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IiTEDNIESDAY, AUGUST is, 1869.
UNION. REPUBLICAN TICKET.
STATE:
FOR GOVERNOR :
JORN W. GE4I4-.
JUDGE OF SU FREES COURT: Ii
HENRY Jr. WILOAIIIII.
COUNTY..
ASSOCIATE =DOE DISTRICT COURT,
JOHN M. KIRKPATRICK.
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ASSISTANT LAW .TCrDOE, COM)ION PLEAS, .
. FRED , K. H. COLLIER.
STATE SENATE—THOMAS HOWARD.
Assranna—MlLES 8. HITMPIIREYB,
ALEXANDER MILLAR,
JOSEPH WALTON,
JAMES TAYLOR,
D, N. W ITE,
JOHN H . . SERB. _
BERRIIII—HUGH B. FLEMING.
Ta.r.Asuaxn--108. F. DENNIBTON.
CLasit or catrars—JOSEPEt BROWNE.
lucconiss— CHOMAS H. HUNTER.
ComussioNs.u— 3HAUNCEY B. BOSTWICK.
TheoteTss—JOSEPH H. GRAY.
MARK ORP/1A1443` Couwr-- ALEX. HILANDS.
Mamma OF POOR—ABDIEL McCLURE.
PETBOLICIIM at Antwerp, 54; f.
• U. & Boarns at FrFiktort, 881
Goan hosed in New York yesterday
at 188 1331. '
Ws PRINT on the inside pages of
-this morning's GezEns—Second page:
Poetry, Trouteng," Pennsylvania and
West Virginia State Items, Paradise Lost,
Putlig Parks, Artificial Rose Perfume,
and other interesting clippings. Third
and Sixth pages: Pinance and Trade,
Markets, Imports and River NM. Seventh
page: Everything Up sid e Down, Miami.
laneous,
Mn. J. Y. HcLettontuy, a gentleman of
acknowleged capacity and strict integrity,
came np before the Democratic conven
tion, yesterday, for nomination as Sheriff.
He was slain, and the empty favor was
awarded one who has not the ghost of a
chance of even polling a vote equal to
that of his contemporaries One Fleming is
equivalent to two dozen Rtuckratia, and
the forthcoming election will demon
strate the fact.-
A lilingcrPAL JuppE, at Wheeling, on
Saturday last, fined a colored man $lO and
costs for insisting on his right to occupy
a seat in a street-car. The Intelligquer
sharply but justly criticises the Judge,
and the Company whose arbitrary and
illegal tale he has undertaken to enforce.
If the principal city of West Virginia
nullifies the Civil Rights Act in this way,
it will scarcely be safe for the Republicans
of the State to enfranchise their ex-rebel
fellow citizens. We submit the point.
A wEsTERN telegram brings a rumor
that the President invites Gen. DODGE,
the Paciftc railway engineer, to take the
War- portfolio which Gen. Rtwizas is
compelled by ill health to resign. There
might be many a worse choice and but
few Vetter.. Gen. DODGE made a brilliant
record in the Service during the war, and,
in subsequent civil life, has exhibited a
marked administrative ability. It does
not diminish his qualifications fora Cabi
net place; that he has been ever known
ass Republican of an earnest type.
Tim only nomination within the gift of
the Allegheny Demobracy, which can in
any possible manner be construed to mean
more than , an ignominious defeat, was
that awarded to Mr. W. H. s lifcGEE, for
Cotinty Commissioner. That he will be
defeated Ville Republican candidate is a
foregone conclusion, notwithstanding the
fact that Mr. DIME./ will draw largely,
from tbe Republican ranks—and from
Republican ranks alone—on the Temper
ance question. It will be child's play to
defeat the entire ticket, and we shall
waste little powder in helping on.the end
feat which is certainly inevitable.
TEM stout-hearted Democracy of Alle
gheny county yesterday went through
the farce of holding a - nominating con
vention. We can hardly conceive how
It is that enough material is found each
year for the miserable minority to put
forward therefrom a set of candidates.
The desire of some men to figure before
the — public Is so great that they are wil
ling, in some cases anxious, to be set up
in order tope knocked down, and no
where else is this peculiarity of character
more conspicuous than in the ranks of
the Allegheny Democracy. The ticket
put forward yesterday by the opposition ;
is very weak, and if it is not defeated
by a majority of ten thousand we will
be greatly mistaken.
Rem. PerrEnsow, Esq., a young law
yer against whose standing and •espacitY
we have nothing to urge, has pertnittedi
hipmelf to be setup'in mockery as a can
didate for the State Senate at the hands
of the Democracy. He is the frightful
exaniple to be held up to young America,
as had he not connected himself with the
designing minority a•bright and fair fame
might have been his own. A good fel
low in bad company is unworthy pity,
and Mr. PATTERSON has none of ours.
He will be laid out as coldas a slab of
marble, and' his political epitaph is al
ready written on the minutes of the
August body which seduced him into
lending his name as a leader in a wretched
cause. How 'ard will be his death !
WHY should not a thorough-paced poli
tician, like Mr. S. P. Cass, extend his
"heartiest sympathy and aid to any move
ment for the permanent dissolution of the
Republican party ?" Neither he nor the
party owe each other aught. He has
been thrown over-board for more than
two yearsiast, and this ought to have
been done still a year or two earlier.
Within thirty days after his elevation to
the Supreme bench, he entered upon these
intriiues to secure a Presidential nomina
tion, which were at first within the Re
publican lines, but when exposed; have
since been steadily directed to the destruc
tion of the party. His malice vastly oyer
leaps his ability. It is the Republican
safety which recognizes him as an open
enemy. Let him perfect the Democratic
coalition in which he is now engaged, and
which shall prove to that faction how
fatally he can be their friend.
IF Mr.:A. Johnson-shall be chosen a
Senator from Tennessee, it will put him
in the way of favoring the country with
some light upon the operations of his
Administration in Southern railways.
The opinion is generally prevalent that
he aided some of his personal friends to
make a good thing out of the restoration
of these roads to their old rebel proprie
tors. There are, indeed, people so un
charitable as to believe that he also feath
ered lila own nest in that way. It is
quite probable that some of these transat
tions will be better vcntilated before the
present Administration retires from
office- Onocase already occurs, that of the
line from Nashville to Chattanooga,
and which the facts attending its re-sale
by' the Quartermaster General, at the
close of war, are about to be legally in
vestigated. The Company has utterly
failed to make good its stipulated pay
ments to the Government and now replies
to the demand of General Meigs for repos
session under the contract with a refusal
and appeal to the Courts. It would be
fortunate for the country, if the issue
made in this case shall result in illumin
ating the public suspicions, as to the ex
tent of the swindle upon the Treasury,
and the disposal of the vast amount of con•
fiscated property in the Southern railways'
IT 28 THE latest report from Virginia,
that the matter of the qualification of the
elected membeflt of the Legislature is to
be referred to Congress, at its December
meeting.. The rumor Is not credible.
The Vth section of the Act, authorizing
the submission of the Virginia Constitu
tion, gives to the military officer in com
mand no authority to postpone his official
promulgation of the vote thereon ; it is
the plain. intent of that Act, as well as of
the Reconstruction Acts proper, that this
promulgation shall be made within such
reasonable period as may suffice for the
receipt and collation of the returns from
the polls. And it is expressly required
that the Legislature shall meet within
four weeks after the result is thus an
nounced. The duty of Geis. Calaby is
clear enough, and we think he , will not
flinch from it. The country awaits his
action with an impatience which is for
tunately tempered by a profound con@•
deuce in the courage and discretion of
that officer. Such evasive expedients
as that to which we have referred, do not
comprehend the true policy for dealing
with the Richmond school of politicians.
These gentlemen, in nominating disquali
fied candidates for the Legislature, must
have known what they, were about ;
won't hurt them now to be again taught
that mere bravado and assurance cannot
win; and that the Federal authority is
always equal to the situation.-
Wnsasr any set of men identified with
the Republican party, actuated by the
most praiseworthy of motives, seek to
effect a reform in any direction by
bolting from nominations, they invaria
bly make the egregious blunder of look
ing towards Democratic minorities for
help\, The politicians of thelatterschool
know how to manipulate movements of
this charOcter to inure to their own bene
fit, and at the inception of a bolt they
urge it with meal and earnestness only
equaled by the hollowness and hypocrisy
of their sympathies. Good Men not
trained in politics, and confiding in the
sincerity of their , fellow-men, are de
ceived in this manner into a belief of
their own strength, which, in the realiza
tion, falls .wofully behind the ex
pectation."—ire have a case in view.
When our good temperance friends
nominated Mr. Isaiah Dickey lot'
the Commissionership, they c3nfident
ly relied on receiving enough votes .for
their candidate from the Democratic
ranks to secure the election when added
to the real strength they hold in the Re.
publican party, but they were counting
without their lioati3. The bitterness of
the struggle in the Democratic- Conven
tion yesterday for the nomination to the
one office of Commissioner evidenced
the fact that the opposition mean to take
advantage of the Temperance Issue, not
to adunett the Interests of the cause, but
to attire the' . offite'fot tate of their own
PITTSBURGH GAZETTE : WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1869,
men. They may whiiper honied words
of comfort to-the TernPerance people and
promise a hearty snpport, but over their
social glasses they will pledge their solid
and undivided support to theit own no
minee, and chuckle with delight on the
probability of his election through the
internal. dissention in the Republican
ranks.
THE ARRIVALS of breaastnus at five of
the principal grain-ports of the west this
season, up ,to June nth, show an excess
of one-third over last year,iand of one
half over the year preceding. These re
ceipts were all of the last year's crops,
which had been retained in first hands
in the illusory hope of better prices this
year than we had in the autumn of '6B.
Nor is the old stock yet en-
tirely moved forward; a very con
siderable remnant is still coming on,
and divides, the transportation facilities
with the new wheat of' this year's enor
mous production. The natural effect, of
lower prices, has been partially and tern
porarily checked S by unfavorable reports
of the crops in Europe, but must be
realized again, before the season closes,
in rates declining beyond any figures
known to the market for several years.
At the same time, it is to be observed
that, in plade of an immense transporta
tion traffic being shared between railway
and water-carriage, and in the face of an
unprecedented demand upon all the facil
ities which can be made use of in getting
these crops forward to Eastern niarkets,
the railway lines come so near monopo
lizing the business that we hear already,
from the Lake ports, that vessel and boat
owners are seriously proposing to with
draw from the unprofitable competition.
While the carriers:by water complain that
they can make nothing, the ten leading
Western railways show a fifteen per
cent. increase-in their monthly earnings,
in the face of a generally lower tariff of
rates.
The situation is one which' seems to
warrant the conclusion that the prevailing
policy of the trunk-lines of rail, in the
way of consolidation, and of low rates
on through business under competition
with each other, will result in seaming to
them the grain -traffic altogether.
THE FINANCIAL OUTLOOK.
A writer in Hunt's Merchants' -.Maga
zine calls attention to several points
which deserve to be considered, in fore
casting the financial future of the coun
try. To specify, he insists that there is
no lack of capital in the loan•market; that
this capital is in few hands; that larger
profits are made on capital in New York
that in any other market we have; that a
very considerable share of the floating
capital comes from the country national
banks, which their managers find It more
profitable toTrun In Wall street; that
owing to the frequent monetary spasms,
and th 6 uncertainty of the inture,,largp
sums are being embarked in permanent
invesitnents, while legitimate business
In other forms is suffering and trade is
embarrassed. Hence, three inferences
are drawn, each of which seems to us to
be just; Ist, that there , is plenty of mon
ey in the country, to avert any
,real dan
ger of a - financial crash: 2nd, that mer
cantile and industrial enterprise should
be carefully restrained within the limits
of sound prudence and bona fide means:
3rd, that the country may thus speedily
recuperate, and, aided by an unusually
bounteous harvest, will soon find itself
entering upon a career of more general
prosperity than it has ever yet known.
NEW DISCOVERIES IN IRON.
-It is certified from th Columbia Iron
. Works, that the new Field process for
making iron from the pig -metal; yields a
superior article, is easiemvorked in ptid.
dling, and that the product is five per
cent. more than in the ordinary way.
Mn. BESSEMER'S latest invention has
an important bearing upon the mannfac.
tare of iron. By the use of an attnos.
pheric pressure, increased by from fifty
to one hundred per cent., and the concert.
tration of the heat therein, the cupola
being converted into an airtight vessel,
a charge of such refractory materials as
old nails and scrape is melted down in?
few minuted without any extravagant
wear and tear or consumption of fuel. A
London paper says:
An idea of the construction of the fur
nace may be given in a very few words.
his a cupalo furnace, ,with a very (com
paritively) narrow outlet, closed by a
loaded valve to regulate the pressure,
while a blast of beatedair is driven in by
a powerful engine. A very ingenious me
chanical contrivance allows of additions
being made to the charge during tempo
rary interruption of the blast until the
furnace is worked up to its full capacity.
We learn that' a leading iron-master of
this city is studying the practical applica
tion of a process which was first introdn- -
ced to the trace a few months since and
has attained some novel results, He has
patented his improvement, regarding
them as of considerable value.
PARTICULAR CAUTION in regard to
snakes should be taken at this time of
year. Their poison is - now almost sure
death, and being blind, they strike with
fury at ..every sound. The Marion county
(Iowa) Democrat gives the following
as an infallible cure for reptile.bites, the
physican furnishing it to that .paper
having tried it in over a dozen cases in
that county recently, and in every
Instance with complete success; One tea
spoonful of gunpowder; one'tablespoon
ful of salt; the yellow of one egg; beat
them all togethar, so as to form a plaster.
and apply.to, the wound. *yellow water
will issue, and when the plaster becomes
soaked with the poison it will !11l off.
Renew the,,plaster unti l will adhere to
the' wooed, which etidentelhat; the
poison has all been drawn, _ .
Tennetdiee Politico.
Nashville advices says' It is unques
tionable that Emerson Etheridge and
Dorsey B. Thomas, two of the recently
elected members of the State Senate,
have both pronounced in favor of repu.
dieting a large portion of the State debt,
and here at Nashville the ideals ipdorsed
by four-fifths of those who recently voted
for Senter.
The most revolutionary proceedings
are being expressly advocate& The
Union and American, the old Brecken
ridge and secession organ, declares this
morning that the State Government of
Tennessee for the past five years was
simply a despotism, and demands a con
vention to make everything new, eve
daily to turn out of office the present
Republican Supreme Conn. It also de
mands that no person shall be elected to
the Senate of the United States who voted
for Grant. Two or Ahree of the leading
Democratic papers are endeavoring , to
moderate the fierceness of their followers,
but the country press is almost unani
mously for extreme and violent measures.
The truth is the Democrats are encour
aged at the complete success of the recent
-conspiracy, and are ripe for further revo
lutionary action.
I think Andy Johnson's chances for the
Senate are not so good as those of Em
erson Etheridge.
Senter has gone to East Tennessee. It
is reported that in his better moments he
expresses deep regret for the part he has
taken in assassinating the Republican
party of Tennessee, and deep alarm at
the wild and revolutionary projects of
the Democracy. " It is even said that he
has gone to call upon Stokes, and consult
with him as to whether something may
not yet be done to save SOME remnants of
the national party in Tennessee.
Watering Piace: Gossip.
Long trains are much in vogue at NeW
port. Mrs. T. K—, of New York,
sports an appendage of twelve feet six
inches, while charming Miss P--,la
beautiful blonde and successful belle, from
Philadelphia, wears one. measuring thir
teen feet eight inches.
The prevailing style of hop and ball
toilets at Saratoga inaugurated last month
at the Seventh Regiment ball, is an elon
gated trail, and the most alarming coiffeurs
which frighten little children and alarm
mankind in general. Contemplate - a
pretty, graceful creature, with her hair
dyed gray, put up in little dOughntits over
her eyes, and falling free to her waist.
How frightful to behold! Look at the
next, Emma Jane. See has got her cra
nium covered with rats and mice, and baa
three little tower-like structures on the
top, while on the back other head looms
up the house that Jack built, and all this
structure composed of posthumous hair.
Depending from this mass droops one
solitary cork-screw ring, which falls over
the left shoulder, and elicits general admi
ration from la jeunesse d' Amerigue.
A Newport letter says: "The Grecian
bend has gone by, but of course the dear
ladies must have something to occupy
their minds with, so they have got a Bort
of remnant of last summer's folly, re
duced. boiled down, and done over with
some kind of extract—it's a secret—that
gives the devotee much the appearance of
the kangaroo, when performing the ususl
ly agreeable pastime of locomotion. The
delightful (1) fashion has been appropri
'ately named the 'Kangaroo Galop,' and
you can at any time see young ladies, ap.
parently with some brains, moving about
with a skip and a hop, bounbing up and
.do.v•-n at every movement; and stopping
suddenly short at the Old - of each effort.
W here They Vome From.
Every eating-house visitor of this
and other leading cities of the Union
has, doubtless, noticed a small tumbler of
wooden toothpicks upon the counter of
the cashier for the use of customers.
These toothpicks are a good feature of
the present day. The wooden p toothpicks
have, to a considerable .extent, super
ceeded the gold, horn, iyory, and other
articles of the kind formerly in use.
Their manufacture is carried on by but
one establishment, which has been in
operation four years. It is near Boston,
and employs thirty hands of both sexes.
The machinery has been patented, and is
propelled by water-power. The woods
used are maple and willow.
The agency is solely in this city, and
all purchases for use elsewhere siust be
made here. The toothpicks are packed
in pasteboard boxes of two, sizes. One
box is three inches long, by two wide and
one deep. It contains three hundred,
and sells for six cents. The other encloses
twenty.flve hundred, and Is five inches
long, three wide and one deep. The
boxes are packed In wooden cases for ship.
meat, or,retailed in the city singly by the
carriers. The sales are quite large, and
amount at times to forty and fifty cases a
day, each chntaining one hundred: thous.
and tooth-picks. The aggregate number
sold, therefore, amounts in that period to
tour or five millions.
AT Parmleyville, Wayne county, Ky.,
on election day, two , brothers, named
Crisswell, became involved in a difficulty
with another man, and an aid gentleman
named Carson attempted to separate
them,when he was shot by one of the Cris
wells. A son of Carson's --A young man
hardly grow n r -hearing that his father had
been shot, attacked the two Criswells with
stones, knocking them both • down, they
shooting at him with pistols all the time ?
piercing his clothes but doing him no in
jury. He then ran to the assistance of his
father, and when he ascertained he was
mortally, wounded he returned to where
he bad left the Crisswells and attacked
them the second time with a large stone
weighing twenty pounds, while they
were lying on the ground, crushing their
heads to a perfect jelly, and killing them
outright.
GETTIBBDIIG BATTLE FIELD. The
Gettysburg battle,lleld has achieved new
distinction from the late discovery that It
was the scene "lang sync" of a bloody
struggle between the Indians or some un
known or extinct race. This fact is at
tested by the examination of the military
implements of the combatants, such as
arrowheads, battle axes war clubs,
shields, &c.,and tke remains of the dead
In what is kown as the Indian Field,
about a mile northwest of Round Top
and of the National Cemetery. These
relics are fOund thickly imbedded in the
soil over the, whole area o: territory
which was the scene of the, libel defeat
in 1803.
A YOUNG fellow eating some Cheshire
,cheese, full of skippers, at a tavern one
night, exclaimed: "Now, I have done as
much as Sampson; for have slain my
thotainds and,?tens' 'of (11ot:sandal!.
`"Yee," retorted another, "and with tha
jaw pone of an 11110. , - I 4
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
The Rights of Employee
If it be true that James Swiney, with
persistent vindictiveness and armed with
a loaded pistol follows Robert Ciampton
through the streets, breathing dire
threateninge against him. arid only
awaits an opportunity to - Increase the
bill of mortality in the city 1 , his de
cease. Mr. Sweeney should cert inly be
arrested, and Alderman McMasters
acted in accordance with his usual
magisterial Judgment In issuing a war
rant for his apprehension. It Is no
4,lex
cuse for Mr.Swiney that e was acting
as driver for Mr. Crampt and was un
ceremoniously discharged Perluips his
late employer found it n ary to econ
omize and employ fewer hands, or he
might have found his drivrir not exactly
suited to the business, or a more experi
enced driver wanted the situation. Any
of these and a hundred other reasons
may have influenced the action which
deprived i Mr. Swiney •of his place.
But whitever may have been the
cause, it la the undisputed prerogative of
an employer, to discharge any of his
hands, at pleasure. Trade could not be
conducted otherwise to a proper manner.
If then, Mr. Crampton after mature de
liberation' dispenses } with Mr. Swiney's*
services. it is no reason 'wby his life
should be in jeopardy-or his friends
made to fear for his safety, on account of
the ill feeling engendered in Mr. Swin
ey'a mind •by the transaction. When
that gentleman, however, is secured and
the hearing takes place before the Alder
man,doubtless these plain facts will be
elucidated in such a manner. as to show
what should have been his proper course.
Election of !school Teachers.
Robinson Toumship—The following per
sons have been elected to the different
schools in the townships named: No. 1,
S. J. Glass; No.'2, A. Tomer; No. 3, A.J.
McMichael; No. 4, Miss Fisher; No. 5,
D. C. Shaw; No. 6, John Collier: No. 7,
Thomas Wilkinson; No. 8, J. M. D. Mc-
Fadden; No. 9,, Edward Gregg; No, 10,
Samuel Wilkinson; No. 11, Miss Mollie
Harbison; No. 12, Miss Ellie Hill.
Findley Township—No. 1 (Hall's) Miss
Martha McAyral; No. 2, (Clinton) Miss
E. J. Dickerson; No. 8, (McLaughlin's)
Miss Jennie Stewart, No. 4, (Shafer's)
Miss Emma McMillan; No. 5, (Stewart's)
Miss "Pet" Dickson; No. 6, (acioNall'a)
Henry Eaton : No. 7, (Oak Dell) Miss
Lizzie Miller; No. 8, (Valley) Miss Mag
gie Lewis.
.North Fayette Schools—No. 1, (R. Pot
ter's) Miss Martha Thompson; No. 2,
(McConnell's) Miss Maggie Stewart; No.
3, (Nohlestown) Miss Christiana John
ston; No. 4, (Sturgeon's) Miss Maggie
Sturgeon: No. 5. (Half Crown) Miss
Sadie J, Walker; No. 6, (Shlrland) Miss
Agile S. Wilson; No. 7. (McKee's) Miss
E. H. Wood; No. 8, (Fayette) not sup
plied. •
The schools will commence Monday,
September 6th.
Thoughtless Remarks.
People should be careful in making die_
paraging remarks about others. It often
leads to trouble. A case yesterday was
no exception. David Oler was employed
with Wm. Clifford at the transfer station
of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in the
Ninth ward. A passenger train passed
along in which were some friends of
William which was unknown to David,
wbo thoughtlessly made a remark uis
paraging of the passengers. Immedi
ately, he alleges, he felt the force of
William's fist, and gracefully measured
his length on the ground, in a. position
convenient for WHllatia's foot. which was
vigorously
,applied. When the ceremo
ny was over and he stood erect again, he
felt considerably bruised and was in a
ruffled state of mind, which was increas
ed by the arrival of the "boss," who
learning the , circumstances promptly
discharged both. Being at leisure he med
itated upon retaliation, and in pursuance
thereof, preferred an Information before
Alderman IWMasters against William
for aggravated assault and battery.
William was arrested and committed to
jail for a hearing.
Too Much So Endure
Officer Shaffer, of the Allegheny po
lice, has a letter in his possession pur
porting to be written by Michael Grupert;
formerly a resident of Allegheny, but
now of Indiana, which is addressed to
his wife. The letter is postmarked Elk
hart, Indiana, and was sent to Mr. Geo.
Lang, of Allegheny. • The husband and
wife had some difficnity, and have not
been living together, the wife having re.
mained in Allegheny. The husband
states in his letter that he is anxious for
his wife to come to him; that he has writ
ten numerous letters to that effect, but
has received no answer. He says he is
discouraged, and threatens, unless the
one addressed to Mr. Lang is answered,
he will commit suicide. As the letter
has not yet come into the possession of
the wife, her plies) of residence not hav
ing been ascertained, it has not been an
swered. Officer Shaffer has it and will
deliver it to the owner if application is
made. The letter is dated in July, and It
may be that the threat has been executed
ere this.
Desperate Attempt it Suleide:—A . Man
Stabs Himself with a Pair of Sheep
Shears
On Thursday of last week a man,
seeming to be partially insane, came to
the village of Fayette and frightened
some of the citizens considerably by his
strange actions. He went into a store
of the village and informed the persons
there that ftve or six persons were down
the road a short distance and would sure
ly break into the store before morning.
After he had walked up and down the
road several times, he went into a car
penter shop, and seeing a pilr of sheep ,
shears he took them up and stabbed
himself in the breast. Dr. Sarver, of
Noblestown, was sent for and dressed the
wonod. Had the shears descended half
'an inch farther the wound would have
proved fatal; as it is, he may probably
recover. He gave his name as McClure,
And said he came from Cnmberland,
Ohio. He was removed to the County
Poor House by Constable Lewis.
united [States Court.
In the United States District Court
yesterday morning an argument • was
heard in the case of John Edgar vs.
Richard Calhoun, Wm. Rinehart and
David Rinehart. John Barton, Es q., ap•
peared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Fergu•
son, contra. The Court reserved a de
cision.
An argument was aieo commenced In
the ease of the owners of the steamboat
Bayard ys. the stesm tug Coal Valley,
but it was` not concluded. Mr. Barton
anpeared for the owners of the Bayard,
and Mr. Jones for the Coal:Valley. The
argument will be resumed this morning.
An order was made decreeing George
Keyser informer in tue case of the 'United
States vs. Peter Anen, and directing the
Clerk to pay him his moiety of the Rinds
paid into Court, amounting to OWL,
A Failure. -.
Yesterday afternoon Mary Johnston,"a
colored girl about sixteen years of age,
residing on Jefferson street, Second ward,
Allegheny, created some: excitement
in the locality by feigning an !attempt
at suicide. She was residing in the house
with her brother4n-law, and first made
every preparation for her- departhre from
terrestial scenes by throwing the greater
portion of her raiment into a well on the
premises, bidding adieu to several of her
friends and sharpening a razor for the
last act in the drama 'of her existence.
When all things were in readinosa she
entered the Mom where her sister and
brother-iu.law were seated andecrish
ing the deadly weapon one ed in
alarming these relatives to such an ex
tent that they laid hold and'deprived her
of It, not before she had, however,
made a slight scratch f across the
throat which appeared to ne a pre
liminary to the finale. She became
so obstroperous after being, deprived of
the opportunity of ending her, career
which she claimed to be so anxious to do,
that a couple of policemen had to be
called in. They took her to the lockup,
where she was allowed to remain for
a few hours, when she expressed herself
content to live in the world and ~ a s -al
lowed to depart. She 'gave no cause for
her action, and after quieting down
somewhat, announced — her intention of
using arsenic in another attempt, a posi
tion which she receded from before' be
lug released.
MODEL JOURNALTSTB.—"It Is surpris
ing what a vast number of people there
are lying around loose, who are (in their
own estimation) so admirably adapted to
the work of making model newspapers.
Generally, newspaper editors see the im
perfections of their • work more plainly
than any one else, and labor 'assiduously
to correct them; and if those who are
constantly finding fault with their work,
were for a short time given that work to
do, it would make them a great deal
more charitable.
THE GRAVE OF HAWTHORNE. —He lies
buried close to Thoreau, on the highest
pint of the Sleepy Hollow cemetery.
-Two small, oval stones bear the simple
name "Hawthorne," without date or any
thing else. The erave is covered with
thick•growing myrtle, ap,d in one corner
of the evergreen hedge which surrounds
the lot is a hawthorn tree. It is a poet's
grave, and nothing in the surroundings of
his home can compare with it.—Concord
Letter.
THE New Albany Commercial says the
cultivated pawpaw is •as much an im
provement upon the wild fruit of that
variety as the pippin is upon the crab-ap
ple. Mr. Ed. Marsh has furnished us
samples of the pawpaws grown tipozi his
premises on Lower Third street. -They
were equal in delicious flavor to peaches
and cream. The oppossum is an animal
of good taste, because he and mau only
eat the pawpaw.
CHICAGO, August 17.—At the open
board No. 2 wheat closed , firm and high
er. $1,48 seller the month. Corn quiet.
No. 2at 92c..buyer and 90340. seller the
month. In the evening. No. 2 wheat
closed firm at $1,4114 seller month, and
corn at the ruling rates of the afternoon.
Lake freights and provisions dull and
neglected.
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DR. RIMER'S BOWEL CURE
. .
Cures Dysentery
DR. KEYSER'S BOWELtIIRE
Cares Bloody Flux.
DB. KEYSER'S BOWEL CUBE
Cures Chronic Dbirrhea.
DR. KEYSER'S,BOWEL CUBE
Cures Bilious Colic.
DR. KEYSER'S BOWEL CURE
Cures Cholera Inrantum.
DR. KEYBEIVIS BOWEL CURE
Cures the worst cue of Sorel Disuse.
DB. KEYSER'S BOWEL CURE
Cures Cholera Morbus.
KEYdER , S BOWEL. CURE
Will cure in one or two doses.
DR. KEYSER'S BOWEL cm=
Ought to be in every temily.
DR. KEYSER'S BOWEL CURE
Is a sure care for Griping.
DR. KEYSER'S BOWEL CURE.
Will not fail in one ease.
DB. KEYSER'S BOWEL CUBE
Cures Ulceration.
DR. KEYSER'i BOWEL CURE
Cares Summer Complaint.
DIL BEYEEEI3 BOWEL CURE
• Will care Watery Da!charges. ' ll
88. EEYBEB•3 BOWEL CUBE
DR. KEYSER'S BOWEL CURE
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Is a protection against Cholera.
DR., KEYSER'S BOWEL CURE.
Will save hundreds of valuable lives
If early resort is had to it.
DR. KEYSER% BOWEL CHEZ, is one of the
most valuable remedies ever discovered fer all
diseases incident to this season of the year.
Hundreds of sufferers could be relieved in less . 1
than s day by a srledy motif° this most value
ble medicine, Particularly sub:able. when the
system is apt to become disortreset by , the two
'
free use of unripe and crude veetables.
Price 50, Cents. Sold at DR. GEYSER'S
GREAT MEDICINE STORE, 107 Liberty Bt.,
sad by all druggists. ' • -
A LIFE=SAVING ARRANGEMENT.
radical change has been introduced in Wit
practice of medicine. - Physicians have ceased to
torture and prostrate their patients. Instead of ~,
pulling down, they build up; Instead of assault. ,
Ina' nature, they assist her. Cupping. leeching, I
blisterins, venesection, calomel, antimony.
stnplfylhg narcotics, and rasping purgatives, i
once the favorite resources of the faculty, are I
now rarely resorted to even by the most steam:tette
members of the profession. The old creed was
that distage was something which must be ex
herbed by violent aradclal means. Irrespective t
or the wear and tear of the viral °real 'ration In '
the process. The new creed rec.urn ices the Im
provement of the general health as essential to
the cure of all local ailments. Hence it is that
HOSTETT . On STUIIIaCH IstTT&it the
in Jet potent vegetable tonic that pharmacy has
ever brought to the seeleteece of nature in her
struggles with' disease, has been cordially ap
proved by wiwetitlouers of the mooern school. p
ll.pletealmeto reflect that reabon and philosophy g
have at last been victorious over the errors or r
the put. and that thousands and tens of thou- ;
sands ot human beings are alive and well M.dey,
who would induilably be mouldering in their
graves had they been subjected to the pains and e
penalties which were deemed ertbouta and
dispensable thirty or forty years ago.
Preventive meuicatlou was , carcelithoustat of
then; but nowt; le considered # f paramount ins
portance, and - the ee:tbrlty of the eTANDAUD.irr.
VICioItANT. ALTZBAT/V.f. AND all3TtllLaTlVal Of
the age" title which IifiSTgI•TER'S BITTERS
have fairly earned by their tong career of sue
cess), Is . mainly Miss..° Its efilmencry as 12 1 , 0 .,
TYCTIPIt
a crease of the ISITTICES iitirgently realm.. .4
mended at i bis Of the )Clll% as
Urn and 1.,
!oettaln antidote 10 the :naiad* victim' pr o d uces
intermittent and remittent fine oys.
eatery and tithes inaladlea. - •
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Cures Diarrhea.
Never falls.