She Centre democrat. BELLEFONTE, PA. The Largest, Cheapest and Beat Paper PUBLISHED IK CKMTRK COUNTT. NKVITOU WALLACE*# ADDHKSN. "Pennsylvania's Formative Influence on Federal Institutions." A riTTINM lU I.OOV AND PtriNSE 0 THE SYSTEM Or l-EMK. From th- Lsneaslsr Inlslllgsocrr, An audience of very fair size, includ ing many representative business men and prominent members of all the learned professions in this city, gathered in the court house last evening to hear the address of Hon. W. A. Wallace, de livered for the benefit of the city poor. Promptly at 8 o'clock he was introduced to the audience by M. Broaius, Esq., and he was listened to very attentively as he spoke from notes for an hour and a half, lie devoted himself strictly to the an nounced subject of his address, on which he had manifestly applied a very consul erahle amount of historical research, inspired by State pride in the prominent part taken by Pennsylvania in the for mation of our federal system and the wide influence exercised by the institu tions founded by Penu. He fortified his claims to her pre eminence in this work by abundant historical citations, and the address was garnished with a number ol quaint nnd appropriate stories illustrative of colonial life and laws. Following is an abstract of the address, which will be delivered at other points in the State: No apology is needed from a IVn n sylvanian in addressing a Pennsylvania audience on this theme. Her history, name and fame art the liounteou* mother of our federal government are worthy of the best efforts of each of us. Her (tower, wealth, agricultural importance, tier great future and her record in the past, all prompt us to use our noblest ]towers in her behalf. The purpose of this lecture is to lay before you some of the past history of our greatcommonwealth. It has lately become the fashion to decry and speak contemptuously of her. Are we blame less in accepting these insults with silence? Have we striven to keep un sullied her fair fame? It is not Ihe in tention of this address to speak of those later heroes of the sword and pen Wayne, MitHin, Franklin and Kitten house ; the desire is simply to trace the history of Pennsylvania from the latter half of the seventeenth century to the Revolution, to mark h.-r prestige of ex ample in creating the institutions under which we live. I>id she follow or lead ? Who built the eternal barrier of common sense be twixt Church and State, abolished slave trade, and first gave her people univer sal suffrage ? Virginia, New York and Massachusetts all claim these honors, but theirs is an empty pretension. Pennsylvania it was that planted the seed whose fruit we behold in the feder al institutions of to day. Institutions grow, they are not made in a breath. As the infant becomes successively boy. youth and man, so the seed cannot leap ioto life as soon as planted, but must grow bv slow degrees. Knickerbocker New York, Puritan Massachusetts, the "i lid Iominion" and Huguenot -South Carolina all claim to be the fountain head of our federal in stitutions. And amid these conflicting pretensions. Pennsylvania is silent, not boastful. In a late publication, entitled "A Century of liiabonor,'' our State is branded Mr the brutal massacre of the fonestoga Indians. The statements of a careful and reliable local historian ex planatory of ibis sad event are utterly ignored. But let those who charge look to themselves. The massacre of the TJO Pequods and the murder of King Ptulip make Pennsylvania's misdeeds pale into insignificance. As early as Ifil.l, Massachusetts and the Plymouth colonies formed a union against the French and Indians. But it was not the broad far seeing policy that Wm. Penn formulated and sent to <treat Britain for approval. The latter plan embraced a congress, the embryo of our present Congress, which had power to levy taxes, declare war and ad just the differences between the constit uent colonies. The time, however, wsa not yet ripe for these developments, and Penn's plan was not approved by the Crown ; but the good need was town and the day of its maturity was not far | distent. (iovernmenta are made for men. not men for governments, ia the underlying principle of the constitution of ITfttas well aa that of ISJ3. And this feature, more than any other, was made promi nent in the early history of our com monwealth. In the movement for relig ious tolerance our State and Maryland led the wy. Wm. Penn and Lord Baltimore have the honor of being the first to establish liberty of conscience in the colonies. Liberty not in theory, but in fact. And Pennsylvania's merit consists in its uninterrupted retention of religious liberty, while that of Msrv land for a time passed away, f entreat with these some of the sister Stales. Virginia from its foundation had ita es tatlished church and salaried clergy men, and it was in fighting the exac tiona of these latter that Patrick Henry won his maiden spurs before the people. The I>utch Reformed and Preshyteruns ..f New York persecuted ij lakers and t'atbolica, while virtuous Massachusetts imposed the penalty of flogging on those who dared to kiee their wives publicly on a .Sunday. These and countleee other facts that might be narrated emphasize Pennsylvania's prominence in being the first to recognize rightful equality. And what of popular rights? Pann as early as HI7I had aid, "Let the peo ple be governed by law* of their own anecting." The assumed rights of the Crown were antagonistic to the rights of the people. A struggle was prscipi tated and the Revolution decided in fa vor of the people. Power feeds on itself. The people never obtain a right, that they will yield beck without bloodshed. And thus Pennsylvania, tenacious of ber rights, never allowed her liberties to be trampled on, and won the proud badge of the moat rebellious of the English colonies. Penn oonovded ber the right tq levy ber own taxes, and she at once demanded equality of taxation. The manors that had been exempted from the beginning no longei were allowed this privilege, the Assembly justly claim ing that equality of protection demand ed equality of taxation. The right of the people to control the public purse was another of the cardinal doctrines insisted on, and the foundations laid in those esrly days are the self same on which rests our modern superstiucture. Any government is free wheie the laws rule and the people make the laws. Thus spoke Wen. l'enu; and the migh ty struggle for representative taxation hinged on this doctrine. The first di rect issue on this point was made in Philadelphia in 1740, and the rights of the |>eople prevailed. Pennsylvania was also foremost in the abolition of slavery and the amelioration of the penal code. Under Penn's wise administration mur der alone was punished with death, and workhouses were everywhere erected for the punishment of minor offenses. In New York, on thecontrary, that relic of barbarity, the ducking stool for com mon scolds, was still in use. And in that most important part of our modern political edifice, universal suffrage, how stands Pennsylvania? At the Revolution of the states save herself had a property qualification attached to the voting privilege, and Massachusetts had a religious qualification. The "scot and lot" test, consisting in a contribu tion laid on people according to their ability, was the only one required in Pennsylvania,and her wisdom 200years sgo is manifested in the general adop tion of universal suffrage in modern limes. A tight once granted can never be taken back without the people's con sent, and the rights granted Pennsylva nia were always steadfastly maintained. Conspicuous as Pennsylvania ever was in her love of liberty and her defense of her rights, she yet found time for the cultivation of those politer arts, liter ature, medicine and the law, and Phila delphia may well be proud of her Cad walader, her Hush and her Hamilton I How marked the contrast between Pennsylvania's constitution and that of the Caroliuaa. The latter, prepared un der the inspiration of the great mun srehist John Locke, sought to avoid a an evil a too numerous democracy, and was agreeable to monarchy. The con stitution of Pennsylvania has withstood the storms of more than two hundred years, and its influence has been fell by more ban filty millions of people. Peac , justice and equality of l ights, these were the broad foundations on which she was laid in the beginning, and her progress ive existence today is the enduring monument raised by time to the illustri ous founder of our state. The Lad of Much Hard l.urk. Mil Uk* Till 'in. Twelve jeurt ago Henry L. Wallace wa* married in New York City, and be itifr a man of liberal means, took hi* wife to Kurope. They nt.odo a two yeara' tour on the continent and returned to Liverpool, from whence they expected to aail for America. Wallace and hi* wifo took stateroom* in thekteamer.and after going on board Wallace recalled the fact that the servant girl at the ho ; tel who had acted aa nurne girl tor hi* ! child had not, in the hurry nt leaving, been paid. A* there weretiil two hour* before the steamer sailed he concluded to go back and pay the nuroe lrt ahe might mention the matter to other guenl* and a bad impreioti ofbi* finan cial integrity be created, lie started for the notel, and on Ilia way we* roughly joalled by a atranger. Turn ing upon him he demanded to know who he waa moulted, when aome hot word* passed and he knocked the man down. The police ruahed in and arre* ted both men. At the atatioo houae the man whom lie had knocked down charged him with attempting to pick hia pocket*. He tried to explain that bis wife and child were on the "learner, and finally ofl'ared f l.tMl to let him go, but it waa of no avail, and the atory of the steamer waa only looked upon aa a fabrication to deceive the police. When he was searched no money waa found on hia person except a few ahit lingo in ailver. having left it with hia wile. Thia fact, taken in connection with hi* oiler of f I,fK*t for hi* release, made it all the more tuapicioua. While he waa being examined in the office of the Chief of Police a dispatch came from I,ondon directing thedetectivea to arreal a counterfeilure who waa about to sail on the steamer. The descrip tion answered exactlv for Wallace, and he waa locked up. He sent word to the hotel, and the keeper of the houae call ed upon him. Wallace begged the man to identify him, but the reply wa*: "I only know that you stop|d a few day* at my house, and when you left you didn t pay a nurse girl whom you hired. What do I know of your ante cedente ?" That the bill due the nurse girl, which was the cause of all the trouble, should t>e used against him waa a crushing blow, and when the trial came off the London detectivea swore that they be lieved be waa the counterfeiter wanted, but there waa not sufficient proof tocson vict. The man whom'be knocked down swore stoutly that he attempted to pick his pocket, and he wa* sentenced for two years, In the meantime the steamer sailed, bearing his wife and child, Mr*. Wallace remembering the excuse he had made to leave the steamer, presently began to imagine, aa many women might do under the circuaUncee, that he took thia method of deserting her, and after reaching New York gave up all hope of ever seeing him again. She had con siderable money, however, and finally came West. She lived in San Fraooia co lor eevetal years, and loat nearly all she had in stocks. She came to' Salt Lake with her child and took in sew ing and fancy needlework, barely mak ing a living. After Wallace had aerved hie term in Liverpool he spent two years in trying to get something to do. and finally bad to work in a rope maker's establish ment to earn money enough to reach America, coming in an emigrant ship. Alter reaching New York be met some of hia old friend-. Kxplaining hie mis fortunes, he got a start in the world, again, and making a good deal of money, he tried to find hi* wife, but was unable to do so. He went to Colorado two years ago, invested luaklly in mines end made considerable money, lost week be came to Salt Lake, and while at the Walker House with a friend, the con versation turned upon the prosy subject of good fitting shirts. Said the friend ; "There is a widow woman up street who makes my shirts. I give her iny measure and they fit to a charm and last longer than any store shirt 1 ever wore. If you want some good shirts, coiue with lUe." Wallace agreed, and the two went up to the widow woman'*. "Sumo name a* you, by the way," said the man a* lie ajiproaubed the house. He introduced Wallace as a Iriend who wanted some shirt*. The two looked at each other. The woman guv* a big, long scream; and there wa* the usual tableau, which would require uousidera ble work to properly describe. Wallace found hi* wife, and also his little baby, the latter now grown to girlhood. These are the simple fact* of a remarkable case, but the lull hi* lory of the wanderings of the nepsmu-d couple would make a hook. 'The two left for new York on Tuesday lasl. EDGAR ALLAN TDK. The Slory of IIIN Daetli as Told by Dr. Moran. //-< Memory Vindicated ly One Who Wat With lltm i Htt Ixut Moments—An Klorjutnt and Towhing Tribute. 'I here was a fair audience at the Con gregational church last night, to listen to the lecture by l>r. J. J. Moral), of l - all* Church, Vs., on t ho life, character, dying declaration* and death of Kdgar Allan Toe. Dr. Moran wa* introduced by I'rof. Klmer 1L Reynolds, and in opening his lecture said that hi* theme covered the earlier and riper year* of the poet, but would be more especially devoted to his dying hours, when he sat, by his bed*ido and wiped the moisture from hi* face and sought to sooth hi* last moments. After'giving a brief sketch of Toe'* parent* he passed rap idly on to the boyhood and youth of the |et and traced hi* brilliant literary career without any studied effort at ef fect, drawing a most teeliog sketch of* the viciaaitude* through which he pass ed, and the deep anguish and gloom that settled upon hint after the death of his wile at Fordham. iSy an over whelming weight of testimony the lec turer controverted the slsnder that Too had coui[>o*ed the "Haven" while labor ing under a fit of delirium tremeni, and quoted from hi* letter to Dr. Snodgrass, recently published in the Daltioicte American, to show the Into nature ol the man wbo had suffered so unjustly at the hand* of hi* biographer. Coming down to the closing days of Tor-'* life. Moran gave the true version of hi* last visit to Ksltimore. He said Toe airived in that city and went to a hotel, wb*r he completed his arrangements for a trip fo Tbiladelphia. Starling on hi* journey he reached the Susquehanna, river, which it was then necessary to cross by boat. The weather was tem pestuous and the water so rough that ho ! decided not to venture on the boat alio ' returned to I'altimore, where he went to a hotel and left hi* trunk. Ijilvt h • tarted for a walk about the city, and those who last jaw him noticed tiial h was followed by two or three suspicious characters, whoclo*eiy dogged his foot step*. A* the shade* of evening de scended upon the city Toe ha-1 rambled on until he bad reached a dangerous portion of the town, where it was un safe for a man to loiter alone. Here the men who had been following came up with hitn and he wa* forced into a. low den, where be waa drugged, robbed, stripped of hi* apparel, and then clothed in the filthy rags of one of the brute* wbo had assaulted bim. From this, place he wa* thrust into the street, and a* lie staggered alone, his brain be numbed by Ibe deadly drug, be fell over an olntarle in his pathway and lay insensible for hours exftosed to the cut ting i iclober sir. A gentleman passing: recognised the face of Toe a* he l*\ prone upon the street, and calling a. hack he directed that he be conveyed) to tue Washington Hospital, sending hi* card to Dr. Moran with the single- 1 word "Poe" written in the corner. Toe was cared for and received energetic medical treatment to counteract tin effect of ht* denre*e<l condition. Dur-• i ing this time lr. Moran *a:d to him 1 "How do you feel, Mr. Toe?" "Miserable." "Do vou suffer anv pain ?" "No." "How long have you been sick ?" "I cannot say." "Where have you been stripping?"* "Ata hotel on I'ratt street, opposite j the depot." "Have you a trunk or anyihing you | would like sent for ?" "My trunk contains nothing but my paper* and manuscript*." In the course of this conversation. Dr. Moran ays be critically examined the condition of his patient, and could discover nothing whatever o indicate that it wa* the result of liquor or any intoxicating drink. The speaker said the slander had l-een reiterated that Poe died while under the influence of" liquor, and nothing otuld be farther from the fact. Upon hi* arrival at the hospital, the doctor que* tinned the hack man who brought him there, aod he de clared that Poe <va* not drunk, nor was there the smell of liquor about him when he lifted him into his vehic e. Aa Poe # last hour approached. Dr. Moran aaid that he bent over him and naked if be had any word he eriahed communi cated to bis friends. Poe raised bis fading eye* sn<l answered, "Nevermore." In s few moments he turned uneasily and moaned, "Ob, God, is there no ran torn for the deathless spirit?" Con tinuing be said: "He who rode the heavens and uphold* the universe has His decrees written on the frontlet of every human being." Then followed murmuring, growing fainter and fainter, then a tremor of the limbs, a faint sigb. and the spirit of Kdgar Allot Poe bad passed the boundary line that divide* time from eternity. A man named Woodio committed tuicida at Laurel Spring#, A the county. North Carolina. Heoamein frnmhunt ing and aaked hi# wife to pull hi# hoot# olf. She rafuaed to do o, which to wounded hi# feeling# that he caught up hla gun and, bjr the uaa of hit foot, dia charged tba con ten U Into hla body, hilling himreif inatantiy. They werw both qnito young, and hare only been married about twelra month#. I'pHfttliig MOWN. Allootu Tribuit*. .Jim Manly begau to talk. "I say. Deacon, Darwin's theory of evolution t a little hard on the firm captor of Gene ■is. Of court" we don't know yet how it will turn out, hut it lootct a little n though they were going to up*et Monet." The Deacon made noanawer. fleaurely must have heard .lim'e remark. Pre*- ently he wat observed to he counting hi* finger* tlowly, and with |>au*e* for thought between each enumeration. After u while Jim ventured to a*k: "Counting u|i your saw-logs, Deacon, aren't you ?" "No," raid the Deacon; "I'll tell you. Your remark aet me to thinking. I wa* jurt counting up how many timet in the coutto of human his lory aomebody baa upset Moae*. First of nil, two old juggler* named Jannea and Jambrea undertook tbia, but they failed. Then it certain king named I'haraoh went at the work ol upsetting, lie mutt have found it mom of a work than he anticipated. for lie ha* not reached home yet. Then three lender* of liberal thought Korali, Dathan anil Abiram—went at the job. They failed in the upsetting part; hut they secured a bit of a ranche for themtelver, which they and their children hold quiet pot session of until ihi* day. Later on a king named Nebuchadnezzar entered upon the upsetting business, lie did out succeed, either. He npent seven years chained to a slump, and when he had served out his time lie had changed his mind, and was a sadder and wiser man. His successor met with still greater disaster and in a similar attempt. Mince that time there have been no end of person* who have tried to upset Moses. Some ancient heathen, Celsus and Tor phyry anil Julian the n|>oiate, and lat terly these German critics and scien tists, so called, are at the same thing. Years ago, when i chanced to be in Itoslon, 1 beard of a meeting of Free thinker* at a place called Chapman Hall. I could not resist the temptation to go just once and hear what they said. I found about twenty (eraons there: tfiree or four of them were women ; all the rest were men. And what do you think they were engaged in? The old enterpriseofupsetting Motes. And yet Moses has today in the synagogues of Koslon more |M-rsons that preach him than he ever b*d before, ft is aston ishing how much upsetting it takes to upset Moses. It is like upsetting a gra nite cube. Turn it on which face vou will, there it stands a* solid as ever. The cube is used to being upset, and does not mind it. It always amuses me when I hear a fresh cry from some new quar ter averring that some man whom no body has ever before heard of h*s found out a sure way of doing what all others have tailed in. And now here comes Jim Manly ; and Moses ha* to be upset again. Ah, well!" and the deacon sighed. There wa* a rosr of laughter which made the rafter* of the fesrmiil ring, and all joined in except Jim. A Terrible K\pl*he. Prof. Mcwroff, of Berlin, an cx|>crt on explosive*. baa arrived in New York, lie teen by a Star reporter. and hit . view* were ot tamed on the subject of | explosive* in general. "There are," taid \ the profe**or. "three kind* of niiro gly ! rerine, which have different degree* of | Mrength. There are mono niiro, hi ; nitro. and tri-nitit* glycerine. If y< u | take gunfrowder a* a tlandard. then 1 mono-nitro it four timet at powerful at ! powder. Hi nitro ia eleven time*, and > tri nitro it *sxty three timet at powerful. 1 'iunpowder explode* at the rate of l.ftfkt | in• lea a minute; mono nitro, t.faat; bi nitro, 1 1,000 ; and tri nitro, 19.000 mile* a minute. Nothing that man can make ran retiit the blow from a quantity ol tri nitro glycerine. Thirty poundt of it exploded in the right way and place, would demohahand tink the rnott jw>w erful iron clad. Thirty |>oundt will generate five thouaand feel ol gat, and I lie blow from that amount of gat would ttrike the veaeel at the rate of nineteen thouaand mile" a minute. "You tee, that while the iron clad might cot! an many nullioni that thirty pound* of the In nitro will only roti 9150. At the time ironclad* were in vented tri nitro waannt diaoovered. To make a | •nund of tri nitro," continued the prole#tor. "the matenal to-day trill coat MS* at wholeeaie price*. Then come the rettel and akilled labor nece* *ary to make it. I tay akilled labor for you need not expect to get any one you pick off the Mreet to make a chrono meter. A chemical operation ia nicer work than making a wntch, and can not be done by an ignoramut." "Profeator. I will aak you one more quoation. Ilow can the Irish get weap on* of war? "The way to get the che*|ett and rnott effective weapon* ia for them to aend twenty young men to New York, and in thirty daya' practical teaching they ran make pure iri-nitro glycerine at the rate of three hundred pound* a day. !<et them return to Ireland, and five of them go to each province and be gin the manufacture of the Bluff. It will make the Hritiah lion roar. If.V OOO.OODof ibetferman* were aooppreaaed at the Iriah we would blow all the iron clad* to the bottom of the *ea in twelve month*. The piMol bullet make* a little i man aa good at a big one, and tri nitro glycerine make* a tmall nation a big aa a great one." I'anl Revere'* Tankard. l*Ml*n4 Atlw. Mr. Stephen A. Ivotaell. an Augu*ta, Maine, jeweler, haa found a treasure which would rejoice the heart of an an tiquarian. It ia a cilver tankard made over a century and a quarter ago by Paul Revere, the lamou* Boeton cilver- Muitb imL'ortaliaed by I/ongfellow. The tankard haa the name of Paul Revere "tamped upon it in two placet, and en graved on the bottom ia the name of Riiaabeth Goodwill. It ia of solid atlver, and weigh* "AW ounce*. Mr. Huiwell found it In a More in Walerville, where ib owner bad left it, making that be he allowed MO for it, about ib value for bullion. TH* contract for building a railway tunnel under the fit. laiwrence River haa been awarded to 8. B. Rouilliard f. r 93,500,000, including drainage and light, ing complete, the wotk to be finished a 1885. Von Mollkr's Assistant anil Huccessor. Iferlin Cwrt|atinlRK I/HHIOU Timaa. Count von in not sucb a voluminous author asCounl von Moltke, but what tin iin written is of the very best quality, The only complete work on ttie Danish war based on official sources and published hall anonymously emanated from his pen. It is a some what curious coincidence that both the present and future Chief of the Grand General ISlsll should have married An glo-Saxon wives. Count von Moltke wedded an Englishwoman, while Count von Waldersee is married loan Ameri can lady of the name ol l.ee from New York, the widow of l'rince Frederick huule August, of Sclileswig-liolstein, whose son by a previous union was re ferred to recently in an obituary in the Timr*. Thus Count von Waldersee is connected by marriage, if but slightly, perhaps with the royal families both ot England and Prussia. The count comes to Perlin with a reputation for other recommendahle qualities besides great accomplish men ta in all the principles ami details of his profession, lie is a man of tall and most distinguished mili tary presence and polished manners, combining in a high degree the in mwlu Willi the Jortiter ra rt — an attain uieiil which is by no means common irt Prussia in any sphere of life whatever, especially in army circlet. In fact, in addition to being an illustrious soldier, Count Waldersee is also a brilliant cour tier—an impress on eral Hub erts and ins criuca! colleague* from Kngland did not fail to carry away with them from Hanover, when last autumn they attended the mano'uvre* of the Tenth Army Corps and were objects of so much hospitable attention from the chief of its staff. Whatever he tbeopin ion as to his appointment abroad, I be lieve there ate few officers in the Ger man army who do not believe that by his nomination as assistant and prettimp live successor to Field Marshall Von Moltke the right man has been put In the right place. Woufd a* I.Mcnrr*. blpf-larult't Woman is pr.manly a Wing who lis ten* She hat in these day* loi much of her original teachableness. but she has not yet entirely ditririlrd the ap pearance ol being teachable.. In her capacity for her hearing without obey ing Ilea her true poorer. A" a talker, •he ha* her peera : a a listener, *he in unequalled. If, a* a French writer esya, the eontreraation of women in aociety 11 like the atraw in which china u packed —worthlesa in itaelf, but without which everything would be broken- the listen ing of women ia what saves u from a Battel of tongues that would bring the •ky about ourears in no time. Not that woman i always, or. as a rule, unwilling to use her tongue < there is no need of being radical, i but the listener who en courages you with eyes and eg preasioo and appreciative laughter is a woman. She never lets her glance wander in an absent manner, to be brought back to meet vours at an im|nrt*ril |<oirit with an effort of which you are both keenly conscious. To whom you are tempted to relate bits of rtiriou* personal experi ence, the suffering caused by some ran dorn arrow of outrageous fortune, the fancies suggested by some hook, aotne view, sortie journey ♦ To a clever, ttm pathetic woman, whose eyes brighten with interest or sadden with sympathy as she listen* ; who seem* to anticipate your next word with eager pleasure, and who. lor some reason or other, just then, while you are in this confidential mood, ha* very few fancies of her own to com municate—only hinta at them—just enough to keep you in countenance. * (TRIM S SK(T. el-nan* ** piwiritMif rn* nrviH<. iVtntj The Hunker* profess ill the funda mental principle* of the ('hrislinri (kith. They Ho not. however, I relieve in the eternal perdition of souls. They have no creed npart'lrom the Bible. ' What they aim at i* to restore Christianity to it* primitive purity. *crupulou*ly to follow the precept* and the example of the Savior, and to make religious con viction the sole arbiter of conduct in life. They still baptize the neophyte* —a* their foamier* at Bchwarzcnau did—by immersing them three times in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. Their holy commu nion i* proceeded by the rite of foot wash ing. A curious discussion ha* of late engaged their attention—upon the question whether the siogle or the dou ble mode ha* the better claim for ob servance. When the same brother both wa*he* and dries the fwt it is the single mode; when each service is per formed by a separate person, they call it fool-washing by a double model It is not to he understood, however, that the whole congregation is thus served by one or two of their number. There are enough of them going around with tub and towel to finish the ceremony within a reasonable lime. Foot-wash ing and communion are always ad ministered in the evening : during the afternoon a lovefeast is held, in com memoration of the supper which Jesus t<iok with his disciples. There is no binding rule as to the choice of food, though among the viands lamb haa the preference. Kven such luxuries as coffee and butter, unknowo to Scriptural Palestine, are not objected to. After the love-feast comes the "holy kiss." The minister give* it to the hrot her that sits next to him on the right; he applies it in turn, to hit neighbor, and thus it is passed along the line, and by the last is carried to the next table. The same order is observed with the women, with the ex* ceptioa that the first kiss is applied by the minister to the first slater ■ band. The Hunkers live ia peace with one another, and seek no redress, for injnry done them, by recourse to law. Disa gree menu among themselves are settled hy the elders, whose decision is final. Only in exceptional cases, and after permission it granted by the officers of the congregation, do they institute lawHuiu against the |H*oplc of the world. Like lite (Quaker* owl Men nonites, they refrain from Inking or administering oaths, from participat ing in warfare, or giving countenance to it in any manner whatever. They are averse to accepting public office. I heir |>oor titey *up|ort. Among their host of two hundred thousand people, there i* not one who suffer* Irom want. Kvcn those who fail in business are aider! to make a new ef fort, and such assistance may lie lent three times. After the third failure they take it to be the will „f(jod that the unfortunate brother shall not suc ceed. Tussle With a Whale. Mr. .Joseph W. .Meat], of Pougli keepsie, is now on lemnl the bark Hercules on a whaling vovage. His ship was off St. Helena on the 2*th of f fclober, from which place he sent an interesting letter as follows: "On the fith of June last we raised whale* and got them all in favorable |xitiom, when we lowered our Ism* and in a short time < ur second mate struck one. In a few minutes itfier the whale caught the boat about the quarter and completely chewed it up. Mr. Luce, the chief mate, when he saw our signal from the ship, sent a boat and had the crew picked up. took the line and still had the whale fast. The third mate also came up nnd went on the whale three tiroes. The fourth time the whale caught and mashed his boat into fire wood. I lie boat steerer was killed, hut the rest of the crew w< re saved. In the meantime the boats did no; dare to go near the wounded whale, hut fired at it from a distance with guns. About this time we received help from the ship Milton, which wnt two boats to the rescue, for we were in a very weak condition. liefore you could think it possible, however.'the Milton boats were both mashed and their crews swimming in the water. I hey were soon rescued by our boat*. The boats hung about the whale until dark, when we cut the liue and let the huge monster go. The next morning, however, we saw him again and took another hold of him. aud almut - r o clock in the afternoon we succeeded in despatching him. It was the Lr gest whale taken in this section for many years, and made us JJO barrels of oil. Its length was flO fret, and jaw* Iff feet.,' Why the Tar-on Left Kentucky. ' Tis. Mririjrs A good many tears ago, when a certain place in' Texas was a very ; small town, quite a number of promt oeut citizen* went out on a hunting expedition. One night, when liny were nil gathered around the camp tire, one of the party suggested that trch matt should give the lime and reason for his leaving his native State and coining to Texas, whereupon earh oue in turn told his ex|*erience. Judge Blank had killed a uian in self defense, and Arkatisaw General Standso, had forged another man's signature to a check, while another came to Texas on account of hi* having two wives. The only man who did not make any dis closures was a sanctimonious-locking old man, who, although a professional gambler, was usually called "Parson." "Well, Parson, why did you leave Kentucky f "I don't care to say anything about it. Besides, it was only a trifle. None of you would believe me anyhow." "Out with it. Di I vou shiot any body r "No, gentlemen, 1 did not. Since you want to know so bad I'll tell you. I left Kentucky because I did not build a church." Deep silence fell ou the group. No such excuse for coming to 'lexas ever had been heard before. There was evidently an unexplained mvstery at the bottom of it. The Parsou was called on to furnish more light "W'cll, gentlemen, you see a congre gation raised 13,000 and turned it over tome to build a church—and I didn't build the church. That's t II." A sir * idea of having a loolh drawn may be summed up as follows "The doctor hitched fast on me, pulled Ins beet, and just before it killed me the tooth came out." Ttt Chambershurg /Ifyantnrysays ibit st least SSOO worth of bovine virus ha* been shipped from the three farm* in that vicinity for purpose* of vaccina tion. Ptv* hundred shoe latter* struck Saturday at Rochester, N. Y., for an ad vance of 35 per cent, in wages. Two tbou*end men are thrown out of employ me tit in consequence. ♦ in. I.saoa coal tracta have been taken up in Mercer county by Philadelphia capi talist, and the tonnage will be aent to Buffalo over the Buffalo, Pittsburg and Western Railroad. Tn* Pennsylvania K.iiroed Company hs ordered ten locomotives, to be built in the sbopa at Wilmington, acquired by the purchase of the Philadelphia. Wilmington end Baltimore Railroad Company. WII.US a P. S*srota, OF Upper Yoder. Cambria county, who was 30 years i," age, died recently from exhaustion Mused, it ia said, by rapid growth, lie grew ten incbee in one yeer. Tnt small pox still continue* bad in PitUburg and Allegheny cities. It ia Bow nearly a year since it first broke out there and at no time since has it satin fy disappeared from the two cities.
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