adford Ngortet E. 0. GOODRICH, EDITOR. Towanda, Pa.,..Augus 5, 1880. Republican National Ticket. FOB PIISSIDENTi General JAMES A. GARITELD, OF OHIO. FUR vlck-mr.s.tnsT, Gtneral OHESTEB A. AtTHITR, OP NEW-YORK Republican State Ticket. JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT, Hon. HENRY {}KERN, Northampton. AUDITOR ORNRRAL.I • Hon. JOHN A. LEMON, Blair County: Republican County Convention. Pursuant to a resolution passed by the Republican County CoMmittee, in session June Zit, 1880, the Convention of the Re -publican party_for 1880 will convene at rlce 'Court House 7%. in Towinda Borough, on TUESDAY, 4.UGUST ZIT% 1880, at 1 o'clock, P. N., to , make. the following minations, to wit: )r,e I.vrsfin for President Judge, person for Representative the 17th Con• I..)ni , person for State Senator. rersons for Representatives „• tv3rNoll for,lllktrlet Attorney And for the transaction of any other busi ness that - may come before the COnven tif 011. The Conimittees of Vigilance 4f the several election districts will calla pri mary or delegate election for their espec tiVe districts, for SATURDAY, ALT UST 21 sT. IS , to elect' by balloC . two', dele gates to represent each district in said County. Convention. . The delegate elections in the Townships' m ill he organized at 3 o'clock, P. krraiq 1- opt. open cotenuously to the else at 5 c'eh i , .k, P. 2.1.; 1 i in the Boroughs and Say-re' District the delegate electi.ms will be (r-glin zed at 1;', o'clock, .P,131., and kept ;w r.._ continuously until the close at 8 6'elock, P.. M. The metes shall then be e,.i!oteil, and the result certified by• the p:iic , -ri to the Chai luau of the said Con 4'enti4,n, and a copy delivered at once to the delegates elect. ~ - . • Tho Committees of Vigilance are par ticularly requested to observe the, above, careftilly in conducting the priniary Meetings.. BENJ. Nt. PECK, Chairman. rDNEY 11. 31ERC4711, Secreta-ry. emomillpes of Vlglianize • P.4trolizh—G.ll. Fos•+. Or F. Young, Orrin 11. Richards, G. AV:En township—O. D. Alexander, John S. •., o. sh,rn,an. .‘• A. (altrert, F. N. Dixon. .Tripp, Floyd • M. - I\ - !-g Q. Alt Teens.,ip. 1 , 1 District—L. 0. Snell. Geo. t. M t ticr, Fx:_nck-I.irtt ,Att. ttt. District—F. IF. Keyes, - 'Art, N. \V Dallock. • Dl. ! triet-11. W. Tfirmias, ,•. 15'.irdiL.g. P.'. F. Cooll , atigh. .r,..,l,ship—e. W. T 1,1,1, George Emory. ' Borough—lV. 11. D. Green, fr•,..n.31. ,1 ungtr.n Town , hll-,T. S. Baker, 11. L. Spen . Wheeler. , • ... • ...21 , t , 11 - lh , re•egh..-,-1)r. -.1., E. Cles,..eiand;" E. I F. A. ov.eu. Andrus,'.llirarn 'And few,. N13111..y, T"nli+liip - -C. E. Cladding, DeWitt Frank .11..rgan. Joseph Spalding, Ahlra W.m. It. laiekwell. 1.,410. Inrto‘vzisllip—Adam Innis, John Vronlan, : li. T.,..stmemaker, 2.1. Hurst, George Brown, 1 , 1 ort . • , Wllle‘oxrA. T. I.iney, ih.r.nigh—Leroy Coleman, Samuel 1, raufs.•lil. Litcl,ll. Id 'F,,wl,,litp---4tephen Evans, C. E. Me i. I.r. Jud , ri Ih.rmigh-1/. 11. Rockwell, I)..1. Sweet. !.. ../Phn N Du . . , • T,e.l,ltlp---t". I M. Pratt, C-layjßockwell rt"r011211-4). ,V - lraraltherger, S. -I.•rkere..(;..lC. 4 'f M. Parrett, E. J. Ram I. East:Win. r Streeyy, W. W. Cahill 1...• 1). Bones: L. W. Upham . I),,aitoo. , 1•1;f1.:11 y. r",.-11,1,11.—E. A. Cooper, G. R. Mead I• 17. Lartl;•oe. 11. Stone, E. E. Spalding, M 17,1atd. H•go. l T.o.nbldp--Itlchard McCabe, Geo. Forbes, i A ooW. Town,hip—W. 11. 11. Gore, I. L. ,•• It , :1,11 , 1,1T00 o,blp----Georgo T. !leech, Walter . c. C. "q". Lb. ri:11 Cr,el; Towitsfilp--(i. 11. Thompson, G. 0. '111.., Sri t'ralle. nh Wavvliy I:or.mgh—D. 1.. F. Clark, John Satolers. if T, , ,,711.1 , 1 ~, 1,111;-0. P. llaiknes4., 1: Ira S. Fallfling. st ,, tco Toss M. Gordon, Chas. 1:c•lav S:.•%1•I1S. lilll4ollll--I. o ander 'Gregory. W. L. , •-tt.pheri n, T,,,,i,11; 1 -4. 11. Schootmver, S. Itnirinan, l'ev.-anda Townshir--A. W. I)Imock, Leroy M. :uan. I!. NT. Davidson. 1 and, l'e,rnngh, Ist Ward—Ed. Stevens, John - J. ••••yddlr;. - st. P. Keeney. ' Ireronol. 2,1 Ward—lsaac Middaugh, Tavhe, -1. 1: E. Bennett. an•-:ls..L`nrongh, tni Ward-1). T. Evans,' E. 1,. I'r:ink Smith. a;r 1 ,13 N..: th—E. Cutts, W..% Manger, !A. It. 1': Itorough—T.eu Is Crane, 11. 11. Mitchell, 11. Try Township— L. - T. T.ootnis, Wm. L 1114,/, Mar-1- , n Greene. ' Tu..arora 'lll%vii,lilp—Dr. N. J. Cogswell, A. 111 s. Acidey. ',ter Teun.lrlt—.Junes Mather, J. 11. 3lerser 'l. .4.0. %V a -ven n.1,11•1-,I. A: Murphy. I). A. Sleeper, C. 11. Beg. We!' , Ten IleardSlee, F. 11. Sway r.. Re;yea. Teu ',ship—Thomas Quick, T. It. Young, leo •Ns uelicou Pown;lllp—N. Loomis, Wright Duu. Laol. 1.1.,t White. Wy:,`11.1111.;• Tnwnship T.ll/11311 Lewis, .Jacob Ir.. Or. A. n. Nenell. Ton - fed:p—Wm. 11. Conklin, Wrn. Whit •:, I , anlel Lamphere. .1111:• HMe clubs of the South hi "stantly disband under 'llAti . c9tl:KArder ", it is a vital princiassn pufsys- Tw 1,.:n that neither timid nor fUrce7iiust be a'!,.wt.,l to subvert the rights .of thei peo 1. county. electiOns will hereafter ss•snducted on the I.rinciples laid down }I A N, letter of acceptance, that it is; oily by.a 11111 yrite, free ballot and I ;..r count. that the pe(iple can rule in fict, asTe,pdred by the theorS , of our' rove.' ;Intent." _ ' ' is nothing sma -about RICHARD \VAC:Nun,' the composer. ' Ile is willing to come to this country if he is properly rt.4_N , MpeitAsd, and he has written to a gentleman of Boston saying that, a million *of dollars'stbscrilied in America arid icild to him, part in cash and part in skccuritiZ;, hd willcome Eit this country to stay, anil would produce all his operas lie and - dedicate future life and work to A nierica.7 T:111 Independent People's Labor Con ion assembled itt Sharon, Pa., on "W(dnesday_for the tun-pose of selecting c:ln.lidates fnr Preident and Vice Presi 7 0(..1.t of" the U-nited States. The total vote C tit v. as 2'25, I;AItFIELD receiving tvienty lise majority over all. The nominatifin ma; then • made - unanimous. General A-RT)11 - 1; was then nominated. for Vice Prcli . dent by acelamation, •after which c : 2aven - t.ion adjourned amid great enthusi asm. ' Ir there is any one question upon which pt , workingmen of this country are unit eci, it is upon the question of the tariff— ard a tariff for "protection. i The. Cincin nati platform declares for "a tariff ,for revenue only "—in other words a tariff tl;at will induce importation and there fure lessen the demand for; home-made gOods. IlAxcocx's• letter is iiilent on the . :4ulject. Can any Democrat, possesised ortwo grains of sense,.with such a plat form and such a letter expect to carry Penns) I vauia • ; A rurrrins published in connection with the bill introdnced by Mr. P1.12;301,1., be fore quitting Parliament, for the better security of vesseli with grain cargoes, shows that between the years 1878 and 1880 twenty-six steamships, laden wholly or partly with grain, foundered at sea, and twenty-fonr were reported as musing. , Duting the smile period one hundred pain laden sailing vessels foundered and nne•hundred and eleven were' reported as redwing; . • = ! A Jonrr sessiop . of the Republican Ns. tional and the Republican Congressional Committee will be held in New York on the sth of August. Gen °rah; GARFIELD and ARTHFR will be pres ent, with prominent Republicans'from all parts of the country, including. it is ex pected, Senators Cosmxso and Man i's,' Governors PROCTOR of Vermont, LONG Of Massachusetts, - ANDAF.WS of Connecti eut,:and Com of New York, ex-Gov .# ernors MogiciAN and FISH, and Messrs. THURLOW WEED, GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, .Senator CAMERON and Hon. G. A. GROW. Tam Democrats and Greenbackers in Maine have formed an "unholy coalition" —the fusion being complete, though whether the tail wags the dog or the dog wags the tail not, certain. The State Executive Committee of both parties met, and the Greenbackers accepted the prop osition of the Demoorats to give them four electors, the Democracy.taking three. In the Fifth Congressional district the Deinocratic Convention i ,unanimously in dOrses Mullett, the Greenbacker, piisent member. Mr. MILLIKEN,' the Republican nominee, is sanguine that he can redeem the district, notwithstanding the fdsion. TnE most remarkable discovery in American politi?s is the one promulgated by a not very wise son of General HAN c9CK, to the effect that there lare no prin ciples at stake in the present national campaign. He views the matter simply as a personalicontest between his father and General GARFIELD, and is unable to see anything of those mighty issues in regard to State sovereignty, the -suprema cy of the national Union, the enforcement of equal rights, the protection of dames tic industry, the reduction i. of debt and taxatio?; the gold basi4.4he,...fiational banking-system and'a sound national cur rency, about which all the rest or the country-has been, and still continues to be,-so agitated. AN armed mob of about one hundred menn-Went into Moberly, Mo., Thursday, and opened fire upon a man named Con- LEW, whom sheriff MATLocx was taking into the:told House - to be tried for a felonious assault* a woman. CORLEW ran into the _Court Room, followed by three of the mob, and was shot again. -Ile then ran into the street, and received another shot, andivas chased through a dry goods store find up an alley and into the street again. He finally got into a roan over a•saloon and was " cornered " his pursuers. The • husband of the woman then fired four more shots into Coituriv's body and one into his forehead, causing wounds from which the wretched Man died in ten minutes. The law officers of the 'town made no effort to check the . mob. i TUE memory of that drunken bully and Cowardly bludgeon wielder, Pnwrox S. Bnooxs, has been vindiclted by the nomination of Esomsn'as the Democrat ic candidate for Vice President. It his already been shown that ENGLISH was one of the twelve 'Northern dough-faces who voted against the expulsion of BitooKQ. If no other act was recorded against ENGLISH, and he had never given any other vote, but that in Congress, : it would be all that is pecessary to stamp his character before the American people. It shows precisely 'his innate meanness— his groveling spirit, his nefarioUs political bates and his bent of purpose as an aspi i*,nt for power. _l•The unrepentant yebel spirit chid depend on him in case HAN r:fik was pp f out of the way as only that spirit of hate understands how to dispose of 'men.. THE LETTERS OF ACCEPTANCE. The Democratic candidates for President and Vice-President have written their letters of acceptance. That of Gen. HANcocx 'is just what might have been expected of a man educated at West Point, and whose life had been-spent in canips. It is a / plausible, sophomolical essay, fall of meaningless sentences and high sounding platitudes. But it evades .or leaves unnoticed the vital issues in. which the 'country is interested. The elementary principles which the General elaborates will be acquiesced in as correct by everybody. But in laying down these principles the candidate administers a strikingd.e -_ buke to the party which has placed him in nomination. His allusions to a "full vote, fair count and free bal lot" are particularly unfortunate cowing from a Democratic candidate. If it has reference to ,the peculiar manner in which a, full vote is allow ed and the ballot-boxes protected in the South, it is to be hoped that it will be heeded by his supporters in that section, and that -- the "14ississip pi plan " will not be continued, and the " tshot-gur policy abolished in the future,, with due penitence for the aehievementsi of the past. So the General probably intended as a " glittering generality " the sentenL• that, "It is a vital principle in our system that` neither fraud nor'force must be allowed to subvert the rights of the people," for in one section of the country the party to which he owes his nomination is notoriously subversive of the rights of a portion of the citizens, and by frand and force prevent the peaceable exercise of those 'rights guaranteed them by the constitution, and particularly by those amendments which the General admits are the supreme law of the land,•inviolable, and which he would not have impaired or evaded. The gross inconsistencies of this letter are on a par with its evasive ness and nofeeommittalism : It gives no single evidence of statesmanship, nor does it deal with a. single ques tion which concerns ,the interests of .the public or the welfare of the coun try. The Democratic platform -de clares in favor of a tariff " for reve nue only." The meaning of this phrase is apparent to the most stolid intellect when illustrated by the pro ceedings of . the Democrats in Con gress in their efforts to promote the `• were cause of free-Vide. Gen. HANCOCK is as (lamb as an oyster upon , this question, which is ho closely identi fied with the interest of every labor ing man, whether he tails in the iiork shop or tills the we As a que stion of national interest it transcends all the other political issues. Under the protecting influence of our tariff rawe the manufactures of the country haVe grown and prospered ; until we now supply not only our own people, but cbmpete with foreign nations in their own markets. Having no sympathies in common withthe preductivl6 (gim es, Gen. HANCOCK has no wards of 'encouragement or congratulation to offer. He is probably aware that his supporters do not come - from the hardy sons of toil, but that he must look for votes to the ex-rebels and to the population of the great cities whose partizanship has no reference to the prosperity of our great indus trial enterprises. The estimate formed by the Republicans of Gen. Ham= coca'sfitness for the Presidential office, is more than confirmed by this letter. It shows that be has no prac tical knowledge of political st4 , irs, no broad, comprehensive, statesman like views, and that he is merely sub servient to the traditions of his party. Theoretically he may be patriotic and liberal in his ideas and feelings, bat he would be the superserviceabre tool of the !nen who placed him in the Presidential chair, and however willing he might be to do right, would be powerless in the hands of the Confederates, who constitute the majority of his supporters and who IMMO are accustomed to rule the Demo cratic party. Fro:u the candidate for Vice-Pres ident nothing could' be expected but demagogism and trickery. He is so accustomed to devious paths that it is not possible for him to deal fairly with any question. His letter is de voted to an eulogy otlHANcocx, to a denunciation of the Adininistration, and to a rebuke of fraud. It is false in statement, , delusive in promise. It would be well for the - people to ponder upon the remote possibility of ENGLISH occupying the Presiden tial chair. Ihe Democratic party is exceed ingly urgent, just now, in having it understood `` that General HANCOCK is a , statesman as well as a soldier. When askeki for evidence, we are pointed to cfrder N. 40, when he as sumed command fin Louisiana and Texas. There are very nice plati tudesin this order relative to the subordination of the ,military to the civil powet,but even if .these were written by .° General HANCOCK; the mere utterance of correct - sentiments do not prove him a statesman. Even the correctness of the ,order, as a practical document, depends on the circumstances under !Which it was is sued. If General HANCOCK meant that he would enforce the 'laws of Congress, in ail far as they applied to the territory under his command, w ell and good. But if he designed Ito permit local and illegal en 4 .ments to violate and ride down t' he )aws of Congress, it was an entirely "different matter. If he meant that the supremacy of the nation should be enforced in the region ,where re bellion had flourished and where its spirit still remained, he uttered wise and timely words. ' But if he design ed to encourage local misdeeds, if committed under the guise of law, he was simply playing into the hands of the lawless element of the South. The) facts then must attest the states matiship of his order. As nothing else is alleged in support of the claim tha the is a soldier statesman and 1? not a mere Soldier, the case before us can be fairly and intelligently ex amined. What were the cittonmstan ces that gave 'rise to that order, and what does it mean ? - General HANcocx succeeded Gen eral SHERIDAN in command at New Orleans, and assumed command of the department; which included Louisiana and Texas, late in Novem ber, 1867. Immediately on his arrival in New Orleans, he issued his order No. 40. In it he claims that " peace and quiet reign in this department," and then proceeds to state that his policy will be to make. the military subordne to the civil power. The entire drift of his Administration, following this order.) was in the inter est of the ex-rebctelernent, and has been regarded'as a bid for the Demo cratic presidential nomination in 1868. There was a law. of Congress at the time which required him to protect all persons in 'their rights of person and property, and punish all • isturbers of the public peace and criminals. Yet his order was calcu lated, and had the effect of causing the ex-rebels to feel that they could defy the reconstruction 'acts, and op press and defraud Unionists, white and black, to the full limit of their power. In other words, the order was in the interest of lawlessness, and not of obedience to the laws. It was in the interest of rebels, and not of Unionists. Let us notice the facts as presented by three competent wit nesses. General SHERIDAN, after reporting to General GRANT the condition of affairs in this department as he found them, with ex-rebels filling , civil offi ces as a reward for their services in the rebellion, proceeds to add : "It is scarcely necessary to state that from this condition of affairs nearly every civil officer within my command was either openly or secretly opposed to the law and to myself is, the authori ty held responsible for its faithful execution." It is to this class of people that Order No. 40 was ad-_ dressed. General RZYNOLPS reported from A SOLDIER STATESMAN Texas to General Gam r, within two months of , the. time when General HANcbox issnedkis order: "ArtniXl organizations, generally known as Kitalux-Blasi; existed in conned with, other , armed' bands in, many parttrof the State. The precise ok; Just of the orgaulsationsinthis State seems to be to disarm, rob and in many cases murder Union men and negroes i and as occasion may offer, murder United States officers- and soldiers. The civil law east of the Trinity river is almost a dead letter. In some of the counties the civil officers are all, or a portiOn of them, members of the klan." As to Louisi ana, General HOWARD _described its condition, - as it was less thane month prior to Gen?ial HaNcocit's , ordet : ''. The'compl ants of freedmen against "the whi so, common .thioughout te z the Sou , are unusually frequent in Louisiana: Murders and outrages of the - most revolting description have been perpetrated upon the colored people in some sections almost with impunity. Generally, the state offi cers and tribunals in the rural dia. triets permit criminals to escape or openly excuse,them." Thus, we have froni official reports the situation as it was immediately before General HaricocK assumed command. With these facts before ul ,de statesmanship of this order can be readily analyzed, - He was appointed to command in a territory filled with disloyal elements, and where lawlesiii ness and violence abounded. He was called on to respect and Chfoice the laws of Congress in a region where those laws were bid defiance, and where local courts were of no value or force.. Under these circumstances and in this place he issued an order the effect of which was to encourage this lawless feeling, and to assure the violent element that the military power of the United States would not be unfriendly to it. This was the pith and point of the order. Does it not prove its author a dema gogue rather than a statesman ; a partisan more than a patriot? THE ALABAMA ELECTION. The fir'st State election this year, since the nominations for President were made, was held in Alabama, on Monday last. The officers chosen 'were Governor, and othOr State offi cers and three Judges of the Supreme Court. Members of Congress , are not elected until November. WEA VER the Greenback candidate, has been stumping the State, but there was no Republican ticket' , in the field, owing to the fact that that the large majority of the Republicans were colored men, and the " Yazoo plan" has thorougly intimidated them. The result in the State is a Democratic majority of over- 50,000, giving -a practical illustration of HANcocx's declaration in favor of a "full vote, a free ballot and a fair count," as ex emplified in the Solid South. The following figures will show how the "Mississippi .plan" has protected the Republican voters : In Alabama the vote has been in , the years nam ed: Dern. jtep. 79,444 - 90,272 • t.. '107,118 198.928 1,- 1872 1874 This year no Republican votes were cast. The statements that there was a coalition between the Green backers and the Republicans were false. The shot-gun and the bowie knife have wiped out of existence the Republican organization in'Alabama, and Republican voters are 'deterred from voting by the certainty that danger to life and proPerty would attend their efforts to enjoy a " free ballot." As to a "fair count," that only exists in the vivid and sanguine imagination of the "superb" soldier, safely entrenched behind the bayonets of Governor's Island. A more fitting and emphatic rebuke of the pretense for fairness and order, a more com plete illustration of the insincerity of the professions or the delusiveness of the promises" fade by the ,candi dates of the Democracy, could not be had than is given by this Ala bama election. It shows at once the mockery of the Demotratic pledge for a " free ballot," and is an earnest of what they be expected shoUld.the Confederates rule the nation. THE Lycoming Fire Insurance Compa ny has been in operation for forty years,. and has always been in favor with the people of Northern Pennsylvania. It was considered one of the safest and most re liable Companies in the State. For twenty years it had a prosperous career as a inn tual Company, until Ist of May o 1861, a. supplement to its charter was passed au thorizing it to do business on the cash plan as well. The premiums arising from cash insurance were to be paid into the common treasury, from which all losses and expenses were necessarily to be met ; but the cash policies not being liable to as. sessments, all deficiencies in income must be supplied by assessments upon the notes of mutual polic r Y-holders. The company then branched out . into an extensive agency business all over the country, and all went well for a while, until the Chicago fire entailed a loss of half a mil lion. From that time the company was regarded with suspicion by tho conserva tive State insurance departments and was soon prohibited from doing business in Massachnssetts. They still continued tot transact business elsewhere in the United States, however, and at the beginning of the preseint year had a large amount at 'sk in the State of New York. But all this business had been done at a heavy loss, all of • which, by the terms of the supplement, to the charter, , ' tell upon the mutual insurers. Exactly how much the company lost op its cash insurance it would be difficillt to say, but a Special committee of the policy-holders, Who had an investigation on the 14th, 15th and 10th of July, made a calculation of the re sults from the Ist of. January, 1875, to theist of January 1880. They found that gross premiums received during thosel five years for cash risks amounted tol $2,409,830, out of which was paid for re funded premiums, reinsurance, .commie sloes and brokerage ' ',. Mljustiq lames, general manes and salaries, $1,147,571,. leitibtalt B9 - 1 t 765 as the n e t illtoi*C,Plini cash politikus. , But the loss ottneekp"-'i cleft &dui t4ihrt feitear#3 l , s 6 ll oN, Making thiant4ll4 B tethil.**Pwc!i; the basineeis23l,sl`..C . i; about $lB,OOO s;. - Porte of f olliot! 11 , 1 to bet* by assess* mend en z ,,the manta politii-bolder;: :. , : close of 1879 found the Company hopelessly insolvent, but the officers doctored their statement as. m to show a surplus. A meet tint of the mutual - polloY:htildeziliasbeein called for the 4th of August, at the Conit House, at Bellefonte, at • which some line of action will probably be adopted as to assessments, and the course to be pursued in reference to the criminality of the offi cers of the Company. .Faust the Press of- July 28th Lu zerne resolutions "of instructions have been- passed in favor of divans. A. Guow for United States Senator.' The drift of popular sentiment on the Senato rial question is clear and strong. From all parts Of the State come emphatic dec larations which point to Mr. °now as the choice of the Republicans of Pennsylvania to succeed Mr. WALLACE. Thus far, in almost every case where the Republican muses, either by direct vote or through their duly-constituted Conventions, have had an opportunity to express their pref erence, it nu been in his favor. The 'Old Guard of Ler:muter' led off by a direct 'vote of the people; followed by a similar expression from the Republicans of Erie, and the Conventions of Crawford, Mercer, Venango and a part . of Allegheny. In most of the other Repuldican counties which have held Conventions, where they did not instruct they have nominated for representatives - men who are known to be favorable to Mi. °now. This is a devel opment and manifestatkat of public senti ment which it is the province of As public journal to' report. The counties of the -old . Wilmot district, Mr. Guow's own home, have not yet held their nominating Conventions. The character and -states manship of Mr. Gnow justify this public confidence, and it is natural that Pennsyl vania should desire to return him to the national councils where he made so great a mark: I • - 'Tea English government is in receipt of a great - military disaster in Afghanis tan, in which a brigade•under command of Gen. Bt sitows hacqbeen completely annihilated. during an engagement with the Afghans, near Candahar. No partic ulars have been received but the brigade seems to have been surprised by the Af ghans and completely ci9 to pieces. This disastrous news is a:reminder, of the wholesale massacre by the native tribes of no less than 26,000 men, women and children in the retreat of the British ar my frOn3 Cabul in January, 1842. The first intervention in Afghan affairs by the British was in 1838, when 'a pretext was found -for declaring war by the Governor General of India, and ever since that time Great Britain has meddled more or less in the internal arrangements of Afghanis tan. At the end of forty years nothing permanent , seems to have been accom plished. Tho reduction of Cabul is likely to follow 'that of Candahar„and the au thority of the newly-made Ameer, An- Dt7IittAIIMAA KHAN, bids fair ' to be exceedingly short-lived. Aroun Klux, brother of the deposed AmeerYAKoon, 'is the successful leader of the revolt, and millions more of treasure must be poured out and thousands of lives sacrificed to put, him down. A SERIOUS accident occurred at what is .known. as the "watering trough,". on the Muncy creek, a short distance above Pic ture Rocks, near Williamsport, on Tues day of last week. A party consisting of Rey. N. F. STAHL, Presbyterian minister of Muncy, and' his wife and her aged aunt; Mrs. PETRIKIE, wife of Major R. W. PETRIKIN, and the children of the minister aged respectively one and four years, :started for Eiglesmerein a double seated buggy. As they approached the trougi Mr. STAHL got down from the buggy to - unrein the horse so as to enable him to drink frelely. At that point there , is an almost perpendicular declivity of seventy feet into the creek. While the rigging stood nearly with its back to the precipice, the animal became frightened at the waterfall and suddenly backed the vehicle over the brink, regardless of the efforts of the reverend gentleman, who seized the bridle and did everything in his power to prevent an accident. The buggy, with its .. occupants, was *tried through the tree tops and ilashed to pieces. Mrs. STAHL was the only one seriously injured.". • / 0 2,002 4;2.30 $9,571 60,000 THE much-talked-of letter of General HANCOCK to ',General SHERMAN, dated from Carondelet P. 0., St. Louis, Decem ber 28, 1876, has been published,, (In ef fect it is merely a general review of the then situation as to the presidency, and an indication of unwillingness to employ the army in the settlement, of the possi ble•difficulty. As to Mr. HAVES, while he expressed a doubt as to that gentle man's election by the people being de clared unless_ the tlenate and _House should be in accord, he states that he has no doubt he would make an excellent president. 'He objects _to General nu- GAR'S military action in South Carolina, but presumes he had instructioLs and au thority- in the matter, being in direct communication with the highest military authority at the seat of government. Al together there is nothing remarkable about the letter, one way or the other, and it might well hive slumbered or been forgotten without injury or benefit to any one. Butlor the fact that some stress has begn laid upon it, there would seem to be no justification for its reproduction. THE full history of SPRINGER'S "re traction" is worth reciting. He spoke of GARFIELD like an honest man and a gen tleman, andAhen took it all back. A few weeks ago, in a speech to his friends and neighbors, SPRINGER was *manly enough to say : "I know JaikiEs A. GARFIELD by being with him in the lower House of Congress for years, and I know there is no abler Republican than he. I see that the newspapers are making charges against his -- cliaiadter ; but, my friends, I cannot say that they are any wise true." No sooner was this just tribute published than SPRINGER'S party fell upon him with all manner of abuse and with threats of public destruction. The Chicago Times said of him : " Unless he retracts his declarations, the chances are that he will be severely disciplined. Td begin with, he will be dropped by the Democ racy of his district, and his voice after the fourth of March next, will be beard in Congress no more forever. Nor is that all. It may be become necessary, in order to carry out the Southern programme, to haver'a trustworthy man at the bead of the Elections Committee ntxt winter." This did the business for SPRINGER. Ho surrendered his manhood, suppressed his conscience, and a fresh meeting having been arranged, he proceeded to "retract his declarations," The manner of doing it was as mein as the act itself. He read , the distorted statement of the - Credit lb:Mier evidence, which_ the Detawatie ►perspubllabed,, and after inkiessifig ';os. Osit'Ot th. 01 04 1 *.• .- added 1444111 the verdict 41:tai jun , : win kirie bill **Non of .guilt the PO -4 101400. believe the ienlict of thi) jury - or willbelieve' ttid fitar 1 4 - th° criminal ?" Whatever &skewer' Ulu inbile may give to' limustomeir oonundrrims, there is no doubt of its verdict on Sumo- Melt case. - - - • Tamales forty day fast will expire on Saturday, provided he does not expire be fore that day, of which ibere is no pros pact as at latest accounts, be Was still tbiivitig on his low diet of earixio acid water.- Though his stomach ia at times refractory, be seems to retain his strength and PHILADELPHIA LETTER. PIIILADILLPHIA.Augast 8. 1100. The Republican State Committee met on Thursday last, in this eityi'; pursuant to notice given by. the Chairman, Hon... John Cessna. The attendance of mem bers was unusually large, nearly every county being represented. Among the prominent gentlemen present was' Hon. Marshall Jewell, Chairman of the Nation al Republican Committee, who gave a glowing account of the prospects of the Republican party, saying that all ac- counts indicated a preparation and organ ization such as has - never been known at so early a period in the campaign, and which promised, a victorious result. He also stated that a vigorous fight would be made in two or three Southern States with a fair prospect of success. Chair man Cessna, in calling the meeting to or der congratulated the Committee upon the condition of the party throughout the State.. From every county came the Same assurances of the unity and deter mined spirit manifested. He bad never known the counties to be so well organiz ed and the workers in such excellent lighting trim. Mr. Leeds spoke of the attempt to create an impression that there was trouble' in the ranks in the city, growing out of personal - difficulties be tween prominent and leading men. He said there wee no divisions in the city but the party was united and enthusias tic, and would increase its usual majority; Mr. Grow being present wai invited to speak, and made a stirring address which was well received. Other members of the committee made short speeches all to the same effect, that the Republican par ty was united and active, and that the full vote would be polled in November for Garfield and Arthur. It was resolved to appoint two sub-com mittees, one of fifteen, to conduct the campaign, arrange.. meetings, etc., the other of twenty-one, to raise and distrib ute money. It is proposed to hereafter 'enlarge the latter Committee to fifty members. The names of those who con stitute the Committee will probably not be announced for several days,„ Vacancies haiing occurred in the Elec toral ticket by the death of William L. Foi and the resignation of J. E. Coch rane from the , Clarion and the Lycoming and Tioga districts, respectively, they were filled by the selection of John T. Moffatt and Andrew Stout. Abram Up degraff, of Lycoming County, was made a member of.the committee. . At the instance of the Board of Publie Charities, the Court has directed the transfer of two hundred and fifty insane patients, now in the Philadelphia Alms house, to the State Hospital for the In sane at Norristown. The Board has in structed -its officera to confer with the Guardians of the Poor, relative to the re moral of the wooden pavilions, occupied by. the insane at the Almshouse, and the conversion of.the space occupied by tlie m into airing grounds. . 4 Mayor. Stokley estimates the expe l i§es of the ,Pnlice . bepartment for 1881 stl 323,940.0, an increase over this year 7 lof $116,315'.93. He fixes the revenue at i tp,- 325. The State Fair, which will be held ` t at the Permanent Exhibition, beginning September oth, and lasting until-tie 25th, will devote the last week to a sheep show. All sheep, wool and hair, must be enter ed on the book of the secret c ary on or be fore Tuesday, September 14th; all other objects, except sheep dogs, on or before August 31st. A portly stranger planted a havy va lise on the counter of the Merchants' Ho tel, Fourth street below Arch, Wednes day night, and registered himself as a guest. Then he stood'around the corri dor for awhile and chatted with the clerk. Fumbling thrchigh his pockets'he became slightly embarrassed for change which he said he would need, and longed - for the hour when the bank in,which he deposit ed would open. Bile told the clerk that he didn't care about borrowing money, but would leave his watch, a massive gold article, as secu rity, and upon that ground the hotel offi cial accommodated him with twenty dol lars. Then he went out for a walk, but as he hadn't returned' at' seven o'clock. Thursday morning, the watch was exam ined by an ex - pert, who pronounced it to be worth otwenty-five cents, Then the valise was opened, and it was found stuff] ed full of paper. It is reported that business has never been as brisk at the Baldwin Locomotive Works as at present, upwards -,of 2,700 hands being employed. Ten locomotives are, on an average, turned out wdekly, two hundred and fifty-four having been completed this year. ^ Orders are being filled for railroads for South Australia, New , South Wales and many distant and near-by placfis in North and Sdnth Amer ica. A three-story brick addition to the works, rat -Broad and Spring Garden streets, .is being rapidly completed. Colonel Snowden's annual report of the operations of the United -States Mint in this city, during the-Year ending June 30, 1880, shows that, in the coiners', welters' and refiners' departments over two hun dred and sixty-two tons of gold and one thousand eight hundred and. eighteen tons of silver were , melted, refined, an nealed and cut; of the minor coins issued there were one hundred and seventy-two tons of nickel, copper and bronze alloy. The value of the entire amount is placed at $203,209,663.57, and, although the le gal allowance for wastage on the gold and silver operated upon is ,$185,000, the actual wastage was 0n1y.514,281. Mrs. Josiah A.. Horn, of 1802 North I Eighteenth street, was awakened about, one o'clock Thursday morning by a noise' ra the"house, and immediately ascertain ed that the air of her sleeping apartment was full of chloroform. She saw two men packing up clothing and endeavoring to awaken her husband, who - was, however, too much under the influence. of the drug to be - aroused. She succeeded in making, an outcry, when one of the men drew ,knife and threatened to' cut her. They _then decamped through the bay window, from which was hanging a :trope which they had used to gain an entrance into the house. A sponge was dropped on the floor. The thieves took $3OO from the pockets of Mr. flora's pants.- STATE NEWL —Three thousand quarts of wild berries are allipped daily trout ttia Lactalrikiaii —Ma. Judge Belford, owed z7O piers, died Thursday aovao Natiodkitrillik, 01 <Pon —Some onerpolsoned the'stream known an Alszanders Dam; odor carhste, and Mkt all the fish In It. , . „ —The bantiof John..:lChig s YAW township, Armstrong mutinies* baraadaa day. 1 4 4)1*. 1,000. —Henry Simpnetti, aged 12 years, was drowned at Harrisburg Thum:Lay afternoon while bathing la as canal. -Mss.. Malone, of Cataasoqua, has a Ilimmattpold heifer that gives r quart and • plot of milk at arts milking. .• —Mrs. Randall, living near - Foster Brook. McKean comity. was thrown from a steer cart on Tuesday and Mlled. • minister C. A. Wilson, a Methodist minister of Allegheny, has been committed to jail upon the charge of larceny. • —Mrs. Betiey Cram, of Bradford, who was injured by a runaway !team on . Sunday, died from her Injuries on Thursday. . • —The reaideuce of Hon. B. Bruce Po trlken, at Huntingdon, was colored a few nights since arid robbed or many valuables. —William Gibbons, an employe of the Allentown Rutting Mill, Is Imitating Dr. Tanner, and has not touched food fora week. , ; 14" —John Weslcy Davis, aged ear wa4 Winos, Instantly kliled In Omnensville, on W.docmlny by tho fall of a limb of a tree. • —The Meadvill Republican accuses J edge AS. Newton Pettis of gowing the seeds of dis cord in the Republican ranks of Crawford county. • —MIN* Ali own, of Wilkesbarre, 21 years of age. cumin suicide by drowning on Wednesday night; No ea fur the act is known. —Six horses have eie n the hands of a vetermay surgeon at Pottstown of a disease. The throat swells and closes until the amoral is buffo. catetl. —Therdis a taladitim plant . in Wash 11,.gtun borough one leaf of which measures 42iii0 Inches,,ort4j Inches In circumference, and is still gem+ Mg. —Mt s. Jacob Sirith, living near Greens burg, was thrown from a wagon on Tuesday night sod received Injuries which resultad in Ler death the next day. —Mrs. Kane. of Allegheny, attempted suicide twice on Wednesday because of de:nestle t.enbies, and was each thne saved from (fiat!' by ber, husband. I)iehl's Hotel and S. Oohen's store, both In Parker, were destroyed by Drs on Thurs. M.y. The loss on the former was .2,500 and on - the Imtvr ff,500. —Mrs. Itobettson, of •. Warriorswarli V.tro.lllp, Huntine, , n county, has a child 7 mouths that .was born without eye•balla. It Is remark ably healthy: Thirteen freight cars were wrecked on the Catawissa Railroad near Montoursville on Tbor!"lay morning. Passenger trains were -con siderably delayed. --LTlie Buffalo Valley Railroad, in Som er.et onin ty. and running from Garrett to Iterlitt Lan teen 101.1,1 to the Itattimore and Ohio Railroad Company for t 25,000. • —The police of Bradford raid the houses of tit-fame there nearly every week. The Oil City ..thrriek says that tt is done.as - a crank of raising revenue for the town. —Beujamin li. Bortree, who recentlj , murdered Henry Shouse at notted dm Is on the flat of Jurors drawn to sCINO the second week to Septemberin Wayne county. —Samuel George, Jr., agOtl thirty-one years, a prominent citizen of Pittsburg, after a lin gerintilluess. has died. fie was president of the Fartu•rs and' Mechanics' Bank. —Dr. Sloan, a well-known physician of Chess Springs, Cambria county, was waylaid uear Altoona &few evenings ago and tubbed of a gold watch and a large sum of money. • —Enoch Burleigh, a colored man, was crushed la a stone Quarry at Washington on We:d uesday.aud had three ribs and his breast boue broken. His recovery Is doubtful.. —William Painter, a prominent oil producer and wealthy citizen of Franklin, was al; most Instantly killed on Wednesday by the break , lag of machinery about a bull wheel. --A 7-year-old boy named Dunlavey, with Awreral others of.hls own age, got into a -cel lar at time!, Ridge, Northumberland county, and drank freely or whiskey. Dunlave) , died. —Adam Steinback, an old and respect able farmer, living In :Harlon township, iteaver county, who has been lu 111-health for some time, committed suicide by hanging on Tuesday. —Mr. W. H. Dawson, Democratic can didate for Assembly in Warren county, has with drawn, and the Democratic Committee has Indor sed 11. P. Kinnear, the Greenback candidate. -=At the Greenback Convention in Erie, on Wednesday'. the delegates were :instructed to vote for William Benson for Congreks. 31r. Ben son was a candidate for District Judge , lu 1+76. —Mr. Elisha L. Odenwalder, an old resident of Easton, and In early life a wholesale dry goods merchant of_ Philadelphia, died in the former place on 'Wednesday. in his 6Sth year. • —The Brookville Republicari says that Clarion county, having ovi.r 4n 000 populatioh, will be made a separate Judicial district, awl that Je6 tenon will seek a now combination, possibly with Elk or Forest. —Mr. Andrew Moraantbal, of Rick town.-Berks county, has paid On penalty ailtl:so cents costs for killing,the tat of Samuel 11. Boyer. The cat attacked Mr. Morganthal while be was eating dinner. . - Miss Maggie Holtman, of FlotirtA)wn, Montgomery county, Is the proud jtvoi+essor of the bed on which General lianeoek slept when a babe: Thls Is getting the Tell• Intslnes4 down to an infin itesimal Rant. • —Congressman Ward gives notice that on the 23d of Septernber he will hold a competitive 'examination in the City Cmairil chamber in Ches. -ter to determine upon a candidate whom he shall appoint to West 4'otnt. —LOperationa at Uniontown, where the Chicago awl Cot Wellsville Coke Works will be lo cated. are progreaslog rapidly. The shaft has keen sunk 210 feel, and it is exfweted . that a 9-foot vein of coal*lll be struck next week. • --the Sheriff of Armstrong county has Seized the circus of Boyd & Peters, and will sell the material on 3tonday next.. Nearly all of the employes are In fall for p••rpetrsting an outrage upon the young girl Salaam Burkett. —Near Basket Station,on the Allegheny lines, John Greer, a latohntatifeer • hunter, trapped and killed 100 rattlesnakes this year and boiled them Into oil, %dell he sells for one dollar per ounce. It Is noted for its curative lowers. —An employe at the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne anti Chicago Railroad short. at the outer depot,' Allegheny. I.eing desirous Of emulating Tanner, has in .de a bet of .100 with - a fellow wcrk man that he will abstain front food for twenty days. —A lively sensation has been !lade in Pittsburg by, the assertion of Chief of Police ren der that the Chief of the Fire DepartMent has at tempted to bribe him, so that he should *I let up on the "policy " dealers, whom he Is how industri usly raiding. —ln order to elude arrest, a "crooked" Pittsburger jumped a dlitance of forty feet (rein bridge, and died within twenty tour hours from the InJulies he received. It is unnecessary, of course. to say than the officer who - was pursuing him did not Jump after hito. —There is a monster snake roaming around upper Salford township, Montgomery , coun ty, which Is said to be fully thirteen feet In length by those who have peeped at It. The coat of the skin which this notable reptile shed last year was found to me4sure twelve feet sir Inches long. • —Mr. Henry Res, formerly of Phila delphia, but now living In Norristown'. where he Is dealing In squabs attempted suicide by poison In the latter place nu Wednesday nicht. A revolver, a blackjack and a bottle of lamjanuM were found on bls person. The poison was'puruped out of him. —A. sprinkler has been put in .at the Pennayivanta lialircad yard dt JOhnstown to keep down the dust when passengers are going through. It Is sald, that the Pennsylvania 'road Is cptimplat log arrangements to sprinkle its: track 13ctweri Philadelphia and New York . during the summer months. • - —Mrs. Jane O'Neil whei was found lying upon the Hallslad trmit at Superior Station, Alle gheny.county, a few nights Since, beastly drunk, and accompsuleci by her two children, stated that she contemplated suicide and the death of her two children. Her husband was run 'over arid killed on the very spot where she was found, five years GENERAL NEW-S. —Jacob B. Bassard, a miner, was kill cid by the vemature explosion of a blast at the Diamond Shaft, In Wilkeibarre. —lsaac J. Jenkins, formerly Collector of theport of Wlllmluton,.Del., died at Asbury Park', IC J., on Friday night. —Discoveries of gold mines in the coun ties ,ef Washington, Saratoga and Hamilton are daily filed with the Secretary of State of New York. —John H. Clementshaw, who nwore.so strongly that Charles Me Young fired a shot at I. M. Ha!loch, was convicted of perjury at Sari Tram . —Mary Ennis, aged fifteen, fell into the canal at, Durhamellte, N. V., Sunday. Stephen Murray, her eututhi, attempted to save her and nuth were drowned. - —J. W. Dutcher, a guide on the Slide Mountain, tbo highest, of the catsions. and In Ul ster county, N. Y., pays that dt snowed:there on Thursday morning. —Snow commenced falling on the sum mit of Mt. Washington, N. 11.. Thursday; just be fore noon, and.contlnued almost without Intermts slqu until 2 I'. M. - —The two :upper stories of the John Ring Lard Refining Cumpanes establishment. at St. Louis, wenkburned at a late hour on Wednes daynight. pss, .15,000; Insured. —The railroad war between the Louii 'lite and. Nashville and the. Chicago, it. Louis and New Orleans Companies continues, and passenger rates are cut down at agratifying rate to travellers. —At Chicago Michael Mackin was shot andJatally wounded by his brother William. while trying to enter his housaragainst his will. was arrested. He claims the shooting was acci dental. —All Lut seven of tne seventy-five men employed on the Government buildings at Albany, N. Y., have struck because the superintendent would not allow them to quit' work at b P. M. on Saturday. —The. large building at West and Bank streets, New York. occupied. by the Domestic Sew ing Machine Company and several other rims, was partly destroyed by Are Thursday d night. Loss, about 00,030. - —The Comptroller of the Currency has deelared a dividend of tO p r cent. In favor of the creditors of the First Saii9eal lialid-of Pa, Which Will be paid as soon as necessary ached.- Wes can be prep:ma. , —The. Bank' of Colorado was attached on Saturdsrutorning on a check Which the bank was tumble to pay on account of E. T. -Lane, cash ier, having Absconded with the funds of the bank. The amount of Ims to the d Tositcrs Is not Stated. . —Gam Zahn W. Phalli', of Battleboro; Vt.. has written a letter formally accepting' the nomination for president of the Natlonal Anti. iltaaonfe Society. General Phelps avers that the arernptlest In national politics Is traceable to free. • ,•:'• 21 :-Til an aitercationletivean J. E. Oates sae L. Si. 'Ramey. on a country road, seven mltee .trom Danville, Va., on fiattmjay night: Oakes vas fatally stabbed. Ramey °seeped. Both are Dien youths, Oakes being nineteen and Ramey :illftoen year old. —A..tremendous hail and wind storm, - visited the truck and fruit section adjacent to Nor folk. Vs. on Wednesday. Hailstones as large as bens , eggs fell, almost entirely - destroying the veg etables, fruits and grapes. The wind blew down barns and out-houses and did great damage, to the corn crop. _ —Ward Haight, Wife and daughter, and Belden Wilmot, of Stamford,, Conn., were lost in the Sound on Tuesday ifternpon, white returning from a blackberry excursion to Long.lsland. They were fn a email "sharple,^ overloaded with drift wood. and it is suppose that It was struck by a squall and capsized.. ' =airs. Ana Robbins, wife of, Charles Robbini, a respected farmer residing it Nensleo, Winchester county, New:York, died from the ef fects of raziWgrern, purposely taken by her with suicidal - Intent on Wednesday morning. Her mind Is believed to have been affected by the death of a favorite son three years ago, • —Five prisoners escaped from the coun ty jail at Hudson, N. y., on Wednesday night by digging through the walls. They were Jim Ir:sur lily. a Troy safe burglar; Mirk Hurray. a robber ; Rob Magee, a Troy burglar, and Join Hennessey and James Kelly. of New York, passers of counter• felr money. They are still at large. -The Comptroller of the currency has jut completed a table showing the losses charged off y national banks during thesis months ending March 1, ieee. The total losses by all these banks during that period amounted to .7.503,R5t1. The losses for the correspunding period lu 1C75 were .10,237,324, and In 1678, 110,993,145. —A. party of fifteen disguised men on Wednesday night went to the house of Joseph Thompson, colored, twenty miles from Ailants, Ga., dragged him out and beat him and lilt wife killed his daughter and fatally shot hie son. An indignation meeting at Jonesboro offered 1.500 re ward for the murderers. Four arrests have been made. The leader of the gang was John Gray. whom Thompson had recently. prosecuted fur a• null: and battery... , STRAY PARAGRAPHS. A COLLISION occurred on the Long Island Itailroad on Saturday evening about one mile west of Jamaica, be tween the trains to and from Brook lyn, both : going at full speed. The engine of the east-bound ' train was turned completely around, and both engines Were I entirely demolished. The engineers bf the two trains were brothers. Jobn . .Walcott, of the east bound train E : was so badly injured that he died ,almost immediately. The cars, with' the exception of the platforms, were,but slightly damaged. Conductor - Samuel Allen, - of the western train, Lad his ribs broken and was injured internally. Brake man William-,McDonough received a bad scalp wound. Several passen gers were badly bruised and cut Mr. and Mrs. Egan, of New York, were injured severely. The train • from Brooklyn started late and had --no lights., It should have remained, at Wood Haven until the Long Beach train arrived there. A FARMEIt . s boy while bathin g in a small stream near Cresson . a few days ago \Nas caught by an alligator and drawn under water. -A Compan ion who was standing on -the bank saw the terribleisituation of the lad and attempted to shoot the reptile when it again emerged with its vic tim, but before the gun could be dis charged the bqy was again carried. under - the water. 'Finally he man aged to reach the bank, when the alligator gave a-jerk and tore a great piece from the calif of the boy's legs:: Then, with Mouthful of human flesh, it Slid;into!the water and dis appeared. The kg was terribly lac erated, and has been amputated be low the knee. ,Last May a freight car which contained a young alliga tor ifitended. for the Philadelphia Zoological Garden fellr linto the stream through a collision„Yand it is believed that this was animal which attacked the boy. Arconstant watch is kept over the!stieam to kill it when it- again appeara: • - A vot7o lady frorii Umlen had a real nice time at Brown's Mills the other day. She went to attend the Granger's picnic, and While getting ready for a - hop, thought she would take - a bath in a clear pond near by. So she borrowed an old calico dress for a bathing suit, • and carried It. to the pond, undressed, - put 'on the calico, and jumped in, ;caving ;her clothes on the bank. Some very funny young men of her acquaint:ince came along and hid her --.ClOthes. When she finished her bath, she had a long search for her clothed, but couldn't find them, and, retreated rapidly to the hotel in the wet calico ; then she offered twenty-five cents.re ward to any one finiiin;.'; her clothes In about fifteen' Minutes a small bpy came up the hill with her shoes afid stockings, another had her dress, and still another followed - with her.under clothipg dragging along the ground. Shouts of laughter , greeted their ap pearance, and the lady was so morti fied that, she passed the reward.out through a (Task in the door. - TmE jury in the Seawanhaka dis aster has very promptly rendered a verdict which virtually accitiits the Owners` id master 'and crew'of that. ill-fated vessel and the Lriiteil Sates boiler inspectors of all responsibilit=y for the awful affair by which so many lives were sac,lificed. The fire, it finds, was caused by the collapse of a tube of one otthe boilers, which had been properly inspected last March, and the boat was provided with all appurtenances required by law. The only censure expressed is !contained in the sentence that" the lo: s of life would not have been so &eat had the crew been disciplined , and exer cised to, act in conceit in case of panic thiough fire or any other cause." • EDOAR BABCOCK is a leading church member and superintendent of a Sabbath school in New Berlin, N. Y.. Jeremiah • Goodrich is Babcock's:, father-in law„ He is eighty yearg old, a great 'Smoker, and llis son-in-law is opposed to the old gentleman'a use of the weed, and_baS often requested him - to quit smokino.. The Cher day, according to a neigh bor of Mr.'Babcock's, old Mr.. Good rich.went into his son-in-law's barn to see him milk the cows.; While looking on he took out his pipe, filled and lit it, and began pulling away at '-Babcock's side. Babcock was dis- - gusted: Ile told the old gentleman to stop smoking. The octogenariAn kept on extracting pleasure from the clay pipe that he bad colored by long usc, andof.which he was especially fond and 'proud,.2. The son-in-law picked tip 'a pitehfork, and with.' a savage blow the handle knocked 'the pipe outpf the old gentleman's _mouth and 3:seattered -it about the barn floor li r ozen pieces: The, father-in-law gave his daughter's hus band his opinion of him in very em phatic Janguacre. The latter knocked the old maniiiwn and ,gave him so severe' , a pummelling that he with difficulty reached the residence of a son near by. Old Mr. Goodrich's head and ihee were 'shockingly cut and bruised. It was necessary to call a physician to attend to his inju ries. The, octogenarian says his in juries do not distress 'him so much as the loss of. his pipe. Bg WISE AND HAPPY.—If you will stop all your extravags4t.. and wrong notions in doctoring yowl / 031f anti• families with expensiye ductors'or humbug cure-alls, that do Laren always; and nse . only na. titre's simple remedies for. all your e ments---you will be wise, well and happy, and savW great expense, The greatest remedy for this, the great, wise and good will tell you, is flop Bitters=—rely on it. Sc another column. Arm Pvettisemei#s DEE KSICI LL (N. Y.) MILITARY ACADEMY—For circulars, address Col. G. J. Wright, A. M., rsincipal. July IS, wS . persons are forbid ..cuttth g Timber on the lands of the late Ed"- ward SleGgrern. In Overton Township, without the written eArneent of the undersigned, under the penalty of the law. JOHN Eiecuto.f Overton, May ad„ isae;iyr* .. NOTlCE,Mbereas, tny:wite'Ma -17 A., having left - my bed and board without Just cause or provocation. 1 hereby U 41 4(1,111 Iwr son harboring or trusting tier on my account, a, I will pay no debts of her contracting. - RCM. HEATH. Standing Storiecra 4 July 29, 1880--mr. .....-____ T)LAIItSVILLE '(PA.) LADIES', ... i ill 8 E3ll NA RY. .11eati it fu I grounds, cc 1111111. Monk buildings. new and-superior pianos for prac tice, and THOROUGH 1 N'Tit I:4:110N. Ter' lIISL7 uc. torn. Terms .runderate.. Thirtieth year 'lieglos -Septeinbor ii. trlati. • For Catalogues, apply t o t jt . r. -T. It. EWING. Principal. July 2-m2, --- SUSQUEHANNA ComAgIATE IN sTITUTP:..I-Fail Term of , the 27th year wit; be, - gin I.IONDAY, AUGUbT 11n, feet).- Expeuses Mr board, tuition and furnished room; from et 72 to lil6o per year.' For catalogue or -further particu lars address the Principal. 'EI.WII`: E..QUINLAN, A. Towar.da,"Jan. 15,1680. 7yl 1. 11L -s Th undersignedb9nzlemeieldlaul3l;ury woulcii the patronage of the community. 'Custom W.-viz done linthediatelt and 1/1 good order. All leak, lb the 31111 have [wen repaired and hereafter It be J lke,pt In good4rdor. Feed. Flour. !Heal and Brwi constantly du, band. Cash paid for Kral!. at ,blisbutown. HENRY W. WELL:i.• Afonroeton, Juno 17, Hap. WELLES' MILLS, • MituauctuKers of FOUR:, FEED AND MEAL, WYALCSING, PA CatOrphld for grain EXECUTOIt'S NOTICE.- lAA ters testamentary having been granted.b , .e 4 undersigned. under tlf last will amktfatamenr. of Getirg ,, M. Bixby, late of Wyaluslng, decea•ed, all persons indebted. to the e,tate of said dead-lit are hereby ;notified/ to make Immediate payment, and 311 having claims against said estate inti+t sent the same duly authent cated to the under signed for settlement. . _ J. K. NEWELL, Executor - Pa., August 5, IMO. • A PPLiCATIONIN DIVORCE. I). R. Cage. , In the Court of Ciro -mon Pleasof Bradford comity. No. 2:2. Fehreary Term, lawn. You are hereby notified that Emma. your wife. has applied to the Curt of Conim,in Pleas of Bradford County for a divorce from the bonds of matrimony, and the bald, Court hag a pointed Monday, September 6th,./500. in thd CC,.•trt House at Towaibla, for hearing, the Said Enniett in the premise, at laiel t time and place you may attend If you think proper. PETER J. DEAN. Sinrlif. APPLICATION IN DIVORCE. —To Willard D. Itexton. - .1.11 the - Cour: of. Common Pt. as of Bradford county. No. t. tonber Term, IS s. You are hereby notified that Rolla E.., yOur wife, has applied to the C of %fintUoll Pleas of Bradford Counts for a di, or , 0 - from the tsm,l of matTimony, wattle mid court has appointed Monday: Se fat:llll,er 1:111, 11,1). in the Ct.tir floor in Towanda, for hearing TM- ',oil Rolla E. in the premises, at which time- and p'..see pill may attend it you think proper. 104 w. PETER ikEAS, Sherif. A DMINISTRATOP I TS Ik-2. —Estate of G. Wayn,sift'inney". tleceal,d, Letter 4 of administration 011' the ,s'atn of G. Wayne Kinney,, late of -'STheshcqu'im Bradford cout.ty, Penna., have heeti grafted tnt:; W. Wackman.• tesnlllig tu rowan to thtmough4la eittl 'county, •tb Whom al) ...t*r - ,,t0• itolubtott to ...Aid estate are regimsted to make paymetr. and 'those haslng Mal n. or eft:wands wiil make known the same - s.lthout rklar. GE , .. W: 1:1...if.'101-IN. Admlntstraier Towanda, PA...July 29, I,io-w6, AUDIT()It'S NOTICE.—The n -u . 1- r , ! zn , all Auditor appointed. the "Court of common Pleas of ltradford County. l'a., 1,” tooney.'ari,fug from Sheritrs salt: of the tur , onal property of M. 1.. Ackley. will attru..l to the 4turi, of LL appottitment at the nflle,e Of S. N. Califf. ID Towanda. on Ti..LESDAY. AU. fII:S.T Miff, of lo t' of A. M., when , all prisons h.triog elaitus upon said fund roust pre,eht them or be o,l,atre.l• from rondog In upon 'fie same. Towanda. July 15, 1»o. Auditor. TN BA.NK,B,tPTCY.--In the Wet Court of he United. States, for the ern 1113trli:t oi ,- Vtinsylv . inla. In the in.,ttte; .lidm A. eo.l,ling And Cilaur.cey S. Russell. b.oLk !opts. In bankruptcy. Western District of The hen ercalltnrs will take.nedine that the us dersigunal, a -I:egi,ter lu Bankrupt'. Y 1n said trieli It 11l sit A , •:111. Auditor on SA.TI'IiI)AY., Ole.' ITral of X 1.761. A. D. 1na. , 0. at' his °flare ha -the 1:s - trough of Towanda. tu-gis t ratan te the rata i ark:inia s a ,froal the sslgneel •1.10 att. lath 1ra1t.,0‘1.0.. ...whell and nhere.linri iin er cis haring engtn;,against ant fund mint prql.cr.t then% or be li.arevtar I lebarN-at from Naming tL on said Rind. • : MA) NET A: It ERC CR. • negligee In Bankruptcy. , Towmada. Juts .it, • TN .13A NK R-I: I'ITY.-:—ln the' Pis x tritit Court of the rid i...,1 States. for the IVA st ern Disttiet of Itennsyiyanta. In the triatt.l of dames W. Taylor :Old .I,lalfion -J(. tipalil Io g, baok raptii. I.nl,anisrilpicy. . ' by Heine or all 4 : 1 , 1er of the District Cow: of the Unitrd Stairs for the West..irn Hiatt rt of Pi.nris Y lvania. I will sell at puldie thin !ion V / 1 - ,e ('curt Ilmis-: ill Tot‘anda,.l'ciina.„ 1 , 3D , N It kV. A ut; UST,n in. Itso: at lu o'clock, , . )1,, a In: of Lt', , ol; accounts, times.Jtoigiortils, el, 4 I,elooging 1 estate of abOVe-liallleit I.ankriiptst,i selirdoto cf which will Ito eithildir m., d. at tief a ir . 1 v 111 1 1, llio 'sell at same Dine and place. - 1 3f 'ln's sate. shall lipholstered ,rats, I der k. 1 to de roanicr. 'le— l'littillillif to bald estate." Tereus of ss`.— ,C,VSIT. . .. - E. T. FOX, Assignr.... Towanda, August 4. I i , i4). . 1 EW .FIRM DAVIDOW & 1!.110., . . No. 4. peldlenaan Rnot k , Brldg,c•st., Towanda, 14 . CASII PAID i'01: FURS, II w} , PELTS, wo9I, AND BE Es W 7oveanda,.o.et. :V, I S79iyr.i Agricultural Machinery ! R. M. Welles,. Towanda, ,Pa., Wtolesale and Retail dealer In IMPROVED FARMING ,, IMPLE• . • .'MENTS AND NII6IIINERY. WIRA9 TRUE CHILLED PLO • Gale Chilled Plows, 13est. Ite,yers tile Plows, Atlgate amfruterprise Churn Pti,wers; • Corti Sheilers,Farm Wagons, . Platform Wagons. luggies, Feed Cutters, Grain Drills, ACME PULVERIZING HARROW AND CL:D CRUSEEE, Bnilaid's Hay Tedders, Leader and Gale Wbeet Itaketi, Tompyllis County Itairove,t C.tiltivatqrsOlowing Alachlties, . geners,,l7lon - SulkyN " Sprout's Hay Elevators and Harpoon Forks. • • .. Liquid Paints.- mixed 'made for the !womb. of best brands. XX STA It II 1 - liltA cEMENT.,te., .c. Call and see my 5101.14 or royal for circulars and. prices. , tlllaro in C. P. 99-Cent, Store. IV arehou§e dtrectly lit 'rear of us n:e in the alley. • It. • M . El. L Towanda, March 11. MO. GoLT, Great W reat Chance to make money. e, need a' person in every li•town to take ..ttleru, t !pitons fed' the largest, cheapinit and best Illustrated fatiri:y publication itt the world. Any one can become a successful agent. hit elegant wt.] ks of art gtien tree to Rultsrritwrs.•Tbe price Iv SO low that aliy , ,t everybody subscribes: (rue agent . reports;taking 12.0 subscribers In a day. A lady agent 41.1 , 0113 making over f:00 clear profit In ten days, Alt n ho engage tn..ke matey fast. Yon,c..it`devote all y nr time to the business, or only your spire tittle. l'citt need tot be away froin home over night. You can do It in well as others. Full directions and terms flee. If you want profitable work fend its your address at once. It costs nothing totry the tisl lam. No ore who' ctiragcS fill to niakie - grvtt Address 4.;t01:01.: STINtitIN 41 CO., Portland, Malue. Julyntn. G. If. RE
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