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(JENEKAL HANCOCK DECLARES HIS PRIDE IN TIIE Manufactures of Pennsylvania, AND HIS INTEREST IN ALL THAT CONCERNS HIS NATIVE STATE. This is the sentiment he expressed SEPTEMBER 20, 1880, iu answer to nu invitation to visit the PITTSBURG KX VOSITION. In that answer GENERAL HANCOCK said: ".-1A n Pennsylvanian I have the just pride felt by my fellow-citizens in exhibiting the rapacity of our nulla and looms, shops, fields and mines, and / may he per.,lifted to express my pride, in my native Sta 'e, and my interest in all that concerns her welfare, and the prosperity and happiness of all her people.'' The Constitutional Bar. Neither the I'nited States nor any State shall assume to pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebel. | Hon against the I'nited States, or claim lor ' the loss or emancipation of any slaves, hat J all such debts, obligations and clair. s shall | be held illegal and rout. —Constitution of | tho United .State?, article 11, section 4. j s Gen. Hancock's Pledge to Enforce the Foregoing Article. The amendments fo the Constitution of the United States embodying the results of the war for the Union are inviolable. If called to the presidency, I should deem it my duty to resist with all my power any attempt to impair or evade the full force and effect of the Constitution, which in every article, section and amendment is the ' supreme law of the land. —General Han- ! cook's Letter of Acceptance. OCT FOR HANCOCK. THE MII.TONIAN, TIIE OLDEST REPUBLICAN PAPER IN NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, PA., DESERTS THE SINKING SHIP. The Miltonian, published at Milton, Pa.,the oldest and leading Republican paper of Northumberland county, ap )>cared last week with the name of Hancock at the head of its columns, instead of Garfield, whom it has sup ported up to this time, and gives the following reasons: OL'R NEW DEPARTURE. We have to-day raised the name of General Win field Scott Hancock, the gallant and illustrious son and soldier of our mother commonwealth, for Presi dent of the United States. Forecasting the natural results of this step and desiring to support the Hon. Simon P. Wolverton for State Senator, we have concluded to burn the bridges behind us and give our support to the party which supports the hero of Gettysburg. It requires a strong conviction of duty and a high sense of the obligation which a journalist owes to the public to break away from party shackles and to make a new departure, even though it be dictated by reason and sanctioned by tbe highest motives of patriotism. Hut what Horace Greeley, AndrewG. Curtin, Alexander McClure, John W. Forney, and a host of other illustrious names have done we may be allowed to do without much excuse or comment. Gen. Hancock, with whom we have had the honor to meet on social occa sions, and whom we know to be a man sans purr et sans reproche, has a record second to none as it stands as a soldier, and had fortuitous circumstances so combined might have had the laurels of aOrsnt(as be has bis honors) won by the might of his glittering sword on a hundred battle fields. * * * On him are the scars of long and honorable service, and with his blood left on the field of Gettysburg, the utmost scrutiny of his political foes has but added lustre to his civil and military fame. * * * If we are to be a united people let us avoid that which betrays our unity. Let us foster our inter-commer cial relations at home and enlarge our commerce abroad. Let us recover our lost power upon tbe high seas, and, through the existence of peace and friendly relations among our own Unit ed States, make our country what it ought to be, the most prosperous and powerful nation upon God's footstool. Of the dangerous tendencies to cor ruptioni—st horns and abroad—and the increasing power of the political rings, we have not time now to speak, but all shall be guided in the future by that independence which dares to follow right and rebuke that which we con scientiously believe to be wrong. The Democratic Candidate Tor Auditor , General. , COL. KOIIF.KT I'. DECUERT Was npjtuiutcd Assistant Pisdrict At torney in November, 18G8, by Hon. Furman Sheppard, the District At torney of tbe county of Philadelphia, and although he hud then practised but two years at the bar, he at once assumed the prosecution of important cases, and conducted them with great credit to himself and beuelit to the commonwealth. He retired from the office with his chief in 1871 on the election of William B. Mann, Esq., and resumed the geueral practico of his profession. When Mr. Sheppurd was again elected District Attorney in 1874, he tendered the position of Assistant District Attorney to Colonel Deehert for the second time, and this position he held until the retirement of Mr. Bheppard from the office, January 1, 1 1878. During this service of six years Colonel Deehert was called upon to perform most responsible duties. Many important cases below the gride of homicide he conducted with great success, being opposed by the ablest lawyers of the Philadelphia bar. It would be impracticable to mention at this time even the more important cases in which the community were most interested ; they would till a vol ume. They are remembered by thou sands of l'hiladelphians whose prop erty and safety were involved, and the returns of the election in that city will, no donbt, show that his services were appreciated. In 1877, Henry S. llagert, Esq., who had also served as Assistant Dis trict Attorney, was elected as the suc cessor of Mr. Sheppurd, who had de clined to be a candidate for re-election. It was generally believed that Colonel Deehert would continue in the office under Mr. Hagert, hut he preferred to devote himself to the geueral practice j of his profession, and accordingly 1 wrote the following letter, to which j Mr. Hagert answered in the letter i which is also appended : No. 209 Soi* Tll FIFTH ST., Pnii.ADßl.rniA, Dec. '26, 1877. j IICNRY S. HAGERT, Ksq., My Dear A Sir: I have had the honor of holding the position of Second Assistant District Attorney during the six years that Mr. Sheppard has held the office of District Attorney. During all that time we have been pleasantly associated as his deputies. I now wish to devote myself to a more ! general practice of my profession. Ido ; not wish my name to embarrass you in I your appointments, and I, therefore re- j i quest that you will not consider me as j an applicant for the office of First As j sistant District Attorney. Yours, truly, KOHERT P. DECUERT. MB. HAGEKT'B I.ETTEK OFFICE OF TIIE DISTRICT ATTORNEY, > | PIIII.ADELI'IIIA, Dec. 29, 1877.) ' KOHERT P. DEOHEHT, Ksq., Dear Sir : I am in receipt of your let- | ter of the 26th, in which you express your wish to devote yourself to the ! private practice of your profession, and ' request that you may not be considered an applicant for the office of First As i eisiant District Attorney. I cannot permit this occasion to pass by without expressing my regret at the termination of the official relation which hns sub ' sisted between us during the six years of our connection with the District At ! torney's office, nor without bearing my : testimony to the zeal, ability and fidelity : which you have at all times displayed | in the performance of your public du ties, and also to the uniform, kindness ; and courtesy which have characterized i your intercourse with your associates in | J the office. With the best wishes for your success J in the private pursuit of your profession, j ami with renewed expressions of my ! esteem and confidence, I remain, Yours, very truly, HENRY S. HAGERT. As an evidence of the high esteem j of his chief, on the retirement of Col. Deehert from this office, he received I the following letter from Hon. Furman j Sheppard: PHILADELPHIA, January 7, 1878. COL. KOHERT P. DECUERT, My Dear Sir: We have been associated together in the District Attorney's office for nearly six years, and now at the close of our term it is both a pleasure and a duty on my part to bear testimony to the constant ability, fidelity and up rightness with which you have discharg ed all your official duties. You have ever been to me a faithful and most ! valuable assistant. I heartily thank you for the support and aid which you 1 hnvo always rendered to me so promptly 1 and efficiently, and 1 cannot withhold the earnest expression of my entire 1 confidence and sincere respect. Hoping that your professional career 1 may continue to bo as honorable as the ' commencement of it has been auspici ous, I remain, as heretofore, ' Very truly yours, Ac., 1 FPENAN SHEPPARD. , Since that time Col. Deehert has devoted himself chiefly to the civil ' practice of the law. The Auditor General of the State is a moot responsible officer, who is . often required to interpret the law and , apply it to important cases in which > the State has an interest; and the - legal ntind and ex|ierience of the ' Democratic candidate will fit him for the requirements of that position. Col. Deehert was not a candidate for the Democratic nomination of , Auditor General. He preferred to I continue the practice of his profession, but the two divisions of tbe Dcroocra ' cy of Philadelphia, then represented ' in the State Convention, with entire j unanimity, presented his name, and , thus the Convention, unsolicited, ten . dered to him a unanimous nomination. . The voters of the Commonwealth arc invited to examine the qualifications of the respective candidate* for the office of Auditor General, and we arc confident that the independent citizen will naturally incline to the support of our candidate. HON. GEORGE A. JENKS. From tho OrnphioDetnorriit, ltrookvilli*, I'u. George A. Jenk*, the Democratic can didate for Supremo Judge, is in hia forty-fifth year. He ia the youngest of ten children, and was born in Punxsu tnwney, Jefferaon county, Pa., March 26, 1836. Hia father, a physician, was descended from a Welsh (Quaker family who were among the early settlers ol Philadelphia. His mother whb a daugh ter of the Kev. D. Barclay, a Scotch I'reshyteriun minister. When Mr. Jenks was a child, his eldest brother, D. 15. Jenks, who was a lawyer, waa teach ing him to count u hundred, and casu ally asked him what huaineas he would follow when he became a man. The ro .ply was, "Wait till to-morrow morning and I will tell you." During the night tbe determination was formed, and the next morning communicated hy the subject of this sketch, that lie would be a lawyer. This purpose, so early form ed, was unalterably fixed. Thence-for wurd his every labor and study was directed to tbe purpose of hia life. To these early studies ia largely to be at- j tributed his capability to deal with orig- j inal legal questions, such a* he mani fested un the impeachment of Secretary j Belknap, the discussion of the Louisiana I and < >regon cases before the Electoral i Commission, and the debate on the dis- | tribution of tho Geneva Award. When attending the common school, one of tho readers then in use was the | Introduction to the English Reader, j In this, one of the lessons was the story of tho "Noble Basket-maker." From the story the moral was derived—that \ every man, no difference what hia cir- ; cuniataucea or purposes in life might be, : should learn a trade. This moral he determined to act upon. When four teen years old, his father died. At six ! teen he entered upon an apprenticeship j of two years to the carpenter and join jer trade. When his term expired, lie | worked at hia trade, taught school and j occasionally was employed at civil en ' gineering, till ho entered college. | While engaged in the latter vocation, t in the spring of 1855, he assisted to lay I out Omaha in Nebraska. In the fall : of that year he entered the junior class j at Jefferson College, having in the morn- j j inga and evenings, while teaching and working, steadily pursued his literary ■ studies. He had been entered as a j | student of law before he entered col- 1 : lege, and the Hon. W. P. Jenks. who was hi* guardian, bail from early boy hood, directed him in his legal and lit erary reading. He graduated at Jetfer i son College in the class of 1 858, and in 1 | ls.Vj, was admitted to the bar in Jeffer | son county, having finished hi: legal . I studies under hi* elder brother, W. P. i ; Jenks. At the September term. IR.VJ, be led in conducting Ins first case in court, ; which was an all-important one to In* 1 i client*, a widow and her minor children, whose all was their home, and that home ; was dependent upon the result of th case. He wa* opposed by the lending j legal talent at the bar. including Hon. I. G. Gordon. Hon. W. P. Jenks and I Hon. G. W. '/.eigler. He won the case, j and thence-forward was employed in most of the important cause* in his own i county, and hi* name soon berime fa ; miliar in many of the courts of western and central Pennsylvania, to which lie wa* called for the trial of important | case*. When not engaged in the court*, hi* life has been one of constant study rid i preparation. He never sought public position, but wa* known as a Democrat. In the fail of 1874 he ws* tendered the Democratic nomination for Congress in the 25th district of Pennsylvania, against Gen. Harry White. The district | wa* heavily Republican, but his person- I *1 popularity and the tidal wave elected : him to the 41th Congress. Speaker Kerr appointed him Chairman of the | Committee on invalid Pension*. A | masterly report on the condition and working of the pension bureau, derived from an investigation hy order of the 1 House, he soon made, and followed this I hy a bill which wa* calculated to pre -5 vent future abuses. Bounty land war j rants, which before this had been per J sonal property, had become the plunder ol n dmhonest ring, which at one single time had seized upon over one hun dred thnusnnd acres of land, were changed to realty, through his efforts, and so guarded that only the rightful owners, their legal heirs or assigns, could obtain them. His forensic ability first became known to the House in a discussion concerning the character of an Invalid Pension. He had asserted that an Invalid Pension, for death or disability of a soldier of the service, in the line of his duty, was a contract right. This wa* denied by some the leading Republicans of the House, who alleged it was a mere gift or gratuity, and a warm debate ensued, at the conclusion of which Mr. Jenks made a legal argu ment, tracing the legislation on the sub ject from and aince the Revolutionary war, and establiahing so conclusively the position he assumed, that it has not since been denied. This wa* soon suc ceeded by a legal discussion concerning the refusal of Halletl Kiibourne to tes tify before a committee of the House. The legal prominence he had already obtained lea the House to elect him as one of the seven Managers on part of the House to conduct the impeachment of Secretary Belknap, the others being Messrs. Lord, Knott, Lynde, McMahon, Hoar and Lapham. On that trial, before the Senate, the defendant was repre sented by three leading lawyers of the nation—lion. Jeremiah S. Black, Hon. Matt. H. Carpenter and Hon. Mont gomery Blair. Mr. Jenka was selected by tbe managers as one of the commit tee to draw the pleadings. He was afterwards appointed to make one of the arguments on the question of the jurisdiction of the Senate to impeach after the officer had resigned, and sub sequently, in consequence of the illness of Mr. Lapham, he was selected to dis ouaa the facta. His legal attainments were on this trial made conspicuous to the Senate and the nation, and conced ed to be unsurpassed by any in tbe cause. Tbe subject of the distribution of the Geneva Award came before the llouie on majority and minority report* from the .Judiciary Committee. Mr. .Jenk* ottered an amendment to the majority report, in aupport of the amendment and re|iort as amended, made an argu ment involving aome of the moat difli cull queatioua of international law. The report, as amended by him, was panned by the Houae. •Soon after the meeting of the aecond session he wan appointed by Speaker Randall one of the committee of fifteen, to iriveatigato the conduct of the elec tiotiM in liOuiaiana, and on hia return, waa appointed by the chairman of the democratic Cbucuh, with Mr. Field, of New York, and Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, to reprenent the democracy ot the Houae, in preparing, presenting and discussing the tucta and the law before the Electoral Commission. It fell to Mr. .Jcnks to make opening arguments in the cases of Louisiana and Oregon. While he WHS engaged in the discussion of the first of these cases before the Commission, Senators Thurinan and | Hayard sat side by side. Senator Bay ard passed a note of admiration of the i argument to Senator Thurman, and in response received the following reply : "The more 1 hear this man, the more 1 j admire him. 11" reason* like Newton j or La I'lace. He has spoken half an hour, and has not uttered a superfluous word." This complimentary opinion was generally concurred in by those who heard or read the proceedings before the Electoral Commission. In most of the legal discissions that arose in the House, Mr. .Jenks partici pated, in addition to the full perform ance of his duties on the very laborious committee of which he was chairman. At the expiration of his congressional term, he immediately resumed his pro fessional pursuits, in which he has ever since been engaged. Hi* extensive practice has included almost every brunch that arises in the State and cov ers a very broad range of its area. His election to the Supreme bench of the State will be but a just recognition of his superior legal attainments. Judge Black on the Stump. Ill: HAKES A r ul(( lltl.K SPEECH IN THE IMIROVOII OP VORk, PA. The Democrats of York held a great inu** meeting at which Hon. J.S. Black delivered a powerful and unanswerable speech. Judge Black, said among other thing*: "I'nawed by influence and unbribed by giiin the incorruptible Democracy elected Tilden and utterly routed the corruptionists. The majority of the white people was a million, reduced to three hundred thousand by the black vote. if the electors duly appointed there was a clear majority ot twenty- i three against them. No man was ever , elected to any office in this country if Tilden was not elected president of the United Slates. Then came that enormous outrage which made the name of our opponents infamous forever. They fraudulently 1 altered the appointment of twelve elect ors, enough to give Hayes a majority of one ; and on that fraud they put him in. The corrupt knaves that assisted i them are Lillited on the treasury a* a reward for their crime* ; and we the people are taxed to pay them for cheat ing us out of our birthright. There was no excuse for this that can be accepted even a* a mitigation of the ciime—no pretene of any excuse at all that wu* not founded in perjury and forgery which aggravated ita baseness a thou sand fold. But the cheated millions that we had before are with us still. The immense majority that voted in 1876 for State independence, honest government, pop ular liberty, peace lietween the sections and equal justice to all mpn, will vote again in the same way. To these will | be added the thousands in every part of the country whose conscience forbids them to support the particular kind of I fraud to which this administration owe* ; it* existence. Mill further will the j great majority bo swelled by enthusias tic love lor the great Deliverer who dis j interestedly stood by the cause of liber- I ty at tbe time of its extrernest peril. ! The oligarchy that persecuted and sneered at him then shall painfully feel— "What frwm# ran For lhf> hero anl lh rliH ihM ' 1 confess 1 am disappointed in the effect of this upon the popular mind. I believed that the thunders of univer ral condemnation would break over the heads of the men who had done this thing. But they took the moral meas ure of their party better than I did. Doubtless there are many thousands who have determined in their heart* not to trust such criminals any longer; doubtless the confidence of many nen heretofore acting with them has received a shock from winch it will never recover; but their organization is nearly a* com pact as it was before, and most of their leaders move with a step as alert a* ever in support of a nominee who made himself especially conspicuous in the perpetration of that great wrong- Of course we will elect Gen. Hancock a* surely ns we elected Mr. Tilden, and hy a much larger majority. But the same men who cheated in 1876 may cheat again in 1880. They do not ap pear to have repented. Tbey have not taid or done anything to show that they would not commit tbe same crime over. What then? I can only answer : If yu be men bear U not. The deliverer who leads now has always been true to the people in war and in peace; and no matter what betides us he is sure to be true in the future. Let us also be true to him in every emergency ; for hit danger it our danger, and if he falls by another fraud our righta will perish forever. In his speech Judge Black paid many eloquent tributes to the wortn and abil ity of General Hancock, declaring "that every man who believes in the whole American system of government should be a friend of General Hancock. He is and always has been for it, in every part. His sword defended the lawful authority of the union ; be threw hia shield before the breast of civil liberty: it was his great order that vindicated state sovereignty." The Women's Temperance Union Convention meets at Harrisburg on the 20th inst. The Pistol In Indiana. BRL'TAI. NCRDER Of SIIERIFF llWlil AT snsLiirviLLE. Knilll Hjmx Jul DiapHt' I| t'# th" World, 1 >Ol anatolih, Oct. ll.—The detail* of the murder of Sheriff McCorkle threw a strong light on the evil effect* of the tacticA udopted hy the Republican*. The murderer wa a mere hoy crazed with free drinkx and with the ineendia ry rubbish of oratorH like Genera! Harrison, who had been declaiming against the "solid South" and the j rebel Democracy like a wild person not j an hour before the shooting occurred. , General Harrison began speaking about i 1 o'clock, and simultaneously coin- i uienced a series of fights and riots that 1 lasted for several hours, with short intervalH. Young Kennedy, a lad of seventeen, and a number of others, both Democrats and Republicans, were in Hardebeck's saloon drinking and arguing politics. A row occurred, but exactly who were engaged in it on either side it is impossible to ascertain accurately—at any rate Sheriff McCork le was called in by the proprietor to quell the disturbance, which he soon succeeded in doing and separated the combatantß. He took the Kennedy boys in charge and went out of the saloon with them to the other side of the street. He was accompanied by a motley and excited crowd to that point, j about thirty or forty yards from the j saloon. The Kennedys had promised, , it seems, to go home quietly f released j and Mcf'orkle had tried to persuade them to do so. The .Sheriff was assist- J ed in his duties by ex-Sheriff T. 11. Howard Lee, and the fwo were side by side when the point above-mentioned j was reached. Arrived there the Ken nedys and their companions refused to go any further, and commenced an as sault uj>on the officials. Mr. Lee was struck in the head with a stone, and Ldward Kennedy, turning and drawing | a revolver, deliberately shot Sheriff Mc- \ C'orkle. The ball penetrated the upper portion of the right breast, and it is j thought lodged in or behind the lung. Most of the crowd dispersed after the shooting, and Sheriff McCorkle was j taken to the residence of Mr. It. W. Flavitz, near by, bleeding profusely \ from his wound. Dr. Samuel Kennedy was immediately summoned and pro nounced the wound very serious, with the chances decidedly against recovery. It was reported on the street that he was dying or dead, and the news creat ed the wildest excitement. The popu lace flocked in hundreds to the scene of the occurrence, and to the bedside of j the wounded officer. A general riot - seemed imminent for some time ; threats of vengeance were uttered I against the perpetrator of the dastardly deed and if he had been caught there is little doubt that he would have been lynched, lbit es soon as the shooting took place Kennedy fled. Nothing i known of his present whereabouts, hut it is rumored that a Republican friend in oflicial position met the murderer at a convenient point, supplied him with money and told him to make his way out of the county. After the shooting of Mr. : McCorkle, ex Sheriff Howard Lee was set upon by a gang, knocked down and repeatedly struck over the head and , shoulders with huge stones and would, i doubtless have been murdered on the ! spot had not Constable Richard Thrall j and others rescued him. He was taken to a house near by for protection, where his wounds were dressed. In ad dition to the foregoing brutal a*auli and attempt at murder several other bloody affrays occurred. One of these occurred at Keek's saloon previous to that de | verified above. A crippled Democratic soldier named Short was in this saloon i with a number of Republicans. One of . the latter said he could whip any Dem- I oorst who had hallooed for Hancock, or that no Democrat should halloo for Hancock, or some remark to that effect. ; This waa resented by Short and be was : immediately assaulted and knocked | down. At this |>oint Andrew Gusming er, a prominent Democrat, interfered and requested the parties to desist; thereupon he 100 was assaulted and dreadfully beaten. His head was bad ly cut and he was otherwise bruised. •Jefferson Barger, who ts marshal of Shelbyville, stood hy and saw McCor kle shot, saw the outrageous conduct of his |iolitical friends and made no effort to interfere with or stop their do ings. He arrested nobody; did not try to catch Kennedy ; did not lift a hand to prevent bloodshed, and it it one of his , deputies who is charged with giving j money to Kennedy to make his escape. A Dreadful Disaster. TERRIBLE IOS* OF LIFE BV A RAILROAD COLLISION AT I'ITTSBI Rll. A frightful collision occurred last Saturday at midnight, on the Pennsyl vania railroad near Twenty-eighth st. crossing, by which nine )ieople were killed outright and eleven more have died since, making in all twenty deaths while as many more are dangerously hurt and physicians say they cannot recover. In addition to these there is a large number who are slightly in jured. 1 he first section of the Well's accom modation train going east left the Union depot at 11.31 p. m., having a large number of passengers wbo bad come to the city participate in the closing exercises of the exposition and witness the Democratic demonstration. The back platform was so crowded that the head-light on the second section, which was following, could not be seen. The first section stopped at the regular station at Twenty-eighth street, where it was delayed on account of aoolher train which waa in the next block. The second section came along at good sneed, but owing to the crowd on the platform of the first section the sigoal light* were hidden from view and con sequently the engineer of the second section did not aee the train ahead of him until he waa so near it that his train could not be checked in time to prevent e collision end the engine went crashing into the rear coach of the first section packed as it was with human beings. The engine buried itself to the nab windows among "lTi" 1 g' suffering men, women and children, mangling all who were in its course The boiler head of the collid ing engine waa burst off by the shock •oaiding water and steam poured over the occupants of the oar as if bent on completing the terrible work that hod gone before. It is impossible to describe the fear ful scenes that followed. The groans of the dying and shrieks of those who had lost their friends were frightful. Word was immediately telegraphed to the mayor's office for assistance and twenty five policemen, with a full corps of physicians and wagons, were dis patched at once to the scene of the dis aster, where they were soon busily ,rn ployed in alleviating the sufferings of the victims arid clearing away the wreck. The wounded who were unable to care for themselves were carried n, the soldiers hospital hut a short distance from the accident. The name of the engineer of ti.<- second locomotive is Julius Hucy and that of the fireman R*inbo. Both ar<- residents of Pittsburg and e.<„| ~.q uninjured, notwithstanding they -ti,, ~ to the engine when it [.lowed through the rear car of the other train. Up to I o'clock Monday morning thirty persons have died. —■ ♦ ■ GENERAL NEWS. A vein of what is believed to be black marble has been discovered in ''aroliri i county. Col. Ben P.rownfleld died near Union town, Fayette county, on Thursday, aged 101 years. He was a Democrat, and his first vote was cast for Thorns- Jefferson. The Masonic fraternity of New York on .Saturday laid the corner stone . Cleopatra's Needle, in central prk with the usual ceremony, closing w.'.h an oration by Grand Master Jesse Anthony. Two hundred survivors of the < >l<- Hundred and Fortieth Regiment tok part ir. the reunion exercises at Miami, on Tuesday of lat week. Congre-sn. • Sballenberger made the annual addre- In the shooting match at St. Ixniip.'u Saturday afternoon, between A. 1!. Bogardus and W. B. Hanworth, <: Quincv, 111., 100 wild birds, 21 var i rise, American rules. SIOO a side, tfi score at the finish stood 92 to 92. at.<- John Carson and hi* son, together with another l*y named Benner, <<[ Spruce Creek, Huntingdon county, at tempted to walk through the Hprur.- Creek tunnel, on Saturday, but were run over by the second section of the Pacific express east, and were all ir. atantly killed. Kx-Governor Horatio Seymour attend ed the golden wedding of hi* cousin. Kx-Chief Justice Origen S. Seymour, of Connecticut, at Litchfield, Conn., a few days ago. There were also present Gov Andrews and Kx Governors lngersr.il and F.nglish, of Connecticut, and many Slate Judges. George lowry and his brother in law, David Thomas, colored, were a few . It comprises some two hundred and fifty acres of finely wooded ground*. The Km press intends to build on the properly a mortuary chaf-el to receive the rmains of the late Ka)|>eror and the Prince 1 mperial. I,iizie F., widow of the late W. C. Ralston, has filed a complaint in the Superior Court, at San Francisco, against Senator Sharon. The document covers 265 pages, and is to the effect that Rals j ton and Sharon were partners in bui news ; that Sharon wa* also one of the executors of lUlston's will, of which complainant was sole beneficiary, and she asks an accounting, claiming a large sum of money as due. een attending a Republican meeting. Jacob Good had his neck broken by thrusting his head out of a car window to that it came in contact with a freight car standing at IbeUolden depot. Some of the party discharged their revolver* indiscriminately, and a colored roan was wounded in the leg. James Donahoe and Richard Swift attempted to batter down the door of the residence of Mary Brown at an early hour on Sunday morning, near Pottsville, when Andrew Brown, her brother, shot Donahoe in the face with fatal effect, and then surrendered him self to the authorities, claiming that the shooting was justifiable. Brown's sister attempted suicide during the afternoon by shooting herself in the neek. Hiram De lluff, engineer of the Mif flintown local freight train, ran his en f;ine into the rear of a slowly moving reight train on Saturday evening on the Pennsylvania Railroad, one mile east of .Spruce Creek tunnel, and bad both legs and bis right arm to badly crushed that he died in a short time. * widow and six children at Mitffintown. Travel was temporarily obtnioted by the wreck of the engine and seven coal car*. Col. Racbelder, of Boston, the govern ment historian of the beltle of Getty* burg, baa arrived at Gettysburg with s corps of engineers to complete the sur vey of the battlefield, as directed by wt of Congress at its last session. Col. Baohelder was recently elected a mem ber of the Gettysburg Memorial Asso ciation for the preservation of the field, and was also appointed a committee to locale tablets to mark the position of Iroons at the battle and to determine Ue legend they should bear.