©he Cfntrf JPrraocrat. bellbfontk, pa. Tks LsrgMt, ChsapMtssd fisttfspsr rUBLISIIKII IN CKNTHS fUUNTT. TJJK CENTRE DEMOCRAT is pub- I ah*-! **ery Thursday morula*, at MrlliUunlo, t'vnlsr o ,uuiy, fa. TKKMd—Cast, in lv*u<* $1 CO If nut pslit in sdvaocs. IS OU A MVS PAI'KU -diwoted lo lbs Intsrsata at lbs trbols psupls. Payiusuts mads wllblu tbrss mustba *lll t> con aiJrrsd In sdasncs. No paper *lll i- dlacontluued until arrt-aragraara paid, axcapt sluptlou of publlsbkfk. Papsra going out of lb* county moat bs pklil for In advenes. Any parson procuring na lam ash auti*rriba will ba asnt n copy frea of charge. Oar eitenalra circulation makes tbla paper art tin a anally rallablaand profitable medium lor an initial ■.* Ufa bare Ihe moat ample farlllilea for JOH Wolik and ara prepared to print all blnda of lloota.Tra. la, Programmi-a, P oaten, Commercial printing, Ac., In lb* Snraletyla and at lb* lowest pontile ralea. All ad*rtla*rueiiU for a l* term Ibatilbr** mnntba 10 cants par tin* for the flrat three ina*rtloni,and f> easts a Una for each additional Inaertion. Special noticas one-half mora. Kdltorlal nolle*e t cnta p*r lln* LooaL Notlcaa, In local coinmna, 10 can taper Una. A llbaral dlacounl la mada to persona adeerllaiug by lbs quarter, half year, or yar, as follows: u a ** araci occt-rus. f.liil on* lock (or VI tine* thl* typ) f s fl - iocho* " l "" }■' i tr** 11" • gu*rUr column (or S Inch**) I - v " Half column for luinchr*).... •' v)u* column orinrim).. |36 INO Foreign ndv*rtlMto*ut nui't !*• | *'tl Tor I nfi-r* u • ru<>. cnccpt on % curly contract* *h*n lifclf*yv*rl> ptymfiiiß m I*adcv mil l• i julr^l I*oll Tl<* At VnTlt •. 'ft rs'iU p*t 1110-mch lowrllott Sothluir f< r !••• thno " rcit nrn.igo Notice.in it- luuijh 15 p *r lln*. Mrh ln*rtlon The (.'it 11 Service Sampled. The popular impression that the civil service in the departments in Wash ington sty* the Washington I'cet, i* in greater reform than the civil service o r the Federal Government* in the several Slates of the Union, is a delusion. Whatever may be the effects of the ser vice here, they are no more numerous nor serious than the evil* by which it is affiicied all over the Union. The pub lic eye is constantly fixed on the de partmenta, for they are the headquar ter* of the various branches of Govern- ment business. All that transpires here is known, at once, lo all of our fifty-odd millions who read, or take any intere-t in public affair*. Tlie official* in I hi* city have the light of maximum public ity always turned on their work. Hut the Federal officer* in the States enjoy comparative seclution and far greater facilities for avoiding unpleasant criti cism. If they satisfy the magnate or boss to whom they owe their official existence, they are seldom complained of. It will he admitted, we suppose, that in the well ordered State of Michigan there is as little ctuse as in anv Stale to complain of corruption or irregulariti'-* on the part of Federal officeholders. The service in Michigan may therefore he regarded as fairly representative of the service in all the .Slate*. I'ntil n recent date—since Congress met—there was no complaint of Michigan official*. The Democratic pre** et uo no howl, nor did the civil service reform league make any inculpatory allegations. It was reserved for such distinguished He publicans as the Hon. .1. A. Hubbell and the lion. J. C. Morrows to let the country know the true character of the Federal civil service in their Slate. Mr. Hubbell shows how the men who are paid to attend to public work in Michigan perform their duties. He (tales, in a carefully revised interview, that "every special agent of the different departments of the Government, loca ted in Michigan, was at the command of Tom Ferry, traveling all through the .State, putting up conventions, and when impossible to control them, se. curing proxies by questionable meth ods.'' Mr. Hubbell charges that the collectors of customs at Detroit, who gets ten or twelve thousand dollar* a year from the Federal Treasury, is paid by two or three Canadian railroads, the corporations that bring in the foreign goods on which the collector is suppo* ed to collect duties ! And Mr. Hubbell further charges that "there was always money enough to keep Special Agent Gavitt, of the Treasury department.who is located at Detroit; Special Agent Van Alstine, Special Agent Kpaulding and every official in the Government service in the Stale, down to |>oatal agents, on the run whenever it was necessary for them to go and fix up a convention or determine whether or not a nominee for the legislature ought to be assisted." Mr. Burrows says bis defeat was c*u ed by an official who. while drawing pay on the department roll in Wellington, was employed in running a campaign paper in bis district. These are the statements of conspicu* oua Republican leaders It is not ne cessary to comment on the utter rotten ness of the public service that is thus condemned by such members of the par ty responsible for that service. Death of Miss Josephine 0 Meeker. Wssniaoro*. Decemler 30.—Miss Jo sepbine C. Meeker, daughter of the late X. C. Meeker, who WAS tortured and killed by the Ute Indians in the massacre of 1879, died here this morn log. of pneumonia. She was a clerk in the office of the Secretary of the Inter ior, and was held in high esteem for hor Ksrsonal qualities. Miss Meeker an er matber were priaonera in the band of the lite Indians firsome time and were finally rescued by General Adams. Expenses of the Semite. Tli. Unmocrilk imiiuberi of tin. next State Senh t c are not, likely l. In* respon affile for the oi gntiisation of iliut body. The combined Republican faction* con stitute u majority ol it ami show no deposition a* yet to divide over the mailer of selecting officer*. Nolio the iesH tlm Democrat* havo a rare chance to put theinelv'M un.i the Indepen dent* on the record with regard to some vicious practice* which have long pre vailed hi the Senate, and which were emphatically condemned l.y the people in the late elections. It needs no de monstration to prove that if the Inde pendents lend their vote* to the reten lion of the Cochrane and lielaney*. who have in times pa-t oilicialcd in the Senate, they approve their practice* ami heroine responsible for tln-ir con tinuance. It bits been, from time to time, point ed out ill these colltiuti* what waste und frsuil attach to the service of the House by the employment of supernumeraries and the mysterious dispensation of i ''contingent" arid "extra" fund*. Hut, ; if possible, it is worse in the State Seu ' ate, where for (illy members are re , quired nearly as uiuny officers, and, in | ootue instances, larger contingent* than : for the House with over four tunes as i many members. According to the re ' port of the Auditor General for the past year, the expenses of the Slate on ac count of the Senate were $44,520.01, and for the year before slll 110 05, making a total of $158,045.06 for m single t-s*iou of the Seriate. A* previously noted, Auditor lietieral Lemon does not set forth in detail in his reports where the money got. and how the contin gent* and pa* for minor official* are distributed around. Ul the $41.520 01 I .ml out during the past year touie $25. IKKI w* ow ing to members on account of their salaries—the remainder must have gone to tin- minor officers and the multitude of mysterious purpose, ,-ov ered by c-)Utillgeuta. lit the $114,119. 0.5 paid out for I lie previous year tln-ie Was allowed $5,702.20 for clerks and as sistants; $1,277.70 for speaker'* clerk ; $5 713 for door keepers, sergeant-al arm*. etc.; $0 HI 170 lor paster* and folder*; $2 910 00 tor juntoc; s.'; 110 for page*; $2,054.20 or firemen; SI.2'J lor |Mi-tina*ters; $1 ~() ior engiu-'t-r*. I'he iirepre* ible Deiwuev double* up beautifully, drawing #1 2> i lor "service, a* librarian" ami $1 2UO audiio>n il lor service* during iho recess, ending D--e. .11. Ihhl —I be iiupu-ieiice ol this rogue i* illustrated by tbe fuel lb it lining:, un officer of the Senate tie tuKes <loun| • pay, charging one al*ry for lit* seitie.-* "■tilting tlie m-s-ioii,' slid nii shno-l equal amount lor In* Service* during the recess. For the yi ir Is-ii, m wuieu there < no *-**n>n of tin- >.-uie , t ail, the sc.imp drew $1,500 "salary." while in the succei-ding y tr, win-n there was a nil, hi si-ie $2.1-1 Or services, lie drew $2 04 1 oi p..-ia ui.'t other alleg.-d expeiid.luie*. In Ihhl. when tne >-n ue ex pen . rail up lo $1 I 1 I 19 '•■", 1 eing al> >ut I w. I hr-is nl tl.e c -I the session, I i . I I.'ierk Cochran drew $7 SMI lor ' gn# i gent expens'-s" ol tlie aes.nm, s.g) dining the reeeas, s2'Xi n-r indexing in journal, and $25 o>r taking fare ol the electric clock. There re $| l.;', pel to I* K I'.iirkholih r and .1. 11. I.><>iin<i, of ibis c.ty. lor "forwarding n cum- lit* to Senator*." To gel a proper idetof whit details make up th<-*e vast ex penditures we need to turn bark to Auditor tieneral Scbell* report ol I XT'.', win run they are more fully accounted for. and a, the expenses of the two vessions, 1579-M) and IHHO-Hl, aggiegnte nearly the same, it i* a lair inference that they were on the same scale in their part*. In |h;'j the pay of the fifty Senator*, mileage and stationery and postage allowance amounted to $51,555 40; hut, beside* Librarian Helaney, referred to hetore, tbe chief e'erk got $.; "2.21, a journal clerk $2,115. reading ci.-rk $2, .49 HO, two transcribing clerk* $1.2.{, i and sl,- 279, message clerk sl.-540, speaker's clerk $1,208, sergeant at arms $1,229, and two a*istan's each the am<-; post iua*ler $1,229, two messenger* s'.'27 and and $9.56, three doorkeepers $'.'.'13.00, $976 and $923.80; seven paver* and folder* about $9.50 etch. thr--e janitor* about the same, two firemen, an en gineer snd two watchmen from $.'25 to $950 each, a chaplain $125, and ten page* $3()2 per tension. The Senate, with fifty members, had witlcn one <>f a* many clerk* a* the H>u*e with two hundred member*, and about two thirds * many attache*, though having only one fourth the member*. Any reasonable man know* that the entire pasting and folding and f.dward ing of documents at Harri*t>uig, which have afforded places for about 25 men and cost the state some S.!U,IKS). can lie done by contract for, at ihe most, s.'>, one postmaster would suffice tor fsitji Houses; the rler Ctl force can he reduced one-third ; tfie pages one-half; the "firemen" whose duty it i* to lay hirkory log* on the ornamental fire places, can be entirely dispensed with : two engineers can run the healing appa ratus of the whole Capitol, and the force of sergeant* at arms and door keepers can be cut down fully one half. Tbe Democrat* can lay down a program for the efficient off! -eringof boil. House* and provide ample salar e, whiclt will save from SSO 0- 0 to st> > QUO, improve political moral*, and not cripple tlie public service in the slightest. Of the $7 47810 contingent fund drawn l.y Cocoinu in Ih79—wlwti thete were three janitors lor the Senate—we find that there were paid out $2,472 '25 alone for "cleaning (he Senate chamber and committee rooms." This would pay fifty women 50 ct nt* each for If*) nights' work, at the rate allowed in the report*. As (be Senate has three Jani tor*, and ihe chamber is not u* big a* our court room, i.| anybody believe lhat fifty scrub women are necessary •> clean it ar.d the committee room* every mglil of a senatori d session? And this is a sample of the whole ay si- lu I— Lan canter Intelliijenc/r. DITKTIVM MrKifreoli end Mclieviit lia*e bpn njprnil* d from dmy by the cominiaaiooer* ol thf Diatrieint Colutn 'i* lending nn invent ig<tiou o( the i.r*<-a made ajfninnt them by a com. Miitt-e of citiat'Di of Witnhinfgton, 11, C. to M-ynrd to their aavociati n with thievrn in that eitv. WORKS THAT 111 KN. There is n good denl of whnt the play bills cull OOl.teiiiporuii. iius ituuntil in terest about the letters which have just | been made public through tln New York Ilrrahl, ly Stephen W. Horsey, I < 'liuirtiiMti ol the Rrput-licnii National . t'ommiit, e, ami one of the deiendants , >ii a criminal action now on trial at | Washington, utul commonly known us : the Star Roulu case. The most important missives in liio cnllectiun are those Irotn fienoral James IA. (iarfield ami tho I lon. la.'vi P. ' Morton. A lew exeerpts from these letters j throw considerable light on an interest I ing period in tho political history of j the United Stales. j Nome pannages constitute artistic \ sketches, depicting in black and white i the character* of the authors. A striking example is the suggestion I which was made by General Garfield that the people of hi* peculiar religious i faith should tie induced to rote the Re publican ticket although they wer> Democrats. Just belore tho election in Indiana, winch was deemed so important by rea son ol it* hearing on the Presidential contest, Garfield wrote as follows: " From twenty-five thousand to thirty ' thousand voters of Indiana nre mem ber* of the denomination of Disciple*, 1 and at least hall of them are Demo crat*. A quiet but very earnest move ment wholly outside the State commit tee has been organized, ami is being vigorously and judiciously pushed, with the strongest probability that at leant two thou-und live hundred change* of vote in our favor will result." What ail outburst ol indignation there would be if a Roman C atholic candidate for office were tbti- to counte nance an appeal to vot--rs for their sup port based solely on the fact that h and they were members of the sane communion ! General Garfield's letters alo reveal an Ultimo v wit i Ihe the A rkalisa* S'-n - tor which renders it oitlicull to heltevo that Mr. Horsey would have been | ro* i-cuted with much "vigor and rigor" il Gat field bad lived. I hey were in constant and cordial communication all through the cam paign. " Han't i-'i x y..ur grip any where," write* General G irliel-l, "I re greatly on o.ur . .i-iu equipoise, w|. c>i lias shown Pself so often ami so well hiil.itio." He send* for >cnsior Dor e to r-ime to Mentor for consultation, lis a-k- hi- o .im.i'i a- to allowing Kvarta lo spea* in Indiana After the -de ti fl .nt n ti "-'.lit- In- wll -. fr-ii M en tor to the t„||S oj .I|S| eliser o| "-Osp. " I especially i .nigratulsle > oil on .cur inusterlu) in-in .gi-nn-iil o the • im pugn and the 11-.0i.iig1. 1,. - a.in who li ou hiv- -a .'ched a.i Iti •• ai • i. -1 it . i b-ni-.-1 t! i light. I.- tme c.-uiisi I un .w- i . lake i -t a- d sor o or • it tile ti -I-Oggif si. nil to I tile 111 W. -n .1 I.e. -i ill ■ lir pl.a > r dur I g the ' two Week- ' I'll- . litest . 11l jl|l now go to t 1 oi - ~ i A.i or three • !s\-, .i. I when \ i • -utli .eiiily re.t -'I '• .11. I. I all I .I lk 111 a \ it. 11, hell, r -ti I, corne h-re so I *|. <p ' "< ' l-I.e her • ill I i | J Alld tlt IIK re are P'.q le who p.. t.-nd to I ••■ln le that .I.iin• *A. 11 .11- 11 I'le. wr I w .r. Ed to send till- friend thus addre-sed 111 j sleep for month* ami year* in 1 prison or penitentiary. -V. F A'-m. Slate (dodder Nntt >hul lit V I. Dukes. 7*/.' Mur.ifTfT d A/.W-, r . ,V-f of tkt I'm s 1/ .1 i I.'l. i! iturr —.l /Aim •!. - - a;- fy thf A Ut-jui t h - •*, I'montow n. Pa., Decemlier J-1 Ai<out 10 o clock tins morning *t Jennings' Hotel, Captain A. Nutt, long a r#*i dent o! Union low n and well known a* a lawser a Republican politician, writer , for the press, cT-hier of th# National I'.ink ol Fayette county and at present cashier ol the I'ennayirama ins-ury Department under State treasurer R*i ley. wi-s shot and almost instantly kill ed by N. 1.. Dukes, a prominent lawyer of Unionlown and a member-elect of the Pennsylvania I.gnlature. Captain Nutt cam# home from liar I risburg yesterday, and expected lo re- | turn 10-mortow after paying hi* family j a brief visit. This morning, in compa 1 ny with hi* nephew, Clark llrecketiriage lie went to the Jennings hotel to have an interview with Duke* about some troutde winch he told Rreckenri lg he was having. He said that he held in fu* possession two infamous letter* from I'lines and he wanted to see the latter, t'n going up to Dukes' room, on the second tloor of the Jennings Hotel they lound Duke* in ; Nutt entered the room and Rreckenridge remained out in ibe hall conversing with J. I. Feather, -on in-law of the proprietor. Captain Null had scarcely closed the door be hind him when Feather and Ilreckeu ridge heard a sound within a* though i the men were engaged in a violent struggle. They also heard a cry of , j"Muidei! " and rushed in when they found the two men locked in a desper ate encounter. Thev separated the combatant*, and while Feather held Duke* back in a | corner of the room and Nutt wu stand ing resting against a mantelpiece some ! ten leet ssst, Duke* suddenly pulled a Smith A Wesson tevolvet out of In* pocket ami fired, the ball entering Null's face below the eye slid passing ' upward into the brain. The victim fell ; to the tloor and ws* never conscious j | aberward, dying in about ten minute*. < Feather, fearing that the murderei WHS { also preparing to shoot lliet k* nridge, i made a terrific • fl'orl in order lo gel the ! revolver away iioiu Dukes. H hen the j ! latter saw that he Intd killed Null hi* J muscle* seemed to relax. He gave : the revolver up ami walked out of the hotel flown a back ;*tr<ei ami to the Nhenll '* rei --j deuce, where hv is now in custody. A I Coroner's jury * impaneled and a I 1 verdict was rendered I hat A. C. Nutt j came to Ins dent hby I-el fig shot with a pistol in the hands ol N. 1.. Dukes. The c..u ol tl.e difficulty involves the character of Captain N'utt's daugh ter, between whom and Mr. Duke* an intimacy existed, and It is said the as sault was made io vindication ol her honor, Mr. Dukes ha* been admitted lo bail and the luU development of the unfortunate of oour*e appeal on the trial. - 1 Important tunl Interesting. CHIC vim. December l!?.—An important and interesting conference took place 1 here a few evenings ago hut the facta j weie not known till this morning. The leading Republic"n politician* and i flic-* bolder'* ol the State were present fur the purpose ol divcusaing a ; ['residential candidate, 11 wuh generally coriaidtred that the Democrats would nominate Mr. McDon ald, of liidiann. As names likely to came before the | Republican Convention, Conkling, | Itlaine, Arthur, Windoiu, Grant, and 1 began were actively considered. Rob ert Lincoln found,many supporter* but | it was considered he would be stronger | in n future campaign. After a careful nrialyMisit was decided ! that Senator I. hounds, of Vermont | ami James \\ ilaon, of lowa, would make the best head* for it presidential ticket that the Republicans could nominate. TuHlson'* Cabinet. - Y i -ui Ui- I'liulitiigli I'ust, Ilst. First ita to Mr. Caasidy. It i conced ! Ed ho is well equipped for the legal du j ties of the place— llO nniii in the .Stale tnoro so. Like the Governor lie i* a self made man. On the score of per j sonal integrity and freedom from en- Itagling political alliancesjno übjeclion)i* raised. 110 has been just such an acl ive participant in politics as it i* the duly I of every good citizen to be, though a ! majority neglect tin* duty. He has nev !er been a self seeker and ha always | striven for decent politics banc m par i ty unity. A* to Mr. Ntetiger, fur Necre j lary of the Commonwealth, hisqualilie* j are ola high character. He is decisive i ami | rornpt in action, a well-read law yer and politician ; with that personal | magnetism that smoothes official duty. ('onalitutional ( onvention Reunion. LAM *TZH, Pa.. December lit. —The annus) reunion of the aurriVors of the Constitutional Convention of IsTf.' Cent ; pi ce hi this city this evmug, forty of the member* being present. F.i Governor Curtm presided. The follow ing offic.-r* were elected for the ensuing p-sr President, Hon. A. <i. Curl in ; i "secretary, George N. ' arson, of N"tri-- .'loan; fiT-a-orer, William K. Lilll-t-rt, I <>l I'hiladelphia. Altoon* wm chosen s the place for the lo xi meeting. Tne j reunion closed with a b iiiquel at the Steven* 11ou-•. Hca-j E-laclion of NaTy i'arl Tore:!. W uiiivcMv, D ' .-oi "-r .o -V< Tela -Irv t"h Holier ns . rd-r 1I be r-'nin a-: I -ol* ot Ihe various no v \ ard* to ri d i--e ly JO percent, tin- tiumls-rnf nu n nil- I-ov> d under tin-MpproptiMii-oi lor n,e mainleiiaiice of y r U si d docks, lli tii-s l|.-i-ei I.i 11 i ■ orip ri- i ii j -I II! wvtchmen, kei|.i r of li - - ex I: ,-ii sliii g apparatu- -in-i pi-r- -in empl-i ■tHI I lie on-upition- lb -r< uction will not ex'end to n idiai.ici ' an I workmen genera Iv. I in- • tl- ct <i I ( I lie order Will to- i f duet II of it'OUl -i veil th ti it,d 'l'm >r- to r•• n; nth , "*l-'i.es of tl.e yards, hi* I tills saving it I* l*ellevi-d wil: ii'. w of the yar-i* be ing kept Oj. ii until March next, by j wbicn dale : expKtsd that Uongresa- Will iii 'ke a further appropr ■•' attoti for i their maintenance. Ih-dfor l Npring* ( haui eg Hands. —— Bedford Springs, the "id reaorl where n >t many years ago |c>',itician. weie in the habit of meeting to fix up slate* ami ionroi t scheme*, has been purclias id bv C W". Muller., the father of G. K.Mullen, proprietor of the St. Cloud hotel. Ino prope- ty consists of fifteen hundred *'T#- o, arable land and the hotel, which ha* accomodations for four hundred ami fifty guests. The purcl iAie was made of the Anderson heirs, the price being te o hundred and fifty thou sand dollars. Mr. Mullen will endeav or to form a vtiick company to cultivate the ground and run the hotel, wbicb will be improved and probably enlarged. Tfie He kalb Monument. A Tvst't RZOOONITIOK Tilt MABOiI'S SERVICE* liv OlXbltv.-, In October, ITstt, ('ongms* adopted a resolution providing that a monument be erected to the memory f the lato major general, the Karon DeKalb, io the city of Annapolis, Md , with the following inscription: 1 Sacred to the meranrv of the Karon DeKalb, knight of the Royal Order of Military Mem, brigadier of the armies ot France an 1 major g' noral in the ser vice of the I nited States of America. Having served with honor and reputa tion for three years, he gwe a last and glorious proof of In* attachmont to the liberties of mankind ami the cause of America in the action near G.amden, in the Stale of South Carolina, on the six teenth day of August, seventeen hun • Ire I and eighty, where, lending on the troop* of the Maryland and Delaware line *g*in*l superior miml-cr*, and ani mating them by bis example to deed* j of valor, he wnv pierced with many wound*, and on Ibe nineteenth follow ing expired, in iba lourty eighth yer of III* age." "The t>mgre*a of the United State* of America, in gratilute to hi* teal, service and merit, have erected this mono menl.'' Raihoa.l Coiutractton. TIIS GIGANTIC FTRRIDK* AVS LL UNO TDK \ IAR J IST I'MTHKQ. C'UICAUO, Decemlier "JB. The Jiaifwav Ajr pui'listies todsy a table *huwiog that the Ii umber ol Hide* i-i IIIHIII track ' laid during the year |ssj w<• Itl.H'JI on I 3lfi line* in 44 state* : d territories, i Full returns will probably make the j grand total 11.000 mile*, which is 1.-'kMI I mile* more than w*i coi- trncled in 1881—the banner railroad building year up lo that time. The number ot utile* constructed in lite state* men tioncd below is a* follow* • —lowa, fI,U ; Texas, 817 ; New York, 752; Ohio. 555; Arkansas. A2'J; Indiana, 52V; Colorado, SUO; Dakota Territory, 48<l(; Pennsyl vania, 404 ; Minnesota, 444. Of the 814 roads noted, 14(1 are still uncompleted. The capital invested during iba year is c!mi tied at #270.000.000, exclusive of Iba amount* expended in the prp*r*- liot ol the road beds on which track* *rw not yet laid. W* " f L * " ; 'I In* Fnril lloy* In Boat on. TIILV I'HAM' Tit (IK Sfc VoI.VERS TO *\ EMIK Ah ivttt I.T ANIrSTAMI'XOK A LARUE AUtUCMI t. 1 BosTOm, December 30.—During ti lec 1 luro to night l.y lbi Kurd Brothers, who killed .Iff**- .lnn*, in one of tin- tui.ill , hull* in the Horticultural building, no exciting scene occurred. There w-o n I lTH audience present, and u. mini loud 1 | ly expressed the opinion thai Ihebroth •*r were "no good.'' Tim Portia prompt 1 ly drew lln-ir revolver*, and, brandish j inn Dunn, leaped from tho stage into ! the midal of I tin audience. The audi j once wis stampeded iintm-dirtely, and such wa* lln-ir It ant <> that many nought '*gre* through the window, smashing tire *a*he* to facilitate their exit. The hall is on the ground Ho<r and the window- opened directly on the street. Policeman Robinson, who anw the people running from the hall, made hi* way into tho building and seized both the brother*, who had assaulted several people with the butt enda ol their revolvers. The oflicer proponed to take them to tho police illation, and they doaired to be allowed to buckle on their revolvers, avowing they were in fear for their live*. The officer would not permit thia, and atarted with them under arrest, hut the proprietor of tin show interfered, setting forth that his enterprise would be a financial failure if the Fords were not allowed to stay and finish according to the programme, and finally prevailed upon I he officer to allow the performance to proceed, riot, however, until the policeman had taken the names of seven person* who were assaulted and had exacted a guarantee that the Fords appear when wanted by the j/olice. Condition of tho National Boldiom' Homo* \\ ASIIIMOTOV, 1 lee. Jo.—The report of the ]',<>ard of Managers of the National J "soldiers' Homes, laid before the House - of Representatives yesterday, estimates \ the necessary pi roj nation for the nest lueal year at $1,122' -K. The managers ' estimate that there will be 500 more inmates than last year, and submit wnh the re|iort a list of II naim of in mates. There wi-re hsf) uken m during i i lie psst year, "no more than in Ihitl. i I"tie managers reCoiumen i that all law { r quiring it,em to huve anything to A nil pensions be rej ealed, as the r , ' : lorcement muses do-ati-faction e inn,.ils-* n' lhe be.mes, | hev a . i renew tne li eo 11 nll ■ 1111 all on Uisde ( that v .r by destitute ao'.d though they cannot trace , i ti ir li.- t-> an origin in the sen •n oe admitted. I hey invi'e li-v. siie ,i ,c „ . i , a ol all atisirs o the 1 re Us ||. 111 •. Ihe .erenct " tbeVtr , muuty, wu<> at in fa lows, set .S <1"- .,.• „ ,„ r ; , I. script roc in , ... Wi . p ain | '""•I'm i. i. • | j t ui>! i i ■ * • • "• l "' pre., u froai .. ... ■ g HI S.IUI , ~ j r, „ | • 1 '• de| i j ,n■, I, •„ f.ni.r if '• t tr* /tin r, .■! " u, ( , rial.sttt. ■xr rive s ,ni u' .-'(UL ■ i l . is-i. ij. j rotect.oii •-I to mop . >!- I.i * i apiiabsts onlv, ex |-t***.*g*ei publii expenditures, iba d< grr lion of American labor. neglect of A" lencan cn iens hr<-id. r -mi).lion*. P MtUtß in ill Ui branch#* of govern* 1- *.u-nt and jobliery in legislation. 'I he Ih-mrcratie party if in favor ol local self-g ivernment n'l the restric Hon of the national government within the constitutional j revisions, reduced and equal taxation, control of roonopn lies to the extent that the rights of tho people may he protected, economics! ptiblic expenditures, the elevation r.f j American citizen* eveiywhere, honesty and efficiency in civil t *rv i.w* with im inunitv from |<dttiral blackmail, tho eovereignty of the people, a free ballot and sit honest count, and integrity and purity in the halls ol legislation.—Clin ton Ilrmnrrat, I t.ovr.KNOB K! ECT pAmao\ was inter viewed by a c.'rr.-spot ds-nt of the New 4 ork HrraH on ih<- subject of his cabi net appointment* the other day. but he would *ay nothing except that he thought it proper to > rithhold any an ' nouncement of his *e| srtion* until after j his inauguration and that his attorney* | general could have !io relations with corfxiration* or any nt .her interest that would interfere wit! an hon-t and s-ffieient service to tli estate. Mr. < 'ass: •Iv. lb# putative , ttotney general is jrrnipedu, also said I t> the same eorre* pendent that (inver nor Pattison was in a position to rhani ,-e his intended ap pointment* at lb* atest moment. Mr. < tssidy announcer! himself a* a candi date lor t'nitcd States senator and intimated that tin we who opposed him for attorney genei nl and yet proposed to support hun fo • (Inded States sena tor if he declined tho cabinet place, are 1 rather inconsistent. Perhaps, though, , the r.<|w>rl ol the i ntet view ought to be taken with a grain of a lowsnce. Inter views in sensation si newspapers are not ! always the gospel ti ulh.— llarritbnty | Patriot. %*"Sau.i, and patien. -e succeeil where ' i forco fsiU." Ibe quite skill and patient r.*earch which brougb t lorth Kidney . Wort illustrates the Irt th of the fable, lis gran.l success every here is admit• ted. I>i-ease nev. r .n es to m without agsuse. A-k any g>vKi physician the reason and tie will tell you something interferes with tli s work ng tl.e great orgsns. Kl'luev w.ill e moles lliein I" overcome nil ott.rnction and pfeserv perb-ct health. Try abe* or liottlo at once. A Mir vcle in Oil Citj tocrt.as m xro'.'RHi— i>Rco.ii-rs axis nnt l-tUl'Ui Wll.n W ITH RXCIt-SHRVT Miss Magg e Martin,of this city, has been ill T.I .I cot.tilled to iler housw for soverai yesns t>ur best piiyaimaos fad e<l to give li er raliel. Site took friw -.i and, to the astonishment of all to knew ber.s j MIIOW up and alwuit agau i. Mr. Simin. wis, the Druggiat, sold 16 1 bottles las' week, lie buys In grosa loU . Mr. Powell, too, aeils it. Ak. your drug gist for IV Hartman'a brok—" Ills o lufe " (gratis), or address l>r. 11., at Oa kum, 0.. tor one.— fhm shr ttil (Vy J*?¥ 21*1 16H2. * „ • J)own! llovn! Down! ®fru tin- mi :il fiirtbvf notice, We hare rewolved !„ I |,„e „u< .ur emiie •lock of ||IMI' ■ in#; in >l,* line of <•>. t. ',, i ,< |ki.i< MO'i booU nod alifM-i, in.) inl cap., at coil in order to rnluw in- -took. and miki room for cprmc i i... ovl.eiv in of • iotliiiij; i. .■ .11- i |, will tint! it ' to u,*jr inierr.t, i to n,„ Jio.ton r.'lo liinjr 1IOUm Uicjv oje-nod in It*)- bold*' i.lock. Hrliefnriie, J',. n| 4t * A /•</> y| il vert lhi-in etit. B •! Absolutely F Hire. Tl.l. tc wd. r ,„ f , A mfcr „, ( , f £*—?}' —* ,T fc ? > **y-WW. He MMHMtaJtfM 11,. , lo.u ✓ |l|| U.. 1.1 , 1,1 .A. . , ... 1. J, „, , ... , r H:UI H.I --!w l'.*i.fH , luft v KfCSS'QEiI ' is A SURE CURE ? ' for all d.aenaoo of the Kidneya and c t LIVER ;i. on tli.. newt Inporiuit / ortM. Nt < O.r-j* oil torjrtOLitr .&d k ' ■ •i. itlnv -.r 1D b"*2i>7 cereuor. of f 2 U.e L..e. and i*T h**"l a 3 * bowel. ta frw. k c ormdiuia, *l!ort.n* It. r"TiUdlr:iK*. y 4J If* r! r f I IVI d I Cir I CX • r.i.U.i, ).4TP U, C.U.J, I * Rf / Wrt will mir nlMn aod tiMUf aw*. k 4 Ja U Pjin-i# toeloaaM the F7IMI, n rrj r * CM .I.ould U.. . Uiorou*-' 0-,-aja. of It. f $ t: BOLD BY DRUCCISTg. Price sl. _f psjhav 1,-c , a ilt nli lit . • ;• I ' ■fc ** TV !•• i ;!• iiahh \rrR WA"4T ID! M • *l.. 1. i' ' .... 1. W - 1 MI.I .. m ib' 01. 1 • I.r tl. * 1 lll' • >. .ad, .1 . 1. .i i • in ) (.1 tti 1 i.i .1 1. - . | . \ f. K iIU'KA 1 PO, IllV< I.M* > 1'..n0 I'll ll| Ilia. I*. 'Lr.'l'iu .UUl|> ) | 1 DDITOIt 8 SOTK E- In *.f - o>. . V jt. > ♦ t url 1 I t htri • ,rt in ll co awl Tin- .'till l r a. ••<■!# I.v thn j • >urt t ■ tt.kk" ifotr I t ! ifi< fui d* • in tii hand' 1 f tin* >• Jmitn-trator of niJ I wliU' .Hi' nj; ihi'-c lot ally intilc-d thwo, will nv-i't th | .rti' - mt'Ti-'tod for the |j.tif| f hi. kjifnir tn ■ rr. <-u S.iur'ay, January fi. IMM. it 1 tl 1. r ti .at hi* ' office ID Hiill.ft I t". h ll fihat . 4V-31 Awiit ir. ; The Atlantic Monthly FO2 ISC 3 WILL CONTAIN Ointrihution* in alni i't every number 1 ' ,v ' GLIVKII WKNDKLL IIOLMEf?, Aot'.ior of "The Autocrat of the | ilrankfaet Table," etc. TTichiel Anjelo, A Dranu" Which war lefY complete hy lIUNRY W. And w.iicli mil run ihrougli JH nuniiier-i of the magazine, hcg'^l "The Ancestral Fcclstep'V Outline* of at. exeeedingiy R< nuance, from the manuKiipt ofH iitlld.Vfkl ilAtnitOKNK." V "Daisy ML"or, A Comedy" V Dt Hasat Jamkm,Jr % I A dramaticatiou, with inijNirtaul 1 alteiaJiona, of hi* verv ]*>pulai atory " Miller." Storitw. e'ya, hk -ul.< * amtjiocni* liy -I hit (•. XYbitiicr, 'tVilliam 1) How die, e barter Htnilry Warner " Surah O lit- Jetvi 11, lib-hard Grant Whit.*, Ho*e I'erry Coukr, Horace K. Hcudder, < icorge I'. Latlirop, Harriet \V. l'reeton, and many o;litrui ihe bet Afuttii'tn ' writi rr I Tiio AtUmti lon or* il* teadera la % tiir w Ul "• of 1% o r .* 1. nt'h rrc liii# .a 4 coH-aieet in Jm >y U, IVwwM f ,tt*l liaA'*'" *'*eii. iaaa* : II * year in i. IHl.iv, ptu. <w /rrrj .ij ciM' mi 1111,1,1. \tiij, ,y|.rti l iecl. epn.iri.il i l f. oik'iellow . Hi < xiil. iutiiei. liinfU'l, II .in**, o, Kllnl.Mil, sutiO; " iii I*ll |.llllai 1., |T. <K(. will, three, fT.Ot); w. h lour, OU; with tire s*.oo | with all ci*. $lO tHI. Keruitiauri c aitoul l t,e mar!" by Mon ey order, diaft, or ic# tiered letter, to HOUGHTON, JHIFFLIN A CCL, 4 Vnrh St., I lost oh. Mans. m?USfIUHK Ftiii THK CKN. kJ TRk PEMOCaAT. Von will 1.. ,1, ~j m 4| year ,M. j , / J
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