ght pontroot lentotrat. 11,1WLEY, EDITOR. NKONTItOSI6. POlZltrim.f. t WEDNESDA W. JOIE 12. 1871. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. TOR AUDITOR GENERAL, GEN. WILLIAM WCANDLESS, OF PRILAGELPRIA ....—. PGR srnvEyon. GENEnat., CAPT. J A3iES 11. COOPER, OP LAWRENCE COUNTY. Dr A Full Poll of the Democratic Vote All pr will Secure the Election of Our Butte ,a or Ticket by a Large Majority. JEJ rer Let Ecery Democrat Remember that,tn Wand &press the Truth of it Upon the _EI lar Minds of His Neighbors!! Went Beek on , the Soldiers. 'Some of the Copperheads ore trying to make Totes for their candidate, "Orenend 3l'Candless, for his early service in the war to ci tingnish the, Rebellion. But the soldiers should and will remember that he deserted them when the tug was hardest and most desperate. Aye, "he thought the post of honor was the private station." That will not take with the soldiers who fought in earnest to the end. Bat "Ducky" .11Tandless left the army wouldn't, &Olt in a "nizw• Inu',"'ltint to place him upon such a pint form as the late Harrisburg abortion, shows a want of regard for "Bueky's feel ings painful in the extreme." The above which we fonnd in the last issue of the Montrose Republican, is abundant proof that we have verily found a subject worthy of the name of nigger. Any journal. that is so void of honor and manly bearing as to stoop to such palpa ble niggaidly warfare, and will so grossly misrepresent as true and noble a soldier l i es General M'Candless, by such base and influnons slang as the above quotation, fully demonstrates the fact that the attri butes of the party in whose interest it la bors,are neither principles, honor or justice, bat expects in the future as in the past, to maintain its power by vilest slan der, fraud and deception. 11 e care not whether the above was original with the editor of the Republican, or copied from some cotemporary, the law makes each equally accountable. Does the Rtpublicon rely upon the ignorance of its readers, to deceive them and make capital for its candidates, by such base and false mis representations? The history of the war is too familliar to intelligent whitemen and the long an brave career of General M'Oandless is too indelibly written in the hearts of every soldier of this Common wealth to be effected by any such palpable falsehood. It is recorded in history and known by all reading men that General WCandless was with the grand old army of the Potomac, from the Peninsula under General McClellan, to Spottsylvania nu der General Grant, and that was the last pitched battle fought by the army of the Potomac. In the face of history which is open to inspection by all, to prove the truth of our statement, it seems to us the most fool hardy presumption, on the part of our cotemporary. upon the gross ignor enco of his readers to attempt to practice such a base deception. lie will not only find that General M'Candless, but that all honest men and true soldiers will refuse to fight in any such laterally nigger war fare. The "post of honor" most emphat ically is with all, both private and public citizens, who assist in the overthrow of an organization - that has so ignoble a fon nda tion. Tha Alapublican parts in _New York nem" to be hopelessly divided. Senators • Penton and Coukling are each at the Lead of a wing, are each fighting for the ascendency. The Conkling wing is - for Grant, the other is utterly opposed to the renomination of Grant. They have " now two Executive Committees, and of course the State will be lost to tbe Re publican candidates. The cause of the • present split is the appointments of Presi- dent Grant. Ile has thrown the Mubeats overboard, and appointed those who facor- ed the policy of Andrew Johnson, or •what was known as the Johnson wing of the party. Horace Greeley's sympathies are with the anti-Grant division. Bigamy Bowen Pardoned. president Grant has made indecent baste to pardon Bigamy Bowen. The -71- 40 2 4 .21a1Enaa no other claims upon em anative clemency except such as aro bas al upon the fact that he is prominent as a Radical politician in South Carolina. He has been a most disreputable and despicable creature all his life. One of the three women to whom he was mar- tied was a notorious courtesan,.and he married her with a full understanding of her character. No one of the men who preceded Grant in the Presidency would lasi, interfered to shield such a wretch as Bowen from the punishment he so richly ;deserves. Bowen claims a seat in Con .:gress: The sitting member is a negro. We shall see what will be the decision o the reference to' the matter. Or The Hon. Asa Packer has corn- pleted big noble bounty of endowing the Lehigh. University with s sufficient sum :43m:stain it vritbout expense to the gm- —deuts. Henceforth the" instruction will be free, - while it will bo improved mid ex- 'tended, and an edition made of new pre- Trfeasolthips. This is a noble example of li6erality, and exhibits the hest use of wealth, by a Public-spirited 'citizen; who crowns a long and honorable lifc with this act of beneficence, the ben. efiii of which will extend lo generations pnbctrA, ,spd- bestQw tbOnends the blessings of education and culture. The New Nairrow•Gange Engines, The Baldwin Locomotive Works of M. Baird & Co, of this city, arc now build ing some narrow-gaup locomotives for the Denier and Rio Grande Railroad, on the new principle of •the very narrow. three-foot gauge. The first of these en gines has just - Weil completed, and is now at the works, from whence it wilt be. for warded in a few days to its final destina tion. It is culled the Montana, and is the first locomotive of narrow-gauge for gen end passenger or freight service ever built in the country. Its completion signalizes the "new departure" in railway * . practice, land consequently great interest is natur ally attached to it. The engine is six-wheeled, font' of the wheels, forty inches in diameter, being coupled as drivers, and one pair of leaditio wheels in front having a swing bolster ana radius bar, forming what is known as a pony truck." This arrangement enables the engine to pass short curves readily, as the rigid wheel-base is only six leel three inches. The general plan is similar to that of ordinary full-gauge locomotives. The cylinders are outside and placed horizon tally, and are nine inches in diameter by I sixteen inches stroke. Its total Weight in running order is 25,300 pounds, of which 20,500 are carried on the four driving wheels and so arc available for adhesion. A four wheeled tender, having a capacity of 500 gallons and a coal capacity of about one and one-half ton, is attached. The proportion of driving-wheels rela tivel to the stroke of piston admits of a meatsuet of 30 t mi les 40 mles an hour. with a erica to thaon the full gauge. In addition to this, two other locomo tive of the same gauge-are -40w finishing for the same road, which are intended for . freight service exclusively. They have each three pairs of drivers and a pony truck. As an evidence of the great interest now prevailing on the narrow gauge question, us well as of the great business con nections and prominent standing of this Philadelphia manufacturing firm, this establishment holds contracts to furnish locomotive for quite a number of narrow gauge roads both in this country and Canada. The firm also receive by every mail letters and inquiries for information on the subject from all parts of the Uni ted States, from Mexico, from the British Possessions, from South America, and from Americans residing in India and China.—Philudelphia Evening Megroph. Drying up a Canal. July 4.—Disa,greeables of various kinds seem to invest the min ing business in the northern portion of the anthracite coal fiehL Some two weeks ago a caving casualty occurred at the Empire mines, near this city, and caused great excitement and consternation, when tt was supposed forty men had met ultime ly deaths by the accident. To-day we hare a second edition of the phenomenon which was lately exhibited in New jersey at a point ou the Morris canal, with the addition that not only has the bottom of a canal tumbled out, but several coal mines have b-en rendered for a time We less by the freak. _About six o'clock this morning people residing in the vicinity of the Burroughs I Mine, on what is known as the plank road, were startled by a loud rumbling I noise, and equally surprised to notice; that the water in the north branch of the Wyoming canal had begun to run up stream. It was so_pji ascertained that a portion of the botTdru of the Mills creek level of the canal over the Burroughs mine bad caved in, causing a hole fifty feet long, and of the width of the canal and two-path. The casualty involves the flooding of the Enterprise mine, of J. H. Swoyers slope and shaft, the Mitchell mine, part of Bowley mine, the mine of Elliott & Co. and probably the works of Mr. rifleman, as these mines are all con nected with gangways. All the water of the level poured into the opening, and it may be said that the mines have received a tranity of liquid two miles long, and about four feet deep. The accident ocerred at a point over a portion of the Burroughs mine, which had been worked ont, and was caused, most likely, by the robbing of the supports • of the roof a practice which sometimes prevails when chambers have been exhaus ted. The amount of damage cannot be estimated at present, bat will be heaviest in the stoppage of the works—probably for some weeks. The canal will also be useless for a time. Preparations for an artificial bottom of. the canal will be commenced.at once, and the mines be pumped out. The latter op erution can go on while the repairs are being made, as the entirely level is now clear of water. Fortunately, the event took place to-day, when all the employees of the mines were celebrating the nation al holiday. Great loss of life must have occurred, had the mines been working as usual. As it. is, we have nothing but a vexations delay in the business of that part of the valley to regret. Defdleatlona of Es-Collectors. A circular was issued from the Internal Revenue Bureau on Tuesday morning , last, in 'which it attempted, by ex-parte statements, to reduce the defalcations of ex-Collectors within fo,octopeo. In au .atfieial document communicated to Con gress by the Secretary of the Treasury. these defalcations are represented to ex ceed *20,000,000, and yet no ease has been prosecuted with vigor and success. The bondsmen are either straw lrailorare politicians in collusion with the Collect,' ors to rob the Treasury, and hence they arc not prosecuted. Some Radical Sena tor or Representative asks for postpone ment, and that is usually the end of any attempt at legal remedy. Take a case which recently occurred. Collector Speer, of Kansas, defaulted for *158,000, when. a prominent Western Senator and an ex- Representative had the case compromised for *ll,OOO, thus making a clear profit of $148,000 on the speculation. It is bs liered that if the secret archives of the Administration, could be explored $lOO,- 000,000 would not cover the defalcations of Government officers since Grant's Ad ministration came into power. .111."••••• - NEW' STATE HOUSE 'IS r[3.11170111).- 11Arr80n9, June 29.—The Senate; to-day, by a yoteof 12 to 6, passed a resolution appropriation $500,000 for Et New State House in Hartford, and authorising the city of Hartford to appropriate a sum not exceeding $1,000,000 toward the same. The State appropriations will not be used until the city has furnished 'au equal sum. _ A reenlntion appointing Governor Jew ell, Senator Bucinnghatn, Hon. William D. Bishop, Ron. William R. Barnum and ..Tu4g? W. D. Shipman commissioner-to anpenntend the erection of the -State Home, was also passed. VallandlghamTragiediesßoennoted. Ou Thursday, about one o'clock, at the residence of Wm. Carr, near Hamilton, Ohio, a German farm laborer shot and - fatally wminded himself while demonstra ting how Viii/endi,gham did. the same thing in trying to show how:llyers shot himself in the fracas with M'Oehan. Mr. Carr was doing some harvesting and the hands about noon were sitting on the porch at their leisure just after dinner. The man who shot himself had a pistol belonging to some one, and was flourish- IN . & it around in a careless manner, when one of the boys remarked he would shoot himself. lie replied by saying that he would show them how Vallundigham shot himself, and immediately proceeded to illustrate the manner in which the pistol was held, with the hammer raised and half out of his pocket. In an instant the Weapon was discharged, the contents lodging iu the bowels of the careless de monstrator. Ile fell as one dead. His companions picked him up and carried himinto the house, the crimson tide flow ing in torrents from the wound. A cour ier was immediately dispatched to-Ham , itton for Myers, ma at last accounts the ! man was iu a dying condition. The Curiosities or Low. A Brooklyn judge has been found to grant a Stay of Proceedings in the case of Poster, the New York car-hook murderer. The certain effect of this will be to delay his execution until November, probably to postpone it altogether. It is as if a Camden judge, whose jurisdiction extend ed across the Delaware, granted a stay of proceedings in the case of a murderer convicted in Philadelphia, and after such stay had been refused upon the adequate grounds by one of onrown judges. That this is a clear ease of a member of the court tampering in a most reprehensible manner with justice is too obrions for comment. As a matter of public morals, it is inexcusably bad, for it takes away from the class of ruffians, of which Fost er is the representative, all the terrors in spired by his speedy trial and conviction. His trial was as fair and impartial a one as was ever probably awarded to a criminal; his offense was proved, even admitted. It was a cold-blooded, coward ly assassination, done with malice afore thought upon a reputable unoffending citizen. tpon what pretense of good policy the trial had in New York is virtual ly set aside by the dictum of a Brooklyn judge, it would be hard to explain, though, coming nearer home, it would be equally hard to explain why a judge of our Court of Common Pleas . granted, in effect, a I stay of proceedings in the case of three politicians, who were confessedly guilty of extorting illegal fees. Foster, the murderer, is not even a politician, which makei his rase rather harder to under ! stand. However, he and the deputy sheriffs hare a respite until l'corember, owing to the plastic nature of judges.— Phi/ode/ph ia fiia;rer. , That model Radical and carpet-bagger, George C. Cahoon, ex-Mayor of Rich mond, Va., has just been reconvicted of forgery, and sentenced to two years' im prisonment. In the early days of recon struction, Cahoon was elected Mayor of Richmond. He was renominated for the same position. but pending the election, he was i n di c t e d for forgery, tried, convict ed and sentenctil to imprisonment for a term of Tears. Forthwith, Cahoon and his friends raised the cry of political persecution, in which most of the Radical newspapers joined, and at length a new trial was granted. The trial has now ended as above stated. Cahoon, like Bowen, Blodgett and other Radical had era, is likely to spend a portion of his time in the Penitentiary. A Near Paper. There is to be a new. candidate for pub lic favor in the newspaper line in Wilkes- , Barre, or at least such is the talk. The ring of corrupt officials and politicians who manage the city government, now essay to govern the county, and having no organ (not a paper base enough to espouse . their cause} they propose to establish one, The._ Republimin portion .of the ring of,vshich Judge Hording is the 'head, conceived the idea, and Mike Philbia, the, head of the Democratic portion, is engineering the business. Mike is to wheedle as many Democrats as he is able into contributing capital for the enterprise (!) and the Rads are to con tribute the balance. The paper is to profess to be Democratic and will advo cate the nomination of candidates by the 1 Democratic county convention who are in the interest of anti controlled by the mongrel ring. In ease of the failure of that part of the programme thepaper is to renounce Democracy and aid - in the election of the Republican ticket, by carrying over to that party such Demo crate as commit themselves. This will be the first paper within our knowledge es tablished in this place by contribution, for the purpose of carrying out the designs of corruption, and wo beg to suggest that T it be christened "The ie v est Own" as indicative of the interests it is designed to enhance.—Ltizerne Union. A Negro Jury. A startling evidence of what the coun try is coming to under negro rule has shown itself in New Orleans, where, as in New York, intelligent men are debarred from sitting on a lury because they arc said to have formed an opinion. But in the new order of things in the South it is not necessary to spend three or four days drumming up illiterate, ignorant white men ; they can step outside the court room door and in five minutes the sheriff can gobble np a dozen Degrees who have formed no opinion because they can not read., Thus at a murdertrial in New. Orleand.recently no white man could be found who had not read the papers, and necessarily formed an opinion, and the re sult was that Charles Bailie and John Carney, white men, were tried and con demned to die by a pry composed wholly of negroes who had- formed no opinion. If this is not catering to ignorance, and making mockeries of justice, what is it? If Lotusiana has arrived at lie point that white tnenrcan't be tried before a white jury, because it is too intelligent, is it not about time' for white' men to leave the State and permit ignorance to enjoy its own darkness ?, nr Under the Radical statutes of Alabama, there is a punishment for - any person who, challenges a voter, halbert:), is no punishment for au illegal yak:. Here is a premium for illegal voting! —The Emperor, et, Gennapi • 48, left for Era& Foreign 'Gleanings. —The small-pox is decreasing in Paris. —The census of Paris is to be taken at once. —The Popo has writtOit to Presideat Thiers that he will relonia,ip Rome. —Prussian Military law will be'3liceilly enforced in Alsace and Lorraine. —The reorganization of the French ar my is completed, and its effective strength is 320,000. —The Paris forts. will he abandoned when fifteen hundred millions of the idemnity have been paid. —A proposition or geneiatninnesty in Spain and the colonies is under considera tion in the Corte& —Numerous Algerian tribes have given in submission to General Talemantl, and the end of the insurrection is near. —Women have been shot in the De partment of Jura for complaining of the requisitions mhde by the departing Prus sians. —lt bas been proposed to lend. Resi dent Thiers the Palace of Elysee as res idence on the transfer of the goveroinent to Paris. —Six conductors of the trams'' cars in London hare been fined for titling more passengers in their cars than4he law allows. —The debates upon the bucket and the organization of the departments in France, trill prerent l the Assembly taking a vacation until the end of Julf. —Ami e ns has been declared in a state of sage in con /3 e 1110 mo of tho ;ampler of a Prussian. and the failure• of the( local :authorities to discover the murderer. —Great freshets have occurred in the Derwent, Wye, Severn and Costa fivers, and have caused heavy loss to farmers by the th struction of buildings and crops. Unusually severe thunder 'storms have visited the suburbs of London. - Kam' churches 'were set on fire by lightning and destroyed, and a number of lives were lost. —A motion was made in the National Assembly on Thursday having for its ob ject the taxing of passports, httt receiving Much opposition from M. Pam it was withdrawn. —Only forty-five Tier cent. of the amount subscribed to the new loan wa. alloteil to subscribers. Three hundred and twenty-tire millions were raid before the issue of the loan. —The Bank of France on Thursday despatched '104,000,000 franca iu specie to Prussia. Fourteen dray carts were need ed for the Iran svortatiou of the amount to the, railroad station. —The Waverly celebration, held hi London on Thursday night, in aid of the fund for the erection of a •mon amen t to the memory of Sir Walter Scott, was a brilliant affir, and £2,30 was —Count De Chambord has issued a proclamation 1111»onnei ng that he is about to leave Frarce in order that Lis presence in the country may no longer gibe coun tenance to agitation, and he asserts that when Frenchmen arc willing they can form a government with decentralization,liber ty and universal suffrage. Government at Long Branch. The Detroit, Fru Tr.ss draws the fol lowing picture of the Chief Magistrate of the United States, who, deserting his post at Wa.llington, as no one of his pre. doec•ss,rs has ever done, is splurging at a watering ptaen. ; • Grant draws considerable attention at Long Branch. despite Ile other attract ions. lie rides out in a carriage present ed to him, behind a span of horses pre sented by an office seeker, harnessed up in gear presented by a Philadelphian, driven by a man in the service of the government, and returns hOme to a 'mit tage bought by his admirers, sits on chairs presented by a New York house, walks on carpets sent him by Stewart, eats from dishes .the gift °ea B4nton man, and rises from the table to go to bed on the gift of a cabinet maker of r imy. And this is the ni,th whom the Repttb licens intend to agak run for the Presi dency ? ito*en, the Ogallala .1a JAL' WASHINGTON, Jute 20.—Ex-Congress man Bowen,.who was CenCieted of bigamy and sentencelf,to twayeani imprisonment, is still confined in the conutyjail hereand does not stiffer Much from the rigors of confinement, being furnished with the best room in the building, and allowed' the freedom of the jail and grounds. He is furnished with meals from his own home,. and is daily visited b 7 members of his family and friends.. The general belief is that he will be speedily pardoned. The case was favorably considered in the cab- Met meeting on Friday and the District Attorney recommended that the pardon papers in the hands of the Attorney- General be forwarded to the President to morrow. .. The friends of BCPWCTI express their positive belief that he will get his seat in Congress from the Second District of South Carolinaiover Mr. Delarge (color ed) tl,e sitting paember. His friends also say that three pause:era of the elections in the county Where 31r. Delarge was giv en by them a najority of 5,000, having been tried upoi an indictment for (rand and convicted, tier° can be no further. difficulty. Theyalso say that a wholesale" stuffing of the bffiot-box of the election was proven beyold doubt, and that still other evidence rennin& Also that the other managers fre now cm trial for the same offense tvilb,a strong likelihood of 1 1 electiononvicio invalid. nw ali bi i th will go to make Deluge's TWENTY YEA 113 IN THE PENITENTIARY. —Lewis Roberts, alias John B. Altic, in dicted for passing and having in his poi session counterfeit notes, at Harrisburg, has plmtledguity and received a sentence of twenty years in the Western Peniten tiary, with a flu, of $lO,OOO. Ile is said. to have been the prince of counterfeit money dealers it this country, havin.' b cir culated tens cr: thousands of dollars monthly, much of which found its way. into Dauphin and. Lebanon ,counties. I Roberta is now shont.fglY .YerTa I which added to.,the tireoty years of Peni tentiary life in stn for him_ will make .his age rather iulvanceithv the time his term expires, if Ito, should survive .until that time. - - —ln one of the pleasant •Tillages in Western New York, the other day; a certain worthy housekeeper thought she would call on he{ nearest nciglibor... She -was about enterihg the door, but hesitat; ed, thinking tbht Abe . family might be taking, theirsupper. Vorriein," said the hostess, "we are bairig, , tableaut. ",Yes,. replied , ?!.1 :thought mien taca." gorat ontelligence. .- -.- , • . , RELiOTOUBBE**II7tt. -, .11 . A.P71sT Mitten —. Itiw .. . 1.. II ; WED, Paster; Sabbalb Service" ..... ... , ..10,h a.m. and 7 . sit.`, Sabbath Sebook 7 ,v-•• , • 12* Prayer Ideating: Wednesday Evestingl ' qii , . ...... ...._, -.. ..,. CCATHOLIC Carnet] _ .Ttv..T. Scar'rsur Sabbath Services Second Sunday In each Month Sabbath Schooi. Immediately before Masa EPISCOPAL CIICTICR. Jim% IL A. WAnnorsn. Rector. ...—.10( oon. end im Saiihstb Services. ..______ _m. Sunday Schnel: — . ', _ . 1 . 4 m - .• • Week-Day ( Servicea—Pridaya ' 4p. CIL METBOD/ST-U4SCOPAIs.....RCP. A.D. AI.ZIANDEII. Sabbath Services - 10•45 a. m. and RIO r):l6.' Sabbath School_. 2 p. m.. Prayer Meetipg,.:TtunradaYo. . . . ... .---- 1 30 p. m. PTIRSIWTHIDAN CEDIIICD. tter.2. rt. Mturts. Sabbath hervlces„... ~,, , ......10.}5 p.. m, and 7) P. 40. Sabbatb - Behoot '— ' ' Mb p. m. Prayer Meeting, Tbaraday - Rrgainga 7 .Sti P. m. Bu■inesa Notices. —Rouse and lot for sale In New Milford Born. Lot six rods front and eleven rods deep. Bun ning spring water at the door, a new waggon barn, and one of the flnest,dwellings in the bore, all In excellent repair. For particulars enquire of 0. DI. Hawley Nczv Milford, or at .his office. —Fresh Oysters in tho Shell &e r a& the Key stone Saloom' —IL C.- Tyler Insurance. Milne removed to "Brick Block." See advertisement. —.We have never failed to receive all money enclosed to us through the P. 0., but we lave failed to receive a large amount due by a failure not to send It. Oar dues wo want and nomore! Will not our Mends respond AT mot I' House Burned. The house of Oliver Perry, in Jackson town ship, was destroyed by fire on Friday last. Ills toss ts c01:32.10d at V.1,e00 ; insured for $l,lOO. The origin of the fire Is unknown. House Blown Over. One day last week while a thunder storm was arising a man and his wife in Biker Lake town ship, were sitting in their house abseiling its approach with one of the doors open: The wind began to blow and the man Immediately arose to shut the door, which he found he could not do on account of wind, and his wife went to his assistance and both were unable to close it, and while they were thus engaged the hiluse was overturned. Neither of the parties were injured, but we believe they concluded that the house was not worth setting up again. A Patriotic Fight. Mn. Elerron:—.o affray took place at n pic nic in South Gibson, on the "Fourth," between Collins Fmk of South klarford and Joseph Brundage of Gibson, two brothers-in-law, and both good Republicans. The bone of conten tion was the possession of a U. S. flag. Mr. Peek made three stabs at the heart of Mr. Brtuainge which undoubtedly would hare prov ed fatal, but for his wattling them off and re ceiving them in his arm and shoulder. Mr. Brundage was severely injured, receiving a large gash in the shoulder about three inches deep, besides eutt ins; his arm and clothes conaiderably. leis supposed that Brundage is used up for the suinmer. Peck is bow under arrest. ittrrorrreu. Look Out for the Cars 2 t The late stireey on the route of the Montrose Railway, demonstrates the Thet that Natore,has placed no obstructions in the way that cnimot he ri 4 ry easily overcome, and that nothing is now neeme.ary but a little practical zeal on the part of those interested, to have our long talked of rail way in immediate operation. Ihni. Asu Packer, and J, L Blakesice, E.sq, President of the road were here on Priddy lust, and spoke of it in the most favorable terms, Judge Packer said he had talked with the engineers and he considered the grade an unusually easy one, and that the stock would be goad paling stock. The road is a fined fact, the time of commencing ;work and securing its early completion is k the hands of those personally interested. Let us have no more "dogs in the manger." Suicide. 'On Friday afternoon, July 7th, Mr. Win. IL Cobb, of West Lenox township, committed suicide by hanging himself under the following circumstances: lie went up stairs into a front room or Iris house, attached a piece of an old clothes . line to a length of stovepipe passing the rope through a stovepipe hole in the ,floor and laid the pipe (terms theistic. ilethen went below and placed a chair and a churn under where the rope hung, and got upon them stand ing one foot Italie chair and other on the churn, it 1.4 supposed, and adjusted the ropeabont his neck. stepped off - from the churn, and launched him self into eternity. Ills' wife was In the field berrying nt the time and when vhe returned she found 111111 hatigini, one foot still in the chair. She ascertained brat - he was dead And litreedl ately alarmed- the 'neighbors, but when they came the repo had broken and the body lay upon the flder: The rope was it piece of small rotten clothes line. Mr. Cobb has been very feeble fur a number of years unable to do any kind of work, without any prospect of being any better, and it 'is supposed that life had be come such a burden to him as to be the cause of his selfttlis' truetion no leaves a wife and duce children. A $111P.52111742. The "Totirth" at New Milford. The celearatlon of the natal 63 , of our National Independence at New Milford was a decided success, and reflects gnat credit apart those who were its managers. The whole pro- glammeas announced was carried out to the letter, and the very large assembly that was.i present seemed well pleased with the demons tration showing chaffy that New Milford can he styled among the "live" towns. Whisky, that disturber of the public peace generally made "cattle" eta few Individuals,-but as the authorities hid a cattle ete upon the .switch at the Railway depot for tho reception of subjects of that Class,. the very efficient police, detailed for the occasion, began to fill said cur with all such furious 'beasts" and quiet was soon re stated. A lockup on wheels was certainly very usefull as well as novel. Ono of the pleasant features of the day which drew a large crowd, was a game of base ball, between the Contest B. B. Club, of New Milford and the Independent Nine of Scranton, for a prize of a Silver ball which resulted in the following score CONTEST. latvEreamerr NINE, O. rt. Cunnin, , diana : : : 4 1 :Stantonuller, E. L • • • • 2 3 n O'llems, John : : 2 2 Watres : •• • • 8 1 Penman : :; :2 2 , Ilotsard • • • • • • 3 1 : :`: :3 1 10'llarra, Jantat . : 3 2 in 14 Teel*ll ..... „ 0 5 11a.cr, DL : : 3 4 Rose ...... • . 3 4. Backus ... 1 5 Tingley ; - 8 2 Hayden blekennen :: ; : 4 2 ,Be . yle, ..... • r, 1 Mager - , El: S. s 5 1 Score by Innings :1 2 3 40.9 41.9 Contest; 11 0.4 - 03:0 / indeppown ; ::11 2 :1 9.3 Flya..Citug,lst-7/490fiqi. Ci'Hatot, , Contest, Tathell, 3;:;gose, 4 Ilackus t Tingley, 1; Hayden, 2; Dleietin, I—n,_ muffed Hails, Independent 4 :;;Ctipteit 4. arA troy fultdisplay of fireworks in the,evining elosed'the scene. d, patty of eighty loni,e9uPlei we,ro in tuteadance at. tho Eagle Phinnrs) Mali and danced itle..44ttrth7 auj tihd, the fifth in. • , ;i3t zikeci= h o gs ,Ovit A New Railroad. - Th'y last ntir:ln - the Danville, Hazleton & Wilimbarriejtailrotni, between Bunhuryand Hazleton MIS been laid, thus conapleting neW line otthe 'Lehigh Valley Railroad (*- Patti to *West and northwest. At &nib* the:prd%Mae* with the Northern "Cerdrial, no .v under the - tiiiiitrol of the Pennsylrinsia puny, affording a new line to the west. Besides these through connections the road Is of local importance, in that It opens up a vast awl field, heretofore undeveloped, and will douldleiat prone, a valuable acquisition to the Lehigh Valley Itaiiroaa eammtity. Railroad 'Mine Rorker.t ; • An instrument haa been -invented that. marks "the ebb of timershowlng how; many minutes there are prior to antetent. It placed in the post office it reads: "Mails open in thirty minutes ;" - one minute later it reads: "in twenty nine minutes," then In twenty-eight and ..so on. At a railroad station It reads: . "This tiain leaves in ten minutes," then In eight, etc., and when the index reaches 0 the train starts. Tints any passenger on entering a station knows just how much-time Le bawfor getting tickets, checks, a newspaper and natant without consulting - a watch or aelot.k to ascertain the hour of ;Ito day. Oldest Locomotive Eugiueer. Barney Buti, Who runa'n passenger train on the Philadelphia and Raiding railroad between Harrisburg and Reading,-is said to be the oldest locomotive engineer in the United States. In , 1837 he ran an engine on a small line in Lu zerne county, long before any portion of the PenuaylEnnia Central was built and whets rail roads In the State could be counted only by the dozens of miles to the thousands now in exist ence. Mr. Rutz has Seen employed on' the Leb anon Valley 'branch of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad ever since its completion and at all times has displayed grad coolhemc stmdi nms, sagacity, discrimination and general effi ciency. Serious; Accident. On Tuesday afternoon last, says the Union Nina, while engaged in celebrating the Fourth in company with a number of ladies and gen tlemen who had assembled for ther . Purpose at the residence of Mr. Hallett, in Vestal; Nathan W. ('handler met with a serious tier:Went. Our informant says: "Chandler was touching off a small cannon," the powder flew into Lis face, burning and injuring him quite seriously. Dr. T. P. Knapp was caned. and utwat,esaminatiort found and removed from Chandler's face nearly . one hundred grains of powder, one grain' being removed from the eye trill As serious as the accident proved it is a matter of congratulation that it was no worse. Under the care of a skill ful physician Chandler will, we trust, soon re cover, ...... II Ist ory of Jlttly. July wits originally designated Quiot,7lna, in referuneieicrits fifth place In. the pitleinkfr. It Haring been the month hi whieb .inlius Cesar was born, after the death Of this emperor the name was changed to July, in bettor of the groat trarior. Our Saxon, ancestors called it hey monath, , "betatuae, they therein usually I/WM.(I and made their hay harvest. - July is allowed ail over the northern hemisphere to be the warmest month in the year, and its great heat led to a superstition among the Romans, which still prevails. They conceived that the great warmth and the diseases and other ea , amities flowing front it teem somewhat eon : fleet t. l with the rising, and setting of the star Canieulathe little Dog—in coineidence with the sun. They accordingly conferred the name of tlog drys upon the period between the ;Id of July and 11th of August- This star doe.: n o t rise now in coincidence unfitly] sun until the latter part of August. A Terrific Storm: One of the hearieSt rain storms, accompanied , with one of " Old Borps' " severest blows. pass ,cd over Montrose and vicinity on Sunday evening last, giiing " Natures' face" a decidedly copious washing, the traces of which are and will remain visible in the ravines when it is forgotten. 'lite most serious effects of its fury 1 anti apparent spite arc to be seen on the farm of Rufus S. Merriman, Bridgewater township, near 1 this born. between live and six o'clock p. in., a black mass of rolling clouds eame-flying over 1 1 the hills, south-west of the valley, launching forth volumes of maelstrom, drifting masses of water, creating an almost instantaneous flood, while soloists ran in crouching fear UV: um the storm-king's fury, in search of shelter. After its passage, it was found to hate. uprooted seven largo and venerable as well as Valuable appib treea,'ttristing beige limbs from others, Ind hurl ing theiii thirty or forty feet from. the parent_ trunkaudyr soma oases scathing and seriously marring other trees in a ruinous manner, other ornamental trees tottering tlie same fate; and to cap the climax, the witupuld raised a small 1 hay-barn, containing about thirty hundred of lutyommtng It several feet from its foundation and literally smashing it to pieces, besides un rotating another shed, same twenty or thirty feet. in length. We, however, congratulate friend Merriman and family on their escape from hod. Ily injury. Tito footprints of this tornado ate visible be tween Brooklyn and Dimock townships with evidences of unabated fury as far as heard from.. A barn and dwelling house belonging to C. A. Giles, of Dimock, were both unroofed ; a thirty by forty feet barn belonging to Mr. Strickland, molished„4o a larn.corn house„ the property of. t: :A largo coin hMi o had been blown down before on the same site, and ithad , bden rebuilt much larger than the previous one, hut seems-to have met the same fuze. We ore informed that the track of the storm is marked i still fitrther by upturned trees, unroofed and • de reoll,thed buildings, the particulars of which we have not yet learned, During the minas storm the lightning struck in seven different places, In Great Bend Mom. The only serious damage done, so'faras we have learned, wits the splin tering of the steeple of the Presbyterian chinch. From all accounts It wits one of the most ter- Mlle blows that has visited this section for yam', if Ever. A. Lesson In Moral*. ~,.n oltHady residing at Bradford county, who is greatly respected .for L ber high -christairyntaimuents and good example . genes informed hymn of-her sons that , be Intended to visit n neighbor's orcherd that. evm . Mpg for the purpose of getting An few ,apples and togekthn /mother personally intcresptut In. the matter, and to show. bis goi4iinlcntions t 3ne Ind ..saPl i .t . lun. he should bring getup as - goOCtintlSits he ceu 4 find. Thniddlndy,remon ate tcd-wills her boy, telling hintAluttkis , go(ro _9o*,l4,9tich, says, "Ulm. shalt not steal r • antl f ,talitedesgoeit mothers will who - urn ' ous that ,their childrin should grow: tkp Lt , : the knovilOgre and fear of pod.. But the.child, nisi y tiitiere of till age was not hsti,'„ea l olY Per' /4tnicti of ;trio' Wroti,g - there Would he, In taking • a fen itpples. ._"Well," Saye r the, ninthir, after At*ioiit.44 l o.:bay, a atotnent,"if ynt.t gc/11`,.1111 ; but if yOu'roti4t 4n t .d9n't forget - to take a bag alOn4 w4ll, rybe that 14 gun ounday uvarutp?, -71 Brooklyn Items. The festival announced some two weeks since and held by the members of the Prsbyterian ektirch, Considering the shortness of the time It was got up in, was a grand thing, and a decided success. '7the Nicholson Band helped to elate= the occasion. Net receipts about $lOO. -- - =''-...-Thilist' Avid held on the 4th instant, In the interest of the Sunny School of the DI. E. church, was well _attended through the day. Rev. A. D. Alexander, of Montrose, and Rev. Mr. Weit inke; of Su.airehanna, made speeches hi the grove. The meeting was adjourned to Rogers -Bali, -for: tho,evening, at which place Moses Caldwell and others, were listened to. The good thine' having bcoe disposed of, the affair closed a little. atter 10 o'clock in the evening. One cake, Made by Mrs. James Adams, , Senior, brought $8 00. Net receipts a little over $lOO. —According to previous agreement I met the friends in a family gathering, on the 4th, at the 'iodic of Ansel Sterling, where a goodly num ber gathered around a long table ladened with everything delicious and inviting. Near the close or day, we returned home to listen to the boom ing oiA:aelquha'sartineq 0 111 , 3 4 non bro in. the evening.., . . ..-.A person in the employ of W. R. Page, in. widening, the track oa, the D. 1.. Br W. Railroad, above Daniel Oakley's, went with his comrades. 'try' Ontly's pond to bathe; while bathing, the young Englishman was noticed to turn on lila hack and. float,,suililenly Its went tinder water, 1 but tome up as fn, his companii3ns thinking him in sport; after seeing him going down a second time, they became so alarmed that they could render no assistance, and he was drowned. A. M. Wilniarth was sent for, and after about 4. hotirs, by diving, brought the corpsoon shone. Wr:Page bad tbeycsang man properly interred, in the Cemetery near Mr. Wilmarth, In idarford. The young man's name was Frederick Lovejoy. It is said he was 19 or 29 years old, and had been "veer from England but a few weeks, only ex pecting, to remain buf a few months, when he ProPus4to return to his native land. I believe . ~ . this Is the third person that has been drowned In this pond. I have heard that Asa Fish cameo very near losing his life lit this same pond. —What about grasshoppersi=7Farmer A. says. I, My Meadows are being Minified of every head of timothy; I will cut about five tons of bay mere fifteen might be cut in ordinary seasons," Farmer B. says, " the innumerable army of _ grasshoppers are now going for tny wheat lick!, .eating every vestige as far as they have worked in; except the bare stalk." Farmer C. says, " I minnot give anything like 1 a fair description of the destruction these pests i are now making on my crops, they are eating on nay .potatoes, trimming the stalk of every leaf." 3L Annual gioport or county - Superin- tendent W. C. Tlklen. Sixteen school houses have heed', built, nil com fortable anti fairly seated,sorne of them well fin ished, especially one in Ilarford, one in Dimock, and one in Forest Lake, the latter containing Modern seats, and is in many respects the must permanent and hest finished rural house in the COutity.. The location for new houses is larger and more pleasant than in former times. In ~, , ~ . several Districts solar charts have been pus , chased, and globes added in a few others. Director an taking more pains to secure school property from han», and also a deeper intermit in the grade and teaching ability of those cm pif ,yed in the schools. We hare many earn- t, wide-awake teachers, but too many teachers only in name. A. desire for longer school toms is utinitest in many parts, gnil some Districts porpcoe to have long terms the eiraing, year. Wt.:* o - Superintendent.-1 have hell thirty seven public and eight private examinations; gave four hundred and forty-seven provisional certificate and one professional, also renewed. _four professional certificates; twenty-seven ap plicants were rejected. ' :Many of those certificates were given for a SUllliner Lain only, or for six months; especially 1 was this the case with a large number of appli cants who had Lever taught. All the private examinations were held by request of Directors • employing teachers who had failed for various masons, to them good, of attending public ex itininations: anti in nearly every instance the lowest grade of certificate given was to ' , those for whom special request was made 113 r employ lent.. And I have very clearly discovered that Ito certificate is so poor but that the individtml holding it may obtain a school, anti therefore '