SIIIGF.RT A FOUNT Kit, Editors. VOL. I. ®lit Cnitre firmocr.it. Terms SI.AO per Annum, in Advance. a. T. SHUGERT snd R H. FORSTER. Editors. Thursday Morning, November 13, 1879. HON. V. E. PIOLKTTE, the Master, has culled the annual meeting of the State Grange at Bloomsburg, on the 9th of December next. • A COLOSSAL e<]ucstriaii statue of (ten. George A. Thomas is to he unveil ed in Washington, on the 20th instant. It is the contribution of the Array of the Cumberland to the memory of the great soldier, and cost s4<>,oOo. TIIE repudiators of Virginia have been successful mainly through the colored Republican vote of the State. The Republican capitalists of the North who hold Virginia 1 Kinds will appreciate the favor. THE lifleosi Southern States, with Missouri, Indiana and New York, give 18* Electoral votes. These will be Democratic, and will secure the elec tion of a Democratic President in 188(). To these may lie added, pretty safely, Oregon, California and New .Jersey, autl perhaps ('onnecticut. THV*irrepreßsible Benj. F. Butler chiim.* that he owes his defeat to a de ficiency of votes. That is most proba bly true. But he says also that there are about 100,000 citizens disfranchis ed in Massachusetts, and intimates hi* intention to have thi* remedied before his next contest for < iubernatorial honors. SENATOR BAYARD and wife arriv ed at homo from their trip to Europe on Friday evening last. He stole a march u|>on hi* friends and neighbors, who were prepared to give him a grand reception. Arriving unexpect edly, he quietly got into a carriage aud drove to his residence before lie was discovered. Like the g eat man he is, he did not court notoriety. THE Washington Pod proposes the nomination of the Hon. Horatio Sey mour, of New York, and Senator Jos. McDonald, of Indiana, a* the Demo cratic candidates for President and Vice President of the United Stiites. Senator McDonald promise* the Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, and Clarkson N. Potter, of New York, a* the candidates. Either combina tion will make a strong and winning team. HOOTEN, the chairman of the Re publican State committee, returns thanks and congratulations to "every Republican in the State, and to all others who aided in securing the vic tory of November 4th." The "all others" must mean the Democrats who staid at home on election day. Their aid was about as efficient as that of the Republican* who voted, and they certainly deserve Hooten's thanks. Tii r. death of Henator Chandler cre ates a vacancy in the chairmanship of the Republican Notional Executive Committee which will probably lie difficult to fill satisfactorily to the va rious stalwart interests. Conkling, it is said, favors the appointment of his man Cornell, the Governor elect of New York. This selection is obnox ious to Hhcrman, and viewed with any thing but complacency by Hlaine. Rut the shot-gun hero's lash is potent against Sherman, and Hlaine may not desire to encounter it. THE New York Tribune concedes that "the New York Democracy will present a united front in 18*0," but says "it is by no means certain what sort of a motto will be inscribed upon its standard." When the Democracy of New York are united they are sure to win, and the Tribune may be as sured that if united they will carry a motto that will meet the approval v. the Democracy of the country. For the Presidential canvas it will l>e— "Equal and exact justice to all" the Htates. "KQL'AL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OR WHATEVKU STATE OR I'KRSCASION, KKI.IOIOVH OR I'OMTK'A Jrirnx.ii Official "Voto of Oontro County. STATE TICKET. | HTATK TREASURER. I es ! es j a ! w •!„I c i c DISTRICTS. i 5 &I S H" "i-. 8 " 5 ' M " O. a 1 ? a 5 I I ° Baltefimte, N. W 71 144 ll! 4 Do. S. W 107! O'.il 14 1 Do. W. W ft! 4* 8 1 Ilowurd 851 718 ] Milwburg 32! 32 38 6 Millhi'irn 104 22 I'hili|>*f>u*g | 111 j 180 8| Union ville ! 25 20 . jr, Bennor 10ft| 281 u Bogg* 127 ! 60 Bfi Burnsiile 10; 33 j Curtin 20 11 2 Col logo 60 j 102 38 Ferguson, (I'd 142 *'> Ferguson, Wow ' 34 I!" Orogg 161 32 lininos 158| 70 3 4 Half Moor 31 65 12 Ilitrri* 103 Oil Howard .51 62 4 Huston 33 48 32 Liberty 30 do 4 pj Mnrion 78 20 1 Miles 184 38 ] I'at toll 20 60 2 l'enn 80 j I'otlor, North 132 60 Potter, South 11l 63 Rush 64; 11.1 7 Snow Shoe 7 24 8 Spring 128 lie. lr. Taylor. .". 23 27 4 Union i 44 47 2d 10 Walker 14n 80 7 Worth 4'> 35 15 Total 2710 1776 2091 61 llarr over Hutler 034 nocirrr TICKET fflf cotta'ft. ! ? i E ! * , £ ! 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In.SnMk IIS '■£ 112 A; Rush 4" 111 In ' ;.2 17 •/ 8u Bb. 87 2". 7 v> Xi 8 B|*LN 1X IU 17 127 ll'. 18 T5j10f...._...._ 2*2 2S 4 23 27 1 1ni.0..„.... :<■ tu 'A> 48 40 211 : Mur 14', 40 7 118 4 7 I Wurth. 4v A', j; .| x\ 18 Total. 2a I*l*l 287 I*ll .11* Cheating Penaionerß. i The rnguex altout Washington are still plying their occupation of ewin tiling the unsuspecting. The Corn mi*- ! sioner of PeoAionj* received the follow ing letter from an aged female pen- I sioner: DEAR SIR : I wish to know if Mr. ha* any right to any pay. He says he got the arreArs ot (tensions bill through congress. 1 thought it took two thirds of the members to pass a law. He wrote me before I got my cheek to know how much I would give. I told the man that filed my papers to put down $25. 1 would like to know if he is trying to swindle mo (an old woman 75 years of age), or shall 1 give it to him. I enclose the papers he sent me. To which the commissioner replies that no one ha a right to make such demands, and it is only an attempt to levy a tax upon her credulity and gen erosity. The papers referred to in the letter arc circulars sent out by the swindlers claiming compensation for services rendered in obtaining the pas sage of the law granting arrears of pensions. <'o!KLi!*o nnd his friends must be nmused at the complaint of Sherman nnd Kvarts that they had to do the work of electing Cornell, while the imperious Senator rolled himself up in hi* magnificence and did nothing. They may well laugh, knowing that the shot-gun hero did much, and did it in away to make his triumph over the fraudulent administration com plete and perfect in their stultification, lie forced the nomination of Cornell, whom the administration repudiated and degraded, and then lashed them into harness with the Tammany chief to secure his election, while he stood back in gleeftil inactivity to witness their humility. BKLLEFONTE, I'A., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, IHT'.I. Proparo for 1800 It i* unnecessary to urge upon the DomiicraU of I'cnnsylvuuia tliu abso lute necessity of a thorough organiza tion of Hie party for the contest of IKBO. The party, says the Ilarrisburg J'utriot, no douht recognize* the fact that without such organization it will IK; vain to hope for success in the State. There ure those, however, who are too willing to regard Pennsylva nia as lost to the Democracy and who are therefore ready to abandon the State to the enemy. To such we would -av that the voting strength of tin- Pennsylvania Democracy has not Iwen fully exhibited at the |K>ll* for many years. The party has not IM-CII in thorough voting drill since I*G* when in spite of the popularity of Grant, oil the test vote in October the Repub lican* had but a beggnrly majority of about nine thousand. Since then the Republican party has been greatly weakened in many counties, notably in the central, northern and western |ior lions of the State. Rut superior disci pline still give* them numerical sti |>eriority at the jsills. There ure about 7->0,900 voters that can be brought to the election in a presiden tial year. A change of two vote* in every hundred of tin- 7.V1,000, from one party to the other, would make a difference, in the aggregate, of •><,- A change of four in every hundred against the dominant party would wi|>e out a majority of GO.OOO. Now there can IK- no ipiestion that if the Democratic party i* properly or ganized and disciplined for I**o that a change of four rot'* in every hundrnl against the Republicans and in favor of the Democrat* can lie made at the presidential election. Sup|Kisc that active Itcinocrats of each election dis trict were to resolve to make this change of four in every hundred Votes, who douht* hut that it Would lie . done ? Rut in order that the workers !in the election di-triet* mav IK- cn couragi-d to undertake the ta*k there must lie a head of the organization who will show them that the work can lie done, how it is to be done, and who will see that it is done. And the sooner this work of organization is be gun the lietter. The State convention for the election of delegates to the National convention and the uom'ina tion of the State ticket ought there fore to IK- held at an early day. It is important that the State committee whirh is to conduct the canvas* next year lie chosen as soon a* jsissihlc, so that the preliminary work of organi zation may IK- completed IK-fore the speaking canvns* which is inevitable in a presidential year shall have be gun. The organization of Democratic clulis, the placing of iKnnocratic newspapers in the hands of the voters, and like preparations for the cam paign ought not to lie neglected be yond the first month of the new year, lint it is more than likely that they will not lie generally thought of unless the State committee take the matter in hand and adopt and enforce soma system in regard to it. Those gest ion* are made simply think there is no sense in battle when with reotcd effort it can IK; PKRSKVKRAWCK I,odgc A. Y. Ma sons of Harrisburg celebrated its Cen tennial anniversary on Tureday ladt, having been instituted on the 10th of November, 1779. Officers of the Grand I/odge, with other distinguish ed Masons were present, and made ap propriate addresses. I)r. \V. H. Ra gle read an interesting history of tlie Izodge since its organization. TIIB elector* of the State of Indi ana, will vote on the first Monday of April next on an amendment to the Conntitution, changing the time for holding election* to November. If election* in all the State* were held on the *ame day, a wholesome check would be given to fraudulent voting hv importation from contiguous States. A Pur® Ballot. The election held in Philadelphia on the fourth of November last, was a parody on the purity of the ballot. Already evidence enough has accu mulated to convince, even the. most malevolent partisan, tliut the whole thing was simply a roaring farce, a recking comedy. There is not, we be lieve, an honest Republican within the corporate limits of Pennsylvania's great metropolis, who does not think that the returns offered a* the result of the late election, are knowingly incor rect and a dclibcratg pcrvcr-ion of the expressed will of the people. The elec tion officers, who assumed their respon sible jiositioiis under the solemnity of an oath, steeped their souls in jwrjury to lay this offering of fraud and violence ti|H.n the altar of a depraved Republi can domination. We do not believe there is an honorable man u|s>u either side, who will not now acknowledge that the Republican vote a* announ ced on the evening of the fourth of NOVCUIIKT wa* false and fraudulent. There i* not a man in Philadelphia who took sufficient intend in the elec tion to note what was going on, who does not know that the number of votes a* returned never went through the windows.. The elation machinery is in the hand- of a* desperate and bold a set of men a* ever curx-d a free coun try. The fact that stand* out in Isold relief is sitnply this: The vote for Butler in Philadelphia i* over four thousand more than that ra-t for Gen* " ral Iloyt. Every one knows that the election !at year for Governor wa- of the most exciting character, and that an active, vigorous and demonstrative campaign wa* carried on by Ix.th par ib-s. The public intcr*st wa* arou*sl and a full Vote wa* of course the con sequence. The election this year *• distinguished by nothing more than the apathy of party leaders and the indifference of the people. And vet in the face of this, the political rotind dcrs who answer for Republican elec tion officers in the first city of our Commonwealth return in this otr year a larger vote thnii was cast for I loyt It i time that this monstrous, organi zed system of fraud should he strieken down, and the Democracy of the coun try earnestly call upon the true heart ed, loyal and unselfish men of the |>ar ty in Philadelphia, to Iteitd their en- orgies to the tak of bringing these j scoundrel* to deserved punishment. I Full rein and scope seem to haye| la-en given to the repeater's and the large majority given Hutler T is due to their system of false persona- j tion. Let Van* and McGowan, and Caasidy ami Hamlall forget tor a while their personal grievances, and I unite in vindicating the Democratic ] party of both City and State by the ! prompt and faithful prosecution of all j concerned in this gigantic fraud. Can ■ it le that such proceedings a these are to go ' X /u *' justice ? Is there j no whose duty it is to / |>ondous outrage UJMIU j this mockery of free -11 v prepared for. The PPonsors of these men sit in the high places of power, and the time ha now come w hen I x-ods, Stokely, lauie and Ilowen should know that they are not omnipotent; that there is a power be hind the throne, mightier than the throne itself. Outraged decency will \ relentlessly drag them to the bar of public opinion, and the verdict will be that they should be remanded forever to the obscurity that always, sooner or later, envelopes the faithless servants of the people. In the meantime, while awaiting the stern retribution that cer tainly ami surely will overtake the masters, we call for the condign pun ishment of the servants. Lane plants and Htokely waters, hut just as sure as comes seed time and harvest, will these men share with their dupes, if not the imprisonment which awaits the re|M-ater, the just and merited condem nation of all honest HMO. This they deserve and should receive. II Y the election of Waldo liuteh iiiM, Democrat in the West Cheder District, New York, vacant by the death of Smith, Republican, the roll of the popular branch of Congress is now complete, and gives u close ma- i jority of three over the combined vote of the Republicans and Greenbacker.-. The disintegration of the Greenback party as an organization is so entire tliut the members elected by that party will probably seek their old af filiations in the Dcpioeratic and Re publican ranks. This will probably increase the working majority of the Democrats in the House to 11 or 12. THI: joint jsill in New York for Robinson and Kclley is over .'{OjKMl in excess of that given the Republi can candidate for t Jovernor. The t onnt In Pennsylvania. If ARRisiti R'., Novemt>er 10.—The re turn* received at the State Department from all but *ev<-n conn tic* in the Slate *how a vole of 11ft,.Us against 582.'95 last year in the same counties. The Iftmiocratic vote ha* decreased nearly 25 per w-nt., the Republican IIJ per | cent, and the National ftft per coat. The Prohibitionist* hold their own. In the counties officially reported the Re publicans have 235.094, the Democrats I s 1,021, the National* 21.789, and the Prohibitionists 2.534, giving the Repub ! lican* a plurality of 50,983, which will be increased to 58,000 by return* from i the remaining counties. The vote w ill :be about 165,900 le* tlian last year and 220.1*10 l-* than in Is'ft. In three counties the National vote exceeds that of the Democrat*, and in one it i larg'r than either of the other parties. GENERAL NEWS. Mr*. I'ivi*, wife of Senator Javis, died at Stockbridge, MA**., Monday morning. I The freight traffic over the Pittsburg j division ol the Pennsylvania railroad j amount* to 3,1**1 car* each day. More than one hundred children have i died in .lohnstown and vicinity during j the pa*t *ix week* from diphtheria. Hon. F/iward F. Noyes, the United , minister to France, has arrived ! at i'on*tantinople on hi* way to Egypt The estimate for the consular and I diplomatic service for the next fiscal year will exceed those for the current j year by ahoul #96,000. An affecting scene in the F.rie Opera House on Saturday night was two young ladie* siteding tear* over the play and dividing a handkerchief between them. The ' ctober rejiort on the condition of the cotton crop in Virginia and North ''arolina show* an average de crease of aliout 14 per cent, in the yield. The New York Flower Mission re ceived 114,900 bouquet* during the sea ! *on, and distiibuted them among the hospital*, prison*, asylum* and tene ! menta of the city. I • An increase of over four hundred | million pieces of mail matter was band . I led in the postal cars during the twelve 1 ended .tune .Ml la-t, the aggre- j .ft.'io,ooo,ol>o. UJtorden Itrook, near Slate line, a 'little girl named <'rand.il! was so badly 1 frightened by a drunken man a few days ago that her hair, which was auburn ! in color, turned snow white. Some French newspsywrs give rumors i of a projected matrimonial alliance be tween l'rinee Thomas ol Savoy, brother of the ljueen of Italy, and the daughter of the Crown Prince of r. David Hostetter, of Allegheny, was married on Thursday to Mr. Herbert De Puy, formerly of Peiladelphia, and now con nected with the Kdcar Thomson Steel Work* a* chemist. The present* of the bride's father are estimated at over sloo,ool\ and, besides this, it is reported that he has given her $1,000,1)00 in j bond*. A lad named Kesser, of Altoona, who had been in the habit of stealing rides on the railroad, wss remonstrated with by his father on tbi* had practice. He : declared he would never do it again, j and hotted that Hod would punish him if he (lid. He kept his promise until Wednesday of last week, when he was thrown from the train and his head sev ered from his body. Some time during Monday morning an accident occurred near Huntingdon, by which a man whoae name could not be ascertained, was knocked down on the track by a west ttound freight train and had both of hi* legs cut off. It is supposed the unfortunate man waa deaf, as every warning signal known to rail road men was given. Misa Libia Parker, of Lycoming coun ty, la distinguishing herself as a rifle shot. In a recent trial at fifty yards nut of sixteen shots she drora the nail eleven times snd struck a paper every time. Mia* Parker, who ia not in the least masculine, takea great delight in the una of the rifle, and can bring down a bird on tha wing or a squirrel from a tree top with ease. TKIIMN: |w-r Annum, in Advance. ' if tb ♦ 120,fX)0 taken from the safe of the liailcy brothers on Wednesday night of last week by three rnnftked bur glars $1 |.1,t)00 have been found strewn around the house anil yard. Of the ♦!,000 carried off #1,700 was in money and the balance in bond*. The robliera left SOOO in gold and over 11,000 in pa nel behind, which they evidently over looked in their hurry. A dispatch from Napoleon. Ohio, aays: A fire which originated in "Hutch Itow'' Sunday morning destroyed one.third of the town. Among the nineteen build ing- destroyed were the Court House, the Sheriff*a residence, the jail and the Carbner agricultural warehouse. The loss i estimated at $100,(X*); insurance $. r ot at Itoaring Spring*, lie was standing on the track with his back turned to the locomotive, and ho must hat been considerably a-toni-he-1 when the iron horse caught him and hurled him some distance to one side. Me was very fortunately not injured to any extent. It i altogether probable that this particular individual will be careful where he plants himself in the future. General Hooker is said to have left a handsome fortune, which will probably go to hi* sister-, Mrs. Hrainard and Mrs. Wood, of Watertown, New York. Among his effects is a large picture of the battle of Lookout Mountain, for which he j.aid f'i'i.OOO. He had prepar ed a book on the )ttle of <'hancellors ville, which is now in the publisher'* hands, and was about to begin a book on the fatuous engagement on Iwell, M e. Mr. and Mra. Teter Little, with two child ten, and Mr. and Mra. .Tame* Brown were rowing front the Centralville shore to Little Canada, when the leaking of the tioat frightened them, and during the confusion it was overturned. Mr. Brown awam ashore j Mra. Little and one child clung to the boat and were rescued: Mr. Little and Mra. Brown, his staler, and Mr. Little's 2-year old son, were drowned. All of the bodies were recovered. At forty five minutes past 12 o'clock Saturday the town of Ntraeburg, Blank county. Mo., was visited by a terrible cyclone, which came from the north west, causing great loss to property, tint no lives were sacrificed, so far aii can now be ascertained. It had been rain ing all the morning, t&a storm being ac companied by thunder and lightning, and aliout noon a heavy, sullen looking cloud was observed in the northwest. The storm struck the town shortly af terward. blowing down a church, three or four stores, and a blacksmith shop. Last Saturday evening a man named William K. Koon, who is said have been intoxicated (for the first time in four years i started to walk along the rail road track notwithstanding he bad been warned not to do to —to his home at Ihincativille. When near Oaysport he seems to have been overcome by a stupor, and from all account* he lay down on the track, with, as it appears, his bead resting on one rail. Conductor (tent's branch train, due in Altoona at 7:10 r. *., ran ovrr the prostrate man, and his head wss almost entirely sever ed from his body, beside being crushed nearly beyond recognition. A lerriVde disaster occurred on the corner of Second and Main streeta at Kansas City. Mo.. Friday afternoon. The extensive candy and cracker man ufactory of Carle A Sons, three-story buildings, tumbled down and was com pletely consumed by fire. At the time the accident occurred one hundred and ! seven persons, mostly boys snd girl* i from 12 to 20 years, were at work in tho { factory, all of whom eecaped alive ex cept aix. Tlfe cause of the accident cannot be fully determined, but as an explosion occurred simultaneously witll the fall of the walls it i* supposed to be a repetition of the accident in Kew | York last year. The Bill list of killed is as follows: Kmma Kemper, fleorgo Kemper, Edward Shut lon, Louise Hum mel. Annie McConneli and Ml*s tfoojs. •per. NO. U'k