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A*!lot-!fCBtfB*TS °r M ARM AOR AMD Dc ATHx hi"rl" ! fr • : hut all obituary notices will he charged 6 cants per line. Si'B ial Notices 26 per cent, above regular rates. Stato Democratic Convention. The State l>emocratJc Coiifiitin will meet at liar rishurg, on WKDNKSDAY, the 13th day of July, 1*:. at n'sn, for the purpose of nontlnating a candidate for State Treasurer, and trauau ting such other busi ness as the Interests of the |*%rty way rejulff. By order of the Bt*t< Committee. K M (IPX6S, Chairman. 11. I*. DißrriMiicH.) I*. J. Piiiet, Secretaries. I*. C. lUxmcr, ) The llouso and tho Investigation. A strange phase of the investiga tion into the charges <>t corruption in connection with the defeated bill for the payment of the riot damages was the somewhat exciting struggle in the House, last Friday, over a resolution to puhli-di in the Initiative Iteeonl the evidence taken by the committee. It is strange that there should have been opposition to a resolution of that kind. This opposition, though it lwi ndled to exceedingly small num bers when the vote was taken, was vet extremely active and persistent in the use of parliamentary dodges to bnHle and defeat the purpose of the majority to pass the resolution. Under the leadership of Speaker Long, the fili bustering of the minority was encour aged with the hope that a vote could lie prevented until the hour of ad journment arrived, thus forcing tie res olution over to this week, when the ses sion would be too near its close for any practical use to come of it. At last, however, the power of the olwtrurtion istx was exhausted, and with barely two minutes to spare the vote was call ed, resulting in yens 12<>, and nays 12. This investigation has i t in the light upon a number of dark places. The evidence thus far taken implicates no less than twenty-two persons, mem bers mid lobbyists, in the attempt to secure the passage of the bill in a corrupt and unlawful manner —in other words by bribery. Of course these persons would greatly prefer to have no record made against them to be banded down to the future, even should they manage to cscaj>e punish ment iu this instance for the crime of which they arc no doubt guilty. It is no credit to the Speaker of the House that he should have made himself a party to this unsavory business. A pure man in the same place would show a higher regard for the good name of the body over which lie presides. But in addition to the Speaker, why should any members, uncontaminated by these abominable disclosures, have placed themselves in line with him to accomplish so questionable a design ? One can hardly conceive their motives. To the credit of the House it may, in deed, lie said, they were few in num bers who did so. But all of them should be made to answer to their con stituents ; and unless some measure of condemnation is meted to tlicni, they will not receive.what they have earned. With this, howevft-, the work of punishment should not stop. There will still be something due to the peo ple and to violated law. The un wrupuU® agents, whoever they may lie, in this now ojienly exposed effort to {Killutc members of the Legislature, should not tie permitted to escape the penalty affixed hy law to the crime of bribery. To our shame it is often said that legislative corruption is an old aud hateful sore in this Htate of ours, and probably a lietter opportunity to effect a cure than wo now have will never present itself. The case is before us, the law in ample, and the courts are open. Let the guilty he brought to justice as an example for all time to come. Ixt it be understood that there | is no longer impuuity for such offences. I When this is once realized the scan- ' dais that disgrace our legislation will | cease, and not until then. Whii.E Congress is endeavoring to protect the rights of the people, and > the purity of the ballot from the en croachments of the army, it would not be much out of place to give some at tention to the uses to which the army has already been put. It should not he forgotten that Lieut. General Sher- s idan, only a few yenrs ngo, invaded the Legislature of Louisiana and in troduced the bayonet in the little matter of overturning a Democratic majority. It wax a lawless act, which should have been punished, hut it was not practicable under a lawless administration, the head of which could say unbluxhingly that he " had no respect for the Constitution" he was sworn to protect and defend. Nor does any one forget how the State House at Columbia, S. C\, was seized by the army, after the election of lH7t>, and members of the legislature were compelled to pass through u line of soldiers to the legislative hall, where a corporal of the guard presumed to pass ujKjn the rights of persons to seats in the body. This wax also a lawless outrage, hut under the Grant adminis tration it met with no rebuke what ever; in fact, it was committed with tin? approbation of Grant ami his cabinet. ♦ Tin: rapidity with which the four jer ecrtt. refunding certificates nre taken up in certain portions of the South is significant of two iin|>ortniit facts. It shows first,that there is faith in the government, and second, that there is now surplus capital for invest ment. An cx]icriment of So.iKMl worth of the certificates wax tried at Atlanta Ga., ami they were ma only immediately taken, but the |K>stmax ter received in an incredibly xliort time orders for S3'XJ,OOO more of them. This indicates a growing state of pros perity since the devastations of the war, and as evidence of the feeling of the people outweighs all the efforts of the radical leaders in Congress to prove that they are still hostile to the government. Tub will of the late Hon. Asa Packer was read on Inst Thursdav, and was found to contain a numl>er of magnificent donations. To the jier maneut endowment of Ixdiigh Univers ity of Bethlehem, $1,'00,0<)0, ami for a library for the same $500,000 ; to St. Luke's Hospital, Bethlehem, $300,. 000, and to St. Mark's Kpiscopnl church, Mauch Chunk, $30,<)00. In addition to these there arc nlso hand some bequests to Muhlenberg College, of Allentown, and to Washington and Leo University, of Lexington, Ky. The lowest estimated value of the estate of Judge Packer is $20,. 000,000. Mu. HAYES promises that while he ' continues to wield the Executive , {lower of the government, he will not manufacture majorities by the use of troops at the polls. Perhaps he wont. ; But theu we cannot always believe Mr. Hayes, and, as it is not a power that he or any other man ought to pos sess iu this free government, the Demo crats will not be disposed to accept his assurances on trust. The people de mand " free elections." Nothing short of it, and that fixed and determiner] by statute, so plain that even a mean er Fraud than Mr. Hayes would he*i tatc to disobey its requirements. MR. HAYEH wants the power to use the military at elections in order to de fend the public projierty—post-officiw, custom houses, nod the like. At least he says so in his veto message. This may lie a powerful argument in favor of military interference at the elec tion {Kills of the country, but it will puzzle the average intellect to get down to the level of it. Preparations arc already being made for the Htate Fair to be held at the IVrmaneut Exhibition buildings in Philadelphia next fall. It will proliahly lie the finest and most satis factory exhibition yet held in the Htate. Centre county will no doubt be largely represented. A Hid for flic Presidency. REM.AEKAIII.E I.RTTBK THOU SECRETARY Mil RUM AN. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, WASIIINUTON, May 10, 1870. Hoar Sir: Your per sonal letter of tho fitli is received. I assure you that, though very much bur | ried while I was in New York, 1 would ! have made an appointment of time and ' place to see you, but there was no ad dress upon your card and I did not know where to send you word. The movement to start mo as a candidate for Governor of Ohio is merely sensational, and while it would hnvo boon very heartily responded to in Ohio, and no doubt wouhl he successful in the sense j that 1 could he elected Governor, it > would clearly he wrong for mo to en tertain it. So many persons are inter- j ested in the continued success of re funding nnd resumption thut it would soem like a desertion of a public duly, ami I would never he forgiven if nuy hindrance should occur in the way of either. What I wouhl aspire to in case public opinion should decide to (nuke me a candidate for President would ho to unite in co operation with tho Re publican party all tho national elements of the country that contributed to or aided in any way in the successful vin dication of national authority during the war I would do this not for the purpose of irritating the South or op pressing them in any away, but to as ert and maintain the supremacy of national authority to the full extent of all tho power* oonfeired by the Con stitution. This, as t understand it, is the Jucksonian aa well aa the Republi ean view of national powers. . . . You see, my general ideas would lead me to lean greatly upon the war Demo crats and soldiers in the service who have been influenced by polite al events since the war to withhold support from the Republican parly. I'be true i-ue for I.**i) is national su premacy in national matters, honest money and an honest dollar. Very truly yours, JOHN SHERMAN. Free Flections. SENATOR DAVID DAVIS DEIINES lII* POSI TION ON TIIE I*sß or THE ARMV. The following letter, written on the ITlit inst., by Senator David Davis to members of the Illinois llou-e of Rep resentatives, has just been made public in Washington : Gentlemen I have had the honor b> receive your letter of tho 3d lnt , cover ing resolution* of a "Joint caucus of the Dnin-* rath member* of the general **in bly of the State of Illinois" It i* hardly noccMaiy f.-r ill" to say that I am ill favor of perfect freedom of elections from the interference ->r the pre. n<-c <.f any part of the army at tho |>il, because that opinion was emphatically i (pressed on tin floor of tho Senate. This ; a government of legal authority, founded on the Consti tution and tho law* rnado in pursuance thereof. One of tho grievances of which our forefathers complained was that the king had quartered troop* on them, and sought by military j>wer to oierc# thetn into submission. It i little Ic** than a public n ands! r a century of national existence that any party could venture to ask the people's approval of a specie* of tyranny that D forbidden in England, and wherever <-Ue the parliamentary principle is respected. Very truly, IlAvin DA\ l*. • The Chinese Uiieslion, The bill introduced in the Senate hy Senator Slater to TeyuUts intercourse with citizens of the Chine**? empire visit ing or residing in tho United State* pro vide*. " that from and after Julv I. 1880. they shall be prohibited from engaging in industrial pursuit* of any description, either a* artisan*, agriculturalist* or laborer*, and fioni owning or holding real estate except for reaidence* or com rnercial purpose*" It also prohibit* their employment.hy citizens or iucor (•oration* in any rapacity except a* in terpreter* and teacher* of Oitnce language, and allows them to he em > ployed otherwise only hy other subject* of China traveling or residing in the United State* for the purpose of curio*- I ity or trade and commerce. I'enallies of fine or imprisonment are prescribed for violation* of the-e provisions The bill is designed to restrict the Chinese to the guarantees of the Hurlingame treaty, which concede* to them while visiting or residing in the United States the right to enjoy the same privileges, immunities and exemptions, "in re spcct to travel or resilience," a* citizen* of the most favored nation*. THE most idiotic of all the inanities with which tho leaders and organ* ot the Radical party are now engaged in attempting to 'fire the Northern heart.' is that the secession feeling of 1801 is 'still alive in the South and i* daily growing in strength.' We know that the gullibility of the Republican ma**ea is inordinate, but it :* not equal to this demand. There is not a school boy who does not know that the secession movement had it* root, ita very life and soul in slavery, and that when slavery ceased to exist, the secession sentiment died a* effectually a* a tree would die if pulled out of the earth and suspend ed permanently in mid air. The South not only doe* not desire to leave the Union, bat is determined to stay in tho ! Union and to share in ita benefits as well a* it* burdens, all the effort* of the , Radical parlv to the contrary notwith- I standing. She knows that all her in j terest* will tie best promoted by the perpetuity of the Union. Having no longer any 'peculiar institution' to be menaced, she has parted with the only cause of permanent disagreement, and ha* come back, not merely to tay, but to *tay on equal terms with the other State*. Radical fanatica may howl at her 'presumption,' but their wrath will he unavailing. Kanh of the states of i the defunct Southern confederacy it in the Union, not at a supplicant, or a guest, hut as one of the family. The voting masses have sense enough to know this and tho cry of secession will not soare them. The North fought to restore the Union. The people under stand that the purpose of their struggle is accompliaheu, the Union is re stored and that ihw only cause of the attempted separation is as dead aa Abel. WatKington /to. [(hnrludeil from •'!</ /mi/r ] .ruts, were illegally deprived of tho right of suffrage in H single oily ut tho •lection. Wlmn these 8,000 men voted the party of tho Executive had hut one Representative on thin floor from thut city, hut after they have been driven or drugged away from the ballot-box it has three. I make no further comment. Hut, Mr. Chairman, when a law itself is vicious or unoonstitutionnl, as I be lieve these lawn are, the mere manner of their administration is a matter of secondary importance. No method of admistralion can sanctify a had law or reconcile its victims to its continued en forcement. There is no remedy hut re peal. .Mr. t'iinirtnan, passing from the con sideration of the particular provisions ol these laws utul from the methods which have hoen adopted in their exe cution, I propose to examine the con stitutinnal authority to enact them. It is admitted that tho several States pre scribe the quailificationa ol voters; hut if tho Federal authority shall under take to inforco the right to vote and and preserve tho purity of tho ballot box It must of course, by some officer or agent, either before or at tho time of the election, decide who possesses those qualification*—that is, it must |<y some means of its own separate the spurious from the genuine voters and admit the one while it excludes the other. It mutt inquire into the voter's nge, his residence, his citizenship and his quali fications as to education and property, if such tests are prescribed by the con stitution or laws of tho .Slate. Hut if the I mted Slates must exercise all these powers in the discharge of the supposed duty to enforce and protect the right of the citl/.en to vote for Rep resentatives, so it must exercise the same or simdiar powers in the discharge of a like duty to enforce and protect tiie right ol members of a State legis lature to vole for Senators ami to pro tect the Governor of a Slate m the ex ercise of his constitutional right to till vacancies by appointment; lor I sub mit that if, under the first cUuo of the second section, the United Stales bo* accepted as its voters those persons in the Mate who possess the qualification* requisite for electors of the moat nuiii < rous branch of the State Legislature, and is therefore bound to protect them m the exercise c.f the right of suffrage, the first clause of the third section also adopts the members of the Legislature in electors of Senators, and lucre is the •amo obligation precisely to protect them against hiibery, intimidation and oUier improper influences in casting their votes. I submit also whether, in the same seine, tho next clause re.vl has not adopted the Governors of tin various States as the ngi-nU or electors of the United Slates to temporarily fill vacancies in the Senate, and whether exactly the same Federal duties do not result in that case as in the otliers. It follows, Mr. Chairman, frotn what I have s,id that if tin- United States in the discharge of this supposed duty must not only place its officers at the f>olU to decide upon the qualifications of the citizen when he offers to vote for a Representative, but it must, if riecc* sary, place them in the halls of the Stale legislatures to examine the ere denliaU and determine the qualifica tions of members who offer to vote for Senators and to exclude those who are adjudged not to |K>*e4M the fight. This is the |Kiint to which upon the other side argument logically leads. Is any one prepared to maintain it ? Is any one prepares! to assett that Congress has authority, under these provisions of the Constitution, to provide for the *u pervision and control of every election at which the | eople choose Representa tives and the Legislature chooses Sena tors ? It seems to me that the simple statement of the proposition and its logical consequences constitute its la st refutation. The Grunt Conspiracy, V I.ITTI.K MORE TINS NEEDED nr TIIC ass solas TO woax er TIIE ctru. WftftMngUtf) C. ffe|s.Tt |M,( i 4 Tifllf*. I understand that the managers of Grant, who have thus far shown so much skill in coaching him for the Presidential race a year hence, have found that they have made one great mistake, and now they are setting about 1o correct it. They have for •Otne time been satisfied thut Grant was coining borne to soon for the good of his canvass. Now another change must !>c made, and that if Grant comes hack in August or September, as now ex pecteu, the enthusiasm with which it is proposed to receive him will die out t<e fore the nominating convention can he held, and that Grant's popularity will t>egin to wane. They might be able to keep up the hurrah for three or four months, but they could hardly do it for ten. Ho it is protmeed by some of his friends to try ana keep him away for four or five month* longer. Whether they will succeed or not is another thing. It is doubtful. Hut the plan is to send hint from Yokohoma, when his visit is over in China and Japan, to the Sandwich Islands, for aa long a time as possible, and then to Australia. Two or three months could very easily he taken up in such a trip, and by staying in the hast a little longer than provided ! for now tho necessary time could be consumed. Then the general could land in Han Francisco and his triurn- I phal march ho begun. There is no question that the managers of Grant will see that he has in every city he go to —San Francisco, I>enver, St. Ixwiis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Philadel phia, New York, Boston and (he cities South—the biggest demonstrations ever given to any American. Then some body will write him a letter regarding his candidacy, and he will write, or have written for him, a ringing answer declining to be a candidate, the con vention will be held and he will he nominated hy acclamation. This is the programme; hut there's many a slip, don't you know f The Presidency is too big a thing to he " set up," and when the result is reached some unexpected man, such as Lincoln and Hayes were, (nay wake up and find himself the Re publican candidate for the Presidency. William K. Chandler, however, says the Republicans have learned wisdom by the Hayes adversity, and will never again nominate an uncertain or un known man, but, on tho contrary, take some Republican who has been tried and never found wanting. The Htgte Finances. TKEASt'Ur.a NOVEs REINIRTM A DEFICIENCY or OVER $2,000,000. In response to a resolution of the Senate asking for information from th'- State Treasurer and Auditor General on the finances of the State, Treasurer Noye* submitted a report as follow*; The annual report* of the State Trea surer and Auditor General for the fiscal year ending Novi-rnUr 30, 187*. set forth the condition of tiie finance* at that time. The following i* a resume of those statements, Willi such changes as are necessary to bring the report up to the present time: D. licii in t 0.-r:,! fno'!, Itot Aluj,. |*:u, ft IttltMlnl ,1,-Srll In ,| | )<*, eliding Kill, RuVMaU-r, IST'.' ........ o*7/**J I*# I A liul d. licit .'loiti Norniilnr, 1-7 J .11.10,1111 • j Jt i* now certain that the estimated revenues from tax on corporation stocks for the present year of $1,200,000 is in excess of the amount that will bo re ceivedkfrotn that source by noma SIXIO, 000, which will reduce that item to $1,000,000. Hy act ol 20th March, 1870, there was diverted from the tax on cor poration stock (which is a part of the revenue# of the sinking fund) "one-hail of all the taxes impoi-cd hy the third section of an act to which tins is a sup plernent, for the fiscal years of 1870 and 1880,'' the intention hi .ng to divert one-half of the corpora'ion stock tax from the sinking to the general fund. During the month of December, and prior to the passage of the abi.ve act. und January and February, 187'J, there wan received by the Treasury Depart ment, and credited and applied to tin sinking fund, from corporation stock t*x, $554 .7lb. 45. As heretofoie stated, tiie corporation stock tax for the fiscal year ending No vember 30, 1879, will bo SI. (MO, (KM), und estimating the revenue* fioin that source for the year !.**' at the tame amount, we have the following result: Aw-.uiit dli.tlM j.-., N-ti.m. ' -* *'■ •* - I4U.MS &•'* Ala-lii.l di rod f- r ]•*! *i,dln* V.twu !' id. I""-' too/in cr, It is believed that the above is the full amount that ran be expected from tin* *< urce of revenue, and it a ill be conceded there in reason for this con elusion when we find that the tax on corporation stock for 187' i AA I $J.l4*,- 252 to; for 1877, $2.0"<*,77f.23; for I*7*. $1,104,25b.5.;, and for 187'.'. $1 1**1,(1110 tliu* showing a decrease of $1.14\2-52.4b in four year*, or more than one half. It is I elu-ved that the estimated rev iiuc* from other sources, a* set forth in schedule A, page eight. Slate Treasurer's report, will bo realized. * >n pago 9, schedule R, State Trevor er report, will be found an estimate of tli ordinary expense*. Those to be paid from the general fund amount to $1 092.001). and do not include other than State institutions, and no estimate is made for new building* of any kind. <>r ap| ropnation* for any pur(-o*e other than those under the immediate con trol of the State. To the estimates contained in ached ule Hinust now he added (| t > following Jt>o t|-nne of !)*• Is* *ii*t fa* *'• ..!!<• .'<*♦ ti. -—-I j- ,im,*l. .-| ,n, t, I tie All <<-a*ral i> >-mar, , IST*. M '■! .-< r< it'-**osi.is . ir one) suit K.t lb, lu-l'-l 111 r..f iar estimate. f.ll.'eo From the foregoing statement the fo • lowing i* deduced; |S fi. it S iKilel vIST* _S2.i4V.ZIV (SI A4.1 Ivnaml • ,-t in In 1.-1 In s. H nvw (HI iT tot il.ft ii , ....fil" * I l *'*'' an..,sht 41,M,el ft. n, *it>litii( la RetlSlAl fm.<! lu, TV „.... 41 *..4* cX U Actus] -I. fi.it Xcti-tnt** I*7o TiJlSi.ioe *4 AA s. lli*f* t -re, . It* fis. ■) „*r In* euitot 1. lTv .with <!*. i| ~f ' j.- 2JSIM) S4 Is*, <!'• Aed.irt it,e .Inf, -n, 11... silfSiii* In Hi. n.f (I tun I 1-4 I**-Jot 00 A'tosl 4*<lt X,nl*r ZO, lASti fl.7lV.nl* M •if the shove amount there are war rant* in tho hand* of the oflim-r* of several of the jen*l institutions of the State amounting to $172.(M1, UK-II as collateral security. U|HID which money i borrowed to defrsy the necessary ex perises of such institutions. This was found necesssry, a* the individual re • |ion*ihility of the officers was hecoiti ing burdensome to tbem. The paasage of appropriation* now Iwforethe House and not included in schedule H will in crease the expenditure* in an amount equal to the expose* of an extra ses sion. Therefore, no deduction from the aliove deficit i msde, as we believe the yearjKSl will find that amount un paid unless provided for at the present session. Especially will tht he true if the present revenue hill a it passed the House become* a law, for litis will increae the present revenue. The question as to how this deficit occurred is not one for tion, but with your permis-ion we will suggest that the appropriation* for the ( years 187f-7-fl were not so much in excess 1 a* those of former years, and for which the revenue* of those year* were found sufficient. An examination of the rev -1 enue* from 1875 up to and including the estimated revenue* for 1879 show that there has been a continued de crease. la I*7* Ili nu-nn, -** Rft.4nfl!S 02 1 la IA7V lb* -.ni1,.1.-1 r-<-i>n- Is ...„ on I>**■'-•* la l.air yw* nf tt.Un.IMV 01 To Ibis a<M Ihs -sirs..nilnr, -spt n- of Hcil M 1*77 of not lass Ibaa IMSI,OOO '• ti.v-m.M7 <u And you have a sum more than llik amount of the preaent deficit. It may be stated, in conclusion, that these figures in no material way differ from those contained in the message of Governor Harlranft and reports ol the State Treasurer and Auditor General laid before your honorable Wodv at the beginning of the present Resston. As to the conclusions that have brum drawn from the foregoing facta and figures, the Treasurer very much regrets that he cannot see that there is no need of providing for any additional revenue. Hut the ugly fact stares him in the face that there is a deficit of over $2,000.00!t, and that the appropriation* are likely to absorb all the revenues that can be received under the existing law* for the next two year* without reducing the amount of the present deficit. To him this is not a pleasant picture, ' but he deems that his duty is done in stating the fact*, n'l docs not presume to suggest reined lea, A* long, however, aa tin* lack of funds in the Treasury continuea he will fe-l it to he his duty to urs what cornea into his hand* a* far as possible to pay the oldest appropria tions. ———— ♦ - . - The Odd Fellows. AXXt'AL XKETINU OV THr. WORTIir r.KANIr I.OIXif. IX lIA It l< IHO L HO. The Right Worthy Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Oddfellow* closed their annual session in Harris burg on Wednesday. There were 665 lodges reijionded to the call as being present. The following summary of the Grand Secretary's re|>ori will show the condition and work of the order for the past year : M X irsm or HEMES KEIHRT. Number of members relieved, 10,870; number of widowed families relieved, 1,528 ; paid for the relief of members, *203,696.61 ; paid for the relief of wid owed families, *12,550.04 ; paid for tie* education of the orphans, *349.23 ; paid for burying the dead, *67,708.70; total amount paid for relief, *343,724.58; de creased amount of relief from preced ing year, $21,841.17. Total amount of the receipts of the subordinate lodges, *663,761.06; de creased Hiuouuf of receipts from the preceding year, *47,447.99; tolal amount of asecl* deposited t>y subordi nate lodges, *2,494,353.20; decrease of assets since the last annual report, *lO,- 209,62. During the past ton years there has been disbursed by the lodges of this jurisdiction for the relief of distress the sum of *3,441,274.04. STATISTICS!. EBTOBT. Number of members as per last an nual rejmrt, 85,341 ; number of initia tions during the yesr, .3,852; number admitted by card, 533 ; number rein stated to membership, 732.. Total. 90,- 478. Number deceased, 803; number with drawn by card, 721 ; nurnl>er suspended, 8,694; number expelled, 82. Total, 10,- 350. Tipsent number of mem4ers t 80,118 ; net los- in niemV>whip, 5,243 ; number rejected, 276 ; number of l'ast (irands, 17.889. Number of working lodges rejmr'.ed last year, 890; since defunct, 0. Total 893. Revived, 4 : instituted, K. Ties ••nt numlx-r of working lodges, 903; net increase duitng the >c-.ir, 6. Ihe annual report of the Grand Ireasurer as submitted, makes the fol lowing exhibit : Balance May 10, 1878', *lO 91,6 89 ; loan made by Orphan Asy lum 1 uiid, **55.73 ; receipt during the fi-cal y ear, * 1 *.616.84. Total, *30,439.4'. Tho payments during the same tss rii.d amounted to *20,425.73. leaving a balance on May 111, 1*79. of *l-1.013.73, which sum will be absorbed by mileage, to be paid to the representatives, at the oloae of ilmmhlo* TliTriiium ii reported that thet'rphan Asylum Fund has accumulated to *14.2*5.10, of w bit )i sum *12,421.54 has been loaned to the genetal fund of the Grand Lodge, *l.lll invested in f'ily sixes, and the halano- m cash, *752.56, remaining in that officer's hands. Ihe Finance Committee, through it* chairman, presented the rejorl of their transaction* for the | ast fiscal year, and submitted the figure* of estimated re ceipt* and ea|>enditurea for the ensuing year, the former aggregating the sum of *1 h,and that ot expenditures *19,- 530 30. The asset* of the Grand Lodge, on May 10, 1*79. amounted to *15,- 848.1 J, and the liabilities *12,421.54, making the net aieeU *3.426 57. Ihe teller* appointed to ojwn snd count the returns of the annual elec tron, rer-ort the following as the result : M. \N . Grand Master, .lohn A. My ler, of Allegheny City. R. W. Deputy Grand Master. Alfred R. Totter, of Philadelphia. R. W. G. Warden, ItoU-rt F. Wright, •lr., of Allenlown. R. W. Grand Secretary, Jtiue* it. Nicholson, of Thiiadciphia. R. W. Grand Treasurer, M. Richard Muokle.of i'bilsdelphia. R. W. G. It. to <l. L L". 8., Isaac A. Sheppsrd, of Tbiladelphia. M. W. Grand Master John A. Myler announced the following appointment*. M. W. G. Chaplain—Rev. J. J. M - Illyer of No. 475. Grand Marshall—Henry Stemning well, of So. 241. 0. C.—F. M. Kea, of No. 89. Grand Guardian—Rev. K. McCabe. tirand Herald—Leonard F. Bailer, of No. 23. Philadelphia Market*. I'Hll.tsetrwiA. Mi) £J. HC. Fu-t* i*i> Mini —Ft wI, quiet and mlj ; *a),e 4 IJl'i 1*111S; in lading Miunswia ,nr* fnmllt, medium and law). S*>' kAOi; l-.i.ns)lrani* d-. 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