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0. GOODRICH. s. W. ALVORD.
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Towanda, Pa.,)Thanday, August 1, 1878.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
GOVERNOR:
GENERAL HENRY M. HOYT,
Of Luzerne.
- LIEV ; TENANT-00YERNOR :
- HON ; CHARtES. W. STONE,
Of Wdrren.
sECRETARY OF INTER (AT. AFFAIRS
ZION.. AARON EU DUNKEL,
Or Philadelphia.
.TU,DOR OP SUPREME COURT :
JUDGE JAMES P. STERRETT,
Of Allegheny.
REJMBILICAN COIMTIrCOINVEATION
_ Pumnant to a resolution passed by the Repobll
can County Convention, in sessioti May 9, 1878, and
concnred in by theltepubilean County Committee,
tbeircitivention of the Republican Party for 1878
will convene et the Court House, in Towanda
oulh, on TUESDAY, AUGUST, 27, 1878, at 1
o'clock r. rt., to mate the following uominatietlN
to-wlt -
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ifue'person for Member of Congreis' or Ole Unit
ed states, ter the 'Fifteenth District, (subject to
the approval of the Conference).
-.Throe persons for Meinhers riftbe;llouso of Rep
istmintatives;of the State Legislature.,
One person for Sheriff. '
One person for Prothonotary.
One person for Register and itecotdcr.
Two persons for County Commissioners.
One person'for County Treasurer.;
Two persona for County -Audltoril
One person for County Coroner.
_ Appointing Congressional Conferees, and for the
'transaction of any other buslness that may come
Ihtfore the Convention.
• The Committees of Vigilance of the several elms ;
. Don MAD:lets. will 'call a primary or delegate elec
tin for their respective ikistrists for SATURDAY,
ASL't:CST 24, 1 5713, to elect bytiallot tat) delegates
to represent each district #ln iald County Conven
tion.
The delegate elections Ln 'the townships will be
mganlzeil at 3 o'clock C. at., and kept open rontin
-11.,1i.,1y t., the close at 5 o'clock r. J. In the bor.
ough4 the delegate elections will be organised at $
gerlock r. at.. and kept open continuously until the
clone. at 8 o'clock r. at. The rotes shall then be
counted, and the ii suit certified by the officers to
'the Chairman of the said Convention, and a copy
delivered at mien to tho Delegates elect.
. Tin Committees of Tiglianee areparticularly ro
-1
Miest 1 to ohierve the aboVe suggestions. carefully
p i Co plucting. the primary sneetings, so that no
jut cause ut complaint can arise.
lf. STREETER; Chairman.
JOSEVII M. ETA - , Secretary. •
CIMIIIIITTLES OF VIGILANCE.
Armenia—Dante] Webb, Sheep Sherman, An.'
drew Seward.
Atha—Geo It Webb, G W Carman, Jeff Long
twail..
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Athens Ile'—ll IV 'Tripp. C Hayes, F V
Athens twp—F E Weiler, Samuel Ovenshlre, B.
Frank Broivn. ' • •
Asylnin—Jeseph - A C Minos, R
Herrick.
Altriny—Levi Stevens, S S Watson, George
Waltman., ,
Itarelay—C P Moore. C W Tldd, E.l Eldred.
iturlington-Ilorti—J V Rice, r .A Evans, John
RII rt.y. „
• Itialhigton West—J B McKean, S Ballard,
Thos Blackwell.
• Burlington Twp—A J Blakesley, G S Travis, An
drew Melvllle.
Canton Iloro•—F A Owen, S Mix, _Theodore
'Pierce.
can ton'Ta p—Watson Froema i n, Henry•Mattlson,
Weattierliv.
commlila—J it Wolf. it It Fe.rgntion, 3 Wat
kins.
Frarikiln—Janics C Ridgeway, - Stearn McKee,
•3anies 0 Mason.
itranytile—Adam Dds, J I. Ferguson, John
Vriunan, 2d.
Herr Ick—C L Stuart., James H MOW, E Feuer.
lielloy—lt It Palmer,' H M Holcontb, Weffley
Stone.
I.ltehfleld--John Ii Meßlnney, T Brink, AI)
.• Chandler..
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t.eltaysrille—M It Codling, J P Carle, S R John
son.
Mourne Boro•--A Lloyd Itnekwell, M W Boss,
John Dtanfee: f
Monroe Top—Dwight Dodq, N Northrop, Jr, G
I. hull.
t 4, .
r)rcut reek—F W Keyes, David, Gardner, Al
iatt..3trl gi ylk..
orrrell÷ll I. Case, Thomas B Smith, Frank
Johnson. I .
-.Overton—James Molyneanx, Fred Beverly, Al
fred Streerey. I -
Pite—t, A Bosworth, S II Canfield, dm Grant,
Bidgehttry—ltlley Mead, E A Cooper, Alex SUIT
ton. - .
Rome ltortf--Corydon Barnet, M 11 Towner, G
Rinney.
Rome Twp—Joslah Borten, J E Gillett, S N '
Barpes.
sayre—E E Roblitson, John A Perkins, Hawley
'Tozer.
South SVarerly—D L F Clark, John D Falkner,
John Post. -
sinithfleld—N W Waldron, Waiter Phillips, lr
-Manley.
Springfield—Theodore Wilder, Edson Harkness,.
'Frank Rlpine.
south Creek—D F lilitireth, S L Thompson. Geo
Berry.
Sylvania—Finley Furman, Geo Monroe; I.eander
(; regm v.
sbcsliconin—Wm Snyder, G L Horton,' *hale I.
Young.
Stand Ing.Stone—Wra Bostwick, ir, Ste se nv, Goy
l:mwn,
Terry—,ronathan Teriy..TC Dyer, S Bowman.
Towanda Twp—JamesT Hale, Leroy Bowman, V.
Dairblcou.
Towanda Iloro•—First Ward-411-1k Passage, Jas
Bryant, 11 T Stevens.
Towanda Bortr—Second Ward—W Keyser, Mar
-1:11. Gray. 0 D Lyon.
Towanda pony—Third Ward—J H Orcntt, W
Alger. W S Vincent.
' Towanda North—lteuben DeLong, Wm 'Smith,
inner Newell,
- Croy Boro•—H M-Spatling, D C Lampman, Wm
-Morgan.
• ,Troy Twp—,John Hunt, Milton Pierce, M O
ntls: •
Titsrarera—Wm - ShurnWay,Gny Lamoreaux, Bal-
Ulster—Refry . ..Mingo, George Morley, Andrew
Morrisina. '. •
Warren—Mlles Pt - Weal, Rowell Gowen, J 13 Kin
,ney. I 1 ,
Windhatn--ficcWll6aron, Eben White, Geo L
Lawrence.
M Ctark, Daniel Ely, E Meeks, Jr.
'‘';'Welts—Nlorris Sheppard, Wm ltelyea, Win John 7
Wytiluslng—W K Segrwrea, Geo S lloinet,'A Cul-
.Wysek,—.l It Hinds, L T Lent, W L Shores.
.141ru11rAcAs . Docrum. Sound
money, good wages fora day's work,
. the proseeutiOn,, of public improve
ments wherever needed, keeping faith
---w th:the nation's eredi tors,'equal j us-
Lice to all, high and low, rich, and
poor, .white and black; literal pen
**dons and bounties to the Soldiers of
the late, war, anti to . their Widows
and orphans; protection to American
citizens every inhere, free education
toilielmasses, an army large enough
to-prltect the frontier 'and preserve
the peace, the unity of States, and
the adminiStration of the Government
try lionest,'capable, and loyal officers.
If this platforin is not sound enough
for the.average citizen to stand up
on, she had better look kir some lone
rock sel iti.the3. • and bid adieu to his
native land. •
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THE , NeW York. Times - km had a cor
respondent traveling over :the Em
pire State to discover as. nearly as
Strength of the third
party in that State. Thisgentleman
reportis [that 46 in t i wo or three' of the
• counties they may possibly . number
a plurality of the votes, but in' Mine
jof theni have they anything near a
majority, and in none could they.
elect a Congressman, or, with half a
dozen -exceptions, an 'Assemblyman, -
tinaidett . by votes from one or - the
other' of the old partis t ."' We believe
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this is the condition of the party
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everywhere, notwithstanding the .
boasting and loud promises so freely
indulged in by its leaders.
Tus new Fee .bill introduced in
the Senate last winter by Senator
DAvq.s; and Which has become a law,
. reduces the charges of the Sheriff
quite one-half. We refer to this fact
for - the benefit- Of the several aspir.
ants for die office. • ,Unfortunate
debtors will remember Senator D.
": with gratitude when the reduced bill
of costs is presented.
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In another ecilumn we copy from
the New-York Tribtine an elaborate
article under the above heading, to
which we invite especial attention'.
The article is not simple theory, but
contains facts and figures from' au- .
thenti and.official sources. It proves
toitclasively that the volume of cur
rency has had nothing 'to do with
the great depression in business for
the past five years. The'cause of all
our trouble is clearly traceable to the
fact that we haVe been over-produc
ing. ,
The inevitable law of supply and
dema, nd r has as arbitrarily controlled,
pribes * as the sunshine and warmth
Of summer has the growth of vegeta
tion from the beginning of time.
Jacon and - his tieseendants keenly
felt this law when Jossm's brethren
were sent into Ey pt for corn; and
it appears to bee of the laws inter
woven with the creation of the world,
Which no condition or circumstances
can change. As shown by the table of ,
figures in the Tribune article repre
senting the facts for the eighteen
years included, it is clearly shown
that the: quantity of circulation has
no relt4ion to prices. The ,price of
steel a4l iron rails is a good, illustra i
tion this fact. • Steel rails were I
higher in 1863 than at any other pe
riod, simply for the want of :ability
to umakifactare and supply them.
They then rapidly declined in price
until 1870, when they as'rapidly ad
vanced—as also iron—until 1873, on ,
account of the great demand caused
by the ; excessive railroad building.
But the - ability to produce soon be-
came - greatr than the deniand, and
the price again declined and has con
tinned to the present time, the sup- .
ply and atiility\to produce being so
largely in exce \ ss of the demand.
And this is - equa l tree of all manu
factured articles', •Inlt the iron and
steel interest being s important a
branch of indUstry, its \ condition is
known to every {one , ami is made
more prominent. Theorists are ever
on the alert tilimake everything bend
and conform to , some hobby, buts,
when a man or -a nation coarmes
extravagantly a large amour
money they must pay the penal
such extrartganct, and this acc
in. the most conclusive manner for all
present difficulties and embarrass-,
ments. This nation took from the
useful pursuits of life over one million
of men and employed theM in de-'
stroying property, and at least one
half of that number of lives were sac
rificed and four thousand millions of
dollars was furnished for that purpos.
The non-paying" railroads
_after the
war spent about as much more, cre
ating an unnatural demand for All
prodnctions and stimulatthg all kinks
of manufactures, to an extent that no
demand in the ordinary course of
things can, possibly consume; conse
'quently we must pay tile penalty,
and the Burp:us population - must be
restored to the regular pursuits and
industries of the country. This fie
cotriplished, trade and cOmmerne will
again be adjusted by the .inevitable
law of supply and demand
LABOR AND CAPITAL.
Is this country there is no such
thing as class or classes, nor can
there be. The wages and aila l ry men
of yesterday are the employers to
day, or as it is commonly expressed,
the laborerof yesterday is the capit
alist of
.to-day. Labor is a commod
ity to - sell; capital furnishes the
means for its purchase ; but the care
fully husbanded proceeds of, vales of
of labor soon become capital hnd the
seller becomes purchaser; the labor
er, in turn becomes the capitalist.
The capitalists of to-day who, for
fear of loss, will not invest in prop
perties and commodities at falling
prices, wete laborers -before they
were capitalists, and many of the la
borers of to-day, many- indeed who
are now seeking employment with
out finding it, will, in the revival of
industiy, soon become capitalists
and employers. All antagonism,
therfoie between the employed and
the employer, between labor and cap
ital, is unnatural; all organizations
baseiL upon the assumption of the
hostility of capital to labor are hurt
ful.
In ~times of business prosperity,
when all the people have remunera
tive.occupations and employment,
there is general, contentment, and in
tithes of business depression and in
dustrial paralysis, when wages and
salary 'men are with out OmplOyment
there is.discontent, and dpmagogues
are ever \ready to pohit out the
Wrongs of \ the laborer.lpus when
Mr. Voottites' attempted' to array
labor against capital
,in his 'speech
on the silver he .was accused
of doing by his Drkoer.stic brother.
Senator EATON, be \ only played the
role of the.demagogue. - I
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THE publishers of newspaper serer
ore from the plea of "-hard times,"
'n the payment of their 1411 s, than
any other business people. The sums
lue am small and these are scattered
over a aids
expanse of, country; and
cannot be \ collected by personal ET
plication-4hat is one specially emk
ployed for the purpose, as the expense\
in many instances would swallow up
the whole amount. This fact should
be considered b 3 13s( to news
papers getierall3 I induce
them - to - remit ti Mons at
least once a yeas time. If
the sum iswell t i the' ad
dress properly mat 3 next to
no danger in its 3 fact, we
believe that all pubtisherb staid be
willing, when the amount is'nclosed
and the letter directed in thepres
cum of -a postmaster, to assume the
risk of its safe earring,e. These pay
ments are a matter of some impor
tance to publiebers just now.
The Potter Coramittee has been in
session for severaleeks, and so Air
have - discovered n , hang reflecting
cot \
upon the Admm• istratt n. One dey
last week the following otters were
prodeied before the Committee. It
they give any comfort to .16 POTTER
he is welcome to - them. E•• ry sin
cere advocate of honest , el. ions
will read- therewith pride.
A letter was produced from ~ r.
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SHERMAN to ttOvCTROT.IIAYES, da •
New-Orleans, November 23, 1876, of
which the.following is the concluding
portion :: • ' '
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"It seems more illte.the history of hell than of
civilized sod Christian eommunities. The mesas
adopted *ere almost Incredible, hat were fearfully
effective upon an ignorant and superstitious people.
That you would. have nweived at a fair election a
large majority In Louisiana no honest man can
question t that you . did not receive a majority is
equally clear ; hut that intimidation of the very
klad sod nature pi erided against by the Louisiana
law did enter into and control the election In more
election polls than would change the malt and
give the Republicans the tote. I believe as thinly
as teat I write this. The Mincing tie gathering
this testimony and putting It In legal form has
been verygreat. but I believe it bas been fully
met. The whole case rests upon the action of the .
Returning Hoard. I have caretully observed them.
and have formed a high opinion of Governor Wells
and Colonel Anderson. They are-firm. judlettete,
and, as far as I can jugde, thoroughly honest and
conscientious.. They are personally familiar with
the nature and degree of Intimidation In Louisi
ana. They can see that the Intimidation: as or.
wised, was with a view of throwing out Repebhi.
I can parishes rather than endangering Democratic
parishes. Our • little party are - nom dividing our
the disputed pariobee, with the-view of a careful
examination of every paper and-detall. Many are
impatient of the delay and some hare gone home.
We will probably be able to keep about ten here.
We have incurred sense Ilabllltles fOr reporting,
printing. etc.. but hope the Republican Rational
Committee will matethis good.. If not, We must
'provide for it emigres. We &rein good hope and
spirit. not wishing the return In your favor unless
it is clear that it ought to be so. and not willing to
be cheated out of it or to be bulldozed or 'Mimi
dated. The truth Is palpable that you Ought te
hare the vote of Louisiana. and we Wive . that you
will have it by an honest and fair return according
to the,lett .r and spirit of the law of -Louisiana.
Very truly yours, • JOHN liffinuaN."
To this letter - Governor HAYES re
plied as follows: •
" COLursauti, Ohio, November 27.187 e.
..1117 BM: 1 am - greatly obliged tor your
letter of the =I. You feel, Ise sure. as I do
about this whole business. Al f tr election would
have given us shout forty el torsi votes at . the
South—at least that many—but we are not to allow
our friends to defeat one outrage and fraud by an
other. There meat be nothing 'crooked on oar part.
Let Mr. Tilden have the place by violence, laded
dation and fraud rather than undertaketto prevent
It by - means that will not beartbe severest sestitlay.
I appreciate the Work doing by -the Republicans
who have gone, South, and am especially proud of
the acknowledged conduct of those from Ohio.
The Democratel made a mistake in sending so many
ex-Republicans. New converts are ptoveribially
hitterand unfair towards those they hate recently
left. I trust you will soon reach the end of the
. work, and.he able to return in health' and safety.
"Sincerely; It. B. Titans. •
WHAT BEHOCBACT Awl DONE , rem
TIME LABORING MANE
First.. Before the rebellion they
held 3,000,000 of lalmers in slavery,
thus degrading the - whole mass of
'laborers in the Country.
Second. They refused to pass the
homestead law.
Third. They went to war to per
)petuate slavery.
I \ Fourth. They held that slavery
was he normal condition of the la;
borer\
Fifth:, They enacted that all dnes
to'the Government should be paidTbv
coin, that \ Government employes
might be paid in a superior curlew.
cy, leaving only depticiated State
currency for the laborer.
Sixth. - They opposed the creation
of a Government currency for all the
people. -
Seventh. Since their accession to
power, under the false ilea of econo
my, they have - refused \appropria
tions of the people's money \ fOr need
ed improvements, this dep ressing \
labor in a' time of general distress,
while they squandered million! in
profitless investigation and payment
of rebel claims. •
Eighth. They have attempted the
reduction of the tariff, that American
labor might be i reduced to empett
tion. with the half-paid labor of for
eign eouniries.
Ninth. They have refused encour
agement to commerce, through which
our slurping:productions might find a
profitable foreign market. -
Tenth. They have embarrassed
and retarded the public 'business by
unwise reductions of the clerical force
in the Departments.
Eleventh. I They have attempted
the reduction of the army below the
actual necessity of the country for
the protection of tbe frontier settle
ments, and with the View.of throwing
upon an overburdened market an ad
ditional supply of unemployed labor.
ers. •
GEN. GRANT'S Fourth of July
speech, delivere d- at an .American .
dinner in a country hotel, near llam
burg, and repoited by Mr. YOUNG
for the Herald, is about as neat as
anything the. ex-President has done
in the. oral line. It is not - elaborate,
but it is meaty, modest, terse and
epigramatic. rn fact, we beg to pre
sent it to our readers enttre:
Mn. CONSUL 'AND FRIENDS lam
obliged . to: you for the kind manner in
which you drink my health. ..I share with
you in all the pleasure and gratitude
Which Americans so far from home should
feel on this aneiversaty. lint I must die
sent from one remark of our Consul, to
the effect that - I saved the oeuntty during
the recent war., If our country could be
saved or ruined by the efforts of any one
man, we should net have a _country,. and
we should notf g now be celebrating our
Fourth of July' s `kahere are many men
Who would have done far better than I
did under the circumstances in which I
found myself during the war. If I had
.never held command ; if I had fallen ; if
all our generals. had fallim, there were
ten thousand behind us who would hale
doue, our work just as well, who would
have followed the contest to the end and
-never surrendered the Union. Therefore
it is a mistake and &reflection upon the
people to attribute to me, or to any num
ber of us who held high commands, the
salvation of the Union. We did our work
as well as we could, and so dkl hundreds
of thousands of others. We deserve no
credit fer- it, for we should have been un
worthy of our country and of the Ameri
can name if we had not made evety sacri
fice to save the Union. What saved the
Union was the- coming forward of the
young men of 'nation. They came
from their homed and their fields; as they
did in the time of the Revolution, giving
everything to the coantry. To their 'de
votion we owe the salvation of the Union.
'The humblest soldier who carried a mus
ket is entitled to as much credit-for the
results of the war as those who were in
command. long as our young men are
animated by this spirit there will be no
fear fa the Union.
SENA7G .
UINAN and Inner FOYLE
l t,
are haviti , a little onpleaaantnesa
through th columns of the Journal.
''he " Sena .!? more than intimatee
that Mr. Fovrs violates the ninth
commandment ve?en he says his name
was attached , to the dreenback reso
lutiont; without any authoray. from
-himself. "When Ore, meets (reek t"
. GO . LD Closed yesterd yat- WO l.
ins saw yam maw ma.
It should te rementle. ilea the
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New York State .114ri01 - -Coctir ear=
lier in the lea* this rig.:,tain Usu
al, lt opens the State Agileigtnr
al Society's 'gronnibi, : near Jilmira
city, on Tuesday, the 9th of Septem
ber, continuing through the' entire
'reek. The books. for receiving en
tries are now, opm,. and we ire . in
formed that an animal number of
applications have already beee:re
calved. _ Entries must be made before
a . ugust 10th, scion that day theibeeks
' I be closed.
,Great care should be
ex , 4sed in stating precisely the pre
miu ~ s for which any article is
inten; ed to compete, so that the ex
hibits • be
ini t
properly classified in
the, cats l ue which the Society al.:
\
ways publi es before the opening of
the fair. A rson should • have the
premium list fore him when mak
ing, his entries. f any of our read
ers who are intening to become ex
hibitors have not,'et received the
new list of premiums, they can ob
tain it by addressing Secretary T. L.
Harbs;n, Albiny, N. Y., or President
G. W.)loffman, Elmira. -
Practical: &limns should exert
themselvea to make the approaching
fair as interesting and instructive as
possible. - They should not leave the
work of making an exhibition entire
ly to professional
. stock breeders..
manufacturers of machinery, &c. We
hope to see a fuller and-better exhibit
of 6uvn products than 4as ever yet
been made ht a State fat. The suc
cessful dairymen of **Others New .
York and northern fennsylvania
should make a full and fine display of
choice butter in firkins4tubs, crocks,
rolls and novel packages'. We . under
stand that a cool room will be ape
chilly provided for storing butter, •
The stock department alirays a
prominent feature of the New York
State fairs. The Society has ilone
much to encourage the raising of
good stock.. A gold medal is given
for the beat herd of Short-horns,
Devons, Herefords, Ayribirett, Hol
steins, Jerseys and Guernseys. Over
eleven hundred dollars In premiums
are offered for the thorough-bred cat-
Ale of.the different breeds. Thirty
'dollars is the premium for the bekt
much cow, and fifteen dollars for the
second best. The same preinimns
are offered for a fat ox, fat steer, fat
cow and. fat heifer. Liberal prerni-
ums are announced in the horse de
partment, although the State Society
spends no part of its - funde for horse
racing. The preminins in the sheep
department amount to . twelve hun
dred dollars, and for swine over sev-
en hundred dollars. There are over
one hundred premium - offered for
poultry of the various breeds. There
are fifteen prizes of ten dollars .each
for the best barrel of white winter
wheat, barley, oats and other graitts.
It is not necessary to particularize
further concerning the premiums.
Every farmer should secure the list
and see for himself what the premi
ums are with a , view to becoming a
competitor.
The officers of the Society are ex
hibiting great enterprise and zeal in
making arrangements for -the ap
'preaching, Mr. The excellent and
commodious buildings will be put in
Sri e condition. Special terms will be
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made with the vanotui railroads for
transportmg exhibits and passengers,
and for \ rtmning trains to accommo
date the needs of the fair and those
who Wishtd2 visit it. Much of the
responsibility for the success of the
fair must' rest the farmers. If
they do well thekr part the exhibition
can not fall shorsof l a grand'auccess.
VALUE Or KLil2l DOiLABS.
WASIIINOVA, July 15.—The fol
lowing information is frished by
the Director of the Mint, in - conse
quence of the number of inquiries re
ceived relative to the vale o f the
Mexican silver dollar and th terms
on which it is received at the mints :
Section '• . 3584, revised statutes,
United States, declares that u ao for
eign gold or silver coins shall be'a
legal-tender in the payment of debts:'
The Mexican dollar therefore has
only a value of bullion, which de
pends upon the price of silver. At
the present price of silver bullion it
is worth about 90.8 cents in gold per
piece. Its circulation as money in
the United States is optional, and at
whatever value may be agreed upon.
The United States trade dollar also
is not a legal-tender; and therefore
has only a bullion value. The stand
are silver dollar being a-legal-tender
for all debts, public and private, is
received at par at all 'government of
flees ii ,payment of dues.
Mexican dollars, as well as other
foreign giver coins', and United
States trade dollars, are purchased
at the Mint at Philadelphia and the
Assay Office at New York at the
equivalent of the London rate for
silver bullion on the day of purchase,
less one-half cent per ounce of fine
silver contained.
A Tribune correspondent, writing
from the " Lake of a Thousand Isl
ands," says there are really about
two thousand Wands in the, fifty
miles extending from Kingston to
Ogdensburg. The water is so deep
that the largest steamers can land
their passengers without any wharf.
It is- a broad, deep current of pure,
cold water. It haa come to be under
stood that the very northern limits
of the United States must be a place
of great resort in the heat of sum
mer, especially as it is not a desert,
nor even an ordinarily uninteresting
country, but the most picturefique
combination of land'and water on
- the hemisphere. The air is cool and
bracing all summer, the waters
abound in' fish, the multiplicity , of
the islands affords abundant anchor
age and harbor accommodations, and
indeed: they
_semi providentially
adapted to meet the demands of the
people.
Tug Republicans of Mains met . in
State Convention on- Tnesday .
CONN= waLAnanimotisly nominated
MSS
1301118=11M 1101813 E.
'Under. Its` present Managementthe
Trcasa rryy
Repartment 'halt prepar,
more f*prOmpt anddetailed 'state.:
meets of Its'Operations than were
ever elven toihe public atany prevl. l
ons iime. !Therein: Seefttal Stier ;
man haaVeriddred "Tainy pnbl Seiri=l
us, but another, of no small imiinr‘
ince, he hats performed by. the vetY
timely publication of .a detailed se
count - of- the currency , outstanding
each year since 1859.. In this state
inenti all Government notes circula
ted as currency are included. and the
notes of- State" banks. Moreover,
the - actualpurchasing. power in gold,
of paper currency outstanding
each year,, has been caelulated, and it
is safe to say that the results will-be
most surprising to the advocates of
inflation. For it is plainly demon
strated that the progress toward re
sumption has been one, not of con
traction, but of actual' expansion in
the purebasing power of the currency
outstanding.. A moderate decrease
in the.nominal amount of notes Circu
lated has resulted 'in so large au ap
preciation that there, bas been an se--
teal increase in the' gold value and
purchasing, power of , the entire paper
circulation. The smaller amount has
been rendered more efficient than the
larger amoinnt was_two years ago.
' The scope of this statement is such
that it omits, • verY properly, a most
important item. Fradtional currency
is included, as part ot the'paper out
standing, but the reduction frail $45,-
881,295.67 in 1874 to "only $16,547,-
, 768.77 in 1878, though it appears
properly as a reduction of over.s29,-
000,000 in paper. currency, has been
more than balanced by the introduc
tion of small silver. "In like manner,
the larger, paper currency has been
reinforced by the circulation of trade
dollars in large amthint, and standard
silver dollars and Mexican trade.dol
lars in smaller quantities. Moreover,
an exact, statement of all the curren
cy in u3i3 would take into - considera-
Von the increased availability and
use of gold as reserve in bank'vaults
and elsewhere, and its Incas currency
on the Pacific Coast. Butlhe object
of the Treasury statement was to
show the variation in nominal amount
and in actual value of the paper cur
rency only, and in that 'regard it, is
complete„ In the following, • the
Treasury statement 'is abbreviated ;-
the amount of bank notes, State and
National, is shown foir each year, the
entire amount prior to 1864, and a
very large amount prior to 1866 be
ing the circulation of State banks;
the amount of legal tender notes out
standing each year on the 30th of
June is shown; and the third column
gives the amount of paper currency
of all kinds, including beside bank
notes and legal-tender notes, the one
and ;two-year notes of 1863, the com
pound interest notes 'of 1863 and
1864, the old demand notes and the
fractional currency. The col ;
nmn shows the actual value in gold
of the entire paper currency out
standing, at the price of gold July' 1
each year:
Rank• Legal I Total
Notes. Tender. i Paper
267,102,4771
202.006,2671
182,71/2,0791 . 96.620 . .(001
238,837,218 297,767,114
110,292,087 421478,671!
260,067,498 422,687.969
J 01,478,0711 400,619,206
BOX 799,4911 271.782.697
202,1124628; aaa,ooo.coo
302:488,498 26 6 , 00 0. 000
201,969,777 asa,oocknoie
ral,2V, ^ J.r9 866,000,000!
1t28j65,110 267,600,000
241,561,621 asa,ooo,ocio
m5t,990,033; 34900,009 .
555,t94.862i 275.771.550 f
332;657,2741369.772.2942
217,616.483.358,764,232;
'224,940,788' 8U4481,016 I
This statement corresponds exact
ly With the official record, excepting
that notes of. State and National
banks are added together for "bank
notes," the minor forms of currency
as above mentioned, are included
"total paper," and the formal state
ment of the quoted value Of a paper
dollar in gold on' the first of July
each year is omitted. The compari
son places in strong light several in
teresting facts. - .
1. The bank carrency, alone is more
ample with respect to population
than it was before the war. The gold
and silver coin does not appear, but
forms nearly as large a part of the
currency and bank reserves now as it
did,in 1866.
2. The reduction in legal-tenders
since 1868-1873, when the country
enjoyed extraordinary apparent pros
perity, has been leas by $10,006,600
than the increase in bank circulation
since 1868. -
3. The nominal amount of the cur
rency, all notes included;though less
now than it was after the e Panic, is
actually greater now,- when the addi
tion of silver is ansidered, than it
was in the prosperous years 1868-
1811, inclusive.
4. The real .value, or purchasing
\power of the currency, is now great
er than it has been in any year hith
eitu- except . 1865, if paper alone is'
considered, and greater than it has
been\in any year if the addition of
subsidary silVer in place' of fraction
al notes is taken into account.--.N. Y.
Tribune.'
A LEETTRER 9 B SUICIDE ON VIE
STAGE.—A dramatic suicide occurred
at Capron, on Tuesday the 23d
init. Early in \)llay last, GEo. W.
Buniziou, who , was an old resident
of Ohio, went to Chicago, ostensibly
to start a barber-shop. DISR4 - 111
had a fine ethication, and was versa
tile in- conversation, Last Sunday
he published a card, infOrming the
citizens that, in order to gratify an
often-expressed curiosity on the part
of .his townsmen to witness 'some
such tragedy as the hanging of SIIEIr
BY and CONNELLY in Chicago,
would, on the evening of the 23d,
inst., deliver a lecture , in- Thornton
Hall, and at its conclusion gratify
his hearers by shooting himself tier&
the forehead. The price of admission
would be $l, and the amount realized
should be used, in his funeral expen,
sea, and the remainder be invested
in the works of HUXLEY, TYNDALL
and DARWIN for the, town library.
His idea in ending his life was to-se
cure eternal peace by annihilation.
At the appointed time the - hail was
crowded, and, after the delivery of
an infidel lecture 6f wonderful power3 l
in a manner and tone which marked
him as an adept, be suddenly drew a
Derringer, placed it to his forehead,
and, despite attempts to prevent the
rash deed, fired, and fell into the
arms of two friends who 'were on the
wings of the stage:for the purpose of
hindering the execution of the design.
The large-sixed linnet literally tare
his brain to pieces. Ile left a request
that his body be forwarded to Cin
cinnatifriends.
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'l:4 ,- .'T_iiizniii THE itsitii: - !---
~-,,i• -
*mei Oliebboasinespenot en _
Itaxsait Clxx, July Si, IsTa. .
litario or jwie . Itmeotirmi,:—l my last
letter I Wrote that we ware resting , a few
data_ !a ; Kansas our t Mb. ' We- are still
hare, l t and shall. -probably 'remain. some
time. It is' - certainly a lively, - thrifty,
business place ; it numbers 'over forty ,
thomnind . inhabitants, of which six thefts
and atc . negmes, who are largely employ
edln hotels" and private - families—white
help is very scarce.
There are Many - elegant residences
hem ; the building material used. is prin
cipally brick, for, which article there is at
present 'a great '.demand. . :'Thenty-five
brick yards running day and night, aver
aging from one and one-half to two mil
lion bricks per week, aro , unable to sup
ply the demand. ' •
There are two ininiense 'packing houses
here. During the year 18'17 ' there were
1130,357 bogs packed, and 27,863 cattle.
1 One of these houses kiU lire thousand
hogs, and one thousand head'of cattle , per
day. •
The receipts oT grain at this' point are
very large—aline of barges has recently
been established on the .Missouri river be
tween this place and. St. - Lids for the
transportation of grai. • '
There are several large wholesale houses
here' embracing all the different branches
of trade ; there are two extensive retail
dry-goods stores here that remind one of,
Stewart's Iu New-York, or Wanamaker's
in Philadelphia. Buiiiness seems every
where brisk ; " hard times" are unknown.
It is impossible to find a house to rent,
and almost as hard to find board. The
Pikes of merchandise and provision rate
at about the same as in the east. -
•• Kansas City is the groat railroad cen
tre of the West—there being about four
teen differeut lines diverging , from this
place ; one of the most importantof these
is the Kansas Pacific, winch own large
portions d valvablo laud, which they.of
fer to settlers upon liberal terms. Per
sons desiring to purchase western land
would be wise to examine this territory
before looking elsewhere.
conclude by saying that Kansas
City bids fair to compete with aliy eastern
city in less than ten years. It is i impossi-
He to realize that it is 1,300 miles from
.Towanda. Ity next "occasional'? will be
dated from a point farther west.
E. B. M.
Tanga. prisoners recently escaped from
Sing Sing.
. . ,
Tim coin balcnce in the Treasury is
steadily increasing.-
HARUS trotted the three fastest heats on
record at Cleveland 'Saturday.
A. shark eight feet long, was caught at
Ocean Beach, N. J., on Friday; -
Tins year's harvest in Nebraska will be
the largest ever gathered in that State..
Fouir per cents to the
,amount of $ll3,-
000,000 have been sold within five months. -
' NEW TOE K city last week: had 732
deaths, 520 births, and 111 marriages.
ItErouTs of the Kansas crops show that
increaseq,acreage will give an immense
grain yield.
' A 'Massachusetts girl has taken a con
tract to kill potato bugs' at 2 cents a thous
and.
kt:30,001?,000 of • 6 per cents have been re
called by the government to be invested
in. 4 per - cents.
Loup DuFFEntn, Canada's Governor
General, leaves for England, September
2Sth. •
THE President has signed the cammis
sion of Gen. Badger, as postmaster at
New Orleans. .
SE'VEWAL foreign gm-el-Tents have auth
orized their, Anibassadors to ratify . ,the
Treaty of Berlin.
' 1r is stated that Newgate prisbn is to
be shortly demolished, and the' ground
let for a building site.
THE marine authorities at Trie4e offi
cially announce that the port of Kick has
been closed by torpedoes.
Onld.
V'alne
207.,102.177.
20z005.7871
&13.132,079 j
619.897,283 ,
833.716,084
931,319„686
891.904,686
720,41;603
693416,037
700,373,999
717,873,751
733,670,004
750,062,369
.791,490,916
773,616.729
738 , 376 ,3 36
691 1 .191470
693,297,7.73
,_207.102.477
1 . 202,003,767
. .388,789,534Y
497 798,3.19'
3=:5 1 49,247
893.7.52.815
588,657,093
892.990.783
1505,069,:35
810,00,332
*599,521,770
838,909,418
649.240.3411
648,053.887
7i1,1311,734
t 474.819,947
860.817,090
861,1159.974
4.44.40 c 32
Cosolcusssrm: Sicinrnatt's has been re
nominated by the democracy of the gec
ondiArkanSas district.
A clondzburst in Dakota' last ...Monday
submerged a WO section of the country
and drowned seven persons.
311NNESOTA'S Wheat drop is reported to
be much larger thaa - of lastyear, notwith
standing the recent storm.
1r is said morg miles of railroad will be
eoustritetedin'Colorado this year than iu .
any uther State in the Union.
Tun Army Commission is still in session
at the White Salpher Springs, but has re
fused to tell what they are doing.
- - THE Massachnsetts Republicans hold
ther convention to nominate State officers
at Worcester September ltith.
TuN Nevada Bank has stiblieribed for
1,250,000 of the new four per cents, pay.
able in standard silver dollars.
Tint encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic, at Gettysburg, Pa., was
formally .broken up Saturday morning.
.1 M} GORDON 13r.:51.:Frr Esq.,
Proprie
.tor of the Iferalti has, returned from Ed
rope after au absence of over a year.
Jottli B. GOLTGR'S friend gave him
a reception in the Collegc • Gardens at
Weittnister, on his arrival in
RF.v.`At.nEur I3a iNEs' memory is to be
perpetuated by a stained glass window in
the Walnut-street Presbyterian Church. '.
IT is said Peter. Coopeisthinks that
next after himself Ben Butler would be
Use fittest candidate for the Presidency.
EX-SECICETARY BEISTOIT is to 'visit
Newport, R. 1., next month, and . there
will be au informal Meeting there of s li me
of his political friends.
,
WALTER H. SHUPE; the - NOW lora
Greenback leader, was held-Saturda , as
a judgement debtor. Ho swears he isn't
worth a eon.
SCITEPPI?,II;4 it of Philadephia, have
Arranged with , their' creditors and:will
continue bush ess. They 'employ 1,600
men, women ard children. • I
••
Tim eldest bity of Mr. Ewing, of Belle..
ville ' N. J., was gofed to' deathly a cow
Thursday. 'llia family lost three children
by drowning, tree weeks ago. ,
iSram„Eir, thAfrican explorer, gave a
ii
dinner in Paris • Wednesday. to his
Ainericau and !French friends, The af
fair is said to have been a brilliant one.
TILE Second !Assistant POstmaster non
end has been engaged for the past week,
in assigning. contracts for carrying the
Mails throughout the United States.
..Mus. W. IL BIIISTOI„ nee Fannie lifur
dette, the dwarf 'with Forebangh's circus
peve birth to a child ,weighing eight
ounds. Themother weighs fifty pounds.
IVOIIN'AEN love iornmenced the founda
tion of the new Bureau of engraving and
Prihting building at the Capital, 1 for
which ;7.'300,000 was appropriated by Con
gress. • ,
A Vienna dispatch reports the &humla
was surrounded by the turks July 20..
Fazli l'asha only consented to • eracute
the fortress after consulting with Minister
Layard.
A private telegram from Trieste an
nounces that the Austrian Loyds' Steam-
Ship Company has arranged' fur a weekly
`steamer service to Cyprus hy- the way of
Alexandria. •
Tat. Porto had decided to give the
Gks the territory from Zagora to MagT
ritte.\ This includes Vole and Pbarsala,
but not Tricale or J'anina. Negotiations
ate proCeeding. , .
A Boudiarest dispatch states tha Cap
tahr GrCenthe American military attache
has received , the drder or St. Vladimir for
the passage, of the Balkans with General
ti
a uorko. , ' • i
..
- THE French caderg of Science has
presented the of . Brown-Seguard
as a candidate for tbe Chair of Medicine
made vacant up the death of M. Claude
Bernard. \ .
•
Santana liftman, a Iliebmond_miser,
loft $850.000 as• an eridownment 'for a
school for the education Of one hundred
poor children of Albemarle, county, Vir.
1 gima , - 1 •
Trim Customs authorith
have made a sizure of um
and Jelvehy, on theAtaatn
valued at $J$4O, beloidging
gd Davis, of Montreal'. •
1)41. Join VitoibliT,
Sunday-school worker, is ju.
fife and in splendid health . ispo . ssessed
of a :handsome and 'expansive forchrat,
:with'it keen, inquiring, but pleasing eye,
well.curved . features, a whining- and gen
ial
t deep, sonorous video, and gen
eni/ly shapely physique.
GLEANINGS
Mna. VOL NEwntr, nee Miss Mud.
Warren, the dwa r f,. died in giting.tarth
to a child last weak. The deeeStett Wolk
27 years old. The child weighed 0 litnflidfe
and was dead. _ :4
_ .
A Constantinople 'dispatch :save final
instructions havo bans. sentto Coratheo•
dori Pasha to agree .to a continuance of
Bosnia and lierzegovinia until security
and order are restored. -
A Bronson Alautt, "the New England . -
tiocrates," and father of Longa M. Alcott
is now neatly' eighty years old, and be
once said that his early education consist
ed of the "Pilgrim's Progress." •
'ON the 17th inst. an accomadation and
freight train of 22 cars broke . " through a
bridge over thei Tippecanoe river, near
Monticello, Indiana, and fell into the river
a complete wreck. Only two lives were
TIM= hi much distress in the agricult•
ural districts of Spain in consequence of
the drought. In Andalusia the peasants
resist the collection of the octrol and land
tax. 'Locnsts and the phylloxera aro also
very prevalent. .
. UNITED STATES .. Consul at Cork, in
dispatch to the Department of . State
says the amount of papOr mousy in circu
lation in Ireland is $35,000,000. with •a
reserve of, coin in banks of $14,206,589 . .
Paper money and coin are on a par.
Cola's,Vompany at Hartford, Conn.,
are now engaged in Manufacturing` a
double-action forty-live calibre revolver
foi the , :English market. • This is . a
favorite arm with Englishmen.:' The
Haling gun in being , improted at the
suggestion of French experts. •
join; P. Galax, •for many years in
charge of the•Stato Asylum at Utica, N..
Y., in the American Journal of Insanity,
claims that suicide. is the result of defi
cient moral education rather than mental
derangement. He says it is not ,an
in
sane,act, although an unnatural act. • _
THE Crown Prince and PKincess• of
Prussia, after the! formal signa4nre of the
treaty, invited the Plenipotentiaries and
their leading secretaries to Potsdam to
have a drive through the royal parks .and
ganicus, and to dine with them at Sans
Souci, the famous residence of Frederick
the great.
Tin: harvest in Nebraska this year will
be the largest knoWn. Tue wheat crop
will not fall short Of fifteen million bush.
els. The coin will roach fifty - Million
bushels; the oat crop fifty million bushels,
the oat crop seyeety.six million bushel,
barley crop three' millions, . rye. ono mill
ion:
STATE NEWS.
Tits Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin
eers of Altoona have disbanded. • •
Titit agitation of the new county 'pm
ect in Luzerne county is intensely lively
FIVE million .barrels of .oil are unsold
and ready for market in the oil regions.
• Tits cliesnue• crop. of Centre, MiI%HITS
Jimiatl and Clearfield
- counties pipinises
to be immense. .
• Tut: - Bethlehem ironworks five-resum
ed Operaions, with orders enough to keep
them going for a year.,
Alan. JONES, a pall - leer - in Carbondale
buried Ills thirteenth child on Saturday,
Ile has only one child left him.
THERE were one hundred andseventeen
deaths in Pittsburg last week,- the heaviest.
weekly mortality J im that city for two
years.
-,CoNsionnAntx anxiety, is Mt in. the
mining regions as to whether the Reading
Coal and Iron CoMpany will agree to a
suspension in August.
.'Fitt: venterns.of 'Wyoming county pro•
pose to hold their annual encampment at.
- Mohoopany on the second Thesday in
September. A.iine time will undoubtedly
be enjoyed.
•
'Tin; I;eard of :Indian COttonissioners
have awarded the contract .ror furnishing
niediciaal.supplies for one year to Mr. 0.
H. dadwin of New York, brothey of C. C.
Jadwin of flontssdale.
WENt:ERT, of Scranton While
in a ;:late of somnambulism walked out
third story window• - a few nights ago. lie
sustained injnries froni which it is feared
•
ho will not recover.
Fr is mid that the waters of the ,Laeka
wannaTiver are so contaminated by the
acids and minerals fram the coal mines in
its vicinity that neither nab, snakes or.dz
ards can survive'in them,. -
AT the second day's session Of ' the
State Teachers' Association, at Reading
there were present two hundred members.
Tile day was spent discussing-the labor
question. I The - next meetin,, , • will be bald
at York, the.time to be fixed by the la
.--
ecutive Committee. .. • •
HEN, DR. r.r.ras of Philadelphia will
deliver the address _at the Susquelianna
County Agrreulturaf Fair this year. Dr.
Willets is -a very ptopular speak-Er, and
will be remembered by many of ourxiti.
zees for the very entertaining• lecture he
•
wave here some years ago.
•
THERE is an old, unoccupied house on
the farm of Jefferson Jones, in Schvylidll
township, near Phcimixville. When Mr.
Johni'looked into the house the other day
be found the skeletons of ten sheep. lie
had missed them and thought that some
thief bad carried them Off; II: seems that
the sheep leaped in at awindoW and then
could not get back.
• TEE Sernton- Repr'ilieizi — r. says a &n_} of
counterfeiters are turninl,ont greenbacks
in that vicinity. Ibe , plate and material
employed in this illicit enterpi
..haVe
been manufactured in Scranton, Mid' so
admirably is; the work done that none but
those having the experience of au expert
can.; distinguish the differenee between
the bogus and the genuine bills.
&ME time ago four wolves esp Aped
froM the Philadelphia Zoological gardm.
They are now running loose in 3lohtgom
cry county, • and t'ht efforts to capture
them have, so farsroved fruitless. They
attacked a man who *as! 'driving along
the Germantown pike in Norriotown town
ship a few evenings ago, but he escaped
from Ahern before he WS injured, his
weapon of defence being a bushel basket..
Jolts SHt TF of:•Pliecnixville, has been
arrested by the coroner of Cheater county
fer the murder - of lienjantin Sterrett, who
was shoton tho 20th of June last. Ster
rett was in a state of intoxication at the.
time and attempted to get into the house.
of stint 4 for the purpose, as he afterwards
.
stated, of getting a, place to lodge for the
night. !Att.: Shiite, 1 believing that ai) at
tempt was being Made to burglarize his
house, became excited and shot Sterrett
as ho was retreating from the - building,
the ball taking effect in one of his legs.
THE REMAINS OF A MASTODON
FOUND.
STAULICCA,. Pa., July 27.—1 t hay-
ing been announced to-day that the
fossil reotainssof a mastodon had been
found inn cave near. the railway stii
tiOn at Mt.• Ararat, on the Jefferson '
branch of the Erie railroad, hundreds
of persons, both on. foot And, in pr
rjages, visited the scene. It seems
that some workmen, .while exeavat
st the point named, came upon
wriut they at first thought to be part
of the tusk of an elephant. It was'
taken to a naturalist.who lives in the
neighborhood' and he pronounced it
to belle tooth of. a mastodon. The
worlpilen at once returned to their
task; and nuderthe direction of the
-naturalist and an antiquarian whom.
tie summoned' from. Carbondale, the
search, wilt prosecuted _until nearly
the entire 'skeleton . of .the monstOr
was unearthed; and is now on, exhibi
tion at.the:opening of the cave. The,
jawbone is four feet long and thiiteen
inehes.thick; the vertebrve; twenty
three feet eight inches long; knee
cap eighteen inches in length and
nine and. a half inches •in width at
the narrowest point; thigh bones,
six.and a quaiter feet 10n.7,-and the
bones • from '.the knee to ' ' the foot
'seven feet in length. It isisaid that
the skeleton, will be boxed and ship.
Ped.to . the Smithsonian' Institute.
'boo
Ids
, .4 LABOR riotilhas.peen - nipped in
the bud in Washington by the arrest
atui iprotnpt imprisonment of the
leaderfi and instigators. The.prac.i.'t
for . th& disturbance was stile fact tliat
rtainlaborers saw:-tit to itorltii,:r
altar a day, and a lot -of loafeis
sOn s ght-to prevent them.
:
ral Otrielose at Many,
:•ireillitts-1110113 , Interestlair pc.
of the AMille.
Dr , N . SrZli, Col., Jelly
. 29. With the
aieeptio4 of. a few masses of eurmc
-100,43100s over the - rnoontains
.wards.' the north and westward, the
sky was , clear and the :atmospheric
condition s favorable for the observa .
tioni of the eclipse..- The bouse4ops
.were with people The tin*
of the. first contact was 2:20, Refaverg
.time, suadten miantes..later..the.lpres ,
ence of the moon at the edge of the
sun's disc was plainly.perceptible. to
the ordinary..obsexvers_with , smoked.
glass: By three o'clock -the 'sun
light bad moderated 'iCkniarked de
gree, showing a rale yellow color.
Later :on, aChirid: glare overspread
the earth. The . heat of the sun Was
no longer oppressive, and a light
similar to twilight was shown in the
horizon, and' light flecks, of clouds
began slowly - to dissolve, owing tct
the change in the- temperature -As
the period or totality came on, the
sight from .an elevated station was
grand: An . , extreine'dark shadow
fell on Lop g's Peak, seventy-five
runes distant, and sweeping rapidly
south-eastward, , covered the plain .
like a gray pall. To the north-east
ward the could - be seen bathed
in sunlight, ,rand presenting a viewrof
beautiful sunset. Placing the periud .
of obsehration, the moon appeared
like a huge black ball, surrounded by
a beautiful circle of light,lind as-the
- sunlight suddehly burst forth again,
chickens crowed as though morning
had dawned.
NEW OILLEAIIB July, 29.—There
Was opportunity.fdrobServing- only
a partial eclipse of. the sun, the view
being entirely obscured by theelouds
from 4:50 to P. m.
MAHON ' E,E;N. IL, July 29.—Owing
to the- unfavorable weather, no ob
servations of Ithe eclipse were taken
at Dartmouth Observatory.
LITTLE Rom, Ark., July 29.—The
eclipse was - plainly visible this eve
ning through smoked gleSs and even
with the naked'eve.. . .
CINCINNATI, 2 4 1 , ---Extensive
preparations 'were: made at. the Cin-,
einnati ObservatoiT to obsefVe the
eclipse, but theclouds
. obscured the
view. . .
I.TxrCS, July 29.—The.obScuration
of the sun by the clouds prevented
the observation of thecelipse at the
Litchfield ObserVatory, Llamilton
College. -
LiA La., July
The eclipse began at 2:45 r: 1. 31., and
ended at 4:41.. The total eclipse oe
curred.at 3:45 anA- lastettone Minute.
The clouds occasionally obscured the
sun, ',but the view at the commence
ment, for most of - the duration,
.and
for the last hour was wholly unob=
.At the moment of total ob
scuration, a Match had to be lighted
to note the hour on the clock. Mitt
- iag the following -minute a_pereepti
ble halo ringed the moon: the surfa'ee
of the latter. looking . like a blaih
steel. No perturbation was evinced
by the animals..
GALVESTON', Ter.,* July 29. A .
Fort Worth special says there was a
successful observation 'of the eclipse,,
It:di:en with tvsetity-six,' instruments;
securing notes Of.the - corona euspics,
of the moon and sum, and all con-.
tarts, but the last, which the heavy
clouds rendered partially a failure.
photographs were obtained:
The firSt contact 3:12-25. , The see-
M111,4:18-26. Third, 4:21-92. Forth
'5411-36: Washington- time. The
totality lasted 2-minutes and 42 see
.onds. " •
, TIKES PEAK ! ,Tuly-29;--211e &ism- 7
cations were successful. 'The corona
was traced several diameters from
the sun; anal seen for lice , minutes
Miter the totality.• . .
iWASIINt;TON r • July, 29,---On ac-,
c. not or - the chiinle,' . nn 'obercations
o , the eclipse were taken..
TUE Point Boy.s,Possznimms
- In the Se. 'darS 'of oriniddincr 'and,
labor strikes, people. are prone to
overlook the experience. of the'past,
and, to forget that wealth seldom -re
mains in the same channel; for.any
great length,of time. Let_ anyone
look around and see who the wealthy
men of to-day are. : - Three-fourths of
them began life as poor as the labor- I
ers who are to-day envying them.
generation hence their children may
be beggars. In an oration At. Gales.:
burn 111., on the Fourth, the speaker
hit the nail squarely on the head.and.
delivered a discourse which Should
be read by every. poor and labor
ing.
nun in the country. He said
-" The man who owns the Most
stores in tile city worl ed Out when
an apprentice for twenty - I ,lWe' dolUirs
.a vear, and clothed himself out'of it,
The most successful dry goiyis mer
chant, one of - our wealthiest men;
came to th s town. a poor. and-I.
'knew him. when he was a clerk in_ a.I
store: on Main-street at a small salary. I
Thelarfrest stockholder in tiM PirsO
Natioaa Bank, - and a manor hirge
means,: get his start by working on a
farm for nine dollars a month. - One
of the leading bank directors. worked .
as a hand when a young mim.oit
North river sloop, ..A- citizen worth
a hundred thousand: dollars, . who
started with nothing, learned to write
his name after he was fifty years old:.
One of the wealthiestlnen who walks,
these streets worked , as,ap apprentice
in a drug store in ,Philadelphia for
' Ids board and clothes;.eeme to P6oria
with nothing but his good mune, and
hired out aS a clerk. Ile soon went
into company 'with a. man-Who fur
nished 'ea,pital, and in a few years
paid.his partner forty thousand (101,
lava for his interest- in the establish,
ment. One of our wealthiest eitizeos,
president of a leading lank
started life On Cape Cod - With ii -dol
lar, and, has - earned,his own living
since he_waa'eleven yeais old. • Near
ly every director of the three banks;
. First and Second. Nationals,, and .the
Farmers and 1 Meehanies', started
penniless. There is scarcely an ex
ception. The president of One of the
banks told me that the entire:board
of .directors 'had- inherited $1,5,00,
The honorable Chief Jristiee _of thp
stipreine„conyt;of Ililhiois,,a resident
of this city, commenced the practice
of his profession
,in Knoxville' with
only $lO in the world. The .hunora-.
ble judge of. the circuit court of this
district, who 'has lived here - for-thirty
years, worked Way:through OA
lege and to his profession. i The coon- ty. Officers, judge, attoyney , , treasurer,
Clerks of courts and spent'; all start
ed poor, en. The presidnt of Kuox
College; from the time lie was - a mere
lacknot only earned his own living
.and paid (Or Ilia education, but assist
ed in the Siipport of his parents,','
eoRTLANIi, orogtto, w:ts l‘y
a tlestrtittive on Tt
$15,1100. . .
•
("JO - 2eofe
relateis this Incident:- "Sonic years
ago Mr. A. V. florist, of
Youngstown,_ was• anxious toOhtain
a. very,,rare plant, and wrote to a
number of the leading ntirscrytrien
of the country to obtain, receiving
uniformly the reply that it could not
be lied. lie then wrote to the Agri
Cultural,Depactment at Washington •
foOlaidatit,iiiit - big letter waS Lot
ianeweredi ",isNs2* , illieuUragWrlY 'his .
failuriisrbe addressed -43 ton.
himself, then Praidcytiand teeeived"
from
~a private;secretary
_a letter"in
which it was stated that the Trent, • ;
I tr
could not be procure in
Stata. This was some yeerii ago. '
Last `winter' Mr. LEwts received from -
Europe the Very plant he had been •
seeking, r with the :Compliments of
GRANT: It is really wonderful -
that - these things' should remain' in
the Memory of a man perplexed with
countless - public cares and beseiged
;lilt requests fur favors Of one sort
"
or another."
THERE are 4,000,00 dead letters
received annually at L the Dead Letter,-'
Office. ,
*Thice hundred thou Sand :without
stamps.
,1
Fifty thousand partially addressed:
Biz thousand, .no address.
• One and a bar million money
derS.and drtifts of money value. • .
Forty five thousand packages con:-
tabling pro•perty,
Forty thousand dollars in money
nine-tenths of which. is 'returned, , ,...
the balance remaining in the Treas
ury, subject,to application for four
'ears. -
Fifteen thousand photographs. ..
One-quarter of a . trillion-European
etters returned . unopened.
One-tenth - of all. letters received
contain property.
Ten.thousand apPlicatrons,for let
terrePorted lost; the great propor
tion found and delivered.
- - _
rovEnrk AND '-81.7FTERING. was.
dragged down with debt, poverty and suf
fering for years, caused by a sick family
and large bills for doctoring, which did
thein no good. I was completely discour
aged, until one year ago, by the-advice of
my pastor, 1 procured Hop Bitters and
coninieneed their , use, and in one - month
we-were all Well, and none of us have seen
a Sick day since, and I want to say to all
poor men, you . can keep your families. Well
a year with hop Bitters for less than.one
doctor's visit will cost, I know it. A
Workingman."
r IST OF LETTERSrediaming in
_Et Post - 0111ce ItradfOrxl Cu., I's.,
for the week eprting July :51,
Ifll I.3uni
Mitehell,
.N I
Spi-agae, Jul 4
.r,rmnts calling-T.4 any of the Atocire will please
say .. :Ldverti.e.l,7:4;lviDg ,:az r. of list:
W...t . 1.V9111), P. M. 0
MARRIED.
Wysea, at the resldeueo
of Ow brid'e's paretit‘,..lloy 21. Is7a, by the Itev.
lleury Ir. 11Iavn, Mr. Jes.se U. Smith,
m of, - East,
Stuilshorg. l'a.„ to: MIAs !Sarah E. Bishop, of
Bradfortt Co.
101..003111-11AV ENS . At the home of. the
Iffuto, July 2lth, 1.•575; J y lt.er. N. N. Ilitirs,
and ►ll-, .1. Harem, all'of
:Ulster, Pa.
TOW.iNDA 'AtARKETS. •
•
L.Ert , :rrED ra'• ENs LONG, •.
Geverat deate rain tkn ken Ova and P rodUct., Patton's
Blank, es.rner.Maln and Midge Streets.
•WEL) N Ea:DAY in• EN NG, JULY 3t, ts 76.
IsIIOLESA I.E. nuT 11,.
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5 7s 73 VOG
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41 67,; 15 :Of •
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12 O 10
Float' p2r l,ht '
raga - per
Corn Meal per trx)ll
Fred
Wheat, per
corn
Ity.!
l tat
I.3neks - h,3: .......
Clover
6•:‘, .
yfrit.
1)re.5, , e(1 bop
Ham.
S!r•al4. - •.rs
Larrl. .
Lotter. tubs "
• Rolls
apphy s
eoe!., per bus/01...
.otuctui
rtleesvrax
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GEE
Veal
De wr
TAlioNe
Wool
. - -
New Airorreeraents
BANNING'.3 SYSTEM
SPIN AT. PIZOT"fi, II) BUACE TRUSSEti,
. Pl LE 111:Af)ES- z, FEMA I.4..TITORTS.
.IFu.l ANNING, et Isi..m".Vork,frtfortussult orers
front s.l?lnat.we;tl;neAs and rut-ratan!: 1 drooping
irvak chew; holigesthi, trat ton, piles,
t ool tusplaernients of the female
sy,tout, that jn may he gratititOnfdy ron.lltint.for
a rt . V. - daYS., at - 31 r. PFITTF.S'. eu Main-st, for
th.ir 'pri.topt rellrf by means - 1.1 his srsteni of
.ke.; filch pace tong been sn wlaely used
the profc-o.b.a , :11 Europe, In forlorn
1. MiccieliA in female
' hat a .Vorzlo t.napor:u)" falfurc)
ha ror-rs to E. P. Alden,-of Athens. Oat fur
fds t.rce patophle , .. •
.•
I 44.• Are to ntate pobliclY Quit wbile I was fist
I 'Aid.: lug ;1;01 cripw op; down. utoler a' painful st•lttat
curvature atul 1:111111VIIL
Dr, I,v hln Spinal Props..
101,, p.,..1.1dr;y cie
to r”:o.•.ve lay Tatn, :nor ettunlo nu"to ito more
work :0 :k day tlmll count lit a month I.re:rim:sly.
ad wilfe rots to eoroollt
1/ASNAII HUNS.
No. 13 Smith Division Slteet
ra" Mt, BANNING 'IA at— 1!r. PETTES', Main
strc..t, Trman.ll, r 3. • • - 9wt.,
•
If you ~ .r••• a otan of t o sinew, weakened by the
• strain oryein duties, avoid rtlautlanheaml take
1101." BITTERS. • . .
If you are a man of iettefs,_toillag over your mid.
night work, to •restere•lrain and nerve waste, take,
lIOP BITTERS.
If you are yoang.and suffering from any intlisere.
tiumordissipatlort, take,
1:10P , BITTERS:
If you are married or slogfe, old or young, suffering
from umir health or. lurodahlng on a • bed .
' of farkbess. oBEe
•110 P BITTERS.
Whoever yeti aro, vt 4 3:erever you are, whenever you
feel that sour Srft - 0:11 heeds cleansing. toning
- ur FULittell!inii,*(ilinat tufo:ilea, lag, take
llol'
Have you ,Iyapsioda. kioliiry or isrliihry COM+
,Mont. diseine of the slonearh, bowels. b1" , 4,
/leer or 7acrt . ,,, , will b tuned IL lea take..
1101.' BITTERS. - .
Tryon are simply 0,114: are Weak and lovi spirited,
. try it ! Buy ft. Insist upki.o it. Your
druggist keeps , •
• HOP BITTERS.
•
•
It may wire your ilre. It has- pied hundreds.
INSURANCE. .
•
11l MX OF HARTFORD,
OFIntAN 4%.:%IFRICAN, OF
FIliE ASSOCIATION, OF PIMA.,
DRITISEI AMERICA,
CQNO.!:CTICUT,
VNIONcNIIITUAL,(IXI7),
NAILWAYPASSNNOERS,.(A.CCIDENT) .
TIIAVNLEIIS LIFE AND AtLIDENTS,
11 0111 MRS.
210 ,";:eial of the late
line of Nook Selaticeat havtiag lawn runsfuired
14. me. I ani 074. , 11, , , 1 to trait ui a genetal bout ,
ahrr ontt IntAiterts, tm reucmabh, tunris.
AlkiirAdtvorui-i, , ..1 . ....1 (orient.
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