4 Henry At Parsons, Jr., Editor THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1879. Hon. Jnmcs K. Gibson, member of the Forty-first Congress, died on Sun dny morning ntliiS residence In Abing don, Va. An Ohio man whipped his wife because she looked Into bis pockets nnd found a love letter Hint a girl had written to him. Hon. William J. Albert, died Inst Saturday at his resideneein Baltimore, in his 03d year. He was a member of the Forty-third Congress for the Fifth Maryland district. At Norwich, N. Y., Felix McCann, aged 73 years, was found guiltv of murder in the first degree for killing his neighbor, James Morris Hatch, at Negro Hollow, near Sherborn, Che nango county, December 3, 1878. The Secretary of the Treasury has Issued the ninety-third call for the re demption of five-twenty bonds of 1805 consols of 1807. The call is for $10, 000,000, of which $7,000,000 are coupon tind $3,000,000 are registered bonds. A dispatch from Utica, N. Y. says news has been received there from high authority that the' finding in General FiU John Toiler's case completely vindicates him. The Grand Army of the Republic and the Society of the Fifth Army Corps fired a congratulatory salute. The American Bible revision com mittee held their regular monthly meeting for March on the 27th, 2Sth and 20th. The old testament com mittee revised four of the minor prophets for the first time. The new testament committeo finished the second revision of the Acts of the Apostles. A South Carolina journal protests against the practice of carrying con cealed weapons, saying that peace and order should reign in every Southern State, but that people pull out pistols and kill each other at the least pretext. Quondam friends cannot enter into any argument, no matter how trivial, without hot words, and they draw their pieces, blazing away at each other until one is disabled or their pistols empty. The railroad on the ice across the Missouri River at Bismarck lias floated away. During (lie last day of its use it was from one to three feet under water, and big chunks of ice were sweeping over it, but trains of freight cars, bearing materials for the con struction of the Northern Pacific Rail road, were hurried over uj) to the last possible moment. The hint locomotive to cross was careened by (he moving and sinking of the ice, and the fires extinguished by the water. A colored voter in Mobile had been employed by a merchant to take some kerosene oil to the Mobile and Ohio Railroad depot for shipment. He informed the gentleman who em ployed him that he was going to vote the Democratic ticket wouldn't think of voting any other. On his re turn from the depot he was asked for the receipt for the kerosene oil Put ting his hand in his pocket he pulled out a citizens' ticket "This isn't the receipt," exclaimed the merchant. "Bless de Lord, ' was the response, "I done gone an' voted do kerosene oA ticket." Pete McCartney, formerly n very successful counterfeiter, has for three years been a convict in the Illinois State prison, where he is to remain seven years longer. On being con victed, lie gave 10,000 to his pretty wife, to Jive on until he could rejoin her, and she promised to wait faith fully for his release; but she lately made up her mind to get a divorce from him and marry Dr. Mason, with whom she had fallen in love. McCart ney learned of her inconstancy, and determined to have revenge. He employed -accomplices to involve the physician in a charge of passing counterfeit money, and then went on the stand as a witness for the prose cution with a story of former partner ship in the printing of bogus Treasury notes. The prisoner only got out of the scrape by bringing a score of patients to prove an alibi. Baltimore, March 20. The Gneeo Ronian wrestling match between William Miller of this city and Col. J. H. McLaughlin of Detroit, for $500 a side, the entrance money, and the championship of the world, came off to-night at tho Academy of Music. Both men were in splendid condition. The house was filled, but thero was little outside betting. Promptly at 8J o'clock the athletes appeared and began the contest. The first bout con tinued nn hour without result. In the second bout they had not clasped hands more than two minutes before Mc Laughlin caught up Miller and threw him upon the stage, but Miller fell on his face and instantly turned his an tagonist and pressed both shoulders to the floor, and a fall was awarded him. In the third bout, after ten minutes work, Miller was thrown, but the referee declared it a foul, McLaughliu having tripped Miller, which was not allowed by the rules governing the mutch. The fourth bout was short and decisive. Both men showed great skill, but after twelve minutes the men were prone on the floor, and Miller, with his lockneck hold, turned Mc Laughlin aud gained the fall and the match. The match lasted one hour and fifty-five minutes. - Washington Letter. . From our regular Correspondent. Washington, D. C, March 81st. 'Nothing in the way of business has been done by Congress yet A great deal of time has been consumed In trying to deeldejhst what shall be done and how to do it; meanwhile the Sen ate has proceeded to get rid of its Republican officers and elect Demo crats in their places. There is some doubt as to whether any general legislation will be attempted at the extra session. Tho Democratic jollity caucus committees have been unable to agree upon any definit plan, and so report to each house. Speaker Ran dall is holding back his committee ap pointments to prevent any attack upon general business. But if the proposed compromise repealing meas ures are not successful, it is likely that tho gates will bo opened nnd a long session entered upon. The Republicans don t seem to think that the com promise proposed by the Democrats is any compromise at all. It repeals the test oath, prohibits the presence of troops at polling places on election days, and does away with deputy supervisors and marshals, merely leaving it in the power of United States courts to nppoint supervisors for each polling place one of each political party who arc shorn of all power, and simply authorized to watcli the election inspectors. This, the Democrats .think, is enough to insure a fair vote and a fair count, but it don't give one party o lot of paid tools, to control elections. If tills is not ac cepted by the Republicans, I am in clined to believe the session will be long, as a dead lock is almost certain to ensure. But if is is agreed to, the appropriation bills will be speedily passed, and the session brought to a close by the first of May, in spite of the efforts of the Greeiibackers to have some financial measures brought forward. Upon n pedestal in the lower hall of the Smithsonian Institute stands a model of the new National Museum, for the erection of which Congress recently appropriated $250,000. The item was stricken out of the bill, once and supposed to be lost, but it was re stored at the last moment by the action of a conference committee. The money is not available until the 1st of July, but the certainty of its forth coming has inspired some preparations for commencing the work. The idea of a National Museum was proposed many years ago by the late Professor Henry, who, in his annual reports, continually laid before Congress the necessary for such a building. When the Centennial Exposition closed, and the various foreign governments donated to the Smithsonian Institute their exhibits, the want of room in which to place them revived the museum question, so that now the erection of a building, which shall be worthy of the object, is only a matter of a very little time. The model mentioned is" the one which will doubtless be adopted by the committee which had the aflair in charge, Gen. Sherman, Mr Teter Parker, and Prof. Baird, This committee is now en gaged in making the final arrange ments regarding the building. As cow proposed, the museum will be situated on the southeast corner of the Smithsonian grounds, und be three hundred feet long by three hundred feet wide, covering an area of two and one-quarter acres. The style followed is the Romanesque, to make it harmonize, as much as possible, with the Smithsonian. The structure is to be built of plate iron nnd gks, and, being only one story higlf; will resemble greatly the buildings at the Centennial. It is to contain four halls of 01 by 62 feet, four halls l:li) by G"j feet, four halls C3 by .52 feet and one hull 03 by 65 feet. From the centre of the building rises the dome, WJ feet high. Ninety- thousand square feet of floor space are to bo lit up by 12,000 square - feet of glass, being a better light than was atl'orded at the Vienna and Paris expositions. There is to be a pavilion at each corner of the build ing, the side walls of which will be 35 feet high, while the walls of the building proper are 27 feet high. The fiat roofs are to be covered with metal, instead of wooden sheathing, laid upon porous terra cotta, or its equivalent in fire-proof( quality. The steeper roofs are to be slated upon iron rafters, plastered on the inside. It is intended to expend on the building the whole of theappropriation,and its completion will make a beautiful addition to the architectural structures of the city. The case of the widow Oliver against Simon Cameron still holds the boards in tho Circuit Court, and it deveiopes details more disgusting than entertain ing, though crowds are in daily at tendance. Dr. Mary Walker some times looks in to see now matters are going. i or some time past the Doctor has been wearing strictly masculine. garments, including a hat, but she somehow seems to forget that men's hats are Seldom worn in court rooms, especially when, tho court is in ses sion. The other morning she walked into tho court room and a bailiff walked up and tapped her on the shoulder, at the same time calling out, "Take otfyour hat, sir." The Doctor hastily turned around, and tho bailiff' recognizing her," concluded that she was entitled to wear her hat, and said no more about it. Dom Pedko. Reports from almost every point of the wheat-growing region of the West . and Northwest shows the winter wheat crop to be unusually good, Its present fine condition being attributed to the heavy snows of the past season, which afforded complete protection. Send $1.50 to this office and get The Advocate oue year and a chance in our drawing. Tho Curtin Contest... From WllllBtiisport Gu.otte and Bulletin. McCluro's Times, from a personal standpoint, is entitled to the highest commendation for its cncrgclio and consistent defense of its largest stock holder, ex-Govertior Curtin, in his con test for the seat in Congress now occu pied by Hon. Seth H. Yocuni. The facts developed, as tho contest pro gresses, are so damaging to the ex Governor's case that they afford the widest field for the display of the Times' editor's chief talent that of turning the damning and damaging proofs against the stranded Curtin, into argument in his favor. Jn Saturday's Timet appeared an article on the now notorious Benner township election fraud, in Centre county, which we have before referred to in theso columns, which censures Colonel Hastings and Messrs. Furst and Love, of Mr. Yocum's counsel, for ofl'ering in evidence, the ballots cast at that election by the voters of Benner township. The specific charges made by the Times is that the ballots were obtained in a surreptitious manner, that they were privately examined by Mr. Yocum's counsel and afterwards offered in evidence in tho contest case. This the Times alleges was a great fraud on the voters of Benner town ship, and a crime against the sanctity of the ballot. As this is the one soli tary election poll in the entire Con gressional district where r.ny actual fraud lias been proved, we have been careful to iuform ourselves fully of the facts in the case as they have been proven. These facts not only vindi cate the gentlemen above named as Mr. Yocum's counsel, but they show that ex-Governor Curtin, himself and his immediate followers, are the per sons who should purge themselves of the taint of crime and corruption which tills Benner township case has fastened upon them. Before the spring electiou Mr. Yocum's counsel presented a petition to the court of Centre county, asking that a decree be made to preserve all the ballots cast at the November election. Tills a parti sail court refusd to do. That the court had power to preserve the ballots is well settled by precedents established by the courts of Philadelphia, Alle gheny, Luzerne and other counties. The courts of all the other counties in the Twentieth congressional district, where petitions were presented, promptly made the order preserving the ballots. It could hardly bo ex pected that Governor Curtin's self acknowledged counsel, sitting on the bench of the Centre district, would be foolish enough to damage his own case, by making an order that would expose the frauds practiced by his clients. Mr. Curtin, in his notice of contest, alleged gross frauds in Benner; that the ballot box had been stufl'ed, the count irregular, the ofllcers not sworn, etc. The court having refused to preserve the ballots so as to permit Mr. Yocum's friends to investigate the charge's, the latter's attorneys caused u subpueuti dunes tecum to tie served on the oHicers of the election board, re quiring them to produce; the ballots before the commissioner. In obedience to this subpoena the election oOlcers on the day of the spring election (Febru ary lsth) preserved the ballots and afterwards produced them before the commissioner, and were offered In evi dence by Colonel Hastings ami hid as sociates. Tin's is the great crime and Indecency on the part of Yocum's counsel complained of by the Times. But the true cause of tho Tiun ' indig nation may be gaihercd from the proofs furnished by these snme ballots, and the two Democratic members of the board, who swore that they took them from the staled box in exactly the same condition they were when deposited tin re on the night of No vember 5, 1878; that when offered in evidence they were exactly the same ns when taken from tho ballot box; that one hundred and twenty persons had voted at that election for Mr. Yo cuni ; that seven ballots counted and returned for Andrew G. Curtin had never been polled by legally qualified voters, but had been placed in the ballot box after the polls closed by a" paid Curtin Democrat; that they were found in the box on the evening of the election, after the polls closed. Thirteen other tickets with Andrew G. Curtin's name printed thereon for congress, that had never been voted, numbered, counted or returned by the board, but had been stuffed into the box by a Curtin hireling at the time several members of the board were temporarily out of the room when the countiug was being done. These facts have all been proved more fully than we have stated them, by two Demo, cratic members of tho election board. More than this, the one hundred and twenty persons who voted for Mr. Yocum have been severally called be fore the commissioner, and have sworn to their legal qualifications as voters, and that they voted for Yocum. These facts established by the highest proof known to the Iaw,vmake Mr. Yocum's majority in the district twenty instead of thirteen, as returned by tho board They also show that the number of ballots returned by the board for Cur tin is just seven more than there were voters in Benner township, after de ducting those who voted for Yocum and those who did not vote at all for Congress. The proof also clearly es tablishes that twenty fraudulent Cur tin votes, that had not been numbered or registered, were found in the ballot box sixteen of which were thrown out by the board and that they had been placed there by a partisan of Curtin, who for weeks before the elec tion had been electioneering for him. We have set forth the facU in regard to this township with some minuteness for the reason that this is the only place in the district where fraud has becu.uneartb.ed. Instead of censuring Mr. Yocuiu'h counsel, tho Times editor, in keeping with the reform doctrines he so religiously inculcates, snouiu thank them lor unearthing this outrage, even if it docs besmirch his bosom friend and financial backer. now many other irauos ot a similar nature might have been brought to light, had it not been for tho decree of Curtin'scounsel, sitting in the capacity of a judge, may never be known. XE WAD VEETIXEMENTS. Catharine M'Garvcy, by her next friend, George Morgan, vs John M'Garvcy, . In the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Elk. No. 6, Nov. Term. 1870. DIVORCE. To Tif k Respondent Ahove Named. Take notice, that subpoena and alius subpoena having been issued in the above entitled case, and returned "not found in the county,'1 you are hereby notified to appear before said court on the FOURTH MONDAY OF MAY, A. 1). 1879 to answer the said libelant's complaint. D. C. OYSTER, Sheriff. Sheriff's Office, Ridgway Pa. March 12, 1879. 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