£l)f Centre democrat.
SHUUKRT & FORSTKR, Editors.
VOL. 2.
fit (Centre jTraocrat.
Term* tt.so per Annum, In Advance.
S T. BHUGEHT and R. H. F ORSTER. Editor*.
Thursday Morning, April 22, 1880.
*
SENATOR CAMERON'S bill for a
joint commission to consider what leg
islation is necessary for the better reg
ulation of commerce among the States
was reported from the committee on
commerce in the Senate, with amend
ments.
THE Commissioner of Pensions
gives the amount already disbursed
out of the appropriation of $25,000,-
000, for arrearages of pensions, at
$24,500,000 and the number of claims
now on tile is 250,000. Three thou
sand cases arc "yet unadjusted.
GEN. GRANT'S hippodrome perform,
ed in Illinois last week. It met a fair
reception at Cairo, and the General
made his usual speech. The Mulli
gans were no doubt surprised, and
will be obliged to succumb to the
logic of tbe Duke, and tbe necessities
of the Empire.
THE Wyomiug Methodist Confer
ence, a body com|K)*ed of over five
liuudred delegates, adopted at tbeir
hue session a protest to the Board of
Pardons, the Judge of the Court and
the Governor, ngainst condoning the
crime or failing to puuish the per
sons lately convicted of bribery and
corruption in the court of Dauphin
county.
THE Hon. Galusha GREW predicts
that if Grant obtains the Republican
nomination for President, the vote of
Pennsylvania will be thrown against
him. Very likely, and if the Democ
racy don't act the fool, as some of them
seem disposed to do, neither Blaine
nor .Sherman will be available to save
the State to the Republicans.
SECRETARY SHERMAN'S boom for
the Presidency has made no advance
during the last week. It seems to be
n a dead stand. Blaise i 9 a little bet
ter, but the great Ulysses still "holds
the fort," and is not likely to be routed
by the Mulligan Guards. He has re
ceived reinforcements front Kentucky
and Missouri, and still has a large
reserve in other parts of the South.
JI'DOE BLACK, a traveler. He does
not propose to follow Grant around
the world in order to make a boom
for the Presidency on his return,
but merely takes A pleasure trip to
Europe in company with his wife and
grand-daughter, Miss Shunk, and will
sail this week. The hundred thousand
triends of the eminent Statesman and
patriot will invoke for him a pleasant
trip and safe return to his native land.
THE Massachusetts Republican Con
vention recommends Senator Edmunds
ot \ ermont for the Presidential nomi
nation nt Chicago. Edmunds is com
ing up and may yet be the dark
horse. He has now Vermont, Con
necticut and Massachusetts, and is
therefore ahead of Mulligan Blaine in
New England. Dawes was President
of the Convention and in his speech
charged that it was the intention of
the Demdcrat* to secure the Presi
dency at all hazards. He is right.
They intend to elect the next Presi
dent, as they did tbe last, honestly,
and inaugurate him "at all hazards."
THE discussion of the Indian appro
priation bill in the House of Repre
•tentative*, on Friday last, indicates
very strongly that the Indian commis
sion was considered a useless and
unnecessarily expensive appeudage to
the Indian Bureau and could be abol
ished without detriment to the public
service. An amendment striking out
the 110,000 for the pay of the commis
sion, and repealing the act authorizing
thier appointment was adopted. There
are, no doubt, many other fancy ap
pendages to tbe various departments
of the Government that could be
dropped with equal safety, to lesaen
expenses.
"E<JUAL AND KXACT JUSTICE TO AI.L MKN", Of WHATEVER STATIC OR PERSUASION, KEI.KJIOt'S OR PoMTlCAl.."—Jtfr.noa
The Recent Election Frauds.
Senator Wallace in ladialf of the
majority of the senate select commit
tee on the alleged frauds in the recent
elections, etc., submitted a report on
Monday last of the results of the
committee's investigations iu Massa
chusetts aud Rhode Island. The re
port concludes as follows:
Your committee was instructed to in
quire and report whether it is within
the competency of congress to provide
by additional L-gitdaiioiUfor the more
perfect security of tiie right of suffrage
10 citizens of the United States in all the
States of the Union. They have per
formed tiist duty, and whilst they iind
tiiat improper practices exist in tiie
State visited, and freedom of choice by
the voters in those States has been in
terfered with, and persons practically
threatened with dismissal from employ
ment if they voted in opposition to the
wishes of their employers, yet they cau
not find that it is within the compe
tenoy of congress to correct this wrong
bjr additional or any legislation, but
that on the contrary the remedy, there
for, is to be found with the law mak
ing power of the State in which the
wrong was perpetrated. Wrongs upon
the ballot or interference with the right
of suffrage, or with the modes of quali
fication of voters, are Questions which
are to be corrected and controlled by
the States and not by the Federal gov
ernment. Suffrage is under the control
of the States and not of the Federal
government. The latter has no voters
of its own creation. It cannot quality
voters, nor can it protect from wrong
by inflicting punishment upon those
who compel them to improperly exer
cise their right of suffrage. It may
punish for crimes committed in regard
to the manner of voting, but an offense
againt the right itself must be punish
ed under the State law and not by Fed
eral statute. The civilized bull-dpzing
which we find to have existed in the
ancient and honored commonwealths
of Massachusetts and Rhode Island is
an evil which the people of those States
must themselves correct and your com
mittee feel that in bringing facts to
public gaze they will help to strength
en a sentiment already in existence and
aid in crystallizing into such statutary
enactments of those States as will cor
rect the evil or punish its repetition.
The foregoing report is agreed to by
'Senators Wallace, Bailey, Garland,
McDonald and Kernan. A minority
report will hereafter be submitted in
behalf of Senators Teller, Kirktvood,
Hoar and Blaine.
AMONG the " dark horses" now
mentioned in connection with the Re
publican nomination for President is
Justice Samuel F. Miller, of the
Supreme Court. A Washington cor
respondent of a New York paper says
that the Republican politicians who
begin to doubt Grant's nomination,
and who, at the same time, do not like
Blaine, are looking for a new Western
man upon whom a successful combina
tion can be made against the Maine
Boanerges, and have cast their eyes
upon Judge Miller with that purpose
in view. The aforesaid correspondent
avers that the Republicanism of Judge
Miller "is of a peculiarly robust
kind." This is correct. Miller was
one of the 8 to 7 commission, and his
Republicanism proved to be so " pecu
liarly robust" that it made him for
getful of his duties as a judge, and
he became one of the infamous eight
who voted to make a man President
who was never elected. In that re
markable galaxy of Republicanism of
a " peculiarly robust kind " he stands
next to Aliunde Joe Bradley. If not
Grant, let us by all means have
Miller.
RUMORS are again rife that Mr.
Tilden withdraws from the Presiden
tial contest on account of ill health,
and has his letter prepared to make
that withdrawal public in a few days.
On the other hand, it is said, on the
authority of Mr. Randall, there is no
truth in the statement. Rumor also
confers the honor of succession to Mr.
Tilden's old shoes upon Mr. Randall.
We need not be surprised if rumor is
at fault in both instances.
IT appears that the City Council of
Cincinnati has refused to allow tele
graph poles to be put up to make a
connection with the hall in which the
Democratic National Convention is to
be hgld. Unleel the Council recon
siders this action, it is probable the
National Committee will re-assemble
and decide upon some other place to
hold the Convention.
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1880.
THE plea for Grant. The advo
cates of a third term do not point to
any single act of Grant's statesman
ship in two terms of the Presidential
office to commend him to the favora
ahle consideration of the people, hut
claim that by his travels in foreign
lunds ho has learned much, and is
more competent now to administer
the affairs of our great Republic by
the study of monnrchial systems, and
therefore should lie given an opportu
nity to redeem his reputation for his
tory. By this, his friends confessedly
admit that his administration of the
Government was a failure unprece
dented for incompetency and national
disgrace. With this humiliating plea
staring them in the face, and the noto
rious fucts that his administration was
characterized by shameless fraud, tyr
anny and disregard of law, it is asking
much of the people to award him a
third term. Thev can hate no assur
ance that the third-term would he an
improvement on the first and second
terms. The plea that he has obtained
sufficient brains and experience by
foreign travei to improve upon former
acts, we trust will be received with
caution.
THE reliance of Blaine for success
at the Chicago Convention, now seems
to hang upon the hope that delegates
from Pennsylvania and New York
will holt from their instructions, and
vote in accordance with the public
sentiment manufactured in various
districts for that purpose, since tbeir
appointment. This is a forlorn hope.
Conkliug and Cameron do not do bus
iness in that way. They no doubt
knew their men, aud were too wide
awake to put traitors upon guard who
would go behind the countersign. No!
The "Plumed Kuight" of Maine U
whipped and his adherents may as
well accept the situation, and prepare
to reudcr due reverence to Grant and
the third-term, or do what would he
more to their credit as honest Repub
licans giving true significance to the
name they bear, vote for the honest,
capable candidate whom the J>cmo
crats intend to nominate for President.
THE Washington correspondent of
the Bellefonte lie/mbliran, in speaking
of the debate in the United States
•Senate upon the hill for distribution
of the Geneva award fund says that
"Thurninnand other Democratic dem
agogues, unable to refute Senator
Blaine's arguments, took reveuge in
twitting Blaine of not being a law
yer." Is not this correspondent
slightly ofT in this assertion ? The
only "demagogue," Democratic or
Republican, that twitted Mr. Blaine
"of not being a lawyer" was A dema
gogue called Matt Carpenter with
whom Blaine had several lively tilts
in the discussion of the Geneva bill.
It wns Carpenter, if he is correctly re
ported in the Congressional Rcrord,
who said in hisargumcnt upon this bill,
"I must apologize to the Senate for pur
suing, perhaps, somewhat the methods
of a lawyer. I kuow it is an offence
to lie a lawyer in the opinion of some
Senators ; and my friend from Maine
(Mr. Blaine) always has his opponent
at a disadvantage when he can charge
him with being a lawyer. He knows
nobody can retaliate that charge upon
him."
THE Democratic conferees of this,
the 34tb Senatorial district, will meet
hero to-morrow to elect a senatorial
delegate to the State convention which
meets at Harriaburg next week. We
have no doubt the work of the con.
ference will be well done, and that
a spirit of harmony and a desire to
promote the best interests of the party
will prevail.
THE regular State convention of tbe
Democrats of New York was held at
Syracuse, on Tuesday, and was controll
ed by the friends of Mr. Tilden. The
Tammanyites held their convention on
the same day in the same city, and
passed resolutions bitterly antagonistic
to the nomination of Tilden for the
Presidency.
GENERAL NEWS.
The Btnnn which prevailed through
out the State of California for neverel
day* of Inst tveek w,u the severest ever
known on the linn of the Central Pa
cific railroad, through the mountain*.
Ttiede ih i- announced of Mrs. Mary
A. Woodward, mother of the late .fudge
Woodward, of U-mling, at the ndvanc
ed age of eighty two year*. She wan
born in Wayne county, and nil of her
three children are now dead. She was
a uiout estimable lady and highly res
ported by nil who knew her.
_ Godfrey Smalley, reaiding near Ma
rietta, Ohio, has been arreated cliarged
with the murder of Jacob Haugliman,
on August JO, 18f>3. Itaughman wa* a
wealthy baclielor farmer, reaiding near
Zanesville and living alone. Smalley is
now in jail, and from a paitiul conlea
ion he has made there seems to bo no
doubt of bis guilt.
The Secretary of the Treasury last
week received an envelope, postmarked
New York, in which was inclosed the
•Uftl f 11,000 in United States and Na
tional It ink note", with a tag attached,
on which were written the words "in
come tax." Tim money ha* been de
|K>*itcd in the Treasury on account of
••oonncience."
Jno. Siney.ex president of the Miners
and Laborer*' Benevolent Association,
and a prominent labor "gitalor, died at
hi* home, near Saint Clair. Schuylkill
county, on last Friday morning at three
o'clock, of miners' consumption, lie
wa* 48 year* old, ami leave* a wife, but
no children.
A committee consisting of Governor,
Auditor General, Attorney General,
State Treasurer, three Senators and tive
Kepresentalives was appointed by the
legislature to prepare a new general
revenue bill. 1 hi* committee will meet
in the Kxecutive Chamber at Ilarrisburg
on Tuesday, May 18, and hear anv and
all persons familiar with the subject or
who have any suggestions to make.
Judge Black expect* to sail for Lurope
ibis week, accompanied by Mr". Black
and his grand daughter, Miss Sblink.
Secretary Rvart* has given him a circu
lar letter that will introduce him every
where. if he need* any introduction.
Judge Black haa never been abroad lie
fore, and hesava therewre three things
that he especially desires to see : First,
an Rnglish A**uo Court in session; sec
ond, nunr.ymede, the historic sjxii upon
which the Rnglish barons wrm-.g Irora
fLiog John the MagnaCharts, and third,
a Rnglish race horse,
► the Police court Monday morning
the Prosecuting Attorney aked for the
coin in i tine nt of Ifenni* Kearney. The
latter was not present at the lime, but
a few minute* later appeared with his
counsel and asked for delay to enable
him to make application to the Supreme
Court for a writ of habeas corpus. The
Court denied the request as unusual
and extraordinary. A commitment
was then made out and Kearney, evi
dently greatly depressed and chagrined,
wa taken below. In a few minute* he
wa* removed to a hack and driven to
the House of Correction, where after
going through the hands of a barber
and donning convicts' garb he w;
placed in a cell.
Karly on Saturday morning an attempt
waf made by a po*e ol < flicers to arrest
Henry Rngliah, a noted desperado, on a
criminal charge, at hi* house in Caledo
nia, Rlk county. Rngli*h barricaded
himself in the bouse and defended bun
self all day by means of a Winchester
rifle. The house was surrounded by
citizens who filed at Knglish without
effect when he appeared at the window*.
He shot three men, fatally wounding
two. At V o'clock in the evening he ran
for the wood*. He was wounded in the
leg as he ran across a field, but crnwled
into the bushes and escaped. The sher
iff haa called out the pout comitatu* and
at last account! was searching lor bun.
The greatest caution is observed as he is
armed with a sixteen shooter and haa
plenty of ammunition.
A fire broke out on Saturday night in
the rear of H. Algeos' large straw good*
factory, at 539 Hudson street, New York,
which at one time gave cause for serious
alarm. The fire occurred in the boiler
house, a wooden ahed. and raged with
great fury for about twenty minutes.
Fifty or aixty working girl* in the facto
ry, who were about to quit the building,
were frightened by the smoke and sparks
and thought that the rayn building was
on fire. Escape seemed cut off and help
from the outside was not at hand. The
girls were seized with a wild panic and
ran shrieking' from floor to floor. The
police arrived barely in time to prevent
some from jumping out of the windows
and led them safely into the street The
fire was extinguished with trifling ef
fort.
A comparative statement showing the
receipt* from spirits distilled from ma
terial other than apples, peaches and
grape*, during the first six months of
the fiscal year ended June 30th last, and
of the first six months of the present fis
cal year has been prepared at the Bureau
of Internal revenue. This statement
includes those districts which returned
(30,000 and over from this source during
the last fiscal year. The total innrease
for the six months aa shown by the
statement foots up $4,12*2.729.42. The
south districts where hot warfare haa
been made on illicit distillers show an
encouraging Increase in the receipt*. The
banner Btate district in increase is the
fifth Illinois, the Peoria district. There
the increase has been $1,683,516.96.
The whole statement shows that much
more liquor is being manufactured than
during the same period of the last fis
cal year, and that the laws are more
ebeved.
forest fire* are raging in Pike and
Monroe counties, Pa., and people are
, fighting the flame* in Sussex county,
New Jersey.
Charley Townsend. a child five years
of ,gp, reading at Know Hon, Chester
county, was hitten by a dog on the 27th
of Marc-hand died on Monday night
from a severe attack of hydrophobia.
Baltimore ha* a new institution in
; the share of n big van, loaded with hot
colli-e, which is driven al-out the street*
for tiie accomodation of laborers. A
! cup of the beverage is sold for three
I cent*.
The tide of immigration to the far
west is at its height. Large numbers of
people pas* through Chicago every day.
Many are from hurope, but a considera
ble number come front Canada, and are
I induced to emigrate from there by the
: liberal offers made them by the govern
went and the railroads.
It is announced that the Pennsylva
nia Railroad Company contemplate
making the run between Philadelphia
and Jersey City in one and one half
hours, or ninety minutes, which means
one mile per minute running time con
tinuously for the whole distance.
Ex Sheriff Evan Mishler, a candidate
j for Congress and a well known Demo
cratic politician in the State, also pro
prietor of the Mishler House, Reading,
is very ill and not expected to live. Ft
is thought that his malady will necessi
tate sending him to the Asylum at
Harrisburg.
j State Treasurer Butler, who takes
possession of his office on the Ist of
Msy, ha* made thn following appoint
ments: Cashier, W. Levissee, of Pitts
burg. Clerks. Representative 11. C.
Oreenwalt, of Franklin county; Q. If.
| Reidleman, of Wyoming, and Thomas
A. Reiley, of Cumberland. Messenger,
; John A. Stott, of Coatsville. Watch
man, Oliver Reynolds, colored, of West
j Chester.
tieneral Grant arrived at Cairo, 111.,
I last Friday afternoon, and met with a
hearty reception. In a rather lengthy
address he spoke of his enthusiastic re
' ception throughout the southern Ststes
' and said thai there was an evident
; desire on the part of the southern peo
j pie to forget the past difficulties and
enter into s generous rivalry for the
prosperity of the several .States and the
, nation. The tieneral departed on Sat
j urday morning for Rloomington.
A I rightful Storm
j Tirr WHOI. z or HAMiiricu), MO., LEVELED
rue Kciss CATCH FIRE— rotTV OEAU
DODIES It ECO V SUED.
BT. Lor IS, April 19. Passengers who
passed through Marshfield on the St.
l-ouisand San Francisco railroad at 8.30
i last night gave a few facts concerning
| a terrible disaster. A man who came to
the depot at the edge of the town while
; the trsin was there reported that at 6.30
| o'clock a furious hurricane struck the
1 place and leveled all that part of town
j lying west of the Centre Square flat to
i the ground. The debris immediately
I took lire in several places, and the flames
could be seen at some half doren points
by the psssengers on the train. Forty
dead bodies have been taken out, and
j many more were supposed to be buried
I in the ruins or burned up.
There were also many living, still im
j prisoned in the debris of the fallen
buildings. All the physicians of the
town wpre killed, excepting two, and
, there was great need of doctors to at
tend to the wounded, of whom it was
said there were some 200. A relief train
j with twenty physicians and nurses and
| full of supplies left Springfield. Mo., this
morning, and probably other trains will
arrive during the day.
IN 1853 four gentlemen entered Iheir
son* at boarding school at C keshurv,
S. O. They had been for years intimate
triends and clergymen in the Metltb
di*t Church. These boys remained at
this school, room mates and classmates,
for two years, and entered Wofford Col
j lege, standing relatively first, second,
1 third and fourth in a large class. They
remained at this institution four years,
were room mate* all the time, gradu
ating relatively, first, second, third snd
fourth. They then entered a law office
at Spartanburg and studied law under
the same Chancellor. The war broke
, out, and at the call for troops they all
entered Jenkins's rifle regiment from
| South Carolina, and were messmates in
the same company. Being near the
' satne height, they stood together as
comrades in battle in this regiment.
! At the second battle of Manassas, Au
gust, 1861. a abell from the enemy's
battery fell in the ranks of this com
pany, killed these four boys and none
other in the company. They are buried
on the battle-field and aleep together in
the same grave. Their nanrea were
Capers, MoSwain, Smith and Duncan,
and they were the sons of Bishop Ca
pers, Rev. Drs. MeSwain and Smith, of
South Carolina, and Rev. Mr. Duncan,
of Virginia, the laat being a brother of
Rev. Mr. Duncan, of Rsndolnh Macon
College: The grave is marked by a
granite cross and inclosed with an iron
railing.
THE Washington /Vs/has interviewed
Mr. (leorge W Oorbsra, late Secretary of
the Senate, about the third term cam
paign. He expressed contempt for the
"soratchers" and "bolters" and perfect
confidence in the suooees of the move
ment. He foreshadows the ex-Presi
dent's proposed policy as being one of
conciliation and peaoe. Tbe /Vsf adds,
however, that the ex-president onoe
fooled the South with the phrase "Let
us have peace," but ba will get no South
ern votes now unless he buys them. "Ha
cannot steal them, nor can he oajole
them."
TERMS: #1.50 Annum, in Advance.
A Sh<M<*r of .Molten Hteel.
TWO Mf V Kll.l. Ell KS If •■EVEN OTHER* INJIR-
El> IN TilK STCEI.TON BTEKI, WORKS.
I'rom l>i.j,irh to lb. Time..
lIARNIMII RG, April 15.—.lust a* tho
men on the night turn at the Pennsyl
vania Steel Work*, up at Steelton, Were
quitting work this morning, an accident
• •cciirred which seriously injured nine
men, two fatally. Aa one of the big
| converter*, containing six ton* of mol
ten teel, wan being lowered, it dropped
.uddenly, scattering the hot metel all
over the workmen. J. B. Marten, the
foreman of the turn, and Daniel Day
lon. employed in the pit, *aw the con
verter awing and ran out of the way, at
the same time calling to the other*, hut
they were too late. It wa* all the work
of an inatant, and the first intimation
the other hand* in different part* of the
mill had of the accident wa* on hearing
the criea and ahriek* of the men who
were covered with the red hot metal.
I he acene that ensued beggar* descrip
tion. The ho*e waa turned on aome of
the men who lay on the edge of the pit,
powerless to rise, with their clothing in
flaraea and the blistering metal burning
into their flesh, and willing hands lifted
the unfortunate* and carried them to
the engine house. There were nine of
them hurt,a* follow*: George Horning,
married. Steelton ; Monroe Miller, mar
ried, Steelton, who was working on tho
runners at the time of the accident;
George Yost, aged 18, Steelton ; Simon
Martin, married, Steelton, who also
worked on the runners; Albert A. West
brook, single, Steelton, who worked un
der the converter; A. Covert, married,
Highspire; Samuel Covert, Highspire;
David Shoop, Steelton ; A. E. Pawber,
Sheealey town. All these men were
around the pit at the time. Some were
preparing to pour the metal from the
converter to tho moulds and Yost and
\\'etbrook were washing, preparatory
to going home. David Shoop waa patch
ing mould* at the time. Yot and West
brook were burned the moat seriously,
the former's clothing being one mas* of
flame. Westbrook lay on the edge of
the pit, burning, when the water from
the hose was played on him. Yost died
at noon and Westbrook a little later.
The Nation'* Creditor*.
BOW THE GOVERNMENT BONDS ATE DISTRIIt-
ITEO AMONG TIIE i'EOPLE.
Eruta tb Sf>rui|;ftrUi R.puMiosn.
National bond*, it is probable, havo
always been held in Urge blocks, but at
present an unusually large proportion
of the interest bet ring debt api>ears to
be "in sight," as the grain dealers say.
The New York State saving* banks hold
$119,985,000, the savings bank* of this
State rJ3.W4.0t10. Vanderbilt is credited
with $4:1.500 000 and/two of the Pacific
Coast bonanxa king* made purchase*
a short time ago which, according to
a Waahincton dispatch, swelled their
holding* to t5.000.000 each. There is.
besides this, the great amount held
to secure national 'bank circulation;
amounting to #.164.68 1.000 and #14,817,-
000 held as a guaranty tor government
deposits. These sums make no account
of the Winds held by saving* banks out
*ide of New York and Massachusetts,
nor of government trust funds, some
of which are known to be inveated in
Federal bonds. The total of the hold
ing* already specified is $575^887,000.
The interest-bearing debt April 1 waa
#1,760,698,400, so that nearly one-third
ot the debt ia represented by. these
large amounta in the hands of known
holders. The real owners of much the
Urgest share of these great sums are,
however, the proprietors of national
bank shares and savings bank deposit
or*. The last time a tally was taken of
the shareholders, in 1876, they num
bered 208,746. They have not probably
diminished since then. The number of
savings bank depositors in this Bute
and New York, or, to be more accurate
ot open accounts, ia about 1,500,000.
So that the real ownership of the na
tional bonds held in Urge quantities ia
more widely distributed through tho
community than any other form of pro
perty, and the same thing is probably
trueol bonds held in smaller sod less
known amounts.
General Hancock.
Mr. G. C. Bennett, editor of the Bur
lington, Vermont, Herald (Republican),
was present on the battle-field when
General Hancock waa wounded and
helped care for him. In a recent issue
of his paper we find the following
strongest possible endorsement of the
General: •
If Hancock i* nominated the Repub
lican party will find a fight on its hands
that it never knew before. The old
Union guns, and drum* and flags of the
Republican camp would be effectually
nullified and our vast battery effectnaliv
•piked with a vast mass of voter* that
ordinarily seek our camp. General Han
cock's blood spilt by a rebel bullet, once
stained our fingers; bit that ia the
way in which we should wish to Rave
bis blood on our hands. We should
hate tremendously to vote or fight
against him. Ilia loyalty, gallantry and
honesty were never questioned; and a
candidate more dangerous to Republi
can auoceas could not be set up by tho
Democrats.
The trustees of St. Lake's hospital, at
South Bethlehem, have accepted the
$300,000 provided by tho will or the late
Asa Packer for the hospital, and im
provementa will be made at once in
the way of new buildings. The gift
waa made with the understanding that
Lehigh Valley railroad employes who
were injured should be oared for at thia
hospital,
NO. 17.