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E. A. GOODRICH, IDITOB4
Towanda,.Pa., July 29, . 1880.
Republicin National.Tioket.
FOR PRZSIDINT, -
General JAWS A. Al=
OF 01110.
FOR VICIPILESIDENT,
General OILESTER A• ARTHUR,
OF NEW-YORK:
Republican State Ticket.
.irt•or. OF SUPREME COVET,
Hort. HENRY GREEN, Northsuppton.
AUDITOR GENTIttPa..
Hon. JOHN A.-LEMON, Blair Count,.
peputilican County Convqntion.
Pursuant to a resolution passed by the
-Republican County Committee, in session
Juno 26, 1880, the Collimation of the Re-,
:publican party for 1880 will `convene at
the Court Rouse, in Towanda'Borough,
on TUESDAY, AUG:UST 2.lrn, 1880, at
1 o'clock, P. M., to Take the following
nominations, to Wit : • •
One person for President dndge4
One penion for Reiresentailve In the 47th Con-
Ei=
Oneperson for State Senator.
Three narsoni for Representatives
One persOn tor District Attorney
find for tb'e transaction of any other busi
ness that - may come before the Conven
tion.
The Committees of Vigilance of the
several' election districts will call a pri
mary or delegate election for their respec
tive districts, for SATURDAY, AUGUST
IsT, 1 . 810, to elect by ballot two dele
gates to I represent each district in said
County Convention.
, The delegate , elections in the Townships
*ill be organized-at 3 o'clock, P. M., and
kept open continuously to the close at 5
o'clock, P. M.;ia l the Boroughs the dele
gate elections will be organized at 6
o'clock, P. M., and kept Open , continu
ously until the close at 8 o'clock, P. M.
The votes shall then be counted, and the
result certified by the officereto the Chair
man of the said Conventicia; and a copy
delivered at- once to the delegates elect:
The Committees of Vigilance are par
ticularly requested to observe the above
.stigg,estions carefully in conducting the
primary meetings. .
_ BENS. M. PECK Chairman.
11GDNEY A. 3IERCUR, Secretary. ,
Committees of Vigilance.
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'Atha P.orough-11; IL F055,.0 . 4 - F. Young, Orrin
M.uitgomery.-
Albany Township—lra 11. Richards. G. W. En
glish. Porter Jones.
Armenia Ton ushlp-1). P. Alexander, John S.
youtnans. O. B. Sherman. • .
Asylum Township—q. A. Gilbert, F. N. Dixon.
Myr•.n Kellogg.
Athens liarongh-11. W. Tripp, Floyd Kinner,
Fred M. Wells.
Athens Townsnlp. Ist tilstriet—L. 0. Snell, Geo.
D. Miller. Frank Lincoln.. •
Athens Township. 24 Dlstrlct—F. W. Keyes,
jam., Mostar?, N. W. lialloisk. ,
A :hers Township. 3.1 District—H. W. Thomas,
II.•G. spitildlng. B. F. f',,,,lhatigh.
: ; 11arclay l'oxvitshlp- , -C. W. 'richt, George Brairy,
'Henry Duggan.- _l.
Burlington Borough—W. It. I). Green, C. H.
M , ll.ron, H. S. Douglass.
Burlington Townshlp 7 T. S: Baker, H. 1.. !pen.,
cer; E. W. Wheeler. •
Burlington Wtst—A. B. McKean, John N. Gar
, row, Leroy tilantdn.
• canton Itorough=l)r. J. F. Cleveland, Si. E.
1 -F-y. F. A. Owen., ` r
;.:ano
7n Township--:D lel Andras, Hirt= Lind;
In
1-7, Lawrence Manley. i ;
Columbia Township, C. E. -Gladdlng, DeWitt.
1C (rife. Frank liorgan.l ' .
Frsnklin Township= Joseph Spalding, Ahira
I , ar, Wm. B. Rockwell.
Ii ma's tile , Township'-Adam
21: M. T. Shoemaker. 24.
;ierrlek Township—James Horst, George Brown,
N (Mb. LeVenworth.
Leßqy Townstdp—W. IL Willcox,
LsrOy 1101rotob.
Leltaysville Borough—Leroy Coleman, Samuel
Vole.r, 0. G. Canfield.,
I.lt,l;ll,l,lTownshlp—Stephen Evans, C. E. Me-
E•tunoy. Dr. A. Judson
~ , yi,„,,..B, o mugn_-13. It. Rockwell, D. J. Sweet:
-.f...f.-1. 1.. itockweli.
' Monroe Tounship—lr. H. Pratt, Clay:Rockwell,
' W. A. • Keilogg. . •
„New Albany tiomtigh—D: W. -Harshborger, S.
. D. Sterigere. G. ii. Wilcox.
Orwell Township—Dr..l. M. Barrett, E. J. Hain-
Plot. John-l. Eastman. ,
( .1 % c rum Township-Chas. Streevy, W. W. Cahill
ilossell Beverly.
:'' Pike T.ownshlp-11,.p. Bolles,-1:. W..Upham,
'W. W. Doolittle: ---.•
linighury Townstilft-E. A. Cooper, G. R. Head,
D. 11. Larrison.
Rome Borough—C. H. Stone, F.. F.. Spalding. 1..
'W. NI ay card.
Rome Township—Richard .McCabe,uGeo. Forbes,
A. C Arnold. ,
Sheslitspiln Townsklp—W. 11. 11. Gore, I. L.
1 stings. IT F. Watkins. - -
Soil t hfi-ld Townshlpeorge T. Beech, Walter
i
Phillips, C. G. {Penh. - ~. - ---
South ereek,Townshlp—G. H. Thompson, G. 0.
'lurk. Ira Cradim.. , . .
Sooth Waverly Borough—D. L: F. Clark, John
.H. Post. Clias.ll/. Sanders.,, , 1
sprlngfleld Towtislilp.-- 0. P. Goalies% W. A.
Brown. I r*S. Fanning. .. ..
Standing Stone Township—L. M. Go'rdqn, Chas.
.Tennlngs, Henry Stevens.
sy ivauia Borough—Leander Gregory,, W. L.
scouton. Stephen Ke) es.. 'i.
Terry Township—J. H. Schoonover, S: , Bowman,
Charles Terry. . • ' i '-',
Towanda Township—A. W. blmock, Leroy .t.
Bowroon,"II. H. Garldscn.
Towanda Borough, Ist Ward—F.d. Stevens, John
.1. Spalding, J. 1., Keeney.?
Towanda Borough, 2d Ward—lsaac :Middaugh,
l'has. Taylor. 0. E. Bennett.
Towanda Borough. 2LI Ward—D. T. Evans, E.
D. Rundell, Frank Smith. .
'Towanda North—E. Rutty, W. J. Manger, A. R.
Thompson. ,
Troy Borough—Lewis Crane, B. ' B. - Mitchell. 11.
M. Beebe. -
Tiny Town Chip —L. T. Loomis, Wm. Lines,
Harrison Greono.
Tuscarora Township—Dr. N. J. Cogswell, A. B,
ChriFtlan S. F. Ackley.
Vlsmr Townshlr—James Mather, .t. H. Mersey
. , - ..an. t leo. 11. toy:well. - ',' '' • !
Warren Towtimhip—J. A. 'Murphy, D. A:Sleeper,
' C. H. Ito- , '
re. lr
W,-tls Townshlp.....Watle Beardsice,r. H. Sway
'it'. 'Wm. R••lvea. ...
W llinut Ttiwnship—Thomas Quick, T. B. Young,
Richard A rey.
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Windham Township—N. Loomis, Wright Darr
linin,lElW-1 Whlfe. '
.Wyaluslog Township—Litman Lewis, Jacob ,
Biles, Jr., Dr. A. K. Newell.
Wyse', Township—Wm. 11, Conklin; Wm. Whit
nker, Dantel Lamphere: ',
Dn. 'ITAN.N . F.It, on Monday, completed
four *eclts of his his east, and was still a,
lively as a crio -et:
SENATOR" A\j ALL.iicr... is certain that
Peris:lvania will go for UANCOCK. If
the Senator:olNi not been mistaken O .
many times iis prophecyings we should!
11 are Int): tit - in his calculations.
PNF. of tlO correspondents of the Re
ublican National Committee puts the .
case inn nut-shell when he says : "I am
not in far4r of walking into the Demo
craticArap Simply because they have bait-
O it -with a Union,soldier."
THAT settles it: The papers have been,
trying to make out •that - there was 4
cohlue'ss " between Senators .BLAINE
and CAMERON., Now it. turns out,. that
Senator - BLAINE'S yoUngest iiughter;
Miss . 11Arrit:has a pet pony !Aimed DON
CAMERON.
Tin.: sheet anchor of the American la
borer is the 'protective tariff ; the wlrk.
matt who votes against that totes against
Iris Own bread and butter. The Republi
can party is - pledgoid to maintain it, and
this is the Party Ulla should hate the sup
-port of 4tery.inan who, earns wages.
WliotivEn—being an ex-soldier of the
'Union, ir a merchant, manufacturer, far
mer or laborer —bzlieves that the setting
aside of the amendments, and tho abro
gation 41111 war and reconstruction leg
islatioWiWill he a good thing, will vote for
Il.+NFod nd, the Democratic party.
11 Cus.rOm,s Inspector in taT , as who cum
'milted th 6 Grime - 'Of speaking his Repub
lican opinions. has been warned by the
, Democratic leaders of his locality that a
repetition of the offence will cause him to
"forget to wake up 'some morning."
'This is the saito party that gravely dis
approved of "sec'ional asperities" in the
3lissouri Convention.
ANgruER tate of horror comes from the
West. FathCr BLY6III3ER6II. pastor of
• the Roman Catholic Church of the poly
_fTrlnfOrof Detroit, on Friday pro Ms
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altar boys 'their regular excursion. On
their return while coming up the ; Detroit
river, the yacht was run down by the
steamer Garland, and &rushed and sunk.
Of the twenty-four persons on the yacht,
but eight were saved. The lost were altar
boys, and the sexton and organ blower of
the church.
fiummus have been issued in
Harrh
burg for witnesses in the cases of Gaoltoz
Surru, of Philadelphia, and CIER/STIAN
Lora and 'E. J. - McCuss, of fihippene
burg, charged with corrupt solicitation of
Members of thd . Legislature.. The Dis
trict Attornei is determined, it is said, to
have their cases tried in October, and the
remainder at the November term of court.
NEW Euor.Auti, that has some of
going, and mutant claims it to be .
of the very best quality, had a rather easy
shake of earthquake Tuesday night,
around Milford and Manchester, jgew
'Hampshire. Poor as it was, however, it
was about the only specimen of that sort
of luxAry the Northatlantic coaltof the
United States has bad to show fOr a long
time. Thus far it has produced no effect
on tbe quinine market.
TUE citizens of New York City 'will
probably tender a public reception to
General GRANT about the 25th of Augnst.
A few days later in the same month an
immense Itepnblican ' mass meeting icili
be he held in New York, at which SPna
tor CONKLING will , make the leading
speech.' General GRANT; General LOGAN
and many other prominent Republicans
will be present. General GRANT will Ties
iii3oston id SepteMber as the guest of
the Middlessex Club.
FOR a mouth or more past France hits
been a large buyer of wheat in the Ameri
can market, and now that the demand
from that quart& has slackened, British
exporters, in consequence of the excess
ive rains in England and Ireland, have 4
entered the market and have been buying {
freely. This condition of affairs . points
to an import of gold from Europe, which,
if it should assume any considerable, pro
portions, must add to the bank reserves
and so become another favorable fract& in
the future of the monetary situation.
THE remaining "twin relic" of barbar
ism' is not flourishing at a very alarming
rate, if the recent eensug6T the Mormon
realm is tp be taken as a measure. One
hundred and forty-four thousand pCople
in all Utah inlBBo, against 86,786 in 18:0,
is not sufficient to warrant much of a
scare, especially when it is Considered
that 32,000 of the ,presetit population are
not Mormons. The increase of the, '3lor
mons is prthably n t beyond the, rate of
0,500 a year, and at that hate it will be a
long, time before they either demoralize
:9r capture the United States.
THE- proprietors, i;o7D yr:rt.:lts. anal
about fiftyattaches havtLbeen arrested in
the western part of the Stale, chargtd
with the abduction of a yo..ng git I named
SALOME BURKETT from her home in
Somerset county. The testim.my-of the
girl is unfit for publication, and revolting
and disgusting, Showing t rite dertrayitY
and cruelty on the part or the criniliala
fit for brutes. The excitement in the;
neighborhood is intense, and threats of
lynching wercifTely made. The prisoners
were remanded, after a preliminary ex
amination, for a further hearing on :10th
July. •
A. T. LUley
GENERAL GRANT arrived at Leadville,
Colorado; on Thursday evening, and was
received with grcatnnthusiasm. A com
pany of mounted police, two companies
of cavalry, five companies of infantry, the
city tire department, and 500 Union vet
erans!escorted him frdm the railroad sta
tion to the hotel.--The line of march was
brilliantly illuminated and.decorated with
evergreens and lbws, and it is estimated
that nearly 30,000 people were on the
streets. A salute of 100 guns was fired
while the proccasion Wits movingt-wrGen
oral GRANT excused himself from making
a speech on account of hoarseness.
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK
It is yet early in the canvass to
talk about the organization of parties,
as regards the hard and effective
work of the campaign, or to prog
nostiste with any' degree of cer
tainty as to probable results. So far
as the Rebublicans are concerned, it
isladmitted that the party was never
in abetter condition for a vigorous
and_ successful canvass. There are
ncfdivitsiOns, - no jealousies, no - Wait:
burnin,gs, no disappointments. The
nomination of GARFIELDrId'A ILTHUR
has been accepted with an _unanimity
and cordiality which-is as unexampl
.ed as it is gratifying, and which is a
sure augury of success. The friends
of the unsuccessful aspirants for
nomination have no resentments to
gratify. They earnestly sought, by
all fair means, to bringnbOut desired
results, but failing in that, they
chcerlully acquiesced in the decision
of the Chicago • Convention. The
leaders, Who in that body, so val;ant
ly and persistently championed the
cause of GRANT, BLAINE or SHERMAN,
will be the most active and useful in
marshalling the Republican hosts for
the • pending battle. LORAN, CAM,
ERON, CONKLINO and. the plumed
Knight of Maine, will give their best.
energies to save the country from
Democratic misrule. SCHURZ has•
,already spoken, in the calm, persus
i
sive language of which he is master,
and FENTON is not a laggard in the
fight. There is.no skulking nor sulk
ing, but everywhere past differences
are forgotten, and past offences for
given, because of the great peril which
threatens the country, and the itn- .
minent danger of Democratic aF-eend
atcy through, the power of_ a Solid
South.' And it is equally.gratifying
to . know, what is the fact, that never,
in the excited catnpaigns of the past,
has the first of August found 9le Re
publican party so well organized and
in molt a state of preparation as it is
this Year. The work has been done
quietly and spontaneously—the peo
ple recognize the ne:3essity• for vigi
lance and labor—and consequently
before the State Committee has be-,
gun its labors, many district organiza
tions have been accomplished. ' This
is one of the healthiest and most
- cheering signa l of the times. The
_people arc taking hold of the canvass
in. earnest. While they - recognize
Old
co-operate with-the Central Corn
mittee, yet each Club Is 4leposed to
be seltrellaut liggrepdva iihd active
on its own account, Instead of weak
ly waiting for assistance from abroad.
The Setlit3MS and factions and divi
sions in both patties are fast giving
way to the importance and necessi
ties of the main issues. It is
calculate upon any thing excepting a
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sTiare, solid, party fight. There will
not be by November, any side issues,
ner any bolting or division. The two
contending parties will absorb all the
fragments and all the cliques, and
neither Jons Kivu', nor WALLecx,-
bor'VAUX, no, any other Democrat
will have power, evict if he. bad the,
disposition, to draiv off votes form
the Deinoet4itie candidates., Happily,
there are no', troubles to be reconciled,
no breaches to be healed, in the Re
publican party. Every man, who has
any right to claim himself as a Re
pnblican, is earnest and, active and
cordial in support of GARFIELD. oC
elisions' loudly advertised cases of
defection are
, sporad.c, and common
to every Presidential contest, and
much less numerous and important
this time than usual. Iley grow out
of ditappointed ambition, the envy .
and chagrin of unapreeiated self-esti
mation, and the unworthy and selfish
considerations which unhappily pre
dominate in too many breasts. But
for every one of these cases, there.
are a hundred converts to the Repub
lican cause, whose accession is
orought about by a desire to con
tinue the present prosperity of the
country, and from a 'wild that it is/
,not wise nor safe to, surrender the ,
crovernment into the hands of the
Confederates.
The Democracy having sought to
embarrass the government in its
efforts to put 'down the Rebellion;
having, repeatedly declared the war
was a failure; having on .all occa
sions endeavored to belittle,the hero
ic deeds of our brave soldiers; having
tried to render of no account the
plans for. re-establishiriethe power of
the Nation' and the purpose to, Make
treason odioiv,; having done all that
hatred and enyy could do to dispar
age' the chieftains who so gallantly
let! the Union armies—has suddenly
stultified itself by nominating as its
candidate' a gallant soldier, whose
only merit is ids bravery din the field,
and who is without any of the ante
cedents which should make him the
candidate Of that party, r orLany, Of
the qualifthatiOns which fit him for
the Executive chair. Having failed
to divide the Union; having failed to
overcome Alie Union armies; having
failed to convince the people that the
Democratic party and its leaders are
worthy ot: trust; the party has tried
the device of putting forward' a Gen
eral of admitted:patriotism and cont.-
- age, tcioiask the rebel batteries. It
was expected .that Party "-could- be
merged ha l the General. That • the
Past, the present, the :future, would
all be forgiven or forgotten, when the
rebel yell was laid aside, and shouts
went up from Confederite throats for
thd 'Mime - hero. • It was a repetition
of
,the fable of . the asiand the lion's
skip. And it' failed, utterly and com
pletely. The plot was 'based upon a
low estimate of the patriotiamOfthe
soldier, and of the intellikr,ence and
perception of the voters. They may
honor and respect Gen. ; 11AbicocK,
but when he becomes the tool of the
Democrat', he is repudiated by those
who foughtonder his flag. He might
lead the brave boys into the very
jaws of death,_ but. he cannot lead
them into the Democratic camp.
The political situation then may
be summed as follows: Ist,The
Republican party is united.andlactice.
2d—All the divisions in the Democ
racy will be healed up, at least until
after November. 3d.- - -The nomina
tion of HANcocK to catch the soldier's
Cote is a failure. 4th—That a united
and earnest Republican party means a
a Solid North, and the election of
GAItFIELD and Anil Mi.
THE WILMOT PROVISO
The death of Judge BRINEEMIOIT,
of Mansfield, Ohio, has revived the
discussion about the authorship of
the celebrated WILMOT Proviso. This
proviso it will be remembered was
offered by Mr. WILMOT as an amend
ment to the bill giving President
POLK the means to negotiate a peace
with. Mexico, and looking to the ac
quisition of territory from the ,Mexi
can government. The proviso was
copied from the old Jeffersonian or
dinance, and was in the folkswing
terms :
Provided, that as an express an] fundamental
condition to the acquisition of any territory from
the Republic of Mexico ny the tTnited States by
virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated be
tween them,. and to the use by the Executive of the
moneys berMu appropriated, neither slavery nor
involuntary Aervitude shall ever exist in any part
of said territory except for crime, whereof the
party shall first be duly convicted.
This amendment, which has receiv
ed the name of the WlLmor Proviso,
was offered by Judge WILMOT, then
a Democratic member from this Con
gressional district, and was the com
mencement of the a.nti"-slavery
eu . ssions in Congress which finally
disrupted parties, and through the
persistence of the slave holders in
their determination to extend the
area of human bondage, brought•T•n
the Rebellion, and the final emanci
pation of the slaves. The history of
this now historical and famous pro
viso, which has made Mr. Wir.mor's
name a household word throughout
the land, as we have heard it given
by him, does not vary materially
from the published statements. Mr.
WILmoT never claimed thel. author
ship of the Proviso, whiteh was
copied from the Jefferson isk ordi
,nance, nor did he take credit;or claim
honor from the fact that he - offered
the amendment. When • the Two
Million bill, as it Was ea led; was in
troduced; the anti-slaverk men of the
Rouse, believed that the object of
the measure was to acquire territory
from Mexico for the purpose of ex,
tending the area of slavery, It Tu.
agreed amongst a select few of those
opposed to the extension of slavery,
that an pmendinat a** be offet
ed to the bill, in the teria of the re.
etriction of the Jeffersonian °Mi
nna. &pies of the proiriso were .
made by Poveral members , with the
:understanding that the_` first to get
the door was to move it as an amend
meat. Mr:. Wilmer, who was theria
free-trade Democrat, in favor with
the Speaker,was recognized af'in early
day, and to the great surprise Pf the
Speaker, no doubt, introduced the
already prepared amendment. Had
Judge BRINKERHOFF succeeded in
first catching the Speaker's eye, the
proviso would doubtless' have been
known as his—or half a dozen other
members if similarly favored, would
have been ready with the same pro
viso. This will explain why amongst
judge BRINKERHOFF'S papers was re-
Gently found a copy of the proviso,
in, his , hand writing. The proviso
was adopted in the House by a vote
of 94 to '7B, but two Northern men
(DoeoLAs and MOCLESNAND) voting
against it. It was, however, defeat
ed in the
,Senate, once bit adjourn
ment, and again b f , a refusal to act
apart it.
• Mr. WILMOT while he had the dis
tinction of having offered the pro
viso, never claimed the credit of be
ing its originator or author. It was
the result of a consultation and
agreement on the part of several
free-soil members to oppose and pre
vent the.aequisition of territory-de
-signed for the extension of slavery.
Mr. WILMOT'S great merit lay in the
-641elity with which he adhered to the
principle of the Proviso, and the
ability with which he advocated Free
Soil doctrines. Many of those who
voted with the majority when the
measure was introdneed afterwards
proved faithless, unable to resist the
blandishments and temptations of
the Slaveocracy, but he, like Judge
BRINKERHOFF, fought the good tight,
and lived to witness; the overthrow
of that barbaric institution which
was once so ".potent.lFi the halls of
Congress.
Tits latest invention of the enemy is in
the shape of a wilful and deliberate false
hood, alleging that the case involving the
parties to the Ds GOLTER pavement coti . -
tract in Washington was carried before
the Supreme Court of the United States,
and that Justice SWASNE delivered a de
cision last October in which he declared,
that the agreement with. General GAR
FIELD to pay him $5,000 for arguing the
merits of tho pavement before the-Board'
of Public Works - Was a sale of official in
fluence. The story is utterly devoid of
truth. The facts are these : '.At the May
term of the Cook-bounty Circuit Court in
Chicago in 1875, before Judge FARWELL,
GEORGE R. CITITTMTPEN, a lobbyist, who
had been employed by the firm of Ds
GOLTER k MCCLELLAN io,obtain paving
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contracts for their' in Eastern cities,
brought suit i:glinst them, because, as he
'claimed, they had not kept an agreement
to pay him one-third of the profits. Upon
all contracts so obtained, which would
entitle him to about $lOO,OOO on a con
tract secured in Washington. The de
fendants disputed the payment of the
money on the grounds that the contract
- was void on its face, and that it was ob
tained by the plaintiff by improperinflu
ence. .1. R. DOOLITTLE, who appeared
as counsel for the defendants, submitted
among other points a statement that in a
similar case decided in the Supreme Court
the previous October Judge SWAY NE had
held that a contract for purely-profession
al services is valid, but such services are
separated by a broad lino from 'personal
solicitation and from official influence.
"The agreement with Gen. GARFIELD,
a memberof Congress," DOOLITTLE went
on to say, "to pay him - $5,000 as a con
tingent fee for procuring a contract which
was itself made to depend upon a future
appropriation by Congress, which could
only come from a committee of which ho
was chairman, was a sale of official influ
ence which no - veil can cover against the
plainest principles of public policy "—anu
more of the same sort, This language is
now traveling through Democratic papers
all over the country as pact of a deliver
ance from the highest judicial bench by
Justice SWAIN, whereas, in point of- fact,
no such language was ever employed by
Justice SWAYNE. The case in question
never came before him, and the much
quoted censure .of Gen. GARFIELD Wag
only a part of a lawyer's plea in a matter
decided five years ago.
THE exports of breadstuffs from the
United States for the fiscal year ending
with June 30th reached the enormous to
tal of $277,3,26,762, the largest amount
for any one year in the history - of the
country. This places breadstuffs in the
front rank of our export trade: for in no
other line of products does theietal reach
these figures, and the only s approaeh to'
them is found in cotton and provisions.
Our shipments of breadstuffs have been
growing in importance almost year by
year since 1870, when the total rose to
$72,250,933. In 1871 the total was $79,-
381,187,, in 1872 $84 2 1586,273, in 1873 498,-
745,151, and in 1874 $161,198,864. From
this point there was a considerable reac
tion, and in 1875 our breadstuffs exports
declined to $111,458,265. \ Phis was fol
lowed by, a marked improvement in 1876.
when the total was $131,181,555. From
this there was another falling off, and in
1877 the total . receded to $117,806,476..
For the three succeeding years there was
a great increase each year,tbe totals being
4181,777,841 for 1878, .4201,776,499 for
-1879, and $27',226,762 for 1880. During
those Years the population of the United
States has steadily increased, - and with
this gain in population there has been
also a marked increase in the annual pro
duction of grain, consequent upon the
opening up to civilization and cultivation
of the rich prairie lands of the *est,
Northwest and Southwest. The United
States have been growing in importance .
as an agricultural country, and no better
evidence of this is needed than the returns
of- our exports of breadstuffs. Agricul
ture, a great source of wealth to any coun
try, is particularly so to our own, for we
see in the facts before us that the exports
of grain.and flour alone have done much
within a few, years to change our relations
with the critter world from a debtor to a
creditor .
.people.
LANcsstEn county politics have always
been a source or awful wonderment to
outsiders. No one pretended to under=
stand the outs and ins of: their Mysterious
performances. _Recently however, thin,
bliTe been deeetlepoeutal yid* knell*
solution to the ixonnadrtun. It seem that
the rule has been for every fellow tot:bast
every abet. fellow. Whether tbis*river
sal denioudization grows oat of thO bed
.quality of_ tinomier coon* widolieh or
the worse 'II B 6W beati Or. vie
"of the Eatiral and Writs* lora* of
the . Crawford County Systein hai never
been fully settletL'''The - 11sarful at* of,
fraud, perjury and Corruption whicithas
been reached, is shown by the, sad tact
that HIE:STAND has been drawn into the
maebtrom. Eves bla natural honesty
and innate integrity has not been proof
against - the baleful influent", aby Which
he is surrounded. But it is evidence that
he is not entirely lost; that he makes the
moat - candid confessions of the shocking
condition of - political morals in his
county. Last week,- the ReturiPJudges
met at-Laneaster, to investigate charges
of fraud at the late prtmaries. The Ex
aminer announces the 'result of , their de
liberations in the following language :
The Board of Return Judges met again to-day.
and reaffirmed the ticket heretofore announced es
the regularly settled ticket. The Sramfeer has
not taken aides la this control:limy, nor have we
undertaken to decide on'whlch side there was the
most Irregularities or. frandi.” There tuis been
More or less cheating it almost every primary since
this system has been adopted. .6.641 If any one Is
011 the ticket now who has reached a 1114111111110011
by more fraudulent practices than another, It is
not the first time the Exornlner . has accepted the
result, though fraudulent, knowing that the sus
pected (nude only turned the scales ever those
more cunningly concealed. such a thing as an
honest primary is , not known In Its history, and
this last one, Is no exception. Who Is to decide
when the - most cheating came In f"
GENERAL U. S. GRANT, who in 1877
Was elected Chairman of the Republican
organization known as the "Boys in
Blue," to succeed General Dix, deceased,
issued a general order on the.22d instant
that "the members for each State of the
National Committee off. the Union Vete
rans' Unionrit once proceed to organizo
the 'Boys in Blue' in 'their respective
States to promote the election of Gan
nELl) and ARTHUR," and that "the or
ganizations of 'Boys in Blue' .report to
the department commanders in their re-.
spective States." The first State to take
action in accordance with General
GRANT'S order was New York. On the
twenty-third instant, General CHARLES
K. GRAHAM, head of the organization in
that State, issued an order directing the
4- Boys in Blue" to organize "companies" -
and "regiments" at once to promote the
election of GARFIELD and ARTHUR. The
ma:in:min number of men to constitute a
company is flied at 100, the minimum at
50 ; the maximum of a regiment at 100th,
the minimum at i 300. "The captains of
any six companies may consolidate their
respective commands into is regiment; and
the commissioned officers of the compa
nies merged should then elect by ballot
the proper regimental field officers. The
Colonel will appoint the regimental com
missioned and non-commissioned staff."
Au address to Union soldiers and sailors
is to be issued.
Buti.Dixo a tunnel under ,the Hudson
river to connect New York with Jersey
City, is a stupendous
.undertaking, and
one which could hardly be accomplished
without the sacrifice of human life.' It
seems inevitable that all such enterprises
which call foe the exercis3 of skill, perse
verance and courage, demand a certain
number of human victims before success
ful consummation. On Wednesday morn
ing, twenty lives were sacrificed in the
- Hudson river tunnel now in the course of
construction at the foot of Sixteenth
street, Jersey City. Eight of the laborers
had a narrow escape. The entrance to the'
tunnel is through a rcular perpendicu
lar shaft 30 feet in diameter and GO feet
deep. A leak occurred tit the junction of
this shaft and the river, and before it
•could be stopped the water rushed in and
covered up twenty men who were at
work in the tunnel. Eight men escaped
through the heroism of a foreinan named
WoopLAND who lost his own life that the
eight might be saved. He deliberatel •
gave orders which her knew, and the men
knew, would cause the loss of his life,
but save theirs. Work *as immediately
commenced to dig another tunnel to reach
the buried men, but the difficulties in the
way of -reaching them are so great that
some days • will • elapse before it will be.
successful.
JUSTIN!: SWAYN a. of the Supreme Conrt
makes the following statement in. regard
to tha recent Democratic rtxwbaek that
lie had severely condemned Ceneral GAR:
FIELD'S course iwthe DE GOINER matter
in an official opinion : "I never wrote a
word of what is attributed to, me with
quotation marks. I never knew anything
of the facts of the matter charged'against
General GARFIELD, and it was certainly
never in any shape before the Supreme
Court. I bad, therefore, neither occasion
nor opportunity to express any judicial
opinion upon the subject. It is not stated
where any case in which General GAR
FIELD was concerned is reported. My
confident impression is that I never beard
of such a case before. GenerAGAUFIELD
is a personal friend of mine; and I have'
the highest confidence in hilt integrity :
The statements in the , W AI are an en
tire fabrication and without. particle of
truth to sustain them."
THE visit of ...Ex-Empress EcortmE to
the grave of the first NAPOLEON at St. He
lena has about it the element of romance.
He was amfined-m. the lone rock by Eng
lish powet, and the tlieoVy has been
4teadily • maintained that his life was
shortened bY,Enelish harshness and se
verity. Now the Widow of his nephew„
under the pattonage of the Queen of Eng
land, and tuppcitted by her sympathy and
favor, visith the grave where the ex-Em
perm- once lay and inspects the place
where he died. This too, on her way
home, from a much more 'sorrowful milt
sion to the placc!where her son was 'slain
while professedly serving with the Eng
glish—the persecutors and oppressors of
his great uncle. Time makes many mar - 7
vellous changes, and this is one of them.
THE question of the dleged• Spanish
outrages in firing upon American vessels
is apparently reduced to an issue of fact.
The Spanish authorities deny that'any in
sult was designed, and claim as a justifi
cation for overhauling the two schooners
that they were witfriri a marine leagrie of
the Cuban coast at the time they were
fired on. This is denied by the captain
of the Meritt, who asserts that they
were at no time within six miles of the
shore. One thing is certainthat two
fruit vessels have Seen quite extensively
advertised without host.
Sattirday, night, the borough of
West Chester 44'd a grand ilemcmatration
in favor of GAIIFIELIi: and Ammon, the
principal feature of which , was a torch
light display of ,ftepublicins in uniform,
the procession being a mile long. Hon.
Wthcts2l,,Wann addressed the crowd,
and was followed by Hon. G. A. °now in
an eloquent and stirring address. Ches
ter county is full of enthusiasm for the
, Republican.candidates, ind the Quaker
iota 4 01 all k 9 fait tilt! Par.
Ws:tam:Ms, Del., V having more than
its share of exciting Siesta. The latest
oecurredon Friday, when Mns..COtortintr
inate,hes) TAi•- •
i&Lb: COUTINIri i leg
Olgiiia&OSte s isms k *di! 117 Me.T&T.
*AU; JII:Ifibill to her, dttughter; ;who
.Iped & few dirt ag6 a :Mr. HAY
ins, and hullead of eeeklngrokeplia the
"amts. took the law M her own hands,
and, with her husband standing by to
protect her, should the assailed gentle
man resolve to defend thisself, adminis•
toted a severe cowisiding. Very strangely,
Mr. T.&TNALL, with a gallantry that we
feel very much disposed to question, took
-it all .meekly, and when the woman had
discharged what slie evidently conceived
to be her dtity, he proceeded to a magis
istrate'a office and had Mrs., C. and her
husband arrested.
THE manufacture of parlor matches has
mad the firm of Swill' (t . Cot:Trim, of
Wilzhington,. Bel., very wealthy. The
junkfr member of the firm, Mr. Cottax
say, is said to keep withinhla own breast
the secret of the preparation which has
made his matches so popular and given
them such a wide sale. But he, evidently
had forgotten that there are another
style of matches said to be matte in
Heaven, for it' turned out that having a
.fair daughter of 19 summers, she allowed
her affections to sprout for a young
nurseryman, named IiANDEIq, and in ab
aence of paterfamilias, the young couple
were made one flesh, and the sequel was
Vat they are now quietly and blissfully
residing near Philadelphia, awaiting the
time when pardon and a parent's blessing
will 1111 to the brim the cup of their hap
piness.
Tna census will show a population in
the linked States of about 48,500,000.
These flt,nres give ns data for comParison.
In the last ten years our rate of increase
has been 27 per cent. From 1860 to 1870
it was nearly 23 per cent. From 1850.t0
1860 it was 35 per cent. The average
rate of growth from 1790 to 1850 in each
recurring ten years was a little less than
33 per cost. It will be - seen from these
figures that our growth in population
suffeted no material check until the civil
war: We havd not yet recovered , from
thit disastrous shock. Had the old rate
of • increase continued through the last
twenty years our population would now
be 56,090,000 instead of 48,000,000.
PHILADELPHIA LETTER.
PM LAD ILL PIiTA, Julys, ISO
The Board of Guardian's of the Poor
have declined to transfer any of their in
sane patients to the new Slate Insane As
ylum at Norristown, on the grounds that
they can support them at a - cheaper rate,
and fear that they eeuld:be made respon
sible for the difference in cost of mainte
nance. They also believe that their pa
tients could only be transferred to the
Asylum by the Courts ordering a general
delivery from-the Almshouse.
The Board of Directors of the Pennsyl
vania Illailroakhas pasSed resolutions de
claring that it has been-the avowed policy
of the Company to keep aloof from all
. political Contests, and to discountenance
the partici, ation therein of its. officers
and . employes ; that, while it disclaims
any desire to interfere with their individ
ual rights of suffrage, the 'Company will
regard any attempt of its officers, etc., to
control the votes of its employes, or _per
vert their influence to the support of any
political party as a "direct violation of
the standing rules and regulations, and
inconsistent with the interests of the
•
Company."
General Henry f. Huidekoper has been
appointed Postmaster of Philadelphia,
somewhat to the surprise and disappoint
ment of those who were urging the claims
of other aspirants. General' H. was Col
onel of the 150th, regiment, P. V., and
lost an arm at Gettysburg. The only ob
lation that can 'possibly be urged against
the selection, is a doubt as to whether ho
is a. citizen of Philadelphia. It is admit
ted that he will make a courteous and
efficient Postmaster, and administer his,
Olt 30 on "business principles."
The estate of Robert Morrits the great
financier of Revolutionary times, has just
been finally adjudicated by. the Orphans'
Court, seventy-four yearn after his death.
Morris issued his own notes for a million
and a half when the infant nation needed
funds, and retired from office a rich man.
By a series of laud speculations, however,
he died poor, with a number of debts
clinging to his estate.
A young daughter of J. R. Fanshawe,
Secretary of the Lehigh Valley Railroad
Company, was drowned recently at At
lantic City. The father was possessed of
strange forebodings the day the unfortu
nate accident occurred, and was Continu
ally expressing apprehensiveness lest
something. terrible should happen. He
returned to Philadelphia, from Atlantic
City, as usual, on the morning train, to
attend to the duties of his position,' but
ho was so depressed by the feeling' that
something awful was aboiat to occur that
ho could scarcely attend to any business.
Ho expressed Tegrets especially that he
had left Atlantic City. without telling his
little daughter not to go into .bathe. His
depression of spirits continued deepening
until noon, when the fearful news of his
daughter's death by -drowning was con
veyed to him by a telegraphic despatch.
The Pennsylvania Railroad CoMpany
are about to erect at Philadelphia, Pitts
burg, Altoona, Harrisburg, Columbia,
Jersey City, and other points along the
line of their road, a number of buildings
.for the accommodation of their train
hands. Each building will contain a
waiting-room, dvimitories, wash and
bath-rooms, and a large reading room,
supplied with daily and weekly newspa
pers and periodicals. , ,
The National and Executive, Commit
tee of the 'Union League of America held
a joint session ThurSday, at the Colon
nade Hotel, which was largely attended.
Hon.. William A. Newell, GoVernor' of
Washington Terrifory, presided, and
Thomas G. Parker, of New York, acted.
'as Secretary. • Resolutions of confidence
in the Republican party and calling upon
all Union men to rally to : the support of
Garfield and Arthur were adopted. In
teresting addresses were delivered by
Colonel J. E. Bryant, of Georgia; Gecer
al J. S. Negley, of Pittlburg ; Rev. Dr.
Turner, Bishop of the Methodist Church ;
lion. A.M. Clapp, editor of the Wash
ington Republican; Flon. Judge Harrison,
of Connecticut ; William D. Poster, of
Philadelphia, and Hon. C. W. Godard, of
New York. Important measures were
adopted to aid the Republican Presiderithil
campaign, and the-committee adjouened
to meet at the caller the Chair.
The want of adequate vaults has been
one long felt at the United States Mint in
this city, and now that want has become'
an immediate necessity.. The Mint is
turning out over two million dollars eve
ry month, and as less than one-third of
the sixty-three millions coined thus far
his been put in circulation, the silver
goes st once to the Government vaults.
The storage vaults are now almost filled,
sad the 'dollars poutiouo to pour forth
....,.._ ___. ....._. . _
fifiiii do r4imay inge.lets t,bSTaS4 4 . 1
At the lilt enlebray _Congress a _ .. .
O wed
$214000 tetprniide additional
_:.
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, _1109P5...' i
The airier men opposed
tiles; and nearly epeoceibrd* defeating it.:
The greater pintOfilie`npipprittiotWiß
be' need in Wit eiti itt:builtilttg iii line*
vault aifie pontlYe in'the.4ll4 - Paildialto - s
Governor Reit binytipiiiieSett.-.Tfienaltl
J. Pewees - is Coroner; to serve:the term'
of the late Dr. Gilbert. -- 'Mr.:Powers was
deputy r. cinder. and is an active and de
serving young Republican. : , ,
Mr. peter Herdic's Personal Transpor
tation Company has just chartered
by the State Department at Harrisburg.
The purpose of this company is to run
stage and Omnibus lines in all parts of the
city. The Philadelphia stockholders are
William D. : Kelley, Elisha A. Ellnopr,
Jelin and James Dobson, Foratia G. Sick
el, Sevin' Schofield,' R. T. M. Carter, Sr.,
N. A. .11audolpt i `fir. D. Kelley, Jr.,
Thomas A. Andrews, and' R. Newton
Price. The capital stock of the new. or.
1 ganizztion is S2AOOO, divided into 12,-
300 giant of $21.1 each.- William D. Kel
ley. Sr., is the Treasurer. -
. "I'llreefutile attempts at suicide have
been made by Mary Ann t,eGarrain
whose head has been slightly tinned by
close application to the bottle. Some time
ago she sought a watery grave by leaping
from the Market street bridge, but an of
ficer fiirestalled her. Thursday she was
about to plunge into the Schuylkill from
the Chestnnt street bridge when a police !
man seized her -and locked her up in the
Tweptieth district police station house.
Glary-did
_not give up in despair. She
fushionelim halter with pieces of her pet
tieouts and hung herself up to die when
another man in blue discovered - her and
. ii :vet - IWe a - :third time by -cutting -the
The Philadelphia Zoological Garden,
.llectien has suffered another loss: This'
time it is the great ant-eater, ..or myrme l. ,
c .I.lmga gabata, who began 'to delight
thit visitors on the 9th of May. He died
stukenly a. few days ago. Dr. Henry C.
Ciapatan. prosector of the society; made
an examination of the body f but was un
able to determine the cause of death. It
is f np,posed that the fold was not .suita
ble. Betides the eggs, which formed its
principal diet, ants were obtaineefor it
every day, but it wis evident that they
were not of the right-sort. The animal
appeared perfectly well up to within a
few hours of his death.
One of the largest farmers in the State
is Colonel James Young, of bliddietown.
The passer by on the railroad will notice
with admiration the neatly painted and
commodious buildings, the 'white-washed
fences and the generally thrifty appear
ance of several farms, all of which belong
to him. They are models, and are. well
worth a visit 'to any farn i ier. Colonel
Young this year cut three hundred acres
Of wheat, pronounced the finest
--harvest
ed this season. He hauled in, stacked
and put in barns between five and six
hundred loads of bay, weighing from a
ton and a half Otwo tons per load. He
is now engaged'in preparing his land for
fall sowing; manuring, liming and plow
iug. In one field of ninety acres, he has
ten pbws folio - wing.each. other.
We are just entering upon the'real fruit
season of the year in this latitude.
lAp
pies of fair quality are already in the mar
ket ; peaches are becoming plentiful and
good ; a few grapes' have been, offered . ,
and a fortnight hence ear ly pears will be
in season. Watermelons and cantelopes
are arriving in large quantities, and eve
rything.,be,tokens an abundant harvest of
these healthful products of the tree's and
vines.
STATE NEWS.
—New county oftice,s are to be erected
at Wellsboro, Tloga cunty.
—Pilot snakes are said to be plentiful
In the neighborhood of the Water Gap..
Rachel Brown, or Brownsville, Frank
lin county, claims to be 105 years of age.
—One thousand pairs of shoes are turn
ed out weekly at the Carlisle shoe tactorY.
—Drummers visitinz Altoona must take
but a license before they can sell gmxls there.
—"The Government' improvements on
the Allegheny Inver are to be pushed,vlgotuusly.
The recent. rains wilt start 50,000,000
feet of legs from the smart stroatns above
_Williams
port.
—An unknown man was run over by
cars at Red House, Crawford county, on Wednes
day and killed.
—.T. B. Brawley. Esq.,
Ilas been men
tioned as a Democratic candidate for Congress fn
Crawford comity.
—Mr. Charles Parrish has just complet
ed a tine resld...nce near - Prospect Hock. overlook
tog w
—The census will show that in Concord
township, Butler counly, there are 119 persons by
the name or eampi,D.
—Fred Van Winkle, aged In years, was
drowned war Ltnosvllle, CrawLrd county, on
Sunday, *lino
---Tbeie are eleven persona confined in
the tnurdeter•e row of the Allegheny county prison.
three of whom ore women.
—The Boone Ilelling Mill, at Norris
town, has been started up, and will run day and
night until further octets..
me* Gaffnpy, a. small boy, was ac
cidentally drowned In the Susquehanna Hirer at
WilkesdrZire on Wednesday.
—Stenman Dritricb, aged 19, of Manor
township. Lancaster county. WM' struck by light
ning en Tuesday and killed.
—All the iron industries in the vicinity
of Kittanning, Armstrong county, with a single eg•
ceptton, are In full bperailon.
—Dr. T. N. Paiterson, prominently
Identified with the anthracite coal trade, died In
Mah ,ury City on Wednesday.
—George .Reynolds, of Vernon town
shlp,.Criswfoni county, fell In:tront or a hay rake
ou Tuesday, and was cut to places. -
—The Seventy-eighth Regiment, Com
mended by Colonel Stewed, will hold a reunion In
Leeehhurg on the :Bth of September. .
—John Hartzell, au old citizen of Eau
ton and commander of the drat boat that ran on
the Delaware Canal, died on Sun,lay.
—Twenty-eight sheep were sianghtered
by doggy In one night on the farm of Joseph Untwist&
In Cambia* towninip, Cambria comity.
The a. llegbeny county commiPpioners
are settling the riot% claim% at the compromise rate
of stereaty.tive per cent of the taco value.
—Thomas B. Hammond was struck on
the head by a falling timbal Co .hranton. Crawford
county, on Tuesday. and instantly killed. .
—Nehemiah Pratt, living 'two n•iles
from Franklin. littrinpied itnicido by rutting bI
throat nu Suirday night. Ile wan insaue.
—Two hose carriages belonging to the
Franklin (Meteor County) Fire Department have
been sto cinch tampered with as to be useless.
—The Centre county fair will be held
on t he oth, 7th and 801 or October, nut Bedford's
on the f i lth, 7th and ath of the same month.
—Wool-buyers iare reported to be.pay
tog Item thirty-five to fifty-five cents per pound
for the new clip throughout the state general ,'y,
—A. shaip penknife, with rwitich - a man
named An'rely wax cutting -.I cabbage In Connell!.
villa on Saturday...slipped and fatally Injured him.
—lt little Fon of Dr. D. S. Days, of
Hollidaysburg, die.d of.lockjaw on Wedn-sday last,
canted by the explosion of -a toy pistol in his hinds.
—Harry English, the Elk county, mur
derer, was brought to Ridgway, the capital of that
county, Tuesday night, heavily -chained and hand
cuffed. '
—The barn, 'of -Levi Gail, in Lower
Heidelberg township, Berta county, was struck by,
lightning and destroyed on Tuesday mot fling Loss,
0.0500.
—Lucien London, of Mifflin, had a guar
'lA with his wife on Tuesday morning. during
which he. stabbed her so badly that her life is des
paired of.
—Josiah Connelly had his arm shatter
ed spa eyesight destroyed by the premature explo
siono4 cannon at Mauch Chunk on Wednesday
afternoon.:
—An enormous molar tooth,. imp
ik . %fied
to bate belOnged to mastodon, Ilia been found
near Weltsvidie . hy gravel-Mtn bands on the C. and
P.ltallread.
—Mr. Raff, a wellAto.do stonecutter of
Rochester, Beaver county. was run over and killed
by the cars st Freedom, the taupe county, on Mon
stay evening-
—Levi Fidman, Thomas Demas, Wil
liam Collins and Charles Banks, primmer, In the
Uniontown (Fayette county) Pin, escaped on Sun! -
day 'evening.
—Mrs. Kate Chase-Sprague, formerly,
of Rhode Island. bat now of Washington, Is spend.
log the summer with her family at Wenn:truth°,
Desks county. . • .
—Washington coanty claims the largest
Chinese papa:glee et say_ cetlety to the State. Per
$OO of the almentbeieill heedless bus beep fcelatt
14 oats tolstuhip.
—Helm Dania% a yonag uterabalitior
ritestArg,, was Mates. int mitts W India anglsobbiat
it Mu citron aatualay night.. Ms annualsf:ata
eoige Osseo, a rigbuilder employM.
'at a well fa Olt Valk ,y near Bradford, waxen Wed.
trindayinaranity mad by a huge smokertack fall.
talli-nidehtzti• -
. •
Tully, a puddler - in painter's
nu m* Moberg. was we severely stabbed by ble
Wife hi • quarrel on flatarday &gilt that ids life le
of- • - -
- -41windnstrial establisinnente attar
raborg with Which the late WWI= Calder was
connected were closed on Wednesday afternoon
during his funeral.
--Governor Hoyt has reappointed He n.
Joon& K. sigfried, of bbuylelll county. Boller In.
'lwo* or the counties of &tali)!Ik111, Sorthuinber•
brad end Colorable.
—A Mr. Robertson, of Pittsburg,,-has
Invert' tell an adjustment fort loeomMttes that will
enable them to use petroleum for fuel. It has been
tried with success.
• •
' —An :after-performance concert was
given In Shenandoah 'by Coup's Circa, and, the
audience not liking ft, pitched into the performers
and used them up badly.
—The white oak flooring of Seed's
bridge, near west Cbeiter, was sotd/on Tuesday
afternoon, having done service for forty:ol peers.
It bad been but half worn through. 4
—lt is found, says the Sunbury Daity
that some of the wealthiest .elltzeret of .3111 ton have
put lulbelr claims for a share of , the ehatity fund
for the sufferers by the tire In that place.
—Ralph, the on of Theodoie:Nesirbaril,
of the American Hotel, 'at Allentown, died from
lockjaw on Tuesday morning, the result of a wound
in-his hand received July S while tiring off a'toy
pistol. •
--Jacob:Morrette,' a freight brakeman,
or Harrisburg, was found dead on the top or a eat
near Dowaington On Tuesday morning, with ids,
skull crushed. He Is supitosed to have been struck
by a bridge.
—EnAsh, the Elk comity murderer,
n•iw confineddn jail at Ridgway, 611111 that he act
ed.purely in defence, as he understood that the
Sheriff had made threats that be would stibot him
down whercier be found hint.
—John Sager, of Erie, had a fighi with
• man on Thursday. night while intoxicated: Ills
mind bad bedoille weakened by a fever, and labor
ing ander the belle! that he bad killed his antago
nist he committed suicide by drowning.
!-Tile Bradford_ Era says : " Residents
.of the Mixegions stand ready to reward libeially_
bestow their. unboUnded gratitude up mane
person who can devise an effective metii.ei of pro-,
tliction for Iron tanks against ' .
—While a new thresher was being tried
On the farm of Jacob G. Zerr at Gelgerstown,
Berke comity, on Friday, the boiler exploded. A
'hulidlngwas wrecked sod the boiler was thrown a
distance of fifty feet and embedded lu the 'ground.
There was no loss of life.
-A. terrible bail Stortrepaased over por
tions or Potter and Tloga counties on Friday last.
The track of the storm, a mile wide. ox tendert from
the Potter line east through Gaines. Shlpp.m. It 1-
=sr and Charleston toanships In Tloga ceemty.
Much damage was done!to crops.
! .
—A notorious character of 'Schuylkill
County is William M. Thomas - alias '`llully I:Ill,
1
at one time a constable in 3 oh:lim is
y city. Ite
now In Jail for theseventeent 'Alin!. for kl i.i.oitli'ri v
conduct. / lo was'amsen set a murk for Mollie Ma
guire bullets at one time, an made a narrow es
cape. . , .
I .
, —The tiironer's jury in the case of ;NS
taisifofftelan who shot hits u - I e and bated is .'t -
Mon on Monday evening, vet, erect a vemle , " t
the child Caine to Its death (tom tile effect of I- ,ts
discharged from a gun Mahe bands of her fat ,r.
'Mrs. Hoffman, It
.is thought.' will recox.:r. lea.
-matt Is In All awaiting mai. , .
GENERAL NEWS.
--A Postmaster of Poineroy, :is
r5O short. .
—General .T. B. Weaver addressel
large audience at Montgomery, Ala., Friday night.
—General Anther and Senator Conkling
were Friday at the St. Louis Hotel, gutbb,e.
—Hon. C. B. Simonton was nominated
fnr congress in the Ninth Tennesse illatnet by 1.111 ,
Deruirerats.
—The ,official returns of the Census
supprvisur g!•re Boston a population of 3nVt;Zi—an
tnerea.4e of 77,11.66 In ten years.
:--The city of Little Rock, Ark., has
defaulted on the I , 3yllield of stout olo,R4),lnterest
on l'te bonded Indebtedness due In Jule.
—At a meeting of the direct°, s of the
Boston And Alhanyqtallr,ad Company. held at Bos
ton, William Bliss was chosen President.
—Greene Smith, the only -sou of the
late Gerritt Smith', Inca Thui.,iTay at Peterboro.
Madh,n county, N. Y.. of consumption.
—MI the plasterers in Omaha. encour
aged by the success of the hrteklayere's`trike, hare
struck for an advance of fifty cents per day.
,-Mr..StiCkney, Secretary of the .I:te
Conitnisqon, or t yphpitl fere'r We•dpe, day at
Los Ploos, after rn i:Joe,s a few day,.
—EN-Governor B. G mat Brown, has
aith.,towed to ths..lfot4 a lben,ela le • :miltflate -
-fore the 11,.:ct I. , gl,lature fur tie! tThlte , l :F.:Sze!
Seziate.
—(7alel Carr, who was shot by his un
cle,. Isaiah Carr : In env:it:l'y, 11. 1: rin Wt-t!, ,, a o -
Halo, dt.d ..f Intern:o hemerrhnge. ki t...en•
will be a'rre,ted.
Island is the .first Slate to solid
to the I 'ensus Itureau a eollipletv- , : 3 , l:Witt ,rf I,OE
-1113110n. The WilOic number ls a !;:tin
59,3117 to ten yer.l, ,•
—Htiilolph Fink, Gereial illimulizer of
uu , :51etnithi., and Little Rock Railroad: It, todzn
ed to aectld a similar I,ositinlll on the ti , elina. !tonic
and Lai on Railroad. , ,
—The struck jury at Bunlo, N. Y.. in
the Alhergoz vs.: 11 or I:tiff...lQ
rase. hnve The plaintiffs u try
the 1`.1,1 . again n. It week.
-The first bale of new cotton wa.. , 4 re
ceived at \.•w ()Means last we.•k from
classe.t.strlet middling. and sold for - Ifie. per ! , ont.d.
It Was forwarded Fall River, :%145.,..
—There were 2 passengers rescued on
the occasion of the Nanaganset-z.itoviiligl,tr.ikas
ter, 21 deal bodies were reedvert-il. 22 were ideu:l
- and 5 persr es are 11:1 Cek•titit,l for.
—Adviees received by the National
Board of Health show that for the week trill
Jitiy .10 there were eight eases of yoliow vw ai.d
five deaths at Nassru, N. P., Brahado, ••
—The President Thursday signed thr
COMIU63iOn of Judge Lawrence. of Ohm, a> Fir,t
Compfrolier of tiit• Trea,ury, and be the nJllt
of office at•d entered at once upon Ids dutleN:
—Young, Chapman Co., dealers in
boots and shoes, who lately failed nt Moutre.d have
obtained an exteindon rime and -01 pay In full.
Their 1131101[0s are 1 , 90,000, of which t.iii,o/0 are
cured. .
—Gerielitl Garfield has r spnnded
the invitation from the Executive Cononittee
the New England Fair asNociation to NI trod 1:s
theettnrin September next that—he UPI do. ,o if
—The-Coroner's inquiry at Cincinvati
developed the fart Ilia! 31(6. who ww. t.0;,-
jknce,l totar,edled from 14.1•0 t -, di,tl from a t•
blood at the babe of the brain, cau...41 mental
excitement.
—The shipments of live stock to G eat
Itritniu from Mmitrenl tlitrint: the month of .I.tne
ttiere 9,291 cattle and 6.2.11 sheep In th.• first neck
of Jnir the shipments %left. Y.CtO eatlM :111d tteariy
S,OOO ;beep.:
—Of the $40,000,000 of tenAollar re
funding certificates issitort tioder the rpecilii act
Congress which were ccnvertib:e into 4 p•r
(fonds t5O and upward about tent.tin
uaciftiver
—Dr. J. L. Cabe:l,. of the. University lir
Virginia. and Presid , zat of the N..thdual Boa. -a o;
Health. Is In W.a.talatztotrto Jolla tvtEla tho te,. 1.!
the Board ha 11,v1,Ing an clf c;ar undranatt,
soul° portlpus of the coast.
—The Pest 011i - ,e Department :In
nounrot that th • date of il.rtt tat., of th , •r
Acapulco. yulying the malls fitan New t.,
the West. itultel,' Centr2,l and :South
pats, Is postponed until July 13.
—A match game of quoits for slllo
vide bete.•een It. Dodd, of London, tint_ and W.
Willing:Law Winghain the champion or It, • in,
minion. was I,:ap•li nn R• intne,4ll3 - at 1.,,nd
suiting in favor of Drald with a ~ire ot CI to 42.
—she Missouri I)emocrati. Ce nventioo
adjourned Thursday :limning. The tit
wu4 completed as follows: Attormy Oet.oral. 11.
H. 314.H:tyre ; itetlbter of Land,. Rob rr.A. NI,•-
Culloogh It.tilroad Conduls.louer, tieo ,- :,:e C.
Pratt.
—President. Itnyes will not ga to Ohio
until about tho middle or Attguq, when he_ will
q:tldwo werss thtr,, Inel ad dig attendance up. u rennlon big n , lttegjno'fit. a: d ao tho ricer ~r
September hn wl'l =tart on bin trip to the Pact:li
t:oast.
•
—During:a severe Vcin , l and rain storm
near Orange C. H., Va., on Tu;.sday, a tarr.r. entn
6011,,t, Major Scott WAN Motu (1 , .:11 t h,
dwelling of Charles Herring was set ..n tire !..y
lightning. Mrs. Herring was rara!yz , .,l by His
stroke,
—Prince Lenixi "Will arrivo at New:.
port. R. L. on .Saturday, from Bo n. any' will
main MITI! Wed3x•sdae lOWA, when h, go to
New Yo , k. lie sal's for Ene pe on the t
The leading' summer ruddenls there prop,,se eli
te, tattling him in a tartsh manner.
-1 . 116 Govehlor and Council of 'New
liamp,litre, In a report up - ,sr Ow re, nut lola-dig:l
-[ion of charges ag.tfilsr de.• nod Ilermiy
Wardi.4 of the rstate . Va.,. a, r -, lag th•
testlmatiy,'fn 11. xitatieate thObe fl4Cia.l3 on each of
the forty the charges preferred agalusr, them.
--On a tt Cent Sunday bwening_ni:6fig re
gatkon at Sahtloial. 111., wag by potato
bugs, which tools entire poszes,ion the
Windows. doors 'and .vats wetn , purf,,,qty bkidi
with them, Ladles .rrenia-d, hat., and
flew, and turn stuffed 1.1161 trous rt: in theft Is Kits.
—John Turner, son 6f Sheriff Turner,
of Utah City, wa4 found murdered near Eebority.
It Is bettered by a trAttit. winked Frederick Wel
come, of whom the father Is now In put ott. Wel
comotad twice tier,, arreste• I by z‘ner4l Turner
for horse heating, and Lad thrfateued
life.
--Joseph Archer, a lumber merchant,
at goLbee,' W.li4 Vitt SailiflZ n
Wednewlay, accompanied by his two SOIIA. when a
IEO3II upitet the boat. Augliatlne, the elder ant,
so tempted to swim tp Awe and was drowned, but
his father and bruthlT were bave.d by cling•ng to
the boat..
—A fire at St:i, Louie; originating in
Charles Fatinsn's furitituto factory, situated to an
alley between Sixteenth atm Seventeenth streets
and Case avenue and Xriral.en erect. 41antavd the
factory to the amount of 01,0,t0o; Rudd itx linir,-
ees box factory, ..3,000, and other NUlTOUtillit,g .
property about t 3,000,
—The eteamer'•'Afigliu, whieli cleared
from Halifax, N. S., on Monday, tor Londourvla
Boston, carried out 8,204 cases of•,lobsters, valued
at #33.075, and the bark Bella Mudge, whieh el , ar
ed fur the same port on the strne day, took out 1,03
Cases of.lobeters, worth, t 41,000. •
—Hon. John A. Campbell, at one . time
Governor of Wyonitog and later Third Asststaut
Secretary of Stab, died at his msidenco at Wash
ington Wednesday morning. HO served with dm
thietion In the Arta) , of the Cumberland fr , on the
first days of the war till its ale.% where he we odb
of the beat known staV officer& having acted
General SebeneWs welt:km= General daring the
Wales years at the war,
A. FOojsPcci Ilour.-- - " For, ten years'
M 7 w i re ivilireolifined tO her' bed with.
'melt a complication' of ailnaente that n0... 4
doetor e'onld tell'what was the matter or
eutc,her, and I 'insed up a small Airtime
In humbug strut ' Six mimths ago I saw •
a United States 112 g with flop . Bitters on ,
lt, and .I thought I would be a.foal once
more. I tried but my folly proved 'to
be wisdom. Two bottles cured her,, and
she is now as well and strong as any
man's wife; and it cost me only two dol
lars. Such folly pays.—lL W., Detroit,
Afidhigan• ' I •
Aboatisentents.
DEEKSK I LL (N. Y.) MILITARY
kVADEMYt—rei'clieulars, , sadress Cut. C. 1
.r. Wrfght, A. M., Principal. July Is,. wel,
NOT/Ct.-411, persons are forbid
eettluz Timber on this laads,of, the late Ed
ward' Mcfierern. In Overl6n Township, wlti.f-ut
this written Crtfld ,, t/t 'the Undersigued.,-undur thn
penalty of the law. .
JOIIN McGOVERIS, Exceutor
Chrert , n. :tray
NOTlCE.—Whereas, my wife Ma:
ryl,..ll4vlngleft my Irkil and beard wllh,ut
itost•ranw, or brovocaMon. I befell torpid any ;•p• f
arm harhnrinq or treating h..r on my a ,
Will pay to .I.thtz of her cbliero-ring.
It t'EL, REATH.
. standin 4 Stow., 18 ' ,1 )-wr. _ '
BLAIRSVILLE - (PA.) LADIES'
SENt INA RI. —l:eantlful grout.g.q.. c( ti.mo
dl„,l,l,l:4ling I, ,14.. k. null ,lii.:ll , Pr pl:iti.... for 1."; -, C.
MC. ant TIPIiV.UGII I`l% ,, 7,lWerlqN. - Teti inAtrue
tun.. Term.. ril..4,t,:tti • Tbirle: h. year bilzlns
Septinnh , r h. 164 1 ; V..r Citalcgoes: - apply to HV.T.
T. n, ‘}...)ri S C., prine)pai. JuLy:29-mt. _
•
USQUEHANNA COLLEM'ATE IN-
T,rnii of the trth year will be
tin MONDAY, ArG :M o. 184.. F.xpenxes for
hoard, tuition:tad furni;,l,l room, front $1.72 to
Van per year: For rat,:log,ne or fur cr . OrOcu
lara Wl[ires3 Ehe Prlimlhrd.
EDWIN c2ci.sr.AN Ai 1I:
Towar.43, Jan: 15, 1 5 a0. t
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1. 1: 01 tau, u 1, 1 ( hurt' wlit b id a ; V, i n cti
the patronage of• the' community. i;ustorn Work
done Immediately and in g 0,4 order, lu
the Mill have heen rcpilircil and h-reaftcy, It •111
I kept In goteLordt.r.. rerd, Yloar, , f€al .nd
Bram emotaritly uu ! band. Ca•h raid
II a 401 i orcn. litisatir W. WP.1.1. , .
Mouruvion, Jon. , 1 . 7, tE,A).
WI;LLI.- ILLS,
Manufneturers of
MMEIIM
WYALUSING, PA
('alll
A D.MIN IST A TOR'S • NOTICE..
of G._ WAyne Kinneydorenstl.*
Letter.; 'of mluilnisfrition on t . ly.• estate rd 0.,
Wa)n• - • itioney. zili•o•lo-iintn tn•ruldp.
P.r..(1.17•711 rouniy, P• fro , twen grAuttcl 1 , kr
'W. It.n•lonnn. Borong:.. In
KnI(1 count to whennall p!r:Jer=ln - I•luod to . . a ld
an, I q9..15Ze.1 W Inake pup, tt . nod tho,..t
r 'm in i or dotnarnts wPt noke known the
nune ti. It hoot .1-:ay.
RI,A AN. A dalinisti•a•A?
T6ivanda, Pa., .Icfly
•.=W PIPM
DAVII)OW S. BRO.
No. 9, lieldle:s.an Block, Bridgr•st., Towanda, Pa
CASH PAID Fol: FURS,-lIIDES,
FE!.T4, 'WOOL VEESWAX
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Agricultural Machinery
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R. M. Welles, Towanda,. Pa.,
:.:;ail dealer to
tlipnovi , r) FARMING IMP'
MI NT'S AND MICiIINERY. •
W!PAD TRUE CHILLED PLOWS,
Gale Chillcd Plows.
Best. li e vi l sbl e Plows,
Adt.rate
(',stn SlR'l•':utn Wagons, •-
Platf4.): to Wavj.ns, Iluggnrs,
Feed Cutters, Grain Dtiil
ACME PULITLTIZT.I7I 3A.111:77 IND CLOD
7.;
Iray.T.dders; Leader and (:ale
wteel Rates,' ,Ton?1.1:,;:v. I.: , , turty
• I'ILAS; tilt/ .s,
Sprout's Hay Elevators and Harpoon
Forks.
TAT11(1 Pctints. mixed re.3(1 . 1710T the
hrit.ll. 41f 1) ,, t X STAR 1 VT U .1" 11C
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and Inqweenl.yo.o.a:lll New Y‘o k withont ell,;.
Sleeping ear: , on 3 relol G between It•Ttrato
itke,-11nrn% Paronar,
hreen Niagara Fa: i s :11Td 'Phltad. , qpn , ;l and
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71.11 •,,,,,-n to take iet,:ier.'l‘tloni for
the 1 rgoNt. rheapei,t an I 1,,,t Illlistr..ted klitilly
pittilication In tier world. Any one ClAt bue.nn.• 0
KAlCersSrlllopttit. I .. .ll • Oranut works or art 1., , ,,q1
free to stih.,ieri , eri. Tli'v !nice Is , o loVe { t hat ain.iot.
overylsaly suhverthes. (toe ;:gene rerlirts taking
vial snli.erltiers in a day. 'A
tarty aeat reports
,Inakleg over 4t,:leiii clear groft In bin da , s. All aho
(algagoine4to looney fast. You e .ll rl.:vot.. all year
time to the huskies:, or unty your ,p.tre time: yell
deed neat be away front home over night. Von eiin
do It its well 11..4 ethers. Full directions and nirms
free. If you want prontstile work • senc) its came
'address at. 'one 4. - It e: Sts nothing to try the feed.
ness. No one who engartes falls to make great ply.
Address liii:oll6E . tiIr:NSON .k (O.; Vorllsnil,
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