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WITH SUPPLEMENT.
E. 0. GOODRICH, - EDITOR.
'Towanda, Pa., Thursday, Dec. 25,1279.
CHRISTMAS GREETIiGS !
:A 31r.nnv CurunitAs ! to the readers
oc the REPORTER. 3 1 14 the day be one
of enjoyment and happiness, and, the
coming year be free from trouble, pain
and sorrow. We trust that in every
household where the REPORTER shall
come this Christmas Day, there will be
au united, loving, joyous family circle,
whose participation in the festivities o I
the occasion will softe l n and deepen their
religious and social ideas and feelings,
and give them renewed and increased
strength to meet the cares and responsi
bilities of life, and dOuble power to keep
the paths of truth and rectitude, so that
another anniversary of the birth of the
Saviour wid find ihem - better prepared to
greet and welcome the day, because one
more Tear has been' successfully run in
the race which shall lead to Ofigher and
celcstiat day of rejoiclng
The day has become in all Christian
limas an occasion for trthe most solemn
religions egka,monies, for the re-union of
fatnilie4, the re-awakening of social ties,
4 and for the interchange . of friendly greet-
ing and ftiendly gifts, which serve to
bind humanity for tho time in one com
inn bond. The Christian finds, in cele:-
bi ating the birth of the Savior of Mankind,
that he is_reininded of the bright example
Hof him who was all love and kindness ;
and he _celetivates in vain whose heart
full of , charity and Good-will to his
felhiw-men. The family circle is widelied,
:tml embraces those . who perhaps only on
this occasion have an opportunity to niset
(luting the,: year. While the inspiration
intl influence of these observances softens
the asperities 'of life, dissipates, tim gloom
.•f impending trouble, or steeps iii welcome
forgetfulness the consciousness of sorrow
ful bereavement, it is a good time to think
of those who are less fortunately situate(
and apon whom shines no ray of hope for
the present, no glimpse of the light of a
liappier borne itylie days ti; come, nor
A 'M' the consolations of perfect rest be
the grave when the weary cares o
Ide. are bid.aside
The luxury of- doing good may be en
j•yed to-day by every reader of the
liv.roirrnit. It is a luxury more easil
attained, more satisfactory and more
litAing than any other. it blesses alike
tllie one who confers it and the one With
And while thi;t day petal
MEM
with its balm of healing, its promises to
tlw future, its enjoyment of the present,'
its lessons of charity anfl benevolence,'
remember that all these gifts and blessings
are not for our own selfish enjoyment,
end that we are but the stewards and
tliit6iier's of the Diviue bounty and belle!
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PRESIDENT 'TATES is coming to Phila
delphia- this week to visit Oen. GRANT,
and will be the guest of GRo. W. CHILDS,
EStl.
(. 7 0(.. FORNEY will lecture at Williams
pint on January 3, WSO, on-" Some of the
Public Men 1 liave" Known," and the peo
yle-Of that town have an enjoyable treat
-in store for them. •
Tiu President• has decided to send the
appointments of Superrififi.s of the Cen
sus to the. Senate on the sth of January
next, when the complete lists of all the
Stato , rcjll he ready.
Democratic putrage upon the
rights of the voters of Maine, shows that
"`there is a divinity that shapes our ends'9
—and that " whim - the goes will to de
:.troy they first make mad."
Moony has converted Mon, the
't 101mqtell elowii,-and he will enter the
arMia as an evangelist. He rCan't make
thc.pulpit more of a 'circus than some of
those who are already occupying it.
Tue Lancaster Examiner has decide(
I to issue a Sunaqy morning edition, anc
lltEsTifin promises it shall contain noth
ing ail vicious or offensive nature, whicl
Is not thil case usually with Sunday papers
"LET there be light." Etitsoli's _elec
tric light, is nk,w all righF,so it is reported.
- .New Year's he is to illuminate Mento
Park, to ' : show it oft. It is promised that
it shall be better and cheaper than coal
oil/ .
HOILATIO SEYMOiIt dedilleS to be a
Presidential, candidate for the :Democ
rticy next year. lIC does nt t think there
is a general disposition to nominate him,
and if there was really he don't want the
11 , 1 M ination.
Hon:. JOHN SCOTT is brought out
on the Preititiential trirk by the Butler
!'flues, which propounds., the following
rd:iondrrim : -"Where is they a purer,
fi,7nier, abler man than lion. JAN SCOTT?"
anAwerri, where !
rv i t'often that everybody is agreed
tha , .. a thing i+lright—but all men of all
virtiea. are anitml in saying that the se-
CAmmto3; as Chairman
r.• P.eptiLlinan :Tational Committde
bav been bettered.
Trraikorer is at a lrAti what to do
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1:;aryl (follani. They accumulate
• li:stolx, an he can't get rid of them.
• no,r4-ceigit7 for a moment's ern
tiike them all, if
• 4 - ",1 s!rprfatl charges !
A t 7 pririv *lisp thinker that Senator CAM
4-4rnarA,ir, of the National
Fr5 , ...216 lotainAßA, makes a
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the
adjourned on Friday, until
the 6th prolime. There was a general
disinclination to tackle any business or
commence any political discussions before
the holidays. If Congress would meet,
pass the appropriation bills and adjourn,
the country would feel relief.
THE Congressmen who passed the law
making the silver dollar, don't like them
any better than the public. ThCTreas
urer has been paying them off in their
own coin, but they don't want the dol
lars, and call for silver certificates. And
yet there are still members idiotic enough
to call for the coinage of more dollars.
• SENATOR BAYARD is represented as be
ing quite despondent about the carrying of
his financial resolution through the Sen
"ate; The Derpoerats will not sustain him,
and he says they are losing a rare oPpor
tunity for regaining the confidence of the
people of the North by - supporting his
resolution.
IT Is SAID that the Supreme Court Jus
tices share in the reluctance of the politi
cians to meet the issue involved in the
greenback controversy, and that the,
BUTLEII-CIIITTENDEN test case i 8 not
likely to be allowed precedence over other
Cases upon the calendar. It is possible
that, being a. fictitious case, they may de
cline to considee it at all.
HErtmoyonrthe wearing of diamonds
haibeen in a great measure confined to
millionaires and politicians, now there is
a prospect that they will be so plenty and
eap, that they will not be worth picking
up in the streets. A chemist of London,
after many years experiments has ob
tained Crystallized forms of carbon which
Prof. TYNDALL and others do not doubt
are diamonds.
TICE body of the son of 111cCnr..triv, the
dry-goods dealer on Broadway, New York,
has lately been incinerated at D'LEmoT
NES' crematory, Pa., The deceaied was
a young man 24 years old, and left • a
written request that his body should be
burned. The ashes weighed only five
pounds, and were taken to New York in
a tin box, and will be deposited in a vault
at Woodlawn.
Two men sentenced to fifteen years im
prisonment for incendiarism in Sussex
county, N. J., jumped from a railroad
train while being taken to TrentOn, by
the sheriff; Thursday, prefering the
caancei of being killed to incarceration.
The train was • going at the rate of forty
miles an hour. They were shackled to
gether,.and being terribly injured by the
fall, were recaptured. When taken they
begged to lie killed, which request was
not complied with, it is needless to say.
THE MAINE OUTRAGE
The great outrage upon the elec
tive franchise and the rights of the
voters of Maine, vhicli has been the
subject Of anxious solicitude for
some tide past, has been co9pletely
and - thoroughly consummated". This
stupendous scheme of injustice and
wrong, which was so , flagranc,as,to
awaken the apprehensions and ex - cite
the condemffation of moderate and
honest Democrats has been carried
out in all its offensive details, until
the Colffitry stands agaSt and
shocked at the dangerous and fear
ful exhibition of partizan dishonest-3.
and daring. -
The shameful and unblushing
nature of this fraud and outrage is
shown by a simple statement of the
fact that on the Bth of September
last, the voters of Maine, in pursu
a•n-ce of law, proceeded to elect a
Governor and Senator and Repre
sentatives in the legislature. A
thorough and exciting campaign pre-
Ceded the election. The vote was
full, and there is no pretence that it
was not free and fair. The result of
the election as shown by the official
returns, was to give the Republican
candidate a plurality of 21.000 votes
over tihe Gteenback candidate and
46.000 over • the Democratic candid
date.
In the Legislature, by the official
returns, the Republicans chOse nine
teen Senators and the opposition
twelve Senators, and in the House
the Republicans chose ninety mem-,
hers and the opposition sixty-one.,
On the Legislative ticket the Repub
licans had an absolute. majority of
nearly fi,VOO on the popular vote..
This • was the result as shown by
the returns made by the city
and town clerks and immediately
made public by the l • Secretary of
State. When the returns were open
ed some weeks later to be counted by
the Governor and Council, they show
ed the same result, but these fusion
official's, conspiring with certain un
scrupulous persons, set about a plan
to deprive the people of their choice,
by discovering defects in the returns.
Singularly these defects were all in
the Republican towns. Access to,
and inspection of, the returns was
denied -t r he Republicans, and when
the crime was officially consummat•
ed,.all the Dbmocratie returns were
legally perfect. It is needless to say,
,that in the intervening time, it is be
-lieved that these returns had been
drefiilly corrected. The frivolous
pretests and petty technicalities em
ployed to bring abotit the desired
result is shoWn by Senator BLAINE
in his indignant dengiciation of the
outrage, as follows :—Here and
there an " I " was not dotted or a
" T " not crossed, or a man had "Jr."
left off his name, or the initial letter
of bis middle name was wrong, or
the ballot that 'elected him had the
name printed at right angles to the
narrow side when it should have been
parallel, or the signatures of all the
town olilcers, to the itcute eye of
i :aingle - Councilororitbout any—c r
evidence, were written in the Same
hand, or the total number of votes
was not filled out in the right part
of the election blank, or one ot- the
town officers :task an alien, or the
Selectmen were I>permitted to swear
away their own, return by ex-parte
affidavit, although they had once
. iiwprn the return was sealed in open
town meeting, they now swear it was
not, m the return of cities was sign
ed by only three- Aldermen, just se
eortling to the blank gent out from
the office of the Secretary of State,
after being prepared as a trap or
pitfall—tliese and numerous other
minor points of like value were free
ly used to - destioy the popular vote
and maintain in power the party and
men 'whom the people have rejected;
The result of the
_whole of this
pitiful and wicked pettifogging was
to change a Republican majority of
seven in the Senate and twenty-nine
in the House to a Fusion majority of
nine in the Senate and seventeen in
the House, with five Republican
cities. completely disfranchised and
denied by the Governor,and Council
the poor boon of a net election, so
that . Portland, Lewiton,C Bath,
Rockland and Saco de Ab s olutely
rendered incapable of -taking any
part in the organization of the Leg
islature, or in the choice of Govern
or, or in the election.of'State officers,
or in the original composition of the
House committees, which shape and
practically control legislation.
This unblushing fraud is designed
to seize •the State Government of
Maine by electing a Fusionist Gov
ernor, Council and State officers,
husYcontrolling the count of votes
next year, and by a repetition o
'the present ' counting out,' to hold
the State under-the biennial provi-
sion. In the meantime they propose
to gerryman'der the State by relis
riding.; to steal the Electoral votes
n 1880 ; to count in five Fusion Con-
gressmen• next year, and to pack the
Legislature of 1881, so as to elect
some one Of the conspirators 'United
States Senator.
The perpetration of this mon
strous crime has naturally aroused
the most intense indignation in the
Pine Tree State, as it has awakened
apprehension throughout the country.
Meetings have been held to devise
means for checking the full consum
mation of the conspiracy, but 'it
would seem that the rascals have so
cunningly devised and skillfully ex
ecuted their plot there is no remedy
by to wait until the popular voice
can overwhelm the perpetrators with
the rebuke of an excited and out
raged people.
Governor GARCELON and his ad
visers have made a serious political
as well as moral mistake. The Dem
ocratic papers see how it compromises
the party, and endangers their sue
cess;and some of the more honest
are manly enough to denounce the
wickedness. The World speaks out
boldly, and gives some excellent ad
vice when it says that conspirators
" have nullified the will of the people
of Maine, as, expressed at the latest
eleetion, on account of technical
errors and oversights. These errors
and oversights were committed, not
by the electors, but by the local can
vassers. The votes were in fact
thrown out on account of informal
ityin the manner in which they were
returned. There is no pretense that
this l informality was such as to leave
the intention of the voters in doubt.
The tenor of all statutes, judicial de
cisions and treaties which deal with
elections is that every ptesumption
should be made in favor of giving
efiect to the real intention of the
voters,. The canvassers in Maine
have unqtiestionably nullified the
real intention of the voters. There
is no dodging that fact, and with
fairminded people that fact ,will be
decisive of any controversy that may
be raised. 'lt is plain that the legis
ators who have thus been ,counted
n ought to refuse to serve, and leave
,he organization of the Legislature
o the Republicans who were elected
it."
Thoughtful persons will regard
this high-handed outrage with the
more apprehension because it is evi
dently the precursor of similar at
tempts, and an indication not to be
mistaken or disregarded that the De
mocracy intend to secure the control
of the Government by dishonest
means, or even by force, if necessary.
F-orewarned, is forearmed ; and the
people of the North should at once
awaken to the dangers whiclil threat
en. If the plan of •nullifying the
wishes of the voters of st+h a State
as Maine, can be successfully carried
out, what security is there that the
Republican candidate foi President
will be allowed a single electoral
vote of a State whose government is
in the hands of the Democracy?
Thee is more .6f impending peril
than is good for the future peace and
security of the country, but it can be
averted by such a demonstration of
the popular will and determination
as shall Check the traitors in their
treasonable and unholy designs upon
the rights of the voters, the integrity
of the ballot-box and the preservation
1
of the Union.
THE Philadelphia Record has the very
latest news about . the Presidency, which
may or map not be correct, as follows :
" A crystallization of leading Republican
Clements, as embodied _in the factions
heretofore devoted to !the interests of
some of the more conspicuous rivals for
the forthcoming Presidential nomination,
has been quietly effected in this city
during the past two or three days. The
selected candidate is General GRANT.
The movement , will be pushed actively,
but quietly, and without any formality as
a part of the prograrume. , The various
Republican State Conventions will be as-,
sembled at an early day, and the delega
tions are to be instructed for General
GRANT first, last and all the time. This
makes it morally certain that he will get
the nomination at Chicago-in June.
On of the State offices to be tilled in this
State in November, 1880, is that of Au
ditor General. In 1877, 3 . 011 N A. M.
Pissmonr., of Schuylkill county, was the
Republican candidatt. The Democratic
tidal-wave of that year carried Mr. Piss
moue under with the rest of the ticket.
lie is again urged as a candidate for the
nomination. Mr. PissuortE has many
friends in this county Who will agree,
with the Miners' Journal, that he is fairly
titled to a nomination at a time when
success is certain.
the United States Senate, on Tues
day,
, Mr. Yooltuss called up his resolu
tion ointing &committee to Investigate
the, cause of the exodus of colored people
from North Carolina t 9 Indiana, exciting
thereby a discussion as to the social and
political condition of the colored race, and
the cause of the emigration. Mr. Voonuss
claimed that his resolution was not in
tended as &party measure, but in order
to discover whether the colored people
has been driven from , home by injustice;
or induced to go by disrepntable conspire
tom whd had' deluded them by .promises
which never could be fulfilled. 'Mr. Him.
of Georijia drew a rosy picture of the
prosperous condition of the colored peo
ple in his State, and of their contentment
and happiness. Ho admitted that be had
erred in his old convictions concerning
elavory, and that half the colored men of
Georgia cheerfully supportefl the Demo
crats at the polls, regarding them as thiir
protectors. Mr: CONKLIN° was anxious
to know how the colored people had
accumulated property, because the
Democrats bad always told him the
negroes would not work unless compelled
to as a slave. Mr. Iniaatts, of Kansas,
described the condition of the colored
people who had gone to that State. He
had talked with many, and had seen none
who did not want to work, and who
had not come for protection in their
civil and political rights, and for the pur
pose of earning fair wages. Finally the
proposed inquiry was made goperal, and
the resolution was adopted.
THE North-American is not the official
mouthpiece of Senator OsAmmar, nor
does its reporters know more of the Sena
tor's,kiews and intentions than any one
else. So the folloWing may be taken with
as n.any , grains of allowance as pleases
the reader. It is from the Worth Ame:Ti,
can of Friday last :
Yesterday afternoon Senator J.•O. Cameronir
rived in this city from Wasnington. Shortly after
his arrival he bad au Interview with Gineral
Grant at the Continental Hotel. The Senator
stated that the contest for the Chairmanship of the
National Committee had been a friendly one—
more a matter of locality than In the Interest of
any prospective Presidential candidate. " Why,"
said he, there ought to be no doubt about our posi
tion as a choice for the next Presidency. We Re
publicans of Pennsylvania have hut one candidate.
and he is Grant. If the Convention does not agree
but substitutes Blaine or Sherman, we Will give
either .'hearty support. We want Grant, and pro
pose to : hare him If we can have him. If we fail—
but of course we will not..-all we ask Is that the
nominee stilsil be a man who Is as true a represen
tative of the Republican patty, Is he Is not as great
and as able, as Grant."
While the New York World has the
folloWespatch from its WashingtOu
correspondent :
It Is reported bantght that Senabar Don Camer
on is laying his plans to have the Peiansylvanta Re•
publican Convention held In February next. The
reason for this. it is said, Is that Mr. Cameron be
lieves the State to be sufficiently earnest over
Grant to ensure the election of Grant delegates to
the National Convention. lie sees nothing to be
gained by delay, but . the contrary believes that
first-class Grant boom, started Imrennsylianla
In advance of other State Conventions, will have a
tendency to strengthen Grant's- chances generally.
THE repeal of the duty on tea'and cof ,
fee was made in the supposed interest of
the poor. But the result has been entire
ly different from that anticipated. The
Secretary of the Treasury:has sent to the
Senate a communication giving the facts
which that body had called for with-refer
ence to the effect of the repeal of the
duties on tea and coffee upon the rev
enue and upon the interests of the con
sumer. According to the figures of the
Treasury, the crusade for a free. break
fast-table has been far from a brilliant
success. When the Government grit from
$3,000,000 to $10,000,000 a year from tea,
the price was from 30 cents to 311 cents
per pound. Since the repeal of the duty i
the Government has lost from $0,000,-
000 to $10,000,000 a year, and the price
has been from 24 cents to 381 cents per
pound. As to coffee, the facts are much
the sam e. . Before the repeal, the price
was from 10 cents to 11 cents ; since the
repeal it has been from 121 cents to 161
cents, and the Government, which prey-
lonely collected from five and a half to
twelve and a half millions a year, has lost
from eight and a half to twelve millions
annually.
SENATOR BUTLER, of South Carolina,
proposes to amend Senator BAYARD'S
joint resolution abrogating the legal
tender character of the greenbacks by a
provision postponing its operation until
January 1, 1885. This does not meet the
needs of the business interests of the
country, which would be beat promoted
by promptly passing the resolution and
allowing' it to go into immediate effect.
The idea of Mr. BUTLER, probably,
.is to
follow the precedent given in the resump
tion act by affixing a date for it to'become
operative several years ahead. The event
ual retirement of 'the United States cur:
rency notes, which is the ultimate object
of the resolution, would be just as surely
gradual, and without sudden and injuri:
ous disturbance, if Mr. BAYARD'S plan
should be accepted as it stands. -
THE election of Senator CAMERON to
the responsible position of Chairman of
rk
the Republican National C mmittee,
while it is a compliment to thi State, is
a merited tribute to the ability of Mr.
CAMERON to conduct successfully a politi
cal campaign. Bold, shrewd, experienced
and able, he is just the man for the place.
He will undoubtedly be :re-elected, and
the Republican. party may be certain that
nothing will be left undone to secure suc
cess in 1880, and that success once
achieved, no fraud nor force will be per
mitted to make that success unavailing.
There has been much speculation as to,
the significance of this election so far as
regards Presidential candidates. Senator
CAMERON is avowedly in
‘ favor of General
GRANT, but he was supported for Chair
man' by the friends of SHERMAN and.
BLAINE.
CAR it be possible that the Democrats
who have been fraudulently given certifi
cates of election to the Maine Legislature,
will have the cffrontry to take their seats.
I s
Imagine the canvasser of t 4 v tes of
this counti,refusing certificates to lessrs.
MADILL, IlutEigtsti and NICHO p be
cause there was a small number of votes
returned," scattering," instead of being
returned ' orevery person voted for. Yet
on such a technicality, the vote of Port
land was rejected; or to have refused them
certificates because, their votes was print
ed on paper a little larger one way than
the other, as was done in:the case of
STEWARD, of SkoWhegan, who had 320
majority. Desperation and dishonesty
wduld not go to a lower depth. •
Tale Rutland (Vt.) Herald, under the
head of " Victorious Cowards," alluding
to the temporizing of the Republicans in
Congress with this greenback question,
says : " The Republican party never be-
haves so badly as when it has won a
brilliant victory by doing right—it is
always scared by its own success. ,If the
Democratic party had the tithe of the in
telligence that they have courage, they
would follow the lead of BATARi) to-day
and rob the Republicans of the_initiative
of 4850."
Tun Philadelphia papers have' shown
an unusual amount Of enterprise in re
porting the: doings of the Quaker City
during the visit of General Gasiyr. The
accounts of the reception and the demon
strations
have been full and accurate.
The , Press issued for several days a double
sheet containing, ,`9B columns, nearly all
devoted to. GRANT', the sketches beirig by
the best writers. • But the News of, Fri
day afternoon distanced' all its competi
tors by telling its readers that General
GRAN morning ,
T breakfasted that at 9
oclock in the Continental hotel, his mral
consisting of broiled mackerel, broiled
chicken, mutton chops, tenderloin steak
with mushrooms, and buckwheat: cakes
and syrup, with coffee and tea .and rolls.
This important information will relieie
the public from any apprehension that the
General is in imminent danger of starva
tion. • If some Jenkins of the press . irould
now inform us how • many mouthfuls of
oach be swallowed, our satisfaction would
be complete.
The latest news from India hints that
the Afghan situation grows hourly 'worse.
The interruption of communication be
tween tie Viceroy and the commander of
the British invading forces is a very
serious indication. The live thousand
veterans now holding Shirpur, although
well fortified against the natives and
abundantly supplied with artillery and
munitions of war, may be able to main
tain their position, but the chances are
not favorable for any permanent conquest
of the country, evenif the reinf rcements
now en route from iJelalabad shall suc
ceed in overcoming the desperate effort of
Mohammed to arrest their advance. An
ignominious expulsion of the British from
Afghanistan, which, would be only a rep
etition of history, might imperil thti
Indian Empire of Great Britain.
Tru Republican National Committee.
met in Washington, on Wednesday last
for the purpose of electing a chairman of
that body, and selecting a plate for hold
ing the next National Convention. Sen
ator J.. DONALD CAMERON, received
twenk; -two votes on the first ballot, out
of forty-two cast, General AvEittu., of
Minnesota, obtaining nineteen, and
PLATT, of New York, one.. Chicago was
selected as the place for holding the Na
tional Convention, on the third of June
next. Tuoltss B. KEootr, of North
Carolina, was unanimously chosen SeCre
tary of the Committee. The vote on
which the locality was chosen, was : Chi
cago, 24 ; Saratoga, 1.4 ; Cincinnati 2 'and
Indianapolis, 2.
THE Legislative Committee,
I which
spent a good - portion of the summer
*months visiting the watering-places, for
the purpose of investigating an alleged
overissue of bonds of the State 'loan of
1853, have agreed upon a report which is
now published. They state that. after
taking considerable testimony, ani entry
was discovered on the fly-leaf of 'a book
used by Ex-State Treasurer lilAonpv,
which is a satisfactory explanation and
shows that the State sustained no loss.
This may be satisfactory so far jas the
pecuniary foss is concerned,. but what
kind of method is that of keeping ac
counts, which involves a transaction of so
great magnitude in obscurity ? The
convenient entry on a fly-leaf, is too thin.
PHILADELPHIA LETTER.
PIIILADILI•111A, December ?2, 1979
The lait week has been emphatically a
Grant week, and the end is not yet. -Fol
lowing the magnificent oration of Tuesday,
which exceeded in numbers and enthusi
asm anything ever before seen here, has
been a constant round of visits, receptions
and dinners. On Wednesday, General
Grant was received at Carpenter's Hall,
from thence proceeding to Independence
Hall, where a public reception was to be
held. Long before the hour appointed
for the reception,.an eager multitude had
assembled on the broad pavement out
side. By the.time the doors were.opened
the crowd numbered thousands anxious
to see the hero of the day. When Gener
al Grant arrived, he took a position at
the east end of the front of the table used
by the President of the first Congress
where, he stood .for an hour, shaking
hands with the long line of people that
were continuously passing before him
at the rate of forty a minute, when his
strength gave out and he was compelled
to stand out of reach, and the crowd pass
ed in and gazed at him as he stood be
hind the table viewing the moving -line
and occasionally nodding. At 12.-20 he
could stand it no longer, and he was qui
etly conducted to the rear of the Hall, es
corted to his carriage and driven to the
hotel. A great many people were disap
pointed as the }programme was to contin
ue the reception until two o'clock, but it
was impossible to carry it out. In the
afterneonihe . General listened to a per
formance of "Pinafore," at the Academy
of Music. In the evening Mayor Stokely
gave a magnificent reception, attended by
a large number of prominent citizens,
politicians, and others, followed by a ban
quet. The whole affair was decidedly
successful, and:L-Ims much enjoyed by
General Grant, as well as by those who
assembled to do him honor. During the
evening a number of tbe German socie
societies paid him the compliment of a•
serenade. _ A dense crowd gathered about
the house, but the police arrangements
wore excellent, and everything paised off
pleasantly and satisfactorily. At an ear
ly hour the General was taken to his ho
tel, thoroughly fatigued. It is a marvel
how he can stand the labor of this "con
stant receiving, visiting and feasting. At
Mayor Stokely's he showed that he was
completely worn out; and yet be seems to
be made of iron, and to impassively sub
mit to the attention which must necessa
rily become a labor and a bore. It is not
generally undistood, but. it is neverthe
less true,-that the' , General is practicing
total abstinence. Fot two years he has
not drank anything intoxicating, and
there is no doubt while he may miss tem-'
porarily the stimulus, yet in the end it
has made :him stronger' to endure the
great laboi which has been throWn upon
him. Forithere is no toil so exacting as
the life winch he is now obliged to lead.
The strain upon both mind and body is
constant and terrible.. Occasionally he
shows fatigue, but usually there is not
the slightest evldence.that he is affected
in any way by the constant incense offer
ed up, by the host of sincere friends, and
the army of satellites who revolve around
him, as they would around any other cen
tral luminary, in the hope of shining by
reflected light
On Thursday, the General capitulaled
and begged for mercy. A large mail bad
accumulated, and he desired time to '.look
over his letters. So he was denied to ev
erybody until three o'clock r. m. During
this interval he was seated at a window
in the Continental where his head was
visible from Chestnut street, and the re
result was that the street was filled with
a crowd of eager gazers intently looking
up at the window where thi General sat
quietly reading his letters. in . the after- .
noon General _Cameron walked into the
Continental and paid him a visit. The
meeting was a warm and cordial one, for
the two are fag friends. It will be reeol
leeted.that When General Grant was on
the Delaware when he:commenced his fa-
mow tour, General Cameron prophesied
that he was to return to-be again called
to take the helm of state.
Late in the afternoon, a committee of
the Grand Army captured the General,
and took him to the headquarters . on
Chestnut street, near Eleventh, where a
few minutes was speut in pleasant social
conversation, and smoking a cigar. In
the evening there wag a formal and en
thusiastic greeting to. General Grant by
the Grand Army men at the Academy of
Music., Meade Post escorted the General
from his hotel to tke Academy. le was
accompanied by Governor Huyt, and offs
cars of the G. A. B. The escort for the
General. comprised representatives from
different Posts, carrying the tattered r
mains of batilo flags
picturesque scene. When the; line of
march was taken up the street was illu
minated by vari-colored tires, and the
heavens were ablaze with rockets. The
calcium lights which were placed at every
block froni Ninth to Broad paled before
the great glare of the fireworks. There
was . onn continuous round of - applause
along the c wholci line, and the shout which
went uplWhen the General reached the
Academy, lwas deafening. General Grant
went into:the Academy and took position
on the loft side of the stage, whore he re
maiaed until.the time for his appearance
At nine o'clock the General showed
himself 'on the stage; The comrades,
cheered, shouted and yelled for the hero
of Appomattox until the building fairly
trembled. Major Gineral Hartranft as
sumed command of the Grand Army, and
made a brief speech in calling the camp
fire to order. Governor Hoyt then made
the address of welcome. The Governor
spread himself, and was equal to the oc
casion. He took the General around the
world again, and exhausted ancient and
modern history to illuiitrate the grandeur .
and virtu/ . of General Grant's achieve
ments. It is very evident that the enthu
siasm which brought out the -late famous
dispatch from the Governor has not sub
sided. He was followed by half a ,dozen
other lengthy speeches, until the -General
was in danger of being talked to death.
The comrades talk as well asthey fought,
and on this occasion they are excusable.
The presence of the Old Commander rous
ed the spirit of '76 in every valiant breast
and the pent-up Bunker IBM had to find
vent. Grant's response was a model of
good sense and briefness. It was an iae
knowledgment, of the honors paid him,
and the pleasure of meeting so many-com
rades, and a declaration that his experi
ence and observation had satisfied him
that we have a country to be proud of, a
country to fightifor, and a country to die
for, if need be. _
In the midst of the ceremonies Chap
lain Sayres arosp and announced that one
of the comrades), General' 'Robin Beath,
had been blessed with a child—a boy. He
presented him with a large silver spoon,
and' claimed the privilege of naming the
child on a vote of the house. The ques
tion was put and the boy was named
Ulysses S. Grant Beath. The General
nodded assent, and the christening was
was complete:
This ended the camp-fire, and the boys
gave the General the Grand Army shell.
Then he stepped out into the carriage,
took his seat, the parade forined quickly,
and amid showers of, fireworks and the
shouts of the crowd the procession_ moved
to the Continental.
On Friday, the Commercial Exchange
gave General !II - ant a reception, attended
by most of the business men of the city;
at which there was the usual amount of
speech-making, in response to which the
Geueral made the "greatest effort of his
.life," in length-at least, mostly about in
creasing. the efficiency of the . consular
system. In the evening a brilliant com
pany assembled at the 'house of A. J.
Drexel to meet the General.
On Saturday the children of the public
schools turned out by the thousands and
escorted the distinguished guest from the
residence of Mr. Childs, to the Academy
of Music, where there were appropriate
exercises. In the afternoon there was a
reception of invited guests of the city of
Philadelphia at the Academy of the Fine
Arts, and in the evening a -reception and
dinner by.the city at St. George's Hall.
Sunday was a day of rest, and must
have been particularly grateful to the
General, after the wearying round of fes
tivitities he has experienced.
To-day, (Monday), he visits Girard
College in the al ternoon, and to-night has
a reception at the home of General Pat
terson.
Tuesday is thai grand reception' and
banquet at the Union League. This will
be one of the finest gatherings of the oc
casion, as no expense has been spared to
do 'suitable honor to the great chieftain.
If your readers will add to , this formida
ble list the thousand private calls, for ev
ery conceivable, purpose 'the General is
inflicted . with, they may, possibly form
some faint conception of the immense
amount of - physical and mental labor re
quired, and the great inconvenience and
annoyance of being distipguiihed.
' The General will remain in this city for
a couple of weeks, surely until after the
first of the year. After the public recep
tions are over, President Hayes will come
here for a couple of days and will met
him. He will go to Jersey City and visit
his mother, .whom he is very anxious to
see, and will spend a couple of days with
her. Then be will return to this -city.
He will not visit New York city when he
calls onrhis mother.
When he leaves this city be will go di
rectly to Savannah by rail and there take
take, a steamer to Cuba. He will.remain
in foreign lands until the first of next
May, when he will return to this city and
proceed thence to Long Branch, where ho
will spend the summer. The General
may male OcLasional visits. to New York
city, and partake of the hospitality of his
personal friends, and.of la' few public bod
ies, but there will not be any popular de
monstration or ovation to him. .
The advent of General Grant has some
what dwarfed • the coming Christmas.
Still the shops are doing a fair business,
and the Christmas trees are' beginning to
line the streets. The number of trees
sold in this market is marvellous. For
days it 'seems as if " Birnam • wood had
come to Dunsinane," only spruce trees
did not probably grow in that locality.
They are brought here from far-off Maine
and are of all sizes and prices. f
The crowds in the streets during the
Grant excitement has proved a harvest
iime for the pick-poelets, although the
police have been imuSually vigilant, and
have arrested on sight,.all known profes
sionals, Friday, a miller named Watt,
drew-$1,500 from the . bank, and "went to
the Commercial Exchange to attend the
reception. While pushing his way
through the crowd-his money was • taken.
General Robert Patterson was relieved of.
his watch and pocket-book whilO walking
from his residence to the Grald Army
tamp-fire at the Academy of llus' ie; .
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The entire Maine delegation left for
home as- soon as • Congress adjourned,
and will be present when the Legisla
ture is convened at Augusta. Republic
cans here are in. 'doubt as to whether
their brothern in Maine: will submit to
bo counted out, without making strong
resistance. Both parties aro joining in
holding indignation meetings, and de
nouncing the action of Governor Gan-
CLEON and council.
An incident occurred in Congress
Thursday, which illustrates the, Demo
cratic methods of manufacturing pelitical,
capital, and of the success that usually at
tends them. Senator Voonnnvs introduc
ed a resolution to investigate the causes
of the negro exoduti from South Carolina
and other Southern, States to Indiana. In
the discussion wpiph preceded its pas
sage, Senator Windom, of Minnesota,
made au excellent ' spe - ech, showing the
real causes of the exodus to be, the niter
impossibility of the .negroes obtaining
their political rights in the South under
Democratic rule. Ile quoted from a re
port of a Democratic committee sent
South several Years ago to investigate
same of the numerous outrages upon lie
publican voters, which says "the. fate .of.
the negro is either exodus or extrbetion."
Seeing their mistake, the Democrats at
tempted to kill the resolution, b 0 it was
adopted by .Republican votes. We are
perfectly willing for the Democrats to
make all the political capital they can out
orsuch investigations as this, and recom
mend that they investigate the causes' of
the Maine steal,-,they might get sonic po
litical capital out of it. - __The f 0 exodus'"
This made a most
committee is Messrs. .Voorhees, Vance,
Pendleton, Windom and Blair.
The President ye4erday sent a special
message to Congress, calling attention to
the necessity of adopting some method of
draining' the marshes of the Potomac op
posite the city. This is .a matter of im
portance not only to the residents of this
city, but to all who come here from abroad
to spend the winter, as the exhalations
from, decaying vegetable matter causes
much sickness. It is to bo sincerely hoped
that the President's recommendation will
lie heeded in Congress and prompt action
taken in the matter.
Next Monday, is motion day in the Su
' preme Court, and Senator Edmunds will
ask that the case of .Chittenden and But
ler, to test the constitutionality of the'
legal-tender act, be advanced on the W
ander, so as to be argued at once and de
cide(' as soon as possible. It is said that
Secretary Evarts will appear with Mr.
Edmunds against the legal-tender act.
Congressman . Chittenden, of New York,
says he thinks influence enough can be
brought to bear on the Supreme Court
Judged to advanee.the suit on the docket.
HowA
StszEri thousand salmon have
been placed in the Buskltill. river,
near Easton,
ON Wednesday afternoop the first
car load - - ofJ slate iiassed over the
Bangor and Portland Railroad.
'ACTIVE operatioris in oil-well bor
ing are being made in Forest county
with encouraging prospects.
TnE Pennsylvania Railroad depot
at. Tyrone was destroyed by fire on
Friday tobrning. Loss $:4,000.
THE golden wedding •of Genera
and Mrs. J. K..Morebead was cele
orated in Pittsburg on Wednesday
STONER, MCCLURE Si.; Co.'s box'
factory, at Pittsburg, was destroyed
by fire on Saturday, night; doss,
$5,000.
-
.loroz MANNY, art - aged farmer of
BrOwnsdale, Butler; county,lwas in
stantly killed on Friday by the fall
of a gate. ,
'
TRE Altoona City Brewry, owned
by Martin Halle, was burned Friday
morning. Loss, .$.10,000, insured for
$16,000. . •
WA9UINGTO:4', D. C., Dec. 20, 1879.
STATE NEWS
CHARLES D.Hriu.ntr,a well-knoivn
citizen of Beaver, died instantly of
apoplexy in a prayer meeting on
Wednesday.
THE grave of Audy Tracy is
watched day and night, as it is fear
ed that physicians, will exhume the
body to examine the brain.
THE Huntingdon .M.U.s says that
$50,0u0 of the Middle Penitentiary
appropriation. has been spent, and
$50,000 more of it is available.
ABRAHAM BAnKL'Ev, a quarryman,
was caught under a mass of rock in
Salt Lick (Fayette county) mines on
Thursday last,
.and instantly killed.
Tun barn of Simon Snyder, in
Woodbury township, Blair
county; was destroyed by fire on
Thursday • evening. • Less, $3,000;
insured for $l,OOO. -
JACOB LA'NCHIE, or - Gleivion,; was '
beneath an ore dump on Thursday,
when the contents of a car, weighing
several ton, were thrown upon him,
causing instant death:
MRS. JOHN KRAMER and a young
lady nanied Young Were instan y
killed Thursday ofternoon by a p, s
senger train On the Lehigh - all y
railroad at Redington.
THE retail drng men of Pittsbin4
held a meeting on Friday, and it--
solved not to patronize any whole
sale druggists selling- . to Country
buyers at retail figures.
MICHAEL JENKINS was . killed at
the Koninoor Colliery, and Adam.
Martin'. at . the' Philadelphia Coal
Company's mine, both in Schuylkill
county, by falling coal.
A CAVE, said to present many at
tractive featdres as a natural curiosi
ty, has been.disf overed near Peques
Station, on the line the Quarryville
railroad, Lancaster-dounty. , •
It is not • improbable that Presi
dent Hayes will take advantage-of
the holiday recess
„to.make a call up
on General Grant in Philadelphia in
the early part of nest week. ;
AT Carlisle, Judge Hennen refus
ed a new trial in the case or Mrs.
Catherine Zell, and sentenced to be
hanged. She has been convicted of
the murder of Mrs. Mary
ANDREW LAMi'O, a 'farmer. living
near . Meadville, committed 'suicide'
on . Friday last by hanging. He was
depressed froth fear that a• suit he
had in Court would go against him.
JACOB Bov.Eit was instantly killed
and Peter Steinhauer" and' George
Race inju-red by a fall of top coal at
the Delo:zare and Hudson Com
pany's• No. 4 mine, at Pittston, on
Thursday.
BY the- fall of a " roof" of rock'
coal and slate, in the Pennsylvania
Coal,Company's N 0.4 mine at Pitts
ton on Saturday, David Laird was
crushed to death, and John Mitchell
badly injured.
A RAT that, was as large as a kit
ten, and weighed four pounds, fought
a Pittsburg saloon keeper fifteen
m c inttes before he was killed, - A
large cat was called in and was glad
to . get out. ! .
1,. THE amount subscribed thus far
to the relief of litifferers by the re
cent fire at Red, Rock is over $2,
000. A. meeting of citizena - was held
a' few days ago, when it was decided
to rebuild the place. '
THE Gre,en Tree . Hot 1, on the
PennsylVania Railroad, twenty miles
west of Philadelphia, has been pur
chased by the Railroad -Company,
and will be torn down, the new track
running.-directly through it.
MEM ANiftE WERTZ; 'living near
Harrisburg, was so badly gored, by
a bull on Thursday that it is thought
she cannot recover.
TnE daily average production of
oil in thO month of November was
57,016 barrels. The shipments thit
mouth- were . 1,453,645 barrels and
the stock' on hand, on the first of
that month was 7,793,634 barr,els.
M. Josreu VAN OItMER, of Mead
ville township, Cambria county, has
made' a log slide that is six and one
half miles in length. There afetywo
million logs now •Yeady for the 'slide,
and to be shOved into Clearfield
county. .
Is the Dauphin county court; on
Saturday, a decision was rendered in
faVor of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Coal and Iron- Company, , con=
firming the company's title to a large
tract, of land. known' as - the Wilson
tract, much of whieh' is valuable coal
land.*
Tai farm'of Mr. Charles Krauss
in Lower Milford -township,. Lehigh
county, has been quarantined owing
to pleuro-pneumonia appearing there.
Twelve out of a herd of forty-three
cows have been found to be , abetted,
and seven of them had to be killed.
'WEDNESDAY afternoon, at Frank-
lin, an explosion of gas' at the
Eclipse Ltibricating Oil Works
caused the destruction by fire of six
tanki, machinery and. five or six hun
dred barrels of oil. Elmer Smith,
one of the employes, was badly burn
ed." Loss, $6,000. to $lO,OOO.
• IN .the Standard oil case, before the
Clay county Courts :on MOnday
last, and postponed until the 19th of
January, a special to the Oil City
Derrick • says that . the defendants
have been held to bail in the sum of
$5,000 each and the witnesses in
$l,OOO each.
0:4 Saturday 'night John Hackett
and Daniel 0.0 nnell fought at Bos
ton-Itun, a mining town in Schnyl-,
kill county. Ilhckett was knocked
down, strikinehis head, and died
from the effect of the blow'on Sun
day night. O'Connell has been taken
into custody.
GOVERNOR HOYT has ordered. com
missions to beqssued for the follow
ing Trustees of the State. Insane
Hospital at Norristown : John F.
Hartranft, B. K. Jamison and Sam-,
uel 'M. Eines, of Philadelphia, James
Boyd, of Montgomery county, and,
Thoinas 11. Brown, 'of Delaware .
county.,
' A. m'Ass meeting of citizens wi
held at . Erie, on Friday, for the pur
pose of memorializing Congress to
establish; , a soldiers' home'lin Penn
sylvania}" A committee was appoint
ed to carry out. the project. There
is,a large building at Erie that was
. erected icy the United States Govern
.ment for a marinellospital, but never
used, that would suit for a home.
ARBITRATiox between the • coal
miriers and Operators of • Western
Pennsylvania having failed, the em
ployes of several mines have "come
'to an agreement with their employers
that the price of digging shall be
based upon the market price of coal.
Three "prizes are offered by the
Wavemly works, at. Smithton, on the
Baltimore and Ohio road,- the
largest earnings of theyear.
THURSDAY afternoon, at Bich
mond Colliery, Schuylkill county,
the-side-hooks-of two loaded. ears, 'to
which the wire chain was attached,
broke just as the 'cars reached the
top of the slope'. , The cars dashed
down the slope at lightning ',speed
300 yards to the! bWoni, where they
struck Michael Kennet , . and Patrick
Murphy. The forineri was terribly
mangled, and cannot live. _Murphy
Was injured internally.
GENERAL NEWS.
SMALLPDX killed 162 persons a
eallao, Peru, in October.
REV. E. P. Hammond has comment=
ell a temperance revival in London,
Ont.
• .TllEftE were 533 births, Id 4 mar
riages and 490 deaths in Ne* York
'city last week. •
' THE steamboat Maggie .Burke; with
.1,000 bales of cotton on bona •was
burned at Mobile Sunday. ••
D. A. Runoun, a real - estate.deal 7
er of Topeka, Kan., arrested . on a
charge of forgery, on Friday shot
' himself the head.
SIR FRANCIS HINCKS has been
.de
elated not guilty of signing a fratulti
lent return of the accounts of the
Consolidated Bank of Montreal.
THE first regular train aver the
Boston. Hoosac Tunnel and. Western
railroad reached North
,Adams, Mass.,
on Saturday at noon. -
JUDGE ABNER ITAZELTON, aged
eighty-six years, probably the oldest
practising law yer,in New York State,
died on Saturday, at Jamestown.'
AT i.ClolleStCr, N. Y., George - IL
Crowly, collector fo the Pally Unio n
cut his throat With ar jack knife, sever
ing the windpipe, and will die.
A reorganization of the Board of
Metropolitan Police of New York
city is said to bfone of the first things
to folloW the a
.sembling C.f the New
York Legislature.
'THE Grand Jury at :Nei Orleans
has indicted Chevallier Jumonville,
formerly cashier of tlid ('anal Bank,
now said to bd in Havana,: for em 7
beq.ling $16,000 in 1874.
THE trial of Major John D. Shrip.
son, editor of the Evenilig Star, at
Madison, Ind., for 'killing William
Howard, late City Treasurer, closed
with a verdict of not guilty.
Is.tAc CARTER; a colored train hand
of the Richmond and Danville Rail
road; who has been guilty of system
atic depredations on the mails, is now
under arrest at. Charlotte, N. C.
Auoun BECK, of Philadelphia,
committed suicide by shooting on
the I'. W. and R. train froin Bahl:
more for Philadelphia. The, body
was left at Havre-de-Grace.
Horcuaiss and Dr. Wilson
. .
of Lockport, N. Y., under• indict
ment for the poisoning of the bus
-land of Mrs. Hotchkiss, have been
admitted to bail in the sum of $10;
000 each. _
SUNDAY was the Ooldest so far this
season at St. John, N. 8.,. thetlfer
mometer early in the moraingiCgis
tered 14. degrees below•zere,; at
Frederieton, 10, and at Sloneton, 24
below. • •
AT' a caucus of the ,Republican,
members of the • Tennessee, on Sat-,
urday, they adopted a resolution .ee
cognizing the State d6qt, as a para
mount issue, and declaripg•that they
would support no proposition look-.
ing to repudiation:
SAmcEr. E. PERKINS, Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of Indiana,
died at midnight 4 1 Wednesday a
hi s residedee, in iianapolis. Mr.
Perkins was • one of the' oldest and
most eminent Jurists of the State. and
West. Ile w‘3 - -twii.l3 elected to•the
Supreme Benoit.
Drirsti IlorzotvAir, 'who kilted Vinson
Brown last spring, was hanged at Statesboro,
Ga., Thursday. - - •
THE Bank of Virginia, at Virginia City :
Nev.!, has suspended payment awing- to the.
great decline in the value of ruining stocks
heldtv the bank. . . •
SAMUEL A. w,kii - D; president of the Mart
ford (Conn.) Gaslight Company, and who wan
identified with many benevolent and
iota; institutions, died Thursday.
PLEutto-rsEtrmowt having broken out
among the, cattle of Arnes3terril,.of Raver- •
hill, N. If.; Governor idlead has appointed a
,cotnritision,.to act at once as they deent neeq.
fury to arrest the spread of the disease.
lacotiCitutsrtrAN convicted in New York
of- mairtlaughter in the fourth degree in hav
ing killed , FrefiFrick Elsie by striking him
With a beer glass, was Thursday setqm.vd to
-the penitentiary!for.nine months. . •
• GEottoE 'tura, school 'teacher at North
Gay, N, Y., near Au:sable Fcirks, was found.
dead, banging by, the neck 'from a rope
.thrown over the door_ of his bedroom, lie
was twenty-iwci yVarSofage, and .itad been
I ill-health.
AT a wedding festivity in London,
Ont., Robert Campbell,. 1270t: 1 er of
the bridegroom, fired a saltte; ,when •
the gun exploded, killipg trim i anti. nt-
IN'the.case of Victor, alias BOW .
La Costa, charged with the marder
of Polieeman'Page in New Orleans:.
last .161 y, - the jury has returned
verdict of - - " guilty, : without capital:
punishment."'
DIL•WILLIAM FAYEN, •on trial f.tt,
New Yorli;for malpractice on the per
son of Mis 4 Minnie Pope, and Anton
io G. An'efirola, the padrone, on-trial
for kidnaepi-ng seven boys, and hold
ing them in involuntary. servitude,
were bothlconvieted, . - -
JAMES MILIiIDGE FLAGG, aged si•-
ty-fonr years, 'formerly a dry - goods •
dealer,. committed suicide- in Provi
dence, R. 1., by shooting.. He brid
invented'a loom, 'which was to. be
built.in Manchester, N. H., but a. fail
ure of negotiations deprese i d him.!
A:STATEMENT ,issued by the
.I3u
rean of . Statistics shows that tin
total value
.of" exports, of domestic
provisions and tallow from the
United. States .for the • Month,. of
November, 1872, was,sB,9oo,7os;,utd,
during the - Same, period
690,68.2.: - . .
FOwl.r.tt . Baororns havedischarged
2000 bands in their packing house. at
the Chicano stock yards because . they : ,
insisted tilt no non-union men should
work with them. Other houses are
running
,very feiv hands, and the
whole number of workmen idle is es
timated at 5,000
.to 8,000.
A number of
,promineht Republi
canii. have- formed theinselVes into a
body corporate as "The New Orleans
.Ledger Publishing. CAniYany," to pub
lish a- Republican newspaper in New
Orleans, commencing January 2. Ex-
Governor Michael Hahn will be editor-
M. D.;NEIMANa blacksmith, was
shot and instantly killed at' l New Or
leans John, Curry, Cji:ck of the
Fourth - District Co 4 rt. Cmiry called
, upon - Neiman to collect a-hill, when
the latter seized arr • iron bar and at
tempted to
.strike Curry, wire - drew:l.
pistol 4nd fired; Curryj has been lod
ged in jail.
.•, IT is very probable that General
'Phil. Sheridan will accompany Geri 7
"eras Grant on his contemplated visit
to Mexico and Cuba.. General :_ilier•-
idan's health is not very good . at pre
sent, and it is thought by his
that the trip would prove beneficial.
The matter has been especially urged
by Generals Grant and St - feral - an..
. Two brick house's in course of con-
struction at-Wilington; Del, fell on
. - F,aturclay _afternoon and five men and
boy were buried in the' • ruins.
Among them ,were Charles Roth
and Lewis - Lynch, 'Jr., a sOn- of the
-present street LeemmissiOner. . They
were ;all extricated; alive,. but it
feared that the Nitric 9 gustained -by
Ruth and Lynch-will Prove fatal.
TOSpanish Minister received Fri-
lay night the following' telegram
from Madrid: " The Ifirst. five sections
of the hill for the abOtion - of slavery
were passed in the" . Spanish. Senate.
to-day. 4'he.first section says: 'Sla
very is.-',hereby aholi:ihed ih the Is
land of Cuba,
ih accordance with the
enactments of this law.' Nest Tues
day the wholelaw will pass by -a. large
majority.b
,
. .
..Jour EfAta.m.ts, JOhn 'Davis and
.John Robeits.undertook to cross the
Kentucky river at Qraize in a Wall
flat ,boat on Wednesday night. Short:.
ty afterward cries were - heard. and it
is supposed the boat capsized.
boat was at hand to render assistance )
and the tlatboatwas fourid ou ,Thurs
day morning, with galiman's hat.
No trace of the bodies has been found,
the river being very high.
FRANK BAKER, colored, was hang
ed Friday at Sussex - county. Court
-House,. Virginia; for the murder of
Henrietta Shands - and her infant
child; near Stony — Point station, on
the. night of August . 4. 'Baker'al.i
tacked his victim at her home and al-.
Most chopped her head Off with an
axe.: The child he bulie4live, The
colored people were greatly incensed
against the prisoner, and at one time
theretwas talk of lynching him.
lon g TllE drawn-out Hayden-Stan
'mud Murder trial at . New Haven,
Conn,-,is. nearing the end, Dr. Jos
eph J. Woodword, of the Surgeon.
General's (Mice at Washington, was
on. the stand Friday, having been
Called by the defence to prove that it
was impossible to tell with. any de
gree of certainty whether- any given
specitrien was human or animal bltiod..:
The diillentty of so distinguishing:
was areapy IncreaSed where blood
had lieen., , ,permitted to dry.or had in
any why lost any of its normal char
acteristics.
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