U
padford Nepottet
E. O. 000nalcil, EDITOR.
Towanda, Pa., Thursday, July 31, 1879
FOR ETATS, TREABI7RIR, '
HON. SAMUEL BUTLER;
OF CHESTER COUNTY.
TI i.nsx refuses to open his bar'l for the
use and benefit of the Pennsylvania Dem•
ocrajz. Tlie prospect;of dividends is too
poor to justify the investment.
Tun prospects for another Indian war
are very cheerful. In fact latest accounts
would seem to indicate that it had alrea
dy commenced. We suppose that these
outbreaks will occur periodically so long as
the nobly red:rnan's untutored mind is
bent on scalps ixnd outrages, and the
~front
iersman, and the contractor can reap a
harvest Of profits.
THE f 'Dewing testimony from the Phil
, adelfibia-Retord is graceful, if ittspnusn
-lal and unexpected : "Mr. SAMUEL Brrr
7.En, of Chester the Republican nominee
for State Treasurer, is
,a gentleman of ex
-et:tient personal character, and one who is
not connected with any cliquv. The Re
publicans have done a good thing in nam
ing him for the position."
Du. Ls MovNE, of Washington Coun
ty, who has become notorious for his
views on cremation, and his practical ef
forts to introduce that plan of disposing
of the dead into genCral practice, has dis
inherited his son because the latter pre
ferred to have his dead d:i•iid buried in
stead of birrned, and has g ivto the inheri
tance of his son to Washington and Jef
ferson College.
THE Ohio Democratic State Committee
are said to be without funds, and cannot
hire or pay speakers. TtLDEN must eome
to their relief. By the way, what is the
.reason that Ohio is so very •poor about
election time? There is not much dif
ference alto parties, for every cats ciss
'comes from that State, the cry for help.
Isn't it about d i me the politicians of Ohio
learned . to rely upon their own resources?
Tit. New York Tribune says very sen
sibly "The Pennsylvania Republicans do
themselves credit by steadily advancing
the Hon. GALL:pIIA A. Gnow to the posi-
I
Lien of deader`. His bold stand for:hon
est money last year, when many members
of his party were wavering, has 'bad a
oreat deal to do•with big advancement.
_r
He placed the party on the right road
then, and its strength and assurance of
victory to-day are due mainly to his saga
cious leadership at that time."
.Toth H. GRANT has been named as the
Bradford member of the Republicaia . State
Committee, and a better selection could
not have been - made—for he is a live Re
publican, and will look after the interests
of the party with zeal and fidelity. If all
the members of the State Committee are
made of the same material, the flower of
the party in the State will meet when it
has a session. : F. C. Iloffrok, bf West
Chester, is the Chairman of the Commit
tee, with SAMUEL' F. BARR, s of Harris
burg, -and Cunt& L. • 31AuE.F., of Pitts
burgh, as Secretaries. • 1
Tuft trial of Colonel Marcum, in Ken
tucky, has resulted 'in his conviction,
and be is sentenced to imprisonment for
'life. 'Though he richly deserved hanging,
yet even this vindieation of justice is
smiefliing in a State .where human life is
held so cheaply, and violence and lawless
ness have gOne unrebuked. His assassi
nation of Judge ELLIOTT, because he did
not agree v.itlf the,Judge as . to the pro
priety of judicial decision, was one of
the . , st unprovoked and cold-blooded
crimes iNT the day, and Might startle even
Km -I . m ;:y compunity.
111 4 1:, l l ittow presided over the Republi
' can • State Conventiotr with ability and
gra4e, and was enthusiastically and cor
dially greettll by the members of that
body. The reception given hitt is an ev
detice of the estimation in which he is
held throughout the State, and a:deserved
recognition of his abilities, his valuable
public services, and his efficientlabors in
the Republican cause. He has had , the
honor on several occasions, to strike, the
key -note of the canvass, find to boldly ut
ter doctrines which the party has -accept
ed, and the peopl endorsed by their ver
dict at the prills. . .
OcEA:: Grove has enjoyed the enviable
reputation of being a place frequented by
good people,, and where temperance held
undisputed and undoubted sway. But
the pleasant illusion is now dissipated, as
Mrs. l i y:Tnitor, -one of the membirs of the
AVOinen's National Christian Teinperance
Union, openly declares that though there
are no bars or drinking places at that sea
side resort; yet the demon alcohol is con
cealed in the trunks and satchels of the
visitors,and that , intemperance thus pre
vails, despite the local rules and 4social
frowns which would prevent the spread
of tbe curse. The trail of the serpent is
everywhere. ,
BEN delights in riising the
01.1 ick generally. liothing suits him
better than - a - row, in which he can hurl
the bricks with which he is always loaded.
And then his great ambition is - to be
Governor of ' Massachusetts, a laudable
ambition ; but one which the intelligent
voters of the Bay State will not recognize
top! gratify. Not discouraged by previous
unsuccessful efforts. • the . General an
noiiii,:jes himself as a candidate, and.a
Chnventhin of his friends is to meet on
the f!cl day of September next, to .place
him formally in the field. If ready wit
And unscrupulous audacity could ensur
success, he would be elected, to the eyer
lasting disgrace of the people of Massa
chusetts. • .
THE Goiernor of the State of Now
York said to the Governor of the State of
Pennsylvania, that be would be pleased
tyltave PETER 11Enure come .into . the
Sate of New York, and explain to cer
tain citizens of Elmira some transactions
Whieh looked a little dqbious. as - to their
stra4,lliforwardness. Governor HOST an
swered that HERvic might be escorted
over the line into Governor Rotussores
dominions-but IlErne'shealth won't
permit him to make the trip-L -at leaSt
such is a reasonable presumption, as the,
parties with the requisition haVe - not been
able to discover his whereabouts, and it is
supposed that he is traveling for the ben
etlt of his health. -
',The indictment agai . nst was for ob
taining rivatey under false pretenses at
Elmira, and stay found last fall. It 'was
obtained upon thetpth of JOHN' AitiioT,
of ! the Chemung Canal Bank. Iliztanc
returned home some time ago, .after•a
pri:plonged absenee, and it is understood
agreed to compromise the Elmira matter.
Pailin ; :, , to keep hig word, the reguisitioa
was asked for and 4zranted.
A sr urgisa illustration of the wisdom
and safety of the National Banking Sys
tem is shown in the recent closing of the
First National Bank of Butler, Pa.,
which was a bank of $lOO,OOO capital and
'590,000 circulation. The Bank Examiner
'discovered that the law had been violated,
and the capital impaired, and he immedi
ately closed the Bank. Of coarse‘ - the
notes are All over the country, yet not
oneplollar will be lost to the note-holders.
Under the old system e the loss would have
fallen upon the public. Now the notes .
will pmai current, until ,they are redeem:
ed by the agents of 'the government
While the National Banks , may have ens
joyed unusual privileges, yet the people
have been thoroughly protected from the
losses which were so common under the
system of State Banks, sod are more
than compensated for any 'favors which
rualr have been granted the National
Banks. ,
THE STATE CONVENTION.
The Republican State Convention
at Harriiburg, was a harmonious and
enthusiastic meeting of the Republi
caii leaders of Pennsylvania. The
convention was presided over by
Hon. 6,64.ustiA A. Gitow, who, in
his able' speech, summed , up the
issues at stake in the coming politi
cal campaign clearly, forcibly and
eloquently. The nomination of Hon.
SAMUEL BUTLER., of Chester county,.
for State Treasurer, which was pre
dieted in these columns several weeks
ago, is one of the best made in this
State for many years. He is a gen
tleman of unimpeachable integrity;
whose high character, -ability and
popularity at once cowmandcd for
him a hearty support upon the an.
nouncement of his candicy. , In
nominating him neither th one fac
tion nor the other has won, fdr-ke is
- as well liked by the one as the other.
Indeed, it may be said now with en
tire truthfulneai-that there is but one
faction in the Republican party to
day. There are independent men in
it who will speak their minds upon
occasion, but the platform adopted
is one upon which the entire party
can unite. There is no division of
sentiment amtsng Republicans, now.
All are in favor of standing by re
sumption, of thwarting every effort
to foist fresh issues of irredeemable
paper or depreciated coin upon the
mountry, and unalterably opposed to
any tampering with the monetary
system which the party has estab
lished, and which is bringing safety,
stability and prosperity to the peo
ple. And upon the questions raised
by the extra session, whether the
National Government has or has not
the authority to - control the election
of the members of. the National Con
gress ; whether the results of the war
shall be overturned by the men late
ly-in rebellion ; whether the South
shall win, by its control of the Demo
cratic caucus, what it failed to win
on the battle field between 1861 and
1865. Upon these questions the
party is in thorough accord, and is
animated by the same spirit that
gave it the' courage to fight nullifica
tion and treason when they ripened
into ak open rebellion which shook
the Republic to its centre, the tri
umph of the Union arms alone de
termining whether free institutions
were to live or die. The Republican
leaders have plainly, forcibly and
fairly prevented the issues in the ad
mirable platform adopted at Harris
burg. The convention was unan
imous, but ilot more so than the
great Republican party which it
represehted, and the triumph which
surely awaits it in - November will
show .that Pennsylvania is as loyal
to-day as it ever was, and that the
enemies of free and honest elections,
of free speech, of- equal rights, and
of national integrity, can never per
manently control its destinies.
SECRETARY SHERMAN, in one of
his late speecheiP in the State of
Maine took occasion to call the at
tention of his hearers to the dangers
which threatened the country from
what he called the "Southern ques
tion." His warning should be heed
ed by every, honest and intelligent
voter. After detailing the good re
sults which had flowed from resump
tion Mr. STIERMAN told his hearers
that are qbestions of the
mediate future thataise above money
and bonds, above prOperty and profit.
There is the safety and supremacy of
the National Government, whichis
again called into dispute by the very
men who waged the war against us
for four years for doctrines which
preceded civil, war, the very doc—
trine of State rights which lei to war
and caused the loss of blood and
treasure to an etent for which there
is no parallel. ;They are again
coming up for discussion and deci
sion. The solid South . is made solid
by terror and Violence. The four or
five millions of human beings we
e z niancipated are now held in such
':error and violence that they are
practically deprived of the' elective
frant;hise. All that the solid South
wants is a few people in the North
on any kind of an issue to act with
them, and then, through their caucus,
they can rule and govern this country
as they tried to through a civil war.
The important question of the future
was the question of Southern domi
nation.
The Secretary displays his usual
astuteness in the warning he so
emphatically and earnestly utters.
The great question of the day truly
is the Southern question. Whether
the leaders in the late Rebellion shall
be allowed to take full control of
all branches of the government, and
thus achieve peaceably what they
failed to establish `by the sword, or
whether the men and the party which
preserved the Union, shall continue
to be trusted with the welfare of the
country.
To rale the nation, the South re
quires a certain amouintiaf support
from the North, and it is a lament
able fact. that she, has been able in
all - the put, to offer .such induce
ments for sycophancy and dough
make- 'such appeals tathe
gaibitiou still seleshness of &certain
chute of NOrthem ,men, as to keep
them itt. the party organization. The
mOst'powerful lever the South has,
employed to effect its purposes has
been the Caucus, as used in Congress,
Which has controlled the minority of
the Democratic party, andca.used the
indorsethent of schemes which were
obnoxious even to a-Northern Demo
crat. This rule of King caucus
makes the South potent in Congress,
as the Democratic majority is large
ly made up of Confederate brigadiers,
and the conservntive and moderate
members are_bullied and dictated to,
by the unrepentant rebels.
The voters of the North should
bear this fact in mind, that when
they:send a Democratic member of
Congress it is only one added to the
strength of the South, as tho North
ern Democrats are ruled by the
Southern majority in the party and
must obey the inexorable decrees of
the caucus. For - all practical pur
poses a Confederate brigadier.' would
as justly represent Northern senti
ment as a Northern. Demociiit who
blindly - carries out the decisions of a
caucus largely composed of Southern
men.
THE Legislature at the last session
passed a new Tramp law which is to
go into operation on the 15th day of
next month, and which is likely to
give a considerable amount - of work
to magistrates, constables, prosecut.
ing attorneys, courts and jailors. The
material portion of the law is that
which defines what is a tramp in
Pennsylvania, and What is to be done
with him.
.The language of the Act
is.as follows
•" That any person going about from
place to place begging, asking or subsist. .
ing upon charity ; and for the purpose of
acquiring money or a living, and who shall
have no fixed place or residence or lawful
occupation in the county or City in which
he shalt be arrested, shall be taken' and
deemed to be a tramp and guilty of a
misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be
sentenced to undergo an imprisonment by
separate and solitary confinement at labor
;or in the county jail or work-house for
not more than twelve months, in the dis
.,cretion of the courts."
The succeeding portion of the
,same section provides that if a man
can prove that he is not a tramp, he
shall mot be punished. If he can
establish that " he does not make a
practice of going about begging or
subsisting upon alma in the manner
aforesaid for the purpose aforesaid,
and in the manner set forth," it shall
be sufficient foi his acquittal and dis
charge. The second section is much
more severe, and is intended to curb
outrages which have become very
common, especially in the country,
during the continuance of the tramp
nuisante. — This section is of sal
cient importance to print entire. It
is as follows: •
"Any tramp who shall enter any dwell
ing house against the will or without the
permission of the owner or occupant there
of, or shall kindle any fire in the high
way or on the land of anothe without
the owner's consent, or shall be found
carrying any firearms.or other dangerous
weapon with intent unlawfully to do in
jury to or intimidate any other person 7--
which intent may be inferred by the jury
trying the case from the - facts that the
defendant is a tramp and so armed--or
shall do or threaten to do any injury,not
amounting to a felony to any person or to
the real_ or personal estate of another,
shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and shall be sentenced
to undergo an imprisonment by separate
or solitary confinement 'at laber for a
period not exceeding three years."
Succeeding sections declare that
any act of beggary or v,agrancy is
print 4 facie evidence that the per
son committing it is a tramp; that
any pkrson may arrest .a tramp and
take hitfi before ,a magistrate, who
may discharge or commit him ac
cording to the eviddnce: There are
some wise examples placed in the
fifth section, They are as follows:
"This Act shall not apply to any
female or minor under the age of six
teen years, or to any blind, deaf' or
dumb person; nor shall it be applicable
to any maimed or cripled person who is
unable to perform manual labor."
The suggestion that no female,
whether girl or woman,.shall be con
sider( , tramt<is creditable to the
gallm (Abe Pennsylvania Legis
latun declaration that no
mina age of sixteen shall
be lj
.4, prosecution as a tramp
is merciful ; while the declaration
that the blind, the deaf, the dumb,
the .maimed, and the crippled, shall
mot be liable to prosecution as tramps,
Must have a tendency to elevate
those classes of unfortunates to the
dignity of beggars according to law.
ALL United Stites -pensioners will
be. interested to know that = their us
ual biennial examination has been
abolished by the act of COLgress,
June ' 21, 1879. Heretoforl they
were required to appear before a
Cnited States examining surgeon
once every two years foF examina
tion as to their present disability.
Their next examination, would have
been due September ,4th, and every
two years afterwards. But all such
examinations are now abolished—
Congress, holding that it a pensioner
has been disabled by wounds or dis
ease since 1865, or the close of the
war, he is not likely to get any. bet.
ter hereafter as he grows older. Any
pensioned soldier who now wears a
truss and wishes the same renewed
on the account of the old one
being worn out, can procure a truss
upon application to • the examin
ing surgeon of the department for
eensions of the United States army.
The government has wisely decided
that - the st(ffering is entitled to this
attention.]
ALEXANDEH H. STEPHENS made
his annual speech to the Georgia
Legislature the other day, and sol
emnly declared that the dearest wish
of his heart was to see Georgia pros
perous and happy. He evidently
don't care anything for the rest of
the country.
LE ran naLazzatiA:
Putessmirmailw,v 51575.
The average city resident. torPoots to
assn thellotlovenoit.
m a k the civ ic goring
,tlt , Months of
j u ir e nit Awist,liut* is&jejr the pure air
of the nountir, or tbelnvlgarating breez
es at,semenea l sidi ilace of retort. This
Custom, which indeed Is al noit & necessity.
lists contributed largely to the multiplica
tion of Such places within sight of the
ocean, suid has built up quite( a number
of towns on the sandy beaches Of New
Jersey. The present season Las not been
favorable for the business prosperity of
the watering places 'as the heat has sot
been continuously • excessive. Still the
railroads to the ma-shore are Cs trying a
goxl many plasm:mom and the hotels and
boarding houses' are doing a moderate
business.
What a slaughter of the innocents I One
hundred and four deaths from cholera in
fantnm were reported in this city last
week. The sudden armies of the weath
er greatly inorease the TmOrtality from the
disease, though in some localities it is a
wonder that any children live in the midst
of so much uncleanliness and foul air. It
can hardly he called the survival of the
fittest, either.
The Pennsylvania Beilrold Company
has issued an order directing that all pas.
sengers as they arrive at their destination
shall make their exit from the front end
of the car, and enter from the rear. The
intention is to prevent cote . usion and ens
ble trains to get away from the stations
quicker than they do now. It is further
ordered that the passengers must remain
seated until the train .;Dines to a full stop.
The crew of the brig Shasta who were
down with yellow - fever at - the= - Lazaretto,
are all in a fair way of recovery.
The whelesale prices of quinine have
advanced fifteen cents per ounce since
Congress placed the articcle on the free
list. This is explained by the fact that
the manufacture wouldhe suspended here
and foreign manufacturers at once ad
iranced the price. It is not clear to the
Common understanding why the manufac•
turers here should suspend operation, if the
price is not lessened by the removal of
the duty. Probably the consumer will
never realize from the price paid for the
article that Codgress has legislated upon
the natter.
The India elephant "Jennie," which
has been in training for the past six weeks
at the Zoological Gardens, is nowporfect
ly tractable, and is carrying passengers
around the garden. The elephant stands
seven feet two inches high, weighs 4,000
pounds, and is seventeen years old. It
was feared for a time that she would die,
as did the African elephant, from the ef
fects of stones, etc., given them on the
Fourth of July, but a small dose of medi
cine—two and one-half- gallons of oil—
probably saved her-life. She now starts
from a grove of treesin the Southern end
of the Garden, where a stand hati been
placed to enable the passengers to get in
to the howdah on her back, and make a
circuitrof the lake, bringing the passen
gers tack to the starting point. She is
veryjdocile, and obeys , every work spoken
to her 'by Mr. Pendergast, the keeper.
The howdah is firmly fastened to her
back with a number ofheavy straps, and
is covered with red cambric curtains. It
will seat six adulti or eight children cern
fortably.
The imports from foreign ports at Phil
adelphia during June amounted to $3,-
111,809, compared with $2,232,885 during
June of last year. Of this amount $413,-
815 wore free goods and three-fifths came
into port into American vessels. The
chief impo4s were $1,010,000 of sugar
and molars, $189,628 of tin plates,
$202,603 of crude India rubber, $102,509
of chemicals, and $117,230 fancy goods.
The State Agricultural Society is now
arranging the details of the State Fair,
which will be opened on the Bth of Sep
tember at the Permanent Exhibition
buildings: The number of exhibitors
throughout the country .and Canada wino
have already applied for spaCe for exhib
its fully justifies the management in their
predictions of its being the largest State
fair ever held.
The headquarters of the Republican
State Committee, for the present, will be
at West Chester, the residence of the
Chairman. An early organization will be
effected, and the ball set rolling in such a
matter as to ensure the triumph of the
Republican candidate. It is only a ques
tion as to the size of the majority.
The dronth in this vicinity has been ex
cessive, and the rain of Saturday was very
welcome, relieving the apprehensions of
those who were prophesying au extended
dry time.
On Friday night two roughs named
George Mason and Henry Lomas, attack
ed an old man named Charles W. Colvin,
a Bradford County drover, under the
Pennsylvania Railroad bridge,. at Thirti
eth and Market streets, knocked. him
down and attempted to rob him. His
cries brought private watchman to the
scene, who p+sued the highwaymen and
effected their capture. Ono of them was
'wearing Colvin's hat when taken into cus
t.°4l3'; •
On WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAIWINGTON. I). C., July U. 1879
Since the adjournment of Congress and
the dispersion of, its members, there has
been nothing transpiring to interest and
still less to amuse .' It is true the variety
e howe, with their bespangled heroes,
clowns, columbines and harlequins, still
continue to cater to the tastes of the
amusement-loving public, but with all
their resplendant scenes and ;rand auxil
iaries of red tire and sheet-iron thunder,
they are in no way to be compared to the
great Congresssionalmhow which has just
;closed.
In theleft wing of the Capitol there has
all winter long been camped, an army of
Confederate "Brigadiers, who, intoxicated
with their new field of power, have not
only attempted to destroy all protection
of the ballot, to dragoon and bull-doze
the President into the endorsement of
their plundering and obnoxious schemes,
but have sacceeded most admirably in
turning our National legislation into a
farce. It is true that the arena was not
sprinkledrwith saw-dust, nor did the per
formers come forth in spangled tights,
yet the crack of the ring -master's whip
could be daily beard, and the stale jokes
and witticisms of the Confederate majori
ty placed it, so far ad dignity and its value
to the country was coneo on the
same level as any other mg show of
the land. With not a redeeming feature,
save its resolution. of adjournment, the
past session, if it maybe called such, may
be summed up as having- been not only
the longest and the tnost expensirob4ut
the . most disgraceful' one that has ever
been inflicted on the. American people.
In their grand march for absolute control,
month after month was wasted, a great
amount of the people's money expended,
the interests of the country disregarded,
every law and every'oarrier placed iu the
defence of the free suffrage of the people
sought to be torn down, giving ample
demonstration of the fact that the Union
loving people of the country (=not yet
afford to surrender the reins ofAovern
ment,\nnleas they desire to see neepleted
treasury, arithaitt*tit
recklearianisglititli* m ' •
ThOcCtiiii (4 of
Repubthin:*oo7iii -_thiONA•l
pretty, jot:at:evident* laa',lt(*iritka4*
mocraest regiad tin-civil ati toes *tern
which so many of our politica *ins
have advocated with so much Wacky' as
being such a good thing.. First . in one
wing " of Capitol endtbetrin thirteen
from the Okirk down, to the coal heavers
in the crypt, there haribeerraclean sweep,
not a vesthge of anything of w Ilersblicon
character has been left. The maimed and
mutilated Soldieis Who viva - theirantra
and legs as a legacy to the.country, prod
over whom was spread so much sympas
thetic gush, were made to gather up their
crutches and walk: NotwithstSndiag the
preambles, resolutions and protestations
of good -will so freely and so Prettily ex
)pressed, when the Proper time came King
'Caucus, with unrelenting hand; demanded
that they must travel. There was, doubt.
less. some feeling lingering' in the Qin
federate ailed of the consistency and tbe
eternsr fitness of things, and consequently
they did not want to present to public the
anomaly of a 'Union soldier being on guard
at a Confederate camp.
But:with this example and reiteration
of the old doctrine " tbetr i to the victor
belong the spoils," in Firma of the depart
ments of the Government the civil service
theory is still adhered tr'N'and the'estab
lishment of an aristocracy of education is
still evidently a- popular idea. _ In aerie
quarters competitive extitirinaticins for
place are still in favor, and the display of
a little• learning is better capital than al
legiance to party or to principle.
But the precious bantling which has
been so long nod so tenderly cared for,
and which during the past few years has
been so kindly petted and praised by the
Democracy, now finds no favor in their
eyes.. When the tables are turned a little
in their favor and .a little of the public
patr'onage fulls to their bands, civil ser
vice then becomes a horse of another col
or, and 'all of their professed lirve melts
into thin air. They_propose to imblazon
no such creed on theirlanners ; they pro.
pose to put no enemies in their camp ; in
short, they propose orgy to feed rind foster
those who are in full vinpathy and com
munion with then', 1410 humbly bow to
the same idol and devotedly worship. at
the same shrine. How much the Repub
lican party will profit : by the example re
mains to be seen. At the present time a
good deal of feeling „appears to be mani
fested over the fact of political m f atentities,
non-voting partite and rebel sympathizers
obtaining place to the exclusion of those
who have alwayp stood manfully for the '
right and have always been - foundw i t
r iling
th
to share e burden of the battle. bile
there is doubtless too much of thriehind
of work, for which our Senators andfflep
resentatives are responsible and no the
Administration, there is at the sam4 time
a good deal of exaggeration on thefother
hand, gotten up by a certain class o bum
mers and camp followers who are always
found blowing their horns loudly in their
own praise. _ But since the offers of peace
and reconciliatiOn so generously extended
have been as defiantly refused, perhaps a
little more tightening of the reins slid the
infusion of a little more discipline into the
ranks of the party might be of beneficial
result. How much in this way the pres
ent agitation of the subject willitecom
plish remains, of course, to be seen. We
very much fear, however, that it will end
'like the devil shearing the hog—in more
cry than wool.
The question as to who will be thc; next
Presidential candidate of the Republican
party is just now being much discussed;
Conspicuous among' those mentioned ant
the names of Grant, Sherman, Blaine and
Conkling. Each of 'these parties appear
to have many admirers, who discuss their
probabilities of success with widely dif
fering views and from widely different
standpoints. 'Unless it should happen
that during the time intervening between
this and the nomination the selection
should fall upon the dark borne, one of
the four named will doubtless be the
choice of the convention ; and which one
of the four is.the most popular with the
people and would be the most likely to
succeed, is the question which appears
now to be agitating the brains of our po
litical savans—Grunt with his reputation,
Sherman-with hill unequaled shrewdnesb, ,
Blaine with his brilliancy, or Conkliti
with his genius? The Indications at
present evidently are that Grant is ahead,
but the false step of raising his name too
soon may deStroy his present great favor
sufficiently to cruse him to lose the nom
ination. But the great enthusiasm which
appears everywhere to meet his name is
unmistakable in its meaning. That he is
in the hearts of the people there seems to
be but little question, and should he be
the choice of the nominating convention
there would be little doubt as to the re
sult. M.
REPICIILICAN STATE COXYENTION
H AIM] spun°, 23.—The
Republican State Convention met
this morning in. the Hall of the House
of Representatives, and was ,called to
order by Mr. Quay, Chairman of the
State Committee. There was a full
attendance of delegates. ' Lucius
Rogers was temporary secretary.
TEMPORARY ORGANIZATION.
Senator Davies nominated Louis
W. Hill, of Harrisburg, for tempo
rary chairman, and he was elected by
acclamation. Mr. Hall, on taking
the chair, said :
- Until very recently we supposed the
past labors, sacrifices and triumphs of the
people bad permanently secured the per
petuity, the honor, the liberties and the
constitutional rights of every citizen of
the Republic in fact as well as in law.
We helieved the National Union bad been
restored that the heretical doctrines of
secession and nullification had been van
quisbpd ; that resumption was an accom
plished fact, and that an era of peace and
good-will was at band. Alas, that these
fond hopes should ever be blighted or im
periled ! But no sooner hi our old adver
sary, the Democratic party, permitted to
become a power in the land, than the ban
ner of State rights (which they construe
to be State sovereignty) is again unfurled;
the constitutionatrights of the nation are
assailed, and the individual rights and
liberties of the citizen are trampled under
foot in unlawful and criminal efforts to
create and perpetuate a "solid South."
The same men and the same party who
from 1861 to 1863, in advocacy of the same
dangerous and revolutionary principles,
precipitated upon us a causeless and
bloody war, are endeavoring through the
present Congress to regain the came they
lost in the field. -A thousand thanks to
the gallant Republicans in Congress who
stood as a wall of adamant against all the
rampant schemes of nullification, and a
thousand more to that inflexible patriot
President. the bulwork of constitutional
rights. Having often imperilled his life
for the Government like a true soldier and
patriot, lie stands firm and proposed "to
fight it out on this line "- to the end.; The
Republican party and the patriotic people
of the nation have suffered and sacrificed
too much in the recent conflicts 1* the
liberties, and rights of man to abandon the
contest until the legitimate fruits are all
gathered and secured beyond peradven
ture.
After the adoption of a resolution
providing, or the reference of all
-Actions to the Committee_oa
1 • latforni without delbatapitOcol4
r e tad %-
o,..Uniog, ssnt e folLWl4gimold-
I l ii 4 A lll6 ' 44l e liik, thl *din*
` t irld# *tide ' - ed , ll i
' ! ileolviikTasit, *view oieuie ikiv•toi -
*mei atAitios Np_no ir sonnation
Am :thri Buisi Mb dui INK Housiime
emptiatleallyfeaftlitie taarisit WC the
platform adopted by the Ritpubliesn Stale
Convention at Lancaster lit-48 7 / 1 ,- 'gild
which was readopted by the Republican
State Convention at Harrisbuyg . in 1870,
whkb deiiiiiiidir"Renerfflieain officio ;
men with bales enough to know dishon
esty when they see it, and conrage.enough
to fight it.wherever they find ft."
J; Theo4liideolareat Mr.Volfiorit
of order ' and refused to entertain his
appealirem the decision.
Mr. Wolib" persistently inslated
that, be bad a right to demand the
reading of the' resolutions and Sena
toi' Cooper, of Delaware4nd Repre
sentative Barret, of Lackawanna, took.
the same . view. .
There wag considerable commotion
during'the discussion, and order was
restored through' Senator Cooper,
who moved that the reg u lation be
received, which was done.
Mr. Mapes, Of Venarigo, offered a
resolution, which. he instAted should
be read...
The Chairman ruled the gentleman
out of order, and further disorder was
preiented by Mr. Quay making a
motion, which was-adopted, that the
persons to constitute the Committee
on Resolutions be named.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
General Lilly, Chairman of the
Committee on Organization. present".
ed the name of Galushs A. Grow for
permanent Chairman, snd that gcn.
tleman was nominated by acclaim
tioh. Mr. Grow, upon taking the
chair, addressed the convention - as
follows:
GENTLEMILN OP VIE CONVENVON : Ac
cept my thanks for the honor conferred
by the vote just announced. I congratu
late yori, and the Republican party may
well congratulate the country, 'on the fa
'vorable auspices of the times. Resump
tion of specie payments brings with it
revived industries, and in place of the
calamities foreboded by the prophets of
evil there comes employment for idle la
bor, with still greater encouragement and
brighter hopes for the future.. What the
teachers of a new political economy de
clared a year ago to be a physical impos- .
sibility is to-day an accomplished fact.
The Democratic party, faithful to its rec
ord for constancy, repudiates, as usual,
the platfonn of its host convention. So
" the Democratic party, as a whole," now
believes, for this year at least, that labor
is entitled to•receive for its toil something
better than a promise of uncertain fulfill
ment in an indefinite future. There are
certain great laws of trade and commerce
which the rantings of political demagogues
arid.time-servers cannot change, of which
the most essential, in order to secure suc
cessful and staple industries in all times
of peace, is that the money used in
.the
transaction of business should itself be a
real value, or, for convenience, a repre
sentative, convertible, at the will of the
bolder, into real value, and that the stand
ard of that real value should be recognized
as of the same value by all who deal in it,
or in the commodities for which it is ez
changed4 Otherwise somebody must of
necessity be the loser by its use. A de
preciated or worthless currency is a rep
resentative of the destruction of value ;
of loss, not gain. The laborer who receives
a real dollar for his day's work holds in it
the representative of the value oia day's
'Work. But if he receives a worthless dol
lar it represents loss to the amount of the
value of a day's work ; so of depreciated
money of all kinds to the extent of the
depreciation. The loss by a defective
standard of value, like worthless money,
falls in the end most heavily upon those
who earn their daily bread by their daily
toil.
While the question of currency and kin
dred measures, which affect most directly
the industrial interests of the country, are
still unsettled in its legislation, a new po
litical organization is forced upon the
country in the attempt to revive some of
the old theories of nullification and seces
sion, and thus the people are called upon
to settle at the ballot-box and in the forum
questions which everybody bad a right to
suppose were dually settled in the field.
Is there to be no end to controversy ? Is
nothing ever to be regarded as finally set
tled ? Did the ballot-box in eighteen hun
dred and sixty, after fifty years of heated
discussion, settle nothing? Did the sword
in one of the most gigantic wars of history
settle nothing, unless it be to clothe the
'vanquished with power and authority to
make their own terms of surrender and to
fix the conditions upon which the victors
may enjoy the governthent saved by their
valor? The logic of all wars, especially
of civil wars, if they have any logic at all,
is that the victors at the close of the con
test have the right to fix the terms of sur
render for the vanquished and to settle
the policy of administration which they
believe will best promote the welfare of
The country. And the vanquished have
certainly no cause of complaint if the pol
icy so fixed Applies, as in our case. to the
victors themselves the same as to the van
quished. Unless the sword in fonryears
of bloody conflict settled forever that this
is a nation, and that nullification or seoes
sion in any form is not to be resorted to
by any portion of the American people as
a remedy for political ills, then, indeed,
was it a useless massacre of brave men.
There are only two constitutional meth
ods by which laws once enacted can be
rendered inoperative : "the one by repeal,
the other by the proper court declaring
them void. So long as they remain valid
enactments, the claim that either law
maker, citizeia. or State can rightfully nul
lify them by withholding support, is but
a revival of the old doctrine of South Car
olina nullification. • While a - law remains
a valid enactment, it is as much a disre
gard of duty and constitutional obligation
for the law-maker to refuse the necessary
appropriations of money to make it effec
tive, as it is ter the priiate citizen to dis
obey it. The act in both cases is the same,
and differs only in the remedy. In the
case of the private citizen, the remedy is
in the courts ; and in the case of the law
maker
it is in the ballot-box, uy the repu
diation
at the lions of- a faithless public
servant and of the party that sustains his
acts. The advent of the Democratic par
ty' to power in one branch of Congress,
after sixteen yeais' exclusion, was signal
ized by their refusing all appropriations
of money for the support of the army.
1 And as soon as they have a majority in
both branches of Congress it it is claimed
that the law-makers may of right refuse
to apply the money collected from the
people to the anpport of their government,
on the plea that certain laws are unwise,
if not unconstitutional. This is a mode
of repealing laws not provided for in the
Constitution, and is revolutionary and de
stnictive of all forms of government.
This party begins in power in 1879 just
where it ended in 1861. It ended then in
an opposition to the army and a .refusal
to acquiesce in the costitutional forms of
the government. It comes back to legis
lative power, and begins by refusing the
necessary support for the army and by
making war upon the constitutional forms
of the government. Thus the war of
ideas goeson. -
[Mr. Grow here went into an elabo
rate discussion of the constitutional
relations of the States, indentifying
the doctrine of State rights with
slavery, and defending the paramount
authority of the Government - of the
Union. lie continued :]
The statesmanship that regards the
local community in which a man is born
or in which he chances to live Its wiser
and better than any other, is akin to the
self-righteousnoss that rejected the
Saviour of mankind because he came out
of Nazareth. In our political system the
doctrine that a local community is para
mount to the nation, is the
~child of
American slavery, and whatever injustice
there might be in other cases of visiting
the iniquities of the fathers upon. the
children there can. be 'none whatever in
this case,. for it has been a Pandora's box
of national ills. The threat of leading
representatives of the Democratic party
to undo all the legislation enacted to save
the Union in the night of its peril, with
out the consent of those who saved it,
and the still more violent and inexcusable
threat to withhold, so long as they hare a
majority in either branch of Congress,
the necessary appropriations . of money
for the support of the government of the
Union. unless their Particulatirtkolle
States' rights are respected, issitin tothe
threat made nineteen years tto;
stroy the TAW / Mita *hog* 10 .the
mode preseribe -10 . 1 the: .
should elect a Preillident iFf3ifeki Llnited
States not
_eptablie to*lii.iilThe
who vowed this/ E A/slid the clesh of
and the din of beets, thig.:whitever else
might perish it shOuld not be the free iii- -
stitutions of . their fathers, in the team°
spirit vow. to-day, Hannibal-like, at the
altar of their country, by the shades of
bidf - s million hero- martyrs sleeping in
early graves, by the sighs and teats of an
equal number of widows 'atitrorphans
sitting at disconsolate firesides, by ,the
heroic sacrifices of a nation mourning its
unreturning brave, that those who
wrought all this misery and woe shall not
secomplish;in peace what they failed to
accomplish' in war:
- •
THE PLATFOHN.
The - following resolutioni were adopt
:
kesoleid. That the Republican party,
Again forced to stand forward for the defence! of;
human rlghta, after a Struggle: lasting through
generation. And* Itself confronted by the same
-foes of Fedend unify, prettiest freedom and.
tuitional honor which it has KO of ten Overthrown in;
civil contests and-armed conflict. . .
Second. That Ire appeal to the Union-loving
ppople of Pennsylvania to arrest by their votes the
-mad career of the Democratic party, which Insists
upon placing the National Government ender the
dominion of men who but lately [,ought todestroy
it, and who are now plotting toglve triumph to the
doctrine they failed to establish In the field, the.
establishment of State sovereignty by- the over
throw of national supremaey..
Third. We declare our implacable hostility to
the repeater the national laws which protect the
Purity of the ballot box and secure fair elections.
the election of Congressmen and Presiden tial electors being clearly subject to national control;
any attempt to throw off that control is simply an
effort to establish fraud at national elections.
Bonen raga, equal right*, the unity 'of the
nation an the supremacy of national Government
in all matters place'd by the Constitution under its
control can be maintained only by the Betel:diem.
party, which alone Is committed to their defence.
Fourth. That the Deniocratic party having
,committed itself to breakup the Government by
refusing to ' appropriate moneys already collected
from the people to sustainthe Government, unitise
the ExecuUte sliah sanctien a measure Intended to
foster fraud, violence and corruption in the nation
al elections, and to impair the - constitutional
supremacy of the nation, deserves and invites the
signal condemnation of every law-abiding and
honest citizen. .
Fifth. That we are In favor of the payMent of
the national debt in coin, according to the under
standing between the Goverpment and tue lender
anti of a paper currency, redeemable In coin, e
congratulate the country Upon returning nayl. al
prosperity, and upon the accompllshment„eler
Republican national administention, of ' sac.
ceasfui resumption of :specie paymeuts./Our cur
rency is restored to its par value, the national
credit has been maintained and strengthened, and
the burden of the national debt largely reduced.
To complete what has been vtfll begun, we de
mand that our present Duane' !stein remain Ul6.
disturbed.
Sixth. That to the•Ypollcy and practice of pre
election to home induetri el
, and home production,
inaugurated and austained by the Republican
tarty, we are indebted “or the growth and deeel
opment-of our domeatie and foreign commerce,
-and for the pros roue Condition and strength of,
national finance and that to the. continuance of
that. policy mu we look, Ili the future, forassured
prosperity peace throughout the country.
Seventh./That the firm stand of the President,
In vindicating the prerogatives of the coordinate
departments of thetlovernment, meets the hearty
openers! of the Republican Party of Pennsylvania..
, Mgt.! h. We call on the veteran soldiers of the
war for the Union to Join. us in resenting the un-
Ju.t etpulsion of their wounded 'comrades from
°Mee by the Democratic Congress, and the trans
fer of their places to repel soldiers. whose chief
recommendation seems to be unrepentant treason
and unending hate of the nation.
Ninth. That we earnestly 'sympathize with our
Southern Republican - brethren, who are now pass
ing under the harrow of political persecution. We
bid them be of good cheer. Fraud and force can
not always triumph, even In a reg.on where fraud
arid force fluid a congzuMl bottle. If a solid 'Smith
now deprives them of their Just rights, a solid
North will not fall in due time to secure them that
perfect freedom which Is the birthright and in
heritance of every American citizen.
Tenth. That, the United States of America is a
nation, not a league. Its Constitution, mad all
laws made to pursuance .thereof, are the supreme
law of the land, anything in the Constitution or
laws of • State to the contrary notwithstandleg.
Eleventh. That the tribunal establishwi by the
Constitutiou to determine whether the laws are
made in pursuance thereof is the Supreme Court
of the United States. AU laws once enacted—un
less repealed by the law-making power or declared
void by said Court—neither law-maker, citizen nor
State bas a right to nullify.
Twelfth. That see pledge ourselves in favor of
such legislation as will prevent unlawful and un
constitutional discrladostlon of freights by the
carrying companies of the coneley.
Thirteenth. That the success of the administra
tion of the State ender the management of the
Republican tarty, the steady rrductlon of the
State debt and the enforced compliment of the
present Democratic Treasurer, that not one dollar
of the public funds had been lost or misplaced
daring the the seventeen years of item:drill-an cus
tody of the funds, prove that oflicialintegrity and
financial skill have been the benefits conferred by
our party on the taxpayers of the State,.,and merits
the approval of the people of Pennsylvania.
Fourteenth. Thrall/a heartily _volume the att.
ministration of Governor Hoyt aryl theistalwart
attitude of eenatot Cameron and the Republican
members of the Ileum of Representatites In re
sisting the revolutionary riders so persistently
pressed by the Democrats In Congress.
.•
STATE . TREASURES. NOMINNiED.
Colonel llooten, of Chester, then
nominated Samuel Butler, of Chester,
for State Treasurer.
Mr. Butler was , nominated by ac
clamation. A committee was ap
pointed to conduct Mr. Butler to the
chair. He accepted the nomination
as not so much a compliment to him
self as to the county which he repre
sents, which is overwhelmingly Re
publican. Lie dwelt considerably on
the course of the Southern represen
tatives in Congress, in view of-which
fact, he said the mission of the Re
publican party was not ended.
A resolution was adopted extolling
the, merits of the nominee of the
Convention, and after the adoption
of the platform the convention ad
journed sine die.'
A Heavy Storm
PH ILA DELPHI.!, J uly 2 7.—D Ming a
heavy storm last evening, the roofs
of several dwellings and barns in the
northwestern part of the city were
blown oft; a number of trees uproot
ed and several houses flooded.
RICHMOND, Va., July . 27.—Copious
rains fell hereabouts last night: The
long-continued drought is at an end.
Reports from various points in the
Northern and Southern portions of
the State, give similar gratifying
news.
Pirrsuuna, Pa., July 27.—A severe
rain storm passed over this section
yesterday, causing considerable dam
age to the property in, the surround.
ing country. At Irwih's Station, on
the Pennsyluania Railroad, the flood
was the highest ever known in that
vicinity. Houses were flooded, fences
and outbuildings washed 'away and
on the Sewickley branch road the
damage to the track was very heavy.
At Petrolia the greatest loss occur
ed,, twenty-five or thirty stores and
dwellings being washed away. The
Karns City and Parker Railroad was
damaged to the extent of $lO,OOO,
and the telegraph lines blown down
in all directions. The total loss will
probably be $lOO,OOO. On the B. tV,
0. R. R., at Gaffey station, a culvert
was washed out and the truck so
damaged that , trains cannot pass.
Reports of the same nature are re
ceived from the Monongahela valley.
No damag e was done in the city.
StcormDlsPATi;n.:.--Tne storm yes
ter,day, though not so severe in the
city or immediate vicinity, was fear
ful.in its effects in the surrounding''
villages and country. The principl;
damage was in washing streets - and
si4sialks. The storm throughout
the, lower oil country was very
damaging.. The oil towns of Petrolia
and Karns City suffered terribly.
Seventy-five housei in the former
place were swept away and destroy
ed, and the line of railroad between
Parker and Karns City was submerg
ed, 'bridges 'washed out, culverts de
stroyed and the road bed ruined in
many places. The people of that
section, in many instances, barely
escaped with their lives. The rain
fall up the Monongahela Valley and
along the line of the Baltimore and
Ohio. Railroad, which skirts the
Yougheioglienny, was the heaviest
known, fur years. Houses, fences,
outbuildings, 'timber and other prop
erty were swept away and many of
the coal mines flooded. The miners
in some of them narrowly escaped
drowning. At the Schrader mine
near Elizabeth, the men waded
through water to their chins. Nearly
all the railroad lines centering here.
with the exception of the Pennsyl
vania Central, report more or less
damage and consequent delay of
traffic. The only known loss of life
iskfar reported, is that of Mrs. Daly,
lito was drowned in 'attempting to
*Os a creek near Shaners station
o .the B. A:. road.. The damage
to 'growing crops has been very great,
hitit cannot be'estimated. At Irwins
itittion the rain -fall is reported as
seven inches and the Youghioghenny
branch railroad was damaged in
several place; the force of the water
being_so great as , . to break the steel
rails. Railroad peOpie are' - bardit
.words sltdireetions, and will have
the damage repaired - in' the shortest
time possible. • <
BitpCIEVILLE, Ont., July S7.—This
afteinnon, a terriffic thunder and hail
storm passed over here. ' Consider
able damage- was done to buildings
by lightning, which also struck a tree
on the American side of the river,
'under which the wife and child of
Geo. Hutton had taked refuge. The,
child was instantly killed in the
mother's arms and the latter fatally
injured. It is reporxed that. a man
named La Rocque was also struck
and killed on an. island a ,shorkilis
tiince up the river.
A Mollie Paidoned.
HARRISBURG, Pa., July P—Den
nis F. Canning, delegate of/the Mol
lie Maguire order in No umberland
county for years, and sei2tenced to
fourteen years imp4swituent in 1875
for conspiracy to / murder in Schuyl
kill county. was /pardoned today by
Governor Hoyt, in order that he.may
I be used as a witness against Mollie
Maguires unneeted with murders in
the min' g regions. The Common
wealt
/
is largely indebted to Cal
! nin for the conviction of Pat Hes
te , Patrick Tully and Peter Mc
/Hugh, who were executed at I3loqms
burg, Columbia county, over a year
ago, fore the murder of Alexander
Rea in 1869, and Dennis Donnelly,
executed at Pottsville for the murder
of Thomas Sanger in 1875. , In the
trial of Peter McManus and John
O'Neil, under sentence of death in
1 Northumberland county, he also" - gave
important testimony.
1
The Yellow Fever.
NEW YORK, July 29.—A special to
the evening papers from New Or
leans to-day says great excitement
prevails in this city over what• seems
to-day to , be a most imminent proba
bility that the yellow fever scourge
has begun its ravages again. One
case has already been reported to the
board of health, and there is reliable
information that four more will be
reported. Everyone who can leave
the city is doing so; and trains for
the North are crowded to their ut
most capacity. The disease has brok
en out in the same neighborhood
where it begun last year, the Gordon
,district. From this district;'a dense
ly populated one, the•fever originated
in the years 1853, 1867 and 1878.
G. A. R. Encampment.
Eat; Pa., July 28.—The Grand
Army of the Republic Encampment
met here to-day, - compOsed of .dele
gates from nearly all the posts in
Pennsylvania.. About 1500 have ar
rived, including Gen.- G. L. Brown
and staff. Gov. .11oyt 'is expected
Thursday.. The following oflicers
are quartered in the camp. Generals
J. S. Negley, Blakely and harry
White. The Philadelphia posts' were
enthusiastically received 411 along
the road. The Mayor and citizens
of Erie received all partieS on. their
arrival and conducted them to the
hotels, where refreshment were pre 7
pared for them. The camp will be
in full. operation to-morrow.
Lackawanna Politics
SCRANTON Pa., July 29.--The Re
publicans of Lackawanna county
nominated the following ticket to
day: For Judge, Alfred Hand : Sher
iff, A. B. Stevens; .Prothonotary„
Henry Sommers ;- Treasurer, Ezra
H. Ripple; District Attorney, E. W.
Simrell ; Recorder, T. R. Lathrope ;
Clerk of the,Courts, W. G. Daniels;
Register of Wills, George Farber ;
County Commissioner; H. L. Hall
stead • Auditors,. A. C. Sisson and
W. W. Williams; Coroner, Dr. Dan-,
iels ; County Surveyor, Richard]
Evans.
STATE ITEWS
FEMALE tramps abound in Erie county
BL AIR county• clips , 200,000 pounds . ,o
wool.
GOLD is reported to be found in teba
on county.
THERE is a lack of- labore'rs in Mont
gomery county.
LANCASTER county supplies the United
States with nickel.
THE corner stone of the 'tilt county
court house was laid on the 16th inst.
SEVEN yellow fever eases on a vessel in
quarrantine on the Deleware river. •
A builder's hardware factory on .a large
scale is to be organized at Scranton
Tim Greenwood rolling mill at Tama
qua has been unable to resume work on
account of the scarcity of bands.
A Imo potato crop. is promised in Ly
cOming county this year: The bugs have
done very little damage.
EEWARD DAVIS, a miner in the 3falthy
shaft near Pittston, Was killed by atall'
of top coal Friday.
A Two hundred and fifty barrel well
has been strut at Kinzua. the 'new oil
field a few miles north of Kane.
IN 1832, in Sullivan county, which
that time was a very wild region, a Ode
of - leather wag current at any store for
debt.
TUE Gazette and Brilleqn reports
enough improvements hi progress at
Williamsport to indif.ate business is on
the mend there.
- ON Thursday morning alittle bey nam
ed Victor Duniont fell into a basin of
water adjoining a plaining mill, at Will
iamsport and was drowned. " •
THE foundry and machine - shop of J. J:
Unangst, at Nazareth, Northampton
county was destroyed by fire on. Thur
sday. Loss, $20,000 ; insurance, $2,000.
PEACOCK Furnace, at Lancaster, sends
smoke heavenward, as another evidence
of increasing prosperity, and the people
thereabouts are hearth, rejoiced.
A HATTLF.SNAHE measuring four 'feet
in length, and having thirteen rattles,was
killed Friday last, at Field's station Ly r
coming county—and by a waman at that.
TUE Tidewater Oil Comp a ny, by the
use of stand pipes at Williamsport, are
enabled to load a train of thirty-three
cars at once, and all in a very few min
utes.
•
Ix is rumored that the Pennsylvania
company has iu contemplation doing the
express business on all lines under its
control, and' throwing off the Adams ex
press company.
Tomb LEin has a tamo trout in his
spring, at Spring Mills, 'near Monttinrs•
ville,Lycoming county that has been there
for over six years, and will feed 'from his
hand• a The fish is a very largo one, being
10 inches in length, ; .
JomeßnOitewiri - drbWeed 'hylalling -
down the Needed . slops, of. the - Keystone .
CoMem - neer Pottsville July 23d., Pat.
rick Kelly was t _illed at Thomaston coil-
'tory the day before by a fall of coal. .
CriatiNOT G. ClLtliff, of Plymouth, was
caught between two cant st the Dodson
Colliery on Thursday afternoon and re- .
ceived,hdtuies which caused his death -
an hour afterwards.
• PaILIP Macumixn, aged seventy.eigh
years and resident of Reading, a s
caught between the,humpers of coo can, '. 7
at Heading Friday . and instant! killed. '
He leaves a wife and daughter /
7
Tuir, driver boys of, till; ultquehanna
Coal Company, at Hanti k, have been
3
cm a strike several days 7 1
or an increase of
,•
wages. All work at,the minei has been ...--.,
suspended. Efforyto extend the strike
to Wilkesbarre have thus far been unsuc
cessful. / . : . .
A rum r dlipateh 'from Columbia,
,says tha John Zueh, a boy aged eight
years ad bah - legs sec terribly mangled
rum r
a trainyassing over them at Marietta, .
Friday afternoon, that amputation was,
necessary. His recovery is doubtful.
TLIII9Y men are employed removing
the, debrjWcaused by the burning of l i ar:
dee Had ? at Easton. The exterior of the
:budding! is to be principally of wood and _
stone, t he roof to be of slate and tin. The
building Is to be ready for dediCation
OCtieiber 21, 1880. ' , -
Onnxiis have been issued from the Ad
jutant General's - office for the inspection e
of the state militia, during the month of
November The troops- will assemble by
brigades, and if. the men select for an en
campment of three days instead of one
day's inspection, an - encampment will be
held. • *-
DURING a thunder storm on Thursday
afternoon of last week a number of men
took refuge in a barn at Weed's Mill,
near Trout run, Lycoming county, when
the building was struck .by lightning,
James Bastian and David Brosius were
killed, and several others were badly
hurt. The barn -apparently escaped in
jury.• -
Tui YoriDdily pews states that a few
days since an attempt - was made to ob.
struct the track of the Northern Central
railroad at a point a little north of York,
by placing an iron rail and also a railroad
tie on the track. 1 bstrnetions were
discovered fortunately, by e wide awake
engineer of a passenger train in•time tv
prevent a serious - wreck. The fiendish
plot to throw, the train off the track is
attributed to some rascally tramps who
had been . observed loitering about the
spot.
THE following are some of the evidences
of. increasing
. prosperity gathered from;
the State papers Friday : Six out of nine
stacks of Allentown- rolling mills are now
going. Business has so increased with
the manufacturing - interests of Consho
hocken and West Conshohocken that:it is
!mpessible to find any one unemployed in
-those places. - The Victor Noiseless Slate
Company, Slatington, Lehigh county, is
"using daily-390 yards of cloth and 180,000
feet of laces for' ornamenting' frathes.
The rolling mills at Bethlehem are full of
orders, awl working every day and night
in the week. The rolling Mills at bem
mler has. orders endugh 'on hand to run
three years. Monocacy furnace has. been
blown in, and the first cast made, yield
ing fourteen tons of the best No, -1 iron.-
GENERAL YEWS.
.I:lE,att. 11. WHEELER , formerly a . prom..
ineni business man of Syracuse; con.:
witted suicide by morpbiue Friday morn
.iug.
ALCFIER & Co., Manufacturers and im
porters, of Montreal, have failed f0r4750,-
000, of which. $515,000 is .due the. Con
solidated Bunk. •
-GENERAL DONALD MCLEOD, a soldier,
of Waterloo, died at, his residence, in.
Cleveland, Ohio, July 22d, aged 100
years, 6 months and '22 days. • . ' .
• WlLLi4ist Illscsa , for_thirty years one
of the .official reporters .of the U. S.
House of Representatives, died in Waili
ingtou .Tt,ly.2;:d. aged 51 years. •
CHIEF .ENGINEER EMSONS of the
States navy,. was stricken by
apoplexy atTortscnouth, N 11., on Thurs
day; andis 'completely paralyzed on one
side.
.1 A ItEATs rainstorm prevailied in Nash
ville, Friday afternoon completely clean
ing the city. It rained three inches in al
bmst as many hourl, flooding streets and
..
• I
SIXTEENnew cases of yellow fever arid
three deaths were [reported in Memphis'
anly 23d. Two_ cases of yellow fever,-
Memphis `.refugees—were reported in
Louisville.
RAINS in Northern Virginia Friday
have put an end to the unprecedented
drought whichlow r prevailed for nearly
two months and threatened the total fail
ure of the corn crop in large:districts.
. THE President - has•.appointed. Charles
P. Jam , m•Justice of the Supreme Court
of the District of *Columbia, in placeof
Justice Humphreys, lately deceased. Mr.
James is a native of 'Ohio; but has resid.;
ed in the District
.for the past fifteen
years. •-
Tux steamer City of Toronto, plying
between Toronto and Niagara and Leiv
ikon, ran aground in a fog Friday after
noon on the Catrada..shpre, one mile• from
the mouth of the Niagara river. The
passengers were landed safely in small
boats.
A FIRE in Emporia, .Kansas, • Friday •
morning, - destroyed Clark's .furnitpre
store ; Thonikk, Jones,' groceries ; ilul- -
mater, harness, and. .the building belong
ino CamPbell„ The loss is'
sll`,ooo ;• insurance,
,:ft1,500. The fire was
cayed by spontaneous combuaion,, •
JOHN Hattur.rr, a convict in Sing. Sing,
N Y., prison made a fariotis•4sault Fri
d. y updn Officer INlaekin with- a knife.
H then ran to the north fotindery, pur
sued by the officers, where be attacked
Keeper Good with a hammer, whereupon
Good shot him dead- Mackin's injuries
are not La6ribus. •
A TELEGRAM to the Chicago Tribune
from Fort Peck, Montana, reports that
Joseph Lanibert,.a well-known interpre,
ter, his wife and font children were kill
ed by Sioux, on the 20th inst. .7hree
other persons, returning with him from
the Yankton camp,:. were killed, 'and a
little girl taken captive: - -
. Tue - War Department has sent posi
.
tiyo instructions to Gener.4. Miles, now
•iimpaigning in the liorthwfst, to pro--
cced cautiously, and; if possible, avoid
conflicts with the Indians. It is under
stood that General Sherdian. has been
authorized to withdraw Miles' column,
or reinforce it, as be may deem proper.
PARTKTI,AIts of Lieutenant . Clark's
fight on Beaver Creek have been received
at Department Headquarters in St. Paul.
Two companies and, fifty scouts engaged
four . tundred Indians. Several of the -
enemy and three of the scouts were kill
ed. P. M. Hardman and George E.
Stant, - of Campany C. Second Cavalry,
were wounded. Scouts report Sitting
Bull, With SOOO warriors, on this side of
Hie - • • '