G. A. RATHBUti, Attorney-at-law, Bidgway, Pa. 2 2 tf. HALL & M'CAULEY, Attorneys-at-Liw. Office in New Brick Building, Main St Ridgway, F.Ik Co., tfa. 3n2lf. L UCORE & HAMBLEN. Attorneys-at-Law, Ridgway. Elk County Pa. Office across the hall from the Demochat establishment. Claims for collection promptly attended to Jne. 16 '70. J, 0. 1. BAIL EY, ATTORNEY-AT' LAW. vlnZoyl. Ridgway, Elk County, Pa. Agent for the Traveler' Life and Acoi dent Insurance Co., of Hartford, Conn. JAMES D. FULLER TON, Surgeon Dentist, having permanently lo cated in Rigway, offers his professional ser vices to the citiieus of Ridgway and sur rounding country. All work warranted. Office in Service & Wheeler's Building, up Btairs, first door to the left, 73-n-8lMy G. G. MESSENGER, Druggist and Parmaccutist, N. W. cornea of Maui and Mill streets, Ridgway, Pa. full assortment of carefully selected For eign and Domestic Drugs. Prescriptions carefully dispensed at all hours, day or night. vln3y T. S. HARTLEY. M. I)., Physician ana Surgrnn. Ollice in bi ug Mure, corner Broad aud Main Sir, Resilience corner Broad St. opposite the College. UHice hours liom 8 to 10 A. M. and from 7 to 8 P. M. vlu-Jyl. J. S. U ON I WELL, M. 1)., Ecloctio Physician and Surgeon, has remov ed his ollice lrom Owic street, to Mait st. Ridgway. Pa,, iu lie second story of the lies brick building of John 0. Hall, oppo site Hyde's store, Omec hours: 1 to 2 P M 7 o 9 P M HYDE HOUSE, Ridqway, lk Co., Pa. W. H. SCII HAM, Proprietor. Thankful for the patronage heretofore so liberully bestowed upon him, the new proprietor, hopes, by paying strict ai tendon to the comfort and convenience ( I guests, to merit ti continuance oi the same. Oct 30 130'.!. KERSEY HOUSE, Centbbville, Elk Co., Pa. John Collins, l'toprictor. Thankful for the patronage heretotor eo liber illy bestowed upon him, ihe new proprietor, hopes, by paying strict at teutiou to the coiulort acd convenience of gu.-sts. t merit a continuance of the Eame. J'. II. HAYS, HEAt.K., IN Dry Goods, Notions, Groceries, and General Variety, FOX, ELK CO., PA. vl n ITtf. E. K. ftKKSH, Dealer in all hinds of cabinet waiv, wooilaml fane scut chairs, kitchen ami 'Xtention tables, wood and marble top stands, wood una marble toj inirciuis. what nots, looking glumes, wood and marble top chamber suits, mal I reuses, npi'lng bed liot loins, lied steads, cribs, Liaferty's ntctitl lined wood pumps, 5cc, &c. Cane scats replaced with perforated wood scats. Weed sewing machine reduced lrom ?0" lo 84-i, the best machine in the market, and pic ture frames made to order. Also a larire assorted stock of ready made coliins constantly on hand and trim med at shortest notice. All the above goods are sold at panic prices. Ware Kooius in masonic building, Ridgway I'd. v.in49tpUtpr27'77. CHARLES HOLES, Watchmaker, Engraver and Jeweler Main street, Ridgway, Pa. Agent for the Howe Sewing Machine, and Morton Gold Fen. Repairing Watches, etc, docewith he same aceuracy as heretofore. Satis faction guaranteed. vlnly WORK FOE THE UNEMPLOYED, The Thistle Edition is the only fully Illustrated Edition of Sir Walter Scott's WAVERLEY NOVELS of American make, and is "the best edition of the best English novelist." The books are standard, and w ill sell for all time. The mechanical execution is of the best. The price is of the low est. Agents wanted eveywhere, to whom liberal terms and exclusive ter ritory are offered. Forty-eight volumes, averaging 400 pages each, and containing nearly 2,000 illustrations will complete the series. Subscribers supplied with two volumes (a complete work) monthly, Elbves Months1 Deliveries (21 vol umes) are now ready. Price-in cloth gilt extra per volume $1.50; Half Tur key gilt top $2.25. For terms etc. ad dress E. J. HALE & SON Publishers 17 Murray Street Hew York. JOB rORK. We are now prepared to do all kinds of JOB WORK, .Kuvelepes, Tags. Bill-heads, Letter beads neatly and ehesply executed. Offiee in Thayer li Hagerty's new building, Mai etrfet Ridywav. la. THURSDAY, JULY 20TH, 1876. Sates of Advertising. One column, one year $75 00 i " " " 40 00 1 " " " 26 00 i ' ' 1 A Aft Transient advertisements per square of eignt imes, one insertion $1, two Inser tions, $1.60, three insertions, $2. Business cards, ten lines or less, per year 99. Advertisements payable quarterly. Arrival and Departure of Malls. Eastern Daily except Sundays; ar rives at p. m., leaves at o:iu p. m.; Western Daily except Sundays; leaves ai z:zz, arrives at o:iu p. m. Brookvllle Dally except Sundays arrives at 12 m., leaves at 2:30 p. m. Spring Creek Arrives Tuesdays and inursuays at u a. m.; leaves Wednes days and Fridays at 9 a. m. Lodge Meetings. Elk Lodge. No. 379. A. Y. M.. meets the seeond and fourth Tuesdays of eacn moiiin in masonic iiaii. meets the third Tuesday of each month in masonic nail. Knapp Cominandcry, No. 40, K. T. meets the fourth Thursday of each month in Masonic Hall. omit y Officers. President Judge-Hon. L. D. Wet more Associate judges Hons. J. K. Whit" more, Chas. Luhr. Sheriff Daniel Scull. Treasurer Jacob McCauley. District Attorney J. K. P. Hall. Co. Superintendent Geo. It. Dixon. Prothonotary, &c Fred. Schcenlng. Deputy Protnonotarv W. H. Horton. Commissioners Miclmel Wedert, W. H. Osterliout, George Reuscher. Commissioners' Clerk W. S. Horton. Auditors W. H. Hyde, It. I. Spang ler, Ueorge Rothrock. Township Officers. Judge of Election Will Dickinson. Iusnectors James Peufield. P. 11. Smith. Justices of the Pence Cliiirlon Miuul Jas. D. Fullerton. Splionl Dirnptnt O 11 Hrnut .Tnu Gardner, (. T. Wheeler. N. T. Cuni- mings, w. B. Service, Eug. J. Miller. rwpervisurs J. u. v lien, Jas. it l ley. Treasurer W. II. Hyde. Assessor M. S. Kline. Assistant Assessors Geo. Diekinsmi. John Walnisley. Auditors J. H. Hagcrtv, James Pen field, J. S. Powell. Clerk M. s. Kline. Constable J. W. Morgester. Churches. Lutheran Rev. I. IJrcnneinan, pas tor. Services every alternate Sunday, in both English and German, ut 11 a. in. and 7 ). in. Sunday school at 10 a. m. Geo. Walker, Superintendent: J. O. W.Hailejv assistant. Grace Episcopal Rev. Win. James Miller, rector. Services every Sunday at the usual hours, 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday school at 10 a. in. Ail are cordially invited to attend. Scats free. Methodist Rev. Wm. Martin, pastor. Services every Sunday at 11 a. in. anil i p. m. Sunday school at U:'Su a. in. v. jo. I)iiluil,v, superin tendent; Geo. It. Dixon, assistant. 1 oung Polks' Bible Class at 3 p. m. Roman Catholic-Rev. Father Ma her pastor. Services every other Sunday at 10 a. m. NEW TIME TABLE P. k E. R. R. Commencing Sunday, July 2nd, 1 S70: wucox. Mail East 4: .'1 7 j m " West 2:47 p m Phila. lOxpress East !I:.j8 p m Erie Express West :'M u m Day lOxjiress East .... ! 7 II 111 Niagara Express West 8:3:1 p m IIIDUWAT. Mail East 5:12 p m Mail West 2:11 p m Phila ICxpress East 10:28 p m Erie Express West 5:00 a m Day Express East 7:00 a m Niagara Express West 7;ol p m ST. MABY'S. Mail East 5:37 p m Mail West 1:46 p in Phila. Express East 10:48 p m Erie Express West 4;i!(J a m Day Express West 7:23 a m Niagara Express West 7:21 p m ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE Board of Directors of Jones School District for the year ending June, 1876 SCHOOLS. Whole number of schools 6 Average number of months taught 7 3-5 TEACIIEllS. No. male teachers employed.. 4 " female " " .. 2 SCHOLARS. No. male scholars attending all schools HO " female " " 118 Average daily attendance of scholars 190 Percentage of attendance - 80 TAXES LEVIED. Amount school tax levied $2,150 00 building tax levied 600 00 RECEIPTS DURING YEAR. State appropriation 279 93 From collectors 471 91 Collected by treasurer 1,1(J8 73 From County treasurer 67 60 Total J2.078 07 EXPENDITURES. Repairs 190 60 Teachers' wages 1,825 00 Fuel and contingencies OM 1A ....... ... 4- Treasurer's commission ... . 60 20 Secretary's salary 80 00 Cash in treasurer's hands 19 95 Total $2,363 75 Expenditures over receipts... $285 68 RESOURCES. Taxes due from all sources...- $3,419 95 LIABILITIES. Orders outstanding , $2,891 22 Resources over liabilities $528 73 Value of real estate of district $7,000 A. T. ALDRICH, President. Attest : J. L. Brown, Secretary. Jones, June 19th, 1876. A GOOD WORK. A Startling Oiuse of Debility and Sick ness fully explained in a large octavo Trea tise by Dr. O. PHELPS BROWN, 21 Grand Street, Jersey City, N. J. EVERY MAN AND WOMAN who is ailing in any way should send and get a copy at once, as it is sent free, prepaid by mail. Address the author a above. vUnl240t LOCAL NOTES. Warm. Good hny wenther now. Tm days are growing shorter. If nothing else grows weeds will. The warm weather still continues. Green Apples are now in market. Township road orders are being paid. Cucumbers will soon be ready to pick. The Wilcox oil well is down 2000 feet. Stripped hose for ladtesare now fash ionable. No one complains of an abundance of money. Now we commence another hun dred years. Huckleberries now sell for ten cents a quart. There are several coses of scarlet fever In town. Thb shade trees about town are growing finely. J. D. Parsons is now shoemaking for J. S. Powell. Iob Wateb is not a healthy drink this hot weather. HccKLEBKRRiBs are said to be very plentiful this year. Children should not be allowed to swing on the shade trees. Company II paraded last Saturday afternoon in full uniform. Send us fifty cents nnd try the Ad vocate for three months. Red-rasfdrrries are selling in this market at ten cents a quart. The festival for the benefit of Rev. I. Breneman netted $105 07. The seat under the maples at the post office is well patronized. Boys take to the water as naturally as ducks this warm weather. Jerome Powell's farm house is re ceiving a coat of white paint. W. H. Hyde's fence fronting his residence bus been repainted- The summer of 1876 is noted for the hottest weather known in the past fifty years. The supervisors have done a good job of grading on the west end of South street. The burning of brush after night is a penal offense in this State, punish able by a fine of $20. Roar. Campuell is having his west side room fitted up with large glass front and black-walnut counters. The Auditors of Ridgway township have not decided to publish their statement in conformity with the law. Wouldn't wonder if there would be achance forprinting wedding cards for some of the boys and girls after a while, There were, it is said, sixty double teams besides the one-horse rigs on the barrens last Bunnay arter liuekie berries. The peach crop of Deleware, as is estimated, will exceed three millions of baskets, and all good sized and well grown fruit. The Ridgway Silver Cornet Band, after having cost the citizens of Ridg way about $2000 is now among the things of the past. We have received the very interest ing volume entitled "Monthly Re port of the Department of Agricul ture" for May and June, 1870. The school directors of Ridgway township have made public (?) the financial statement of the school dis trict by a few written statements pasted up about town. In Philadelphia on the Fourth Henry Clay was arrested for stealing a horse and wagon, and George Wash ington was arrested for drunkenness. What's in a name? $2,209 have been subscribed toward erecting a monument to the memory of the late General Geo. A. Custer. The N. Y. Herald started the fund with a $1000 subscription. Disinfect your cess pools and out houses if you would ward off disease. Chloride of lime is a cheap and effec tive disinfectant. It is cheap and should be used without stint. The crop of grass on Osterhout's fiats is very heavy, and the rye on the heights look splendidly. Mr Oster liout proves thut he is a successful farmer as well as a successful business man. Ar the Senatorial Conference of War ren and Venango counties, held at Warren, Thursday, Hon. C. W. Stone, of Warren county, was nominated for Senator. This conclusion was reuched on third ballot. Adjutant General Latta has just issued an order which includes twenty - one military companies throughout the State, which have failed to come up to the requirements of the law and are therefore dis banded. An exchange says: The New York Board of health warns the public against the use of a certain preparation of meat called "cooked corn beef," put up in tin boxes, and which haa found its way into the markets all over the country. A bashful, polite man was sud denly asked to say grace at table. He had never done it in his life, and with much embarrassment he Btammered out, "O Lord, we thank you; we are much obliged to you. Yours respect fully, Amen." The twenty-third annual session of the Pennsylvania State Teachers' Association will be held in Horticul tural Hall, West Chester, August 8th , 9th, and 10th 1870. County Su pt Geo. It. Dixon, will deliver an address on "Industrial Drawing." Died. Penfteld. On Thursday, July iQtlt 1fi7A ArlnmlaBll ll'tfa flf .Tan-na Peufield, in the forty-eighth year of ncr age. We will give a more extended notice of the deceased in our next issue. Card of Thanks. I would take this method of expres sing my many thanks and kind regards to my friends in Ridgway.and vicinity, for remembering me and my family, in providing for us at the late festival, which netted $165.07. I. BRENNEMAN. Columbus, O., July 14. In the vicinity of Lowndesvllle and Big Prairie, Ohio, yesterday, a rain storm in the shape of a waterspout prevailed lasting nearly an hour, destroying fields of wheat and carrying off nearly a hundred head of sheep, also doing damage to the railway track, washing out several hundred feet of track In some places to the depth of eight feet. Somebody says that the rhymes to Hayes are easy to raise whenever it pays to honor and praise his name in such ways; but to find rhymes to Wheeler is a "regular squealer." An honest, plain dealer, by way of n feeler says a very good peeler looks out for each stecler and every concealer; the tapper and heeler, the sailor and sealer in flat-boat or keeler, the spin ner and reeler, from the banks of Gila to the Monongnhehi, all co In for Wheeler, That settles it. Clarion Republican. Important to Hotel Keepers. The act passed by the last Legislature for the protection of hotel, inn and boarding house keepers, nnd restaur ants requires that printed copies of the act be posted in all such places before the parties can be entitled to its benefits. This act went into effect the 1st day of June last, and those interested who have not complied with its terms would do well to look after the matter. Failure to comply with the provisions of the Act subjects the person offend ing to fine and imprisonment. Printed copies of the same can be had upon application to this office, at moderate rates. Send in your orders. The following is a new law enacted by the last Legislature, which may interest people who have kindred or friends In the Western Pennitentiary. It recites that it shall be lawful for the wurdens of the penitentiaries of this State, at their discretion, at the re quest of any prisioner therein, or any relative of the friends of such who will furnish means to pay for the same, to subscribe for any daily, weekly, or monthly periodical, of a moral, political or religious character; and receive and deliver the same to such prisoner, Provided, That such papers and periodicals first meet the approval of the inspector of such peni tentiaries. Queer Taste. The Oneida N. Y. Union of a recent date lias the follow ing: "A little trirl trd about three years, daughter of Smith Hubbard, of Oxford, formerly of Smyrna came Into the house, a few days since, with her mouth bearing plain evidence of having been engaged in some sort of mischief. Upon examination it was found that she had been in the garden picking ami eating potato bugs. This greiitly uliirtned her parents, who, in common with others, believed the potato bug to be poisonous. But the little girl expressed her liking for them by stating that "they cracked like peanuts." The bugs did the child no harm, nnd appeared not to affect the state of her stomach in the least. London, July 13. At a meeting of the Erie Railway bond and stock holders, at the Cannon Street Hotel today, Mr. Jewett, receiver of the road, made a statement of Its condition. He said the plan of reorganization sub mitted by Sir. Edward Watkin at the meeting of stock-holders, on June 3, was approved but he asked that one more coupon be funded and for a few other concessions. He proposed to lay a third rail from New York to Buffalo, to grudualiy wear out the old equipment, and to replace it with narrow-gauge equipment. He felt sanguine of the prosperity of the road. Many speeches followed. Mr. Jewett's statement was well received. Sir Edward Watkin offered a resolu tion assuring Mr. Jewett of support and approving the scheme with the modification desired by the com mittee. A Nuisance. The streets of our beautiful village are transformed from pleasant thoroughfares to unsightly places by allowing every man who wishes, to turn his cattle in the street and allow them to gain a preca rious living by eating the weeds that grow on the street borders, and an oc casional raid on the garden of some unfortunate who may by accident have left the gate open. To say noth ing of the looks of a parcel of cows and calfs in the street, and the eternal ding-dong of the everlasting cowbells after a man has sought his couch for repose, after a hard day's work, the filthy aspect of the sidewalks where the cattle have deposited their card, is enough to cause the whole community to raise their hands in righteous in dignation. If people want to raise stock let them buy up a few acres of our waste land aud not annoy their neighbors with theit; cattle. .We con tend that a person has no more right to turn his beasts out to graze on the streets than he has to build a fence ac- cross the road or locate the corner of his house In the middle of the street. This nuisance is not tolerated in other places, and why should we be thus prosecuted? If we cannot have peace any other way why not petition the Legislature to pass a general law com pelling stock owners to take care of their property? But enough ror the present, we will refer to this mat ter more fully at some future time. meanwhile we await the sense of the people. U. S. Conrf. A CHANGE IN THE UNITED STATUS COURTS REARRANGING THE DIS TRICTS. An order was made by the supreme court at its session in Harrisburg un der an act of assembly' approved last spring rearranging the districts throughout the state. The urdcr transfers from the eastern to the mid dle district the counties of Cameron, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk Lycoming. McKean, Potter, Snyder, Sullivan, Tioga, Union and Warren. The east ern district will therefore hereafter consist of the counties of Berks, Brad ford, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Dele ware, Lehigh, Luzerne, Monroe, Montgomery, Northampton, Phila delphia, Tike, Schuykill, Susque hanna, Wayne and Wyoming. For the district there will be two special return days for writs of error, process and proceedings issued after the first Monday in July of each year, first special return day being the first Monday in January for writs issued before the first Monday in December, and the second special return day the first Monday in February for writs, etc., issued on or after the first Mon day in December. The order also assigns the first eight weeks of lhe term for the hearing of Philadelphia cases, being two M'eeks more than heretofore. Philipsburg Fire No. Three. On Friday evening, June 30th, our neighbors had their borough placed in jeopardy again by a disastrous fire, which broke out in the oil-room of Flcgal'sJ hardware store. From this point the fire spread northward along the turnpike leading to Bellefonte, and southward toward the passenger depot, consuming everything for about two and a half squares. But for the destruction of Taylor's hotel and McCausland's building iu May last, the fire would have taken a western direction along Front street, and where it would have ended, but for this gap, no one can tell. The Phillipsburg Journal gives the following details of the properties des troyed: "The flames swept up Prcsquc isle street from Flcgal's hardware store taking in rapid succession Hoop Humes it Co's. store, Wesley Hunk's store, nnd Hoop, Humes & Co's. office, Haughawaut's and Flegal's residence, Miss Flegal's milinery store, Mrs. lekes' candy store, Faulkner's office, Musser's tin-shop, Gray's brick build ing, and the Moshannon House. Down Second street, it took Matthew John son's furniture store and dwelling, Win. Harper's residence, and the resi dence of Robt Taylor, residence stables which were on these properties. It is impossible to say where the fire would have extended had there been houses on the Diamond, but as there were none on it, the fire reaching the Moshannon House it had to abate its fury on vacancy and finally died down into imliM unit uiimko. Haul rights were made at Kessler's building and the buildings of A. J. Dress and E. C. Bender, Presqueisle street, and only by the fire being within the brick wall, was the latter building saved. Only by determined labor and fearless daring were the buildings on the op posite side of Laurel street, consisting of the bakery and some other build ings, saved at all; for men stood and wet the roof and sides until they were badly scorched." The estimated loss is put down at $00,000, with an insurance thereon of probably $10,000. The origin of the fire is unknown unless it occurred from matches which some boys had been playing with in the yard a short time before. The fire was so precipitate that Mr. Flegal lost nil his books and papers, except the blotter and cash book, which happened to be on the desk. Clearfield Jirpuhlican. Newark, N. J., July 14. Yesterday three young Germans, brothers, named Fiehorn, who have been known as desperate characters for years, were ar rested by police officers Dickerson and Elsden for disorderly conduct. As the officers attempted to march them olf, the men drew revolvers and shot Elsden dead and fatally wounded Dick erson. Escaping from the crowd, the desperadoes ran up street to F. W. Dawson's tannery, in River street, where they formerly worked. There they culled for Mr. Meyer, the foreman, who hud discharged them, but not finding him, they commenced an in discriminate firing on the shop, which resulted in the killing of John Alburs assistant foreman, and the wounding of two workmen. The employees of the shop turned out en mame and chased the murderers towards the river. In the pursuit the workmen used stones and knives, striking the murderers several times before they reached the river. The latter leaped into tlie water and attempted to escape across, but were stoned to death by the outraged workmen. The wounded were taken to St. Michael's Hospital. One, named Fisher, is dead; Dickerson will not recover, the other wounded are in a precarious state. Alburs and Elsden have families. The body of one of the Fiehorns has been recovered from the river. It shows marks of bad cutting about the wrists. Men are now engaged in dragging for the others. The shooting had no connection with the recent labor troubles here. The murderers were desperute characters, and shot innocent men out of mere deviltry. During the excitement V. W. Daw son, proprietor of the factory where the shooting occurred, was robbed of $2,23o in checks, which he was about to deposit. Policeman Dickerson died of his injuries at rive o'clock. He was one of the colored men on the force. The deaths number seven Policemen Elsden and Dickerson. and the three Fiehorns, Alburs and a workman. Most Intense excitement prevails in the city, and the summary action of the workmen is generally commended- Nominations are made in Forest couuty by the popular vote, and the Democratic party elections were re cently held in that locality, G. W. Jenks, for Congress, had no opposition, and received 306 votes. For State Sen ate the candidates were W. L. Corbett, of Clarion, and John G. Hall, of Elk. Hall received 268 votes and Corbett 46 votes. Mr. S. H. Ha&lett, of Tioncsta, was nominated for Assembly. STATE NOTES. The Mercer county fair will be held September 12, 13, 11. The damage done by the late storm at Bellefonte is set down at $100,000. The Pennsylvania State building on the Centennial grounds has been com pleted, and now oilers free accommo dation to all visitors from the State who wish to rest, themselves after ex amining the Exhibition. The lumber shipments from Lock Haven for week ending July 6th were 810,000 feet. The total shipments for the year were 14,100,000 feet, a decrease of 919,000 from the shipments for the corresponding time last year. A lad named Jewett Bnir, accident ally shot himself at Rebersburg, Centre county, on the 24th ult., while handling a pistol. Young Buir was In the 17th year of his age, and is said to have been a promising young man. His death has cast a gloom over Rebersburg and vicinity. Harrisburg, July 14. Gov. Hart ran ft to-day issued the warrant for the execution on Thursday, the 7th day of September next, of Wm. Green, convicted in Allegheny county on the 0th day of December, 1875, of the murder ot Samuel Marshall, and sen tenced July 8, 1876, to be hanged. The Philadelphia and ReudingConl and Iron company announce that there will be an advance of fifteen cents per ton on all sizes of coal for the month of August; and an absolute suspension of all production of coal in the anthracite region will take place in each alternate week during the month of July, commencing the 3d day of July, A few minutes gale of wind and rain visited Warren last Wednesday, and made its mark quite plainly. Chimneys were blown down, and shade trees destroyed in a number of places. The creek wire bridge was blown into the water the anchor on the Warren side giving way. Warren lias not hud such a short and sweet M ind storm for several years. Warren Mail. A cannon with which a salute was being fired at Tioga, lust Tuesday morning, burst at the thirteenth dis charge, and a piece weighing some thing over one hundred pounds was burled high in the uir and came down through the roof and upper floor of a building, badly demoralizing a large rocking chair on the lower floor, but fortunately injuring nobody. Wels boro Agitator. Pittsburgh, July 14. At Freedom Pa., a rain storm occurred yesterday which did great damage. Crow's run, which empties into the Ohio at this point, was swollen to a river in size and the houses all along its banks were Hooded, nnd a house, owned and occupied by Thomas LightLill, was swept away. Mrs. Lightnill and her four children, who were in the house, were all drowned. With reference to the change in Postmasters at Erie, the Dixpati-U (Republican) of that city says: "The appointment of Mr. Walker is justified by just as many reasons as the removal of Mr. Gam unci no more. We have no quarrel with Mr. Walker, but simply desire to say that his accession to the office is the result of an un worthy combination which is sub versive of the first principles of a pure public service." During the storm on Monday last, a young man named Moore, son of James Moore, residing near the seeond toll-gate, between Strattanville, and Corsica, was struck by lightning and killed. The young man was plowing in a cornfield, near the house, when the storm came up. He was unhitch ing his horse, intending to seek shel ter, when the dread bole struck him, killing both man und horse. He was a young man agedubout twenty years, highly esteemed, and the alllicted family have our sincere sympathy. Clarion JirjmbUcun. The amount of tax levied in this Borough for 1870, from all sources, shows u reduction of over $3000.00 compared with the preceding year. The School und Building Taxes are reduced over $2200.00, the County and State Tux about $1:100.00, while the W'ater, Borough, and Poor Tuxes re main same as last year. The assessed valuation of property being much lower than heretofore, the number of mills fixed by the different branches of our local government cannot be compared with the old assessed valua tion. The number of mills this year is six more than last, but the aggregate reduction, us shown above, is over $,i500.0u. licnovo Record. A German, whose nnincour inform ant could not give, and who lives two miles south of Harbor Creek was seriously bitten in the abdomen by a vicious hog he was attempting to drive out of a field last Saturday. The ocast ueeume enraiied ut hemic forced along, and turning suddenly jumped on the man, knocking him down und inflicting a dangerous wound in the lower part ot the abdomen. As the man hud worked his horses hard that day, he bound up the injured parts as last as lie could, walked to this citv and had the wound scientifically dressed by a surgeon. He then walked duck to ins nonie. rJrie Dispatch, A rumor reached us of the commis sion of a terrible murder, a few days ago, nearOrangeville, in Mercer county though the name of the victim was not learned. A young lady school teacher who had occasion to ko to her school-house at an early hour in the morning to write copies lor her pupils, was, while writing, caught by three men, who in turn outraged her, cut her tongue out of her head to prevent her telling, and left her lying on the floor. She dragged herself to the black board to write the nllhir out upon it, und was found dead by the pupils. By means of the information on the black board a vigorous pursuit was Instituted and all three of the miscreants were captured before they reached their homes, though less than three miles from the scene of outrage. I'itltsburah Gazette, 8th inst. It is said that the Buffalo. Warren & Mahoning Railroad Company have completed their arrangements to build a railroad from Warren to Punxsutaw- ney, connecting at Warren with the Dunkirk & Pittsburgh Railroad, thence southeast through Forest and Jefferson counties (via Brookville) through the Reynoldsville coal busin and Punxsutawney, a distance of about fifty-five miles. The object of this road is to secure a short communica tion to New York, via. the Central, Jamestown & Great Western Rail roads. The distance to the last two named is less than seventy miles, and only about one hundred and ten miles to Dunkirk. The coal has been, and is now extensivelv used bv tras com panies, and is said to be of excellent quality, equal to the best Pittsburgh tras coal. The com nan v have entered into contract to complete the road to funxsutawney oy January 1st, 1878, It is said that the lands necessary to complete and &toc!i this road have all been provided for, and a contract has iuKt been closed with a cartv for twelve hundred coal c&rs.-Harrisburg Patriot NEWS ITEMS. Pnrii, hug a professor of petrifaction. There m e 8,62 ) producing oil wells in Pennsylvnuin. Cucumbers ore raise! in Florida four and a hftlf feet long. Texas hns seven new lines of railroad in tho course of building. The Yale four oar rnccs nt Saratoga and Philadelphia will consist of Kennedy, Colin, Kellogg and Wood. The Cily Treasurer of Dublin has gore , to meet Tweed, and carried with him several thousand pounds of the city's funds Nine gas companies, with an aggregate capitol of $50,000,000, furnish the illumin ating material for the city of London. The bishops of the Colored Methodist Episoopnl Church have appointed Friday, August 4, ns a day of fasting and prayer. Centennial handkerchiefs, with facsimile copies of the Declaration of Independence stamped on them, are now offered for sale. Over thirty thousand persons are engaged in the cultivation of rice in Louisiana, and the annual business amounts to $10,000,000. A number of cattle are to be shipped from Kngland next month for the interna tional cattle show to be given in this city. The failure of McLagor & Smith, irou founders, New Haven, Conn., Is announced. Liabilities, $100,000, of which $88,000 is secured. The Chicago Times remarks that a man never knows how many warm friends he has until the thermometer standi at 98 in the shade. The Board of Trustees of the Grand Army of the Republic Soldiers' Home have decided that Ihe said home shall he erected at Bath, New York. A company hns been organized in St. Louis to build a new hotel that will cost $2,000,000, contain 2,000 rooms and ac commodate 3,500 guetts. Robbins, the murderer, who escaped from the Augusta (Me.) Insane Asylum, ou Saturday morning, wus captured at Rock land, Me., the same night. Mrs. Wilhelmina Weick, under sentence of death at Buffalo, New York, for poison. ii,g her step son, has had her doom com muted to imprisonment for life. The London Observer states that the rumor that the stolen printing of the Cuchess ol Devonshire, by Gainsborough, lius been recovered ie unfounded. The Cumberland Valley Railroad Com pany has generously furnished its four hundred employees with lionets and free transportation to the Centennial. Orders have been received at the Chnjcs town (Mn.vs.) Navy Yard to fit out for sea the sloop of-wur Osipee. She will prob ably sail for San Domingo to-morrow. The failure of Jove, Terry & Co., augr importers, of New York, was annouueed on Saturday. Their assets are said lobe eurlioiently ample to cover all liabilities. The Swedes will celebrate Ihe four hundredth anniversary of their nationality at Philadelphia on August -0, and invite their fellow-countrymen from all sections to join then. A citizen of Boston has been fined $10 and costs for putting out American flags projecting mure than twelve inches over the sidewalks, without permission from the authorities. Mr Blaine has formally accepted the United States Hcnalorsliip tendered him by Qov. Connor. The vacancy thus created in the House of Representatives will not be filled until the regular State election in September. Some idea of the extent to which base ball is played may be had from the fact that a single firm in New York have sold Oo.OUO bats, 180,000 balls. 2 000 pairs of hnll shocR. 3.080 pairn of colored hoff, 5,000 caps and 500 complete uniforms. A man named Knott, at Alloona, who disUnguishcd himself by making informa tions against over one hundred employes of the Pennsylvania railroad for working on Sunday, is Dow charged himself with tho forgery of District Attorney Milliken's name to a paper by which he compromised a Sunday liquor selling suit and obtained 25. From Harrisburc; and vioinity we have had reports of the birth of a set ot triplets this year, one set being girls and the other boys. And now Reading oomes to the front with triplets, two boys and a girl. Mrs, Michael Latus, wife of a Seventh street baker has done this thing, aud Reading is proud of her. The multitudinous progeny are doing well. "Haves' letter isn.t well liked by the President's cronies. Some of . them are in a high state of indignation, nnd they say thai it is a stab at UniuL Well, Grant is hitting back; he is makiug capital for Tildcn every day. Mill the Independents are rallying to the support of Hayes. Al together, it is going to be a pret'ty and a hot light." Boston Globe The prosecution of the Chicago branch of the whisky ring has not been a success. The Tribune says: "The fnct is, that, out of about nineteen persons implicated in the Chicago whisky ring, only twelve are in jail. The management of Ihe Chicago cases does not compare favorably with tnoso ot ot. Louis. Mr. John Fiske writes to the Nation that there is not a word of truth in the story that the libiary of Harvard College is iu danger of being destroyed by white ants. They have nevei appeared in the library and have done no injury except in being the innocent cause of deluging the college authorities with quack advertise ments of innect powders. St. Louis, July 16. The Republican's special from Piorce City, Mo., gays: While Ur. llalliday, a prominent citizen of Corsicana, Barry county, was walking home with his wife and another lady a few days ago, he was deliberately shot by a worthless teiiow named liub (Jrawtord. and ford in a few minutes. It is supposed Craw died was hired to assinate Halliday by some of the latter's enemies." Young Men's Christian Associations have become a most important auxiliary to church work in different part; of the woald. There are now zw in Lngland and Waits, 1U3 iu uermany to iu ecouand, 30 in France, 89 iu Switierlaud, 5 in Australia, aud 3 in New Zealand; iu the United States and the British Provinces in America there are over 1,000. It is purely an American institution. They have already been or ganized in China, Japan, ludia, Afrioaand Ibeeandwiun islands. Ncwburg, July 15 An extraordinary case whicti has baffled the physioians haa just been developed in this oity. John Moore, aged sixty. eight years, a resident of Newburg, N. Y., j til from his wagon on Friday, July 7. He was picked up ao parently uninjured and weni about hig business. Ou the day fallowing he wai efi Ceded by the intense heat, and sank into deep sleep. From that time until yester daysix days he neither spoke, opened his eyes nor ate or drank anything- He died yesterday. The Baltimore i'tm says: "The new long iron span is about to be plaoed on the rail road bridge auroBS the Susquehanna at Havre de Grace. The span will be 805 feet, or 50 feet longer than the one it is to re place. The pile have been sunken by the torpedo prooess through 90 feet of water and mud to a rocky bottom foundation. The placing of th piles was accomplished without difficulty by the torpedo prooess. Six of the thirteen spvls have been re placed by iron, so ibat gradually all lha wood work will be removed, when the greit bridge will bo trmCormed into oaa wholly of iron, on granite piers,''
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