SJjc QtvAit democrat. BHUGKRT \ FOIISTKIt, Fall tors. VOI.. I. ®Jir Crntrf srmocr.it. Terms II.AO per Annum, in Advance. S. T. SHUQERT tnd R. H. FORSTER, Editor.. Thursday Morning, September 4, 1879. Democratic State Ticket. STATE TREASURER, DANIEL O. 11,\ Kit, Allegheny county. NOTICE. Then 1 will ls a lueetinx of tl Democratic Blatr Commlltee at IVllon'i lltilsl. Ilarrld ttrg, on Woluea day, the lOtli of at 2 o'clock, !' M. A full Attfinlanqp in (JBO. W. MILI.EB, Chairman. BLACKIUJRN'H official majority for Governor of Kentucky, is 4d,917. Good, for an off year. THIS is the last day on which voters can bo registered. Attend to it, if you are not already on the list. IT is said that the ribaldry of the language used by Kalloch, in denun ciation of the De Youngs, was really much worse than any newspaper dared to report it. MR. HAYES, the fraud, paid 81,000 of Mr. Tilden's salary as hush money to close the lips of Casanave, the dar key member of the Returning board, who aided him in stealing the Presi dency. Very appropriate and quite in character. SHARON, of Nevada, is a candidate for re-election to the Henate of the United Htatc-s. This is the Senator who drew his pay without Wing pres ent to render any service in the Sen ate during his term. He found it more profitable to remain at home speculating in ruining storks. Mil. IkAYES is ultout to commence his usual rouuds to agricultural fairs, to inform the country what he "knows about farming." What lie knows about Presidential thieves, and their appiintment to office, or how much hush money it takes to keep one of these thieves from peaching upon his pa/*, need not be detailed. MOSEBY, the guerilla Consul to China, has written a letter to a friend in Winchester, Va., in relation to Cien. Grant's candidlcy for the Pre sidency. He says, " Reconstruct par ties and let new men—the live men of the State —rally around Grant and bury the old fossils. Graut is the man under whose leadership we can create a new South." As an inducement to his friends for aetivity in the Grant boom he says further, that when Presi dent Johnson and Gen. Hancock were about to issue a proclamation decla ring the guerilla chief an outlaw, Gen. Grant interfered and suppressed it. This is why Moeeby and his friends are BO enthusiastic for Grant's third term. A RECENT Washington dispatch to a Philadelphia pn|er says: "It is the wish of the Government that De Young be tried by the courts." In deed ! who else would try him ? But who is "the Government" referred to? Is it the fraud of the White House and the seven men who form his council? And what business have they with the De Young case, more than any other citizen, who may desire to sec the laws of California, or any other State, pro|>crly administered to protect the rights of her people and punish wrong-doers? The habit is becoming quite too common in the radical press and its correspondents to speak of the administration at Wash ington as " the Government" — whether they do so in ignorance or thoughtlessness, or by design to edu cate the country down to the centrals,- izing sentiments of the party. Still the fact is patent to all who have any intelligent knowledge of the make-up of our republican form of Govern ment that the part represented by Mr. Hayes and his eouncil is a mere de partment of the Govern rpent—and a very mean one at that as at present administered —entitled ouly to respect in its appropriate sphere. "KqUAI. AN I) KX ACT J UHTK'K TO AI.L ifIKN, or WII ATE V Kit STATIC OU PERSUASION, HKMOIOVM OK lOI.ITKA 1.. J. m-r.. „ Two Civilizations. Mr. James A. Harksdalc, of Yazoo j City, did not shoot 11. M. Dixon from behind, says the Washington Post, or from the porthole of a closed carriage. He met him almost fuce to face. Dixon pulled out a navy revol ver and BarkMlale snatched up n shot gun. Both fired, but Barksdale's was the truer aim, and Dixon fell. It was the life of the one or the other, and both knew it. For this bloody per sonal encounter between two obscure desperadoes, the sataoic Radical press demand Federal military intervention, and the obliteration of a State. In San Francisco, Saturday—the strong Republican city of San Francisco— where by frauds of a colossal charac ter enough illegal votes were thrown lin November, 1876, to change the ; electoral vote of the State from Tildcn to Hayes, a life-long Republican edi tor met a life-long Republican politi cian of National prominence, and | paired the contents of a revolver, first into his breast, and next into his back. The Republican editor concealed his murderous purpose and deadly nim behind the curtains of a closed car riage, so that for the murdered man there was neither premonition, nor the possibility of defense or escape. Now, managers of the Radical satanic pn-ss, be good enough to inform us: If Mis sissippi is the refuge of fiends, what is California? If Yazoo City should In swept from the face of the earth, or sown with -alt, what of San Francisco? If for 1,000 tnen to say to the dcaper ado Dixon, "you shall not make sav ages of 5,000 negroes, and lead them to the destruction of our hearths and homes," is a crime ngainst civilization, what designation do you give to the net of Chas. De Young? What distinction do you make lx?twoen the thousand cool and determind men assembled at Yazoo City to declare that they will prevent a bloody conflict between two races, and the 20,000 frantic Sand-lot ters in San Francisco threatening to sack the city and lynch their political opponent ? Is there one among you honest enough to answer either of these questions ? ACTING upon the law ngnin't the crime of bribery, as defined by Judge Pearson, the Grand Jury of Dauphin county last week returned true bills against a number of persons charged with attempts to bribe members to vote for the riot damages hill—com monly known as the $1,000,000 bill— while it was pending in the Legisla ture at the last session of that laxly. The following are the jrersons against whom true bills have been found, charging them with corrupt solicita tion : William 11. Kemhle, A. W. Lcisening, Charles B. Salter, Jesse It. Crawford, Christian Ix>ng, I). K. Slnx-maker, and E. J. McCune. Kenv blc, Salter and Crawford arc also charged with the additional crime of perjury. The case of Halter was called up by the District Attorney on last Friday, hut after some discussion between the counsel and court, the trials were all |K>stpmej übli can will send forth periodic fits of ill will as long as the present Isiard of County Commissioners remain in office. Oh, no! the Republican has no hankering after " court house sale sidies," and never had ! "Tnr democratic parly claims the right of secession, and that any State can nullify the laws of Congress which the State deems inimical to its inter ests, and that it can sever it* relation to the general government at will, and that the general government does not [losses* the iiower and the right to pro ve nt —'lUlltf'• ulc Republican. It would lf impossible to compress into so small a space a greater amount of untruth than is to be found in the above extract from the Hclle fte dis herited in effort* to stamp out the fever. Gov. Jloyt will deliver the opening address at the fair of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society next Tuesday. Kdward f'oursey, of Piney Neck, ljueen Anne's, who is now -I years of Age and well and hearty, subsists on su gar, eating little else. Mr. h. M. Shoch, a State Represents live, from Somerset county, ha* been arrested, charged with having procured his nomination and election by bribery and corruption. one thousand guests still are fed j daily at the Thousand Island Park ho tels. < >no of the attraction* is an Indi an hrns hand, which discourses some very wild music. Senator Bruce claims to have discov ored evidence to 'how what IM-C*IIIP of , the money embcauled from the Freed men's Bank. He cannot publish his list of embezzlers and embezzlements too soon. William Grossman, who reside* in Hcidloberg townhip. Berk* county, raised -126 potatoes from one potato. ' Tho potato was cut into pieces, each piece haring an eye, and these were , planted. Tonahatcho, a young Seminole, has j been attending tho public school at i Fort Myers, Florida, and stands at the 1 head of all of hi* classes. Ho is a bright intelligent Indian and appears to drop readily into the habits of the | • whites. The excess of export# of the t'nited States over the import* of merchandise for the twelve month* ended July .11. 1*79, were f261.572.059. In gold and silver coin at d bullion the excess of ex ports over iirqiortfl for the same period was $5,280,083. One by one, a* the day of execution approaches, the men who murdered old man Raber.in Iebanon county to get the insurance money uj>on are | confessing their guilt. Two of them. Drew* and Stechler, made confessions this week. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has receiver! advice* from the Crow Agency to the effect that on the 23d instant seven civilians came upon the reservation, caught a Gros Ventre In- i dian, whom they charged with horse stealing, and soon after shot him. The Dauphin county grand jury on Saturday found true bill* against Pet- i tofl, Rurabcrger. Clark and do widow, residing in F.lbert county, Ga., ' has been abducted. Three men came j to her house at night in the guise of revenue officers and took her away with ; them. Parson Newman, Grant's preacher, ha* l>een holding forth at the Methodist I camp-meeting a\ Neelytown, New York, j Hi* choice for the Presidency is Wah- j burne. Grant, he says, doesn't want a third term, hut if the Republicans in j i*tod on it the Parson couldn't say ; what might happen. The Jefferson Democratic Club of : Wilmington, Del., has unanimously : Adopted a resolution endorsing the course of Hon. Thomas F. lUyard in the | United States Senate, and declaring that be should t>e nominated hy the Democratic National Convention for President in 1880. It. 8. Slayinaker, of Kiltanning, pos •esses an ancient piece of furniture. It is a chair which belonged to his great grandfather, General Fer*ifer Fraser, of the Revolutionary army. Itis one of aix chair* which were purchased when bis great grandfather was married, and i* estimated to be about 110 years old. ' The friend* of Thomas A. Scott. , President of the Pennsylvania Railroad | Company, will he glad to learn that two or three personal friends, who part ed company with him within a fortnight and just arrived in Philadelphia, report him fully restored to health and quite gleeful at the prospect of being among his friends at home within a few day*. A cordial greeting awaits him. According to the Chicago 7W-#, never before has trade been so good a* this season, and in no previous year have Chicago merchant* sold a# many goods r* thus far during 1879, and to-day the business interests of that city are in a better shape than at any previous time since the panic of 1873. The bountiful grain crops give assursn eof a splendid fall trade in all lines of merchandise. ' baric* p. Bard, of Rending, aged 28, and n bnikcrnan on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company 1 * coal train*, was run over and instantly kill ed by tho engine of his own train, at Perkiomcn -function, early Sunday • morning. Deputy Coroner Gillespie, of I'ho'iiixville, held an inquest, the jury rendering a verdict of accidental death. The farmers had delightful weather for their 'l'ri Stale Picnic at Williams Grove, Cumberland county, and the at tendance from Went Virginia and Mary land and the southern tier counties of Pennsylvania wa# numbered by thou* and*. Hpeeche* were made on Thurs day hy Rev. William It. Deatrich, of Mcchanicshurg ; Professor 8. B. Ilieges, ] of York, and Congressman Beltzhoover, lof Carlisle. Under the new revenue law 1,400 corpoarlions have registered at the Auditor General's Department, Jn the li*t are included 260 building and loan association*. 70 railroad companies, 10 home and foreign insurance companies, 10 coal companies, 25 bridge companies and 38 turnpike companies. The rest comprise every class of corporation* known to the law, Only a few day* re main in which to register and those corj>oration* not registering hy the ex piration of that time will be subject to a penalty of $5OO each. Arrangement* have been finally con I eluded hy which Captain Webb and Boyton will have a swimming match today, off Nanta*ket Bea>b. The eour will be jut oft" the beach, in j mile stretches. Boyton, it is said, wagers sl9**l that he can go twelve and a half mile* in hit rubber suit while Webb cover* ten and a half miles witli only the usual swimming costume. If either party leaves the water before the prescribed distance i accomplished he will forfeit the race and stake*. While the Pattern State# have been drenched with the late rain* the West i parched. The Kansas CSty Time* pa#- sionately cries: "More rain, 'I/oni! Mother Karth it parched with solar heat; the spring* have ceased to flow ; the ground Is cracked with drought; the citterns are empty ; the cattle are lan guish : the hogsare perishing ; the prai rie grass it like last year's ttubMe. Open the portal* of heaven and give us a re fretfiing shower. More rain, Good Ixird 1 | I>et it pour. Patrick Smith, an aged and respects hie resident of Newbury, N. Y., left hi* home nine weeks ago, while suffering from sickness. He was worried lest he should become a burden to hi* family. All efforts to ascertain his whereabout* were unavailing until l*t Thursday, when he was found in Vevlanck's wood* in a nearly famished condition, and so emaciated that his most inti mate friends were for a long time in doubt as to hi* identity. Ho ha* been living on bark, berries and rye head*. The encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Skillman, New Jersey, closed last Thursday evening after a grand sham battle, in which the soldiers of the National Guard, cavalry and State artillery and recruits of the Grand Army participated. The battle commenced at I o'clock and was con- | tinued in a stvrited manner for about two hour*. It was witnessed hy about j ten thousand people. No accident oc curred and the affair wa# closed after four days enjoyable excitement and pleasure. The boiler at Moore's ore bank, Mil- | flin counlv, exploded on Tuesday of i last weeykarrying away the roof of the ■*, uprooting trees and tear- ! ground. The boiler was car ried a distance of a hundred yards, al though there wa# only a pressure of 50 ! |>ound* of steam used, whereas on Mon day the gauge indicated 75 pound*. ! Three men named Walters, Garret and Krannon were in the engine house at the time, hut only Garret wa# scalded— j slightly on the back. The parly made 1 a narrow escape from a shocking death. Sixteen cases in all—thirteen white nnd three colored—were reported at Memphis on Monday. Four additional interment# have been reported by the undertakers- Walter R. Lueaa. William If. West, Mr*. W. G, Richardson and David P. House, The city is being thoroughly disinfected under the aus- I pi cos of the State Board of Health offi cers. Dr. John Gordon, the physician sent by the Howard* to Julian Bedford, at Bailey's, Tenn., returner! Monday afternoon Mid report# him down with a ' genuine ca#o of yellow fever, W. H. , Joyce, bookeeper at the Western Union telegraph office, Memphis, wa# stricken nt noon. The Howards placed thirty additional nurses on duty. Mr. Kdison exhibited on last Saturday, before the Association for the Advance inont of Science, at Saratoga, hi* new electrochemical telephone. In it# ca pacity to convey the voice to a roomful of persons without any oarpteco exist# the difference lietween it and the ordi ! nary telephone. A singing and a talk ing voice can be conveyed distinctly al the same time. Mr. Kdison surprised his audience by asserting a (relief that ere long it will tie possible* for an au dience in Saratoga to hear through the electrochemical telephone a person making a speech in New York, and that in time a concert may be given when ever desired by artist# in another city. General J, B. Hood, the noted Con federate general, died at New (Means on Saturday of yellow fever. He was a Weal Poiffi graduate and entered the Southern army at the breaking out of the war. He was at ChickMominy, Second Bull Run, Antietem, Fredericks burg, Gettysburg and in the campaign around Atlanta. Before Atlanta he fought desperately with General Thomas and was beaten back. When Sherman TEBMK: |kt Annum, in Advance. began hi* march to the sea he ordered Thomas u> lure Hood toward* Nashville and 'icht him. The urmie* met at franklin and then ensued one of hi* bloodiest battle* of the war. in which the 'Confederate general lost one-sixth of hi* army of 40,000 men. Thoma* *ettl<-d down at Nashville and subse quently took the offensive and fell on Hood, who was laying siege. Hood was badly cut up and routed and wa* soon after relieved of his command and suc ceeded by General Hick Taylor. Kince the war he ha* lived near New Orleans a* a planter. Hi* wife died hut a few day* ago of the fever. Edwin Smith, a farmer who lives sev en mile* south of Adrian, Mich., and who i* forty seven year* of age, has a black, silky beard seven feet ix and a j half inches long. A* hi* height is six feet hi* whisker* sweep the floor when j down, though he, of course, k<-ep* tbetn done up with hair pin* and band* most of the time. Hi* twin brother, Edward has been twenty year* in raising a beard five inches long. Edwin attributes the wonderful grow th to having clipped the fuz from his face when a child. He is a well-to-do farmer, and would not think j of organising himself into a show. A new discovery in flax manufacture is reported at Lyons, Frßncc, by means of which a perfectly silken aj>j>earanoe may be given flax fibres. After chemi cal treatment of flax yarn it is dipped ! into a liquid prepared from silk which leaves a silken coating u|>on it. j The textile material no longer resem ble* flax, but ha* a bright silken thread, und in re -ard to fineness, elasticity and • glo*s is claimed to be absolutely as a substitute for silk. French journal* predict a complete revolution of tho , flax trade should this process prove a 1 success. i Su peri n ten'lent Smythe, of New York, recently re|orted in an indefinite way | that there were irregularities in some of i the New York insurance companies. IHe now say* the Alantic Fire,of I'.rook j lyn, ha* liabilities more than #">0,000 in execs* of a*et* ; that the Adriatic, of ; New York, is impaired to the extent of #'.•4,000; that the asset* and liabilities of the Knickerbocker Life, of New York, nearly balance, and that thero have been irregularities in the manage ment of the Ilroadway Fire. Six other companies are named whose surplus at examination was found to be much less than the amount reported. The I'ope it is said, will visit Germany, a* an evidence of the more friendly re lation* now existing between the Em pire and the Holy See. Cologne, hi* principal destination, has ma >y ecclesi astical attractions. In it* magnificent cathedral are the reputed bodies of tho three wise men who came to Hethlehem at the birth of Christ, and also one or more of the earthen jot* used at tho marriage supper at Cana. In a neigh boring church are preserved the bone* of St. I'rsula and bet 11,(JC3 virgins conijianions. These are only a j>art of the sacred objects wluch will gratify the piety o( his Holiness, while the secular honors which will be shown him will bo grateful in themselves and as the mani festations of a friendly jiolicy. The monument to General Custer was unveiled at West I'oint on Satur day. Algernon S. Sullivan delivered the presentation address and Gener-1 N. P. Hanks was orator of the day. "We should give to the white jwople of the Indian country a chance to fight there own ba tie," he said, or keep tho nearc for them. "We should give to tho Indians the jKililical character to which they aspire—make them citizen* or leave them savages as they chooae, and settle with them as citizens or savages every three months. Short accoun a make long friends. ' Kir army should t>e of sufficient strength to make wars short and one Indian war should suc ceed another. If the money that is ex [•ended to improve the rivers without water and harliors without commerce were appropriated for the army, Indian wars should ceaae forever." The New York Sun says the fish com mission of that State, through the r agents, have turned into the Hudson river this season more than 6,. r >OO,(KM young shsd that they had hatched by the artificial procee*. Thia is about one third larger number than they had hatched in any previous year, requiring the uninterrupted work of six men for about thirty five day*. The most satis factory result* have followed the effort* of previous year*. Not for half a cen tury have shad been so abundant in the Hudson aa they were thia spring. The markets were filled to overflowing, and fishermen along the river disjo#ed of large numbers to farmers to be used to fertilise the field*. A Californian has been analysing a plate collection in a certain church in the land, when two hundred persons were present, and the collection amount ed to 910. The money was in aixty I'iecas, and was, therefore, given by only sixty persona, so that 140 gave l.olhing. Hut of the sixty who did give, eight g. ve hJf a dollar each and twelve a quarter each, ao that one third of the givers contributed seven tenths of the gift*. Eighteen gave ten cents each and twenty-two gave five cents each. And if they bad only had eopjier coins it it hard to tell how deep in the mine they would have gone. The analyser draws two imj>ortant facta from his ana'- ysis which are rpplioable everywhere. First, that the contribution for otyeeta of Christian benevolence come from a few. Tlie majority give nothing, or only a mere pittance to keep up ap pearanc % And second, the problem of systematic giving is yet unsettled, and must remain so until every congre gration ia at to ley by something eve.y week loir ChiiaUan benevolence. NO. M>.