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AJKOVNCBMEXTS or MARRIAGE* AND DEATHS Inserted f.*eo ; hut all obituary notices will be charged 5 cents p*r line. .MPBOI tL'NoTici* 25 per cent, alcove regular rates. WAMHBUKNE, of Illinois, late of the French Mission, who has been spoken of as the probable dark horse for the Chicago Presidential nomination, says he will not be a candidate under any circumstances —that he is for Grant, first, last, and all the time. Yet his friends in Illinois coalesced with the friends of Blaine to prevent die success of Grant in the choice of delegates The question now is, who does Wash burne intend to fool ? Is it the public, or Grant, or Blaine? This is a conun drum iu political morality which will probably he revealed at the conven tion. THE colored jieople, in imitation of their white brethren who are aspiring to greatness, have established a bureau or headquarters at Washington, front which to bootn Senator Bruce into prominence as a candidate for nomi nation as Vice President on the Re publican ticket. They have certainly a deserving candidate, and the colored people, who form so important a part of the Republican voters, particularly in Pennsylvania, have claims that ought to secure them favorable con sideration. Bruce is an able man and a gentleman, and if he is passed over it will lie because men of hi* color are only considered in place as Republican voters, not as Republican officers. GEN. .JOHN MCDONALD was con nected with the famous whiskey ring, which at St. Ixmis created so much stir in 1870. He was the intimate personal friend of Grant, but now opjioses his nomination for a third term, and promises damaging disclos ures in the event of Grant's success, from documentary testimony in his possession. Mcfti maid was convicted and imprisoned in the penitentiary, but intimates that he suffered that degredation to save the then President of the United States from exposure. Under the circumstances, his papers will have to be very clean and clear to obtain a damaging credence against" his former friend and speculative co worker. WM. I'ITT KF.LUXIO, who, it is very generally admitted, occupies a seat iu the United States Senate without the sanction of the Legislature of Louisi ana, and in contravention of the wishes and desires of the |>eop!c of that State, it appears is to retain that seat against the lawfully elected Senator. And this, too, by the votes of Democratic sena tors. While ackowledging the illegal ity of his admission to the Senate, the fraudulent aud corrupt character of the laxly under which he claims, aud the base means used to obtain the en dorsement of even this illegal body, Democratic senators are found to hold that a Republican Senate, having wrongfully seated Kellogg, the Senate has no authority now to correct the wrong and seat the lawfully elected Senator. We can conceive how a nice system of hair-splitting may prepare willing minds to adopt almost any thing to justify wroDg. But in view of the evidence laid before the (Senate by Senator Hill's committee, it seems to us that a little cowardice, if not venality, may have entered into the process of preparation for such a con elusion. . i I LETTER FROM WASHINGTON. From our rcgtiUr C<>rr|>on. C., May 17, 1880. The grout absorbing topic horo is tlio coming bout race on the Potomac be tween llanlon and Courtney. The lat ter is now here anil is under full train ing. Referee' Itlnikee is also here, and, in so far as the public is informed at present, the race will bo had 011 the 19th, as agreed upon. Secretary Thompson will permit the referee and the invited guests, including members of the press, to use one of the Govern ment steamers, and this, with one oth er steamer, will bo the only boat allow ed on the river during the race. So many and extensive preparations anil precautious have been made to insure a fair and equal contest, that only the customary racing chicanary will prevent it. Our District officials, as well as the Secretary of the Navy, have entered so fully into the spirit of the matter with our people by granting, everything requisite to success, that we shall be most bitterly disappointed if trickery interposes and deprives us of the nntic iputed exhibition of muscle by thesis two athletes. Courtney is a splendid physical specimen of the live Yankee, and it is but natural to give him our sympathy and good wishes that ho may " whale" the Canadian and bear off the palm as well as the §('>,ooo at stake. The inevitable Kellogg case is drag ging its slow length along in the Senate, under what seems almost an intermina ble discussion of its merits and de merits. Yet aside from the legal hair splitting disquisitions of such able law yers as Senators Hill on the one side of the question, and Carpenter on the other, an occasional argument appears containing much general interest. < (rie of these was the speech of Wade Hampton, who took the ground occu pied afterward by Mr. Carpenter and others, that, whether elected by fraud or not, the Senate was now barred from refrying the case and unseating Kellogg, through the fact that he hail been for merly seated, anil there was, therefore, no power existing to undo the wrong. He said, in reply to a personal appeal from Mr. Hill, that he hd followed the palmetto flag on bloody fields to uphold the honor of his State, and though he regretted the necessity which compell ed him to differ in opinion upon this question Irotn Mr. Hill, he but followed his convictions now as during the war. It is not at all likely that Kellogg will be disturbed in his seat this session, notwithstanding the persistent elfort o( Senator Hill to oust him, for General Hampton undoubtedly represents the balance of power in the lest by vote, and should iie adhere to the sentiments expressed in his recent sjieech, Mr. Hill will appear in the minority on the final issue. Fur a number of yesr* Con pre** baa been procrastinating tbe "Claim of the Choctaw Nation," but it reappear* in the new Congress to clog the wheel* of leg itlaticn anl crowd out matter* of na tional concern. The House occasionally devote* a 'lay to it* discussion, to the exclusion of vastly more important matter*. Jttu-k of thin claim is a power ful lobby which, like the Pope of Jfome, seems to have an inherent power of perpetuation, for back as the -13 d Congress it was pushing the Choctaw hilt a* vigorously a* to-day, and was a* successful then as now in finding cham pions for the measure, notwithstanding a legislation is ashed for that will enrich many a spoil hunter. •Senator Morrill deserves the nation's thanks (or opposing t|jo proposition to extend one of the Capitol fronts and put in the edifice the Congressional Li brary. It is inexplicable why able Sen ators should urge that the grand outline of the Capitol shall be utterly destroyed by constructing at right angles from iu centre this proposed building, which is no more a necessary adjunct to the Cap itol than the Patent I'tlice. A space of several acres will be required for the accommodation of the present stock of books, while provision should of course be made lor future accumulations, hence when Mr. Morrill urges a separate struc ture, he simply acts as any sensible man should. The Capitol should not be broken in any of its external proportions or outlines. It is now the finest and grandest legislative building in the world and it is to be hoped that ignorant leg islators and worse architeets may keep their vandal hand* from of)' it. Olio by one our old landmarks are disappearing under the march of im provement. So great are ihe changes occurring that soon little will be left of ohl Washington in the northwestern part of the city. Opposite the Post office building, on the south side of K street, a few weeks ago, stood the "Sea ton Mansion," a plain old-fashioned dwelling-bouse, which bore every mark of having been erected by a former gen eration of people. More memories of the great men of the city's past cling to its walla than to those of any other pri vate mansion occupied since IX4O. Hard ly a notable who figured prominently in in the political affairs of the nation, prior to 1850, hut made his home at some time or other under its portals. Presi dents Monroe,'Jackson, Van lhiren, and Harrison; Lafayette; Chief Justices Marshall and Taney ; Kossuth, the Hun garian patriot: Clay, Webster, Calhoun, Randolph, ana a host of other celebrities were all quartered here. Rut all these are matters of the past. All have had to give way to the necessities of the present. King Lager Reer has swept every material thing out of existence, and in a huge hall ereoted on the site will hereafter celebrate his triumph over old Washington and its reverend memories of the good and the great, in so far as they were connected with this pile of bricks and mortar. When La fayette made this house his home he plnnted several young trees in its yard or garden to celebrate bis farewell visit to America, and these having grown into large and shady proportions, have been spared by the new proprietor, so that hia customers may quaff their beer to the honor and memory of those whose brains, not stomanhs, ruled the house in former days. The Keatnn Mansion has disappeared, and on its ruins has arisen a beer garden. Fai.ix. NKWMPAPEH OPINION. The South und Curtin. Kr"tn llis t'hlhi'lclpbiit Tlmr-. The South has ever been most unfor tunate in being compelled to accept the responsibility ior the few mad caps who lose no opportunity to teach the world that they have learned nothing and forgotten nothing since the late war. They are popularly classed in the North as the Confederate Brigadiers, not because they have been distinguish ed as soldiers, but because they reflect the lingering embere of the rebellion in the South. True, there are quite as many and. probably more fools and revolutionists representing the North than misrepresent the South in Con gress; but their follies do little harm, while on many occasions the foolish utterance or act of a single Southern Senator or Hepresentativelnis furnished more inflummable material for the Re publicans in a Northern campaign than hundreds of truly representative men of the South could neutralize. A combination of the lower stata of Southern Representatives was secretly made to defeat the report of the com mittee remanding the Curtin Yocum contest back to the. people of the dis trict. That it was animated by the lingering hatreds of the rebellion, is too clear to admit a doubt; but that it reflected the sentiment of the Southern statesmen or of the Southern people, is as clearly not the fact. Mr. Lowe, of Alabama, who never rose to the distinc lion of a Confederate Brigadier, and who is an active, plausible, unscrupu lous politician afflicted with the Green back crnze, was the chief instrument in organizing the Southern resentment against Curtin, exhibited in the vote on Tuesday last. Chalmers, of Mississippi, of Fort Pillow unsavory fame, was only one of the Southern conspirators who could be ranked as a Brigadier, and he will never forgive the North for the stains he put upon his own military record. With them were such as Bright, Caldwell, Singleton, Felton, Mills and Richmond, whose emi nence as warriors was limited to regi mental and company commands, while such soldiers from the South as John ston, Herbert, Armfield, Manning, Shel ley, Forney, Davidson, Hill, Cook, Blackburn, Shear, Gibson, Scales, Vance and O'Connor, and Reagan of the Con federate Cabinet, resented the demand for Southern resentment against C'ur- ! tin. They were the representatives of , the .South in war; they are the repre- \ sentatives of Southern sentiment in peace, and the hatreds of war, com- j monly cla*ed as the disloyal eruptions I of the Confederate Brigadiers, come I from those who wero petty soldiers in | the field and are petty statesmen, with | alt the petty malignity of petty men in j the councils of the nation. No matter by what title the actor* I shall be designated, the (act* remain that the Southern defection to prevent the people of the district from electing I Curt ill to the present Congress, was in | spired by Southern resentment against a conspicuously loyal man of the North, and that it came only (rem those who are least respected as oracles of the j South either in Congress or at home. It is a deliberate conspiracy, planned and perfected in secret, confined to the few blatant worshipers of the planta tion whip, and made up of the same elements in Congress which are ever disturbing the peace and shaming the -South at home. Had their purjose been manfully avowed one day before the vote was taken, they would have driven a-msjority of the Republicans to a cordial sssent to the report of the committee ; but they consummated the conspiracy oply the night l>efore the vote-~and its animating purpose and power were unknown until after the vote was cast. Had the represent ative men of the South anticipated such a combination of half a score of their | feljow members, they would have man j fully and eloquently appealed to all parlies in the House to join them in relieving their people from so unjust an : imputation, and the response would have been an overwhelming defeat of the traders in sectional strife. With such an isue presented to the House as leading Southern warriors and states men would have presented it, the vote would have exhibited the line drawn - between the sectional factionists of both North and South, and the great !>ody of Republicans and Reuiocrats would have been in solid column against sacrificing justice to purposes which have |>eri*hed ; with all patriotic citizens. The one , consistent leader of the Southern holt against the report of the committee was Mr. Stephens, the late Vice President of the Confederacy. He trimmed against secession till secession came; he ac ■ cepted the second office of the insur | gent government and trimmed against : it and the war until both failed ; lie has trimmed around all sides of all parties since reconstruction, and he is now trimming for the next revolution in Georgia, and will welcome the coming guest at the White House whether bis name shall be Grant, Tilden, Blaine or Bayard. The sectionalists of the North have everything to gain by the follies of the sectionalists of the South ; and like fol lies by Northern men are unfelt and forgotten while every exhibition of sec tional hate by Southern men, however obscure or characterless the source, is heraldec) as the act of the South. The same ftapublipan sectionalists who clasp ed bands with a few low grade section alists of the South to inflict an injustice upon C'urtin, will speedily return to the North to tell how the Confederate Rrig- i adiera strike down every man who pan boast of a grandly loyal record ; and the South as a people, will he branded as rebellious and disloyal because a small portion of their Representative* have yet to be taught that the war has ended and that ita judgments are irreversible. Ciliiln>Yofiiiu Contest. torn the Shlpixxuttnrc D*wortic Chronlrl*. At last the long Curtin-Yoeum con test has gotten before ibe House of Repreaentatives. This should hare been the case months ago, and Governor Curtin given the seat to which he was legally chosen. That thia Is not so is not tbe fault of Hon. F. E. Reltxboover, who baa been untiring in hia efforts as a member of the Committee on Elections to have juatice done tbe rightful claim ant, and who made an ablp and exhana tive speech on Saturday last, in favor of seating Governor Curtin. We have not seen the lull text of the speech, but the Philadelphia Timet says it establish ed his rank as "one of the best lawyers in the House," and all the Washington correspondents speak of it in the high est terms. Since the above was in type, a vote has been taken in the House, and Yo cum declared entitled to the seat by a vote of llf> to 75. The Southern Hern oerata and absentees (nearly all Denio crats) are responsible for this result. This cowardly action of Democrats is on a par with that of the same cowardly spirit which seated Hayes in the Presi dential chair on the 4th of March, 1H77. We have lost much faith in the so-called Southern chivalry, and its Northern counterpart—subsidy and have-to-be paid Democrats. The Democrats of the Centre district owe it to themselves to re-nominate Governor Curtin, and re elect him by such a majority that rvi/;• ardlji Democrats in Congress will not agaiu dare to count him out. . A Good Case and Bud Ending. Prtiiu tilt. St. I'HIII (I lobe. The contested election case of Curtin vs. Yocum has been decided by the House in favor of Yocum, the sitting member. Mr. Curtin made out a good case, but it seems some of the Demo crats were fearful of offending their Greenback allies by unseating one of their number, even though it wus prov ed he was not entitled to the place. Republican Methods. Vn.ni tin- llsrri.l-utK Pulrlut. The action of the Board of Pardons in remitting that purt of the sentence of the riot-bribers which imposed a year's imprisonment in the penitentia ry has been severely criticised by tbe press in general, including most of the Republican journals of the State. So far as these last are concerned we do not see that they have much cause of oomplaint. There is hardly a Republi can editor in tbe State so ignorant of tbe methods of the lender* of his party as not to understand that Kemble, Salter and the rest, in their cfbrt to secure votes for tbe riot damage bill, sitnply pursued tbe ordinary course of Republican machine politicians. Re publican campaign management, from the primaries to the conventions, from the conventions to the ballot-box, from the ballot-box to tbe returning board, is based entirely on commercial princi ples and well do the Republican editors know it. Republican candidates for office. especially lor legislative office, are obliged as a rule to pay more for their election than their salaries amount to. With few exceptions, therefore, they expect to get their money back witii such interest *s they may be able to aectire by selling their votes and influ ence in the legislature. The fact that they are compelled to purchase tbe of fice certainly does not afford any justifi cation of their subsequent sale of them selves. But the methods pursuer) by them in obtaining oflice naturally and inevitably lead to a corrupt use of the office after it ia obtained. We do not say that tbe Democratic party is entire ly free from tbe degrading and demor alizing influence of commercial politic*. ; Nevertheless it must be admitted that before the ad vent of tbe Republican party but little was known of the corrupt u*e of money in elections and that if the Democracy ever had a "bar'l" (which ia doubtful) it was used inertly as a de fensive agency. In other words, the Democrats when hotly pressed may have been compelled, once in awhile, Mo fight the devil with fire.' The fact, however, remains that corrupt elections produce corrupt officials, and where the latter abound corrupt solicitors will also ap pear. Where the carcass is the eagles will gather. For Hancock. 1 From Ihr M"ull< (AUI tn) A.|t<-Mi.T. "General W infield S. Huncock, otir i choice for President, in n duplicate of ' Old Hickory ' in ruurage, with a larger I amount of brain* and a higher order of ' Htatexmanahip. While in command of ■ the Fifth Military 1 >istrict, composed of I Louisiana and Texan, under the reeon , *t ruction acta be steadily and firmly | refused to enforce the extraordinary | powers with which he was clothed by a ; despotic Congress, enacted for the pur i pose ef tyrannising over a fallen foe I and disrobing them of their natural i and inalienable rights. * * • * • We throw the name of this distin guished and incorruptible hero, patriot and statesman to the breexe, as a fit leader of the people in the pending presidential contest, in the hope that those whom he so gallantly served in their most trying hour will rally to his banner, and honor him who vindicated their rights at a time when it required ; manhood of the highest type to make the issue and assert such vindication. We are for Hancock f" The editor in question met General Hancock seven times in battle during the war, and the General gobbled him and his command at Gettysburg, and now he goes for the General so as to he even with him. I'litil now the General has been one ahead of him. —— - Won't Hint. FroM th' WimhlH|lt)t) f*o*t. Mr. Grow, of Pennaylvania, is of the opinion that Mr. Blaine's Mulligan let ters will not lose him a vote if be gets the Chicago nomination. Neither will Grant, in tfre opinion nf the same dis ' tinguislied authority,suffer to the slight est extent on account of any of the •oandaia with which his nam* was so conspicuously connected during the last term of his administration, it isor.lv the anti-third term sentiment that will bother the distinguished patron of the St, Louis whiskey ring. In other words, a party nomination will cover innumer able wounds of oharaoter, rotten to putridity. If Mr. Grotfr is right, repu tation is the poorest weed that grows. The Congregational Church at Wash ington, I>. C., was filled on Sunday evening, the occasion being a public meeting in the interest of Sunday ob servance. Justice Strong, of the Su preme Court, presided, and President l layer, many Senators, Representatives and other prominent citixens, ocoubied •eats upon the platform. ADDITIONAL LOCALB. Final Settlement of the Fixh Ouextlon. It is the desire of the organization re cently formed in thin place for the enforce rncnt of those acta of legislature passed for the protection of fish, and especially trout, to give the people of this county the bene fit which the act* afford. With that inten tion, and also to give light on the settlement of the test question raised by the recent violation of those acts by a fWh warden, we publish the final settlement of the question on the part of the attorney* In the case. Let It be understood that there is no wish to impose upon any persons, but the wholesale slaughter of the finny tribe must cease, and hereafter the law* shall be enforced. The following den spaces of which were icii than three inchea. Fourth: It if denied by the defendant, and for the purpose of lb if suit it if ad mitted, that raid John Wagoner did not by means of the raid net catch any speck led trout or black bar*. I am a'ked upon this admission of fact* to decide whether or not there ha* been any violation of the law and if fo whether John Wagoner if liable to tbe penalty of twenty-five dollar* preecrlbad by the law* upon thi* subject. * • Thla being a question of much import ance to all of our citizens, owing to the fact that we have numerou* stream* in Centre county that ate naturally inhabited by brook and speckled trout ami other* that the Hoard of Fi#h Commissioner* under the authority of several vtcts of Assembly at great expense to the tax payer* have stocked with speckled trout and black ba*, and which, if properly protected, will so multiply a- to yield a large return for the outlay. The laws upon the subject of and game fish being nmiewlnl complicated owing to the numerous Acts of Assembly Upon the subject, I have requested the counsel representing the complainant in lx-half of the Commonwealth, and also of the defendant, to unite in aw ritten opinion a* to what law is appliable to the facts as admitted in this case which they have giv en me, as follows: J>o. I. RANKIN. BKU KFOWTB, Mav—, I**o. Jso. I. KANKIN, Ku : Pror Sir. —ln accordance u ith your re <|ue*t, we have carefully examined the law ujin tlx l subject of e*mr and game fish as applicable to the facto a* admitted in the caae before you and we all concur in the opinion here given. 1 he Ibt h section of the Art of Assembly of May lot, 1873, proyidee that no perron shall at any time catch any speckled trout with any device save only with hook and line except for the purpose* of propogation or scientific investigation, or place an? sot lines in waters inhabited hy them under a penalty of twenty-five dollars. The '2"lli section of the same act provides that "Many of the inland waters of this State inhabited by speckled trout or black bass t and in which the fishing with net* and the like device* is not altogether pro hibited by this act or some other act in force in thi Commonwealth i it shall not be lawful to catch or kill flh by mean* of any net or device in the nature thereof the meshes or open spaces in which shwll be less than three inches, under a penalty of twenty-five dollars; Provided that noth ing herein shall authorise the catching of speckled trout by means of any device save only with hook and line, except for propo gation and to stock other water*.' : The 23d section of the Act of Assembly of May the fth, 1873, provides that in any of the inland waters of this Stale inhabited by speckled trout or black ba*, it shall not be lawful to catch or kill fish by means of any net or device in the nature thereof, the nieshos or open spaces in which shall be less than three inches, under a penalty of twenty-five dollars ; Provided that noth ing herein shall authorise the catching of speckled trout by means of any device save only hy rod, hook and line, except for s propogation and to stock other waters. It will !• noticed that this section is a re-enactment of the 2"nh section of the act of May Ist, 1R73, with the following words left out, "and in which the fishing with nets and the like device* is not al together prohibited by this act or some other in force in this Commonwealth." The 24th sectiop of the Act of Assemble of June 3d, 1878, provides that, It shall be lawful to fish with/yA* or hoop net* in any of thr ntrraw of thin Oimmoniaralth uninhabited by brook or tprrklrd trout, dur ing the months of March, April, May, October and November in each year; Provided that the mxshes of said nets'shall pot be leas than one inch in sine and that (aid bet* (hall not be placed at tho con fluence of any wing wall* efiher newly made or abandoned ; and provided further, that it shall be the duty of any one taking or capturing by means of any fyke or hoop net, as aforesaid, any salmon baas, trout, spockled trout, pike, pickerel or un kind of fish introduced into any water* of this Commonwealth by authority of the same, for tho purpose of stocking said waters, to return the same alive to the waters whence taken The violation of any of the provision* of this section shall sub ject the offender to a penalty of twenty five dollars for each and every offence. The 41 at aection of the aame act prividw that "all acta or part* of acta which are Ineonaielent wilh t hie act be and the aaroe are hereby repealed.' 1 There are all the lawt or parta of lawa In force relating to the facta a admitted In the case upon which you have a-kwl , , opinion. K "" "ur The 25th section of the act of u 1873, was in part supplied by the -'V ' . tion of the tut of June 5, ls T m """ tlon is very plain in it* provW J Clare* that it shall not be | HW)u | ] r or kill flh (of any kind) by meansbf , net or device i,/the naturether,Ur ,7 moshe* or open spaces in which sh/u *" less than three inches, in any of thc inl,^ ■ water* of the Hute h v a,,,., K . trout or bUck but. ' 1 ■ ,l l i *® oDcwld H'"t Hpring creek , n whj ,. John Wagoner was fishing with H meshes of which were less that, thrc r • inhabited by speckled trout and J , several years ago black bass were In said stream under the diration ~f Ush commissioner*, both above „ f . . the point at which Wagoner was fi.h,r'* ' thereto* """" ,mV ' ! """ M, " ] "."(tot I f therefore this section of the act the r.n 1 >"■ not repealed by'ttre pealing clause of the act of the ;il ,i 7 June, 1878, it is still i n f( , rt .,. fcr ~ "\" f Wagoner is guilty of a violation of*it. provisions and liable to the iwniltv ' twenty-Ave dollars. y The 21th section of the a< t of the ..d , f I June, 1878, only provided,as befor< that "It shall be lawful to fish with !\ ke , " "cf* the meshes of which ar< r/., t than one inch in diameter, in stream- tt are no I inAubitnt by brook . r ■ 7 • trout. 1 t "'" J lu provisions are applicable to other stream* (of which there are some hute which have neither trout r, r u, Therefore the provision* of the 2 j. of the act of May 6th, 1 hr .. ~t ir ', 1 sistent or iri conflict with anvoftt,,. visions of the act of June 3d. 18 > h , /, , repealed by it. It is therefore unlawful for any rs-rmn to flsli in the water, of Spring creek or s- v other of thestrenms which are inhabit*.* tj'y speckled trout or black ba„, or <, J them, with any net or device in the'r.ature thereof, the meshes of which are t |. sr three inches. John Wagoner ha* therefore vi<,;*tl the law. and if it* stern demands w.„. voked he would have to suffer it- , K . t . . ties; but in his case we agr<-e that the " are uch extenuating circumstance*' tt ought in this case to exonerate 1 ;m fr • it, penalties. We are sati-fi.d fr mt( evidence given us, that he did nt ir.;<-j to violate the law: that h•, .i f;ar , r Others who have read the a< tof .1 1878, supposed that it supplanted th. of May Ist, 1878, and of May ",th. IS? and that tt wa lawful to fish in any stream with a net th" meshes of which weren't j less than one inch. We have no doubt !.<• was misled by others who construed lbs law to suit their own incbrut:- • j who do little else than fish and wh' bav* j ben for several year* pa-t robbing ur streams of the fl*b that the lau aa* ir* tended to protect for the benefit of t Wo therefore recommend that in ti.i* <*„. j John Wagoner be disc barged u; n j*y. | ment of cost, without fine. • C. T. Ai.xx AM, ix, Ait'y for C''mnn T,\rtmth A. O. Fi e-t, I) H. llastiv An - Dtftmdmat —We advise all person* to order fall and winter clothing tarty. Our beair | weight* will be on sale May Ist. j Ift-lf. M OXTOOWKRV A Co.. Toib r — I,adi<-s' hats trimmed to order, at Lv.-n & Co'*. Xnr Advertinemcut*. SHERIFF S SALES. BY virtue of sundry writs of Fieri Fnrfe* *f4 l/Tn FKHM it)wl on! ->f th* C*rt <•* OMMH '< HMM #1 ONMPI NT|, wil! | ywlslN suil*- t th' 1 wri in on Saturday, June 6, A D. t 1880. ; Ml tars nl h^ewninf—<•*•' 1 itafffi Ami Art'l prrrh#*. *•! tll' KwtuM • th** |rpwlj rmni FWvv). No. 2. All thst certain lot or piece of rr.iniel .nnst- In B Inanshlp. (Vnlrs t■ -mty Ts I ltrunil#d bjr Ibiitrnosl i-trrrt tK# nrwitlt h i I I** on th bjr niief on tbn, t rtti. tn4 by l b'* ©n i't—l*ing ldT, June rl Cnrtln township, Wednesday Jon. 11. IV.cgs township. Thursday, jnne 14 Milealoirx horongh. Friday Jane la. t'nlon township and I'ahmTllle, Matnrday. Jons uT Hnslon lownahip, Monday. Jnne P Worth tnwnidiip. Ttwwdar, Jnne r* Taylor tonnshlp. at Fowler. We.li.eels. Jao* V Hush townhtp and Ililliphittg. Thnrel,. Jnl. t. Hnrnshlo township, Friday. July J. Snow Shoe to* nsh.j . Bainr>Uy. Jnly .1. Xprin* township, Monday. Jnly .1. Banner township. Tuesday. Jnly R Helletonte I-won ad., Wednesday, Jnly 7. Front • oVtork A. M. In 3 a'clork P M. each 'la.. The Assessor, with their assessments and thslr assistants, are required to I* In atlendaore. AMIRKW tIRPJtJ. (iVtRriR stt Alt. JACOB nCBCt.II. Ifnat Rsrt. Clerk . (XI-SLj Ounwlaslooen fiEORGK W. THOMAS J US'? RfSpEiyEP another lot f FRESH MACKEREL And So bo sold at nana! low prior* I Ul ARTKRHat II IW | KITS al PRODft'K taken In exchange far gnwds MOV RY To Loan at 0 per Ft iUUAfi I BT xt I'TCAI. LIFE 1R A NCI 00. or NRW TORK, on nd Improved farm tn|wrty. In sum, not lem and net rlrewdla* on#-third ot the prtwenl valo# <> the ptnpeitv. Any porthm of tha pHnctpol *" paid of at any Urn. and It baa been the rostom of J mmpany to permit the prtnrlpal to remain m fat* the hormtnr wishes. If MM Interest la promptly Ani.lT to CIIARi.KS P. BnWMAN, Attorney-olds'; lT Ctmrt attwet, Reading, Ft*. ortoMVID %. KLINR l O,'.Anowhjsr Uf ti(> |>>