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MST EMIIOI.
OTID.rIGHT.
THE CAPITAL.
tRy Telegrffl to therittsburgh Gazette.?
WASHINGTON, Gabber 11, 1869.
YERDER AND DROWN CASES.
• 'The \ Yerger cage will be heard of
Friday as to the question of jurisdictlonj
The Brown case, from Texas, is to abide
tWdecrifon — le the Verger cape. -•T he
Omit adjourded upon' the 'announce
ment of the death of ex-President Pierce.
TUR LATE FRANKLIN . PIERCE.
The Court of Claims met this morning,
but no business was transacted, the
court having adjourned until to morrow
in:ropect to the memoryofEx gresldent
• Pferce. All the Government 'buildings
were closed to-day, and draped in mourn
ing. and all flags on public and ,private
buildings, 'ere staredf bast, air tribute
of respect to the memory of, Franklin
, Piercal ' •
The President will attd the re-
-erick county, Maryland, en Agricult F ura d l
Fair next Thursday.
•
CANADA,
What Can the Hatter Be! Volunteers
Armed and Equipped at Midnight :
Has a Hornet's Nest been Stirred Up t
—Fifteen Hen Drowned.
rßy Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette 7 •
MONTREAL, October 11.—There is epn.
sitlerable excitement h,pre owing toithe
tit:bidet:vs:order last nighty to turn out till
the volunteers for service at snort notice.
Many of them were dragged from their
beds M muster at the armoriel3, where
every man received his arms and ac
coutrements with orders to parade today.
It is not supposed that Fettlarrfrotibles
'areapprehended; Mit rather tliittompli
cations will arise from the Hornet affair.
Sir Francis Hineksium beep sworn in
as Finance Minister.. •
The revenue of the Dominion 'for the
sit:Tabor September was and
sss9,2ott • ;
Yesterday morning a scow, crossing
St. , Maurice river, from Point Chatteaux
to Point Dore upset. precipitating twenty
men; and the same number of horses,
into the water. Fifteen men, and all the
horses, were drowned.
• li . -
TORONTO, October 11.—The volunteers
throughout the country have received
orders to hold themselves in readiness
for immediate service.' It is said the
Government has received Information
that the , Feniani are abont to attempt
another raid.
PHILADELPII4.
=MI
Te Original, Simon-pure Democratic
Tltket to be Voted—An.; Electidn Pre
cinct Flooded—Going to the Polls in
Boati•-nallota Received at the Second
story Window,
ißy Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.) -
PHILADELPHIA, October 11.—It is now
-probable
the cityti o.set " originally nom
-
mated by Democratswill be run. Hand
bills, appeared to, day urging the Demo
crats In strong language to vote the
, ,
,„
original ticket,'and stating that printed
ballots woniti be at thtri_ polls
to-morrow. In some places these pos
ters were torn _ down, causing fights
in consequence of the breaks in•-the
river, the banks sll along the. first pre
cinct of the First ward-has been covered
with. water for a weelcaast, and:tolnor
. row the voters will have to go to the , polls
in boats. The house in which' the elec
tion poll will .be held has several feet of
water on the first floor, and the votes
'omit! : taken in at the second .Stery
• window.
CINCINNATI.
• Anti-Nulsanee Meeting-Am : castle Lan- -
guage—Horse-wmppen for it.
Teft graph to the Pittston igh oszerte.3
CINCINNATI,, October 11. -Josiah L.
Keck horse•whipped Thomas Hyeatntan•
- this morning for the following language
`used by the latter at a meeting of citizens,
In Delhi township, on Friday, to abate
the Fortilizar Company nuisance, viz:
4,Ben Eggleston was our representative
In tbngress from the first district, and
fit. Heck was President of the city corm.
nil. - We hive repreientatiVed fit the pen-
Iteutiary;—why not call them honorable?
.! . Have they, 'done any worse than these
men? They are reducing the pride of
. property in this community, and.their
•
4 minions are ready to buy It up at a - low
rate, and when they have got a great part
, of it, you will lind that the factory will
be removed.
Weather cool, cloudy, and i'apiiting"
rain, with a prospect of a full vote to.
morrow::.'
Gov: Hayes is in the city.
LOTI/SVILLE,
Assembling of the Cominere!al Conven
'. vention-21 states litepreseSted•
[By Telegraph' to the Plttatargh Gazette.] -.
IOtrIBVIT4,E, October 11.-At seven'
.
o'clock this evening there were regis
tered over 260 delegateS. Twenty one
States are represented, namely: Kew
tuck'', Kansas; Georgia, Indiana, lowa,
__Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida,
. Mississippi, Maryland, New
— Work, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhodo Island,
Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont
Teas and Virginia. Every train and
it- steamer toiiight will bring large addi
tions. •
•
All the hotels are engaged;und many
- of the delegates will have to beg ttartered
in the, residences of private" citizens,
which have been thrown open for that
„ purpose:
,
Funeral of Ex-President fierce.
•-' (By Telegraph to the Pltteburgh (Janne i)
CONCORD, N. H., October re
mains of gx-President Pierce; were re
moved at eleven o'clock .this4orenoon to
the State Honse, where a large- number
• or people took a last view of thejlepart
edi\includintthe children, of the public
schOols. 7 AI places of business were
closed \ from t elve till two o'clock. The
rainainare taken to St. Paul's church,
at,l one o'clok, where ttie rites of the
.Eptscopal eh-
NEW , Y ORS CITY.
CRY Telegmbh to the Pittsburgh Gazette.]
NEW YORK, OCtOt'OP 11, 1869.
The-Erie and Susquehanna> Railroad
fight has come to an amicableend, the
former road leasing the Susquehanna
property for a period of ninety-nine
years, on terms acceptable - to'the Etock
holders. , •
Three persons named Julia Zahn. of
Cincinnati, Jacob Lena pert and Jacob
Ult, of New York, have been arrested
for the recent robbery of the store of
Steinberg and Mayer, of Cincinnati, of a
large quantity of human hair. The pro
perty•was recovered,:. • , .-
..It is Said that Marshal Barloi luta tent
two of his dekuties to Wilmington to ex
amine the Barbet and asciritain from per-
sonal observation her real character, and
demand her further _detention.
Wm. D. Mitchell, a well known liquor
merchant, hung himself last Saturday
niglit,ln his bedroom- • . •
•• Unreported that another expedition
slipped quietly away last night to the
aid of the Cubans.
Gen, Batler, wtdie in this city on Sat
urday, 'defended' both Ptesideht Grant
And Secretary Bontwell from all chargts
of complicity with the late gold
,panic.
He thinks Congress cannot pass any di
rect law that would prevent attuabling in
gold. The only way to etfi-ct this - 14ould
be to make greenbacks the standard of
of values, and gold an article of mer-
chandise, which could be done if the
Government would accept its own paper
in partial payment of Custom House rev
enues.
At an annual meeting of the Board of
Missions, 'of the ' Protestant Episcopal
Church, to-day, the Secretary's report
was read. The General Field and Houle
Mission remains the same as one year
ago. Two hundred and eleven clergy.
men are enrolled as Home Missionaries.
of whom one hundred and seventy
eight are now in the field. The total re
ceipts for domestic missions for 1869
were 5127,710. The report of the foreign
committee is ready, showing the mission
force to be thirty.seven. •
In the Coart of Oyer and Terteiner to
day, Judge Ingraham, in his phargs.to
the Grand Jury, alluded to tb'e laWmak
ing it a criminal elfence_for two or more
' persons to conspire 'together to commit
any act injurious to trade or commerce,
and called their attention to the recent
gold combination, and said it may well
be the duty of the Grand Inquest, as it
is doubtless within their province, to in
quire whether: gnat, occurrences have
la , eh brought about " by any 'tmlawfal
combination, and if so, to present the
guiltrriaities for trial.
Ths Cooper Institute was crowded to
night- by f iends, of. Cuba to celebrate
the first anniversary of Cuban Indeoen
dance. Senor Lemus, Cuban Minister
to Washington, presided. Congratula
tory telegrams were received from prom-
Anent persons -la :variant's parte of the
country;: anCittetictilia were - made -by
members of the Junta and others. The
utmost enthusiasm prevailed.
ST. =LOUTS.
Important Railroad bloveinent—Ques•
twos for Dismisstori.by the Rotuma'
Board of Trade,
[By Tileglapu l td the Pittsburgh Gazetie.l
Sr. Louis, October. 11.—At a meeting
of the Board of Trade, to-night, Gen. , G.
W. Blair, of Kansas; presented the pro
ject of building a railroad from Lebanon,
Laclede county, Missouri; the present
terminus of the South:western Pacific
B. 8., to Fort Scott"- Kansas, whisk wili
open a route from St. Timis South
east`Kansas and the great stock raising
country west and south, 112 miles shorter
than by any present or projected route.
The project met with much favor, and
the board adopted resolutions asking the'
attention of merobanticand capitalhtt to"..
it.
The President offered several ' (Ines
-
!ions to be tiled for diteussion by the
National Beard of Trade at its nest
meeting, in aubstance as followF: Ask
ing. Congress to appropriate seflicient
money to remove the obstructions to
navagation in the Mississippi river.:
and its tributarlesr alio, to. furnish a.
dredge to, work in connection with the_
ersayans ncrat operating 'on the. bars at
the mouth of the Mississippi, so •that a
channel, the - depth'ef twenty - feta, may
be maintained;' the reduction of the duty
on foreign salt to fifteen percent. adva-,
lorem, the rate eMablistieti betmt:
the war; -the passage Of a "laW.
bv Congress • LO conies' tbe• railroads.'
of the country to transport local pasienel
gars and freight at 'the 881X113 pro' rata
rate per mile as they do through passen
gers and' freight; also the passage of a
general law by Congreas regulating the
wid:h of draws and spans of bridges
crossing the Mississippi, Ohio end other
rivers. • • •- • '
• -The. Board also adopted,a resolution
'expressing regret at the 'death of Frank
lin Pierce and complimenAnig the Ad
ministration. "
_ ,
Tl/0 CaSe Or Ihe. Cubi—ltatie of the - De
-fence—Another Postponethent:'
. ,
Telegraph tope Plttoburgh Gazette.) •-•
. WILMINOTON, N. C., Oct. IL—The case
of the Cuba was opened this - morning
Mr. G. P. Lowry, of New York, who RP
peered,- with Col.. -George.- Davis ...and
~.lutige G. P. Mears, for the Republic of
Cuba, by reading the commission of
Commodore Higgins, ~, p s an yr °Meer
of the Cuban navy. and also a
formal protest by him agai nst the
,exercise of kirisdiettOn Ilty s tly) OM warts
bver his ship, she being a Public " ship at
war, of a recognised
"nation. Be declares
it untrue that slur - had offended against
the neutrality laws of the United States.
In order to sliowthe Govertument.,time
to produce witnesses, United States Com
modore _RW,helfford Relit:mad the case Saturday next. ' -
ImPdrtant Order by. Gen;. Canby.
rug Telegraph to, the Plttattyrgh
Capby
issued an order to•day postponing, untW
after the admilision of the State, the ap•
pointment of the State proxies in rail.
wads; . TtAtir,Ortler 11ety leave all
the railroads organiz itfon4 1667 stand,
at present, until the permanent Sttitic:
Government goes into effect.
_
—An onWagement occurred last week
between a small detachment of •troops .
and Cubans, near Puerto Principe. The
insurgents lost t:wentylthree,killed. Re-,
porta - have been circulated of the interetr
Id evacuation , of Puerto De Pacere, but
qv prove untrue. • ' •
sEcoru EDITIOI
„ I.rp ills ,0.! V . 1.0 OK,.
Itfsurgenl ljeadera Shin-LContlletllidFu•
more—Government Alarmed', for *De
Safety of. illadrld--French Miter/yet
Diacontented-:Melease of Fenian Fria--
otters Demanded. •
My ?mei/raps to the - Vitt/hums utuette.]
~ - • SPAIN.
- MArottor Caliber it —Metal - reports
state that 180 ft Instftetitti v3l Rens stir
rend red to GenerailtaldriCk: -
.. - ~,
- Di titteil hitingtierie and i'altterloa have
given in their submission.to the Govern. - -
meat.
Fightiog continues, at .Laragossa l land
the autborittes demand. reinforcements.
Disturbances broke out in Valencia
on Friday, but in Aragon and Catatonia
the inaurrudtion has lost' its importance.
Parties just 'arrived. her report that
tlie republic bas been proclaimed at La
CSroline and Gaudesa. • . • -
It is feared the inkurgentswill make a
movement on Madrid, and great , pre
cautions are taken to resist thou].
MA DRI D, . October 11.—Evelning.—Ca-
berillo and Carbayai, two hisurgent lead
era, were captured and taken to the town
of Ibi, where they were shot. Arrogan
is now reported quiet: Order has 'been
restored in Saragossa. Many of the in
surgents were killed, wounded and taken
priSoners.,, ' —-, - -
;FR Ai l l,c l 3.' H
PARIS, October patches from
AI in the department of Averyon,
have been received. Up to a late hour
last) evening no new outbreaks' hail oc
curred among the miners, but the strike
still continlleog Yesterdo a, large nub
lie meeting in the Arrondisment of
Beliville was dispersed by rorce. Re-
Matinee was offered and - several of the
rioters were wounded. There was a
large Meeting of the cotton: manu
facturers of the city of Niulhansen on
SatUrday to consider the question of the
American cotton supply, and other, mat-
M;theirade, They ifle
flounce the commercial treaty recently
coneluded,:and, urged the substitution
of the customs tali!'
• PAnts„clOtfikerli —The Emperor will
go to Compiegne to-inorrow, and will not
rettirn,until S he 24thinat.
P+nts,'Oabter II =Euexix~ ,=. ldvices
froze. Republica.' sources represent that
the insurrection. is gaining ground. - It
is asserted that the Government already
ears a general attack on Madrid. •
ME
GREAT BRI rAuf,
Dunt.tti,tletoiler 11L = At a rate amnesty
rneetipg .this c.ity • au- *dolma was
edopted r deeliring a refusal to release the
Fenian prisoners will be regarded as an
indication that the British Government
is determined to rule by terror—not con
elliation.
GEII4IAiWY.
Cants Mix,. October 11.4—Information
has beta redelifekt here that a treaty has
been concluded betvreen Wurtetuberst
And the tiortb German Confederation,
sthith nttluir .country
to seive in the army of the other.
MARIY~E : lEffi;
LO; DON, _October 11.—The steamer
City f Parle; ;from New York, has ar
rived t Queenstown.
,
ANCIII. AND COMMERCIAL.
,DON October 11.—Evening
sole cloak; at 193,‘ fnr money, and 4 333‘'
@93j4 flog atitiount. rive twenty bonds:
'eas, 8131 '678, , 82g:
7131 , . Etles , 23; , ;; Atlantic and ' "Great
Western;7.
FitorFony, Qatober
at 4179,1087%; _-
LIVERPOOL, Oclober • 11. - Cotton 'inlet
and irregular; sales -10,000 balsa mid-•
dling \l3 plaids. at 12 1 4®12Ndl `Or
leans -123 12%d. California : - .Avbite
Wheat LlO3 4d; winter wheat 9s fid; No. 2
red -western 9s id.' Beef 881. Other aril
.
tieles tincluinaed.
Lonitix, P'Octither ' H.—Linseed 0
£29 12sJ
PARI9; October IL—Bourse opened
dim; Rebtei lit. 37c. - •
I:lAvitiz, October 11.—Cotton firm at
1.11'34f on spot. i
L9NDON, October 11-;-Evening.--.A.tlan.
tic and-Greit. Western - 266. Linseed Oil
294'. Sugar:afloat 280 d. --
Livstioont; October 11 Evening.--
Spirits•Petrbieum 934 d. • 7
"FRANKPOrRT, October L." 410 4 .40 r .
a clan.
111Avnz...—Cotton
firm at 1391.-to arrive.
.;
7-•
Sivalyinal4 pleetloa—Negroes Vote wit
f. , e Democracy.
C By Ti iegrotk to the Pittsburgh Gazette.] -
EitAVANIIfAII, October 11.—Col. Job.
.Illortivglilithe Democratic< candidate for
Mayor,and an entire Democratic Board
of Aldernien, were elected to day b
shout three thousand majority. Tit
. official - votewili not be known-until to
mgrrow. -The negroes generally voter
Wnh the, Dainocritts.
Elii
-24 ; feitei T—'7l.---I —eceived 'atllea ' Al(ington
City, states that on the 17th of Septem
ber, the,ltland of St. Thomas was vlai
ted by an earthquake and shook the'
City of St. Thomas to its foundations.
The shocks were so eeyere as. to ma
4eristlit,;injure' many '-.4)f the buildi VI,
'obalferitig the Walls of the Spanish nd .
Union hotels and other large atructu es,
which caused a general panic am ne
ttifk iftitibitanr. Ad - tho g imtlre sump n
sion of business. The day had en .
IXclldil/ZlYirt, Without
,the slight lit
tit el aieVithlk therManlet Pl r lilareti g
ninety-two, and the barome terthirtY. i -
Westing fair weather. In the inter* , a
sit Milli a tiZel h il e s i tin it hr o t Ir e ; i '
tl.
curred, producing - wide spread , ter i'
andigieglaNlTlle W rlt. KlTC o 444des ' 3t .
saying: I hate experienced many
Plo4ll4oak ~ t intk fyotiflng_ i tet cam
i• s
faith - those or yeiterdeS , :" Theta has
nothing like .1 t ;aip c Ft the, great Rail
'lifter& * Illffet.' ,'‘ - ' •
En
_ e • 121* king efirowthe four cecloa
rain from. New . York, on the Buds°
River Railroad, was throvin from' tb
traok •by a stone while passing Dobbi
Ferry yeaterday afferution., The oar ws
dragged a long g distatide, creating quite
panic arnong'the passengers, bat nett di
not upset no one wait hurt. •
AY, .OCLOBER 12; 1869
Wra
I BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
.—Through trains are now runningre'•
, gularl,y_on the Erie railroad.
I —All the distilleries in the second Ohio
district are tq be reosurveyed.
—The bullion shipments from. Virgina
City for the past week were nearly two
hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
--Cyrus A. Eastman, appointed Treas
urer of the San Francisco Mint some
time since, has accepted the position.
—A heavy rain storm prevailed at
New York on Sunday, and extended
throughout . New England.
—The condition of Admiral Farragut
was ImProving yesterday, and he is now
considered to be entirely out of danger.
—The Memphis Board of Aldermen
yesterday , rescinded its action in refer.
enoe to the sale of the Little Rock Rail.
road stock.
—.The drat anniversary of the Cuban
Revolution was celebrated yesterday,in
Baltimore by a pr o cession-and an oratipn
at Masonic Temple r
—Tbe receipts of the Fair of the A hart
table; Mschanice Association at Boston,
last week' s were much 'larger than on
any pretiOns occasion.
The CatholicS l babe purchased the
Turner House property, at Daytim, Oho,
and will erect upon it a splendid cathe
dral,-in which event it will have the
resident BishoP., _
—At the Industrial Exhibition at-
es g sßuf
falo, there „is g aud lonet
wronght-iron abeamb ever rolled at a
single heat in this country; It Is seventy
feet long, twelve feet high and - weighs
three hundred tons.
unsuccessful effort was made
yesterday, In Philadelphia, under a writ
of habeas corpus, to obtain a reduction
of tbe ball in the case of Donohue, Marra
and Eagan, -charged with the attempted
assassination of Revenue Officer Brooks.
—The freshet so filled the locks of the
Schuylkill Navigation Company at
Fairmont as to render them impassable.
The consequence was a large number of
boats Collected there Sunday afternoon.
Two prize filhts took place on these
boats, the first by two - negroes for
twenty-live dollars a side, and the
second between two boatmen, to decide
the merits of the rival hre companies.
The police arrested' the parties impli
cated. '
—Over one million gallons of whisky
have been seized at San Francisco, the
officers there claiming that it is not pure
bourtxm prednction of Kentucky, as
represented; but a fraud, and the whisky
liable to forfeiture.' If this opinion is
sustained. it is claimed that no whisky in
.eny warehouse in the country is exempt
from seizure, anti that therefore not a
little excitement , may be produced
among the revenue officers and whisky
men in the prinCipAW markets like
Phliadedphis, New York, eincleinsti and
Boston.
/ 14, 1Menai-Markets by Telegraph.
Cuicaoo, October 11.—At the after
noon board there was a large attendance
Of operators, and the grain markets were
active. Wheat opened at 9934 c cash for
strictly fresh and seller the month, one,
seller last halftl elesing 9.91i0 .Cash:
!i)!;c seller last half; buyer the
mouth sold at $1,02. Corn sold
early at 633.0 seller,last half, and closed
at 62 aeller month and cash. Oats quiet
with Sellers at 37c seller the month. The
market in the evening was quiet. Wheat
closed at 99g99Xe seller last half: 93n0
seller month, and 81,02 buyer mown.
Corn firmer and sold to a limited extent
lit 61c, closing at . 63X@61c seller lac
half. Oats closed quiet at 3763Nesel.
/er month.
NEE : ORLEANS. October 11.—Cotton
easier; middling 253 c; sales 3150 halm;
redeipte 8,816 bales. Flour drooping! su•
•pertinit 15,70; double extra 15,75, treble
extra 16,10.• Corn scarce at 81;20. Bran
1420 Efas scarce 132. Pork Is retail
ing tit 131,50. Bacon scarce; shoulders
18%c. clear: rib 20!/.1, clear sides
20tig211 1 ,0 m
. Haute 15 4 c. Lard quiet:
tierce /BXOlOc. keg 2034621 c. , Sugar:
common 120. prime 1434 c. Stolasses; re--
boiled 62;14®76c. 'Whisky firm at $1,32.14;
Coffee; stock light, fair 11%(346c,. prime
147K@16x0. Gold 130 X. 'Exchange 40,%.
New York sight discount, • •
&PEALE, Opt. 11.—Flour dull, hesvv
sod' 25©50 elower; no sties. Wheat
pilot and lower; sales of 30,000 bush No.
g Chicago at 51,08, 4.000 bush. No 3 Chi
cage at 105 c, 4,000 bush white. Kentucky
at 11,50, 6,500 bush white.liola i ta at
31,26 and $1,32, 30,0e0 bush red w rat
# ;07 1 4@1,08, Corn dulh.sales in c h ar lots
at,7B@7Bc. Oats nominally at 48q: Bye
neglected. Barley dull and easter; sales
of 20,000 bush two rowed State at 11,12
in store. Canada nominally at 81,23©1,25.
'Pork 131 Lard 10@l9yfo. Hlghwinea
sold at #1,16. Holders ask lo advance
on wheat and corn at the close.,.
OsarsoO, October 11.-41 Our is steady,
and unchanged. Wheat dull and lower;
3,000 bush red Indlaua, at 51,30. Corn is
lower;.I0,000 buela N 0.2 at 80c. ',Barley
quiet; a,nno bush State 51,15; Canadian
held at 61,25©1,35. _Rye quiet. Canal
freights excited add higher; wheat 200,'
barley 16;ie to New York.
FRANCISCO editor who has been
to ja Chinese theatre there,
,thus speaks of
the quality of the music furnished: 'lm
agine yourself in a boiler mainifactory
where ftiur hundred men are putting in
rivets, a mammoth tin shop next door on.
'one side .and forty.sttlp quarti mill
upon the other, with a dr tiken'chitrivari
party With six hundred InstruniOnts in
front, four thousand enraged cats on the
roof, and a falitt idea will be conveyed of
the performance of a first•claSS' Chlncsa
band of music."'
-Its, Mont 'Cote Railway is makiig
gocid progress. The mountain has beep,
penetrated bytke:tunnertO the (Winne
of six and a quarter miles. The remain r
ing itistaube to be tAnneled ia about one
mile 'The progress has always 'been
greater ,on the'ioutherrf, side, where the
work was begun 'and impilpteg machinery
offs! employed.' Had an "evoial advance
been, made, at the, oth4r "en¢;:"the;,tyinne i
would l OT e bee 5tA49?4,41 . 0 end!# t4/'
Ff!tri
cOrritrpondent or the BeienifSelktmar.
ton say!: "The grindstone-'tic- a self.
ebarpentng totil,•• arid after hating been
'turned Borne time in ono direction'(lf a
hard etbne) the motion tthould" he re
iersed. 'Band ? of thitt'rinht tilt, apphea
oceattionalitto a hard Will rendeitt
quite effectual." '
STATE ITENI.
'WS/LIES-34MM bas a school in which
woman's work and housekeeping are
taught.' A • similar institution would,
pay in other places besides Wilkesbarre.
THE Department of:Soldiers' Orphans'
Schools favorably oonsdered One. Imn
-pred and sixty applications for admission
Into the orphan schools in 'this State, dur:
ing September.. .
THE Reading inanufaetoring establish
ments are at a standstill and house-keep
era a good deal Inconvenienced by the
limited supply of wateKpaused by the
damage resulting from ;,he recent freshet,
•
ON Thursday, of last Week, the railroad
shops at Patterson were'closed in obedi
ence to an order famed severed weeks ago.
A number of the employes • haVe been
given employment at ililtoona,"and others
at the shops at Renova, on the Philadel
phia and Erie road. !
AN attempt was nude. to steal the
church plate at the Catholic church in
Mauch Chunk last week.- Through the
courageous action of the priest, who dis
covered the 'intruder in the .very aeti the
thief was arrested and handedover to the
authorities, and Is now in Jail.
AT the recent meeting. of the Lutheran
Synod of Pennsylvania, held at Lebanon,
Rev. Dr. Valentine, President of -Penn
sylvania College, at his own request, was
honorably dismissed to the Maryland
Synod, with expressions of regret on the
part of.. the Synod to have to consent to
the separation.
THE Philadelphia Post says "outrages
by . Mayor Fox's men are so numerous
that it is next to impossible to "'gather
them in.' We don't print• half we-heat
ot; nor do we learn of half that occur.
Democratic aldermen invariably hush up
cases where policemen are the defendants,
and many a guilty blue coat escapes a
thorough ventilation."
AT Sharon, Mercer county, last week,
a young man named Cirmoay. was stab.
bed in the abdomen by one McKee, ra.
ceiving a wound foi.•r inckes long ana
deep enough to scrape the intestines.
McKee was arreatea. He luta already
serrea one term in the Sing Sing Peni
tentiary, one term at the Dry Tortugas.
and one termjn the Allegheny Peniten
tiary.
JoE SHEFFIELD, an athlete, was very
seriously injured at the Conneautville
Fair. He was performing his teats upon
the track, and had run his mile, and was
engaged in walking his half mile back.
wards, when he came in collision with a
horse and carriage on the track, the dri
ver not observing him in time tcrturn ont
or want him of his danger. The thill
struck. Mr. Sheffield on the lower part of
the spine, knocked him violently forward
on 'his fate, in which position both wheels
of itht buggS? passed over' his tiody length
wise
Tem Presbytery of Carlie;le, whiCh met
I Ist week in Wayneslxisp,', Franluin
county, after anihi.trets disntiss,lop,
adopted the bails of Union seat down by
the General Assembly, by a vote of 4 to
13. The six negative votes *ere given by
tnitasters, the whole of the ruling elders
present,
,twentrone In number, having
voted in the affirmitive. A resolution
was afterwards moved by one of
_the mi.
nority, and unanimously adopted ? declar.
ing that i f the re.unlon was consummated,
Presbytery would do its utmost to' make
it a harmonious and successful one.
FOREIPN NEWS AND Bilious.
WEE:: Bishop Dupanioup, of Orleans.
the great leadrr of the Gallican Church
party, read Father Hyacinthe's letter, he
exclaimed, "ah, ea! e'ea gas jot l'ai at.
etndu 'angles - ups."' (Oh, yrs, that is what
.1 have looked for a long time.)
Ttrs most remarkable railroad in Ger.
many and Europe is the new Black
Forest R)ad, which will be completed
within tour years. Between Romberg
and St. George, situated 2,870 feet above
the level of the sea, and but four miles
(torn Hornberg, • the - railroad ascends
rif arty 2,000 fret, and passes through - 27,
00Q fret, of tunnels. Eleven thousand
fret of the latter have already been , coin
pleted during the, last two years. The
truly Cyclopean work on the road is pro.
greasing rapidly, and attracting thousands
of visitors, who flock together from all
marts of Southern Germany. and Switzer,
land..
The introduction of rifled artillery has
given rise to a new and rather danger.
ous kind of Industrie.- When experi.•
Inents are made at Tegal,- Prussia, if the
shell does not burst immediately, , the sq,
called ball thievelivush , Ont of their cover
in the nelgbblrhood,fielze the shell, knock
off the leaden coating • With' a, few sharp,
blotis with' a chisel, and make off with
'Mr booty. Sentries are 'posted nest the
line of flight, but they often fail in dlftchl
lug the depredators, who,, regardless of
danger, place themselves just where the
shell is expected to tall: If the shell is a
large one, the•value of the lead is very'
considerable. If it is a small one, the
`thieves carry it off bodily, and perform
their - dangerous manipulations at their
leisure. . . . A few 'months' ago the, police
gave notice that three such loaded shells
which had not burst had been stolen, and
warned the Public against having ank
thing to do with them.
AltoNo the vessels !fist itt the memora
ble cyclone that Wept 'over the Bay of
B enga l says rho Liverpool Qour
fir, were the steamer and the
ship Morayshire. '' Search Was prOfbasd
' h 9 made for. Mese' and Other mlasibg
Vessels among the .Sunderhunds; but no
trues' bf there *ere discovered, and it
was taken for granted that both of them
bad gone down at eel:, Tbe other day a
'party . of fishermen, triiren'for shelter into
iiiopt.:ortheoway creek,' aome miles in
land, stumbled upon.hull 'of a ship,.
which proved to be the . Morayshcre ; and'
ftirther ore ft:l)lnd found a steamer, with
piste and' fatnele still standing _
itusweretnolhe description of the nun.
darer, '' The steamer bad .£105,000
14)14 Which is doubtless In her bullion
h
'spectdattoniiiik o t t : 9 4 lf, er crew, Painful
the Owe firizfeated with cane& up, as
llgera.
Men M•no win women.
Gothas so made the sexes that women,
like children, cling to men; lean upon
them as 'though they Were superior in
mind and body. They make them the
sunrogsystems, and their children 're
volve around them. Alen 'are gods, if
they.but..knew • it, and women burning
incense at these shrines. Women, there
fore,. who have good minds and pure
hearts, want men to lean upon. Think
Of their reverencing a drunkard, a
liar, a fool, •or a liberatine. If a man
would have a woman to do him hofirage,
he must be manly in every - sense, ntrire
gentleman, not after the Chesterfield
sehOtil. but polite because , his heart is fir!!
of kindness to all; one who treats her
with respect, even deference, because she
is , a woman; who never condescends to
say silly things to her; who brings her
up table level, it hia.ntind is above hers;
who: is never over-enxiorm to do
right; :who has, no time to be frivo
lous"with her. - Always , dignified in
speech .and act; who never spends too
much upon her; 'never yields to tempta
tion' even if she puts-it in brit way; ambi
tiontp make his mike his - mark in the
word re ether she encoareget him or not;
witais never familiar wit her to the ex
tent Of being
_ a n adopted brother or
C00.9 1 / 1 ; who is not over careful about
dress, always'pleasant and considerate,
bat always keeping his place of the man,
the head; and never losing It, such deport
ment, with - noble principles, grind mind,
en6igy and industry will win any woman
ID the world whois worth winning.
Now Some of Our INfercuanits Have muss ;
A few, years ago a large drug firm in
this city advertised for , a- boy. Next
day the store was thronge4, with , ap
plicants among thern a queer-looking
little fellow, accompanied- by -a wo
man, who proved to be his 1711=4 Ia lieu'
of faithless parents; by whom he had
been abandoned. ' Looking., at this
little waif{ the merchant in -the store
promptly said : " Can't take him ;
places all fail; besides, he is toe small."
"I knew he is small," said the, woman,
"but he is willing and faithful." There
was k twinkle in ,the boy's. eyes which,
made the merchant think again- A part
ner in the thin Voltrateertcl to remark
that he "did not See What they wanted 'of
such'a boy—be Wasn't bigger than a pint
of cider.' Retail consultation the boy
was set to work. ' A fe* days later a call
was made on the boys in the storo for
some one to stay all night- The prompt
response of the dittlis *thus contrasted
_welt - with the reluctance' of others - In
the - raiddle of the night the merchant
looked, in too see if all was right in the
store, and presently diecateredhis youth
ful protsx busy scissoring labels. "What •
are you doing?" said he; "I dii not tell
you to work nights." "I know you did
not tell me so, hut .I thought I might as
be - doing something. la the morn
ing the . cashier .. got orders to "double
that boy's - wages, for •be is senility."
, To-day that boy is getting a salary of V,-
500, and next January will become a
member of the firm.—.Ness York,Republic.
TEE LITTLE SierEms or THE POOP ; --
About the year 1340, there was stlarted in
a' remote corner of Brittany, a charitable
organization known as "The Little Sis
ters of - the - Poor." Its sole capital was
the savings of an old servant woman,
amounting to a few hundred francs; but
Providence blessed the self-aacrifice of'
the- poor woman. who founded it. It has
spread throughout . France and has been
the means of relieving a vast amount of
human misery. ' Latterly it has been ex
'tending itself to foreign countrrett, and
about a month since some of the S eters
came to Philadelphia, where they opened
an asylum for the indigent aged of all
creeds. , Relying wholly upon the lierte
.volence of - the community, they have
:nothing but what msy be contributed by
the - epontaneolls offerings , of thOse who
May be moved by the simple-but sublime
self-devotion" of the &sten to thCir good
work. Already they have received thir
. ty.six poor creatures in: their asy
lum,l some, of whom have ' da,, while
others slefp on straw- "iduch hat is re
jected by the rich they turn' t account the poor, and the Sisters,' m ko' i daily
1 rounds to collect the broken victtals on
which they subsist themselves and their ,
dependents. Pptv charities are ore de
n
serring than this; for in few i, there a ,
more earnest and intelligent effe t to turn
to acconnt.the material that wo , d other
wise be wasted; and a comni oily like
this there should be - no lack of . - mons to
contribute old garments, beddi .g, furni
ture and food- with which to 8 ccor the
helpless and miserable. ' '
Tnn emancipation of women seems to
be rapidly advancing in'Germ.. • , as well
as in .England, and we have no a lady
doctor in Derlin. Mrs. liirschfeldt, who
was born in Hulstein, and left Germany
in 1887 to atndy in America, • has lately
returned with a diploma from the Dental
College in Philadelphia, and o• telned,pei
mission to practice as a dentist In the cap-
To m ak e' paper 'Stick - to whiteiashed
walls, make a.size of common 'glue and
water,. of the • codslitency of 1 nseed oil,
and apply with whiteirash or other brush
to the walls,- taking care to go o, er every
part, andespeeially top and bottOm. - Ap
ply thitiliapet in the ' ordinary way lissom
`is you' please, ittd if the paste Is properly
Made it will remain 'firm for yeara.
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A 'German phrenologist -
asserts that
young, pear trees Neith - smooth and red
twigti- will reinish 'tiler and well flavored
fruit; Whilelough, green shoots; indicate
meily t dry. and tasteless ittlele. • With
applete,..kbugli ' branches'indlcate sour;
smooth , brateheb sweet fruit: ' ~ '• -
, •
Bblphlte . (notprlphate) of soda is Said
to be both a preventative and care for bog
cholera. Give -ten grains three times a
day in their. slops ior prevention; and
thirty grains tl9. frequently for core.
BALTIMORE proposes to erect a mono.
meat to George Peabody. in Druid Fii
Park, to cost $150,000.• •
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