, H. B. MASSES, E. WILVERT. Editors. SUNBURY, JULY 2, 1875. Republican State Ticket. roK uovp.utcob : GEN. JOHN F. IIARTRANFT, Of Montgomery County, FOS STATI TREiSCRER nON. HENRY RAWLE, Of Erie. Letter from the Junior Editor. Citv Hotel, WlLUAMsroitT, June 30, 1875. J The scenery along tbe West Branch of the Susquehanna river at present is most grand. The grain fields look beautiful, and are fast approaching ripeness. Jlauy of the wheat fields already begin to present a golden appearance. Wheat and rye is small in stock, or straw, yet the heads are large, and are beiCfc filled with large and plump grain. The grass crop is not near an average, but many of the clover Gelds, now in full htooiu, present a most beautiful picture as you glide by them iu tl car. The country between Sunbury and Wil lianisport presents a rich appearance. The farmers appear to understaud their business, and show enterprise in every de partment on their farms. Their buildings are of modern styles, and everything about tbcm looks neat and comfortable. The towns along the river are generally improving. In every part of them new hou-es, factories, &c, are being erected, which shows that prosperity predominates with all the cry of hard times. The U. S. District and Circuit Courts are still in session. The former presided over hy Judge McCandless, and the Circuit Court by Judge Strong. On Monday Judge Strong forbid the jurymen to be ex cused from attendance, aud those iu attendance were notified to remain in the court room during the sessions of the court In the District Court the trial of Thomp son and Postlewaite was resumed. This was a case of ellicit distiller', and took up the time during Monday and the greater part of Tuesday. In the Circut Court the case of Benson, vs., Herdic, was resumed, and consumed Monday, and Tuesday fore noon. The latter case was for damages of water pipes, and an amount of some three or four thousand dollars are involv ed. On Monday morning, Robert M. Smith, the boy referred to in my last, cou victed for purloining letters from the post office, at Williarnsport, was called up and sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dol lars, and undergo an imprisonment of one year in the western penitentiary. Several others were called up and sen tenced. Among them was Lew. W. Her rington, publisher of the Ranger, at Wil liarnsport, a year ago. This paper was of an obscene character, and, no doubt, had done much injury in tbe way of demorali zation among the young people. Its circu lation was pietty extensive, and I am sorry to say even a few copies found their way to our town. The editor was arrested for sending obscene matter through the U. S. mail. Last week he was brought before the court and plead guilty. District Attorney Beed staled that the principal charge against him was for send ing obsceue matter through the mail much viler than that published in the Hanger, id that the public knew nothing about that. The punishment was very severe in such cases, but he only asked for sentence n one count of the indictment. Ilei rington arose and staled to the court that he plead guilty not willingly, but be cause be had no money to defend himself. "Parties have told me that they have been t.lTcred 10 to go into my office aud steal printed matter. Some of this matter was printed io other offices in this city I need not say where. I may have been guilty, or I may not have been ; I may have de posited matter in the post office. 1 ask your honor to be lenient with me." The sentence of the court was that he pay a fine of $300 and undergo an impri sonment in the western penitentiary for three years. Herringlon is a young man, and, by ap . pearance of a very depraved mind. lie is of that stamp of young men wbo pay more attention to their good looks, cultivating long hair and parting itiu the middle, than applying their mind to honorable pursuits in life. The others sentenced were Nathan B. Adams, of Tioga county, convicted of pass ing counterfeit money. Sentence suspend ed till the court sits at Pittsburg. Ephraim Decker, Tioga county, passing counterfeit money, sentenced to pay a tine of $500 aud undergo an imprisonment of one year in the western peuilcutiary. L. B. Sands, Tioga county, passing counterfeit money, sentenced to pay a Cue of 1,000 aud undergo an imprisonment of two years in the western penitentiary. Mammoth Centennial Hotel Pro ject. That their will be every effort made by the citiEens of Philadelphia to accommodate the millions of people who will visit the Centennial Exhibition is no longer a disputed question. Besides tbe building of rows of boarding houses, and the enlargement of the present hotel accom modations, new ones will be erected, and only recently the Philadelphia correspon dent of the New Tork Times writes that "It last we are to have one large hotel. 1 conversation with Mr. Peter Lane, Jr., "X jmA. mat a parry of geunelrien or Ibis cit, of which he is one, have secured a f't immediately adjoining the grounds an abroHSt of the Pennsylvania Ilailroad lr::ks, where they will erect a five storied st jclure fiOO feet long and 200 feet deep, will 1,000 rooms. It will be ou the Eu rorau plan, and be provided with all the mdern improvements, at moderate rates, infiew of this enterprise the Pennsylvania Knliojid Company has abandoned its idea of fitting up a hotel, and will accord as pipinceto these gentlemen." lie demagogues of the Democratic pary and press, says tlie Danville Ameri can endeavored to make capital against o Ilartranft for ordering troops into the coa region. They appear to have nothing to ay now that Judge Or vis, a Democrat froa Centre Co., under the direction of the great light of Democracy in this Slate, Serator Wm. A. Wallace, who conducted the se for tbe operators, has seutenced the Clearfield miners, who attempted to interhre with willtug workmen, to the se verest penalty of the law. When Demo crats prosecnts and even persecute work men it appears to be all right, but let a Republican official, in t!ie discharge of his sworn duty, attempt to execute the laws and the noise is remarkable. Ex-MBos" Tweed remains in Ludlow ttreetjail, not having yet furnished the .1,000,000bail required In the civil suit. The Centennial and the Phila delphia Hotels. The Press of Philadel phia having propouuded some questions to the hotel proprietors, on the subject of the price of boarding during the Centennial, they have generally responded, but their answers are almost as enigmatical as the ancient oracles. It was perfectly easy for them to say that they would not advance the prices, wilbont equivocation or eva sion, but they do not care about giving an explicit answer. They promise to do the fair thing, and say if circumstances should require them to make advances, that they will be moderate. All of which means that they intend to "make hay while the sun shines," and that most of them are ready to "rip opea tbe goose to get at the golden egg" is already apparent Tbe pro prietors of tins Girard House say they will not advance the rates for the upper rooms. How far np those rooms are located they bay sot yet designated. The impression that they are very near the roof is very natural, and the only doubt is whether they are above or below it. Our Philadelphia friends arc famous for being slow.and in this respect have not disappointed their most sanguine friends. The New Yorkers have erected six or eight elegant and commodi ous hotels while our Philadelphia friends were talking about what ought to be done to provide tor the guests at the coming Centennial. The projected hotels for that purpose have ended, not even iu smoke, but in talk, and in a resolution that it is now too late. Tbe city papers suggest that the only remedy is appropriating the many spare rooms that exist in Philadel phia, which might, perhaps, be obtained by foraging and making raids in cases of emergency. In the mean time the hotel keepers are looking forward with delight at their comiug harvest, and magnanimously promise that they will not exact more than they can get, or take more than they exact from those they shall accommodate. Wc have examined carefully the pages of the Democratic organs of this State, and we find therein no arguments applied to the conduct of affairs by the Stale govern ment, no statement of a policy to be oppos ed or advocated, no demonstration of abus es to be corrected. It amounts, then, to this : that here is a powerful party whose gaze is so fixed on the local affairs of the city of Philadelphia and the proceedings of tbe National Government that it appears to ignore the business ci this Common wealth entirely, and to have no policy thereon that any intelligent man cau re cognize or discuss. Governor liartranft's administration has been in uo sense a neg ative one. Questions of importance have arisen to demand his notice aud they have been manfully met. He is renominated by his party and both he and his friends in vite a scrutiny of bis record ; but no Demo crat or Liberal accepts the challenge. He is a Republican and sustains the princi ples of his party ; but there, too, the Demo cratic party abstains from discussion. It simply asserts that the Republicans have fulfilled their mission, and in so saying the Democratic party accepts finally the prin ciples of the Republicans. Philadelphia Xoith American. There is a great deal of practical Chris tian benevolence and kiudness in the coun try, going hand in hand with its corrup tions, crimes and miseries, and streak ing their darkness radiantly. From the re ports of the leading national benevol ent aud religious societies and institu tions having their headquarters in New .York, it appears that their total receipts last year aggregated G,2t5,074, while the contributions to the principle local chari ties reached two-and-a-half ruilliooa bom. When U is considered that almost every city aud town in the country has several institutions of like character supported chiefly by the voluutary contributions of the people, the maguificence of the grand sum total aunually expended in this wav may be imagined. It is a big mark on the credit side of our human nature. Democracy and the Schools. The Democratic leaders, in fear of losing volts by an honest declaration, are commencing to hedge ou the school question by reference to the clause in the State Constitution for bidding the exclusive use of the public funds by any sect. An article on the fourth page from the Cincinnati Hints tells some of the things the Democracy have done to assist Calholic schools, despite Slate Constitu tions. But the Times had no occasion to go away from home to find its examples where outrsgeous and unconstitutional aid has been exteuded to Calholic schools. It has not been more than a year since the Board of Education at Cincinnati, which is nothing more than a tail to the Democratic kite traded off one of the best school buildings to the Catholics for a va cant lot, and then rented, at an exorbitant rent, tbe building tbey had just traded off. They know how to do in Cincinnati just about as well as they do in New York. It appears, too, that the knowledge is extending to the rural districts, for a Paris, Ky., dispatch of the 9th inst announces that the Di-mocratic City Council has voted an appropriation to the Catholic schools of that place, aud the taxpayers had enjoined its collection. Our rural friends go at it awkwardly, however. Such little matters should be done indirectly, as in Cincinnati and New York, to be successful. Chilli cx4he Gazette. There is a disposition apparent on the part of many miners to go to work on the opera tors terms, and the first practical step to ward a resumption in the Lehigh region was taken on Saturday. At a mealing of German miners a large majority voted to go to work. Another proiuisiug feature is the fact that A. Pardee & Co. have posted notices stating that, as many of their em ployes have expressed a desire to go to work, they invite all such miners to call at their office and sign the agreement for wa ges, and when a sufficient number have done so the works will be started at once. The Floods in France prove even more disastrous than our first dispatche s iudicatcd. The loss of life is probably more than a thousand, and the destruction of property must amount to many millions of dollars. No such calamitous outbreak of the forces of nature has occurred since the great overflow of the Loire, twenty years ago. The Loire rose twenty feet above its usual level, and the flood was confined to its own valley. The Garonne has risen thirty-nine feet, aud, with sever al smaller streams coming down from the Pyrenees, has deluged four departments of Southwestern France. Thousands of fam ilies have been driven from their homes, leaving all their worldly possessions to the devastating waters. Much suffering must result from such sudden, widespread and ail-including destitution. In this terrible situation American sympathy should go out to our earliest allies and constant friends, in such prompt aud practical fash ion as will afford immediate help and ex press our sincere commiseration and good will CiEXERAL XEWS ITEMSk The wheat crop in Perry county promises to bo the heaviest bad in fifteen years. Hummel's Wharf postofflce, in Snyder county, has been discontinued by the postmaster-general. Forty students will graduate at the Lowisburg University this week twenty two boys and eighteen girls. Samuel Chulback, inventer and pioneer manufacturer of telegraph apparatus, died at Uuica, N. Y., of pneumonia, aged 70. The Washington National Monument Society have issued a stirring appeal for aid to the churches and Sunday Schools of the country. One man and five women, all colored, while rowing in a skiff on Heirs lake, near Little Rock , Ark., last evening, were drowned by the capsizing of their boat. The secretary of the treasury has direct ed the assistant treasurer of the United States at New York to sell 81,000,000 gold coin, on each Thursday during the month July. The total amount to be sold is 5fo, 000,000. The Russian Government spends thirty two t housand dollars annually for carria ges, for the use of singers at the St. Peters burg Opera. A woman estimates that there are over 600,000 drunkards in the United States, and that one woman in seventeen is mar ried to such a roan. An old iady in New Y'ork particularly desired that a ccrtaiu cushion on which she sat iu church should be burled with her, and as their was a difficulty in get tiug it into her coffin, it was proposed to cut it, when several thousand dollars in greenbacks were found inside. A royal ordinance lias been issued com manding that members of tbe Carlist jun tas and all families of which any members are in the Carlist service be expelled from Spain, aud directing that the property of Carlists be confiscated and devoted to in demnifying communities suffering from Carlist requisitions. Heister Clymer is now suggested for tbe Presidency, but we apprehend he will not be found much of a Clymer for that posi tion. We trust these niuely-five degrees in tbe shade which the thermometer has been indicating are not the degrees conferred by the colleges. A storm lasting from Saturday until Monday night, did great damage in Wis consin. Minuesota, Michigan, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Southern Illinois Whole fields were flooded, the crops were damaged, fences, barns and houses were demolished, railroad bridges were washed away, live stock perished, a number ot people were injured, and several are repor ted killed. Governor Ilartranft has been chosen by the Welshmen to preside at the next cele bration of the Eistedfod, which will take place in Scranton in September. Advices from the city of Mexico to the 16th instant, state that the railway between Jala pa and Vera Cruz was opened for pub lic traffic ou the 15th. Chief Justice Igles ias has withdrawn his resignation. Jose Cuellar has been appointed Secretary of the Mexican Legation nt Washington. The vomito is epidemic at Coatzacoalcos. San Christobal has been shaken by an earthquake. Deaf aud dumbmeu have a poor chance in Texas. One of them went to a farm house and, when asked what he wanted, put his hand in his pocket to get a peucil, and lie was at once shot down by the farm er, who thought the visitor was feeling for tt pistol. "Widows are always lasciuatiug," says the Derrick, "but when they own au oil farm on the belt" their fascination is doub led, nay trebled, and suitors are as plenty at their feet as the derricks on their farms. Kansas City, Mo., and the surrounding country, were visited on Sunday night by "the most terrific storm since 1841." For over four hours the rain fell in tor rents, "nccompauied by a very high wind, hail, and terrible thunder and lightning." Several bouses in the city were struck by lightning and a number were unroofed. Great damage was douc to the farms and cornfields, and the railroad tracks were washed away in many places. Tamuiauy is seeking to purify itself ex pelling John Morrissey ; aud Morrissey is going to purify the party by forming a new politics 1 club that will knock Tammany endwise. We wish them both success. Iiet Tammany t6s Morrissey over, by all meaus. It will be odd if, when these rogues fall out, honest men do not get their j dues. j A cut-e of chronic laziness is reported at Washington. A young roan appointed to j a clerkship in the Treasury Department j was conducted to his debk aud iuformed what his duties were. The Chief of the ! Department discovered him, a short time after, comfortably reposing in his seat with his feet characteristically resting on the desk. "Hello," said the Chief, "dou'tyou expect to do any work ?" "Work, the d 1 ?" exclaimed the astonished youth, "I had to work hard enough to get here." At Pomcroy, Ohio, last Saturday, Jacob Ronspin attempted to kill his wife by shooting her. aud then committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. Thomas Manchester, aud operative of Law rence, Mass.., cut the throats of his wife and hioisclf on Sunday night. Neither is fatally wounded. A party of roughs fired into a stable at Shoemaker's Colliery at Mahauoy City, Monday morning, and wounded William Thomas in the neck, hip aud leg. They also killed a horse and two mules. At a large meeting of the Democracy of Schuylkill county, held on Monday in Potts ville, resolutions wtre adopted presenting Hon. Cyrus I Pershing, as their candi date for Governor . He is President Judge of that District. Detroit was visited by a tornado on Sun day night, which demolished twenty-three houses, and damaged many others. Two children were killed and fifteen persons were injured, three of them dangerously. A Philadclphiau, aged 17, went rowing iu a skeleton boat the other day, and strapped himself fast for some reason or other. By au accident the boat was over turned, aud the youug man, be in unable to extricate hiivrelf or right the boat, was drowucd. Moral don't strap yourself fast to a skeleton boat, or any other, un less you are tired of life. Utilizing Coal Diut. On Thursday of last week, the new coal machine, the in vention of Dr. J. It. Hayes, for pressing coal-dust into fuel, was put iu operation at the Harrisburg Machine Shops, and a ton of solid coal was made in six minutes. This is the first successful effort made in the United States for utilizing coal-dust on a large scale. The machine is simple, cheap, and univerally practicable, and should it prove the success that its friends predict it will add millions of dollar! to the coal wealth of Pennsylvania. Senator Cameron's residence, in Har-1 risburg, was erected about one hundred and seven years ago. Seven persons were poisouod in New York ou Monday, by eating pickles which contained copperas. All were recovered by the administration of antidotes, except David Malone, who was in a critical con dition. Five women and a man, all colored, were drowned near Little Rock on Mon day evening, by the upsetting of a skiff. The loss ot property by the floods In Frauce has been very great. At the town of Moissac 170 houses were destroyed. The Spanish frigate Vittoria has bom barded with destructive effect the ports of Matrico and Deva, on the Guipuzcoan coast , beld by the Carlists. Telegraphic News. extensive destruction in the west. Chicago, June 20. Reports from num erous points in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Mi chigan, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Southern Illinois indicate that the storm which passed over that section, lasting from Saturday till Monday night, in roost localities did great damage, killing a con siderable amount of live stock, tearing down houses, barns and fences, inundating whole farms and injuring the crops to some extent. Railroad biidges and culverts were swept away in some places and many persons injured, and several are reported to have been killed. TnE HAVOC IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. The Montgomery county daily papers print additional accounts of the heavy storms, which began in that section on Sunday evening. The Norristown Herald says : The main force of the tornado was ex pended in the upper portion of the county where the destruction of property was widespread and serious. Lower down there was abundance of rain, but it was not accompanied by the thunderbolts and and gusts which made such havoc in some quarters. " At Port Providencs, Joseph Fitzwater suffered serious loss. The end of his barn was blown out and a barrack ou his place was struck by lightning. At Perkiomen Junction a tree was struck by lightning and thrown across tbe track. Tbe cowcatcher of an engine was broken against it. A correspondent sends the following par ticulars of the LIGHTNING STROKE IN 1IATBORO Already mentioned in the Herald : "On last Sunday evening tbe people ot tue upper end of Hatboro were much frightened by the heavy stroke of lightning which was found to have descended down on the wal nut tree in front of tbe house owned by Mr. Yeager, of Philadelphia, and tenanted by Mrs. Radcliffe, who, with her family, I was sitting on the veranda at the time, and ! all were thrown off their chairs. The wal nut tree was completely torn to pieces, the fragments tearing the pavement and ground for several yards around. It broke three or four of the large glass in the bulk win dows of C. C. McNair's building, and also the dormer windows of Dr. Evans' house, a hundred yards distant. Several persons had passed under the tree but a moment before." HOUSE SET ON FIRE. The Pottstown Ledger says : During the heavy thunderstorm of Mon- ' day evening, the 28th inst., the new frame bouse of Mr. John Marsh, at the corner of Beech and Grant streets, in the eastern suburbs of Pottstown, was struck by light ning. Tlx. electric ooii Jen at about half past ten o'clock, the thunder following with an almost deafening report. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh were asleep in the room at the time, and were slightly stunned. Mr. M. arose, and upon ojiening his room down into the entry was almost stilled by sulphurous air. He proceeded down stairs and discovered that in an appartment on the first floor, used for carpentering, fire had caught in some fthaviuga, and was blazing up to a considerable height. This he mauaged to extinguish with a bucket of water. The lightning seems to have struck the lightuiug rod points at each end of the house, thence went in through the roof, splintering the rafters aud shingles, and knocking thiugs about considerably. At the northern end of the house the electric bolt tore the cornice, split off the weather boarding above the second-story windows, aud splintered some of the boards into small pieces, and scatered them about a distance of twenty or thirty yards. Iu the second-story room the plastering was knocked off iu large quantities, the ceiling damaged, the room looking quite dilapidat ed. The electric ball, or part of it, went down the lightning rod at the north eud, tearing it loose from its fasteuing, and passed into the ground ou tho rod. THE DEATHS IN LIMERICK TOWNSHIP. The same paper gives additional details of the fate of Mrs. Shaner aud her daughter, in Limerick township, on Sunday even ing : When the storm commenced Mr. John Shaner was at the barn. His wife, Mrs. Rose Shaner, bis father, Mr. George Sha ner, his two daughters, aud a nephew, were iu the kitcbeu of the house The mo ther sat near the middle of tho room, and the youngest daughter, Lizzie Shaner, about VI years old, sat near the fireplace. The bolt of lightning that struck the house seemed to divide in the second story, one portion passiug down near the fireplace and killing the little girl, and the other down through the floor above Mrs. Shaner, and striking her. The peal of thunder that followed the dash of lightning was terrific. The other inmates of the room were slight ly stunned, but not hurt. The death of Mrs. Shaner was instantaneous ; that of her daughter uearly so. STORM AND FLOOD IN YORK, I'A. York, Pa., June 20. The heaviest rain and thunder storm that has visited this place for some time occured this afternoon, between three and four o'clock, flooding the streets and pavements to such an ex tent as to run into the houses, doing con siderable damage. GREAT DAMAGE IN IOWA. Decarah, Iowa, June 20. This place was badly damaged by the recent storms which destroyed property here and ir. the vicinity to the amount of 150,000. The greatest injury done was to bridges, which were very generally carried off by the flood. A KI NPU IOI S DEATH. A PROMINENT PENNSYLVANIA CITIZEN'S WIFE DIES UNDER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES. Wilkes- Barre, June 20. Great excite ment exists iu this city aud neighborhood over the sudden death, under most suspi cious circumstances, of Mrs. D. T. Bound, wife of tbe superintendent of the Lacka wanna and Bloomsburg railroad. The do mestic relations of Mr. and Mrs. Bound had been unpleasant for some months, in consequence of the intimacy that existed between tbe former aud Miss Scverson, and the manner of Mrs. Bound's death, coupled with the above facls, has given rise to the suspicion of foul play, and chemi cal analysis of her stomach is now. being made in New York. The deceased lady was the second wife of D. T. Bound, and was a highly accomplished and cultivated lady. She formed the acquaintance of Mr. Bound about ten years ago, while visiting the family of Dr. Mackey, of Hyde Park, relatives of her's. She at oue time prin cipal of a select school at Mil ford, Pa., and the centre of a refined social circle. Mr. Bound being a man of considerable wealth and promineuce in the Lackawanna valley, she had accepted his proposal of marriage and became his wife in the latter part of 18C5. Her maiden name was Luanda Beeciier, and her relatives are among the most emiucnt people in this section. Mr. and Mrs. Bound took up their residence in Kingston, opposite this city, and it is said that they never lived happily together. It is certain that during the past ten years the conduct of the former has been a source of constant scandal. His relations with the young woman mentioned was notorious. But a few months ago, during the absence of his wife, who was visiting friends, he defined public opinion by actually install ing Miss Severson in his wife's place in his house. When Mrs. Bound returned she at once indignantly dismissed the woman from the house. Bound immediately escorted her back again, and told his wife that Miss Seversou was to remain there and if she (Mrs. Bound) did not like it she might leave. Bound's children by his first wife, singularly enough, sustaiued his actiou, and the consequeuce was a constant and bitter domestic quarrel, until the sudden death of Mrs. Bound last week. Before retiring on Friday night she ate a dish of strawberries and cream. An hour or so afterwards she was seized with intense burning in her stomach, violent convul sions and profuse vomiting. She remained in this condition until midnight when she died. Arrangements were made for her burial, which was to be in the cemetery at Milford, Pa. ; before the corpse was car ried to the train, however, an officer from Scrauton arrived in Kingston with a war rant authorizing him to detain the body for post mortem examination. Tbe warrant was sworn out by friends of the deceased, to whom it is claimed, she declared, a few days before ber death, that she believed her life was in danger,and requested that in case of her death an examination of her re mains should be made. Meantime the suspected parties are kept under surveillance by the authorities, and their ariest. will be made at once if the an alysis warrants it. So general is the belief that the parlies are guilty that Bound's house in Kingston is shunucd as if it were a pest house. Dr. Ludwig, the Bound family physician, declares that death was caused by infiammation of the bowels, and that there were no evidences of poison in the sy stern of the deceased lady. Miss Severson still remains in Bound's house, which seems to deepen the indigna tion of the people. The Ureat Klfle Match Victory Tor the Americans. Dublin, June 29, 7 P. M. The Ameri cans have won the match by a total of 907 to 929. The weather during the morning was hazy, with a high wind blowing. The fir ing began soon after 11 o'clock this morn ine. at the 800 vards ranee. A detach- j roent of the Fiftieth Regiment acted as j markers. The result was one point vor of the Irish team, the total u fa - scores standing as follows Americans, 337, Irishmen, 33S. The individual scores were as follows : j Americans Gildersleeve, 50 ; 1 ale, at ; ruliou, m, Coleman, HO; Bodine, ,12; Dakin, 08. Total, 337. j Irishmen Wilson, 58 ; Hamilton, 50 ; McKenna, 52 ; Milner, 55 ; Johnson, 5S ; j Pollock, 59. Total, 338. j The result of the' 900 yards shooting was largely in favor of the Americans, the j total scores being : Americans, 327 ; Irish- j men, 292. ! The following are i1k individual scores ; out of a possible 00 : i Americans Gildersleeve, 50 ; Yale, 52 ; Fulton, 57 ; Coleman, 48 ; Bodine, 59 ; Dakin, 55. Total, 327. Irishmen Wilson, 50 ; Hamilton, 54 ; McKenna, 44 ; Milner, 37 ; Johnson, 54 ; Pollock, 53. Total. 292. The shooting at the 1000 yards range was remarkably fine on both sides. The contest at the 1000 yards range was won by the Americans by a score of 303 against 299 for the Irshmen. The following is tho individual scores at the 1000 yards range : Americans Gildersleeve, 02; Yale, 51 ; Fulton, 40 ; Coleman, 52 ; Bodine, 51 ; Dakin, 51. Total, 303. Irishmen Wilson, 55; Hamilton, 51 ; McKenna, 53 ; Milner, 41 ; Johnson, 50 ; Pollock, 49, Total. 299. The number of persons who assembled to wiluess the shooting gradually increas ed, and by the hour the match closed there were fully 20,000 people on the ground. The victory of the American marksmen was hailed with tremendous enthusiasm. A most enthusiastic ovation was given to the American team on their return from Dollymount to this city this evening. A graud banquet in their honor was giveu to night by the Lord Mayor of Dubliu, at the Mansion House. A large number of dis tinguished guests, including the Lord May ors of London aud Y'ork, were present. The Irish Riflemen admit the superiority of the Americaus throughout the match, aud acknowledge that the victory was fair ly won. SOME INTERESTING DETAILS. The New York Tunes' special from Dol lymount gives interesting details of the match in the eight hundred yards firing. Bodinc made one miss, which caused the Americans to lose that range. On the Irish side MeKenna and Miluer's first shots were misses, and the disappointment of the Irish spectators was openly express ed. The crowd constantly increased during the progress of the firing. At two o'clock the wind rose slightly, and the Americans enteretl iuto the contest at the nine hun dred yards raugc with high hopes, while the Irish began to "flunck" under Mc Kcnna's two misses, and Miluer's first, second, sixth, eighth and ninth shot, which were all misses. A DISTURBANCE THREATENED. The crowd was in a state of consterna tion, and threatening a disturbance. The first and second shots of Coleman, of the American team, were misses. A ques tion arose, which was decided by Mr. Rigby iu manner to excite the dissatis faction of the Irish. Gildersleeve, Fulton, Bodine and Dakin were the pets of the crowd. At the close of the firing at 900 yards the defeat of the Irish was acknowledged, and luncheon was taken iu chagrin and gloom, outspoken dissatisfaction and symptoms of disorganization among the Irish. The crowd, which manifested intense anxiety as to the result, had grown to about thirty thousand. Every Irish bull's eye was cheered, and a disturbance was beenra- ing imminent. The police were powerless. The Americans refused to proceed with the firing until order Bbould have restored. WAITING FOR ORDER. A delay of thirty-five minutes resulted, when partial order was restored. At the 1000-yard range the Americans started badly with the exception of Bodinc. The sun, which up to this time had been ob scured, burst suddenly out, leaving perfect weather. IRISHMEN SHOOTING AT RANDOM. The Irish, dejected and nervous, shot wildly, and a succession of shots proved to be merely random. Milner missed his third shot, the crowd groaning voeieferous ly. When he missed his ninth shot, the uproar on the Irish side of tho ground was tremendous. The eleventh shot he missed also, producing consternation. Hamilton scored a succession of threes. and blamed the crowd for his lack of success. Everybody seemed to be in a bad temper. The Americans were cooler than their competitors,though complaining of the uproar and confusion. Gildersleeve's score was splendid, though inferior to Wilson and Hamilton. Bodine was constantly reliable. As the day closed the Irish team began to yield manifestly. The meu seemed to lose their heads and tremble, and stuck at centres and outrcs, which, running side by side, had the effect, one to encourage and the other to disheart en. THE CROWD BREAKS THROUGH THE ROPES. The ropes were broken by the Irish near the close, Fulton and Bodine not yet having finished. Fulton missed the target through the disordor. The crowd cheering, rushed across the ground, causing great confusion. Bodinc quietly takes his position for the last shot, and the crowd ranges itself along the line of fire, leaving a wide opening to ward the targets, but only wide enough to expose two of t he targets to the view of the firer; All control has been lost over them, but Bodiue lies still and silent. A puff of smoke, and the crack of his rifle is heard, and bis bullet flattens in the bull's eyes. A tremeindous cheer is given for the Ameri cans by crowd en moxse. The police stand firm around the teams, with the crowd on the outside, standing sturdy and ill-humored, but not toward the Americans. Major Leech addressed the Americans and the surrounding mass, and declared himself beaten, and the Americans as the first shots in the tiuivene. Convicted or Polygamy. iu I tan. The First Salt Lake, June 20. George Reynolds was found guilty of bigamy or polygamy at the last term of the District Court, under the United States law of 1SG2, punishing bigamy in the Territories. This being the first conviction in the Territory under that law, Reynolds was not sentenced, but an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court, with the intention of taking the case to the United States Supreme Court. The Su preme Court of the Territory decided yes terday that the previous conviction was null and void, from the fact that the grand jury was composed of twenty-three instead of fifteen grand jurors, as required by the Territorial statutes. ABRAHAM AFRAID OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. San Francisco, Cal., June 20. A tie- ! spatch from Tucson, Arizona, says : ! "The Citizens is informed that Brigham i Young is anxious to establish a colony in j Sonora, his great desire being to get away from tbe influence of the public schools sys tem of the United States." Correspondence. THE PACIFIC COAST. MORE OF THE CHINESE A SHIP LOAD OF THEM CUSTON HOUSE EXAMINATION THE WOMEN UNDENG ROUND CHINA THI E V ES POLITICA L BUSIN ESS GOLD AND SILVER. San Francisco, June 12, 1875. SOMETHING MORE ABOUT THE CHINESE. In a previous letter I gave my impres sions of the Chinese in San Francisco. I know more about them now than 1 did then, for this morning I went down to the wharf where lay the monstrous steamer, the ' 'City of Tokio,,4 and saw a thousand of them, more or less, crawl out of the bowels of that mighty leviathan, and plant their feet for the first time on Freedom's soil. They were the genuine article, and a look at them was entertaining, as well as instructive. They are allowed to come off the ship in squads of twenty, each with his or her baggage, and are hospitably received by the custom-house officer of Uncle Sam, who shows them more attention than they ever get again. He first compels them to open their baggage, which he examines with a rapidity that is miraculous. He tosses out their clothing, holding up each article to the light to see that nothing duti able is hiddcu in its folds. He opens their empty and half-empty cans of provisions ! to the same end, and after tossing their traps about in a manner that makes them howl with anguish, he subjects their per sons to an examination of tbe most search ing nature, lie peels off their shirts, takes off their scarfs, examines their long queues ; in sh rt, he goes through them. This is to detect smuggling. For be it known that the Chinese are most expert balers. Many an innocent-looking Ki Wo has brought through enough opium on his person, or concealed in his baggage, to not only defray his expenses, but leave him enough to get back upon. If be is not au opium sharp he may have silks, and other goods that are light and easily concealed, the duty on which, if he escapes, would make him decently rich. I saw one stripped who had silk thread wrapped about bis body, the duty on which was 480. An other one had the staff of a Chinese um brella hollowed so as to hold precious sloues and opium enough to set him up for life in his native village. But the custom house officers are very smart, and from long ex perience arc up to the most of their little games. The most of them come to grief. After they are examined, the officer, if he finds uo dutiable goods about them, puts a chalk mark on their baggage and another on their backs aud they are free to depart. The employment ageutB are waiting for them. They are loaded up iu express wagons aud taken to various lodging houses, where tbey stay till work is found for them. They were all at work the next day. So far I have spoken only "of the meu, but there remains to be considered the WOMEN. Outside the ropes that keep the crowd away from the emigrants stood a dozeu hard-faced Chinese women waitiug patient ly. What were they waiting for ? Why they fcmule emigrants. As each one pass ed the ordeal of the customs officers she was seized by these waiting women, a few words passed, a document in Chinese was exhibited, and the girl would be carried off. Every one of the women on that ship had been bought iu China by the keepers of the Chinese bagnios, and were consigned to them like so many pieces of merchan dise. Tbe harridans here contract wilh their agents in China, wbo, for so much in band paid, but girls and ship them. When they arriyc they arc taken to the dens on Dupont, Jackson, aud Pacific streets, and kept there in abject slavery till they have earned their price and passage and made a certain profit for the keeper, when, if they are yet alive, they are free. There were forty-eight of these unfortunates on the "City of Tokio." Every Chinese woman WHO IS SEEN ON TOE STREET is a prostitute. The aristocratic Chinese, the merchants and manufacturers, have their wives with them, but no one ever sees them. They are kept carefully seclud ed from the gaze of all mankind. Tbe Orientals do not believe that women have souls, and they keep their wives just as they would any other luxury. Among them wives are bought and sold, and such trifles as love, affection, or respect even, never bother them. The common China' man buys a wife and sells her when he tires of ber, and bis title to her is respected. Those brought for the bagnios are held by a regular bill of sale, which every China man will support, for be holds his own wife in that way. The Chinese women need a few Susan B. Anthonys. CHINATOWN cannot be said to have been seen tilt one has taken the trip I did last night. To do it, get on good terms with the Chief of Po lice, and have him detail one of the police men in that district to take you through. You will sue things that, to an American, would seem impossible. You go through long, narrow, dark passages, swarming with the heathen, and smelling of all the horrors that sin, dirt, and filth can pro duce. Understand, these are the quarters of tbe low Chinese, x ou enter a room in a cellar, or iu the garret, as the case may be, ten feet long, five feet wide, and six feet high, and in that space you will find six, or even more, Chinamen, reclinging on shelves, one above the other, and all smok ing opium. In the lower berth, on the floor, is always au old wrinkled scoundrel, who lets these berths by the night, and sells the wretched occupants the stupifying drug. He is a thief by day, as probably are all the occupants'of his cell. But as he sells the opium he gets the entire products of their day's work. And imagine a building four stories high, each story divided into two, 50 feet by 120, wilh an average of six to each room 10 by 6 1 There are a dozen such buildings a dozeu, yes, fifty ! and scores of smaller ones, and all filled as I have stated. In these dark passages, narrow alleys, aud dismal courts, dwell the CHINESE THIEVES, male and female. Here they concoct their j robberies, and here they bring their booty and bide. But buried as they are in num bers it avails them but little. The officers on this beat know every one of them, and, as they cannot leave the city, it is easy enoush to find them. It would be unsafe for a white man to go through these places alone, but wilh an officer one is safe as he would be with a thousaud about him. The Chinaman has a wholesome fear of an officer and never molests one. POLITICALLY California is mixed this year as it has been for several years past. The Republican party happened to have among :ta leaders a lame number of heavy capitalists inter ested in the Central Pacific Road, and of course those who fight that road fight the party. The Independents,made np ot three fourths Republicans and oue-fourth Demo crats, elected Booth Governor two years ago, and will probably carry the State this fall. The Central Pacific is, in all senses, a monopoly. Every passenger and every poond of freight that crosses tbe contineut I has to pay tribute to it, and then tariffs have not always been so reasonable as could have been wished. And the managers are, as all men are, selfish. Tbey want all they can get, and, as a matter of course, they squeeze the people. They have always something for a legislature to do, some tax to avoid, some land to gobble, and what is worse, they discriminate against the estab lished cities in favor of their own specula tions. For all the sins of this gigantic corpora tion, the Republican party is held responsi ble, because it has been in power. The people forget that Democrats . have been guilty as well as Republicans ; but as the party has held the reins, it is charged with every break in the harness.' The fight in this State is really between the railroad and auti-railroad,and the anti's will win. The Independents will have more votes than both the old organizations, at least so it looks to-day. AU tbe towns and cities have grievances against the road the farmers also have grievances and they somehow have identified the Republi can party with the road, and so down it goes. But when it comes to a presidential contest, when the issues are national in stead of local, up it will come again. The members of tbe Independent party will wheel into line again they will drop back into their old places, and California will take her place in the Republican ranks. The Republican State Convention at Sa cramento, yesterday nominated a splendid ticket, the Hou. T. G. Phelps heading it for Governor. And the platform is as good as tbe ticket It opposes monopolies of all kinds, favors irrigation, and is altogether a platform which the people ought to be pleased with. The ticket is made up tif men who, if elected, will make the platform a reality. Wilh this ticket and platform the Republicans ought to carry the State, but the feeling is now against them ; but there may be a change before the election. The party is determined upon a fight for it at all events. BUSINESS is good on this const, and everything is prosperous. The hard times which squats on the shoulders of prosperity in the east ern states is unknown here. San Francisco is building up more rapidly than ever be fore, and is building up better. The new Palace Hotel will be the largest and finest in America, or the world ; and there are two others going up almost as large. Beau tiful and costly dwelling are being built in all parts of the city, and an enormous num ber of smaller dwellings are showing their ribs in all directions. Everybody seems to be doing well. The pleasant of the gold piece, and the delicious rattle of the silver delight the car everywhere. By the way, HOLD AND SILVER are aloue used here, and it is odd to an eastern man. Money is counted here by dollars and bits 121 cents beiug a bit. You hear of two bits, four bits, and six bits, but twenty-five cents, fifty cents, and seventy-five cents, never. If an article is a bit, and you throw down a quarter, you get ten cents iu change, but if you put down a dime it goes just the same. The people here never make change with five cents, indeed, as coppers are never used, to make change under five cents is impossi ble. Notwishstanding the curnbersoracness of gold and silver I should like to get back to it all over the country. It chinks well. But when will it como ? Pietbo. eto JttbtrtisBKirts. THREE POIXTft FOB COXSIDERA. During the past five jears the VEGETINE has beemteadily working ittelf loto public favor, and those who were at first most Incredalons io regard to Us merits are now its most Ardent friends aud supporters. There are three essential cause for those hav ing such horror of patent medicines, changing their opinion and lending their influence toward the advancement ot VEGETINE- 1st It is an honestly-prepared medicine from barks, roots and herbs. 2d It honestly accomplishes alt that is claimed for it, without lcaTing any baa effects in the system. 3d It presents honest vouchers in testimonials from honest. well-known citizens, whose signatures are a sufficient guar antee of their earnestness in tbe matter. Tak ing into consideration the vast quantity of medi cine brought concpicuously before the public through the flaming adrertisements in the news paper cola ma, with no proof of merit or genuine vouchers of what it has done, we should be par doned for manifesting a small degree of pride in presenting the following testimonial from Rev. i. S. DICKEBSON, D. the popular and ever genial pastor of the South Baptist Church, Bos ton : The Tired Body Sues for Sleep. Boston, March 17. 1874. II. R. Stevess, Esq. : Dear Sir It is a much from a sense of duty as of gratittfde that I write to soy that your VEGETINE even I it is a patient medicine has been of great help to me when nothing else seemed to arail which I could safely use. Either excessire mental work or unusual eare brines upon me a nervous exhaustion that desperately needs sleep, but as desperately defies it. Night after night the poor, tired body sues for sleep nntil the day-dawn is welcomed back, and we begin our work tired out with an almost fruit less chnso after rest. Now I bare found that a little VEGETINE taken just before I retire gives me sweet and immediate sleep, and without any cif the evil effects of the usual narcotics. I think two things would tend to make brain-workers sleep. 1st A little less work. 2d A little more VEGETINE. This prescription helped me. Now I have a particular horror of "patent medicine,1' but I have a greater horror of being a fraid to tell the stragbt out truth. The VEGE TINE hat helped me, and I own it np. Yours &c, J. S. DICKER30N. Valuable Evidence. Tbe following unsolicited testimonial from - Rer. O. T. WALKER, D. D., formerly paster of Bowdoin Square Church, and at present settled in Providence, R. I., mast be esteemed as relia ble evidence. No one should fail to observe that this testi monial is the result of two years' experience with the use of VEGETINE in tbe Rev. Mr. Walker's family, wbo now pronounces it inval uable : Providence, R. 1., 1M Transit Street. II. R. Stevens, Esq. : X feel bound to express with my signature the high value I place upon your VEGETINE. My family have used it for the last two years. In nervous debility it is invaluable, and I recom mend to all who may need an invigorating, re novating tonic. O. T. WALKER, Formly Paster of Bowdoin Sq. Church, Boston. The Best Evidence. The following letter from Rev. . S. BEST, pastor M. E. Church, Nalick Mass., will be read with interest by many physicians. Also those suffering from the same disease as afflicted the son of the Rev. E. S. Best. No person can donbt this testimony, and there is no doubt about the curative powers of VEGETINE : Natick, Mass., Jan. 1, 1374. Ma. II. R. Stevfss : Dear Sir We have good reason for regarding your VEGETINE a medicine of the greatest vaine. We feel assured that it has been the means of saving our son's life. He is now seventeen years mt age ; for the last two year be has suffered from necrosis of his leg. caused by scrofulous affection, and was so far reduced that nearly all who saw bim thought his re covery impossibly. A council of able physician could give ns but the faintest hope of bis ever rallying, two of the number declaring that he was beyond the reach of human remedies, that even amputation could not save bim, as he had not vigor enough to endure the operation. Just then, we commenced giving him VEGETINE, and from that time to tbe present he has been con tinuously improving, fie has lately resumed his studies, thrown away crutches and cane, and walks about cheerfully and strong. Though there is still some discbarge from the opening where the limb was lanced, we have the fullest confidence that in a little time he will be perfectly cured. fie has taken about three dozen bottles of VEGETINE, but lately nes but little, as he de clares that he is too well to be taken medicine. Respectfully yours, . 9. Best, Mrs. L. C. F. Best. Reliable Evidence. 173 Baltic Street,BROOKLTH,N. T.,Xov., 14, 1S74. H. K. Stevens, Esq. : Dear Sir From personal benefit received by its use, as well as from peisonal knowledge of those whose cures thereby have seemed almost miraculous. I can nrartny ana sincerely re commend the VEGETINE for the complaints for which it is claimed to cure. JAMES P. LUDLOW, Late Pator Calvary Bap. Church, Sacramento, Cal. Yegetine is sold by all Druggists. June 11, lm. Financial 'Statement or Sunbury (School District. M. P. 8CUPMAN, Treasurer of Sunbury School District, in account with said District. DRT To am't ree'd of Solomcn Weaver, Col lector of the district... 5,.55 39 To arat of State appropriation for 1S73 7S1 Si To aim ree'd of A. N. Brice, Justice of 35 73 6,373 45 CR. By orders paid... .... .10,165 44 By commission at 3 per cent- 123 30 By bal. due at settlement with District, July 27, 1S74 139 C3 $8,433 3 Balance due M. P. Scupham, Treas.. $54 91 80LOMON WEAVER, Collector of Sunbury School District, in account with said District. DR. To balance due District ou duplicate of '73 per settlement of July 27. 1S74... $5,103 81 CR. By amt paid Treas. Scupham on duplicate of 1373, per receipt. $3,757 09 By exonerations and taxes returned to Commission ers' office for 1873..M 363 5tt By commission on duplicate of 1873, $9,937 62,lessex-oneration,$268.50,$,669,- 12 at 5 per cent . 433 45 $4f6W 05. Balance due District on duplicate of lt73, on which all commissions for . collections are paid - $594 71 SOLO.MON WEAVER, Collector. DR. . To amt or duplicate of '74... $6,302 04 CR. By amt paid Treas. Scup ham on duplicate of 1S74 per receipts $1,793 2tf Due District on duplicate of of 1S74, subject to com. for collection of the whole amt amt of duplicate, less ex onerations .... $4,5(i3 24; Balance due District ........... $5,153 00 We, the unpersigned Fiuance Commutes, re spectfully reDort the above as a correct aoeount of Solomon Weaver, Collector, and Mi Pi Scup ham, Treasurer of the District W. S. RHOAD3, M. C. GEARHAliT. J. R. CRESSINGER, Scc'y, Finance Committee. . July 3, 1S75. 4t. NOTICE. In re or the account of Albert 1 To the creditors Cndwallader, Assignee of ot Thomas A r estate of Thomas Artley. ) tley. "VVOTICE is hereby given that the partial ac Ll couut of Albert Cadwallsder, assignee, of the estate of Thomas Artley, has bem filed in the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland County, and will be presented to said Court for confirmation, on Tuesday, the 3d day of August, A. D. 1974. L. T. ROITRBACH. St. COURT PROCLAMATION. Notice is hereby given that the several Courts of Com, ruon Pleas, General Quarter Sessions of tbe Peace, and Orphans Court, Court of Oyer and Terminer -and General Jail Delivery, in and for the county - of Northumberland, will commence at the Court House, In the borough or Sunbury, at 10 o'clock A. M., on MONDAY, AUGUST the 2d, 1375, and will continue two weeks. The Coroner, Justices of the Peace and Consta bles in and for the county of Northumberland are requested to be then and there in their proper persons, with their rolls, records, Inquisitions, and other remembrances, to do those things to -their several offices appertaining to be done. And all witnesses prosecuting In bcha If of the Com monwealth against any prisoner, are requested and commanded to be then and there attending in their proper persons to prosecute against him as shall be just and not to depart without leave at their peril. Jurors are requested to be punc tual in their attendance, at the time appointed, Given nnder my baud atSunbary, the 1st day of July in tbe year of our Lord one thouaad. eight hundred and seventy-flve.
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