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The Republican party caine into power in this State in 1861, and the cost to the State government then was $947,911.83, exclusive of interest and reduction of debt. The Republican administration of Governor Curtin, even with all the enormously increased expenditures of war and the highest inflation of values known in this age, increased the State expenditures to only $1,531,486.67 in 1867. In 1866 the Cameron machine en trenched itself in the Republican cita del and for fifteen years it has been supreme in every channol of Republican power in the State. With it came reck less profligacy; the creation of offices for favorites ; the lavish waste of public money to reward partisan henchmen, and the absolute subordination of in tegrity and manhood to the cohesive power of public plunder. In 1870, after three years of machine rule in the State, the annual expendi tures in time of peace, had grown to $2,228,870.27, being an increase of sl,- 281,058.44 ever the expenses when the party assumed power, and an increase of $797,436.60 over the expenditures under Gov. Curtin, with the extraor dinary demands of war to meet. Rut the profligacy of boss government was not content with Jhe expenditures of IS7O. The Auditor General's report, shows that the cost of the State govern- 1 ment for 1880, including its share for the Legislature, foots up to the enor mous amount of 4,962,105.59 millions, being more than the entire cost of the government in 1860, when the Repub lican party first attained power. This expenditure does not embrace either interest or principal of public debt. It is simply the regular annual expenditure of the State government. There is a legitimate increase in schools and judiciary, made by the con stitution, but that is little more than half a million, and the other expendi tures are mainly or wholly the creation of machine legislation. The people of Pennsylvania have lately been carefully reading and con sidering the record made by Controller Pattison in Philadelphia, and they have' learned that his entry into the control ler's office dated the beginning of the practical reform that has changed the city from a $2.25 tax rate and three millions annual increase of debt, with little or no improvements, to a $1.95 tax rate, and annual surplus of a mil lion, and substantial improvements in every department, and that is just the sort of an administration they want in Pennsylvania. Figures Won't Lie. The office of controller of the city of Philadelphia sayß the Lancaster Intetli yeneer, is the most important in the or ganization of that municipality. The salary Attaching to it is double that of mayor; its responsibilities are greater and accordingly as the incumbent of it is faithful, intelligent and honest, or careless, ignorant and dishonest, the expenses, the debt and the tax rale of Philadelphia will be diminished or in creased. The duties of the place are very much more than clerical, as the ringsters have been made to feel since Mr' Pattison has been its incumbent. The controller is the checkaipon unlaw ful expenditures and exorbitant bills. During the past twenty years nearly every city in the country has suffered from the license which its authorities have indulged in to contract floating and bonded debts for corrupt and ex travagant purposes. Obligations have been piled upon each other until, de ' spite a constantly increasing tax rate, •upon an iuoreased valuation of oity property, each year found the munioi .polities deeper in debf, their interest account heavier and the taxes more burdensome. The whole country was shocked some years ago by the expo sure of the New York methods of mu nicipal spoliation, but few cities of any considerable size in the country have been exempt from similar operations, and as a consequence the total munici pal and local indebtedness of tho coun try, largely resulting from shiftlessness and peculation in the administration of city government, fur outruns the aggre gate of the national debt. That Philadelphia was a notable illus tration of this tendency may b readily seen from the following figmes, showing the total funded and floating debt at the hegining of each year, and the cost of the departments for the entire year: Total futiili'il Oust of Tax Your. ami floating 1> pnrtmoiits. Ilato. 180 821,360,'750.80 $2,082,518.1 II $2.00 180 21,271.7:12.115 2,507,820.10 2.25 180 22,610,200.15 2.881,1 111.39 2.0il 180 21,750,056.16 5 -182.21 .1.112 2.30 1864 25,713,010.10 3,017,321 ill 230 1865 32,703,898.110 -1,150.-00 81 2.80 180 30,727,120.00 1,101,700,11 4DO 1807 37,310,187.87 4,1-12.301.72 1.1,n 1868 38,119,018.02 1.421,8.11.03 1.40 1800 10,188,310.90 5,822,054.13 1.811 187 45,di11,-247.34 5,080,011.88 1.80 1.H71 48,701,804.04 6,408,416.27 1.80 1872 51,552,136.53 5,001,414.53 2.08 187 51,208,0181.40 8,162.751.62 2.25 187 60,630,871.00 0,070 811.72 2.20 1875 64,290,483 65 10.105,019.80 2,15 187 00,716,524.17 0,806,010.01 1.15 1877 73,571,1-10.02 8 181,001.20 2.25 These figures sliow a regular and steady increase of the city debt, averag ing $3,022,400 per year for ten years preceding 1878. At the same time the tax rate had leaped up alarmingly, and the cost of the department had advanced from $4,442,361.72 in 1807 t0510,10.1,919. "80 in 1875. It is true there was a slight reduction in the department expenses from 1875 to 1877, but it will he noticed that there was an enormously greater increase of the city debt of $9,283,710.17 within that period, so that tiie munici pal authorities were only saving at the spiggot to let out at the bung. In 1877 Mr. Pattison was elected enn troller, defeating the regular Republi can nominee by a majority of 1,902, though the Republicans carried the city on the state ticket by an average ma jority of 5,871. Mr. Pattison was at that time a young and comparatively untried man with only a reputation for honesty and intelligence. But the public had confidence in him, and how well he jus tified it may be inferred from the fact that when his party renominated him in 1880 he was elected over a Republi can of blameless private character and record, by a majority of 13,593, though | on the very same election day the Dem ocratic national ticket was in a minori ty of 20,883 in Pniladelpbia. It must be remembered, too, that at tins time there was no Committee of One Hun fired, nor any organized lndepenpentor Reform movement supporting Patti son. Now let ns examine the lesuits of his administration which have had this high approval. The year 1878 was tfie first which tested his methods of ad ministration. inclusive ot that, and since then, the record runs thus: 187 s7.',G|.'visl.7*.i $7,101,791.18 -215 187 71.835,191.35 7,|1K1.1;U 5.3 2 II 188 72,2'.l 605.76 6,376,578 31 2.00 188 70,032 1311.47 6,88 ~3.i:.'.i2 1.95 1802 68,62'.',40.3.72 1.'.0 Against the former average yearly increase of $3,022,-100. Mr. I'aiti-on's ad ministration shows an average <lecrea.se ot $1,246.737 —a difference in lavor of the Pattison system, and to the advan tage of the tax p iyers, ol $1,809,143 per annum, nearly $5 a year in the uo.ikets of every man, woman and child in the citv of Philadelphia, for j,iieclly and indirectly every class of people feel the burden of increased city debt! and ex penses. But not only is the superior of Pattison's admiuislralion itlUa>t(&P ed by the decrease of thfj, ein# de'd, .- The j department expenses have gftne down j from $8,184,961.20 to $6,883 320.92, a | reduction per annum ol $1,301,034.28; and the tax levy is reduced from $2 25 to $1.90, a reduction <>! 'he annual bur den on property of 35 <a-.:i; on every SIOO of valuation, a benefit to owner and renter, making teal estate more valuable while at the same time it lightens the burdens of the poor and diminishes the expenses of the business man. Prior to Pattison's term one fifth of the city taxes were uncollected and went into the hands of the delinquent collector, where enormous expenses were added for the profit of speculating politicians, who at the same tune allow ed political friends entirely to escflpe their municipal obligations. The poor and unfortunate were plundered for the enrichment of rapacious partisans. Last year only 8 percent, of the city taxes were uncollected, a gtjn of 72 p-r cent, over tlie days of ring rule. it was their reforms which .enabled the controller to say in his last annuel report: "The burdens of the tax pay ers are being lightened, increased en couragement is given lor the employ ment of capital within its limits, and an auspicious beginning has been made in freeing the second city of the Union in population, and the first in industrial enterprise, hum taxation for indebted ness." That is exactly the sort of relief that is needed at Harrisburg. The state ex perinea are increasing all the time. Plun deriog goes on incensantlv. There is jobbery jn every department. The enormous revenues of the common wealth which should have wiped out the i-tate debt years ago are the prey; of petty spoilsmen. From ifra purchase of stationery up to the budding ol asylums and penitentiaries there if universal corruption. What is wanted at lfarrisburg is exactly the kind of ad ministration which Controller Pattison hw given Philadelphia. Interesting Ourmc i'/jefs. To Any one who knows how to dig tluuu nut the census reports present facts that are curious and interesting as well as instructive, Jn these respects the census of 1880 egcorvj* any of its predecessors. The assessed value of the property of the people of the United States in 18b0 was $12,084,500,003, or half the calcu lated value. The assessed value in 1870 was $14,178,980,732, or half the calcu lated value. The assessed value in 1880 was $16,902,755,893, or hfclf the calcu lated value. These figures show the property of the people of the United Stales to have increased in value during /twenty years nearly ten billion dollars, or pt the ,raio of nearly five hundred million dollars a year, $1,320,000 a day, $55,000 an hour, and $9lO a minute. The present increase is estimated at $1,200 a minute and S2O a second. The total working force of the Xlni ted States is estimated at 15,000,000, of whom 7,050,000 ure engaged in agricul ture, 3,300,000 in professional ami per sonal service, 3,300,000 in manufactur ing. mining and mechanical work, and 1,350,000 in trade and transportation. The great diversity of our country is shown in tho various levels at which our people live: 15,053 live between 7.000 and 8,000 feet abbve sea level, 24,- 947 live between 3.000 and 9,000 feet, 20,400 live over 10,000 feet, 20.840 live between 9,oooand 10,000 feet,4,939 live between 0,000 and 7,000 feet, 123,348 live between 3,000 and 4,000 feet, 100,- 545 live between 4 000 and 5,000 fept, 271,321 live between 5,000 and 0,000 teet, 094,357 live between 2,000 and 3,000 teet, 1,876,835 live between 1,5C0 and 2 000 feel, 7,903,811 live between 1,000 and 1,500 feet, 9,152,003 live 1000 feet above the level of the sea, and 10,- 775,250 live between 100 and SUO feet, and 19,025,017 live between 500 and !,- 000 feet above the level of the sea. The average height of all is 700 feet above sea level. Nearly hall a million of our people live a mile high and over. The average rainfall of the United States is 29 inches, or 25,000 barrels to the acre. Over 46,000,000 ot our popu lation have more than the average of rain, 22,000.000 having between 40 and 50 inches. In the regions having ibis large average rainfall the average copu lation to the square mile is largest, while but few live where the average annual rainfall is less than 20 inches. The Electoral Fraud of 1S7(-7. —The Lute (m ii. Garfield Said to Have Bitterly Repented of It. A strange story comes to rae trom the deathbed of the late President Garfield. It is to the effect that while yet in his full senses, hut convinced that he could not recover, lie expressed not only re gret, but deep contrition, for the part which he had borne in depriving Presi dent Tilden of the oflice to which lie was elected in IhTO. It will he remem bered that Mr. Garfield was one of the "visiting statesmen" who thrust them selves into the canvass of the vote ol Louisiana in that year, bringing out "evidence" of "hull dozing" in some ol the rural parishes, and 111 particular that of the old colored woman whom Mr. Garfield examined, "not," ho said "us a,judge but as a lawyer." It is now related that, feeling that ho could not recover, that his death must take place within a lew days, he talked with his attendants aoout his public career as well as lii personal affairs, it is said, upon authority that 1 have no reason to doubt, that he showed him self sincerely penitent for the part w hioii he took in the great fraud of 1870. lie regarded that as the one great slain upon his public caieer, and he made some reference to documents which lie felt sure would serve to mitigate the judgment of posterity upon him. He expressed the greatest t.j prehension that at no d.slant period an avenging Nemesis would visij. upon his party and friends a terrible revenge for that wrong. Those who listened to him were his personal and political friends; they regarded the words and emotions of Garfield as tlie effect ol physical weakness and long suffering, and agreed to be silent regarding them. Put in the quarrels that have arisen between J the .Stalwarts and the Half-Breeds they have beep repeated, and are at length the subject of discussion in private circles. At no distant day some au thorized publication on the subject may he expected. The Naval Hill. CUTTING DOWN Tllfi AI'PROI'RI ATIOX FOR MONITORS FROM $1,000,000 to $400,000. WASHINGTON, July 29. —The Senate to day gave the naval bill a pair of black eyes by reducing from one million to four hundred thousand dollars the esti mate of the, committee for finishing the monitors, and rejecting a proposition advocated by the committee to abolish the grade of commodore. In the first instance Messrs. Halo and Ingalls in dulged in a sharp controversy regarding the completion of the monitors, the latter claiming that they had been found unfit for service, and grave doubts were entertained thai they w-mid float after being put in the water. It was shown in the debate that tiiu< far about nine millions of dollars had been ex pended on these vessels, and Mr. Hale stated that three millions more would he required to complete them. It was evident trom the tone of the dcbgte that ensued that the proposi tion was fayorably considered by cer tain Republican,,, and when a vote was reached the ayes were thirty-three aud the noes nineteen, Messrs. Cameron, of Wisconsin; (Jbilcott, of Colorado ; Davis, of Illinois; Ilawley, of Connecticut; ingalls, of Kansas; McDill, of lowa, and Sherman, of Ohio, were recorded with the Democratic phalanx in the affirmative. The next amendment which pro voked discussion was the ope providing for the abolition of the grade of com modore. Senator Logan and Cerro (fordo Williams locked horns at once, the latter pleading eloquently for the retention of the "name so dear to every citizen of the United States." Mr. Logan attempted to prevent such action by pooh-poohing contemptuously the assertion? made by the Kentucky states man, but his ehortp y/ere* futile, as the result showed. There was n decided majority against the ameudmeiU fc#.d the commodores are safe. The action of the senate was very distasteful to Secretary Chandler and bis chum, Robeson, both of whom have worked a?sulp|ously to prevail upon the senators to retain the legislative and monitor appropriation features pf the bill. Their solicitation militated against the bill. • If lack on Jefferson. AN Am.l LETTER FROM THE DEV.OCRATIO . CANDIDATE FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR TO THE JEFFERSON ASSOCIATION OF THIS citv; The following letter fr m Hon Chauncey F. Black, Democra io candi date for 1 ieutenant Govtrnor to B. M Nead, I'a>, corresponding seo.efary o. the Jefferson Association of this city, speaks for itself and will ho read with delight by all who hope for tho restora tion of Jeffersonian principles: YORK, July 20.— My Dear Sir : Noth ing could have given ino greater pleas ure than tho receipt of your kind com munication of the 12th inst., informing me of my unanimous election to hon orary membership in the Jifferson As sociation of llarrisburg. I accept the compliment with a lively and grateful sense of its true value, and I shall en deavor to make my name worthy of its piace on your roll by continuance in those humble hut earnest efforts in the great causa you aro organized to pro mote which have doubtless procured i.ic this unexpected honor. When the federalists in the closing years of tho last century had well nigh revolutionized the government estab lished by the constitution, transcend ing its most important limitations and invading many of the fields ol power expressly reserved from its operation, their dislodgeinent became necessary to the preservation of the Republic. That, like the present, was a most unequal struggle between power, patronage, money and monopoly on the one side and the masses of working people on the other. The latter must have gone down and all that they contended for must have been lost in one prodigious disaster but for the character of their organization and leadership. These were wisely adapted to the nature of the conflict. Jefferson, Madison, our own Gallatin, and their devoted com patriots were not content with merely sounding the alarm. They called the people together in their primary capa city, and urged them to organize in close and permanent associations like | the popular committees of the revolu ! lion, where they might take council | one with another respecting the public i dangers and the means of defence. | These were the "Democratic Societies'" | which filled the federalists with terror | by their hold agitations, and which it | was once actually proposed to put down j by the strong hand under a statute to Ibe passed for the purpose. The first one established in Pennsylvania was i loriued in Philadelphia iu 1793, with I David Rittenhouse president and a list of other officers, some of whose names ! are only less illustrious than his. The j Democratic societies were, as Mr. JefH-r --! -on said, the "nurseries of the Rcpubli j can principles of the constitution." and j to them, with the widespread influence ! of their discussions arid publications, ; and the "rousing of the people" by j trequent meetings in small bodies, where ; every man harl a voice, was due, in no j small degree, the great deliverance of I 13(10 and the defeat of the infamous -oheme to exclude Mr. Jefferson from the office to which he had been elected, is Mr. Tilden was excluded in 1877. The Democratic societies of our day i are called Jefferson Association), not I merely in veneration of the personal I character of the great apostle of Auieii j can liberty, hut to indicate our devo j lion to the body of political principles j which is justly known by the name ot j him who formulated them in matchless | simplicity and illustrated them practi- I rally and personally in those two ad i ministrations of the government which ! ail men agree ushered in the "Golden | age of the Republic," The name of Jefferson stands, not for a man only, but for a faith, not merely for the le vered shade of the leader, whose lame is concecrated wherever the language of freedom is known, hut for doctrine a eertianly and us absolutely essential to | political salvation <ts any lor which men j ever fought or died. But it is said that "Jefferson is dead." ; I think this is a mistake. Jefferson ! died in the body some hours helote his j great friend and antagonist, John ! Adams, hut the last words of the latter were : "Jefferson still lives," and they were true, lie lives in his deathless work in his teachings and in his in fluence, and when he ceases to live, the republic itself will have ceased to he. When Mr. Adams died the failure ol feuera istn and the triumph of Demoo racy seemed both complete. But if any man imagined t hat these conditions have been reversed, and tlint the "strong government," lor which the federalists have contended from Hamil- I ton ami Adams to Grant and Arthur, has finally displaced the Republican government ol enumerated and limited powers, let him remember the federalist exultation which went before the mighty fall of 1880. The principles of Jeffer son are dear to every honest Republican heart; there never was a moment since the adoption ot the constitution, when, it put fairly at issue, they would not have received the unreserved approba tion of a vast majority of the people. Jefferson is not dead. He will he dead only when we ourselves or our less for tunate children are dead in political slavery, that is to say, when the inde pendent Commonwealths which took their places among the nations ot the earth upon Jefferson's immortal decla ration, and were again rescued by him from a worse peril in 18,Q0, shall have been crushed in the coils of a corrupt centralization, aud the last vestige of local sell-government shall have been swept away. But until then let no honest Democrat listen to the shallow and pitiful taunt that Thomas Jefferson is dead. The words can have no mean ing, unless it be implied that tl;e princi ples of home rule and pure government, which he so nobly maintained in life were entombed with the dust ot the good right hand which traced the De claration of Independence and the golden truths of his first inaugural. And if that be true, or seemingly true in the eyes of the complacent federalist gloating over needless mil lions snatched from jJl.p hands of patient labor and aiswibuted among favored classes enjoying undue privi leges, or lavished on objects not dis tinctly defined by the Constitution, then it is high time for the resurrection. Tbp sober judgment of the people is again invoked upon a situation far graver than that of 1800, when Jeffer son fought in the flesh. Can any rea sonable man doubi the result? The huge aggregation of special interests, artificially fostered by our later legisla tion, combined under the name ot the republican party, and administering the goverumentfor the benefit of the few in utter disregard of the rights and needs of the cruelly plundered and heavily Lurdened many, is visibly rot ting asunder and fulling away into help less fragments. The hour of our second deliverance from the Bourbon federalist the boee. the spoils system, the monop olist and the corrupt ring, with the centralization in which all have their beginning and their being, draws near. To this most desirable end nothing can contribute more directly or more pow erfully than the establishment of .Jef ferson associations in every quarter. It is the method of Jefferson himself, and I hope to see the great party of the common people, del'rau< led in 1876, make itrell ready for the final conflict before it, by the formation within its ranks of thousands of these democratic societies or Jefferson associations, which being closely affiliated and in intimate correspondence with each other, would keep the democratic party democratic and put it in a posture to meet another electoral conspiracy like that of 1870-7 as our forefathers met that of 1800-1. Meanwhile 1 am, very truly yours, etc., G'IIAUNCEV F. BI.ACK. BKNI. M. NKAD, ESQ, Cor. Sec'y Jefferson Association. A Disappointing Session. The record of the present Congress is relied on by the Republican managers to insure their party a majority in the next House. Already the organs are tuning up to sound the praises of the forty-seventh Congress, and many of them are raising such notes of exulta tion as ought to he uttered only when every public duty has been fearlessly and honestly performed. It is not our purpose to deny to the majority any praise that it may fairly claim. We are disposed to make due allowance for all short comings, to duly consider all palliating circumstances, and to render charitable judgment. It is so much easier to promise than to perform that we never expect any coi led ive body of wisdom to meet ail the hopes that have been raised by tho ut terances of its members or spokesmen. This Congress was billed, so to speak, to do certain great and important things which it has signally failed to do, and which there will be no chance to do during the short session that will precede its dissolution on the 4th of March next. Among these weighty matters which had been discussed for years and which every member of Con gress, was supposed to understand when he came here eight months ago, was the utter prostration of our ocean carrying trade and our almost total lack of any means of prosecuting even a defensive warfare. We are now in these respects very little, if any. better oil than we should have been if Congress had never met. Not a single new ship of any kind has been authorized, not a single gun for our defenseless harbors, not a dol lar's worth of foreign trade has been secured, either absolutely or prospect ively. These 'great duties have been shirked, and we still face the world as a hopelessly impotent and contemptible military and naval power, except in our great numbers of patriotic citizens ami our vast undeveloped resources. This Congress was pledged to reduce taxation. Such reduction was demand ed on all hands, and its necessity was conceded. It has shamefully failed to fulfill that pledge. It has obeyed the behests of its masters, the monopolists, and (armed out its work to a commis sion that even a Republican .Senator deems a fit theme for ridicule. The enormous excess of receipts is continu ed under a system that no statesman has dared to defend. A tarill' that con fessedly and undeniably hears with cruel injustice on the toiling poor is leit unreformed to carry on its grinding op pression while Republican Congressmen will be going about asking the victims of this wrong to send them hack again. The anti-polygamy law, on which the high moral element of the Republican party is pluming itself, is likely to prove an utter failure. It was carelessly drawn and is now finding its most ar dent admirers among those who were expected to feel the lor#e of its fangs. .Some of the appropriations made in the hills just passed are eminently ju dicious, but there has been a wild break-neck race in the matter of pub lic buildings that will entail a heavy waste of public funds. The revenues should have been reduced so that there would be r.o margin (or extravagant en terprises. As a whole the session has been a disappointing one. Those things that ought to have been done are left un done, while much that has been accom plished is of more than doubtful utility. Ignorant indeed must be the constitu ency that can be induced to approve the record ol the fimt session of the Forty seventh Congress.— Wathingion l'ott. Ne well's Charges. IION ns ANI> MONEY GIVEN TO FOIR SENS TORS AND THIRTY MEMBERS. Special ditii)aU:li to The Time*. WASHINGTON, July 27- A member of the House, to whom the documentary evidence in Newell's possession relating to the alleged stu pendous corruption fund used in pro curing the passage of the bill through Congress making the land grant to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company has been submitted for inspection, makes some interesting statements. He says that among these papers is a transcript from the books of the railroad company showing that one million of their bonds were paid to thirty members of the House and two hundred thousand dol lars of their bonda and sixty-two thous and dollars in money to four members of the Senate. He says that this tran script gives the names of the four Sen ators and thirty Representatives and the umoqnt paid each; that three of these four Senators and four only of the thirty Representatives are still in Con gress. Newell's explanation as to how he came into possession of this transcript is thai while he was yet intimately con nected with the company and held stock in it, he procured the services of a clerk in the Company's office to make (he transcript for him. Newell gays that the company's attorney and agent at Washington into whose hands was pyt the bonda and money referred to, to be put whore they would do the mos( good, was Dick Parsons, of Cleveland, Ohio; that for his services Parsons was to have been paid ten per cent, of the amount disbursed to these Senators and Representatives to procure the land grant in question; that Newell, who was himself to have received $75,00 for services in aiding to procure the t, 4-' r j y hft *'"g received su,ooo of the .>,OOO promised him for his services, and hearing that Parsons had been served in a like shabby man tier by the railroad company, wrote him and Newell exhibits the letter of reply rom Parsons in which Parsons states that the railroad company was still de fault in payment of the amount of his commission for bonds and money dis burned and otherfcervicfg rendered and that the amount still due him'was $20,000 The member of Congress giving the foregoing information fays thyt after an inspection of the papers in Xewell'g possession he does not wonder that frantic efforts are being made to prevent the House judiciary committee from proceeding with the investigation of the alleged corruption and briberies in con nection with tiie procurement of the land grants of the Texas Pacific. 11 i> evident that Congressman Robe son s figure head in the House, Speaker Keifer, is to be left at home in the next Congressional election in Ohio. A rival for his seat has sprung up in the person of Robert P. Kennedy who saw service during the war, and was made a Brevet Brigadier General and Collector of In ternal Bevenue for the Bellefontaine, 0., district afterward. Kennedy is a shrewd young fellow, and has been fix ing his cards for a Congressional deal for a long time. He has just shown his hand by carrying the entire delegation of his home county, thirty -two votes, against the Speaker, and is now openly committed to the fight. The district comprises Logan, Clark, Champaign. I tckaway and Madison counties, and was represented for many years by Con gressman William Lawrence, the {.res ent First Comptroller of the Treasury. —J'htla. Record. Down! Down! Down! I"rom this date and until further nc* tire, we have resolved to sell out our entire stock of Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps. in order to make room tor our heavy Fall stock which is already being manufactured for this branch. Remember the goods must and shall be closed out at any price without delay, and he who will not trade now shall never have another such an opportunity at the Boston Clothing House, just opened in Rey nolds* block opposite Broekerhoff House Allegheny stieet, Bellefonte, Pa. nli7-4t 'How are you today?" Not veryi well. Go (or a bottle oi PERINA and bel well. DrtuEoisTs and physicians recommend and prescribe Lydia K. 1 inkham's Vege table Compound for all female com plaints. PERENA cures every time—get some, be well-keep it on hand, and sin no more. Aew Aif vertinemeut. ( 10URT PROCLAMATION. It """ ( 'hr!,-. A. Mayer, Presl iiV'.Vi . " u . rt " "i iiif2itii.iu.iHwi Pi trn t, <miM.tiii|: <f tli* counties of Centre Clinton d 1H.41.,1,1,, iimi. J. ... , •' , K "'Jt'ki-. A.- nate Judges int..micuntv. Inning las I thfir |.recr|.t, bearing date cth day ol May, evi, directed, for lioldin K a Court of Ov.r and lernnmr an.l General Jail Unlivery ar.d Quarter Sessions of the Peace in Belief, nte, for the county of tent re, an.) to continence on the iti. Mon day ol August next, I,ting thee.th of August , "t'd to con tint. week. Notice w h.r.hv k'tveii to the Cor •tier, Justices of the lv.ee, A Idem .it and ( unstable. of auid county of Centre, that tin t he tli*y and tin re Iti their proper per* n, at lo o'clock In the forenoon of raid day, with their record- in.nil s.tiou. examinations, and their out, rein, ~thinnert o do this* thing* which to their oflic appertain, t.l ve done, atid thine who ar Ihmiikl in t liro.crtiteagain.t the prisoners that are or .Iwll he in tliejail of Centre county, lie then and there to prose, cute against them a. shall he ju-t. •liven under my hand, at Hellefonte, the mil dav of May in the year of our Lord l-J, ami tlie one hundred and sixth year ot the Independence ~l the I uited State*. THOMAS J. l)l.'N KML. Sheriff. THAT WONDERFUL BOOK. GUIDE TO SUCCESS WITH V FOR FORMS BUS^ ESS SOCIETY Ih colling by ten* of thoufaixla. It is tin* most uni- V( rsjilly iispfu 1 h . k e\er publifthfMl Ii tells complete ly HOW TO po EVERYTHING in the Wm way, Ho to be Your Owa lawyer How to I>. I(u-.in t *rrec j and Suocaaafuiiy, How to not in S<ric-ty and rvu - where. A gold mine of varied iofoniiation t<> h 1 claaaeg for conxtant reference. AGENTS WANTED for all oi Rpare time. To know whT this Ih"• Uot REAL value and attraction* sells Letter than any other* apply for terms to H. 11. BCAM.M ELL A (X)., Philadelphia, Pa. ;UM.ni Orphan's Court Sale. 1 PURSUANT to an ortlor of the A Orphan*' Court of Centre county, there will he ex (toned to public sale on tbe premises, in College township, on Tuesday, the 15 th of August next, at 1 o'clock, P. M., the following desbril>e<l 1 e*l estate, late the property of John C. llricker, deceased : ' All thnt certain tract or piece of land situate in College township, Centre county, Pa , bound and descrilrtMt as follows : Beginning at white oak corner on line of Henderson heirs; thence north 66|° cast, 116 6-10 perehes to a pst: thence south 122 perches to a post; thence south 66°. west 119 perches to a stone ; thence north 103 perches to the place of beginning—containing 80 ACRES and 26 PERCHES, morn or less- Thpreon erecteda good KRAMK HOI'S K ami HARN ami outbuildings, and having .1-, a well ~f guwl walrr; there 1" lug on said land an excellent oroliard of choice fruit trctvs. Thia land it in high ■ late of cultivation, i located in a thriving communi ty, li near to chnrchce and schools, au.l on the whole It n moat dceiratdo farm. Txana or BLS.—One-tlilrd of purchaac money ra.h on oonttruialion of mile, one-third In one year there after, and the remaining one-tliird to remain charged on the land as dower, the inteiest to he' paid hi the widow annually, and at her death the prinrl|ial to lie paid to the heir, of John 0. llricker, deceased. Tha deferred payments to he secured by a mortgage on the premises. The purchaser will lie required to l-ay- It. per cent of first payment as soon as property la struck off. MICtIAKL BRICKJKR, fctkJTT Hlill'KKß Adm'ru d. b. u. o. t. a. of Jso. C. Bhicatt, dec' 4. THE CREAM OF ALL BOOKS ' OF ADVENTURE. PIONEER A xrn,DARING HEROES MW DEEDS. , The thrilling adventure# of a|| the hero explorers and frontier fiil.tet. with In4tM, outlaws ahd wild heaste, over our whole country, from the FarllMlt' thnes to the present. Lives ami famous exploits of I)e Roto, La Bade, Statolith, Boons, Kenton. Brady, Crockett, Bowie. Huston, Carson, Ouster, California Jo 4, tVIpl fill), Bnthlo(Bill, (Jena. Miles and Cr.jsk great ludian Ohlelh apil scores of others. GORGE OUSLY ILLUST RATEO With 174 line engraving. hi .ho life. AGENTS WANTED, Low pried and heate anvlhing to .ell, 30 6m tBTANDAUIi HOOK CO., ruiiadelphla, Pa,
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