SHKJKKT A FOHSTKR, Editors.
VOL. I.
Oc (Centre rTkmotvat.
Terms SI.AO per Annum, in Ailvnnoe.
S. T. SHUQERT and H. H. fORSTER. Editor..
Thursday Morning, April 10, 1079.
TIII: DKMIK lIAT is under obliga
tions to lion. L. A. Mackey, our late
excellent representative in Congress,
for favors in tiie way of public docu
ments.
Si'KAK EK KAXUAM. has not yet
announced the appointment of tin
committee.- in the house. Unexpected
to do so on Tuesday last, but the
committee on* rules have reported in
favor of enlarging the important com
mittees, and until that question is
finally settled the Speaker cannot
complete his list. They will probably
be announced to the house the last of
thi- week.
WE I •ROI'OSE to publish in our next
the great speech of Mr. Blackburn, ol
the House of Representatives, on the
democratic position, and in reply to
Garfield. It is one of those pleasing
and brilliant efforts of oratory that
eaunot hut interest the people—and
indeed one that uo democrat or any
other pcrsoti who regards the truth of
history, or desires to form a correct
judgment of present events as com
pared with the events of the past, can
fail to rend profitably.
IT was not necessary for Mr. Yocum
to vote with the democrats on the
army appropriation bill. His vote
was not needed to pass it, and it would
therefore have been more in accord
ance with the precepts of good faith
for him to honor the pledges made to
the republicans when he was u can
didate. Leading republicans freely
charge that upon all measures, except
financial measures, he was positively
pledged to staud hv their party. But
tiiat is a matter bctweeu them, and
they can settle it to suit themselves.
No TROOPS AT THE POLLS, is the
emphatic verdict recorded on Monday
last by the house of representatives,
by a majority of hcenty-aLr. All the
republicans voting for army supervi
sion, and all the democrats, and most
of the nationals, voting solid, to ex
punge this anti-republican law from
the statutes. We notice that Mr.
Yocum, the representative from this
district, voted with the majority. The
hill is now in the senate,, where it
will receive similar action, after the
radicals of that body have sufficiently
ventilated their wrath aud disappoint
ment.
THE consistent republicans who in
1 Ht7 attached an amendment to the
ariny appropriation hill deposing the
President from the command of the
artny, with the threat that if he did
not approve it no appropriation would
be made, now express horror and cry
"Revolution" when the democratic
Congress projswe to rc|K-al obnoxious
laws enacted in the same way by the
same process.* Whether legislating by
attachments to the appropriation hills
is right or wrong, the republicans have
made many precedents very hnse
ones at that —and should l>e the last
persons to raise the preseut howl of
" Revolution."
SENATOR BAYARD, of Delaware, is
still inquisitive ami wants to know
something about the Republican bull
dozer of elections io New York. He
submitted an inquiry on Tuesday rail
ing upon the Secretary of,the Treasu
ry to furnish the Senate n statement
showing what sums of money have
been jmid in 1870, ami each sueceding
year, to John I. Davenport as Chief
Supervisor of Elections, Clerk of the
Circuit Court of the United States,
Commissioner, or for services in any
other rapacity, and all disbursements
made by him in this connection. And
also that the Secretary transmit to the
Senate all the official correspondence
respecting the expenditures of money.
* Objected to by Mr. Conkling.
"KT|UAL ANI> KX ACT JIMTII.K TO ALL MRS, OK W lIATK V Kit AT AT EOK ftCKHO ANION, UKLIUIOUH Oil I'OLITII AL. rwn
Congress.
The moment it became known that
Mr. Hayes had determined to call an
extra session of congress to pass the
appropriation hills that failed through
the disagreement of the two houses of
the forty-fifth congress to become laws,
the politicians and newspapers of the
republican party began to predict
the most direful consequences to
thu country as the result of demo
cratic ascendency in the legislative
branches of the government at Wash
ington. Most earnest and vociferous
were these stalwart parti aus in their
prognostications of evil. Starting with
the impudent and has* less claim that
all the patriotism of the country was
to be found within the bounds of their
party organization, they could only see
'in the presence of the "rebel briga
diers" a fact fraught to their perverted
vision with alarming peril to the wel
fare of the Uuiou. They could anti
cipate no good in the coining together
of a majority unbiassed by the fell
spirit of sectionalism, and unnwed by
the fulsome pretensions of those who
had feasted so long in the high places
of the nation as to really imagine that
they, of all the f>coplc of the land,
alone jxissess the attributes and pre
rogatives of Clod's anointed rulers.
Again their sensitive nerves twitched
with convulsive dread at the grim
spectre of a war that ended fourteen
years ago. In imagination " revolu
tion" was rampant and ready to en
gulf all in a common destruction, and,
like a horrid Hampio's ghost, it would
uot down at their bidding. Revolu
tionary purposes were freely and ve
hemently charged again-t those chosen
to rule in their places, and dreadful
results must follow their displacement
from jsiwcr ILS certainly as the gloom
of night succeeds the bright stiu shine
of day.
What ail egregious miscalculation
ull this has proven to lie! The demo
cratic congress met in pursuance of
the cnll of the administration ami has
remained in session in the discharge
of its legislative duties since the ]*th
of March. What business interest
has suffered since then? Upon what
sacred precept of constitutional liber
ty ha a rude hand leen laid? Docs
not the blessed peace that came with
the end of the reWllion still remain
with us? It is true the majority mark
ed out its course at the start; aud it
is equally true that it has followed it
with dignity, honor, calm determina
tion and statesmanlike wisdom. Hut
that coure did not lead in the direc
tion of revolution and oppression. On
the contrary, it was a manly stride to
wards free elections nnd impartial ju
ries, and through orderly and well
conducted parliamentary proceedings
the first victory in the house of repre
sentatives has already been scored in the
pasmgc of the army appropriation lull
with the clause excluding the presence
of federal soldier* at elections. Other
reforms will follow until every trace
of the partisan machinery for controll
ing elections and federal juries in the
interests of a political party, by depu
ty marshals and test oaths, arc strick
en from the statute liook*. In this
grand work the good, strong,conserv
ative sense of the country is with the
democratic majority, and it will not
falter or hesitate in its duty. Neither
the threats, taunts or jeers of the angry
anil perverse minority will stay for a
moment its firm resolve to repeal un
just and oppressive laws. That ma
jority will prove worthy of the ancient
traditions of the democratic party —of
the days and teachings of Jefferson,
Madison nnd Jackson —and, in the
meantime, the solid foundations of the
Union will not be disturbed ; ghastly
pictures of "revolution" will frighten
no ouc; peace will stay, with security
for local government and individual
rights; and a growing prosperity will
continue to enrich the nation.
TIIE senate committee on appropri
ations has reported the army bill to the
senate as passed by the house.
BELLEFONTE, I'A., THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1879.
THE constant uud increasing de
mand* on tlic unite for appropriation!)
to alleged charitable imditutionaought
to receive tho thoughtful attention n
well of the people n* their repriv-enta
tive*. It i* liahlo to great ahuae, and
no douhl large stinm are aipiandered
under the name of charily which ought
not to he charged to the fund* of tin
state. The amount of appropriation*
a*kcd for thi* year i* in the neighbor
hood of ten millionth It i* well to be
charitable —it i- a eouuiiendahlo virtue
in individual* and ahould he encour
aged ; hut we think before voting the.-c
lurge, if not extravagant appropriation*,
it would he well to enquire what cluiui
they have upon the fun it of the Com
monwealth, as well us how far it is
proper for the ltcprc.-< ntativi * to di
vert these funds from the proper u-es
of the State, and | ledge them to a p r
niaoent drain upon her resource-.
SEN \TOII HKUI K PROPOSES to raise a
committco to investigate the Frosl
man iiank swindle at Washington, to
discover, if possible, the cause of its
failure ami the handling of its assets
since. This hank was a base swindle
upon tint coloreil |>eople, a iff I it is ex
tremely proper that the intelligent
and only representative of the race
now in ('-ingress, should he given a
committee to bring the villainy to
light. When this committee is raised
we hope and believe that Senator
llruce will not he treated hy the dem
oerats with the discourtesy that the
republican senators placed upon hint
hy failing to recognize him when
choosing committees. He should he
chairman of the committi-e.
Mn. lIAYI2s and Mr. (iarlield were
loth in Congress in 1872 and partici
pated in attaching the obuoxious elec
tion laws, now proposed to IK- repeated,
to the apportionment bill of that year.
Mr. Hayes and his adviser*, and Mr.
Garfield now rail this legislation re
volutionary, ami threaten to veto the
apportionment bill of 187'.), if the re
peal of the villainous rider they forced
upon the apportionment hill in 1872,
is attached. Well, consistency is n
jewel. Hayes has the power of veto,
even if ohuiiucd hy fraud, but in the
exercise of that power, he will make
the history of his administration a*
disgraceful, if possible, us its birth.
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Yellow lever.
THE i-LAarl ItREAKS OCT OS HOARD A
WA*IHSOTOX, April s.—Tho United
State* steamer Plymouth, with yellow
fever on board. m* been ordered into
quarantine at Portsmouth, X. 11, Tho
detailed nroounta of the Plymouth'*
outbreak of yellow fever received at the
N*vy DaparMMat to- day >knw'a very
remarkable fact. After tho disease
broke out on her last November *lie
wa* brought to Boaton, thoroughly fumi
gated and afterward Iroron out. Kvery
thing movable in her wa* removed at
the time, and all bedding and other
matter ol that kind mi either destroy
ed or thoroughly fumigated, disinfected
and frrnosn. In apite of all this care and
cold yellow fever broke out on her on
the 23d of M uch, when she had reach
ed a warm climate, hut lu-forc she had
touched at or been near any Southern
land, and while 200 miles at ses. But
the most curious and remarkable fact ol
all is that the fir*t man attacked, Rich
ard Sanders, machinist, had hi* ham
mock slung in the precise place of the
man who first showed symptoms of
yellow fever in Santa Cru* in Novem
ber last.
This is worthy of the attention of
medical cx|>erU, for it seem* to show
that the infection* matter not only re
sisted extreme cold, but that it remain
ed in one place. The vessel lay all the
winter in Bo*ton, where everything
known to sanitary *cience wa* used to
disinfect her of the germ* of yellow
fever. She was entirely broken out, all
the store* landp<f-and exposed to a
freezing temperature and the ship
thoroughly fumigated several times. A
part of the time the ship was in 'lock,
where large quantities of ice remained,
and the temperature frequently reach
ed a point below aero. The water in
the tanks and buckets in the storerooms
was constantly ftonen, and when she
wa* removed from the dock and fires
lighted under her lioilers she was so
thoroughly chilled that for several days
the water remained frozen in her bilge*.
tVhen the Plymouth left B wton all
men of weak constitution or stmeepti
hie to climatic influences were removed
from her and she went to sea with a
crew entirely healthy.
The recrnt extremeic cobl weather
has killed fruit and onrlv vegetables in
Georgia and South Carolina.
Local* Continued.
lI KADHTONKH KOHTIIK OKAVBH OK I.'.VION
SoI.DIEKN.—-Tlin following, which will he
if interest to iin of our readers, ln been
sent u (or insertion. Wo hope tli< who
know of any soldier*' grate* which are |
not as yt properly mnrked wiili headstones
will comply with the request: "It b prob- '
| ably generally reinoiuberc I that some years >
,igo—in 1 M?:t—Congress pn**idaliw pro
vidsng for the erection of (iural le head
: stone* over the grave* of unldiert of the
regular Hiel volunteer force* of the United
Stte. whoso remain* aru interred in the
National Military Cemeteries. This law
I iia* been carried out, and the grave* nf.tlu
nation'* dead in thau cornel. ne> are now '
1 permanently marked. At the irn>tu!>oo of
the War I)> partment, Coßffm hunc*Bi>
Iv authorized the erection of similar hea 1-
stolie* over the grave* o( the Union soldier*
who are buried in private and village cem
cleric*. Thi* will be done a* **Mn a* tie
necoisary arrangements can he made. In
the meantime the tpurU-rmaster (ieiieral,
at Washington, will at once proceed to
collect the neee-mry information a* to i
where these headstone* are r.-*|uir-<l. All 1
|>er*on having any knowledge of the bur
| ial place* of soldier* in private cemeteries
wl|oo grave* are not rnark'd, are reqmwl
' i*d to comtnunicato the fact to the tjoarier- j
{master General, and git- rcg.inei.i'com
pany, and dale of death of d>a ea#<d. il
known. Similar information* i deired ,
from parte s in < harge . f ucli cenn t'Tiei
Of I- Hirni it i* nt intended l* furnish ,
)ieasi*tone* for grave* over which nionn
j menU have already been erected by rela
tive* or friensl* of the d>-< eased."
A Mi**THKI. P:itroiM AN< E.—Sincegiv
' their it performance the Centre Min
tr -l* have not been idle hut hnv-atrafig<d
a new and eieellent programme, which, on
j Tuesday the o'.th of the praaent month,
! they will be prepared t> n-nd<-r in their
style to a UntSefonta audi
ence. We have seen the programme
know that it i* varied and entertaining
The same performer* will lik" part in the j
coming entertainment who so much pleases!
S the audience with their former effort* ■
i Thi* time it will be given f r the benefit of
the Mountain City Hand and of course
there will be w large audience present.
Therefore, prej-are for llm entertainment
two weeks from next Tuesday evening at
ilcynnld*' Ojs-r* llouin. >i it, a* was an
• noun red in our well-meaning but blunder
ing contemporary across the ilreet, <*n tin
-2.M, but tho 2*.-.h.
Mow* IMI'ROV KMRXT*.—SO touch has al
ready le-en done in the way of improving
•nd ornamenting the interior of the liosh
House that we are compelled to think mine
le-st lloj j <•♦, having uin* commenced,
doe* not know when to top Having be
gun right he mini end ditto. He know*
vhe Bible say* something about "first mak
; clean the insole of the house, and be ha#
' followed thi* advice *o religiously that per
son* now hardly recognize it a* tho *ame
hotel. Hon. D. (J llu'h, the owner, ha*
in contemplation similar improvement* on
the exterior of the hotel, an ! at a day in
the near future it rnsy undergo a thorough
n I'uinting. If thi* i* done the flush II lUM
will lie one of the m*t attractive a* it ha*
al way* been one ~f th bct hotel* in the
state.
St vßr* ltK*oaT —That the reputation
of the lfuh Ilouse i extending, under the
management of its present proprietor, i
evidenced bv the following extract from
the hek Haven Daily Journal, of a recent
-late "Mr. George Hoppns, proprietor of
the Buh Hou*e, ltcllrfontc, ha* sent out
hi* fpring circular, inviting people who are
looking out for a pleasant summer retreat
to come and tay with him. The Bush
House i* one of the lost hotels in Central
Pennsylvania, and Bellafonte is a very
pleasant town, surrounded with beautiful
scenery, with trout streams, sulphur and
mineral *pringin the neighborhood. Any
one with a full pocket book and a clear
conscience can enjoy hinreelf there if any
where."
DEATH. —The sad and unwelcome intel
ligence became generally known last Hun
day morning of the death of Mr*. Foun
tain Crider, tho wife of one of the most es
tos-med citizen* of this place. Mr*, tjrider
for a long time hail been in exceedingly
delicate health, and the event wav almost
hourly expected, hut nevertheless brought
poignant grief when it came. A fond
husband and loving friend* mourn her loos.
The deceased was sn energetic lady and
clung with great U-nocily to life, but at
lost the silver cord was loosad and the
bravo spirit entered upon the future life-
To the many mode serrowfut by thi* event
we tender our most sincere sympathy.
—The Centre Hall Rtporttr says that J.
A. Cottle & Hro , formerly of Milroy,
have opened a merchant tailoring estab
lishment In that place.
Wallace'* FxploniUoii*.
HOME OtMo'inxo EVIIiKS'rr. I.NTEIIEH II NO
AND INST H I'l Tl VE.
I lie Wallace committee met Friday
inoring at II) o clock, ami Mr. Jolin G.
I hump-on wa the firat witness* exam
itieil. ||e stated that In* had b>B MT<
ge/iut al arm* of the house for over four
yer, mid chairman of the democratic
Hint.* central committee of Ohio wince
lwi.s, Willi the exception of two year*.
Waa ill AO one o! tint three resident
member* of the democratic rongre*
•ional committee, |,ut via not hero
much alter .1 lino, except when ncces
*ary to attend to hi* dutie* a* sergeant-,
it arm-. No employe o) the houae wo*
sol-eited for any contribution, and not
a dollar received from arty by the con
gressional commit tow.
• en. Imuran S. Walker,-tlie next
ivitii"--* called by the republican*, staled
that lie an tiie secretary ol tin* con
gre iiinal d<-moerotn- committee during
itie cimpaign "( |Ktik, and its executive
"fli'-er. licit the total amount received
by tin- committee from ail soon - *—con
traiiutiou* and tho sole of doCUtuenta
w.t of whn li there remained
on hand unexpended, at the close of
tic r-.,nip,i,gn, * i he total amount
expended by the committee wa* less t ban
Ni> contriiiution* were aked
from any government employe, nor
from any employe of the house of Ke
pi eseritat.ve*. nor wa* any money re
wived from either, except a voluntary
contribution from one man in the em
ploy of the house,
i ll.it llra.lv I.JI tile folding of docu
ment* wa* duties by employe* of the
committee, there b.-.ng a few docu
ment* folded, winch were privileged uti
d.-r the law. for congreaatne/i. All mat
ter not frankable w.- sent either by ex
pro* or through the mail*, jesslago pro
paid.
tint. W .tlker testified tlial the annual
expenditure*of the house folding room
had la-en reduced tram $1(19.93.3 in JJthN
t" Wl.ooo in I*7B. 1 Hi* reduction
made by the democrat*, and M in it*<-]f
proof that they had not used the fold
ing room for purty n-.-a. He submitted
the fullowing st itement ol the annual
expenditure* of the house folding room
ti .m lfe67 to Ik? I *, inclusive :
I M "7. 179,842.60; I*6*. $109,033.401
1*69. $99.066.29; I*7o. s92.o.Vi.sfi; |:j,
ti'i,27x.Ks; ]*72. $ 1 (W.hl'.'.*9: IK7U.
$107,999.-41; I*7l. *02.911.69; 1&7-'*.
t $ JO. "22.60; 1876. $1*.907. .'59 ; 1*77, s2*,.
392 .73; I*7*. |20,69.2.'.
alker *tat.il that he occupied
one of the room* at Uie Capitol du
ring tlie campaign, and n doing so had
followed the precedent e*tabli*he.l in
fafirt, by tbe republican* and continued
down to the campaign of ]a*t year.
Mr. .lames 11. Harvev, treasurer of tiie
democratic comuultee la*l year, testified
subftanUally to the otnu fact* a* had
l>cen given by <cn. Walker.
tieorge C.Gotham wo* recalled and
testified that he had purchased all the
envelope* ti-ed by the republican con
gressional committee.
On cross examination lie admitted
that he iiad borrowed 160,0U0 envelope*
from the senate folding-room, but said
h' had reiurtn'' ian equal number. He
also desir*d to correct hi* prevmu* State
merit to the effect that assessment* had
been made only on government em
ploye* having a salary of sl.tX>o or up
ward* : tliat lie now found that tbia wa*
not the case and that aweMtuenli had
been made on government employe*
having *alnric* a* low aa ffkXl per an
num.
A (old Su|i UOMI) South.
CuA*i.r.TO\, April 4.—A hard freete
lad night seriously damaged the early
vegetable crop* on the truck (arm* in
thi* vicinity. The injury to potatoes ia
estimated at £." |>er cent., and the cu
cumber. tomato and to-an crop* are al
ntoat entirely killed. Strawberries are
ba<llv hurt and retarded fully two
week*. The loaa to the truck farms
around <"harle*ton i* estimated at a
quarter of a million of dollar*.
ATLANTA, April 4—The weather ia
quite cold here today, the thermome
ter indicating -i| c . The peach, pear anil
apple crop* are ruined. The vegetable
rroii i* not seriously <l.imaged. The
cohl snap doc* not extend all over the
State.
w
He IJI Matyr'a Financial Specific.
W ssnixuTo*. April 4—Representa
tive le Li Matyr ba prepared, anil will
introduce in the house if an opportun
ity offers, a bill authorising a loan of
$350,000,000 of full legal tender money
to eertay companion, to be expended
on internal improvements. It will l<e
t>rn|need that the loan* ahall lie made
lor twenty fire yoar, without interest,
to be pan! semi annually, thereafter.
The following are the companies men*
tioned to whom such loans should tie
made : The -laino* river and Kanawha
canal, Great Western canal, Florida
Coast canal, Fort St. Philip canal, Ni
agara Fall* canal, I,ex<ngtmi amP Itig
Sandy railroad, railroad connecting wa
ters of Mississippi river with Pacific
coast and improvement of Mississippi
river.
A colored youlh, named Alexander
ttehn, amused himself in Jackson's
factory at Petersburg, Va., on .Saturday
morning, hammering on an old 32 pound
shell, a relic of the war. The ihell ex
ploded, blowing Itenn all to picoew.
At a social gathering held In the
house of Mr. August Belmont on Satur
day Horatio Seymour was nominated
for Governor by a numWr of democrats,
including F.x .fudge Corns took, Mr. 8.
I M. It irlow, Mr. Ilogan, Mr. Willi*,
Mr. A. J. Packer and others.
TKIIMS: tfl.oO per Ann tint, in Adoinc*.
GLNERAL NEWS.
The new Cathedral in New York is to
he opened and dedicated on Sunday,
May 25.
A fire at Canton, 111., on Thuradny,
caused the dent met ion of business pro
perty valued at £lJ>,<*<), which was part
ly insured,
lodgo .l une, H. te vard, member of
the I hirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Con
gresses, died J nd.iy at Baltimore, aged
71 year*.
I here i* a 1 irgo amo'int of building
goii g i n in Bradford which the Mr a
regard* us one of the many evidences of
returning prosperity.
Ihe I{adiug I'a.,, cotton mill resum
ed operation* 'I ne-day morning. The
greater portion of the trikers went to
work at the 10 per Gerst. reduction.
Martin 1 isey and .fohti Stanton, min
er.. were kill- d Pnday aft'-rnoon Lytlia
failing ui of roots, the former in the
Ihiggs shift, Jlvdo Perl:, and the letter
in t'ordy'a mine at Mi nooks, Luzerne
county, pa.
A Boston despatch rays that Con ant,
the defaulting cashier ol* the Kliot Na
tional ban*, wiis discharged Friday on
a motion to ({jiuli the indictment, and
wa immediately rearrested and held in
t- J.'"JO hail.
The chemical copper work* owned
bv tii Chemical Copper Company of
N-w Yoik were destroyed hy fire Sun
day afternoon. Loss. tglU; in*ured
in the Franklin Company of Philadel
phia The tire or ginauvi in the boiler
iiouse.
Thetliirty-kixth race between theCzm
bridge and tlx ford University crews
took place shortly after noon on Satur
day on the Thames river, over the usual
ojur.e, Puntey to Morlluke, slant four
! mile* and two furlong*. The (Jambridge,
as wa* expected, won by two lengths.
An engine and three cars of a north
bound passenger train on the New < r
-j leans, Chicago and St. Iy>uit railroil
i imped the track Fnd*y morning near
ilariehur.t. La. Andy Caldwell, the
engineer, was killed, snd Baggsgenias
ter ' J. Jl. Its was seriously wounded.
A man named .lames Black, hailing
from Pennsylvania, jumped into the
river at Marietta hut Saturday, from the
steamer linden, and swam to tho
1 Bland in mid stream and bark again to
the Ohio shore, a distance of several
hundred yards, with the thermometer
below freezing and a strong wind blow
ing. Black i either insane, or ha* de
lirium tremens.
From onrresj >ondance ju*t made pub
lic it i learned that tbe President
offered the vacant Berlin mission to
Whitelsw Reid in I)crmber IMI. The
letter in declining says : " The work
in which 1 am now engrossed, which, i*
l*o a public duty, seem* to give great
er opportunity (or mo at least (or "err
ing the country and advancing thoae
views of public policy which we agree
in thinking essential to ita troj>erity
than any that could he afforded ID the
new field you propone."
A fire started about 1 o'clock Sunday
morning in the basement of a large
five story brick building at the northeast
corner of Crown and (lace street". Phil
adelphia, and within two hours twenty
nine buildings, large and small, were
destroyed, involving a loss of t'oO.'XK)
and throwing twelve to fifteen hundred
hands out of employment. Albert Fink
was engages! in assisting his brother,
Frederick, in the yard of the latter'*
saloon at No. 114 Race street. Both
were struck by a falling wall. Albert
*• removed to hi* home and died
early Sunday morning. Frederick, who
i seriously injured, was removed to the
hospital.
Frank Whetta. a well-known colored
man, said to Ire 111 years old, died
Thursday morning at the residence of
his son. Isaac Whetts, in the Second
ward. Allegheny. He was born in Vir
ginia. a slave. In IMtS he came to this
Mate and took up his home at Sewjck
ley, where he lived many years. Tbera
he owner! projierty. which waa subse
quently purchased for the use of the
water works at Sewickley. He was
probably the oldest colored man in tho
State, lie leaves several children. His
death resulted from a cold contracted
on the occasion of the visit of Presi
dent Hayes to the exposition in Sep
tember last. He was taken there and
shook hands with hi* Excellency, but
got lost, and in trying to find hi* way
home, mistaking the lights of coke
oven* for street lamps, wandered into
the river. The watting gave bim a
severe cold and he failed very rapidly
of late.
The building* occupied by AppMon,
Noye* A Maude, Marke* A Co., tmi 8. M.
Hamilton A Co., Nor 500, 502. 504 rod
.MX" North Fifth street, and the More of
•J. 11. Meyer* A Bro., No. 420 Wiuhing
ton arenue, ft. I/oui*, burned la*t Sat*
: urday night. They co*t two hundred
thousand dollar* a few year* ago, and
were owned by the Mercantile block
and Heal Ktate Association. The Ap
pleton, Noyea A Maude building we*
damaged at>out (20.(AX): the Mackea
A Co building i* nearly a total low, *ay
| $50,000, and Meyer* A Bro.'* store waa
! injured in the rear about $5,000. Billy
HenU. who waa terribly crushed by a
falling wall, died on the way to the
hospital laat night. The body ofOeorfe
W. Kanant, bqaleee* agent of the Na
tional Guard Association, who** armory
waa in the upper atory of the Verandah
row, waa taken from the ruin* thi*
morning, with hi* arm* and leg* burned
offend hi* face frightfully ruaahed. He
waa in the upper room of the armory
looking after eome oaaea or rifles, when
it ia supposed part of the roof fell, bury
ing him in the debris.
NO. 15.