Xltadfora ggottet -Towanda, Pa., Dec. 22, 1881. EX-VICE PREI , :DENT SCHI:TLEE COL FAX is named al a prominent, candidate for the nomin' ation for Governor of In diana. 7ECERAL SIMON Caattnos is going to spend the winter in the _City of Mexico, and will leave his Pennsylvania home in S few weeks. A NI:31 BE.ri of female clerks on the lapsed roll of the Treasury- will be dis cb ar;.Ted on the first of January. The number rt this chss of appointments largely exceeds the fund available to Pay J.hem. G Josrru E. Spu.Ni,vos publishes a t..-atment, alleging: that J Et Ft ILSON DA vti, removed newly fit:2,500,0W in specie heionging to the Confederate treasury at the evacuation of Ilithmond and never i;ccounted for it. ' • THE annual meeting of the State Grange at Williamsport adjourned Friday after the election of a steward and an executiu4 committeis. The sum of one thousand dollars . wa•, appropriated to keep lecturers in the field during the coming winter. SF. 7c A.TOIL M,nnaLL, chairman of the Sen‘ate Finance. Commit , ee will introduce a Hi to enabl'_ the national bank associa tions to extend their corporate existence in accordance with the recommendations contained in the annual report of the Comptroller of r -D cy. TiiE . top t•lali will rest the feet ~f the statue WAt-KINGTON at the New - York sub-Treasnry, will be the sam , stone on which the first President stood when inauzurati . d. Whenthe old Fed eral Ball, in which the first Congress met _ in New fork: was pulled down: the stone was preserved. SENATOR LAERAAI l introcluced - a bill providina that atteini,t,, on the life of the President shall be l unislied. by impr.son ment fur life, with-hard labor or solitary . ci:finemeni, in the discretion of ,the court. A better plan would be to punish i , p`th attempts by death. They are be paid. all ordinary murder, whether they are successfnl er not. Tit: supreme Court of , Pennsylvania ha , rendered an important decisiiin on insurance which has not yet been pnb lisbed. It is . to the effect that when an it:coriorand fire insurance company is &olved by a decree of a court ctir,n; the vtlicies outstanding, perpetual or limited, are can e any lo.s occurring after the ) . I,soltiti , .n is not protected by the OEM MEM i:~te i,f di EINE PRF. , IDENT Z. 4 .CIIARY TAYLOIt'S d.c.:4titter, Alto nun - Virginia, re ceived recentlylcom the Treasury of the United States tile som of 416,000,- which wa :, t h e ,xn e t :,rnonitt of salary that would bawl: be n pai.l . 6o.neml TAYLOR had he lived until the expiration of hia term of otile.c. The payment was made In accord- an~c with nuthority contained in the De 'lici-•ucp Appnvilti , .n bill passed June 1`,11; f THE mall l.ie l g , f Mr. 0. C. ManErn. ; of Marlboro. N.. 1.. ins proving a regular b ,, nanza to scienti-t..4. A veritable mine rtf . petrified anted, lnvian reptiles appears have been t-trek._ A creature has re cently been unearthed Which no one is yet able to name. It ,seas a monster of large size, and these are believed to be the only . -remains of tile kind ever discovered. Many scientists hare- already gone to ex amine the liones and tusks which have been found. • MR. SnEnmsN•s Three Per Cent. Fund ing bill, a.s repo' Led with amendments 4i i t:- , in the Senate Cum 'tee Thursday afternoon,' provides tha bonds shall be i,,suPil, either in exam!' c for cash or the extended bonds, to an)rtnount noce;cee l jog .1.2t00,000,000. Ti / committee decided . 1. upon their action after hearing Secretary Fot.oltit, who expre2.l,ed himself il.l oppo sition to the proposition, preferring to retain the gOve:orrictit privilege of calling in the 4 j er cent. bonds at any time. Tut: Chid* of • the Bureau of Statistics reports that the total values of the ex pot ts of domestic, brradtuffs during the month of Novt-tober,.lBl, and during the live am] C ., 'N en months ° ended November 80, 1.8t 4 1, roMpared L with similar re ports duriuL; the corresponding months of the ptect , ti;og yoar, v. ere as follow; : No vernhi2r, V.5,0;2,1,tt!:50; 18S0, $22,053,- Fize month , . ended November 30, I'3Bl, e 9 ,4.337.515 .; 1550, $l3-1,874,3G0. Eleven monsl , setuled November 30, 1881, $219,3151,4:12 ; Isso, 52:17,231,045. Pnoot - s of tlio ❑ew' five-cent GlithEL postage statllp have heat received at the Post-ollien I terirtnient. The stamp is pronourv! , -r1 by the postal authorities to he the . II:olds:411-st ever isßued. It is a vignette or a three-quarter face, surround- rd by a light and elegant bead-work ova The likeness is peculiarly striking, and -the *hole work,: while free from orna mentation, is finely- and gracefully fin ished. Tim stamp was detigned by Vice President .7dArDosoron, of the'Ameri an Bank Note Company of New York. Tnr. select committee on the death of President G.+nF►r:LD, after discussion Wednesday of last week, referred the sub ject to a sulseommittee, of . which Repre entativc MCKINLEY is chairman, with instructions to•report to the joint commit- • ..._ tee .as stxm - _als_praeticable. A general Preference 'WaS expressed that. :FORM ak. titiguislied (Amor shall be invited to de liver the euloa, arid that two Senators - and two IlepresPntatives shall be selected to follow the orator with, brief remarks, each.being allowed about fifteen minutes; the services to be begun atirl,_(;losed with }gayer, and to be held iu ti..- House of IZepresentativeh settle tinte it,,Tanuary. Titr. following statement made by the Cleveland COmmittee in answer to many inquiries : "The Garfield Monu ment Fun I committee desire to raise #20,000 - :for th- purpose of erecting an Zirriiopriate 111( 111;!1:.•1*.t at the late Presi dc-nt'S grave. Of amount over 01,- 000 has ;;beatly b en , ttbscribed by the c iti ze n.; o f t . 1. , ?% eland. The State of Ohio Clevtlatid) writ raise not lees quo, r;' , 1nu,0 , ..,u-iii all, abr. $25;000 has been ill,t:tl by small voluntary cuutrrbutious in uilleit at :x of tllu country and for warded to the committee, Thus one-half of the whole arnoant lurked is practically secured, leaving only #125,4)00 more to be raised outside of 011 k) in order to awry out the pits of Ike omeinhie," • Tim State Superintendent of Instruc tion of Illinois has issued a (Amigo . to all county superintendents calling on them to give effect to the regulations of the Stare Board of Health relative to the vac chmtion of the pupils of the public schools: The smallpox .is ' stated to be widespread through tle Jrorthern States, and epidemiC from the A.tlantic to the Pacific., A Ms. his of Philadelphia, offered to paY* premium on an insurance policy two daYs after it was due: The . company refused the money. Mr. ME GAEOEE then sued to compel the company to restore the policy. He diet' shortly afterward and the widow continued the suit, and obtained on . Saturday a verdict of $17,000. • Julian J. C. Bazicnorr Davis, whom the President has named for Aisistant Secretary of State, has the capacity and fitness to discharge the duties of that of fice well; His diplomatic career began 'more than thirty years ago, since which time be has served in important places, including the one to • which:he is now again appointed. For the pait five years he has `been a Judge of the Court of • Claims. AN exposure is being made of land swindles of an extensive character in Da kota. Canadians of high social standing have entered lands and atvultivating them, while retaining their residence in Manitoba and theii, alleghtr.ce to Queer. Vtc-ronta. In nearly every case they have evaded filing' a Valid . declaration of intention to become citizens of the United States, and being ! citizens of another country, are beyond the jurisdiction of our courts. THE Philadelphia Telegraph sa , ss con siderable misinformation seems to be afloat concerning the next election in Pennsylvania. The, State offtcers to bo . elected are Governor, Lieutenant Goirer nor, and Secretary of Internal Affairs, to succeed HoYT, &lox?, anti DENKEL, re spectively, and a Judge of the Supreme Court to succeed SHARSIVOOD. MERCER will become Chief Justice, and the new Judge will take his place at the foot of the bench, so to speak. There will also be chosen one-half of the State Senate (members from the even numbered dis tricts), and entire House of Representa tives, and members of Congress. The Senators elected will particip .. tte, in Jan uary, 1885, in the choice Of a Uniied States Senator to succeed J. DONALD CAMERON, but a new Houle will be chol see again in November, 1884. CHRONIC LIARS. It i 3 possible:for a man to be in dependent in polities , _yet not a chronic liar. We hope it is equally possible for a man to publish an in dependent newspaper and not- lie more than half the time. s The first fact has been demOnstrated. The latter fact remains to bd domonstrat- ed. The reason *by it, has not bee demonstrated•is that most of the men who pretend o run anindependent newspaper never had any convictions, hence no earnestness, and hence, again, tOo little faith in the existence of truth to make it a rule of 'action. These reflections came to us atter reading the circumstantial . account of . a "stalWart " conference held at the house of Senator CAMERON in WashingtOn. - The story runs that Gen. BEAVER and State Senator COOPER, together with a number of "bosses " met at the house of Sena tor CAMERON the other night and de cided. upon Gen. BEAVER• as ~the candidate of the "machine" for Governor. The inherent improba bility of the story- was sufficient to st•imp Was atlie, but the fact 'that Men who were declared to have been present at .the meeting were in Phil adelphia. and Harrisburg_on the night it was reported to have been held, ought certainly to put an end to the. Canard. But it will not. Thete .are men, and not a few at that, who wTuld• believe the report even were r tho• author to come bodly fOrward and admit that it was _a lie out o • • - whole cloth. The objeCt of the - report was to slaughter Gen. BEAVER 'before the Convention meets. It seems to be admitted that Gen. BE4VER is a pure man, competent } and deserving. Ile had the misfortune not to have been a . eopperhead or a 'snarler during the war. He was fool enough to serve with distinction through the war. Hence every man who went about shaking in his shoes, and crying that we were beaten " any how," while Gen. BEtVEIS, was in the field, is now bent in killing him off/ We do not know Gen. BEAVitt 'personally. He may be an aspirant for the Republican nomination for aught we can say to tl contr i ary. If he it's an honest, honorable man, and. competent; we know no good reason why he is not privileged to aspire to ,any office. Should he be nominated we should not care particularly who preferred or who !did not prefer him. Nor should We object to , supporting him because .IOIIN SMITII, or TOM JONES, with whom we have quarreled, propos ed to-vote for him. We leave that sort of warfare to old women, and boys under twelve. It is not our way., Every year we have to vote nod work for men for whom men not at all to our mind vote. We have never, badthe pleasure of voting for anybody for whom none but our bos om friends voted. That would be nice of course. So it would be nice if one had not to choose between stir- Ideation and breathing the same at. mosphere with liars, and other bad people. Brit this is a world in which good and evil are pretty ,much mixed. Sometimes men and women of small calibre, and smaller_ faith, become (Disgusted with the mixture and hang, drown, or shoot themselves. That is probably good for the world, but is it good for the victim 3? ' We con clude. not. Suicide is not a remedy for what is evil in this world. Polit jail suicide is not a remedy for what Is out of joint In politics. Because we cannot, have it all our own way we do tint Intend to resod to pollti , cal isle, Ras *ivory oisa the Republican party is not to our mind we do not propose to destroy the partv The fact that there is not a great deal to choose between‘men, on ,the average s Operates to check the tendency to idolatry. 'We dorriA hs,ppen ki.ow any man in .Penn sylvania *who does not inmetimes show that while remembering the mass of mankind he never forgets himself. No man of intelligence can remember any other kind of a public . man. The first law of nature is a good On its operation hangs the survival of the fittest. The man of_energy tends to perpetuate his .kind: The only exception to the beneficence of the rete is the. ease of the stalwart liar. He al,o perpetn ates his kind. And it is to) be re. gretted. Rat if he did not perpetuate his kind whatwould become 'of the Free Lance in politics ? TUE NEW ATTORNEY GENPIAL. The President on Friday last sent to the Senate the name of BENJAMIN HARRIS BREWSTER, of- Philadelphia, for Attorney General, and the nomi- nation was subsequently unanimously confirmed. Mr. BREWSTER, VMS born October 13, 1816, in' Salem County, N, J., where his ancestors for several generations had lived and owned large estates. He was- grad uated from Princeton College in 1834, and immediately entered - upon the study of law in the office of Mr. Eta K. PRICE in Philadelphia. In 1838 he.was admitted to practice at the bar, and soon attained great prominence in his profession. He I was appointed by President „POLK Commissioner to adjudicate the claims of the Cherokee Indians against the United States, and in 1867 was ap pointed Attorney-General of the S tate of Pennsylvania by Governor GEARY. With these excep yms he has hitherto been a stranger public offitial life, although his friends have repeatedly urged his availability for a position in the Cabinet, or IL seat in the Ilia ed States Senate. For forty years heohas been regarded as one of the . foremost lawyers of Philadelphia, and has been retained as counsel in a large number , 'of celebrated cases He has'also won renown as a classi cal scholar, lecturer and orator. In personal appearance Mr. BREWSTER is of a little more than the average height, and slightly inclined toward corpulency. His iress and courtly manners are those of the past gene ration. In referring - to the appointment the Philadelphia 'North Americari says : "In appointing Mr. BENJA MIN HARRIS BREWSTER to the "Attor ney Generalship, President , ARTHUR has given fresh evidence of the sound ness of hi's judgment, and of the pe culiar faculty foi putting the'right man in the right place , : with which since the beginnind of his adminis tiation he has shown himself' to be endowed. * * * * 'And then again, Mr. BREWSTER'S connec tion with the Star route cases fur nished' a very strong argument id his favor. In this respect no more ap propriate choice could possibly have been made, and in chSosing for his Attorae } y General the man who is so exceptionally conversant- with the details of, the pendini charges, and who perhaps' above all others is qual ified and May be trusted to so order things that no guilty man shall be permitted4o escape whom the gov ernment is able to convict and pun ish, President ARTHUR has added to the many eviden - ces of *his purpose to have the charges which have been made pressed home, a proof so con vincing that those who have thus far continued to impugn his motives and to discredit his sincerity, will, if they have any sense of decency left, be constrained to cease their slanderous imputations. Mr. BREWSTER'S ap pointment is a notice to all concern ed in this Star route seandarthat no one who can be proved guilty of fraud, as alleged, need expect mercy. AMONG the multitude of revenue meas ures just introduced into Congress, there is one _which proposes to make a uniform reduction of ten per cent. in all the.pro t ctive duties of the tariff. This measure was enacted once before by Congress at a time when the Treasury was overflowing with money, and subsequently repealed when the country was suflering under a terrible commercial revulsion. The North American thinks that there can be no doubt that there will be an effort made to force the passage of this measure during the present session by some sudden and surprising movement by Democrats, eree traders and popularity-seekers, and there fore the friends of the American system will have to be on their guard. _ THE proposed toad across Bucks county to the Durham furnace of COOPER, HEw- ITT ST, CO., on the Delaware, has been christened the New tork -and Western Short line, by virtue of expectatione l / 4 tbat when completed from Quakertown'to a connection with the Lehigh Valley's* Jer sey lines. It will form a trunk link con necting with the Beading for Harrisburg and the west. I. D. MCKEE, CHARLES SPYKER WOLFE'S chairman, has-issued aeall for a conference of the Worsz followers to be held at the continental Hotel, in Phil adelphia, Janurry 12th. at 10 o'clock A. M. The calt says the conference is fur the purpose of taking "into consideration the wisdom of placing in nomination pro per persons for the offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of Inter • nal Affairs and Supreme Court Judge and such other matters as may come be fore it." We suppose this is the second chapter of "Reform within the party, but outside of its organization." Twit State Grange,'Patrons of husban dry, commenced ;its session at thu Park hotel, Williamsport, the 13th. b bout 290 delegates_Were present. The Secretary's report shows an increase. of seven thou sank .members during 1881.' Seven or eight new granges were in the Meth during Ora jest . , and thitir or forty , #.o► Wit 9 44. ItoOtrtwaf.lllViii-ity- LooDionreg bendleg i rays the Pros. has been crowded 'hy the ritilmed boom of the past tiro years until the works ate overlaid with a year's mien. and the Bakiwisi Lneounthe 'Werke refined -n -autili to tike an order from the Lehigh Valley for delivery *Her than 1883, and then at the sate of three a non*. An Onlimuy eight-wheel passengei engine sells for $13,500 now against $7,000 three or foneyeers ago, and the fifteen loconto tee works in the United States with a varyfog capacity of from eight to fifty engines a month, have turned _ont 2,700 locomotives in the past year, and will put 3,000 on the rails in the next twelve months. In addition, about 300 to 400 are built annually by the railroad compa nies, and the addition to the 18,000 loco motives now runnng on 94,000 miles of track is in excess of :the additions to the back oy new roads of about 10,000 miles a year; but not much over, as of the bar motives now rtinnitig 1,000 give out year ly, taking the average life of an engine at from fifteen to twenty years, so that the addition of new locomotives like that of track is about a ninth. The tendency also on all roads is toward more engines. The Erie ;has ad engine to , every two miles ; the Missouri. Kansas and Texas one to every ninth. With the demand, it is not scuprisin,g that new locomotive. works have been begiur at Rome, N. Y. Bor dentown, N. J., andat Chicago,. the last with a capital of $1,000,000. - , Wot.rs - says, id an interview with a _ . Times reporter, that no man . has as yet been named by the Republicans that he will support if nominated for Governer. It may be well to remark that the name of CHARLES SPYKER WOLFE, has not as yet been mentioned. Dn. Ifixac F HAYES, the • well-known Arctic explorer, died In New Tork oa Saturday. Mr. Hayes had been in' his usual health. until within a few days. His death-was cased by heart. disease. Ho was - unmarried, and about fifty years of age.. CHIEF JCSTICE HORACE GRAT, Of Mas sachusetts, has been 'appointed by the President, and confirmed by the Senate, as a Justice of the United States- Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice CLIFFORDe A VERY large number of bills have been ntiodueed into Congress, and it is esti- mated tbat by the close of the present week the number will -reach 2,500. A large percentage of these 're private bills, and bills of a local character. Trar. Senate and 11 , !use committee to arrange the memorial Ceremonies in honor of President GAIiTIELD, decided to invite Secretary Blame to deliver the eulogy before both branchei of Congress. A connEcr lift of the victims of the Ring Thegttre, Vienna, fire has been, issu ed by the police. It gives the total num ber of victims as 794, of'whom the bodies of 144 have been legally identified. TiE nomination of - Biw.l43fis H. BREWSTER for Attorney-General and of J. C. BANCROFT DAVIS for Assistant Sec retary of State; were unanimously con firined by the Senate Monday..' IT is going to be interesting to observe, as. the Congressional session weekly grows older, how much opposition to , needed legislation the Democratic minori ty can develop. THEItf is a proposition _to give the name ofl GARFIELD pr LigcoLs to the proposed new Territory that is to be cut off from the northern part of Dakota. H. IL ItinioLEnit name, Readjuster, was elected a United States Senator from Vir ginia, by the Legislature of that State, on Tuesday. -Liquon licenses-are to cost. $lOO,OOO in Nebraska. Evidently the . days of the Democratic party in' that State are ntim , bored. Tun President on Tuesday Pent to the , Senate the name o f • TiMOTHY 0. flown, of .Wisconsin, iobe Postmaster General. AtioTHEtt setback for tbo. Satanic Press. BREWSTE4, has been appointee Attorney General. SECRETARY FYELINGHUYSEN took pos session of the State Department• Monday. STATE NEWS. —A Xittsburg man has been importing potatoes grown in . Ireland. —The silk mill in Allentown at present turns outabout one thousand pounds of yarn per week. cholera. has killed a large num ber of porkers in" Bedford'county within the last few-weeks. —Montgouiery county paid $B,OOO of her bonds last Saturday and will lift $7,- 000 . more this week. —Thomas J. Barger, a 'prominent law yer of Philadelphia, and ex-city solicitor, died Friday morning. —The coal yield of Clearfield county_ will reach two million five hundred thou sand tons with the present year. —The State Capital Insurance Company of Harrisburg asked a decree of dissolu tiOn fret Thursday on the same grounds advanced by the Southern Pennsylvania. The - deem was granted and a receiver was appointed. —The Commissioners of Montgomery county redeemed county boOds to the amount of $16,500, which, with. 7,000 which will be paid this week, will make a total reduction of the county debt for the year of $30,000. . —An animal supposed to be a hyena which had escaped - from , a traveling me nagerie has committed a number of dep redations on graves in portions of Wash ington county. One body was disturbed, and portions of it wereform] a considera ble distance from the cemetery. . • GENERAL NEWS. - —The Brooklyn fire authorities are in specting all the theatres and pluees of amusement in that city, and Making inch arrangements Its would p event loss of life aF any of these places. —Chief Arrazati and thirty of his tribe, constituting the main remnants of Victoria's band, have been captured by 2,lexican troops in the - Presidio del, Norte, on the northern Rio Grande. —The Commissioner of _the General Land Office has-Ordered tbe sate of about 1!!,000 acres of public lands )yin„ r it To ledo, ou Lake Erie. The sale %sill take 'lilac& on February 111 nett, at the Land Office in Washington. - • -At Austin, Neb., early Wednesday morning. of last week, a'party of masked 111100, orerpoweied the jailer and took out of a cell Richard Jennings, Who shot and IttiNat Mtn A. einstai .se old said LIP spectod ethyl, on ?away . The prisoner waspromptly banged froze a bd. cony over a front door. —lt is teliorted Unit the indiatts in tbs. Pembina. -mountains are starring ht, cow ammo. of the "mailbox in - arm:One rer Willow, Which present 'their receiving supplies from the settlements. Captain - Collin", of Fort Pembh94 has volunteired to forward provisions to them, ana has kegraphed the facts to Washington. —Several yesue ago Ericsson predicted that the _ Nile and the Ganges would be lined with cotton and other factories driv en by solar heat. A French 'engineer in Algeria is - already cora' ibutingto the ful fillment of this rediction by pumping water and making it bo'l by solar force —A convention Of &led's of police of the United States commenced its Sessions in Chicago, Tbursday. The object is to orinize a system of exchanging tele graphic information regarding 'Criminals and fugitives from justice. 'Mayor tlarri son was elected president of the c.onven tion., —Highwaymr) boarded the passenger train on the South _ ern Pacific Railroad going west from El Paw, Thursday. They knocked down and gagged Wells, Far g o & Company's messenger and ab stracted $l5OO from the safe. The pas sengera were also robbed of about $6OO. —ln the United States Court at Dallas, Tex., on Wednesday of last week, Lien tenant Flipper and Captain Nolan, of the Tenth Cavalry, were acquitted by a jury of assisting in making illegal arrests in . the Pan-Handle in 1878. Cases of this and similar arrests have cost the govern= went nearly $lOO,OOO. —Colonel Strachan, of the Ninth Regi ment ' Massachusetts Volunteers, jitter "consideration of the report of the in :esti- gating committee, has decided that 21, of the command, consisting of one corporal, two musicians and eighteen privates, were guilty of misconduct during - the Yorktown_trip, and Adjutant General A. It Berry has orderel-their summary dis charge.. Shelbyville, Tenn., dispatch says there is great excitement there over ' ' the imprisonment, by order of Judge Cant rell, of C. R. Wallace; a telegraph opera tor, 'for refusing to divulge tylfore the grand jiiry the names of parties dealing , in futures by telegraphic orders. Efforts will be made to obtain a writ . of habeas corpus from the Federal court for his re lease. —E. D. Hopkins, who has bad three forgery trials, and two convictions in ;1 transactions as agent for the Fire A so ciation of Philadelphia, has beeepn, trial, at the present term of the county court at St. Johnsbury, Vermont, for larceny of funds belonging to the Fire Association. The jury Friday brought in a verdict of guilty.' The case will go to the Supreme Court on exceptions. • —Chief Justice Hunter, at Salt Lake City, Friday, refused to set aside or mod ify the order heretofore made by lain; in Campbell vs. Cannon, in 'which be held that the certificate of naturalization 'held by Cannon was obtained by fraud and had been fraudulently used, and was void on its face. This lealllrms that Cannon is an alien. • —Government scout Gibson, of Leaven worth, Kansas, states that there will cer tainly be an uprising of the Utes, piutes and Navajoes in the spring. A junction of the bands will probably be formed at 'some point in New Mexico. The Utes, who have been placed , in Utah, are being supplied by the Mormons with arms, am- - munition, and all the whisky they want._ - —Two brothers, living near. New Phila.- delphia, Ohio,: got into a dispute Bone time ago over' the ownership of an old wagon-bed worth , two or three dollars, and ,took the matter into court. After each bagt spent over three hundred dollars in costs and attorney fees, a verdict wee given in favor of the defendant for ten Bents. The plaintiff is still dissatisfied, and will probably carry. the_ case to the Supreme C9urt. —A Detioit dispatch states that a dar ing, but nnsuceksful, attempt was made on Wednesday night of last week by sev en masked men to blow open the safe of the First National Bank at ":-St._ Clair.- They bound and gagged the night police man,and after knocking off the bindle of the safe combination, drilled - holes and exploded powder'in them. They left soon after, neglecting to remove their tools. Two of the gang went to Canada in a small boat, -and the others remained on this side. —A decision of t interest to pool players was rendered 19 the Supretre Court of Indiana a fe*Tda)s ago. The Court held that where billiards or pool is played with the understanding that the loser should pay for the gan2e, it is gambling, and - the proprietor is liable for keeping a gamb iing-house. - The reason' assigned by. the Court was that the hire of the table, which is the amount charged for the games, id wagered on. the skill of . the players, and so considered, there. is no difference between that and any other wagering of money. CONGRESS. Tuesday.—ln . the Senate a bill to place - General Grabt on the Retired List of the Army was placed on the calendar;, Mr.= Pendleton made a - speech urging the possibility and necessity of Civil Service •reform ;, Mr. Dawes and Mr.. Hill made speeches on the Civil Service. In the.: Honk a committee was appointed to audit the expenses connected with the illness and burial of General Gar field ; 756 bills were introduced and referred. Wednesday.—Many new bills were introduced in the Senate; the subject of the Presidential succession and the necessity for a change in the present law• was discussed by Mr. Beck, .Maxey and Anthony. The House of Representatives was not in session. Thursday —Several new bills were introduced, in the Senate ; Senators Garland, Coke and Jones were the speakers upon the subject of Presi dential succession. The Rouse of Repreeentatives was not in session. Fliday.—ln the Senate the Presi dent pro tem. was . authorized to fill vacancies on the Committees, and did' so ; the bill to legalize the'elec tion of the Legislature of New-Mexi- co in, 18g0 was passed. More than 800 new bills were introduced in the House, among them Mr. Randall's Refunding bill ; the special commit tee on the expenses. attending the illness and burial of General Garfield was announced by the Speaker. Terrible Zaplesion: Mr. Ustou, Pa., Dec, 19.—This morning John Ingram placed a can of dynamite on a stove to dry. The package exploded, demolishing_ the building, and killing Ingram. his wife and four children. Bnt one child cusped. THE GITITEATT TRU& TOZBDAY.. In the Guiteau DW I the , cross examination of Dr. Spitska was con cluded: Tuesday, Ifitb inst.. and Dr. Fordyce Barker, of New:York, was called to the stand by the prosecu tion. Dr: Barker was asked"general 'questions respecting the nature. and 'manifestation of various forms of in sanity, the replies to which bore upon the- case of -the assassin .and told against the defence. The witness said be did not believe there was any such thing as moral insanity, that, it ' was siwpl wickedness.. There may, be a perversion of the emotions and instincts, he said, without a perver sion of the intellect. Ile denied the existence of any such thing as hered itary insanity, and said that an in sane delusion was never the result of a process of reasoning. Several wit nesses testified to rascally acts of Guitean. The assassin resented ibis teitimony, and grossly insulted wit. nesses, as well as the District-Attor ney. • . WEDNESDAY. The 'session of the Court fur the trial of Guiteati was cut short Wed nesday, by the indisposition of one of the - jurors. • Three witnesses were examir•ed—the Rev. Dr. Withre#, of ROston; C. A. Brya'n, an insurance clerk in New-York, and R. M. Col lyer, a Neir-York lawyer. These wit nesses testified 'to their acquaintance with the assassin, whose sanity none of them had ever questioned. The assassin became enraged as usual. TI URSDAY. . Testimony of importance *ma 'giv.; en' Thursday, and there were - Several dramatic scenes in the courtroom. The assassin was as insulting•as ever. The t: tended to show that the •einspiration" . theory was an after thought, General Joseph S. Reynolds testifying that in interviews %bleb he had with the prisoner the latter used the word • "assassinate"' and not "re move." Dr. Noble Young, the phy sician of the jail, regarded Guiteau as a perfectly sane man. The pris ,Oner's divorced wife was not allowed !to testify. • The sick juror hati recov ered. . • • . FRIDAY. Dunmire, the former wife of Ouitetiu, was called to the- witness stand Friday, and testified that she had never noticed: any insanity in the assassin.. Dr. Loring,: of Washing- ton, Oculist,- testified'_ that he bad ex . nuthied Guiteaq's eyes and bad found in them no 'evidence of a diseased condition 'of ',the mind. pr. Allan McLane , IlU9iltOn, of sew -York„ teistitie+l that he had made three per sonal examinations of ; the assassin,- and had. found him to be a•man with no apparent physical deformity: He 'found nothing whatever indicating ,any congenital defect. He discovered noneof the usual signs.of imbecility 'Or insanity — in the contour of .the bead, the lines of the face, the teeth, roof of the mouth, nails or tongue.: Dr. Hamilton said the assassin ap; peared. to be "like a man'playing a part." • Guiteau at timeii - !' behaved even" worse than usual, insulting the District-Attorney very groisly. :MONDAY. In consequence of the death of the wife of Juryman Hobbs, the further hearing in the Guiteau trial was post poned until Wednesday. Matters of General Interest. - !, • THE , • JEANNETTE • SAFE. LONDON, Dec. D.—The Governor of Siberia has just issued a procla mation afinouncing that the Arctic .voyaging ship, the "Jeannette," !is safe with all on board well, and all her equipments intact. NEW YORK, Dec. 20 —The first re ports telegraphed concerning the Jeannette,. are declared inaccurate. As yet but few details have,ractied - London. The State Department correspondence, however, is authora ti Losnois,Dee. 20.—A dispatch frOm St. Petersburg says ; News has reached the 'government at Jakutsk, fn eastern Siberia, that on the 14th of September three natives of Oulons, near Cape Bikoff, discovered a boat containing ten men, who stated that Viey belonged to the Jeanne'le; They had undergone terrible suffer ing. " On bearing the news the District Deputy Governor, with doctor and medicines, was immediately dispatch ed to help the shipwrecked. arid in structed to bring them to- Jukutsk. 'The Governor was also instructed to do everything in his power to recov er the remainder of the crew, five hundred roubles being given him to defray the first expenses. Engineer Melville has telegraphed to the Anierican Legation at St. Petersburg that • the Jeannette' a•as surrounded and crushed by ice on the23d of June, in latitude 77 north, and longitude 157 east. The crew left the vessel in three boats. About fifty miles from the mouth of the Jena they were seperated by violent kinds and thick fogs. Boat No. 3, commanded by Engineer Melville, arrived on the 29th of September at the eastern mouth of the river Lena, where it .was stopped by blocks of ice, near the village of Bolenenga, inbahited by :idolaters. Boat No. 1, .reached the same spot. The omitr pants of these boats: state that Lieut. Delong and• Dr. Ambler, with twelve others, landed at the northern mouth of the Lena, and are in a fearful con dition, suffering from frost-bitten limbs. A party of the inhabitants of Bolenenga started immediately for their assistance. Nothing is known of Boat No. 2. . National Coanell:' The. National Council of the Union Leagie of America . , pursuant to the call issued by General J. S. Negley, the president of the League, assem bled Wednesday afternoon and eve ning of last week in parlor "C" of the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia. The foliowing officers were elected : .President, James S. Negley, Pitts burg ; vice presidents, Colonel J R. Rich, Baltimore ; C. F. Gordon, Pa.; C. _W.;Goddard, New York; General C. H. Grosvenor, Ohio; Colonel J. A. Bryant, Georgia; F.. Scott, Maryland - 4 , Hon. G. Chandler, New Hampshire; General J. E. Brady, Virginia, and H. J. B . Cummings, lowa. Corresponding secretary, G. F. Baker, New York; recording sec retary, A. F. Gurner, Pennsylvania; treasurer, W. B. Alexander, New York ; chaplain, J.J. Cooper, Penn sylvania ; marshal; J. H. Harris, North Carolina, and nergeant-at arms, George Nebekar, Pennsylva nia. Addresses were made by Col onel Bryant, of Atlanta, Gs ; Colonel C. H. Grosvenor, and Messrs. Thom ai Kennedy and W. D. rotten. The following resolution in reference to the purity of the :ballot was offered by the Committee on Retiolutious I and adopted: "That Congress should so amend the national laws that the election of COngregemen should he under the control *takers appoint ed by,the United States."'.`.ltesolu .tions to the tollowingeffect were also adoptid: That the chief object ~ o f the League is national and political education, and to - create an intelli gent public sentiment in the interest of good and pure gov ernment; that the League will try i ,to assist all Re pribliain friends of ,Ibe nation living in -the south who,•wherk assailed, ire unabloto secure theif civil and-polit ical rights unaided.; . It was`also re solved that public school education ought, to be made compulsoryin the south. A resolution Was passed . pay ing tributary resiwct to the memory of the late President; and it was fur ther resolved that tile League have confidence in the ability and patriot ism of the present head of -the Ad ministration. -A committee was ap pointed to wait on President, Arthur and assurilim of the support of the League.. A _resolution on tariff was passed:recommending that the - tariff should be such as will not only pay the expenses of the government and pensions and discharge all other ob ligations, but should ; also protect industries against the foreign compe tition of cheap laoor. BUSISESS LOCAL. rir Beautiful 'Holiday_ Books at Coosa' hook Store, Mercur Block, tar 3lrs. E. J. Mingve, . Main Street, opposite the Park, has Dew Fall styles In all,De partmetits of her Millindry Stfire. For choke goods thlsis Headquarters In Toteauda. Oct. 13. a'CHRISTMAS AT WHITCOgIi'S. We have completed onr. purchases and have now In stock the largest, best and most varied assort ment weever had of goodeadapted for HOLIDAY 'ruEs.kNrs. nee. 1, ISM. BeautlfutTictures at Cuoss's Book Store;3lercur Jhuck. Henry & Johnson's Arnica and 0111,1131 - pent we furnish you a large bottle for 5 cents. lar The Largest, Best, and Cheapest line of Shoes for Ladles', Misses' and Chlldrenr wear Is c fouhd at Cons En's new stoil i e; corner Main and P6e-sts., Tracy asoble's Block. apr4'7B tvr L. B..RODGF.RS - okallefiges compe [Mon for quality of Bond; and Idw price: , on - Sash, Doors, Blinds and ]io s, and al building ma. tents). (aug2wtf) ENNA Or YOU RUN NO RISK when - you buy your Groceries at (r." 1.. ROSS'S nest. store In Sioutanye Block. lily PItICE3 are WAY DOWN to rock bottom. HIS store in KELLUM BLOCK. IST WARD, beati the world by Low Prices and goad Goods. Mr If the functions of the liv,er-arein' any way disordered, the oholA in,dy;:aini not only the body, but the 'Mind sytnpathliesvlth the dis turbed organ, "Billteum complatutk are more com mon than . any other dlmeame ; and to remove the bilmots well as to regulate the Liver, you-only have to take Simmons' Liver Regulator. which will tm pastmen life and vigor to the Is hole system. • £. Cons Eli / has the best wearing Shoes for Men, Boys and Youths• wear ever - oteied In Towanda, and at prices within the reach of all. t Thousands, of woolen have been entirely cured of the most staters...rt. rasss of female weakness by the use of Lydia F.. Pinkham•s Veg. etanie Compound. Send to Mrs. Lydia E. Pink ham. :as VOStern Avenue,..Bos - ton, Mass.. for pamphlets. deaf.. rir GEO. L. Ross sells Groceries awful , cit Ow because his expenses are very light, and tie is bouUil his customersshall have the benefit. . Or As a remedy to purify the. blood, nothing eau be found equal to Dr: Baxter's Man drake Bitters. Price 25 eta. per bottle. • VET Wheu.a cough sounds like Croup —that Is dry and bard—do- not delay an Instant GP/13 Downs , Knxir often enough to keep the cough loose, and We danger WM awn be over. . HURRA.II to GEO. L. Rots's New Grocerystore in the fiontanye Block, and get your Groceries at rock bottom. Jan. 20. -;:or Beautiful Holiday GaAs at Cnoss' Boot' Stole, Ifercur Block. rir The Davis Sewing llaehiee with its Vertical Feed does a large range of practical work not possible on any under feed macbine. tf TOWANDA MARKETS. • REPORTED BY STEVENS & LONG, Generaldaalers In Groceries and Prodgce, corner Main and Pine Streets. • WEDNESDAY EVEICI. ; :k.:4I, DEC: 22, 1881. raytzia _ exl.l4sro Flour per bbl 17 sO @ 9 00 Flour per sack • . et 50 t 225 Corn ]teat per 100... •_ @ Chop Feed4l3 e l . 75 • Wheat, per bush—. el 35 04 kft Corn 7 (?/4 80 • 011 Rye 80 • 03.tc . 15 Buckwheat HO ka • 55 Buckwheat F10ur.... 113 50 05 Cliner seed Timothy. western, Beans. 42 Ila', Fork, mess • Lard' Butter. tubs Rolls Eggs, fresh Cheese Nuatoes, per bush Beeswax ..t2 00 #4 2 50 R. Pt 12 . - 25 30 . 'ZS ta ~ 28 0 28, (4 - 16 a f 4 a 20 @ - 22 . ig . CORRECTED 11Y H. DAVIDOW it BRO. Hldea Veal Skins... Deacon Skins Sheep Pelts ?tern Abvertisements. NOTICE. On or about the.first of April; 1 - 882, M. L. Schneeberg, Proprietor of the Great', Boston Clothing House, just opened in Means' Block, Main Street, Towanda, Pa., will change quarters to No. 2, Patton Block; corner of Bridge and Main Streets,. with the Largest and Best Selected Spring and SIMMICI Stock which *ill be made up expressly for the Towanda Branch, with .the Latest Style Business and Dress Suits,• with an Elegant Line of Hats and Caps, Gent's. Furnishing - Goods, Boots and Shoes, &c. , • Thanking the people of this community for their patronage in the past, we hope to see all our old customers and many others at our new place of business, with a con venient location . , and less rent, that we shall be able to sell our Goods at stillbet ter Bargains, and shall aim to please every one, and to keep the Largest and Best Stock as can be found any Where, and at prices that will_. pay you to gtttifty miles to the Great oston Clothing House just opened in Means' Block, Main Street, Towafida, , Pa. M. L. ScnsnEnEtto. - FARM FOR SALE -The sub = scriber offers for sale hli farm of aa acres, located In Orwell township. between Home Bor ough and Orwell Hill, Opining the far:: of 0. J. Chubbuck. Good buildings anti good grafted fruit orchard. - Farm nearly all under cultivation. A Food farm for grain or dairying. Terms will Ito made easy to suit purchaser. For furtherarticu larsenquire of Geo W. Buck, at eltlzeny ational r Bank, Towanda. Pa., or of the subscriber s to Rayerille, Sept. IS:tml. JOHN BLACK. OTEL FOR SALE.—I offer the ,American Hotel property.for sale at a great bargain. .The Hotel may be seen on the corner of Bridge and Water streets, In Towanda Borough. It Is one of the beit and most central locations In the place. There is a good barn connected with the property. The free bridge and new depot near to It make this Hott4 desirable for anyone wishing to engage in the business. A gond active man with a small capital can pay foe the property in a short time from the profits. It was papered and painted now last opting and Is now in ;excellent condltton. JOSEPH G. pATTON. Towanda, Pa , Sept. 15. 18814 f. GAMBLE 'FRACVFOR, - SALE. —The above well-loosen PrOporty on Sugar Run. In Wilmot township. Is offered fur sale In foil to suit purchasers. 3lap of sub-divisions to De aeon on'the premises, at the house of A, L. Rose. =Ma. Liberal terms and time given. Inquire of G. If. wELLEe: Wyalu-Ing, Pa.., or gltIW Winkro—ltarro.-.-Pa. STON E.=Flag Bing , Caps, Sills avid Oases of most excellent quality and dunildlityt . also, building stone, a sample of which can Le seen at It:A. ettekera new building at Sayre. Orders filled and 'contracts taken:JAnply to ibis onice or J. M. BROSMAIi, • 1 Aro loeit • Temitntlik, flotraharl9, *tat VAT t 3 R rN U ES. Somet RANT hing new. A And-class RESTAU and LATINO HOUSE on-Bridge street. opposite the American Hotel. Open at Mt honn. night and da. J. S. ItURRIT7'. Peoprtetee. JayMtn. . I •44 411.1 t to ota tmi *Z° d s SEND FOR A SPECIMEN COPY. F~} . i~li 4=i' 24-41 Dr Angle & Hollistet , (Over Dr. Pratt's ugice. Dr. Angle baring returned from the Wit , t, bas formed a partnerdiip with Dr. Hollister in Order to meet the requirements of thelr growing practice. Preservation and Treatment of the Teeth. Filling, Extracting. and the Correc- Cas e Ether r , or Chloroform Admln 'stewed. KINVIUNtIFINOID'iiii qn GM& Silier, Aluminum, Rnbber;Cel lululd aud'Cuntinuous Gum, and guranteed. All , the latest Electrical and other Improved 'ln struments, which facilitate operations and render them less tedious to the patients are employed. Especial paps is taken with nervous and delicate patients. - ALL nucEs REASONABLE. G. H. WOOD & CO. S 006:0 6 SO • 325 a 340 OM 66 C - 11 16 e la 0 PIIO7 . OGRAP.HERS. Are now WELL ESTABLISHED in their NF.W GALLERY. and are maalng all {dads of PHOTO (:RA PHS'and TINTYPES. They are introducing a new - style of Photographs. called MINETTS„ which they make for .7.0( PER DOZEN. They make 4 TINTYPES, Card. Size, for-50-cents--4 at opa sitting. Thuy also make a specialty in copying, having a number of agents canvassing for them. Give na a call, and see work-and prices, at 06 (4 07S 75 . 0111 25 46(4 60.. :.0 1 &O PATTON'S BLOCK.;,COR. MAl•\ AND BRIDGE STREETS: FARM FOR SALE.—Situated irk, Terry Township, !miles from, river. when! are store, post °Mee. church. gristmill; &c., 3 miles from •tation on the IL: V; It. It, on a well tr veled road. containing 62 acres. 45 Weil 1:11prOVell. good fences. good orchard. grapes, ,Ac., and excellent spring water: and comfortable buildings. Also for sale, house and lot In New Albany fors rough. Wishing to go 'West, will sell the above cheap for cash. If sold socu. Apply on the farm, to MYRON RARCO.:K, Terrytown, Pa.. A UDITOWS NOTICE,—C. ._ • W. ar. H. W. Middleton vs. Johnson Manufac tut ing Co. In the Court of Common Pleas of the County Of.ltrac ford, No. 711. Sept. Term, 1651... The undersigned, ail Auditor IT'Petntee 1 9' the Court to distribute the fund In the Sheriff's hands raised from the sale of.the defendant's personal property. hereby gives notle that he will attend to the duties of his appointment, at the office of McPherson . 8c- Young. in Towanda Ihorough. oti SATURDAY, the 11th day of JANUARY. 1882, at 10 o'clock. A. st., when and where all persons having claims upon said tund must present the same for-allowance or be forever barred 'from coming in upon the same. • W. J. YOUNG, Auditor. *rands, Dec 16, 11581-wl. NATHAN TIDD 2 : - . Dealer is PITTSTON, WILKES-BARRE AND- LOYAL SOCK COAL Pine P T. i t a l Zo e /1 18h "In" sod ) scd Pao DISSOLUTION NOTICE.—No the Is hereby given. 'bat the 'partnership lately existing betwen James HOlawes, and George B. 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