...nnirll. DVPITRf IflV W muiu ", t t ; 60OOlDEB HAOBTT. CLBARF1BLD, PA ggTABHiHED IN 18T. .ierit Clrealatloa ef any Newspaper la Bonn vu. . . Terms of Subscription. j la td'WM, er wlthis I month!.... OU V1? .Viand before Omonthi......... S SO Hi! . , , I , . , I.. B IU1 Bates ot Advertising. mIIU&I advertisement, P" Ol lw liuca". iiaM or leva.. .... MiHtiiiM.ii.ll 00 ... subsequent insertion.. it . . i ii WW 1 6 1 60 1 to t 01 0 01 It ta;,t,tr.ior' and Eeutcr Bottoes..... . 1 u(lfNl ... M lisiton (Hi""' and B.trayi.. M,..inel Cr1"' ", " J"' fi ..Uses, per lint- ......... Niue.. .19 00 t column.,.-......"" 00 .16 00 I i column.......,. 00 .50 00 1 column.......... 00 lunar" ,.er Job Work. BLANKS. ' ' 1 II JO I 0 q-tlres, pr. qulre.ll ti li.rle qolrfc... ' HANDBILLS. ldiwt.J5lt,H 00 I t sheet, li or len.fi 00 I feel ' ' 00 I 1 11 or ,"'10 M VTIT If vl r- - r OKOROB 8. eUUIH.ANVEH, GE0BU1. BAOKHIV, Pofellshorl. mira . a'sniLr. ibi. w. a cibdt. McENALLT & McCUEDi, ATI O UN E1S-A 1 -li A , ieartteld. Pa. 4rtpral bu.ine.1 attended to promptly with HVlity. Ottlec on Dooonu street, iuvib Kulonil Bunk. 0:11:71 lULUS 1. WAU.ACB. r" WALLACE &, FIELUINU, ATTORNEYS-A 1' LAW, IMearflcld. Pa. tf-leial buiineee of oil kind, attended to ,;tb pmmptness and Odeltly. vmoo is re.mouo 4wiuiam a. G. R. BARRETT. Attobnet and Counselor at Law, CLEAliriEliU, rA. Hating resigned hi. Judgeship, hai reaiimcd B practice ' tno law in di. my omw iiw Wd, P- Will ittond the ooort. of J'Smpan and HI eoantlt. when fpeoislly teutioed Ib oonneotioo .ill reiident ooan.el. . 1:U7 WM. M. MCCULLOUUM, ATTORN EY AT LAW, ricBrflcld. P. Mf-OfflM on Moiri Ib Woetern Ilotel bniMlnK. i-.i kuiun orowollrHleoded to. 1U1 nUle wit Dd loid. i'yn-1 J. W. B A N T Z, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW, ClcBrdeld. P. te.0Ace 0D lUir. in Western Ilotel baildlnir. llllrjl bunu.u eBtnuted to hi. cere promptly lUiudedto. JttlyJ, 1873. T. H. MURRAY, 1II0KNKY AND COUSSELOR AT LAW. ramnt ittontion dvMV to ell lenl bailaeu IBlriilrd to bit oare in ClesrAeld nod fljoinmir Milie. Office on Markot at., oppoilta Nauirle'a Jmlry Store, Clearfield, Pa. jeH '7 A. W. WALTERS, ATTORN BY AT UW, Clearfield, Pa. V.0c In the Court Hoot. deoS-ly H. W. SMITH, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW, H:1:TJ rieBrfleld, Pa. WALTER BARRETT, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Secoad St., Clearfield, Pa. norll.SO ISRAEL TEST, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Clearfield, Pa. fff-Oflee la the Court Uouj. - Jyll, K JOHN H. FULFORD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, -Clearfield, Pa. Mm n Market St., Tr Joiepb Shower- droeery toro. jan.a.ieu. JOHN L. CUTTLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. I lid Real Eirtate ARetit, Clearfield, Pa. 0 on Third utreet, net.i;norrj av t. amok M"Re.Deotrull offen hi! eerrieei In idling Iud buying land! In Clearfield and adjoining untlii i and with bb aiperlenoo of orer twenty '.in u a rurTeyor, latter! himiolf that he ean iilor latlifaetlon. o..i, J. BLAKE WALTERS, REAL ESTATE BROKER, ABB DBALBB tW Saw Ijog and la-umber. CLKABFIHLD, PA. Hn la Maionle Building, Room No. 1. 1 55:71 J. J. LINGLE, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW, 1 1 II Osceola, Clearfield Co., Pa. y:pd ROBERT WALLACE, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW, lillreloB, Clearfield County. Penn'a. ,AII legal bu.ineai promptly attanoeu to. D. L. K REB S, 8ueoanr to U. B. Swnonc, Law and Collection Office, 'tl.ni CLEARFIELD, PA. kl II. Orril. 0. T. Aleander. ORVIS L ALEXANDER, ATTnRNRYH AT LA W. Hellefonte, Pa. taeBll,'!-! J. 8. BARN HART, ATTOHNKY - AT - LAW, 11.1 l1it. Pa, lill practice la ClearHald and all of the Court! of rx lata, Judicial uiitncu ivcai , '., a m nllui.. of a almi made iveciaiuci. ni . CYRU8 GORDON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Market itnwt. (north .Idc) Clearfield, Pa. All legal builnon promptly attcadad to 1m. 20, '7. " DR. T. J. BOYER, . rnyaiciAN andsorgeon, Otoe oa Market Street, Clearfield, Pa. 0fa) honnt I to 11 a. m , and 1 to t p. JjH E. M. SCHEURER, HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, Office In Maaonle Building, t-'ll U, 187J. Clearfield, Pa. DR. W. A. MEANS, PHYSICIAN A SURGEON, LtTBERSDURtJ, PA. pil attend professional call! promptly. aug10'70 J. H. KLINE. M. D.. TSICIAN k SURGEON, KAVIKQ lueaiwl at Ponndeld, Pa., eff.ra hi! Broraasional samee! U the paopw of that "udsurroaading country. A 11 calls promptly "sad In. . oeU lltf. PR. J d niior u rici rv f ".Tf.oa ef'tha ltd Bailment, Pennsylvania ''iniceri, having relarncd from the Army, .," bis pronsiioaal eervleoe tt tieeltlieas ,,(;l.r, la ...,. ,, '" pronsiioaal eerviece m "Cl.r,ld ,,,.. i,r"f'"iliaal call! promptly eds8'"" 'lti, toTmn,F atUnied to. lyooewpled by lapri, eo-u " PRUTISQ OF EVERT DBBCMP aeati) eiaoBted at thii efaea. . QOODLANDEE & HAGEETT, PubUshers. VOL. 47-WH0LE NO 2339. JOHN A. GREGORY,' I COUNT Y. SUPERINTENDENT, Offloa in the Court llou.e, Clearfield, Pa. Will alware ha found at homeoa th KKi'DNn aad LAST EATU RD AY of each month. 3:1 J. BOLLOWBUtB b. navta cabbt H0LL0WBUSH & CAREY, BOOKSELLERS. Blank Book : Manufacturers, AND STATIONERS, 319 Market St., Philadelphia. toBL-Paner Floor flarb. anil Him VmluBn Utter, Note, Wrapping, Curtain and Wall PBBon feh24.70.lypd GEORGE C. KIRK, Tnitltf lh Fwmi, BnrTyor and CoBTyMelrS Luthcmburg. Pa AtlboHlnesi introiU'd to him will b promptly attended to. Pertotii wlphing to employ a 8ur Teyor will do well to give him a rail, ai he flatten hiinieir that he can render it tit fact ion. Deedt of oooveyanoe, articles of agreement, and all leftAl papcri, promptly an J neatly executed. tzunov73 DAVID REAMS, S OKI YEN EU k SUKVEYOR, Luiheraburg;, Pa TUB tubieriber ofleri hit ttorvlcet to the public In the eapaeity of Scrivener and 6urreyor. All eat! for surveying promptly attendee to. and themaklngof draftf, ueedaand other legal instru ment ni writing, txoMutod without delay, and warranted to be correct or no charge. Ilja73 JOHN D.THOMPSON, Juitloa of the Peaea and Serlroner, Curwenavllle. Pa. ' fcfvColleotloM made and money promptly paid over. f,,lJ'IL'I J. A.BLATTENBEEQER, Claim and Collection Office, OSCEOLA, Clearfield Co., Pa. . -Conreyancin(t and all lc;al popert drawn with aocuracy and dispatch. Draft on and pa aite tloketa; to aad from any point in Kurope procured. octi'70 0iu K0. ALBBBT nBXBT ALBEKTW W. ALBEftr W. ALBERT & BROS., ManBfaeturan A eitemire Dealer! In Sawed Lumber, Square Timber, 4c, WOODLAND, PENN'A. -Ordcn lollclted. Bill, tiled on .hurt notice and raaaonahlo tcrma. Addraat Woodland P. 0., Clearfield Co., Pa. jo!i-ly W ALIILKT A llltuS. FRANCIS COUTRIET, MERCHANT, FreucUvllle, Clearfield Conuty, Pa. Keep! eonltantly on hand B full aortmant of Dry Uoodi, llardwaro, Orooorici, and everything uiually kept In a retail etore, which will bo .old, for cash, ai cheap aa elsewhere In the county. Frenchvllle, June 27, 1867-ly. THOMAS H. FORCEE DEALBB IB GENERAL MERCHANDISE, GRAHAMTON, Pa. Alio, ritemlro manufacturer and dealor In Square Timber and Sawed LuiuDerol an ainui. JtS-Ordcra anlicltcd and all bille promptly Oiled. Cjyi' CHARLES SCHAFER, LAGER BEER BREWER, Clearfield, Pa. HAVING nnlt.l Wr. Entrei' Brewery he hope! by Uriel attention to buiineaa and the manufacture of n luperior article of DEER to rooeire the patronage of all the old and many bow eaitomera. i25aog7H J. K. BOTTORF'S PHOTOGRAPH" GALLERY, Market Street, Clearfield, Pa. jtCROMOS MADE A SPECIALTT.-ft NEGATIVES made in cloudy ai well aa In clear weatlier. Conetanlly on hand a good aMortiuent of FRAMKH, 6TKREOSCOPK8 and STERBOSCOPIC VIEWS. Frame., froia any tyloof moulding, made to order. apr284f T EW. SCL1ULER, BAEBEE AND HALE DRESSER, Second itreet, next door to Flrit National Bank, novfc"73 Clcarflold, Pa. JAMES CLEARY, BAEBEE & HALE DEESSEE, SECOND STRKET, JyJ.I CLEAIIPIEl. D. PA. ti REUBEN HACKMAN, House and Sign Painter and Paper Hanger, . Clearfield, Penn'a. -S-blWIII eaecutc Johi lb hli line promptly and In a workmanlike manner. arr l.07 G. H. HALL, rEACTlCAL TUMP MAKER, NEAR CLEARFIELD, PENN'A. frPump! alwayi on hand and made to order on ihort notice. Pipe, bon d on reasonable terms. All work warranted to rendor !atifetion, nnd delivered If dnired. my24:lypd E. A. BIGLER & CO., DRALRttl I1 SQUARE TIMBER, ' and manufacturer! or ALL KINDS OP SAWED LUMBER, -T'72 CLKARFIELD, PENN A. M eGAUGHEY CIVI RESTAURANT,, - Second Street, CLEARFIELD, PENN'A. AIwuti oa band, Fre.h Oysters, lee Cream, rHi. Knti. Crackers. Cukes, Cigar, lohaeco, Canned Fruits, Wrangei, Minus., " "'" of fruit In season. M-lllLLlAKU K'l'IHI on irennu now. j;2(7l D. MallAUUIIKY A CO oJ OHM TROUTMAM. Dealer In all kinds of FURNITURE, Market Street, One door cost Post Office, augln'71 CI.KARFIULD, PA. 1HI HAmHAII, PRACTICAL MILLWRIGHT, LLTIlKReBt RO, PA. Ant for Iho A aeriena Doutilc Turbine Water " ... i .ii u ii i i n In. Wheel en ABUrsw. na....o i. A 11 ill. nn short aolico. Jv U 71 aim, -..w-. iyt ii. M. VAN VALZAU. licit door to U.irtwick A IrwiB'i Drug Store, up stairs. I. ' i l.KARFIELD. PA.- . in ' .....lie. 11. V. Wilson, Dr. J. (1 U.ruw'k k. Faculty of JeflerwB Medical College, H, F, N AUGLE, WATCH MAKER & JEWELER, and deader la Watchc-, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver and Plated Vare, &c., j,,,.,, CLEARFIELD, PA., iWJ) THE REPUBLICAN. , CLKAKF1ELD Pa. WEDNESDAY MORNINO. OCT.1.187S. ' CALOMEL. 1 Phyiielani of the foremoit rank, To pay their fed would take a bank They eoncentraU all wit and skill, . Seioooe and aonie in oaluinel. . When Mr. A. or B. ti ilok, ' ' Uo bring the doctor, run, bo quick l The diictor cornea, with right good will, And ne'er forget! hi. calomel. 1 lie take! bit patient by the hand. And oompluuetiti bim as hia friend jiv sub awuue, nil pulse to feci, . ""Jpoj.jaBOBSlu Bin aalou Be then turns to the patient's wife, "Hare yon clean paper, spoon and knlfaf I think your buthaud would do well To take ten grains of oalomeL He then deals But the precious gralo, "Tins, ma'am, I think will ease bis pain, And each three hours, at toll of bull, - Uire him a dose of oalomel." The man grows worse, quite fait, Indeed; Uo bring the doctor, run with .peed, The doctor comes, like "post with mail," Doubling bis dose of oalomel. The man in death begins to groan, The fatal job for bim Is done t lie dim I alas, and lure to tall, ; A lacrifice to calomel. Wbea I'm called to resign my breath, Ob, let me die a natural death, And bid this world a long farewell, Without a dose of oalomel. NEWSPAPEE EEP0ETEES. From a long article In Ballon' t Monthly for Septembor, writton by 'SI. Quad,' of the Detroit Free Press, wo oxtruct the following: "Years ago, when wo had no tolo grapb or railroad, nows wasnowsany lime within a week or a month after its foundation occurred. Everything is exactly opposito now, and every body cries out for tho latest nows. The poople must have it, and as they can only get it from tho daily journ als, tbo duily journal mist furnish it or go down. 'Energy' is the watch word of every good repoitor. lie must trnvol bis own round, lake off a brother reporter on tho same paper, if necessary, and yet hold himself ready for a dash into tho suburbr if a 'big thing' occurs. Tuke two reporters just alike in everything else, and the more energetic one will secure the most nows. He will take less sleep, spend loss time on the corners, and will have moro tirno left after mid night to look for 'tho very latest.' 1 said lhatevory reporter must be some what of a lawyer. So be should, and for more reasons than one. He will secure many an Horn which most be delicately handled or loft out altogeth er, because it would hurt national pride, some sect's religious views, or conflict with one 'policy' of the pa per. Nino times out of ten ho must use his own judgement in such cases, and lio will necii mayor's roasoning powors." Then agnin he is often made the victim df 'sells.' It is easy enough for some jealous-minded reporter on a contemporary journal to 'nut nn a job' on him, and reason, exporionce and guess-work are called out in de funco. It is not sufficient to 'take tlioir word for itj' ono must know from actual observation, or get bis in formation from -sources which expe rience has proven trustworthy. 'I wonder how they pick np so many thincs:' Is an oxiirossion often used hy tho readers of a daily papor. Thero are times when tbo 'so much' is 'so little' with the reporter, even if tho constant reader docs not detect the fai inir off: there are times in bis expe rience when murders, burglariea.olop mcnts, fires and railroad accidents will all como with a rush, and then there will be a dead calm for days or weeks. In surh emergencies the energetic son of the poncil will devote his time to city improvements, mado or contem plated, or startle bis readors with an account of some now invention, or somolbing now in the method of pro polling steamboats or borse-tars. As to how they get thoir news. Acci dents and incidents full in their way naturally, and littlo goes on but what tbey catch in somo form or othor. The station house and polioe courts are included in the round which tho gonoral news' reporter makes, or are divided up among two. If a report er 'works in' with the police he has a fund of information almost inoxausti- hlo. The officers will take pnins to jot down names, dittos, etc., and will oven identify thcmsolvcs so closely with tho napor that they will aid the repor ter in keeping sensation itoms from tho knowlodie of his rivals. Then, ono should mako the acquaintance of the firemen, city and county officials, hotel keepers, railroad and steamboat men, and can, if born for tho business, secure the aid of a hundred moil to heln him in enthcring news. "There Is to lubor more laborious than tho tonk of the reporter on morning paper. IIo may bo said to never Blocp. rilarling oui an nour oo fore noon, he may linislt at mldrngiii hut is luckv to ect off boforo tlirco o'clock; and Mio chances aro that ho is routed out ntler n nap oi inroo or four hours. If railed upon lo mako a trip iu to tho interior, report a con. rmitinn or a calamity, ho may be thir ty or forty hours without sleep. There is a constant wear and tour of tho nervraand muscles, and, alter atlmo, a n,'VOIIS leoung nucuniimnu-B mo mnn day and night, "i hero is no limo to doctor or to be sick, but It is one push and rush year in and year out,, until everything gives way at once and tho man drops into tho grave. The rivalry which nearly always ex lata between reporters on contempo rary sheets i a wear and tear which of itself will takeoff a pound of flosh per month. Tho reporter who is ae rUei in securing Ml the fuels in con nection with a'bitf thing,' secured and rmhlixhed in an opposite journal, . . i - a:. ' . - I,- could not shake off for a week. This -iu.lrtr l.nda ofton to tho expenditure Mrnillfl inpi H nvil-iliPlll nca nivi, "v of lorgesums of money by all dallies of a city to secure cortain Information. I have in mind a case of steamboat ex plosion abort! twonty miles from one of our lako ports. Tbo minor crea- PRINCIPLES,; CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER, 1 ted Ibe greatest excitement in the city, but no particulars could be learned, m the point whoro the explo sion occurred was not connected by telegraph. There wits only one tug in tho harbor which conld be neeurod, and three rival reporters boarded her at onco. ' ' - " 'Fifty dollars to tako roe to Duek Point and back I' shouted one at the captain." " 'A hundred I' eriod the second. " "A bundrod and fifty I' yelled the third in a triumphant voioe." "They continued their bids until the flint bidder finally namod five hun dred dollars, and the services of the lug wore bis. lie steamed down to the scene of accident, procured a full five thousand oxtra copies on account lu r .u I..:.. " j j ...,.:..-. . 1 us., oi uiu kiiiuu, injuruu unit nnuiirr and tho proprietors of his paper very cheerfully banded over the large sum. I do not defend the profession from the cliargo of being tipplers, but . say that men of tho oraft who do drink, and otherwise ronder them selves incapacitated for the full perform anoo of their duties, are seldom retain ed long in ono position. Not many years ago, in a Western city, several reporters, all representing opposition journals, traveled together to a point in the slate to witness an execution. The victim had committed a heinous offense, and tho particulars of his ex ecution would bo eagerly devoured by overy reader. One of tho mon rep resented an afternoon paper, and as tho execution wss fixed for noon, bo had beon orderod to telegraph in a full report, so that his puprr would bave a long start of all others. It was, of course, an object with tho otber repo tcrs to prevent this, and they laid their heads together. Tho afternoon man did not drink, tho tele graph oporator was strictly temper ate, and the quill drivers were on the verge of despair, when ono of thorn got a happy thought. He went to the police magistrate, sworo out a warrant against the operator for big amy, and had the pleasure of seeing tho man walked off to jail and had his olllco closed. Tho excitement over tho execution was so groat that tho operator could find no one for bail until it was too lato for tho afternoon paper to receivo a lino, and tho object of tho conspirators was accomplished. "Perhaps ono of tho most audacious displays of 'cheek' ever mado by a re porter to 'got even' will) a rival can uo narrated hero. A railroad at-ci dent occurred about six o'clock in the evening some thirty mile from a city which sutainod two morning pnpers. A rcportor from each paper reachod tbo city depot at tho sanio moment, and both rushed for a locomotive which was ready to start out with a freight train. The president of too road wus half proprietor of one of the dailies, and, having an eye to tho in terests of his employers, tho engineer refused to tako up tho opposition ro porlur. The man saw that ho was 'floored,' and after ascertaining that ho could socure a band-oar and four stout men to propel it, bo went to the telegraph office and sent a message to tho city murshul of a town on bo lino, nfteen oitiCa away, saying: "Young mnn on engine No. 8 com- na down the road. Blue eyes, light hair, small must. cho. Arrest him fot murder, and hold bitn until I sent men in the morning. IIo will proba bly giveyou the name of (mention ing that of tho reporter.) Look out be don't shoot you 1" "The locomotive slopped for water, and tho reporter was not only arrest ed, but handcuffed and shackled, and the engineer went along with bim to ail on the cliargo of aiding a murder er to escape from justice The hand car was placed on the track, and in three hours the 'cheeky reporter was telegraphing -full particulars.' lie was arrested noxton some cliargo or other, but the joko got abroad, and the prosecution wassuddenly dropped. "Knowing the thirst of tho public after 'latost, news,' and that the paper will suffer in character through negli gence on their part, reporters ofle nek their lives while seeking after in formation. A year ago a vessel in at tempting to onter a hike port struck on a bar, and was at the morcy of the waves. I he storm was raging with great fury, and the crowd congregat ed on the piers had littlo hope mat the ship would hold toguthor above a fow hours. tSlio was a new vessel, un known in port, and her position wao such that Lor name could not be seen. There woro no lifo boats ut the port, and no crow could bo mado up to lake ao ordinary row boat and row out to tho roscuo of the unfortunates. V h i lo all were talking and nono doing, a re porter on an afternoon paper was seen pulling a light skiff out of tho river and over tho tremendous waves. 'He is lost I' 'Como back I' Como back 1 shouted tho crowd, but the man bent to his oars, aud, dcspilo all predic tions, reached the neighborhood ol the vessel without mishap. Holding the boat's bead to tho sea, bo shouted: "What schooner is that? "Tho Princess," replied tlio amnxed captain, who had taken to tho rig ging, along with the crowd. "Where from T what's your cargo f and how large is your ersw T" wero tho ticjtt inquiries Ironi tbe reporter j and after having boon rcpliod to, be continued : Hold by for an hour and I'll take you all off! "Ho then set about tho return voy age, and successfully ncriormeu it, entering the river amidst cheers that even reacned tho van ol too hait drowncd sailors on the bar. Despatch ing his information to tho office, lie was about to row back to the vessel, when sho suddenly broke np, and the orew floated ashore on a spar. "Tho desire to secure tho rows ex oltisivcly for tho Journal, Whin, or whatever paper he may represent, of ten lends tho reporter into indulging In strango freaks. A wealthy and widoly known gentleman, living in oilv on Lake Michlgnn, committed suicide one day by throwing himself Info the Inke. Ills tuition was not no ticod,and thoro was great excitement throughout the city whon it was known that ho was strangely missing. Tny aflor day went by, tolcgrami were NOT MEN. sont bero and there and no ono sus pected that tho body .was in the lake, A reporter, out for a sail, came acrons the body, after a week or so, and be at once recognised tho sensation which would bo created ot bis news. . This was Friday aiternoon, All three dai lies would publish on Saturday morn ing, ttnt his daily alone would have a Sunday edition, llo therefore deter mined to save his news until too Into for the other pupors to mako use of it. Sailing to un old dock, ho fastened the body to a spilo, and it romaincd thereuntil Soturday' evening, when he had a boy 'discover' it, culled a oor-oner,.- and had the satisfaction of knowipg that the Sunday Bugle sold nC b'srticle. "One of the saddest thoughts in con nection with tbe terriblo accident on the Grand Trunk Railroad, which oc curred a fow months since, arises from the death of a woll known western ro portor a man who had sorved twentr ono years on ono journal without the loss of one day's pay. Howascaught in tho wreck of a car and fatally injur ed, no one knew that such was tho cane until dosth bad closed his eyes. Slrclcbod out in a freight depot with two score of dead and dying, be stated that ho was not badly injured, and requostcd the snrgenns to attend to the others first. Taking out hisdiary and poncil he jotted down on account of the accident, procured a full list of the dead and injured, and bis report to his paper in tho distant western city wus the first which passed over the wires. After seeing his first ac count, be proceeded to gather more minute details, and had just finished bis work when death overlook him. Whon the surgeon ramo back and kneeled beside bim be found a white, cold face, closed eyes, and a cold hand holding fast to book and poncil. The last sentence which the man hud writ ten was, "otbor's will die before morn ing!" His second report was sent over tho wires, followed by these words from the operator, "your reporter is dead 1" The line was read to thirty compositors in tho office of the repor ter's paper, and every man shed tears "Reporters, after two or three yoars of service, huvo littlo or no excitement left in their natures. They run to fires, go up in balloons, down into tunnels, and attend murder trials bo cause duty calls them there, and not because of the excitement. They may not bocomo so hardened that they cannot feel a sympathy for the wail ing widow of an 'accidentally killed,' or a 'found drowned," but the samo thing over and over make monotony in anything. Their business is to secure nows, away to tho olllco wilb it, and thoro is really no timo to grieve with the publia over its woes and sor rows. A bile a good item can be writ ten from second hand matter, a boiler ono can bo written from porsonul ex perience. It is not every ono who would care lo don the dress of a sub marine diver and take a walk on the luko bottom, with fifty fuel of water between him and the surface; but ..nv....l I,... murlA t.hr. n V- poriment, Lave written thrilling des criptions of what they saw and how they felt down thero in tho silenco and gloom. The following incident has never appeared in print, but is strictly true, and is used hero to show that reporters become permeated with an idea that an Horn is an item wl.ero evor you find it, no matter t'hnt tbo circumstances. The reporter of a woll known Southern duily was ono of a largo number of passengers on a l ivor steamer. Without an instant's warn ing tho boilers exploded, blowing eve rybody 'sky-high,' and killing or wounding half the pussengers. Tho reporter and five others woro lucky onough lo alight in the water near a fragment of tho wreck largo enough to float them, and ihey bad no sooner crawled upon it than the newspaper mnn drew out his bonk and pencil and demanded names and residences, jol ting them down with the exclamation that the blow up wus worth n clean hundred dollars to him to furnish two columns on 'What I Know About Steamboat Explosions.' The wreck floated within a bundrod feet of the shoro, and bo swam to tho bunk, and Blurted for a telegraph station three miles away, leaving his lute compan ions to float on until picked up two miles Delow. "Thero is in Kansas, or was up to throe years ago, a sooioly of nowspa per men called. "Tbo Rob Ellis' rriond." Tho society was founded to porpeluato tho name and doing of a reporter namcu r.ins, who mauo nis numo famous on the racino coast by his "startling adventures, and whose caroer finully closed wild a balloon as cension. It seems that a gentleman who had made ono or two ascensions had advertised to go up from a fiir ground on a certain day, and that a urge crowd assembled to witness mo expedition. Kllis wus sent lo muke a report ol the alluir, and lie took it into his bead to havo a rule with the pro fessor and write up bis exporionuo. His company was accepted and as the hoar approached ho took his seal in tho car. Tbo balloon was inflated, but just as it was ready to riso tho professor had somo excuso to leap out. Eased of bis weight so suddenly, the balloon jerked away from tin men, and Kllis went skyward alone. Tbo man know ull about the newspaper business, but bo was ignorant us to a-riul naviogiion. Ho however look things as cool ns if nothing unusual had hsppcml. There wus no wind bo low, and while tho balloon hung over the grounds, half a milo above the hoads of the excited crowd, tho fol lowing message came floating down: I am all right and intend to sen the tho thing through. Tell tho (hie papor) to look out for a telegram from me to night." It was about five o'clock in Ihe afternoon of a Juno day, and tho balloon and its freiuhl finully float ed away to the northwest, and at last wero lost to view. Jo one lo that crowd over saw poor Ellis again. In laci, ti wni mourns ana moiitiis uuiuro he was heard of. Hays passed, and loiters wero written and tolegrams sent, but thoro was no news of tbe balloon for a wook. Tbon a hunter .. .i , .i I.. 1873. NEW found this messago on the prairie, 'Am still all right, and am having heaps of fun. : I havo found the valve t-ord.snd can descend wbenovor I wish ; bull sm going to see tho thing down to a fine point.' llo did. Months and months afterward a hunlor pussing through a forest a few miles from tho San loo Agency, on the lino between Kansas and Dakota, found the wreck of tho balloon banging to a tree, and, half covered with loaves, the skeloton of Robert Ellis. - . . ..... i "While speaking of tbo west tbe fat o of tho Colursdo reporter, named Whitman, may bo called up as it has never been published. He was em ployed on a weekly papor called the Spectator. With tbe shootings, slash ings, murders and accidents.., wbiuUloiontb succeeded very well, the staff happened almost duily, Whitman bad plenty of local items. But bo grew weary of the monotony at last. It was the same thing over every week : 'Comancho Hill put a ball through Buckskin Joe' for such or such a rea son, or Joo slushed Bill, or some other rufliun knifed a companion" or a stran ger. Coming into tho ofllce one morn ing, 'Whitman wrote the following headings: 'An Hour with tbe Grizely What our reporter thinks of tbo Varmint A Thrilling Experioneo.' '"What do you meanf" asked tbe editor, as be perused the lines. " 'Just what this says,' replied Whit man. 'I'm off over the rango to look for a grixzly.' "IIo took bis rifle and departed, and in less than two hours bis body bad furnished a dinner for a big bear. A hunter witnessed his fate without bo ing able to save him. Tho reporter bad not been absont an hour when a rough walked into the office and shot the editor dead, and a mob throw tbe baud press and cases over a cliff, thus wiping out the entire institution. "Kvery man who has ever had any connection with a nowspnpor estab lishment will agree that tbe repor ters are frequently called upon by the individuals who want 'blood Or a re traction.' Political articles seldom wound, but tbe columns dovoted to homo news will often contain things which stir up wrath, and load to broken heads and libel suits. When allud ing to rougher portions of bis home population Iho reporter may intend to muke his words scorch and sting, but he is as often called to account for thrusts which he did not intend to make. Asa general rule every papor is fair minded, and will give both sidoB of a question. It sometimes happens however, that the offended party bad rather trust to bis muscles than the types for satisfaction. In such cases ha is almost sure to come off second best, as tho lublcs are bestrewn with old cuts, and a seasoned hickory is often standing in a convenient cornor. A few yoars ago the police of a city made a laid on the gamblurs, and ar rested a score or more. The reporter of ono of the papers wroto an article which was anything but consolation to tho sporting gentry, and several of the more vindictive laid a plan to Iran and punish him. It was bis custom to rrn t.o "crtsin rCStllrant fur a lunch and six of the gamblers went to tho pluco, all armed with horsewhips, and made preparations to give tho son of. the poncil a lesson which should long bo remembered. They caught a Tar tar, however. Whon they commonocd whipping he commenced shootings, and two of tho men wero killed and another badly wounded boforo be got through. "Evory reporter gets in timo to be a detective. It is his business to go overy whoro, see everybody, and thus he is brought in contact with all clas ses. Few detectives know moro of human nuttiro, and few bave better opportunities for 'spotting' rogues. In return for his police information,, the ournulisl is expected to ronder tho polico what Bcrvico be can, and through bis assistance many rascals have been brought to justice. In a northern city, some five or six months ago, the reporter of a morning paper was given a description of a notorious rascal named Burns, who hud escaped from state prison, wbero ho was sen tenced for murder. The police hunted tho whole country over without suc cess, but the reporter happened bn tho man ono duy in an empty ware house, whoro he had been hiding. A dcspcratostrugglclook pluco. Neither was armed, but bom wero powerlul men, and the convict went into tho battlo with a determination to kill tho journalist. The journalist was the bet tor man in a sqnaro fight, and tho con vict finally rushed in and clinched bim. Swaying, striking, biting and kicking, the pair burst 'open a door and lull into the water. Here tho convict would bave drowned but for tho help of bis assailant, who held him up until both wero rescued, and then saw him safely secured behind the bars. Another reporter, who had n bad physiognomy but a good moral character, nnd who was an adept at nnderstanding and speaking tho 'flush language, was approached by n bnrg- lur once, and 'tipping the nod in re turn he was presently on good terms with tbo rascal. A plun was at length formed to enter a bouse, and tho two parted with tbo agreement to meet ut a certain hour. iho house In qties lion wus filled with polico, and at mid- night, when the two burglars entered, tho one was knocked down and hand cuffed, and ho went to stale prison for ten yeurs "'Aro women filled for newspaper work r is an inquiry often made, and probably never answered twice alike There are female compositors in many weekly and in somo duily offices, and in somo instances they givo satisfac tion. Thoro are several duily jour nals employing mon on the editorial staff, but the deparlmunls of tbe paper controlled by the Indies have never boon noted for wit, gossip or superior excellence. Tho lucl that none of thorn are paid above a very moderate sum per weok or mouth looms proof that their services aro not in great demand. No one can dispute that femalo book authors succeed woll, but if there is a lady elluchod to a daily journal who vivos tho paper any ad paper any ditional rcpululion, sue ch fact has not cpfre to tbo notioo of other journals.! TERMS $2 per annum , in Advance. SERIES - VOL. 14, NO. 39. As to femulo reporters, there havo been a score during tho past five years I sneak only of those reported but it is doubtful if one now pursuos the profession. Women cannot push their way into crowds, rush to fires, olimb stairs, and trt up and down. Re porters mast do this, and much more. They must tako tho weather as it comes, exercise vigilance, patience, prudence and muscle, and it k a fuct solllod. by Dame Nature, long before nowspapors wore known, that ladies have very little of either qualification to spare. 1 "la n Southern city, two or tbroo years ago, an advonlurebomo young lady accepted a place as reporter on a morning paper, ana lor the hrst tuning an the hard work, nhe was at length seat to report a marriage ceremony, uud lo wrilo up a descrip tion of tbo most prominent costumes. It was just tho field she wauled, as she desired to get -even' with cortain 'aristocrats' who had turned up thoir nosos at the mention of bor culling. she wrote a long article full of spice and revengeful hits, and it passed into Ihe paper without being overhauled Next morning, as iho loiters threaten ing libel suits came pouring in, tbe young lady was banded her balance,' and politely requested to give her place to a man." Coal Cutting Machine. A correspondent of tho Torre ITaute Express, writing from Brazil, Ind., gives tbe following description of a coal cutting mucbino in operation at ono of the mines in that place : In tho uppor mino, Col. Zimmor man showed us a machine, which bo is jubI now, after a geat expenditure of time and money, gelling into suc cessful operation. The design of this macbitio is lo make the "bearings" under tbo coal ; that is, to cut off the bottoms of tbe coal prisms, so that they may be wedged down. This machine is a great saving both of time and coal. In making tho "bearing" wilb a pick, from four to twelvo inches of coal are cut away. A great part of tho coal cocl cut away is chippod up so small as to bo wortbloss, The machino outs away loss than two inches, and this is ull it wastes. The cutting wheel is a very poculiar, and, so fur us I can judge, un entirely new mechanical appliance. Mr. Brown, the ingenious inventor, dosorves great praiso for tho porsovcrance and skill which buvo, at lust, given him success. So many fruitless endeavors to con struct such a mucbino have beon.mado thut inventors had givoo it up in des puir. The resistance to the cutting wheel is so great that power applied at tbo centre could accomplish but little. Mr. Brown bus invented a con trivance for applying tho powor to tho circumference, thus gaining great ly in power, though, of course, losing considerable by friction. Another gain is in this: Tbo wheel forces al most its entire breadth into the ooul, I ! . .. I i . I. . . tneru uciu. liv uziu ut, tuv i-umor tu check it. The machine begins at the left cornor of tho room. When the culling wheel is buriod in the coal, tho machine turns to tbe right and cuts the whole length of tbo wall, about a rod. Tbe mucbino is then put upon tiucks and drawn into another room, wbere tho same process of cut ling is repoatod, while the minors wedgo down the coal in tbe room just loft. We timed tho machine, and found thut it cut three feet iu sevon and tlireo-fonrtbs minutes. The wheel was in the coul at tho same time about throe feet four inches. Tho vein be- ng four feet thick, nearly a cubic yard and a bulf was, in seven and threo-lourtus minutes, prepurod to be split down. It is considered a day's work lo mine three cuoto yards oi coal. More than half the work is dono when iho "bearings" aro mode. The machino, in half an hour, makes tho "bearings" under moro coul than a man can mino in a day. Counting the labor of making tho "bearings" us half, tlion tho machino accomplishes as much in an hour as a good miner can in a day; or, ao much in a day as ten good minurs. It takes two men to run tho machino now, though one will probably he ublo to do it when it is perfected. Tho motive power Is designed to be compressed air; at present it is steam. American Inventions. The cotton gin, without which the machine spinner nnd tho powor loom would bo helpless, is American. The power shuttle which permits an un limited enlargement of tlm breadth of the web, is American. Iho planing machino is American. Navigation by steam is American. Tho mower and reaper are American. The rolary printing piesses are American. The hot-air engino is American. Tho sewing-machine is American. The ma chine manufacture oi wool cards is American. Tbe whole India-rubber industry is American. Tho bond saw originated, wo boliove, in America. Tho machino monulucturo of hot so shoes is American. Tho sand-blust, of which tho largo capabilities niekyol to be developed, is American. The gauge lathe is American. Tho only success ful coniposing-machino for printers is American. Thoai tificiul mannl'ttclure of ico was originally invented by Pro fessor A. S. 'I wining, un American. the leleclro-mngnot was nvented. and immediately after its invention was first practically applied in Iran mining telegraphic signals, by l'ro tessor Joseph Henry, no American. Tho telegraphic instrument introduced a fow yours later into public use, which has since obtained universal accep tance, was Invented by Samuel F. II. Morse, an American.- Boston Journal of Chemistry. ' "It is staled that President Grant's horses, burned at Tronlon, last week, wore both thnrnnghbrods, and the most highly prixod in his entire stock. One was valued at 125,(100, and was considered Ihe most promising yourg mare in tho country." hj-cnanqr. Congress hud bettor raiso his salary a littlo higher or donate linn some public lands to make up the loss, jj Is Leprosy Contagious?. J A San Francisco correspondent of the Graphic says : The experience of all people among whom it bus existed in Egypt, China, the Sandwich Islands, and elsewhere, has resulted in the unqualified affir mation that it is. A few physicians, and still more unprofessional persons in this country, protest that it is not, except under peculiar circumstances. Tbo argument is a common ono. "We bave bad the leprosy here In Califor nia ever since we huvo bad tho Chi noso, why, if it is contagious, has ft not spread among the white people?" There is a primary error bore io tbe assumption that it has not. The faot is that it has. A man named Elkridgo " died bero a few months since from this disease. Another died of it not long since in the Alumcdu county hos pital. Judgo Ashor Bates, a man who hold tha highest pluco in the esteem of the people of San Francisco, died but a few weeks since, and it has been afllrmed to me that this horrid pest wus the cause of his demise. I know of ono case now in progress bore, a whilo man, who is suffering from lep rosy; 'and I only refrain from giving his name by request of tbe physician who has bim in charge. Could, the truth be known about the spread of leprosy among the white population, it would bo appalling But it cannot be, as yet. Those aUllctod with tbo disease suppress the faot until the last Lmonjant poesiblo. ... Then, it must be remembered that tho processes ot this plague are as torribly slow as they are suro. Yoars may elapse, aftor it is contracted, before it makes its ap poaranco In any way whatever. Dur ing all this time it is slowly permea ting the entire system, tainting every atom of blood, ripening and gaining strength. Thoro will surely come a time if somo merciful fatality does not previously cut short the lifo of the infected being, while be is in hap py unconsciousness of his overhang ing falo when some spark will sot alt tho venom in action. An overheating of tho blood, some excess, a ohango of life or hubils, may develop it. But, evon after tbia occurs, when the dis ease has shown itself, it may consume ten or fifteen years io retelling its in. evitable end. In all this time thoro is no point at which cure is practica ble. The utmost science can do is to alleviate the sufferings of tbe doomed wretch. Tbe most kindly thing to do to a leper would be to knock him on the head, hard enough to put him out of hia misery. Tbe next best is to var nish bim, so as to keep the air from his tumors, and so allay his itching. Tbo Chinese do not quite so strictly shun tbo lepers, yet even they avoid touching them. It is their belief that the leprosy is only communicated by actual contact with tbo minute scales which full from the leper's livid tu mors j henoo, the leper finds a home in a separate pen among them, has a tub all to his own use in their wash house, a table by himsolf in their cigar factories, a bench wbere be may work alone at slippor-making. By what regulations of thoir own all this Is af fected, a white man cannot find out. They have their own laws, judges and penalties as much here as in China, and stolidly refuse any information con cerning them, or rathor evade inquiry by a "no subc," or "mo no understand." That they bave a system of isolation for the leper is, however, very appa rent. How fur tho disease actually prevails among them is another thing which passes the wisdom of the Cau casian to finj out. Tbo 'Mongol ia nothing if not "devilish sly. Ho knows belter than to expose a fact which might seriously militate against his retaining a foothold upon our soil, even if it were not sufficient for bim tb:t he despises our laws of registra tion, reviles our Boards Of Health and condoms all our social nsngesv So, if one of them dies of leprosy ,tbe survivors prefer to pay a couple of dollars to some medical practiclioner for a certificate that tho dead man "passed in bis checks" from somo oth er causo, and so quietly enable them to bury bim until such timo as bis bonos can cqnveniently bo picked out and sont borne to China -whore alii Chinaman's bones are sent. Eadioal VandoliBm- Tho Patriot, in alluding to tho loyat snobbery now in vogul at Washington,' says: tor years there has stood ia front of Ihe White House in Wash ington a bronze statue of Thomas Jef ferson. It was presented to tho gov ernment years ago by Captain Levy,' of the navy. Standing where it did,, nothing could be more suggestive of the simplicity and Dcmocrulio princi ples on which our republic was found ed. Every student of American his tory knows well tbnt not Washington himself did more for tho foundation' and healthful growth of our country than the illustrious Sago of Monlioollo. The slatue is now being removed from its place to a less prominent spot iu (ho grounds, so as to make room for a cust-iron fouutain. We are not sur- Iiriscd ut tho set itself, for thero can le no doubt that tho present occu pants of tbo White House have littlo feeling in common with so noble and yet so simple, so rich in intellect yet poor in pocket, and withal so tho roughly pore and honest a man a Thomas Jefferson. Fifty thousand dollar stables and cast-iron fountains are more important to Grant than all the Statues of the founders of our gov ernment that can be cast from now till doomsday. I Acoono. Tho four leading Now York daily newspapers, in alluding to Iho proceedings of tho J'omocratio Stole Convention say : ,: . -u "Tho rennsylvfttrfa Democrats havo boldly placed themselves upon tho record, and their action will rocoivo tho hearty npprovtil of their party throughout the land." A. Y.lltrald. "( In ono of tho transient questions of the hour--the infumors salary grab-tho Peniir-ylvanla Convention noted with, a spirit and vigor worthy of tho bust days of tho Democracy." A tic York World. "Tbo nominees for Judge of thof Supremo Court and Slnto Treasurer aro above reproach, and tbe voters of 'Vnnsylvnnla will havo an opportuni ty in respect to the latter office to choose belwoon an honest man and a' King roguo." A'. I'.Sun. ., "Tho , Pennsylvania ; Democracy, whatever else tbey havo done, havo in this matter acted courageously anaf honorably, and set a good example for their party in othor States.. It ia cheap and coy lo pass resolution.. Thoso poople have dono more than that. Tbey have had a row about it, and taken one of their own reprcscn lativeo by tho ear and led him out. To ail oilier conventions and partial it mny be ssid, '(Jo and do likewise.' " -X.'Y. Tribune. '
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