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Henry A. Parsons, Jr.,
Editor
THURSDAY NOV. 28, 1878.
The Graphic's Washington special
reports a possibility thnt General Grant
may be elected senator from Illinois,
In case of a dend-lock between Oglesby
and Logan.
:- England ia beginning to receive
meat from Southern Russia, and a
representative of a German house has
Invaded Sheffield and fa offering scis
sors and such like goods, serviceable
and well finished articles, at from 15
to 40 per cent below manufacturers'
prices.
The raiding party operating in
Calhoun and Cliburne counties, Ala.,
under charge of Deputy Collector
Btrouse, had seized, up to the 10th Inst.,
seven still houses, five copper stills,
8,000 gallons of beer and mash, and
thirty gallons of whisky, and miulo
several arrests.
At a town meeting in the town of
Deruyter, Madison county, N. Y., it
was voted, with but three dissenting
voices, to repudiate the bonded indebt
edness of the town, amounting to
$103,000. Some informality in the
Issuing of bonds is alleged. The bonds
are payable in 1800, and were issued in
aid ot the western extension of the
Midland railroad.
At Lagrange, Ky., on Thursday
night lust, forty armed men aroused
the jailor, Captain James Russell,
from his bed, took the key of the Jail
from him, went to the Jail, secured f
negio named George Williams, await
ing trial on charge of committing an
outrageous assault on an eight year old
child of John Barber, took him two
miles west of Lagrange and hanged
blm. Williams confessed his crime,
which was committed last week Tues
day.
A special to the Sun and Press,
Jacksonville, Fla., from Tallahassee,
says the Supreme Court has decided
that the third precinct returns rejected
l it . i i
uy tne Aiaenua county canvassing
board are good, and valid, and has
issued a peremptory writ to the board
to canvass them. These precincts gave
Bisbee, republican, a majority of 4-30,
anil by the rejection of their returns by
the canvassing board Hull, democrat,
was elected. Bisbec's majority is about
'M0 in the district.
A pitiful incident of the late fires
on tne lowa prairies was the death of
Fred Aiken, a boy in Grant town
ship. He staid in a hay field trying
to save a stack until it was too late to
escape the fire by running. He wet
ahorse blanket in a creek, wrapped
himself in it, and took the desperate
chances of a dash through the flames
I ne effort proved fruitless. The fire
licked off" the blanket as thouch it had
been paper, and burned the boy so bad
ly that he died within a few hours.
Rumors have been current about
Plymouth for some time about irregu
larities, in the Plymouth, Mass., na
tional bank took definite shape Wed
nesday in a special meeting of a full
board of directors, when a report
which had been previously ordered was
rendered by Cashier Stoddard and his
assistants. On the reception of the re
port it was unanimously voted by the
directors to accept the resignation of
W. T. Davis as president of the bank,
and to request J. J. Russell, treasurer
of the Plymouth Savings Bank, to act
as temporary president in his stead.
A statement was made, with the fol
lowing effect: For some years the
president, Davis, had charge of the
books of the bank. Until quite recently
the directors supposed that they were
correctly kept.
One of the Springfield, Ohio, col
ored barbel's, Donn Bazy, has' adopted
the bell punch in his establishment to
record the work done, each barber
ringing the punch for every shave,
hair cut or shampoo. Saturday, while
all the barbers M ere absent at dinner,
save Long Wiley, the latter fell asleep.
Some practical jokers seeing him
asleep, and knowing of the system
slipped in secured the machine,
punched about twenty-five shaves and
quietly retired. In the evening when
the time came for settlement, twenty
shaves were punched that were not
paid for. Suspicion at once fastened
on Wiley, and as he could not account
for the discrepancy a quarrel ensued.
His fellow barbers fell upon him and
beat him brutally, so much so that he
will die.
The Bellevue colliery, of the Del
aware, Lakawanna and: Western com
pany, In the outskirts of Scrantou, has
convulsed the neighborhood by an
extensive caving in of the roof, which
commenced several days ago in an old
worked out portion of the mine has
attained threatening proportions.
The fall is due to the collapse of
the Drops bv which the vast area of
roof was upheld, and its effects has ex
tended to the surface, producing a com
motion among the settlers.- Large
cracks and unsightly gaps appear In
the middle or the public road, and a
number of dwellings have been dis
turbed from their foundations by the
sinking. It is feared the slope and
shaft by which the main portion of the
' inine is operated u ill succumb in tlie
general disturbance.- The occurance
throws upward ef two hundred men
out of work and causes a good deal of
damage to real estate In that vicinity,
Thamine is still caving in and the
fall extent of the loss cannot be esti
wtd at presents
Win Mv
One Hnndrcd and Fonr.
A COLORED WOMAN KILLED AT THAT
ADVANCED AOE.
On a small bed In a room in the top
story of a tenement In the rear of 222
Delancey street Wednesday, says the
New York Sun, lay the body of Mrs.
Eliza Thomson, a colored woman, who
was born Into slavery on the estate of
Daniel Bilker, on Long Island, one
hundred and four years ago, A sheet
covered the body, and six or seven
nephews and nieces sat In the room,
for Mrs. Thomson hud outlived her
husband and all her children. De
spite, the extraordinary number of
years that had rolled over her head, the
old ex-slave did not die of old age. She
lived alone in the little room in Delan
cey street, and up to within a few
weeks of her death she went every
day to work at washing, refusing to
the last to be a burden upon any one.
On the 7th Inst, she started from her
home to go to Grand street ferry, in
tending to cross to Williamsburg,
where she had some work to do. At
Grand street a horse drawing a wagon
belonging to a Mr. Bruin, a Grand
street baker, struck her, and she fell to
the pavement. Except several bruises
she did not seem to be Injured.
The next day, and for several days
afterward, she insisted on going to her
work as usual, but her nervous system
had received a shock that, at her great
age, she could not rally from. Eight
or nine days ago she was unable to rise
from her bed, and sank gradually and
died on Suuday afternoon.
Mrs. Thomson had, or thought she
had, some indistinct recollections of
the war of the Revolution. ' She said
that she remembered the red-coated
iMigiitm soldiers making tilings ex
cessively uncomfortable on her mas
ter's estateou Long Island, but beyond
that her memory failed to recall any
incidents of the struggle for Indepen
dence. On the morning of the 50th rumors
were afloat that the residence of Gil
bert Newman, Clerk of the District
Court of St. Mary's parish, La., had
been entered the night before by un
known men. Several prominent citi
zens went to Newman's house to as
certain the truth or falsity of these
reports. Upon examining they dis
covered traces of a desperate struggle,
there being blood in every direction
and blood on the floor, doorknobs, and
the' path leading to the gate. About
this time another report was circulated
that Thomas Wilson, an industrious
and highly esteemed farmer, living
about two miles above Franklin, La.,
had been carried home the night before
by unknown parties literally shot to
pieces. He lingered until four o'clock
this morning, when he died. Newman
and his wife say they did not recognize
the assailants, which, coupled with the
high moral character of Wilson, leaves
good reason to doubt that he had any
thing to do with the persons who visit
ed Newman's house. Newman and
his wife escaped unhurt.
Another wonderful cave has re
cently been discovered near Glasgow
Junction, Ky. It has already been
explored for a distance of twenty-three
miles in one direction, called the long
route, and sixteen miles in another di
rection, called the short route. The
avenues are verry wide, a span of
horses can be easly driven through for
a distance of eleven miles. Three
rivers, wide and very deep, are en
countered on the long route. One of
them is navigable for fourteen mills,
until the passage becomes too narrow
to admit a boat. This forms the third
or river route, which has to be ex
plored in a boat. The cave is wonderful
beyond discription, and far surpasses
in grandeur the Mammoth or any cave
ever before discovered. Several mum
mified remains have been discovered in
one of the large rooms. They were
reposing in stone coffins, rudely con
structed, and from appearances may
have been in this cave for centuries.
They present every appearance of the
Egyptian mummies. Cincinnati Com
mercial.
Sixteen Dollar Oil.
Oil was recently discovered in Trum
bull county, Ohio, and a party of four
gentlemen from the Pennsylvania oil
regions have leased two thousand acres
of land in the vicinity of thediscovery.
The tract is located at West Mecca
post office, on the Atlantic and Great
Western railroad, ten miles east of
Warren, Ohio. The parties interested
are Amos lost and Ji. O. Paten, of
Petrolia ; D. Alms, of St. Petersburg!!,
and C. D. Bobbins, of Titusville. The
first well, put down three or four
weeks ago, is doing five barrels per
clay. The oil is the finest lubricating
oil ever discovered, and is said to be
worth $16 per barrel. It requires no
refining or treating, but is taken direct
from the well and applied to the finest
machinery. This is something phe
nomenal In the history of petroleum,
and has created quite a sensation in the
oil region proper.
A special from Ada, Ohio, says: Miss
Hattie Barker, regarded as highly
respectable young lady, accompanied
by her mother, entered the drug store
in which V. C. High is employed, and
charged him with Hattie's ruia
They tried to persuade him to marry
her. He refused, whereupon both be
ean firintr at him with pistols. He
severelv. but not fatally injured
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XHHIl lUUltw wtic uucotcu uuvi idcaocu I
on bonds. The affair causes a great I
sensation. I
The total vote of the State of New
York, at the last election, will exceed
810,000. Last year it was 786,910, and
In 1876 it was 1,014,050. Judge Dan
forth's plurality is about 88,000. The
greenback vote of the State will not
exceed 66.000. The above figures are
bused on official returns.
Jfotcs of flews.
It Is proposed to Introduce Edi
son's electric light Into the capitol at
Washington.
Thomas II. Power, a Philadelphia
drug manufacturer, is dead. His prop
erty is valued at $10,000,000.
Scarcely a tramp is now to be found
in New Hampshire, thanks to a rigid
tramp act thoroughly administered.
The Glasgow policeman who ar
rested Mr. Lewis Potter, one of the
City of Glasgow bank directors, had
once been his footman.
One of the articles shipped from
India to China is salted rats, which
are, as Is well known, liighly appreci
ated in China as an article of food.
The stables of the Central City
horse railway company, at Peoria, 111.,
were burned on the 20th Inst. Thirty
horses were roasted alive. Loss, $5,000.
At a single meal three or four
Afghans find no difficulty in eating
tho tail of a Duatnba sheep, a mass of
pure fat weighing from six to eighteen
pounds.
Clinton, Moscow, Columbus and
Arlington, Kentuckywere vigorously
shukcu up by an earthquake Monday
night at 12 o'clock. Considerable scare,
but no one hurt.
Three Hindoos, Who recently
killed a young man named Mainpuri
as a sacrifice to the Goddess Kali
have been arrested and stand a good
chance of being hung.
Some burglars entered the resi
dence of G. M. Fanning, a farmer at
Dearborn, Mich., and having chloro
formed the entire household, proceeded
to rob the premises. During the fol.
lowing day the inmates Were discov
ered still asleep, and were with diffi
culty brought back to life.
Stephen Guffey was executed at
Newport, Tenn., on Friday afternoon
for the rape of Eva Clark, a white girl
under ten years of age. Notwithstand
ing numerous petitions, signed by
large number of prominent citizens.
Governor Porter refused to commute
the sentence to imprisonment for life,
At 7 o'clock Thursday morning a
fire was discovered in the post office at
MayVille, N. Y., and in less than two
hours a dozen buildings in the business
part of the town were totally destroyed
including Masonic Hall, lodge of
Knights of Honor, lodge of the United
Workmen and the post office. Loss
$20,000; insurance, $10,000.
A special dispatch savs : " At
Brookfield, Wis,, James Donnalson,
young lad, coming into a blacksmith
shop, threw his overcoat, in the pocket
of which was a loaded pistol, down
upon the anvil. The hammer striking
the anvil, the pistol exploded, and the
bull entering the head of Chris Sowers,
a farmer, caused his instant death.
On Saturday night lust, a brake
man named Mover fell between two
cars, near Lime Lake, while uncoup-
ling cars. He stood with one foot on
each car and pulled the coupling pin
when the cars parted, letting him be
tween them. Both of his hands and
one leg were cut off. Ho was taken to
Oleun, where he died in a few hours,
His remains were taken to Buffalo for
interment. Cameron Press.
John Taylor, with his wife and
two children and a Miss Clutz, left
Springfield, Missouri, in a wagon, for
Colorado, some two months ago,
Nothing was heard from them until a
few days ago, when a letter received
from Miss Clutz stated that Indians
had captured the party and murdered
tnem all except nerseir. tine was
afterwards rescued by United States
troops. The letter graphically de
scribes the fight with the Indians,
about twenty of whom were killed and
wounded before capturing Taylor.
All tho parties to a lawsuit tried in
Los Angeles, Cal., were Chinamen
and it was deemed proper to swear the
witnesses Chinese fashion. The judge
jury, lawyers and witnesses went into
the yard of the court house, where the
ceremony was conducted by a Chinese
priest. Wooden tapers or joss sticks
were stuck into the ground and light
ed. The oath, written in Chinese
characters on yellow paper, was read
aloud by every witness ; after which
each stepped solemnly over the burn
ing sticks, and a priest cut off the head
of a chicken.
The four pounds of calcine! resi
clium, which were all that remained of
the bodily frame of the late Joseph
Henry Lewis, Baron De Palm, Grand
Cross Commander of the Order of Holy
Sepulchre (Knight of Malta), Prince
of the Holy Roman Empire, late
Chamberlain to His Majesty, the King
of Bavaria, Fellow of Tlieosophical
Society, etc., after his cremation in
Washington, Pennsylvania, hive been
cast into the sea with appropriate cere
monies. This last right of respect
which was paid by the Theosophical
Society, was never before performed in
Europe or America, because, as Hiero-
phant Olcott says, the formula was lost
in ages during which the language of
Vedas has been gradually forgotten
, A terrible crime has just come to
litrUt through the commission of an
other crime, near Middletown,' N. J.
A colored man was found almost dead
with two bullets in his head, who said
that an attempt had been made to put
him out of the way by two men and a
woman named Dobson, living at Ches
tertown. Maryland, because he Was the
e i
only person outside of the guilty per-
. sons
murder of two illegitimate children of
Mrs.
was
Dobson's two daughters, which
committed some time ago.. He
had agreed to leave the State, and was
being conveyed away by two men
named William Newcum and Philip
Vincent and Mrs. Dobson, when the
party sat upon him and left him for
dead in a niece of woods. The two
men are supposed to be the seducers,
The parties have been arrested.
F1t Murderers to tie Hanged.
Governor Hartranft has Issued war
rants for the execution of five murder
ers. FoUr of them belonged to the'
n famous Mollle Magulres, among them
Jack Kehoe. All the culprits are to be
hanged on the 18th of December.
The crime for which Kehoe is to
hang was committed in 1803, and the
victim wag F. 8. W. Langdoti, a ticket
boss employed at Honeybrook colliery.
L,angdou had docked a number of
men, and for it Kehoe threatened to
take his life. On Ithe evening of the
day on which a Sunday school celebra
tion was held Laugdon was found on'
the public road terribly beaten, and in
a few days he died of the injuries re
ceived. For fourteen years the mur
derers went unpunished, but evidence
was obtained through tho first Mollle
Magulre murder trials leading to the
arrest of Kehoe and two of his accom
plices, Dougherty and O'Neill. Kehoe,
having threatened to have Langdon
killed, and having'beenl seen striking
him, was couvloted of murder in the
first degree, and his confederates got
off with a nine years' sentence in the
penitentiary. . Kehoe was connected
with at least half a dozen other mur
ders committed in the coal regions.
Martin Birgin, who Is to be hanged
on the same gallows with Kehoe, shot
Patrick H. Burns, at Tuscarora,
Schuylkill county, in 1870. Burns
was murdered at the Instigation of
John Kane, who emploved James
M'Donnell, also to be hanged on the
18th of December for the murder of
George K. Smith in 1863, to put Burns
out of the way in order toprevent him
from exposing a theft of coal by Kane.
M'Donnell induced Birgin, who was
arrested in Canada last March, to do
the shooting. Burnswas shot while
going to work.
Charles Sharpe and James M'Don
nell, both of whom will he hanged at
Mauch Chunk on the 18th of next
month, murdered George K. Smith, a
coal operator at Audenreid, on the
night of November 5, 1863. Smith
was killed because he gave the United
States authorities information relative
to the whereabouts of persons who
evaded the draft. The men called at
Smith's residence, and being admitted,
said they had a letter for him, which
they desired to hand him in person
Being informed that he had retired to
bed, one of them made a motion as If
he Intended to hand the alleged letter
to Mrs. Smith. Instead, he drew forth
a revolver, Which was discharged.
Mrs. Smith gave a loud scream, and
her husband rushed down stairs in his
night clothes. While on his way he
was shot dead by one of the rufiins. A
man named Ulrich, who. had gone to
the house at the request of Smith, was
shot in the leg. The arrest of the two
Mollies was mainly due to the revela-
tiousof the notorious Jimmy Kerrigan
and Kelley the Bum, both of whom
are self-confessed murderers.
Alexander W. Sayers, the Philadel
phia wifc-murderer, is also to be
banged oh,th J8th of December. He
shot his wife in church on Sunday,
November 18, 1877, during the progress
of the services.
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NOTICE is hereby given that a pe
tition of citizens of Ridgwayjtownship
will be presented at the next Court of
Quarter Sessions of Elk conuty for the
incorporation of a Borough of the town
of Ridgway..
1879.
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