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Menrr A Parsons, Jr., - Editor
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THURSDAY, DEC 22, 1881.
Entered at the Post-office at
Ridqway, Pa., as second clash
mail matter.
- Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes fol
lowed Mr. John Q. Whittier In plead
ing Inability to write poems to order.
He wrote to the managers of the Bos
ton Bazaar In aid of the Soldiers'
Home; "Who cnn help being interes
ted In the noble cause which you so
forcibly present to us? If my heart
would only write poems for me, In
stead of calling on my somewhat fa
tigued and now and then refractory
brain to do it, you should receive a
hundred glowing verses instead of
this scrap of frozen prose.''
On one occasion when Blr Walter
Scott was in Ireland he came to a
gate which he could not open. At
that moment a shoeless lad came up
end opened it for him. He wished to
make him a present, Intending to give
him a sixpence; he found he had only
a shilling. "Here, my boy, said be,
is a shilling, and remember that you
owe me sixpence." "Ocli," said the
lad, "may your honor live till I pay
you!" How could anyone have paid
a more delicate compliment? It
simply wished him immortality.
Proofs of the new five cent Gar
: field postage stamp have been re
ceived at the Post Office Department,
Washington. The stamp is pro
nounced by the postal officers to be
the handsomest ever issued. It Is a
vignette of a three-quarter face, sur
rounded by a light and elegant bead
work oval. The likeness is peculiarly
striking, and the whole work, while
free from ornamentation, is finely and
gracefully finished. The stamp was
designed by Vice President Mac
Donough of the American Rank Note
Company of New York.
Washington township, Lawrence
county, challenges the world. Organ
ized in 1796, it has passed through all
the years since that time until the
present without one of his citizens
having ever held an office under the
government, county, state, or national,
civil or military, under the Republi
can party or any of its predecessors
with the exception of during the war
Joseph Eddy wus made an enrolling
officer for the draft, and for which he
was paid $15. Strange as it may ap
pear, the townshipdid not even furnish
a lieutenant during the war, although
furnishing her quota of men.
Hon. II . W. Williams received
last Saturday, his commission from
the Governor, attesting his election aa
President Judge of the Fourth Judi
cial district of the State. The docu
ment is a very handsome one, and it
commissions its recipient to act as
President Judge of tbo district for ten
years from the first Monday In Jan
uary next. The Judge has now been
on the bench seventeen years seven
years as Additional Law Judge and
ten years as President Judge. With
the completion of the new term upon
which he is just entering lie will have
occupied his responsible judicial pos
ition for more than a quarter of a cen
tury. And it is unnecessary to say
that up to this time he has earned for
himself an evergrowing reputation as
an able, learned and upright judicial
officer. WelUboro Agitator.
Items of News.
Patrick Feeney, Patrick Carroll
and a man named Mellway were seri
ously injured Saturday at Poughkeep
sie by the premature explosion of a
rock blast.
It has been ascertained that the
cause of the late fire in the Peabody
hotel, Memphis, Teun., was some soot
ill a pipe over the boiler caught fire.
Damage $20, 000.
Dr.. Williams H. Bowen was Sat
urday arraigned at Providence, R. I.,
upon a charge of arson, in having
burned his own house and barn. It is
bis second indictment for a similar
crime..
Christian Keifer, the defaulting
ttrvnr collector of Union Hill, was sen
tenced, in Jersev City, on Friday, to
to state prison for three years aud six
months.
Andrew J. Paries, whom Presi
dent Arthur pardoned on Thursday,
waaoneof the Lewis will conspirators
and his term of service la the state
prison at Trenton would have expired
iu a few days.
The following were ordained to
the preistbood al the Baltimore cathe
dral by Archbishop Gibbons on Satur
day! Peter R. Welder, J. E. Don
ohugb and Joseph Cassidy, Balti
more; J. J. Bres, Louisiana; J. H.
O'Donnell, Connecticut; H. J. Mul
ligan, Philips Sexton and E Burns,
Boston; P. H. Billings, Massachusetts;
P. J. Boyle, Omaha;: B. Murphy,
Chicago, and W. H. Hart, Spring
field. How to get a Map of the State.
The Philadelphia, Pkkss pub
lishes, In connection with its weekly
edition, a new county, township and
railroad map of Pennsylvania, which
Is one of the beet and most accurate
ever gotten up, and la corrected to the
latest surveys. It is 88 by 23 and one
balf inches, ia handsomely mounted,
and can be had, togother with The
Weekly Pbess, for one year, for f 1,50,
the prioe of the map alone. These
mapa eaa be found in any post-office
in Pennsylvania. Ask your post
vaster to show you a copy of the
paper and map.
Christmas Cards at this office.
Tbe Coming State Canvas.
Philadelphia Pro.
Some of the machine managers
have spoken concerning the next State
Convention and ticket. It Is time for
the Republicans who breathe and
speak the popular inspirations to
make themselves felt on the same sub
ject. Any plan of the next campaign
which leaves them out of the calcula
tion will be a dance with political
death. Not that they have any per
sonal ends to serve; not that they have
any special candidate to support or to
oppose; but because they represent a
deep, pervading popular sentiment
which revolts against arbitrary per
sonal dictation, and which seeks to
make the party standard shine with
the highest and best Republicanism.
And this widespread feeling cannot
safely bo ignored or dolled.
The Independent Republicans plant
themselves upon the broad, Impreg
nable platform of Popular Rule and
Free Representation. They wago no
war against individuals, but they do
wage resolute and unflinching war
against a corrupt, demoralising, de
busing system. The abuses against
which they arrr.y themselves arc open,
notorious and flagrant. An autocratic
personal rule; an audacious defiance
of plain public sentiment; the pre
scription of independent, self-resjHvt-Ing
manhood; the confinement of po
litical promotion to a narrow circle of
pliant dependents; fictitious primaries
and packed delegations; dummy con
ventions aud subservient candidates;
the nomination of a low grade of pub
lic representatives and officials are
not these evils palpable and undeni
able? And how much longer cau the
party endure the strain of this repeated
wrong upon the intelligence and vir
tue of its patriotic masses?
The Independent Republicans are
impelled, not by any personal aims,
but by a profound conviction that the
result they seek is vital to the perpet
uity of the party. They know that
upon the mere call of a Self-cor.stltuted
candidate, forty thousand Republicans
voted for bim at the last election as a
protest against the offensive abuses of
party management. They know that,
but for the attitude of the recognized
Independent representatives through
out the SUte, a hundred thousand Re
publicans would have beeu ready to
strike the same .blow. Tbe party
managers recklessly trampled on pub
lie sentiment, and the Independent
Republicans rescued the party from
disaster. They seek now to save it
from a repetition of the same peril
They aim to liberalize its ruling
councils, to broaden its organization
so as to take iu all Republicans; to
elevate the character of its nomina
tions and, to make its organized uctiou
faithfully reflect the public will.
The cause which they represent is
steadily and surely marching on. The
day is fast going by in Pennsylvania
when nolKxly but ciphers bearing the
badge of the bosses can secure public
honors. Nine months ago Wayne
MacVeagh, tbe incarnation of inde
pendence, was called to the Cabinet
after the broadest of Republican
triumphs. To-day even a Stalwart
Administration takes Benjamin Har
ris Brewster, who wears no man's col
lar, as its Pennsylvania representative,
and the party managers find it expe
dient to acquiesce. The sentiment
which the Independent Republicans
represent is a power in the State. It
refused to accept the decree of the
bosses for Senator last winter, and in
sisted upon its own rightful share in
the choice. It Is turning and over
turning in Philadelphia. It is mov
ing tbe waters in Pittsbujg and other
parts of tbe Commonwealth, and,
however the managers may resist, it
will make itself felt in the coming
contests.
The movement will vindicate itself
if It succeeds iu compelling a better
class of nominations, as there is
already evidence that it will do. But
it aims at something more than forc
ing party managers to bow to this de
mandit seeks to secure this result as
the free action and triumph of the
people themselves. Tbe heart of the
party is sound; the patriotic masses
are true to the best ideals; the Inde
pendent Republicans will organize
them into action; and the managers
will be very much mistaken if they
fancy that this element will not be a
force in the next Convention and can
vass. In subscribing for a weekly news
paper, outside of your home paper
which you must have, it is well to
consider the advantage of taking a
paper like The Philadelphia
Weekly Press, which not only
furnishes the choice of the general
news aud reading, but also the fullest
Harrisburg and general Pennsylvania
news.
A World ofGood.
One of the most popular medicines
now before tbe American public, is
Hop Bitters. You see it everywhere,
People take it with good effect. It
builds them up. It is not as pleasant
to the taste as some other Bitters as it
Is not a whiskey drink. It is more
like tbe old fashioned boneset tea
that has done a world of good. If you
don't feel just right try Hop Bitters.
Runda News.
By tbe Plew-LIne.
Athens," 6a., December 18, On
Monday night Dave Bumpers, colored,
eighteen y errs old, entered the home
of Mrs. Driseell duriag the abscence
of her husband and assaulted her in a
brutal manner. The miacreaut was
captured on Friday night while asleep
ia a cotton house. He was tried and
sent te jail. A mob however, took
him from the officers who bad him in
charge and hanged bim to an oak tree
with a plow -line till he was dead.
Burled Hire!
HORRIBLE DEATH OF JAMES COTTER.
Look Hn Journal Deo. 17th.
A few minutes after two o'clock yes
terday afternoon word reached the
Journal office by telephone that two
men were burled in the ditch being
dug from Klstler's tannery to the
river, through Fifth street. A repre
sentative of this paper hurried to the
scene and found the facts too true.
A crowd had already gathered at the
place, between Main and Water street,
and It was almost impossible to keep
the people out of the way. The facts,
as gleaned from the best sources, are
as follows:
The ditch at this place is sixteen
feet deep, five feet wide at the top and
about two feet and a half at the bottom.
Towards the bottom was found a strata
of gravel so fine that great difficulty
has been experienced iu keeping it
from crumbling out. The contractors,
Messrs. Thomus Crawley aud James
Cotter, had taken what they believed
to be the best precautions, but subse
quent events proved their efforts n
avallng. Mr. Cotter, one of the con
tractors, was working alone at the
place designated, when a fall of earth
came in upon him from the west side
of the ditch. He was In a standing
posture, and the earth covered him
half way up to his shoulders. The
joor man begged for help for some
one to come clown and rescue him
fTom a living grave. A strap was put
under his arms, and cflbrts were made
to pull him out. It was of no use
the earth had settled tightly around
him and his body could not be moved.
So far as we can learn, theonly man
who was willing to venture into the
treacherous ditch was Elmer O'Neill.
The young man went down and in
dustriously began to assist the half
buried man in extricating himself.
In a short time a second fall of earth
came in, completely covering poor
Cotter, and partially burying O'Neill
The attention of the workmen was
now directed to their relief of O'Neill,
who so heroically descending in tbe
dangerous place to save a fellow
laborer at great risk of his own life.
Luckily, he was soon gotten out and
driven to his home, below the passen
ger depot,, where it was discovered
that he wus only slightly injured.
The work of hunting for Cotter now
commenced in earnest, although no
hopes of finding him alive were enter
tained. The crowd was great, and
there was much curiosity. Some
of the men disputed the exact location
of .the burled man, and it was not
until nine o'clock at night that his re
mains were brought to the surface and
removed to Undertaker Bricker's es
tablishraent. His body was bruised,
and there was a gash iu the body un
der the shoulder.
Coroner Mader and his Jury viewed
the body, which will be removed,
when ready for burial, to the house of
his son-in-law, William Whiteman,
on Jessamine street, near Shaw's mill
basin.
Deceased was a man about fifty
years of age, and lived on Sugar Run
His wife is an inmate of the state hos
pital for the insane.
Legal Holidays.
It may be of service, to know what
the law in Pennsylvania is in regard
to holidays: 'The following days
namely, the 1st of January, the 22ud
day of February, the 4th day of July,
the 25th day of December, and any
day appointed or recommended by the
Govenor of the state or the President of
the United States as a day of fasting or
for the general cessation of business,
shall be regarded as a legal holiday,
and shall for all purposes whatsoever,
as regards the presenting for payment
or acceptance, and of protesting aud
giving notice of the dishonor of bills of
exchange, bank checks, drafts and
promissory notes, made after the
passage of this act, be treated and con
sidered as in tbe first day of the week
cummonly culled Sunday."
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greatly to his interest to secuw for
1882, the 41st Volume of tbe American
Agriculturist, which supplies, at very
small cost, a wonderful amount of
most valuable and important informa
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Engravings. While most valuable to
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Abstract of (lame Laws.
No matter how often an abstract of
the game laws is published it seems
that tbe majority of amateur hunters
always get muddled up as to the time
the "season" will close. Inquiries are
made every day upon the subject, and
it is singular that the persons must
interested in the matter cannot keep
the dates in their mind. A supple
ment passed to the law at the last ses
sion of the Legislature extended the
limit for killing deer until December
81st of each season, instead of Decem
ber 10th as formerly. The act relative
to other game is as follows: Squirrels
may be killed from September 1 to
January 1 ; rabbits from November 1
to January 1 ; partridges from October
15 to January 1; rail birds from Sep
tember 1 to December 1 ; wild turkeys
from October lf to January 1 ; wild
fowl from September 1 to May 15.
List of Jurors.
The following is the list of Jurors
drawn for the January term of court,
commencing on Aionuay, ine zau:
grand jurors.
Benezette Geo. Snyder, C. R. Sex
ton, Edward Fletcher.
Beuzinger Henry Hoffman, Jr,
John Weruer, Jacob Bimoney, J. G
Krieg, John Fox.
Fox John Sc.hriver, John McMa-
non, jacoo Anmnger.
Jay Burton Muun.
Jones J. D. Parsons, Theo. Yeditz.
ilorton Winner Price, T. J. Tay
lor.
Millstone L. M. Parker.
Ridirwuy Marks Cohen. John A
Ross, Eugeue J. Miller, Jacob Mc-
uauiey.
Spring Creek Perry R. Smith, E.
M. Rogers.
St. Mary's Henry Lfleffler.
. traveksb jurors.
Benezette W. E. Johnson, John
B. Lewis, James Overturf, David
Cnase. ,
Benzinger Francis Cassidy. An
thonvBille. WolftranorKreiirel. Martin
Herbstritt, Xavenus Pilz, Henry Blg-
lan, ueo. uauer, jr, uuaries iiiuer,
John Kaul.
Fox Bruce Herrington, L.G. Beck,
Patrick Reynolds, Win. Huutziuger,
James Cuneo, Terrence Brown, F. X.
Enz, Lorenzo English, Charles Miller,
James R. Green, John 8. Thomas,
wm. r. iiuce.
Ridcwav W. H. Hvde. W. M
Gardner, Libbeus Luther, L. W. Ely,
Albert Fitch, Jacob Butterfuss,
Dubois Gorton.
Spring Creek Sylvester Milliron,
Adam liuncemiorier, John Liewis.
St. Mary's John Hogerl.
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Estate of William Emmett. late of
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