Bradford reporter. (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, January 09, 1873, Image 2
El NEWS ra ODI ALL NATIONS. —Olive Logan is enelitintingi the pe)ple of 3leati\ille. —There are four fce. of snow in pa t 3 of Crawfond county. • —Small-pox. is reappea ri ng in the northeritpart of the State. • --Leap yeai chances will notiagain be in order for four yeArs. • - —Trains aro now> making regular time cn all the railroads of the State.. —Voltaire's statute on Boulevard duePrinee Eugene bas been removed. —Warm the bit of your horse's bri;lle Wore ratting it in, his month, —The spanish Government has rei•oivr , l Slavory in Porto Pico. —The • highest. price of gold for 1872 was Jl3;. and the Itiwetzt 10S}. —The sinking .silk weavers .0 N,w Jeriny, haee bccu clinlarged. - 7 -The innugoration of Gov. Har 1‘1:i • on Ole 21st January. —Xteativille lost less by firo in 1872 than c7(.1 - I , rj, tw• history (Ithat ----Night schools are be coming very in all CLcit AVLN and cities or the State. —Accidents on - the ice- are- the .inc,p.ti fact, rc c•irdCd by our rural exchanges. —Great Britin is report (1 to.have 41011:0 agi i inst 'the Russian invasion of Cent As;.L. -Tie great depth of the snow - in the tlerthere fen nts interferes with the work of th. I anib,rmen. —Ea] c: patio n (lay was generally b5.t . ..0 iivgroes in the SJnilitirn St..: --Tive-nty dollars conscience fund h^c Lear.,:ht to the laternal Revenue office from New Yrk.. —The Patent office closes the year with its bivinegs nil up. No eases whatever arq now pending. —J. S..Adarns, tbe missing govern inept c fticcr, is collertor at Jacksonville, Fla. instead oral Pensacola. —Twenty-three thousand sleds of Be:ingbezutui r , manutacturelave beau st4pped . he pr*sent beibun:. --4 n Colorado, when a lady wealk distut.ql jett elry to any extent, she is aikido:l to e local gusher as Leing We.l "ialtul" —Tue coin age of France during the pk..rik. , l from lbilTj to 1670 was : Gold franca, ;liana, 556,020,212. —Planehette and the voloeipedo have ri a , lied India, and ate affording much atrinsvnput and instrnet!ion to the natives. • —The ' uew• public library o c4int.go I%;i, h,rnrally opened Tuesday. I contams fifteen hundred volumes. • the prisoners confined in the jail at Frankfort, Ky., es,eapAi Tuesday night br erotaig through the roof. —.!'"iaclv's . bustle was' successfully tis •fl - reci 02, to prercilt a steamboat on the s t. I,..ovrelie':: river: —The steamer •Virginia, from C12:1: le-I .n Phila,lelpl.ia, is fast in - the ice at the upl er end of tort Delaware. —)liilerstown, Perry county, is to haven 1 a 1.1.4 i!iani Itickenbaelf, tho Ju -111:11..1 to be its cuslikr. —A well-birown stdck-raiser named rt, was kilk d on the railroad near ,G ri tultinrg,. W( tof thu mc , uutaths, last week. —Pei.litiricte the Brooklin Tabernacle (,gyrator, designat..2s . weeping as "wet ANL atJ,l. r al uut the vycs." —Whitelaw 11vid continues as the t dit ur u ; iit:. N yeqk The Colfax pat ty'w:ti ti: , 114 enough to 01/St White lleeting of nine weeks' chira 1, 11. film counts, rehulto in the c - yra•rni bouts. --Oregon . Las raised a potato 0; 1 , The field in which it was grown is clevat , 'd 3.000 feet at.ve the level of the (a i•; propo., , eti to iun an air line R. IL fr- au 1 - I‘...k,burg t the Gail, a distance of 200 Dvt.ot y .:ive ranks of the. road arc ready for t •! ---Tho schooner Willian E. Perry, from N, , w York for Provilencill ; went ashore on Ine,Tay nvar N.:wpDtt, iu a dangerous —Thomas Moore, an old citizen of Fran lately attempted to end his life by cutting his throat, but bthigled the job"; so that be stsiltbvt,,,,. —Less wine,. was drank iu private houses i❑ ti4s :tl.e, Sew York's day, than ever was c o n s m ,, ( .l on the same occasion. Moral an•l indepenrienee did the work. —Surrogate Cocti4 , of White Mon.lay adjourned the fulther eon 'iden,ttin of Mr. (ireelq%3 wills until' the 13th 1,1 v —The ; c6ngreg,atioD of Grace chwc:), u, late fu c in Fourteenth street. livraib!el on S u lay for Divide service Irv.iii.;ll • T,lc number of hogs slaughtered wee': was 1'2,080, ; and the `i hole nurals r frcmorvniber 1 to the present EIM Alimiesoti railroads have bcvn iii,strtieted by the recent sdow ~p !Le Northern 1r usual tune. ! , 11 ,^ Ph-aro-pneumonia has be in :II!' villages of Pru,sia and iv_ar lin, scpera ,11F:r two .c,. ' —X Fellow was caught in the..hen e ,op of thc Louse. at Lewistown, a pew Lmoo. I!. Nvariledgetl, wh , re fowls are —Robert lirwsuu will hereafter 'the Ats6istai:t United and Perry 4ttt.:.:l I A St • —The citizens of Tidioute have already i4 - Abgeribuil $12,000 toward the rebuild ing oil the Methedist Ephsc pal church, recently 1 hy fn. In that place. Clearfield counts', has tild.t Lwyers and Iwo barber alto 1: j( 11 72 . 11.1.N ' Fays there ig getting sAeur.C . l.i there. —Of the thirty persons lost by the wrecking of the steamship Gernianv twelve were passengers, and one of thorn was an American. —The House Post offie Committee has agreed to recommend the extension of the letter carrier system to all cities of 20,000 popu lation. Miss Apple tried to commit suicide at Mariposa, California, lately, ',mine slie:was neglect ft nit. • Miss Apple Nranted; to bi , one of a pair. —The Chicago Times published an snick which elaitns . t 1) show that there hare been twarly one hundred murders in that city wahin !.everr yQars, t'and net a latch stretched." —The contest for the speakership of the National Huit.,e et Et-presentative is wax ing warm. There arc several prominent as pirants besides Blaine, who howevt , r it is sup pised has the "inside track.'" New York Snperidindent ul thilikag4 publizilie4 a card stating ;that tlwre art thou , au,, , iu that city "more tlangf-rom: thin th , . one burned hi C , . , ntre ,trcvt:' • ---Iu Mi , isouri• one Elector on the Gret•lmi an,l PA own ticket i e!OroNi to Vote tor BroAn eith(-r 1 r ar Viec President— ; a - e.t , e with9nt pa.e.:1.:11 , th.• lii6torli of ck•etionb. —lliploniatic relations between the r, , vLrunivtit and tilt Vat are brc'.lien off. The-Vapti L•g.itt , ni at Lucerne will pro bably b. the Ciltag and at tn.:hes Laving b:•en recalled. The Methodist Book Concern, of N'ishcille. Teau., has tiled with •the House cmo-mitt‘-e claims tor nearly S-100,000 for the wt 1 4 ,11 b ti odi ug s by Union soldiers during —Maggie Wilson, the daughter of a fishtackle maker, has; after a fierce legal fight, been joilicti.ally• recognized as the wife of the late Major 'Stewart, heir of the 'Muthlcy estates, one of the rieliebt in : Scotland. ( —The United States war steamer California has sailed from San Francisco far Hononulu, to protect American citizens in cue of any trouble arising on the question of acces sion to the throae a the Sandwich Islands. —General" Crook has adopted the policy of enlisting friendly Indians to fight the warlike Apaches. The Indian agents are co op: rati-..; with General Crook, and, if not in terftred 6, he expects tarnake the campaign Short and derisive. .--f-Se.verat havv t , ) • .:.‘ r „,kl.e.or;fig t -Lc 1- .ltrer clanatt trtipict, f , :r the blt 10.1,1 th. Nit/ Ad]: gorier EDITORS* E. 0. GOODIUCH. S. W. iiI.VOILD, Towanda, Thursday, Jan. 9, 1873. THE LEGISLATURE The Pennsylvania Legislature was organized on Tuesday last. The House met at 11 o'clock a. m. and was called to order by the Chief Clerk of last session, Gen. &minor.. On motion of Mr. B. S. Dem', the House proceeded to elect a Speaker. Wu. Eworr, of Philadelphia, was elected, all the Republicans voting for him, while the Democrats sup: ported C. B. BROCKWAY. Gen. SEISmDGE was reelected Clue Clerk. The organization was completed by the election of the usual number ) .1. of officers. .F. Nicuors, of this county, wa netted Assistant Sergeant-at- ms: The Senate convened at 3 o'clock p.m. Senator ANDERSON, of Alleghany, was elected Speaker, and RUSSELL Bartnrr, Clerk. All the subordinate offices were filled. Both Honses7ad journed until Wednesday !morning, when the Governor's message was read. THE VANQUISHED VICTOR. After so many unsuccessful trials, Col. PiaLLEr shOuld write a book en titled "What I know about running for Congress in the 13th Congres sional District of Pennsylvania." He should be particular to give, in an explicit form, his experience in run ning with heavy weights and light' weights, , and .also what he knows about hurrying up the Governor to issue his proclamation for the . special election just passed. - He ran' in 1864 against Hon. 11. MERCUR and was beaten 1,001, and again against him in 1868, and was beaten 223. In both these contests the Col. complained that he was de feated in consequence of the heavy weight be was compelled to carry in the balance of the ticket. Divested of all dead weight, with GEORGE LA DON for him, he thought the special election would be his golden oppor tunity, hence, being sure of success, the - • proclaination for tiiejspecial elec tionwhich was held on the 24th of December, was hurried up, and the Col. wade haste to secure a nomina tion for Congress against Mr. F. C. BUNNELL, Republican. The result of the contest being 999 majority for Mr. BUNNELL, the .Col. can now con sult his arithmetic and demonstrate the difference betwixt running with the weight of a full ticket to carry, and GEORGE LANDON against him,and running as the only candidate on the Democratic ticket, and GEORGE LAN •DON for him. In the contest of 1864, Mr. LANDON openly apposed the Col's. election, when he was defeated by 1,001. In the contest just past, he was beaten by 999, andlilr. LLND9N was openly for him, giving him his influence and vote. The benefit then, to the Col. of running alone, with the weight of Mr. L.miox'S support in his favor, counts just two votes the wrong way. PIOLLET cagnow turn his attention to his avowed purpose of " breaking up political parties," and Mr. LANDON can take upon him self the odor of sanctity, and ;reach political funeral sermons in "id of the consummation of Col. PIOLLET'S only political hopes for the future. is. The lowa correspondent of the Chicago 'Journal says that in Des Moines there is a People's Temper-. ant. Association, composed largely of reformed drunkards, who keep a yigiluu eye on whisky selling. By the aid of thisiassociation a snit was brought in the District Court by Mrs. ANN PRIESTLY, in"an action for damages in the sum of $5,000 against JOSEPH HIERB, for selling intoxicating liquors to her husband, thereby in capacitating him from attending to his business ? and thus doing great damage to his family. A large num per of witnesses were examined, and the case most stubbornly contested by six 'of the leading attorneys of the State, Judge MAXWELL presiding. The Judge gave the' various ques tions which arose during the trial careful attention, and his rulings were principally against the prosecu tion. The trial lasted nearly five days. At the close the Court gave the case to ;the jury with instruc i tious. The jury, after three hours, re turned a verdict for the plaintiff,' and fixed the damages at $2,52.0, and costs of suit. The defence at ! once gave notice of. a mofion for a new trial. It is the opinion of sOund lawyers that the verdict will stick, and. if so, it is one of .the most im portant cases'tried in lowa, and that it is so considered iS apparent from the fact that .from all.; pails of, the State came inquiries respecting it. It will place every liquor seller in the State at the mercy of the families of those to whom he sells liquors. A Sale of liquor once proven is enough to warrant actual and exemplary damages. It applies to persons who are engaged in the traffic, whether as maker, agent, clerk, barkeeper, or otherwise, and th‘ result- will be the abandonment of the business.ahnost entirely in the State. Se. LANDON'S political influence was clearly demonstrated in the elec tion which took place on the 24th inst. Eight years since Col. PIOLLEr was a candidate for Congress and was opposed by Rev. Urf.ORGE 4 LA DON, and was - defeated by a majority of 1,00... The Col. was again placed in nomination for the vacancy, and warmly supported by the great , , i.f reform. The result is a majurity of only nine hundred and nmety-nine against the Colonel. V. S: SSXATORSHIP. It seems to be generally conceded now that Gen.. CAIIII/Ott *ill hate no oppoeition, hut.will be the unani mous choice of the. Republicans in the Legielature for reelection to the U. S. Senate. In an article on the subject, the Warren Hail concludes as follows : "We do not know that Gen. CAXERON is himself a candidate. We think it probable that he may be. We know of no reason why he should not be. It is certain that for ex years he has been a good and faithful servant. When other men fell hp never faltered. Never, for in hour" has there been OA shadow . of a doubt concerning his po4tion. Every vote and every political act has been true to our party organization, and his influence, at Washington has been equal to that of any other 'Senator or MeMber. When JOHNSON betray ed us and men high in power and honor shook in their shoes or finally went faller Lim—when we had to splinter Gov. CURTIN'S legs to keep them straight and him tine —we didn't' have to ask or wonder how Senator CAMERON was. We knew in advance. When the GREELEY craze came over others long trusted and followed and swept them overboard, we didn't for a moment doubt the fi delity of Senator Caatzmox to his high trust. When the' preconcerted lie wa sraised against HARTRANFE and AL- Lrs, and to make the ticket odious it was called a " CAMERON Ring ticket," he stood by it manfully, shouldered all they chose to , put upon him and led the way to battle and to victory. We suppose the truth was he stated in his Titusville speech, that he was not originally im fkvor of either nom ination. But when he saw that the party was, that was enough for him, as it should be for every true Re publican. He did not, like CURTIN and too many others, propose to ruin the party if he could not in all cases control its nominations. This 'spirit displayed by him aud many qtheri throughout the Si ite, contributed greatly to the ol , rwilelming defeat of the unholy eoaliti. , if. " For all these tiongs the Repub, licans of the State fvery generally honor Senator CAMLEON, and if he shall ask another endorsement at their hands it is very probable it will be granted. We don't believe now that they will find twelve traitors, or even one in twelve, to betray us for "thirty pieces of silver " or any oth er amount. POMEROYS Pentocr4l, in answer to certain men who desiie to know what should be done with those Dem ocrats who, in the late campaign, had gone after strange gods, says: "There must lie no quarreling be tween Democrats. Good men are often mistaken. •An error is not criminal, and as all of us make mis takes, we must not seat ourselves in judgement, especially under the con stitution which declares that all 21 thi are - free, and e 4 4ual ! There is no such a thing in sense as reading a 'man out of a party: No party has that power. You can read the party out of the man, but there is no one to 'close the doors against the ingress of whoever comes along. "A boy once jabbed a pitchfork tine nineteen times into a dead dog, to let him know there was a God in Israel—and that is all the good it did. There is not a.-Democrat living who does not now see that the nomina tion of Greeley was an error—an ad mission of weakness when the De mocracy really had strength. The lesson need not be repeatbd. Yon never can catch more birds with that chaff. The game of Belmont, the Bankers, and the Blairs, won for the ones who got it up, as they intended, the re-election of Grant. ``ln the future let Democrats work for Democrats and Democracy. They aro the ones to shako hands across the bloody chasm, into which should be dropped the fool of scrawny intel lect who first used so ridiculous an -eznression." THE J. -RESIDENTIAL ELECTION.— The 'N. Y. Times gives a table of the - returns of the popular votes for elec tors, at the recent Presidential elec tion, from Age States of the Union. The aggregates are 3,592,684 votes for the Grant electors; 2.833,847 for the GREELEY *electors ; and 33,293 scattering votes, the latter being chiefly for O'Conor, although some votes for Black, the temperance pan didate for President, are included. The majority for Grant over Greeley is 759,137. In this table the Pinch back returning board's returned from Louisiana is given, which announced the vote to be 71,053 for GRANT, and 57,029 for GREELEY. This is the Board recognized by the adwinistra tion. The Warmoth returning board in that State made the vote 66,267 for GREELEY, and 58,252 for Grum.- In 1868 the Presidential 'Votes were 3,013,188 for GRANT, and 2,703,700 for Seymour, GRANT'S majority being 309,588. Since that time the Re publicans have increased their votes by 579,796 ; the, Democrats by 130,- 247, and the Reptiblican majority has increased 449,249, •thp scattering votes of 1872 being excluded from this computation. A suit of great importance to bUilders has been decided in the New York Court of Common Pleas. k brick-mason agreed to builds a house and charge six dollars per thousand for laying the brick. When he came to measure the brick he measured all the openings, windows, doors, dc.c., as solid work, making the bill $3,300 larger than it would, have been had he only measured the, solid wall.: The man pr whom the work was done'refused to pay this $3,300, and the mason brought suit to force the payment, pleading the custom of brisk-masons in his favor. The court decided that his charge was illegal, and that he had no legal right to charge forbrick that were never laid. THE LICENSE gm:6=os. In Potter county, this Btate, no licenses to sell intoxioaling liquors have been granted for twenty .years. The license'sy stem was abolished in 1852 by an 'act of the I;egislature. Since the authorized traria in the " accursed ;thing " has been prohibit- ed, but little drunkenness has:, exist ed in the, county, and the jail is gen erally empty. The following letter written by Join S. MANIC, a. promi nent citizen and -lawyer of Potter county, will be teall with interest and should have.gr eat weight in this county at the present time CONDERSPO It; Potter County Pa. 0. N. Wo UDEN —My Dear Sir : Your favor, making enquiry as to the result of the Temperance effort in this county, was duly ieceived: It gives me pleasure to inform you that no license to sell intoxicating drinks has been granted by our Court siuce January, 1852. This position was taken and maintained, fur fifteen years, by electing Associate Judges who were. opposed to license. The fames of the two judges who had the principle-and the nerve to make this righteous decision, and to stand by it for ten years,, are Orange A. Lewis and Joseph - tlianu. No two men ever served 'the people more ef- fectually. In 1866, being a member-of the Legislature,l deemed it wise And just to put he oft-rej)eated decision of the voters of this county, on this vital question, on the -Statute Book, and you may see, on page 658 of the Pamphlet Laws of 186 G, the prohibi tory law of Potter county. The pas sage of this act excited•the advocates of free drinking to great activity for its repeal ; but there it stands, a shield to all.the youth of the county against the temptation to form drink ing habits. And it will undoubtedly long remain, a blessing to all, and a Comfort to nine-tenths of our people; for, under its benign influence, the number of tipplers iv steadily de creasing, and fewer young men be 7 gin to drink than when • licensed houses gave respectability to the habit. There are but few people who keep liquor in their houses for pri vate use, and there is no indication that the number of them has in creased since the - traffic was prohib ited. This law is as readily: enforced as are the laws against-gambling, licen tiousness, and others of- a similar character. In every instance, t-the prosecution for selling i liquor with out license, has been Shccessful when there was the proper proof, There is, unquestionably, greater -difficulty in proving this offunsi.: than many others, because_the k)usines.,,of buy-, in; and selling whisky contrary to law is more demoralizing than most other criminal habits. The wan who sells, under such circumstances, ex pects the person who buys, in case of prosecution, to swear falsely, and nine out of every ten, who will ask a man to violate the law of the State in order to gratify their appetite for strong drink, will nit disappoint this expectation. This humiliating fact, of itself, is sufficient to condemn the whole traffic. I _know a good tunny, men that will tell the truti. upon ev ery subject except this cue of buying a drink of whisky, as to whieli t they will swear, as serenely as a summer morning, that what they bought was " medicine," prepared and prescribed by " the Doctor.' If it was not for the tenth man, whose conscience is stronger than his appetite, Whom we have always found, it would be al most impossible to obtain proof against a man low enough to prosti tute the practice of medicine to the sale of intoxicatinr , b drinks. - Bnt, as before mentioned , the only . difficulty experienced in enforcing the law on that subject in this county has been to secure the proof. " There is no open violation of the law, and the consumption of strong drink has decreased very materially in consequence of our prohibition of the traffic, Decidedly the best hotels ever maintained in the county have been opened since -licenses were refused, and there are now in Condersport [our county seat] as good hotel ac commodations as are to be found.in Northern Pennsylvania. The experience of this county is conclusive that there is no shadow of ground for fearing any lack of ,g,iod hotels should license. to sell liqnbrs be withheld. - Not a single interest of the county has suffered from our no license poli cy. On the other hand, all the high er interests of society haVe been' largely promoted. . Crime of all, grades has decreased, as is :abund antly proved by an examination of the records of our criminal cOntrs. And if we conld - shut out the influ enco of surrounding counties, or con vert them to our_side, on this ques tion, "du not believe there would be business enough of. that kind to in duce any capable lawyer to accept the office of District Attorney.. It is, unfortunately; true that there is considerable drinking and some drunkenness in this county ; but, with moreThan' double the population, there is less than half the-druuke,nness that existed under the licen.ke syston. Any intelligent man who -will at tend court at Coudersport, and then attend court iu any place where the hotels have license to sell intoxicat ing drinks, will admit that our sys tem does, unmistakably, lessen in temperance and promote good order. As it-is here on court week, so it is throughout the, entire county the year round—peace, good order, and prosperity are, in a, marked manner, prompted by our prohibition of the legal sale of strong drink. Very f.rnly yours, for temperance and prosperity, Jiio. S. MANS. sal- The western march of civiliza tion is forcibly shown in the filets whicli come to public notice in con sequence of the application of Colo rado to be admitted as a state of the Union. The population is .sax to be over 100,000, the asse ssed ivala of taxable property which in 186 was only $13,147,114, is slow said to be $31,097, 211, and there are 480 miles of railroad completed and in operation within the limits of the Territory. This is an excellent show fora region which a few years ago was a solitude, but notwithstanding these profs of increasing prosperity, Colorado, cannot be properly admit ted as a hate untill further progress is made. The Apportionment act requires a population of '33,000 for a Representativein Congress, and the territory will probable be required to rem du such until it can reach that kfilm laid. LETTER FROM BOSTON. • Aarrer, Pee. 211, /1 2 . Stn venires :—Witt the told and storms around us, with business dull and but slight prospect of its boing'better, with a large section of . our wealth laid in ashes, and. with provisions high and mOner r soares, the poor of our city can but feel despondent, and to them Christmas can bring no now feature, as they cannot receive guests at their tables, neither can they visit a neighbor tilt* is as poor as themzelves,and being debarred the table of the rich man their day of plea - sure will have lost its name. No presents, no childish prattle over the contents of a well filled stocking, no •callers and no one to entertain them elsewhere, with bat little chance, if any, for work for months to come, with that dread disease,small , pox, stalking around ilieir doors and taking away their dear ones, marfy times the only ore of the family on w Isom they depend fat , life's comforts, who wonders that they feel gloomy and that the day must be uric of gloom and no' of dcasuro? In this city to-day, we have onr five thous alactwho cannot spealt . the English language : with no one to preach to them in ,their lan guage Or make theit wants known. Aid lsfur tattled them iu a•Measure,- but to no great tenti , I refer to the Irortuguse. Since com ticaicing ter, a friend ment4s a widow with fonr or five children livieg in a noglilicr ingibiri.M, who, a Nw clays called rut . aid, ant when ellied upon it .waF• fouri s d that within a week the had burled one child while Ihree'more were i-ick with scarlet fever. May we who have plenty and our wealthy who have more than plenty see to it that the poor are nut neglected and that- the New Year be to them, as far as our mains allow, a Happy New Year. Oar shops present a pleasing pictur i e in their holiday attire, and many a tlittn zruicrowded nitli iwtch:lsers the (mire day, and erne store was noticed "here a ' , Zeeman t - as stinding guard in the doorway, allowing, the cored on the sidewalk to enter only as 010st:inside came out, and judging from appearances that officer had his hands full of business. It is, perhaps, unnecessary to state that it wos the doors of a tly shop. We are now enjoying oar first sleighing and should there be no thatt it will be most impos sible to procure a private team for the next ten days, at least. All our favorite drivers are con stantly thronged with a harpy party, each one of whom seeks to eclipse his or her neighbor and fun runs riot. From all direcCons_.we sale the equipagc;s of oppulence making their way towards Wa:shington or Tremont Street in search of c stly presents for the favored one at home cr abroad. This is right, and we would not fur a fitment try t argue against it, but we do that or the plenty left a trifle might find its way to the poor whom We meet at every turn, and as one hundred cults make a dollar, so could the•su tricks which each of us e 11 spaie, added together, make ,a goodly. OEM Leader, rl y it. You need not go far for the poor via.) can be found near be: and tee, if you have is irr tried r. b:.r.rre, if it is not• better to give than to revere. Try it once, and if in yot.r frelingd. yin are not repaid, don't' try V. R. FRIEND. MEM TOWANDA, Pa., Jan. 8. th 73 EDITOR BRADFORD BEPORTER:: , The short communication in ydur last is sue, about the construction of a rail- way between Link Meadows and Granville Summit on the :Northern Central, furnishes 4iubject matter of interest to us all. To Towanda, an outlet, in the direction of Granville Summit, would be very advantage. ous. But if the railway could have Binghamton as its northern ter minus, it would then form' a connect ing link to complete a direct route from Albany to Pittsburg. A glance at the map demonstrates this. As to the utility of such a direct route, as,to its paying, there_cannot be a question. A large passenger traffic would soon result; but would yield a small sum in comparison with the' income from freight. Pittsburg, the Birmingham of America, would then reach out more directly than ever before its iron hand to the fabrics of New England: The gas coal and mineral deposits of our own State with those of West Virginia, would be brought nearer to the great cities of the north and north-east. The saving of a mile in distance tells wonderfully on the cost of freight, and directness of intercourse gives new life to the spirit of trade. This little link, still wanting in our rail ways, merits the attention of our 'great Pennsylvanian, Scott. Easy to, build, of easy grade, ,passing through the heart of a fertile country, through our own county seat, which for enterprise and future outlook is not surpassed by any in the country this road ought to be built at once. Important to Binghamton, it will give new impulse to that active and growine• ° city, uniting with it a town . whose interests will never bo., an tagonistic to its own.' Important to the Albany and Susquehanna Rail road, as tendinc , a to a very large in crease in its traffic, it appeals to the shrevvdlMrectors or Lessees of that Railroad to urge its construction. But further, it will tend to lessen the cost of gas coals to all' the eastern cities, enabling companies to _furnish gas at lower rates. Important to the citizens of Bradford county, by ren dering its county seat easy of access . to a large number of its inhabitants. And important to us of Towanda by giving us an outlet to the south and north. I hope these few remarks ,may induce a further development of the subject by some one more capa ble of doing it justice than your \ SUBSCIIIBER. * We suppose the Executive CoMmittee of the County Convention, I. 0. of G. T., think it none of our business to meddle with their affairs since they have - selected an organ, but we trust they will pardon us for suggesting that we think quite as effective a canvass on the question of Local Option might have been made by the emplbyment of home talent. We have several gentlemen in the county, who have grown old in the cause, whom, we arc confident, - would willingly _have entered the canvass and fought for the - good cause had they been invited. Capt. 11 kSVILLE, 'E. GrYER, Dr. PRATT, and. Others are koowu throughout the county as ac tive and earnest temperance men, and could have rendered yle cause much good service. - • Itla. The Legislature which met on Tuesday, will have plenty of work during the present session. Among the matters of local interest which we hope to see our members bring early to the attention of the Legis lature is the construction of a rail- road from some point on the N. C. R. 8., through the county, to con nect with the' Albany and Susque hanna or igrie. Such an en terprise worn - open a large extent of conntryi, and increase the . value of real estate thounsands of dollars, and furnish an easy and expeditions mode of travel for the people froth every section of the county to reach the e•Juuty se3+. Morquver, it would prove a paying investment to the cap italists who might take it in hand, END OF THE STOKES TEI I VEIMICT OP Tag stons FOUND GUILTY OF YURDEE IN THE FIRST DEGREE! CLOSING ARGOMMITS OE COUNSEL. Nzw YORK, Jan. 4.—The court was crowded to-day to hear .fir. Tre. main's argument for the defence in the Stokes trial. After an ,exhaustive exeoration of the witnesses sgainst ,Stokes, Mr. Tremain closed his long argument for the defence, at noon. He was followed by Mr. Beach for the prosecution, in a long and ex. ceedingly able argument, in which he urged the maintenance of the law by the jury in contradistinction to their allowing their synapalkies and gen erous impulses to weigh in favor of the prisoner, claiming that the safety of .society demanded that he who , shed man's blood by man should his blood be shed. JUDGE BOADDIfr'S Cl/AIIGE. • Judge Boardman's charge occupied bixty- five minutes in delivery, and was a very able effort, ana. attentive ly listened to. The jury then retired. ✓ While the jury were out the ladies. connected with Stokes family seemed to be in deep anxiety and kept look ing at the Cleik. Stokes kept on smoking. THE COMING OF THE WRY ANNOUNCED. At a quarter past eleven. o'cick there was a huniming noise 'and bus tle, which is noticeable when a long expected - event is to take plaCe. First came Mr. Sparks, the clerk, followed by the officers of the court, who pushed the chairs aside and made a passage day for the jnr . ymen. Then came in the jurymen's at tendent, who opened the door of the box, aftei which followed - the prison er, Aookiog as undaunted as ever,and surrounded by his friends and rela tions. The latter took seats, facing the jury box. The Judge then en tered and took his seat on the bench. RECEIVING THE VERDICT. The jtbdge, in the usual ,;reanrT said : !L, Gentleman :—Have you • agreed upon a verdict ?" Foreman of Jury, rising—"We have." Mr. Sparks—Gentleman of the jury, rise. - Prisoher ; look upon the jury. What say you, gentlemari, of the jury ? Do you find the prAner at the bar, Edward S. .Stokes,- guilty or not guilty ? - • Foreman of the jury—GUILTY OF MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE! . The jury were then polled at the request of the prisoner's counsel. , When asked by the clerk if ,they all agreed upon the verdict, They An swered seperAtely "Yes." As the twelfth answered, Stokes rose slowl ATI facing :kir. Beach, one of t oppc , sing counsel, said : "Well. Mr. Beach, r !must say you have done, your work well. I hope you have been well paid for it." Then Stokes sat down. Mr. Beach did not reply. SENTENCE DEFERRED UNTIL SIONDA.Y. Mr. Fellows, the acting . District At torney, rose , and addressing • the- Judge ; asked that sentence be pas sed upon the prisoner at the bar. As Mr. Fellows sat down, Mr. Lyman Tremain, eouncil for the de fence, said : . --Your Ilonor, I hope you will not think it necessary to pass sentence at this late hour of the night. Would it not be better to wait till morning ? JUdge Boardman—J. see no abso lute necessity for passing sentence to night, and I see no impropriety in acting on the suggestion. I will, therefoie, defer sentence till Monday morning. THE JURY DISCHARGED The court then discharged the jury, with thanks fontheir attendance and for the courtesy they had shown him during the progrees of tha trial. THE SENTENCE. NEW YORK, Jan. 6. ; :=Stokes was in the Oyer and Termiier.this morning to receive his sentence. , Mr. Tremain, his counsel,made an address in relation to a bill of excep tions to the judge's rulings which he proposed. to offer. The prisoner was then asked what he had to say why sentence of death should not be passed? Stokes thereupon said that he had not violated the law inten tionally, and that the testimony up on whieft he was convicted was man ufactured and perjured. Judge Boardman then, in a feeling address, in which he alluded to the prisoner's youth and social surround ing, sentenced the prisoner, to be hanged on Friday, the .28th day of February next, being the• shortest time that could be legally allowed the convicted man. Stokes' counsel were in 4nsulta tion last evening. They Iwerc great ly surprised at the' virdict, atid ex pressed their purpose of applying at once for a stay of proceedings, and ultimately, if possible, to seek anoth er trial. It seems that the lawyers regard the :newspaper and public clamor about the prevalence of mur ders, as partly' responsible fur the adverse verdict. •They should have deferred the trial of the case at this' time but Li. the demands of the prisoner and his relatives. STOKES 31A4ONANT. NEW Yons, Jan. 7.—ln an inter view, in his cell, Stokes was very bit ter towards the prosecution and Wit nesses, declaring with . repeated oaths, that money had secured the verdict, that the boys Raymond and Hart had been bribed, and their tes timony bad convicted him. He ex pected an entire acquittal, and could not 'have been more, - surprised if he had heard that New York city had burned to the ground. He continued, saying that. he was the victim of excited public' senti ment, that the jury determined to convict him, "and he was convicted because of bis'respectabili.y. It was an outrage, he said. He was' confi dent, however, that his couosetwould obtain a stay of proceedings: from some Supreme Court judge. and thus insure another trial. ESCAPE OF SEVEN CONVICTS FROM AUBURN PRISON. Dan Noble Among the Number AUBURN, Jan. 2.—About 3 o'clock this afternoon seven convicts suc ceeded in makin g ' their escape from the State Prison bydigging through the wall, where a shaft ran through it for the purpose of turning the ma chinery in the prison.. It is believed that the convicts had assistance frOm the outside, as they, are all supposf , d to have been pro vided with citizen's clothes. The escape was prOjected and led by Dan Noble, the El.oyal Insurance bond robber. The convicts belonged to the State shop with the exception of Noble, who was a waiter in the hospital, and their terms of sentence varied from five to twenty years, The following is the official vote for Congressman at the election orr the 114th nit. in the several election districts in this emu*. ft Will be observed that - in two townships, _Av menia and South Creek, Col. PIOI t LET did not get a single vote. In Syl vania borough JosErn E. PIOLLET received seven of the fifteen votes cast against BusNELt.: DISTRICTS. ILrmenia. Alba Born' • Athens Twp Athens Born' ' Asylum Albany Barclay ' Burlington Burlington 1i0r0'.... Burlington West, ..... ..... • Canton .Twp Canton 80r0''.... Columbia Franklin. Herrick. Leßoy.. = Litchfield - r- • Lettayavillo Holum. Twp Monroe &no' - Orwell Overton ......., -- Pike. ................ ......., Ridge - bury Rome Twp., Rome BorO' Smithfield Springfield ' ifouth Creek . ' Sylvania Bor' Sheahequin Standing Stone Terry Towanda Twp Towanda Boro•—First Ward.... SeeundtWard.. 7knlWard.,. Towanda North Troy Born' Tuscarora Mater warc10...... Windham - . Wyalnsing...., Wysot Welles Wilmot Total FRIGHTFUL -CATASTROPHE. The Floor of a Cogrch !Tires lray—Poo-tee Persons kited—A Large ..Vranber Irounde, A terrible affair happened at , iamsport, Pa. on Christniaa evening which resulted in the death of four teen' persons and the_ wounding of forty or fifty. On that evening the Sabbath school of the Baptist church at Newberry, in the sevdnth ward of the city, asserubled to participate in the'ceremonies Of 'Christmas . night. Some 300 men, women and children were there congregated. The • cere monies of the occasion :were iri.itty,c rirated, and Mr. Kinsloe proceede d to address the children. Gifts' had been brought in, and the building was brilliantly illuminated. The ad dress concluded, then came the dis tribhtion of the presents.. At this moment there was a peculiar . shake, a quivering of the timbers that ' noted a sudden doWnfall, and no sooner had the impression taken a firm hold upon those there congre gated, than the terrible catastrophe Caine with all its horrors and heart rendering srenes. The church ,was constructed with an upper audience room. It was- in this upper -room that tho audience had assembled. The interior dimensions are twenty six feet in width and -forty fe"t in length. There was a centre ,girth with joist thickly placed on each side. Through the centre from abOve were two bolts connecting with main girth. Evidently .the weight of those assembled sprung the- truss bearers and these supports slipping out of ',their" places precipitated the audienoe to the floor below. • When the crash came there •went up a wail of mingled humanity that caused the blood of 'all to fairly cur dle. Children wildly_ shrieking for their parents, the groans of the wounded and ' dying filling the air with lamentation and distress, Many beneath the timbers crying in the name of God for deliverance, while the oil lamps of the -edifice had kin dled a lire that bid fair tp destroy all in a general conflagration. Those, outside worked with a will and used every possible effort to rescue the living from the mangled - mass, ' Sev erahimes the - church was on tire,blit providentially the flames could he reached and were speedily 4xtin gtiished. Many within, who were able to reach a window; burst out - thelights and leaped to the ground, a distance of fifteen feet. Before eleven o'clock" at night, the bodies were removed and identified. In the panic' several were wounded by being run over. One man, fasten ed by, the falling timbers, had his boots off, and his steckiogs were fire when rescued. ; Another lady, partially buried,criM - to a' 'gentleman, "For God's' sake rescue me from a horrible . fate! " Whereupon he tore away the scatter ing timbers and saved her, as the fire would have 801111 reached the point where she had been so Securelv.held. LIST OF TILE KILLED John Ritchie, ,Boyd Mehaffey, Mrs. Duncan Campbell and two children, a child of C. V. S. McMinnis, Miss Sadie Maffit, Miss Mary - Pisher, Miss Lizzie Baskin, Miss Grace Seaman, Miss Tillie Reeder, a chia,of John Budd and Mrs. John• Wilkinson. There were some forty or fifty wounded. 10.. We referred some weeks since to the difficult case first presented to Judge MERCUR after taking his seat upon the Supreme Bench: He ren dered his dicision last week. The Philadelphia 'papers speak lin the highest terms of the opinion, and sad• it meets with almost universal approval. The Dctily Teleyritith re• fers to the dicision as follows : - • The suit. in equity over the Rush bequest, Which has been pending for some time, was %lidded in the. Court of Nisi -Prins on Tuesday, and- Abe result is one that cannot fail to give general satisfactitila. •It may seem a curious comment ',upon law ; that the testator's plainly: ,' expressed wish should be set akiide, but a careful perusal of the vary able opinion of Justice Alereur, w)11 surely convince any unbiased reader that any other raing would affotid a dangerous pre cedent, and would removtc the only certain safeguar4An such eases. If a trust is created under a will, that trust must be executed, in full ac cordance with the instrument creat ing it, and with that only. .If the execution of the _trust may. be „em barrassed by restrictions not express ed in the instrument creating: it,-the door is opened wide for frauds of ev':. cry description. Trr the ~ present in stance the trust was vested in a gen tleman of the highest probity and honor, whose sole desire was to ad minister it with the . most punctilious 1 conscietiti ness. While holding himself bon by his promise' to Dr. Bush to are the library. building erected it on the Broad and Chris tian streets site, he yet conceived that he Was exereieillg.a fiee' &ere- Lion and unbiased judgment, as pro vided by the will, in choosing that location.l This, Juatice Mercur held, could ndt be ; he therefore decided, on consideration of the letter and spirit of the well, That the trustee could not execute the trust, and that the selection of the most expedient location mast be referred to a master in equity. That the site at Broad and Christian steeets is wholly un suitable for the purpose probably Ho one Will care to , dispute. Something more central is required, and it is gratifying to find that a decision of the court secures to the city the full benefit of the handsome bequest. • 4.6.- KRI Itia. The result. of the vote on' the Tomei Option bill is looked, for With a great deal of into rust, and undoubt edly there will be a tltiod vote polled. The ; friends of `.the traffic . are being " wanted - up on. the subject, .and, threaten to-close_ up, their hotels `if the license system !is voted •.down: Oil the other , hand) the friends of temperance are making a thorough canvass of the county and feel confi7 dent of succesa... Many of the Most earnest and consistent temperance men are not , pleated with 'the but will votnngainst license, trusting to the Legislature to F. o amend -the act 6.t last winter as to prohibit drug gists from selling: '• 27 9 fr 111 93 -1 63 94 69 42 27 7u .83 31 2S ID 41 19 141- .32 134: 24 to - 4G 141 47 143 13 741 43 120' 15 53, 44 241 26 4.41 44 391 21 721 G 9 111 19 44 35 751 61 671 45 33. 21 174 94 Ali 30 23 123' 57 14, 87 27 39 37 28 921 79 1341 @0 1(41 59 50, 41 1331 47 129 25 cc 13 1 80f 75 82 34 54' 77 105 1 5t 32' 186 39' 42 Mair At, a caucus. of the. Republi can members of the Legislature; held on Tue'sday evening, GeU CA3iEßdti was nominated for U. S. Senator.— The vote was nearly unanimous. A fit tribitte to one of Pennsylvania's truest and noblest sons. 3441 22.30 New Advertisements ME O'~.ANY E S NOW' R EVE vruc LARGE .Ni. DESIRABLE STOCK: SEASONABLE G9O?DS SOLD. AT LOW PRICES Towanda. October 23, 1372 A. J. NOBLE & CO., REAL E TA TEJ LOAN, AGENTS, =I ! ! L PAVE? FOR "SAM:: ON EASY TEICAS SV,VERIL ll«"E SLINGS, Situated cotiveniont to btv,ittEss- ; 11. . \ O . h - ,c14- with r cla, Nov. 27, 1872. ,° Towan SLEIGHS! SLEI,GHS!! . . 0 .•, ' - I hay( on hand n lar e. , wisorfnient of : PLEASURE SLEIGHS t11(1 OUT S SELL -CHEAPER Than . any oth . er establishmunt'in 'the SLEIGH§ AND ('',:CTTTETIS Of heyer description ni'anufacturgd to prder on \short notice 10, 1:412. LA. - some very fine ones ' , at a Nary tow price, by lane 15,1E11 . FOX 8r =HMS --,ARE - k.- --or -TO BE MO S;`, , portion of town NOBLE Jr, VINCENT, Insurance Agento kSL EGH S. wmui I WILL country JAMS i BRYANT KiscollanctOi:us.. T HIRD ANNpAL -OURSE I. 0 • COV. I • ix..c-rum; .00mixTTEE 4, • Slake the following annonuFtmentm for t::a• 84.k..42N GI 1972-3 ROBERT COLLYER, Jati - ari 3 ,1474 Sablect.—" The Inside Truck." Date . , ; .JOHN B. GOUGH, Date, stibfee ANNA E.t•DICKINSON, Date Feb-mars 1 , , 19 What's to Ifith 13411, A ctt _ FRE PER ICK D OTT GILA S „ Date . February_2,,, Svb~~ Cittl.:;.: 3ud P.:48.Y 11tern lir.Eciri:C thi. other t, rtm , •r• if their serviced. -Tau .Irtd Otherwire wilt 1,0 EA.SON TIeKETS Geueral Adruh Ilcserved Smt. , ror ...11, rt Eirl)Ve Drui; C0313111.TE1 .s d. F. S.t!, S. I . V. AL.: ,:A), Towanda. Nov. IJ, 1.47., TIME TABLE OR THE vAN LINE RAlLP. ( J.9).—Tazing eaeqt oc Monday, Nos. 11, 1!5:2. VADOTIEWAISID I MEMO 1 voirrmrtai, . A. Y. i .. P. Is. . 8:00 1 TOWANOA- 1 4:00 .t. ,8:10 : BARCLAY JUNCTION 3:f.0 14:30 I ....MONROE 3:39 1.. 9:10 1 .WILCO SR ''2:45 9:30 I NEW ALBANY.... t-, 2:21 - 9:30 : ...... .11ILLERS. ---- . I' :.N 10:20 i DESIIOR,E,I 1:31 J 11:10 1 BERNICE : - r 12:n 1 A. M. t• ' • EVANS & Tlimu mativAL GOOIDS 1 - 111 , .1:'. TITAN I:Tin BfOC.K.- THE LARGEST WE , t: II:: T,ll 1 :11L Nr.xl THIRTY JJ A YS r•I'ECINL V.kilfiAlN,' TN • iv E S S 0 0 I) v., SHAWLS `II..OIKS CLOTHS, FLANNELS Al:-,) full line LADIES LINEN H_VNIiKEIZCItS LACE FANCY EIBROIDEBED 'L JCL COLIAES, CQLI - .111-: NtBI Aud ratiay-,)ther L. w • 4 (sris for the • . . HOLIDAY, TRADE Please call and exaraire. EVANS & HILDRETH Towanda, Dec. 10; 1872, LTNQUESTI.ONABLY Tar. BEST .' SUE tained work of the kind in wir.! HARPER'S MAGAZINE : -The e ver-increising . c ircnlatriniif.tystL . . onthlyproyesltsemtn,rniarzirtt,r- 7 :i , desires and needs- ludec i when we tILIIk '''' how 3 many homes it penetrates f-Vt ry 11:.,..a... , T tuuSt consider it as one of the eilit.-ati,:i la. 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