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Towanda, Pa., August 25,1881.
ANNOUNCEMENT. .
The friends of STEPIIEN B.ralcatAND,
of Wysox, will present his name to the
Republican County Convention as a
.can
didate-for the nOmination . for the office of
County Commissioner. ' Jun9teli.
Republican State Convention.
• A Convention of the Republican party
is hereby called to meet in the Hall of the
House of Representativ es, in Harrisburg,
on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER Bth,
1881, at 12- o'clock M. of,said day. Dele
gates, equal to the number of Senators
and Representatives, to be chosen in the
several districts of the Commonwealth.
The Convention, when assembled, shall
nominate a candidate for the dined of
State Treasurer, and transact such other
legitimate business as may be brought,
before it. By order df the_ Republican
State Central Committee,
JOHN CESSNA, Chairman..
Attest—Lums ROGERti,_ SAMUEL - F.
BAIUt, C. MAGEE, JOHN M'Clitt,octr,
Secretaries.
BEDFORD, Pa., July 20, 1881.
Republican. County Convention
- Pursuant to a resolution passed by the
Republican County Committee, in session
Friday, June 24, 1881, the Convention of
the Republican party for 1881 will con
vene at the Court Rouse in Towanda
Borough, on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER
6, at 1 o'clOel, P. to mike the follow
ing nominations for county officers, to wit :
One person for Sheriff,
)ne person for Prothonotary, tic
One person for Register and Recorder,
One person for Tr.asurer.
Two persons for County Commissioners.
Two persons for Cur.t.iy.Audltots.
And for the transaction of any other bus•
iness that may come before the Convention.
The Committees, of Vigilance of the
several election districts will call primary
. meetings at the usual places of holding
delegate elections for their respective dis
tricts, for SATURDAY, -SEPTEMBER
3d, 18S1, to elect byAllot two delegates
to representech - disict in said County
Convention.
The delegate elections in the Boroughs
wilt. be 'organized at G o'clock, P. Id., and
be kept open continuously, to close at 8
o'clock, r. at.; in the districts of Barclay.
North Towanda and Athens District No.'
froin 5 o'clock, r. m., - continuously un
til 7
. o'eTock, r. at which time they
shall close ; and in all other Townships
flom 3 - o'clock, r: t., continuously-until 5
o'clock, r. NI., at which time they shall
closer The votes shall then be counted
and the - result certified by the proper ME
° cers of said meetings to the Chairman of
said Convention and a copy delivered at
once-to the delegates-elect.
The Committees of Vigilance are par
ticularly requested to give atleast three
weeks!. written or printed notice of the
said primary elections, and - to carefully
observe the above rules in coiducting the
said primary'meetings. •
Only Republicans can participate in
said-meetings. •
- - E. .1. ANGLE, Chairman.
3.. M. ELY, Secretary.
VIGILANCE COMMITTEES.
Alba-C. L. Crandall, Jefferson Loughilead,
W. Carman.
Albany-W. L. Ki nyon, 0. W. Fawcett4ndrew
Wietizer.
Amnesia-Itichnlond Sweet, William Kinch,
Lug= ne immond.
Asylina-Thomas Kinsley, Fred. Cole, B. C.
Chilson.
A Illefisliorough, - Ist Ward-S. C. Hall, F. K.
• Hauls. F. W. Das 6: 24 Ward-E. 3lcrcur Frost,
Geo. A. Kinney, Frnd.
Athena Township. Ist Dtstrict-L. 0. Snell,
• -Frais - 1 - . F. Wvller, Cbauncy S. Wheaton 2d Pls
. trict-Azel Knapp. Benj.Middaugh , Jame Mus
tart at District-IL - 6. Spalding, John F. s
Oven
shire, R. 31. Hovey.
LL Itarclav-C. li. Johnson. C. W. Tldd, John H.
Davis. -
Burlington 'Township-C. IL Wheeler, W. IL
Dustin, It. , "Selleck.
Burlington Borough-Clarence 'Ford, Gus Essen
wine. John McKeeby.
Burlingoffi West-W. D.3teliean, Horace Rock
' well, Delos Rockwell.
Canton Township-A.. J. Conklin, B. cuttin, W.
T. Lawrence.
Canton Borough-E..1. Cleve Lind, John S. Mix,
E. IL Thomas.
_Columbia -G.lO Gates, George Cornell, HA:.
Yotmg.
Franklin-O. L. Smiley, J.-E. Spalding, Merritt
Gaya
G ranville-11.
- Adam tunes.
Herrick-C. 1.. S'tcwart, N.N. Barnes, T.A.Lee
Leltaysville--ti. W. Bailey, E. A. Carl, C.. 1.
Vant.elder.
4.e110v-itobt. McKee, Wesley Wilcox, Lero:
Holcomb.
Litchfield-W. E. Armstrong, 11.. D., Morse,
01=44.1 V anduzer.
Monroe. Township-. 1: W. Irvine, Wtu. 'A. Eel.
' •
iegg, B. K. Benedict.
Monroe ilorougl-9wight Dodge, Dr. Rockwell,
D.. 1. Sweet.
New Albany-S. W. Wilcox, George Wilcox, J.
- 4'. l'owlerT_
Orwell-Oliver Gorham, J. 0. Alger, A. G.
Fri•lde. -
ovetton:-Orange Chase, Lewis Ithinchold, Man
tling Matthews.
Pike-E._ l 3. Skeet, John Elsworth, Morgan
,Thomas.
Itidgbury-lice. 31111cr, A. E. Sterton, Adelbelt
- Griswold. -
Rome Borough-Orson McVey, C. It. Stone, 3t.
L. Maynard. •
Rome Township--J. E. Gillett, Isaac Adams,
AlcCalin.
She.heoulc- 0 ., F. Ayers, W. S. Elabree, T. IL
= N'ought.
Sollthltehl-Piton Phelps, Henry Hamilton, 0.
B. Suinnel.
Creek—lohp F. Gillett, Cyrus Burke, An
drew Brink.
S 'nth 'Waverly-John Mahoney, Jno. B. Thomp
son, Wm. H. Plnm.
Brawn, Lee Stacy, Perry
• • Harkness
Standing Stone - Peter Laudmesser, Myron
Kingsley, Wm. Stevens.
Sylvania-W.. L. Seoutin, Lander Gregory, 'lie--
man But ritt.
Terry-C. I'. Garrison, J. 11. Schoonover, Geo.
It. Terry.
Towanda Borough,
Ist Ward-Judson Holcomb.
1.. Hants, Daniel Savereool : 24 Ward-Edward
Frost, J. Andrete Wilt. C. 'Manville Pratt; 3d
Ward...;•George S. EstelL W. F. Dittrich, James
liens. . • _
Towanda North-Allen Simons, Bishop Horton,
Addison Hicks.
Towanda Township-11. 31.. Davidson, B. A.
Bostley, Geo. Vol.
Troy Borough-B. B. Mitchell, Geo.O. Holcomb,
W. E. (*Miami.
Troy Township -L. T. Weller, Alva COoper,
Chaves Manley.
Tuscarora-Patrick Mahoney, A. J. Silva* Jay!
Lewis.
l'ister-C. 6. Rockwell, J. G. Howie, Charles
Vincent. •
Warren-Cyrus Bowen, D. A. Sleeper, John
Morris. •
Welie-Morris Shepard, Wm. Relyea, .Wm;
Johnson.
Windham-G. It. Lawrence, Lot Shoemaker,
Martin Wheaton. - '
Wilmot-Dr, Quick. Richard Arey. Daniel Eiey.
Wyalasing-C. A. Stowell, N. A. Frazer, C. :C.
•Sulith. • •
Wysox-M. B. Caswell, Geo. Pool, S. J. Ross.-
The members of the Executive C-orn
- mittee of tha.County Standing Comniittee
appointed by the Chairman, are : •
E. M. Tilton, I. McPherson, F. F. Lyon, 11. T
lisle, J. M. Ely, James Terry, W. S. Ktnney, A
K. Leut, James Mather.
The Committee tcaake into considera
tion and report at the •next County Con
vention whether any change be necessary
in the representation at our County Con
ventions, is :
John N. Cant, George Brown, N. W. Wall
H. Shaw, H. W. Thou*, Milton Looinhi, C.
t quirt s.
'Tits trouble in the Democratic camp
ver the State Treasurership is on the in
crease.
REMEMBER if you move from one elec
tion district toanother between the 4th
• of September and the 4th of November
you lose your vote.
•
OHIO politics are fast rising to the boil
, ing point. Both parties are putting for
ward their ablest speakers and making
. efforts ,such as were never exceeded in
any canvas.
REVIEWING the progress of the negro
the Memphis Appeal admits that "it is
an undeniable fact that the negro is mak
ing his way and ,is winning a more for
ward position than had been thought-pos
sible in the same generation that saw him
a slave."
You years a plan has been discussed for
uniting the watens of the Chesapeake and
Delaware bays by a ship canal. The
_feasibility of this project has been en
dorsed by the ablest engineers of the
period, while its . I.oruniercial advantages
are obvious to all shippers. This propo=
sitioo is now receiving renewed attention
in Daltimori3 and Philadelphia, to both of
which cities it will be of great profit.
THE invested capital in coal mines in
the 'United States is $150,000,000, agalnst
$50,000,000 in 1870—an increase of 105
per (AIL The Output has increased from
15,690,257 tons in 1870 to 27,433,320 tons
in 1880, a gain of 75 per cent. These figures
tell the tale of the failure of coal mining
to pay a profit.
POSTMASTER GENERAL JAMES has is
sued an order directing great care in
the cancellation of stamps in mail matter
at the mailing points, and incase of omis
sion in this respect; tho postmastem at
the receiving points are directed to pro
perly cancel the stamps and obtain, if
possible, the envelope or wrapper for
transmission to the department, showing
the neglect..
THERE was not a single defalcation' in
the internal revenue bureau during• the
fiscal year ending June 20, 1881, and the
total collections footed up $1:35,229,902.
This would -seem tc?-, show
. a very good
condition of at ]cast . one tranch of the
civil service, and yet. people are all the
time howling and growling, aid saying
that the country is going to the dogs be
cause of the corruption 'that infests all
the departments of goxernment.
THE Commissioner of Pensions is con
sidering the advisability of recommending
Congre:s to pass an act to pension. Union
soldiers who were in rebel prisons any
length of time.. The Commissioner holds
that the constitution of many men were
wrecked and more injury to their useful
ness indicted in thousands of gases. by
starvation in prison pens, than by service
i►r , the field or wounds in battle. The
Commissioner is investigating what such
an act wonld - cost the government annu
ally,
AMONG other odd relics which have re
cently come to the surface is CHRISTOPHER
COLL:31111:8' =Chili, which he held while
landing on the shores after his weary
voyage. It will now be in . order 'for - some
omnipresent inconoclasts to demonstnite
that there . never was a CHRISTOPHER
Ccp:MBUS. This venerable relic business
must be stopped, or somebody will come
forward With NOAH'S private deadlatch
I
key to the ark's door, or one of the trow
els from the Tower of Babel.
Jennings, liirani Foster,
,
JUDGE L.!CW,BENCE, Fiist Comptroller
of the TreasurY, rendered a decision on
Saturday a fleeting, mutilated United States
bonds which may be presented for re
demption or for the purpese of receiving
a reissue thereof. 11e holds that in the
absence of clear proof of the destruction
of a missing portion of a - bond, the United
States govet:nment Can only pay for that
portion of the bond produced a sum which
would bear the scone proportion, to the
whole amount of the bond as the part
presented would bear to the size of the
bond of which the fragments might be a
part. •
,Wrrn a .view to affording relief to per
sons who receive abusive and annoying
postal cards throUgh the mails, the , fol.
lowing : Reneral instructions to postmas
ters will soon be issued from. the Post-
Office Department: "When any ono is
annoyed, or expects to be annoyed, by
postal cards . sent from- any 'known .per
son, he may direct the postmaster at the"
point named to destroy all postal cards
addresstAto him, or cards fFom any per
son named so: addr!ssed ; and as far as
the discharge of the duties of the (ABC()
permit sufficient examination, the post;
master should comply with the request:.
The same request may pe made of the re
ceiving postmaster. The directions to th l e.
postmaster should be iu writing, and
should be filed for preservaition."
THE PREPHDENrS INAEILITIL
The continued prostration of the
Presider'., awl the certainty that he
cannot, under the most favorable
circumstances, be expected for a
long time to come to so far,recovet
as to be able adequately todischarge
the duties of his office, are conditions
which have naturally given fresh im
petus to the discussion of that clause
in the Constitution which provides
against Presidential disability.
There. are in this connection • two
questions which it is necessary to
determine, and in regard to which
there is, perhaps, room for wide
conflicting opinions. The bonstitu- .
tional provision is couched , in genr
al terms. It dictates that' in case ' of
the President's removal by death,
resignation or inability to discharge
the powers and duties of_ his office,
the . same shall devolve ' upon the
Vice - President. Obviously there
are. two , things to .be determined,
What, in the first. place, must be
held to constitute that inability
which-the framerii and ratifiers of the
Constitution contemplated whera
they made this . provision_againstits .
,Obeurrerice, and - upon whom, in the
second place, is tile duty imposed of
declaring that it existed, and of car
rying into operation the remedial
. measure devised to meet such a con
tingency?
- In regard to the. first point, two
opposite theories have been advanc
ed. Ik is claimed on the one hand
that whenever frotri — any reason the
President is incapacitated from act
ing
as such the case contemplated in
the Constitution has arisen, and that
the consequence resulting from that
state of things by the force of the or
game law should immediately lapel.-
ven& We agree- with the North
American that this view is open to
the objection that an incapacity
absolutely disabling during its con
tinuance may yet be temporary in
its.character. It is readily conceiv
able that by accident or otherwise
the President might be rendered-to
tally unable to perform his official
functions, while at the same time his
restoration'to capacity was a moral
certainty. It is unreasonable to
suppose that the constitutional pro
vision was made to apply to such .a
stateof thinigs as thatiand according
ly it has been maintained that the
disqualifying..inability) must be of
such-a nature a t e to leave no hope of
its removal. If, for example, the
occupant of the Presidential chair
were to become hopelessly insane,
or were to be deprived
_by a stroke
of paralysis of alt -power to carry
out or communicate• his . ideas - the
contemplated exigency, would, in
the.opinion of those who take this
latter ri•w of the matter, have oe-
curredand not otherwise. The point
is one of c.onsiderable difficulty, but
it seems contrary to common sense
to suppose that the_ case of a pro
tracted incapacity toes; not come
within the scope of the constitution
al provision. Suppose at the , present
juncture Presidential - action were to
become imperative. It will hardly be
argued that it would -not be the proper
legal course to invest the Vice Presi
dent with the necessary authority.
And here the doubt suggests itself
whether it would not be wise.to pro
vide in time against a contingency
which is any day liable to happen.
The second question to
.be consid
ered is less embarrassing. It is clear
that something more is necessary
to bring the organic provision into
play than the happening of the
event to which it is diref.ted. The
affirmative clauses of the Consti
tution are very rarely self-enacting.
They need to be made operative by
appropriate legislation and therefore
it is not enough that,nn indubitUble
case of inability should: exist. Its
existence must be officially recog
nized by those legally qualified to
,ake cognizance of it. And who
is legally qualified - to take such cog.
nizance? Congress "alone, beyond a
doubt. It will hardly be said that
the President. himself should
deter Mine his inability, for,that in
volves a contradiction in terms. Nor
will it be argued that the Vied Pres
ident is the proper person to decide
this delicate' -point, for be a 9 his
superior might entertain differing
opinions, and Who in Buell case is to
decide between:, them? — .The Cabinet
officers are clearly not competent to
take action in the matter, for they,
in their collective capacity have no
status in our system of • government;
nor' does the question come within
the scope of judiciary decision.' Con
gress alone is competent; and until
Congres's meets,nothing caw be done
unless, the office becomes' vacant by
death;
NOT I WITIISTANDfIiO the", enormous in_
flux of labor into this country just now
from all European countries the demand
continues even greater than the supply,
and the Commissioners of Immigraiibn
at Castle Garden are overrun with appli
cations for workmen. -On Monday Of
this week the Emigration Commissioner
of South Carolina 'telegraphed: "We
want emigrant families. Send us all that
will come ; no matter how many women
and children, they will be welcomed and
provided for. The State pays for the
transportation of emigrant families,. and
pledges itself to 'provide for them. until
:they secure - Vomes. The farmers from
all parts of South Carolina are making
daily applications for men, women and
children," and the Castle Garden-Bureau
is doing all it can to supply the demand,
twenty families,, numbering eighty per
sons, having been forwarded last Satur
day_ But the call for help is not confin
ed t 6 South Carolina. Farm hands -are
wanted throughout the country at slight
ly reduced wages, now that the harvest
season is nearly offer, but competent men
can get, • $lB per - month. Texas wants
men to build her railroads, and those who
are willing to toil can now find plenty to
do in any par - t_of the United Statei.
THE,Harrisburg Taw vph says that:
"Those who think that because there is .
only a State Treasurer to be .elected in
Pennsylvania this year, the electio:
should be allowed to go by default, simp
ly show how little they know about it.
The office of treasurer is ono of the most.
important in the State as has bean shown
during the term of the preient incumbent
'and that of his predecessor. A man of
less firmness than : Mr. BuTIEn might
have complied with the law of 1874 and
pliid the members of the legislature the
extra five hundred dollars without regard
to the opinion of the Attorney-General,'
while . a Man of more . firmness than. Mr.
Buttler'S predecessor might have saved
the Treasury from .the dangers and• the
scandal •by which it was surrounded
when the fundif nrthe State were lased
for stock gambling purposes. The two
items illustrate the importance of the of
fice of Treasurer and there should be no
mistake made either in nominating the
wrong man or letting the election go by
default. o .
POPULAR sentiment toward General
Atanun has sustained n wonderfil change
within the last six weeks, says the North
Amoricitn. Immediately after Mr. GAR
FIELD was shot it was a common thing
to hear people, who knew no better, or
who spoke without thought, deplore the
situation, chiefly because it would be
such a bad' thing for the country if Vice
President Airrnun were called to the.
Executive chair. That was wild talk,
due partly to misrepresentation, partly to
prejudice and partly to the excitement cif
the moment. , No such apprehensions are
now entertained.— People know more
about General ARTHUR than they did
two months ago, and they have learned
to recognize an element of consolation in
the fact that he would be Mr.GARFIELD's
successor. I
Is some things the Democratia leaders
"take the cake" ter sagacity. 1 Liming
uSel, and abused, tor a series of years a .
large portion of one class of the natural
ized voters of the country, they now, on
discovering their power, to farther use
that class departing, endeavor to counter
act the cxdness of the Irishmen by reach
ing out a hand to the Chinese. And thus
we read that a Chinaman has been made
-a deputy sheriff in New York. -When
ever John comes to "votes" often, or
manufacture a coffee-eolored naturaliza
tion paper, he 'May rest assured that the
d4ors to the democyrtie party will swing
wide to bid him welcome.
.COILUISSIONERof Pensions DUDLEY has
issued an order creating a " 13oaid'of Re
view," at the bead of which he has plai
ad C. B. WALREI4! Deputy Commission
er, with J. 11. Bouts; as assistant. There
aro also established boards of special ex
aminations for several divisioni, that of
the middle division, including , the States
of Pennsylvania; Ohio and Michigan, be
ing managed by Cololel F.
_D. &UDEN
soN;with A. F. KINGSLEY as assistant:
Tar. Apache Indians are steadily cow•
mating murders in New 'Mexico. fiber
aro the worsttribe now existing. :A &ix.
change 'thinks a little eitormiwititai
would be good for theui:
PERSONAL POINTS. ,
—The wilkof the late Dean'Eltanley has
been sworn under £00,000..
—Mayor Ibilkeley, - of Ifartford, Con
necticut, devotes ail the salary he receives
from the-city to city. clarittes.
--Preparations are being made in On=
chianti to ` . give Noyes a warm
-welcome to Ohio on. his return from
Prance.
! --ldrs.lHarmah Cox, of Plymouth, N.
IL, who Is said to have reached the 115th
anniversary of her birth on June 25th, is
slowly sinking. .
—Caroline and Mary Clark, employed
as servants in the Rush House, Pittsburg,
taco just been notified that an uncle died
n California and left them*9o,ooo.
—Rev. Joseph Stevens has had pastoral
charge of the Jersey Shore rresbyterian
church for thirty years, he having preach
ed his first regular - sermon there in Au
gust, 1851.. °
—Governor Hoyt has appointed John -
A. Wright, of Pniladelphla ; Charles B.
Buckalew, of Bloomsburg, and Cyrus Ef.
cler, of Johstown,, members - of the State
Revenue Commission.
—Severe rains in various parts of Colo
rado during the past few days have caused_
great damage, especially to railreads,
there being numerous fills and washouts
on every line in the State.
—President White, of Cornell, tele
graphs from Berlin that ho has secured
Dr. Edward Angustus Freeman, the,dis
tingnished English historian, as -a non
resident professor for Cornell University.
—Ex-Senator Wallace, of this State, it
Is said, has given 'up his extensive law
Practice- and retired from the political
-field, and is devoting his tine and atter'.
tion entirely to coal operatiOns, in which
he is lnrgely - interestdd.
—ln 1846 Hom... William L. Scott, of
Erie, Pa., was alin'letn Congress. • Gen.
eral Charles M. Reed, Member of Con
gress from Elie, todk him home.afid gave
him employment at weighing dial. Mr.
Scott's fortune is estimated at $4,000,000.
--The menibers of the Cornell Univer
,
sity Crew have returned. to London, hav
ing abandoned the idea of rowing in a
race nt Finnkfort, and were to embirk
for home on the steamer Spain, which
sailed from Liverpool on the 24th instant
for New York.
—Captain Isaac Bassett, the veteran
Doorkeeper of the United Statos Senate,
who will complete his half century ()flier
vice lu the Senate Chamber in Deceinber
next, is busily engaged in preparing , his
forthcoming volume; entitled Sketchei
and Reminiscences of the United States -
Sennte,lB3l-81.
—Colonel H. C. Corbin, who was
,one.
of General Gartleld's Comrades in the late
war, says that the President's stomach
was always very weak. During the war,
when the President was in perfect health,
living on Camp fare without uneasiness,
ho could .not pass-a dead and deenying
body without turning deathly sick.;
-=Judge Allen, ; who will be „appointed
to tbe 3lassachusetts Supreme Court
Bench, was appointed to the Superior
Courtin'lB72, and is the fourth member
of that bench who has been promoted to
the bench of the Supremo Court. Mr. P.
Knowlton, who will succeed Judge Allen
in the lower Court, is a member Of the
Massachusetts Senate. He was graduat
ed from Yale Colle in 1860.
POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS
—There are sixty Democratic candi
dates for the offices to be filled in Berks
county this fall. -
-The advance guard of civil-scrviee
reform is. not pleased with the last letter
by Senator Dawes.
as if rho Barra of Pittsburg
were trying ti work up the Orange Noble
boom for State Treasurer:
,Ek-Senator Bruce proposes to pass a
month in Ohio making speechei to help
re-elect Governor Foster. I ,
•—Judge Ross . Thursday formally., ac
cepted the Democratic nomination for
President Judge of Montgomery county.
—Ex-State Senator A. G. Olmstead,
who has been talked of for President
Judge of. the Potter and Tioga District;
declines to be a candidate. •
—Cap4,in Cook, the Garfield man who
slapped the mouth of a man for wishing
that the President-would not recover, has
been nominated for the Legislature of
Ohio.
—The St. Louis Globe-Petnoerai, , dis
cussing the question, Does Prohibition
Prohibit? Comes to the sago conclusion,
"sometimes it doets and sometimes it
doesn't."
—The Milwaukee Sentinel apprehends
that is likely that if the question of Pres
idential disability ever has to be decided
it will be decided by politics, and not by
constitutional law. '
—"The first thing for• the House of
Representatives to do," the Indianapolis
Journai says,, "is to kick 'this lecherous
sinner Mormonism out of the door of
Congress, and then to have the Federal
Officers in Utah infyrce the, national
laws."
—"Uncle Abe" Ludlow, the Prohibi
tion candidate for Governoi of Ohio, • is
appearing at the various - county fairs in
Southern Ohio, and, according to the
Cleveland Leader l is representing the
combined interests of his grain drill
and the Prohibition party. .
-As the term for which 'judge Wil
liams, of Wellsboro, is about to expire,
several of the papers in that Nidiciat dis
trict are urging that his renomination be
made by acclamation and irrespective of
party. It looks very much as if the Judge
would be his own successor.
—While the' resolution demanding in
structions for the whole ticketwas defeat
ed it the recent Chester-county meeting
Of the Republican party, the West Chea
ter Republican thinks there is an under
lying sentiment in favor of the instruction
plan throughout the county. , _
—Altoona 27ribune: "It is not-a pleas•
ant thing to say, nor is it a very credita
-ble one, but it is a true one, that there
are men, even in Blair. county, who make
a regular
_business of politics, and there
are a few in almost every election district
Who will- not vote until they are first as
sured that somebody is going to pay them
for:doing ao."
..:The Bradford Era thinkst McKean,
county ought have enterprise enough
to furnish a candidate or two for State
Treasurer. • The Smethport Miner thinks
that Senator Davies, of this county,ls the
strongest man, and if nominated will be
triumphantly elected.: And the Minir is
right.. ,
—One of the difficult things to settle
when the next Congress meets will be the
selection and recognition of a leader for
thuDemoertib - y in the respective branches
of. thai body. Ben. Hill and - Lativir Till
contend for the high honor in the
Itls-of course understood that no North.
era Democrat can act as leader. Stich a
thing was never done in the Democratic
party hi Congress. It cannot b 3 done
now, and therefore the question is, who
will be the leader of the Detnoerapy of
the House'.'
PRVIDENT GMM
FlghUii 'for Ute—lliitossdidOet
_ _
Tarr Or/Mal — A iFeir, Vole Pli e s ". r
oi a atird.
IBS RECOVERY DOUBTFUL
Secretary Blaine% Telegraiq The
Ornchd Bulletins—The fleeter.
Ilopersil—The Crisis Beached.;
During, the past week the Presi
dent has made but little if any pro
gress toward recovery; and the latest
news indicates that-he is in a very
critical, condition. The tlOnble of
the stomach, Which was the Main
cause of the relapse last ,week, the
seem to have overcome,
and • there has, been no return ,of
nausea since Thursday, and thePres
idea- is now - able to take and retain
liquid nourishment. From theoffic
ial bulletins, .here.with •givenOt will
be observed that a new complication
in the President's case hhs presented
itself, and one is iforel-Sity'ile
counted for on. any other hypothesis
,
than that the, President is now, and.
as been for. some time, suffering
from blood poiSoning, as indicated by
swelling of the Parotid gland, which
began on Thursday. While the phy
sicians claim that they do not antici
pate any serious. trouble from this .
glandular sidling, except so far as
it causes the . President pain and rest•
lessness, yet there is but little doubt
in the pUblic mind, that the swelling
-is a bad, avery bad symptom. Ever
since the appearance of the Swelling.
the Presiderit haibeen more feverish,
and has frequently called for water
to quench his thirst. On Monday'
Secretary BLAINE Sent the following
dispatch to Minister LOWELL.
undoubtedly-the most truthful pre
sentation of the President's real Con
, dition that has been furnished' to the
public, and shows, also, only too
Plainly upon what slight grounds are
the people -resting their hopes ?Or the
renvery of their beloved President.
Mr. BLAlNi'slt.lpTratn said : - •
0
no President has been able to swallow
and retain about twenty ounces of liquid
food today, showing a wetter state of his
stomach. But his general condition 48
serious, if hot critical. Ho is weak, ex
hausted and emaciated, not weighing over
125 or •130:, pounds.. His weight when
mounded Inas from 205 to .210 pounds.
His failure to regain strength is the_ one
feature which
.gives special uneasiness and
apprehension.' •
•
Our latest intelligence received up
to the hour of going to press, th
nesda l y is to the 'effect that-the Presi-.
dent passed a . little better•day yes
terday,. After a somewhat brok
ennight's rest, he awoke • with
.a
.
pulse of
.100, temperature,' 91.4, res
pirationlB. At 7:09 r. H. his pulse
was 10.1, temperatnre •99:2. This is
the lowest showing since the 13th.
He has taken 'increased quantites of
nourishment and retained, :it. The
swollen gla,nd remains unchanged
and it remains uncertain :whether it
will supphrate. •
THE OFFICIAL BULLETINS.
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 17—5.30 A. M.
—The President has passed a.tran
gull night sleeping most .of the -time.
He continues to retain the nutritive
enemata and has not vomited since
the last bUlle•4n. -
_His , general con.
dition appears more hopeful than at
'this time yesterday. Pulse, 110;
temperature, 98.3: respiration,B.
12 :30 p. 31.-T he President' s 'con
dition has not materially changed
since the last bulletin. He has been
tranquil and has slept, some, has not
vomited, and, the nutritive enemata
are still retained.. Pulse, 112; tem
peratiiii; 98.7; respiration, 18.
4:30 P. M.—The President's condi
tion is even better than it was this
morning; ther'e has been no vomiting
during the day, and enemata contin
ue to be retained. Mpreover a tea
spoonful! of beef extract .has twice
been administered by the mouth and.
not rejected, and small quantitie,s of
water swallowed fromi time to timme .
excite no nausea. The wound con
tinues to , do - well. At Present his
pulse is 112; temperature, 98.8; res
piration, 18.
Tnutiontkx„ . . Aug. 18-8:30 A. M.-
The President :.has passed a very
comfortable night, sleeping well the
greater part of the time.iThere has
been no further vomiting and the ,
nutritive enemata are still retained.
This morning his pulse is slower and
general - condition better than yester
day 4it The same our: Pulse, 104;
- temperature, 08.8; rePpiration, 18.
„12:30 r. M.—T lie President is suf
fering some, discomfort this morning
from commencing inflamation of the,
Tight parotid gland. In other , re
spects his condition is somewhat:im
proved, and especially his stomach
is becoming less intolerant. He has
asked for and retained several por
tions of fluid nourishment much
more than , he could swallow yester
day. The nutritiVe enemata contin
ues to be,used with success. At pres
ent his pulse is 108; temperature,
98:4: respiration, 18.
6:30 P. BL—The t President has done
well during the, day. He has taken
additional nourishment by the mouth
this afternoon with evident relish
and without subsequent nausea:
There is some rise of temperature,
but his general condition is rather
better than at this time yesterday.
Pulse, 108; temperature, 100; respi
ration, 18. I
.Fitin.cr,Aug.l9-8:30 A. m.—The
Pretident slept much of the night,
and this morning is more' comforta
ble than yesterday. The swelling
of the right parotid gland has not .
increased since yesterday,'and is now
free from pain. Nutritive enemata
are still given with success, and
liquid food bad already, this
morning, been swallowed and relish
, cd, Pulse, 100; temperature 98.4;
respiration, 17.
12:30 r. N.--The President's con
dition haS peceptibly improved dur
ing the last twentyrfour hours. The
Parotid swelling is evidently dimin
ished, and_ it has not pained him
since last is taking to
day an Increased quantity of liquid
food by thatmoutb, which is relished
and produces no gastric irritation.
Ills pubs is now .10G; temperature t
98.8; respiration, 17. - ,
6:30 Pi 11: 7 . —The President has been
easy during -Vie afternc•on said the
favorable conditions reported in the'
lalit bulletin continue. "Thei, swolle,,n,
pOotid gland . has not been painful;
ths.temperatur II the same; the pulse
rather less` frequent than at this htiur
yesterda3t Pulse, 103; temperature,
109;respration, 18. - ,
:SATURDAY, Aug.
The President has passed a . quiet
night and this morning his Condition
does not differ materiallyl,from what
it %vas yesterday at the -same hour.
The swelling of the parotid gland . is
unchanged and isr free from pain.
This morning his pulse is 98; tem
perature, 98.4; respiration, 18. ,
12:30 P. 14.—The President con
tinues to, do well. He is taking liquid
food by the mouth in increased quail;
tity and with relish., The nutritive
enemata are,still successfully Oveii,
but at longer intekiils.
His pulse is now 107; teMperathre,
98.4; respiration, 18. ' '
- At the morning dressing the wound
was looking' well, and the pus dis
charr was of a healthy character.
After the operation - of "August 8 the
flexible • tube used to wash.-out the
wound„at each dressing readily A:114
1 lowed the track of the ball to the
depth of three, or four inches. At
the dressing, however, a small quan
tity of pus came, as was believed,
from the part of the track beyond
this point, either spontaneously, or
after gentle pressure over the anter
ior surface of the right iliac region,
bat4this deeper part of the track was
nop - reached by the tube ,untilyester
day morning, wthin the separation of
a small Slough xermitted it to pass
tin,tesisted downward ;and forward
Poi - the distance of twelve and one
half inches from the external surface
of the last incision.
This facilitates the drainage and
cleansing of_the deeper parts of the
.wound butlias not ,been followed
by any increase in the quantity of
pus discharged. The large.pys cavi
ty which had formed in the imme
diate vicinity of the broken rib is
filling up with healthy granulationsi
and the original wound of entrance;
as far as thatsivity;has
6:30 1. m.-Thlshe President hag
passed the dayiquietly; -- He 4Etstieen
able to take more liquid focal by the,
mouth thanyesterday, and the gnarl;
tity given by enemata has been pro
portionately diminished. The f paro-'
tid swelling retains about the•same.
Pulse, 110;, temperature, 106.4; re-.
spiration,.l9.
Swim; Aug 21„---4:00 A. iu—The
President awoke more frequently
than usual, yet slept sufficiently
during the night and appears,com
fortable this morning. The .parotid
swelling is about the same but is not
painful. lie took liquid nourish
ment by the mouth several times
during the night as well as this
morning. ,Pulse, 106 ;' temperature,
98.8; re§piration; 18.
12:3,1 r. President's con
dition continues about as at the
morning brffietin, except there is a
slight rise df temperature. He con
tinues to take liquid nourishinent by
the mouth as well 'as by enema;
Pulse,, 108; 99.4; respira
' ion, 18.
6:30 r. - m t. — The President has .
vomited three times' , during the af
ternoon; the administration of food -
by the mouth has,•_ therefore, again
been temporarily suSPended and the
nutritive enemata will be given more
...frequently. .Its 'temperature
. is
lOwer, and his pulse rather less_fre
quent than yesterday afterno4n..
The parotid swelling is painless, but
-stationary.. Pulse, 108;lemperature,
99.2; respiration,- 18.
MONDAY, Aug.
M.—
The President has not-vomited-since
yesterday afternoon ' And this morn
ing has twice asked for and received
a small quantity of fluid nourishment
by the. mouth. - lle slept more quiet
ly during the night, and this morning
his genera . .condition is more encour
aging . than , when ..the last bulletitil
was.issued.. tPalse 104, temperatiire
08.4, respiration 18.. .
12.30 . P. 31.—The - President . _ ha: '
continued this morning to retain'
liquid nourishment,-- taken by the
mouth as well as enema: There has
been no recurrence of the vomiting
and no nausea. The paiotid swelling
is not materially smaller, but contin
ues painleas. It'has caused for a day
or two an annoying accumulation of
viscid mucus •in . the back of. the
• mouth,but this symptom has now
abated. At present -his pulse ie,104,
temperature•9B.4, respiration
6 30. r. u.—ThrPresident has con
. tinned to take nourishment in small
quantities at stated intervals during
the entire day; and- has had no return
,of nausea or vomiting. The nutri
meat-enemata are also retained. - The
wound is looking well, and the work
of repair is going on in all portions
exposed to view. The pus discharg
ed
,is healthy.' At present his pulse
is 110, temperature .100.1, respiration
.19.
TUESDAY, Aug. 9.3-6.30 P. AL..—
The ; President has continued to tak , .
liquid food by the mouth at regnla
intervals duringthe day, and has had
no recurrence' , of gastric disorders.
The parotid swelling remains un
changed. In other respects the
symptoms show some improyement
over his , condition yesterday .after
noon. Pulse 104, temperature 99.2,
respiration 19.
STATE NEWS.
—Lebanon county has fifty-one tobacco
factories and paid in July $7,038 ta:c on
1,273,000 manufactured cigars.
--A counterfeit quarter dollar has made
its appearance in Philadelphia.- It is well
excepted and is somewhat difficult to de- -
tent, exceo by experts.
- =A fire at Poxburg, Thursday morn
ing. destroyed twelve: buildings on the
west side of Main street, entailing a loss
of $22,000, on Which , is' a small insurance.
—The jealousl7ife of John L. henry,
of York, threw cayenne pepper- in his
efes on Wednesday in a fit of rage, al
most destroying his sight. Ho is said to
be suffering intensely. f •
—The Lehigh Valley Medical Associa
tion, composed of the county medical so
cieties of Northampton, Bucks, Lehigh,
and Warren and New . Jersey, was organ 7
ized at Bethlehem onliTednesday.
—The entire family , of William W..
Balthasar, of Upper Vurr township,
Berkti township, consisting of seven per
sons, have, died in a little more than a
year, with the exception of a little? girl,
- six years of age., _
:—Berks County boasts of eleven mar
riage insurance companies based on the
assessment plan. The object is tO fur-
Allah a fund for persons matrimonially
dined, which is said to them one year af
ter' marriage.. _
—The officers of the State Temperance
Qonvention are abontio erganize a vig
orous crusade against thchllquer interest,
to be prosecuted in iveryi portion of the
State. The work will begin in. 'Barris: ,
burg early in September: '
—A York County' physician Lasis een
arrested it theinatanco of a mutual . aid
aasoolation, chsiz i ged
ed and intereste d in Making Wise repro
mutations for Oki parpose of obtaitdog
policies of insurance: contrary : to law.
excitement was created in the vi
cinity of.Nortb4mberland a few days ago
firth° supposed libel:MO of a vein of ail• .
v 4; and.,eopper ore by some men engaged
in quarrying stone. Specimeni have been
sent to an assayer to be tested, and his
report is anxiously awaited.
-A Schuylkill County stock fancier
Paid $4OO for a - cow whose birth, name
aud.pedigree were registered in the herd
booici..
_She soon shed her hair, - which
proved to have been dyed, and'appeared
in a new coat of entirely different color
I and he sold her for $3O. -
. —Smallpox iu the most virulentform
has broken out in . Olossburg, Columbia
conj i
ty, having been carried to the place
by . gang
. of laborers employed on the
ne railroad. Five deaths have occurred,
and, tweety.tbie others are prostrated
with the disease. Great excitement-pre
vails in the vicinity:
—At Lancaster; on Saturday, Christian
Lentz and Frederick Strobel were sen
tenced to foitrteen years' imprisonment
each for an atrocious assault - upon Miss
Li tie Weidner, aged nineteen yel.rs, the
daughter of a farmer. Biting near .Litiz
Lentz bad previously brenLemployea es a
laborer on M... WO,lder's harm.. .
, c(1,11 train on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad !*nre _Wrecked near Whitehall
Station on Sat arday night by obstructions
placed on the track by some, persons un
known. The - damage was great, but no
one wit:4 it4auci. A a . unsuccessful at
tempt wins In•ide to wicck a passenger
train at the sainp I .lrep . on the sth inst.
—A. stock cc•ro . p...ny with a capital '.of
$500,000 has been organized for the pur
pose of proNwcting for copper ore near
Blue Ridge Summit,. Franklin County:
The shaft is 144 feet in depth, . and ore
has been obtained which yielded 4ixty,
per cent. of copper. . The company is to
bo known as 'theSontii ]fountain COpper
Mining Company of Penn ylvania. • '
—G(iorge Markey, a farmer, residing.
about three miles sonth of York, was
found hanging dead in .his barn early
TLursday morning, having Committed su
icide:. lie was about forty-five years Of
age and leaves a wife and Aix children.
He owned a large farm in York township,
was considered in good circumstances,
and his act is attributed. to mental de
pression,-the result , ck - ilt health. • •
—The. preliminary hearing of the al
leged Mollie Maguire murderers was con
cluded at Uniontown on Saturday: The
Court decided to repaint Katie . and dis
charge Donahoe; the others were held for
trial
.in
. the following 'amounts of bail :
McFarland and Pat Dolan in $5,000 each,
Collins•in $3,000, Flood, Mike Dolan and
Regan in $5OO. • Both of the 'Dolaris .ob-.
tanned bail;-. some of the others will prob
ably not be so fortunate.
—Among, the emigrants passing West
over the Pennsylvania Railroad one day
last week was a German family, consist
_ing of the grandfather, grandmother, and
their nine children, six sons and three
;daughters, all of whom. are-married, with
'their families on board . the same train.
There were forty grandchildren and elev
en great-grandchildren, the 'entire. rela
tionship consisting 'of ninety-five people.
ThEywill settle in-Northern lovia, and
will form a colony of their own. Among
the men:in - the partY,were * practical far
,merS, weayers, shoemakers and butchers.
GENERAL NEWS.
—The City - or Tis - figSkeepsie Was incor
porated in 17.79, and of its ten Mayors six
are still living. -
—The grape crop ou Lake Erio is re
ported to be stuirt owing .to cold in the
winter and p dry summer.. • .
---The citizens of Boston will. present
Mrs. Garfield a full length portrait of the
President, painted by 31r. Berthong.
7 -Yellow fciffir is reported to be raging
in the French Colony of. Senegal, West-
Africa, - Up to the Sth instant there had
been eighty deaths.
—The American Association for the
PrOmotion of Science met in Music
Cincinnati, op the 17th inst., with 500
delegates present.
—At • Batavia, New York, Friday
Charles Stockley was binged for the mur
der of John. Weikel., a farmer near that
place, on . the 27th of April last.
—Herr Krupp, the great German gun
maker,is so much pressed with orders
that he has engaged 8,000 more workmen
making the total force of workmen 13,.-
000. .
7 -The, total amount t of subscriptions iu
New York to the fund for the benefit of
President Garfield's family received since
last report is *2,645.70, Which makes a
grand total of $155.381:55..
—An loiva convict did not bother with
the details of petitioning a Pardon Board.
Ha simply forged his own pardmi, sent
it to *his wife, and She presented it to the
prison warden, who set the convict free:
—Dispatches from Santa Fe, New :Mex
ico, report continuance of Indian out
rages. Nana, with about forty Indians,
including some Navajoes, is going south,
Capthin Parker and Lieutenants Guilr
foyle and Wright are on Nana's trail.
!—A cyclone near
,Alburt Lea and Am
boy, 'Minn., on the 17th, utterly demol-
ished - the houses of E. J. Lauer and
Frank Wieri, and wind and bail almost
ruined the crops in the vicinity. - Cnttle
were lacerated by hail, fortunatelyl i no
person was „injured.
—The little old "gold wagon,".whtch
for years bas done duty in transporting
gold from the New York Custom house
to the sub-treasury, has -been laid aside.
It tis estimated that it has. carried at
least 4,500 tons of gold in its numerous
trips with a value of not less than 000,-
000,000.
—There 'is a Business Men's Society
in New York for the encouragement of
'moderation' in drinking. The- society,
sent a series of ;,questions to the brewers
of New York, to be answered-under oath
.to find out whether anything is used in
the brewing of lager beer injurious to
the'Consumer. But one brewer, has re
sponded and ho== offers every opportunity
for investigation. : , ' •
" —;The results of the-late census-in Con
necticut show a loss of .12,684 in the pop
ulation of the rural portions of the State,
while the gain in the whole State during
the decade was but 88,083. . The Board of
Agricultural Commissioners, in comment
ing on the fact. in their report, say that
the decline is caused by the yoing men
going west and the banks and moneyed
men investing, their capital outside of the
State.
—On Monday night Of last week a gang
of train : robbers boarded the smoking-car
of the Santale train at Granada, Col.,
blew out the lights and commenced to rob
the . passerugers. A colored rnited States
soldier refused toti give up , $5OO that he
had, anrone of the outlaws shot and
wounded him. In rattan the soldier
killed oneof the robbers, and the rest fled
without easy booty. . -
—One hundred Fwitchmen, yardman
sod trackman of the trio - Riikoad, at
HOruelluine, N. Y., quit work at 12
o'clock on Wednesday night of last week,
to ask for the restorationof the 10 per
cent. reduction in wages in 1879 Then)
was' Lo violence and no interference with
thwitains.
,Freight traffic wits suspintled,
but, ruissenger trains are tinning regtn.l.--
ly. The switchmen at Salamanca have
also struck, and those at Buffalo have
threatened to strike. •
fanner nandDrue;
shoat eightrtuiles from Ns.bville, Wash.
ington county, 111., was awakened about
ten o'clock on Monday night of fast week
by the discharge of a gun, and as he rose
upinled to ascertain the cause, received '
a charge in the bead, which blew nearly
all the top part or his skull off killing
him instantly. There is no clue to the
murderer. Drue was •in quite moderato
circumstances, and not known to have
any enemies.
—The famous Branicki sapphires, the
finest stones of the kind in the woTld out
side of the regilias of Austria ana Eng.
lansl, and excepting those-owned by Mrs.
Mackey, w ere recently stolen from the
sleeping,car in which the Countess Bra,-
nicki was traveling from Paris to Cologne.
A quantity of Jewels and money were
taken at the same time, the whole being
valued at $120,000.
—Ju.dge Jackson, Chief Justice of
_the
Georgia Supreme Court,
.in an address
delivered before a Sunday-School in
Gwinpett County, said that "the new
South lived on* the people who stood
around him." The-Macon Drouth allud
ed to th&specmh as !‘ radical' rot." . There
upon the Atlanta. ConstitutiA declared
that nine-tenths of the-people of Georgia
feel, with the Chief Justice, that the (lay_
of Bourbonism is over. "This -fact,"
adds .tlie (Jonstitution, "may be full of
bitterness to the one-tenth, but it -is a
fact,, nevertheless.
—A circus broke rip a camp-meethig
and a Sun6y school picnic at Patterson,
N. J.• The attractions of the ringwere
too great for the camp-meeting and pic
nic people to resist, and consequently the
attendance of. the latter Were like spirits,
of the vasty deep. There is somehow a
fascination about a circus that goes right
to the inner nature of man, and he falls
before the glitterinirtemptatiou as readi
ly as a ripe apple obeying the laws of
gravitation drops to the ground.
—The American Bar Association began
its tilt) d annual session at Saratoga, Wed
nesday of last week. The president, Hon.
Edward J. Phelps, of Vermont, presented
the annual report, which, according to
the constitution of the association, re
viewed the moat noteworthy changes of
-the statute law on points of general inter
est made in the several States and by
Congress during the preceding. year. In
the course of the proceedings - a fraternal
telegram was sent to the association for
the reform and codification of the laws of
nations, now in session at Cologne,. Ger
many.
—The boiler 'of the tug A. B. Ward ex
ploded on Saturday morning while the
boat was in the river between Clark and
Lasalle streets, Chicago. The force of
the explosion was so gfeat that 'the boiler
was forced like a ball into the boat-house
at the end of Clark-street bridge., The
captain, Frank Butler, was hurled into
the air and fell fatally mangled upon the
deck of a bark t1iat,49.46, had in tow.
William McDonald, a • deck hand, and 0.
Oleson are missing. They are supposed
to have been killed Arid to be entangled
in the wreck: Miehael McDonald, the
fireman, and Frederick Whitaker, . the
cook, were
.slightly injured: Tile tug
*as valued -at $O,OOO and is riot insured.
Ile - captain is a part owner.
—A New York dispatch says: - "It is
humored in the United States District
Attorney's office that a - number of na
tional banks kill be . called On to refund
. money to the -T-renOry, which was paid
by them on clii!eks which were drawn on
the Assistant - Treasurer in 1867-68, en
•dorsernent on the checks being fraudu
lent. Thursday Assistant United States
District Attorney Conkling called on the
Mercantile National Bank to make good
a deck for $lOO, which was drawn in 18-
OS.ify As - sikant Paymalter Truesdell to
. Clifford A. c.lould, of the
. 120th Illinois
Volunteeis. The' check was paid at the
bank and returned to the sub-Treasury.
It has since transpired that Gould's sig
nature was forged."
Y-AsT merit is inherent in St. Jacobs
Oil, And we heartily commend it to our
readers.—Chicago (III.) Wt'il tern clatholie.
Guiteau Attacks a Guard,
Desperate Attempt to take the Lat-
ter's Lire
WASHINGTON, August 17.—Con
siiderable excitement was caused
here this Incoming by a report that
Guiteau, the assassin, had made a
desperate effort .to escape from
the jail,attempting to kill one Of the
guards.
DETAILS, OF TRE AFFAIR.
The Critic, which first published
the story, says: News Of the Presi
dents critical condition gave rise to
a number of rumors "at the jail yes
terday, which• were increased by the
fact that , early last evening the
guard was do bled and -the military.
drill - was held in the rotunda, the
noise of which awoke Guiteau to a
state of feveriSh excitement. He
paced his - e'en and inquired anxious
ly for news from the President. A
rumor reached the jail late in the
evening that the President, was dy
ing and it was supposed that Guiteau
heard it. He was observed to climb
up to a window in his cell and in
other ways showed great excitement.
Mr. W. C. McGill; who has charge
of the jail on alternate nights, vis
ited the prisoner's cell several times
and coming to the conclusion. that
Guiteau ha4l heard from some of the
prisoners alarming rumors he watch
ed him with unusual* care. Several
times Mt. McGill observed Guiteau
clinging to,the ikon bars of his win
dof, and an idea that the prisoner
might be attempting to bang himself
prompted the guard to visit the cell
at 4:30 o'clock this morning. Mr.
McGill, upon opening the cell found
that Guiteau was concealing some
thing in his hands, and determining
that it was a knife he said: "What
are you doing with that knife?"
Guiteau looked up excite4ly and
cried: "So help< me God, I have no
knife!" Mr. McGill insisted that he
had, and. stepped toward the prison- ,
er, when Gniteau sprang up and
rushed at him furiously and made a
savage, cut at his throat. Mich
drew back and thc. knife. passed
-through Lis coat collar, euttinc , oR
an uppert button and making a clean
cut on the left shoulder. The guard
drew his revolver without , cocking
it, but finding 'himself unable to dig
arm hie assailant fie finally cocked
the revolver, when Guiteau dropped
his knife and grasped the formidable
weapon, crying for help and calling
that he was being shot. The pistol
was accidentally discharged, and
several guards rushed to .the, cell,
-when. Quite:in was disarmed. The
assassin stated, to the guards that he,
was acting in self defence, and ihste't*--
McGill bad attempted to shoot him:
UOW T!TE KNIFE WAS OBTAINEO.;:":
..The-question how- Guiteatt . obtailit t
ei the itnifeis generally explained 1.3 X..
the fact that "Babe" Bedford once
occupied that cell and tliat several
similar instruments had been con
cealed by that criminal. The knife
is what is , generally known as a
"Cheerer," and is - 11, criminal substir
tide for jack-knife, carving knife; ra
zor or- dagger. .It' is - made out of:
the piece of-steel found in the sole of
a boot, which-can be sharpened on a
stone -or windOw -sill until it be.-
comes exceedingly
. keen. - The iiloe
is generally about two .or .. three in—
ches long and :half and• inch'broad
.and in-inch or more. left unsharpen
ed, ani wrapped in rags-or : paper
for a handle: These instruments area
used. by -the prisoners for various
purposes. They .are confiscated -hy
jailors Whenever they are found.- It
is also considered posSible that one
of the- other prisoners had in some
way left the
. knife - where Guiteau
could - get - it.
.. The - assassin consid
ers that his escape is- very fortunate,
and when a guard said in his presenee
that he had :thought - the pistol 81)(4.
"hid settled the dog," he - replied:
I"My dear sir, that is : too important
a "subject for joking. :A life is valua
ble." ~ , . -'• _ ' '
TIFF GUAltb DOUBLED.
• The guard' of soldiers at the jail
basilieen doubled and now consists
of twenty men and t i iree Commis
sioned :officcrs. A- most vigilant
watch is kept over the prisoner.
=cm=
Proof Ev.er'ywhrre.
If any invalid or ai f person has the,
least doubt of the and ellicacy'of
Hop Bitters to cure tit.ttn, they can find
Cases like their own; in i t.t.ir own neigh.
borhood, with proof that they
can be easily and permanently cured, at
a trifling cost—or ask your druggist ov
physician.
GBEENWicri,
for BrrrEns was giveib
up by the doctors to die of sciofula con
sumption. Two bottles of your; Bitters.
cured'me. BroasKit.
Sega.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
Letters of administration having been grant
ed to the undersigned up id the estate. of Jane
Backman. late of Muttroc-, Te - p., deceased, notlee
is hereby given that ail pro indebted te said
estate are requested to rd.ode indru-diate I/ IVlllcrit.
and all persons having ,tr.lid, , :,gainst said estate
must present the Sallie. , i , I . :::. authenticated to th• - s
undersigned! for settb.n; n - .
B. B. 11d. , 1.1.F.TT. Administrator.
_ 31onroeton, Pa., Angitd.d 11, 168140. , .•
pROCLAMATION.- 'WHEREAS,
lion. Pan. D. 31motow, President Judge of
the 13th Judicial District. consisting of the county
of Bradford, has issued E - 1 ,- , - preeept hcaritrg date
the oth day. of May. _lse!. to me directed. for
holding a Court of Oyer .and Terminer. Genera;
Jail Delivery, Quarter Se.-smn of the Peace, Com
mon Pleas and. Orphans' Curt at Towanda. for '
the county or Bradford, cmumenclng on. Monday,
SEPTEMBER 3th, Isst, to . bntinue three weeks.
Notice is therefore he.i . eby.given to the Coroner ,
and Justices of the Pence of the county of Brad
ford, that they be th.,11 cud there In their proper
isers,:is; :It 10 o'clock to the forenoon of said day..
with records. Inquisitions and other remembrances.
to tin those things whirl: ::: their office appertains
to be done ; and those who are bound.by recogni
zances or otherwise, to rr.,:.-eute against the.priso
jsers %situ:tie or way be In tile jail of said county,
are to be then and there to prosecute against them
as shall be just.. Juror:: -...• requested to I.e pubes
tual in their attendauc.-, h;;; .. e. ably to their notice.
Dated at Towanda. the lit b day of Angus°, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and .101'1y-one, and of I h.: Independehce of the
United states one hundr. d and fifth.
p -IL., EG I STER'S • NPTICE.—Notiec
Is hereby given, that there has been filed ',lx
the oaireof the Register for tile 'Probate of Wills
ru.d. granting Letters of AO rAinistration in swl for
tire County of Bradford. State of Pennsylvania.
accounts of:administration urou the foiloultu:
estates.. viz:— •
. . ..
Thu first and final account ia F.Alortco.
guardian of Debbie L. N'anderved, niltkor
'
Willis Vanderpool, late of 'the township of Tirry,
deceased.
Final Jecount of Thomas Haggerty. administra
tor cum tcslom Put dann,.. o of the estate of Samna
Haggerty., late Of the• to of Terry, deceass , l.
Elual account of Alyali M. ('.retell, administrator
of the estate of Ler:ilia-C. Cornell,: late or I:10
township of Colutnkin, dee.•ased
'The Hirst and partial ace,e,nr of Harrison W.
Green. and Jabez Ca , e, adlninistratm:t of the
tate of Zlna Case, late of the town-kip of, Try,
deceased.
l'lnal account of Benjimin Jones. exotmior of
the last *lll and testament of John Terry. tate of
the township of Terry,,itccen,cd.
account of ILL-Terry, adrulnlstrat9r 44 -
the estate of James Jones; late of, the township PC
Terry, deceased. •
Final account of Delos Rocttivell, on , . of the ad
mluir.triitors of the estate of Alonzo Long, late of
the Itormigh of Troy; deceased.
The firrt and final aecount of W. flillson,
ad
ndntstrafbr cum texts MC of 0 0 it nu , ro of th 4 estate
of nnaltichnicnd, late of township of Troy. de
ceased.
rlual account of Neleon Vaullorpool, -um: Man of
Burr Johnson. minor child of Lei , is 4 anion, lAte
of the township of terry. dereAscA• •
kinat account of. George Jordon. guari•wi of
Julia Van Allen (now Julia eoryelo, insuor ~ f
Darwin P. lranAllen, late of the ion-n=lllp, .4
Springfield. deceased. ' -
„The first and partial accountof - Mattlir Daritnt , s,
aihninlstrator of the estate of Jacob ilF.trltnL3,
late of the township of Springfield. de ra , c.l.
The first and partial aceountof Martin if
administrator of the estate of Stfilth N. II irkoc..s,
late of the township of Springfield, d.trea.e.i.
Flual aeeonnt of Charles A. Moon and Morgan F..
Moon. tulnainiatritors of the estate of SOS!, .3i, ,, !!;.
late of the township of Albany, deceased.
Partial account of N. N. Berta, ft-t ier,of tho ,
estate of if. Charlotte Ward, late of the l..lrougn of
Towanda. deceased. ' .1 ,
The; Ilrbt and final account of Geerg.•
executor of the last will and tcittament
ifiTcyly, late of the townshipof °Tenon. d.
Final account of Hiram L. Hocksvell. .m
of Thomas F.. Itrcdvnson, minor child ot.tss of •;;;
of Wlltis Brownson, late of the township it );
dtecased. ;
Final account of John Itdger and Eritrea V.
k Ins. administrOors of the estate of - .Jomiel
kills, late of the, township or To‘tarrea. deers •;
First and final amain - rot :Joit W. Uoldinr.,
ininistrater cunt iesfamente;.annex" of the e
of Jereinialt McCarthy, late of the towhstill , of
Rldgbury, deceased. -
Fival account of Benjamin S. DAM aad John 7..
31fx.' executors of the last Wlll and testament oc.
Jesse E. Bullock, late of the borough of Cantor,
sleceaed.
Final account of Benjamin S t)artt aril Johlt r.
Mix. test.dnentarS• guardians of Charlet , E. Bol
lock. minor child of Jesse E. Bullock, late of the -
borough of Cantou,scleceased. .
Final account of Edward S. Horton, executor of
the last wilt and testament of.42aroline F. Wright,
late r of the tesrnship of Canton. deceased.
Final account of Mary Eloom, guardian of irrao
ees E. Leonard (now Frani es E. Williams), minor
child of Lewis M. Fasmard, late of the township of
6 ranville, deceased. -
First and partl3l: account of Martha Khmer,
Floyd L. Kinner and A. C. E:shree, admtnistrators
of the estate of A. A. Kiuner, late of the borough
of Athens. deceased.
Final 'aaeount of. Geo. W. Blackman, adialnis
trator of.thc estate of Gen. Warue•Grnuey, late of
the township of Shesheitutn. deceased. •
' Final account of B. B. Willett', administralor.
cunt tcatamento annex° of the estate of -Jeremiah
Blackman, late of the township of Monroe. deed.
First and dual account of David S Calding ad=
ministrairr of the estate of Clinton Keeney, late of
Ibia township of Pike, deceased. •
First and final aceount of Philander E. Wood
-ruff, administrator cum testamento annexe of the
estate of Nathan Coleman. late of the township of
,Orwell, deceased.
First', and final account of George P. Bone , . '
executor of the last will, and testament of Abel
Watkins, late of the borough of Sylvania, deceascifT
Final account of Dative/so Bourne, guardian n!
Homer C. Campoell and Delmer . Catupbeli„
-minor children of Josephrts Campbell, late of the
township of Burlington, aleceaserh-. . •
First and final account of James 11. 'Webb, ail;
ministrator do bunts non mina tewtomento (1711.1 ,,
of the estate of Charlea.DoFelles, late of the bor
ough of Athens, deceased. •
First and final account of Albert Morgan, ad
ministrator of the kstate of W. It. nawkins.---131 0
of the township of Armenia, deceased.-
Final account of Jetties 111.. Webb arid Eliza* .
Bliley. administrator of the estate of lbws: i t:.
Wl_llhelm, late of the township of Burlington.
• And the sante will ba presented to the Orphans'
Court of Bradford County, at aft Orphans' Court
to be held it Towanda for Bald County, on T hiir
day, the Bth day of September. A. D. Don, at
o'clock P. st., for confirmation and allowance.
• A. C. FRISBIE, Register.
Register's Office, Towanda, Aug.., 1881.
ORPHANS' COURT NOTICE.
—Notice Is hereby given that there has born
filed In the race ok the Clerk, of the Orphans ,
Court in and for the County - of Bradford, State, of
Pennsylvania appralsetnent of property 'set off 'o'
executors and admitilstest.rs to the widows and
children of the following decedents, sir:
Estate of Samuel D. Cobb, late of the township
of Troy,, deceased. •
Estate of Jeremiah Barnes, late of the township
of Derrick, deceased. .
Estate of h.IIJ. h Mann, late of the township 3:
Litchfield. deceased.
. Estate of George J. Campbell, late of the town-
ship of Litchfield, deceased.
Estate of James Lee; late of the township el
Albany, deceased:
Estate of Joseph C. Gale, late of the township of
South Creek. deceased.
Estate of Thomas Craig, late of the township of
Sonih Creek. deceased.
Estate of George 11. - Foss, late of the borough of
Alba, deceased.
Estate of Wellington - - Barrowellff, late of the,
township of Tuscarora, deceased.
Estate of J,nries Burnham, late of the township
of Wells, deceased. -
Estate of-Michael Gilligan, late of. the borough
of South Waverly, deceased.
Estate of Daniel W. Cokely, late ot the town,lnp
of Franklin. deceased. .
And the tame will presented to the Ori tans'
Court ot Arndt/wit -County, at an Orphans' Collit
to he held at Towanda. for said County. on Th.w•
day,' the sth day of September. A. D. iEel, ac :1
o'clock r. st., for anal confirmation.
A. C. PRIOBIE, Clerk
II
PETE!: J. DEAN. Sheriff