ji,.M-T-11-Bf -;f.r.-w (E1)C 3cCfcvsoninn. THURSDAY, JULY 29. 1875. 3?The Mauch Chunk Democrat .says that the friends of Colonel Mcichoir II. Horn, of Catasauqua (formerly of Easton), will pre sent his name to the next Democratic State Convention as a candidate for State Treas urer. The first gun of the campaign was .fired by the Republicans at Erie ou Friday evening of last week, passed off very satisfac tory. The meeting i.s represented as hav ing been large and very enthusiastic, and great confidence was expressed as to the re sult iu November. Speeches were made by Hon. John Scott, Hon. C. S. Wolf. General Henry M. Iloyt and others. Gov. Hart ranft sent his regrets, not being able to be present. Trying to Ride for run. The Monroe Democrat having been riding shanks' horses for a considerable time, con cluded last Monday morning, for the sake of enjoying a little boyish fun, that he would have a genuine horseback ride, and with this view in mind he made a strong effort to mount Mr. Joseph Sherman's horse, which was standing loose and alone, already saddled and bridled, in front cf Hess Brothers tobac co store, when the horse turned quickly "around, and the Democrat losing his equili bria, fell heavily over the horse to the ground with his foot fast to the stirrup, when the horse becoming frightened at this ground and lofty tumbling, started up the street at full pace, dragging the Democrat from five to eight feet, when his shoe fortunately partly ripped opeu behind enabled his foot to slip out, leaving fast in the stirrup the shoe, which the horse carried up the street as a trophy of the Democrat's bad riding. The Democrat got up slightly demoralized for the time being, but entirely unhurt. Here can readily be seen all the essential requisites of a serious accident, which we are exceedingly gratified at being able to an nounce was frustrated. What serious and important events arc often embraced in ap parently trifling circumstances. In this case, the simple ripping of a shoe down the heel proved the salvation of the Democrat, and affords us the pleasure of penning this article, rather than the pain of writing his obituary. We hope that the Democrat will sueeed in makiug his next attempt at horseback riding, more of a success. Chestnuts promise to be plentiful and cheap, next fall. - . Pictures framed on short notice, at MeCarty's. Hunterdon people chew $22,000 worth of tobacco per year. Constable Fxsfiei: was around on Satur day evening last, and "pulled" a number of "mud larks." Syracuse, X. Y., boasts of the largest t-tcer in the country or world. It is seven feet high, and weighs 4G17 pounds. An inscription on a Franklin tombstone records the fact that an honest lawyer lies buried there. The tomb-stone is very old. . Twenty-four candidates have presented themselves for the position of Sheriff of Lan caster. What an embarrassment of riches! On Saturday last, Mr. John Bowden, trucker of this place, served a number of his customers with green corn of his own raising. O - A Potts vi lle lawyer was robbed at Smith's Island, Philadelphia, of his false teeth. lie oughtn't to have worn them in his pocket The work on the new Jail is progressing lowly. The job is a big one, and will take time. But the work promises to be well dune when completed. Among the latest labor-saving machines is a patent painting machine, which is said to paint six hundred laths of ordiniary size for enetiau blinds in an hour. The unfortunate iufant foundling girl, left nt the rcsideucc of Mr. John Kern, of this town, ou the 3rd of July, died at Reuben Thomas' on the 21st inst. Rhubarb leaves freshly gathered from the garden and placed near the crevices where cock-roaches are found are said to be invalu uble for exterminating these troublesome in sects. A valuable horse belonging to Mr. Rudolph Kiutucr, of this borough, died on Monday last. This is the second horse he has lost within a few weeks. The amount of internal revenue collected in Montgomery county, during the month of June, was $8,80.3 01. Total in the district (Montgomery and Lehigh), $20,004 21. An attempt is being made to weed out tobacco chevvers in Pottsville, who expector ate on ladies' dresses, by o fie ring $1 OO re ward for the arrest aud conviction of the creatures. Mrs. R. 31. Ross, of North East, was dan gerously poisoned last week by using currants ou which wind had blowu Paris green, which had reoeutly been used on the potato vines near by. The Conueautviile Courier says: A wo man in Beaver township, this county, this season, sheared upwards of two hundred and fifty fcheop for fanners in her neighborhood, and did the work well. She clipped forty ve ;c:.-Mju of a day and a half. -mf- iITi -rT1 rir-ni rrrifTirTr-iTrrTtrii-t-r- "p muhTiiin It is expected, in well informed circles, that the price of coal will steadly advance from next month. Buy your coal now as there is no prospect of its getting any cheaper. The room of Mr. and Mrs. Heine, of Williamsport, at Congress Hall, Cape May, was entered by thieves on the morning of the 15th inst., and robbed of $1,000 in money and $4,000 worth of jewelry. . Camp Melting. A Union Camp Meet ing will be held on the ISth of August, in Mr. Ilinkle's Woods. Hoarding will be provided on the ground at reasonable rates. G. L. SCHAFFEIt, 1 T, L. M. Hokes, 1 1 'astors. Four children of one family, aged respec tively nine, twelve, sixteen aud eighteen, died in Windsor township, York county, in the space of nine days, of diphtheria, which is prevailing in that township to a frightful extent. A large number of friends, with their wives aud sweethearts, all of this Borough, visited Lake Ponononmimr. ou Fridav last. and passed the day in pic-nic style. The excursionists returned home in the evening highly pleased with their visit Regular services of the Protestant Episcopal Church will be held by the Rev. Perceval Beckett, every Sunday morning in the Court House, Stroudsburg, commencing August 1st, 1S75. The public are cordially invited to attend. Services will commence at 10:30 A. M. The usual number of thefts, robberies, and burglaries of recent occurrence in Mas sachusetts and adjoining States excite general alarm, and measures are to be taken to en force stringently the laws applying to tramps and vagrants who are prowling in hordes throughout the country. Kev. D. E. Scikf.dler, who has had charge of the Brodhcadsville Normal School, in this County, leaves on the 2d ult, to take charge of a Boarding School in Berks county. Mr. S. is a gentleman of considerable note, as an educator, and we wish him entire suc cess in his new location. Members of the Knights of Pythias should be on the lookout for a man named John Lynch, claiming to be a member of Eureka Lodge, No. 1 2, of Philadelphia. He recently visited Beading and solicited aid from members-of the order there. Inquiry was made of Eureka Lodge, and a reply received stat ing that Lynch was an impostor: Sweeney, McCluney k Co., of Wheeling, West Ya., large glass manufacturers, failed on Saturday. Their liabilities are $156,000. Their assets are estimated to be $142,000. A meeting of the creditors will be called to try and arrange for an extension of time, and to continue the works running. They employed upwards of three hundred hands. -o- The larcre rhinoceros beloncrinsr to A. B. Ptothchild & Co.'s menagerie, which exhibited here a few weeks ago, died at Bradford, McKcan County, Pa., on the 5th of July. The animal was skinned and the carcass temporarily interred. His bones will be exhumed and mounted and placed in some museum. The animal was valued at $15,000. On Thursday evening last, Mr. William Chipperfied, of Stroud township, stopped at Ackerman's Mill, in this place, and during Mr. C's. absence, the horse started and had gone but a short distance, (the animal being blind) before he plunged into the race, and would evidently have drowned, had it not been for the prompt assistance rendered Mr. C. by a number of our citizens, who were near at the time. Jonas Altimus, Esqr., County Treasur er, commences his rounds for the collection of taxes, on Monday next, at the house of Reuben Bonser, in Tunkhannock township, and will conclude his labors on Friday, Sep tember 3d, 1875, at the house of Charles Brown, iu Pocono township. Tax payers who avail themselves of the opportunities to pay their taxes, will be entitled to an abate ment of five per cent See notice to "Tax payers" iu another column. The Republic magazine for August, is equal to a series of campaign documents. Its pages are filled with valuable material, which must tell in the fall elections. No public man, no speaker, no one desires correct infor mation on subjects of public interest, should be without this magazine. Its low price, on ly $2, brings it within the reach of all. Its opening article on "Growth of the Nation Under Republicanism," cannot fail to revive the pride of loyal men in the party which has done heroic service for the country. The Republic is a power in the field of politics, and should have a wide circulation. Orders should be sent to The Republic publishing company, Washington, D. C. -o- IrsoiiaIs. Hon. Robert Klotz, of Mauch Chunk, was in town on 3Ionday last 3Ir. James Miles, of Philadelphia, and well known to many of our citizens, is stop ping at the "Burnett House." IIou. Asa Packer and Commodore Van dcrbelt, were among the guests, at the Dela ware Water Gap, on Sunday last. Rev. John Brown, of New York, son of the late Daniel Brown, of Shawnee, this County, preached at the Presbyteriau Church, in this Borough, on Sunday last, morning and afternoon. Maj. Win. K. Haviland, former District Attorney of this County, and family, now of Cleveland, Ohio, have been ou a vi.-it to his father-in-law's, 3Ir. Robert Boys, of this borough, during the past several days. They left for home on Tuesday last. We were pleased to see them looking so well 1 1 wVmii , m iiiiihiN, Mini ii Base Ball. The Yariety Base Ball Club of the city of Scranton, visited this Borough on Thursday last, and played a game with our Caldeno club. They played seven innings with the following score : Innings. 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th. Yariety, 006 01 0 07 Caldeno, 17157 4 8 4 257 Umpire It. Northrop, of Canadensis. The "Variety" came for wool, but left shorn, rather closely. The Caldeno Base Ball Club of this place will visit Pleasant Valley, to-day, (Thursday) aud while there will play the Lehighton club a match game of ball. There will be a grand harvest home and pic-nic, also a dance in the evening, on the day of the match. . - Musical Sociable. Last Monday cven- iog about one hundred ladies and gentlemen assembled in the large and elegant furniture ware-rooms of J. II. McCarty & Sons, with a view of testing one of Lyghte & Ernst's cele brated Pianos, introduced hereby their agent Mr. E. L. Ellison. Fine selections from the most prominent authors were rendered by the Misses Carrow, Miss Nettie Jackson, Miss Lizzie Williams, and others. The playing was par excellence and singing charming, es pecially the operatic selection sang by Miss Lizzie Williams. Beethoven Quartette en livened the occasion with their presence. At a late hour the party dispersed, all expressing themselves highly delighted with the tone and finish of the instrument introduced by Mr. Ellison, and the musical treat given the party by the ladies and gentleman who furnished the instrumental and vocal music. The words "Burnett House" appears twenty-seven times in last week's Jefferson ian, and only nineteen times in the Democrat. This week the latter paper will probably "make up" its former delinquency. Easton Argus. The number twenty-seven is for luck and indicates the number of drinks you are en titled to Judge, provided Amandus makes up his former delinquency. Hold yourself ready to come up and take them ! Not all at once though, for our host keeps the pure stuff, which is strong and vigorous, and knocks down both great and small, when not treated with due respect. So come and stay two or three days. Judge, and enjoy yourself decently and in order, and our word for it you will have no occasion to regret your visit to our pleasant Borough. Chicken Thieves Around. 31 r. J. Allen Clements, living near this town, had a fine brood of fifteen chickens, which our friend Al. fondly anticipated were rapidly growing into pot pie, stew, roat, broil and fricassee, or any other desirable dish and perhaps they were ; but alas, not for Al. For some selfish scoundrel, not fearing the law nor re specting Al s claim on the chickens, came and stole the whole brood, a few nights since, j Another. 3Ir. William Banta, residing! on Centre street, in this borough, had eight stolen on Sunday evening last. Still AxoxiiER-pJacob II. Butts, had stolen twenty-two young turkeys about the size of quails, ten or fifteen days ago. 3Ir. B. also lost a hen with a brood of nine Brahma chickeus, about the same time. And to complete the rascality poisoned a fine Newfoundland Dog for him. These losses might by a little stretch of charity be ascribed to the ravages of minks. But whether correct or not in this view of the matter, we would suggest a good dose of shot, well set ia, as a good aud effectual cure to either man or beast. One more. Last week forty chickens were ttolcn from the yard of the Indian Queen Hotel, in this Borough. Cliurcli Dedication. According to announcement the 31. E. Church at KaBt Stroudsburg, was dedicated to the service of God, on last Sunday, the 25th inst Bishop K. G. Andrew preached in the morning a very able, interesting and instruc tive sermon, from John 4: 24 God is a Spirit. The sermon was H7 minutes long and held the audience to the last. After the sermon, the Ilev. Doctor Dashicll of the Newark Conference, took into his hands the matter of raising funds to defray the ex pense incurred in the erection of Church and Parsonage, and succeeded in raising about $1,420. In the afternoon short and interesting ad dresses were made by the Kev. Dr. Carrow of the 31. H. Church of this place and by Bishop Andrew. The congregation being email in consequence of a colored Camp 3Iceting being near by, the collection did not run up very largely. In the evening Doctor Dashiell preached an excellent sermon from Acts 16: 20 "Sirs, what must I do to be Raved ?" After the sermon, the matter of raising funds was again taken in hand with better success than in the afternoon. The collections of the day aggregating about $2,000. The interest ing services of the occasion were brought to a close by formally dedicating the Church to the service of Almighty God. The church is 44 by 70 feet and will seat about three hundred and seventy-five persons. The audience room is finished off in walnut, and the isles neatly carpeted. The building is altogether a pleasing and imposing structure, one of which our neighbors may well feel proud. The whole cost, we learned, of the Church and Parsonage is 510,943 on which there was an indebtedness of $.3,300 on Sunday morning last, which was unprovided for. But the col lections of the day reduced the unprovided for debt to $3,300, which we hope will also be provided for in due season. This is the first Protestent Church erected and dedicated in East Stroudsburg. Everything conspired to render the day pleasantly memorable to our neighbors. The day was as fine as could have been desired. And we are especially gratified at being able to note the liberal spirit with which the Stroudsburg brethren responded to their neigh bors appeal for assistance, in this their roble and every way worthy enterprise. May it prove to be productive of more good than its moa sanguine friendo dare hope. Whisperings from East Stromls liurgr. Thanks to the colored camp meeting for the late rains. At an evening entertainment between the Lawn Cottage aud Locust Grove boarders, upwards of seven dollars was collected for the A. M. E. Church, of Stroudsburg. A pious individual euchred the camp meet ing committee out of a few stamps by running a stand on tho outside of tho camp ground limits. Wm. E. Henry and others, deserve the thanks of our citizens and the traveling pub lic generally for their improvement of the road leading to Sambo Falls. Mr. C. E. Durfee, the gentlemanly pro prietor of Lawn Cottage, has his cozy little summer resort filled to its fullest capacity with summer boarders. Well, Charley de serves a liberal patronage. Mr. Durfee, always having an eye to the comfort of his guests, erected seats on the camp ground for their accommodation. . . "Within the last two weeks there has been a very marked rise in the price of bread stuffs wheat, corn and flour. The direct cause is a bad failure of the corps in differ ent parts of Europe in France, Germany, Hungary aud Russia owing to extremely heavy rains and damage done by swarms of locusts to the ripening harvests. It is certain that there will be a large demand for American supplies, and to meet this great quantities of grain are already cross ing the Atlantic. In Chicago and other Western cities there is a degree of specula tion that has stimulated prices above their true level, but even in the Eastern markets the rise has been so marked as to .add mil lions of dollars to the value of the grain now in the country. The effect of this is to put our business men and farmers in a better condition, as what we have to sell is sure to find a quick market at good prices. The cotton product, too, will bo very large, and its shipmcut will soon put a stop to the exportation of money to Europe. Very probably the commercial advantages arising from our good crops and Europe's poor ones will solve our troublesome financial problem. With good times for farmers and working men we shall soon hear the last of the many nostrums that are now presented. Norristown, has five school houses, with 2, ISO seats. Allentown boasts of chickens which cost $30 per pair. Three new oil wells have been struck in the Butler region. There are 5G8 Granges of Patrons of Husbandry in the State. The oats crop iu Pennsylvania will be heavier than for some years past. A Mennonite colony has settled in Cottonwood county, Minnesota. The Bethlehem Iron Company's county taxes are 2,130.90 for the year. In 1869, in Central Illinois, corn was replanted as late as the 3d of July. A Minnesota woman killed forty-eight bushels pf grasshoppers and got $1 per bushel. Tweed says he has paid his lawyers to date about $500,000. But he has millions of plunder left. Connecticut's hay crop, this year, will be the largest ever known to the oldest farmers of that old State. The prisoners in the Northampton coun ty jail amuse themselves by playing base ball in the jail yard. At Williamsport, Pa., several manufac tories are reducing the hours of work on account of dull times. Binghamton, N. Y. according to the census just completed, has a population of lo,4L'o, a gain of 2,824 since 1S70. Hugh Donahue, of Boston, completed on Thursday night the feat of walking 1100 miles in 1100 consecutive hours. An aged colored man has been holding street meetings in Coatesville. He says "with a regiment of singers he can whip an army of sinners." A jaw, three feet long, has been un earthed at Goshen, Indiana. It is sup posed to be a relic of some woman's righter of the Silurian age. A gambler in Iowa, to escape arrest, at tempted to cross a river with a pocket-book between his teeth. His strength or skill not proving adequate, he was obliged to open his mouth in order to call for dielp, hi3 pocket-book, containing $1000, went to to the bottom. The cash vault of the Treasury at Wash ington requires three keys to open it, and these are in charge of three gentlemen, each holding one key, aud the presence of all is necessary to unlock the vault. The Secre tary of the Treasury appoints one, the Treasurer one and the Bureau of Engrav ing and Printing one. An examination of the States Treasury of New York has just been made. Every thing was found all right. The amount of money on hand, on June 30, was $7,521, 108 03. The balance called for by the books at that date was $7,521,107 99. There was thus shown an apparent surplus of four cents. The 'sensationists' there as here had their trouble for nothing. Gold has rapidly declined within the last two weeks, and on Saturday last closed at 1121 a premium of rather les3 than one eighth. Legal-tender currency has appre ciated exactly in the same proportion, and greenbacks are now worth about 89 cents to the dollar. The closer they come toge ther the better for trade and general pros perity. Whenever the two become inter chargeable in equal amounts we shall have the best currency in the world. One of the heaviest rains of the season fell on Thursday throughout the Ohio Valley. The fall at Evansville was three inches, while at Vincenes the rain was heavy enough to beat down the erain. corn anil grass. It is believed that 10,000 acres of corn in the Y abash bottom are under wa ter, and the Wabash river continues to rise rapidly. All tho streams in Southern Ohio and Kentucky are swelling, and the Kana wha river at Charlestown, West Y;i. has risen 15 feet. ' Address of the State Committee. To the Republicans of Pennsylvania : The political campaign upon which we are entering is one of more than ordinary importance, and we therefore invoke your hearty co-operation in our efforts to press the claims of the Bepublican party to pub lic confidence and support. The success of that party is essential, in our judgment, to the prosperity of the State, to the perpetuity of the Union, and to the performanence of the principles upon which the Government is founded. The control of the administration of State affairs fell into Republican hands iu 1SG1, aud we point with pride to the record of that control. The State debt lias been re duced from forty millions to twenty-three millions of dollars ; the State taxes upon real estate and upon the personal property em ployed in agricultural pursuits have been repealed ; the resources of the State have been developed ; the admirable school sys tem, "which distinguishes our Common wealth, has been fostered and strengthened; the orphans of her brave soldiers who fell in the war have been fed, clothed, educated and fitted for active life ; and the varied interests of the people have been protected and encouraged. Under no previous administration has the State been so uniformly prosperous and well cared for ; and the slight experience which people had last winter of one branch of the. Legislature under Democratic con trol may well lead them to the conviction that they have everything to lose and noth ing to gain by a change in the administra tion of public affairs. The candidates for State offices presented by the Republican party are in every way worthy of public confidence and of a hearty support. Governor Hartranft, duringhis six years' service as Auditor General, earned a very high character as a public officer, and his administration of the Executive Depart ment has won the respect and commenda tion of all, without distinction of party. Unflinching integrity, unbending honesty and a faithful attention to the duties cf his office have characterized his administration throughout, and certaiuly no Governor ever more richly deserved a re-election. Our candidate for State Treasurer is a new man to public life, but one in whom is combined all the qualifications of a good public officer. His capacity for the place is admitted by all, and his well-kwown char acter for integrity and business ability is also conceaded by his political opponents. Having, therefore, a State ticket strong in all the elements that commend candidates to public favor, a platform of principles which has challenged the admiration of Re publicans throughout the country, aud a record of State administration to which we can all look back with a pardonable pride, we are justified, as a party, in claiming that we have faithfully met our responsibilities and that we are entitled to a continuance of public confidence. Parties are worthy of support only so long as they advance wise and patriotic principles and promote the honest and effi cient administration of public affairs and as the Republican party is entitled to the credit of both, it justly lays claim to a ver dict of popular approval. There are many matters ot detail in which the Republican party differs from the Democratic ; but there is one radical difference which, so long as it exists, will render tho existence of the Republican par ty a public necessity. That difference con sists in the fact that the Republican party believes that the United States form a Na tion with all the functions of a National Sovereignty, while the Democratic party regards the Federal Government as a mere league between the States, which are each, in its view, sovereign and independent. The Republicans believe in the indisso lubility of the Union of the States, whilst the Democratic party believes that the Fed eral Government has no power to protect its own existence or prevent any State from asserting its independence. This is a difference which involves the very life of the Govermcnt. When the re bellion broke out in 1SG1, while James Buchanan was still in office as President, he shrank appalled from the duty of pre serving the Union iutact, and yielded to the advice of his Attorney General that there was no power in the General Govern ment to coerce a State. Had that rebellion occurred at the beginning, instead of at the close, of his administration, it would have been at once successful. Under the Demo cratic idea of State rights, Mr. Buchanan would have been compelled to let the South ern States go. 'With the prominence at present given by the Democratic party to its one dis tinguishing doctrine of State Sovereignty, as opposed to that of National Sovereignty, the advent of that party to power ia the nation would naturally brin? with it tho danger of a second assertion of the ri-?ht of States to secede from tho Union. Our previous experience of the inability of the Democratic party in power to attempt the coercion of a rebellious State should certainly be sufficient to teach the people the danger of entrusting the Government to hands too weak or too unwilling to protect it. Should it ever become nacessary here after, to assert the power of the General Government to promote tho public welfare, in any matter of gcnral concern as, for instance, in preventing local restrictions upon tho free transportation of persons or produce, or in removing natural obstruc tions thereto, the Demoaratic doctrine, faithfully adhered to, would prevent that party from legislating upon it, Congressionat ly. The National Government cannot, in fact, be carried on successfully, nor can the necessities of a people, with interests so great and so grand as those of the Ameri can people, be properly met and provided for by any party holding strictly to the idea mau uoernment is but a federal league of ac-paiaie. aim luuependent State sovcrei'-n-ttes. The Republican party of the State and the rsation stand now, as ever, by the rights of labor as entitled to tho protection of the Government ; by universal freedom and universal suffrage sustained by universal education ; by the public school system, with the taxation of all for its sup port, and opposed to any division of the school iund lur any purpose whatever: bv the common law of the nation which inter dicts a third election to the Presidency -V" a tariff so adjusted as to be the burthensome and most favorable to 0 ' interests of labor and industry ; l,v financial legislation which secures free bar ' iug upon a sound basis and provides ft" safe and uniform currency, sufficient "f a the" public wants ; by such a revision f T patent laws as will relieve industry f oppression and secure to the inventor a f''1 remuneration; by a faithful execution"f the laws, the suppression of lawless,, and the enforcement of the Constitution ' it stands ; and by that general policy whi? will preserve the Union intact, wleth ' assailed from within or without. ' r Wc are now entering upon the dosino. year of the first century of American I a dependence ; and it behooves the Repul" cans of Pennsylvania, who believe heartily not only in the words but in the spirit of tl . Declaration of Independance, to show their faith by their works, and rally firmly auj unitedly to the spport of their principles We counsel them, in view of the inter-: which are at stake, to forget all tLeir past differences ; to organize actively an,l cmticiinj , iu present none Dut good and true men for local offices; and ttandin firmly by what they believe and know to be right, demonstrate that claim to public confidence. The second century of our national existence should begin as the firs one did, by a supreme devotion to Kcpub" lican principles, to which only a Republieaa administration, in State or nation, can be or will be faithful. The experience of the past furnishes abundant evidence that the best interests of the people demand the continuance of the enlightened and liberal course of tho Republican party in its well-defined and clearly announced purpose to foster the agricultural, industrial and commercial interests of the country : in its policy which has led to a reduction of seventeen millions of the State debt and six hundred millions of the National debt; in its judicious svs tern of internal imporvements having for their objects the enlargement of facilities and reductions in the cost of transportation for our inter-State commerce ; in its firm adherence to an indissoluble Union and to unity and sovereignty of the nation ; in its honest and faithful administration of the laws; and in its stern devotion to the principles of truth and progress. Firm in that conviction we confidently present our platform and candidates for public support thoroughly assured that in their success will be found the true and only road to National Unity, National Progress aud National Prosperity. By order of the Committee. Henry M. IIoyt, Chairman. A. Wilsox Norths, Secretary. The Com Crop. The July returns to the Department of Agriculture show that the acreage in corn is about 8 per cent, greater than last year. New Englaud has reduced the acreage about 1 A per cent, and the Pacific States about 1 per cent. All the great corn growing re gions have increased their acreage, the Mid dle States 2 per cent., the South Atlantic States 3 per cent., the Gulf States 10 per cent., the inland Southern States 12 per cent., the States north of the Ohio 7 per cent., the States west of the Mississippi 11 per cent. The condition of the crop is be low the average in the New England, Mid dle and South Atlantic States, the minimum condition (S2) being in Rhode Island. Florida and Alabama are also below the average, but the other Gulf States and the inland Southern States are above, the maxi mum (112) being iu Mississippi. All the other States, except Missouri (10:)), are below the average, the minimum condition (82) being in Wisconsin. - Mr. Samuel King, of Williams town ship, Northampton county, committed sui cide by drowning a few days ago. lie was seventy-five years old. During a recent thunder storm thirteen sheep and ten lambs were killed by light ning on the farm of Robert Pitney, ia Morris county, New Jersey. A cat belonging to Mr. King, of Willis town, Chester county, gave birth to six kittens, five of which were united after the manner of the Siamese twins. Young cattle yearlings are suffering from a singularly fatal disease in parts of Potter county. They are suddeuly seized with stiffness, and die in a short time. The farmers, in the vicinity of Charles ton, S. C.,have shipped North this season nearly 400,000 quarts of strawberries, from which they have realized $100,000. It cost $13,000,000 a year to run the city of New York. She pays 13,000 serv ants of high and low degree, one man drawing pay to every three who pays taxes. The average amount paid to the military companies of the State is about $S00, which includes tho State appropriation of $400, transportation expenses, and armory rent, etc., adlowcd. George N. Jackson, the deputy United States collector at Louisville, Ky., who was said to bo a defaulter to the amount of $15,999, is dead. It is thought that he died from poison. A party of Scranton fishermen returned home the other day after a week's fishing, having succeeded in capturing a single perch weighing half a pound, " which cost them fifty dollars. Tho Louisiana census will make the po pulation of New Orleans about 203.0(H). The increase since the last Fderal census is due to the addition of two wards to tho city since that time. Jesse Pomcroy, the Boston boy nmrdoivr under sentence of death, made' an unsuc cessful attempt to escape a night or two ago. Some outsider had sent him a file secreted in a banana. Ingenious. The great unwashed of New York are gradually being cleansed. Last week 09,-102 persons patronized tho public hitb in that city. The largest number bathing in any ono day was ltiJttt. A Long Island farmer, whose Gelds have been overrun with the potato bug, the plan of going through the rows with a horsu aud plow, the w'hillle-trec ot which knocks off tho bugs, which are turned over and buried hopelessly iu a whiffle. I I i
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