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"Whoever will bo King,
I'll bo tho Vicar of Bray, sir."
GEN. JAMES S. BRISBIN AS A HISTORIAN.
In the Philadelphia Times, of the
15th instant, appears n lubrick biogra
phy of General Grant by that renowned
hero Gen. James S. Brisbin, who has
proven that General Grant is a greater
prodigy, hero and statesman than Gen
eral George Washington ever was ; that
Grant in his youthful days eclipsed
Sinbad the Sailor, Jack the Giant Killer
or Chanfrau's Arkansas Traveller. He
says that when very young, going to
school wilh his cousin John, fhut John
said, "It appear to me Ulysses, you think
a great deal too much of Washington," ,
asserting, at the same time, "he was a
traitor to his king," when Ulysses Grant ;
said: "You must take that back or
%
fight." Here we find that this accom- j
utodaUng historian states that John
called his cousin by the name of Uiys- ;
ses. This is very important, as other i
historians state that Ulysses wa-j added
to his name when he received his ap
pointment as a cadet to West Point.
Of course, they didn't know of whom
they were writing. But our General says
that John and Ulysses did fight, and
that "young Grant hit John on the nose
and he had to cry out enough," and
that "this was Grant's first battle for
his country." Why did not the other
fellows put this important fact in their
histories of General Grant? Shame—
shame on them for this willful omis
sion.
In the next place, the humorous his- !
torian gives us the peculiar traits of
Gen. Grant, which he says "cannot be
better illustrated than by relating the
following anecdote : Grant, one day, '
very busy in his tent, heard his orderly ;
outside in conversation with a visitor, j
who wanted to see General Grant. The
orderly said, "I have orders to admit no
one.' The visitor said, "lilease say to
Shencral Grant I bafe one gran object
for him," Grant heard the conversa
tion through the walls of his tent, sud
denly rose from his seat, and going to
the door of the tent, seised the Jew by
the collar, and lifting him from the
ground hurled him head long into a
mud puddle, and then returned to his
chair in the tent." Thanks to General
Brisbin for giving us this anecdote, no
where else to he found. He does not
atop relating his lively anecdotes of
General Grant and lady, but tells us ,
that "Qencral Kane said to Mrs. Grant, \
on the car* between Pittsburg and Phil
adelphia, "I understand that they do
nothing else at the White House now
but sing Moody and Sankey's hyiun*."
"But there is one thing they cannot
sing there" quoth General Goshorn.
"What is that," inquired Mrs. Grant.
"The sweet Bye and Bye," replied Ooa
horn. "But, I can sing it, can't
eral?" "Certainly, Madam," we all re
plied. Bravo, for all!
The General next informs thp readers
of the Timet that when Grant was at
the Continental, he said, "There seems
to be a great doubt as to whether I am
a candidate for the Presidency, but
there can be no doubt but that lady
over there ia running for it," pointing
to Mrs. Grant. That was cute and wit
ty in General Grant, and he is indebted
to General Brisbin, for putting it on
record. He also assert* that the j>eo
ple re delighted with General Grant
since hi* return from bis trip round the
world; "that bis fellow-citizens lay at hi*
, feet ike croum of the Republic , and beg
him to wear it, not to honor htm, but tbem.''
General Brisbin U rather late in mak
ing this announcement. John Husatd
Young, of the New York HeraUl, who
went out with Grant, as his telephone
and supervisor, tells his readers, In one
of bis letters, that the Kmperor of Ja
pan introduced General Grant to his
Court as "King of America," and that
Grant smiled with complacency.
But hear Brisbin again as a disinter
ttted historian. "We do not My [these
things] tbem, for the purpose of curry
ing favor with General Grant, or for
any selfish reason." Not him! Any
person flint would charge him with any
such notion would have Kdgar Cowan,
Senator Wade, of Ohio, Senator Camer
on and Secretary Stanton to rise up
and contradict it, and qualijiedly deny
that Gen. Brisbin was a penny-a-liner.
These "White House Gallery Portraits"
t>y Gen. Brisbin ure intended to appear
in the Times "Annals of the War." If
so, thO Timra, should have them illus
trated by Nam, showing Grant's lirat
buttle for his country in hitting bis
cousin John on the nose ; the collaring
of the .lew and costing him into u
mud puddle, and the wily Mrs. Grant
singing the "Sweet Bye and Bye." This
would certainly enhance the sale of the
Annals and amuse the readers. The
Timet should also prevail on the bash
ful Brisbin to write bis own autobiogra
phy for the Annals, in which he could
| relate of his,
■ ■ "moat ilixHfttrniiN chances,
Of moving accidents, ly tlMnl mid flidd ;
Of hair-breadth ara|M>a t i'th' imminent deadly breach ;
Of being tukfu by the Insolent foe.*'
The front page of the book should be
embellished with the General's portrait
calling attention to its poetical title.
"I leave you bete a little Uok
K-r yon to look upon,
That you may ace a (bn era In face,
Who from U GIT n'cr run."
VETERAN.
LETTER I ROM WASHINGTON.
From our regular C<*rn*|oiidtit.
WASUIXCITON, 1). C., March "JO, 'SO.
The House has been the scene of con
siderable excitement since the l!'2d, over
the bill proposing to amend the tariff
It drew tlie lines between the protec
tionists and free-traders, without regard
to party, ami caused the first real filli
bustcring of the session. Mr. Town
! attend, of Illinois, introduced the bill
on Monday, but merely indorsed it to
' amend certain enumerated sections of
i the Revised Statutes, upon which the
chairman referred it to the Committee
on Revision of the Laws, instead of to
the Committee on Ways and Means, its
proper place, and where it would have
gone had any protectionist suspicioned
its real intent and purport. On Tues
day, Mr. Garfield accused Mr. Town
shend of deception, which elicited a
warm rejoinder, but Mr. Garfield per
sisting in iiis charges of had faith, Mr.
Townshend grew terribly indignant,
and asserted that Mr. ()., or anybody
•else who charged him with deceit, was
certainly not a saint, either in actions
or in words. Mr. 'J', had just stated
that he dared not write tariff' on his
bill, because he knew that would suffice
to kill it, and be took the plan pursued
in order to get tho tariff" bill \vhoro it
would be acted on. Such inconsistent
statements enabled Mr. Townshend's
opponents to puncture hint on every
turn, and it is no wonder he lost bis
temper and indulged in hi* Saxon epi
thets. He evidently felt badly. Upon
the question of sending the bill to the
Committee on Ways and Means filli
bustering ensued, lor the free traders
were determined it should remain with
its friends, hut they failed, after several
daya struggle, and went to their quar- .
ters beaten men. Protection has the
sympathy of the House, as the recent
wrangle and dead • lock indisputably
prove. On one side was Mr. Coflrotb,
of Pennsylvania, and the other, Mr.
Blackburn. The latter denounced Bam
Randall us a traitor to his party, to
which Mr. Coflroth replied that "if Mr.
Rsndall was a traitor to his pnrty. he
was no traitor to his country." Thi*
little episode was the only incident of
a serious nature occurring during the 1
last hours of the final session, and but
for the interposition of friends it would
have ended in blows Aside from this,
much of the proceeding were of a most
farcial nature. A call of the House was
made, and the Sergeant-at-arm* brought
in a score or more of the members un
der arrest, whose excuses for being
absent were often of a ir.ost laughable
nature. Gne recited Tam O'Slianter
and insisted that he was not in Tain's
"fou" condition, yet he declined to
have the contents of the glass from
which lie drank analysed. Another
excused himself in Dutch, which, of
course, every body understood. An
other appeared in full dress, with white
kids, etc., and said he arrayed himself
in festal attire, and was happy in hav
ing his first opportunity of catching
the Speaker's eye. These comicalities
were the only pleasant variation in the
dry and monotonous chapter of the
dead lock, with ita screed of calling the
yeas and nays. As usual, there was
much to indicate that our good temper
nnce friends bad need to convert Con
gressmen as well as plebeian, as there
were some members evidently greatly
wenried by tho immense fatigue involv
ed in going to and fro from the floor of
the hall to tome adjacent committee
room. It is almost strange how tired
some great statesmen become under
such effort, and yet no one dares insin
tiate that aucb a grand orator and legis
lator was ever guilty of Noah'a weak
ness for wine.
The £jenate hsa been pursuing the
even tenor of ita dignified way since our
last, and cannot ahow that a ripple has
distuihed its placid surface, aaide from
Senator Keßogg's fiery speech made in
his own defence, in opposition to the
rejvwt of the elections committee,
which declared him unseated and Spof
ford the legally elected Senator.
Miss Raymond, who has been hound
ing Senator Hill with her illegitimate
son, baa left the city, and now we have
a promise of an end of the offensive
matter. The Senator made an affidavit
declaring hia innocence of her charges.
But as she has disappeared, we presume
the whole affair will only figure hereaf
ter as one of the many Washington scan
dals which the prominence of one or
the other of the participants bring into
public notice.
It now seems that Stone, the wife
murderer, will be hanged on April 2d.
The President is disinclined to interfere
with the sentence, and all preparations
are made to swing the felon into the
next world at the appointed time.
Stone says he ia resigned to his fate,
and apparently will die as cooly as he
has lived under the suspense of the past
nine months, FELIX.
The Frcedinnu's lluuk.
RETORT OF TUB INVCSTIOATIKO COMMITTEE.
WHY THE HANK TAILED,
Hpocial to til* Time*.
WASHINGTON, March 28.—The Freed
man's Hunk investigating committee, ol
which Bruce, the colored Senator from
Mississippi, is chairman, has completed
| its report, and nil the Democrats have
signed it. The report is a plain state
ment of foot, free from partisan bias.
The report give* us one cause of the
failure a misapprehension on the part
of the trustees ol the character and
purposes of the available fund, the com
mittee holding that under the charter
that fund was intended simply to pay
such depositors us might wish to with
draw their deposits and the employes
of the hank. The trustees construed it
to authorize them to set apart one-third
of the deposits for ordinary banking
purposes and went into a very exten
sive discount business. Another cause
of failure is alleged to have been the
transfer of the control of the funds and
the investments thereof from the trus
tees to a financial committee and to the
uctuary. Under the practical operations
of the institution three of the finance
committee, and sometimes the actuary
alone, performed functions which under
the charter could only be performed by
at least seven affirmative votes on the
part of the trustees. The committee
suggest as another cause of failure that
the provisions of the charter forbid
ding any officer or employe, directly or
indirectly to be a beneficiary or borrow
j er of the bank was repratedly violated,
! the officers sometimes borrowing, some
times negotiating their own paper osten
sibly for others, sometimes acting as in
doners and frequently making loans to
corporations in which they were Block
holders. Another section of the char
ter provided that the president, vice
president and other important officers
should be bonded officers. This provi
sion was disregarded, as no bond was
required. In addition to these causes
lof failure the committee, suggest that
\ there was great inexpei ietice, ignorance
! and carelessness on the part of the offi-
I cers in administering the affairs of the
bank. There were no penal clauses in
corporated in the original charter to
punish infidelity in office, and such
clauses were not incorporated in the
mandatory acts until the act of 1874,
j ten days before the bank suspended.
] With adequate penal provisions in the
' original charter many of the managers
of the institution would have been sub
iject to both criminal and civil prosecu
tion, and one of them. <leorge W. Stick
j ney, the lost actuary, is subject to such
prosecution under the provisions of the
last mandatory act. He appears to
have loaned £>o,ollo the day after the
bonk closed without consulting any one
j and taking no security for a part of the
| loan and insufficient security for the
rest. Some of the criminal actions are
now barred by time, and the civil ac
lion would be unproductive, because of
the insolvency of the men who were lia
ble to them. The present management
is reported to be needlessly expensive
and costly, the cost of administration,
including taxes, for thisyear being £335.-
1)00, the salaries of the commissioners
: amounting to $50,000, attorneys' fees,
j £31,000, and employes, $70,000. The
j committee recommend the substitution
: of tbe Board ot Commissioners by the
I appointment of the Comptroller of the
i Treasury, and they also recommend the
j purchase by the government ol fho
- properly known as the Freed man's
Savings Bank and the adjacent property
j for the use of the government and re
port bills to carry out these two pur
poses. The report is unanimous. The
i committee is composed of Bruce, Angu,
Cameron, Garland, Gordon and Withers.
... . ■——. -
PA K DON REFUSED
Kcmhlc and Ills Cunnsel breath Sur
prised.
j GREAT I'BESM RK MROI'OUT TO HEAR O* TAL
MER —CONGRESSMEN, EDITORS. AND
LEADING CITIZENS or I'llII.A
-DELI'IIIA AND FITTSBCRU
A LI. I'RAV TOR HIS
PARDON, ETC.
II ARRisai'RG. PA., March 28. —The ac
| tion of the State Board of Pardons
I yesterday, in refusing to recommend a
j pardon in the cA*e of W. 11. Kemble
and his associates in Legislative bribery,
was a great surprise to the numerous
counsel for tbe defence, who had conti
dently predicted a difl'eient result.
Great pressure was brought to bear on
Attorney General Palmer, a member of
the Board, by prominent itepublican
politicians to control his vote for the
applicants but he was immovable, and
while the board was io executive sea
sion he declared he would np|tose any
remmisaion of sentence. Lieutenant
Governor Stone, who resides in the oil
region where the people were almost
unanimous against the Four Million
Dollars Relief bill, voted with the At
torney General against psrdon. There
were filed with the board about fifty
letter* from leading politicians, bankers
and merchants ot Philadelphia and
Pittsburg, praying for Kemble's pardon.
Three of the letters were written by
Congressman Bingham, Harman and
O'Neill. Bingham's letter refer* to the
great *ervire Keinble did the State
while State Treasurer, and says he is a
man of pronounced integrity. Harman
is equally laudatory of the chief of the
bribers. Three of the letters were writ
ten hy publishers of Philadelphia news
papers. The remonstrances against a
pardon presented to the board had been
about eight thousand names. The
defendants will be sentenced to morrow
afternoon, if they make their appear
ance, which is very doubtful, since the
Board of Pardons has decided against
them
Hesnlla of the Kxodns.
MORILI, ALA., March 26.— The /it : iisler
will publish to-morrow an interview
with 8, !?. Senar, a colored man who
haa returned from Illinois, in which he
tivea a full and sorrowful account of
is brethren in the west, an 4 says that
their condition is worse than it ever was
in slavery times. He intended to travel
through the State and warn his colored
brethren. In his opinion the South is
the best place for bis people.
It Is noticed that the greater portion
of the tramps now on the road are boys
not oyer 14 years of age.
New York Democracy.
THE FORM OR A CALL TOR TIIE CONVEN
TION A DOITED, 111 T A RESOLUTION
ADVOCATING lIAHMONV l>r.l RATED
—THE STATE CONVENTION TO
MEET BETW EEN APRIL 20
AND MAY 1.
NEW YORK, March 26. —At a meeting
of the Democratic State Committee to
day the form of a call wan adopted for
aending delegates in the StHte conven
tion, but the time and place were left
vacant. A substitute designating Utica
and .lune 0 as the place umi time for
tho convention, und declining that all
Democratic differences should he for
gotten, in order that ull might unite in
a supreme effort to cave the republic,
and recommending that the Irving hall
organization and Tammany hall body
should unite and jointly elect delegates
to the .Stale convention ; that no dele
gates he recieved from this city hy
tho State convention who should rep
resent an organization which refused to
accede to tiiis recommendation, when
the other organization in that respect
j would have shown itself ready to ac
cede, wus defeated. A sub-committee
of live was appointed to the blanks in
tho adopted call, and a resolution was
passed providing that the convention
was to be called between tho 20th of
Apiil and the Ist of May.
Charles K. Grannis, of Utica, one of
the committeemen, mude an address in
favor of Utica as the place to hold the
convention. The understanding of
some of the delegates that Governor
Seymour would endeavor to be pluced
in a position to control the convention,
if held there, he could state that
the governor would not be a candidate
in any sense before the convention,
1 and while Mr. Seymour did not feel dis
posed to give his views to interviewers
who called on him it w as understood and
known to tlie friends of that gentlemen
that under no circumstances would he
consent to he a candidate In-fore the
national convention. Tbe committee
then adjourned tint r Jit.
THE TAMMANV COMMITTEES' ACTION IN RE
CARD TO THE STATE CONVENTION.
The Tammany State committee met
in secret session this afternoon at the
St. Nicholas hotel. It was stated that
the committee were awaiting the action
of the Democratic convention, which
was holding a meeting at the St. Jame*
hotel. Resolutions were passed, how
ever. calling three delegates from every
assembly district to attend the conven
tion and giving the executive commit
tee of the State committee authority to
name the time and place of holding the
the convention. Word was received
from the different assembly districts
stating that the organization WHS com
plete ami satisfactory. It seemed to be
the general feeling of the jtolitician*
present that they were in favor of the
nominee of the convention and utterly
opposed to Tiiden. The country mem
bers, however, advised that the ptii
cecdings be deliberate and *ife.
I.) coining fount) * llloodj Tragedy.
George Smith, confined in the county
jail at Williamaport on the charge of
killing Andrew Miller, learning that
Mrs. Miller and her children had made
statement* charging him with the mur
der. made a full confessiou of his guiit
on Wednesday. He slates that having
decoyed the old man to the barn by
making a noise, he laid in wait with a
piece of hard wood edging*, five feet in
length, and struck him a powerful blow
on the back of the head, which felled
hun to the ground. The old man only
exclaimed : "Ob !" a few times, when
he struck him again and he was dead.
He then went to the house, got a
clothe* line from Mrs. Miller, which she
had all ready for him, returned and
swung Miller tip in the barn all alone.
He then went to the house and told the
woman all about it. Sue cautioned the
children to ray nothing about tboir
father's murder. They have f>oth con
fessed, however, and their statements
agree with that of Smith, so that the
story of the atrocious crime is complete.
Smith claims that the woman insisted
that he should murder her husband,
suggested the plan to decoy him out of
the house, and proposed hanging him
up with the clothes line to allay sus
picion and fixed upon that night for
the commission of the crime.
Accident In a (lunch.
SIXTEEN I'ERSONS I'REC trtTATED INTO TIIE
CELLAR DT A FLOOR HIVING WAT.
B|><isl b to th* Record.
PiTTsnti ROB, May 28.—Today, about
noon, while a vast congregation was de
porting from Trinity Kpiscopal Church,
tho largest in the city, several of the
vestibule joists gave way, and part of
the floor fell, the opening forming a sort
of funnel into which the tile floor slip
ped like ice, precipitating sixteen per
sons into the vent, a depth of twelve
feet to the cellar. The accident caused
the greatest excitement. Women
shrieked and fainted, men grew pale
and shouted "fire," children cried and
a panic resulted, but, fortunately, tbe
great body of the people had already
passed out. Although a number of
of persons were more or less bruised or
scratched in the pressing throng, no
one waa seriously hurt. Of those who
fell into the cellar only two were at all
injured. Dr. English had one of his
hands badly cut and bruised and his
forehead slighiiy contused, Miss Petti
grew had an ankle sprained and the
toes of her right foot crushed.
* More Indian .Murders.
DENVER, C 01.., March 28. —The 7H
lunr't Santa Fe (New Mexioo) special,
giving further news from Mesilla, says :
"Eight, instead of six persons were kill
ed by tbe Indians near Santa Barbara.
The massacred party consisted of Santi
ago Gonzalca, Green Worthliew and
Juan Baca | two boy* at Worthliew'*
ranche and three Mexioans, names un
known. Another party of Indiana at
tacked the sheep ranche at Siera Blanca,
four miles from McKver's ranche, on
Tuesday, but were repulsed with loss.
Frank Wheeler, on his way to tbe
ranche, was attacked hy the Indians,
but escaped after killing one ot the In
dians. These Indians are supposed to
be a raiding party thrown out from Vic
toria's main band."
There are 160 applications for liquor
licenses In Erie,
STATE NEWS.
A Bethlehem woman gave a Caiasau
qua youth a live Florida alligator a a
"philopena - ' present.
The liothlehem Iron Company jmid
out i?I2,tKX) in gold on Naturday out of
a total pay of #BB,OOO.
The Cornmi*ioner* of Cambria i-ounty
have ronaulted architects in relerenoe
to building a new court house in that
county.
Willie Clifton, of Fasten, f-ll over an
embankment, a distance of 811 feet, and
escaped with no greater injury tban a
j broken wrist.
! Colonel h. F. Watson, of Warren, is
I circulating a petition asking Congress
to appropriate funds toward making the
Allegheny lliver navigable.
l>r. Doane, of Williamsport, informs
the (iazrlle and Ihd/.Jin that General
Washington died of diphtheria, and
that lie has the documents to prove it.
Rev. George F. Cain, the retiring pas
tor of the First Presbyterian Church of
Williamsport, has been presented with
a purse of $BOO in gold by the members.
John Nevil, aged 20 years, ate four
mince pie* in four and a half minutes,
| on a bet, in Connellsville, and died next
day, the physician being unable to re
lieve him.
Thirty years ago Lancaster county
raised more wheat than any county iu
the United States. Now .he occupies a
position ir. the front rank us a tobacco
growing county.
it is calculated that it will take£loo,.
I 000 a year to run tbe new insane hos
pital at Xorristown. The male resident
physician is to get s2,o<to salary and the
steward $l,OOO.
A i'ittsbuig man claims to have in
vented an iron puddling process that
will boil iron at a cost of sl.2* per ton,
and make a quality uf iron twenty per
cent, better thun any now manufac
tured.
Robert Wilson, a Wyoming druggist,
walked into his store in a tit of som
! naniliulistn and swallowed poison. The
noise of the bottle on the counter
awoke him, and a stomach pump and
strong antidote did the rest.
Judge Cummin, of Lycoming county,
in granting license to applicants from
Muncy and other places, stated that
upon evidence reaching him of the
! slightest violation of the law, he would
i revoke nil sur-ii license.
Jonah Boughton. the agent and lee-
I Hirer of the Grand Ihvision of tbe Sons
of Temperance, addressed a large audi
| ence at Soranton on Sunday. I'uring
the past week he has addressed large
audiences there and obtained a thou
sand names to the lVm|>erance pledge.
Mary Meek has starved herself to
death, at Allegheny. She believed
that in consequence of her sinfulness,
1 God had commanded her not to eat.
: She wa kept alive in a hospital by hav
ing food forced down her throat. Luton
her return home she refused to take
any nourishment, and died after six
weeks of almost entire abstinence.
Frank iJoil, a five-year old boy of Mc-
Iviun county, was amusing himself with
some matches and an obi |>owder keg,
tbe other day, in the upper room of ins
| home. There was enough jsowder
in the keg to blow the roof of the house
oil and mangle the boy so that he died
iu a short lime.
The citizens of Hnrleton are talking
of calling a public meeting to take
measures to set ofl' the advantages of
the locality s a manufacturing centre.
This course is being pursued by many
towns throughout the Lehigh and Wy.
ninitig valley*, ami in cveral instances
bids fair to be fruitful iu good results.
There are now nine hundred and
ninety building and loan associations
in l'ennsyirania, I'hiladelphia having
four hundred and ninety of tbein.
Faoh of them hss an authorized capital
of $ 1,000,<X)0. and an average paid up
fund of from $.Vi,(M)i) to f KX) 000 each.
It is said Colonel James Duffy, on tLe
Cameron farm, near Marietta, will have
one hundred and twenty acres of tobac
co cultivated the coming season. Tbe
land will be - farmed out in two or three
acre plots, each grower getting one half
the crop for his work.
A Schuylkill county man who went lo
Kcmpion, Berks county, to visit a lady,
left his sulky at a neighbor'* house and
proceeded on foot. He returned next
morning to find his sulky missing, mud
after several hours' search he found
that it had been taken apart and put
together again in the top of a large
chestnut tree.
Miss Bella Clements, a young ladv of
exceeding beauty, connected with a
family of wealth and social distinction,
and having in her own right an income
of ten dollars a day. was in the Central
Police Station, in Philadelphia, charged
with theft. It was alleged that Bella
has an inordinate desire to possess her
self with almost eveything that does
not already belong to her.
The Pennsylvania post'office changes
during the week ending March 27, 1880.
were: Offices established—Armstrong,
Allegheny county, Stephen G. Barnes,
postmaster; Buttercup, Butler county,
Nelson Stevenson, jiostmaster; (suems
honing, Somerset county, William S.
Morgan, |K*tmaster j Reeves, Lawrence
county, Robert A. Brown, postmaster ;
Widnoon. Armstrong county, Madison
W . Meredith, postmaster j Postmasters
appointed—George H. Webb, Alba,
Bradford oounlv ; E. M. Rogers, Arroyo,
Klk county; William Donaldson, Har
rington, Washington county i Perry A.
Shannon. Boraid, Butler county:
Charles Stwnbrough, lirookfiehl, Tioga
oounty ; John 11. Rair, Camsrgo. Lan
caster, county ; Andrew (fault, Court
ney, Washington counly ; A. B. Lee,
Dinsmore, Washington county Joseph
Lyter, Knterline. Dauphiu county;
Hairy M. Kvans, F.vansville, Columbus
county; Mary 0. Budd, Oirdland,
Wayne county ; Mary 8. McFarlnnd. j
(Irayaville, Huntingdon oounty; Wil
liam IVaae, Kerr's Station, Washington
county ; John Barr, Medix Run, Klk
oounty : L. Thomas Jenkins, n*k Hill,
Lancaster county; K. L. Bleistein,
Preseott, Lebanon county 5 William E.
McWilliams, Rock Springs, Centre
county ; William G. Miller, Russelville,
Chesier county; Preston K. Hasten,
Saluria, Fulton counlyi A. M. Hays,
Simpson's Store, Washington county;
Jobn M. Moll, Tulpehocken, Berks
oounty.
Philadelphia Market*.
rmnm i.mu. Mr, i, I
VU'Vh l 'lull, Itfil <iti"f al l j Hie liAnh*l,
; imrfU, tn< Itidlnjc Mini ("tot* oimm >.t 7y r ■
j !• tifi*ylaijin extra family m §66/4/2), |
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§l B|. Ai flu* optm i"rd, flrt 'nil r,jn/, •
April m,1.l Hi *I s</■: , l in mm. Il l f.r |, |, "
fur A|*il ; IIJ)7;i lor lUj-..l l;u' j, , '
'• <,uM i >'■ toy „ n„„ „
Bellefoute Market*.
Bn.i rr jTr, Apul I, pn,
Qt'OT ATIOKS.
j H'lilla*|iiut,jiar bitfM i ~
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H)f, p*-r lmhl
Oora ">\i '''
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j Flour, r< tfti!, ji< r i/Mi rcl -
I Flout, wbulMilD !■ •
Provision Market.
Corri-lwl waakljr #y Harper Brother*.
AjijilHi.iliiH, |cr {Kinml t
per |*yuii'l, ee*J*-<l
liMii* jiff
Frwib butter |iar (fiutid '
Chi< k#r>* p<-r potim! "!
ObMM par |xmid<l 1
Couutry haifiH per pound
HAM*, iu|Ci < Uffl.
■•ON
I*atd per pound.....
Kjri £• paflot
I! PoUt'M-f |i-i bualifl
11/jnd bfe*f............
.Vpw AdvertltwtmntH. '
( 10UKT PROCLAMATION.
VV MIIKKKAft. h# II n < b*r\m A Mk.p, y t „ ¥
d'ft of !!•< 4urtof <'"tiinori IMe-im of tli*2.'-*r, J
1 |)ltrl<1, 'liaU|lll| of Km* rountifl of ' < • /
■uf CtnuflaM, arid lha Hon. hwtim.l Yrnu I.\ t
Hun. Jobn I'lvrts*. A**-elate Judtf** ftn I Vntr. u ,*
; bating turned their |* rcs.pt, -let' Jlt|i4*i./
; llarattlur, I#7V, to me < irrt*d. f<*r holding a <
Ojr*.r and T*rtninr and U*-uTa\ Jail |n w ,
j goarnr * •*!., t* of flap Fttir* in Bhlm . . .
"utility of Can If, and to oinnni'- 1, t.. > ..1
' Monday of A|rll nasi, tt> WAU da of * •
1 I WW, and lo rootlnu- two w- W. \ ~, ,V. T / # .
; fflt'-n to tbf < or n*>r. Juatic*** of tba l'a A.
j and < 'on*l**•)- of aaid foutil t of Onif. in-t J
; Uirn and tln f in ib< ir prvpar n, hi i . ?
in tba loranouu of aatd day. *iih ilo ir t- 3.
I aitiott*. ejuitninallofta, and tbHr an rh # ,
l' do lliing" will'li f. Ibair 'ft . aj.j.rru ;
j bo don*, and lii<aa ab< are twund in r< • u
; MMmi aniM ltd j rti mm n thai
- tba >aii of i balm' int* ba Mm m an: • 1
rule agaii.at tli'-in aa ahall l*e juat
| Hi%*n und r iny band, at helWdoet*. tbe li
; A|rll. In lb*- of nor I>r1 Ji. *'] tl.a
hundred and tliird of the |nd jen'i w f i
I mted fetal*-*.
IMI JOIIN hlMN'.l r.K
I N the Orphans' Court for the Couh.
1 if at Oelr. : Bx.t* "i T. M 11A1.t.n..,,,
Notiw* u berehy |(iven, thai Maai M
: llatx. anlav of aaid decedent. ha f? m ti.t
; 4 'iurt lief |m*l itioo to allowed to feta.Ti ", t . t '
tbiee hundn-d dollar-* itit of ll#e r*-aj , • tlkt
j ilattdaul. kouuiiM the I mnklio II- u*e -i ~ k . '
p(sif|lir|)t of the annje ha* lliH ' Ui , j • , ,
.'fN jr 11 14 1H 1 il • ||M fffl . • ... (
mima ill l* a| |f fd 1 y the (otirt . n 11.. 4*3, y .
day of AI r 11. A I IKI*I ntil-#* ek *|t •,
tlo-reto I -efore that time. MM K HI 1. HMIII'
I 14-41 Cle.t oridiaoa Cnart
NOTICE is hereby (jiven, that the
following navne-1 |*era u* has* Med 11 •.r t-te
j tiona for li e,r m the of th < hit tt*e <, t>:
' f <moral QiMTtaf K-ae.. n -d the !'•>* • n„
j Outre county,cad that a|iliratM ni , u mao* et
| the neit Ih a*l<>hft of aaid Coutl to giant lh mm,.
' M*. fe Muwf ..TaT/m, Br;i.di I*. *
I Jobn Ralttadale do ...... I'biI| urg Ik.n,.
i Inn M w w . •
J--oathalt Knauirt r . Md : • 10 L •
| Jacne* faeainoK....... tki. . I ;,i. , ±J.
j JaiiiM M:h llkoa
• John Aad ar<-n d .... |t< i,< • r |v •
J llfnc J' 01 Ist'll,,.
i PavH J. Mayor,
i John If. Odenklrk,. . do. j
iVrry If M vfl f .... -• a
<.e I. Mai kf ri. 1 i. | Rot
Kdward larrm .1
FT fig. do. l * nal m.
j Joel Kling. Jr . .m*.. do. . Man m t
indernk Mnitii,.... fating lioun 14- . -1 -t, <
l. l'u-h Tacern, llel • • re
II ' Veagei iMHttlfl
Otbrg* Miller w.Tevera^.. w .<iregg t * L>l
4 A f aoU 1. r, *4
llobert Lloyd d d
llar%e U ithetight. Ilating Hue*. • . w •) try,
A baa K<di fleer kef,,.. Tavert. H"gg t a i'!,;
] Jeffrey |la)*, do 1: 4, t li*h K
1 l It Rtllil do V tlet t at,At ,u.
I H V fhalfer r d Howard h
M R Teller, do. in liefmtr IV T .
14-dt J c MARI'KR, Ort
A<l mini at rator'a Notice.
f ETTERS of Administration hav.
M J In, I-.1, gr.rit.-l in (1M UTfl.mgT'fv] <-ti it., mi.i.
I oTOKOUOK ISIIOAtW, l.t. >rf Hi. P B>' ,
( -4 spiing, t .nlr. f.iQQit, *j| ,rv ti. u, n. c
r..,ut, in niKltc imn>ii>i |.iml
•nd *ll |mmii limin, cl.im. *,iii.t wil '!'• • -i
will jT'.nl iti.ia Aulj Knih.nlk.lisl h.
14-AI OKsiKHK R II Kill KM AA*ntr.i-*i<
NOTICE is hereby given that the
A'.vi.inl <.| MICII\r.I. lieniNiil K I tiimtl*
lul Jon* IlKTTlkoc*. * l.un.llr, k. 111,1.J MI. I."In
jar.d Amelia Hettinger. AdmlnUtratoni of. 1a , of Me
' char-1 Hettinger. <hv •*..-! ha* lee o fiiwt in the ih
| of the Protbonwtary d the Court of ( *wm.n |*|*o*'
and f..r (>ntre cotinft. and tlat the aaid kam-h > :
| le piewmted bf confirmation at the next term of afi
IS it J t MAStiS i
j is berehy given that the
i,™ AwianMnf ISAAC MILI KR. C.mmiii.- .It
• M. Twin.*. • I.UIMIK Ut. u( (li. Bnnmrti . f IV
font.. ku Insm rtll in lb. n< . of ih<- I'nv
Ih. n. .|.r, nf Ih. C.mrt "I Hhhui* I'k.i In *iol H
(>nlr oouuly. and ih.l Hi. nl uminl .ill l|-
"MM fur oonftrautir,,. *| 111. n.t t.rtn of mPI m utt.
\3-4m J C. nAKI KR. PrOkowurs
NOTICE is hereby given that the
Amnnal nf J D Sill UKKT A',nof J O
I Ci-**l*. hu Un ll In lb. .Am ~f Hi. 1-r. il.M.i.
Urjr nf th Ci*r of Humm.-n I'l.m in n.l <* IVMt.
r.mnlj . Mi'l thai *ppltrnttn Kill I. <!. at th> Mil
Ikflk of Owl for l*. ,ni.Srni.UiMi nf lb. mkim*
1Q J. C HARPKR. Pn.tbi n. urT
OrpliaiiH* Court Hale.
I>Y virtu# of an order issued out
■I p of tbe <h| H*n* Court of Centre county, there
will he exposed at public aale at tbe Court iloyc, ia
iWllefoute. oft
Saturday, the 17th of April, 1880.
at 2 o'clock, f. M., of aaid day, the Mlowing real
e*4ale fit
Two lot* of ground situate in the ltor
ough of Mi'eehurg. the r>r%fthrty of Aaron Barter
age de.eaeed. krm*n fa the plan of additional 1-i* *f
•aid town by Na 4 and . r . l-mmb-d xi lh north !•▼
an alley on the eotifh ly land* >f H v A Ook,i
the enet by Mill at met, attd on tie <at frrwitfng <•
the turnpike Ituding lr*m n Bellefootr h Mileaburg
On lot No. 4, ihr© are TWti 2-STfHY
aWKLUVfI IIOI'SKS: on* of tbrnn a Annbl. bnn*,
frn*lln, on Mill Siml ; lb. c.lbr • dwrllln, k—,
In.min, on lb. tarn|*k.. nJ I* tb. ui. tHiilillnc
* w*r* niMM. n l * iinMiti*.
On lot No. 6. there is ONE 2 STORY
0* lUIMI HfH'sß In *ooA m*4lUi and all olb.r
ne,l mi y nutbulMin*.
Tmm w Si* One Half of porrha*. iMf "Ml
mnflrmalton nf aala, and lb. balannr I* nn. year l l—
aM-wed l.j U.nd and murtgaf. nn Ih* wwiw
K. H.CARK,
ISA* Adm> of A A *n* PaßTtiuak. dw'd.
Legal Notice.
IN the Court of Common Pleas of
(***l-l Onnln- onnntj, Nn, I|A April Terr*. I*W.
I* Ih. imilm of tb. p.HH'<n of Aeaw V. u'.,„.r lo
• ti.fr • .<m*M fbow A'turn Srrart, b
Ollrvr Ruaa, i<...nli I* Unrip,, P.v k W7-
N.itiee is hereby given tbt Adam Y.
Wmn.r Wa. prmalnd hi. pHlllon prarin, lb \—rl
*n (T.nl a ml. on Ih. I.pl Irpnwvuiln, of Dilw
Rian, dw'd, rnqnlrln, Ih.n. in appnu- .1 lb. nl l"
nf IVmrl, h> nil: an lb. PHb da> of April, I**). .1
HclMnibi, lo ihik aaid patllbm and .!■ nan*. *kj
aaOafcrlbm abnul.l am b. .aimed *) lb* record M
mM norlcax*. Rr lb* Own
AOIIX SPAVIII.RR, ShmilT.
Sharif'• OWca. Rallafmile, Pa . liar. lb. INK). f
CANCER REMOVED,
WITHOUT KNIFE, and in most
' ▼ caaa* wKfaonl naln. Apnlr to
C W r. rifIHKR, Roalbnrj.
)1-9*|* Cwtre.Omwlj, Pa,