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THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1875.
JOIIX .1ZITCIXELL.
John Mitchell one of the? so-called patriots
of Ireland died at Newry, Irelaud, on Sun
day morning, March :20th.
John Mitchell was born at Dungiven,
County Derry, Ulster, iu 1S1G. His lather
was a Unitarian clcrgymau, and he himself
was iuteuded for the church. His inclina
tions, however, had no leanings that way,
and after graduating at Trinitj'jCollegc Dub
lin he began life as an attorney in partnership
with a law firm at li.inbridge. lie first
obtained reputation in 1.S45, by the publica
tion of his life of AodhO'Ncile, the great ulster
chief, which protniucntly brought him before
the Irish people, and gave him the position
of leader of "young Ireland." At the death
of Thomas Davis he succeeded to the chair
of the natiou, and at once became, in the
language of Mr. John Savage, "the leadin
tinker of the land."
In the same year, 1S45, Mitchell fettled
ia Dublin, where his plain spoken and writ
ten words soon g-iined him the affection of
the people, and the ire of the English gov
crnmcnt, who looked upon his utterances as
seditious, and set about the task of entrap
l'ing him in the meshes or the law. lie was
arrested and, on the trial the jury failed to
agree and the Sutton continued to breathe
nothing but rank "treason," according to the
crown views, but really, principles which
could not fail to lead to the securing of the
Iirgost liberties for the people which he
loved. During 1847, Mitchell wrote, spoke
nd lectured on national subjects of interest
to his people, and his lectures ou land tenures
in Europe were not only extensively copied,
but became standards as supports of his side
of the question, and rendered invaluable
services to the cause he had at heart.
Tn 1 S4S Mitchell left the nation, because
f Gavan Duffy's opinion, who had already
began to exhibit a weakness for honors under
the Queen, that his writings were too "sedi
tious." lie then, on the 12th of February,
J-IS, established, in association with Deven
Jleilly and Clarancc Mangan the United
Lishnian, when, for some three months the
English government stood such a lire as it
had never before experienced. In fact nut
ters became altogether too hot for English
endurance, and, on the 13th of May, Mitchell
was arrested on charge of felony, and sent to
dose confinement in Newgate. Ou the 20th
of the same month he was brought to trial,
end by means of a packed jury, was found
gnilry the same day, sentenced to a penal
MTwtuJe of fourteen years, aud at once hur
ried out of the country.
Mitchell was confined on the island of
Bermuda, and then taken to Australia where
he nest met Smith O'Brien, Thomas Fran
c.j Meagher, Michael Dohanev and others,
w hore after spending four years of "jail life"
as he called it, he escaped to America,
through the aid of Ids friend, Patrick J.
i;inyih, now a member of Parliament from
"VWstiueath. It was contended by the
British government that he violated his parole
id honor, but the facts do not warrant the
n -isortion. He yielded up his ticket of leave
y. Iiich had been furnished him and at once
r.nunted a horse in waiting and left. lie
Mas pursued, but fruitlessly, and the reward
offered for his capture "ten dollars or a les
rer sum," as the magistrate might 2s,
f-T.owed cither a hopelessness of his arrest, or
that the Government was conscience stricken
over its treatment of one whoso only fault
vas that he loved his country.
In 1 854 Mitchell arrived in New York and
at once, began the publication of The Citizen,
a paper devoted to the interest of the Irish
Nati-jnaii&t part. He continued this oue
year, when he removed to Tennessee, pur
chased a farm, and lived for several years.
Here he established the Southern Citizen,
which he subsequently removed to Washing
ton, where it came to au end in After
this he went to France, but returned, aud, in
3 SGI, became the Editor of the Kiclimond
Inquirer, aud continued in that position un
til the close of the war, indulging through its
columns the most bitter animosity to the
Union cause and the people of the North,
liis apostacy to the cause of liberty going so
far as to lead hioi even to advocate the open
ing of the slave trade.
He came north, before the struggle was
over, and became assistant editor of the New
York Seics, and brought with him all the
secession seutimcnt3 which he had entertain
ed at the south, the advocacy of which finally
led to his arrest. He was, however, released
at the petition of a Fenian convention. It
was a strange phenomenon that which this
ortion of his life presented the uncompro
mising advocate of the Irish libertj' assuming
the role of the advocate of negro-slavery.
The Irish Citizen, established in 1SG7, was
Mitchell's next literary essay, but it lingered
only until f873 when it died, and from that
time until July 1874 he led a quiet life. At
the parliamentary election last February, last
year, he was one of sis home rulers for the
two seats from Tipperary Ireland, but was
badly beaten. He then visited most portions
of Ireland in a private manner, and was
every where received with enthusiasm by the
people. In October last he returned to New
York, but before leaving was presented with
a testimonial, reaching $8,000 by the national
party of bis "green native isle."
On the 2Gth of February of this year, while
yet ia this country, or on his way to Ireland,
Lo was elected, for Tipperary, to fill a vacan
cy in Parliament, without opposition. By a
large majority, however the House of Com
mons declared him ineligible, on the ground
of his being a "convicted felon," and ordered
a new election. On the 11th of the present
month he was aam returned by- Tipperary
by a vote cf 3,114 to 746, aud so great was
the enthusiasm of his adherents that the
residences of a number of the people who
refused to illuminate after the election were
sacked by the mob. The House of Com
mons has not yet taken any action in refer
ence to this second election of the "couvicted
felon," and it is saved all further tribulation
on this vexatious issue by his death.
Mitchell had been in poor health for some
time, aud the excitement of his recent career
has proved too much for him. At the time
of his departue from this country it is under
stood that he was engaged in writing a his
tory of Ireland, in continuation of that of
the Abbe MacGeoghan, taking up the sub
ject at the Siege of Limerick. But death
cut the Gordian knot, and with John Mitch
ell "lifes fitful dream is o'er" forever. He
was honest in his efforts for Ireland, and
over his lack of sympathy for all the down
trodden besides, it is, probably, as well to
cover the sods of the grave.
57 We arc in daily receipt of Col. Alex
ander McClure's new paper, the Times pub
lished, in Philadelphia, and find it to be a
valuable addition to the newspaper wealth
of the country. Its editor is evidently
governed by the niaxium, "Fearless and
True," and the indications are that corrup
tion, no matter in what quarter, will have
to stand stalwart blows, if it fails to "get
down and out" Such a paper richly de
serves to live amid the very fat of a most
liberal patronage, and we shall be much sur
prized if the Times don't.
5,55" Jerc Frutchey and B. F. Morey of
this borough, liev. D. E. Schcedler, of
Brodheadsville, arc candidates lor Couuty
Superintendent of this county.
tSF Mr. A. W. Clark, formerly proprie
tor of the "Washington Hotel," in this place
passed through town, on Monday last, "with
a drove of Cows.
New goods will arrive at N. Buster's this
week and uext. Dou't fail to call and see
them.
Those wishing to secure a good bargain
will do well to call at N. Buster's, as he is
bound not to be undersold.
Goods cheaper than ever at N. Buster's.
He has them marked way down to bottom
prices.
Tiios. Carey Phillips has leased, and
will occupy the Water's property down town,
after the 1st of April.
Wm. II. Wolfe, of Scranton, made a fly
ing visit to friends in this place on Friday.
r .i.Y
lie lett airaiu tor home on Saturday, lie
looked well.
An account of the recent floods and ice
orges, which we publish in another column,
will be found to be a most thrilling pen pic
ture of a series of terribly grand occurren
ces.
Jacob II. Butts, is arranging to enter on
the march of improvement. He intends
erecting a three story brick on his lot adjoin
ing James Gardner's residence down town.
Neatness, convenience aud comfort will be
marked characteristics of the new building.
We learn that Dr. Samuel Foulk has taken
an office, in the Water's building down town
and will locate here permanently, on the 1st
of April. The Doctor has been practicing at
Oakland and vicinity for some time and made
quite a reputation for medical skill.
Not much like spring when the thermom-
etor, on the 22d of March shows from six to
twent7-two degrees below zero. No induce
ment for robins and blue birds to come, the
leaves to bud out, and the grass to prow,
and yet that was the state of affairs oa Mon-
The fall of hail and snow on Saturday,
last made about as gloomy a day as there was
any use of lookiug at, and furnish a new
coating for the old snow and ice, which every
one would be gald to see gone. However,
courage, June, July and August will be here
a while, and then. We'll, never mind
wait and sec.
5000 rolls of wall paper just received for
the Spring trade at D. It. Brown's, the
largest and best assortment ever brought to
Monroe county. He buys directly from the
manufacturers and can sell the lest paper at
prices to suit alL AH paper bought at
Brown's will be trimmed free of charge on his
celebrated Wall Paper Trimmer.
Accidents. Mrs. Jacob Ellctt of this
Borough, on Tuesday last, fell aud broke her
left arm at the wrist joiut. Dr. LeBar was
called and administered to her wants.
Mrs. James Postcn, an aged lad', residing
on Sarah street, in this Borough, fell and
fractured the hip joiut of her left leg.
Mrs. Levi M erring, on Saturday afternoon
last, was thrown from a sleigh and in the
fall had oue of her elbow joints dislocated. Dr.
Nathaniel Miller was called and attended to
her injury.
Brooklyn's big conglomeration of lechery
and general filth is still displaying itself to
the gaze of the world. For a week or two,
the evidence has been particularly damaging
to Tilton, viewed from a moral stand point ;
but as he is not on trial we do not see how
his moral damnation is to relieve Beecher
from the evils of "true inwardness," or movs
him away from the "ragged edges" of de
spair. All the evidence thus far, of the de
fense, has been to prove Tilton a bad mat,
and not a grain of it to prove Beecher a gdod
one. It is time this was changed if religion
is to be redeemed from the sore stab which,
it is charged one of its most brilliantly shin
ing lights has given it It should be remem
bered that this trial is not for the edification
and gratification of Plymouth Church alone,
but ihat Beechers unadulterated acquittal
will cause all Christendom to rejoice. But
this fact, it should be remembered, will not
so much be accomplished by Tilton's condem
nation as by Bcechcr's uuequi vocal acquittal.
The Pennsylvania Legislature adjourned
sine die at noon on Thursday. Mr. Davis
of Philadelphia was elected Speaker -pro
tern, of the Senate.
Simon Fried left for the City to buy
his Spring stock. He S3ys, he will have
the best assortment of goods in Monroe
County.
Neighbor Born has again been minister
ing to the comfort of his customers. Dur
ing a recent visit to New York, he secured
two new barber chairs of the latest, most up
and most comfortable style. They are beau
ties, too, and have only one draw back that
we know of, and that is, that when in them
one don't feel like getting out again they
are so enticingly comfortable.
Important. In order to quit the Boot
and Shoe Business, Simon Fried offers his
entire stock of Boots and Shoes, at first
cost and Lcloio cost. Come one and all,
now is your chance for Bargains.
The Ullle Orphan's Dream.
We have received from Messrs. George Stin
son & Co., Art Publishers, of Portland, Maine,
a copy of a fine work of art in the shape of a
large steel engraving, (size 23 by 30 inches).
The engraving is by Mr. A. II. Kitchie, well
known as the best engraver on steel in Aiueri
ca, and in after one of Mr. I lieinhart's famous
paintings. The engraving is new just finish
cd, and now, for the first time, before the pub
lic.
We will add a brief description of the pic
ture, though it cannot be expected that we can
give more than a faint idea of its beauty.
In an elegant apartment upon a couch is
shown a beautiful little girl of lender age, a-
fdeep. During the warm Hummer night she
has partly relieved herself of the bed clothing,
displaying her beautiful little chubby limbs in
the loveliest possible manner. She is a little
orphan, as the title indicates, and ia sweetly
dreaming of her mother, about whom she has
been told so much. She has been told that her
mother dwells in the spirit land, that she is a
beautiful angel, and she has wondered why she
can never come to fee her. She has thought
so much of the matter that one night she
dreams that her mother visits her the beauti
ful being of light that the artist has portrayed
with such power and effect. The angel moth
er is shown by the bedside as the child sees her
in the dream. The outlines of her face and
form are distinctly seen, although the figure
is shadowy and ethcrial. The mother is sur
rounded with a halo of soft, mysterious, heav
enly light, and she is shown gazing upon her
child with all the inexpressible love that ever
comes from a mother's heart. In her extend
ed hand she holds a white lily an emblem of
puritv. The following lines have been sug
gested to our mind bv this lovely picture
They will aid in giving the reader some idea
of tins rare work of art.
LITTLE OKriTAN's DREAM.
O! blest is the vision that gives to the child,
A face beaming o'er her so tender and mild,
The smile of a mother oh, wavelet of joy !
A part of the gladness that has no alloy ;
Oh ! sweet will the orphan's slumber be,
If the darling her mother in dreams may see.
Sweet child ! thv mother is watching o'er thee,
They steps and thy slumbers her watcli eyes see,;
13v dav and by nijrht she is oft at the side :
Though her home is with the angels over the tide
Ihe mothers a mother though years go by,
And the love of a mother's heart never can die.
Wliat We licartl and Saw within
tlie Week.
"Ilumpty Dumpty" prefers sunshine to
darkness. Good, who would'nt? Our
friend "Ad" used all efforts to draw "Sun
shine" into a flirtation but she would'nt flirt
worth a cent "Tempest" is as good
natured as ever. "Hoop-la" is rather
pleased over the new arrival. Hope she'll
win. Lzzi Sunday night "Greely" was
in hot pursuit of the famous daughter of
Jupiter, the virgin godess. The "original"
followed close after with a piece of his favor
ite pie, while "Oofty" was contemplating the
scene from a short distance behind.
"Porkopolis" went home last Sunday night,
mutteriug, "my poor heart is sad and for
saken." We feel sorry for his sore disappoint
ment and would advise him to go to "O. G,"
for consolation. No, Frank won't tell
mother if you walk down town, but we can
not see the object of your doing so, unless it
be to accommodate ' 'Hoop-la. ' ' ' 'G reely' '
can't set still a moment unless his dulcina
from Paradise is on his lap, and even then,
our handsome friend of "chickcry" fame,
says he is uneasy. It is astonishing to
see how many people are "so, so," since the
Beecher-Tilion trial has commenced.
The civil rights bill was practically discussed
iu the barber shop, last Sunday night.
Friend Sue is a perfect amazon. You should
have seen her tossing her friends out of the
back door, into the snow, a few da3rs ago.
It was fun for those in the P. O. Eat
ing pea-nuts before retiring will cause hor
rible dreams. "Ilumpty Dumpty"
says he is as happy Sunday afternoons while
attending the Y. M. C. A., as
"The man that sits within a monarch's heart.
And ripcun iu the "Sunsulne" of bis favor."
puzzles.
The answer to "Stillwater's" puzzle is;
"Honesty is the best policy."
"McK's" answer is correct and he will ac
cept thanks for contributions.
What is the difference between twice twenty-five
and five and twenty ? McK.
A toad in a well, twenty feet deep, crawls
up every morning 41 feet, and falls back,
every evening 3 2-G feet ; how long does it
take it to reach the top? McK.
AainiMATiCAL Problem. There is a
fountain containing an unknown quautity of
water, surrounded by an unknown number
of persons ; the first takes 100 quarts and a
thirteenth of the remainder; the second takes
200 quarts and a thirteenth of the remainder;
the third takes 300 and a thirteenth ; the
fourth 400 quarts and a thirteenth ; and eo
each increasing 100 quarts until the water is
all gone. I low much water is there and
how many persons, and how much did each
one take ? Flanioan.
Vendues.
At Mrs. Keziah Hohenshild's Vendue, at
her residence in Wolf Hollow, Stroud town
ship, on the 18th, inst., a large crowd gather
ed, and the bidding was lively. Live stock
sold as follows: one 16 year old horse for
$26 00 ; one 7 year old horse $174 00; one
10 year old cow sold for ?28 25 ; three 3 year
old, one for $30 50, one for $40 75 and the
other at $47 25 ; sheep brought $5 a head ;
grain in the ground Bye $4 per acre;
Wheat $3 per acre ; Chickeus 46 cents each;
potatoes 67 cents per bushel; apples 65
cents a bushel ; cabbage 12 cents per head ;
cider per barrel, $4 ; Farming implements
sold well, one second hand Plow brought $7.
Wm. McNeal, of Hamilton township, Auc
tioneered the sale. At this sale there were
four Huckster stands, at which Ale and
Cider were sold. The sale was clerked by
II. S. Wagner, Esqr., of this place.
At Jacob Wellcr's sale of personal proper
ty, in Smithfield township, on the ISth inst.,
stock sold as follows ; 1 horse brought $100:
an old horse was bid up to 7 cents; Cows
one $17: one $19, and an other $30; Plows,
one for $7, one for 50 cents, Wheel-barrow
$3 25 ; Fanning mill $9. Wm. Mosteller,
auctioneer. Attendance large.
The negroes in Tennessee are flocking
Kansas in bands of five hundred at a time.
Sensible negroes, those.
A Delaware county man has a twenty
four pound cat, which he claims is the
largest tabby in the State.
Philadelphians can supply their tables
with asparargus, provided they are willing
to pay 1 25 per bunch for it.
Dr. Charles C. Jennings, one of the old
est residents of Easton, died on Tuesday,
of last week, aged seventy years.
Five dollars, conscience money, were
received at the Treasury on Friday from
"Restitution," at Newark, N. J.
Hon. Charles Albright was serenaded
by his friends on his return to Mauch
Chunk from Washington, last week.
The Yadkin river in the late freshet was
within ten feet of the North Carolina Rail
road bridge, forty feet above its usual level.
"Is there any man in this town named
Afternoon ?J' inquired a Mississippi Post
master, as he held up a letter directed "P.
M."
The death of Charles W. Mixscll, of
Easton, on Monday, 15th inst., has been
announced. His wife, an aged lady,
survived him but twenty-four hours.
The California wheat crop is splendid.
A large average yield is secure ; but if
copious rains come within two weeks, there
will be the the largest harvest ever known.
Miss Dow, of Pulaski, New York, who
weighs 300 pounds, recently fell down
stairs. She dislocated her shoulder, but
none of the timbers of the house were
broken.
A most novel law case has just been
started in Fort Valley, Ga. A man is sue
ing a bar-keeper for selling him whisky
"that would tumble a mule at the distance
of fifty yards."
A Troy girl is in a quandary. Having
saved a few dollars from her hard earnings,
she cannot decide whether to buy a new
hat or a bound volume of Tilton-Beechcr
testimony.
General Gallagher, of Westmoreland
county, is spoken of very favorably by the
Tribune and Herald, of Greensburg, as a
candidate for State Treasurer ou the lie
publican ticket.
Despite the proverb concerning whistling
girls and crowing hens, a young lady of
Dubuque whistles so swoetly that she has
been offered 8100 a week to travel and ex
hibit her accomplishment.
The most ridiculous claim presented to
the Congress just ended was that set up
by a physician, who wanted 150,000 for
extracting 3,000 corns from the feet of
soldiers during the war, at five dollars
each.
The wise man saith in his heart : "Verily
I will clear the snow from my walk, pcrad
venture it may not become sloppy." But
the fool and the sluggard tucketh his pants
into his boot tops and remarketh : "Lct'er
melt."
The Frcsbyterians in Philadelphia and
other Eastern cities have consolidated capi
tal and gone into the seaside resort business.
They have purchased a tract of land at
Cape May, and are about to erect a large
hotel.
William J. Sharkey, the escaped murderer,
who left Havana recently, has been arrested
in Sautiago do Cuba. He will either be
banished from that place or brought back
to Havana, and then returned to the United
States.
A Milwaukee man is l-ent on going to
sea. lie lias been reading the .hnoch
Ardcn class of stories till his soul is fired
with an ambition to be wrecked and come
home and find his wife married to some
other fellow.
"She is a perfect Amazon," said a pupil
in one our schools of his teacher yesterday,
to a companion. "Yes," said the other,
who was better versed is geography than
History, "i noticed sue Had an awlul big
mouth." Bridgeport Farmer.
They tell us that "as soon as the trial is
over Mr. Beecher proposes to seek recrea
tion in a lew months travel. And the
Courier-Journal says : He will need it
badly, the poor man, in the year 11)00, if
they get through with half the witness at
that time.
In Missouri wolf-scalps are received in
payment of taxes, and the other day a
legislative committee was appointed to
burn the scalps thus received and accumu
lated during two years past, there beintr
about six thousand dollars worth, at five
dollars a head.
Twelve special policemen from Philadel
phia have been assigned to duty in Carbon
county, Pa., to protect the men and pro
perty ol the Lehigh and Wilkesbarrc Coal
Company. The police is now believed tn
be sufficiently large to hold in check the
turbulent Molly Maguires.
There are 260 miles of street railways in
Pennsylvania.
Illuminating cas of sixteen-candle power
-
may be obtained from the burning of
wood, or rather from the gas made m the
manufacture of charcoal, at a cost of eight
teen cents a thousand feet. This, at least,
is the result of a recent Michigan ex
periment. The Commissioners of Schuylkill county
have been prosecuted for malfeasance in
office, misappropriation of public funds, and
criminal extravagance iu the expenditure of
public moneys. This, put in simple lan
guage, means that they built a barn for
823,000 which should have cost 83,000.
On the 16th the homestead of the Astor
family was sold at auction at the Ileal Estate
Exchange rooms, in Trinity Building, New
York, for 97,500. The house is an old
land-mark. It is four stories high and has a
plain exterior. A Mr. J. B. Potter was the
purchaser, and it is said he got a bargain.
One of the girls at Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, keeps up her studients,
keeps track of eight love stories in weekly
papers, writes twice a week to five young
men, sews for a charitable society, and finds
time to ride and skate and practice for a
concert.
THE ICE GORGE.
Columbia, March 19. The river banks
above Columbia, along the Henry Clay
furnace, Chickcs Bock, the town of Mariet
ta, and as far as Bainbridge, presents a
scene never before witnessed. The flood
of yesterday carried immense bodies of ice,
piled up along the shores, to heights at var
ious points varying from five to twenty-five
feet. The ice varies in thickness from fif
teen inches to nearly or quite four feet,
and in surface some of them measuring
several hundred feet.
AT SAFE IIAROIt
and at Turkey Hill, below Columbia, the
gorges are very high. At the former place
the Mansion House, at the mouth of the
Conestoga, is almost surrounded with im
mense blocks of ice, piled up from ten to fif
teen feet. The officers of the Pennsylvania
Railroad have announced the wants of one
thousand men at various points named, to
cut away ice, and large numbers from Lan
caster and points below will at once go to
work.
The abutment of the Tide Water Canal
Company, at Wrightsville, is badly injured
and the basin gorged full of ice, canal boats
and logs from the bridge to the dam. The
winding bridge was raised off its abutments
and carried about three hundred yards by
the ice and landed on the berm bank to the
canal with one end lying over a canal boat.
In Mrrietta the loss was very heavy by the
lumbermen having their rafts, fcc., swept
away. Miller & Musscrs' saw-mill was en
tirely ruined by being crushed in. One
canal boat is King against a large tree in
front of a private residence, The three
was the only thing that saved the house
from being stove in. Ice is piled up over
the tow-path at some points from twenty
five to thirty feet high.
Wilkesbarre, March 19 The Pitts
ton bridges jammed in the ice three miles
north of this city were saturated with ben
zine to-day and fired. They are burning
yet to-night, and light up the heavens for
miles around. They were burned so that
they might not be swept down and destroy
the bridge at this point. The gorge has
not changed at all along this city, although
the water is gradually falling, and is be
tween three and four feet lower than on
Wednesday morning. There is no com
munication with Kingston across the flats
yet, and cannot be for several days. The
L. & B. R. R. Co. began to run passenger
trains across to this city on the D. & H.
bridge, three miles down the river, this
morning.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad was cleared
of ice on the Pennsylvania and New York
division, aud Superintendent Parker came
through from Towanda to the Lackawanna
and Bloomsburg Junction at 6.15 P. M.
A force of over 300 men had been em
ployed in removing the ice, which for a
distance of two miles covered the track a to
depth of six to thirteen feet. Telegraphic
communication was also made complete
again between Philadelphia aud Waverly.
Between Wilkesbarre and Pittston Assist
ant General Superintendent Goodwin says
the road will be clear by Monday and all
trains will run through. Above Pittston.
two miles a gorge begins, which is formed
of the strongest ice iu the river aud is nine
miles long. In some places it is twenty
five feet high, and causes the citizens of
West Pittston and the valley great anxiety.
If driven out with a flood it will take every
thing before it. It will naturally go be
fore the five-mile gorge here, and thus two
will be piled together. Fear aud excitement
are general all along the river.
Results of the Port Jervis Disaster.
Port Jervis, N. Y., March 19th.
One hundred locomotives and over eight
hundred men are rendered idle by the de
struction of the Frie Railroad bridge. The
Erie Company have over two hundred men
at work day aud night, erecting a tempor
ary bridge over the Delaware" at Sawmill
Rift, three miles west of this place, which
they expect to have completed inside of a
forthuight
Port Deposit.
Port Deposit, Mr., March 19. The
flood here is fearful. The water is from
five to fifteen feet deep in the streets.
Nothing like it was ever seen before.
Nearly the whole town is flooded and there
is great destruction of property. No lives
have been lost so far. The railroad depot
is full of water and the telegraph office was
abandoned last night in a boat. At Havre
de Grace the ice has gorged about five
miles below the town. The wharves are
flooded, and whole piles of lumber have
been swept from them. A large number
of men arc engaged in saving it. The
street next to the river, above the bridge,
is completely blocked with ice, wood and
lumber, and the water is about ten iuche3
deep in the street, but falling slowly. The
canal towpath, at the upper end of the town,
is covered with ice. '
The river has fallen threo feet since
morning. The water is now four feet deep
on the railroad track and in Main street.
The Leirislatnr ml; ,
" . JuiIlCU fin Tl
to meet on the first Tucsdav Jl
lS7b. J anuarv
As the result of the union roT.- ,
mgs at lunkhannock this
members have been added tn .V L for:Vi
leiuui luuiui, inirtv ir, ti.- . - "--m
church, and others ar tr 1, Ul
Baptist church. uuc tfc,
In New York city, on Satu7da7 k r
Gardner, letter-carrier. cnnvU,'i rah
ins: letters, and George W a'i- stea'-l
m the registry department of the w r
, . fcwrea letter t..
ent to the pemtentmrv w?r'
each Two other men, convicted of
inrr Ipffprc worn tpnt t, .: .. ca,.
o ; -s.v W ison.
A girl in Susquehanna counter-, t
eo,! ,.a ,.r , .J recent!?
wis ttooa m ov.f
and forty-five minutes, each stick bei -r
twice. She is described as r,rf . cut
yet eighteen, and performed the tt ' - "
fit of anzer, because her matins. n ? a
she was fit for nothing else but to' m
the parlor and read novels. Iow l
jnrl as that would rat to hPr , a
when she got mad at hini ! " 1
A funny story is told cf Vermont
iarmers who are not grangers. They i
duced their wives to join and report befor
they would submit themselves. ow wjlfie
they will, they cannot ; two black balls preet
every application. Meanwhile the Jivp
go regularly and triumphantly to every
grange meeting, and the men stay at homo
and tend the babies.
The amount due depositors in
hundred and fifty.eijrht savings bank of
New York State is $304,0,000, th( in
crease last year being $18,-100,000. This
aggregate ot deposits is greater than that
of all the national and State banks put
together. The reason is that the sm-m
banks pay interest and arc deemed to be
more secure.
Miss Molly Allen, of Nana. Oalifnrmn
a maiden of 12 or 13, has killed more pme
with her small telescope rifle than any two
hunters in that region this winter. She
made $30 on squirrels' tails last summer
getting only five cents apiece. At a shoot
ing match last year she took so many prizes
that her bearded opponents ruled her out
of the ring.
A great many of the lumbermen en the
Muskegon river have finished their con
tracts, and arc now breaking up camp. P,i
Rapids, Mich., is full of lumbermen on their
way out of the woods. It is estimated that
1 a . 1 1 1 Ml- n n .
aoout iwo nunarea minion leet ot lgs have
been put into the Muskegon river, and if
the sleighing continues good two weeks
longer the full amount contracted 350 -000,000
will be put into the river.
John Bimpson, a wealthy manufacturer
of Quincy, 111., left that place sis years apo
for Europe, with two daughters, and ws
supposed to have sailed on the ship United
Kingdom, which was never heard from.
News is now received that Bimpson and
his daughters are alive and coming home.
In the meantime Mrs. Bimpson had col
lected $5,000 life insurance on Mr. Binip
son's policy, married again, and has a child
by her second husand.
Judge Chrisiianey, the new Republican
U. S. Senator from Michigan, last Friday
delivered one of the strongest arguments
ever made before the Senate respecting
Louisiana affairs. He reviewed the testi
mony in the case, weighed the arguments
on either side, and submitting them to the
test of sound law, arrives at a decision
which is the logical sequence of his reason
ing. This conclusion is that th-T2 wa? no
legal election in Louisiana in 1872. and no
legal government has been installed since
that election ; that the election, canvass of
the votes, and pretended installation cf ihe
officers claiming to be elected wero equally
void both as to McEnery and his Legisla
ture and Kellogg and his Legislature. Of
course, therefore, Pinch-back s claims to a
seat in the Senate are denied as being ut
terly without foundation in law. Similar
conclusions were reached by the majority
of a Senate Committee, and presented by
the Chairman, Senator Carpenter, two
years ago.
A Blot on Vineland.
Vinkland, March 19. Mr. Carruth,
editor of a paper published here, was fatally
shot this inornkg by Charles K. Landi-,
who is known as the ''Father of Yincland."
The affair grew out of an article in the
paper, which Landis thought referred to
him. but in which no names mentioned.
Old-Fashioned Winters.
The New Haven 1'alladium has been
searchining history for a colder winter than
the present, aud selects 1732 as a specimen.
In that year the snow, which covered the
whole country as early as the K'th of No
vember, was still found the next April cov
ering the fences. In January a teant was
maintained on Charles river, Boston, for the
entertainment of travelers. From Feb. 2i.
George Washington's first birthday, until
March G, the people crossed the sound on
the ice every day from Stratford, Conn , to
Long Island, a distance of three leagues.
Even as far east as New London, the
extended into the sound as far as coul
seen from the town, and Fisher's island
united to the mainland by a solid bcJ- a
March 2S, The Boston Xeicsletter report
that the people living on Thompson's I!1jj
had crossed over to Dorchester to church
on the ice for the fifteen preeeedin Sun
days. As lato as the 19th of July a loiter
from New London, Conn., reports on
east side of the Connecticut river a body d
ice as largo as two carts can draw, C'r
and solid, and adds very artlessly that 'it
might lie there a month longer, were it l
that so many resort out of euriowtyto
drink punch made out of it. Oa the 1
of July snow was still h iug in a .inassw
the town of Ipswich, Mass., nearly fcsr
feet thick. But the most marvelous record
of that season, is the statement made l
Alouzo, Lewis, author ot the anna ;;I
Lyon Mass., that 'Francis Lewis, t.w
signer of the Declaration of IuL'pende'
drove his horse from New York to barn
stable, the whole length cf Long 1
sound, on the ice.'