tjljr Centre A, tlemocrnl.
SHUGERT & KOKSTER, Editors.
VOL. I.
J lit Centre etuotr.it.
Terms 51.50 per Aniinm. in Advance.
8. T. SHUQERT snd R. H. FORSTER. Editor*.
Thursday Morning, October 9, 1879.
Democratic State Tickot.
STATIC TItEASI'KER,
DANIEL O. HARK, Allegheny county.
Democratic County Tieket.
JI'RY 005!MISSIoNKR.
JOHN SHANNON, of Potter.
CORONER,
I)r. JOSEPH ADAMS, of Milcsburg.
Democratic Mass Meeting.
There will bo Mara Meeting of the citi
zens of Centre county, at tho Court House,
in Bellefonto, on
Tmutiny Kvrniny, Oct. 14, I Slit,
which will be addressed by Hon. WM. A.
"WALLACE, U. S. Senator, of Clearfield
county, Hon. GEO. A. JKNKS,f Brook
ville, and Ex-Goy. ANDREW G. CI Jt-
TIN, of Bellefonto.
It is hoped that there will bo a turn
out from all parts of the county. All citi
zens are invited to come and hear tho
issues now exciting the public mind dis
cussed by honest, able and faithful public
men. By order Of tho Democratic County
Committee.
DAVID F. FORTNEY, Chairman.
IT is said that Grant was not pleas
ed with Pinafore. He regarded Sir
Joseph as a reflection upon that sturdy
old salt, Boric, and understood Con*in
Ifrbe to say, "and so do the C'ascys,
the Corbins and the Dents."
PROF. J. WISE, the famous aeronaut,
who made an oscentiun from St. Isjuis
ou Sunday evening, the '2* th ult., in
company with a Mr. Burr, has not yet
boen heard front. They have no doubt
met the fate of Donaldson and his com
panion who were lost gome time ago.
Prof. Wise was an old man, and spent
his life in experiments to successfully
navigate the air. He resided in Lan
eaater county, in this State; was well
known to our people, and much res
jiectcd.
SOME reckless Democrat, without
f*r of the wrath to come, was wicked
enough to say the other day, that
whenever a colored man at the south
gets cowhided for l>eing in a white
man's cbicken-house after dark, he
sends word to the New York Tribune
that he was there as a Republican for
jiolitical purposes, and another brutal
outrage is annouuccd. Hut nobody
hears from the chickens!
TIIE Republican platforms so far as
promulgated this fall, seem to claim
that the States have no rights that the
Nation is bound to resjwet, and thnt
state rights is an exploded theory and
the reservations of the Constitution in
favor of the States mere chimeras of
the old fogies w ho made and adopted
it. Well, perhaps the Republicans
will come to their senses after the No
vember elections, and see things in a
different light.
GEN. BHEKHAM, who has been tra
velling in the Hayes Caravan, recen
ly made a speech urging the people to
use their influeucc with members of
Congress to increase the army. It
costs now $50,000,000 annually to
keep up the present military establish
ment of 25,000 men, and Gen. Sher
man is not happy. It docs not come
up to his ideas of grandeur. If Con
gress would discharge the large sur
plus of drones under pay, they might
add to the rank and tile without in
creasing materially the present enor
mous expenditure. It need not re
quire six officers to command ten men.
After all, our reliance is not depend
ent upon the army to repel invasion,
if any should occur, which is not to be
expected. It is to the people them
selves, to the citizen soldiery, that
we must look for protection. Hut Gen.
Hhcrman with his 25,000 men on the
borders, where they may be useful,
but give us no more soldiers to con
centrate at Washington and other pla
ces to force the edicts of party to se
cure the triumph of fraud.
"Bgl'AL ANI) KXACT JUHTU'IC TO ALL MEN, OT WHATEVER MTATK OK I'KKMLAMON, HKI.IOIOCN OK POLITICAL."— h-lttnun
Wendall. I*hilli|M announces tl at
" the old Democratic party is about
dead." Thin announcement has been
made at least oticc a year, and the Re
publicans have been preparing to bu
ry it ever siuce that party had an ex
istence, ami still the stubborn old
thing lives on and retains a woudcr
ful vitality. Notwithstanding its great
age, and the extraordinary conflicts it
has had to encounter iu the last centu
ry with the aristocracy, their corrup
tions aud frauds, it is still robust ami
belligerent, and the Republicans may
as well abandon the hope of the fune
ral so long predicted and so ardently
desired. The truth is the old Demo
cratic party can't die as long as Re
publican Government exists. When
that dies,and the stalwart republicans
have succeeded is establishing a cen
tralized des|Hjtisn on its ruins, the
grand old party may succumb, hut
not until then.
A LATE telegram from ltdiami|>o
lis announces the unwelcome fact that
the White House circus has conclud
ed its full engagements at the Western
Agricultural Fairs, and is alrout ready
to return to winter quarters at Wash
ington. At the hist appearance of the
company, in the city above named, it is
said Mr. Haves made a speech about
the return of prosperity and the re
sources of Indiana, which was favora
bly received. It is not said, however,
that he reja-ated the lucid sentence ut
tered by him a few days before, nt Au
rora, Illinois, "What I wish to say is,
let us see to it in all our pleasure,
whatever may be remembered and
whoever may lie forgotten, we should
not fail to remember that we shall not
forget the laborers- of our country."
Huch a "gem of thought and jewel of
expression," does his Frauduleuey in
finite credit, and should be placed l>e
fore his admiring audiences every
where.
WE feel inclined of cay to our GAL
lant au<l distinguished friend, Gen.
Heaver, in view of the speech he ma<le
the other <lay in the Hepubliran coun
ty convention, that he might as well
stick to his old sentiments of good
will towards the South, to the end
that all sections of our common coun
try may dwell together in peace and
harmony. It is entirely too late in
the day for him to unfurl the banner
of the bloody shirt. No good will
come of it, for there is not gore enough
on the miserable rag to last until the
State compaign of 18*2 comes off.
The sooner, therefore, our friend ap
preciates this fact the letter it will
lie for his future as a public man, of
which he has a right to entertain
"great expections."
THE True Democrat and the Demo
cratic Sentinel, the two Democratic
newspapers heretofore published at
i'a., have lieen united, and
the result of the union reached us last
week as the Democrat and Sentinel,
with H. J. Fosnot as editor and pul>-
lisher, and H. J. Walters as associate
editor. It is an excellent newspaper
advocates sound Democratic princi
ples and should receive a liberal sup
port from the Democracy of Mittlin
county. Gentlemen, we wish you all
success in your new departure.
J. HLAKE WALTERS, Esq., Cashier
of the State Treasury, has been ap
pointed Paymaster of the National
(tuard of Pennsylvania, with the
rank of Colonel. The Patriot says the
gallant Colonel "is ready to march at
the tap of the drum," but is happy in
the thought that "grim visag'd war
hath smoothed his wrinkled front"
and that there is no smell of villain
ous saltpetre in the land."
THE rush and roar of the Grant
boom was last heard in Nebraska.
In all the speeches made in the Re
publican Convention of that Htate the
other day, Grant was named as the
standard bearer for 1880. Hherman
must speedily work up his " solid
south" or he is irretrievably lost.
BELLKEONTE, PA., TIIU
Tho Congressional Content
There seems to be a singular, not to
sny surprising, unanimity of senti
ment in at least two quarters in regard
to the contest from this Congressional
district now ]>cnding in Congress.
Notwithstanding the resolution unani
mously adopted by our county con
vention, three weeks ago, expressing a
sincere belief in the election of Ex-
Governor Curtin by the honest vote of
the district, and giving a hearty en
dorsement to his course in contesting
his right to the seat, our neighbor of
the ffalr/iman condemns the contest,
and our Republican friends exactly
agree with him. They are in sweet
and loving harmony with each other.
Indeed, tho resolution passed by the
Republican county convention, of last
Tuesday, condemning the contest and
endorsing the right of Mr. Vocutn to
retain the sent, rends as though it
might have been written within the
inner precincts of the ll'drAwum's cosy
sanctum, so beautifully does it har
monize with the views expressed by
that journal upon the same subject.
Rut in defiance of all this exhibition
of impotent disappointment the contest
will still go on. The friends of Ex-
Governor Curtin have an abiding con
fid* nee in the justice of his cause-
They believe that the evidence in the
ease shows conclusively that lie re
ceived a handsome majority of the
legal votes of the district, and know
that a Democratic majority will not
be SO far derelict in duty to the party
as to refuse to award him a scat to
which he was fairly and honestly
elected. As nu offset to the opinions
expressed in the two quarters above
indicated, we append the following
extracts from recent issue* of the
Washington IW, byway of showing
what is thought about the propriety
and justice of this contest at the t'aj
ital :
•' When tho Republicans controlled
the House thoy were accustomed to
turn out almost any Iemocrat whoso
•oat wm claimed by his competitor re
gardless of the fact* in the aso. THp
Democracy bare not followed thoup Lad
precedent*, but bavo bpn guided by
tho principles of law and equity in
deciding contested elections. Meaar*.
Yocum and Orth will, in all probability,
bo eliminated from thn present House
for tho good and sufficient reason that
thpy occupy paU to which Mcrarsj
Curtin and McCabe were eleotcd."
"One of the brut duties that will de
volve on tho lloup, when it meets in
December, will bo to put Andrew (i.
t'urtin, of Pennsylvania, and .linua
McCabe of Indiana, into thn seats to
which tlioy wore duly elected lat year,
and from which they are debarred by
the temporary tenure of Yocum and
trth, respectively. The howl which
the Kadical preM ia raining, in antici
pation of this event, ia not calculated
to alarm the Democratic majority, both
juatice and expediency demand that
the l>emocrata elected to thoae aeata be
inatalled in them. And we have a
strong conviction that thia will be
promptly done."
THE New York Sun ha* the follow
ing comment* on the speech delivered
by Senator Wallace at I'ine Grove,
which are worthy of the careful atudy
of the producers and workingmen of
Pennsylvania:
Mr. Wallace remind* hi* audience
that no people in the Union have no
important a Make in the restoration of
harmony and good government a* the
people of Pennsylvania. He refers to
the uncertainty of foreign markets, not
only for the products of our farms but
also of our manufactories, and shows
very clearly that the south ought to be
again as it was once, the most certain as
well a* the most profitable market for
the varied industries of the north, lie
asks s
"How are we to insure a for
what we produce In the future? {'an we
do it by causing divisions among our own
people, and by arraying one section of the
country against another, by daunting the
'bloody shirt' and crying 'lbwn with the
Confederate Brigadier ?' Or shall wo re
cognise the fact that the actual market for
our manufaclurea is in the south, and aid
to restore our own market by restoring
unity, peace and good government through
out the whole country f The only securi
ty for a continuance of the period' of nros
jierity now about breaking upon our Penn
sylvania industries Is to be found in re
storing the whole country to the condition
of one prosperons and united people.
We of Pennsylvania are more interested
in this queatln than any other section of
the republic, for wo are the workshop of
the republic. The true protection for
Pennsylvania's industries is in the restora
tion of peace and good fellowship to all."
It la marvelous beyond comprehen
sion that la the -State which furnishes
tSDAV, OCTOBER !87!i.
coal and iron, nnd all the multitude of
manufactures which they unite to pro
duce, u party could he maidialed to
keep in uproar and contusion, ill slavery
and poverty, the population of eight or
ten Slates which are its natural custo
mers. When tho society of the south
is settled and its agriculture revived,
Pennsylvania furnishes it with imple
ments, from a cotton planter and it
plough to a stenm engine and u press.
\\ hen her railroads are to he rebuilt
Pennsylvania sends her the iron. Her
coal Boats choke the upper waters of
tiie Ohio before every freshet, and the
number of them increases with every
day of peace and uninterrupted indus
trial ellbrt in the southern States.
lVnnHylvHnjn, the great central com
monwealtb, "the workshop of the Un
ion," as Senator Wallace call* it, has a
larger interest in sectional tranquility
than any other community of equal
numbers in the cojntry. Its people
will <lo well to study the logic of Sena
tor Wallace's wise and pithy speech.
They Will Fail.
I ft'lii t!| \Vk*|ti|)|bi|) r<at.
Many years ago, when it was the cus
tom of the Knglisb proas to riilicule or
revile everything American, Washing
ton Irving wrote: "The mero contests
of the sword are tem|>orary ; their
wounds are hut in the flesb. and it is
the pride of the generous to forgive
and forget them; but the slanders of
the pen pierce to the heart; they rank
le longest in the noblest spirits; they
dwell ever present in the mind, and
render it morbidly sensitive to the
most trilling collision." If Mr. Irving
were living to-day he might apply the
same words to the chronic habit of the
Republican press to vilify and slander
the Southern people, and the rebuke
would be just and timely. The wounds
of the sword would have been mutually
forgiven and forgotten long ago. and
the people of the North and South
would now be on the kindest terms,
had not the unscrupulous men who
control the Republican organization
decided to re-Open those wounds, in
the hope of making |>olitcal capital
thereby. For this reason, and no
other, the Republican press, with few
exceptions has kept Up an incessant
and increasing torrent of abuse and cal
umny. The sad results of this policy are
apparent in an increasing luternaa of
feeling. Cooper tells us that "mountains
interposed, making enemies of nations
that had else, like kindred drops. l>oen
mingled into one." The Republican
managers have erected mountains of
lies to separate the North and South,
and excite mutual hostilitr. It is the
most impolitic and wicked thing that
any man or act of men could do. It re
tards the progress of the Nation in all
its greatest interests, and it sows broad
cast the seeds of strive, that are likely
to bear bitter fruit for years to come.
Hut the men who coolly decided that
thero was "blood enough in the old
shirt for another campaign" care noth
ing for the great and (>ermanent injury
they inflict on the business, the social
end moral interests of all our people, if
they can but solidify the North against
the South—the South already solidified
by cruel oppression and unrelenting
malice. Yet these men will fail, mis
erably fail, in their infernal purpose
The great commercial and industrial
interests of all sections must, in the
Tery nature of things, he arrayed against
the policy of propagating hate and nur
turing malice. And on these great
conservator of fraternal relations we
may safely depend for the final over
throw of the party whose only hope of
continued existence is sectional ani
mosity.
♦
An I ndcrground Hirer of Petroleum.
There ia said to be a river of petro
leum flowing through the subterranean
I raviliea of lex**. It takea it* riae in
! the carboniferoua atrata north of the
great bend of the Colorado above Lam
paaea, thence it flowa in a aoutheaat
direction. The first indication known
of thia atream ia in llurnet county at
"tar springs,™ where petroleum covera
the surface of the witer. Again it ap
|>eara in the aoutheaat in Williamaon
county and at aeveral pointa in theaame
direction in the unfrequented forests
and thickets penetrated by the
Great Northern Railway. Further
aoutheaat it appears again nine miles
northwest of Sour Lake; it appears
again on moat of the wella, and haa
covered Ihe surface for a considerable
apace with hard aaphaltum. Again,
some thirty milea aoutheaat, it appear*
at Beaumont. Some fifteen milea from
that |>oint an arm of it cornea near the
a irfaoe at what ia known as Oil Hay, on
t ie gulf, where the water ia no covered
with oil that the waves have no effect.
Even when the gulf ia on ita heaviest
"benders" the waters of thia bay are
said to he perfectly quiet and peaceable
and it ia therefore a favorite place of
refuge for trading vessels when a storm
ia threatened. Perhaps thia river of
petroleum passes through the aubterra
nean cavities under the gulf, and ia the
same that at last boil* up in Trinidad,
making the great aaphaltum lake.
Along the shores near Sabine Hay it ia
also common for chunka of aaphaltum
to be thrown up by the aea. The river,
if it be a river, baa never yet I seen
tapped by the hand*'of man, and iu
great supplies of oil are doing no good
except in Trinidad, if it be theaame
that rise* on the island. Hut it must
be recollected that Texas ia yet, from
some stand-points, an almost totally
unexplored region.
STATE NEWS.
Butler county ships wheat to t'incin
nati.
It is rumered that the Cambria iron
company of Johnstown will increase
the wages of its employes in Novem
ber.
The Pittsburg division of the Balti
more ami Ohio railroad has drawn upon
the main line for about a dozen of ex
tra locomotives, so great lies become
the traflic of the road.
Huntingdon is putting up a hand
some new public building at a cost of
#I!O,(MXt. A three-story htick building
has also been erected on the site of the
Henry A Co. (lour mill, burned some
time ago.
The work at the new penitentiary at
Huntingdon progresses slowly, hut a
small portion of the outer wall having
reached the surface of the ground.
The reservoir, however, is almost com
pleted.
'I he inspection of the bridges, iron
work, etc., ot the Pennsylvania railroad
and brunches has commenced. The
general and local engineers of the
scientific department comprise the in
spection party.
A little girl named Ilaney, of Cam
bria county, who bod been detected in
unauthorized purchase of urtie'e* at a
grocer * was so humiliated that she
undertook to commit suicide. .She wa*
only twelve years ol^^
A party of boy* gathering cbe-t
nuts, Sunday, in Lhe woods near Sjiort
bill, at Scraiit-on. found a human skele
i ton with two hole* in the skull. It is
supposed to be that of John Lorson,
who is said t-o have been murdered.
The publisher* $f the Wilkes bar re
r are now issuing a real and
sprightly little daily, 'I here was a held
for an afternoon paper in Wilkesbarre,
and the lift* the ability to
succeed. It starts with, the news, both
local and general, and that is what
makes a paper in these t's.ies.
It is understood that :a Philadelphia
gentleman named Whitehead has made
all the preliminary arrangements to
ward securing the contrdl of Elizabeth
furnace, about three mi bis east of Al
toona, for the pur|>ose a* putting it in
blast. When this occurs many men
will be thus given employment.
The Rehigh iron company's mine
near hast Texas is c.llled the "murder
hole" because of lb4 many live* lost
there. The xoikmA do not like the
place and the machinery destroyed by
the last explosion not be replaced,
arrangements having l-eeti made to
wash the ore on a property near by.
The firm at W ill,*am*port which en
tered into a contract with a New York
house last summeiv to manufacture AO,-
000 toy pianos is progressing. finely with
the work. These pianos are 19 by 9
inches, neatly, made and varnished.
From .100 to f**'are turned out daily.
The contract irfust be finished by the
first of liecemntc- "ne hundred and
ten girl* and vyomen and twenty-five
men are emplctfod in putting them to
gether. The |firm xpeeta to fake a
large Euroj><oontrac*. this
A fire Clearfield
county, lastWTiursday, destroyed Jesse
K. Akera' cUFsr manufactory, the bank
block and firafl A Son's dwelling, res
taurant ami billiard room. !>e*ide* dam
aging othAr buildings. The Curwens
villo occupied part of the hank
but all their safes, valuable
p3jmHv>d books were saved, and there
will be no interruption to the bank's
business. <>n the third story was the
Curwensville Library Association's
reading room and (kid Fellows' Hall,
the loss on which is complete, with no
insurance. The aggregate loss by the
fire is about f30,0(J0 and the insurance
117,(100.
Two yearn ago theae was a railroad
diaaater on the Pickering Valley road,
near Kimberton, a few milea" from
I'ho-nixville. A crowded excursion
train, returning from the I'ennypacker
family re-union at Schwenkaville, ran
into a chaam caused by a heavy raft
wadiing out an embankment. Seven
people were killed and about forty
wounded. Some forty auita have been
brought againat the Heading Railroad
for damagea. That of Harmon Ander
aon waa terminated on Saturday night
at I.an raster, and the verdict waa in
favor of An demon. lie waa awarded
$3,500. The caae will now go to Su
preme Court,
The report of oil operations for Sep
tember shows a falling off in the aggie
Cle production, although there has
en a slight increase in the lower re
gion. In the Bradford region the wells
completed last month numbered 160,
increasing the production 4,639 barrels,
or an average of about 29 barrels to the
well. The increase during September
w not ao great as the previous month,
when 5,939 barrels were added to the
daily production by the completion of
506 wells. As compared with August,
September's figure* thow that forty-six
fewer wella were completed, and the in
crease in production fell abort of Au
gust's increase by 1.300 barrels. A*
compared with July th* number of
completed wella is 109 less and the pro
duction 2,652 barrel* leas than July's
increase. The wella drilling and rigs
up number 446, an increase of eight
over August's figures. The rig* up are
fewer in mimher than thoae of August,
while the wells drilling are inoreesed by
thirty-one. Thia indicates that tba
drill will be pushed during Gotober to a
{reater extent than it was in Septem
er. The late rise in oil hae caused a
great increase in Hg* and also started
the drill at rigs which have been stand
ing for many month*.
TKHMS: $1.50 |mt Annum, in Ativan*-*'.
GENERAL NEWS.
•Secretaries Schnrz and Key have re
turned to their desk*. Secretary
Thompson will return from Indiana
in a day or two.
Invr ligation shows that Anna Mulii
g an, an aged New York beggar. ha*
more than t to her credit in the
saving* banks of that city.
Mim Lillie George, of Cincinnati, aged
eighteen, attempted auieide on Sunday
bedataeOof the death of Kred M. i'erri
man, her betrothed.
Hon. I>. I. I.ewin, member of Con
gress from the Tuskaloone district, has
been unanimously elected president of
the I nivernty of Alabama, and has ac
cepted.
Grant didn't like "Pinafore" when he
saw it or heard it, for the first time, in
San Francisco the other evening. He
thought 11/ l r nai<J ; "So ,i 0 tho
Caseys, the <x>rbiri*and the I lenta."
It i* stated that Judge Brummond
will retire from the United Stale* Cir
cuit judgehhip in Chicago, 111., January
I. lie ha* reached a ripe old ape, and
ha* been a United State* Judge for
twenty-nine yearn.
A San Francisco dispatch tella of an
accident at the lioga Mine. Nine men
were being lowered down a shaft, 50U
feet in depth, when the engineer lost
control and the men all fell to the
bottom and were fatally injured.
The Post Office I'enactment ha* de
cided that lette * ado tensed to lottery
companies o • to individuals, when ad
dreased to them an a~ent* for such com
rmnies, are unmailable per w>, and that
I'wtiuMieri should refuse to register
letter* w hen so addressed.
1 he Pennsylvania railroad i* turning
out some taautiful passenger coaches,
upholstered in the Kastlske style. The
seat* are low and covered with blue
plush, the window* broad and furnished
with double blinds, and the chandeliers
very handsome.
Mrs. Dickerman and Mrs. Baldwin,
sister*, at New Haven, Conn., brvc both
died from poison administered by the
latter first to her sister and afterward
to herself. The Coroner's jury on Sun
day found in ac o darcc with the above
far ts and returned a verdict that Mrs.
Baldwin was temporarily de.anged.
Secretary Sherman sent William 11.
Vanderbilt a check for $50,000 on
Wednesday and o.e of about the same
value to Colonel J. C. Flood. Both
these modest fellows own $5,000,000
worth of four t>er cent, bonds, and tho
check* served as reminders that tho
quarterly interest was due.
If General Fremont doesn't earn hi*
aalary a* tiovernor of Arizona hi* wife,
do*'* for him. Mr*. Fremont
ized several cla.se* in , ho
grown sons and o( |(<x>r
tier*, and i fast "fifing the semi civil
ized over froijribe ways of barbsri*m
into whigb Grey otherwise might drift.
G<Jv. Blackburn, of Kentucky, has
jtardoned a fourteen-year old boy. *en
fenced to the Penitentiary for house
breaking, upon the ground that he has
determined not to allow any child to go
inside the State prison to be further
contaminated if there is reasonable
ground upon which it can le prevented.
He favors a resort to reformatory insti
tutions for erring youth.
Congressman Wellborn and General
W. H. Ihmraan, ex-Greenback candi
date for tiovernor of Texas, met at
I'*ll** on Tuesday, to discuss jointly in
public the political questions of the
day. From hard words they fell to
hard blow*. They clinched and rolled
along the ground, suggesting to tho
hilarious crowd a self propelling street
sweeper. The strange thing about tbo
affair is that being in Texas the honora
ble gentlr nen should have substituted
the artificial fist for that natural wea t
on, tbe pistol.
Under the provision* of the circular
of the Secretary of the Treasury of
September 19 last, in regard to the ship
ment of gold coin to parties desiring it.,
there ha* been *ent out from the Mint
gold to the amount of $171,050. In ad
dition to this the Sub-Treasurer* are all
supplied with gold, and are paying it
out freely on current obligations, and
the Trea*urer s checks for called bonds
redeemed are being paid by the Aasis-
Unt Treasurer in New York in gold
through the clearing house.
At the Mcllenry House, Me*dville,
Pa., there is a parrot which is a source
of great annoyance to train men.
When it see* a freight train coming it
will yell at the top of its voice, "Switch
off! switch off!" The enunciation ia
so distinct that it not unfreqently hap
pen* tha. the train will be switched to
avoid a supposed danger. The same
bird, when it sees a passenger train, will
yell, "All aboard !" and thereby cause
a scamper among the passengers, who,
after sitting in the cars for ten or fifteen
minutes, will discover they have been
sold.
Four young laiiio* were dining on
the porch of William If. Speak m en'
residence, in Wallace township, Cheater
county, the other afternoon, when there
assailed their eara a deafening explo
aion, aa of a heavily-charged gun. Then,
inalantaneoualy a amall ball of fire
|>aotf through one of the pane* of
glaoa in a window, making a round,
wellahaped hole. Through an oppoaito
open door it took ila way into an ad
joining room, and there, apparently, in
the abape of a large, fiery hall, atood
•till for several neconda at a diatance of
about two feet from the floor and then
diaanpeared. What became of it, all
tha ladiea were too much frightened to
aee, and one of their number van bally
atunned by the atrango visitor.
NO. 11.