It must be true, then, that the greater the rascal the more ho is honored.” We did not, be cause we could not, believe this saying was true,- but we are convinced of its truth now. Colfax, the convicted bribe-receiver and perjurer, receives a welcome and ovation from the Radicals of South Bend! What a picture is this to hold up to the young men of our country who vet entered tiro arena ot language at once plain and emphatic, that Radical politicians are not only permittsd to steal and lie, but are hon ored for having done so ? We. feel no disposition to heap coals upon the head of Colfax, for we doubt not his own conscience is lashing him with a scor pion whip, but in the name of dencen ,cy, we must be permitted to protest against all attempts of partisans to bolster up Colfax arid his confederates in crime. Had justice been meeted out to then! they would uot be running at large to-day. Let the bribe-receivers remain in quiet seclusion to brood over their villainies, and let uo attempt be made either by political knaves or Young Men’s Christian Associations to rescue Colfax, Wilson and others from the Slough of Despond in which they are now floundering. Let us not eulo gise men merely because they are John J. Patterson, the newly elected Senator from South Carolina and who has taken his seat, figured in the Senatorial election in this State in 1863, at which time he was a member of the House of Representatives. He was examined by the House commit tee touching bribery and corruption at that election. The committee in mak their report state that Mr. Patterson agreed with Dr. Boyer—a member of the House of Represenlativea—‘.‘that he, (Boyer) should have $20,000 if he would vote for Mr. Cameron United States Senator, Subject, however, to the approval of Mr, Cameron ; ami Mr. Patterson afterward informed Dr, Boy er that Capteron was agreed lo the price.” From ids antecedents Patter son is a - tit and proper Senatorial associate of Caldwell, Jones, Harlan A-, Co. Spencer, of Alabama, was yesterday ffiJ/VjijP l ' l t*bmeroy was not expelled, and Patterson, of South Carolina, is apparently lo remain undisturbed.— The Senate is not particular about its character.— I'ornei /V Frew. ■Not more than twelve or’ fifteen years ago the American who took a seat in the gallery ami looked down upon the Senate, fell proud of his country. 11 was a body of giants in intellect. Look at the Senate now.’ See the Caldwells, Brownlows, Patter sons, looses, Dockerys, Spencers, and Pinchhacks, occupying seats bought with money | Oh,'nut it is humiliat ing to see these petty and corrupt knaves strutting in (lie United Slates fienat*- Some curiosity having been expressed us to how the Pennsylvania delegation voted on the bill appropriating five thousand dollars extra pay for each member of the Forty.second Congress, we give their votes as shown in ttie list of yeas and nays ; VBAfc. SAW.. ’ Dickey, Hep. Kiiilijinir, lieu, foster. Pom. McClelland, Pem. Getz, Pent. Pucker, Ucp. Grffljtl). Depi. Scofield, liep. Warmer, Kep Sneer, Pem, Mef ere, Pont. shoemaker. Hep, Myers, Rep. fna-nsi-nd. Rep. Negley, Rep. Randall, Potu. * Sherwood, Pem. Storm. Pern. ausk.vi- i,i: sui- \u-iini,, Oreoley, Uup -s Mcjimkla. Hull. Hiildumaii, Oi-r... Slrnwla-nluo, lie,,. Kelley, Hup, 1 TUB postmaster ol Now Orleans in a defaulter to the amount of $51,000. Like the President’s hrolhcr-in-law, Casey, this postmaster is one of that g/mg of unscrupulous adventurers who have produced all the evils which alljiot the unhappy people of Louisiana. While Grant’s office holders plunder and oppress the people, (heir vile usurpation is unstained hy Grant's bayonets. The Kepnhlican Legislature of Ne vada have just passed, over the Gov ernor’s veto, a bill exempting from liability the bondsmen of the default ing Stale Treasurer. The Legislature to have been consistent, should have passed a vote of censure upon the Gov ernor, Whore theivlng Is at a premi um honest officials have no business to he either seen or heard. Fohtkk, the murderer of Putnam, of Jsow York, will hang to-morroWi "A CAMPAIGN OF SLANDER,’' During the Into very odd political campaign the Radical newspapers and orators delighted to meet tho charges of corruption, usurpation, and extrava gance brought against their party hy the counter-charge of scandalous per sonalities on the part of the Liberals. It was, they said, "a campaign ol slander.” Those who preferred some other man than Mr.. Grant for. Presi dent were charged with carrying on a ” personal campaign,” and every well grounded exposure of the Administra tion iniquities were pooh-hood at and the people were told that the sore heads” and “ copperheads” had in vented it all in order to get tho offices away from such innocent men as Grant, Colfax, Wilson, & Co., and tho worst of it was the people seemed to take (hem at'their word. .Well, tho campaign and its slanders being over, the (ruth begins to rise up from the bottom of the well, and the shapes it takes on are marvellously like the things which were scandalous person alities and vile slanders three months ago. The custom house ami revenue frauds are proven. Tho bribery of State Legislature is admitted. The defalcation of numerous of their offi cers, State ami National, is not denied. The interference by the Phderal Gov ernment with the affairs of State are well known. And all men not struck with political blindness know that, in regard to this Credit Mobilier business, there must lie a substantial blaze somewhere to give off so much smoke ; hut we could have had the assurance to assert it seriously, that tho Vice Presi dent of the United States aud so many grave Senators and Representatives were more than technically and acci dentally compromised by that bad business. These things are melan choly facts, and not only disgraceful to the country, but they ought to over throw and drive from , power the cor rupt party now ruining the govern ment. THE PATIENCE OF THE PEOPLE, Just before the adjournment of Con gress Col. Forney Of the .Press was in Washington, and wrote a letter to his paper, from which we take the follow ing extract: II requires a moral earthquake to rouse the American people. They bear infinite rascality with unspeakable patience be - Credit Mobilier ure u £he~nuVuraf fruSts**of a bad sowing. Simultaneous with them come the dark exposures ot the open pur chase of United States Seuatorsblp— part of the harvest of the same seeds. The practice of buying legislation and votes not of recent origin, is only beginning to be punished. Tbe authors of it are yet robed in safe purple and the the sanctity of due lluin, and no doubt often wonder when Pomeroy is placed in the pillory aod Caldwell Is branded with opprobium that they should have escaped the penal ty of their generation of crimes. The two Kansas Senators, the new Smith Car olina Senator, and others equally famil iar to the nation and the country, are simply the imitators, successful or other wise, of tue teachings originated and prosperously carrlsd on for many years by Simon Cameron of Penusylvrula. Millions have looked on in amazement at hie escapes. Nobody has attempted to deny bis Legislative manipulations, and thousands to-day are surprised to see the leader clothed with the highest honors, while those who have been bis obedient followers are driven out of Congress in disgrace. But there 1s a historical justice iijat. sometimes a vengeance men iu tbe gallery uf endless memory, where they can be seen to the close ol time and judged by their vices or their virtues Credit Mobilier and Senatorial Bribery have bad their bad day. They will work wholesome results. At last they have set tbe people to tbiiikiug; and it' there is any thing to fear about the luture, it is that there will be a good deal more eagerness to punish than there has heretofore been -readiness to forgive. There.is just now a greed for victims. Somebody must die to appease the uni versal suspicion ; and doubtless many a worthy leliow- will sutler for one oilbuce, whilo-tbe veteran rascal'outlives the law and hides himself in the fervid eulogies of his parasites. But good will vome ol' alt this travail. The practice ct men vo ting for their own interests iu Cougress will stop, and, bettor than all, the trade of buying corrupt inferiorities into tbe Senate of the United Slates will perish for w-ant of customers. THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION, The annual election for Governor; Railroad Commissioner, three members r , j\norffa fVinnr’t iMra and members of Hit Legislature, took place in New Hampshire Tuesday of last week. Tim Republicans supported Hon. K. A. Straw, the present Gov ernor, for re-election ; Hon. James A. Weston was supported by the Demo crats; H. K. Mason, by the Liberals; ami Dr. John iilackmor by the tem perance people. Excepting Mason, the nomination-arc the same (hoy wore a year ago. The latest returns elect at raw, Rep. by 800 majority; Small, Rep., to Con gress in the Ist district, by a small majority ; fid district, close ; fid district re-elects Barker, Dom. The Republican majority for Gov ernor last year was BIGS ; for President, 67-13, and the Legislature was Republi can in both branches, with (ifi majority on joint ballot. The Democracy of the Granite State have done nobly. All honor to them I Wealth of Philadelphia Edi tohs.—The estimated wealth of the Philadelphia editors, is given as fol- lows Mr. Childs of the Ledger, is said to be wortli £3.090,001); Win. M. Swain, of the Record, $2,000,000; John W. Forney, of the Press, $2,000,000; Mor top JVfeMiehael, of the North American, $150,000: s T()lm H. Taggart, of the 'Jimes, $75,000; William W. Harding, of the Inquirer, $300,000; E. W. O. Greene, of the transcript, $50,000; E. J. Hinckson, of the Dispatch, $lOO,OOO ; Dennis F. Dealey, of the Herald, $75,. 000; William Mceser, of the Mercury, $60,000; Frank Wells, of the telegraph, $75,000. Which is certainly e.ieouragiug for those engaged in the laudable under taking in the adjoining city to per severe in the good work. Tub executor* of the lost will ami i testament of the late Thad. ktevens are about to sell the Caledonia iron Works, together with some It!, ODD acres of land near Chamhersbnrg. Under Certain conditions of the wjll the amount realized from tho sale will ho applied to “ erect, establish and endow a house of refuge in Lancaster Ui;., for tho roliol of homeless indigent orplians, who have lost either parent," in which “no preference shall be shown on ac count of race or color in the admission and treatment i neither poor Oerinat)j, Irf ish or,Mohammedans, or any other on account of their ruco or religion of Jholr pnrei) t must ho oxoli/ifcil/’ NOTHING BUT THE TEUTH. 11l the recent debate lu Hie House on Louisiana affairs, Mr. Hale of Maine, a .Republican member, did himself tb© credit of admitting the whole truth in these words: For the lH«t few years the infamy and disgrace of certain Southern Stale gov ern meats have been constantly mi the increase.. There 1 -have been corrupt elect ors and corrupt elections; there have been corrupt legislators aud corrupt legisla tions; there have been double legisla tures, double governors, double represen • tutives iu this House, and double Sena tors year by > ear iu many Slates. There have been bad men iu these States who have bought powerdy wholesale bribery, and have enriched themselves, at the ex pense of the people by speculation or opeiubanded robbery, Corruption and anarchy have occupied and possessed these unfortunate States. I felt the force of all this when it was charged in the canvass before the late election. In my opinion it is time, and I hope all Republicans will appreciate this, that we take this matter with a strong hand. And the last men to object to such action on the part of the government* taken with due regard to the spirit of our con stitution, are the gentleman on the ocher! side, who have claimed that the Republi can party is accountable because it will uot interfere but allow thieves and rob bers to pillage the South, Let us go to the root of the mutter. Jf necessary, let us take entire charge there for the time , put down the pretentions of usurpers,* drive out thieves from high places to which' they have never been .duly elected,find out if there is any real Mate government with: proper authenticutiani and if, as I sits \ peel , there is none, give to the people of this desolated and plundered State an op - 1 portunity for a fair election , and when a( government has been set up under such guarantees stand by it with the whole force of the general government, civil and military. A STRAW TO A DROWNING MAN. Grant, after Colfax escaped impeach inbnt only because those members «f the House who were almost as guilty as himself were permitted to vote on the resolution, wrote him the follow ing sympathetic letter. It will he seen that Grant desires to maintain personal relations with Colfax through lilel How natural; “birds of a feather floels together,” and as Grant and Colfax have been in “cahoot” in many swind ling transactions, they no doubt feel a warm friendship for each other. Grant is a great sympathiser with rascals. He wrote the same kind of a letter to! Tom Murphy and Geo. K. Leet oil New York. As Colfax is now safein ■the Saints Best at South Bend, ve *V*o omlrtruoraout of ,thQ PrGfcVr dent will afford him all the comfort hi desires. Here is Grant’s ahameles letter to the bribe-receiver and perjm or, Colfax. Head it, and hang yom heads in shame, honest men : Executive Mansion, ) Washington, March 4,1873. j My Dear Mr. Colfax : Allow me to say that I sympathize with you in the recent Congressional investiga tions ; that I am as satisfied now as J have ever been, of your integrity, pa triotism, and freedom from the charges imputed as if I know of my own knowledge of your innocence. Onr aforesaid relations have been so pleas ant that J would like to keep up per sonal relations through life. Affectionately yours, U. 8. Grant. THE EVANS STEAL. The case of George O. Evans, charged with malfeasance in office, wherein he collected Kl fiy°Ti? United States, was tried and terminated last week. It seems, that hy a law made at Harrisburg, to prevent the Just pun ishment of official thieves, the jury could not convict Evans of embezzle ment, but they rendered a verdict in favor of the Commonwealth of $149,- 762.53, half of the amount stolen. And ever thus it appears to be. What encouragement for men in Uigh places to be dishonest! If a pour man with half starved and frozen wife and children would steal a dollar’s worth of coal or corn, he -would be arrested, tried, convicted and cast into prison; but Congressmen, Legislators, and other high dignitaries, can rob the State and Nation of hundreds of thousands and of millions, and escape .punishment, and in many instances, be elected hy their constituencies to higher, more lucrative and honorable positions; thus rewarding, us it wore, their rascality. When will the people arouse to a sense of their duty V 1 uk official inventory of the proper ty of Horace Greeley, has at last been completed. Tiro available assets are $127,930, including six shares of tilt Tribune, worth $54,000. His interest in ’* What I Know About Farming,” “The American Conflict,” and other cf his bopks, are valued at $13,000. In addition,, it is. stated that there me debts amounting lo $79,654, a part of which is a promissory note of Cornelius Yanderbuilt, Jr., of $15,924. Mr. Qroely left worthless notes and paper to the amount of $140,000, embracing shares in gold, silver, produce and homestead companies and patents. Tun N. Y. Evening Post, administra ion. says; It la hardly 100 much to say that it would be better for the. country If the present session could he wiped out altogether, for tho Investigations in which it bus consumed much of Its time area mortification to the people and a lasting disgrace to this Congress. That t should have voted at the last raomoot to give live thousand dollare extra pay to each of Us members, on false prptenma, is perhaps the best commentary that (iau be made upon Us character, and should suggest to every body that tho leas sMd about It arid tho sooner its existence can he covered np out of sight forever, the better. Home of the administration organs are endeavoring to male.) it appear that the Bepiiblioan party is not responsible for the passage of the salary job. They (didin tli(it some Democrats voted for it, which of course io not denied ; but then they must remember that the liepudll cans have a large majority in the Senate and the house, and the swindle could not have passed either, had the Republican members thereof so willed it. And even then it would not have hpcpnp, i) law had President Ouant, withheld his sig nature, The Radical party Is responsi ble for the salary increase, notwithstand ing the protestations of the organs. K Philadelphia XedV/er truly says “what has Iteop revealed of the individual dishonor of members in tho Credit Mobillor transactions has been placed before all the world too plainly In be oblitoratnd by any application of lyhiteivnsih’ ” TERRIBLE AFFAIR. TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN KKANKLIN. ;» A ,— DESTRUCTION OK RANK EFFECTS AND SUICIDE OK THE CASHIER. Franklin, Venango ,county,- March . This aornlng about 0 o’clock, Tbos* udersou, cashier of Lnmbertou’a bank, Jot himself in the head, just above the jin pic- Anderson Is still alive, but is Ling. This mornimr he opened the (Ink at the usual hour, and transacted UHlness with several customers. After je was left alone lb the bunk, some per ins on the.opposite side of the street no need him running in aud out .of the loor. and acting excitedly. A minute >r two afterwards he started on a full •un down Thirteenth street, and the persons who had been watching bis ac tions saw smoke in the bunk, and sup - posing the house to bean fire ran across tbe street and entered the bank, when they found some of .Mr. Lamberton’s family throwing water ipto the fire. The grate was heaped up with bank notes, la uds and papers. These were drawn out us rapidly, as possible, but in a charred state, some of them being burned to ashes. Mr; Audersau ran ou towards his house,/which is nearly three squares from the bank, entered the house by the back way, and handed his wife a letter* saying to her, “lam going to do an awful deed.” He b&d a pistol iu his hand, and his wife supposed he u'as about to kill somebody, She tried to hike it away, but fulled, and Anderson stepped into the yard and committed the fetal deed. His ,wife fell fainting into tie arms of some lady friends. The sub ttauce of the letter is that he was.car tying over drafts for several persons to j large amount, and that he was doter ulneii not to leave any trace, and tbere ore destroyed the bond* ami money. He dso left in the bank a letter of confes sion, but the contents have not been ' made public. He left u note ou the bank counter, saying that he had destroyed all the special deposits and bills receivable, and that his family was ruined and dis graced, A rough estimate puts the loss by the burning iu the grate at $lOO,OOO, out of which sum will be recognized and saved over $38,000 of Mr. Lumbertou’s and individual government bonds. The balance being securities, the U. S. Trea surer has been telegraphed to send an expert on at once to examine what re mains of the burned money and bonds. The bank was about to change hands, and this precipitated aii examination of Mr. Anderson’s books. There is no way for accounting for his actions this morn ing, except upon the theory of bis boiug a defaulter to the estimated amount of about $25,000. These losses will not af fect Mr. Laroborton’s depositors in the least. Mr. Lamberton had the utmost confidence in Mr: Anderson, trusting him with everything as he would one of bis own family. Mr. Anderson was about 34 years of' age It Is freely stated by business men here that Mr. Ander son has been made a cat’s-paw of by somebody. He hag not been known to use mouey In speculation or otherwise, except for his household expenses, and it is generally concluded that whatever amount be is a defaulter lor, has gone to the advantage of other parties. SECOND DISPATCH, Franklin, Pa., March 14.—Ander son, the cashier of Damberton’s bank, who shot himself this morning, has since died. LOCAL OPTION. OPINION OF THE SUPREME COURT Philadelphia, March 17.—This morning in the Supreme Court Justice Agnew delivered the opinion of the ma jority of the court, sustaining the consti tutionality of the act of assembly of May 3J 1871, submitting to the voters of the Twenty-second ward the question of li cense. Justice Reed and Sharswood dis seated, and the former read an individual opinion on the subject. The case came up on an appeal, from the court of com mon pleas. Distressing Deaths. —ln opr last imm- 1 ri-TOatVbW WlWtisA ‘Pflo & We learn that the child was but three days old, and was found dead in bed in the morning, it having been, it is sup posed, smothered from being too closely covered with bed-clothing. But, Mr. Kauffman’s bereavements were not yet ended. On the day of the funeral his wife took a cold and a few days later, on the 3d inst., she too died. Thus wife and child both died within a week —Zcirisloton (Mifflin co.) Demo crat. VooDOntSM.—A negro residing in the north weslern part of Bedford county, burned his sick horse to death some time ago, under the belief that he was ‘‘voo dooed,” or bewitched. The Afrioau de liberately heaped a pile of fuel ou the poor sick creature, and set fire to it. The horse was literally roasted alive! The' .Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, of Philadelphia, sent a repre sentative lo look after the mattrr. It Is proposed to spend $lO,OOO for tho construction of a government tele graph connecting the White House, Capitol and departments. The Patriot presumes it will bo extended to Long Branch, whore most of the exhausting official labors of which tho President so feelingly complains in his inaugural, are usually performed. One-btptii of the real estate of Philadelphia is now exempt from taxa tion ; but Senator Wallace has intro duced a bill in the Senate to repeal ail laws exempting property irom taxa tion, except school and church proper ty. This is right. All taxation shonid be based upon property ownership. Massachusetts Senator i—Seore tary Boutweli has been elected to the 11. S. Senate from Massachusetts, to fill the unexpired terra of Vice Presi dent Wilson. There is considerable speculation as to the appointment of a successor to Boiitwell in the Treasury Department. Berks county has a female resident— Mrs. William Wataon who has had twenty children by one husband—ten boys and ten girls. The Indy is SO years old, but looks ns if she might be about 50. Blie is still robust and attends to scrub bing, washing, &o. The father lived to the age of 107 years. The Local Option men of Easton slgn -1 a call for a meeting, whereupon the liquor men held a meeting, and amongst other things resolved, “that we will not patronize in business any of tho signore of this call or their aiders or abettora.and we will do all we can legitimately to pre vent our friends from aiding prencmira ging them In business." A Miss Oauteu, who is in favor of a certain kind of license, took a big Horne in the Potlsvllie jail a few days ago. A little Horne created tho thirst for a lar ger one. A iiuftcmv heaf dined oij* oevep good sized pigs, lately, on the farm of Mrs. Gaugler, in Snyder county. Joiiif h lO'D, a Berks county black smith apd farmer, blotted out his exis tence the other day by hanging himself. J. R, MCtChiNTocK, Esq., a prominent citizen and a member of the Now Bloom jjeld Bar, (a dead,- LOCAL ITLMS. Nkwjjuuo wants ivtluner. Now sow cabbage seed for early plants. Small-pox lingers lu Perry county Tub present month has five Sundays Fishing in theLetort has commenced Look out the rohblna and blue birds. WtLD ducks are pointing their beaks northward. Fresh Shad have appeared in our market. A daily stage line runs from Shlppens burg to.Newburgand return. South Middleton has nineteen pub lic schools The Democratic borough ticket is good from lop to bottom. Give Local Option a lift in then//; way ou Friday next. Perry county paid lust year $200.35 for tobacco for her paupers. Buggies and wagons, after an absence of about three months, are again making their appearance upon the streets.. ‘ Meohanicsburg has subscribed $l5- 000 towards a proposed car factory iu that place.. Judge Junkin recommends the build lug of a new Court House at Mifflin town. . Baunum’s circus, menunerie and mu seum will commence its summer revol viug lour ou the first of April. Henry Sheakpeu, of New Bloom field, while out" hunting recently shot three racoons. v ■ ' We neglected to notice the.death of Mr. James Spootswood last week. He was a good and exemplary citizen; If you have not trimmed your grape vines, attend to it at pnee. . . A number of our country friends at tending market on’ Saturday last, Marc! 15, arrived here in sleighs; Some of our streets are already becom ing dusty. The frost is entirely out of the ground. The blue-birds, robbing and black birds have arrived. Welcome, harbin gers of Spring. * When one of the boys up town tells a wboppin' big lie, and then deeda-and doubles to it, the rest of the boys ail hollow ‘.'that’s a Colfax !” We do not give chromes for subscri bers. If our paper does not suit without offering ebromos, w© will close buslnes?. But it does / Some of our monied men 1 are talking about erecting a number of new dwell- ing houses the coming summer. We want to see them erected, and not so much talk about it. Six big girls in a Scranton school house got up a club for the benefit of the teacher. His doctor’s bill was just twelve dollars and sixty cents. JSTo ar rests. The frost penetrated the ground deeper this winter, than it baa for thirty years —at least so says one of our old residen ters. We did not dig to test its truth. The snow was so deep.up North that a man going home one night went down the wrong chimney, and found himself in the wrong house. T.icwis Potter, of New Bloomfield Notary Public for three years. The Methodist Episcopal parsonage, at Castle Fin, York county, was destroy ed by fire last Friday morning. The fire was caused by a'defective flue. No in surance on the property. After tho Ist of April a night train .is to be placed on tho Cumberland Valley Railroad, to connect at Harrisburg with the Cincinnati express for Philadelphia. J. M. Spottswood, a primer w.ell known in Carlisle, baa been promoted lo the position of assistant foreman in the government printing ofiioe at Wash ington. Dn. Wst. W. Rutherford, one of the most esteemed citizens of Harrisburg, who had practiced medicine there for. forty years, died on the 13th inst., aged 67 years. He was eminent as a surgeon and physician. Bosie Advice. —Never marry a man until you have seen him eat. Let him pass through the order of eating soft boiled eggs. If he can doit, and leave his table-spread, the napkin and his shirt unspotted, take him. Try him next with a spare-rib. If ho accomplishes this feat without putting out one of nis eyes, or throwing the bones into your lap, name tbe wedding day-he’ll-do to tie to. Senator McClure’s speech in the State Sonate on the sanctity of the ballot is conceded to have been oue of the most brilliant and able ever delivered in that body. The. Senate voted to print 10,000 extra copies. We will try to procure some copies for distribution. It is too lengthy for us to publish. In our issue of the flth inst., we stated (as we were informed,) that seven cases of small pox actually existed in the vi cinity of Papertowu. We learn since from the Mountain Echo that this was a mistake. The above paper says there is not a single case in that neighborhood or vicinity, Wo are glad to hear this. When you take a bone upon your plate, and are obliged to take it up in' your fingers, don’t neglect to mention that '* fingers were made before knives and forks.” The novelty of the remark will strike the company very happily. Tobacco.~ lt will be an iiem of inter est to smokers to learn that the Internal Revenue law allows no persons to dis pose of tobacco in any form, without first paying a license of live dollars. Now, the question is, whether a follow can give away a quid or a cigar without paying this license. We read of a youth—-of course not in our county—who, on receiving a severe cowhiding; from a young woman whom he had jilted, rather congratulated him self than otherwise, remarking that If she treated him so when they were not married, it is impossible to tell what he would hove suffered nt her hands after marriage. Coi.d Yeah. —Although this has been a year noticeable for the severity of the weather, it is nothing in comparison to that which prevailed In 1817, when there was literally no summer at all. Frosts prevailed every month, and snow to the depth of six inches fell In Maine on the -2nd of July, and on the Kith of Augmt ice to the thickness of ordinary window glass was formed In tho open air. All the crops were blighted. Flour sold at $lO per barrel, and seed corn was In de mand at $.l per bushel, Democrats, Uo not Hcrutoh your tick ola to-morrow. Vino the whole ticket, iui