EI)c 3c(fcv5onian.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1875.
Theuk will be no fair here this Fall.
What has become of John J. Lagan?
The last of the peaches will be picked
this week.
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CornT commences at this place, on
Monday next, 27th.
The enormous corn crop of the West is
now generally considered safe.
The cry all over town, is that John G.
is married. How about it Johnney ?
A SMtwiT frost occurred at this place"
on Tuesday morning last. Nothing injured.
A sxow storm prevailed on Mount
Washington, X. II., Friday night and
Saturday.
.
Lehigh coal is being shipped across the
continent to California, costing $31 per
ton delivered.
Eleven refreshment stands of the Berks
county fair sold for 1,520, the largest sum
ever realized.
It is estimated that the people of York
have spent over $23,000 for executions,
fairs and picnics this summer.
,c.
Thirteen accidents four of them
fatal occurred in the Luzerne mining dis-
trict during the month of August.
Nearly complete returns from New
Mexico indicate the Hon. G. B. KIkiu's
election as Delegate by about 1 500 majority.
Assessors who have failed to post up
alphabetical lists of voters in their various
districts are liable to a fine of one hundred
dollars.
A NEW kind of potato bug, an inch long,
and with a mouth bier enough to swallow
his Colorado brother, has appeared in Min
nesota. There were found in the craw of a quail
lately killed in Ohio, one cutworm, twenty
one striped vine bugs and one hundred
chinch bugs, but not a single grain of com.
Weston, who understook to walk 100
lniles in 22 hours, commencing at New
Heaven on Friday, finished Saturday after
noon in 21 hours, 31 minutes and 15 se
conds. Sneak thieving is becoming very com
mon again as winter approaches, and peo
ple cannot be too careful to keep their
front doors locked as well as closed both
night and day.
Several hills of iron ore have latelv
bced discovered in the Indian Territory,
and bid fair to yield a good return when
developed. Valuable coal dejosits have
also been found.
One day last week, Thomas Walton, the
-
Caldeno pitcher, while playing catch on
ilie street, the ball struck him on the finger,
which has been very sore. Tom look out
5br your fingers the next' time.
Hon. Carl Sciiurz will make nine
speeches in Ohio during this campaign in
favor of a sound currency. The first will
Ik; made in Cincinnati on Monday evening,
September 27, iu response to an invitation
from the merchants of that citv.
The 17th annual Fair of the Warren
County Agricultural Society, will be held
m the grounds of the Society, at Belvidere
X. J. commencing October 5th and closing
on the 8th. The Secretary, J. T. Kern,
has our thanks for a complimentary.
Fn.L returns of the late election in New
Jersey give a majority of over 43.000 for
each of the Constitutional amendments
voted on. except the 12th which is carried
by about 7G00. The latter is the one
declaring that mortgages shall be uniformly
taxed, five of the counties adjoining New
York having been exempted from sucl
luxation some years ago.
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For the benefit of our Republican friend:
it may be .stated that at a meeting of the
Republican State Committee at Ilarricburg,
last Friday, reports of the most satisfactory
character were received from all parts of
the State. The attendance was large, and
the belief was universal that somethiii"
jnore than the Erie platform and candidates
vould be required to defeat Hartranft and
RawW.
We arc iu receipt of a note from Peter
Y. Wolfe, fbrsuerly of this place, but nuw of
San hrancisco, C;d, who state3 that he in
tends paying this jnvce a visit about the 1st
of December, with a troop of Japanese and
Chinese including twelve of the Crowfoot
Indians, and expci'ts to-give ruterlainuicnts
several evening!. Tie jiorJbru;rjeis will
consist of their own Dative exhibitions of
skill and i:tertanents peculiar to tfeia-
This troap Is the only one of tlu kind
in America, we .ire informed. So look out
for fun and :i?n'is!n"tit nex. Winter, of a
; 1 W.r i vr.'
There are now under process of erec
tion in and arottnd Grecnsburg, forty dwel
ling houses. All of these are good build
ings and many of them elegant structures.
This don't look as though, times are remark
ably hard.
The birthday anniversary of Mr. Fred.
W. Born, was celebrated at the residence
of his father, in this Borough, on Friday
evening last, it being Fred's 24th birthday.
A number of invited guests were present
and enjoyed the hospitality. "Katie" and
"Crissy," Mr. Born's eldest and youngest
daughters, served up an inexhaustible
supply of choice bivalves, in various styles
while the genial Peter and sons "Fritz"
and George dispensed the sparkling lager
to the thirsty. The Stroudsburg Cornet
Band furnished the music for the occasion
and shared the pleasures of the evening.
In the language of the accomplished leader
of the Band, "Smick," we say : vice la
"Fritz," may your birthday come ever
month.
To Tax-raycrs.
The attention of all interested is directed
to the fact that Friday, October 1st, is the
last day on which to pay Borough Taxes
and have a deduction of ten per cent.
After that date the unpaid Taxes will be
placed in the hands of a Collector for im
mediate collection.
Ileal Estate Salem.
Mrs. Geo. W. Brown, of Stroud town
ship, sold her farm, containing 103 acres, to
Mr. Isaac Trimble, of New York City, for
$3000 cash.
Mrs. Sally Ann Morgan, of this Borough,
sold a lot on Monroe street, 50 feet front
by 114 feet in depth, to George Philman,
for 500.
Personal.
Thco. G. Wolf and wife, of Scranton,
were in town, on Saturday last.
S. P. Kasc, President of the proposed
Lehigh and Eastern R. R. was in town on
Friday last, in consulation with General
Burnett, of this place, relative to securing
the right of way, &c.
S. Holmes Jr. Esq., moved into his
new office, adjoining D. R. Brown's Jcwcrly
store, on Main street, on Saturdaj' last.
Improvements.
Win. Garis, C. U. Warnick and George
W. Belong, have completed flag-stone walks,
in front of their residences on Analomink
avenue.
The Odd Fellow's Hall Association, of
this place, have the material on hand for
the erection of stone steps, iu front of the
Odd Fellow's Hall, on Main street, which
will be completed in a few days. A credi
table improvement.
The Town Council have completed two
substancial stone crossings at the corners of
Monroe and Sarah streets.
William Walton, has commenced laying
down a flag-stone pavement in front of his
brick proporty, on Main street, now occu
pied by J. P. Brown, Dr. J. Lantz and B.
S. Jacoby.
Mr. Fred Bartholomew completed a brick
pavement in front of his dwelling on Pocono
street.
Mr. Philip Miller has set the curbs in
front of his property, on the same street,
and will during this week lay down the
brick.
Messrs. Baltz, Palmer, Setzer and others,
are arranging to lay brick pavements in
front of their dwellings on the same street.
Mrs. John CafFey and Samuel Rees, Esq.
have finished pavements in front of their
property, on Monroe street.
Our neighbor of the Democrat, has the
curb stone on hand for a pavement in front
of his lot on the same street.
J. II. Butts, has the curb set, and will
lay down a neat flag stone pavement in front
of his residence on Walnut street.
George W. Drake and Mrs. John Shively,
have finished paving iu front of their pro
perty on Ann street.
M. R. Brown, has commenced the erec
tion of a two-story brick building, 32 by
18 feet, Kitchen attached 1G by 18 feet, on
Scott Avenue, in this Borough.
Peter Williams, Ex-Sheriff MaVsh and
John Ediugcr, have completed their pave
ments on Monroe street.
Mr. Jesse Albert, of this place, is making
alterations iu the building on Monroe street,
he recently purchased of J. B. Storm, Esq.
When completed it will be au ornament to
that part of the town.
Mr. C. P. Mick's new frame building,
on Sarah street, is rapidly approaching
completion.
Fred. Norton is making the necessary
arrangements for the erection of a brick
dwelling house on his lot nearly opposite
the residence of Ed. Baltz, on Pocono St..
We had nearly forgotten, or were almost
too modest to state, that we have just com
pleted as neat and substantial flag-stone
pavement in front of our office, as this
town can boast of ; and we must be excused
if we feel just a little proud of it.
The stone is first class, and the work
done by Peter O'Hare is in harmony with
tin; quality of the stone.
lite stone came from the deservedly
popular flag-stone quarry of Dr, Lcntz of
tli'i-: pi;'.'-'.
J,rliigli & Ilaskrn Railway.,
We are creditably informed that the offi
cers of the above company having met with
such ill success, in, getting the right of way
from Stroudsburg to Fort Jervis, now con
template surveying a route from Stroudsburg
through the Delaware Water Gap, to Port
land, connecting at that point with the South
Mountain road, the right of way on that road
having been cheerfully donated, from the
Delaware ltiver to Middletown on the Erie
Boad. We regret the contemplated change
in the route of the projected road, as we
would prefer to see it pass up the Delaware
Valley.
IMc-IVIc at Snytlersville.
The Sunday School pic-nic came off at
Snydersville last Thursday, aud in all par
ticulars was a grand success. The dinner
which was served in the grove all that could
have been desired. The turn out on the
part of the citizens was large. Two Sunday
Schools, and Ncola Lodge, No. 827, I. O.
O. F. was out in strong force, seventy mem
bers being present.
The addresses were delivered by the Rev.
Mr. Shafer, and by an Albright minister,
whose name we did not get. Every thing
was going on finely, when in the middle of
afternoon the rain, which had been threat
ening up to that time, broke out iu full force
and broke up the assembly.
"The Eldridge Recitals," Etc.
J. Prcscott Eldridge, of New York, known as
"The American Recitation ist," who has during
the past ten years or more appeared before
hundreds of audiences in the United States,
will present his peculiar Entertainment known
as 'The Eldridge Recital," or "An Evening
with the Passion?," "Psychological Seance,"
Etc. At Williams' Hall, on Mondav, Septem
ber 27 lli.
The Programme lie will offer will embrace
Dramatic Imitations, Character Representa
tions, Classic Recitals, etc., together with a
Portrayal of "The Passions," occupying the
first hour of the evening, after which will be
presented an hour of Mirth, Wit and Humor,
entitled "Psychological Seance," and "The
Momusonian Panquct," in which will be in
troduced a number of original novelties of an
intensly humorous nature, thus in an Eycning's
Entertainment presenting so varied a program
me of amusement as to invite smiles and tears
from all, pleasing the most fastidious taste, the
cultivated and reiined, as well as the untutored
mind. From a perusal of the Programme de
signating the various features of the Entertain
ment, as well as from noting the very strong
endorsements Mr. Eldridge has received from
eminent critics, as well as the Press, we are
satisfied that the Entertainment will prove one
of the most interesting and pleasing amuse
ments of th season, and we strongly recom
mend our readers to not allow it to pass by
their attendance.
OBITUAllY.Thc wife of Ex-Judge
Michael II. Drehcr, of this Boroutrh, died
suddenly, on last Saturday morning, aged 72
years 1 month and 13 days.
Mrs. D. was of a domestic turn of mind
always loving home and laboring to make it
pleasant. She was charitable and kind to
the poor and distressed, and what she did in
this direction was done meekly, without any
ostentatious show. She was the mother of
nine children, five sons and four daughters,
all of whom are living, her death being the
first breach in the home circle.
Forest and Stream Sportsmen's
dub of Monroe County, for
flic nroicctioii of Game and
Fish.
For some time past, Col. E. E. Norton,
Samuel Buckley, Hon. Win. Davis, lieu. C.
Burnett, District Attorney Lee, Samuel
Huffman, Chester Fulmer and a number of
other gentlemen, have been discussing the
necessity of forming an association for the
protection of game and fish in this Count',
from the merciless slaughter of unprincipled
sportsmen, out of season. .Nor did they
stop here, they also discussed the necessity
of adopting some measures by which farmers
might be piotected from the intolerable nui
sance of having their fences thrown down
and crops destroyed by these same persons
whose sole object seems to be, not only to
shoot cverj' thing that has feathers on, but
to do as much mischief as they can in throw
ing down fences and running through grain
fields. Col. Norton has, ever since his ad
vent amongst us, taken a great interest iu
protecting the game that abounds in this
County, and says there is no county in the
State so suitably adapted for game as Mon
roe, if the game laws were only enforced
and the game protected from the wanton
slaughter out of season. The result of their
discussing the subject was a meeting of the a-
bove named gentlemen, and several others,
at the office of District Attorney Lee, last
Monday evening, and a Club formed, to be
known as the " Forest and Stream Sports
men's Club of Monroe County, for the pro
tection or Crauie and r ish. A permanent
organization was effected, with Col. E. E.
Norton, President; D. S. Lee, Esq. Secreta
ry; Beuj. F. Butts, Ass't Secretary; Chester
Fulmer, Samuel Huffman, Samuel Buck
ley, Hon. C. Burnett, Hon. Wm. Davis,
John Baldwin, and John Selwood, Vice
Presidents, and Edwin Fisher, Treasurer.
At the next meeting which will be held at the
"Burnett House," next Monday evenin
Vice Presidents will be elected from each
township, thus securing a hearty co opera
tion in the enforcement of the game laws in
every section of the county. Several invita
tions were sent to prominent citizens of the
different towuships to attend the meeting last
Monday evening, but owing to the short no
tice they failed to attend ; however, severa
letters read from different gentlemen ex
pressing their regrets at being unable to at
tend on account of the short notice and hear
tily endorsing the object of forming the club,
and pledging their support. The Club de
serves a liberal support from all who are in
teresled in the game laws, and especially
from the farmers who suffer the most from
haying fences and crops destroyed by a set of
fellows whose only delight is to kill and de
stroy.
A cordial invitation is extended to all who
are interested in the laudable object of the
Club, to attend and join, at their next meet
ing, on Monday evening next, l27lh iiitt.
"Don't geti Angry."
' One of the easiest and most perfectly silly
things in this world, is to get angry, no mat
ter with '.whom, man; or woman, or upon
what provocation. There is nothing to be
gained by tx no necessity for it, and no man
ner of use in it.
And vet strange as it may appear, one
half of the world is angry with the other,
and for the most trivial thing too. Theolo
gians get angry and quarrel, politicians, law
yers, doctors and the king and peasant fol-
ow close on the heels, with dogs and cats,
birds and beasts about all sorts of things,
and on all occasions.
If there is any thing in the world to make
one feel ashamed, it is to get angry. ro
man or woman fails to think less of them
selves after making a display of their temper,
it de-rrades them in their own eyes, and the
eyes of others-and, what is worse, blunts
the finer feelings and increases the power ot
passion and irritatibility.
Religion and politics should never be ar
gued by friends they are sure to end with
being angry- with each other, and the more
angry they become the more they show to
the world their ignorance on either subject.
How senseless for politicians to quarrel they
are themselves denying the first principles of
freedom, of thought, moral liberty, without
which, politics is not worth a toss of a cop
npr. 1 Tt is wronsr uton principle.' All have
a right to their own opinions, aud one and
all have a right to convince each other pleas
antly if you can, but don't get angry, keep
cool, aud iu nine cases out.of ten you will
gain your point; but, if you let your temper
get the better of your judgment, all is lost,
and you will be reduced to begging somebo
dy's pardon before getting through. Angry
words have more to answer for than actions,
they live and have more vitality in them.
We are apt to think that a word or two does
not matter that we need not trouble our
selves, to be very particular as to what we
ay. Sin does its work in many ways and
sorrow comes from a variety of sources. And
angry words have much to answer for among
the rest. "All men are liars." Who but a
man in a violent passion would have said
that? The assertion is so sweeping aud un
just that if David had not prefaced it by his
profession: I said it in my haste," we should
not have understood it. Perhaps the cause
of these words is, that the speaker feels him
ielf aggrieved. We often do in this life of
many trials, we cannot have all we wish for
and so we allow ourselves to become slaves
to our meaner natures, instead of being mas
ter, simply because we find only few things
coming to us when we should have all, or
at least the lions share.
CECILIA.
Ji'DC.i: I'KKsiiiNci's record durincr the
war is now being sharply overhauled. 1L
was then an active Democratic politician
an l was most of the time a member of the
Legislature. As such, iu 1SGM, he voted
Jor a bill prohibiting colored people from
coming into this State to make it their
temporary or permanent residence. At
the same time he voted for rcsoultions ecu
demning the emancipation proclamation of
President Lincoln. Iu ISGt he voted
against the law enabling our absent soldiers
in the field to exercise the right of suffrage.
In 1SG5 he voted yatsthe ratification
of the thirteenth Constitutoual amendment,
which declares that human slavery shall
not exist iu the United States or any place
subject to its jurisdiction. In 1SGG he
voted against a resolution requesting our
members of Congress to support measures
to protect the credit of the Government,
to prevcut'the payment of the Bebel debt,
to prevent payment for liberated slaves, and
to secure to the nation the just fruits of
the war. As a member of the Democratic
State Convention of 18G3, held at Ilarris
burg, while the Bebel army was devastating
the Cumberland valley, he voted for the
celebrated "peace and surrender" resolu
tion. All this was done while Gen. Hart
ranft was nobly leading his division iu the
field against the national enemy. On
certain civil issues the record of Judge
Pershing is no better. In 1SG3, while in
the Legislature, he voted against a bill to
prohibit the payment of employees of
corporations by orders upon their stores ;
and in 1SG5 he voted for a bill niakini; the
employees of railroads responsible for ac
cidents instead of the corporations them
selves. These are facts that arc verified
by the public records of the State, and they
present the Democratic candidate for
Governor in a light that cannot recommend
him to the good opinion of the people.
IjucIc Co. Int.
TilK court of Washington county has
fined several of the township auditors 50
each for not publishing a report of the fi
nancial condition of their several townships,
as required by law.
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HIE Pennsylvania Knights Templars
contemplate arranging the largest encamp
ment of Knights Templar iu the Philadel
phia Park next year ever witnessed in the
world's history.
The Grand Lodge of the United States
I. O. of O. P., met at Indianapolis on Mon
day last, Grand Sire Durham, of Kentucky,
presiding. Representatives attended from
all parts of the country, and from Canada
and the Sandwich Islands. The session
was principally devoted to the transaction
of formal business. 11. H. Morrison, of
Michigan, was appointed special deputy to
establish the order in Great Britain. In
the afternoon there was a formal reception
at the Academy of Music, the address of
Welcome be ill!? dpliwvrvl lur (,
IJIendrieks. " J "uyi
Jury List Sept. Term, 1875.
. GRAND JURY. "
Barrett John Deublcr, Lenjamin Hinds.
Chcslnuthill Phillip Gearhart, Emanuel
Flvte, Peter Hufsmith.
Coolbaugh Josepn t mon.
East Stroudsburg Thomas Stemple, George
Mann.
Eldred William Engler, Joseph Teel, Jr.,
Wm. iSchamle.
Jackson Nelson Bellis. " "
Middle Smithfield Win. Gruber, Andrew
Pipher, Jacob Hash.
Paradise Jacob llartensline, ueo. v . cces.
Price Egbert Cramer.
Smithfield Andrew Hoffman.
Stroud David Eckert, Henry Edinger.
Stroudsburg Lin ford Marsh, Rudolph
Kintner.
. Tunkhannock Mathias George.
. rirriT jurors.
Chestnnthill Simon Snyder, Nathan Kiah-
augh, Adam Kresge, John Gregory.
Coolbaugh John Carter, John Dreher.
Eldred John Himebach, Leonard Lichten-
walter, Jeremiah Newhart.
Hamilton Daniel Shoemaker, John Hart
man, Peter Butz, John Arnold, Peter M. Hel
ler, I'arnet Fellencer.
Jackson Joseph Smith, Peter li. Miller.
Pocono Aaron Anclemoyer. -
Polk Lindford Smith. Peter J. Shafer, Wil
liam Gilbert.
Ross Samuel Lessig, Samuel r lyte.
Smithfield Thomas Brodhcad, Jacob Ko
ber.
.Stroud Thomas D. Stites. Lorenzo Smith
Stroudsburs John Edinger, William Cle
ments. Wm. J. Price. Andrew Keller.
Tobvhanna Charles Shitter, 1'erry fcox,
Depue Hoffman, Thomas inter.
Tunkhannock Keuben lonser.
Tuos. McIlhanev, Proth'y
Two sons of the Emerald Isle paid a
visit to Frirmount Park, Philadelphia, re
cently. They visited the water works.
Looking on with amazement at tne great
turbine wheels while in motion, one ex
claimed to the other: "Faith, Pat, the
Americans must be quare people ; they
must have their wather ground before they
can drink it."
The baby basket mystery on the Welsh
Mountain near Morgan town is at last ex
plained. It was done by a j'oung lady who
is an excellent ventriloquist, who had, with
the aid of some companions, a basket ar
ranged, and a large rag baby made and
placed iu the basket, and the whole was
worked from a secluded place by a wire.
When the basket would disappear it was
pulled to the placed where the lady and
her companions were concealed and taken
away.
Bklow we cive the circumference of
several trees standing in Heidelberg town
ship, Lebanon county. Although not quite
as large as the enormous monarchs of the
Golden State, these trees may well be con-
sideicd monsters for these parts. Three
chestnut trees measure respectively twen
t'-eight, twenty-seven and twenty-six feet
in circumference, or nine and two-thirds,
nine and eight and two-thirds feet in diame
ter. There is also on the same farm au
oak tree which measures twentv-six feet in
circumference.
Ox Thursday night the moon shown
brightly, and a young man on his way home
from the club halted under a certain win
dow and warbled forth, "Darlinsr, I am
growing (hie) old. Before he had grown
ten miuutes older the window went up with
much emphaticness, a night-capped head
popped out, and a voice like a cross-cut
saw, belonging to a maiden ladv of forty
five, squeaked out, "Young man, you'll
grow lour thousand years old before you II
find your darling in this house ; so you'd
better stop vour noise and run home." The
serenadcr had halted at the wronc: mansion
A orrhta icn Ilerahl.
The corn crop throughout the United
States this year is something immense. In
scarcely anv part of the country has it
failed, while in Illinois, the great corn State,
the crop is estimated at one-fourth of that
of 1S7-, the largest hitherto obtained. The
latest news from Europe is that at least
sixty millions of bushels of grain will have
to be imported into Great Britain from
America. The cotton and sugar product
ot the South is the largest since the war,
and throughout the est the hog crop will
be enormous. Taking all to-nether, we
have now an excellent prospect of retrieving
.11-. 1 o
uio disasters ot the last two years.
The Democrats of this State had a hard
time to get a Chairman for their State
Committee. Either John Miller woul
not have it again, or the party would not
nave him, and it doesn t make any differ
ence which. Then it was offered to Gen
W. II. II. Davis, of Bucks, but he spit on
the platform and refused the place. Fnally,
they settled upon poor, old, brokendown
V right, ot Luzerne, and he has accepted
McMulU 'n succeeded so well in coercin
him back into the chair at Erie, after he
nau adjourned the convention, that thebul
lies prcier to have him as chairman. They
can drive him into doing anything they
anu
A Boston family has a remarkably in
tclligent parrot, which repeats nearly cverv
thing it hears and which some bad boys
oau laugni, io swear awfully. It finally
.i:.l . .n r. n J
iuul- unking, except ot a protane char
actcr, and, to cure its propensity, was re
peatedly soused in cold water, and placet
11 it'll 1 . ,rv r t . . . A. 1 . TV
..w uiu .iotr io ury. jninng a recent
storm, some chickens, which had become
very wet and chilled, were brought into
the house and put by the stove to revive
them. Is .so happened that the parrot hae
just been diuked himself, and. after snr
veying the chickens for some time, he cried
ui, in oracular tones : "Little d d fools
ueeii swearing I
The way the story got afloat that the
v. n governor Hartranft s stable, r
1 larrislllirrr wni-n ,C 1 .
j,, ..uaumL-ui wainui, at a rreat
cost to tne folate, is thus explained :
, " ,WU H,j kwioi was in Harris
uurg .some tune ago, and in the course o
i.m uis around the streets he noticed an
cig.no nouse, and made inquiry of a fire
man to know what kind of a buildin-i
as, to wiucli the fireman replied that it
was Governor Ilartranft's stable. His cve-
Mgui not bcinir verv n-ro.,,1 ...
tnis occasion ho was very easily imposed
upon. I h; doors of the Governor's kble
are made of oak and minted will.
mon fire-proof paint, and they were there
at the tunc of his election.
KETUTATION IN POLITICS.
From the Phildtlphia Inquirer.
-The nominations made by'thc t',vo s'
Conventions in Pennsylvania are still v
and though the people, who fancij"ti"'!?'
selves pretty" well informed as to the ti "
acters of their eniment fellow-citiz.-tl, j ?
congratulated themselves upon the
tionally excellent character of the rcr
tive candidates, they are now bi.gin!l;r,;"
hear, from superserviceable organs "
one party and the other, accusation v.
damaging to Hartranft, llawle, IVr; 1
and Piolett. ""5
. - This sort of business was once m.ire
pular than it is at present, and its ff f
growing unpopularity is a sign of the
advanced civilization of to-day. p01.C(
defamation was the chief stock in tiS.e
the journalistic opponents of (;ovcJ
Hartranft in 1872, but they invested
dealt so extensively in it as to crcv
strong sympathy and support for l.iw,
among men whose political opinions v,- '
adverse to his. There is now no a,!!
whatever entertained that his majority n-
very significantly increased by the uU(j
mendacious and cowardly assaults t;.
made upon him by certain newspapers. wliVi
for political and personal reasons, were "iv.'.j'
up for months together to the vile work V
calumniating that brave soldier and Ley
able citizen. X decent public opinion, h. T.
ever, brought confusion upon his
duccrs by triumphantly electing him G-yr.
ernor of Pennsylvania ; and, indeed.,'.
of the papers which waged the unclean fi -V
most fiercely have never recovered the rl
pect and confidence they lost by their "..
scrupulous assaults upon General I lariraiifi
A e only cite this instance to show t!
,.-,..,..1 ,1.-..:,.,. i , .i
bv partisan newspapers, simply because rLr I
are candidates of a party, is not only ..'. f
graceful m itself, but that it is inexj cil-n;
being a weapon that returns to p'a-uj h t
inventor. As against Hartranft, it ft!c
utterly in 1S7-, and so it will iu 175. I
Considering all things, we vcrv iuu
doubt if it would be possible for thcci;.
ventions to have nominated four jroiitlen. ;11 '
of higher character than those clec-te-i !y f
the Lane-aster and Erie Convention- as c i
petitors for the offices of Governor !
State Treasurer. And it would be v. Hi'
the superserviceable organs of cither ..r-.-were
to closely consider the recent .-je.r!:,-of
General Hartranft and Judge lcis'iiir-
in which each candidate for Governor : ;,
of the personal character of the otl.er iu
terms of the greatest respect. An 1 d.i-i,
characteristic of both men, f,r both n:-
men of character and honorable i:.
It fortunately happens that the -;;
contest m Pennsylvania is one inti. wh'..;'
the question of personal character uos:; :
enter. lhc issues are greater and i r el :
juestions of political economy
eminent, fotatc-cralt.
It
also.
f :-!;:-:';-of
the W-
happens that the qualification:
publican candidate for the office of i v..r
uor are already known. Experience t!
best of teachers has demonstrated tl:e i -culiar
fitness of Governor Hartranft f r :!;.'
office he now holds, and to which w i? t
be re lected. For nearlv three var iie !::
daily testified to his fellow-citizens Lis in
telligence, fidelity and statemans!:'';-; Li
administration has been alike w;s jr. ero
sive and economical ; not only has t::1 eL -V.
of the Commonwealth been stca-liiv ;:;!
largely rcdu.-ed, but taxation a!
burden has been lifted from the
1
.1 !
of the people in many ways. and. if lie h;i l
no other claims to the respect and sv.j-i v: ,
of the voters of Pennsylvania, it'Lebl
not fought their battles daily i'-r wr? t -
gether, risking fortune and life in t!i. i ;..;-
of human liberty, and winning battle f r I
me perpetuation oi our nee iiisik.k;' . ii. t
three years record as (Jovenu r i f t; t
Commonwealth would entitle him to re-
lection.
If the personal character of duu.v P r- r
shing is without reproach, so ai- is tL:r. .
of General Hartranft. But Jr.'.L.'J IVr- f
shili"- is a ni.ni iintrli-il in the r.n. r, .'.IS ! ' i- !
tion to which he aspires ; he is with- ut t'..' t
experience of his opponent, and Leea'.; ' ..." I
is a good judge it cannot be siieiy ;:.-i'.:ae..
that he would make as good a (I Vvi'iM".
The one servant we have tried. Ii:: liu.' I
faithful, entcrgetic, honest, cc-n. ;a:,.:.
wise. Shall we displace him Ibr one ait.'-
gether untried, whose fitnsss is a more1 nr.it-
ter of speculation ? Besides, what pitno-
tic service has Judge Pershing ever ren-
dered to commend him to the. uratr.u ;.m.
his countrymen? When General H'r
ran ft was in the field, dailv cxi"
life before the enemy, courting the o''
tion ot beinir the first in the fi'-ht, t
1 1
out of it, doing great and chivalrw i.ls
for his country, Judge Pershing w;:s livij-g
in inglorious case, ranged politieaily
those against whom Hartranft was t.
nig. Wc are of those who have for year urpd
that the bitterness of the war j-IkhiM K'
buried, that the enemies of the I'r.K'U .-Ik'UiJ
be forgiven and forgotten ; but we aro ii 't
of those who demand that those mIio m L '
against the country, because they hl ';it
side with it, shall mount to places efh' '1 r
and trust over the heads of theso
fought the most desperately, bravely r.ir-i
victoriously that tho Union should 1,")uri;
and the bondman go free. While th
our debt of gratitude to those wln f.':-'-:
our battles aud gave us the victory
ever active debt, and, while they j ivve
worthy of new honors, it would t:'1
blackest ingratitude to withold such l '-v!
from them.
There are other reasons, to be hei-it-
referred to, equally potent why Goyer
Hartranft should bo re-elected i"
ber, but this alone should be suiVuu''1:'
induce his fellow-citizens to stand uj'- j
him at the polls, as he in a seore et j1
fought b:iHl thelll. flH'"'lKi
to shoulder, with their sons and U
Snow Storm in Quebec.
BlVEK DU liOUP, Quebec', Sej't-
During the storm yesterday twelve "''
of snow fell. Much damage has bee"
to fruit and orimental trees.
A ii raw frost, the first of tho f-'.'
occurred at Omaha, Nebraska, on '"j';,
night. Vegetation of all kinds i si;
out of danger. The weather is 1
cold
, but
clear.